FY-2005 IVP Nomination - Principal candidate

UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 03 THE HAGUE 001363 SIPDIS SECSTATE FOR ECA/PE/V/R/E - STEVE TAYLOR; INFO EUR/PPD - BRIAN GUSS E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: KPAO OEXC SCUL NL SUBJECT: FY-2005 IVP Nomination - Principal candidate Mr. Henk Jan Ormel ¶1. Post is pleased to nominate Mr. Henk Jan Ormel as a principal candidate for an FY-2005 IVP grant, excluding international travel benefits. ¶2. START FIXED-FORMAT TEXT (PLEASE DO NOT EDIT): : The following data is in a fixed format which enables : automated processing in Washington and should not be : edited except by means of the Post-EVDB software. EXPORT-SOURCE: POST-EVDB VERSION: 3.0.7 POST-EMAIL: dankelmanE@state.gov TRANSMITTING-POST: PAS The Hague TRANSMITTING-POST-ID: 4276 EXPORT-TYPE: BIO DATA START NOMINATION: ECA-OFFICE: E/VGE PROG-AGENCY-NAME: POST-PROJ-ID: 151 ECA-PROJ-NO: PROJ-NAME: Ormel, Henk Jan START MEMO PROJ-DESC: END MEMO PROJ-DESC: PROJ-TYPE: Individual PROG-TYPE: IV Grant Visitor FY: 2005 DEPART-POST: SESSION-DATE: RETURN-POST: NO-OF-PART: 1 RANK-ORDER: 5 START MEMO POST-OBJ: END MEMO POST-OBJ: START MEMO POST-RCMD: END MEMO POST-RCMD: ECA-OFFICE-ID: 1047 PROG-AGENCY-ID: PROJ-TYPE-ID: IND PROG-TYPE-ID: 29 NOMINATING-POST-ID: 4276 FUNDING-CNTRY-ID: 29321 STATUS: N ORIGINATOR: P SUBJ-DISC: Foreign Policy START BIO: PREFIX: Mr. F-NAME: Henk M-NAME: Jan L-NAME: Ormel SUFFIX: POSITION-CODE: 0 PRINCIPAL?: Yes M-ADDR1: Second Chamber of the States-General M-ADDR2: P.O. Box 20018 M-ADDR3: M-CITY: 2500 EA The Hague M-STATE: M-CNTRY: Netherlands M-ZONE: M-ZIP: M-PHONE: 31-70-318-2571 M-FAX: 31-70-318-2602 M-EMAIL: h.ormel@tweedekamer.nl M-CNTRY-ID: NL M-ADDRTYPE: B GENDER: M DOB: 12/15/1955 MAR-STAT: M BIRTH-CITY: Utrecht BIRTH-CNTRY: Netherlands CITIZ-CNTRY: Netherlands RES-CNTRY: Netherlands START MEMO POSITION: Member of Parliament for the Christian Democratic Party in the House of Representatives END MEMO POSITION: START MEMO OTHER-POSITIONS: Practicing veterinarian Main duties as MP include: Main future spokesmen on peacekeeping and the Islamic world; co-principal foreign affairs spokesman; spokesman on veterinary and food safety issues, medical ethical questions, biotechnology, animal well being, etc. END MEMO OTHER-POSITIONS: START MEMO PREV-POSITIONS: veterinarian END MEMO PREV-POSITIONS: START MEMO US-TRAVEL: Twice: In 2003 three weeks as Member on Dutch delegation to UNGA; On his honeymoon. END MEMO US-TRAVEL: START MEMO OTHER-TRAVEL: Recently, as member of Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee to Iran and Afghanistan Europe END MEMO OTHER-TRAVEL: START MEMO EDUCATION: MA in veterinarian science END MEMO EDUCATION: START MEMO MEMBERSHIPS: END MEMO MEMBERSHIPS: START MEMO PUBLICATIONS: END MEMO PUBLICATIONS: START MEMO SPEC-CONSID: END MEMO SPEC-CONSID: FIRST-LANG: Dutch ENGL-READ: 4 ENGL-SPEAK: 4 ENGL-COMP: 4 START MEMO NOM-POST-OBJ: END MEMO NOM-POST-OBJ: START MEMO NOM-POST-RCMD: END MEMO NOM-POST-RCMD: START MEMO VIS-OBJ: END MEMO VIS-OBJ: START MEMO VIS-REC: END MEMO VIS-REC: NOMINATING-OFFICER: Mary Daly START MEMO NOMINATING-JUSTIFICATION: Ormel has only been a member of parliament since May 2002 and has been a back-up spokesman on foreign policy. However, he will take over in the summer of 2004 from Camiel Eurlings as one of two principal spokesmen on foreign policy for the largest party in parliament. He has been assigned in particular with the portfolios of peacekeeping and the Islamic world, two keys areas of interest to the U.S. Ormel has had very little experience in the area of foreign policy and a visit to the U.S. would deepen his knowledge of issues covered in his new portfolio. It is important that he be given the opportunity of familiarizing himself with U.S. thinking on foreign policy. END MEMO NOMINATING-JUSTIFICATION: NOM-OFF: POL SPEAKER?: No NOTIFY-EMB: Yes MEDIA?: No HOME-STAY: No HOME-HOSP?: Yes E-I-TYPE: NOMINEE-ID: 325 PERSON-ID: 270 BIRTH-CNTRY-ID: NL CITIZ-CNTRY-ID: NL RES-CNTRY-ID: NL FIRST-LANG-ID: DU E-I-TYPE-ID: NOM-POST-ID: 4276 NOM-FUNDING-CNTRY-ID: 29321 NOM-STATUS: N DS2019-ACTION: 1 DS2019-SUBJECT: SPONS-FUNDS: 0 SPONS-AGENCY1: USGOVT-AGENCY1: US-AGENCY-AMT1: 0 USGOVT-AGENCY2: US-AGENCY-AMT2: 0 INTL-ORG1: INTL-ORG-AMOUNT1: 0 INTL-ORG2: INTL-ORG-AMOUNT2: 0 VIS-GOVT-AMT: 0 COMMISSION: 0 OTHER-AMOUNT: 0 VIS-AMOUNT: 0 VIS-CAT: END BIO: END NOMINATION: END FIXED-FORMAT TEXT: Sobel