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FM AMEMBASSY PORT OF SPAIN
TO SECSTATE WASHDC 9294

UNCLAS PORT OF SPAIN 000322 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV PREL KV TD
SUBJECT: KOSOVO RECOGNITION, DONORS CONFERENCE, IMF AND 
WORLD BANK MEMBERSHIP FOLLOWING UN RECONFIGURATION 
 
REF: SECSTATE 69691 
 
SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED; PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY. 
 
¶1.  (SBU)  Drawing on ref points, the Ambassador spoke June 
30 with Foreign Minister Paula Gopee-Scoon.  The FM listened 
attentively, but responded that early recognition/action on 
Kosovo was unlikely.  She explained recognition would have to 
be a Cabinet decision and that the stars were not currently 
aligned for this to happen. 
 
¶2.  (SBU)  Though initially upbeat on recognition at the time 
of Kosovo's independence, the FM has implied to us in the 
past that she ran into a roadblock when the matter was 
brought to Cabinet.  We have spoken to her several times on 
Kosovo, with her caution over recognition progressively 
growing as the difficulties of pursuing this inside the GOTT 
became clearer to her. 
AUSTIN