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06DUBLIN487
2006-05-03 17:21:00
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Embassy Dublin
Cable title:
IRELAND TO SEND DFA DIRECTOR GENERAL FOR EU
VZCZCXRO2819 PP RUEHAG RUEHDF RUEHIK RUEHLZ DE RUEHDL #0487 1231721 ZNR UUUUU ZZH P 031721Z MAY 06 FM AMEMBASSY DUBLIN TO RUEHTC/AMEMBASSY THE HAGUE PRIORITY 0259 RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 6867 INFO RUCNMEM/EU MEMBER STATES PRIORITY RUEHBS/USEU BRUSSELS PRIORITY
UNCLAS DUBLIN 000487
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ENRG EPET ECON PREL NL EU EI
SUBJECT: IRELAND TO SEND DFA DIRECTOR GENERAL FOR EU
AFFAIRS TO TRANSATLANTIC ENERGY SECURITY CONFERENCE
REF: STATE 63866
Ireland intends to send Dan Mulhall, Department of Foreign
Affairs (DFA) Director General for EU Affairs, to the May 18
Transatlantic Energy Security Conference at The Hague, the
DFA told Post on May 3 after more than a week of regular
contact on reftel demarche. In discussions with DFA
Political Director Rory Montgomery, the DCM had pressed for
Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern's participation in the
conference, a request that econoff had also conveyed at the
Assistant Secretary level of the DFA's Bilateral Economic
Relations Division and the EU Affairs Division. Post's
consultations with the DFA were coordinated with the Dutch
DCM. Our DFA interlocutors, however, observed that prior
commitments would preclude attendance by Foreign Minister
Ahern, DFA Secretary General Dermot Gallagher, and Political
Director Montgomery. After receiving DFA's notification
about Mulhall on May 3, DCM again contacted the office of the
Foreign Minister, who, the DCM was told, would most
definitely be out of the country at the time of the
conference.
KENNY
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ENRG EPET ECON PREL NL EU EI
SUBJECT: IRELAND TO SEND DFA DIRECTOR GENERAL FOR EU
AFFAIRS TO TRANSATLANTIC ENERGY SECURITY CONFERENCE
REF: STATE 63866
Ireland intends to send Dan Mulhall, Department of Foreign
Affairs (DFA) Director General for EU Affairs, to the May 18
Transatlantic Energy Security Conference at The Hague, the
DFA told Post on May 3 after more than a week of regular
contact on reftel demarche. In discussions with DFA
Political Director Rory Montgomery, the DCM had pressed for
Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern's participation in the
conference, a request that econoff had also conveyed at the
Assistant Secretary level of the DFA's Bilateral Economic
Relations Division and the EU Affairs Division. Post's
consultations with the DFA were coordinated with the Dutch
DCM. Our DFA interlocutors, however, observed that prior
commitments would preclude attendance by Foreign Minister
Ahern, DFA Secretary General Dermot Gallagher, and Political
Director Montgomery. After receiving DFA's notification
about Mulhall on May 3, DCM again contacted the office of the
Foreign Minister, who, the DCM was told, would most
definitely be out of the country at the time of the
conference.
KENNY