Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
03TEGUCIGALPA2460
2003-10-21 15:07:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Tegucigalpa
Cable title:
Honduran Ratification of the Montreal Convention:
This record is a partial extract of the original cable. The full text of the original cable is not available.
UNCLAS TEGUCIGALPA 002460
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR EB/TRA/OTP
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: EAIR ECON HO
SUBJECT: Honduran Ratification of the Montreal Convention:
Maybe Next Year
REF: State 261967
UNCLAS TEGUCIGALPA 002460
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR EB/TRA/OTP
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: EAIR ECON HO
SUBJECT: Honduran Ratification of the Montreal Convention:
Maybe Next Year
REF: State 261967
1. EconOff delivered talking points in reftel to the
Honduran Vice Minister for Transportation, Eduardo Pavon, on
September 20th, and to the Director of Civil Aviation, Cesar
Vasquez, on October 15. Pavon asked for more information
about the treaty. EconOff obtained a copy of the treaty in
Spanish and some additional information, and sent it to the
Vice Minister.
2) Vasquez indicated that the GOH has no objection to
ratifying the convention, and the only reason the GOH has
not done so already is the slow pace at which the Congress
operates. Vasquez says there are currently four or five
other international conventions pertaining to civil
aviation, none of them controversial, that the GOH has not
ratified. Vasquez plans to bundle these conventions
together and have the Minister of Transportation present
them to Congress in the next month. Even in the best case
scenario, however, Vasquez thinks that the earliest they
could be ratified would be early 2004. Comment: Emboffs
will continue to urge ratification at all appropriate
opportunities. End comment.
Palmer
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR EB/TRA/OTP
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: EAIR ECON HO
SUBJECT: Honduran Ratification of the Montreal Convention:
Maybe Next Year
REF: State 261967
1. EconOff delivered talking points in reftel to the
Honduran Vice Minister for Transportation, Eduardo Pavon, on
September 20th, and to the Director of Civil Aviation, Cesar
Vasquez, on October 15. Pavon asked for more information
about the treaty. EconOff obtained a copy of the treaty in
Spanish and some additional information, and sent it to the
Vice Minister.
2) Vasquez indicated that the GOH has no objection to
ratifying the convention, and the only reason the GOH has
not done so already is the slow pace at which the Congress
operates. Vasquez says there are currently four or five
other international conventions pertaining to civil
aviation, none of them controversial, that the GOH has not
ratified. Vasquez plans to bundle these conventions
together and have the Minister of Transportation present
them to Congress in the next month. Even in the best case
scenario, however, Vasquez thinks that the earliest they
could be ratified would be early 2004. Comment: Emboffs
will continue to urge ratification at all appropriate
opportunities. End comment.
Palmer