Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
06QUITO2735
2006-11-09 21:06:00
CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN
Embassy Quito
Cable title:
ECUADOR: UN COUNTERTERRORISM COMMITTEE VISIT
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C O N F I D E N T I A L QUITO 002735
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 09/05/2016
TAGS: UNGA PREL EC LE IS PHUM PTER
SUBJECT: ECUADOR: UN COUNTERTERRORISM COMMITTEE VISIT
DEMARCHE
REF: STATE 172245
Classified By: PolOff Erik Martini for reasons 1.4 (B&D)
C O N F I D E N T I A L QUITO 002735
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 09/05/2016
TAGS: UNGA PREL EC LE IS PHUM PTER
SUBJECT: ECUADOR: UN COUNTERTERRORISM COMMITTEE VISIT
DEMARCHE
REF: STATE 172245
Classified By: PolOff Erik Martini for reasons 1.4 (B&D)
1. (SBU) PolOff delivered reftel demarche on a possible
visit by the UN Counterterrorism Committee to MFA Director
General for Multilateral Affairs Lourdes Puma on October 31.
Puma had no substantive response at that time, but in a
follow-up meeting on November 8, Puma said that the GOE
considered such a visit to be "unnecessary." Ecuador is a
country free of terrorism and terrorists, she asserted. The
Counterterrorism Committee should visit countries where
terror exists. Puma pointedly concluded that the GOE would
certainly not invite such a visit "this year."
2. (C) Comment: Puma's response coincides with recent
official statements condemning and denying Colombian
President Uribe's claim that elements of the FARC, which the
GOE does not officially recognize as a terrorist group,
operate in Ecuador. Given this very public difference of
opinion with the GOC, it would be politically difficult for
the GOE to accept such a visit. Depending who wins the
upcoming November 26 presidential election, however, the next
GOE may have a different view. End Comment.
JEWELL
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 09/05/2016
TAGS: UNGA PREL EC LE IS PHUM PTER
SUBJECT: ECUADOR: UN COUNTERTERRORISM COMMITTEE VISIT
DEMARCHE
REF: STATE 172245
Classified By: PolOff Erik Martini for reasons 1.4 (B&D)
1. (SBU) PolOff delivered reftel demarche on a possible
visit by the UN Counterterrorism Committee to MFA Director
General for Multilateral Affairs Lourdes Puma on October 31.
Puma had no substantive response at that time, but in a
follow-up meeting on November 8, Puma said that the GOE
considered such a visit to be "unnecessary." Ecuador is a
country free of terrorism and terrorists, she asserted. The
Counterterrorism Committee should visit countries where
terror exists. Puma pointedly concluded that the GOE would
certainly not invite such a visit "this year."
2. (C) Comment: Puma's response coincides with recent
official statements condemning and denying Colombian
President Uribe's claim that elements of the FARC, which the
GOE does not officially recognize as a terrorist group,
operate in Ecuador. Given this very public difference of
opinion with the GOC, it would be politically difficult for
the GOE to accept such a visit. Depending who wins the
upcoming November 26 presidential election, however, the next
GOE may have a different view. End Comment.
JEWELL