US embassy cable - 04COLOMBO832

UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 03 COLOMBO 000832 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR ECA/PE/V/M JANET NEARD/AZZA MOUNIB-ZAKI; INFO 
ECA/PE/V/R/N LARRY A. MOODY; SA/PD 
 
E.O. 12958:N/A 
TAGS: OEXC, SCUL, KPAO, OEXC - Exchanges 
SUBJECT: FY 05 IV PROGRAM: MALDIVIAN NOMINEE FOR MRP 
"U.S. TRADE AND THE WORLD ECONOMY I", OCTOBER 28-NOVEMBER 
18, 2004. 
PROJECT NO: E/VM-2005-0004 
 
REF: COLOMBO 00766 
 
1.Post nominates Abdul "Harris", Deputy Director, Finance 
and Accounts, Island Aviation Services, Maldives, for 
participation in subject project.  Post confirms that this 
nomination has "full Country Team approval." 
 
2.  Nomination is as follows: 
 
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VERSION: 3.0.7 
POST-EMAIL: tilakawardenac@state.gov 
TRANSMITTING-POST: PAS  Colombo 
TRANSMITTING-POST-ID: 2929 
EXPORT-TYPE: BIO DATA 
START NOMINATION: 
ECA-OFFICE: E/VGN 
PROG-AGENCY-NAME: 
POST-PROJ-ID: 131 
ECA-PROJ-NO: E/VM-2005-0004 
PROJ-NAME: U.S. Trade Policy and World Economy I - October 
28-November 18, 2004 - (Maldives) 
START MEMO PROJ-DESC: 
 
END MEMO PROJ-DESC: 
PROJ-TYPE: Multi-Regional 
PROG-TYPE: IV Grant Visitor 
FY: 2004 
DEPART-POST: 10/25/2004 
SESSION-DATE: 10/28/2004 
RETURN-POST: 11/21/2004 
NO-OF-PART: 1 
RANK-ORDER: 0 
START MEMO POST-OBJ: 
This project is in support of MPP goal "Economic 
Development and Prosperity." 
END MEMO POST-OBJ: 
START MEMO POST-RCMD: 
 
END MEMO POST-RCMD: 
ECA-OFFICE-ID: 1039 
PROG-AGENCY-ID: 
PROJ-TYPE-ID: MRP 
PROG-TYPE-ID: 29 
NOMINATING-POST-ID: 2929 
FUNDING-CNTRY-ID: 
STATUS: N 
ORIGINATOR: P 
SUBJ-DISC: Economics (General) 
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PREFIX: Mr. 
F-NAME: Abdul 
M-NAME: 
L-NAME: HARIS 
SUFFIX: 
POSITION-CODE: 113 
PRINCIPAL?: Yes 
M-ADDR1: Island Aviation Service Ltd. 
M-ADDR2: 26 Ameer Ahmed Magu 
M-ADDR3: 
M-CITY: Male 
M-STATE: 
M-CNTRY: Maldives 
M-ZONE: 
M-ZIP: 
M-PHONE: (960) 335-566 
M-FAX: (960) 314-806 
M-EMAIL: haris@island.com.mv 
M-CNTRY-ID: MV 
M-ADDRTYPE: B 
GENDER: M 
DOB: 05/19/1966 
MAR-STAT: M 
BIRTH-CITY: Male 
BIRTH-CNTRY: Maldives 
CITIZ-CNTRY: Maldives 
RES-CNTRY: Maldives 
START MEMO POSITION: 
Deputy Director, Finance and Accounts, Island Aviation 
Services Ltd. -  June 1, 2000- todate 
END MEMO POSITION: 
START MEMO OTHER-POSITIONS: 
General Manager, Air Maldives Ltd. - April 18, 2000- to 
date 
END MEMO OTHER-POSITIONS: 
START MEMO PREV-POSITIONS: 
Manager, Finance and Accounts, Air Maldives Ltd. - April 1, 
1998-April 15, 2000 
Payments Executive, Air Maldives Ltd. - March 1, 1995-March 
31, 1998 
Assistant Manager, Air Maldives Ltd. - January 1, 1994- 
February, 1995 
Senior Accounts Officer, Air Maldives Ltd. - February 8, 
1990-December, 1993 
Secretary-Accounts, Air Maldives Ltd. - September 10, 1985- 
 
