US embassy cable - 04DUBLIN903

C O N F I D E N T I A L DUBLIN 000903 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/14/2014 
TAGS: PARM, PBTS, PREL 
SUBJECT: EU WORKING ON A COMMON APPROACH TO STABILITY PACT 
 
REF: STATE 129208 
 
Classified By: AMBASSADOR JAMES KENNY FOR REASONS 1.4 (b) AND (c) 
 
 1.  (C)  EMBOFF REVIEWED REFTEL POINTS ON MOLDOVAN STABILITY 
PACT INITIATIVE JUNE 14 WITH DFA MOLDOVAN DESK OFFICER PETER 
MCIVOR, WHO HAD JUST RETURNED FROM PARTICIPATING IN LAST 
WEEK'S OSCE HEADS OF MISSION FACT-FINDING MISSION.  MCIVOR 
SAID HE WAS SOMEWHAT SURPRISED THAT THE STABILITY PACT DID 
NOT RECEIVE MORE ATTENTION FROM MOLDOVAN OFFICIALS FROM 
PRESIDENT VORONIN ON DOWN. IT WAS RAISED, BUT NOT AS A 
PRIORITY ISSUE, AND THE ONLY OFFICIAL WHO ASKED FOR A 
RESPONSE FROM THE POTENTIAL SIGNATORIES WAS THE FOREIGN 
MINISTER.  PRESIDENT VORONIN DID STATE, HOWEVER, THAT THE 
TEXT WAS SUBJECT TO NEGOTIATION, ACCORDING TO MCIVOR.  MCIVOR 
COULD NOT EXPLAIN WHY MOLDOVA DID NOT INCLUDE ITSELF AMONG 
THE SIGNATORIES AND FELT THIS REQUIRED SOME "REFLECTION." 
 
2.  (C)  MCIVOR SAID MOLDOVAN OFFICIALS EXPLAINED THE 
STABILITY PACT INITIATIVE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE FAILURE OF 
THE KOZAK MEMORANDUM AND THE FACT THAT MOLDOVA WAS A SMALL, 
FRAGILE, NEUTRAL STATE CONCERNED ABOUT OTHER POTENTIAL 
"SOLUTIONS" WHICH MIGHT INFRINGE ON ITS OWN BORDERS. 
 
3.  (C)  MCIVOR SAID HE WOULD CIRCULATE THE U.S. POINTS AND 
NOTED THAT THE EU WAS JUST BEGINNING TO FORMULATE A COMMON 
APPROACH TO THE MOLDOVAN INITIATIVE.  IT WOULD NOT BE NOTED 
IN THE JUNE 14-15 GAERC CONCLUSIONS ON MOLDOVA BECAUSE THE EU 
WISHED TO SEND A MORE GENERAL MESSAGE, RATHER THAN HAVE THE 
TEXT BE SEEN SPECIFICALLY AS A RESPONSE TO THE STABILITY PACT 
PROPOSAL.  THE NEXT COEST MEETING WOULD BE JULY 15 IN THE 
HAGUE, UNDER THE DUTCH PRESIDENCY, AND IT WAS LIKELY THE 
STABILITY PACT WOULD BE CONSIDERED THERE. 
KENNY