Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
06PARIS2305
2006-04-07 15:23:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Paris
Cable title:
FRANCE WRONGFOOTED ON LEVITZKY INCB CANDIDACY
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C O N F I D E N T I A L PARIS 002305
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
USUN PLEASE PASS TO HUGH DUGAN
E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/07/2016
TAGS: SNAR AORC PREL FR UN
SUBJECT: FRANCE WRONGFOOTED ON LEVITZKY INCB CANDIDACY
REF: STATE 47574
Classified By: Political Minister Counselor Josiah B. Rosenblatt.
Reasons 1.4b,d
C O N F I D E N T I A L PARIS 002305
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
USUN PLEASE PASS TO HUGH DUGAN
E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/07/2016
TAGS: SNAR AORC PREL FR UN
SUBJECT: FRANCE WRONGFOOTED ON LEVITZKY INCB CANDIDACY
REF: STATE 47574
Classified By: Political Minister Counselor Josiah B. Rosenblatt.
Reasons 1.4b,d
1. (C) An abashed IO DAS-Equivalent Beatrice Le Fraper
confided to poloff on 4/7 that France had already pledged to
back Belgian and German candidates for the International
Narcotics Control Board (INCB) prior to her learning from the
Embassy on 3/27 of the USG request to support ambassador
Levitzky.
2. (C) France made common cause with with Belgium and
Germany in order to obtain broader European support for
French national Professor Lagier. The WHO, which has the
right to advance its own candidates to the INCB, unexpectedly
put Lagier forward, and the MFA, which had not counted on or
sought to recruit a French candidate, felt an obligation to
support him.
3. (C) Within the WEOG group, France is left without a vote
to spare. However, Le Fraper has instructed her office to
examine how France -- without breaking its commitments to
Berlin and Brussels -- might still rally to the Levitzky
candidacy, perhaps by poaching a vote that would normally be
set aside for non-WEOG candidates.
Please visit Paris' Classified Website at:
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/eur/paris/index.c fm
Stapleton
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
USUN PLEASE PASS TO HUGH DUGAN
E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/07/2016
TAGS: SNAR AORC PREL FR UN
SUBJECT: FRANCE WRONGFOOTED ON LEVITZKY INCB CANDIDACY
REF: STATE 47574
Classified By: Political Minister Counselor Josiah B. Rosenblatt.
Reasons 1.4b,d
1. (C) An abashed IO DAS-Equivalent Beatrice Le Fraper
confided to poloff on 4/7 that France had already pledged to
back Belgian and German candidates for the International
Narcotics Control Board (INCB) prior to her learning from the
Embassy on 3/27 of the USG request to support ambassador
Levitzky.
2. (C) France made common cause with with Belgium and
Germany in order to obtain broader European support for
French national Professor Lagier. The WHO, which has the
right to advance its own candidates to the INCB, unexpectedly
put Lagier forward, and the MFA, which had not counted on or
sought to recruit a French candidate, felt an obligation to
support him.
3. (C) Within the WEOG group, France is left without a vote
to spare. However, Le Fraper has instructed her office to
examine how France -- without breaking its commitments to
Berlin and Brussels -- might still rally to the Levitzky
candidacy, perhaps by poaching a vote that would normally be
set aside for non-WEOG candidates.
Please visit Paris' Classified Website at:
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/eur/paris/index.c fm
Stapleton