LIBERIA: DEMARCHE ON EGYPT'S MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE ON

UNCLAS MONROVIA 000676 SIPDIS E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: KFLU AORC TBIO EAGR EAID PREL LI SUBJECT: LIBERIA: DEMARCHE ON EGYPT'S MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE ON PANDEMIC INFLUENZA REF: STATE 92335 ¶1. PolOff met with Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for International Cooperation and Economic Integration Conmany Wesseh August 29 to deliver reftel demarche. Wesseh said that the Sirleaf Administration takes pandemic influenza very seriously but that the issue often falls below other pressing priorities. He said he would pass the information about the conference to the Ministries of Health and Agriculture and ask them to consider sending representatives. If it is not financially possible for the GOL to send someone from Monrovia, Wesseh said that he would ask that Liberia's Ambassador to Egypt be tasked to attend. THOMAS-GREENFIELD