Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
05VIENNA850
2005-03-15 12:02:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Vienna
Cable title:  

HIZBALLAH DESIGNATION NON-PAPER: AUSTRIAN RESPONSE

Tags:  ETTC PTER EFIN AU EUN 
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C O N F I D E N T I A L VIENNA 000850

SIPDIS

DEPARTMENT FOR EUR/ERA, EB/ESC/TFS, NEA/ARN AND EUR/AGS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/15/2015
TAGS: ETTC PTER EFIN AU EUN
SUBJECT: HIZBALLAH DESIGNATION NON-PAPER: AUSTRIAN RESPONSE

REF: A) STATE 44347 B) VIENNA 607

Classified By: ECONOMIC-POLITICAL COUNSELOR GREGORY E. PHILLIPS
FOR REASONS 1.4 (B) AND (D)

(C) Embassy Vienna delivered ref (a) non-paper to MFA
A/S-equivalent for Internal Security and Counterterrorism
Johann Froehlich on March 14. We followed up later the same
day with Thomas Hajnoczi, head of the Bureau for
Political-Military Affairs and Common Foreign and Security
Policy. The GoA had previously given assurances, per ref
(b),that Austria supported EU designation of Hizballah (in
its entirety) as a terrorist organization. Hajnoczi and
Froehlich undertook to convey our concerns to Austria's
Clearinghouserepresentative in time for the March 16 meeting.
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