US embassy cable - 05ATHENS2793

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GREECE SUPPORTS BURMA DISCUSSION IN UNSC

Identifier: 05ATHENS2793
Wikileaks: View 05ATHENS2793 at Wikileaks.org
Origin: Embassy Athens
Created: 2005-11-02 11:21:00
Classification: CONFIDENTIAL
Tags: PREL BM PGOV PHUM PREL GR UNSC
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 ATHENS 002793 
 
SIPDIS 
 
EUR FOR SE, EAP/MLS ALEX BARRASSO, IO/UNP ROBIN MEYER 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/01/2014 
TAGS: PREL, BM, PGOV, PHUM, PREL, GR, UNSC 
SUBJECT: GREECE SUPPORTS BURMA DISCUSSION IN UNSC 
 
REF: STATE 195514 
 
Classified By: PolCouns Karen Decker.  Reasons 1.4(b/d). 
 
(C) Greek MFA Director for IO Affairs Frangiskos Verros 
confirmed to PolCouns November 2 that Greece would now 
support reftel briefing initiative to bring the situation in 
Burma to the attention of Security Council members.  Greece's 
former hesitancy sprang, he claimed, from Greece's reluctance 
to support a course of action that was known to be opposed by 
one of the Perm 5 (in this case, China).  However, he went 
on, after repeated discussions with Embassy (and the fact 
that other European members of the UNSC were now on board), 
he had recommended to Greek Foreign Minister Molyviatis that 
Greece join this group and the Foreign Minister agreed. 
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