SLOVENIA COMMITTED TO KEEPING ITS POLICE TRAINERS

C O N F I D E N T I A L LJUBLJANA 000773 SIPDIS SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/04/2016 TAGS: PREL KCRM SI SUBJECT: SLOVENIA COMMITTED TO KEEPING ITS POLICE TRAINERS IN JORDAN "UNTIL THE END" REF: A. SECSTATE 192858 ¶B. LJUBLJANA 719 ¶C. LJUBLJANA 747 ¶D. LJUBLJANA 763 Classified By: COM for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d) ¶1. (C) PolMilOff delivered reftel demarche on November 30 to Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Security Policy staffer Bostjan Jerman and on December 1 to Ministry of Interior European Affairs and International Cooperation Office Head Lilijana Sipec. On December 4, Slovenian Police official Andrej Robnik told PolMilOff that the GoS would support the extension of the mandate for the International Police Training Center (IPTC) in Jordan and that the five Slovenian police trainers currently stationed there are prepared to stay in country until the end of February 2007. Robnik commented that "when we gave the original commitment to the IPTC we said that we would stay until the end of the mission...with the mission being extended, you can count on us to be there until it ends." Robnik said that the Ministry of Interior would likely make the decision public in the next two weeks, saying that they were currently in the process of preparing the paperwork for the government. He stated that the Ministry of Interior will not need to get any additional approvals and that he expected no problems with the extension. ¶2. (SBU) Robnik also told PolMilOff that Minister of Interior Dragutin Mate and Slovenian Police Director General Joze Remsek canceled their announced five day trip to Jordan (they were supposed to leave on December 7, 2006) due to the "internal situation regarding the Roma" (reftel b, c, d). ROBERTSON