US embassy cable - 05VIENNA3462

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DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA: STEYR-MANNLICHER BUSINESS

Identifier: 05VIENNA3462
Wikileaks: View 05VIENNA3462 at Wikileaks.org
Origin: Embassy Vienna
Created: 2005-10-27 11:16:00
Classification: SECRET
Tags: AU ETTC PARM PREL
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.

271116Z Oct 05
S E C R E T VIENNA 003462 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR EUR/PRA - POWERS AND EUR/AGS - VIKMANIS-KELLER 
 
STATE ALSO FOR NP/ECNP AND INR/SPM 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/27/2015 
 
TAGS: AU, ETTC, PARM, PREL 
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA:  STEYR-MANNLICHER BUSINESS 
 
 
WITH IRAN 
 
REF: STATE 195350 AND PREVIOUS 
 
Classified By: Economic-Political Counselor Gregory E. Phillips 
 
1.  (SBU) EconPolCouns delivered reftel demarche on October 
 
25 to Dorothea Auer, the Austrian Foreign Ministry's 
 
assistant secretary level Director for Non-Proliferation. 
 
2.  (S) Auer undertook to investigate the issue of plans by 
 
Steyr-Mannlicher to export weapons technology to Iran through 
 
its Malaysian subsidiary, and legal options for Austria to 
 
stop such transfers.  We stresed the importance of the issue 
 
to us, and noted that there should be means of stopping 
 
technology transfers through third countries, especially when 
 
the intent of the transfer is clearly to evade export control 
 
laws.  Auer agreed, and said she would report on available 
 
mechanisms. 
 
van Voorst 

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