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 End text. CLINTON