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Viewing cable 09GENEVA913, ISRAELIS ON PA BID FOR WTO OBSERVER STATUS

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
09GENEVA913 2009-10-26 18:00 2011-08-24 01:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Mission Geneva
VZCZCXRO0316
RR RUEHIK
DE RUEHGV #0913 2991800
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 261800Z OCT 09
FM USMISSION GENEVA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 9765
INFO RUEHTV/AMEMBASSY TEL AVIV 4647
RUEHJM/AMCONSUL JERUSALEM 0905
RUEHBS/USEU BRUSSELS
RUEHKO/AMEMBASSY TOKYO 6916
RUEHOT/AMEMBASSY OTTAWA 5740
RUEHBY/AMEMBASSY CANBERRA 6549
RUEHSW/AMEMBASSY BERN 8539
RUEHNY/AMEMBASSY OSLO 2052
RUEHKV/AMEMBASSY KYIV 1263
RUEHRH/AMEMBASSY RIYADH 0731
RUEHEG/AMEMBASSY CAIRO 2017
RUEHAM/AMEMBASSY AMMAN 1078
RUEHAK/AMEMBASSY ANKARA 1826
RUCNMEM/EU MEMBER STATES COLLECTIVE
UNCLAS GENEVA 000913 
 
SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED 
 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPT PASS USTR 
TEL AVIV FOR AMB, DCM, AND ECON 
USTR FOR CKLEIN, AVENKATARAMAN,SFRANCESKI, MMOWREY 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: ETRD WTRO ECON PREL KWBG IS
SUBJECT: ISRAELIS ON PA BID FOR WTO OBSERVER STATUS 
 
Reftels:  (a) Jerusalem 1607 (B) Secstate 99831 (c) Geneva00783 
(d) Tel Aviv 02166 (e) Geneva 00839 
 
1.(SBU) The head of the Israeli Mission's trade team called Charge 
this afternoon to provide a readout on their consultation last week 
with General Council Chair (GC) Matus. He said that Matus made a 
pitch for an "interim solution" that would include two agenda items 
at the November 17 General Council meeting.  One agenda item would 
deal with observership at the Ministerial Conference and his hope 
would be that this request (which has yet to be made) could be 
agreed.  The other agenda item would address the PA's request for 
observer status in the GC. Under this item, Matus would expect a 
substantive discussion but not a decision. Matus told the Israelis 
that one Arab state is pushing him hard to place this on the agenda. 
 They have also picked up that the EC might place this issue on the 
agenda.  For their part, the Israeli's repeated their objection to 
the PA's observer status in the GC but they did not speak to the 
issue of observership at the Ministerial Conference. 
 
ΒΆ2. (SBU) Our Israeli interlocutor thought it likely that his 
authorities could agree to observership at the Ministerial 
Conference but that they would need something in return.  He 
indicated that they were hoping that this something would be that 
the GC request would go away for a while and that they would not 
have to face this again in the new year.  However, it sounded like 
they were still considering a range of options. 
 
SHARK