US embassy cable - 05GUATEMALA1993

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GUATEMALA'S COMMITMENT TO HAITI

Identifier: 05GUATEMALA1993
Wikileaks: View 05GUATEMALA1993 at Wikileaks.org
Origin: Embassy Guatemala
Created: 2005-08-18 13:32:00
Classification: CONFIDENTIAL
Tags: PREL KPKO MARR HA 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.


 
C O N F I D E N T I A L GUATEMALA 001993 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/17/2015 
TAGS: PREL, KPKO, MARR, HA, GT 
SUBJECT: GUATEMALA'S COMMITMENT TO HAITI 
 
REF: STATE 149277 
 
Classified By: CDA Bruce Wharton for reasons 1.4 (b) & (d). 
 
1. (C) Polcouns delivered reftel demarche to Guatemalan 
Acting FM Carlos Ramiro Martinez and U/S for International 
Organizations Amb. Carla Rodriguez, who said that Guatemala's 
resident ambassador in Chile, Amb. Castellanos, would 
represent Guatemala at the August 19 Santiago 
vice-ministerial.  Rodriguez said that Castellanos had been 
instructed to convey Guatemala's support for extending 
MINUSTAH's mandate.  She also noted that Guatemala's 
experience with MINUSTAH had been positive and, assuming the 
consent of Guatemala's Ministry of Defense, the GOG would 
continue to contribute troops. 
 
2. (C) Rodriguez confided that at a Rio Group prepcom in 
Buenos Aires a few weeks ago, the Venezuelans had argued 
vociferously against extending MINUSTAH's mandate, insisting 
that it was not a stabilization mission but unwelcome foreign 
intervention.  She said Venezuela was isolated within the Rio 
Group on this issue.  Rodriguez noted that the Rio Group 
summit scheduled for August 25-26 in Bariloche had been 
downgraded to a ministerial, ostensibly because not enough 
presidents could attend but implicitly for lack of consensus 
on Haiti and other issues. 
WHARTON 

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