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04GUATEMALA2391
2004-09-17 18:14:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Guatemala
Cable title:
GUATEMALA ON WORLD HUNGER SUMMIT
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C O N F I D E N T I A L GUATEMALA 002391
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 09/16/2009
TAGS: EAID EFIN ECON PREL GT
SUBJECT: GUATEMALA ON WORLD HUNGER SUMMIT
REF: STATE 197337
Classified By: Ambassador John Hamilton for reasons 1.5 (b) & (d).
C O N F I D E N T I A L GUATEMALA 002391
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 09/16/2009
TAGS: EAID EFIN ECON PREL GT
SUBJECT: GUATEMALA ON WORLD HUNGER SUMMIT
REF: STATE 197337
Classified By: Ambassador John Hamilton for reasons 1.5 (b) & (d).
1. (U) The Ambassador took advantage of a previously
scheduled meeting with Guatemalan FM Briz to deliver reftel
points.
2. (U) The Ambassador reviewed the USG's commitment to
fighting hunger and alleviating poverty, noting that
President Bush had already increased ODA by 50 percent. He
stressed, however, that the impractical ideas (such as global
taxes) raised in the Hunger Summit sponsors' technical paper
threatened to take the international debate on development
policy in an unhelpful direction.
3. (C) Briz said he had not seen the technical paper prepared
by the summit sponsors and appeared to be unfamiliar with the
details of the proposal. He noted that the sponsors were not
only Brazil but France, Chile and Spain. Without making any
firm commitment, he was generally receptive to the
Ambassador's demarche.
HAMILTON
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 09/16/2009
TAGS: EAID EFIN ECON PREL GT
SUBJECT: GUATEMALA ON WORLD HUNGER SUMMIT
REF: STATE 197337
Classified By: Ambassador John Hamilton for reasons 1.5 (b) & (d).
1. (U) The Ambassador took advantage of a previously
scheduled meeting with Guatemalan FM Briz to deliver reftel
points.
2. (U) The Ambassador reviewed the USG's commitment to
fighting hunger and alleviating poverty, noting that
President Bush had already increased ODA by 50 percent. He
stressed, however, that the impractical ideas (such as global
taxes) raised in the Hunger Summit sponsors' technical paper
threatened to take the international debate on development
policy in an unhelpful direction.
3. (C) Briz said he had not seen the technical paper prepared
by the summit sponsors and appeared to be unfamiliar with the
details of the proposal. He noted that the sponsors were not
only Brazil but France, Chile and Spain. Without making any
firm commitment, he was generally receptive to the
Ambassador's demarche.
HAMILTON