MACEDONIA: DEMARCHE ON COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES

C O N F I D E N T I A L SKOPJE 000863 SIPDIS SIPDIS DEPT FOR EUR/SCE E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/19/2015 TAGS: UNGA PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM IR MK SUBJECT: MACEDONIA: DEMARCHE ON COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES MINISTERIAL AND POSSIBLE MFA UNGA MEETINGS REF: STATE 149622 Classified By: Poloff Katrina Mosser for reasons 1.4(b) and (d) ¶1. (U) Poloff delivered reftel points on the upcoming Community of Democracies (CD) Ministerial to MFA State Counselor for Multilateral Affairs Svetlana Geleva on September 12. Geleva said a GOM representative will attend this year's CD Ministerial at the UN General Assembly (UNGA), but did not yet know who that would be. The GOM continues to support the CD and welcomed the information on U.S. initiatives related to the CD and the UN Democracy Fund. ¶2. (C) Geleva told Poloff the MFA had received a request from the Iranian MFA for a meeting with Foreign Minister Milososki during the UNGA. Uncertain of the purpose of the requested meeting, Geleva instructed the GOM representative in New York to attempt to determine what other missions the Iranian delegation was seeking to meet before responding to the request. Geleva is inclined to decline the request, and MFA State Counselor Milan Spirodonovski has advised against taking the meeting. If Milososki does meet with an Iranian representative, Geleva assured Poloff she would brief embassy officials on the meeting upon her return from New York. MILOVANOVIC