CROATIA WELCOMES PSI PAPERS

UNCLAS ZAGREB 000296 SIPDIS SENSITIVE SIPDIS DEPARTMENT FOR T, ISN/CPI, EUR/SCE NSC FOR STEPHENS DEFENSE FOR OSD:COOPER E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: KMFO MNUC PARM PGOV PHSA PREL HR SUBJECT: CROATIA WELCOMES PSI PAPERS REF: SECSTATE 34729 ¶1. (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel papers on March 3 to Sanja Bujas-Juraga, Director for International Security Programs, MFA. Bujas-Juraga welcomed receiving the input prior to the Warsaw meeting and said she would review them carefully. ¶2. (SBU) Bujas-Juraga said that she would brief interested parties on the upcoming joint military-law enforcement exercise Croatia is hosting March 27-31. ARIEX is sponsored by the U.S. DoD's DTRA and involves participants from Albania and Macedonia, controllers from the U.S. and Poland, as well as observers from Serbia and Montenegro, Bosnia and Hercegovina, and other neighboring states. Although not technically a PSI event, Bujas-Juraga said that she would report that the GoC saw this exercise in the framework of PSI and supporting PSI principles. FRANK