KENYA: RESPONSE TO U.S. STATEMENT ON IRAN

UNCLAS NAIROBI 002399 SIPDIS SENSITIVE SIPDIS DEPT FOR NEA/IR AND AF/E E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PREL PGOV KE SUBJECT: KENYA: RESPONSE TO U.S. STATEMENT ON IRAN REF: STATE 87682 ¶1. (SBU) DCM delivered reftel points to Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs Permanent Secretary Lazarus Amayo the evening of May 31. (Head of state and foreign minister were unavailable.) Amayo discussed at length the recent G-77 meeting in Malaysia and Iran's attempt to introduce a statement on the nuclear issue. Jamaica's strong stance against this action was supported by the majority of participants, he said, because they felt Iran was trying to invalidate the authority of the IAEA. ¶2. (SBU) Amayo requested a copy of the Secretary's statement. He was non-committal on the prospect of Kenya making its own statement, saying only that he would be in touch with the DCM after reading the Secretary's remarks. He was, nonetheless, generally positive about the Secretary's action. BELLAMY