Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09NOUAKCHOTT176
2009-03-05 10:12:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Nouakchott
Cable title:  

ISRAELI AMBASSADOR TO LEAVE "ON EXTENDED VACATION"

Tags:  PREL PGOV IS MR 
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VZCZCXRO0434
PP RUEHPA RUEHROV RUEHTRO
DE RUEHNK #0176 0641012
ZNY CCCCC ZZH
P 051012Z MAR 09
FM AMEMBASSY NOUAKCHOTT
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 8186
INFO RUEHXK/ARAB ISRAELI COLLECTIVE
RUEHZK/ECOWAS COLLECTIVE
RUCNMGH/MAGHREB COLLECTIVE
RUEHRL/AMEMBASSY BERLIN 0513
RUEHDO/AMEMBASSY DOHA 0435
RUEHLO/AMEMBASSY LONDON 0497
RUEHMD/AMEMBASSY MADRID 2040
RUEHFR/AMEMBASSY PARIS 0844
RUEHPG/AMEMBASSY PRAGUE 0073
RHMFISS/COMSOCEUR VAIHINGEN GE
RHMFISS/HQ USAFRICOM STUTTGART GE
RUEHBS/USEU BRUSSELS
RUEHDS/USMISSION USAU ADDIS ABABA
RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK 0951
C O N F I D E N T I A L NOUAKCHOTT 000176

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/04/2014
TAGS: PREL PGOV IS MR
SUBJECT: ISRAELI AMBASSADOR TO LEAVE "ON EXTENDED VACATION"

REF: NOUAKCHOTT 167

Classified By: Charge d'Affaires Dennis Hankins for reasons 1.4 (b and
d)

(C) Israeli Ambassador Miki Arbel told Charge March 5 that
Israel had decided on a low key response to Mauritanian
demands for a "reciprocal" Israeli response to the
Mauritanian "freeze" of bilateral relations. The Ambassador
and his wife will leave Nouakchott on Friday or Saturday
(depending on flight availability) for "an extended
vacation." For now, the Mission's Security/Management
officer (the only other permanently assigned Israeli official
in Nouakchott) and perhaps some other TDY security staff will
stay in Nouakchott and the Embassy will remain technically
open. Arbel said, "we really don't know what we will do
later."

HANKINS