Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
05PARIS8032
2005-11-25 18:25:00
SECRET
Embassy Paris
Cable title:
DEMARCHE: BASHAR'S OFFER TO MEHLIS - FRANCE IN
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S E C R E T PARIS 008032
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/24/2015
TAGS: PREL PGOV FR SY
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE: BASHAR'S OFFER TO MEHLIS - FRANCE IN
ACCORD WITH U.S. POSITION
REF: SECSTATE 213846
Classified By: POL M/C Josiah Rosenblatt, Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
S E C R E T PARIS 008032
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/24/2015
TAGS: PREL PGOV FR SY
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE: BASHAR'S OFFER TO MEHLIS - FRANCE IN
ACCORD WITH U.S. POSITION
REF: SECSTATE 213846
Classified By: POL M/C Josiah Rosenblatt, Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
1. (S) France agrees fully with the substance of the
position laid out in reftel. A/S Jean-Francois Thibault
provided this reaction at close of business, Friday, November
25, after having reviewed the question with (unnamed) MFA and
Presidency senior officials during the course of the day.
Thibault said that the sense of GOF thinking was that Syria
must not be allowed to procrastinate -- including through
negotiation of conditions with Mehlis. France would make its
position known, as appropriate.
2. (S) Thibault commented that late-breaking media reports
of an agreement reached in the interim between Mehlis and the
SARG may make the matter moot. If the reports prove
unfounded, he was confident France would adhere the "no
procrastination, no negotiation" position.
Please visit Paris' Classified Website at:
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/eur/paris/index.c fm
Stapleton
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/24/2015
TAGS: PREL PGOV FR SY
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE: BASHAR'S OFFER TO MEHLIS - FRANCE IN
ACCORD WITH U.S. POSITION
REF: SECSTATE 213846
Classified By: POL M/C Josiah Rosenblatt, Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
1. (S) France agrees fully with the substance of the
position laid out in reftel. A/S Jean-Francois Thibault
provided this reaction at close of business, Friday, November
25, after having reviewed the question with (unnamed) MFA and
Presidency senior officials during the course of the day.
Thibault said that the sense of GOF thinking was that Syria
must not be allowed to procrastinate -- including through
negotiation of conditions with Mehlis. France would make its
position known, as appropriate.
2. (S) Thibault commented that late-breaking media reports
of an agreement reached in the interim between Mehlis and the
SARG may make the matter moot. If the reports prove
unfounded, he was confident France would adhere the "no
procrastination, no negotiation" position.
Please visit Paris' Classified Website at:
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/eur/paris/index.c fm
Stapleton