Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07TALLINN330
2007-05-21 09:42:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Tallinn
Cable title:
CLUSTER MUNITIONS CONFERENCE: ESTONIA STILL TO
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SIPDIS
DEPT FOR EUR/RPM (RICHARD PROSEN),USOCSE (CHRISTOPHER
SIBILLA),AND S/CT (ROOPA RANGASWAMY)
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: MOPS NATO PARM PREL EN
SUBJECT: CLUSTER MUNITIONS CONFERENCE: ESTONIA STILL TO
DECIDE ON OSLO PROCESS
Ref: STATE 66596
SBU) On May 18, we delivered reftel points to Arti
Hilpus, MFA Security and Arms Control Director, and
Ketlin Susmalainen, MFA Desk Officer, and discussed the
upcoming conference in Lima, Peru on Cluster Munitions.
Like the United States, Hilpus said that Estonia is also
greatly concerned by the humanitarian impact of cluster
munitions. Susmalianen, the MFA's delegate to the Lima
Conference, said that Estonia's main goal at the
conference is to uphold and strengthen existing
multilateral arms control frameworks, principally the
Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW). While the GOE
is aware that several countries have expressed the view
that the CCW process has failed to produce an adequate
response to the "humanitarian challenges" of cluster
munitions, Hilpus said that the GOE still sees the CCW
as the most effective and suitable framework in dealing
with cluster munitions. However, Hilpus also made clear
that the GOE has not ruled out supporting the Oslo
process, arguing that it has already given political
impetus to the CCW proceedings and may continue to play
a complimentary and mutually reinforcing role to the
CCW.
PHILLIPS
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR EUR/RPM (RICHARD PROSEN),USOCSE (CHRISTOPHER
SIBILLA),AND S/CT (ROOPA RANGASWAMY)
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: MOPS NATO PARM PREL EN
SUBJECT: CLUSTER MUNITIONS CONFERENCE: ESTONIA STILL TO
DECIDE ON OSLO PROCESS
Ref: STATE 66596
SBU) On May 18, we delivered reftel points to Arti
Hilpus, MFA Security and Arms Control Director, and
Ketlin Susmalainen, MFA Desk Officer, and discussed the
upcoming conference in Lima, Peru on Cluster Munitions.
Like the United States, Hilpus said that Estonia is also
greatly concerned by the humanitarian impact of cluster
munitions. Susmalianen, the MFA's delegate to the Lima
Conference, said that Estonia's main goal at the
conference is to uphold and strengthen existing
multilateral arms control frameworks, principally the
Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW). While the GOE
is aware that several countries have expressed the view
that the CCW process has failed to produce an adequate
response to the "humanitarian challenges" of cluster
munitions, Hilpus said that the GOE still sees the CCW
as the most effective and suitable framework in dealing
with cluster munitions. However, Hilpus also made clear
that the GOE has not ruled out supporting the Oslo
process, arguing that it has already given political
impetus to the CCW proceedings and may continue to play
a complimentary and mutually reinforcing role to the
CCW.
PHILLIPS