Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07MOSCOW3425
2007-07-13 07:08:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Moscow
Cable title:
DEMARCHE ON SWING CANDIDACY FOR IOM DG DELIVERED
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C O N F I D E N T I A L MOSCOW 003425
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/12/2017
TAGS: AORC EUN PREF PREL SMIG RS
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE ON SWING CANDIDACY FOR IOM DG DELIVERED
REF: STATE 93920
Classified By: Political Minister Counselor Alice Wells.
Reasons 1.4 (b and d).
(C) We delivered reftel demarche to Aleksandr Chuplygin, head
of the migration section in the MFA Department of
Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights. Chuplygin noted
the U.S. support for Ambassador William Lacy Swing over
current IOM DG Brunson McKinley and the amendment to the IOM
constitution to limit the director general to two terms. He
suggested that there might be an EU candidate as well, adding
that several unnamed European countries had expressed
dissatisfaction with IOM and its perceived "pro-American"
bias. We said that Ambassador Swing's experience as a career
diplomat and as a Special Representative of the Secretary
General made him imminently qualified to lead IOM and to do
so in the best interests of all its members.
BURNS
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/12/2017
TAGS: AORC EUN PREF PREL SMIG RS
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE ON SWING CANDIDACY FOR IOM DG DELIVERED
REF: STATE 93920
Classified By: Political Minister Counselor Alice Wells.
Reasons 1.4 (b and d).
(C) We delivered reftel demarche to Aleksandr Chuplygin, head
of the migration section in the MFA Department of
Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights. Chuplygin noted
the U.S. support for Ambassador William Lacy Swing over
current IOM DG Brunson McKinley and the amendment to the IOM
constitution to limit the director general to two terms. He
suggested that there might be an EU candidate as well, adding
that several unnamed European countries had expressed
dissatisfaction with IOM and its perceived "pro-American"
bias. We said that Ambassador Swing's experience as a career
diplomat and as a Special Representative of the Secretary
General made him imminently qualified to lead IOM and to do
so in the best interests of all its members.
BURNS