Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09VIENNA1333
2009-10-15 06:45:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Vienna
Cable title:
AUSTRIA ON HANDLING OF GOLDSTONE REPORT
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C O N F I D E N T I A L VIENNA 001333
SIPDIS
IO/RHS FOR RAZZOUK AND ENAV; IO/UNP FOR MORRISON; NEA/IPA
FOR GIAUQUE; USUN FOR SCHEDLBAUER AND GERMAIN; GENEVA FOR
CASSAYRE
E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/15/2024
TAGS: PREL PHUM PTER KPAL IAEA AU
SUBJECT: AUSTRIA ON HANDLING OF GOLDSTONE REPORT
REF: STATE 106423
Classified By: Econ/Pol Counselor Dean Yap. Reason: 1.4(b) and (d).
(C) Econ/Pol Counselor and PolChief delivered reftel demarche
to MFA Middle East Director Friedrich Stift on Oct. 14.
Stift welcomed the U.S. message, saying that his
understanding was that the EU and U.S. positions on handling
the report -- to refer substantive discussion to Geneva in
March after allowing both the Israeli and Palestinian sides
to act on the Report's conclusions -- were substantially
identical. He agreed on the importance of close
collaboration among "like-minded" missions in New York and
Geneva and undertook to convey the U.S. points to the
Austrian missions immediately.
EACHO
SIPDIS
IO/RHS FOR RAZZOUK AND ENAV; IO/UNP FOR MORRISON; NEA/IPA
FOR GIAUQUE; USUN FOR SCHEDLBAUER AND GERMAIN; GENEVA FOR
CASSAYRE
E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/15/2024
TAGS: PREL PHUM PTER KPAL IAEA AU
SUBJECT: AUSTRIA ON HANDLING OF GOLDSTONE REPORT
REF: STATE 106423
Classified By: Econ/Pol Counselor Dean Yap. Reason: 1.4(b) and (d).
(C) Econ/Pol Counselor and PolChief delivered reftel demarche
to MFA Middle East Director Friedrich Stift on Oct. 14.
Stift welcomed the U.S. message, saying that his
understanding was that the EU and U.S. positions on handling
the report -- to refer substantive discussion to Geneva in
March after allowing both the Israeli and Palestinian sides
to act on the Report's conclusions -- were substantially
identical. He agreed on the importance of close
collaboration among "like-minded" missions in New York and
Geneva and undertook to convey the U.S. points to the
Austrian missions immediately.
EACHO