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### Viewing cable 00HELSINKI2613, FINNISH PRESIDENT HALONEN'S JUNE 7

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00HELSINKI2613 | 2000-06-12 13:59 | 2011-04-24 00:00 | CONFIDENTIAL | Embassy Helsinki

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    This record is a partial extract of the original cable. The full text of the original cable is not available.

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    C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 HELSINKI 002613

    SIPDIS

    E.O. 12958:  DECL: 06/09/10
    TAGS: PREL FI FI EUN RUPREL EUN RU
    SUBJECT: FINNISH PRESIDENT HALONEN'S JUNE 7
    MEETING WITH RUSSIAN PRESIDENT PUTIN

    CLASSIFIED BY AMBASSADOR EDELMAN REASONS 1.5
    (B AND D)

    -------
    SUMMARY
                           CONFIDENTIAL

    PAGE 02        HELSIN  02613  01 OF 02  121416Z
    -------

    ¶1. (C) FINNISH PRESIDENT TARJA HALONEN TRAVELED TO
    MOSCOW JUNE 7 FOR THE FINLAND-RUSSIA SUMMIT AND HER
    FIRST OFFICIAL MEETING WITH PRESIDENT PUTIN.  THE MAIN
    PURPOSE OF THE MEETING WAS TO PROVIDE THE LEADERS AN
    OPPORTUNITY TO SIZE EACH OTHER UP.  OVERALL THE FINNS
    WERE IMPRESSED WITH PUTIN'S GRASP OF THE ISSUES, AND
    (AT LEAST ACCORDING TO FINNISH OFFICIALS) THE RUSSIANS
    WITH FINLAND'S FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT.  HALONEN
    DELIVERED THE FIRM MESSAGE TO PUTIN THAT MANY OF
    RUSSIA'S POLICIES, FOR EXAMPLE IN CHECHNYA AND SERBIA,
    WERE INCONSISTENT WITH FUNDAMENTAL DEMOCRATIC AND HUMAN
    RIGHTS PRINCIPLES SHARED BY THE TRANSATLANTIC COMMUNITY
    TO WHICH RUSSIA ASPIRED.

    ¶2. (C) HALONEN ALSO HIGHLIGHTED THE IMPORTANCE TO THE
    EU-RUSSIA RELATIONSHIP OF THE IMMINENT EU MEMBERSHIP OF
    ESTONIA, LATVIA, AND LITHUANIA AND THE SUBSEQUENT
    LENGTHENING OF THE RUSSIA-EU BORDER.  PUTIN LAUNCHED
    INTO AN ATTACK ON THE BALTICS AND THEIR TREATMENT OF
    THE RUSSIAN MINORITIES.

    ¶3. (C) ACCORDING TO FINNISH OFFICIALS WHO ACCOMPANIED
    PRESIDENT HALONEN, RUSSIAN VIEWS OF THE JUST-ENDED
    U.S.-RUSSIA SUMMIT TRACKED WITH WHAT THEY HAD HEARD
    FROM US.  FM IVANOV SEEMED UPBEAT ABOUT THE SUMMIT, BUT
    PUTIN APPEARED CONTENTIOUS AND SAID THAT A U.S.
    DECISION TO GO FORWARD WITH NMD WOULD UNLEASH AN ARMS
    RACE. END SUMMARY

                           CONFIDENTIAL

    PAGE 03        HELSIN  02613  01 OF 02  121416Z
    ¶4. (C) IN ACCORD WITH THE AGREEMENT POTUS AND PRESIDENT
    HALONEN MADE DURING HALONEN'S RECENT VISIT TO
    WASHINGTON, HALONEN'S CHIEF OF STAFF JAAKKO KALELA GAVE
    AMBASSADOR EDELMAN A QUICK READ-OUT OF THE HALONEN-
    PUTIN SUMMIT IN MOSCOW ON JUNE 7.  MFA DEPUTY DIRECTOR
    GENERAL FOR RUSSIA AND NIS RENE NYBERG ELABORATED ON
    THE VISIT JUNE 9, SHARING WITH US BOTH THE GOF'S
    REPORT TO OTHER EU MEMBERS (VIA COREU) AND A MORE
    DETAILED, INTERNAL GOF REPORT (PLEASE PROTECT).

