Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07SOFIA620
2007-05-18 15:54:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Sofia
Cable title:
BULGARIA: DRAFT WMD AGREEMENT DELIVERED
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UNCLAS SOFIA 000620
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR L (THORNTON),ISN, AND EUR/NCE (NORDBERG)
DOD FOR OSD/POLICY (REID)
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL PARM EUN BU
SUBJECT: BULGARIA: DRAFT WMD AGREEMENT DELIVERED
REF: SECDEF DTG 162117Z MAY 07
UNCLAS SOFIA 000620
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR L (THORNTON),ISN, AND EUR/NCE (NORDBERG)
DOD FOR OSD/POLICY (REID)
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL PARM EUN BU
SUBJECT: BULGARIA: DRAFT WMD AGREEMENT DELIVERED
REF: SECDEF DTG 162117Z MAY 07
1. This is a guidance request. Please see paragraph 3.
2. We delivered reftel draft to MFA International Security
Director Petio Petev and Deputy Interior Minister Boiko
Kotsev on May 18. Both stated their support in principle for
the agreement and undertook to review the draft quickly.
Petev told us that the Ministry of Interior would take the
lead in shepherding the agreement through the Bulgarian
interagency. Kotsev, meanwhile, said that the main obstacle
would be the MFA's concerns regarding privileges and
immunities. According to him, Bulgaria would find itself in
hot water with Brussels if it granted to the U.S. privileges
and immunities that it does not accord to fellow EU member
states, as envisaged (he claimed) in the draft WMD Agreement.
3. Post would appreciate guidance from Washington colleagues
on how the issue of EU reciprocity was handled in WMD
Agreements with EU member states such as Romania, Slovenia
and the Baltics .
Karagiannis
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR L (THORNTON),ISN, AND EUR/NCE (NORDBERG)
DOD FOR OSD/POLICY (REID)
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL PARM EUN BU
SUBJECT: BULGARIA: DRAFT WMD AGREEMENT DELIVERED
REF: SECDEF DTG 162117Z MAY 07
1. This is a guidance request. Please see paragraph 3.
2. We delivered reftel draft to MFA International Security
Director Petio Petev and Deputy Interior Minister Boiko
Kotsev on May 18. Both stated their support in principle for
the agreement and undertook to review the draft quickly.
Petev told us that the Ministry of Interior would take the
lead in shepherding the agreement through the Bulgarian
interagency. Kotsev, meanwhile, said that the main obstacle
would be the MFA's concerns regarding privileges and
immunities. According to him, Bulgaria would find itself in
hot water with Brussels if it granted to the U.S. privileges
and immunities that it does not accord to fellow EU member
states, as envisaged (he claimed) in the draft WMD Agreement.
3. Post would appreciate guidance from Washington colleagues
on how the issue of EU reciprocity was handled in WMD
Agreements with EU member states such as Romania, Slovenia
and the Baltics .
Karagiannis