AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT SUPPORTS EXTENSION OF TRAINERS

UNCLAS VIENNA 003492 SIPDIS SIPDIS STATE FOR INL - INGALLS AND EUR/AGS - SAINT-ANDRE E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: KCRM SNAR AU SUBJECT: AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT SUPPORTS EXTENSION OF TRAINERS AT JORDAN INTERNATIONAL POLICE TRAINING CENTER (JIPTC) REF: STATE 192858 ¶1. A/DCM presented reftel demarche on December 6 to Brigadier Kurt Hager, the head of the Austrian Interior Ministry's bureau for international police missions. Hager said the Austrian cabinet had met December 6 to consider the extension of police training missions abroad. Regarding the JIPTC, the Austrian government had agreed to extend the Austrian deployment "until December 31, 2007, or as long as the academy is there," as Hager put it. He noted that the Austrian parliament still had to approve the extension of this deployment in order for it to be official. He thought this step would happen in a week, and thought this would be uncontroversial. ¶2. In accordance with reftel, Hager noted that Austria had three trainers in Jordan. He said the Austrian police director, Erich Buxbaum, was planning to visit the JIPTC in January during a visit to Amman. MCCAW