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09USUNNEWYORK673
2009-07-10 15:06:00
UNCLASSIFIED
USUN New York
Cable title:  

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO MISSION TO THE

Tags:  OFDP PREL CG 
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DE RUCNDT #0673 1911506
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P 101506Z JUL 09
FM USMISSION USUN NEW YORK
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 6895
INFO RUEHKI/AMEMBASSY KINSHASA PRIORITY 1885
UNCLAS USUN NEW YORK 000673 

SIPDIS

DEPT FOR IO/UNP - SEDMONDSON

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: OFDP PREL CG
SUBJECT: DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO MISSION TO THE
UN - RENTAL ARREARS

REF: A. USUN264 B. SECSTATE 125526 C.USUN00548

UNCLAS USUN NEW YORK 000673

SIPDIS

DEPT FOR IO/UNP - SEDMONDSON

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: OFDP PREL CG
SUBJECT: DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO MISSION TO THE
UN - RENTAL ARREARS

REF: A. USUN264 B. SECSTATE 125526 C.USUN00548


1. This is an action request. See paragraph 3.


2. USUN has been contacted again by Vornado Realty Trust
regarding
nonpayment of rent and associated charges by the Permanent
Mission of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the United
Nations (DRCMUN) for office space it leased at 866 UN Plaza,
Suite 511 in
New York. The DRCMUN has not made any payments to Vornado
for six months and
arrears are listed at $65,463.69 as of June 4, 2009. This
latest complaint
from Vornado, and previous, per reftels, make it clear that
the DRCMUN is
conforming to its usual pattern of accumulating tens of
thousands of
dollars in rental arrears, requiring USUN letters to the
mission and Department demarches to Kinshasa,
before its debt is finally settled.


3. USUN/HC requests Department instruct Amembassy Kinshasa to
demarche appropriate
level MFA officials on this persistent problem and requests
Department consider requesting the DRCMUN to reduce its
financial obligations (through staff
reduction or other methods) to what it can afford.
RICE