Cablegate: Rwanda: No Plans for Alternate Nominee for 2009

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SUBJECT: RWANDA: NO PLANS FOR ALTERNATE NOMINEE FOR 2009
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REF: SECSTATE 44866

(SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche April 29 to Ben
Rutsinga, Director for International Organizations in the
Rwandan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on the nomination of a
chair for the 2009 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Preparatory Committee. After acknowledging the potential
difficulties that could stem from the nomination of
Zimbabwe's permanent representative to the UN to the
position, Rutsinga said he was not aware of Government of
Rwanda (GOR) plans to put forward an alternate nominee. He
pledged to look into the question and update Post.
ARIETTI

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