Disclaimer: This site has been first put up 15 years ago. Since then I would probably do a couple things differently, but because I've noticed this site had been linked from news outlets, PhD theses and peer rewieved papers and because I really hate the concept of "digital dark age" I've decided to put it back up. There's no chance it can produce any harm now.
| Identifier: | 05HELSINKI1234 |
|---|---|
| Wikileaks: | View 05HELSINKI1234 at Wikileaks.org |
| Origin: | Embassy Helsinki |
| Created: | 2005-11-28 14:30:00 |
| Classification: | UNCLASSIFIED |
| Tags: | PGOV PREL BO FI |
| 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.
UNCLAS HELSINKI 001234 SIPDIS STATE FOR WHA/AND, WHA/USOAS, AND EUR/NB E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PGOV, PREL, BO, FI SUBJECT: FINLAND: NO MONITORS FOR BOLIVIAN ELECTIONS REF: SECSTATE 214591 1. (U) Poloff spoke with MFA desk officer for Bolivia Anu-Vuori Kiikeri on November 28 about the rescheduled Dec. 18 elections. Kiikeri had just returned from a visit to La Paz where she attended a meeting of EU ambassadors. She said that Finland will not send election monitors to Bolivia. Finland has already expended all available 2005 funds for monitoring missions in Latin America and the Caribbean, and the absence of a Finnish Embassy in La Paz makes any bilateral monitoring mission all the more expensive and logistically difficult. 2. (U) Kiikkeri told Poloff that she agreed with the conventional wisdom that Evo Morales would win the election. She said that she was less worried about the danger of fraud or corruption during the election than the prospect that Bolivia's legislature would refuse to certify Morales afterward, sparking large-scale unrest and riots. Finland will continue to monitor the situation through its Embassy in Lima. HYATT
Latest source of this page is cablebrowser-2, released 2011-10-04