Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
08ZAGREB68
2008-01-31 10:44:00
CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN
Embassy Zagreb
Cable title:
NEVEN JURICA CONFIRMED AS NEW CROATIAN PERMREP TO
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C O N F I D E N T I A L ZAGREB 000068
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
FOR EUR/SCE, EUR/PPD AND EUR/RPM
OSD FOR WINTERNITZ, NSC FOR BRAUN
E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/01/2018
TAGS: PREL PGOV HR
SUBJECT: NEVEN JURICA CONFIRMED AS NEW CROATIAN PERMREP TO
UN IN NEW YORK; CURRENT PERMREP MLADINEO TO GO TO GENEVA
REF: ZAGREB 0040
Classified By: Rick Holtzapple, POL/ECON, Reasons 1.4 B/D
C O N F I D E N T I A L ZAGREB 000068
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
FOR EUR/SCE, EUR/PPD AND EUR/RPM
OSD FOR WINTERNITZ, NSC FOR BRAUN
E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/01/2018
TAGS: PREL PGOV HR
SUBJECT: NEVEN JURICA CONFIRMED AS NEW CROATIAN PERMREP TO
UN IN NEW YORK; CURRENT PERMREP MLADINEO TO GO TO GENEVA
REF: ZAGREB 0040
Classified By: Rick Holtzapple, POL/ECON, Reasons 1.4 B/D
1. (U) On January 28, the Croatian Sabor's Foreign Affairs
Committee gave positive consideration to the government's
nomination of current Croatian Ambassador to the United
States Neven Jurica as Croatia's new UN Permanent
Representative, and reassignment of Croatia's current Perm
Rep in New York, Mirjana Mladineo, to the Perm Rep position
at Croatia's UN Mission in Geneva.
2. (C) Press reports have focused on Jurica's close personal
relationship with Prime Minister Sanader (and lack of
experience with multilateral diplomacy) and interpreted the
move as a signal that Sanader wants to have an unquestioned
loyalist as the Croatian representative in the UN Security
Council to help control the potential influence of Croatian
President Stipe Mesic, who has a co-decision role on foreign
policy issues under Croatia's constitution, on Croatia's
positions in the UNSC. Post shares this assessment of
Sanader's motivation in engineering this personnel change.
3. (SBU) The government has also forwarded to the Sabor
Committee the nomination of former Foreign Minister Kolinda
Grabar-Kitarovic to replace Jurica in Washington (REFTEL).
The Sabor Committee has not yet taken any action on
Kitarovic's nomination, although we do not anticipate any
opposition to her nomination.
BRADTKE
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
FOR EUR/SCE, EUR/PPD AND EUR/RPM
OSD FOR WINTERNITZ, NSC FOR BRAUN
E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/01/2018
TAGS: PREL PGOV HR
SUBJECT: NEVEN JURICA CONFIRMED AS NEW CROATIAN PERMREP TO
UN IN NEW YORK; CURRENT PERMREP MLADINEO TO GO TO GENEVA
REF: ZAGREB 0040
Classified By: Rick Holtzapple, POL/ECON, Reasons 1.4 B/D
1. (U) On January 28, the Croatian Sabor's Foreign Affairs
Committee gave positive consideration to the government's
nomination of current Croatian Ambassador to the United
States Neven Jurica as Croatia's new UN Permanent
Representative, and reassignment of Croatia's current Perm
Rep in New York, Mirjana Mladineo, to the Perm Rep position
at Croatia's UN Mission in Geneva.
2. (C) Press reports have focused on Jurica's close personal
relationship with Prime Minister Sanader (and lack of
experience with multilateral diplomacy) and interpreted the
move as a signal that Sanader wants to have an unquestioned
loyalist as the Croatian representative in the UN Security
Council to help control the potential influence of Croatian
President Stipe Mesic, who has a co-decision role on foreign
policy issues under Croatia's constitution, on Croatia's
positions in the UNSC. Post shares this assessment of
Sanader's motivation in engineering this personnel change.
3. (SBU) The government has also forwarded to the Sabor
Committee the nomination of former Foreign Minister Kolinda
Grabar-Kitarovic to replace Jurica in Washington (REFTEL).
The Sabor Committee has not yet taken any action on
Kitarovic's nomination, although we do not anticipate any
opposition to her nomination.
BRADTKE