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### Viewing cable 08MADRID1366, SCENESETTER FOR JAN 8-9 VISIT OF ASSISTANT

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08MADRID1366 | 2008-12-31 13:01 | 2010-12-07 12:12 | CONFIDENTIAL | Embassy Madrid

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    VZCZCXYZ0020
    PP RUEHWEB

    DE RUEHMD #1366/01 3661306
    ZNY CCCCC ZZH
    P 311306Z DEC 08
    FM AMEMBASSY MADRID
    TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 5831
    INFO RUEHLI/AMEMBASSY LISBON PRIORITY 1728
    RUEHBS/USEU BRUSSELS PRIORITY

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    C O N F I D E N T I A L MADRID 001366

    SIPDIS

    FOR STACIE ZERDECKI AND ELAINE SAMSON, EUR/WE
    WHA FOR STACY WILLIAMS, KAREN RAM
    USEU FOR BOB BLACKSTONE

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/09/2019
    TAGS: PREL PGOV SP
    SUBJECT: SCENESETTER FOR JAN 8-9 VISIT OF ASSISTANT
    SECRETARY SHANNON

    Classified By: Acting Deputy Chief of Mission William H. Duncan, for re
    asons 1.4(b) and (d).

    ¶1. (SBU) Embassy Madrid warmly welcomes your visit to Spain.
    U.S.-Spanish relations are strong and based on shared global
    interests, including the fight against terrorism, the
    bilateral military relationship, our association in NATO, and
    rapidly expanding economic ties.  Your Spanish interlocutors
    will be eager to share their assessment of financial
    developments and bilateral relations, and they will be eager
    to hear your perspective on the incoming U.S. Administration
    and prospects for cooperation.  Most of all, they will seek
    your prognosis for Latin America and for Spanish-U.S. and
    U.S.-EU cooperation to ensure democracy and prosperity in the
    Western Hemisphere.  The GOS is sensitive to the importance
    of  U.S. involvement and investment in the region, but
    sometimes GOS officials suggest the USG has "abandoned" Latin
    America.  Your visit presents a timely opportunity to counter
    these assertions while inviting Spain to take more concrete
    steps to promote democracy and good governance.

    //YOUR SCHEDULE IN MADRID//

    ¶2. (C) The Ambassador looks forward to meeting with you upon
    your arrival and is pleased to invite you to stay at the
    Residence while you are here.  Your program includes what we
    hope will be quality interaction with your Spanish
    counterparts, extensive media outreach to the top Spanish
    news outlets, a gathering of thinktankers and Latin
    Americanists, and a public roundtable forum on U.S. and
    Spanish approaches to Latin America.  Secretary of State for
    Latin American Affairs Trinidad Jimenez will join you at the
    roundtable January 9 and will host a lunch in your honor
    January 8.  Spain's Secretary of State for International
    Cooperation, Soraya Rodriguez, will participate in the lunch,
    providing an opportunity to discuss improved coordination of
    our foreign assistance programs.  The DCM will host a
    representational dinner January 8 to include our key Latin
    American contacts at the leading Spanish thinktanks.  Carlos
    Malamud (Instituto Real Elcano) and Jose Herrera (FAES) among
    others look forward to welcoming you back to Madrid.
    One-on-one interviews with Spain's leading print and
    broadcast media -- and through Cadena SER and Television
    Espanola to their Western Hemisphere affiliates -- will
    complete your visit and magnify your messages not just to
    Spanish publics but throughout Latin America.

    //BILATERAL RELATIONS//

    ¶3. (SBU) Spain is an important friend and ally of the U.S.
    We especially value Spanish cooperation in the fights against
    terrorism, narcotics, and human trafficking.  Spanish troops
    are carrying out important missions in countries such as
    Afghanistan and Lebanon.  Spain has long fought a domestic
    terrorist threat from the Basque terrorist group ETA and
    suffered tragically from Islamic extremist terrorism in the
    March 2004 Madrid train bombings.  We need to be innovative
    in finding new and improved avenues for bilateral and
    multilateral cooperation against the threats we both face.
    It would be worth discussing increased cooperation against
    Latin American narcotics traffickers.  Spain is the principal
    point of entry for South American cocaine coming to Europe
    and has a serious domestic drug consumption problem.  Since
    winning a second term in March 2008, President Zapatero has
    publicly and privately stressed his desire to further improve
    bilateral relations.  The relationship will be of increasing
    importance when Spain takes over the EU presidency in January
    ¶2010.  After 15 years of rapid economic growth, Spain is now
    in recession as the result of the end in 2007 of its long
    housing boom and the international financial crisis.  The
    unaccustomed hard times have hurt support for Zapatero, who
    has at times tried to place the blame for Spain's
    difficulties on the United States.

    XXXXXXXXXXXX
    ¶11. (SBU) Possible VP Biden Visit - The Spanish press have
    reported obsessively on the fact that Presidents Bush and
    Zapatero have not met (Zapatero finally visited the White
    House during the November 15 G-20 financial summit).  They
    followed closely statements during the presidential campaign
    by Senators Obama and McCain and their spokesmen about the
    possibility of meeting with Zapatero.  GOS officials made no

    secret of their satisfaction with the results of our
    elections, and they may have unrealistic expectations about
    how soon the new President will visit Spain, or Zapatero
    Washington.  Spanish officials informed reporters recently
    that Vice President-elect Biden had told Zapatero in a
    November 17 phone conversation that he would visit Spain
    shortly after taking office to discuss the global financial
    crisis.  The Vice President-elect also was said to have
    mentioned the importance the President-elect places on
    bilateral relations and highlighted the possibility for
    cooperation on Latin America.  We have not heard any
    confirmation of this from U.S. sources.

    XXXXXXXXXXXX
    AGUIRRE

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