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Viewing cable 06OTTAWA3491, Bamako Conference on Avian and Pandemic flu: Canadian Plans

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
06OTTAWA3491 2006-11-28 20:41 2011-04-28 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Ottawa
VZCZCXRO0597
RR RUEHGA RUEHHA RUEHQU RUEHVC
DE RUEHOT #3491 3322041
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 282041Z NOV 06
FM AMEMBASSY OTTAWA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 4526
INFO RUCNCAN/ALL CANADIAN POSTS COLLECTIVE
RUEHBP/AMEMBASSY BAMAKO 0010
RUEAUSA/DEPT OF HHS WASHDC
UNCLAS OTTAWA 003491 
 
SIPDIS 
 
AIAG, WHA/CAN, OES 
 
DHHS for Office of Global Health Affairs 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: EAGR KFLU TBIO PREL EAID CA
SUBJECT: Bamako Conference on Avian and Pandemic flu: Canadian Plans 
 
 
1. (U) The Government of Canada (GoC) will send a delegation to 
attend the fourth international conference on avian and pandemic 
influenza (API) in Bamako, Mali, December 6 through 8. Canada's 
Ambassador to Mali, Isabelle Roy, will lead the delegation; her 
deputy will be Dr. Arlene King, Director General for Pandemic 
Preparedness, Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). 
 
2. (U) Also attending from the GoC will be: Sandra Fry, Director, 
Science Advice and Biohazard Control at the Canadian Food Inspection 
Agency (CFIA); Sandra Black, Senior Policy Advisor, Social 
Development Policy, Canadian International Development Agency 
(CIDA); Lindsay Glassco, Deputy Director, Health and Population 
Division, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade 
(DFAIT); and Robert Fry, Policy Officer in that same division of 
DFAIT. 
 
3. (U) At the Bamako conference Canada intends to announce that its 
financial commitments to date to help the global preparedness and 
prevention effort on API has reached C$105.5 million.  Of this 
total, C$64.4 million represents commitments made since the Beijing 
conference in January 2006. 
 
4. (U) Embassy understands that Canadian authorities provided 
complete details on their plans for Bamako and their ongoing 
commitment to combating API to Ambassador Lange on November 27. 
 
Wilkins