OBTAINING JORDANIAN SUPPORT FOR AMENDING SUA

C O N F I D E N T I A L AMMAN 007953

SIPDIS

STATE FOR L/LEI DENISE MANNING
DOJ FOR WAYNE RAABE
COAST GUARD FOR LCDR BRAD KIESERMAN

E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/04/2015
TAGS: KNNP MNUC PARM PREL KTIA PHSA EWWT PGOV JO
SUBJECT: OBTAINING JORDANIAN SUPPORT FOR AMENDING SUA
PROTOCOL - DEMARCHE DELIVERED

REF: A. STATE 177892

B. STATE 163044

C. AMMAN 007288

Classified By: CDA David Hale for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).

(C) Poloff delivered Ref A demarche October 5 to Khaled Al
Takhayneh of the International Organizations Department at
Jordan's Foreign Ministry. Takhayneh assured poloff that the
GoJ would approve amending the SUA protocol later this month;
his earlier concerns regarding shipboardings were assuaged
when he learned that the amendments to the SUA protocol would
recognize flag-state jurisdiction by requiring consent to
board a vessel. Takhayneh also showed poloff a letter from
the GoJ's Minister of Transportation to the Foreign Ministry
indicating that Transportation had no objections to the
non-paper transmitted in ref B.
HALE