US embassy cable - 05DUBLIN377

C O N F I D E N T I A L DUBLIN 000377 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/31/2015 
TAGS: PREL, EAID, ECON 
SUBJECT: HIGH-LEVEL IRISH ATTENDANCE AT OSLO DONOR 
CONFERENCE ON SUDAN 
 
REF: STATE 56724 
 
Classified By: Charge d'Affaires Jonathan Benton; Reasons 1.4 (B) and ( 
D). 
 
1.  (C) On March 30, Post delivered reftel talking points to 
Pauline Conway, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) 
Counsellor for Africa.  Conway noted that Conor Lenihan, 
Minister of State for Overseas Development and Human Rights, 
along with Brendan Rogers and Ciara O'Brien, Director and 
First Secretary, respectively, in the Emergency and Recovery 
Section of Development Corporation Ireland (DCI, the 
development agency within DFA) would attend the April 11-12 
Oslo Donors Conference on Sudan.  DCI Director General Ronin 
Murphy may also join the group.  Lenihan, Rogers, and O'Brien 
will travel to Oslo after visiting Sudan April 3-8, where 
Conway expected Lenihan to echo reftel talking points in 
urging the Sudanese Government to implement the CPA and to 
end the violence in Darfur.  She also noted that the GOI 
would make a "substantial" three-year assistance pledge to 
Sudan, but would not announce a final figure until the Oslo 
conference.  She added that the GOI would package this 
assistance in the context of the 2005 UN Work Plan. 
BENTON