Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
06SEOUL997
2006-03-27 07:24:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Seoul
Cable title:
ROKG STILL FAVORS USG CANDIDATE FOR INCB
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C O N F I D E N T I A L SEOUL 000997
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
INL/PC CHRISTINE CLINE, IO/T HEATHER VON BEHREN, AND EAP/K
E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/18/2015
TAGS: SNAR AORC PREL UN KS
SUBJECT: ROKG STILL FAVORS USG CANDIDATE FOR INCB
REF: A. STATE 47574
¶B. SEOUL 217
¶C. STATE 5704
Classified By: POL M/C Joseph Y. Yun. Reasons 1.4 (b),(d).
(C) On March 27, poloff delivered ref A demarche, requesting
support for Ambassador (retired) Levitsky's re-election to
the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB),to Jang
Hyun-cheol, Deputy Director of the Human Rights and Social
Affairs Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and
Trade. Jang said that the ROKG had not officially decided
whom to support because the election was still a couple of
months away. Speaking personally, however, he said he was
certain that the ROKG would back the U.S. candidate as it had
in the previous election. He also reiterated his ref B
statement that Seoul did not intend to forward its own
candidate.
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