Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
08STATE90979
2008-08-23 17:46:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Secretary of State
Cable title:
DEMARCHE: NOTIFICATION OF U.S. TRANSPORTATION OF
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C O N F I D E N T I A L STATE 090979
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/22/2018
TAGS: EAID GG MARR PHUM PREL RS
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE: NOTIFICATION OF U.S. TRANSPORTATION OF
HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE IN THE BLACK SEA
Classified By: Assistant Secretary Dan Fried, EUR,
for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
C O N F I D E N T I A L STATE 090979
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/22/2018
TAGS: EAID GG MARR PHUM PREL RS
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE: NOTIFICATION OF U.S. TRANSPORTATION OF
HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE IN THE BLACK SEA
Classified By: Assistant Secretary Dan Fried, EUR,
for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
1. (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3.
2. (C) Embassy Moscow is requested to inform immediately
appropriate senior Russian officials concerning U.S. ships in
the Black Sea transporting humanitarian assistance to Georgia.
Currently, USS McFaul is scheduled to reach the Georgian port of
Batumi on August 24 or 25. Follow-on ships dedicated to the
humanitarian assistance mission to Georgia are USCGC Dallas
and USS Mt. Whitney, which are expected to arrive in Georgia
in the next two weeks. Planning is underway to determine if the
port of Poti is accessible for follow-on ships. If so, the
Department will notify Embassy Moscow to relay to GOR officials.
USS Taylor will also be in the Black Sea participating in a NATO
Standing Maritime Group exercise. This cable and this
notification to the GoR are intended to cover all future
shipping of humanitarian assistance; therefore, the Department
does not plan to send additional demarches for follow-on
humanitarian assistance shipping. As usual, the GOR will be
notified of the transit of U.S. ships through the Turkish
straits through the normal Montreux Convention notification
process.
3. (SBU) Embassy Moscow should draw on the following points in
providing this information to the GOR:
-- The United States is providing emergency humanitarian
assistance supplies to the people of Georgia to assist with the
large numbers of injured and displaced persons in Georgia.
-- U.S. Navy and Coast Guard ships are traveling through the
Black Sea, in accordance with the Montreux Convention, en route
to Georgian ports to deliver humanitarian assistance. These
humanitarian assistance missions will occur regularly for the
forseeable future.
-- We are providing this information in order to be as clear as
possible about U.S. intentions. As these ships are acting in
accordance with international norms, we assume the GOR will take
no action concerning these ships and allow unimpeded transit and
swift delivery of the humanitarian assistance to and inside
Georgia.
4. (U) Embassy Moscow is requested to respond
immediately on results of this demarche.
RICE
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/22/2018
TAGS: EAID GG MARR PHUM PREL RS
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE: NOTIFICATION OF U.S. TRANSPORTATION OF
HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE IN THE BLACK SEA
Classified By: Assistant Secretary Dan Fried, EUR,
for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
1. (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3.
2. (C) Embassy Moscow is requested to inform immediately
appropriate senior Russian officials concerning U.S. ships in
the Black Sea transporting humanitarian assistance to Georgia.
Currently, USS McFaul is scheduled to reach the Georgian port of
Batumi on August 24 or 25. Follow-on ships dedicated to the
humanitarian assistance mission to Georgia are USCGC Dallas
and USS Mt. Whitney, which are expected to arrive in Georgia
in the next two weeks. Planning is underway to determine if the
port of Poti is accessible for follow-on ships. If so, the
Department will notify Embassy Moscow to relay to GOR officials.
USS Taylor will also be in the Black Sea participating in a NATO
Standing Maritime Group exercise. This cable and this
notification to the GoR are intended to cover all future
shipping of humanitarian assistance; therefore, the Department
does not plan to send additional demarches for follow-on
humanitarian assistance shipping. As usual, the GOR will be
notified of the transit of U.S. ships through the Turkish
straits through the normal Montreux Convention notification
process.
3. (SBU) Embassy Moscow should draw on the following points in
providing this information to the GOR:
-- The United States is providing emergency humanitarian
assistance supplies to the people of Georgia to assist with the
large numbers of injured and displaced persons in Georgia.
-- U.S. Navy and Coast Guard ships are traveling through the
Black Sea, in accordance with the Montreux Convention, en route
to Georgian ports to deliver humanitarian assistance. These
humanitarian assistance missions will occur regularly for the
forseeable future.
-- We are providing this information in order to be as clear as
possible about U.S. intentions. As these ships are acting in
accordance with international norms, we assume the GOR will take
no action concerning these ships and allow unimpeded transit and
swift delivery of the humanitarian assistance to and inside
Georgia.
4. (U) Embassy Moscow is requested to respond
immediately on results of this demarche.
RICE