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09WELLINGTON113
2009-05-11 02:40:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Wellington
Cable title:
NEW ZEALAND WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT AMANO FOR
how-toO 110240Z MAY 09 FM AMEMBASSY WELLINGTON TO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 5860 INFO AMEMBASSY ACCRA PRIORITY AMEMBASSY ALGIERS PRIORITY AMEMBASSY BAGHDAD PRIORITY AMEMBASSY BEIJING PRIORITY AMEMBASSY BERLIN PRIORITY AMEMBASSY BERN PRIORITY AMEMBASSY BRASILIA PRIORITY AMEMBASSY BUCHAREST PRIORITY AMEMBASSY BUENOS AIRES PRIORITY AMEMBASSY CAIRO PRIORITY AMEMBASSY CANBERRA PRIORITY AMEMBASSY DUBLIN PRIORITY AMEMBASSY HELSINKI PRIORITY AMEMBASSY KABUL PRIORITY AMEMBASSY KUALA LUMPUR PRIORITY AMEMBASSY LJUBLJANA PRIORITY AMEMBASSY LONDON PRIORITY AMEMBASSY MADRID PRIORITY AMEMBASSY MANILA PRIORITY AMEMBASSY MEXICO PRIORITY AMEMBASSY MONTEVIDEO PRIORITY AMEMBASSY MOSCOW PRIORITY AMEMBASSY NEW DELHI PRIORITY AMEMBASSY OTTAWA PRIORITY AMEMBASSY OUAGADOUGOU PRIORITY AMEMBASSY PARIS PRIORITY AMEMBASSY PRETORIA PRIORITY AMEMBASSY QUITO PRIORITY AMEMBASSY RIYADH PRIORITY AMEMBASSY TIRANA PRIORITY AMEMBASSY TOKYO PRIORITY AMEMBASSY VILNIUS PRIORITY USMISSION UNVIE VIENNA PRIORITY
C O N F I D E N T I A L WELLINGTON 000113
STATE FOR EAP/ANP AND OI/T MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN
E.O. 12958: DECL: 05/11/2019
TAGS: AORC KNNP IAEA PREL NZ
SUBJECT: NEW ZEALAND WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT AMANO FOR
IAEA DG
REF: STATE 46302
Classified By: Acting DCM Margaret B. McKean; Reason 1.4 (b) and (d)
C O N F I D E N T I A L WELLINGTON 000113
STATE FOR EAP/ANP AND OI/T MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN
E.O. 12958: DECL: 05/11/2019
TAGS: AORC KNNP IAEA PREL NZ
SUBJECT: NEW ZEALAND WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT AMANO FOR
IAEA DG
REF: STATE 46302
Classified By: Acting DCM Margaret B. McKean; Reason 1.4 (b) and (d)
¶1. (C) On May 8, Acting DCM met with Jillian Dempster,
Deputy Director of the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and Trade (MFAT) International Security and
Disarmament Division to discuss reftel points. Dempster said
that New Zealand will support Japanese candidate Ambassador
Yukiya Amano in the next round of voting for IAEA Director
General, and FM McCully has so informed the Japanese
government. Dempter noted that New Zealand will not lobby
for Amano. Dempster said that New Zealand believes that a
non-European candidate is needed as DG, given the contentious
issues facing the IAEA with respect to Iran, Syria, and the
NAM states. She was not certain if Amano would win in the
next round of voting slated for June.
¶2. (C) If there is need for a third vote, Dempster allowed
that New Zealand would consider other candidates, but her
government is not looking at another person as a possible
consensus candidate.
KEEGAN