Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09PARIS415
2009-03-20 17:55:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Paris
Cable title:  

FRENCH UNLIKELY TO OFFER MUCH AT PAKISTAN TOKYO

Tags:  PREL PGOV EAID ECON EFIN IBRD IMF PK FR 
pdf how-to read a cable
VZCZCXRO5801
OO RUEHDBU RUEHFL RUEHKW RUEHLA RUEHNP RUEHROV RUEHSR
DE RUEHFR #0415 0791755
ZNY CCCCC ZZH
O 201755Z MAR 09
FM AMEMBASSY PARIS
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 5826
INFO RUEHZL/EUROPEAN POLITICAL COLLECTIVE PRIORITY
RUEHAD/AMEMBASSY ABU DHABI PRIORITY 0354
RUEHAK/AMEMBASSY ANKARA PRIORITY 1070
RUEHBJ/AMEMBASSY BEIJING PRIORITY 1940
RUEHSW/AMEMBASSY BERN PRIORITY 2212
RUEHBY/AMEMBASSY CANBERRA PRIORITY 1829
RUEHHE/AMEMBASSY HELSINKI PRIORITY 1355
RUEHIL/AMEMBASSY ISLAMABAD PRIORITY 0879
RUEHJA/AMEMBASSY JAKARTA PRIORITY 0717
RUEHKL/AMEMBASSY KUALA LUMPUR PRIORITY 0286
RUEHKU/AMEMBASSY KUWAIT PRIORITY 0321
RUEHMO/AMEMBASSY MOSCOW PRIORITY 6315
RUEHMS/AMEMBASSY MUSCAT PRIORITY 0001
RUEHNY/AMEMBASSY OSLO PRIORITY 1722
RUEHOT/AMEMBASSY OTTAWA PRIORITY 2311
RUEHRH/AMEMBASSY RIYADH PRIORITY 0459
RUEHUL/AMEMBASSY SEOUL PRIORITY 1668
RUEHSM/AMEMBASSY STOCKHOLM PRIORITY 1739
RUEHWL/AMEMBASSY WELLINGTON PRIORITY 0418
RUEHLH/AMCONSUL LAHORE PRIORITY 0021
RUEHPW/AMCONSUL PESHAWAR PRIORITY 0091
RUEHKP/AMCONSUL KARACHI PRIORITY 0045
RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK PRIORITY 1683
C O N F I D E N T I A L PARIS 000415 

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/18/2019
TAGS: PREL PGOV EAID ECON EFIN IBRD IMF PK FR
SUBJECT: FRENCH UNLIKELY TO OFFER MUCH AT PAKISTAN TOKYO
DONOR'S CONFERENCE, STILL DECIDING ON PARTICIPATION

REF: STATE 24367

Classified By: A/DCM Seth Winnick for reasons 1.4 (B & D).

C O N F I D E N T I A L PARIS 000415

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/18/2019
TAGS: PREL PGOV EAID ECON EFIN IBRD IMF PK FR
SUBJECT: FRENCH UNLIKELY TO OFFER MUCH AT PAKISTAN TOKYO
DONOR'S CONFERENCE, STILL DECIDING ON PARTICIPATION

REF: STATE 24367

Classified By: A/DCM Seth Winnick for reasons 1.4 (B & D).


1. (C) Embassy delivered points in reftel to French MFA
officer Jasmine Zerinini deputy director of the newly created
office of France's special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan
on March 16. She had no information when we spoke to her
about French intentions with respect to new financial pledges
for Afghanistan. In a separate meeting on March 17, however,
Jacques Lapouge, French PM Fillon's diplomatic adviser, told
us France will have difficulty making a significant pledge at
the April 17 Pakistan donor's conference in Tokyo. He
reacted coolly to reftel demarche, commenting that the prime
minister's office is attempting to impose strict financial
discipline on all ministries. In the current economic
context, "we are being more vigilant than ever," Lapouge
said, adding that, "diplomats make promises but it is
becoming harder and harder to finance them." Even financial
assistance for Africa, a longstanding French priority, could
suffer in the current context, he remarked. As of late March
20, Embassy was still trying to get a definitive response
from other parts of the GOF with an interest in this issue
without
success.


2. (SBU) Regarding French attendance, the MFA told us on
March 19 that FM Kouchner had not made a decision about
attending the Tokyo conference, although special envoy for
Afghanistan and Pakistan Pierre Lellouche will definitely
attend. The MFA hopes to confirm French attendance by
sometime early the week of March 23-27.


3. (U) We were unable to coordinate with the embassies of
Japan and Pakistan to deliver a joint demarche, although we
know the Pakistanis delivered their own demarche on March 19.
Pakistani polcouns Rafi Ywaman Siddiqi told us on March 20
that the response the Pakistanis received from the MFA was
the same as ours, i.e., that the GOF could not provide any
estimates of a possible pledge at the conference, nor could
the MFA confirm who would attend for France. Siddiqi said
his embassy was hoping to get more information next week. We
will pursue our requests for more information from the MFA
and from the apanese embassy in Paris early next week.

PEKALA