Cablegate: Turkey Not Planning to Host Psi or Regional Oeg

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PP RUEHIK RUEHPOD RUEHYG
DE RUEHAK #1923 3111528
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 061528Z NOV 08
FM AMEMBASSY ANKARA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 7906
INFO RUEHZG/NATO EU COLLECTIVE PRIORITY
RUEHIT/AMCONSUL ISTANBUL PRIORITY 4953
RUEKJCS/SECDEF WASHDC PRIORITY

UNCLAS ANKARA 001923

SIPDIS
SENSITIVE

DEPARTMENT FOR ISN/CPI GUZMAN; OSD FOR GSA FLORES

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KNNP MNUC PARM PREL TU
SUBJECT: TURKEY NOT PLANNING TO HOST PSI OR REGIONAL OEG
MEETING

REF: A. STATE 115935
B. STATE 115948

(SBU) We delivered the September PSI OEG meeting summary (ref
a) to MFA Nonproliferation and Disarmament DDG Ahmet Gun and
his deputy Elif Ulgen on November 3. Drawing on ref b, we
encouraged Turkey to consider hosting a PSI OEG or regional
OEG in the future. Gun noted Turkey has been a leader in
PSI, hosting a large PSI exercise in 2006, and stated that
the GOT would like to see other PSI partners take a more
active role in hosting events. Gun said Turkey has no plans
to host any PSI events on the horizon, but is planning to
conduct a national level exercise in 2009.

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