Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07YEREVAN419
2007-04-09 12:03:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Yerevan
Cable title:
DEMARCHE DELIVERED: RIBBON CUTTING AT THE NATANZ
how-toVZCZCXRO8500 PP RUEHBC RUEHDBU RUEHDE RUEHDIR RUEHKUK DE RUEHYE #0419 0991203 ZNY CCCCC ZZH P 091203Z APR 07 FM AMEMBASSY YEREVAN TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 5249 INFO RUCNCIS/CIS COLLECTIVE PRIORITY RUCNIRA/IRAN COLLECTIVE PRIORITY
C O N F I D E N T I A L YEREVAN 000419
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
FOR ISN, NEA, IO, AND EUR/CARC
E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/08/2017
TAGS: PARM PREL MNUC AORC KNNP IAEA UNSC IR AM
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE DELIVERED: RIBBON CUTTING AT THE NATANZ
FUEL ENRICHMENT PLANT 9 APRIL 2007
REF: SECSTATE 45884
Classified By: Steve Banks, pol/econ chief, reasons 1.4 (b,d)
(C) CDA contacted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs this
morning, reaching out to DFM Kirakossian and the FM's
executive assistant Salpi Ghazarian, while pol/econ chief
contacted Americas director. Ghazarian told CDA that, in
response to our message, the MFA had called the Armenian
ambassador in Tehran, only to find the ambassador was already
on an Iranian MFA-chartered bus, on the road to participate
in the ceremony. CDA pointedly observed that Armenia should
not have required our intervention to realize that attendance
was a poor choice. Ghazarian relayed the Tehran ambassador's
observation that "all of the Embassies from the region were
represented on the bus," not just Armenia. CDA commented
that not all of the countries in the region had just hosted
Ahmadinejad, and that this would not help perceptions in
Washington.
GODFREY