HIGH-LEVEL IRISH ATTENDANCE AT OSLO DONOR

C O N F I D E N T I A L DUBLIN 000377

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/31/2015
TAGS: PREL EAID ECON
SUBJECT: HIGH-LEVEL IRISH ATTENDANCE AT OSLO DONOR
CONFERENCE ON SUDAN

REF: STATE 56724

Classified By: Charge d'Affaires Jonathan Benton; Reasons 1.4 (B) and (
D).


1. (C) On March 30, Post delivered reftel talking points to
Pauline Conway, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA)
Counsellor for Africa. Conway noted that Conor Lenihan,
Minister of State for Overseas Development and Human Rights,
along with Brendan Rogers and Ciara O'Brien, Director and
First Secretary, respectively, in the Emergency and Recovery
Section of Development Corporation Ireland (DCI, the
development agency within DFA) would attend the April 11-12
Oslo Donors Conference on Sudan. DCI Director General Ronin
Murphy may also join the group. Lenihan, Rogers, and O'Brien
will travel to Oslo after visiting Sudan April 3-8, where
Conway expected Lenihan to echo reftel talking points in
urging the Sudanese Government to implement the CPA and to
end the violence in Darfur. She also noted that the GOI
would make a "substantial" three-year assistance pledge to
Sudan, but would not announce a final figure until the Oslo
conference. She added that the GOI would package this
assistance in the context of the 2005 UN Work Plan.
BENTON