Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
06SEOUL2851
2006-08-21 09:17:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Seoul
Cable title:
ROKG NOT PLANNING TO INVITE CHAVEZ
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C O N F I D E N T I A L SEOUL 002851
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
NSC FOR CHA
E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/18/2015
TAGS: PREL PGOV KS VE
SUBJECT: ROKG NOT PLANNING TO INVITE CHAVEZ
REF: A. BEIJING 17026
B. SEOUL 2746
Classified By: A/POL Brian D. McFeeters. Reasons 1.4 (b),(d).
C O N F I D E N T I A L SEOUL 002851
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
NSC FOR CHA
E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/18/2015
TAGS: PREL PGOV KS VE
SUBJECT: ROKG NOT PLANNING TO INVITE CHAVEZ
REF: A. BEIJING 17026
B. SEOUL 2746
Classified By: A/POL Brian D. McFeeters. Reasons 1.4 (b),(d).
1. (C) Following up on ref A and media reports that
Venezuelan President Chavez will visit China August 22-27,
poloff on August 21 asked Choi Won-seok, MOFAT's Deputy
Director for Latin American and Caribbean Regional
Cooperation Division, whether South Korea would be a stop on
the Chavez trip. (NOTE: On August 11 MOFAT officials told
poloff that they had heard that Chavez's Asian tour was
recently canceled (ref B). END NOTE). Choi responded that
Seoul understood USG preferences against a Chavez visit to
the ROK before the U.S.-ROK summit in Washington in
September. He insisted there were no plans to invite Chavez
to South Korea.
2. (C) Asked if the ROK knew whether Chavez might visit
North Korea, Choi noted that the ROK Ambassador to Caracas
had asked Venezuelan officials but did not receive a
definitive answer. One could never be sure about North Korea
nor, probably, about Chavez, so a trip to the North was a
possibility, he opined. Should Chavez seek to visit the ROK
from North Korea, Choi said Seoul would not look favorably on
grandstanding by Chavez at this time because the North Korean
nuclear issue was complicated enough without introducing new
actors.
STANTON
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
NSC FOR CHA
E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/18/2015
TAGS: PREL PGOV KS VE
SUBJECT: ROKG NOT PLANNING TO INVITE CHAVEZ
REF: A. BEIJING 17026
B. SEOUL 2746
Classified By: A/POL Brian D. McFeeters. Reasons 1.4 (b),(d).
1. (C) Following up on ref A and media reports that
Venezuelan President Chavez will visit China August 22-27,
poloff on August 21 asked Choi Won-seok, MOFAT's Deputy
Director for Latin American and Caribbean Regional
Cooperation Division, whether South Korea would be a stop on
the Chavez trip. (NOTE: On August 11 MOFAT officials told
poloff that they had heard that Chavez's Asian tour was
recently canceled (ref B). END NOTE). Choi responded that
Seoul understood USG preferences against a Chavez visit to
the ROK before the U.S.-ROK summit in Washington in
September. He insisted there were no plans to invite Chavez
to South Korea.
2. (C) Asked if the ROK knew whether Chavez might visit
North Korea, Choi noted that the ROK Ambassador to Caracas
had asked Venezuelan officials but did not receive a
definitive answer. One could never be sure about North Korea
nor, probably, about Chavez, so a trip to the North was a
possibility, he opined. Should Chavez seek to visit the ROK
from North Korea, Choi said Seoul would not look favorably on
grandstanding by Chavez at this time because the North Korean
nuclear issue was complicated enough without introducing new
actors.
STANTON