MDA: SURINAME NOT REPRESENTED AT GENEVA MEETING

UNCLAS PARAMARIBO 000791 SIPDIS GENEVA FOR RMA, BRUSSELS FOR MEZNAR DEPARTMENT FOR PRM/MCE CSANTOS AND WHA/CAR E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PREF PHUM PREL ICRC SUBJECT: MDA: SURINAME NOT REPRESENTED AT GENEVA MEETING REFS: (A) STATE 220749; (B) Paramaribo 7795 Charge spoke with Foreign Affairs International Organizations Division Director J. Van Glaanen-Weygel, and learned that the Government of Suriname, with regret, had been unable to arrange for their representative in Brussels to attend the Geneva conference the Third Additional Protocol, as Brussels staff had been diverted to Hong Kong in support of Suriname's participation in the WTO. Van Glaanen-Wegyel lamented that Suriname's limited diplomatic personnel resources abroad did not allow simultaneous coverage of the meeting in Geneva. LEONARD NNNN