Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09BRUSSELS1244
2009-09-15 18:45:00
CONFIDENTIAL
USEU Brussels
Cable title:
URGING IRAN TO RESOLVE MISSING/DETAINED AMCIT CASES
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C O N F I D E N T I A L BRUSSELS 001244
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR EUR/ERA, NEA/IR AND CA/OCS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 09/11/2019
TAGS: PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PROP CASC IR
SUBJECT: URGING IRAN TO RESOLVE MISSING/DETAINED AMCIT CASES
REF: STATE 94757
Classified By: POLITICAL MINISTER COUNSELOR CHRISTOPHER DAVIS FOR REASO
N 1.4 (B,D).
C O N F I D E N T I A L BRUSSELS 001244
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR EUR/ERA, NEA/IR AND CA/OCS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 09/11/2019
TAGS: PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PROP CASC IR
SUBJECT: URGING IRAN TO RESOLVE MISSING/DETAINED AMCIT CASES
REF: STATE 94757
Classified By: POLITICAL MINISTER COUNSELOR CHRISTOPHER DAVIS FOR REASO
N 1.4 (B,D).
1. (C) USEU Poloff met separately on 9/15 with EU COUNCIL
Secretariat and European Commission officials to seek EU
assistance in urging Iran to resolve missing and detained
Amcit cases. USEU Poloff requested that EU oficials raise
the issue during meetings with Ianian officials and asked to
be informed of the Iranian response. Both EU diplomats werereceptive, but stressed that the EU has limitedability to
engage with and influence Teheran,as the EU does not
maintain an embassy or other representation in Iran.
2. (C) The EU has been actively working to free EU citizens
and employees of EU member state embassies in Iran. EU
Council Secretariat's Lene Lindholdt Hove said that Iran had
expected to treat these detentions as bilateral disputes and
had been surprised by EU solidarity. The stated that the
question was being treated as an EU issue and was regularly
discussed by Ambassadors in the Political and SECURITY
Committee. The EU had conducted demarches in parallel in EU
capitals to press Tehran to free French NATIONAL Clotilde
Reiss and the locally engaged STAFF of the French and UK
embassies. She felt that this was why the Iranians had
granted bail to Reiss and the local employees. Hove
stressed, however, that the situation remained far from
resolution: judicial proceedings were continuing and the EU
did not know when verdicts might be delivered.
3. (C) Hove opined that as Brussels had become the key locus
of action for EU work on the issue, it might be useful for us
to further pursue the issue here with representatives of the
Swedish EU Presidency and key EU member states France and the
UK.
MURRAY
.
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR EUR/ERA, NEA/IR AND CA/OCS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 09/11/2019
TAGS: PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PROP CASC IR
SUBJECT: URGING IRAN TO RESOLVE MISSING/DETAINED AMCIT CASES
REF: STATE 94757
Classified By: POLITICAL MINISTER COUNSELOR CHRISTOPHER DAVIS FOR REASO
N 1.4 (B,D).
1. (C) USEU Poloff met separately on 9/15 with EU COUNCIL
Secretariat and European Commission officials to seek EU
assistance in urging Iran to resolve missing and detained
Amcit cases. USEU Poloff requested that EU oficials raise
the issue during meetings with Ianian officials and asked to
be informed of the Iranian response. Both EU diplomats werereceptive, but stressed that the EU has limitedability to
engage with and influence Teheran,as the EU does not
maintain an embassy or other representation in Iran.
2. (C) The EU has been actively working to free EU citizens
and employees of EU member state embassies in Iran. EU
Council Secretariat's Lene Lindholdt Hove said that Iran had
expected to treat these detentions as bilateral disputes and
had been surprised by EU solidarity. The stated that the
question was being treated as an EU issue and was regularly
discussed by Ambassadors in the Political and SECURITY
Committee. The EU had conducted demarches in parallel in EU
capitals to press Tehran to free French NATIONAL Clotilde
Reiss and the locally engaged STAFF of the French and UK
embassies. She felt that this was why the Iranians had
granted bail to Reiss and the local employees. Hove
stressed, however, that the situation remained far from
resolution: judicial proceedings were continuing and the EU
did not know when verdicts might be delivered.
3. (C) Hove opined that as Brussels had become the key locus
of action for EU work on the issue, it might be useful for us
to further pursue the issue here with representatives of the
Swedish EU Presidency and key EU member states France and the
UK.
MURRAY
.