DEMARCHE DELIVERED - UN INERNATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION - SUPPORTINGAMCIT NOMINATION

C O N F I D E N T I A L CAIRO 002065



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E.O. 12958: DECL:10/29/2019

TAGS: PREL, KAWC, KJUS, KUNR, AORC, AER, UNGA, EG

SUBJECT: DEMARCHE DELIVERED - UN INERNATIONAL CIVIL

SERVICE COMMISSION - SUPPORTINGAMCIT NOMINATION



REF: A. SECSTATE 109341

B. CAIRO 1139



Classified By: MINISTER-COUNSELOR ONALD A. BLOME

REASONS: 1.4 (B) and (D)



1. (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel a in support of Lucretia

Myers' candidacy for the UNGA International Civil Service

Commission (IGSC) on October 29 to MFA Director of

Multilateral Candidatures Mustafa El Kouni. El Kouni took

the message and said the GOE would give full consideration to

Myers' candidacy, and our request for Egypt to vote for Myers

in the November 6 IGSC election.



2. (C) However, Kouni highlighted other multilateral fora in

which he claimed the USG had yet to respond to GOE requests

for support. These include Egypt's candidacy for re-election

as a member of the International Maritime Organization (the

election will be held November 23 in London, England); and

MFA Assistant Minister for International Organizations Naela

Gabr's candidacy to the Committee on Discrimination against

Women (election scheduled for June 2010). Kouni said the GOE

does not normally engage in trading support of candidates

(e.g. GOE support for Myers in return for USG support for an

Egyptian candidacy). He strongly implied, however, that

positive USG support of these Egyptian candidacies would

create a more favorable disposition at the MFA toward U.S.

candidacies such as Myers.



3. (C) Comment: In addition to Kouni's complaint, the

Egyptians have previously asked for more cooperation on

Egyptian and Egyptian-suggested candidates for positions in

the UN system, including for non-permanent UN Security

Council seats and jobs with the International Court of

Justice (reftel b).

Scobey