Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
08VILNIUS576
2008-07-22 04:50:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Vilnius
Cable title:
LITHUANIA WILL RAISE FARC CONCERNS IN EU TERRORISM
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C O N F I D E N T I A L VILNIUS 000576
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/22/2018
TAGS: PTER PREL EUN VE LH
SUBJECT: LITHUANIA WILL RAISE FARC CONCERNS IN EU TERRORISM
WORKING GROUP
REF: STATE 77205
Classified By: Ambassador John A. Cloud for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
(C) Post discussed reftel points July 18 with MFA Arms
Control and Terrorism Prevention Division First Secretary
Jonas Daniliauskas, who agreed on the necessity of
encouraging Venezuela to halt complicity in FARC-related
narco- and arms trafficking. Daniliauskas noted that
Lithuania has diplomatic relations with Venezuela through
their embassy in Argentina, and other EU states such as Spain
and Italy have much more influence in the Latin American
region. He therefore promised to raise the issue of
Venezuelan complicity in FARC activity at the next EU COTER
expert's meeting scheduled for September 11 in Brussels.
CLOUD
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/22/2018
TAGS: PTER PREL EUN VE LH
SUBJECT: LITHUANIA WILL RAISE FARC CONCERNS IN EU TERRORISM
WORKING GROUP
REF: STATE 77205
Classified By: Ambassador John A. Cloud for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
(C) Post discussed reftel points July 18 with MFA Arms
Control and Terrorism Prevention Division First Secretary
Jonas Daniliauskas, who agreed on the necessity of
encouraging Venezuela to halt complicity in FARC-related
narco- and arms trafficking. Daniliauskas noted that
Lithuania has diplomatic relations with Venezuela through
their embassy in Argentina, and other EU states such as Spain
and Italy have much more influence in the Latin American
region. He therefore promised to raise the issue of
Venezuelan complicity in FARC activity at the next EU COTER
expert's meeting scheduled for September 11 in Brussels.
CLOUD