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06NICOSIA1793
2006-10-17 13:17:00
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Embassy Nicosia
Cable title:  

CYPRUS FULLY SUPPORTS UNSCR 1718

Tags:  PREL KNNP KN PARM CY 
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UNCLAS NICOSIA 001793 

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SIPDIS

DEPARTMENT FOR IO/UNP, EUR/SE, EAP/K

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL KNNP KN PARM CY
SUBJECT: CYPRUS FULLY SUPPORTS UNSCR 1718

REF: STATE 172816

UNCLAS NICOSIA 001793

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

DEPARTMENT FOR IO/UNP, EUR/SE, EAP/K

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL KNNP KN PARM CY
SUBJECT: CYPRUS FULLY SUPPORTS UNSCR 1718

REF: STATE 172816


1. In response to Reftel, the Embassy October 15 delivered
UN Security Council Resolution 1718-related talking points
and non-paper to the Cypriot Foreign Ministry. In a
follow-up meeting the following day, Multilateral Affairs
Division Chief Sotos Liassides told PolChief that the
Republic of Cyprus wholeheartedly backed the strongly-worded
message the UN and international community had sent to North
Korea. The RoC's own statement, for which Liassides proudly
took credit, delivered an equally tough admonition to the
outlaw regime. Additionally, EU foreign ministers assembling
at the General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC)
in Luxembourg were polishing draft conclusions concerning
North Korea. Their text would strongly condemn the DPRK's
nuclear test and the threats to regional instability it
constituted, and call on member states to apply fully UNSCR

1718. Liassides stood ready to issue sanctions
implementation instructions to all pertinent RoC ministries,
once Brussels gave the green light.
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