CHILE PREDICTS SUCCESS FOR UN APPEALS TRIBUNAL

UNCLAS SANTIAGO 000177 SENSITIVE SIPDIS PLEASE PASS IO/MPR--BRIAN HACKETT E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: AORC KAWC KJUS KUNR PREL UNGA SUBJECT: CHILE PREDICTS SUCCESS FOR UN APPEALS TRIBUNAL CANDIDATE REF: STATE 16254 (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Multilateral Affairs Official Ignacio Llanos on February 16. Llanos, who recently returned to Chile after working at the Chilean Mission to the UN for five years, said that he had spoken with his colleagues in New York and that he "did not think there would be a problem" with candidate Painter's selection. However, he did not make a specific commitment about how Chile would vote on the issue. He did note that Chile felt that it was important to have representatives from different judicial systems, including particularly French and Latin American judicial systems as well as British and American ones. SIMONS