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O 182327Z MAR 09
FM AMEMBASSY MEXICO
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 5673
INFO RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK IMMEDIATE 0299

UNCLAS MEXICO 000802 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR AF/RSA (SKARDON), AF/E (WALSH), AND IO/PSC 
(KHAMBATTA) 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV PREL KPKO SO MX
SUBJECT: MEXICO ON ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FOR AMISOM AND THE 
SOMALIA SECURITY SECTOR 
 
REF: STATE 24665 
 
(SBU) Poloff conveyed points March 18 to Ifigenia Argueta 
Sanchez of the Foreign Ministry's Office for the UNSC urging 
Mexico to make public statements in support of the African 
Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM).  Argueta affirmed GOM's 
support for AMISOM in strengthening Somalia in this period of 
transition and the Somalia security sector given the problem 
of piracy along the Somali coast.  She said she would convey 
our interest that Mexico issue a statement in support of 
AMISOM at the UNSC debate on Somalia March 20. 
 
Visit Mexico City's Classified Web Site at 
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/wha/mexicocity and the North American 
Partnership Blog at http://www.intelink.gov/communities/state/nap / 
BASSETT