SPANISH RESPONSE TO EURO-MEDITERRANEAN MINISTERIAL

C O N F I D E N T I A L MADRID 001570

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 05/03/2014
TAGS: ECON KMPI PHUM PREL SP EUN
SUBJECT: SPANISH RESPONSE TO EURO-MEDITERRANEAN MINISTERIAL
MEETING DEMARCHE

REF: STATE 94871

Classified By: Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Political Counselor, for Reasons 1
.4 (b) and (d)


1. (C) We delivered reftel demarche on May 3 to Enrique Mora,
Director of the MFA's Office of EU Foreign Policy and Common
Security. Mora said that the EU states will be presenting
their Middle East reform proposal (the EU's equivalent of our
Greater Middle East Initiative) to the Arab states at this
meeting. He added that as they are not certain what the Arab
reaction will be, the EU does not have a public declaration
planned at this moment.


2. (C) Guillermo Ardizone, MFA Director for Middle East
Affairs, told us separately May 3 that FM Miguel Angel
Moratinos expected to have bilateral meetings with Israeli FM
Silvan Shalom and Palestinian envoy Nabil Sha'ath at the
Dublin Castle Ministerial. Ardizone added that FM Shalom may
pay an official visit to Madrid before the end of May, but
that arrangements were still pending (the Political Counselor
at the Israeli EMBASSY had also mentioned the possibility of
a visit by FM Shalom to Spain).
ARGYROS