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05BRUSSELS541
2005-02-07 13:07:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Brussels
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FEBRUARY 8 EU APPROVAL UNLIKELY: GEORGIA BMO

Tags:  PREL PGOV GG EUN OSCE RU USEU BRUSSELS 
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C O N F I D E N T I A L BRUSSELS 000541 

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E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/07/2015
TAGS: PREL PGOV GG EUN OSCE RU USEU BRUSSELS
SUBJECT: FEBRUARY 8 EU APPROVAL UNLIKELY: GEORGIA BMO

REF: STATE 21669

Classified By: USEU POLOFF TODD HUIZINGA. REASONS: 1.4 (B, D)

C O N F I D E N T I A L BRUSSELS 000541

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E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/07/2015
TAGS: PREL PGOV GG EUN OSCE RU USEU BRUSSELS
SUBJECT: FEBRUARY 8 EU APPROVAL UNLIKELY: GEORGIA BMO

REF: STATE 21669

Classified By: USEU POLOFF TODD HUIZINGA. REASONS: 1.4 (B, D)


1. (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on February 7 to key
Solana adviser Kees van Rij (protect),Head of the EU Council
Secretariat Policy Unit Task Force on the Caucasus, and Mario

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Mariani (protect),OSCE desk officer in the External
Relations Directorate-General of the European Commission.
They both said they would circulate our points and ensure
that they receive consideration at the February 8 EU
Political and Security Committee (PSC) meeting. Van Rij said
the PSC had three main options on the table: (1) the
preferred option, namely to make some "tweaks" in order to
get Russian agreement on continuing the OSCE Border
Monitoring Operation (BMO); (2) a Georgia BMO run by the EU
under the OSCE aegis; and (3) a fall-back train-and-equip
program for Georgia. Van Rij remarked that these three
options appeared to fit well with reftel points.


2. (C) Both van Rij and Mariani predicted a consensus in
favor of an EU BMO would likely not/not be an outcome of the
February 8 PSC meeting, given the reticence of some EU member
states to risk offending Russia. Both also said that Russian
agreement to continuing the OSCE BMO remained highly
unlikely. Van Rij said he was traveling, with Luxembourg EU
presidency reps, to Vienna on February 14, where EU-OSCE
talks would include the BMO issue. Finally, van Rij said the
issue would be on the agenda of the EU-Russia Ministerial
Troika on February 28.

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