DOMINICAN DIPNOTE REQUESTING SUPPORT IN FAVOR OF

UNCLAS SANTO DOMINGO 000535 SIPDIS SIPDIS EB/TRA: J HORWITZ E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: EAIR PREL IO ICAO DR SUBJECT: DOMINICAN DIPNOTE REQUESTING SUPPORT IN FAVOR OF ITS ICAO CANDIDACY Embassy received the following dipnote (unofficial translation) from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on March 5, ¶2007. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs requests U.S. support for the Dominican Republic's candidacy as a member of the Board of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) for the period of 2007-2010. The voting will take place at the ICAO assembly in Montreal Canada in September 2007. Dipnote reads as follows: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Secretariat of State SIPDIS For Foreign Relations Division UN-OAS, International Organizations and Conferences Candidacies and accreditations Dipnote number: 4001 22 FEB 2007 The Secretariat of State for Foreign Relations respectfully greets the Embassy of the United States of America, and is pleased to inform it that the Dominican Republic has presented its candidacy as member of the Board of the International Civil Aviation Organization, ICAO, for the period of 2007-2010, whose elections will be held in the framework of the XXXVI Assembly of ICAO, which will take place in Montreal, Canada, in September of 2007. The Board of ICAO is made up of 36 States, elected for a mandate of three years divided into three categories. The Dominican Republic aspires to become a member of the Board in category III, which groups together those countries not included otherwise, whose designation guarantees greater world-wide geographical representation within the organization. In order to guarantee the representative nature of the Latin American Group in ICAO, the Latin American Civil Aviation Commission, LACAC, approved the list of States that will run for positions to form part of the Board, listed as follows: Group I: Brazil; Group II: Mexico, Argentina, and Venezuela; Group III: Ecuador, Uruguay, El Salvador, and the Dominican Republic. For these reasons and appealing to the excellent relations between both governments, the Dominican Republic requests the valuable support of the illustrious Government of the United States in favor of this aspiration. The Secretariat of State for Foreign Relations wishes to take this opportunity to reiterate to the Embassy of the United States of America its assurances of its highest esteem and consideration. To the Honorable Embassy of the United States of America SANTO DOMINGO (Seal: SECRETARIAT OF STATE FOR FOREIGN RELATIONS, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) BULLEN