VZCZCXYZ0009
PP RUEHWEB
DE RUEHMO #5145 2981058
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 251058Z OCT 07
FM AMEMBASSY MOSCOW
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 4830
INFO RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK 0366
UNCLAS MOSCOW 005145
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
IO/MPR/SC BRIAN HACKETT
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL AORC UN UNGA UNGA RS
SUBJECT: CANDIDACY OF DAVID WALKER FOR UN INDEPENDENT AUDIT
ADVISORY COMMITTEE (IAAC)
REF: STATE 146857
We delivered reftel demarche on October 24 to MFA
Administrative and Budgetary Division Counselor Igor
Shapovalov, who said that the GOR would consider the
candidacy of David Walker to the IAAC. Shapovalov explained
that "reciprocity" requires that if the GOR votes for Walker,
the U.S. should support the GOR's candidate in 2008 to the UN
Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions,
MFA Administrative and Budgetary Division Deputy Director
Vladimir Iosifov.
Burns