CYPRUS WILL FOLLOW EU'S BURMA POLICY; EU BURMA

UNCLAS NICOSIA 000541

SIPDIS

SENSITIVE
SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: EAID EU PREL PHUM PGOV PREF BM CY
SUBJECT: CYPRUS WILL FOLLOW EU'S BURMA POLICY; EU BURMA
POLICY HAS NOT CHANGED

REF: A. STATE 56185


B. STATE 57126


1. (U) Poloff delivered reftel messages to Demetra
Christodoulou in the MFA's Multilateral Affairs division and
to Stelios Makriyiannis, who follows Asian issues in the
division of bilateral affairs. Makriyiannis said that Cyprus
supported EU policy on Burma and that it was very much in
line with the U.S. position. Cyprus would work with the
international community through the UN and ASEAN to implement
EU policy, and despite recent comments from the EC DG for
External Relations in Brussels, this policy had not changed.
He did not believe that it had even been discussed at the
Council level.
SCHLICHER