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Created
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08TBILISI1160
2008-07-03 16:01:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Tbilisi
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C O N F I D E N T I A L TBILISI 001160
STATE FOR EUR/CARC
E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/03/2018
TAGS: GG PGOV PREL
SUBJECT: GEORGIAN FM ON THE FRIENDS PLAN
Classified By: Ambassador John F. Tefft for reasons 1.4. (b) and (d).
C O N F I D E N T I A L TBILISI 001160
STATE FOR EUR/CARC
E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/03/2018
TAGS: GG PGOV PREL
SUBJECT: GEORGIAN FM ON THE FRIENDS PLAN
Classified By: Ambassador John F. Tefft for reasons 1.4. (b) and (d).
1. (C) On July 3, Georgian FM Eka Tkeshelashvili met with
the Western Friends of Georgia to discuss the status of the
plan from the Friends meetings in Berlin on June 30.
Representatives from the German, British and French embassies
joined the meeting. The German ambassador acknowledged that
she awaited final confirmation of the plan, and she noted
German FM Steinmeier's personal involvement in the meeting.
She hoped for confirmation of the plan by the Russians prior
to the upcoming G-8 summit.
2. (C) Tkeshelashvili emphasized Georgia's need for
concrete results on de-escalation and the replacement of the
current security format in the first phase of the
implementation of the plan. She said that the Abkhaz demand
that Georgia withdraw from the upper Kodori immediately was
not acceptable. Georgia was looking up front for the
beginning of the withdrawal of Russian troops and the
rollback of Russian implementation of Putin's April 16
instructions. The FM said that she did not want there to be
any misunderstanding among the western Friends about the
urgency of rolling back Russian efforts and addressing a new
security framework in phase one.
3. (C) The German Ambassador reported that Germany has
placed Abkhazia on the agenda for its discussions with the
Russian president at the G-8 summit.
4. (C) In a private conversation with Tkeshelashvili on the
margins of the western Friends meeting, Ambassador Tefft
raised the issue of recent explosions in Abkhazia and South
Ossetia. He expressed concern that while we could not
confirm the perpetrators of these acts, it was important that
they be stopped. He told the FM that he hoped the Georgians
were not involved. The FM cited these explosions as an
example of why security is necessary for the conflict
reasons. She said that Georgia wants to show, with its own
concrete actions, that it is committed to peace.
TEFFT
STATE FOR EUR/CARC
E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/03/2018
TAGS: GG PGOV PREL
SUBJECT: GEORGIAN FM ON THE FRIENDS PLAN
Classified By: Ambassador John F. Tefft for reasons 1.4. (b) and (d).
1. (C) On July 3, Georgian FM Eka Tkeshelashvili met with
the Western Friends of Georgia to discuss the status of the
plan from the Friends meetings in Berlin on June 30.
Representatives from the German, British and French embassies
joined the meeting. The German ambassador acknowledged that
she awaited final confirmation of the plan, and she noted
German FM Steinmeier's personal involvement in the meeting.
She hoped for confirmation of the plan by the Russians prior
to the upcoming G-8 summit.
2. (C) Tkeshelashvili emphasized Georgia's need for
concrete results on de-escalation and the replacement of the
current security format in the first phase of the
implementation of the plan. She said that the Abkhaz demand
that Georgia withdraw from the upper Kodori immediately was
not acceptable. Georgia was looking up front for the
beginning of the withdrawal of Russian troops and the
rollback of Russian implementation of Putin's April 16
instructions. The FM said that she did not want there to be
any misunderstanding among the western Friends about the
urgency of rolling back Russian efforts and addressing a new
security framework in phase one.
3. (C) The German Ambassador reported that Germany has
placed Abkhazia on the agenda for its discussions with the
Russian president at the G-8 summit.
4. (C) In a private conversation with Tkeshelashvili on the
margins of the western Friends meeting, Ambassador Tefft
raised the issue of recent explosions in Abkhazia and South
Ossetia. He expressed concern that while we could not
confirm the perpetrators of these acts, it was important that
they be stopped. He told the FM that he hoped the Georgians
were not involved. The FM cited these explosions as an
example of why security is necessary for the conflict
reasons. She said that Georgia wants to show, with its own
concrete actions, that it is committed to peace.
TEFFT