US embassy cable - 05MADRID149

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SPANISH PARTICIPATION AT KOBE TSUNAMI CONFERENCE

Identifier: 05MADRID149
Wikileaks: View 05MADRID149 at Wikileaks.org
Origin: Embassy Madrid
Created: 2005-01-14 11:29:00
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Tags: EAID SENV KSCA SP UNESCO Asia
Redacted: This cable was not redacted by Wikileaks.
This record is a partial extract of the original cable. The full text of the original cable is not available.


 
UNCLAS MADRID 000149 
 
SIPDIS 
 
FOR OES/EGC (SHIRA YOFFE) AND EUR/WE 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: EAID, SENV, KSCA, SP, UNESCO, Asia 
SUBJECT: SPANISH PARTICIPATION AT KOBE TSUNAMI CONFERENCE 
 
REF: A. SECSTATE 89430 
     B. MADRID 105 
 
1.  ESTHOFF and ECONOFF passed Ref A points January 14 to: 
(A) Juan Pablo de Laiglesia y Gonzalez de Peredo, the number 
two-ranking official in the Spanish Aid Agency (AEC); (B) 
Maria de la Concepcion Soto Calvo, the Director General of 
the Education and Science Ministry's Oceanographic Institute; 
and (C) Juan Segovia de la Torre, an official attached to the 
Environment Ministry's National Meteorology Institute.  De 
Laiglesia and Segovia de la Torre plan to attend the Kobe 
Conference.  De la Concepcion may attend. 
 
2.  COMMENT:  Spain has consistently "punched above its 
weight" in response to the Asian tsunami disaster (see Ref 
B).  Thus, we are not surprised that they are taking quite 
seriously Kobe's World Conference on Disaster Reduction. 
MANZANARES 

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