Cablegate: Demarche Response: Lebanon Notified of Centcom 2010 Gulf
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R 080823Z DEC 09
FM AMEMBASSY BEIRUT
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 6146
INFO RHMFIUU/USCENTCOM MACDILL AFB FL
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UNCLAS BEIRUT 001286
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STATE FOR NEA COL DAVE HUGGINS AND EEB STEVE SIMPSON
CENTCOM FOR JIM RAMIREZ
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ECIN ECPS PGOV EINT PREL LE
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE RESPONSE: LEBANON NOTIFIED OF CENTCOM 2010 GULF
REGION COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE
REF: STATE 122229
1. Post notified Minister of Telecommunications Charbel Nahas and
Chairman of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) Dr.
Kamal Shehadi on December 3 that the 2010 Gulf Region Communications
Conference (GRCC) will be held inAmman, Jordan, on February 21-23,
2010, and requsted that they save the date. We also informed them
that official invitations will be delivered by mid-December. Both
Nahas and Shehadi wanted to review a draft agenda before committing
to attend.
2. ACTION REQUEST: Post would appreciate receiving a draft agenda or
more substantive information as soon as possible to forward to our
Lebanese interlocutors.
DAUGHTON