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06BUENOSAIRES486
2006-03-01 21:00:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Buenos Aires
Cable title:  

KIRCHNER BREAKS SILENCE ON PAPER MILL CONTROVERSY

Tags:  PREL PGOV SENV SOCI EAGR AR UY 
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SIPDIS

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/02/2016
TAGS: PREL PGOV SENV SOCI EAGR AR UY
SUBJECT: KIRCHNER BREAKS SILENCE ON PAPER MILL CONTROVERSY

REF: A. BUENOS AIRES 451


B. BUENOS AIRES 407

C. MONTEVIDEO 155

D. MONTEVIDEO 149

Classified By: Ambassador Lino Gutierrez for reasons
1.4 (b) and (d).

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DE RUEHBU #0486 0602100
ZNY CCCCC ZZH
R 012100Z MAR 06
FM AMEMBASSY BUENOS AIRES
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 3656
INFO RUEHAC/AMEMBASSY ASUNCION 5382
RUEHBR/AMEMBASSY BRASILIA 5170
RUEHCV/AMEMBASSY CARACAS 0851
RUEHHE/AMEMBASSY HELSINKI 0042
RUEHLP/AMEMBASSY LA PAZ MAR LIMA 1784
RUEHMD/AMEMBASSY MADRID 1656
RUEHMN/AMEMBASSY MONTEVIDEO 5362
RUEHSG/AMEMBASSY SANTIAGO 4981
,C O N F I D E N T I A L BUENOS AIRES 000486

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/02/2016
TAGS: PREL PGOV SENV SOCI EAGR AR UY
SUBJECT: KIRCHNER BREAKS SILENCE ON PAPER MILL CONTROVERSY

REF: A. BUENOS AIRES 451


B. BUENOS AIRES 407

C. MONTEVIDEO 155

D. MONTEVIDEO 149

Classified By: Ambassador Lino Gutierrez for reasons
1.4 (b) and (d).


1. (U) During his annual address to Congress on March 1
(SEPTEL),President Nestor Kirchner made his first public
remarks regarding the controversial paper mills under
construction in Uruguay (REFTELS). In his remarks Kirchner
appealed directly to Uruguayan President Tabare Vasquez to,
stop the paper mill construction for only 90 days while the
best environmentalists in the world study the project"" and
to seek an immediate solution to the problem."" Kirchner's
request was met with enthusiastic applause in the
Congressional Chamber which held nearly every prominent
figure in the GOA.


2. (C) COMMENT: While the paper mill dispute has been front
page news for weeks, Kirchner until now had left it to
others, such as Foreign Minister Taiana, to press the
Argentine case. However, in a measure of the seriousness
with which the GOA is taking this dispute, an EU diplomat
(protect) told the Ambassador on March 1 that Deputy Foreign
Minister Garcia Moritan had told the Finnish Ambassador in
Argentina (who is also accreditied to Uruguay) that the GOA
was prepared to break off diplomatic relations with Finland
if construction of the plants continued. END COMMENT
GUTIERREZ