DEMARCHE DELIVERED: NEW IRAQ EXECUTIVE ORDER

S E C R E T YEREVAN 002054 SIPDIS DEPT FOR EUR/CACEN E.O. 12958: DNG: CO 09/17/2014 TAGS: KTFN PREL PTER AM SUBJECT: DEMARCHE DELIVERED: NEW IRAQ EXECUTIVE ORDER REF: SECSTATE 194466 Classified By: Deputy Chief of Mission A.F. Godfrey for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). (SE) We delivered demarche and talking points regarding the proposed Iraq Executive Order to MFA Americas Desk Officer Lilit Toutkhalian September 14 per reftel instructions. Toutkhalian offered only general remarks in response to the draft of the proposed E.O., repeating the GOAM's earlier public commitments that it stood ready to assist in the War on Terror "particularly on economic fronts." She said that Deputy Foreign Minister Tatoul Markarian was aware of the text and that he would discuss it with Minister of Foreign Affairs Vartan Oskanian upon his return to Armenia September ¶17. Toutkhalian predicted that the E.O. would not elicit much of a reaction from the GOAM. EVANS