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Viewing cable 09BERLIN1478, DEMARCHE: ITU KOSOVO-RELATED ACTIONS

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
09BERLIN1478 2009-11-23 07:07 2011-08-24 01:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Berlin
VZCZCXYZ0006
OO RUEHWEB

DE RUEHRL #1478 3270707
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
O 230707Z NOV 09
FM AMEMBASSY BERLIN
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 5841
INFO RUEHBS/AMEMBASSY BRUSSELS IMMEDIATE 1742
RUEHHE/AMEMBASSY HELSINKI IMMEDIATE 0297
RUEHLO/AMEMBASSY LONDON IMMEDIATE 0459
RUEHOT/AMEMBASSY OTTAWA IMMEDIATE 0005
RUEHFR/AMEMBASSY PARIS IMMEDIATE 0978
RUEHRO/AMEMBASSY ROME IMMEDIATE 2485
RUEHKO/AMEMBASSY TOKYO IMMEDIATE 1633
RUEHPS/AMEMBASSY PRISTINA PRIORITY 0215
RUEHBW/AMEMBASSY BELGRADE PRIORITY 0014
RUEHGV/USMISSION GENEVA PRIORITY 1573
UNCLAS BERLIN 001478 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
PASS POLITICAL SECTION GENEVA FOR IEA-REILLY 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: IO PREL ECON ECPS KVPR ITU
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE: ITU KOSOVO-RELATED ACTIONS 
 
REF: STATE 118806 
 
 
1. Embassy Berlin passed and discussed reftel 
talking points with Peter Voss, head of the 
division "International ICT Policy, ITU" at the 
Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology; with 
Dr. Annegret Groebel, Head of Section for 
International Coordination at the Federal Network 
Agency; and with Marc Bogdahn, Deputy Director for 
the Balkans at the Foreign Office.  All our 
interlocutors indicated that they had not been 
aware of the resolution and its political 
implications and promised to share the information 
with their colleagues.  Voss subsequently told us 
he passed our concerns to the German delegation to 
the ITU in Geneva.  Groebel promised to inform us 
further of German views early next week (week of 
November 23). 
 
2. Comment: Implication left by all interlocutors 
was that Germany was sympathetic to US concerns but 
was fully unaware of Serbia's attempts to slip in a 
proposal via the ITU that could compromise Kosovo's 
sovereignty.  End comment. 
 
MURPHY 
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