PERU: INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION DEMARCHE

UNCLAS LIMA 004889 SIPDIS SENSITIVE IO/T FOR LTOBEY LONDON FOR TREVOR EVANS COAST GUARD FOR G-CI K JOHNSON E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: AORC EWWT PHSA KTIA PE IMO SUBJECT: PERU: INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION DEMARCHE IN SUPPORT OF U.S. CANDIDACY REF: STATE 207080 (SBU) Econoffs delivered Reftel demarche to Elvira Gomez, MFA Director for Maritime Affairs and Nestor Palacios, Vice Minister of Transportation on November 16. VM Palacios indicated to Econoff that while the U.S. should be able to obtain the support necessary to be reelected to the Category A Board, he deferred to the MFA for the GOP's official position. Gomez told Econoff that she had to forward the demarche for official action to the MFA office for candidacies, she anticipated no problem with Peru's support of the U.S. candidacy. Gomez noted the key and constructive role that the U.S. has played from the founding of the IMO to the present. STRUBLE