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C O N F I D E N T I A L NICOSIA 000713 
 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPT FOR EUR, AF, PM, IO 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/05/2019 
TAGS: PREL MAPS MARR TU CY
SUBJECT: CYPRUS PLANS 50,000 EURO DONATION TO FIGHT SOMALI 
PIRACY 
 
REF: A. NICOSIA 537 
     ¶B. 11/04/09 FORAN-ALLISON E-MAIL 
 
Classified By: DCM Jonathan R. Cohen for Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d) 
 
¶1. (C) Cyprus MFA Acting Head of the Department of Common 
Foreign and Security Policy Helena Mina informed Poloff 
November 5 that Cyprus is prepared to donate 50,000 Euros to 
a trust fund for combating Somali piracy and asked if we had 
information about contribution mechanisms.  (Note:  MFA 
Political Director Rea Yiordamlis had raised the possible 
contribution with us in August (ref A) in the context of 
Cyprus's participation in the Contact Group on Piracy off the 
Coast of Somalia (CGPCS).  End Note.) 
 
¶2. (C) Post shared with Mina its understanding (ref B) that 
details for a trust fund were still being negotiated at the 
UN, and that as soon as they were finalized, we expected 
Japan would host a meeting in New York to elect a number of 
CGPCS states to manage the fund.  Once a management board is 
in place, the fund should be ready to accept contributions 
for assistance to states prosecuting suspected pirates, and 
for other CGPCS initiatives.  Mina replied that she would 
instruct GOC representatives in New York to be looking for 
related announcements.  She also planned to inform the 
Japanese Embassy in Athens (Japan does not have an Embassy in 
Cyprus, but covers the island from Athens), which she said 
initially invited Cyprus to make a donation, about the ROC's 
50,000 Euro pledge. 
 
URBANCIC