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R 241457Z JUL 08
FM AMEMBASSY WARSAW
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 6824
INFO RUEHZL/EUROPEAN POLITICAL COLLECTIVE
RUEHKW/AMCONSUL KRAKOW 2141

UNCLAS WARSAW 000889 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR IO/T CHRIS WOOD 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: AORC ECON ETRD WTRO PL
SUBJECT: UPU CONGRESS: POLAND WANTS US SUPPORT, BACKS US 
CANDIDATE 
 
REF: A. STATE 66814 
     ¶B. WARSAW 794 
 
¶1.  (SBU) Ref A requested post demarche the Polish government 
seeking support for U.S. candidates at the upcoming Congress 
of the Universal Postal Union.  When the demarche was 
delivered, Poland had no candidates of its own (see ref B). 
However, on July 18 post received a diplomatic note stating 
the Polish government will support the U.S. candidates, and 
also stating that Poland "believes" the United States will 
vote for a Polish candidate to the Postal Operations Council. 
 The text of the diplomatic note appears in paragraph 2. 
 
¶2.  (SBU)  Begin text of Polish diplomatic note: 
 
DSNZ-449/CEDAW/08 
 
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland 
presents its compliments to the Embassy of the United States 
of America and with reference to its note no. 09/08 dated 24 
June 2008 has the honour to inform that Poland will support 
the candidature of United States to the Postal Operations 
Council of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) and to the 
Council of Administration at the elections to be held at the 
24th Congress of UPU in July-August 2008 in Geneva.  At the 
same time the Government of Poland believes that United 
States will support the candidature of Poland to the Postal 
Operations Council of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) at the 
same elections. 
 
(Complimentary closing)  Warsaw, 18 July 2008 
 
End text of Polish diplomatic note. 
ASHE