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O 201528Z MAR 09
FM AMEMBASSY BERLIN
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 3637
INFO RUCNMEM/EU MEMBER STATES COLLECTIVE PRIORITY
RUEHIL/AMEMBASSY ISLAMABAD PRIORITY 0494
RUEHBUL/AMEMBASSY KABUL PRIORITY 0618
RUEATRS/DEPT OF TREASURY WASHINGTON DC PRIORITY
RUEHGV/USMISSION GENEVA PRIORITY 1443
RUEHC/DEPT OF LABOR WASHINGTON DC PRIORITY
RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK PRIORITY 0698

UNCLAS BERLIN 000335 
 
SENSITIVE 
 
SIPDIS 
STATE FOR PRM/ECA - NORMAN HASTINGS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PREL EAID PHUM PREF PK GM
SUBJECT: GERMANY TO DONATE ADDITIONAL 1 MILLION EUROS TO 
THE ICRC TO ASSIST PAKISTANI IDPS 
 
REF: A. STATE 21407 
     ¶B. BERLIN 311 
 
¶1. (SBU) Post followed up with MFA Pakistan Desk Officer 
Tobias Grothe on March 19 to see if Germany, as requested 
reftel A, would be able to contribute additional funds to one 
or more of the UN agencies involved in assisting internally 
displaced persons (IDPs) in Pakistan, or to help meet the 
Budget Extension Appeal of the International Committee of the 
Red Cross (ICRC) for Pakistan. 
 
¶2. (SBU) Grothe indicated that Germany would donate an 
additional 1 million Euros to the ICRC in response to the 
recent Budget Extension Appeal.  He also pointed out that 
Germany, beginning in May 2008, began contributing some 
440,000 Euros yearly to finance the humanitarian component of 
the Special Assistance Fund of the UN High Commissioner for 
Refugees (UNHCR), and would continue to do so. 
 
¶3. (SBU) Finally, Grothe reported that the German development 
implementing agency GTZ would carry out a project in 
cooperation with UNHCR to foster better relations between 
Afghan refugees and the local Pakistan communities in which 
they live.  He noted that a GTZ advance team was already in 
the area to do a needs evaluation for the project. 
Koenig