Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09SEOUL67
2009-01-14 07:43:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Seoul
Cable title:
INTERIM KOREAN RESPONSE: DEMARCHE ON THE
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UNCLAS SEOUL 000067
SIPDIS
FOR EEB/ESC/DMONOSSON AND OES/EGC/GTHOMPSON
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ENRG EUN GM KS PGOV SENV
SUBJECT: INTERIM KOREAN RESPONSE: DEMARCHE ON THE
INTERNATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY AGENCY (IRENA)
REF: STATE 134385
ESTH Officer delivered Reftel message requesting posts to
explain USG opposition to IRENA and report host country
positions to Yoo Yeon-chul, Director of the Energy and
Resources Cooperation Division at the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and Trade on January 14. Director Yoo was familiar
with the German initiative to create the IRENA, but said his
ministry had not yet decided whether it would support the
initiative or participate in the meeting at the end of this
month to launch the agency. He thanked ESTH Officer for
explaining the USG views and said he would carefully consider
those views in forming the South Korean position on IRENA.
He also promised to inform ESTH Officer in the next few days
whether South Korea would attend the IRENA launch meeting.
STEPHENS
SIPDIS
FOR EEB/ESC/DMONOSSON AND OES/EGC/GTHOMPSON
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ENRG EUN GM KS PGOV SENV
SUBJECT: INTERIM KOREAN RESPONSE: DEMARCHE ON THE
INTERNATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY AGENCY (IRENA)
REF: STATE 134385
ESTH Officer delivered Reftel message requesting posts to
explain USG opposition to IRENA and report host country
positions to Yoo Yeon-chul, Director of the Energy and
Resources Cooperation Division at the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and Trade on January 14. Director Yoo was familiar
with the German initiative to create the IRENA, but said his
ministry had not yet decided whether it would support the
initiative or participate in the meeting at the end of this
month to launch the agency. He thanked ESTH Officer for
explaining the USG views and said he would carefully consider
those views in forming the South Korean position on IRENA.
He also promised to inform ESTH Officer in the next few days
whether South Korea would attend the IRENA launch meeting.
STEPHENS