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### Viewing cable 06STATE40904, DISCOURAGING MORATINOS' SYRIAN STRATEGY

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06STATE40904 | 2006-03-14 15:03 | 2011-02-02 21:09 | CONFIDENTIAL | Secretary of State

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    VZCZCXRO8346
    OO RUEHLA
    DE RUEHC #0904/01 0731540
    ZNY CCCCC ZZH
    O R 141538Z MAR 06
    FM SECSTATE WASHDC
    TO RUEHMD/AMEMBASSY MADRID IMMEDIATE 1232
    INFO EU MEMBER STATES COLLECTIVE
    RUEHLB/AMEMBASSY BEIRUT 2366
    RUEHDM/AMEMBASSY DAMASCUS 0232
    RUEHTV/AMEMBASSY TEL AVIV 3636
    RUEHLA/AMCONSUL BARCELONA 1562
    RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK 0894

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    C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 STATE 040904

    SIPDIS

    SIPDIS

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/14/2015
    TAGS: PREL PGOV SP SY LE IS FR UN
    SUBJECT: DISCOURAGING MORATINOS' SYRIAN STRATEGY

    REF: A. MADRID 568

    ¶B. ZEYA-BALL EMAILS 3/10/06

    Classified By: EUR A/S KURT VOLKER, ACTING, REASONS 1.4 (B) AND (D)

    ¶1. (U) This is an action request. See Para 5.

    ¶2. (C) Summary: Spanish FM Moratinos' unannounced March 7
    trip to Damascus to meet with Syrian FM Muallim is at
    variance with US and EU policy on avoiding high-level visits
    to Damascus. This policy gives concrete form to the
    international isolation of the Syrian regime expressed in
    UNSCRs 1559, 1595, 1636, and 1644. Post is asked to convey
    strong USG concerns to Moratinos about his visit and
    discourage him from making further visits to Damascus or
    accepting SARG visits to Madrid, using the points in para 5.
    U/S Burns made these points to Ambassador Westendorp in their
    meeting on March 13. End Summary.

    ¶3. (C) Background: FM Moratinos made a brief "technical stop"
    in Damascus on his return trip from Pakistan and Afghanistan
    on March 7. During the unannounced stop, he met briefly with
    FM Muallim. In a March 2 meeting with Ambassador Aguirre,
    Moratinos had previewed his plan to travel to Damascus in
    April in an effort to "pull Syria out of Iran's orbit" by
    working with "moderate" members of the regime. He asked for
    USG input, but did not mention any plan to visit Damascus
    before April (Ref A). Moratinos said that he had briefed the
    French on his intentions and that they had not raised any
    objections. On March 3 Embassy Paris raised the issue with
    French MFA Middle East advisor Christophe Guilhou, who was
    not aware of a possible Moratinos visit to Damascus and said
    that the GoF would oppose such a visit, given its policy of
    discouraging EU ministerial or Head of State visits to or
    from Damascus. On March 9 Guilhou told Embassy Paris that FM
    Douste-Blazy would raise the issue with Moratinos on the
    margins
    of the March 13 de Villepin-Zapatero meeting in Madrid and
    stress to him that the only official interlocutor with the
    SARG should be UN Special Envoy for the Implementation of
    UNSCR 1559 Terje Roed-Larsen. (Ref B)

    ¶4. (C) When Embassy Madrid learned of Moratinos' stopover in
    Damascus, it attempted to contact Moratinos through the
    Spanish MFA, which responded that the trip was a technical
    stopover and that the meeting between Moratinos and Muallim
    would be brief. When Ambassador Aguirre was finally able to
    speak with Moratinos, after the meeting had taken place,
    Moratinos insisted that he had not strayed from the
    international consensus on Syria and would share the details
    of his visit with the Ambassador upon his return to Madrid.

