Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
06NOUAKCHOTT1244
2006-10-17 14:47:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Nouakchott
Cable title:
MAURITANIA BACKS GUATEMALA FOR UNSC SEAT
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C O N F I D E N T I A L NOUAKCHOTT 001244
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR WHA (DMCCARTHY) AF/RSA (RHOUSTON) IO/UNP
(BHARRIS),AND AF/W
E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/17/2016
TAGS: PREL UNSC GT VE MR
SUBJECT: MAURITANIA BACKS GUATEMALA FOR UNSC SEAT
REF: STATE 173465
Classified By: CDA Steven Koutsis, Reasons 1.4 (b),(d)
(C) MFA Secretary General Mohamed Lemine Ould Moulaye Zeine
told charge October 17 that the MFA had given instructions to
its UN representative to vote for Guatemala for the GRULAC
UNSC seat, and will send further instructions to continue to
vote for Guatemala "until it is over." He said that FM Ahmed
Ould Sid'Ahmed had committed Mauritania's vote for Guatemala
to NSC Senior Director for Africa Bobby Pittman during their
telephone conversation last week, and that commitment still
stands.
Koutsis