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04THEHAGUE2778
2004-10-29 12:24:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy The Hague
Cable title:  

NETHERLANDS/EU/KOSOVO/UKRAINE/CYPRUS: ADDITIONAL

Tags:  PREL CY TU NL EUN 
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C O N F I D E N T I A L THE HAGUE 002778 

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/01/2014
TAGS: PREL CY TU NL EUN
SUBJECT: NETHERLANDS/EU/KOSOVO/UKRAINE/CYPRUS: ADDITIONAL
POINTS DELIVERED

REF: A. SECSTATE 230353


B. THE HAGUE 2777

Classified By: Political Counselor Andrew Schofer for reasons 1.4 (b) a
nd (d).

C O N F I D E N T I A L THE HAGUE 002778

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/01/2014
TAGS: PREL CY TU NL EUN
SUBJECT: NETHERLANDS/EU/KOSOVO/UKRAINE/CYPRUS: ADDITIONAL
POINTS DELIVERED

REF: A. SECSTATE 230353


B. THE HAGUE 2777

Classified By: Political Counselor Andrew Schofer for reasons 1.4 (b) a
nd (d).


1. (SBU) Poloff delivered ref a points on Kosovo, Ukraine,
and Northern Cyprus to MFA Deputy Director Joep Wijnands
(Political Affairs, European Correspondent) October 28 (ref B
covered the remaining GAERC points). On October 29, Poloff
repeated points on Northern Cyprus to Hannie Pollman-Zaal
(MFA Director of Western and Central Europe). Wijnands
thanked us for the information but did not make any
substantive comment, noting that he did not expect much GAERC
discussion on these topics.


2. (C) On Northern Cyprus, Pollman-Zaal expressed
frustration that the draft text dealing with the aid/trade
compromise was still very general with "plenty of gaps" with
regard to particularities. Getting consensus will be
difficult, she said, "because the Cypriots are being very
hard." While she expected the November 22 GAERC to approve
the aid package, the strategy depends on deciding the
outlines of an agreement on the trade part. She believed the
process of settling the details of the trade package would
probably extend into 2005 because the Dutch "do not want the
trade issue to interfere with the December 17 Council
decision on Turkish accession talks." She added that the
Dutch are giving extraordinary consideration to the
heightened sensitivity of the Government of Cyprus to both
questions, and the Dutch do not want to "overburden them with
two hard questions at the same time."
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