MEET U.S. FOLLOW-UP: JORDAN

UNCLAS AMMAN 004761 SIPDIS E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: BEXP ETRD KPAO JO SUBJECT: MEET U.S. FOLLOW-UP: JORDAN REF: USDOC 3592 ¶1. (u) Embassy appreciates DOC feedback from the first MEET U.S. conference. Regarding the proposed issue areas for future MEET U.S. programs listed reftel, we believe it will be easy to find a solid group of qualified applicants for virtually any sector-specific program. Reftel suggestions for education services, health technologies, irrigation and water treatment technologies, airport and port management, hotel management, and hospitality/tourism would all be welcome programs in Jordan. We might expand the irrigation proposal to include environmental technologies more broadly (in keeping with the Environmental provisions of the Jordan-U.S. FTA),and would add banking/financial services and health sector services/hospital management to the list. ¶2. (u) Regarding format options, Embassy would be happy to continue recruitment of participants for group programs. We would also be willing to support an internship program as outlined reftel. Support for either, as noted reftel, would be dependent on available MEPI funding. ¶3. (u) Embassy looks forward to working with DOC on the MEET U.S. program as it develops. GNEHM