Subject: RE: Macedonia
From: Amitabh Desai <[email-masked]>
To: John Podesta <[email-masked]>, Jake Sullivan <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 20:49:41 +0000

One of the best acronyms of all time.

From: John Podesta [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 4:46 PM
To: Jake Sullivan
Cc: Amitabh Desai
Subject: Re: Macedonia

I still call it FYROM.
On Jul 21, 2015 2:50 PM, "Jake Sullivan" <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:
I think Charlie is probably being overly cautious but I see no advantage in inviting.

On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Amitabh Desai <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:
Jake, we haven’t invited the PM of Macedonia to CGI – however one of the PM’s cabinet members reached out recently to inquire if we could.
As you know, the PM is likely to step down in January amidst significant pressure.
Charlie Kupchan recommends avoiding.
I’m going to explain to the Macedonians that we’re unable to proceed – but first wanted to check-in with you, to see if you disagree and think we should invite the PM?
Thanks,
Ami