Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
06LISBON1189
2006-06-19 16:08:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Lisbon
how-toVZCZCXYZ0024 PP RUEHWEB DE RUEHLI #1189 1701608 ZNR UUUUU ZZH P 191608Z JUN 06 FM AMEMBASSY LISBON TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 4888 INFO RUEHWR/AMEMBASSY WARSAW PRIORITY 0279
UNCLAS LISBON 001189
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL PT
SUBJECT: PORTUGAL NOT ATTENDING PSI
REF: STATE 84640
On June 16, MFA Deputy Director for Security and Disarmament
Pedro Sousa Abreu responded to reftel demarche (delivered May
24) saying he had only just learned that the GOP will be
unable to send anyone from either the Foreign Ministry or the
Defense Ministry to the meeting in Warsaw. The Portuguese
Charge d' Affaires in Warsaw, Manuela Teixeira Pinto, will
represent the GOP, perhaps accompanied by the Defense
Attache, Commander Antonio Mendes Calado. Sousa Abreu added
that the GOP will no longer participate in the panel
discussion, &Building PSI Nations Capacity8, as scheduled.
Hoffman