US embassy cable - 05VIENNA847

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Identifier:	05VIENNA847
Wikileaks:	View 05VIENNA847 at Wikileaks.org
Origin:	Embassy Vienna
Created:	2005-03-15 10:55:00
Classification:	CONFIDENTIAL
Tags:	PREL ZJ RS GG PBTS AU EUN OSCE
Redacted:	This cable was not redacted by Wikileaks.

C O N F I D E N T I A L VIENNA 000847 
 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPARTMENT FOR EUR/CACEN, EUR/RPM, EUR/ERA AND EUR/AGS 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/15/2015 
TAGS: PREL, ZJ, RS, GG, PBTS, AU, EUN, OSCE 
SUBJECT: GEORGIA BORDER MONITORING: AUSTRIAN RESPONSE 
 
REF: A) STATE 43096 B) VIENNA 792 
 
Classified By: ECONOMIC-POLITICAL COUNSELOR GREGORY E. PHILLIPS 
FOR REASONS 1.4 (B) AND (D) 
 
(C) Embassy Vienna conveyed reftel demarche on March 11 to 
MFA DAS-equivalent for the Former Soviet Union Josef 
Litschauer, A/S-equivalent for Security Policy Thomas 
Hajnoczi and Director for EU Common Foreign and Security 
Policy Andreas Riecken (ref b).  We followed up on March 14 
with Hajnoczi, whose responsibilities include Austrian 
peacekeeping deployments abroad.  Hajnoczi said he had 
discussed at length the possibility of an EU-flagged border 
monitoring mission during a meeting in Washington with 
EUR/RPM director Daniel Russell the previous week.  Hajnoczi 
thought that the subject had acquired greater urgency in the 
face of Russian intransigence and would figure prominently in 
discussions of the EU PSC meeting on March 15. He observed 
that the Russians' obstruction of a renewed OSCE operation 
was clearly designed to convey their unhappiness over recent 
developments in their "near abroad." 
Brown