US embassy cable - 05VIENNA3793

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DEMARCHE ON RUSSIAN DRAFT NGO LAW: AUSTRIA SHARES U.S. CONCERNS

Identifier: 05VIENNA3793
Wikileaks: View 05VIENNA3793 at Wikileaks.org
Origin: Embassy Vienna
Created: 2005-12-01 16:21:00
Classification: CONFIDENTIAL
Tags: PGOV PINR PREL RS AU EUN
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 VIENNA 003793 
 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPARTMENT FOR EUR/RUS AND EUR/AGS 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/30/2016 
TAGS: PGOV, PINR, PREL, RS, AU, EUN 
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE ON RUSSIAN DRAFT NGO LAW: AUSTRIA SHARES 
U.S. CONCERNS 
 
REF: STATE 212899 
 
Classified By: ECONOMIC-POLITICAL COUNSELOR GREGORY E. PHILLIPS 
REASONS: 1.5 (B) AND (D) 
 
(C) Embassy Vienna delivered reftel demarche on November 29 
to Hanns Porias, Austrian MFA A/S-equivalent for Eastern 
Europe and the former Soviet Union.  Porias assured us that 
Austria and other European Union member states shared our 
concerns about the draft law regulating NGOs.  There had been 
a flurry of recent internal EU cable traffic on the problems 
posed by the draft law and how to respond, he observed.  The 
European Commission, the Council and the member states were 
considering ways to engage the Russian government and push 
for changes in the bill. 
VAN VOORST 

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