PERU REQUESTS USG SUPPORT FOR SPANISH AWARD

UNCLAS LIMA 001215 SIPDIS E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PREL PE SUBJECT: PERU REQUESTS USG SUPPORT FOR SPANISH AWARD Action Request in Paragraph 3. ¶1. The Foreign Ministry, by diplomatic note dated 2/25/05, requested that the United States, as a member of the International Advisory Committee of the Binational Plan for Development of the Peru-Ecuador Frontier ("Binational Plan"), support the Andean Development Corporation's (CAF) nomination of the Binational Plan for the "Convivencia Ciudad Autonoma de Ceuta" prize. According to the Foreign Ministry, this prize is awarded annually by the Fundacion Convivencia of Ceuta on the basis of the following criteria: "those persons or institutions of any country whose labor has contributed in a relevant and exemplary form to improve human relations, fomenting the values of justice, fraternity, peace, liberty, access to culture and equality." ¶2. The Foreign Ministry attached to its diplomatic note a copy of a letter from the European Union's Lima Mission to the Fundacion Convivencia of Ceuta in support of the CAF's nomination of the Binational Plan for the Fundacion's prize. In this letter, the EU's Charge d'Affaires, Alain Bothorel, highlighted, "the important promoting and coordinating role that the Binational Plan is bringing about to develop projects that permit the elevation of the standard of living of the population, opening a sphere of understanding and cooperation in a context of peace and development of the frontier region." ¶3. Embassy requests guidance in responding to the Foreign Ministry's note. STRUBLE