Identifier
Created
Classification
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08PARIS1083
2008-06-06 15:29:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Paris
Cable title:
FRANCE URGES INCREASED PRESSURE ON BURMA TO SPEED
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C O N F I D E N T I A L PARIS 001083
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MLS FOR AARON COPE
E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/06/2015
TAGS: EAID PHUM BM FR
SUBJECT: FRANCE URGES INCREASED PRESSURE ON BURMA TO SPEED
AID TO CYCLONE NARGIS VICTIMS, WILL PRESS VISITING THAI FM
FOR ACTION THROUGH ASEAN
REF: A. A. RANGOON 434
¶B. B. RANGOON 436
¶C. C. PARIS 975
¶D. D. STATE 59122
Classified By: POL MC Josiah Rosenblatt for reasons 1.4 b and d
(C) We delivered ref D demarche to Ministry of Foreign
Affairs Burma Desk Officer Jeremie Petit who noted the GOF
shared our assessment of the inadequate compliance by the GOB
to commitments made to UNSYG Ban Ki Moon to permit full
access for international aid workers to assist Nargis
victims. Petit described the French experience by noting
access for aid workers was completely arbitrary. Some NGO,s
are permitted to bring in additional staff, while others
remain blocked. On the way forward, he expressed the French
government's disappointment with some ASEAN members and UN
organizations who continue to describe modest progress as
success. Petit described OCHA's and UNICEF's &glass
half-full8 assessments of Burmese cooperation as
near-appeasement that undermines the international effort to
put pressure on the Burmese government. The GOF will demarche
visiting Thai Foreign Minister on June 6 to urge greater
pressure on Burma through ASEAN.
Please visit Paris' Classified Website at:
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/eur/paris/index.c fm
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