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Cablegate: Portugal: Demarche Delivered On Eu Designation For

VZCZCXRO3768
OO RUEHIK
DE RUEHLI #0583 3240840
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
O 200840Z NOV 09
FM AMEMBASSY LISBON
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 7973
INFO RUEHZL/EUROPEAN POLITICAL COLLECTIVE IMMEDIATE
RUEATRS/DEPT OF TREASURY WASHDC IMMEDIATE
RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK IMMEDIATE 1569

UNCLAS LISBON 000583

SIPDIS

STATE FOR ISN/CPI JENNIFER CHALMERS

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KNNP EFIN PARM KN ETTC EUN UNSC PO
SUBJECT: PORTUGAL: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON EU DESIGNATION FOR
DPRK ENTITIES AND DESIGNATIONS

REF: STATE 115240

Poleconoff delivered reftel points on November 10 to Ana
Luisa Riquito, Portugal's MFA senior official for Asia and
Oceania Affairs, who said her office would review the
nonpaper carefully but had no immediate substantive response.


For more reporting from Embassy Lisbon and information about Portugal,
please see our Intelink site:

http://www.intelink.sgov.gov/wiki/portal:port ugal
BALLARD

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