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January, 1990 
END MEMO PREV-POSITIONS: 
START MEMO US-TRAVEL: 
None 
END MEMO US-TRAVEL: 
START MEMO OTHER-TRAVEL: 
Sri Lanka - 1991-93 - For studies 
U.K. - 1995-97 - For studies; November 2002 - Attended 
seminar on Air Transport Management 
Ireland - February 1998 - Attended course in Aviation 
accounting 
Malta - October 2002 - Annual conference "International 
Association of Airline Internal Auditors 
 
END MEMO OTHER-TRAVEL: 
START MEMO EDUCATION: 
B.A. (Hons) Accountancy and Management Systems, Thames 
Valley University, U.K., 1997 
Association of Accounting Technicians (UK), Oxonia 
Institute - Sri Lanka, 1993 
 
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START MEMO MEMBERSHIPS: 
 
END MEMO MEMBERSHIPS: 
START MEMO PUBLICATIONS: 
 
END MEMO PUBLICATIONS: 
START MEMO SPEC-CONSID: 
Does not consume pork or alcohol 
END MEMO SPEC-CONSID: 
FIRST-LANG: unkown 
ENGL-READ: 4 
ENGL-SPEAK: 4 
ENGL-COMP: 4 
START MEMO NOM-POST-OBJ: 
This project is in support of MPP goal "Economic 
Development and Prosperity." 
END MEMO NOM-POST-OBJ: 
START MEMO NOM-POST-RCMD: 
 
END MEMO NOM-POST-RCMD: 
START MEMO VIS-OBJ: 
 
END MEMO VIS-OBJ: 
START MEMO VIS-REC: 
 
END MEMO VIS-REC: 
NOMINATING-OFFICER: Bruce Lohof 
START MEMO NOMINATING-JUSTIFICATION: 
Island Aviation Services Ltd.(IAS), the domestic airline of 
Air Maldives, which is the Republic of Maldives' 
international airline, is also responsible for the entire 
ground handling at the Male International airport.  Mr. 
Harris being the Deputy Director in charge of finance and 
account of IAS, is responsible for the prepation of the 
annual budgets, cash flow forecast, managing accounts and 
managing the finance divisions of the domestic stations in 
IAS network. 
As Mr. Haris has never visited the United States, an 
exposure to the MRP on " U.S. Trade Policy and World 
Economy" would be of great value to broaden the perspective 
towards his field of interest and would be a useful contact 
for the mission in the Maldives. 
Post confirms that this nomination has "full Country Team 
approval." 
 
 
END MEMO NOMINATING-JUSTIFICATION: 
NOM-OFF: Public Affairs 
SPEAKER?: No 
NOTIFY-EMB: Yes 
MEDIA?: No 
HOME-STAY: Yes 
HOME-HOSP?: Yes 
E-I-TYPE: 
NOMINEE-ID: 171 
PERSON-ID: 142 
BIRTH-CNTRY-ID: MV 
CITIZ-CNTRY-ID: MV 
RES-CNTRY-ID: MV 
FIRST-LANG-ID: 
E-I-TYPE-ID: 
NOM-POST-ID: 2929 
NOM-FUNDING-CNTRY-ID: 
NOM-STATUS: N 
DS2019-ACTION: 1 
DS2019-SUBJECT: 45.0601 
SPONS-FUNDS: 0 
SPONS-AGENCY1: DOS 
USGOVT-AGENCY1: DOS 
US-AGENCY-AMT1: 8500 
USGOVT-AGENCY2: 
US-AGENCY-AMT2: 0 
INTL-ORG1: 
INTL-ORG-AMOUNT1: 0 
INTL-ORG2: 
INTL-ORG-AMOUNT2: 0 
VIS-GOVT-AMT: 0 
COMMISSION: 0 
OTHER-AMOUNT: 0 
VIS-AMOUNT: 0 
VIS-CAT: 5 
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3. Please advise acceptance of this nomination. 
Lunstead