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C O N F I D E N T I A L BEIRUT 001051 
 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPT FOR NEA/FO, NEA/ELA, PRM/FO 
DEPT FOR ISN/RA MONGIELLO/NEPHEW 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/16/2018 
TAGS: IR KNNP MNUC PARM TRGY IAEA PERL UR LE
SUBJECT: LEBANON: GOL DOUBTS NAM WILL APPROVE IRAN'S DRAFT 
STATEMENT 
 
REF: STATE 74879 
 
Classified By: Charge d'Affaires a.i. William Grant for reasons 1.4 (b) 
 and (d). 
 
¶1. (C)  PolOff delivered reftel demarche to Oussama Khachab, 
Head of the Americas Desk, and Fadi Hajali, who holds the 
Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) portfolio, both at the Ministry of 
Foreign Affairs on July 17.  Khachab reported that Foreign 
Minister Fawzi Salloukh would likely attend the 2008 NAM 
foreign ministers' meeting in Tehran, July 27-30.  Hajali, 
responding to Iran's proposed text for the foreign ministers' 
statement, said the GOL did not submit  reaction to the 
text, but that he believed the ext would not be approved. 
 
¶2. (C)  Hajali showe PolOff a document sent by the GOL's 
mission in New York, which several NAM members had been 
circulating.  The document stated that the consenting states 
would not take a stance in the NAM meeting that opposes UN 
Security Council resolutions.  Further, the foreign ministers 
would take into account all IAEA reports, instead of a select 
few.  They also confirmed that they would not assign "a 
particular description" to Iran's nuclear program (NFI). 
Hajali concluded that this document indicated several NAM 
members' objections to the draft Iranian text, and therefore 
it would not be necessary for the GOL to react separately. 
Chile, Ecuador, Jamaica, Nigeria, Singapore, Peru, Guatemala, 
India, and Egypt had all expressed their support for this 
document. 
 
¶3. (C) Syria, Venezuela, and Cuba reportedly did not support 
the document. 
 
¶4. (C) The CDA also delivered reftel demarche to Prime 
Minister Fouad Siniora during meeting on July 15.  Siniora 
took note of the information, but gave no substantive 
response. 
GRANT