Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07TOKYO5535
2007-12-12 09:48:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Tokyo
Cable title:
JAPAN SURPRISED BY U.S. DEMARCHE ON UN BUDGET
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C O N F I D E N T I A L TOKYO 005535
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
FOR IO/MPR - DAVID LEIS, USUN/MR - BRUCE RASHKOW
E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/10/2017
TAGS: PREL AORC ABUD UN JA
SUBJECT: JAPAN SURPRISED BY U.S. DEMARCHE ON UN BUDGET
ISSUES
REF: STATE 164908
Classified By: Ambassador J. Thomas Schieffer for reasons 1.4 (b) and (
d).
(C) Japan was "very surprised" to receive reftel demarche
December 10 on UN budget issues, said MOFA UN Planning and
Adminstrative Division Principal Deputy Director Kenichi
Matsuda, who called his delegation in New York that same
night to follow up. Japan's mission to the UN was also
surprised to hear the United States perspective that Japan
was not supporting the budget cuts, Matsuda reported. Japan
has always had a "very strong position" on budget cuts, and
according to Matsuda, the Japanese delegation in New York
expressed their frustration that it was the United States
that was not being supportive enough of Japan's proposals for
budget cuts.
SCHIEFFER