Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
06KUALALUMPUR2100
2006-11-14 00:39:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Kuala Lumpur
Cable title:
DEMARCHE ON WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT
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UNCLAS KUALA LUMPUR 002100
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
FOR SASHA MEHRA AND GERDA LANE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KWMN PHUM PREL UNGA MY
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE ON WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT
REF: STATE 178055
UNCLAS KUALA LUMPUR 002100
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
FOR SASHA MEHRA AND GERDA LANE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KWMN PHUM PREL UNGA MY
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE ON WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT
REF: STATE 178055
1. We delivered reftel's fact sheet on November 6 to Bala
Chandran Tharman, Principal Assistant Secretary in the MFA's
multilateral political affairs division. We have thus far
received no substantive response from the MFA.
2. As per reftel's request to identify government ministers
that are actively engaged on women's issues, we note that our
primary ministerial-level interlocutor on women's issues is
Shahrizat Abdul Jalil. She has been the Minister of Women,
Family and Community Development since 2001 and is one of
only three female ministers at the cabinet level.
LAFLEUR
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
FOR SASHA MEHRA AND GERDA LANE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KWMN PHUM PREL UNGA MY
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE ON WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT
REF: STATE 178055
1. We delivered reftel's fact sheet on November 6 to Bala
Chandran Tharman, Principal Assistant Secretary in the MFA's
multilateral political affairs division. We have thus far
received no substantive response from the MFA.
2. As per reftel's request to identify government ministers
that are actively engaged on women's issues, we note that our
primary ministerial-level interlocutor on women's issues is
Shahrizat Abdul Jalil. She has been the Minister of Women,
Family and Community Development since 2001 and is one of
only three female ministers at the cabinet level.
LAFLEUR