Identifier
Created
Classification
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09BUDAPEST407
2009-06-04 13:46:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Budapest
Cable title:
HUNGARY HAS NO AIR ASSETS FOR PAKISTAN
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UNCLAS BUDAPEST 000407
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR SCA/P RICHARD LYONS AND EUR/CE JAMIE LAMORE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL SMIG PARM PK HU
SUBJECT: HUNGARY HAS NO AIR ASSETS FOR PAKISTAN
REF: SECSTATE 55654
(SBU) In response to reftel request delivered by DAO to the
MOD on June 2, Col Istvan Toth of the MOD's International
Relations Department advised the DAO on June 3 that Hungary
would be unable to provide any MI-17 helicopters for
Pakistan. Toth said that the Hungarian military's (HDF)
limited MI-17 fleet is needed to meet the HDF commitment to
provide helicopters in Afghanistan in 2010.
Levine