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08BUDAPEST772
2008-08-01 15:21:00
SECRET
Embassy Budapest
Cable title:  

GENERAL GUIDANCE ON IRAN PARTICIPATION IN

Tags:  PARM PREL HU 
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FM AMEMBASSY BUDAPEST
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 3247
INFO RUEHNSC/NSC WASHINGTON DC
S E C R E T BUDAPEST 000772 

SIPDIS

DEPARTMENT FOR ISN CATR-MEG MITCHELL AND LOU GANEM, SCA,
AND EUR/CE JAMIE LAMORE

E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/01/2018
TAGS: PARM PREL HU
SUBJECT: GENERAL GUIDANCE ON IRAN PARTICIPATION IN
INTERNATIONAL DEFENSE EXPOS

REF: SECSTATE 67212

Classified By: PolOff Ryan C. Leong, reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).

S E C R E T BUDAPEST 000772

SIPDIS

DEPARTMENT FOR ISN CATR-MEG MITCHELL AND LOU GANEM, SCA,
AND EUR/CE JAMIE LAMORE

E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/01/2018
TAGS: PARM PREL HU
SUBJECT: GENERAL GUIDANCE ON IRAN PARTICIPATION IN
INTERNATIONAL DEFENSE EXPOS

REF: SECSTATE 67212

Classified By: PolOff Ryan C. Leong, reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).


1. (S) Ref talking points were delivered on August 1 to Dr.
Bernadett Kollar, Department of International Organizations
at the GoH Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Kollar had no
immediate response other than she understood entirely the
need to deny a venue for Iran's continued overt and covert
weapons procurement, sales and transfers. She will also pass
the message on to her colleagues in the MFA non-proliferation
department.


2. (C) The main defense expo held in Hungary is the "C D,
Central European Defense Equipment and Aviation Exhibition"
organized every other year in November by Hungexpo. The 9th
exhibition will be organized in 2009. When Embassy officers
visited the last show in November 2007, Raytheon was the only
U.S. exhibitor. General Dynamic European Land Systems,
Austria was also present in addition to two exhibitors from
the Czech Republic, three from Poland, two from Germany, two
from Italy, one from Switzerland, and one from Norway; the
remaining exhibitors were Hungarian. A comparatively small
arms expo, it was much more interesting for U.S. companies
before Hungary made the decision to purchase the Swedish-made
Gripen multi-role fighters instead of Lockheed Martin's F-16
fighter. Lockheed had previously attended the show.
Foley