Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
08MUSCAT864
2008-12-22 12:01:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Muscat
Cable title:
OMAN ACCEPTS INVITATION TO JOIN CONTACT GROUP ON
how-toVZCZCXYZ0000 PP RUEHWEB DE RUEHMS #0864 3571201 ZNR UUUUU ZZH P 221201Z DEC 08 FM AMEMBASSY MUSCAT TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 0230 INFO RUEKJCS/SECDEF WASHDC RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK 0020 RHEHNSC/NSC WASHDC
UNCLAS MUSCAT 000864
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR NEA/ARP AND PM/PPA
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PBTS PHSA PTER EWWT KCRM MOPS MU
SUBJECT: OMAN ACCEPTS INVITATION TO JOIN CONTACT GROUP ON
SOMALI PIRACY
REF: STATE 133199
Post delivered reftel invitation and related information to
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs via diplomatic note on
December 20. Meeting with the Ambassador on December 21,
Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusef bin Alawi said
that Oman would be pleased to join the Contact Group on
Somali Piracy (CGSP) and added that Oman's newly designated
Chief for International Maritime Affairs, a retired navy
admiral, would attend the proposed inaugural CGSP meeting in
New York in January 2009. Bin Alawi also noted that Oman
would participate in a conference sponsored by the
International Maritime Organization (IMO) scheduled for
January in Djibouti to discuss piracy off the coast of
Somalia and hoped that this would not conflict with the New
York meeting.
GRAPPO