US embassy cable - 04YEREVAN1801

UNCLAS YEREVAN 001801 
 
SIPDIS 
 
MONTREAL FOR USICAO 
DEPT FOR EB/TRA/OTP, EUR/CACEN 
 
SENSITIVE 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: AORC, EAIR, ECON, AM, ICAO 
SUBJECT: CIVAIR: ICAO 35TH SESSION DEMARCHE 
DELIVERED 
 
REFS:  A) STATE 168343  B) YEREVAN 1379 
 
1. (U) Sensitive but unclassified.  Please protect 
accordingly. 
 
2. (SBU) Armenia's Civil Aviation Department 
confirmed to us that Armenia would support the U.S. 
in the ICAO part I elections (refs A and B).  Karen 
Zadoyan, Head of International Relations, GOAM Civil 
Aviation Department, already had draft copies of 
U.S. position papers (ref A) and expressed Armenia's 
enthusiastic support for U.S. papers on the 
Universal Safety Oversight Audit Program, Regional 
Safety Oversight Organizations, and Increasing 
Electronic Communications.  He said he personally 
agreed with the paper on Flight Information Regions 
"inasmuch as it said that the ICAO should base 
delimitation decisions only on the operational 
efficiency of air traffic management."  He called 
the paper on Emission Charges a "complicated issue," 
adding that the delegation would have to discuss it 
at the ICAO conference.  The Armenian Delegation 
will include Zadoyan, the GOAM Civil Aviation 
Department Artyom Movsisian, as well as Aram 
Marutyan. 
GODFREY