ROMANIA RECEIVED GDPR UPDATE FOR NATO ALLIES AND

S E C R E T BUCHAREST 000344 SIPDIS SIPDIS STATE DEPT FOR EUR/NCE - WILLIAM SILKWORTH ALSO FOR EUR/RPM - JAMES WARLICK E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/27/2016 TAGS: KCFE NATO PREL MARR PARM RO SUBJECT: ROMANIA RECEIVED GDPR UPDATE FOR NATO ALLIES AND REQUEST FOR CFE FLANK ENTITLEMENTS REF: SECSTATE 27201 Classified By: A/DCM Mark Wentworth for Reasons 1.4 B and D ¶1. (S) PolOff delivered reftel to Mirela Maghiar, MFA Director for NATO Division, and Dan Neculaescu, MFA Director for Non-Proliferation and Arms Control, on February 22. They expressed appreciation for the notification and continuing "great" coordination. Neculaescu promised to inform MOD colleagues so that the military would be aware of the request should the topic arise at forums with Greek, Turkish, or Norwegian military officials. Neculaescu will participate in the March 14 HLTF meeting in Brussels. He said that Romania would gladly encourage Athens, Ankara, and Oslo to contribute some of their headroom CFE entitlements to the U.S. should they be approached. Maghiar did, however, question whether those entitlements would be transferred to the U.S. or to Romania. PolOff responded that they would be transferred to the U.S. ¶2. (S) Neculaescu noted that Romania is "currently analyzing CFE" in anticipation of Russian concerns. He said that Russian contacts had complained informally that the U.S. "did not share enough on this issue" of usage of Romanian military facilities. Neculaescu said it would be "useful to coordinate how to handle Russia's concerns" and commented that "If Ivanoff takes a public stance, we should have a prepared response." He suggested that the response should be coordinated at the NATO level. He also noted that Russia has never formally approached Romania for clarification on the military facilities agreement, despite repeatedly making public statements about it. TAUBMAN