WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY: SMALLPOX DEMARCHE DELIVERED

UNCLAS PARIS 003283

SIPDIS

SENSITIVE

STATE FOR IO/T, OES/IHA
DHHS FOR STEIGER OGHA

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL AORC TBIO FR WHO
SUBJECT: WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY: SMALLPOX DEMARCHE DELIVERED
TO FRENCH

REF: STATE 71569

(SBU) Embassy delivered demarche contained in REFTEL to
Ministry of Health, as well as the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, week of May 8. On May 10, ESTH Counselor
transmitted points to Jean-Baptiste Brunet, Chief of European
and International Affairs at the Ministry of Health. On May
12, ESTH officer delivered demarche to Frederic Jung, the
biological disarmament officer at the MFA. Mr. Jung thanked
the U.S. for sharing its views on stocks of this virus.
While he thought that France shares the U.S. position on the
need to maintain a stockpile of smallpox virus, Mr. Jung said
he would forward the demarche to others in the MFA who
coordinate the smallpox issue with other interested French
agencies.

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