Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07MOSCOW5733
2007-12-06 16:53:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Moscow
Cable title:
DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON ARMS SALES TO BURMA
how-toVZCZCXYZ0002 PP RUEHWEB DE RUEHMO #5733 3401653 ZNR UUUUU ZZH P 061653Z DEC 07 FM AMEMBASSY MOSCOW TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 5710
UNCLAS MOSCOW 005733
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV PHUM BM RS
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON ARMS SALES TO BURMA
REF: STATE 161823
We delivered reftel demarche on December 6 to MFA Second
Secretary for Burma Aleksey Semenikhin. Semenikhin said he
SIPDIS
would pass on our points, but reminded us that Russia sold
only "defense" weapons to Burma and not the kind of small
arms used by the military in the recent crackdown on
pro-democracy demonstrators.
BURNS