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Viewing cable 10SANTODOMINGO67, FOREIGN MINISTER ON FEBRUARY 22-23 RIO GROUP SUMMIT

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
10SANTODOMINGO67 2010-02-25 18:51 2011-08-30 01:44 CONFIDENTIAL Embassy Santo Domingo
VZCZCXRO3493
OO RUEHAO
DE RUEHDG #0067 0561851
ZNY CCCCC ZZH
O R 251851Z FEB 10
FM AMEMBASSY SANTO DOMINGO
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 0847
INFO WESTERN HEMISPHERIC AFFAIRS DIPL POSTS
RHMFISS/CDR USSOUTHCOM MIAMI FL
RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK 0041
C O N F I D E N T I A L SANTO DOMINGO 000067 
 
SIPDIS 
AMEMBASSY BRASILIA PASS TO AMCONSUL RECIFE 
AMEMBASSY OTTAWA PASS TO AMCONSUL QUEBEC 
AMEMBASSY BRIDGETOWN PASS TO AMEMBASSY GRENADA 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 2020/02/25 
TAGS: PREL OAS KSUM KPIN DR
SUBJECT: FOREIGN MINISTER ON FEBRUARY 22-23 RIO GROUP SUMMIT 
 
REF: MEXICO 127 
 
CLASSIFIED BY: Alexander Margulies, Pol-Econ Counselor, State, 
ECOPOL; REASON: 1.4(B), (D) 
 
1.  (C)  Foreign Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso, in a 24 February 
2010 meeting with Charge, dismissed the recent Rio Group summit in 
Cancun as, "useless."  He characterized the nascent Community of 
Latin American and Caribbean States as just, "one more 
bureaucracy," that would result in additional wasted time and 
resources for regional governments.  Morales added in jest that 
Latin American and Caribbean leaders will need to live on airplanes 
as they will be spending most of their time jetting from one summit 
to another. 
 
 
 
2.  (SBU)  The Foreign Minister said that the chief practical 
benefit of the summit for the Dominican Republic was in obtaining 
the commitment of several regional leaders, including Chavez and 
Uribe, to attend the planned 2 June 2010 Haiti Reconstruction 
Conference in Santo Domingo.  Morales added that 14 heads of state 
have confirmed their attendance at this meeting, including several 
unnamed Africans. 
 
 
 
3.  (U)  The Presidency, in its public pronouncements on the Rio 
Group summit, emphasized the Group's appointment of President 
Leonel Fernandez to head the Group of Friends of Colombia and 
Venezuela, which is tasked with mediating the differences between 
those two countries, as well as Fernandez's proposal that a 
commission be created to develop a "complete project" for 
implementing the proposed Community of Latin American and Caribbean 
States.  The Presidency also highlighted Fernandez's support for 
Argentina's claim to "Las Malvinas" and his continued opposition to 
the U.S. "blockade" against Cuba. 
 
 
 
4.  (U)  Minimize considered. 
Lambert