UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION DEMARCHE DELIVERED

UNCLAS MOSCOW 001963 SENSITIVE SIPDIS DEPARTMENT FOR IO/T (CHRIS WOOD) E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: AORC ECON ETRD RS SUBJECT: UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION DEMARCHE DELIVERED REF: STATE 66814 SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY. ¶1. (SBU) On June 25, we passed reftel information on the U.S. priorities for the Universal Postal Union (UPU) Congress to be held July 23 to August 12 in Geneva to GOR officials at the MFA's North America Department, the International Department of the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media, and the Americas Division of the Ministry of Economic Development. On July 9, we followed up with Alexander Zakharov, Counselor and Director of Bilateral Relations in the MFA's North America Department. Zakharov said that the GOR had no substantive reaction at this time to the U.S. priorities for the UPU or the U.S. candidacies for election to the Council of Administration and the Postal Operations Council. BEYRLE