Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
03ABUDHABI3075
2003-06-30 07:34:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Abu Dhabi
Cable title:
(U) UAE SUPPORT FOR THE POLISH-LED
how-tonull Diana T Fritz 03/21/2007 05:29:31 PM From DB/Inbox: Search Results Cable Text: CONFIDENTIAL SIPDIS TELEGRAM June 30, 2003 To: No Action Addressee Action: Unknown From: AMEMBASSY ABU DHABI (ABU DHABI 3075 - UNKNOWN) TAGS: PREL, PARM, MOPS Captions: None Subject: (U) UAE SUPPORT FOR THE POLISH-LED MULTINATIONAL DIVISION IN IRAQ Ref: None _________________________________________________________________ C O N F I D E N T I A L ABU DHABI 03075 SIPDIS CXABU: ACTION: POL INFO: DAO USLO RSO AMB DCM P/M ECON DISSEMINATION: POL CHARGE: PROG APPROVED: AMB:MMWAHBA DRAFTED: POL:STWILLIAMS CLEARED: A/DCM:TEWILLIAMS VZCZCADI410 OO RUEKJCS RUEHC RUCAACC RUBDPLA RUEHWR RUEHBUL RUCNRAQ RHEHNSC RUEAIIA RHEFDIA DE RUEHAD #3075 1810734 ZNY CCCCC ZZH O 300734Z JUN 03 FM AMEMBASSY ABU DHABI TO RUEKJCS/SECDEF WASHDC//USDC// IMMEDIATE RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 0653 INFO RUCAACC/CDR USCENTCOM MACDILL AFB FL//POLAD/CCJ2/CCJ5// RUBDPLA/USEUCOM RUEHWR/AMEMBASSY WARSAW 0034 RUEHBUL/AMEMBASSY KABUL 0129 RUCNRAQ/IRAQ COLLECTIVE RHEHNSC/NSC WASHINGTON DC RUEAIIA/CIA WASHINGTON DC RHEFDIA/DIA WASHDC
C O N F I D E N T I A L ABU DHABI 003075
SIPDIS
DOD FOR U/S DOV ZAKHEIM
STATE FOR NEA/ARP, NEA/NGA AND PM/RSAT
CENTCOM FOR POLAD AMB LITT AND CCJ2
NSC FOR THEROUX
E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/30/13
TAGS: PREL PARM MOPS AF IZ TC
SUBJECT: (U) UAE SUPPORT FOR THE POLISH-LED
MULTINATIONAL DIVISION IN IRAQ
REF: SECDEF 251715Z
C O N F I D E N T I A L ABU DHABI 003075
SIPDIS
DOD FOR U/S DOV ZAKHEIM
STATE FOR NEA/ARP, NEA/NGA AND PM/RSAT
CENTCOM FOR POLAD AMB LITT AND CCJ2
NSC FOR THEROUX
E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/30/13
TAGS: PREL PARM MOPS AF IZ TC
SUBJECT: (U) UAE SUPPORT FOR THE POLISH-LED
MULTINATIONAL DIVISION IN IRAQ
REF: SECDEF 251715Z
¶1. (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba
for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D).
¶2. (C) The Ambassador raised the issue of UAE
support for the Polish-led multinational division
with UAE Armed Forces Chief of Staff Muhammad bin
Zayid Al-Nahyan (MbZ) via letter and a follow-up
phone call on June 28. Attached to the letter was
the list of countries requiring transportation
assistance detailed reftel. MbZ's Special
Assistant, Yousef Al-Otaiba, telephoned Polchief
June 30 with the UAE's official response. The UAE
has agreed to provide transportation assistance to
the eight European countries listed, i.e. Poland,
Ukraine, Bulgaria, Hungary, Lithuania, Slovakia,
Latvia and Romania. Al-Otaiba said the UAE was
prepared to offer two "roll-on, roll-off" ships and
one hundred hours of an Aleutian 124 aircraft to
ferry the troops and their equipment to Iraq. He
indicated that UAE GHQ Director of Operations
Brigadier Ali Al-Kaabi would be in touch with the
Embassy's Acting USLO Chief for specific
arrangements.
¶3. (C) On the approach to Dubai Crown Prince and
UAE Defense Minister Muhammad bin Rashid Al-Maktoum
(MbR) regarding vehicles for Iraq and Afghanistan,
our Acting CG in Dubai has a meeting scheduled with
Sayanta Basu of The Investment Office on Tuesday,
July 1. We will report on the details of that
meeting as soon as they are available.
¶4. (C) Comment: Given the UAE's finite military
transportation resources, we believe their pledge
to support the mobilization of the Polish-led
division based out of Europe is appropriate and,
indeed, quite generous. The UAE military would
have been unable, in our opinion, to support the
transportation needs of troops from some of the
more far-flung areas of the globe.
WAHBA