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07ATHENS342
2007-02-15 16:17:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Athens
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BSEC: GREEKS URGE HASTE ON U.S. ENVIRO PROJECT

Tags:  SENV ECON PGOV PREL GR 
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UNCLAS ATHENS 000342 

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E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: SENV ECON PGOV PREL GR
SUBJECT: BSEC: GREEKS URGE HASTE ON U.S. ENVIRO PROJECT

REF: A. 06 SECSTATE 162288


B. ANKARA 58

UNCLAS ATHENS 000342

SIPDIS

SIPDIS
SENSITIVE

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: SENV ECON PGOV PREL GR
SUBJECT: BSEC: GREEKS URGE HASTE ON U.S. ENVIRO PROJECT

REF: A. 06 SECSTATE 162288


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1. (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 3.


2. (SBU) In a meeting with DepPolCouns on the Black Sea
Economic Cooperation organization (BSEC),Greek MFA Bilateral
Economic Relations Directorate Counselor Ionnis Metaxas said
Greece supported the U.S. proposal for an environmental
workshop and urged the United States to move as quickly as
possible to submit its written proposal, preferably at the
March 12-13 Belgrade session of the environmental working
group. Metaxas explained that BSEC was very strict about its
rules of procedure and that the timing of the U.S. proposal,
therefore, was critical. If the U.S. did not submit its
proposal at the March 12-13 meeting, it would have to wait
until the next environmental working group meeting this
summer. Since the working group met only every six months,
action on a proposal submitted next summer would likely not
take place until 2008.


3. (SBU) Metaxas noted that BSEC SecGen Ambassador Leonidas
Chrissanthopoulos was in Athens until late next week and
urged us to speak to him about the project as well. Embassy
requests further Department guidance on the workshop project
that we could pass to Chrissanthopoulos.
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