LETTER FROM SECRETARY CLINTON TO FOREIGN

UNCLAS STATE 054940

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: FI OPDC PGOV PREL
SUBJECT: LETTER FROM SECRETARY CLINTON TO FOREIGN
MINISTER STUBB (SES 200909954)


1. Post is instructed to deliver the following letter
from the Secretary to Foreign Minister Stubb. The
letter responds to a non-paper given to the Secretary in
Stubb's May 8 meeting with her. There will be no signed
original.


2. Begin text:

Dear Mr. Minister:

I appreciated meeting with you on May 8, both to advance
our comprehensive bilateral agenda and to compare notes
on regional issues.

Thank you for your insightful paper on European
security. Your ideas are timely as we prepare for the
June 27-28 OSCE Ministerial in Corfu.

I share your view that we must take a proactive approach
to the debate on European security in coordination with
our European partners and that we need to reenergize the
idea of comprehensive security. I also agree that it is
important for Europe and the United States to speak with
one voice.

As part of this process, we will be reaching out to our
Finnish counterparts in Helsinki, Brussels, and Vienna.
I note, as well, that even as we consider the next
generation of multilateral arms control and confidence
building measures, we must continue to work to achieve
full implementation by all nations of the regimes, in
particular CFE, to which they have already committed
themselves. I look forward to working closely with you
in this process.

Sincerely yours,
Hillary Rodham Clinton

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CLINTON