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111746Z Jan 06

UNCLAS PARIS 000198 
 
SIPDIS 
 
FROM USMISSION UNESCO 
 
STATE FOR IO/EDA SHARON KOTOK, IO/T AMY BRIDGMAN IO/UNESCO 
KEVIN PILZ, OES HAROLD FOSTER, BARRIE RIPIN, OES/STAS ANDREW 
¶W. REYNOLDS, OES/IHA JOHN S. BLODGETT 
STATE FOR NSC GENE WHITNEY 
STATE FOR NSF INTERNATIONAL OFFICE 
STATE FOR USDA PETER FERNANDEZ, RON DEHAVEN, AND MICHAEL J. 
DAVID 
STATE FOR USAID DENNIS CARROLL 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: TBIO KSCA
SUBJECT:  AVIAN FLU:  WORLD ANIMAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION (OIE) 
DG ACCEPTS INVITATION TO JANUARY 19 SIDE MEETING AT BEIJING 
PLEDGE CONFERENCE 
 
REF:  State 2890 
 
¶1. Dr. Bernard Vallat, Director General of the World 
Organization for Animal health (OIE) is pleased to accept 
the invitation, conveyed reftel, to the January 19 side 
meeting at the January 17-18 International Conference on 
Avian and Human Pandemic Influenza. 
 
¶2.  Dr. Vallat and other OIE delegation members will, 
however, depart Beijing on January 19 via a flight departing 
at 1350.  They estimate they will need to leave  for the 
airport at 1130. 
 
¶3.  Dr. Vallat's contact information is as follows:  Dr. 
Bernard Vallat, Director General, World Organization for 
Animal Health, 12, rue de Prony, 75017 Paris France. 
Telephone: 33-1-44-15-18-88, Fax: 33-1-42-67-09-87, e-mail: 
b.vallat@oie.int. 
 
¶4.  Point of contact for Dr. Vallat is Dr Christianne J.M. 
Bruschke, World Organization for Animal Health, 12, Rue de 
Prony 75017 Paris; Tel: 33-1 44.15.18.88; fax: 33 1 
42.67.09.87 ; email: c.bruschke@oie.int.  Dr. Bruschke will 
accompany Dr. Vallat to Beijing.  She can be reached both in 
Paris and in Beijing by cellphone 33-6-32-46-96-40. 
 
¶5. In addition to Drs. Vallat and Bruschke, the OIE 
delegation to Beijing will include Dr. Dewan Sibarti.  They 
will all stay at the Great Wall Sheraton (site of the 
Conference).  Drs. Bruschke and Sibarti will arrive on 
Sunday, January 15 at 1140; Dr. Vallat will arrive Monday. 
January 16 at 1140. 
 
¶6.  The OIE delegation would very much appreciate receiving 
information about the time and venue of the January 19 side 
meeting, as well as the agenda, as soon as these are 
available. 
 
¶7.  Please note for future reference that USG relations with 
the OIE are handled by the US Mission to UNESCO, rather than 
by the bilateral mission.  Incoming cables relating to the 
OIE should be sent to Embassy Paris, slugged for the U.S. 
Mission to UNESCO.  The U.S. Mission to UNESCO would very 
much appreciate being copied on the Department's email 
correspondence with the OIE (coopernj@state.gov). 
Oliver