Identifier
Created
Classification
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09BERLIN335
2009-03-20 15:28:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Berlin
Cable title:
GERMANY TO DONATE ADDITIONAL 1 MILLION EUROS TO
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UNCLAS BERLIN 000335
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
STATE FOR PRM/ECA - NORMAN HASTINGS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL EAID PHUM PREF PK GM
SUBJECT: GERMANY TO DONATE ADDITIONAL 1 MILLION EUROS TO
THE ICRC TO ASSIST PAKISTANI IDPS
REF: A. STATE 21407
B. BERLIN 311
UNCLAS BERLIN 000335
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
STATE FOR PRM/ECA - NORMAN HASTINGS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL EAID PHUM PREF PK GM
SUBJECT: GERMANY TO DONATE ADDITIONAL 1 MILLION EUROS TO
THE ICRC TO ASSIST PAKISTANI IDPS
REF: A. STATE 21407
B. BERLIN 311
1. (SBU) Post followed up with MFA Pakistan Desk Officer
Tobias Grothe on March 19 to see if Germany, as requested
reftel A, would be able to contribute additional funds to one
or more of the UN agencies involved in assisting internally
displaced persons (IDPs) in Pakistan, or to help meet the
Budget Extension Appeal of the International Committee of the
Red Cross (ICRC) for Pakistan.
2. (SBU) Grothe indicated that Germany would donate an
additional 1 million Euros to the ICRC in response to the
recent Budget Extension Appeal. He also pointed out that
Germany, beginning in May 2008, began contributing some
440,000 Euros yearly to finance the humanitarian component of
the Special Assistance Fund of the UN High Commissioner for
Refugees (UNHCR),and would continue to do so.
3. (SBU) Finally, Grothe reported that the German development
implementing agency GTZ would carry out a project in
cooperation with UNHCR to foster better relations between
Afghan refugees and the local Pakistan communities in which
they live. He noted that a GTZ advance team was already in
the area to do a needs evaluation for the project.
Koenig
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
STATE FOR PRM/ECA - NORMAN HASTINGS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL EAID PHUM PREF PK GM
SUBJECT: GERMANY TO DONATE ADDITIONAL 1 MILLION EUROS TO
THE ICRC TO ASSIST PAKISTANI IDPS
REF: A. STATE 21407
B. BERLIN 311
1. (SBU) Post followed up with MFA Pakistan Desk Officer
Tobias Grothe on March 19 to see if Germany, as requested
reftel A, would be able to contribute additional funds to one
or more of the UN agencies involved in assisting internally
displaced persons (IDPs) in Pakistan, or to help meet the
Budget Extension Appeal of the International Committee of the
Red Cross (ICRC) for Pakistan.
2. (SBU) Grothe indicated that Germany would donate an
additional 1 million Euros to the ICRC in response to the
recent Budget Extension Appeal. He also pointed out that
Germany, beginning in May 2008, began contributing some
440,000 Euros yearly to finance the humanitarian component of
the Special Assistance Fund of the UN High Commissioner for
Refugees (UNHCR),and would continue to do so.
3. (SBU) Finally, Grothe reported that the German development
implementing agency GTZ would carry out a project in
cooperation with UNHCR to foster better relations between
Afghan refugees and the local Pakistan communities in which
they live. He noted that a GTZ advance team was already in
the area to do a needs evaluation for the project.
Koenig