{"id":94654,"date":"2020-02-04T14:00:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T22:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=94654"},"modified":"2025-06-27T10:58:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T17:58:03","slug":"state-cable-770909-state-gt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=94654","title":{"rendered":"Sept 9, 77 \u2022 State-Georgetown \u2022 216553"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: The text for this document was released in 2014 by Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n

UNCLASSIFIED P
\nAGE 01 STATE 216553
\nORIGIN SCS-05
\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 CA-01 L-03 ARA-14 DHA-05 \/029 R
\nDRAFTED BY CA\/SCS\/EAPOWERS:RBOYLAN:RAM
\nAPPROVED BY CA\/SCS\/SADOBRENCHUK
\nCA\/SCS\/RLRIVERA
\n——————038613 092216Z \/15 <\/p>\n

O 092135Z SEP 77
\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC
\nTO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN IMMEDIATE
\nUNCLAS STATE 216553
\nE.O. 11652: N\/A
\nTAGS: CGEN, CASC (STOEN, JOHN VICTOR)
\nSUBJECT: W\/W: JOHN VICTOR STOEN
\nREF: GEORGETOWN 2175<\/a> <\/p>\n

1. DEPT. APPROVES OF EMBASSY’S SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE FOR HAAS AS REPORTED REFTEL. <\/p>\n

2. HOWEVER, EMBASSY IS INSTRUCTED NOT TO PROVIDE OFFICER TO ACCOMPANY HAAS TO SERVE PAPERS FOR FOLLOWING REASONS: A) UNDER FEDERAL REGULATIONS (22 C.F.R. 92.85) OFFICERS OF FOREIGN SERVICE ARE PROHIBITED FROM SERVING PROCESS OR APPOINTING OTHERS TO DO SO. DEPT HAS NO RECORD OF HAVING MADE AN EXCEPTION TO THIS REGULATION, DESPITE CIRCUMSTANCES MORE COMPELLING THAN THESE. TO DO SO IN THIS INSTANCE WOULD SET UNDESIRABLE PRECEEDENT [PRECEDENT]. (B) EVEN IF REGULATIONS DID NOT PRECLUDE CONSULAR OFFICER FROM SERVING PAPERS, ACTION WOULD BE SUBJECT TO LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL LAW. DEPT NOT FAMILIAR WITH PERTINENT GUYANESE LAW BUT INTERNATIONAL LAW AS REFLECTED IN CONSULAR CONVENTIONS <\/p>\n

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\nPAGE 02 STATE 216553 <\/p>\n

PERMITS SERVICE OF PROCESS BY CONOFF ONLY WHEN DOCUMENTS ORIGINATE IN COUNTRY WHICH OFFICER REPRESENTS. (SEE, E.G. ART. 17 (1)(G) OF U.S. U.K. CONSULAR CONVENTION). IN THIS CASE DOCUMENTS ARE FROM GUYANESE COURT AND DEPT. UNAWARE OF ANY PROVISION OF INTL. LAW AUTHORIZING SERVICE IN SUCH CIRCUMSTANCES. (C) IN ANY EVENT CONSUL HAS NO JURISDICTION TO FORCE RECIPIENT TO ACCEPT SERVICE OF DOCUMENTS, SO HIS PRESENCE WOULD POINTLESS. <\/p>\n

3. DEPT. HAS NO OBJECTION TO EMBASSY REQUEST TO APPROPRIATE MINISTRY FOR MAXIMUM EFFORT IN DELIVERING DOCUMENTS. <\/p>\n

VANCE [Secretary of State Cyrus Vance]<\/p>\n

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