Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
08WARSAW1301
2008-11-14 07:29:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Warsaw
Cable title:
WARSAW EMPATHIZES WITH U.S. ON DEA EXPULSION BUT
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C O N F I D E N T I A L WARSAW 001301
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/13/2018
TAGS: PREL PGOV KDEM SNAR BL PL
SUBJECT: WARSAW EMPATHIZES WITH U.S. ON DEA EXPULSION BUT
INFLUENCE LIMITED
REF: STATE 118934
Classified By: Political Counselor F. Daniel Sainz for Reasons 1.4 (b)
and (d)
C O N F I D E N T I A L WARSAW 001301
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/13/2018
TAGS: PREL PGOV KDEM SNAR BL PL
SUBJECT: WARSAW EMPATHIZES WITH U.S. ON DEA EXPULSION BUT
INFLUENCE LIMITED
REF: STATE 118934
Classified By: Political Counselor F. Daniel Sainz for Reasons 1.4 (b)
and (d)
1. (C) Warsaw agrees that the suspension of Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA) operations in Bolivia could have a
serious impact on the level of narcotics, particularly
cocaine, entering the European market. The Polish Ministry
of Foreign Affairs (MFA) was aware of the DEA suspension and
feared that the loss of U.S. counternarcotics assistance and
expertise will result in increased illicit drug production,
especially in areas of the country not fully under the
control of central government authorities in La Paz. Ewa
Kinast, MFA Deputy Director of the Americas Department,
described President Evo Morales' justification for the
eviction order as "politically driven," stressing that the
situation in Bolivia was complicated. Upcoming elections
increased the possibility that further attacks against U.S.
and other foreign interests would occur there.
2. (C) Although Kinast generally shared our analysis of the
situation, she said there was little that Poland could do to
overturn Morales' decision. Warsaw did not have an embassy
in La Paz, and bilateral economic relations were virtually
non-existent. Poland's ambassador in Lima covered both
Bolivia and Ecuador in addition to Peru. The ambassador
occasionally met with Morales, usually as part of an EU
group, but Kinast acknowledged that Warsaw did not have any
leverage in Bolivia. Nonetheless, Poland would look for
opportunities to exert its limited influence, most likely
through the EU, to remind Morales of his obligation to
control narcotics production and trafficking.
SCHILLING
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/13/2018
TAGS: PREL PGOV KDEM SNAR BL PL
SUBJECT: WARSAW EMPATHIZES WITH U.S. ON DEA EXPULSION BUT
INFLUENCE LIMITED
REF: STATE 118934
Classified By: Political Counselor F. Daniel Sainz for Reasons 1.4 (b)
and (d)
1. (C) Warsaw agrees that the suspension of Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA) operations in Bolivia could have a
serious impact on the level of narcotics, particularly
cocaine, entering the European market. The Polish Ministry
of Foreign Affairs (MFA) was aware of the DEA suspension and
feared that the loss of U.S. counternarcotics assistance and
expertise will result in increased illicit drug production,
especially in areas of the country not fully under the
control of central government authorities in La Paz. Ewa
Kinast, MFA Deputy Director of the Americas Department,
described President Evo Morales' justification for the
eviction order as "politically driven," stressing that the
situation in Bolivia was complicated. Upcoming elections
increased the possibility that further attacks against U.S.
and other foreign interests would occur there.
2. (C) Although Kinast generally shared our analysis of the
situation, she said there was little that Poland could do to
overturn Morales' decision. Warsaw did not have an embassy
in La Paz, and bilateral economic relations were virtually
non-existent. Poland's ambassador in Lima covered both
Bolivia and Ecuador in addition to Peru. The ambassador
occasionally met with Morales, usually as part of an EU
group, but Kinast acknowledged that Warsaw did not have any
leverage in Bolivia. Nonetheless, Poland would look for
opportunities to exert its limited influence, most likely
through the EU, to remind Morales of his obligation to
control narcotics production and trafficking.
SCHILLING