Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
08MADRID829
2008-07-28 06:24:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Madrid
Cable title:  

SPAIN ALSO SEEKS TO KEEP PRESSURE ON THE FARC

Tags:  PTER PREL EUN SP VE 
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P 280624Z JUL 08
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C O N F I D E N T I A L MADRID 000829 

SIPDIS

FOR EUR/WE - ELAINE SAMSON
FOR WHA/AND - LOURDES CUE

E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/24/2018
TAGS: PTER PREL EUN SP VE
SUBJECT: SPAIN ALSO SEEKS TO KEEP PRESSURE ON THE FARC

REF: A. STATE 77205

B. CUE-LLORENS-FRITSCHLE E-MAILS

Classified By: DCM Hugo Llorens for reasons 1.4 b and d.


C O N F I D E N T I A L MADRID 000829

SIPDIS

FOR EUR/WE - ELAINE SAMSON
FOR WHA/AND - LOURDES CUE

E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/24/2018
TAGS: PTER PREL EUN SP VE
SUBJECT: SPAIN ALSO SEEKS TO KEEP PRESSURE ON THE FARC

REF: A. STATE 77205

B. CUE-LLORENS-FRITSCHLE E-MAILS

Classified By: DCM Hugo Llorens for reasons 1.4 b and d.



1. (C) Poloffs conveyed reftel points July 22 to MFA Deputy
Director General for Andean Affairs Ramon Santos Arms, who
agreed on the necessity of keep pressure on the FARC.
Additionally, he said that Spain would use the upcoming July
24-25 visit of Venezuelan President Chavez to encourage
Venezuela to halt complicity in FARC-related narco- and arms
trafficking.


2. (SBU) Spanish officials had a chance to review the FARC
issue in-depth when Colombian Defense Minister Santos visited
Spain the weekend of July 5, addressing an opposition Partido
Popular-affiliated summer university regarding the July 2
rescue operation. Santos also met privately with Spanish
Defense Minister Carme Chacon to brief her on Colombian
efforts against the FARC.


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