DUTCH PARTICIPATION IN G8 BMENA MEETINGS IN NEW

UNCLAS THE HAGUE 002366 SIPDIS E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PREL ECON KMPI NL UNGA SUBJECT: DUTCH PARTICIPATION IN G8 BMENA MEETINGS IN NEW YORK REF: A. STATE 199666 ¶B. HOLLIDAY/THORKELSON E-MAIL POLCOUNS passed ref A schedule for the G-8 BMENA Forum for the Future Preparatory Meetings and list of Business and Civil Society Dialogue invitees to Bahia Tahzib-Lie in the Dutch MFA's Department of Political Affairs on September 16; ref b update was passed on September 17. ECONOFF shared reftel schedule and update with Jan Hurner, U.S. desk officer at the Ministry of Economic Affairs on September 17. POLCOUNS also discussed Dutch participation in the September 23-24 meetings with Jaap Werner, Director of the Political Affairs Department. Tahzib-Lie and Werner confirmed that Dutch FM Bot would attend the September 24 meeting. They also anticipated that Dutch POLDIR Hugo Siblesz would participate in at least the first part of the September 23 meeting chaired by U/S Larsen, although they could not positively confirm his participation at this time. If Siblesz was unable to attend all or part of the September 23 meeting, Michiel den Hond, Director of the MFA's Department of North Africa and Middle East Affairs, would plan to take his place. SOBEL