Subject: RE: WJC / Greece / Merkel
From: Amitabh Desai <[email-masked]>
To: DMCOS <[email-masked]>
Cc: Jon Davidson <[email-masked]>, Tina Flournoy <[email-masked]>, "Wang, Ya W. EOP" <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]'" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2015 00:45:56 +0000

Thank you. He's happy to do it and we're all happy to help. We reached out to Merkel folks before departure and hope to connect with her tomorrow; and we'll also reach out to Tsipras tomorrow morning when we land in Sarajevo. The TPs below are great, and probably enough to go on, but if there's anything else on paper, we certainly can show it to him before the call(s), and we'll also let him know you're available to talk. We'll keep you updated. Sincerely, Ami

-----Original Message-----
From: DMCOS [mailto:[email-masked]] 
Sent: Friday, July 10, 2015 8:33 PM
To: Amitabh Desai
Cc: Jon Davidson; Tina Flournoy; Wang, Ya W. EOP; [email-masked]'
Subject: Re: WJC / Greece / Merkel

+ John for SA

Thanks, Ami. We sure appreciate all the heavy lifting you all are doing for us. I briefed P again tonight on the walk on all the work you're doing (Vietnam + Srebenica + Greece) and he, too and most importantly, was very grateful.  

If you all have time tomorrow AM in Srebenica, we now do/do think a call to PM Tsipras would also be very helpful. If useful, I'd gladly call into your traveling party to give you our best sense of where things stand.  

The message for PM Tsipras would be a version of the following (though we'd also gladly develop more robust paper/talkers if helpful): 

1) The PM should stay calm and engaged even if his interlocutors at times seem to make unreasonable demands. 

2) An underscoring of the importance of staying in Euro for both geopolitical and economic reasons. 

3) A recognition that debt re-profiling is an important win for Greece and for growth. 

4) And a reminder that it is important to be mindful that Merkel and other European leaders also have political challenges in their democracies and need reforms to be credible. 

----- Original Message -----
From: Amitabh Desai [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: Friday, July 10, 2015 06:05 PM
To: DMCOS
Cc: Jon Davidson <[email-masked]>; Tina Flournoy <[email-masked]>; Wang, Ya W. EOP
Subject: Re: WJC / Greece / Merkel

WJC raised the issue you suggested with Vietnamese GS. The GS did not really engage. 

> On Jul 10, 2015, at 5:18 PM, DMCOS <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> Thanks, Jon and Ami. 
> 
> We would welcome a nudge to the Chancellor in the way you suggest.  Please. 
> 
> Thanks - and have a good trip this weekend.  We are grateful to be so 
> well represented - DM
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Davidson [mailto:[email-masked]]
> Sent: Friday, July 10, 2015 4:42 PM
> To: Amitabh Desai; DMCOS
> Cc: John Podesta; Tina Flournoy; Wang, Ya W. EOP
> Subject: Re: WJC / Greece / Merkel
> 
> + Denis/Jenny
> 
> 
> Denis,
> 
> John suggested emailing you - on the heels of your talk with WJC about 
> PM Tsipras - to also let you know that we've been in close touch with 
> Merkel's folks this week in advance of WJC's Bosnia visit and given 
> Merkel's visit to Bosnia earlier this week - so it would be an 
> innocuous and easy lift - if a nudge to Merkel is needed - to have WJC 
> call Merkel on basis of checking in for guidance on Bosnia and then 
> casually asking her about Greece on the back end. Just in case 
> helpful. Although it's getting late now in Berlin. Sincerely, Ami
> 
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