Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
06ISLAMABAD9499
2006-05-23 13:54:00
SECRET
Embassy Islamabad
Cable title:
PM AZIZ TO TALK SENSE TO IRANIAN VICE PRESIDENT AND FOREIGN MINISTER
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S E C R E T ISLAMABAD 009499
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 05/23/2016
TAGS: PGOV, PK, PREL, IR
SUBJECT: PM AZIZ TO TALK SENSE TO IRANIAN VICE PRESIDENT
AND FOREIGN MINISTER
REF: ISLAMABAD 9033
Classified By: Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker, Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
(S) During a May 23 conversation with the Ambassador, Prime
Minister Shaukat Aziz mentioned that he had invited Iranian
First Vice President Parvaiz Davudi and Foreign Minister
Narnal Kharazii to visit Islamabad on May 25. Referring to
Iranian President Ahmedinejad's public statements in the days
following the recent D-8 Summit, at which Aziz and Turkish PM
Erdogan privately pressed Ahmedinejad to avoid direct
confrontation with the international community over Iran's
nuclear programs (ref A),Aziz admitted that his advice
clearly made little impression on the Iranian president.
Aziz told the Ambassador that he plans to deliver the same
message that he gave Ahmedinejad -- that the EU-3 have
offered Iran an attractive deal, one which Tehran should
seriously consider -- to his Iranian guests this week. The
Prime Minister noted that Vice President Davudi has a
reputation of being a more reasonable interlocutor; perhaps
he will better appreciate Pakistan's concern that a
negotiated resolution addressing Tehran's nuclear program be
found before the controversy spreads beyond Iran's borders,
destabilizing the entire region.
CROCKER
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 05/23/2016
TAGS: PGOV, PK, PREL, IR
SUBJECT: PM AZIZ TO TALK SENSE TO IRANIAN VICE PRESIDENT
AND FOREIGN MINISTER
REF: ISLAMABAD 9033
Classified By: Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker, Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
(S) During a May 23 conversation with the Ambassador, Prime
Minister Shaukat Aziz mentioned that he had invited Iranian
First Vice President Parvaiz Davudi and Foreign Minister
Narnal Kharazii to visit Islamabad on May 25. Referring to
Iranian President Ahmedinejad's public statements in the days
following the recent D-8 Summit, at which Aziz and Turkish PM
Erdogan privately pressed Ahmedinejad to avoid direct
confrontation with the international community over Iran's
nuclear programs (ref A),Aziz admitted that his advice
clearly made little impression on the Iranian president.
Aziz told the Ambassador that he plans to deliver the same
message that he gave Ahmedinejad -- that the EU-3 have
offered Iran an attractive deal, one which Tehran should
seriously consider -- to his Iranian guests this week. The
Prime Minister noted that Vice President Davudi has a
reputation of being a more reasonable interlocutor; perhaps
he will better appreciate Pakistan's concern that a
negotiated resolution addressing Tehran's nuclear program be
found before the controversy spreads beyond Iran's borders,
destabilizing the entire region.
CROCKER