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US Spying On Chirac Discussing UN Appointments

Date 2006
Classification TOP SECRET//COMINT-GAMMA//ORCON/REL TO USA, AUS, CAN, GBR, NZL
WikiLeaks Synopsis

Intercepted Douste-Blazy reveals communication that Chirac gave between specific French instructions President to approach Jacques UNSYG Chirac and Ban French Ki-Moon Foreign and ask Minister the appointment Philippe of Terje Roed-Larsen as Deputy UNSYG or another position of equal responsibility.

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(TS//SI-G//OC) French President Presses for Selection of Roed-Larsen as Deputy UNSYG

Douste-Blazy (TWSI-GHOC/REL on 23 December TO USA, to work AUS, to CAN, ensure GBR, that NZL) current French UN President Special Envoy Jacques for Chirac the Implementation told Foreign Minister of UNSC Philippe Resolution 1559 Terje Roed-Larsen is selected as Deputy UNSYG or at least offered a position of similar responsibility. Chirac spelled out Ki-moon in deliberate and report fashion back exactly on Ban's how sentiments he wanted regarding Douste-Blazy the deputy to proceed, post. instructing (COMMENT: him Chirac's detailed new orders UNSYG may Ban be in response to the foreign minister's propensity, amply demonstrated in the past and the impetus behind a number of presidential reprimands, for making ill-timed or inaccurate remarks.) The President was keen on Roed-Larsen's selection for several reasons, including his belief that the situation in the Middle East requires a skilled hand with experience in the region and the realization that--for once--France, Russia, and the U.S. all support the same man. Other considerations were that Ban intends to keep Frenchman Jean-Marie Guehenno on as head of the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations, which is to be divided into two parts, with the newer organization handling logistics. That planned division, however, has drawn fire from Douste-Blazy, who thinks that it would be a catastrophe.

Unconventional
French leadership, UN diplomatic
G/OO/6411-06, 271650Z

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