US embassy cable - 05LIMA4212

C O N F I D E N T I A L LIMA 004212 
 
SIPDIS 
 
THE HAGUE FOR CWC DEL 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 09/28/2015 
TAGS: PARM, PREL, PE, CWC 
SUBJECT: CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION: PERU UNLIKELY TO PAY 
ITS DUES TO THE ORGANIZATION FOR THE PROHIBITION OF 
CHEMICAL WEAPONS (OPCW) 
 
REF: SECSTATE 178946 
 
Classified By: Political Counselor Alexander Margulies.  Reason:  1.4(d 
). 
 
1.  (U)  Polcouns presented the demarche on persuading Peru 
to pay its dues to the Organization for the Prohibition of 
Chemical Weapons (Reftel) to Julio Garro, the Foreign 
Ministry's Director of Multilateral Affairs, on 9/27. 
 
2.  (C)  Garro said that it was highly unlikely that Peru 
would pay its dues to the OPCW for the forseeable future.  He 
explained that Peru is behind in most of its dues to 
international organizations, has been unsuccessfully lobbying 
the Ministry of Finance (MEF) for the past three months to 
obtain the funds needed to cancel its debts, has been told by 
MEF to expect continued austerity next year, and is 
preserving its best political chits to press MEF for payment 
of its United Nations dues should Peru be elected to the UN 
Security Council in 2006.  Garro also indicated that should 
Peru's candidate to preside over the Conference of State 
Parties to the CWC have to withdraw, the Latin American Group 
may well nominate the Venezuelan candidate, as Caracas has 
expressed interest in this position. 
STRUBLE