Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09BERN139
2009-03-30 16:00:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Bern
Cable title:
SWISS PLAN TO FILE BRIEF WITH ICJ IN SUPPORT OF
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UNCLAS BERN 000139
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR EUR/SCE (S.SHIRATORI/P.PFEUFFER),L/UNA
(T.BUCHWALD),AND EUR/CE (Y.SAINT-ANDRE)
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: AORC PREL ICJ KV SZ
SUBJECT: SWISS PLAN TO FILE BRIEF WITH ICJ IN SUPPORT OF
KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE
REF: A. STATE 29385
B. BUCHWALD-BUCK E-MAIL (30MAR09)
UNCLAS BERN 000139
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR EUR/SCE (S.SHIRATORI/P.PFEUFFER),L/UNA
(T.BUCHWALD),AND EUR/CE (Y.SAINT-ANDRE)
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: AORC PREL ICJ KV SZ
SUBJECT: SWISS PLAN TO FILE BRIEF WITH ICJ IN SUPPORT OF
KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE
REF: A. STATE 29385
B. BUCHWALD-BUCK E-MAIL (30MAR09)
1. (SBU) Poloff discussed the message in ref A on March 30
with Didier Chassot, Regional Coordinator for South-Eastern
Europe at the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA).
Chassot informed poloff that Switzerland plans to file a
brief with the ICJ "making a broad case" in support of Kosovo
independence. He said that he thought that the FDFA's legal
department may have been in touch with colleagues in some
other European countries regarding the brief, and offered to
pass along to the FDFA's legal department the contact
information for an appropriate point-of-contact on this issue
at the Department. Poloff undertook to pass Chassot that
contact information and subsequently provided it to him, per
ref B.
CARTER
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR EUR/SCE (S.SHIRATORI/P.PFEUFFER),L/UNA
(T.BUCHWALD),AND EUR/CE (Y.SAINT-ANDRE)
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: AORC PREL ICJ KV SZ
SUBJECT: SWISS PLAN TO FILE BRIEF WITH ICJ IN SUPPORT OF
KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE
REF: A. STATE 29385
B. BUCHWALD-BUCK E-MAIL (30MAR09)
1. (SBU) Poloff discussed the message in ref A on March 30
with Didier Chassot, Regional Coordinator for South-Eastern
Europe at the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA).
Chassot informed poloff that Switzerland plans to file a
brief with the ICJ "making a broad case" in support of Kosovo
independence. He said that he thought that the FDFA's legal
department may have been in touch with colleagues in some
other European countries regarding the brief, and offered to
pass along to the FDFA's legal department the contact
information for an appropriate point-of-contact on this issue
at the Department. Poloff undertook to pass Chassot that
contact information and subsequently provided it to him, per
ref B.
CARTER