Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
06BUCHAREST1009
2006-06-19 14:17:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Bucharest
Cable title:
ROMANIAN RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ABOUT ARMS TRANSFERS
how-toVZCZCXYZ0006 RR RUEHWEB DE RUEHBM #1009 1701417 ZNY CCCCC ZZH R 191417Z JUN 06 FM AMEMBASSY BUCHAREST TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 4681 INFO RUEHAK/AMEMBASSY ANKARA 0526 RUEHGB/AMEMBASSY BAGHDAD 0065
C O N F I D E N T I A L BUCHAREST 001009
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE DEPT FOR EUR/NCE - WILLIAM SILKWORTH
STATE ALSO FOR ISN/CATR, EUR/PRA, NEA/I/PM
E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/20/2016
TAGS: PARM PGOV ETTC IZ RO
SUBJECT: ROMANIAN RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ABOUT ARMS TRANSFERS
TO IRAQ
REF: STATE 98132
Classified By: Deputy Chief of Mission Mark Taplin
for Reasons 1.4(a),(b) and (d)
(C) Further to Reftel, PolMilOff met June 19 with Dan
Neculaescu, Director of the MFA Office for Arms Control,
NonProliferation and Combating Terrorism, to discuss the
proposed Romanian sale of arms and ammunition to the Iraqi
Ministry of Interior. PolMilOff explained that the USG has
been unable to ascertain the bona fides of the intermediaries
for the proposed transaction, noting further that the USG has
preliminary information that arms intended for Coalition
forces in Iraq have leaked out to other countries.
Neculaescu stated that he would discuss our concerns
regarding the proposed transfer to Iraq with appropriate GOR
interlocutors, promising to convey to us any relevant
information regarding the transaction in general, or the
intermediaries. Neculaescu underscored that the GOR "is
committed to international arms control standards" and
"appreciates consultations with Washington on all sensitive
transactions" especially transactions concerning Iraq,
Afghanistan and Africa.
TAUBMAN