DEMARCHE DELIVERED - UN INERNATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION - SUPPORTINGAMCIT NOMINATION

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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