SPAIN/GLOBAL INITIATIVE: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON

UNCLAS MADRID 001116 SENSITIVE SIPDIS PASS TO MEGGEN WATT, MOLLY SERGIO AND SARAH PRESCOTT OF ISN/FM WMDT E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: MCAP PARM PINR PINS PREL PTER KGIC SP SUBJECT: SPAIN/GLOBAL INITIATIVE: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON PORTAL, POINTS OF CONTACT REF: A. A. SECSTATE 109152 ¶B. B. (U) EMAIL SENT TO POST BY MEGGEN WATT ON OCTOBER 10 ¶C. C. MADRID 1048 ¶1. (SBU) POLOFF met Carlos Torres, MFA Counselor for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, on October 22 to deliver REFTEL A demarche. Torres said that he will serve as point of contact (POC) for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency for matters related to the Global Initiative Information Portal (GIIP) and informed POLOFF that Spain, which has been busy all year hosting a number of Global Initiative events, already has roughly 60 accounts activated with the GIIP. ¶2. (SBU) Torres reviewed the existing draft of POC's listed for Spain as part of REFTEL B and asked that Carmen Bujan Freire, Director General for Strategic Affairs and Terrorism at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, be added to the top of the list for Spanish POCs. Torres requested that, if formal invitations will be issued to the November 13-14, 2008 meeting of the GI's Exercise Planning Group in Washington, DC, as discussed in REFTEL C, then it would be best for the invitation to the Spanish delegation to be addressed to Bujan. ¶3. (U) Other changes to Spain's portion of the GI POC list and contact information for the GI Coordinating Officer in Embassy Madrid have been sent by unclassified email to Molly Sergio and Sarah Prescott of ISN/FM WMDT, as directed in REFTELS A and B. AGUIRRE