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Viewing cable 09COPENHAGEN540, SBU) DENMARK: NO COMMITMENT ON G8 L'AQUILA SUMMIT

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
09COPENHAGEN540 2009-11-30 12:10 2011-08-24 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Copenhagen
VZCZCXRO2664
RR RUEHRN
DE RUEHCP #0540 3341210
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 301210Z NOV 09
FM AMEMBASSY COPENHAGEN
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 5349
INFO RUEHRL/AMEMBASSY BERLIN 0557
RUEHBS/AMEMBASSY BRUSSELS 9278
RUEHLGB/AMEMBASSY KIGALI 0020
RUEHLO/AMEMBASSY LONDON 0741
RUEHMD/AMEMBASSY MADRID 2307
RUEHMO/AMEMBASSY MOSCOW 1541
RUEHOT/AMEMBASSY OTTAWA 0001
RUEHFR/AMEMBASSY PARIS 0539
RUEHRO/AMEMBASSY ROME 0869
RUEHUL/AMEMBASSY SEOUL 0505
RUEHSM/AMEMBASSY STOCKHOLM 9055
RUEHTC/AMEMBASSY THE HAGUE 5993
RUEHKO/AMEMBASSY TOKYO 0473
RUEHRN/USMISSION UN ROME 0003
UNCLAS COPENHAGEN 000540 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR EEB/TPP/ABT/ATP, IO/HS, EUR/NB, EUR/ERA, AF/C 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: ECON EAID EAGR PREL DA RW
SUBJECT: (SBU) DENMARK: NO COMMITMENT ON G8 L'AQUILA SUMMIT 
FOOD SECURITY INITIATIVE 
 
REF: SECSTATE 120804 
 
(U) SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED; PROTECT ACCORDINGLY.  NOT FOR 
INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 
 
1.  (SBU) EconOff met with Niels Richter, Director of the 
Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Macroeconomic Policies 
Division (which is responsible for development assistance and 
G-8 cooperation) on November 27, to discuss the points in 
reftel.  Richter will be the primary Danish point of contact 
on all food security queries.  According to Richter, Denmark 
does not consider itself as a core member of the L'Aquila 
Food Security Initiative as its participation in the L'Aquila 
G8 Summit was due only to Danish PM Rasmussen's seeking 
support for climate negotiations leading up to the 
Denmark-hosted UNFCCC COP15 summit in December 2009. 
Denmark, therefore, has not made and does not plan to make a 
specific commitment under the L'Aquila Food Security 
Initiative.  The Danes are following the Initiative's 
development with interest and welcome U.S. leadership on food 
security.  The Danes plan for their resident representative 
to the Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome to attend 
the December 3-4 Rome meeting, but do not anticipate making 
any participation pledges. 
 
2.  (SBU) To focus its limited development assistance 
resources, Denmark has designated 15 priority countries.  It 
engages in food security assistance in those countries, but 
always in coordination with other donor agencies active there 
and with a growing focus on private sector development to 
ease food delivery bottlenecks.  Denmark may consider close 
coordination with the Initiative in the future in countries 
where it has on-going assistance missions.  Because Rwanda is 
not one of Denmark's priority countries, Richter said there 
will be no Danish representatives at the December 7-8 
meetings in Kigali.  He said there is no possibility of new 
Danish pledges for investment in Rwanda at present. 
FULTON