US embassy cable - 05LJUBLJANA398

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Identifier:	05LJUBLJANA398
Wikileaks:	View 05LJUBLJANA398 at Wikileaks.org
Origin:	Embassy Ljubljana
Created:	2005-06-15 05:52:00
Classification:	UNCLASSIFIED
Tags:	ECON ETRD ECIN SI
Redacted:	This cable was not redacted by Wikileaks.

UNCLAS LJUBLJANA 000398 
 
SIPDIS 
 
 
DEPT FOR EUR/NCE, EB/TPP/IPE 
DEPT PLEASE PASS TO USTR/ERRION 
USEU FOR CHRIS WILSON 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: ECON, ETRD, ECIN, SI 
SUBJECT: SLOVENIA ON US-EU ECONOMIC SUMMIT 
 
REF: STATE 106113 
 
1. Econoff delivered reftel talking points 15 June to 
Robert Kokalj, Head of the Economic Diplomacy Division 
at the MFA.  Kokalj took pains several times during his 
comments to state that Slovenia and the EU have 
"roughly the same ideas" as the U.S. on transatlantic 
economic cooperation and growth.  He indicated that the 
Slovenia mission to the EU wanted to ensure Kokalj 
communicated to Econoff that the EU would like to 
transfer the "global partnership" the U.S. and the E.U. 
enjoy in democracy and security to the economic agenda. 
 
2. Kokalj noted that the EU was interested in inserting 
IPR language into an overall summit statement and did 
not support a "separate" declaration.  Alluding to the 
"Irish music" case, Kokalj said the EU expected "these 
types of bilateral issues" to be solved prior to any 
U.S.-EU joint statement on IPR.  Kokalj added, however, 
that the differences between the U.S. and EU positions 
were not great and hoped that we would soon be able to 
bridge the gap on what he termed "largely technical 
disputes." 
 
ROBERTSON 
 
 
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 2005LJUBLJ00398 - Classification: UNCLASSIFIED 


 
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