PAKISTAN DONORS CONFERENCE

C O N F I D E N T I A L STATE 035229 E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/09/2019 TAGS: EAID ECON EFIN PREL PK JA CH SUBJECT: PAKISTAN DONORS CONFERENCE REF: A. BEIJING 0937 ¶B. STATE 32712 Classified By: EAP/CM Director David Shear Reasons 1.4 (B) AND (D) ¶1. (U) This is an action message. Please see paragraph 3. ¶2. (C) During an April 9 meeting with S/SRAP Holbrooke to discuss the Pakistan Donor,s Conference, Japanese Ambassador Fujisaki passed a matrix displaying donor information. The matrix showed a tentative 500 million dollar Chinese contribution. In a subsequent conversation, Japanese Embassy Counselor Hideo Suzuki explained to EAP/CM Director Shear that the Japanese had not heard of a possible contribution directly from the Chinese and that MOFA had inserted the 500 million number only as an assumption based on the Chinese loan announcement of last year. ¶3. (C) Department notes apparent Chinese reluctance to schedule a meeting to discuss the Pakistan Donors, Conference as instructed ref. b. We request that Charge contact Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Jieyi to deliver points contained in ref. b while stressing Special Representative Holbrooke,s personal interest in a larger Chinese role in and pledge to the conference. Special Representative Holbrooke plans to raise this when he visits Beijing next week. ¶4. (C) S/SRAP Holbrooke is attempting to contact Chinese Ambassador Zhou on April 9 after his meeting with Ambassador Fujisaki to convey these concerns. CLINTON