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09KINGSTON118
2009-02-13 20:20:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Kingston
Cable title:  

JAMAICA: UNLIKELY TO RECOGNIZE KOSOVO

Tags:  PREL AORC ICJ KV JM XL 
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O 132020Z FEB 09
FM AMEMBASSY KINGSTON
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 7291
INFO RUCNCOM/EC CARICOM COLLECTIVE
RUEHLO/AMEMBASSY LONDON 0546
RUMIAAA/CDR USSOUTHCOM MIAMI FL
UNCLAS KINGSTON 000118 

SIPDIS, SENSITIVE

STATE FOR WHA/CAR - BRIDGET PREMONT
EUR/SCE - SEIJI SHIRATORI, WILLIAM TOMLYANOVICH

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL AORC ICJ KV JM XL
SUBJECT: JAMAICA: UNLIKELY TO RECOGNIZE KOSOVO

REF: (A) STATE 11928 (100214Z FEB 09)
(B) 08 KINGSTON 159 (201856Z FEB 08)
(C) 08 KINGSTON 140 (122132Z FEB 08)
(D) 08 KINGSTON 94 (301205Z JAN 08)
(E) 08 KINGSTON 25 (091322Z JAN 08)
UNCLAS KINGSTON 000118

SIPDIS, SENSITIVE

STATE FOR WHA/CAR - BRIDGET PREMONT
EUR/SCE - SEIJI SHIRATORI, WILLIAM TOMLYANOVICH

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL AORC ICJ KV JM XL
SUBJECT: JAMAICA: UNLIKELY TO RECOGNIZE KOSOVO

REF: (A) STATE 11928 (100214Z FEB 09)
(B) 08 KINGSTON 159 (201856Z FEB 08)
(C) 08 KINGSTON 140 (122132Z FEB 08)
(D) 08 KINGSTON 94 (301205Z JAN 08)
(E) 08 KINGSTON 25 (091322Z JAN 08)

1.(SBU) Per reftel (A),EmbOff delivered points regarding Kosovo to
the Permanent Secretary in the Government of Jamaica (GoJ)'s
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT),Ambassador
Gail Mathurin, on February 11.

2.(SBU) As conveyed reftel (D),previous MFAFT Permanent Secretary
Ambassador Douglas Saunders indicated in January, 2008 that the GoJ
"would not be able to recognize Kosovo's independence." On February
13, the MFAFT's Under Secretary for Multilateral Affairs, Ambassador
Vilma McNish, reconfirmed to EmbOff that the GoJ would maintain this
position.

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