Cablegate: Finmeccanica: Not Pursuing Arms Sales to Venezuela

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PP RUEHFL RUEHNP
DE RUEHRO #2032 1981513
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 171513Z JUL 06
FM AMEMBASSY ROME
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 5378
INFO RUEHRL/AMEMBASSY BERLIN PRIORITY 1633
RUEHCV/AMEMBASSY CARACAS PRIORITY 0743
RUEHMD/AMEMBASSY MADRID PRIORITY 1705
RUEHMO/AMEMBASSY MOSCOW PRIORITY 4277
RUEHFR/AMEMBASSY PARIS PRIORITY 2031
RUEHFL/AMCONSUL FLORENCE PRIORITY 1580
RUEHMIL/AMCONSUL MILAN PRIORITY 7367
RUEHNP/AMCONSUL NAPLES PRIORITY 1658
RUCPDOC/DEPT OF COMMERCE WASHDC PRIORITY
RUEKJCS/JOINT STAFF WASHDC PRIORITY

UNCLAS ROME 002032

SIPDIS

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STATE PLEASE PASS TO ISN/CATR, EUR/PRA, AND EUR/WE

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ETRD ETTC PARM SP VE IT
SUBJECT: FINMECCANICA: NOT PURSUING ARMS SALES TO VENEZUELA

REF: A. ROME 1996
B. STATE 112031
C. ROME 01915

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(SBU) Finmeccanica's Head of Public and Institutional
Relations, Camillo Pirozzi, informed us July 14 of
Finmeccanica's decision not/not to pursue the sale of naval
guns to the Venezuelan navy, reported reftels. The guns were
to have been installed on patrol boats being manufactured by
Navantia, a Spanish company.
SPOGLI

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