Identifier
Created
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06VIENNA2947
2006-10-03 09:04:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Vienna
Cable title:
KLEPTOCRACY: DEMARCHES TO AUSTRIA ON U.S.
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UNCLAS VIENNA 002947
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE FOR P, E AND EUR/AGS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KCOR ECON EAID EINV PGOV KCRM AU
SUBJECT: KLEPTOCRACY: DEMARCHES TO AUSTRIA ON U.S.
NATIONAL STRATEGY
REF: STATE 157558
UNCLAS VIENNA 002947
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE FOR P, E AND EUR/AGS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KCOR ECON EAID EINV PGOV KCRM AU
SUBJECT: KLEPTOCRACY: DEMARCHES TO AUSTRIA ON U.S.
NATIONAL STRATEGY
REF: STATE 157558
1. Ambassador conveyed reftel demarche to Austrian Foreign
Minister Ursula Plassnik, Finance Minister Karl-Heinz
Grasser, and Justice Minister Karin Gastinger on September
26. DCM discussed the issue separately with Chancellery
Foreign Policy Advisor Hans-Peter Manz on September 26.
EconPolCouns raised the issue with MFA Americas Director
Rudolf Lennkh and with Melitta Schubert, the MFA's Director
for Bilateral and Multilateral Economic Relations. Our
Austrian interlocutors all expressed appreciation for the
information we conveyed, and would welcome more detailed
discussions in the months ahead.
2. Comment: The Austrian government will be in a caretaker
mode as a new governing coalition forms after national
elections on October 1. This process is likely to take at
least a month, and most observers expect it to last longer.
We advised our contacts that the Ambassador would engage her
ministerial counterparts on this issue when she called on
them after the new government took office. In the meantime,
we will continue to discuss cooperation in the fight against
kleptocracy with our working level contacts. End comment.
McCaw
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE FOR P, E AND EUR/AGS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KCOR ECON EAID EINV PGOV KCRM AU
SUBJECT: KLEPTOCRACY: DEMARCHES TO AUSTRIA ON U.S.
NATIONAL STRATEGY
REF: STATE 157558
1. Ambassador conveyed reftel demarche to Austrian Foreign
Minister Ursula Plassnik, Finance Minister Karl-Heinz
Grasser, and Justice Minister Karin Gastinger on September
26. DCM discussed the issue separately with Chancellery
Foreign Policy Advisor Hans-Peter Manz on September 26.
EconPolCouns raised the issue with MFA Americas Director
Rudolf Lennkh and with Melitta Schubert, the MFA's Director
for Bilateral and Multilateral Economic Relations. Our
Austrian interlocutors all expressed appreciation for the
information we conveyed, and would welcome more detailed
discussions in the months ahead.
2. Comment: The Austrian government will be in a caretaker
mode as a new governing coalition forms after national
elections on October 1. This process is likely to take at
least a month, and most observers expect it to last longer.
We advised our contacts that the Ambassador would engage her
ministerial counterparts on this issue when she called on
them after the new government took office. In the meantime,
we will continue to discuss cooperation in the fight against
kleptocracy with our working level contacts. End comment.
McCaw