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