Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09COPENHAGEN544
2009-12-02 11:37:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Copenhagen
Cable title:
(C) BOSNIAN AMBASSADOR URGES USG TO SUPPORT MAP
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C O N F I D E N T I A L COPENHAGEN 000544
SIPDIS
STATE FOR EUR/SCE, EUR/RPM, EUR/ERA, EUR/NB
E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/01/2019
TAGS: PREL MARR BK
SUBJECT: (C) BOSNIAN AMBASSADOR URGES USG TO SUPPORT MAP
NOW
Classified By: (U) Ambassador Laurie S. Fulton; reason 1.4 (b, d)
C O N F I D E N T I A L COPENHAGEN 000544
SIPDIS
STATE FOR EUR/SCE, EUR/RPM, EUR/ERA, EUR/NB
E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/01/2019
TAGS: PREL MARR BK
SUBJECT: (C) BOSNIAN AMBASSADOR URGES USG TO SUPPORT MAP
NOW
Classified By: (U) Ambassador Laurie S. Fulton; reason 1.4 (b, d)
1. (C) At the request of Ambassador Muhamed Hajdarevic of
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ambassador Fulton received him on
short notice December 1. Hajdarevic explained that Bosnian
Ambassadors were under instruction to approach their U.S.
counterparts in all NATO states to urge the USG to support
the MAP process (for his country to join NATO) now, and not
link support for MAP to the constitutional reforms that are
the subject of the Butmir process. He asserted that Bosnia
meets the technical criteria for MAP now, and argued that it
would be "very bad" to send a discouraging signal at a time
when there is broad consensus in his country (74 percent) in
favor of joining NATO. Constitutional reforms, he continued,
are hostage to the veto of "part of one ethnic group"; as a
result, "we are stuck." Hajdarevic indicated that Denmark
was not receptive to his argument but that Lithuania and
Latvia, which he covers from Copenhagen, were.
2. (C) Hajdarevic mentioned that his country would soon
increase its military contribution in Afghanistan from two
liaison officers working through Denmark to over 250 troops
working with the German contingent. He added that Bosnia has
over 100 troops in Iraq doing demining work. He stressed
that these contributions are not conditional on MAP, but
evidence of Bosnia's commitment to shared security goals.
FULTON
SIPDIS
STATE FOR EUR/SCE, EUR/RPM, EUR/ERA, EUR/NB
E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/01/2019
TAGS: PREL MARR BK
SUBJECT: (C) BOSNIAN AMBASSADOR URGES USG TO SUPPORT MAP
NOW
Classified By: (U) Ambassador Laurie S. Fulton; reason 1.4 (b, d)
1. (C) At the request of Ambassador Muhamed Hajdarevic of
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ambassador Fulton received him on
short notice December 1. Hajdarevic explained that Bosnian
Ambassadors were under instruction to approach their U.S.
counterparts in all NATO states to urge the USG to support
the MAP process (for his country to join NATO) now, and not
link support for MAP to the constitutional reforms that are
the subject of the Butmir process. He asserted that Bosnia
meets the technical criteria for MAP now, and argued that it
would be "very bad" to send a discouraging signal at a time
when there is broad consensus in his country (74 percent) in
favor of joining NATO. Constitutional reforms, he continued,
are hostage to the veto of "part of one ethnic group"; as a
result, "we are stuck." Hajdarevic indicated that Denmark
was not receptive to his argument but that Lithuania and
Latvia, which he covers from Copenhagen, were.
2. (C) Hajdarevic mentioned that his country would soon
increase its military contribution in Afghanistan from two
liaison officers working through Denmark to over 250 troops
working with the German contingent. He added that Bosnia has
over 100 troops in Iraq doing demining work. He stressed
that these contributions are not conditional on MAP, but
evidence of Bosnia's commitment to shared security goals.
FULTON