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### Viewing cable 06SKOPJE118, MACEDONIA: PRIME MINISTER ON ELECTIONS, NATO

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06SKOPJE118 | 2006-02-06 18:06 | 2010-12-08 21:09 | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | Embassy Skopje

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    TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 4207
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    RUESEN/SKOPJE BETA
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    RHEHNSC/WHITE HOUSE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL

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    C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 03 SKOPJE 000118

    SIPDIS

    NOFORN
    SIPDIS

    STATE FOR EUR/SCE (PFEUFFER)

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/03/2016
    TAGS: PREL PGOV MARR MK
    SUBJECT: MACEDONIA: PRIME MINISTER ON ELECTIONS, NATO
    ACCESSION, ICTY AND KOSOVO FINAL STATUS

    REF: SKOPJE 104

    Classified By: P/E CHIEF SHUBLER, REASONS 1.4 (B) & (D).

    SUMMARY

    ¶1. (C/NF) PM Buckovski told the Ambassador February 1 that
    parliamentary elections likely will be held in late
    June/early July, and that he expects the opposition to use
    rough campaign and electoral tactics in trying to replace his
    government. On Macedonia's NATO accession prospects, he
    agreed the government must do more to coordinate
    anti-corruption efforts and to ensure aggressive prosecution
    of corruption cases. The GOM will ask the ICTY to delay the
    return of four potential war crimes cases until at least the
    end of 2006. Buckovski believes Kosovo final status should
    be determined "the sooner the better" in order to safeguard
    regional stability; he is convinced final status ultimately
    will end in independence. The GOM will keep its head down
    and guard up regarding allegations that Macedonia has
    assisted the USG in the "el-Masri" case that has captured
    local media attention. With the 2006 parliamentary elections
    in mind and campaigning about to begin in the next several
    months, Buckovski wants to portray himself as a pragmatic
    leader, and to ensure that none of his policy stances differs
    significantly from ours. End Summary.

    PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS IN EARLY SUMMER, CONCERNS ABOUT
    OPPOSITION TACTICS

    ¶2. (C) During a dinner with Ambassador, DCM, DATT, and P/E
    Chief on February 1, PM Buckovski said parliamentary
    elections likely would be held in late June or early July to
    allow the next government to organize itself during the
    summer. The draft electoral code would enter parliamentary
    debate by the first week of March, with passage expected by
    mid-March. Buckovski, who was accompanied by his foreign
    policy and national security advisers, said he was hopeful
    the parliament would have passed important judicial reform
    laws (on the police and on the courts) before the election
    date.

    ¶3. (C) Buckovski said he was concerned that opposition
    center-right party VMRO-DPMNE would play a "destructive" role
    during the electoral campaign and elections. He cited recent
    demonstrations by unemployed tobacco workers from Kumanovo
    and Prilep, and ongoing street blockades by an NGO protesting
    government plans to privatize the state electrical power
    company, as typical examples of VMRO-DPMNE destabilization
    tactics. (Comment: We agree there was a partisan political
    dimension to the protests, in addition to the underlying
    socio-economic complaints by workers and citizens. End
    Comment.)

    ¶4. (C) Noting VMRO-DPMNE objections to government plans to
    staff local election boards with civil servants, Buckovski
    said that previous elections had been marred by the
    appointment of political party members to those boards, which
    made the board members susceptible to manipulation and fraud.
    The government proposal would, he claimed, be more
    reassuring to voters, especially in primarily ethnic Albanian
    areas where fraud had typically been most prevalent. Ethnic
    Albanians would put more stock in the integrity of civil
    service professionals than they would in party
    representatives.

    DPA'S RETURN TO PARLIAMENT

    ¶5. (C) Buckovski thanked Ambassador for her constructive role
    in persuading the ethnic Albanian opposition party DPA to
    return to the Parliament after a 9-month hiatus to protest
    irregularities during local elections last March and April
    (reftel). He said that he would welcome receiving DPA's
    suggestions for amendments to the draft electoral code, and
    would discuss those amendments the following day (February 2)
    with a DPA representative. During the conversation,
    Buckovski spoke by phone with DPA Vice President Menduh
    Thaci, and with Speaker of Parliament Jordanovski, to arrange
    for DPA's return to Parliament the week of February 6.

    NATO ACCESSION

    SKOPJE 00000118 002 OF 003

    ¶6. (C) Ambassador briefed Buckovski on the upcoming visit by
    a high-level US delegation to review Macedonia's progress
    toward meeting its MAP goals. She said it would be important
    for Macedonia to demonstrate that it was a net contributor to
    security. The country had to convince some skeptical NATO
    members that bringing Macedonia into the Alliance would not
    be tantamount to "importing instability." Also, the GOM
    would have do more to combat corruption, including better
    coordination of existing anti-corruption efforts and more
    aggressive efforts to prosecute high-level corruption cases.

