Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09COPENHAGEN136
2009-03-17 14:33:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Copenhagen
Cable title:
DANES WEIGHING PAKISTAN AID
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C O N F I D E N T I A L COPENHAGEN 000136
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/17/2019
TAGS: EAID PREL ECON EFIN PK DA
SUBJECT: DANES WEIGHING PAKISTAN AID
REF: STATE 24367
Classified By: Bill Mozdzierz, Acting DCM, reasons 1.4b,d
C O N F I D E N T I A L COPENHAGEN 000136
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/17/2019
TAGS: EAID PREL ECON EFIN PK DA
SUBJECT: DANES WEIGHING PAKISTAN AID
REF: STATE 24367
Classified By: Bill Mozdzierz, Acting DCM, reasons 1.4b,d
1. (C) Acting DCM delivered reftel demarche on the Pakistan
donors conference to Danish MFA Head of Department Jesper
Thomsen March 17, urging high-level participation and a
robust contribution at the April 17 conference. A/DCM noted
that the conference had been flagged as a top priority by
senior U.S. officials, including Ambassador Holbrooke, during
Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moller's meetings in
Washington the previous week.
2. (C) Thomsen explained that the Danish government has not
yet made a decision on new aid for Pakistan, nor whether
Denmark will become a formal member of the Friends of
Democratic Pakistan group. The Danish government recognizes
Pakistan as absolutely critical, Thomsen maintained, not
least of all because of Afghanistan (where Denmark has some
700 troops deployed with ISAF),but the MFA has met
resistance to expanding aid outside the government's targeted
"program countries" in Africa. Thomsen reported that FM
Moller is deeply engaged in this debate and hopes to prevail,
but could offer no further assurances for now.
3. (C) Separately, A/DCM reviewed the need for increased aid
to Pakistan with Danish parliamentary foreign policy
committee chair Gitte Lillelund Bech, who recently visited
Islamabad with members of her committee. Bech readily agreed
about Pakistan's strategic importance, but provided a similar
account of the ongoing debate within her party and the
government on international development assistance priorities.
MCCULLEY
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/17/2019
TAGS: EAID PREL ECON EFIN PK DA
SUBJECT: DANES WEIGHING PAKISTAN AID
REF: STATE 24367
Classified By: Bill Mozdzierz, Acting DCM, reasons 1.4b,d
1. (C) Acting DCM delivered reftel demarche on the Pakistan
donors conference to Danish MFA Head of Department Jesper
Thomsen March 17, urging high-level participation and a
robust contribution at the April 17 conference. A/DCM noted
that the conference had been flagged as a top priority by
senior U.S. officials, including Ambassador Holbrooke, during
Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moller's meetings in
Washington the previous week.
2. (C) Thomsen explained that the Danish government has not
yet made a decision on new aid for Pakistan, nor whether
Denmark will become a formal member of the Friends of
Democratic Pakistan group. The Danish government recognizes
Pakistan as absolutely critical, Thomsen maintained, not
least of all because of Afghanistan (where Denmark has some
700 troops deployed with ISAF),but the MFA has met
resistance to expanding aid outside the government's targeted
"program countries" in Africa. Thomsen reported that FM
Moller is deeply engaged in this debate and hopes to prevail,
but could offer no further assurances for now.
3. (C) Separately, A/DCM reviewed the need for increased aid
to Pakistan with Danish parliamentary foreign policy
committee chair Gitte Lillelund Bech, who recently visited
Islamabad with members of her committee. Bech readily agreed
about Pakistan's strategic importance, but provided a similar
account of the ongoing debate within her party and the
government on international development assistance priorities.
MCCULLEY