Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09ANKARA236
2009-02-13 05:07:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Ankara
Cable title:
TURKEY - RESPONSE TO BIOSAFETY DEMARCHE
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UNCLAS ANKARA 000236
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
DEPT FOR EEB/TPP/ABT MARCELLA SZYMANSKI, JACK BOBO
DEPT FOR OES DWOOD
USDA/FAS FOR SFROGGETT, OSTA/NTPMD LJONES, OCRA MSMITH
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: EAGR ECON ETRD KPAO TBIO TU
SUBJECT: TURKEY - RESPONSE TO BIOSAFETY DEMARCHE
REF: STATE 11910
UNCLAS ANKARA 000236
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
DEPT FOR EEB/TPP/ABT MARCELLA SZYMANSKI, JACK BOBO
DEPT FOR OES DWOOD
USDA/FAS FOR SFROGGETT, OSTA/NTPMD LJONES, OCRA MSMITH
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: EAGR ECON ETRD KPAO TBIO TU
SUBJECT: TURKEY - RESPONSE TO BIOSAFETY DEMARCHE
REF: STATE 11910
1. (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect
accordingly.
2. (SBU) Per reftel instructions, Emboffs contacted the
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA) and Foreign
Trade Undersecretariat (FTU). The Directorate of
Agricultural Research at MARA, which has been the lead agency
on CBD-related matters, said that Turkey would not be sending
a delegation to the meeting in Mexico. FTU officials
confirmed the same and noted that they had not even been made
aware of the meeting. Post considers it likely that the EU
will speak on behalf of Turkey, as it did in the May 2008
meeting in Bonn.
Visit Ankara's Classified Web Site at
http://www.intelink.sgov.gov/wiki/Portal:Turk ey
Jeffrey
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
DEPT FOR EEB/TPP/ABT MARCELLA SZYMANSKI, JACK BOBO
DEPT FOR OES DWOOD
USDA/FAS FOR SFROGGETT, OSTA/NTPMD LJONES, OCRA MSMITH
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: EAGR ECON ETRD KPAO TBIO TU
SUBJECT: TURKEY - RESPONSE TO BIOSAFETY DEMARCHE
REF: STATE 11910
1. (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect
accordingly.
2. (SBU) Per reftel instructions, Emboffs contacted the
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA) and Foreign
Trade Undersecretariat (FTU). The Directorate of
Agricultural Research at MARA, which has been the lead agency
on CBD-related matters, said that Turkey would not be sending
a delegation to the meeting in Mexico. FTU officials
confirmed the same and noted that they had not even been made
aware of the meeting. Post considers it likely that the EU
will speak on behalf of Turkey, as it did in the May 2008
meeting in Bonn.
Visit Ankara's Classified Web Site at
http://www.intelink.sgov.gov/wiki/Portal:Turk ey
Jeffrey