Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
08MOSCOW999
2008-04-11 12:33:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Moscow
Cable title:
DEMARCHES ON IRAQ'S NEIGHBORS DELIVERED
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C O N F I D E N T I A L MOSCOW 000999
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/11/2018
TAGS: PGOV PREL PTER EUN IZ IR RS
SUBJECT: DEMARCHES ON IRAQ'S NEIGHBORS DELIVERED
REF: A. STATE 35471
¶B. STATE 38013
¶C. MOSCOW 955
Classified By: Acting Political Minister-Counselor Bob Patterson. Reas
ons 1.4 (b) and (d).
(C) As follow-up to Senior Advisor to the Secretary and
Coordinator for Iraq Ambassador David Satterfield's meeting
with Deputy Foreign Minister Saltanov (ref C),we delivered
ref A and B demarches to MFA Middle East and North Africa
section head Ivan Molotkov on April 11. We reiterated the
USG's appreciation for Russia's efforts to encourage Iraq's
neighbors to become more engaged in Iraq, and urged the GOR
to support Iraqi efforts to invigorate the Expanded Neighbors
process. Molotkov had no substantive comment.
RUSSELL