DEMARCHE REQUEST: SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS

UNCLAS LIMA 003824 SIPDIS E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: KSUM ECON PGOV PE SUBJECT: DEMARCHE REQUEST: SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS DECLARATION AND PLAN OF ACTION (PERU) REF: SECSTATE 158875 ¶1. Polcouns delivered the demarche on the Summit of the Americas Declaration and Plan of Action (Reftel) to Julio Garro, the Foreign Ministry's Director of Multilateral Affairs, and to Carlos Chocano, the Ministry's Director of OAS Affairs and Action Officer for the Summit of the Americas, on 9/2. ¶2. Garro said that Peru shared the USG's concerns that the Summit Declaration was too large, diffuse and unmanageable, and would work at the Summit Implementation Review Group (SIRG) to reduce its length and try to focus it on five or six priority issues. Chocano agreed on the need to establish a workable number of priorities, but observed that the trick will be to obtain consensus on a half-dozen issues. Peru, he explained, would want to include international assistance cooperation and the treatment of disadvantaged groups among the issues addressed by a Summit Declaration. He expressed concern that continued failure by the SIRG to reduce the length of the document will inevitably lead to even more submissions. In this respect, Chocano noted, he is already receiving pressure from the Ministry of Womens Affairs and Social Welfare to propose specific provisions on individual disadvantaged groups. STRUBLE