Cablegate: Engaging Hungary On Provincial Reconstruction Team

VZCZCXRO2799
PP RUEHIK
DE RUEHUP #0904 3561247
ZNR UUUU ZZH
P 221247Z DEC 09
FM AMEMBASSY BUDAPEST
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 4778
INFO RUEHZL/EUROPEAN POLITICAL COLLECTIVE
RUEHBUL/AMEMBASSY KABUL 0110

UNCLAS BUDAPEST 000904

SENSITIVE
SIPDIS

DEPARTMENT FOR EUR/CE JAMIE MOORE AND SCA/A BRAD PARKER.
KABUL FOR PATRICIA MCNERNEY.

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL EAID AF HU
SUBJECT: ENGAGING HUNGARY ON PROVINCIAL RECONSTRUCTION TEAM
DRAFT MOU

REF: STATE 129187

1. (SBU) Political Counselor discussed reftel points
December 21 with Ambassador Gabor Horvath, Deputy Director of
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Security Policy and
Non-Proliferation Department. Horvath stated the MFA
"totally supported -- full stop" the concept of increased
civilian deployment and concluding an agreement. He noted,
however, that the Ministry of Defense hoped to clarify
several issues in the draft memorandum relating to force
protection requirements, e.g., how often U.S. personnel
expected to move off base.

2. (SBU) Lieutenant Colonel Laszlo Bagi, Chief of the
Ministry of Defense's Peacekeeping Operations Department,
separately stated that the MoD would provide its comments on
the force protection issue back to MFA within the next
several days. Bagi assured us that the MoD wanted to work
closely with us to resolve any questions.
LEVINE

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