GOG TO SUPPORT CENTAM SUMMIT ON IRAQ AND TO ISSUE

C O N F I D E N T I A L GUATEMALA 000710 SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/17/2013 TAGS: PGOV PREL IZ GT SUBJECT: GOG TO SUPPORT CENTAM SUMMIT ON IRAQ AND TO ISSUE UNILATERAL STATEMENT Classified By: Robert E. Copley for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d0. ¶1. (C) The Ambassador urged President Portillo on March 18 to join the Central American Summit Statement on Iraq or to issue a unilateral statement along the same lines. As Portillo is not attending the Summit in Roatan, Honduras, he told the Ambassador he would instruct Vice Minister Aguilera (who is representing Portillo there) to support the declaration and said he would issue a unilateral statement consistent with the statement issued at the Summit. HAMILTON