Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
08KUALALUMPUR646
2008-07-23 07:43:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Kuala Lumpur
Cable title:
MALAYSIA: 63ND UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY HIGH-LEVEL
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UNCLAS KUALA LUMPUR 000646
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
FOR IO/UNP - SUN, P - REINEMEYER, EAP/RSP - TIKVART
USUN
NSC FOR MCDONALD
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA MY
SUBJECT: MALAYSIA: 63ND UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY HIGH-LEVEL
ATTENDANCE
REF: STATE 72078 - INSTRUCTIONS
UNCLAS KUALA LUMPUR 000646
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
FOR IO/UNP - SUN, P - REINEMEYER, EAP/RSP - TIKVART
USUN
NSC FOR MCDONALD
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA MY
SUBJECT: MALAYSIA: 63ND UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY HIGH-LEVEL
ATTENDANCE
REF: STATE 72078 - INSTRUCTIONS
1. (SBU) Malaysia's Foreign Ministry cannot yet confirm
high-level attendance at the 2008 UN General Assembly.
According to Nazarudin Ja'afar, Principal Assistant Secretary
in the Ministry's Multilateral Political Affairs Division,
United Nations and Disarmament Office, information on UNGA
attendance will be forthcoming sometime in late August.
2. (SBU) 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 Abdullah
Badawi, with his wife Jeanne Abdullah, and Minister of
Foreign Affairs Rais Yatim, and his wife Masnah Muhamat, will
attend. In addition, Foreign Ministry Secretary General
Rastam Mohd Isa and his wife Norizan Sulaiman are likely to
attend.
3. (U) We will follow up with the Foreign Ministry in the
coming weeks.
KEITH
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
FOR IO/UNP - SUN, P - REINEMEYER, EAP/RSP - TIKVART
USUN
NSC FOR MCDONALD
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA MY
SUBJECT: MALAYSIA: 63ND UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY HIGH-LEVEL
ATTENDANCE
REF: STATE 72078 - INSTRUCTIONS
1. (SBU) Malaysia's Foreign Ministry cannot yet confirm
high-level attendance at the 2008 UN General Assembly.
According to Nazarudin Ja'afar, Principal Assistant Secretary
in the Ministry's Multilateral Political Affairs Division,
United Nations and Disarmament Office, information on UNGA
attendance will be forthcoming sometime in late August.
2. (SBU) 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 Abdullah
Badawi, with his wife Jeanne Abdullah, and Minister of
Foreign Affairs Rais Yatim, and his wife Masnah Muhamat, will
attend. In addition, Foreign Ministry Secretary General
Rastam Mohd Isa and his wife Norizan Sulaiman are likely to
attend.
3. (U) We will follow up with the Foreign Ministry in the
coming weeks.
KEITH