Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09RIYADH741
2009-06-03 14:55:00
SECRET
Embassy Riyadh
Cable title:  

DEMARCHE: IAEA DIRECTOR GENERAL ELECTION

Tags:  KNNP AORC PREL 
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O 031455Z JUN 09
FM AMEMBASSY RIYADH
TO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 0912
INFO USMISSION UNVIE VIENNA IMMEDIATE 
USMISSION USUN NEW YORK IMMEDIATE 
USMISSION USNATO IMMEDIATE
S E C R E T RIYADH 000741


IO FOR WARLICK, NEA FOR HUDSON, HARRIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/03/2019
TAGS: KNNP AORC PREL
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE: IAEA DIRECTOR GENERAL ELECTION

REF: STATE 46302

Classified By: Political Counselor Lisa Carle

(S) SAG PREFERS JAPANESE CANDIDATE: In a pull-aside on the
margins of POTUS visit, Saudi FM Saud Al-Faisal told
Ambassador Erdman that the Saudis would support the Japanese
candidate, Ambassador Yukiya Amano, to become the next IAEA
Director General. Prince Saud noted that the SAG felt it
"was important to have someone in that position who
understood proliferation, non-proliferation, and was from a
country with nuclear energy."

ERDMAN