HCOC: ENCOURAGING KYRGYZSTAN TO SUBSCRIBE

UNCLAS BISHKEK 000128 SIPDIS SENSITIVE SIPDIS DEPARTMENT FOR ISN/MTR DEPARTMENT FOR SCA/CEN E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA KG SUBJECT: HCOC: ENCOURAGING KYRGYZSTAN TO SUBSCRIBE REF: A. STATE 14397 ¶B. 06 BISHKEK 859 ¶C. 06 STATE 64555 ¶D. 03 BISHKEK 1569 ¶E. 03 STATE 254339 ¶1. (SBU) In December 2006, the Kyrgyz MFA contacted post to inquire how to subscribe to the Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCOC). Post informed the ministry at that time that Kyrgyzstan could subscribe by sending a note verbale to the Government of Austria. ¶2. (SBU) On February 7, PolOff delivered Ref A points on HCOC to Nurlan Niyazaliyev, Deputy Head of the MFA International Organizations and Security Issues Department. Niyazaliyev stated that the Government of Kyrgyzstan was committed to subscribing to the HCOC and hoped that within the month his government would be a Subscribing State. He said that, in the absence of a Kyrgyz Embassy in Vienna, Kyrgyzstan's representative to the OSCE in Vienna would deliver the note verbale, utilizing the sample text provided in Ref A. LITZENBERGER