    ---------------------------------------------
    RUSSIA'S POLICIES AT ODDS WITH WESTERN VALUES
    ---------------------------------------------

    ¶5. (C) PUTIN WAS VERY MUCH INTERESTED IN TAKING THE
    MEASURE OF HALONEN. THEIR DISCUSSION CENTERED ON
    CHECHNYA, KOSOVO/SERBIA, AND IRAQ.  HALONEN STRESSED
    THAT RUSSIAN POLICY IN ALL THESE AREAS PUT THEM AT ODDS
    WITH BASIC EU PRINCIPLES.  REFLECTINQ THEIR TRAINING AS
    LAWYERS, AT TIMES THE BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN THE TWO
    GAVE THE APPEARANCE OF TWO ATTORNEYS PLEADING THE CASE
    FOR THEIR CLIENTS.  KALELA SAID THIS WAS NOT A
    DISCUSSION OF "FACTS BUT VALUES."  ACCORDING TO KALELA
    (WHO HAS BEEN CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE LAST THREE FINNISH
    PRESIDENTS) HALONEN HELD HER OWN WITH PUTIN WHO, AT ONE
    POINT, EXCLAIMED "YOU ARE A VERY DANGEROUS WOMAN."
    NYBERG CONFIRMED THAT HALONEN MADE THE SAME GENERAL
    IMPRESSION ON THE OTHER RUSSIAN OFFICIALS PARTICIPATING
    IN THE PLENARY SESSION.

    --------------------------------------------- -------
                           CONFIDENTIAL

    PAGE 04        HELSIN  02613  01 OF 02  121416Z
    PUTIN'S RUDE WARNING TO FINNS: DON'T DISCUSS KARELIA
    --------------------------------------------- -------

    ¶6. (C) PUTIN RAISED THE ISSUE OF THE TERRITORY FINLAND
    WAS FORCED TO CEDE TO THE SOVIET UNION AFTER WORLD WAR
    II (KARELIA) IN THE PRIVATE SESSION.

    --   NOTE: THIS IS A VERY EMOTIONAL ISSUE FOR MANY
         FINNS.  OVER 400,000 KARELIANS LEFT THEIR HOMES IN
         THE CEDED TERRITORIES AND WERE RESETTLED
         THROUGHOUT FINLAND.  IT REMAINS A TOPIC OF LIVELY
         PUBLIC DEBATE AND EVEN PLAYED A PART IN THE RECENT
         FINNISH PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN. END NOTE

    PUTIN SAID THAT CONTINUED DISCUSSION IN FINLAND ABOUT
    THE POSSIBLE RETROCESSION OF KARELIA TO FINLAND COULD
    DAMAGE THE RUSSIAN-FINNISH BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP.  HE
    SAID THAT IN HIS PERSONAL OPINION, STALIN HAD MADE A
    MISTAKE BY INVADING FINLAND DURING THE WINTER WAR.
    "RUSSIA HAD ENOUGH TERRITORY AND DIDN'T NEED MORE TO
    DEFEND ITSELF."  BUT NONETHELESS, IN HIS VIEW, WHAT WAS
    DONE WAS DONE AND THE TERRITORIAL BORDER BETWEEN
    FINLAND AND RUSSIA COULD NOT NOW BE UNDONE.  HE
    EXPLICITLY LINKED THE STATUS OF KARELIA TO THE
    SITUATION OF THE JAPANESE NORTHERN TERRITORIES AND
    ADDUCED THAT DISPUTE AS THE MAIN REASON WHY RUSSIA

