US embassy cable - 05CAIRO9056

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FM ABOUL GHEIT INSTRUCTS GENEVA DELEGATION TO GO ALONG WITH PALESTINIANS ON MDA

Identifier: 05CAIRO9056
Wikileaks: View 05CAIRO9056 at Wikileaks.org
Origin: Embassy Cairo
Created: 2005-12-06 06:24:00
Classification: CONFIDENTIAL
Tags: AORC PHUM PREL IZ SZ EG ICRC Palestine MDA
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 CAIRO 009056 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/04/2015 
TAGS: AORC, PHUM, PREL, IZ, SZ, EG, ICRC, Palestine, MDA 
SUBJECT: FM ABOUL GHEIT INSTRUCTS GENEVA DELEGATION TO GO 
ALONG WITH PALESTINIANS ON MDA 
 
REF: STATE 206962 
 
Classified by DCM Stuart Jones for reasons 1.4(b) and (d). 
 
1.  (C)  In the absence of Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit, the 
Ambassador delivered reftel demarche to MFA's Chief of 
Cabinet Wifaa Bassam on December 2.  After consulting with FM 
Aboul Gheit, Ambassador Bassam told the Ambassador in a 
follow up conversation on December 3 that Aboul Gheit had 
instructed the Egyptian delegation in Geneva to "go along 
with whatever the Palestinians have agreed to."  Bassam added 
that Yemen, not Egypt, drafted the amendments in Geneva, 
which Egypt then submitted as the representative of the Arab 
group. 
 
2.  (C)  A Swiss Embassy official told poloff in a follow-up 
conversation on December 4 that the Swiss Ambassador would 
deliver a demarche urging GOE support of the Third Additional 
Protocol to Chief of Cabinet Wifaa Bassam on December 5. 
 
 
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