NEXT STEPS IN FURTHERING U.S. - EU CIVILIAN

C O N F I D E N T I A L USEU BRUSSELS 000910 NOFORN SIPDIS FOR SCRS - AMBASSADOR HERBST E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/01/2019 TAGS: KCRS PREL EUN SUBJECT: NEXT STEPS IN FURTHERING U.S. - EU CIVILIAN COOPERATION ON RECONSTRUCTION AND STABILIZATION PLANNING, TRAINING, EXERCISES, AND OPERATIONS REF: STATE 66919 Classified By: Political Minister Counselor Christopher R. Davis for re ason 1.4b/d 1.(SBU) USEU poloff delivered non-paper (ref) to Council Secretariat official Rory Domm on July 1. Domm undertook to circulate the unclassified paper widely within the EU and to attempt to assist in arranging meetings for Ambassador Herbst; however, he indicated that a July 7 visit was unfortunately timed as it falls on the day of a PSC meeting. ¶2. (C/NF) Because USEU poloff had recently learned of EU internal difficulties in arranging the proposed visit of S/CRS Senior Advisor for Warning, Lyston Lea, we extracted the non-paper's paragraph 4 sought less formally to learn details of the EU reluctance to confirm dates for the visit. Domm indicated that the problem stemmed from the reluctance of the mid-level EU interlocutors. He said one reason they offered was the EU's inability to share its own Internal Instability Watch List. Domm suggested that Ambassador Herbst might need to touch on the issue during his upcoming meetings with senior EU Council Secretariat officials so that top-down pressure could be applied within the EU. Murray .