Identifier
Created
Classification
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08NICOSIA99
2008-02-11 11:28:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Nicosia
Cable title:  

CYPRUS WILL ATTEND VIENNA FORUM TO FIGHT HUMAN

Tags:  KCRM KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG CY 
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RR RUEHWEB

DE RUEHNC #0099 0421128
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 111128Z FEB 08
FM AMEMBASSY NICOSIA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 8554
INFO RUEHAK/AMEMBASSY ANKARA 5129
RUEHTH/AMEMBASSY ATHENS 3979
UNCLAS NICOSIA 000099 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPARTMENT FOR G/TIP CARLA MENARES-BURY; IO/T FOR COLLEEN 
NEVILLE 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KCRM KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG CY
SUBJECT: CYPRUS WILL ATTEND VIENNA FORUM TO FIGHT HUMAN 
TRAFFICKING 
 
REF: SECSTATE 9008 
 
(SBU) Per reftel, PolOff demarched Doros Venezis, Department 
of Multilateral Affairs, Cypriot MFA on February 7 regarding 
the United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human 
Trafficking (UN.GIFT) and the February 13-15 Vienna Forum to 
Human Trafficking. Venezis reported that Cyprus would send 
its permanent UN representative in Vienna to atted the Forum. 
 It was impossible for anyone from the Cypriot Ministry of 
Interior (MoI) -- which normally represents Cyprus at 
TIP-related conferences -- to travel to Vienna, since the MoI 
was occupied with Cyprus's upcoming (February 17 and 24) 
presidential elections. Venezis confided that the MoI also 
was upset over the Forum "being rescheduled two or three 
times already," which may have contributed to the decision 
not to attend. 
SCHLICHER