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06DARESSALAAM1245
2006-07-26 10:12:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Dar Es Salaam
Cable title:  

ASIA'S TURN FOR SECRETARY GENERAL, TANZANIA SAYS

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P 261012Z JUL 06
FM AMEMBASSY DAR ES SALAAM
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 4423
INFO RUCNDT/USUN NEW YORK PRIORITY 0042
UNCLAS DAR ES SALAAM 001245

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E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL UN TZ
SUBJECT: ASIA'S TURN FOR SECRETARY GENERAL, TANZANIA SAYS

REF: A. STATE 22833

B. DAR ES SALAAM 00307

(u) The Government of Tanzania reaffirmed that it "is
committed to the principle of geographic rotation" for the
selection of Secretary General and "it is Asia's turn." At a
July 18 meeting with Poloff, Ambassador Liberata Mulamula,
Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Multilateral
Division, did not express GOT support for a specific
candidate, but confirmed that Shashi Tharoor of India was
well-received at the African Union summit in Banjul in June.
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