Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09ABUDHABI732
2009-07-20 09:12:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Abu Dhabi
Cable title:
DEMARCHE DELIVERED FOOD CRISIS ETHIOPIA, SOMALIA, AND KENYA
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UNCLAS ABU DHABI 000732
SIPDIS
FOR DEPARTMENT DRL, NEA/ARP
E.O. 12958: DECL: 7/20/2019
TAGS: PGOV PREF PREL EAID ER SO ET KE AE
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE DELIVERED FOOD CRISIS ETHIOPIA, SOMALIA, AND KENYA
REF: STATE 70789
Sensitive but unclassified; please protect accordingly.
UNCLAS ABU DHABI 000732
SIPDIS
FOR DEPARTMENT DRL, NEA/ARP
E.O. 12958: DECL: 7/20/2019
TAGS: PGOV PREF PREL EAID ER SO ET KE AE
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE DELIVERED FOOD CRISIS ETHIOPIA, SOMALIA, AND KENYA
REF: STATE 70789
Sensitive but unclassified; please protect accordingly.
1. (U) Reftel demarche request for urgent food aid to Ethiopia,
Somalia, and Kenya was delivered to the MFA without response on July
9.
2. (U) Ambassador delivered demarche points to UAE Red Crescent
Chairman Mohammad al-Qamsi July 12. (Note: the UAE Red Crescent is
one of several quasi-Governmental organizations through which the
UAEG distributes assistance funds to UN organizations such as UNDP
and UNWRA as well as other international NGOs. End Note.)
Ambassador encouraged the UAEG to work through UNICEF and the WFP to
respond to this urgent need for humanitarian relief.
3. (SBU) Al-Qamsi, who is relatively new to his position, explained
that as far as he was aware, UAE humanitarian assistance in Africa
was heavily concentrated in Sudan, but that the UAE stood ready to
help needy people anywhere, and he would be looking into what the UAE
might be doing already, and where further contributions could be made
to respond to this current crisis.
4. (U) Pol Chief met with Executive Director of the Khalifa
Foundation, (an organization founded by the Abu Dhabi ruling family
though which the UAE funds significant portions of its international
assistance),Mohamed al-Khouri July 8. Al-Khouri mentioned
UAE-funded basic needs programs run by international NGOs in Kenya
and Sudan, but was unaware of UAE donor participation in the current
crisis.
5. (SBU) Embassy will continue to raise this issue with the
appropriate officials.
OLSON
SIPDIS
FOR DEPARTMENT DRL, NEA/ARP
E.O. 12958: DECL: 7/20/2019
TAGS: PGOV PREF PREL EAID ER SO ET KE AE
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE DELIVERED FOOD CRISIS ETHIOPIA, SOMALIA, AND KENYA
REF: STATE 70789
Sensitive but unclassified; please protect accordingly.
1. (U) Reftel demarche request for urgent food aid to Ethiopia,
Somalia, and Kenya was delivered to the MFA without response on July
9.
2. (U) Ambassador delivered demarche points to UAE Red Crescent
Chairman Mohammad al-Qamsi July 12. (Note: the UAE Red Crescent is
one of several quasi-Governmental organizations through which the
UAEG distributes assistance funds to UN organizations such as UNDP
and UNWRA as well as other international NGOs. End Note.)
Ambassador encouraged the UAEG to work through UNICEF and the WFP to
respond to this urgent need for humanitarian relief.
3. (SBU) Al-Qamsi, who is relatively new to his position, explained
that as far as he was aware, UAE humanitarian assistance in Africa
was heavily concentrated in Sudan, but that the UAE stood ready to
help needy people anywhere, and he would be looking into what the UAE
might be doing already, and where further contributions could be made
to respond to this current crisis.
4. (U) Pol Chief met with Executive Director of the Khalifa
Foundation, (an organization founded by the Abu Dhabi ruling family
though which the UAE funds significant portions of its international
assistance),Mohamed al-Khouri July 8. Al-Khouri mentioned
UAE-funded basic needs programs run by international NGOs in Kenya
and Sudan, but was unaware of UAE donor participation in the current
crisis.
5. (SBU) Embassy will continue to raise this issue with the
appropriate officials.
OLSON