Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
08ROME528
2008-04-24 15:27:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Rome
Cable title:  

GREECE/MACEDONIA: ITALY IN FAVOR OF QUICK

Tags:  PREL NATO PGOV MK GR IT 
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TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 0238
INFO RUEHZG/NATO EU COLLECTIVE PRIORITY
RUEHSQ/AMEMBASSY SKOPJE PRIORITY 0825
C O N F I D E N T I A L ROME 000528 

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SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/25/2018
TAGS: PREL NATO PGOV MK GR IT
SUBJECT: GREECE/MACEDONIA: ITALY IN FAVOR OF QUICK
RESOLUTION TO NAME DISPUTE

REF: STATE 40462

Classified By: Acting Political Minister Counselor Jonathan Cohen for r
easons 1.4 b and d

C O N F I D E N T I A L ROME 000528

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/25/2018
TAGS: PREL NATO PGOV MK GR IT
SUBJECT: GREECE/MACEDONIA: ITALY IN FAVOR OF QUICK
RESOLUTION TO NAME DISPUTE

REF: STATE 40462

Classified By: Acting Political Minister Counselor Jonathan Cohen for r
easons 1.4 b and d


1. (C) Poloffs delivered reftel points on April 18 to MFA
NATO desk officer Piermario Dacco. Poloffs requested
high-level Italian intervention with Greece to urge renewed
commitment in resolving the Macedonia name dispute as soon as
possible. Dacco said Italy shared the USG concern and also
wanted to see Macedonia invited to join NATO as soon as
possible.


2. (C) MFA NATO desk officer Carlo Battori contacted poloff
late April 24 to say FM D'Alema had also been contacted by
the Macedonian government on the issue. Battori reiterated
Italy's strong support for Macedonian NATO accession but said
the current Italian care-taker government was unlikely to
take action at the PM or FM level given that the new
government is expected to be innaugurated within the next two
to three weeks. That said he stressed that Italy would
continue to be very active at the UN and in the EU in the
"Friends of Macedonia" group in support of quick resolution
to the name dispute.
SPOGLI