Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
06NICOSIA1331
2006-08-08 04:58:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Nicosia
Cable title:
DEMARCHING CYPRUS ON BURMESE FOREIGN MINISTER
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C O N F I D E N T I A L NICOSIA 001331
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/08/2016
TAGS: PGOV PHUM FI BU EUN
SUBJECT: DEMARCHING CYPRUS ON BURMESE FOREIGN MINISTER
INVITATION TO ASEM
REF: STATE 124139
Classified By: DCM Jane B. Zimmerman, reasons 1.4 B/D
C O N F I D E N T I A L NICOSIA 001331
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/08/2016
TAGS: PGOV PHUM FI BU EUN
SUBJECT: DEMARCHING CYPRUS ON BURMESE FOREIGN MINISTER
INVITATION TO ASEM
REF: STATE 124139
Classified By: DCM Jane B. Zimmerman, reasons 1.4 B/D
1. (C) Poloff delivered reftel message on August 7, 2006 to
Stelios Makriyiannis in the MFA's Division of Asia and
Africa. He replied that the Finnish decision was not
surprising because it was indeed in accordance with the EU
common position that visas could be issued to Burma cabinet
members for multilateral meetings. He provided poloff with
the text of the common position and said that any time a
member of the Burmese government was invited to an EU
multilateral meeting, it was the EU's common intention to use
that invitation as an opportunity to raise difficult human
rights questions.
SCHLICHER
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/08/2016
TAGS: PGOV PHUM FI BU EUN
SUBJECT: DEMARCHING CYPRUS ON BURMESE FOREIGN MINISTER
INVITATION TO ASEM
REF: STATE 124139
Classified By: DCM Jane B. Zimmerman, reasons 1.4 B/D
1. (C) Poloff delivered reftel message on August 7, 2006 to
Stelios Makriyiannis in the MFA's Division of Asia and
Africa. He replied that the Finnish decision was not
surprising because it was indeed in accordance with the EU
common position that visas could be issued to Burma cabinet
members for multilateral meetings. He provided poloff with
the text of the common position and said that any time a
member of the Burmese government was invited to an EU
multilateral meeting, it was the EU's common intention to use
that invitation as an opportunity to raise difficult human
rights questions.
SCHLICHER