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.
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