PERU: DEMARCHE TO UNSC MEMBERS TO COSPONSOR

UNCLAS LIMA 002686 SIPDIS SENSITIVE SIPDIS STATE FOR IO/UNP AND EAP/K E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PREL KN PARM UNSC PE SUBJECT: PERU: DEMARCHE TO UNSC MEMBERS TO COSPONSOR RESOLUTION ON DPRK MISSLE LAUNCHINGS REF: A. STATE 112806 ¶B. LIMA 2678 Sensitive but Unclassified, please handle accordingly. ¶1. (SBU) On 7/7, prior to receipt of Ref A, Foreign Minister Maurtua told the Ambassador that Japan had requested Peru to co-sponsor its UNSC resolution regarding DPRK missiles; Maurtua said that he wanted to hear US views before deciding. The Ambassador said that the USG considered the North Korea tests provocative and a disturbance of the peace and urged the GOP to join the Japanese resolution as a co-sponsor. The Foreign Minister said Peru would do so. The Under Secretary for Political Affairs phoned the Ambassador on Sunday to say that the Friday discussion was timely; instruction to co-sponsor had gone out to the Peruvian mission in New York and the Chinese Foreign Minister was belated trying to contact Maurtua to lobby him. ¶2. (SBU) Foreign Minister Maurtua is in Washington accompanying President Toledo. The Foreign Minister had an aide call the Ambassador the morning of July 10 to say that he received a great deal of pressure in his Sunday phone call with the Chinese Foreign Minister to vote against the resolution, however Maurtua told the Chinese that Peru would stick by its intention to vote in favor. STRUBLE