Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07KATHMANDU335
2007-02-09 10:10:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Kathmandu
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C O N F I D E N T I A L KATHMANDU 000335
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
FOR PRM A/S SAUERBREY FROM AMBASSADOR MORIARTY
E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/09/2017
TAGS: PREF PREL PGOV BT NP
SUBJECT: THANKS FOR THE HARD WORK!
REF: KATHMANDU 317
Classified By: Ambassador James F. Moriarty for Reasons 1.4 (b,d).
C O N F I D E N T I A L KATHMANDU 000335
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
FOR PRM A/S SAUERBREY FROM AMBASSADOR MORIARTY
E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/09/2017
TAGS: PREF PREL PGOV BT NP
SUBJECT: THANKS FOR THE HARD WORK!
REF: KATHMANDU 317
Classified By: Ambassador James F. Moriarty for Reasons 1.4 (b,d).
1. (SBU) I would like to personally thank you and your staff
for their hard work and dedication in advancing the U.S.
resettlement program for the Bhutanese refugees. PRM's
support and forward thinking, particularly the offer to
accept 60,000 refugees back in October, re-energized the
search for a comprehensive solution in both Geneva and
Kathmandu.
2. (C) I believe we must seize the window of opportunity
provided this week by Prime Minister Koirala's agreement to
allow resettlement (reftel). Although Nepal's Maoists have
clearly voiced their dislike of a U.S. resettlement program,
after entering an interim government, they might find it more
difficult to reverse a process that has already begun than to
stop a program that has yet to take off. In my meeting today
with Core Group Ambassadors (septel),I was encouraged by
their interest in pressing the Government of Nepal (GON) to
make public its support of a resettlement program and proceed
quickly to streamline GON processing of outward-bound
refugees.
3. (SBU) I wholeheartedly support PRM's timeline for
Bhutanese refugees, starting this month with the issuance of
a Request for Proposals and release of the U.S. fact sheet on
resettlement. Please let me know what my mission can do to
assist and advance this agenda even more quickly. I look
forward to our further collaboration on this important
agenda.
Aloha,
MORIARTY
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
FOR PRM A/S SAUERBREY FROM AMBASSADOR MORIARTY
E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/09/2017
TAGS: PREF PREL PGOV BT NP
SUBJECT: THANKS FOR THE HARD WORK!
REF: KATHMANDU 317
Classified By: Ambassador James F. Moriarty for Reasons 1.4 (b,d).
1. (SBU) I would like to personally thank you and your staff
for their hard work and dedication in advancing the U.S.
resettlement program for the Bhutanese refugees. PRM's
support and forward thinking, particularly the offer to
accept 60,000 refugees back in October, re-energized the
search for a comprehensive solution in both Geneva and
Kathmandu.
2. (C) I believe we must seize the window of opportunity
provided this week by Prime Minister Koirala's agreement to
allow resettlement (reftel). Although Nepal's Maoists have
clearly voiced their dislike of a U.S. resettlement program,
after entering an interim government, they might find it more
difficult to reverse a process that has already begun than to
stop a program that has yet to take off. In my meeting today
with Core Group Ambassadors (septel),I was encouraged by
their interest in pressing the Government of Nepal (GON) to
make public its support of a resettlement program and proceed
quickly to streamline GON processing of outward-bound
refugees.
3. (SBU) I wholeheartedly support PRM's timeline for
Bhutanese refugees, starting this month with the issuance of
a Request for Proposals and release of the U.S. fact sheet on
resettlement. Please let me know what my mission can do to
assist and advance this agenda even more quickly. I look
forward to our further collaboration on this important
agenda.
Aloha,
MORIARTY