Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09ASTANA184
2009-01-30 08:53:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Astana
Cable title:
KAZAKAHSTAN WILL ATTEMPT TO ADVOCATE FOR MANAS
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C O N F I D E N T I A L ASTANA 000184
SIPDIS
STATE FOR SCA/CEN, EUR/RUS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/30/2014
TAGS: PREL PGOV MARR RS KG KZ
SUBJECT: KAZAKAHSTAN WILL ATTEMPT TO ADVOCATE FOR MANAS
COALITION AIRBASE
REF: SECSTATE 08300
Classified By: AMBASSADOR RICAHRD E. HOAGLAND: 1.2 (B),(D)
C O N F I D E N T I A L ASTANA 000184
SIPDIS
STATE FOR SCA/CEN, EUR/RUS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/30/2014
TAGS: PREL PGOV MARR RS KG KZ
SUBJECT: KAZAKAHSTAN WILL ATTEMPT TO ADVOCATE FOR MANAS
COALITION AIRBASE
REF: SECSTATE 08300
Classified By: AMBASSADOR RICAHRD E. HOAGLAND: 1.2 (B),(D)
1. (C) As instructed reftel, Embassy Astana attempted to
communicate talking points to the highest possible level.
Presidential Foreign Policy Adviser Khairat Sarybay is in
Davos, Switzerland, at the World Economic Forum with
President Nursultan Nazarbayev. Foreign Minister Marat
Tazhin is in Almaty. The newly appointed First Deputy
Foreign Minister just returned from his tour as Ambassador to
Russia and, in any case, is generally considered to be
pro-Russia. The newly appointed Deputy Foreign Minister for
the Americas is not yet in place. We worked with Foreign
Ministry Americas Director Talgat Kaliyev, and initially
passed him the talking points as a non-paper in English and
Russian, emphasizing the urgent need for action. During this
first meeting of the day, Kaliyev noted Kyrgyzstan's
President Bakiyev is very strapped for cash and is in the
process of trying to consolidate his power domestically.
2. (C) In a later conversation with the Ambassador, Kaliyev
said he had already passed the talking points to Foreign
Minister Tazhin, who took them with utmost seriousness and
promised to do what he could at the Commonwealth Strategic
Treaty Organization ministerial in Moscow on February 2.
According to Kaliyev, Tazhin recommended against a Nazarbayev
call to Bakiyev because "Bakiyev does not like to receive,
and usually does not listen to, advice from Nazarbayev."
However, Kaliyev suggested Foreign Minister Tazhin would
welcome a call from Secretary of State Clinton to emphasize
the urgency of the issue and to discuss options.
3. (C) For one other option, Kaliyev noted that State
Secretary Kanat Saudabayev, a long-standing confidant of
Nazarbayev, arrives in Washington, DC, the evening of
February 1 to begin a several-day series of meetings.
Kaliyev suggested that a high-level intervention with
Saudabayev "would not be harmful."
4. (C) COMMENT: We recognize that the suggestions of a
Clinton call to Tazhin and a high-level meeting for
Saudabayev in Washington could be construed as a bit
self-serving. However, we have urgent national-security
business to conduct, and probably no option should be taken
off the table. END COMMENT.
HOAGLAND
SIPDIS
STATE FOR SCA/CEN, EUR/RUS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/30/2014
TAGS: PREL PGOV MARR RS KG KZ
SUBJECT: KAZAKAHSTAN WILL ATTEMPT TO ADVOCATE FOR MANAS
COALITION AIRBASE
REF: SECSTATE 08300
Classified By: AMBASSADOR RICAHRD E. HOAGLAND: 1.2 (B),(D)
1. (C) As instructed reftel, Embassy Astana attempted to
communicate talking points to the highest possible level.
Presidential Foreign Policy Adviser Khairat Sarybay is in
Davos, Switzerland, at the World Economic Forum with
President Nursultan Nazarbayev. Foreign Minister Marat
Tazhin is in Almaty. The newly appointed First Deputy
Foreign Minister just returned from his tour as Ambassador to
Russia and, in any case, is generally considered to be
pro-Russia. The newly appointed Deputy Foreign Minister for
the Americas is not yet in place. We worked with Foreign
Ministry Americas Director Talgat Kaliyev, and initially
passed him the talking points as a non-paper in English and
Russian, emphasizing the urgent need for action. During this
first meeting of the day, Kaliyev noted Kyrgyzstan's
President Bakiyev is very strapped for cash and is in the
process of trying to consolidate his power domestically.
2. (C) In a later conversation with the Ambassador, Kaliyev
said he had already passed the talking points to Foreign
Minister Tazhin, who took them with utmost seriousness and
promised to do what he could at the Commonwealth Strategic
Treaty Organization ministerial in Moscow on February 2.
According to Kaliyev, Tazhin recommended against a Nazarbayev
call to Bakiyev because "Bakiyev does not like to receive,
and usually does not listen to, advice from Nazarbayev."
However, Kaliyev suggested Foreign Minister Tazhin would
welcome a call from Secretary of State Clinton to emphasize
the urgency of the issue and to discuss options.
3. (C) For one other option, Kaliyev noted that State
Secretary Kanat Saudabayev, a long-standing confidant of
Nazarbayev, arrives in Washington, DC, the evening of
February 1 to begin a several-day series of meetings.
Kaliyev suggested that a high-level intervention with
Saudabayev "would not be harmful."
4. (C) COMMENT: We recognize that the suggestions of a
Clinton call to Tazhin and a high-level meeting for
Saudabayev in Washington could be construed as a bit
self-serving. However, we have urgent national-security
business to conduct, and probably no option should be taken
off the table. END COMMENT.
HOAGLAND