Cablegate: Demarche Delivered: Bmena Forum for the Future

Friday, 24 November 2006, 7:41 am
Cable: Wikileaks
Ref: 06TUNIS2797

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DE RUEHTU #2797 3280741
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 240741Z NOV 06
FM AMEMBASSY TUNIS
TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 2251

UNCLAS TUNIS 002797

SIPDIS

STATE FOR NEA/MAG - HARRIS

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL KMPI PGOV TS
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE DELIVERED: BMENA FORUM FOR THE FUTURE

REF: SECSTATE 189502

On November 21, Ambassador delivered reftel demarche
encouraging the Tunisia Foreign Minister to attend the
December Forum for the Future in Amman to Saida Chtioui, MFA
Secretary of State for the Americas and Asia. Chtioui said

SIPDIS
that the Tunisian Foreign Minister had attended the first
Forum, while she had attended the second in Manama. Chtioui
explained that the GOT had not yet decided who would head its
delegation to Amman, but that she would convey the points to
Foreign Minister Abdallah when he returns from his current
trip to Indonesia.
GODEC

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