WIREC: ESTONIAN PARTICIPANTS

UNCLAS TALLINN 000057 SIPDIS DEPARTMENT FOR OES FOR WIREC ACTION GROUP LEADER STAN SPECHT AND OES SPECIAL ASSISTANT CAMILLE HILL SIPDIS E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: ENRG SENV TRGY EPET EAID SOCI KSCA KGHG KPAO, OPDC, SOCI, EN SUBJECT: WIREC: ESTONIAN PARTICIPANTS REF: A) SECSTATE 11870 B) 07 TALLINN 718 ¶1. (U) Per reftel A, on February 7, we sent the official WIREC invitation letters under the Charge's signature to Estonia's Minister of Economic Affairs and Communication Juhan Parts and the Minister of Agriculture's (MOA) Deputy Secretary General for Agriculture and Trade Policies, Andres Oopkaup. Minister Parts has indicated high interest in WIREC, however, his participation has not yet been confirmed. ¶2. (U) MOA's Mr. Oopkaup and Mr. Raul Rosenberg, Board Member of the Estonian Rural Development Foundation both plan to attend the conference. Following WIREC, they will remain in the U.S. for an additional week to participate in a Voluntary Visitor program (VolVis) on bioenergy, wind and solar energy, the use of fossil energy and climate change, and bioplast and renewable building materials. ¶3. (U) Post's WIREC POC is Econ Officer Robert Hollister, Tel: +372 668 8107, e-mail: HollisterRM@state.gov PHILLIPS