US embassy cable - 05BOGOTA7401

UNCLAS BOGOTA 007401 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PREL, ODIP, CO 
SUBJECT: GOC THANKS USG FOR SUPPORTING MORENO 
 
Post received on August 3 a letter (VRE No. 40444 dated July 
27) from FM Barco to Secretary Rice (faxed to WHA/AND). 
Begin informal translation of letter: 
 
Excellency: 
 
I have the pleasure of addressing Your Excellency to express, 
in the name of the government and people of Colombia, our 
most sincere appreciation for the support given by your 
enlightened government to the election of Ambassador Luis 
Alberto Moreno as the new President of the Inter-American 
Development Bank. 
 
Colombia wishes to reiterate to your country its historic 
commitment to the Bank and to continue supporting the 
policies and instruments that preserve the fiscal soundness 
of the institution and help it to assist our peoples, with 
the intention that it continue to be the principal source of 
multilateral financing for economic development, social and 
institutional, commercial, and regional integration projects 
in Latin America and the Caribbean. 
 
I should like to guarantee to Your Excellency that Ambassador 
Moreno embodies the virtues and personal and professional 
qualities appropriate to the high position he will occupy. 
He is a person who clearly understands financial and 
development issues on the current international agenda.  His 
efforts and management will thus contribute forcefully to the 
elimination of poverty, the promotion of development, and the 
growth of our countries. 
 
I take this opportunity to reiterate to Your Excellency 
assurances of my highest consideration. 
 
Carolina Barco 
 
Minister of Foreign Relations 
 
End translation. 
DRUCKER