UPU CONGRESS: POLAND WANTS US SUPPORT, BACKS US

UNCLAS WARSAW 000889 SENSITIVE SIPDIS STATE FOR IO/T CHRIS WOOD E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: AORC ECON ETRD WTRO PL SUBJECT: UPU CONGRESS: POLAND WANTS US SUPPORT, BACKS US CANDIDATE REF: A. STATE 66814 ¶B. WARSAW 794 ¶1. (SBU) Ref A requested post demarche the Polish government seeking support for U.S. candidates at the upcoming Congress of the Universal Postal Union. When the demarche was delivered, Poland had no candidates of its own (see ref B). However, on July 18 post received a diplomatic note stating the Polish government will support the U.S. candidates, and also stating that Poland "believes" the United States will vote for a Polish candidate to the Postal Operations Council. The text of the diplomatic note appears in paragraph 2. ¶2. (SBU) Begin text of Polish diplomatic note: DSNZ-449/CEDAW/08 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland presents its compliments to the Embassy of the United States of America and with reference to its note no. 09/08 dated 24 June 2008 has the honour to inform that Poland will support the candidature of United States to the Postal Operations Council of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) and to the Council of Administration at the elections to be held at the 24th Congress of UPU in July-August 2008 in Geneva. At the same time the Government of Poland believes that United States will support the candidature of Poland to the Postal Operations Council of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) at the same elections. (Complimentary closing) Warsaw, 18 July 2008 End text of Polish diplomatic note. ASHE