VZCZCXRO5903
RR RUEHIK
DE RUEHMD #0135 0350834
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 040834Z FEB 10
FM AMEMBASSY MADRID
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 1856
INFO RUCNMEM/EU MEMBER STATES COLLECTIVE
RUEHBS/USEU BRUSSELS
RULSDMK/DEPT OF TRANSPORTATION WASHDC
RUCPDOC/DEPT OF COMMERCE WASHDC
UNCLAS MADRID 000135
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: EAIR EUN KTIA IC NO SP
SUBJECT: SPAIN RECEIVES U.S.-EU SECOND STAGE AIR TRANSPORT
NEGOTIATIONS DEMARCHE
REF: SECSTATE 9584
On February 1 Econoff delivered reftel demarche to Eugenia
Llorens, Deputy Director, Spanish Civil Aviation Directorate,
Ministry of Infrastructure ("Fomento"), and Ana de Castro,
legal advisor to the Spanish Civil Aviation Directorate.
Llorens and Castro are involved in coordinating the
participation of Spain and the EU in the second stage air
transport negotiations. Castro called the demarche
"helpful," and expressed optimism regarding the negotiations,
but she had more substantive comment.
SOLOMONT