Identifier
Created
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05VIENNA3793
2005-12-01 16:21:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Vienna
Cable title:  

DEMARCHE ON RUSSIAN DRAFT NGO LAW: AUSTRIA SHARES

Tags:  PGOV PINR PREL RS AU EUN 
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C O N F I D E N T I A L VIENNA 003793

SIPDIS

DEPARTMENT FOR EUR/RUS AND EUR/AGS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/30/2016
TAGS: PGOV PINR PREL RS AU EUN
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE ON RUSSIAN DRAFT NGO LAW: AUSTRIA SHARES
U.S. CONCERNS

REF: STATE 212899

Classified By: ECONOMIC-POLITICAL COUNSELOR GREGORY E. PHILLIPS
REASONS: 1.5 (B) AND (D)

(C) Embassy Vienna delivered reftel demarche on November 29
to Hanns Porias, Austrian MFA A/S-equivalent for Eastern
Europe and the former Soviet Union. Porias assured us that
Austria and other European Union member states shared our
concerns about the draft law regulating NGOs. There had been
a flurry of recent internal EU cable traffic on the problems
posed by the draft law and how to respond, he observed. The
European Commission, the Council and the member states were
considering ways to engage the Russian government and push
for changes in the bill.
VAN VOORST