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Viewing cable 07BERLIN1291, UNSCR 1747/OECD: GERMAN REACTION TO FOLLOW-UP

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
07BERLIN1291 2007-06-29 15:42 2011-08-24 01:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Berlin
VZCZCXYZ0026
OO RUEHWEB

DE RUEHRL #1291 1801542
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
O 291542Z JUN 07
FM AMEMBASSY BERLIN
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 8672
INFO RUEHGG/UN SECURITY COUNCIL COLLECTIVE PRIORITY
RUCPDOC/DEPT OF COMMERCE WASHINGTON DC PRIORITY
RUEATRS/DEPT OF TREASURY WASHDC PRIORITY
RHEHNSC/NSC WASHDC PRIORITY
RUEHBS/USEU BRUSSELS PRIORITY
UNCLAS BERLIN 001291 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
 
STATE FOR EEB AND EUR/AGS 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PREL EFIN ETRD EXIM OECD UN IR GM
SUBJECT: UNSCR 1747/OECD: GERMAN REACTION TO FOLLOW-UP 
DEMARCHE TO PROMOTE RESTRICTIONS ON EXPORT 
CREDITS/FINANCING TO IRAN 
 
REF: STATE 81876 
 
1. (SBU) Global Affairs officer delivered ref demarche to 
Ursina Krumpholz, officer director of the German Ministry of 
Economics' Foreign Trade Law and Law of the Sea Division, and 
Ernst Roeder-Messell, deputy office director of the same 
division, June 15. 
 
2. (SBU) Krumpholz said the German Government's export credit 
guarantees are issued to German firms to shield them from 
foreign debt defaulters.  Therefore, Germany does not issue 
export credit guarantees to Iranian entities at all. 
Nevertheless, the German Government would deny export credit 
to a German firm that seeks to invest in Iranian entities 
sanctioned under UNSCRs 1737 or 1747.  In response to Global 
Affairs officer's query of whether the German Government 
would be willing to deny universally export credit to German 
firms that seek to invest in Iranian Government entities, 
Krumpholz said the German Government would be willing to 
consider this, so long as the recipients in question are 
Iranian state entities.  Roeder-Messell added, also in 
response to Global Affairs officer's query, that the German 
Government screens export credit guarantee applications from 
German firms. Furthermore, the German Government has a system 
in place to detect links between the Iranian recipients of 
German investment and Iranian Government entities. 
Therefore, the German Government has the means to deny export 
credit to a German investor who seeks, whether wittingly or 
not, to invest in an Iranian Government entity. 
 
3. (U) Post will report additional German response septel. 
TIMKEN JR