Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07BRUSSELS3138
2007-10-12 15:58:00
CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN
Embassy Brussels
Cable title:
BELGIANS SUPPORT AUTONOMOUS SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAN
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C O N F I D E N T I A L BRUSSELS 003138
SIPDIS
NOFORN
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/11/2017
TAGS: PREL PGOV
SUBJECT: BELGIANS SUPPORT AUTONOMOUS SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAN
REF: SECSTATE 143223
Classified By: Charge Wayne L. Bush, Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
C O N F I D E N T I A L BRUSSELS 003138
SIPDIS
NOFORN
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/11/2017
TAGS: PREL PGOV
SUBJECT: BELGIANS SUPPORT AUTONOMOUS SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAN
REF: SECSTATE 143223
Classified By: Charge Wayne L. Bush, Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
1. (C) The Belgian government fully supports the idea of
imposing autonomous EU sanctions on Iran, according to Walter
Stevens, FM De Gucht's Chief of Staff. Charge relayed
relevant points of reftel demarche to Stevens during a
conversation on October 12, 2007. Although pressed
specifically about the issue of export credits and halting
new investment, Stevens refused to be drawn out on the types
of sanctions De Gucht planned to support when he meets his EU
colleagues at the GAERC on October 15.
2. (C) Belgium's Special Envoy for Nonproliferation told us
separately that the Belgian government supported further
action at the UNSC, and that they intended to announce this
after receipt of the IAEA report and after Mr. Solana met
again with Larijani. Bush
.
SIPDIS
NOFORN
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/11/2017
TAGS: PREL PGOV
SUBJECT: BELGIANS SUPPORT AUTONOMOUS SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAN
REF: SECSTATE 143223
Classified By: Charge Wayne L. Bush, Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
1. (C) The Belgian government fully supports the idea of
imposing autonomous EU sanctions on Iran, according to Walter
Stevens, FM De Gucht's Chief of Staff. Charge relayed
relevant points of reftel demarche to Stevens during a
conversation on October 12, 2007. Although pressed
specifically about the issue of export credits and halting
new investment, Stevens refused to be drawn out on the types
of sanctions De Gucht planned to support when he meets his EU
colleagues at the GAERC on October 15.
2. (C) Belgium's Special Envoy for Nonproliferation told us
separately that the Belgian government supported further
action at the UNSC, and that they intended to announce this
after receipt of the IAEA report and after Mr. Solana met
again with Larijani. Bush
.