06KIEV1135, UKRAINE/MOLDOVA/TRANSNISTRIA: YUSHCHENKO ON

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Reference ID	Created	Released	Classification	Origin
06KIEV1135	2006-03-24 07:27	2011-08-30 01:44	CONFIDENTIAL	Embassy Kyiv

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C O N F I D E N T I A L KIEV 001135 

SIPDIS 

E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/23/2016 
TAGS: PREL PBTS PHUM PINR OSCE
SUBJECT: UKRAINE/MOLDOVA/TRANSNISTRIA: YUSHCHENKO ON 
RUSSIAN "HUMANITARIAN" SHIPMENTS; DEMARCHES DELIVERED 

Classified By: Ambassador for reasons 1.4 (b,d). 

¶1. (C) In a March 23 meeting, President Yushchenko told 
Ambassador that the Ukrainian government had learned March 21 
that Russia planned to ship humanitarian assistance to the 
Transnistrians.  He had spoken to Russian Ambassador 
Chernomyrdin and said the Russian shipment was an unfriendly 
act because the Kremlin wanted to bring the shipments into 
Ukraine at the farthest point from Transnistria, in Kharkiv. 
Yushchenko said the shipment could go forward, but only on 
condition that it enter Ukraine at Sumy and transit at night. 
 Chernomyrdin had agreed.  Yushchenko commented the night 
transit would minimize the possibility that Ne Tak bloc, 
Party of Regions, or other opposition elements could 
capitalize on the shipment to attack the government's 
approach to Transnistria.  The shipment would probably occur 
on the night of March 23. 

¶2. (C) Commenting on the lack of any basis for humanitarian 
shipments, Yushchenko said, in the last three days, 
Transnistria had received shipments of meat at a volume 
sufficient to provide every resident with two kilograms each. 
 The Transnistrian authority had stopped 190 railroad freight 
cars from entering, while Ukrainian customs had stopped only 
19 cars that lacked the appropriate Moldovan customs seals. 

¶3. (U) Note:  Interfax reported later on March 23 that Russia 
had agreed, according to Russian Emergency Situations 
Minister Sergei Shoigu, to change its route.  Based on a memo 
from the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Shoigu said the Russian 
convoy would pass through Kiev instead of Kharkiv.  The 
trucks also should not carry "any symbols of propaganda," 
travel at night, and do so within 12 hours. 

¶4. (U) Note:  We also conveyed ref a and b points (on Russian 
humanitarian aid and a GOU Transnistria-related customs 
proposal, respectively) to MFA Second Territorial Department 
Deputy Director Ihor Prokopchuk and Special Envoy for 
Transnistrian Affairs Dmytro Tkach. 

¶5. (U) Visit Embassy Kiev's classified website: 
www.state.sgov.gov/p/eur/kiev. 
Herbst

 

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