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09BRUSSELS987
2009-07-17 15:48:00
UNCLASSIFIED
USEU Brussels
Cable title:
DEMARCHE DELIVERED: HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN
how-toVZCZCXRO1227 RR RUEHAG RUEHAST RUEHDA RUEHDBU RUEHDF RUEHFL RUEHIK RUEHKW RUEHLA RUEHLN RUEHLZ RUEHNP RUEHPOD RUEHROV RUEHSK RUEHSL RUEHSR RUEHVK RUEHYG DE RUEHBS #0987 1981548 ZNR UUUUU ZZH R 171548Z JUL 09 ZDK FM USEU BRUSSELS TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC INFO RUEHZL/EUROPEAN POLITICAL COLLECTIVE
UNCLAS BRUSSELS 000987
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: EAID PREF ET SOM KEN EU
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE DELIVERED: HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN
ETHIOPIA, SOMALIA AND KENYA
REF: STATE 707089
Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Cees Wittebrood, Flavio
Bello, Michele Schivo and Maureen Philippon from the European
Commission's Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid (ECHO)
on 15 July. ECHO works closely on these issues and Mr.
Wittebrood himself raised most of the facts listed in the
demarche. Mr. Bello stated that this week the Government of
Ethiopia had raised its official figures of those in need of
emergency food aid up to 6.2 million. The EU is in the
process of determining upcoming funding to respond to the
crisis, so ECHO was unable to provide exact figures. Post
will report any further response in septel.
MURRAY
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