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Viewing cable 07LISBON1498, DUSD FATA'S MISSILE DEFENSE BRIEF TO NATO PA

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
07LISBON1498 2007-05-29 10:35 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Lisbon
VZCZCXRO8502
RR RUEHAG RUEHAST RUEHDA RUEHDBU RUEHDF RUEHFL RUEHIK RUEHKW RUEHLA
RUEHLN RUEHLZ RUEHPOD RUEHROV RUEHSR RUEHVK RUEHYG
DE RUEHLI #1498/01 1491035
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 291035Z MAY 07
FM AMEMBASSY LISBON
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 5937
INFO RUEHZL/EUROPEAN POLITICAL COLLECTIVE
RUEKJCS/SECDEF WASHDC
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 LISBON 001498 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: MARR MCAP MNUC PARM PO PREL
SUBJECT: DUSD FATA'S MISSILE DEFENSE BRIEF TO NATO PA 
 
1. Summary.  DASD Fata provided a missile defense briefing to 
the NATO Parliamentary Assembly meeting in Portugal, 
stressing that the proposed long range system was to detect, 
deter, and defend against missile threats from the Middle 
East and that the system posed no threat to Russia.  Fata 
stressed that the USG has consulted regularly with Russia on 
this issue for two years.  End summary. 
 
2. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Daniel Fata provided 
a comprehensive briefing regarding US missile defense (MD) 
intentions to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Madeira, 
Portugal on May 26.  The Science and Technology Committee's 
standing-room only crowd received an overview of the policy 
aspects of missile defense from Fata, including his stress on 
the points that the US is pursuing a missile defense system 
in Europe to enhance trans-Atlantic security as well as to 
reaffirm the indivisibility of the security link between the 
US and Europe.  Such a system, he said, would detect, deter, 
and defend Europe from long range missile threats from the 
Middle East. 
 
3. Fata said the US has been briefing allies for some time 
now on what the MD system is, is not, why the US is pursuing 
the system, and how the system complements NATO's ongoing 
efforts.  The US, he said, intends to pursue the development 
of its long range system in parallel with NATO's short and 
medium range (ALTBMD) efforts.  He said the US had consulted 
with Russia at the highest levels regularly over the last two 
years and that the proposed ten interceptor missiles are 
entirely unarmed and are meant for defensive purposes only, 
points that several parliamentarians and journalists noted 
were new information to them.  The Missile Defense Agency's 
chief MD engineer, Dennis Mays, added a briefing on the 
technical aspects of the system. 
 
4. During the Q&A session, a Russian delegate noted worries 
regarding the effect of US missile defense on the 
Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty and previous 
agreements to avoid permanent stationing of troops in former 
Warsaw Pact countries.  Fata reminded delegates that Russia 
had expressed concern about the applicability of INF long 
before the advent of this MD proposal and noted that no 
agreement permanently prohibited assets in partner nations; 
the world had changed significantly in recent years, Fata 
recalled, and Poland and the Czech Republic are allies. 
 
5. Russia does not and will not have a veto over this system, 
Fata stated, regardless of how much we would welcome Russian 
approval.  Secretaries of Defense Rumsfeld and Gates have 
briefed the Russians regularly for two years and the US has 
invited them to participate in the project.  The Russians, 
said Fata, have neither rejected nor accepted these offers. 
Secretary of Defense Gates has proposed to Moscow an experts 
 
SIPDIS 
meeting to pursue the issue. 
 
6. Responding to a related question, Fata noted that if 
Poland and the Czech Republic choose not to participate, the 
system would not be placed there.  As sovereign states, they 
have the ultimate responsibility for their national territory 
and our defense proposals are entirely based on voluntary 
partnerships.  A Czech parliamentarian responded that his 
government had made the proposed MD system a priority and 
that it would not go to a referendum; parliamentary approval 
being all that was necessary.  The US, Fata later noted, 
would shoulder the financial cost entirely. 
 
7. Congresswoman Tauscher responded to a delegate's assertion 
that the US House of Representatives was divided on party 
lines regarding MD, noting the bipartisan approach in her 
subcommittee and in the House as a whole to ensure a viable 
and interoperable MD system is achieved that guarantees 
security for all of Europe. 
 
8. Much attention was paid to interoperability and 
coordination with NATO MD proposals.  Fata identified the 
complimentary aspects of the system; i.e., a US long-range 
counter and a NATO short-range counter. He also noted that 
NATO continues to identify a real threat of missile attacks 
from the Middle East, most recently affirmed at the Riga 
Summit.  Fata stressed US hopes to have these systems in 
operation as soon as possible and that NATO approval of our 
efforts up to and including adopting the program as its own 
would be welcome. 
 
9. A Latvian delegate, having noted that Fata's briefing was 
utterly convincing, suggested an extensive public diplomacy 
campaign by the US in general and Fata in particular.  Fata 
agreed that the public efforts came late in the process, but 
that the USG had needed President Bush's final policy 
decision before we could engage the public.  Fata himself 
provided extensive interviews to Portuguese press following 
the meeting to reaffirm the basic points of his speech 
 
LISBON 00001498  002 OF 002 
 
 
(particularly useful as Portuguese was not one of the 
translation languages offered during the session).  Fata 
agreed to meet regularly with journalists and expressed 
interest in doing digital video conferences from Washington 
with journalists around Europe and elsewhere. 
 
10. DASD Fata and Rep. Tauscher cleared this cable. 
Hoffman