DEMARCHE ON THE ELECTION FOR THE COMMITTEE ON THE

UNCLAS PORT OF SPAIN 001171 SIPDIS SIPDIS DEPARTMENT FOR IO/RHS E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PHUM PREL UNGA TD SUBJECT: DEMARCHE ON THE ELECTION FOR THE COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION REF: STATE 157655 ¶1. Pol Chief met December 3 with MFA Multilateral Affairs official Kathleen Seenarine to promote the candidacy of Pierre-Richard Prosper to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Seenarine said the GOTT would consider the Prosper candidacy and would notify the Embassy in early January of 2008, about two weeks before the vote, regarding which candidates it intended to support. ¶2. In addition, post received a diplomatic note from MOFA dated November 23 acknowledging receipt of the Embassy's November 19 diplomatic note on the Prosper candidacy and advising that the request for support was "under consideration by the relevant authority." AUSTIN