Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
08MOSCOW1028
2008-04-15 13:27:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Moscow
Cable title:
DEMARCHE ON RUSSIAN ENERGY ASSISTANCE TO NORTH
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C O N F I D E N T I A L MOSCOW 001028
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/15/2018
TAGS: PREL EAID ENRG KNNP PARM KN RS
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE ON RUSSIAN ENERGY ASSISTANCE TO NORTH
KOREA UNDER SIX PARTY TALKS
REF: SECSTATE 37981
Classified By: Political M/C Alice G. Wells. Reasons 1.4 (B/D).
C O N F I D E N T I A L MOSCOW 001028
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/15/2018
TAGS: PREL EAID ENRG KNNP PARM KN RS
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE ON RUSSIAN ENERGY ASSISTANCE TO NORTH
KOREA UNDER SIX PARTY TALKS
REF: SECSTATE 37981
Classified By: Political M/C Alice G. Wells. Reasons 1.4 (B/D).
1. (C) We delivered April 14 reftel demarche to Oleg
Davydov, MFA Korea Desk Senior Counselor and GOR
representative to the Six-Party Economy and Energy
Cooperation Working Group. Davydov reaffirmed Russia's
continued commitment to the Six - Party Process and provided
the following official response:
-- The GOR remains committed to the Talks' main goal -- the
denuclearization of the Korean peninsula -- and its
obligations stipulated in the October 3 2007 Agreement.
-- The GOR is undergoing inter-agency discussions to sort out
the details of the next shipment. While the MFA is fully on
board, it has no control over the Ministry of Finance, which
oversees the actual delivery.
-- Davydov expressed frustration at the lack of a clear time
table and frequent last-minute notices by the U.S. He
claimed that he was unable to participate in the December 12
Beijing meeting because it was called with little advance
notice. Instead Russia sent a counselor working in the
Russian Embassy in Beijing, who had little authority to carry
out negotiations. As a result, the agreements reached in
Beijing were not well vetted by involved Russian government
agencies. For instance, the GOR did not agree to the teaming
up of China and South Korea for HFO-equivalent assistance,
and the U.S. and Russia for HFO assistance to North Korea.
The agreement is not just a political document but has
financial components that needs to be gauged by each
country's capabilities.
2. (C) In a separate conversation, we spoke with Vadim
Grishin, Chief of Staff to Finance Minister Kudrin. Grishin
told us that in the morning of April 15, DPM Naryshkin
chaired an inter-ministerial meeting on this issue, during
which a consensus on next steps was reached. Grishin was
cautiously optimistic that a delivery could be made by the
end of April.
BURNS
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/15/2018
TAGS: PREL EAID ENRG KNNP PARM KN RS
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE ON RUSSIAN ENERGY ASSISTANCE TO NORTH
KOREA UNDER SIX PARTY TALKS
REF: SECSTATE 37981
Classified By: Political M/C Alice G. Wells. Reasons 1.4 (B/D).
1. (C) We delivered April 14 reftel demarche to Oleg
Davydov, MFA Korea Desk Senior Counselor and GOR
representative to the Six-Party Economy and Energy
Cooperation Working Group. Davydov reaffirmed Russia's
continued commitment to the Six - Party Process and provided
the following official response:
-- The GOR remains committed to the Talks' main goal -- the
denuclearization of the Korean peninsula -- and its
obligations stipulated in the October 3 2007 Agreement.
-- The GOR is undergoing inter-agency discussions to sort out
the details of the next shipment. While the MFA is fully on
board, it has no control over the Ministry of Finance, which
oversees the actual delivery.
-- Davydov expressed frustration at the lack of a clear time
table and frequent last-minute notices by the U.S. He
claimed that he was unable to participate in the December 12
Beijing meeting because it was called with little advance
notice. Instead Russia sent a counselor working in the
Russian Embassy in Beijing, who had little authority to carry
out negotiations. As a result, the agreements reached in
Beijing were not well vetted by involved Russian government
agencies. For instance, the GOR did not agree to the teaming
up of China and South Korea for HFO-equivalent assistance,
and the U.S. and Russia for HFO assistance to North Korea.
The agreement is not just a political document but has
financial components that needs to be gauged by each
country's capabilities.
2. (C) In a separate conversation, we spoke with Vadim
Grishin, Chief of Staff to Finance Minister Kudrin. Grishin
told us that in the morning of April 15, DPM Naryshkin
chaired an inter-ministerial meeting on this issue, during
which a consensus on next steps was reached. Grishin was
cautiously optimistic that a delivery could be made by the
end of April.
BURNS