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. BENTON