BURMA DONOR CONFERENCE MESSAGES DELIVERED TO BRUNEI

UNCLAS BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN 000162 SIPDIS SENSITIVE DEPARTMENT FOR EAP/MTS & EAP/MLS E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: EAID PREL BM BX SUBJECT: BURMA DONOR CONFERENCE MESSAGES DELIVERED TO BRUNEI Ref: A) State 53985 B) State 55244 C) Bandar Seri Begawan 144 ¶1. (SBU) Charge delivered ref A points on May 21 and ref B points on May 22 to Joana Hj Daniel, Assistant Director of the Political I Department (ASEAN member countries) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MoFAT). She had no immediate response. Please note that Friday is a non-working day in Brunei. Post will e-mail any substantive response we receive on Saturday. ¶2. (U) Note: the Burma DCM told us earlier this week that his embassy has collected a considerable quantity of humanitarian assistance goods donations - primarily food and medicine - in Brunei from private Bruneians and resident Burmese nationals. He said that to date, the Burmese embassy has shipped over 4 metric tons of cargo by airfreight and a twenty foot container by sea to aid Cyclone Nargis victims. He did not provide any details about how this aid would be distributed in Burma. FRIEDMAN