SPANISH RESPONSE: PRESS STATEMENT ON UNSCR 1534

C O N F I D E N T I A L MADRID 001201 SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/12/2014 TAGS: KAWC PREL SP UNSC UN SUBJECT: SPANISH RESPONSE: PRESS STATEMENT ON UNSCR 1534 CONCERNING THE ICTY/ICTR REF: STATE 70861 Classified By: Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Political Counselor, for Reasons 1 .4 (b) and (d) (C) We delivered reftel demarche to Inigo de Palacio, MFA Director of UN Affairs, on April 5. De Palacio said he would confer with Spain's UN delegation in New York. He later called Poloff on April 7 to say that Spain had no plans to issue a statement on the ICTY/ICTR resolution because at the time of the vote on UNSCR 1534, the Spanish delegation understood there was an agreement among Security Council members that no such individual country statements would be made. MANZANARES