    ¶5. (C//REL to Spain) Post is requested to deliver the
    following talking points to FM Moratinos. The points should
    be delivered verbally; they are not to be left with him or
    hand-delivered:

    -- You are the first EU foreign minister to visit Damascus
    since the assassination of former Lebanese PM Hariri and
    twenty others, an assassination the UN determined likely
    involved Syrian security officials.

    -- We understand your desire to effect positive change within
    the Syrian regime and your desire to pull Syria out of Iran's
    orbit. However, we believe that unilateral measures, such as
    your unannounced stop in Damascus, are inconsistent with our
    joint message to the Syrian regime and risk undermining our
    unity. UN Special Envoy for the Implementation of UNSCR 1559
    Terje Roed-Larsen continues to meet with SARG officials and
    communicate the international community's message to the
    SARG.

    -- Now - almost exactly one year after the assassination of
    former PM Hariri - is not the time to open new diplomatic
    channels with the SARG. To do so represents a weakening of
    the policy of isolation and, as such, rewards the regime for
    its lack of cooperation with the international community.

    -- Since the Hariri assassination, there have been 13 other
    bombings and assassinations in Beirut, targeting anti-Syrian
    journalists and politicians.

    -- In early February, the Syrian regime manipulated and

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    directed crowds that burned the Danish, Norwegian, and
    Swedish Embassies in Damascus. Syrian involvement is also
    suspected in the violent demonstrations in Beirut that
    attacked western embassies.

    -- On March 1, Syrian authorities closed the European
    Commission-funded Civil Society Training Center, only nine
    days after its widely-covered opening on February 21. We
    understand the European Commission is protesting the shutdown
    to SARG authorities.

    -- The Syrian regime continues to imprison and harass civil
    society activists such as Riad Seif and Kamal Labbowani.

    -- The international community has taken a number of steps
    designed to force Syria to behave in accordance with
    international norms. Despite these efforts, the Asad regime
    is still bellicose, confrontational, and repressive one year
    after Hariri's death. It also remains confident that it can
    thumb its nose at the international community. It has failed
    to provide full and unconditional cooperation to the UNIIIC
    investigation. In Lebanon, the regime and its agents have
    stoked chaos and uncertainty with overt interference and
    economic pressure. Within Syria, the regime continues to
    repress its people. It has conducted no substantive
    political reform, and it has not moved on the limited
    economic reforms that it has repeatedly promised. The regime
    also continues to provide refuge, financial support, and
    political encouragement to Palestinian terrorist groups, and
    President Asad has called on Hamas not to recognize Israel.

    -- The international community has spoken clearly on what it
    expects of Syria with the adoption of UNSCRs 1559, 1595,
    1636, and 1644. Syria must end its interference in Lebanon,
    including facilitation of arms trafficking to militias in
    Lebanon; close the offices of Palestinian rejectionist groups
    in Damascus, stem the flow of foreign fighters into Iraq,
    halt repression of Syrian civil society, and cooperate fully
    with the investigation into the assassination of former
    Lebanese PM Rafiq Hariri.

    -- The United States coordinates closely with France, the UK,
    EU, and Germany on its policy towards Syria, Iran, and
    Lebanon. The EU position to date, supported by the US, has
    been to discourage ministerial or Head of State visits to and
    from Damascus.

    -- Official visits to Damascus send the wrong message at this
    juncture by providing the Syrian regime with an opportunity
    to exploit perceived differences in the international
    community. We are in full agreement with the French on this
    point.

    -- Although your expertise on Middle East issues in general
    and Syria in particular is of great value at this juncture,
    we urge Spain to coordinate its actions closely with the U.S.
    and the EU and to avoid unilateral measures. We can work
    together effectively on this important issue only if we are
    all working from the same precepts.

    If raised:

    -- During Russian FM Lavrov's recent trip to Washington, the
    Secretary emphasized our deep concerns about continued SARG

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    misbehavior, including arms trafficking and lack of
    cooperation with the UN investigation. She also emphasized
    the need to continue isolation of the Syrian regime and to
    avoid minister-level visits to Damascus.

    RICE
    RICE

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