Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
08MOSCOW3773
2008-12-31 08:31:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Moscow
Cable title:
GOR NEVER RECEIVED INFO FROM POLAND REGARDING
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C O N F I D E N T I A L MOSCOW 003773
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/29/2018
TAGS: PREL PTER ETTC MASS MCAP RS PL GG
SUBJECT: GOR NEVER RECEIVED INFO FROM POLAND REGARDING
MANPADS ALLEGED IN CHECHNYA
REF: A. STATE 134448
B. MOSCOW 3475
Classified By: Political M/C Alice G. Wells. Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
C O N F I D E N T I A L MOSCOW 003773
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/29/2018
TAGS: PREL PTER ETTC MASS MCAP RS PL GG
SUBJECT: GOR NEVER RECEIVED INFO FROM POLAND REGARDING
MANPADS ALLEGED IN CHECHNYA
REF: A. STATE 134448
B. MOSCOW 3475
Classified By: Political M/C Alice G. Wells. Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
1. (C) On December 30 we delivered ref A nonpaper to MFA
DVBVR First Secretary Andrey Odnoral, who told us the GOR
passed a diplomatic note regarding Polish GROM MANPADS sales
to Georgia to the GOP via the Russian Embassy in Warsaw in
June 2008, prior to the August conflict. To date, the GOR
has received no official reply, he said. According to
Odnoral, the GOR has otherwise raised this issue with Poland
only within the framework of Wassenaar Arrangement meetings
held in September in Lyon and in December in Vienna. Odnoral
could not recall the names of Polish delegation members with
whom he had discussed this issue.
2. (C) Odnoral said that Russia wanted to inform us of the
discovery of these MANPADS in Chechnya because the GOR and
USG had agreed to share information regarding the illicit
sale of MANPADS. He added that this incident underscored the
lack of security and export controls exercised by the
Georgian government. Odnoral said he would get back to us
regarding permission to share the information from the GOR's
November 26 nonpaper (ref B) with Poland.
RUBIN
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/29/2018
TAGS: PREL PTER ETTC MASS MCAP RS PL GG
SUBJECT: GOR NEVER RECEIVED INFO FROM POLAND REGARDING
MANPADS ALLEGED IN CHECHNYA
REF: A. STATE 134448
B. MOSCOW 3475
Classified By: Political M/C Alice G. Wells. Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
1. (C) On December 30 we delivered ref A nonpaper to MFA
DVBVR First Secretary Andrey Odnoral, who told us the GOR
passed a diplomatic note regarding Polish GROM MANPADS sales
to Georgia to the GOP via the Russian Embassy in Warsaw in
June 2008, prior to the August conflict. To date, the GOR
has received no official reply, he said. According to
Odnoral, the GOR has otherwise raised this issue with Poland
only within the framework of Wassenaar Arrangement meetings
held in September in Lyon and in December in Vienna. Odnoral
could not recall the names of Polish delegation members with
whom he had discussed this issue.
2. (C) Odnoral said that Russia wanted to inform us of the
discovery of these MANPADS in Chechnya because the GOR and
USG had agreed to share information regarding the illicit
sale of MANPADS. He added that this incident underscored the
lack of security and export controls exercised by the
Georgian government. Odnoral said he would get back to us
regarding permission to share the information from the GOR's
November 26 nonpaper (ref B) with Poland.
RUBIN