Cablegate: Ecuador Will Maintain Minustah Commitment

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DEPT FOR WHA/CAR, PMAT

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KPKO PREL HA UNSC
SUBJECT: ECUADOR WILL MAINTAIN MINUSTAH COMMITMENT

REF: STATE 125442

1. (SBU) PolOffs met with MFA Director General for
Multilateral Affairs Lourdes Puma on August 2 to deliver
reftel talking points. Puma said the GOE will maintain its
current support to MINUSTAH. Puma indicated the GOE will
fully support an extension of the MINUSTAH mandate and that
the GOE saw the August 4 Buenos Aires meeting as addressing
coordination rather than reviewing country levels of
commitment. (Note: Ecuador maintains no less than 66 troops
as part of a combat engineering unit along the north coast of
Haiti.)

2. (SBU) Puma stressed the importance of continued
support to the troubled nation, and said that the GOE agreed
with the U.S. on this issue. She asked that the U.S. do more
to help secure additional donor funds for Haitian economic
development. PolOffs conveyed reftel point that the U.S. had
pledged $210 million to help fund infrastructure, economic,
and social development projects in Haiti, and that pledged
support had surpassed GOH expectations for 2007.
BROWN

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