Golden Gate refuses to meet America's Cup Defender for talks

6:50 PM Thu 7 May 2009 GMT

'23 April Meeting SNG-GGYC.
Lucien Masmejan, SNG member, America's Cup committee secretary & Fred Meyer, SNG vice-commodore and America's Cup committee chairman & Brad Butterwoth (SNG member, America's Cup committeee vice-chairman).' Carlo Borlenghi / Alinghi&copy

Societe Nautique de Geneve have released the following commentary following the rejection of SNG's offer of a further meeting, yesterday, ahead of a Hearing in the New York Supreme Court on Thursday:

The 33rd America's Cup defending yacht club, Soci?t? Nautique de Gen?ve (SNG), regrets that the Challenger of Record, the Golden Gate Yacht Club (GGYC), rejected an invitation to resume talks on terms for the 33rd America's Cup. It also appears to have closed the door to other teams using its latest legal action to disregard Italian team Green Comm's challenge.

In a letter sent on 5 May, the SNG invited the GGYC to meet to continue discussions, including such areas as the date, the venue, the race format, the participation of other challengers and the presentation of the Custom-House Registry of vessel. To the SNG's disappointment, the GGYC responded simply by reminding the defending yacht club of the court hearing scheduled for the 14 May in New York.

The SNG plans to persevere with its appeal to GGYC to join its representatives around a table to discuss these matters face to face. The invitation to negotiate remains open.

To view the Letter to GGYC offering to hold another Mutual Consent Meeting click here

To view the reply from Golden Gate Yacht Club click here

by Daphne Morgan-Barnicoat

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