Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07BEIJING6873
2007-10-29 05:50:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Beijing
Cable title:
CHINA REGRETS IT WILL NOT SUPPORT DAVID WALKER FOR
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DEPT FOR IO/MPR/SC - BRIAN HACKETT OR MATT GLOCKNER
E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/29/2017
TAGS: PREL AORC UN UNGA UNGA
SUBJECT: CHINA REGRETS IT WILL NOT SUPPORT DAVID WALKER FOR
UN INDEPENDENT AUDIT ADVISORY COMMITTEE (IAAC)
REF: A. STATE 146857
¶B. STATE 149678
Classified By: Deputy Political Section Chief Ben Moeling. Reasons 1.4
(b/d).
(C) POLOFF on October 29 conveyed to the MFA ref b points
again urging China to support David M. Walker's election to
the UN Independent Audit Advisory Committee (IAAC). MFA
International Organizations and Conferences Department UN
Division Deputy Director Yao Shaojun said China is very sorry
to have learned of Walker's candidacy "very late." He said
that in "June or July," China had agreed to vote for the
Spanish candidate in exchange for Spain's support for a
Chinese candidate on another UN body. Yao stressed that
China takes seriously the P-5 gentlemen's agreement and had
the MFA known that the United States was fielding a
candidate, China would not have agreed to support Spain.
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