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