FORMAL INVITATION FROM SECRETARY RICE FOR NON-MEM

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BRIDGETOWN: INVITATION IS FOR FOUR COUNTRIES -- BARBADOS/ANTIGUA
AND
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SUBJECT: FORMAL INVITATION FROM SECRETARY RICE FOR NON-MEM
DELEGATIONS TO ATTEND THE WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON RENEWABLE ENERGY (WIREC) MARCH 4-6, 2008

REF: A) STATE 138428 B) STATE 80334

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ACTION REQUESTS
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1. Action Requests: Ambassadors or appropriate senior
embassy officials at action addressee posts are requested
to deliver the text in paragraph 11 as a letter from
Secretary Rice to either the host government's foreign

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minister or, if known, the host government's designated
Minister-level head of official delegation to WIREC 2008.
Posts at their discretion may cc other ministers who have
indicated an interest in attending WIREC. Paragraphs four
through ten contain post-specific instructions for Dakar, Dar Es
Salaam, Helsinki, Lisbon, San Jose, Stockholm, and The Hague
based on communications received from posts. No signed original
will follow. Posts are asked to confirm delivery of the
letter via return cable. Please include name and contact
information for post's WIREC POC in the response cable.


2. All action addressee posts are requested to inform their
Host governments that Official Individual Country Ministerial-
level delegations may consist of a maximum of 10 individuals per
country, composed of up to three Ministers, including the
Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Energy, Agriculture, or
Environment (or the equivalent Ministers covering those
portfolios) and three subnational government representatives.
The European Commission is also invited to send a delegation of
10 members. We defer to each country's Minister of Foreign
Affairs (MFA) to determine their country's precise makeup of the
'Official WIREC Ministerial Delegation,' as well as to inform us

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3. All action addressee posts are requested to inform their
Host governments that each member of the delegation must submit
an individual registration form to confirm attendance at WIREC

2008. Official delegates may register for the conference via
the internet at
http://www.usea.org/WIREC/official_party_regi stration_pub_0001.p
df.


4. Action Request for Dakar: Please address the letter
to Minister for Renewable Energy and Biofuels Christian Sina
Diatta.


5. Action Request for Dar Es Salaam: Please address the
letter to Minister for Energy and Minerals Nazir M.
Karamagi.


6. Action Request for Helsinki: Please address the
letter to Minister of Trade and Industry Mauri Pekkarinen.


7. Action Request for Lisbon: Please address the letter
to Economy Minister Manuel Pinho.


8. Action Request for San Jose: Please address the
letter to Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Stagno.


9. Action Request for Stockholm: Please address the
letter to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Enterprise
and Energy Maud Olofsson.


10. Action Request for The Hague: Please address the
letter to Dutch Economic Affairs Minister Maria van der
Hoeven.

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TEXT OF LETTER
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11. Begin text of the letter:

Dear Mr./Madam Minister: (or other appropriate salutation)

The U.S. State Department will host the Washington International
Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC 2008) in Washington on March
4-6, 2008. WIREC 2008 is the third global ministerial-level
event on renewable energy after Bonn in 2004 and Beijing in

2005. WIREC will serve as a global platform for ministers and
senior leaders from the private sector, sub-national
governments, and civil society to discuss and share
information about the benefits of renewable energy,
identify best practices and barriers, and consider
policy options and measures needed to encourage the rapid
development of renewable energy in their countries.

I am pleased to invite (insert name of country) to send an
official delegation to WIREC 2008. Approximately 2,000
delegates will participate in the three-day conference at the
Washington Convention Center, and we envision participation by
U.S. Cabinet secretaries and senior White House officials.

In the spirit of the International Action Program that was
agreed to at the Bonn Conference, I am inviting your government
to consider making a voluntary national pledge at WIREC to
accelerate the deployment of renewable energy in your country.
The consolidation of national governments' pledges, as well as
pledges from other major stakeholders (sub-national governments,
international organizations, the private sector, civil society,
and multi-stakeholder partnerships) will be one of the major
outcomes of WIREC.

I look forward to your official delegation's active
participation in WIREC 2008.

Sincerely,
Condoleezza Rice

End text.

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12. Posts are asked to deliver the letter from the
Secretary to the minister who has been designated to head

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the official delegation, if known, or, if a head of
delegation has not been decided, to the foreign minister,
no later than OOB Wednesday, January 9, to ensure the
official delegates receive the invitation in time to block
out the WIREC dates on their schedules. Responses should be
slugged for OES for WIREC Action Group Leader Stan Specht and
OES Special Assistant Camille Hill.

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13. For additional information about WIREC 2008, contact
OES' WIREC Action Group Leader Stan Specht (OES/PCI) at
SpechtSH@state.gov and consult the official WIREC website
at www.wirec2008.gov.


14. Minimize considered.
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