Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
06WELLINGTON349
2006-05-07 23:41:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Wellington
Cable title:
NEW ZEALAND RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR DONATION FOR
how-toVZCZCXYZ0000 RR RUEHWEB DE RUEHWL #0349 1272341 ZNR UUUUU ZZH R 072341Z MAY 06 FM AMEMBASSY WELLINGTON TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 2758 INFO RUEHBY/AMEMBASSY CANBERRA 4393 RUEHBUL/AMEMBASSY KABUL 0028
UNCLAS WELLINGTON 000349
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR EAP/ANP-DRICCI AND SCA/FO-NKROMASH
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: EAID PGOV PREL AF NZ
SUBJECT: NEW ZEALAND RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR DONATION FOR
AFGHAN ELECTION COSTS
REF: A. STATE 57541
¶B. WELLINGTON 27
Post delivered demarche (ref A) April 12 to the New Zealand
Agency for International Development (NZAID),requesting a
donation to help cover the UN financial shortfalls for
election costs in Afghanistan. Suzanne Loughlin of NZAID
reported May 5 that her government would be unable to provide
additional funds to Afghanistan, since it already had
disbursed its budget for the current fiscal year. That
included the final allocation of NZ $1 million (US $640,000)
to the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund, of NZ $5
million (US $3.2 million) pledged this year. New Zealand
also has pledged NZ $5 million a year over the next three
years for Afghanistan assistance, beginning in July (ref B).
Loughlin agreed that the Afghan government should be
encouraged to include election funding in future budgets as a
routine practice.
McCormick