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05VIENNA3062
2005-09-14 14:19:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Vienna
Cable title:
AUSTRIA WILL SUPPORT SUA AMENDMENTS AT DIPLOMATIC
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UNCLAS VIENNA 003062
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
STATE FOR NP/RA, L/LEI, L/NP, EUR/ERA AND EUR/AGS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KNNP MNUC PARM PREL EWWT KTIA PHSA AU EUN
SUBJECT: AUSTRIA WILL SUPPORT SUA AMENDMENTS AT DIPLOMATIC
CONFERENCE
REF: STATE 163045
THIS MESSAGE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED.
UNCLAS VIENNA 003062
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
STATE FOR NP/RA, L/LEI, L/NP, EUR/ERA AND EUR/AGS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KNNP MNUC PARM PREL EWWT KTIA PHSA AU EUN
SUBJECT: AUSTRIA WILL SUPPORT SUA AMENDMENTS AT DIPLOMATIC
CONFERENCE
REF: STATE 163045
THIS MESSAGE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED.
1. (SBU) Acting Econ/Pol Couns delivered reftel points to
MFA A/S for Nonproliferation and Arms Control Dorothea Auer
on September 7. Auer assured us that Austria supports the
goals of the SUA amendments and would weigh in again in favor
of them in MFA's internal discussions.
2. (SBU) We then carried out the demarche to MFA
DAS-equivalent for International Law Michael Postl on
September 9. Postl said that Austria considered the April
2005 compromise reached in the SUA Legal Committee reasonable
and appropriate. Austria was inclined to follow the lead of
the UK EU Presidency in pushing through the compromise
language. In any case, he observed that, in the interest of
arriving at a resolution, "experience showed it was
inadvisable to try to change very much" at this point.
3. (SBU) Postl's desk officer Thomas Loidl added that the EU
maritime working group COMAR would take up the matter on
September 23. Austria would be strongly inclined to follow a
consensus that emerges from that meeting.
4. (SBU) Tulane University professor Guenther Handl, an
Austrian international law expert(and former MFA official),
will probably again represent Austria at the October
Diplomatic Conference.
Brown
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
STATE FOR NP/RA, L/LEI, L/NP, EUR/ERA AND EUR/AGS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KNNP MNUC PARM PREL EWWT KTIA PHSA AU EUN
SUBJECT: AUSTRIA WILL SUPPORT SUA AMENDMENTS AT DIPLOMATIC
CONFERENCE
REF: STATE 163045
THIS MESSAGE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED.
1. (SBU) Acting Econ/Pol Couns delivered reftel points to
MFA A/S for Nonproliferation and Arms Control Dorothea Auer
on September 7. Auer assured us that Austria supports the
goals of the SUA amendments and would weigh in again in favor
of them in MFA's internal discussions.
2. (SBU) We then carried out the demarche to MFA
DAS-equivalent for International Law Michael Postl on
September 9. Postl said that Austria considered the April
2005 compromise reached in the SUA Legal Committee reasonable
and appropriate. Austria was inclined to follow the lead of
the UK EU Presidency in pushing through the compromise
language. In any case, he observed that, in the interest of
arriving at a resolution, "experience showed it was
inadvisable to try to change very much" at this point.
3. (SBU) Postl's desk officer Thomas Loidl added that the EU
maritime working group COMAR would take up the matter on
September 23. Austria would be strongly inclined to follow a
consensus that emerges from that meeting.
4. (SBU) Tulane University professor Guenther Handl, an
Austrian international law expert(and former MFA official),
will probably again represent Austria at the October
Diplomatic Conference.
Brown