    ¶7. (C) Buckovski agreed that more needed to be done to fight
    corruption. He accepted the need for stronger coordination,
    and said Foreign Policy Adviser Mersel Biljali was in charge
    of "finding a methodology" for tackling the problem.
    Buckovski noted his personal ties to both the Public
    Prosecutor ("a friend") and the Minister of Justice (a former
    law student of his) and even offered personally to head the
    effort to improve coordination among the various judicial
    agencies to enhance anti-corruption efforts.

    ICTY RETURN OF CASES -- REQUEST FOR DELAY

    ¶8. (C) Responding to the Ambassador's request for an update
    on the status of the return of four unindicted cases from the
    ICTY to Macedonian jurisdiction, Buckovski said that Chief
    Public Prosecutor Prcevski would meet with ICTY investigators
    in late February to ask orally for a delay in the return.
    Buckovski did not want a paper trail or any documentation of
    the request for a delay, since that could later be used by
    the opposition to attack the government for being soft on the
    ethnic Albanians (all four cases involved eAlbanians alleged
    to have committed war crimes during the 2001 internal armed
    conflict.)

    ¶9. (C) Comment: Buckovski's information was at odds with FM
    Mitreva's report to the EU Special Representative this week
    that Prcevski would travel to The Hague on February 2 to
    request the delayed return of cases. This discrepancy
    reflects the general lack of coordination on this matter
    between the Prime Minister, Mitreva, and the President -- the
    only three GOM officials with the authority to make decisions
    regarding the return of cases. Buckovski reportedly told the
    press on February 2 that he expected the return of cases "to
    coincide with completion of the judicial reforms," and that
    the cases likely would be returned "by the end of 2006." End
    Comment.

    KOSOVO FINAL STATUS

    ¶10. (C) On Kosovo final status, Buckovski said he could see
    no other possible outcome but independence. He said he
    agreed with the US position, that Kosovo final status should
    be determined "the sooner, the better" to reduce the
    potential for future instability in the region. As a
    positive example to Kosovo and the region of Macedonia's
    multi-ethnic experience, he said, the GOM planned to host in
    Ohrid in August the 5th anniversary commemoration of the
    signing of the Ohrid Framework Agreement, which ended the
    2001 internal armed conflict in Macedonia. Buckovski said he
    hoped for high-level representation at the event from those
    countries and organizations that had signed the original
    agreement, in particular the U.S. and EU.

    EL-MASRI: STAY THE COURSE

    ¶11. (C/NOFORN) Concerning the case of a German citizen of
    Lebanese descent who has claimed that Macedonian authorities
    detained him in January 2004 and handed him over to the CIA
    for a rendition flight to Afghanistan, Buckovski noted that
    the GOM would stay the course and would continue to support
    the Minister of Interior, who has declined to discuss the
    matter with the local press. Buckovski was relieved to hear
    from the Ambassador that we would not shift course, either,
    and would continue to decline to discuss in public specific
    cases. The Prime Minister suggested that the Ambassador
    coordinate on the issue with the German Embassy in Skopje,
    suggesting that the Germans were putting pressure on the
    Macedonians to be more forthcoming. The Ambassador demurred.

    TRILATERAL MEETING ALONG A-3 LINES

    SKOPJE 00000118 003 OF 003

    ¶12. (SBU) Buckovski mentioned that he was organizing a
    "trilateral meeting" in Tirana with his Albanian and Croatian
    counterparts (mirroring the Adriatic Partnership), and hoped
    the U.S. Ambassador in Tirana would be able to participate.
    He gave no specifics regarding the objective of the meeting,
    other than to mention that it would strengthen regional
    cooperation.

    COMMENT

    ¶13. (C) Buckovski characterized the dinner as a chance to
    further strengthen the close cooperation between the Embassy
    and his office. He pledged "open and frank" communication
    between his office and the Embassy, and suggested Macedonia
    continues to view the U.S. as its single most important
    "strategic partner." Buckovski clearly was eager to get
    feedback on sensitive issues, and to portray himself as a
    pragmatic leader who can listen to arguments at odds with his
    own views, and who is ready to compromise when needed. With
    parliamentary elections likely in summer 2006 and the
    campaign season about to begin, Buckovski also feels it is
    necessary to show that he has international community
    support, especially from the US, and that his policy stances
    do not conflict with ours on any high-profile matters.
    MILOVANOVIC

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