Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09LISBON546
2009-10-20 12:33:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Lisbon
Cable title:
PORTUGAL ON U.S. CANDIDACY FOR IMO COUNCIL
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UNCLAS LISBON 000546
SIPDIS
STATE DEPARTMENT FOR IO/T:TJOHNSON
EMBASSY LONDON FOR EST:JWHITTLESEY
COMDT COGARD WASHDC FOR CG-52,INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: AORC EWWT PHSA PGOV PO
SUBJECT: PORTUGAL ON U.S. CANDIDACY FOR IMO COUNCIL
REF: STATE 98012
On October 19 post delivered reftel points, diplomatic note
and aide-memoire to Margarida Figueiredo and Goncalo Motta of
the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Office of
Technical and Economic Issues, who confirmed that Portugal
will not be a candidate for the International Maritime
Organization Council in the upcoming election but had no
other substantive reply.
For more reporting from Embassy Lisbon and information about Portugal,
please see our Intelink site:
http://www.intelink.sgov.gov/wiki/portal:port ugal
BALLARD