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06ROME3354
2006-12-21 14:41:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Rome
Cable title:
ITALY, UN ASSESSMENTS: EU DOESN'T WANT TO GET
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UNCLAS ROME 003354
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
FOR IO/MPR G. ABRAHAMS, D. LEIS, H. WARD; FOR USUN/MR AMB.
WALLACE, A. HILLMAN
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: AMGT AORC PREL UNGA
SUBJECT: ITALY, UN ASSESSMENTS: EU DOESN'T WANT TO GET
STUCK WITH BILL
REF: STATE 200954
Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Acting UN Office Director
Leonardo Bencini December 20, stressing that increasing the
22 percent ceiling on the UN scale of assessments was a U.S.
redline. Bencini noted that the current ceiling forces EU
countries to pay the difference as the next largest UN
contributors. POLOFF responded that the United States wanted
to be constructive in reaching an agreement, and that we
could find compromise on other points. The EU wanted other
countries, like China, to share the extra burden resulting
from the ceiling, Bencini said. He suggested the United
States could move closer to the EU on its remaining seven
points if we could not agree to raise the ceiling. Bencini
promised to convey U.S. views to the Italian Mission in New
York, but advised that negotiations were being run out of the
EU office.
BORG
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
FOR IO/MPR G. ABRAHAMS, D. LEIS, H. WARD; FOR USUN/MR AMB.
WALLACE, A. HILLMAN
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: AMGT AORC PREL UNGA
SUBJECT: ITALY, UN ASSESSMENTS: EU DOESN'T WANT TO GET
STUCK WITH BILL
REF: STATE 200954
Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Acting UN Office Director
Leonardo Bencini December 20, stressing that increasing the
22 percent ceiling on the UN scale of assessments was a U.S.
redline. Bencini noted that the current ceiling forces EU
countries to pay the difference as the next largest UN
contributors. POLOFF responded that the United States wanted
to be constructive in reaching an agreement, and that we
could find compromise on other points. The EU wanted other
countries, like China, to share the extra burden resulting
from the ceiling, Bencini said. He suggested the United
States could move closer to the EU on its remaining seven
points if we could not agree to raise the ceiling. Bencini
promised to convey U.S. views to the Italian Mission in New
York, but advised that negotiations were being run out of the
EU office.
BORG