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07THEHAGUE1584
2007-08-29 12:27:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy The Hague
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PARTNERSHIP FOR DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE: DUTCH WILL

Tags:  EAID KDEM OAS OECD NL 
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UNCLAS THE HAGUE 001584 

SIPDIS

SENSITIVE
SIPDIS

ADDIS ABABA FOR USAU
PARIS FOR USOECD (PREID, CSTONE)
BRUSSELS FOR USEU (PLERNER)
USOAS FOR (BMANZANARES)
STATE FOR S/P (DSOKOLSKY, JGERAN)
STATE ALSO FOR EUR/WE (TSMITH)

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: EAID KDEM OAS OECD NL
SUBJECT: PARTNERSHIP FOR DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE: DUTCH WILL
NOT BECOME FOUNDING MEMBER

REF: A. STATE 115400

B. STATE 108794

THIS MESSAGE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. PLEASE HANDLE
ACCORDINGLY.

UNCLAS THE HAGUE 001584

SIPDIS

SENSITIVE
SIPDIS

ADDIS ABABA FOR USAU
PARIS FOR USOECD (PREID, CSTONE)
BRUSSELS FOR USEU (PLERNER)
USOAS FOR (BMANZANARES)
STATE FOR S/P (DSOKOLSKY, JGERAN)
STATE ALSO FOR EUR/WE (TSMITH)

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: EAID KDEM OAS OECD NL
SUBJECT: PARTNERSHIP FOR DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE: DUTCH WILL
NOT BECOME FOUNDING MEMBER

REF: A. STATE 115400

B. STATE 108794

THIS MESSAGE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. PLEASE HANDLE
ACCORDINGLY.


1. (U) Econoff delivered on August 16 ref A & B points and
principles for the Partnership for Democratic Governance
(PDG) to Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials Aart
Jacobi, Director, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, and Peace
Building, and Jan Huesken, Senior Policy Officer in the same
department.


2. (SBU) In a subsequent discussion August 28, Huesken said
the GONL still had reservations on modalities and the PDG's
impact on local democratic processes, particularly if
governance was weak. Based on Dutch experience, he
explained, contractors possessing critical expertise and
performing key government functions found it difficult to
leave as stipulated in their exit strategies. As a result,
the GONL would not join as a founding member, and instead see
how the PDG developed and review their membership decision
"when the time was right," Huesken said.


3. (SBU) Huesken said, however, that the PDG's progress and
institutionalization within the OECD was a "positive"
development and that the GONL supported the "gist" of the
PDG. Therefore, the Dutch would not block or obstruct the
PDG's continued progress, he said.
Schofer