UNITED NATIONS SUMMIT OUTCOME DOCUMENT

C O N F I D E N T I A L ALGIERS 001897

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 09/08/2015
TAGS: PREL AG
SUBJECT: UNITED NATIONS SUMMIT OUTCOME DOCUMENT

REF: STATE 163224

Classified By: Ambassador Richard W. Erdman,
for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)


1. (C) Ambassador met with MFA Multilateral Relations
Director General Belhimeur September 5 per reftel demarche,
underscoring U.S. good faith efforts to reach agreement on a
strong, meaningful, and detailed outcome document, urging
that the Algerian delegation be instructed to work in the
same flexible spirit during the negotiations, and leaving
behind a non-paper.


2. (C) Belhimeur claimed the Algerian delegation would work
in a flexible spirit, while noting that the challenges were
daunting and that it was not realistic to expect to resolve
all the problems relating to UN reform either easily or soon.
He described current efforts as part of a long-term process,
the beginning rather than the end of the road toward reform.
Not everyone would be able to agree with everything in the
document or obtain everything they wanted. There would have
to be compromise and governments would need to resist the
temptation to throw the baby out with the bath water The key
thing at this stage was not reaching detailed agreement on
all the issues, which was not realistic, but crafting a
document that would broadly give a new impulse toward UN
reform efforts.
ERDMAN