Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
08BANDARSERIBEGAWAN162
2008-05-23 06:39:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan
Cable title:
BURMA DONOR CONFERENCE MESSAGES DELIVERED TO BRUNEI
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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
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
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