INPUT FOR CONGRESSIONALLY MANDATED REPORT ON

UNCLAS ANKARA 000356 SIPDIS SENSITIVE DEPARTMENT FOR EB/IFD/ODF, SA/AR, SA/PAB, EUR/SE E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: EAID PREL EFIN AF TU SUBJECT: INPUT FOR CONGRESSIONALLY MANDATED REPORT ON AFGHANISTAN RECONSTRUCTION REF: A. 02 SECSTATE 262304 ¶B. 02 ANKARA 7410 ¶1. Post provided Ref A materials on 12/26/02 to MFA Coordinator for Afghanistan Reconstruction Ambassador Ahmet Okcun whose office responded with information for reports required by U.S. Congress. ¶2. The information below responds to the matrix compartments: -- Tokyo Pledge in USD million: 5 -- Tokyo Pledge for 2002 in USD million: 1 -- Additonal Expenditures: 1,868,716 -- Total Disbursed: 2,868,716 -- Humanitarian: 188,670 -- Reconstruction: 2,680,046 -- Security: n/a -- Budget: 600,000 Budget via: AI/ARTF ¶3. MFA included the following note on the Turkish contribution: BEGIN TEXT MFA NOTE: NOTE ON TURKISH CONTRIBUTION TO AFGHANISTAN RECONSTRUCTION EFFORT Turkey's pledge for the year 2002 was 1 million USD. 500 thousand USD of this amount was transfered to Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF) on September 24, 2002 (another 100 thousand USD, paid to the Afghanistan Interim Authority Fund/Emergency Fund previously, is not included in this calculation),and the remaining 500 thousand USD was spent for bilateral projects. At the end of the year, Turkish contribution far exceeded her pledge of 1 million USD and reached 2,868,716 USD, which means an additional expenditure of 1,868,716 USD (1,000,000 plus 1,868,716 equals 2,868,716 USD). This being the case the total amount spent for "bilateral projects" in 2002 is 2,368,716 USD (500,000 pledged plus 1,868,716 equals 2,368,716 USD). This figure does not include the expenditures made in the security sector. In addition to 425,000 USD spent within the framework of ISAF/CIMIC activities and 430,662 USD spent for the formation of the Afghan National Army, "direct project assistance" was rendered by the Turkish Armed Forces in accordance with the bilateral cooperation agreement. The total cost of the "project assistance" will be calculated soon. END TEXT MFA NOTE ¶4. Embassy note: The figures cited by MFA do not include the Turkish national funds used to support the deployment and sustainment of 1,500 Turkish troops to ISAF from February 2002 to February 2003. End Embassy note. ¶5. Minimize considered. PEARSON