Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
08ROME1093
2008-08-28 13:05:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Rome
Cable title:
ITALY SUPPORTS AFGHANISTAN'S CANDIDACY FOR IAEA
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C O N F I D E N T I A L ROME 001093
SIPDIS
ISN/RA FOR ARIEL STUKALIN, IO/T FOR HEATHER VON BEHREN
E.O. 12958: DECL: 8/29/2018
TAGS: IAEA PREL PARM KNNP MNUC IR SY IT AF
SUBJECT: ITALY SUPPORTS AFGHANISTAN'S CANDIDACY FOR IAEA
BOARD OF GOVERNORS
REF: A. ROME 887
B. STATE 87744
Classified By: Acting Deputy Political Minister-Counselor Gabriel Escob
ar for Reasons 1.4 (B) and (D)
C O N F I D E N T I A L ROME 001093
SIPDIS
ISN/RA FOR ARIEL STUKALIN, IO/T FOR HEATHER VON BEHREN
E.O. 12958: DECL: 8/29/2018
TAGS: IAEA PREL PARM KNNP MNUC IR SY IT AF
SUBJECT: ITALY SUPPORTS AFGHANISTAN'S CANDIDACY FOR IAEA
BOARD OF GOVERNORS
REF: A. ROME 887
B. STATE 87744
Classified By: Acting Deputy Political Minister-Counselor Gabriel Escob
ar for Reasons 1.4 (B) and (D)
1. (C) POLOFF delivered Ref B demarche to Italian MFA
Disarmament and Nonproliferation Agreement
Implementation Office Director Vittorio Rocco on August 27.
Rocco said Italy regards Afghanistan's candidacy for the IAEA
MESA Board of Governors' seat as a positive development that
will encourage others in the MESA group to withdraw their
support for Syria's candidacy. He agreed that the Syrian bid
for the seat should be discouraged but stopped short of
committing to lobby for Afghanistan among MESA member states.
He said that he would pulse other IAEA BOG members in the
run-up to the September 29 IAEA General Conference, which he
will attend, but was optimistic that the MESA group would
agree on a compromise candidate other than Syria by
consensus, thereby obviating the need for a vote by the
entire IAEA membership.
DIBBLE
SIPDIS
ISN/RA FOR ARIEL STUKALIN, IO/T FOR HEATHER VON BEHREN
E.O. 12958: DECL: 8/29/2018
TAGS: IAEA PREL PARM KNNP MNUC IR SY IT AF
SUBJECT: ITALY SUPPORTS AFGHANISTAN'S CANDIDACY FOR IAEA
BOARD OF GOVERNORS
REF: A. ROME 887
B. STATE 87744
Classified By: Acting Deputy Political Minister-Counselor Gabriel Escob
ar for Reasons 1.4 (B) and (D)
1. (C) POLOFF delivered Ref B demarche to Italian MFA
Disarmament and Nonproliferation Agreement
Implementation Office Director Vittorio Rocco on August 27.
Rocco said Italy regards Afghanistan's candidacy for the IAEA
MESA Board of Governors' seat as a positive development that
will encourage others in the MESA group to withdraw their
support for Syria's candidacy. He agreed that the Syrian bid
for the seat should be discouraged but stopped short of
committing to lobby for Afghanistan among MESA member states.
He said that he would pulse other IAEA BOG members in the
run-up to the September 29 IAEA General Conference, which he
will attend, but was optimistic that the MESA group would
agree on a compromise candidate other than Syria by
consensus, thereby obviating the need for a vote by the
entire IAEA membership.
DIBBLE