ADDITIONAL VOTING INSTRUCTIONS FOR ECOSOC

C O N F I D E N T I A L STATE 180479 SIPDIS SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/30/2016 TAGS: AORC UNGA ECOSOC SUBJECT: ADDITIONAL VOTING INSTRUCTIONS FOR ECOSOC MEMBERSHIP: AFRICAN AGREED SLATE REF: STATE 179245 Classified By: Gerald C. Anderson, for Reason 1.4(d) ¶1. (U) On November 2, the General Assembly will vote on eighteen new states to be members of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). Reftel describes the voting instructions for the three agreed regional group slates and the contested elections for states for two regional groups. The following instructions modify the voting instructions in para. 2 for the agreed slate for African states. ¶2. (C) There are five candidates in the African States group that are running on an agreed slate: Algeria, Cape Verde, Malawi, Somalia, and Sudan. Upon further examination, IO has decided not to support the candidacy of Sudan. Consequently, Post is instructed to leave Sudan off of its secret ballot for the African slate, and to only/only fill in the four names of Algeria, Cape Verde, Malawi and Somalia. RICE