Cablegate: Finland Response to Support for Nicaraguan

Thursday, 22 June 2006, 1:01 pm
Cable: Wikileaks
Ref: 06HELSINKI585

VZCZCXRO7327
RR RUEHAG RUEHDF RUEHIK RUEHLZ
DE RUEHHE #0585 1731310
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 221310Z JUN 06
FM AMEMBASSY HELSINKI
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 2065
INFO RUCNMEM/EU MEMBER STATES COLLECTIVE

UNCLAS HELSINKI 000585

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: AORC KDEM NU PGOV PREL FI
SUBJECT: FINLAND RESPONSE TO SUPPORT FOR NICARAGUAN
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

REF: STATE 96360

(U) In response to subject demarche, MFA Counselor for Latin
America Anu Lager-
Velthein informed PolChief June 21 that the GOF shares our
concerns about democracy
in Nicaragua and strongly supports an EU observer mission for
the upcoming election.
Numbers have not yet been determined, but Lager-Velthein
estimated that the GOF
would fund as many as 6 to 8 Finnish observers, depending on
the EU observer mission's
needs. Finland maintains a bilateral Embassy in Managua, and
Nicaragua is one of eight
priority countries for GOF development assistance. As such,
she said, Finland will not
provide bilateral support for an OAS observer mission, but
will continue its bilateral
support to various NGOS, in addition to funding EU observers.
WARE

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