US embassy cable - 05ALGIERS1897

C O N F I D E N T I A L ALGIERS 001897 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 09/08/2015 
TAGS: PREL, AG 
SUBJECT: UNITED NATIONS SUMMIT OUTCOME DOCUMENT 
 
REF: STATE 163224 
 
Classified By: Ambassador Richard W. Erdman, 
for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d) 
 
1. (C) Ambassador met with MFA Multilateral Relations 
Director General Belhimeur September 5 per reftel demarche, 
underscoring U.S. good faith efforts to reach agreement on a 
strong, meaningful, and detailed outcome document, urging 
that the Algerian delegation be instructed to work in the 
same flexible spirit during the negotiations, and leaving 
behind a non-paper. 
 
2. (C) Belhimeur claimed the Algerian delegation would work 
in a flexible spirit, while noting that the challenges were 
daunting and that it was not realistic to expect to resolve 
all the problems relating to UN reform either easily or soon. 
 He described current efforts as part of a long-term process, 
the beginning rather than the end of the road toward reform. 
Not everyone would be able to agree with everything in the 
document or obtain everything they wanted.  There would have 
to be compromise and governments would need to resist the 
temptation to throw the baby out with the bath water  The key 
thing at this stage was not reaching detailed agreement on 
all the issues, which was not realistic, but crafting a 
document that would broadly give a new impulse toward UN 
reform efforts. 
ERDMAN