Identifier
Created
Classification
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05VIENNA847
2005-03-15 10:55:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Vienna
Cable title:
GEORGIA BORDER MONITORING: AUSTRIAN RESPONSE
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C O N F I D E N T I A L VIENNA 000847
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR EUR/CACEN, EUR/RPM, EUR/ERA AND EUR/AGS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/15/2015
TAGS: PREL ZJ RS GG PBTS AU EUN OSCE
SUBJECT: GEORGIA BORDER MONITORING: AUSTRIAN RESPONSE
REF: A) STATE 43096 B) VIENNA 792
Classified By: ECONOMIC-POLITICAL COUNSELOR GREGORY E. PHILLIPS
FOR REASONS 1.4 (B) AND (D)
(C) Embassy Vienna conveyed reftel demarche on March 11 to
MFA DAS-equivalent for the Former Soviet Union Josef
Litschauer, A/S-equivalent for Security Policy Thomas
Hajnoczi and Director for EU Common Foreign and Security
Policy Andreas Riecken (ref b). We followed up on March 14
with Hajnoczi, whose responsibilities include Austrian
peacekeeping deployments abroad. Hajnoczi said he had
discussed at length the possibility of an EU-flagged border
monitoring mission during a meeting in Washington with
EUR/RPM director Daniel Russell the previous week. Hajnoczi
thought that the subject had acquired greater urgency in the
face of Russian intransigence and would figure prominently in
discussions of the EU PSC meeting on March 15. He observed
that the Russians' obstruction of a renewed OSCE operation
was clearly designed to convey their unhappiness over recent
developments in their "near abroad."
Brown
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR EUR/CACEN, EUR/RPM, EUR/ERA AND EUR/AGS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/15/2015
TAGS: PREL ZJ RS GG PBTS AU EUN OSCE
SUBJECT: GEORGIA BORDER MONITORING: AUSTRIAN RESPONSE
REF: A) STATE 43096 B) VIENNA 792
Classified By: ECONOMIC-POLITICAL COUNSELOR GREGORY E. PHILLIPS
FOR REASONS 1.4 (B) AND (D)
(C) Embassy Vienna conveyed reftel demarche on March 11 to
MFA DAS-equivalent for the Former Soviet Union Josef
Litschauer, A/S-equivalent for Security Policy Thomas
Hajnoczi and Director for EU Common Foreign and Security
Policy Andreas Riecken (ref b). We followed up on March 14
with Hajnoczi, whose responsibilities include Austrian
peacekeeping deployments abroad. Hajnoczi said he had
discussed at length the possibility of an EU-flagged border
monitoring mission during a meeting in Washington with
EUR/RPM director Daniel Russell the previous week. Hajnoczi
thought that the subject had acquired greater urgency in the
face of Russian intransigence and would figure prominently in
discussions of the EU PSC meeting on March 15. He observed
that the Russians' obstruction of a renewed OSCE operation
was clearly designed to convey their unhappiness over recent
developments in their "near abroad."
Brown