Wikileaks - 09USNATO484

ID: 09USNATO484
Dokument dato: 2009-10-29 09:15:00
Release dato: 2011-01-13 07:00:00
Kilde: Mission USNATO

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C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 USNATO 000484 

SIPDIS 

DEPARTMENT FOR S, D, P, EUR


Hovedtekst:
1. (U) This cable was drafted by Ambassador Ivo Daalder, 
reporting from Abu Dhabi. 

2. (C) NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen dropped 
a bombshell in a NATO-UAE Conference attended by the NAC and 
senior UAE officials this morning. At the end of his public 
address to the conference, the SYG announced a five-point 
plan for Middle East peace (in para 5), leaving Perm Reps and 
Conference participants stunned. NATO has no official 
position on, nor a role in, the Middle East peace process and 
it is unprecedented for the Secretary General to wade into 
the issue ) let alone in this detail. None of the NATO 
Ambassadors or Missions had any advance warning of the 
statement. Many reacted with incredulity to his statement. 
The Danish Perm Rep, dean of the ambassadors, said "this 
time, he has gone too far."

3. (C) While NATO in the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative 
founding document did call for the full and speedy 
implementation of of the Quartet Roadmap -- which includes 
many of the elements in the Secretary General's statement -- 
NATO has also tried to make very clear that it has no direct 
role in the Middle East Peace Process. Given the public 
nature of the event, Arab governments and others are likely 
to take the statement as an endorsement by NATO and its 
members, including the United States Government, of the five 
point plan. In order to counter this impression, it is 
imperative that the Secretary General publicly clarify his 
statement ) indicating clearly that these were his own ideas 
and that neither NATO nor any of its members had a role in or 
endorsed any of the statements. The SYG is scheduled to 
deliver a press conference at 17:00 local (13:00 GMT), which 
would be the right time for him to deliver such a statement. 

4. (C) Unless otherwise directed, Ambassador Daalder will 
inform the Secretary General that he needs to use the 
occasion of his press conference to clarify his remarks, 
stating clearly that his statement on this issue was neither 
crafted by nor endorsed by NATO or any of its member 
governments and that NATO has no formal role in resolving the 
issue. 

5. (U) Extract from the as-delivered text of the SYG's 
remarks provided by his Private Office to USNATO: 

"NATO countries, and I personally when I was still Prime 
Minister of Denmark, have repeatedly stressed our attachment 
to a two-state solution, in which Israel and Palestine live 
side by side in peace and security. 
To reach this objective, the parties involved must fulfill 
certain requirements: 
Firstly, the Palestinians must declare an unequivocal end to 
violence and undertake visible efforts to end armed activity 
and all acts of violence against Israelis anywhere. 
Secondly, Israel must take all necessary steps to help 
normalize Palestinian life and stop all settlement activity, 
while the Palestinians undertake to reform their civil 
institutions and security services. 
Thirdly, Israel must withdraw from the Palestinian areas 
occupied after the "Al Aqsa intifada" in 2000 and be ready to 
do what is necessary for an independent, viable, sovereign 
and democratic Palestinian state to be established. 
Fourthly, the Palestinian leadership must issue an 
unequivocal statement reiterating Israel's right to exist in 
peace and security. 
And finally, the two parties must conclude an agreement that 
ends the occupation that started in 1967, which includes a 

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just, fair and realistic solution to the refugee issue and a 
negotiated resolution on the status of Jerusalem that takes 
into account the political and religious concerns of both 
sides, and protects the religious interests of Jews, Muslims, 
and Christians worldwide. 
If these conditions are met, we can hopeful accomplish the 
desire for a lasting peace in this region based on two 
states, Israel and Palestine, living side-by-side in peace 
and security. 
And this could hopefully pave the way for a comprehensive 
Arab-Israeli peace with security for all the states of the 
region."

End of SYG text. 

HEFFERN