AUSTRALIA WILL ATTEND LIKEMINDED MEETING ON IRAN

S E C R E T CANBERRA 000901 NOFORN SIPDIS DEPARTMENT FOR RICHARD NEPHEW AND MICHAEL BEDKE E.O. 12958: DECL: 09/30/2019 TAGS: MNUC PARM PREL ETTC KNNP AS SUBJECT: AUSTRALIA WILL ATTEND LIKEMINDED MEETING ON IRAN REF: STATE 100765 Classified By: Deputy Econ Counselor Ramon Negron, Reasons 1.4(b )(d). ¶1. (S/NF) Deborah Stokes, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) First Assistant Secretary for South Asia, Middle East and Africa will head the Australian delegation, which will include experts from a variety of departments. Stokes told Poleconcouns that Australia is grateful to be included and that she is pushing her colleagues to put together ideas for the meeting. In a separate conversation DFAT Middle East Section Director Jenny Bloomfield told Poleconcouns that a group of Australian intelligence community experts on Iran who just left Washington the evening of September 28 may be asked to go back to participate in this meeting. CLUNE