SPAIN WILL SEND MORATINOS TO OSCE CONFERENCE ON

UNCLAS MADRID 003126 SIPDIS E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PREL PHUM SP OSCE SUBJECT: SPAIN WILL SEND MORATINOS TO OSCE CONFERENCE ON RACISM, XENOPHOBIA, AND DISCRIMINATION REF: STATE 176189 ¶1. (U) The Spanish MFA has told us that Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos will be leading the Spanish delegation to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Conference on Racism, Xenophobia, and Discrimination in Brussels on September 13-14. Alvaro Rodriguez Alvarez, Acting MFA Director General for European and North American Affairs, said that the GOS appreciates the high priority that the US places on the OSCE Conference in Brussels. Moratinos will be promoting Spain's proposal to host an OSCE Conference on Anti-Semitism in Cordoba in 2005 as a follow up to the 2004 OSCE Conference on Anti-Semitism in Berlin. Additionally, Moratinos will be attending General First Council meetings with other EU foreign ministers while in Brussels. MANZANARES