US embassy cable - 04DUBLIN1735

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IRISH RESPONSE TO CROATIA/ICTY DEMARCHE

Identifier: 04DUBLIN1735
Wikileaks: View 04DUBLIN1735 at Wikileaks.org
Origin: Embassy Dublin
Created: 2004-12-01 11:19:00
Classification: CONFIDENTIAL
Tags: PREL PGOV KAWC ICTY
Redacted: This cable was not redacted by Wikileaks.
This record is a partial extract of the original cable. The full text of the original cable is not available.

C O N F I D E N T I A L DUBLIN 001735 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/30/2014 
TAGS: PREL, PGOV, KAWC, ICTY 
SUBJECT: IRISH RESPONSE TO CROATIA/ICTY DEMARCHE 
 
REF: STATE 254097 
 
Classified By: Political-Economic Counselor Mary Daly; Reasons 1.4 (B) 
and (D). 
 
1.  (C) On November 30, Post delivered reftel talking points 
to Martina Feeney, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) 
Political Division First Secretary for European Affairs. 
Feeney said Ireland expected that the December 17 EU Council 
decision on Croatia would be consistent with the conclusion 
reached in the Council's June meeting, which recommended 
starting negotiations on Croatia's EU candidacy in 2005. 
Ireland did not anticipate that the Council would revisit the 
June decision in a way that would make the arrest of Ante 
Gotovina a condition for commencing negotiations.  Feeney 
cited the Irish Government's opinion that Croatia had made 
good progress in fulfilling its commitments under the 
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia 
(ICTY), notwithstanding the failure to locate Gotovina.  She 
commented that accession negotiations would be the best way 
to ensure continued Croatian cooperation on its ICTY pledges, 
which would be central to the negotiating framework.  Feeney 
stressed that there would be no question of Croatia reneging 
on its ICTY commitments once accession negotiations had 
begun.  She also observed that it would be odd for the EU 
Council to take an unconditional decision on Turkey's 
candidacy negotiations while placing conditionalities on 
Croatia. 
KENNY 

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