Cablegate: Oral Message From the Secretary to Arab

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Diana T Fritz 03/15/2007 03:01:23 PM From DB/Inbox: Search Results

Cable
Text:

UNCLASSIFIED

SIPDIS
TELEGRAM March 30, 2004

To: No Action Addressee

Action: Unknown

From: AMEMBASSY ABU DHABI (ABU DHABI 921 - ROUTINE)

TAGS: PREL, KPAL

Captions: None

Subject: ORAL MESSAGE FROM THE SECRETARY TO ARAB LEAGUE MEMBERS
AND UAEG REACTION TO THE SUMMIT POSTPONEMENT

Ref: None
_________________________________________________________________
UNCLAS ABU DHABI 00921

SIPDIS
CXABU:
ACTION: POL
INFO: ECON RSO AMB DCM P/M

DISSEMINATION: POL
CHARGE: PROG

APPROVED: AMB:MMWAHBA
DRAFTED: POL:JFMAYBURY
CLEARED: DCM:RAALBRIGHT

VZCZCADI292
RR RUEHC RUEHEE
DE RUEHAD #0921 0901150
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 301150Z MAR 04
FM AMEMBASSY ABU DHABI
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 3758
INFO RUEHEE/ARAB LEAGUE COLLECTIVE

UNCLAS ABU DHABI 000921

SIPDIS

STATE FOR NEA/ARP

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL KPAL IZ AL TC
SUBJECT: ORAL MESSAGE FROM THE SECRETARY TO ARAB
LEAGUE MEMBERS AND UAEG REACTION TO THE SUMMIT
POSTPONEMENT

Ref: State 67135

1. Post delivered reftel points from the Secretary to
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for
Foreign Affairs Shaykh Hamdan bin Zayed on March 27,
the day before Arab League Summit host Tunisia
announced that it was canceling the meeting.

2. A public statement issued by UAE Foreign Minister
Rashid Abdullah on March 29 endorsed President
Mubarak's initiative to hold the Arab League Summit in
Cairo instead of in Tunis. Abdullah said holding the
summit in Cairo at the Arab League headquarters was
normal because Arab leaders had agreed that the summit
must be regularly held in Cairo unless the country
currently chairing the league chooses to host the
summit. Abdullah said the summit's suspension was not
because of the issue of reform in the Arab world, nor
issues on the agenda. He said Tunisia suspended the
summit citing differences on a number of issues
presented for discussion by Tunisia, which saw those
issues as important toward achieving development,
modernization, and reform in Arab countries.
WAHBA

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