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C O N F I D E N T I A L USOSCE 000273 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR VCI/CCA, EUR/RPM, 
NSC FOR HAYES, JCS FOR J5/NORWOOD/CAMPBELL, 
OSD FOR ISA/PERENYI 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/14/2018 
TAGS: KCFE OSCE PARM PREL
SUBJECT: CFE/JCG:  NOVEMBER 11 PLENARY; RUSSIA MAY TRY TO 
CALL A JCG AT HELSINKI 
 
Classified By: Chief Arms Control Delegate Hugh Neighbour, 
for reasons 1.4(b) and (d). 
 
¶1.  (SBU)  The November 11 JCG, chaired by Romania, was 
brief.  The only intervention was by Belarus First Secretary 
Vasily Pavlov, who announced his departure from Vienna on 
November 13 and introduced his replacement, First Secretary 
Dmitry Krayushkin. 
 
¶2.  (C)  During the JCG-T plus 4 held on November 10 and 
chaired by Luxembourg, the Netherlands (Kleinjan) provided a 
summary of last week's HLTF retreat in Romania.  There was 
some discussion by Allies that it would be wise to include 
language from the NATO Communique in statements made at the 
JCG meeting on December 16, i.e., after the data exchange or 
for the one-year anniversary of Russia's suspension of CFE 
implementation. 
 
¶3.  (C)  Head of Russian arms control delegation Mikhail 
Ulyanov informally asked German and U.S. representatives if 
they were ready to attend a JCG/CFE meeting at the OSCE 
Ministerial Council in Helsinki the first week of December. 
Ulyanov asserted that the rules of procedure allow any CFE 
State Party to request a JCG at any time.  When the German 
representative asked if Ulyanov was going to announce 
Russia's return to CFE implementation at such a meeting, he 
replied that nothing had occurred since December 2007 to 
cause Russia to reconsider its decision to suspend 
implementation.  The U.S. was non-committal. 
 
¶4.  (U)  The next JCG meeting, also to be chaired by Romania, 
will be held on November 18.  The next JCG-T will be held on 
November 17 and will be chaired by Canada. 
FINLEY