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O 310909Z DEC 08
FM AMEMBASSY ATHENS
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 2986
INFO RUEHZG/NATO EU COLLECTIVE PRIORITY
RUCNDT/US MISSION USUN NEW YORK PRIORITY

UNCLAS ATHENS 001730 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PREL PGOV GR PARM PINR PINS KGIC
SUBJECT: GLOBAL INITIATIVE: U.S./DUTCH/RUSSIAN TEAM 
DISCUSSES JUNE 2009 MEETING WITH GREEK MFA 
 
REF: STATE 132539 
 
 ¶1. (U) On December 22, Poloff, together with Dutch 
Ambassador Von Rij and Russian Poloff Dimitriy Novikov, 
delivered reftel demarche on the Fifth Global Initiative 
Meeting in June 2009 to Ambassador Tryphon Paraskevopoulos, 
Head of the  MFA D1 Directorate for the UN and International 
Organizations.  Also in attendance from the Greek MFA was 
Counselor Dimitris Papandreou, the primary officer 
responsible for the Global Initiative.  Paraskevopoulos 
appreciated the delivery of the demarche and had only one 
substantive comment, namely that the Republic of Macedonia be 
officially designated at the conference under the name 
"Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia."  Poloff, as well as 
Ambassador Von Rij and Russian political officer Novikov, 
agreed to pass this request to their respective ministries. 
 
SPECKHARD