Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09TBILISI1730
2009-09-16 14:10:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Tbilisi
Cable title:
GEORGIA: PREPARED TO SUPPORT USG ON IRAN, BUT
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C O N F I D E N T I A L TBILISI 001730
SIPDIS
FOR EUR/CARC AND ISN/RA
E.O. 12958: DECL: 09/16/2019
TAGS: KNNP MNUC PREL PARM IAEA IR AORC GG
SUBJECT: GEORGIA: PREPARED TO SUPPORT USG ON IRAN, BUT
CAUTIOUS ABOUT JOINING THE CHORUS
REF: STATE 95073
Classified By: CHARGE D'AFFAIRES A.I. KENT LOGSDON. REASONS: 1.4 (B)
AND (D).
(C) As requested, Charge raised points reftel with Georgian
Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze September 16 and asked for
Georgia's support. FM Vashadze responded that Georgia was
prepared to help the U.S. regarding Iran and would be
supportive. However, according to Vashadze, Iranian
officials had also suggested that Georgia needed to be
careful in its dealings with Tehran, otherwise Iran would
consider formulating new policies toward the separatist
territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. In Vashadze's
view, this was a veiled threat regarding possible recognition
of the two territories.
LOGSDON