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R 291227Z SEP 09
FM AMEMBASSY NICOSIA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 0177
INFO RUEHLO/AMEMBASSY LONDON 1421
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UNCLAS NICOSIA 000625
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LONDON FOR EST (JWHITTLESSEY)
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E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: AORC IMO EWWT PHSA UK CY
SUBJECT: CYPRUS: INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION - DEMARCHE IN
SUPPORT OF U.S. CANDIDACY
REF: STATE 98012
(U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect
accordingly.
1. (SBU) Per reftel request, Post has urged the GOC to support
re-election of the United States to the IMO Council in Category "A."
On September 25, Mr. Serghios Serghiou, Director of the Department
of Merchant Shipping (under the Ministry of Communications and
Works) offered us his verbal assurances that, as in years past,
Cyprus was planning to support US re-election but that it was also
looking forward to mutual support from the USG for Cyprus' candidacy
to Category "C" of the IMO Council. We reiterated USG policy of
being unable to agree to reciprocal support but reassured Serghiou
that the USG would give the Cypriot candidacy its full
consideration.
URBANCIC