DEMARCHE REQUEST TO ENCOURAGE NICARAGUA TO DESTROY

S E C R E T OTTAWA 001663 SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/02/2015 TAGS: MARR PARM PTER MASS CA SUBJECT: DEMARCHE REQUEST TO ENCOURAGE NICARAGUA TO DESTROY MANPADS REF: SECSTATE 100646 Classified By: POL M/C Brian Flora. Reason 1.4 (b) and (d). ¶1. (C) Post delivered reftel points to Foreign Affairs Deputy Director Sarah Fountain-Smith in the Regional Security Section (IDC) of the International Security Bureau. She said that while our request comes under the purview of her bureau, Canadian MANPADS policy is handled by a range of offices in the Foreign Affairs bureaucracy. Therefore, Fountain-Smith could not provide an immediate response to the demarche. She undertook to consult and coordinate with other offices and said she would contact us in the near future regarding Canada's response. Visit Canada's Classified Web Site at http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/wha/ottawa DICKSON