                           CONFIDENTIAL

                               CONFIDENTIAL     PTQ1445

    PAGE 01        HELSIN  02613  02 OF 02  121416Z
    ACTION EUR-00

    INFO  LOG-00   NP-00    AID-00   ACQ-00   CIAE-00  SMEC-00  INL-01
          DODE-00  DOEE-00  ANHR-00  SRPP-00  DS-00    EAP-00   FBIE-00
          VC-00    H-01     TEDE-00  INR-00   IO-00    LAB-01   L-00
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          NRRC-00  NSAE-00  NSCE-00  OMB-01   PA-00    PM-00    PRS-00
          ACE-00   P-00     SCT-00   SP-00    SSO-00   SS-00    TRSE-00
          T-00     USIE-00  SA-00    R-00     SNIS-00  NISC-00  PMB-00
          DSCC-00  PRM-01   DRL-02   G-00     SAS-00   SWCI-00    /017W
                      ------------------61C8AD  121417Z /38
    O 121359Z JUN 00
    FM AMEMBASSY HELSINKI
    TO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 1970
    INFO EUROPEAN POLITICAL COLLECTIVE PRIORITY
    AMEMBASSY TOKYO

    C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 02 OF 02 HELSINKI 002613

    SIPDIS

    E.O. 12958:  DECL: 06/09/10
    TAGS: PREL FI FI EUN RUPREL EUN RU
    SUBJECT: FINNISH PRESIDENT HALONEN'S JUNE 7
    MEETING WITH RUSSIAN PRESIDENT PUTIN

    COULD NOT NOW LOOK AT ANY ADJUSTMENT WITH FINLAND.

    ¶7. (C) HALONEN SAID THAT HER POSITION ON THE ISSUE WAS
    CLEAR: SHE DID NOT ADVOCATE REOPENINQ THE KARELIA
    QUESTION.  FINNISH VOTERS KNEW THAT WHEN THEY ELECTED
                           CONFIDENTIAL

    PAGE 02        HELSIN  02613  02 OF 02  121416Z
    HER.  STILL, SHE COULD NOT PREVENT OTHER FINNS FROM
    EXPRESSING THEIR VIEWS.  PUTIN SAID HE HAD NO INTENTION
    OF RAISING THE ISSUE IN PUBLIC.  IN THE EVENT, IT WAS
    THE ONE QUESTION THAT THE FINNISH PRESS RAISED DURING
    THE PRESIDENTS' JOINT PRESS CONFERENCE.  PUTIN, WHO WAS
    SURPRISED, PERHAPS EVEN SHOCKED, BY THE QUESTION, GAVE
    A RESPONSE WHICH KALELA CHARACTERIZED AS "QUITE TOUGH,
    EVEN BRUTAL."  (THE FINNISH PRESS REPORTED THAT PUTIN
    SAID RELATIONS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND FINLAND HAD BEEN
    QUITE GOOD FOR THE LAST TEN YEARS BUT THAT A DISCUSSION
    OF KARELIA COULD "DESTROY" THOSE GOOD RELATIONS.)

    --------------------------------------------- -------
    HALONEN DISMISSES PUTIN'S JUSTIFICATION FOR FORCE IN
    CHECHNYA
    --------------------------------------------- --------

    ¶8. (C) PUTIN REPEATEDLY BROUGHT THE CONVERSATION BACK
    TO CHECHNYA, ARGUING THAT "YOU FINNS DEFENDED
    YOURSELVES DURING THE WINTER WAR.  WHY DON'T WE
    RUSSIANS HAVE THE RIGHT TO DEFEND OURSELVES AGAINST
    TERRORISM IN CHECHNYA?"  HALONEN'S RESPONSE WAS VERY
    DIRECT. "I JUST DON'T BUY THAT LINE OF ARGUMENT," SHE
    REPORTEDLY TOLD PUTIN.

    ---------------------------------
    PUTIN CRUDELY ATTACKS THE BALTICS
    ---------------------------------
    ¶9. (C) ACCORDING TO NYBERG, PUTIN ATTACKED THE BALTICS,
    DRAWING ON FAR-FETCHED CLAIMS AND OUTRIGHT LIES.  PUTIN
    SAID THAT THE ESTONIANS "WERE STILL MAKING TERRITORIAL
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    CLAIMS AGAINST RUSSIA." HE ACCUSED THE BALTICS OF
    BLATANT DISCRIMINATION AGAINST THE RUSSIAN SPEAKING
    MINORITIES.  PUTIN ASKED, "DOES IT MAKE SENSE FOR THE
    BALTICS TO DRIVE OUT THE RUSSIAN POPULATION ONLY TO
    MAKE ROOM (PRESUMABLY WHEN IN THE EU) FOR KURD AND
    ALBANIAN REFUGEES?"

