US embassy cable - 04GUATEMALA2391

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GUATEMALA ON WORLD HUNGER SUMMIT

Identifier: 04GUATEMALA2391
Wikileaks: View 04GUATEMALA2391 at Wikileaks.org
Origin: Embassy Guatemala
Created: 2004-09-17 18:14:00
Classification: CONFIDENTIAL
Tags: EAID EFIN ECON PREL GT
Redacted: This cable was not redacted by Wikileaks.
This record is a partial extract of the original cable. The full text of the original cable is not available.

171814Z Sep 04

 
C O N F I D E N T I A L GUATEMALA 002391 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 09/16/2009 
TAGS: EAID, EFIN, ECON, PREL, GT 
SUBJECT: GUATEMALA ON WORLD HUNGER SUMMIT 
 
REF: STATE 197337 
 
Classified By: Ambassador John Hamilton for reasons 1.5 (b) & (d). 
 
1. (U) The Ambassador took advantage of a previously 
scheduled meeting with Guatemalan FM Briz to deliver reftel 
points. 
 
2. (U) The Ambassador reviewed the USG's commitment to 
fighting hunger and alleviating poverty, noting that 
President Bush had already increased ODA by 50 percent.  He 
stressed, however, that the impractical ideas (such as global 
taxes) raised in the Hunger Summit sponsors' technical paper 
threatened to take the international debate on development 
policy in an unhelpful direction. 
 
3. (C) Briz said he had not seen the technical paper prepared 
by the summit sponsors and appeared to be unfamiliar with the 
details of the proposal.  He noted that the sponsors were not 
only Brazil but France, Chile and Spain.  Without making any 
firm commitment, he was generally receptive to the 
Ambassador's demarche. 
HAMILTON 

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