Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07MADRID395
2007-03-02 17:14:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Madrid
Cable title:
SPAIN ON RUSSIAN THREATS AGAINST MISSILE DEFENSE
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C O N F I D E N T I A L MADRID 000395
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
EUR/FO FOR A/S DAN FRIED
A/S PAULA DESUTTER
A/S ISN JOHN ROOD
NSC FOR DAVID STEPHENS AND JUDY ANSLEY
OSD/P FOR BRIAN GREEN
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/02/2017
TAGS: EZ MARR PL PREL SP
SUBJECT: SPAIN ON RUSSIAN THREATS AGAINST MISSILE DEFENSE
REF: STATE 21640
Classified By: DCM Hugo Llorens for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
(C) The DCM delivered reftel demarche to Spanish Director
General for Foreign Policy Rafael Dezcallar on March 2. The
DCM emphasized that consultation has been ongoing with Russia
and that the defense system has neither the design nor the
capacity to threaten Russia's nuclear capability. Dezcallar
responded that a Czech diplomat had visited him March 1 and
delivered an extensive briefing on the same topic, assuring
that the program was completely defensive and unthreatening
to Russia. Dezcallar said he had been puzzled by Russia's
threatening reaction and had assumed that there must not have
been sufficient consultation between the U.S. and Russia. He
was relieved to learn that such consultation had taken place.
Spain has no objection to the program.
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Visit Embassy Madrid's Classified Website;
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/eur/madrid/
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AGUIRRE
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
EUR/FO FOR A/S DAN FRIED
A/S PAULA DESUTTER
A/S ISN JOHN ROOD
NSC FOR DAVID STEPHENS AND JUDY ANSLEY
OSD/P FOR BRIAN GREEN
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/02/2017
TAGS: EZ MARR PL PREL SP
SUBJECT: SPAIN ON RUSSIAN THREATS AGAINST MISSILE DEFENSE
REF: STATE 21640
Classified By: DCM Hugo Llorens for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
(C) The DCM delivered reftel demarche to Spanish Director
General for Foreign Policy Rafael Dezcallar on March 2. The
DCM emphasized that consultation has been ongoing with Russia
and that the defense system has neither the design nor the
capacity to threaten Russia's nuclear capability. Dezcallar
responded that a Czech diplomat had visited him March 1 and
delivered an extensive briefing on the same topic, assuring
that the program was completely defensive and unthreatening
to Russia. Dezcallar said he had been puzzled by Russia's
threatening reaction and had assumed that there must not have
been sufficient consultation between the U.S. and Russia. He
was relieved to learn that such consultation had taken place.
Spain has no objection to the program.
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Visit Embassy Madrid's Classified Website;
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/eur/madrid/
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AGUIRRE