JORDAN NOT TO SEND MINISTERIAL LEVEL REP TO MADRID

C O N F I D E N T I A L AMMAN 006766

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E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/22/2013
TAGS: EAID BEXP PREL ETRD IZ JO
SUBJECT: JORDAN NOT TO SEND MINISTERIAL LEVEL REP TO MADRID
BECAUSE OF GOVERNMENT CHANGE

REF: A. AMMAN 6728

B. AMMAN 6620

Classified By: Amb. Edward W. Gnehm for reasons 1.5 (b)(d)


1. (C) Bassam Awadallah, the immediate past and likely
future Minister of Planning, told the Ambassador October 22
that Jordan would be unable to send a ministerial
representative to the Madrid Iraq Donors Conference. With
the resignation of the Jordanian PM and government October 22
(ref a and septel - notal),there are neither ministers to
send nor a government to send them. The new government is
expected to be sworn in on Saturday, October 25. As a
consequence, Awadallah said that neither he nor outgoing
Finance Minister Michel Marto (who was tapped to go to Madrid
- ref b) would attend. Instead, he said, Planning Ministry
Secretary General Hala Bsiso-Lattouf would represent Jordan

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at the donors conference along with representatives of the
Foreign Ministry and Ministry of Trade (as reported
previously).


2. (C) Awadallah also said that, due to the short notice
and previous commitments of business leaders, the GOJ had
been unable to organize Jordanian private sector
participation in the parallel private sector conference in
Madrid. He said that Bsiso-Lattouf would "drop by" the
private sector conference at some point.


3. (U) CPA Baghdad minimize considered.

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