UPDATE ON SPAIN'S ATTENDEES FOR 63RD UN GENERAL

UNCLAS MADRID 000949 SENSITIVE SIPDIS IO/UNP (SUN),NSC (MCDONALD),P (REINEMEYER),EUR/PGI (TESSLER) E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA SUBJECT: UPDATE ON SPAIN'S ATTENDEES FOR 63RD UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY REF: A. STATE 72078 ¶B. MADRID 855 (SBU) The Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs provided the following list of persons scheduled to attend the 63rd United Nations General Assembly. This information includes and supplements the attendees previously reported in reftel b. ¶A. Attendance of Head of Government Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, President, will attend the High Level meeting on Millennium Development Goals on September 25 and will address the General Assembly during the general debate. President Zapatero will arrive Tuesday, September 23rd, at 10am and depart Thursday, September 25th, at 11pm. Interpretation from English to Spanish will be required. ¶B. Attendance of the Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, will also attend the general debate. FM Moratinos will arrive Saturday, September 20th, and depart Friday, September 26th. No interpretation is needed for FM Moratinos. ¶C. Other VIP's. For the following VIP's, no interpretation will be required. Most will travel the same dates as FM Moratinos (September 20 - 26). -- Bernardino Leon, Secretary General of the Presidency -- Trinidad Jimenez, Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs -- Angel Lossada Torres-Quevedo, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs -- Soraya Rodriguez Ramos, Secretary of State for International Cooperation -- Milagros Hernando, Director of International Policy and Security for the Presidency -- Juan Pablo de la Iglesia, Director of AECID (Spanish Agency of International Cooperation and Development) -- Agustin Santos, Chief of Cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Affairs -- Manuel Cacho Quesada, Director General for External Communication -- Alfonso Lucini, Director General for Foreign Policy -- Luis Felipe Fernandez de la Pena, Foreign Policy Director General for Europe and North America -- Fidel Sendagorta, Foreign Policy Director General for the Mediterranean, Maghreb and Near East -- Carmen de la Pena, Foreign Policy Director General for Africa -- Jose Eugenio Salarich, Foreign Policy Director General for Asia and the Pacific -- Carmen Bujan, Director General for Terrorism Issues and Strategic Affairs -- Juan Carlos Sanchez, Foreign Policy Director General for Latin America -- Juan Lopez-Doriga, Director General for Planning and Evaluation of Development Policy -- Maximo Cajal, Aliance of Civilizations Advisor ¶D. Attendance of the Foreign Ministry official responsible for International Organization affairs. -- Jorge Manuel Domecq Fernandez de Bobadilla, Director General for the UN, Global Affairs and Human Rights. DG Fernandez will arrive on the 20th and depart on the 26th, and no interpretation will be required. Aguirre