Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
08BERLIN1349
2008-09-30 12:16:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Berlin
Cable title:
GERMANY RELUCTANT TO IMPEDE ZIMBABWE'S ACCESS TO
how-toVZCZCXYZ0002 RR RUEHWEB DE RUEHRL #1349 2741216 ZNY CCCCC ZZH R 301216Z SEP 08 FM AMEMBASSY BERLIN TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 2287 INFO RUEHBU/AMEMBASSY BUENOS AIRES 0204 RUEHSB/AMEMBASSY HARARE 0041 RUEHJA/AMEMBASSY JAKARTA 0120 RUEHLO/AMEMBASSY LONDON 9298 RUEHMO/AMEMBASSY MOSCOW 1964
C O N F I D E N T I A L BERLIN 001349
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 09/30/2018
TAGS: ECON EFIN PGOV ASEC ZI GM
SUBJECT: GERMANY RELUCTANT TO IMPEDE ZIMBABWE'S ACCESS TO
BANK NOTE PAPER
REF: STATE 103129
Classified By: Global Affairs Office Chief Don L. Brown,
for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
(C) Germany is reluctant to discourage Giesecke & Devrient,
Zimbabwe's former bank note stock supplier, from restarting
its contract with Fidelity Printers. Econoff delivered
reftel talking points to Martina Wurm-Dittkrist, German MFA
desk officer for Zimbabwe. Wurm-Dittkrist said the recent
power sharing agreement needs international support to
succeed. In anticipation of monetary policy reforms, she
anticipated that the GOZ will need to reach its own decisions
on how exactly to end the monetary crisis, but that they will
need to be able to continue to print currency in some form
and quantity in the future. She related a concern that any
future crises will make it difficult for Tsvangirai to
succeed as Prime Minister under the sharing agreement.
TIMKEN JR