MALAYSIA: 62ND UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY HIGH-LEVEL

UNCLAS KUALA LUMPUR 001206 SIPDIS SIPDIS STATE FOR IO/PPC (BATLLE) AND UNGA COORDINATION EAP/RSP (ANTWEILER, KURZBAUER) USUN FOR MCBRIDE NSC FOR MCDONALD E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PREL ITRA OVIP KSEP UNGA MY SUBJECT: MALAYSIA: 62ND UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE REF: STATE 101170 ¶1. Malaysia's Foreign Ministry cannot yet confirm high-level attendance at the 2007 UN General Assembly. According to our contacts with the Ministry's Multilateral Political Affairs Division, United Nations and Disarmament Office, information on UNGQattendance will be forthcoming sometime in August. ¶2. Based on past precedent and informal remarks by Malaysian officials, we believe it very unlikely that Malaysia's head of state, the King, would attend UNGA. We believe that head of government, Prime Minister Datuk Sri Utama Abdullah bin Hj Ahmad Badawi and wife Datin Seri Jeanne Abdullah, will attend, along with Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dato' Seri Panglima Syed Hamid Syed Jaafar Albar and his wife Datin Seri Panglima Sharifah Aziah Syed Zainal Abidin. In addition, Foreign Ministry Secretary General Tan Sri Datuk Rastam Mohd Isa and his wife Puan Sri Datin Norizan Sulaiman are likely to attend. ¶3. We will follow up with the Foreign Ministry in the coming weeks. LAFLEUR