Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
06USUNNEWYORK2266
2006-12-19 20:04:00
CONFIDENTIAL
USUN New York
Cable title:
INCOMING SYG BAN KI-MOON CANNOT ATTEND SALVADORAN
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C O N F I D E N T I A L USUN NEW YORK 002266
SIPDIS
"NOTE BY CIB: DO NOT/NOT PROCESS. GIVE TO EAO FOR GUIDANCE"
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/19/2016
TAGS: PREL PGOV
SUBJECT: INCOMING SYG BAN KI-MOON CANNOT ATTEND SALVADORAN
PEACE CEREMONY BUT WILL SEND A REPRESENTATIVE
REF: STATE 200427
Classified By: Ambassador Alejandro D. Wolff, per 1.4 (b) and (d).
(C) Per reftel, on December 19 Ambassador Wolff raised with
incoming Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon's Transition Team
Chief Ambassador Kim the issue of appropriate UN attendance
at the 16 January 2007 ceremony in El Salvador marking the
15th anniversary of that country's peace accords. Kim
confirmed that Ban had informed the Salvadorans that he would
not be able to attend the ceremony due to the press of other
business in his first weeks in office, but would send a
representative in his place. Kim reported that after hearing
that Ban would be unavailable, the Salvadorans had asked if
the incoming SYG could urge former UN SYG Perez de Cuellar --
who was SYG at the time the peace accords were signed -- to
attend in his place. Kim said Ban was now considering
whether to approach Perez de Cuellar. If the former SYG
cannot attend, Kim suggested Ban could ask UN Under-Secretary
for Political Affairs Ibrahim Gambari to go.
WOLFF
SIPDIS
"NOTE BY CIB: DO NOT/NOT PROCESS. GIVE TO EAO FOR GUIDANCE"
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/19/2016
TAGS: PREL PGOV
SUBJECT: INCOMING SYG BAN KI-MOON CANNOT ATTEND SALVADORAN
PEACE CEREMONY BUT WILL SEND A REPRESENTATIVE
REF: STATE 200427
Classified By: Ambassador Alejandro D. Wolff, per 1.4 (b) and (d).
(C) Per reftel, on December 19 Ambassador Wolff raised with
incoming Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon's Transition Team
Chief Ambassador Kim the issue of appropriate UN attendance
at the 16 January 2007 ceremony in El Salvador marking the
15th anniversary of that country's peace accords. Kim
confirmed that Ban had informed the Salvadorans that he would
not be able to attend the ceremony due to the press of other
business in his first weeks in office, but would send a
representative in his place. Kim reported that after hearing
that Ban would be unavailable, the Salvadorans had asked if
the incoming SYG could urge former UN SYG Perez de Cuellar --
who was SYG at the time the peace accords were signed -- to
attend in his place. Kim said Ban was now considering
whether to approach Perez de Cuellar. If the former SYG
cannot attend, Kim suggested Ban could ask UN Under-Secretary
for Political Affairs Ibrahim Gambari to go.
WOLFF