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O 021712Z FEB 09
FM AMEMBASSY BERLIN
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 3183
INFO RUEHXP/ALL NATO POST COLLECTIVE PRIORITY
RUEHMO/AMEMBASSY MOSCOW PRIORITY 2008
RUEHTI/AMEMBASSY TIRANA PRIORITY 0112
RUEHVB/AMEMBASSY ZAGREB PRIORITY 0161
RUEKJCS/SECDEF WASHINGTON DC PRIORITY
RUEKJCS/JOINT STAFF WASHINGTON DC PRIORITY
RHEHNSC/NSC WASHINGTON DC PRIORITY

UNCLAS BERLIN 000128 
 
SIPDIS 
STATE FOR EUR/RPM - DMITRY VOVCHUK AND KRISTIN CALSON 
STATE FOR L/T - FRANK HOLLERAN 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KTIA MARR NATO PARM PREL GM
SUBJECT: NATO ENLARGEMENT: GERMANY TO DEPOSIT INSTRUMENTS 
OF RATIFICATION BY THE END OF FEBRUARY 
 
REF: A. STATE 07128 
     ¶B. 08 BERLIN 1411 
 
¶1.  The NATO accession protocols for Croatia and Albania have 
already been approved by both houses of the German Parliament 
and signed by President Horst Koehler.  A notice to this 
effect was published in the German Legal Gazette on December 
¶31.  The only remaining step is for Germany to deposit the 
instruments of ratification in Washington. 
 
¶2.  MFA NATO Office Director Bernhard Schlagheck told post 
January 30 that this final step would probably be carried out 
within the next two weeks, but in any case, no later than the 
end of February.  He saw absolutely no obstacles or 
impediments to achieving this. 
Koenig