Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09RABAT428
2009-05-27 16:27:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Rabat
Cable title:
MOROCCO WILL VOTE ON KOSOVO'S WORLD BANK
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UNCLAS RABAT 000428
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR EEB/ODF - C LAITINEN, EUR/SCE - S SHIRATORI
TREASURY FOR D SCHMERIN
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ECON EFIN PREL MO KV
SUBJECT: MOROCCO WILL VOTE ON KOSOVO'S WORLD BANK
MEMBERSHIP, BUT POSITION UNDECIDED
REF: A. STATE 47369
B. RABAT 321
Morocco will "definitely vote, well ahead of the June 3
deadline" on Kosovo's application for World Bank membership,
confirmed Ali Lamrani, chief of the Division of Financing and
Multilateral Relations of Morocco's Treasury. However,
Lamrani told Econoff during the May 27 follow-up to Ref A
demarche, he could not report at this time the position
Morocco would take (for, against, or abstain). The Treasury
and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation were
still deliberating Morocco's position, but would know by next
week and could inform Econoff at that time, he concluded.
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SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR EEB/ODF - C LAITINEN, EUR/SCE - S SHIRATORI
TREASURY FOR D SCHMERIN
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ECON EFIN PREL MO KV
SUBJECT: MOROCCO WILL VOTE ON KOSOVO'S WORLD BANK
MEMBERSHIP, BUT POSITION UNDECIDED
REF: A. STATE 47369
B. RABAT 321
Morocco will "definitely vote, well ahead of the June 3
deadline" on Kosovo's application for World Bank membership,
confirmed Ali Lamrani, chief of the Division of Financing and
Multilateral Relations of Morocco's Treasury. However,
Lamrani told Econoff during the May 27 follow-up to Ref A
demarche, he could not report at this time the position
Morocco would take (for, against, or abstain). The Treasury
and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation were
still deliberating Morocco's position, but would know by next
week and could inform Econoff at that time, he concluded.
*****************************************
Visit Embassy Rabat's Classified Website;
http://www.intelink.sgov.gov/wiki/Portal:Moro cco
*****************************************
Jackson