US embassy cable - 05ROME3797

UNCLAS ROME 003797 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
 
DEPT. FOR EUR/RPM 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: BE, IT, PARM, PREL, OSCE 
SUBJECT: OSCE/FCS: ITALY WILL NOT BLOCK PROGRESS AHEAD OF 
MINISTERIAL 
 
REF: STATE 201320 
 
1. (SBU) On November 16 Polmiloff received a response to 
Reftel demarche from Brunella Borzi, the MFA's office 
director for OSCE affairs.  Borzi apologized for the delayed 
response saying she has been out of the country and wanted to 
first confer with the Italian delegation in Vienna before 
reacting.  She was unaware that there were lingering 
objections to the Italian proposal noted in Reftel.  The 
bottom line, said Borzi, is that Italy will not be an 
impediment to maintaining the current non-proliferation 
regimes, and Italy has no intention of modifying the 1994 
Governing Principles.  Italy will withdraw its proposal if 
this facilitates progress ahead of the Ljubljana ministerial. 
 
2.  (SBU) According to Borzi, Italy believes evaluating a 
potential OSCE role in non-proliferation is a long-term 
process that requires consensus and Italy will only reexamine 
the issue if it senses the time is right.  Italy was simply 
acknowledging UNSCR 1540 and took the initiative to examine 
ways that the OSCE could play into that resolution.  She 
noted that there is another proposal gathering momentum 
sponsored by Belgium that could be concluded prior to the 
ministerial.  She acknowledged, when pressed, that she has 
only heard about the proposal and could not recall the 
specifics. 
SPOGLI