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UNCLAS THE HAGUE 002711 
 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPARTMENT FOR S/WCI - PROSPER/RICHARD, EUR - STEPHENS; 
EUR/SCE - GREGORIAN/MITCHELL, L - 
PELOFSKY/OSBORN/LAHNE/GTAFT, USUN FOR 
ROSTOW/WILLSON/ROSAND/DUGAN 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: BK HR KAWC NL PHUM PREL SR ICTY
SUBJECT: ICTY: DEMARCHE ON BEHALF OF MERON CANDIDACY 
 
REF: STATE 218465 
 
(SBU) Embassy Legal and Political officers delivered reftel 
demarche to Klaas van der Tempel, Head of the Western Balkans 
Division at the MFA, and Michiel Bierkens, senior policy 
advisor in the same division, on October 19. Both van der 
Tempel and Bierkens expressed strong satisfaction with 
President Meron's tenure at the ICTY and were only positive 
in their remarks about his candidacy. They will consult with 
the MFA United Nations division but do not expect any 
barriers to supporting Meron's re-election.  Van der Tempel 
noted that the Dutch have renominated Judge Alphonsus 
Martinus Maria Orie and hope that he will have the USG's 
support as well, but he did not make any comments about which 
nominees the Dutch government will be supporting overall. 
SOBEL