Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09KUWAIT213
2009-03-10 14:57:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Kuwait
Cable title:
DEMARCHE DELIVERED: RESPONDING TO PAKISTAN'S IDP
how-toVZCZCXYZ0009 RR RUEHWEB DE RUEHKU #0213 0691457 ZNR UUUUU ZZH R 101457Z MAR 09 FM AMEMBASSY KUWAIT TO SECSTATE WASHDC 2943
UNCLAS KUWAIT 000213
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: EAID PHUM PREF PK KU
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE DELIVERED: RESPONDING TO PAKISTAN'S IDP
CRISIS
REF: SECSTATE 21407
UNCLAS KUWAIT 000213
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: EAID PHUM PREF PK KU
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE DELIVERED: RESPONDING TO PAKISTAN'S IDP
CRISIS
REF: SECSTATE 21407
1. (U) EconCouns delivered reftel demarche to Dr. Hamad Bu
Rahmah, Ministry of Foreign Affairs International
Organizations Department Counselor on March 10. Rahmah was
not aware of the UN and ICRC requests but said he would
coordinate with the MFA Economic Department on the GoK
response. He said GoK humanitarian assistance was normally
implemented by the Kuwait Red Crescent Society. (Note: KRCS
provided KD 2.3 million (USD 8 million) in humanitarian
assistance to Pakistan in 2008. End note.)
2. (U) Rahmah said that private charities could fill some of
the humanitarian assistance funding gaps. He said Kuwait
charities operated broadly in Africa and Asia in the 1980s,
but that the increased terror finance scrutiny on charities
has made it increasingly difficult for them to operate
effectively. While admitting that individual lapses had
occurred at some charities on occassion, he said Kuwaiti and
other GCC charities operated transparently and were now
effectively monitored by their respective governments.
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For more reporting from Embassy Kuwait, visit:
visit Kuwait's Classified Website at:
http://www.intelink.sgov.gov/wiki/Portal:Kuwa it
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JONES
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: EAID PHUM PREF PK KU
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE DELIVERED: RESPONDING TO PAKISTAN'S IDP
CRISIS
REF: SECSTATE 21407
1. (U) EconCouns delivered reftel demarche to Dr. Hamad Bu
Rahmah, Ministry of Foreign Affairs International
Organizations Department Counselor on March 10. Rahmah was
not aware of the UN and ICRC requests but said he would
coordinate with the MFA Economic Department on the GoK
response. He said GoK humanitarian assistance was normally
implemented by the Kuwait Red Crescent Society. (Note: KRCS
provided KD 2.3 million (USD 8 million) in humanitarian
assistance to Pakistan in 2008. End note.)
2. (U) Rahmah said that private charities could fill some of
the humanitarian assistance funding gaps. He said Kuwait
charities operated broadly in Africa and Asia in the 1980s,
but that the increased terror finance scrutiny on charities
has made it increasingly difficult for them to operate
effectively. While admitting that individual lapses had
occurred at some charities on occassion, he said Kuwaiti and
other GCC charities operated transparently and were now
effectively monitored by their respective governments.
********************************************* *********
For more reporting from Embassy Kuwait, visit:
visit Kuwait's Classified Website at:
http://www.intelink.sgov.gov/wiki/Portal:Kuwa it
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JONES