Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
08KUWAIT1176
2008-12-02 06:08:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Kuwait
Cable title:
DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PROPOSED GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP
how-toVZCZCXRO3573 PP RUEHDE RUEHDIR DE RUEHKU #1176 3370608 ZNR UUUUU ZZH P 020608Z DEC 08 FM AMEMBASSY KUWAIT TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 2434 INFO RUEHZM/GULF COOPERATION COUNCIL COLLECTIVE PRIORITY RUEHRC/DEPT OF AGRICULTURE WASHDC PRIORITY
UNCLAS KUWAIT 001176
SIPDIS
STATE/EEB FOR MIKE LURIE AND JANET SPECK; USAID FOR BILL
HAMMINK; USDA FOR KIRK MILLER
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: EAID EAGR ECIN KU
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PROPOSED GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP
FOR AGRICULTURE AND FOOD (GPAF)
REF: SECSTATE 123480
UNCLAS KUWAIT 001176
SIPDIS
STATE/EEB FOR MIKE LURIE AND JANET SPECK; USAID FOR BILL
HAMMINK; USDA FOR KIRK MILLER
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: EAID EAGR ECIN KU
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PROPOSED GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP
FOR AGRICULTURE AND FOOD (GPAF)
REF: SECSTATE 123480
1. (SBU) Econoffs delivered reftel points on December 1 to
Jasem Al-Bader, the Chairman and Director-General of the
Public Authority for Agricultural Affairs and Fishery
Resources (PAAF). Al-Bader, who led the Kuwaiti delegation
to the June High Level Conference on Global Food Security,
was very receptive to the proposed GPAF and said that he and
his team would carefully review the points delivered. He
agreed on the need for international coordination, including
among public and private stakeholders.
2. (SBU) Note: There are approximately 4,000 farms in Kuwait,
of which approximately 1,500 are livestock farms and 2,500
are crop farms. The GOK's annual subsidy for livestock
production currently stands at approximately USD 120 million,
a figure which will double in the next fiscal year, according
to another PAAF official. End note.
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For more reporting from Embassy Kuwait, visit:
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/nea/kuwait/?cable s
Visit Kuwait's Classified Website:
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/nea/kuwait/
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JONES
SIPDIS
STATE/EEB FOR MIKE LURIE AND JANET SPECK; USAID FOR BILL
HAMMINK; USDA FOR KIRK MILLER
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: EAID EAGR ECIN KU
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PROPOSED GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP
FOR AGRICULTURE AND FOOD (GPAF)
REF: SECSTATE 123480
1. (SBU) Econoffs delivered reftel points on December 1 to
Jasem Al-Bader, the Chairman and Director-General of the
Public Authority for Agricultural Affairs and Fishery
Resources (PAAF). Al-Bader, who led the Kuwaiti delegation
to the June High Level Conference on Global Food Security,
was very receptive to the proposed GPAF and said that he and
his team would carefully review the points delivered. He
agreed on the need for international coordination, including
among public and private stakeholders.
2. (SBU) Note: There are approximately 4,000 farms in Kuwait,
of which approximately 1,500 are livestock farms and 2,500
are crop farms. The GOK's annual subsidy for livestock
production currently stands at approximately USD 120 million,
a figure which will double in the next fiscal year, according
to another PAAF official. End note.
********************************************* *
For more reporting from Embassy Kuwait, visit:
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/nea/kuwait/?cable s
Visit Kuwait's Classified Website:
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/nea/kuwait/
********************************************* *
JONES