Identifier
Created
Classification
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04TELAVIV2300
2004-04-21 14:26:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Tel Aviv
Cable title:  

FM SHALOM LIKELY TO HEAD GOI DELEGATION TO OSCE

Tags:  PHUM PREL SOCI IS GOI EXTERNAL 
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C O N F I D E N T I A L TEL AVIV 002300 

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/21/2014
TAGS: PHUM PREL SOCI IS GOI EXTERNAL
SUBJECT: FM SHALOM LIKELY TO HEAD GOI DELEGATION TO OSCE
ANTI-SEMITISM CONFERENCE

REF: A. TEL AVIV 2125


B. SECSTATE 78071

Classified By: Political Counselor Norm Olsen for reason 1.4 (b) and (d
).

C O N F I D E N T I A L TEL AVIV 002300

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/21/2014
TAGS: PHUM PREL SOCI IS GOI EXTERNAL
SUBJECT: FM SHALOM LIKELY TO HEAD GOI DELEGATION TO OSCE
ANTI-SEMITISM CONFERENCE

REF: A. TEL AVIV 2125


B. SECSTATE 78071

Classified By: Political Counselor Norm Olsen for reason 1.4 (b) and (d
).


1. (SBU) MFA Minister Counselor for Anti-Semitism and
Holocaust Remembrance Martin Flax told poloff on April 21
that it is the MFA's "working assumption" that FM Silvan
Shalom will head the GOI's delegation to the OSCE's
Anti-Semitism Conference in Berlin April 28-29. He
anticipates the delegation will consist of six or seven
"professionals." Flax is also aware of several Israeli NGOs
that will be participating in the conference, and he noted
that they are not part of the official GOI delegation.


2. (SBU) Flax also informed poloff that Israeli President
Moshe Katsav will be on a state visit to Berlin at the time
of the OSCE Conference and will attend a state dinner in
Katsav's honor on April 28. Minister-without-Portfolio Natan
Sharansky told Ambassador Kurtzer April 20 that President
Katsav requested that Sharansky attend the conference and
there is a possibility he will do so.


3. (C) Flax said that the GOI would not be undertaking any
"independent lobbying" on the contents of the draft
declaration as this would be "tactically" unwise. It would
be more effective, he said, if Germany and the United States
would "carry the ball" on the declaration.

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