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.

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