US embassy cable - 04THEHAGUE2778

C O N F I D E N T I A L THE HAGUE 002778 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/01/2014 
TAGS: PREL, CY, TU, NL, EUN 
SUBJECT: NETHERLANDS/EU/KOSOVO/UKRAINE/CYPRUS: ADDITIONAL 
POINTS DELIVERED 
 
REF: A. SECSTATE 230353 
 
     B. THE HAGUE 2777 
 
Classified By: Political Counselor Andrew Schofer for reasons 1.4 (b) a 
nd (d). 
 
1.  (SBU)  Poloff delivered ref a points on Kosovo, Ukraine, 
and Northern Cyprus to MFA Deputy Director Joep Wijnands 
(Political Affairs, European Correspondent) October 28 (ref B 
covered the remaining GAERC points).  On October 29, Poloff 
repeated points on Northern Cyprus to Hannie Pollman-Zaal 
(MFA Director of Western and Central Europe).  Wijnands 
thanked us for the information but did not make any 
substantive comment, noting that he did not expect much GAERC 
discussion on these topics. 
 
2.  (C)  On Northern Cyprus, Pollman-Zaal expressed 
frustration that the draft text dealing with the aid/trade 
compromise was still very general with "plenty of gaps" with 
regard to particularities.  Getting consensus will be 
difficult, she said, "because the Cypriots are being very 
hard."  While she expected the November 22 GAERC to approve 
the aid package, the strategy depends on deciding the 
outlines of an agreement on the trade part.  She believed the 
process of settling the details of the trade package would 
probably extend into 2005 because the Dutch "do not want the 
trade issue to interfere with the December 17 Council 
decision on Turkish accession talks."  She added that the 
Dutch are giving extraordinary consideration to the 
heightened sensitivity of the Government of Cyprus to both 
questions, and the Dutch do not want to "overburden them with 
two hard questions at the same time." 
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