US embassy cable - 04THEHAGUE3224

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EU/CYPRUS: EU NOT READY TO PAY MORE TOWARD PEACEKEEPING COSTS FOR UNFICYP

Identifier: 04THEHAGUE3224
Wikileaks: View 04THEHAGUE3224 at Wikileaks.org
Origin: Embassy The Hague
Created: 2004-12-09 14:34:00
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Tags: PREL MARR NL CY UNFICYP
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.

UNCLAS THE HAGUE 003224 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PREL, MARR, NL, CY, UNFICYP 
SUBJECT: EU/CYPRUS: EU NOT READY TO PAY MORE TOWARD 
PEACEKEEPING COSTS FOR UNFICYP 
 
REF: A. THE HAGUE 2991 
 
     B. SECSTATE 241068 
 
Karel van Kesteren (MFA Director of UN affairs) followed up 
on Nov 17 demarche (refs) with Poloff December 9 to report 
that the CONUN (EU working group on the UN) had recently 
discussed stronger EU funding of the UNFICYP, concluding that 
the EU was "very reluctant with regard to additional 
voluntary financing for it."  He said that member states 
stressed "the need to uphold the normal principles for a PKO; 
if the world community decides that a PKO is needed, it must 
pay up for it, otherwise, we run the risk that we end up with 
peacekeeping a la carte." 
RUSSEL 

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