US embassy cable - 04MADRID1570

C O N F I D E N T I A L MADRID 001570 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 05/03/2014 
TAGS: ECON, KMPI, PHUM, PREL, SP, EUN 
SUBJECT: SPANISH RESPONSE TO EURO-MEDITERRANEAN MINISTERIAL 
MEETING DEMARCHE 
 
REF: STATE 94871 
 
Classified By: Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Political Counselor, for Reasons 1 
.4 (b) and (d) 
 
1. (C) We delivered reftel demarche on May 3 to Enrique Mora, 
Director of the MFA's Office of EU Foreign Policy and Common 
Security.  Mora said that the EU states will be presenting 
their Middle East reform proposal (the EU's equivalent of our 
Greater Middle East Initiative) to the Arab states at this 
meeting.  He added that as they are not certain what the Arab 
reaction will be, the EU does not have a public declaration 
planned at this moment. 
 
2. (C) Guillermo Ardizone, MFA Director for Middle East 
Affairs, told us separately May 3 that FM Miguel Angel 
Moratinos expected to have bilateral meetings with Israeli FM 
Silvan Shalom and Palestinian envoy Nabil Sha'ath at the 
Dublin Castle Ministerial.  Ardizone added that FM Shalom may 
pay an official visit to Madrid before the end of May, but 
that arrangements were still pending (the Political Counselor 
at the Israeli Embassy had also mentioned the possibility of 
a visit by FM Shalom to Spain). 
ARGYROS