DEMARCHE TO EU: OSCE ANTI-SEMITISM AND TOLERANCE

UNCLAS BRUSSELS 003979 SIPDIS SENSITIVE E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PHUM PREL PGOV SOCI OSCE EUN USEU BRUSSELS SUBJECT: DEMARCHE TO EU: OSCE ANTI-SEMITISM AND TOLERANCE REPS REF: STATE 200753 (SBU) On September 17 Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Gilbert Dubois, Head of the OSCE Affairs Unit in the External Relations Directorate-General of the European Commission. Dubois thanked us for sharing U.S. views and promised they would be considered at the September 20 EU OSCE Working Group meeting. He said he expected the Dutch proposal to establish an OSCE "Panel of Experts" on tolerance issues to be "carefully considered" at the September 20 meeting, as the Dutch currently hold the EU presidency. That said, though, he affirmed that EU member-state views differed. He said it was impossible to predict what -- or whether -- the EU would decide at its meeting. MCKINLEY