Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
06SANAA457
2006-02-25 13:34:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Sanaa
Cable title:  

DEMARCHE ON HOST COUNTRY MEETINGS WITH HAMAS

Tags:  PREL PGOV KPAL YM DEMARCHE 
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C O N F I D E N T I A L SANAA 000457

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/22/2016
TAGS: PREL PGOV KPAL YM DEMARCHE
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE ON HOST COUNTRY MEETINGS WITH HAMAS
DELIVERED

REF: STATE 27174

Classified By: DCM Nabeel Khoury for reasons 1.4 b and d.

(C) On February 21, DCM delivered reftel demarche on HAMAS
delegations to Assistant Deputy Foreign Minister Khalid
Al-Akwa. DCM stressed that the USG still considered HAMAS to
be a terrorist organization and would prefer that the ROYG
not receive a delegation from HAMAS. DCM stressed that any
future contacts with HAMAS should be used to re-enforce the
conditions laid out in the Quartet statement for acceptance
of a Hamas-led Palestinian Authority. Akwa agreed that there
was "no future for HAMAS" if they did not "take the right way
forward."
Krajeski