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UNCLAS QUITO 003050 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPARTMENT FOR WHA/AND, WHA/PPC, H, S/CPR 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV PREL EC
SUBJECT: ECUADOR INAUGURATION: USDEL REQUESTED BY DECEMBER 
22 
 
This is an action request for the Department.  See para five, 
below. 
 
¶1.  Summary: The GOE's planning for the January 15, 2003 
presidential inauguration ceremony is just beginning but the 
MFA has requested foreign delegation lists by December 22. 
Planned activities span January 13-15.  Outgoing President 
Alfredo Palacio has formally invited President Bush to attend 
the inauguration; a translation of the letter follows in para 
four, below and the letter has been faxed to WHA/AND.  End 
Summary. 
 
¶2.  The Foreign Ministry held an informational session on 
December 11 outlining, only in broad strokes, plans for the 
inauguration.  The GOE has requested that embassies submit 
delegation lists by December 22.  Embassy has reserved a 
block of hotel rooms and will designate individual site 
officers for each member of the delegation. 
 
¶3.  More details about the inaugural program will be 
disseminated via the MFA website on December 18.  In the 
meantime, the MFA has released a schedule of events, as 
follows: 
 
Saturday, January 13 
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0600 - 2400 Arrival of Delegations 
 
Sunday, January 14 
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0600 - 1300 Arrival of Delegations 
 
1430 - 1730 Salutations and presentation of credentials to 
President Palacio by foreign delegations in the Presidential 
Palace. 
 
1830              State of the Nation address by President 
Alfredo Palacio at the Legislative Palace. 
 
2000              Dinner and Opera, "Manuela and Bolivar: 
Love and Death of the Liberators", at Quito's historic Sucre 
National Theater for foreign delegations, diplomats, high 
government ministers and guests hosted by President Palacio. 
 
Monday, January 15 
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0900 - 1000 Arrival of foreign delegations to the Legislative 
Palace for inauguration. 
 
1030 - 1300 Presidential inauguration at Legislative Palace. 
 
2000 - 2030 Salute to President Rafael Correa by foreign 
delegations at historic Convent of San Francisco. 
 
2030 - end        Reception hosted by President Correa and 
the First Lady of Ecuador, Anne Malherbe, for foreign 
delegations and invited guests at historic Convent of San 
Francisco. 
 
Tuesday, January 16 
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all day           Departure of foreign delegations. 
 
¶3.    Embassy control officer contact information: 
 
PolOff Erik Martini 
IVG 644 - 4424 
593-2-246-2890 ext 4424 
email: emartini@state.gov 
 
Please also copy PolChief Erik Hall (halle@state.gov) on all 
inaugural messages. 
 
¶4.     Begin text of unofficial translation of President 
Palacio's letter inviting President Bush to the inauguration: 
 
PRESIDENCY OF THE REPUBLIC OF ECUADOR 
 
Quito, December 4, 2006 
 
His Excellency 
George W. Bush 
President of United States of America 
Washington 
 
Excellency: 
 
I have the honor to address your Excellency in order to 
invite you to participate in the Acts and Ceremony of the 
Presidential Inauguration that will take place in Quito on 
January 14-15, 2007. 
 
Within the framework of this democratic celebration, I will 
be pleased to have the presence of your Excellency in the 
National Congress on January 14, at 18:30, where I will 
submit my Report to the Nation.  Subsequently, I will offer a 
tasting of Ecuadorian gastronomy and the presentation of the 
Opera "Manuela and Bolivar: Love and Death of the Liberators." 
 
On the 15th morning, I would be honored to have your presence 
in the Solemn Ceremony of the National Congress in which I 
will transfer the Presidential Command.  In this ceremony, 
the President of the National Congress will take the oath and 
will install the new President of the Republic, who will 
preside over, in the afternoon and evening of the 15th, the 
protocol acts that will be carried out in his honor on the 
occasion of his Inauguration as President of the country. 
 
Let me take this opportunity to express to Your Excellency my 
deepest gratitude for the friendship with which you have 
distinguished me, as well as for the collaboration that you 
gave me during the term in which I executed the Presidency of 
the Republic of Ecuador. 
 
/Signed/ 
Alfredo Palacio 
 
Constitutional President of the Republic of Ecuador 
 
End text. 
 
¶5.  Action Request for the Department:  Please advise us of 
the composition of the USDel, when available. 
JEWELL