Identifier
Created
Classification
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07NICOSIA44
2007-01-12 14:17:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Nicosia
Cable title:
CYPRUS: FOREIGN MINISTER LILLIKAS TO ATTEND PARIS LEBANON
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UNCLAS NICOSIA 000044
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
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DEPT FOR EB/IFD/ODF (EMILY WAECHTER) AND NEA/ELA (KATHERINE ALLEN)
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ECON EFIN EAID ETRD EUN LE CY
SUBJECT: CYPRUS: FOREIGN MINISTER LILLIKAS TO ATTEND PARIS LEBANON
DONORS' CONFERENCE
REFS: (A) STATE 2781, (B) 06 NICOSIA 1764
UNCLAS NICOSIA 000044
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
DEPT FOR EB/IFD/ODF (EMILY WAECHTER) AND NEA/ELA (KATHERINE ALLEN)
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ECON EFIN EAID ETRD EUN LE CY
SUBJECT: CYPRUS: FOREIGN MINISTER LILLIKAS TO ATTEND PARIS LEBANON
DONORS' CONFERENCE
REFS: (A) STATE 2781, (B) 06 NICOSIA 1764
1. (U) Per reftel request, Post delivered on January 11 demarche on
the upcoming Paris donors' conference for Lebanon to George Vyrides,
Director, MFA Economic Affairs Division and Dionysis Dionysiou, MFA
Lebanon Desk Officer.
2. (SBU) Dionysiou reported that the GOC will be represented at the
January 25 Paris Conference by Foreign Minister Yiorgos Lillikas.
Vyrides noted that Cyprus has added Lebanon to its list of priority
aid recipients and expects to make around 350,000 Euro available for
aid to Lebanon in 2007. It is unclear if this figure will be
announced in Paris, as part of this sum may be used for projects
unrelated to the immediate goals of the donors' conference.
Consistent with its aid priorities, the GoC is looking for existing
EU Member State projects in Lebanon to which it can contribute,
focusing on health, food security and/or education.
3. (SBU) Vyrides added that the GoC had pledged USD 100,000 for
Lebanese reconstruction at the Stockholm donors' conference in
August. A check in that amount was given directly to the Lebanese
Ambassador to Cyprus three weeks after that conference. Cyprus's
assistance budget in 2006 was only 15 million Euro. Other Cypriot
priority aid countries/jurisdictions are Egypt, Lesotho, Mali, Yemen
and the Palestinian Territories. The GoC is contributing to an
existing Irish project in Lesotho, a Belgian project in Mali and a
German hospital project in Yemen.
4. (U) The GOC had also been providing logistical and other support
to a private sector-led effort to host a "World Congress and
Exhibition on the Reconstruction and Development of Post-War
Lebanon" in Cyprus. The Congress, which was originally planned for
December, was postponed first to February, but then was officially
cancelled on January 12 due to "the continuing unstable political
situation in Lebanon." Nevertheless, the organizers plan to make
Lebanese reconstruction a central theme of a broader "Business Show"
currently scheduled for April 20-22. Details of this "Business
Show" are not yet available. We have been working with the
Commercial Section in Embassy Beirut and FCS to bring this
opportunity to the attention of potentially interested U.S.
companies.
SCHLICHER
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
DEPT FOR EB/IFD/ODF (EMILY WAECHTER) AND NEA/ELA (KATHERINE ALLEN)
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ECON EFIN EAID ETRD EUN LE CY
SUBJECT: CYPRUS: FOREIGN MINISTER LILLIKAS TO ATTEND PARIS LEBANON
DONORS' CONFERENCE
REFS: (A) STATE 2781, (B) 06 NICOSIA 1764
1. (U) Per reftel request, Post delivered on January 11 demarche on
the upcoming Paris donors' conference for Lebanon to George Vyrides,
Director, MFA Economic Affairs Division and Dionysis Dionysiou, MFA
Lebanon Desk Officer.
2. (SBU) Dionysiou reported that the GOC will be represented at the
January 25 Paris Conference by Foreign Minister Yiorgos Lillikas.
Vyrides noted that Cyprus has added Lebanon to its list of priority
aid recipients and expects to make around 350,000 Euro available for
aid to Lebanon in 2007. It is unclear if this figure will be
announced in Paris, as part of this sum may be used for projects
unrelated to the immediate goals of the donors' conference.
Consistent with its aid priorities, the GoC is looking for existing
EU Member State projects in Lebanon to which it can contribute,
focusing on health, food security and/or education.
3. (SBU) Vyrides added that the GoC had pledged USD 100,000 for
Lebanese reconstruction at the Stockholm donors' conference in
August. A check in that amount was given directly to the Lebanese
Ambassador to Cyprus three weeks after that conference. Cyprus's
assistance budget in 2006 was only 15 million Euro. Other Cypriot
priority aid countries/jurisdictions are Egypt, Lesotho, Mali, Yemen
and the Palestinian Territories. The GoC is contributing to an
existing Irish project in Lesotho, a Belgian project in Mali and a
German hospital project in Yemen.
4. (U) The GOC had also been providing logistical and other support
to a private sector-led effort to host a "World Congress and
Exhibition on the Reconstruction and Development of Post-War
Lebanon" in Cyprus. The Congress, which was originally planned for
December, was postponed first to February, but then was officially
cancelled on January 12 due to "the continuing unstable political
situation in Lebanon." Nevertheless, the organizers plan to make
Lebanese reconstruction a central theme of a broader "Business Show"
currently scheduled for April 20-22. Details of this "Business
Show" are not yet available. We have been working with the
Commercial Section in Embassy Beirut and FCS to bring this
opportunity to the attention of potentially interested U.S.
companies.
SCHLICHER