Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
06MADRID1593
2006-06-19 15:37:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Madrid
Cable title:
SPAIN ON MDA DEMARCHE
VZCZCXRO3604 PP RUEHAST DE RUEHMD #1593 1701537 ZNR UUUUU ZZH P 191537Z JUN 06 FM AMEMBASSY MADRID TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 0070 INFO RUEHZL/EUROPEAN POLITICAL COLLECTIVE PRIORITY RUEHGV/USMISSION GENEVA PRIORITY 0819 RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK PRIORITY 0175
UNCLAS MADRID 001593
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: AORC PHUM PREL PREF ICRC SP
SUBJECT: SPAIN ON MDA DEMARCHE
REF: STATE 99423
Poloff delivered reftel points on June 19 to Enrique
Yturriaga, MFA Subdirector General for Technical
International Organizations, and urged Spain to help block
any effort to prematurely adjourn the June 20-21
International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent.
Yturriaga said that Spain strongly believed in the importance
of the Third Protocol and would continue to work with its EU
partners to secure its enactment. He said he would relay
concerns about the efforts of some countries to block
adoption of the Third Protocol to Spanish Ambassador Manuel
Pombo, who will direct Spain's participation on this issue at
the Conference.
MANZANARES
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: AORC PHUM PREL PREF ICRC SP
SUBJECT: SPAIN ON MDA DEMARCHE
REF: STATE 99423
Poloff delivered reftel points on June 19 to Enrique
Yturriaga, MFA Subdirector General for Technical
International Organizations, and urged Spain to help block
any effort to prematurely adjourn the June 20-21
International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent.
Yturriaga said that Spain strongly believed in the importance
of the Third Protocol and would continue to work with its EU
partners to secure its enactment. He said he would relay
concerns about the efforts of some countries to block
adoption of the Third Protocol to Spanish Ambassador Manuel
Pombo, who will direct Spain's participation on this issue at
the Conference.
MANZANARES