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06USNATO670
2006-11-14 11:53:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Mission USNATO
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AMBASSADOR NULAND,S MEETING WITH SERBIAN ASSISTANT

Tags:  NATO PGOV PHUM PREL 
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STATE FOR EUR, EUR/RPM, EUR/SCE, PM, IO, SR

E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/08/2016
TAGS: NATO PGOV PHUM PREL
SUBJECT: AMBASSADOR NULAND,S MEETING WITH SERBIAN ASSISTANT
MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS DORDEVIC

Classified By: Ambassador Victoria Nuland, for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)

C O N F I D E N T I A L USNATO 000670

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SIPDIS

STATE FOR EUR, EUR/RPM, EUR/SCE, PM, IO, SR

E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/08/2016
TAGS: NATO PGOV PHUM PREL
SUBJECT: AMBASSADOR NULAND,S MEETING WITH SERBIAN ASSISTANT
MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS DORDEVIC

Classified By: Ambassador Victoria Nuland, for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)


1. (SBU) Serbian Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs,
Branislav Dordevic, along with Serbian Ambassador Branko
Milinkovic, met with Ambassador Nuland on November 7 to lobby
for Serbia,s admission to Partnership for Peace (PfP) at
Riga. Dordevic stressed the delicate political situation in
Serbia with the adoption of the recent Constitution and
upcoming elections, urging NATO to give reformers a strong
and positive signal from the West on Euro-Atlantic
integration in order to disarm the radicals and nationalists.
While he acknowledged that Belgrade has not delivered Mladic
to The Hague, he nevertheless felt that steps taken by the
government on its ICTY compliance Action Plan warranted a
positive announcement for PfP at Riga. He also worried that
giving PfP to Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina without
Serbia would deepen his country's sense of isolation.


2. (C) Ambassador Nuland assured Dordevic that Washington is
giving the Balkans region, and Serbia, in particular, a lot
of attention at senior levels of the U.S. government. While
we've made no decisions, no one wants an isolated,
nationalist Serbia. She understood that Serbia could help
its cause by taking more concrete steps to implement its ICTY
action plan, setting an election date, and ensuring a
successful transition toward Kosovo,s final status.
NULAND