Identifier
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06DUBLIN519
2006-05-10 17:14:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Dublin
Cable title:
IRELAND AWAITING EU DISCUSSION ON SMALLPOX
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UNCLAS DUBLIN 000519
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SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR IO/T
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL AORC TBIO WHO EI
SUBJECT: IRELAND AWAITING EU DISCUSSION ON SMALLPOX
REF: STATE 71569
Ireland will await discussion with other EU Member States
before taking a position on the proposed eradication of
smallpox virus stocks, according to Teresa Cody, Department
of Health and Children Principal Officer for Public Health,
with whom emboff discussed reftel demarche on May 8 and 10.
Cody noted that Ireland had not yet received the official
agenda and accompanying documents for the May 22-27 World
Health Assembly (WHA). The only information available to the
GOI on the smallpox proposal at the moment was reftel points.
Ireland hoped to receive WHA information on the proposal
soon and would take up discussion with other Member States in
the lead-up to the WHA. Cody added that she did not know the
direction in which Member States were leaning on the smallpox
virus proposal, but would inform us if the EU position were
to become clearer.
Kenny