RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR ASSESSMENT OF ENHANCED

UNCLAS AMMAN 002548

SIPDIS

DEPARTMENT FOR PM/CPP SWEBERG/ROSATI

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KSPR MARR MCAP MOPS PINS JO
SUBJECT: RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR ASSESSMENT OF ENHANCED
INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPING CAPABILITIES (EIPC) PROGRAM IN
JORDAN

REF: STATE 99396

(U) The following answers are keyed to reftel questions A1-12.

(A1) To date, 22 Jordanian trainers have been trained at CCMR
through the EIPC program. Of this total, 15 received
training in 2001, 3 received training in 2002, and 4 received
training in 2003.

(A2) The "train the trainer" concept has been successful.
The 22 trainers noted above have been able to deliver
improved training to 1,944 Jordanian Armed Forces (JAF)
personnel who have passed through its Peacekeeping Center
during the past year. To our knowledge, all the individuals
who received CCMR training are currently serving as
instructors at the JAF Peacekeeping Center.

(A3) Jordan has long been an enthusiastic participant in
international PKOs. EIPC support -- by outfitting the JAF
Peacekeeping Center with computers, English language training
labs, and other training aids and equipment, and by improving
the curriculum of the instructors -- has ensured that
Jordanian Peacekeepers arrive in the field better prepared
for their mission than had been the case prior to the
beginning of this program.

(A4) Jordan currently has 1,200 personnel deployed in UN
peacekeeping missions around the world, including in Eritrea,
KOSOVO, East Timor, Sierra Leone, and Georgia. Additionally,
Jordan has deployed an additional 900 personnel to staff
field hospitals in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the West Bank which
are not part of UN PKOs.

(A5) The JAF has said it would welcome additional EIPC funds
that would allow for training in the U.S. or other countries
that have state-of-the-art PK training facilities. It also
had previously requested that EIPC funds be made available
for construction of a new building at its Peacekeeping
Center. After being informed that EIPC funds could not be
used for that purpose, Jordan used national funds to
construct the building.

(A6) Jordan would welcome ways for EIPC funds to be used to
enhance its role as a regional peacekeeping center, such as
funding training of other Middle East countries' PK students
at the JAF training facility.

(A7) Jordan has committed virtually all of its EIPC
allocations to training and purchases of equipment for its
Peacekeeping Center. The Jordanians have complained,
however, about the extended time it takes to purchase and
deliver the equipment they have requested.

(A8) No, Jordan has very limited resources to spend on
peacekeeping. Jordan wants to become a regional PK training
center, but needs our help to achieve this goal.

(A9) The JAF believes that it has developed a cadre of
well-trained Peacekeepers who have earned the professional
respect of counterparts around the world. That said, given
Jordan's perennially strapped finances, access to future EIPC
funding would help ensure that the Jordanians continue to
benefit from up-to-date training techniques, curricula and
equipment.

(A10) No, Jordan does not use FMS, EDA, IMET or other
non-EIPC security assistance funds to support its
peacekeeping activities.

(A11) As noted above, Jordan sees itself as a regional leader
in the field of Peacekeeping and has long wanted to transform
its PK training facilities into a regional center that would
train personnel from other Middle East countries. EIPC
support has helped that process along. Regarding
deployments, EIPC support has bolstered and encouraged
Jordan's willingness to participate in PKOs around the world,
including in Eritrea, East Timor, Sierra Leone and Bosnia,
along with the more recent deployments of field hospitals in
Afghanistan and post-Saddam Iraq.

(A12) N/A.

GNEHM