JORDAN MFA ON SECRETARY POWELL'S FEBRUARY 14 UNSC

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E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/18/2013
TAGS: PARM PREL US IZ JO UN
SUBJECT: JORDAN MFA ON SECRETARY POWELL'S FEBRUARY 14 UNSC
ADDRESS

REF: SECSTATE 44466

Classified By: PolCouns Doug Silliman for reasons 1.5 (B)(D)


1. (C) PolCouns February 16 presented Ali al-Ayed, personal
assistant to Foreign Minister Marwan Muasher, with a copy of
the Secretary's February 14 address before the UNSC on Iraq.
Ayed said he had called up a text of the Secretary's speech
from the Department web site and had already read it. Ayed
commented that Jordanian UN PermRep Prince Zaid bin Raad
would address the February 18 debate on Iraq, although he did
not know precisely what Prince Zaid would say. PolCouns
suggested that Prince Zaid's remarks should focus on Iraq's
failure to implement numerous UNSCRs over the past 12 years.

GNEHM