    ¶10. (C) HALONEN TOLD PUTIN THAT BOTH FINLAND AND THE EU
    TAKE SERIOUSLY THE PRINCIPLE OF FAIR TREATMENT FOR
    MINORITIES, ESPECIALLY IN EU COUNTRIES AND PROSPECTIVE
    EU MEMBERS.  TO UNDERLINE THIS, SHE ALLUDED TO THE
    SERIOUSNESS WITH WHICH THE EU-14 HAD VIEWED THE
    PARTICIPATION OF THE FREEDOM PARTY IN THE AUSTRIAN
    GOVERNMENT -- AN EU MEMBER.  HALONEN NOTED THAT THE
    BALTICS WERE COMPLYINQ WITH OSCE RECOMMENDATIONS
    REGARDINQ SOCIAL INTEGRATION AND THAT FINLAND WAS
    CONTINUING TO HELP THESE COUNTRIES PREPARE FOR EU
    MEMBERSHIP AND ESPECIALLY IN HELPING BUILD UP RULE OF
    LAW.  RESPONDING TO PUTIN'S STATEMENT ABOUT ESTONIA'S
    "TERRITORIAL CLAIMS," SHE REMINDED HIM THAT ALREADY
    DURING PRIMAKOV'S TENURE, PRIMAKOV HAD ASKED HER AS
    THEN FOREIQN MINISTER TO FACILITATE THE TALKS ON A
    BORDER TREATY BETWEEN ESTONIA AND RUSSIA.

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    PUTIN POLEMICAL ON NMO
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    ¶11. (C) KALELA SAID THAT DURINQ THE KREMLIN DINNER HE
    SAT NEXT TO FM IVANOV, WHO BRIEFED HIM ON THE CLINTON-
    PUTIN SUMMIT IN ALMOST EXACTLY THE SAME TERMS THAT THE
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    AMBASSADOR HAD BRIEFED KALELA AND VALTASAARI BEFORE
    THEIR TRIP TO MOSCOW.  THE ONLY DIFFERENCE HAD BEEN
    THAT IVANOV WAS VERY UPBEAT AND OPTIMISTIC, RATHER THAN
    STRICTLY FACTUAL IN HIS BRIEFING.  PUTIN'S CONVERSATION
    WITH HALONEN ON THE SUBJECT AT DINNER WAS SLIGHTLY MORE
    "POLEMICAL."  IN DISCUSSING NMO HE HAD TAKEN AN ALMOST
    THREATENING TONE, SAYING THAT AN AMERICAN DEPLOYMENT
    COULD CAUSE A "NEW ARMS RACE."  HE HAD NONETHELESS
    EXPRESSED HIS SATISFACTION WITH THE SUMMIT MEETING WITH
    POTUS AND SAID HIS RELATIONS WITH THE PRESIDENT WERE
    "QUITE GOOD."

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    PUTIN'S GRASP OF ISSUES IMPRESSIVE
    ----------------------------------

    ¶12. (C) ALL OF THE FINNS WERE QUITE IMPRESSED BY THE
    DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PUTIN AND YELTSIN.  PUTIN WAS VERY
    MUCH ON TOP OF HIS BRIEF.  HE SPOKE FLUENTLY AND
    LUCIDLY WITHOUT ANY NOTES.  STATE SECRETARY VALTASAARI
    NOTED THAT PUTIN WAS ABLE TO NAME ALL 26 FINNISH-
    RUSSIAN BORDER CROSSINQS (INCLUDINQ THE 4 UNDER
    CONSTRUCTION) WHICH EVEN THE FINNS COULD NOT HAVE DONE
    WITHOUT NOTES.

    EDELMAN

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