DEAMRCHE DELIVERED ON PIRACY OFF SOMALIA

C O N F I D E N T I A L ATHENS 000309 SIPDIS SIPDIS DEPT FOR AF/E, AF/RSA, IO/UNP, EEB/TRA/OTP, OES/OA AND L E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/03/2018 TAGS: KCRM PBTS PREL UNGA UNSC IMO GR SUBJECT: DEAMRCHE DELIVERED ON PIRACY OFF SOMALIA REF: STATE 18101 Classified By: Acting Political Counselor Jeff Hovenier for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d) ¶1. (U) On February 26, DepPolCouns delivered reftel demarche points to Ambassador Alexandros Rallis, Acting Director of the D1 Directorate for the United Nations and International Organizations and to Political Director Vassilopoulos at the A9 Division for Subsuaharan Africa at the MFA. ¶2. (C) On March 3, poloff spoke with Ambassador Rallis who reported that he discussed the reftel points with the MFA Legal Department and that because there was no linking of the points with the proposed bilateral Greek Shipboarding Agreement, the GoG had no objection and had "no problems" with the proposal. He added that Greece had no substantive proposals for a future Security Council resolution on the matter. SPECKHARD