EU WORKING ON A COMMON APPROACH TO STABILITY PACT

C O N F I D E N T I A L DUBLIN 000903

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/14/2014
TAGS: PARM PBTS PREL
SUBJECT: EU WORKING ON A COMMON APPROACH TO STABILITY PACT

REF: STATE 129208

Classified By: AMBASSADOR JAMES KENNY FOR REASONS 1.4 (b) AND (c)


1. (C) EMBOFF REVIEWED REFTEL POINTS ON MOLDOVAN STABILITY
PACT INITIATIVE JUNE 14 WITH DFA MOLDOVAN DESK OFFICER PETER
MCIVOR, WHO HAD JUST RETURNED FROM PARTICIPATING IN LAST
WEEK'S OSCE HEADS OF MISSION FACT-FINDING MISSION. MCIVOR
SAID HE WAS SOMEWHAT SURPRISED THAT THE STABILITY PACT DID
NOT RECEIVE MORE ATTENTION FROM MOLDOVAN OFFICIALS FROM
PRESIDENT VORONIN ON DOWN. IT WAS RAISED, BUT NOT AS A
PRIORITY ISSUE, AND THE ONLY OFFICIAL WHO ASKED FOR A
RESPONSE FROM THE POTENTIAL SIGNATORIES WAS THE FOREIGN
MINISTER. PRESIDENT VORONIN DID STATE, HOWEVER, THAT THE
TEXT WAS SUBJECT TO NEGOTIATION, ACCORDING TO MCIVOR. MCIVOR
COULD NOT EXPLAIN WHY MOLDOVA DID NOT INCLUDE ITSELF AMONG
THE SIGNATORIES AND FELT THIS REQUIRED SOME "REFLECTION."


2. (C) MCIVOR SAID MOLDOVAN OFFICIALS EXPLAINED THE
STABILITY PACT INITIATIVE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE FAILURE OF
THE KOZAK MEMORANDUM AND THE FACT THAT MOLDOVA WAS A SMALL,
FRAGILE, NEUTRAL STATE CONCERNED ABOUT OTHER POTENTIAL
"SOLUTIONS" WHICH MIGHT INFRINGE ON ITS OWN BORDERS.


3. (C) MCIVOR SAID HE WOULD CIRCULATE THE U.S. POINTS AND
NOTED THAT THE EU WAS JUST BEGINNING TO FORMULATE A COMMON
APPROACH TO THE MOLDOVAN INITIATIVE. IT WOULD NOT BE NOTED
IN THE JUNE 14-15 GAERC CONCLUSIONS ON MOLDOVA BECAUSE THE EU
WISHED TO SEND A MORE GENERAL MESSAGE, RATHER THAN HAVE THE
TEXT BE SEEN SPECIFICALLY AS A RESPONSE TO THE STABILITY PACT
PROPOSAL. THE NEXT COEST MEETING WOULD BE JULY 15 IN THE
HAGUE, UNDER THE DUTCH PRESIDENCY, AND IT WAS LIKELY THE
STABILITY PACT WOULD BE CONSIDERED THERE.
KENNY