Cablegate: Burma Donor Conference Messages Delivered to Brunei

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PP RUEHCHI RUEHDT RUEHHM RUEHNH
DE RUEHBD #0162 1440639
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 230639Z MAY 08
FM AMEMBASSY BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 4245
INFO RUCNASE/ASEAN MEMBER COLLECTIVE

UNCLAS BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN 000162

SIPDIS
SENSITIVE

DEPARTMENT FOR EAP/MTS & EAP/MLS

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: EAID PREL BM BX
SUBJECT: BURMA DONOR CONFERENCE MESSAGES DELIVERED TO BRUNEI

Ref: A) State 53985

B) State 55244
C) Bandar Seri Begawan 144

1. (SBU) Charge delivered ref A points on May 21 and ref B points on
May 22 to Joana Hj Daniel, Assistant Director of the Political I
Department (ASEAN member countries) at the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and Trade (MoFAT). She had no immediate response. Please
note that Friday is a non-working day in Brunei. Post will e-mail
any substantive response we receive on Saturday.

2. (U) Note: the Burma DCM told us earlier this week that his
embassy has collected a considerable quantity of humanitarian
assistance goods donations - primarily food and medicine - in Brunei
from private Bruneians and resident Burmese nationals. He said that
to date, the Burmese embassy has shipped over 4 metric tons of cargo
by airfreight and a twenty foot container by sea to aid Cyclone
Nargis victims. He did not provide any details about how this aid
would be distributed in Burma.

FRIEDMAN

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