Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09SEOUL570
2009-04-08 07:57:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Seoul
Cable title:
ROKG LIKELY TO OFFER SOFT LOAN AT PAKISTAN DONORS
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C O N F I D E N T I A L SEOUL 000570
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/08/2019
TAGS: PREL EAID ECON EFIN KS PK
SUBJECT: ROKG LIKELY TO OFFER SOFT LOAN AT PAKISTAN DONORS
CONFERENCE
REF: STATE 32712
Classified By: POLMC Joseph Yun for reasons 1.4 (b,d).
C O N F I D E N T I A L SEOUL 000570
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/08/2019
TAGS: PREL EAID ECON EFIN KS PK
SUBJECT: ROKG LIKELY TO OFFER SOFT LOAN AT PAKISTAN DONORS
CONFERENCE
REF: STATE 32712
Classified By: POLMC Joseph Yun for reasons 1.4 (b,d).
1. (C) POLMC on April 8 delivered reftel demarche to Choi
Jongmoon, Director-General for South Asian and Pacific
Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Choi
said that he expected the ROKG to make a pledge at the
conference because Pakistan, like the ROK, is an Asian
country so the ROKG must do something to help, and that the
ROKG, as an USG ally, understood the importance of Pakistan
to the USG. After saying he expected the ROKG to determine a
final monetary figure at the last moment, Choi said that the
ROKG's pledge at the conference would probably be a USD 160
million soft loan package for infrastructure projects, for
which the ROKG already had an umbrella agreement with
Pakistan, plus "something else" not yet determined. Choi
said that the ROKG had not yet worked out the details of the
soft loan package. Choi will attend the donors' conference
with Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan.
2. (C) Separately, an officer from the Japanese Embassy in
Seoul told POLOFF the same day that it received the same
response from the ROKG, and that the ROKG would also include
a small unspecified amount of grant aid, which presumably is
what DG Choi referred to as "something else" in our meeting.
STEPHENS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/08/2019
TAGS: PREL EAID ECON EFIN KS PK
SUBJECT: ROKG LIKELY TO OFFER SOFT LOAN AT PAKISTAN DONORS
CONFERENCE
REF: STATE 32712
Classified By: POLMC Joseph Yun for reasons 1.4 (b,d).
1. (C) POLMC on April 8 delivered reftel demarche to Choi
Jongmoon, Director-General for South Asian and Pacific
Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Choi
said that he expected the ROKG to make a pledge at the
conference because Pakistan, like the ROK, is an Asian
country so the ROKG must do something to help, and that the
ROKG, as an USG ally, understood the importance of Pakistan
to the USG. After saying he expected the ROKG to determine a
final monetary figure at the last moment, Choi said that the
ROKG's pledge at the conference would probably be a USD 160
million soft loan package for infrastructure projects, for
which the ROKG already had an umbrella agreement with
Pakistan, plus "something else" not yet determined. Choi
said that the ROKG had not yet worked out the details of the
soft loan package. Choi will attend the donors' conference
with Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan.
2. (C) Separately, an officer from the Japanese Embassy in
Seoul told POLOFF the same day that it received the same
response from the ROKG, and that the ROKG would also include
a small unspecified amount of grant aid, which presumably is
what DG Choi referred to as "something else" in our meeting.
STEPHENS