Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
10MINSK16
2010-01-20 13:25:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Minsk
Cable title:
ASSISTANCE TO HAITI FROM BELARUS APPEARS UNLIKELY AT THIS
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UNCLAS MINSK 000016
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR HAITI TASKFORCE ONE (STACY WILLIAMS AND MELISSA ROSSER)
DEPT FOR EUR/UMB (ALEXANDRA SHEMA)
DEPT PLEASE PASS TO USAID/AID/A (MAURA O'NEILL)
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PHUM UN BO
SUBJECT: ASSISTANCE TO HAITI FROM BELARUS APPEARS UNLIKELY AT THIS
STAGE
REF: STATE 4087
Per reftel requests, Embassy presented points to Foreign Affairs
Ministry's North America Desk on assistance to Haiti and Haiti
air traffic, including guidance on how to work with the UN
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and its
Financial Tracking System. Per our conversations with the MFA
and the Ministry for Emergency Situations, at this point neither
Ministry has been provided guidance regarding GOB assistance to
Haiti. In a public statement carried January 19 by BelPAN wire
service, the Minister for Emergency Situations, Enver Baryyew,
is quoted as saying that in their consultations with the MFA the
latter told them "[t]hey don't see any particular need to send
humanitarian shipments or specialists to Haiti." He did add that
his Ministry would send a humanitarian convoy if the leadership
of the country issued the appropriate order. Post will continue
to engage with MFA on this subject.
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