DEMARCHE ON ISOLATING SYRIA AT THE UNGA

S E C R E T AMMAN 007069 SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/31/2015 TAGS: PGOV PREL PTER JO SUBJECT: DEMARCHE ON ISOLATING SYRIA AT THE UNGA REF: STATE 159137 Classified By: A/DCM Christopher Henzel, for reasons 1.4 b and d Acting DCM made ref demarche to Ambassador Muhammad al-Qaraan, director of the Foreign Ministry,s Arab and Middle Eastern Affairs Department, on August 31. Al-Qaraan said he would brief to FM Kasrawi our request that Jordan continue to support the effort to isolate Syria at the UNGA. He noted that King Abdullah and Kasrawi will both go to New York, but that neither had set his meeting schedule yet. RUBINSTEIN