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06ISLAMABAD20835
2006-10-23 13:20:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Islamabad
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DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PAKISTAN WILL SEND OBSERVERS

Tags:  PK KNNP EG KE MNUC PARM PREL 
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C O N F I D E N T I A L ISLAMABAD 020835 

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/23/2016
TAGS: PK KNNP EG KE MNUC PARM PREL
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PAKISTAN WILL SEND OBSERVERS
TO PSI EXERCISE

REF: STATE 174281

Classified By: Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker, Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)

C O N F I D E N T I A L ISLAMABAD 020835

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/23/2016
TAGS: PK KNNP EG KE MNUC PARM PREL
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PAKISTAN WILL SEND OBSERVERS
TO PSI EXERCISE

REF: STATE 174281

Classified By: Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker, Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)


1. (C) On October 19, PolCouns delivered reftel points to
MFA (Disarmament) Director Mohammad Kamran Akhtar, along with
a copy of the letter from General Abizaid inviting the
Government of Pakistan (GOP) to participate in Proliferation
Security Initiative (PSI) Exercise "Leading Edge." The
Office of Defense Representative - Pakistan (ODRP) forwarded
General Abizaid's invitation to the Ministry of Defense and
Joint Staff Headquarters on the same day.


2. (C) On October 20, MFA Additional Secretary (UN/Policy
Planning) Tariq Usman Hyder contacted PolCouns to say that
the GOP would like to send an observation team to this
exercise, as it did with previous exercises in Singapore and
Australia. (Note: The GOP has not/not changed its position
on endorsing PSI principals and is therefore not/not eligible
to be a full participant in Exercise Leading Edge. End
note.) The MFA proposes sending two observers to this
exercise: BG Ausaf Ali, Strategic Plans Division, an
observer at the earlier PSI exercise in Australia, as well as
a naval officer to be identified in coming days.


3. (C) POL has shared this information with ODRP, which
will coordinate arrangements with CENTCOM for the Pakistani
observers' travel to Bahrain.
CROCKER