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Wikileaks:SUBJECT: LIBYA/IAEA: ISRAEL UNHAPPY WITH REVISED INSTRUCTIONS ON A LIBYA RESOLUTION


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C O N F I D E N T I A L TEL AVIV 001493 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/09/2014 
TAGS: KNNP PARM PREL MNUC LY IS GOI EXTERNAL
SUBJECT: LIBYA/IAEA: ISRAEL UNHAPPY WITH REVISED 
INSTRUCTIONS ON A LIBYA RESOLUTION 
 
REF: A. CAIRO 1865 
 
     B. STERLING-AUGUSTINE ET AL 3/10 EMAIL 
     C. SECSTATE 52697 
 
Classified By: DCM Richard LeBaron for Reasons 1.4 (B) and (D). 
 
1. (C) In response to March 10 ref (C) demarche to his 
deputy, MFA Deputy DG for Strategic Affairs Jeremy 
Issacharoff told polmiloff that the GOI, while fully 
cognizant of "what's at stake" in gaining consensus for a 
Libya resolution, is unhappy with the reftel Libya resolution 
language because it could set an unfortunate precedent for 
future GOI interests on both WMD and Middle East peace 
issues.  The GOI, he said, believes that the language implies 
support for a Middle East NWFZ and overstates the value of 
the Libyan decision for Middle East peace.  He worried 
specifically about the possibility that Iran could one day 
refer to the language as justification for international 
pressure on Israel. 
 
2. (C) Issacharoff said he was especially unhappy to have 
heard from GOI representatives in Vienna earlier in the 
morning that the U.S. had reportedly acquiesced to the 
Egyptian request (ref A) to reverse the order of the ref (C) 
formulation "at peace and free of WMD."  Reversing the 
formulation, he said, would unacceptably imply that WMD 
disarmament would be a condition for, rather than a result 
of, peace between Israel and its Middle East neighbors. 
 
3. (C) In an earlier conversation (ref B), Issacharoff's 
deputy, Alon Bar, said the GOI was instructing its delegation 
in Vienna to seek more acceptable language.  Issacharoff said 
language along the following lines would be acceptable to the 
GOI:  "Recognizing that the decision of Libya could make a 
contribution towards a more secure Africa and Middle East 
that would be eventually free of WMD." 
 
 
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