IRISH RESPONSE TO AUSTRALIA GROUP DEMARCHES

C O N F I D E N T I A L DUBLIN 000323

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/31/2015
TAGS: PARM PREL ETTC CBW
SUBJECT: IRISH RESPONSE TO AUSTRALIA GROUP DEMARCHES

REF: A. STATE 41247

B. STATE 39371

C. STATE 36488

Classified By: Political-Economic Counselor Mary E. Daly; Reasons 1.4 (
B) and (D).


1. (C) On March 15, Post delivered ref A demarche to Therese
Healy, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Third Secretary
for Disarmament and Nonproliferation. Healy said that the
GOI planned to participate actively along with EU partners in
the Australia Group (AG) Plenary's Information Exchange (IE)
and Enforcement Experts (EE) meetings in Sydney on April
18-22. She noted that DFA Counsellor for Disarmament and
Nonproliferation Adrian McDaid would lead the Irish
delegation and that DFA was soliciting participation from the
Revenue (Customs) Commissioners Office and the export
licensing unit of the Department of Enterprise, Trade, and
Employment (DETE). The GOI was also considering whether to
draft and circulate a paper based on a recent independent
review of Ireland's export control regime. Healy believed
that this decision would fall to DETE, which had requested
the review.


2. (C) Earlier, on March 11, Post had provided to Healy the
AG plenary proposals included in refs B and C. Healy said
that the GOI had no immediate response, but would discuss the
proposals with EU partners during the March 16 meeting of the
EU Working Group on UN Disarmament (CODUN) in Brussels.
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