SPAIN WILL CO-SIGN LETTER ON UN MANAGEMENT REFORMS

UNCLAS MADRID 002107

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: AORC ASIG GG KUNR UNGA
SUBJECT: SPAIN WILL CO-SIGN LETTER ON UN MANAGEMENT REFORMS

REF: STATE 100709

Arturo Laclaustra, the Director General of Terrorism,
International Affairs, and the United Nations at the MFA,
will co-sign the Geneva Group's letter to the UN Secretary
General highlighting the importance of management reform.
Poloff discussed the UN reform letter with Deputy Director
General for UN Affairs Juan Manuel Gonzales de Linares on
June 1. Gonzales de Linares told Poloff that the letter
seemed reasonable, and he did not know why Spain had not
signed it to date. On June 2 after checking with Spain's
Ambassador in Geneva and others in the MFA, Gonzales de
Linares told Poloff that Spain agrees with the letter, and
Laclaustra will sign the letter.

MANZANARES