Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09BERN478
2009-11-05 15:31:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Bern
Cable title:
IMF STAND-BY ARRANGEMENT REVIEW: SWISS ALSO
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UNCLAS BERN 000478
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR EEB/IFD/OMA (J.PETERSON),SCA/INSB, AND EUR/CE
(Y.SAINT-ANDRE)
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: EAID ECON EFIN PREL PHUM PREF CE SZ
SUBJECT: IMF STAND-BY ARRANGEMENT REVIEW: SWISS ALSO
CONCERNED ABOUT SRI LANKAN DEFENSE SPENDING
REF: STATE 113932
UNCLAS BERN 000478
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR EEB/IFD/OMA (J.PETERSON),SCA/INSB, AND EUR/CE
(Y.SAINT-ANDRE)
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: EAID ECON EFIN PREL PHUM PREF CE SZ
SUBJECT: IMF STAND-BY ARRANGEMENT REVIEW: SWISS ALSO
CONCERNED ABOUT SRI LANKAN DEFENSE SPENDING
REF: STATE 113932
1. (SBU) Acting POLE counselor conveyed reftel points
November 5 to Pierre-Yves Fux, Senior Regional Coordinator
for Southern Asia at the Federal Department of Foreign
Affairs (FDFA),and to Riccardo Sansonetti, Head of the
International Finance and Monetary Policy Division at the
Federal Department of Finance (FDF). Fux subsequently
responded with a coordinated Swiss interagency position.
2. (SBU) Fux said that Switzerland has great understanding
for the USG concerns expressed in reftel, and continues to be
very like-minded on the current situation in Sri Lanka across
the range of issues. He said that the Swiss delegation to
the IMF Executive Board meeting on November 6 will be
instructed to raise concerns about the Sri Lankan defense
budget. Fux said that the GoS had raised this concern
carefully in previous discussions, and would raise it again
at the upcoming review meeting, perhaps with more emphasis
than last time, depending on how the discussion goes.
CARTER
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR EEB/IFD/OMA (J.PETERSON),SCA/INSB, AND EUR/CE
(Y.SAINT-ANDRE)
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: EAID ECON EFIN PREL PHUM PREF CE SZ
SUBJECT: IMF STAND-BY ARRANGEMENT REVIEW: SWISS ALSO
CONCERNED ABOUT SRI LANKAN DEFENSE SPENDING
REF: STATE 113932
1. (SBU) Acting POLE counselor conveyed reftel points
November 5 to Pierre-Yves Fux, Senior Regional Coordinator
for Southern Asia at the Federal Department of Foreign
Affairs (FDFA),and to Riccardo Sansonetti, Head of the
International Finance and Monetary Policy Division at the
Federal Department of Finance (FDF). Fux subsequently
responded with a coordinated Swiss interagency position.
2. (SBU) Fux said that Switzerland has great understanding
for the USG concerns expressed in reftel, and continues to be
very like-minded on the current situation in Sri Lanka across
the range of issues. He said that the Swiss delegation to
the IMF Executive Board meeting on November 6 will be
instructed to raise concerns about the Sri Lankan defense
budget. Fux said that the GoS had raised this concern
carefully in previous discussions, and would raise it again
at the upcoming review meeting, perhaps with more emphasis
than last time, depending on how the discussion goes.
CARTER