» Tuesday, January 4, 2005

Tsunami

The Prime Minister's Spokesman (PMS) said that the Prime Minister was chairing a meeting this morning involving the Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, Jack Straw, Hilary Benn and officials from the FCO, DfiD, the Treasury and the Cabinet Office on the Government's response to the Tsunami. This was the latest in the series of daily meetings which had taken place since the Tsunami and had been chaired by the Deputy Prime Minister last week. It was agreed at the meeting that the Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw would attend a conference in Jakarta on Thursday January 6. He would be attending as a representative of the G8 Presidency and this had been agreed with other G8 Foreign Ministers. He would then travel to Phuket on Friday. Hilary Benn will also travel to the Aceh area in Indonesia and will then go onto Sri Lanka.

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