Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
08CANBERRA1039
2008-10-16 00:02:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Canberra
Cable title:
AUSTRALIA WILL NOT ATTEND GEORGIA DONORS CONFERENCE
how-toVZCZCXRO6657 OO RUEHPT DE RUEHBY #1039 2900002 ZNR UUUUU ZZH O 160002Z OCT 08 FM AMEMBASSY CANBERRA TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 0332 INFO RUEHSI/AMEMBASSY TBILISI PRIORITY 0032 RUEHBN/AMCONSUL MELBOURNE 5666 RUEHPT/AMCONSUL PERTH 3939 RUEHDN/AMCONSUL SYDNEY 3876
UNCLAS CANBERRA 001039
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
STATE FOR EUR/ACE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: EAID EFIN GG PREL RS EUMEM KMCA KCRS AS
SUBJECT: AUSTRALIA WILL NOT ATTEND GEORGIA DONORS CONFERENCE
REF: A. STATE 109212
¶B. CANBERRA 972
(SBU) We delivered Ref A points to Annabel Anderson,
Assistant Secretary for Northern, Southern, and Eastern
Europe Branch at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Anderson reiterated what she told post on September 22 (ref
B) - Australia will not make any new commitments to assist
Georgia, and will not attend the October 22 donors
conference. Anderson noted that Georgia lies well outside
Australia's normal Asia-Pacific area of focus for such
assistance, and said the provision on August 14 of emergency
humanitarian assistance to Georgia in the wake of the
conflict was an exception to the rule.
CLUNE