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06WARSAW1758
2006-08-22 14:43:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Warsaw
Cable title:
POLAND: SOLICITING SUPPORT FOR ROBUST UNIFIL-PLUS
how-tonull Anne W McNeill 10/13/2006 02:54:06 PM From DB/Inbox: Search Results Cable Text: C O N F I D E N T I A L WARSAW 01758 SIPDIS CXWARSAW: ACTION: POL INFO: ECON DCM DAO AMB AGRI MGT KRA PASC CONS ORA ODC RSO FCS DISSEMINATION: POLO CHARGE: PROG APPROVED: POL:MCURTIN DRAFTED: POL:DTMORRIS CLEARED: NONE VZCZCWRI656 OO RUEHC RUEHNO RUCNDT RUEHBS RUEHAK RUEHLB RUEHRL RUEHFR RUEHRO RUEHTV DE RUEHWR #1758 2341443 ZNY CCCCC ZZH O 221443Z AUG 06 FM AMEMBASSY WARSAW TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 1738 INFO RUEHNO/USMISSION USNATO IMMEDIATE 0059 RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK IMMEDIATE 1357 RUEHBS/USEU BRUSSELS IMMEDIATE RUEHAK/AMEMBASSY ANKARA PRIORITY 0356 RUEHLB/AMEMBASSY BEIRUT PRIORITY 0055 RUEHRL/AMEMBASSY BERLIN PRIORITY 0888 RUEHFR/AMEMBASSY PARIS PRIORITY 0404 RUEHRO/AMEMBASSY ROME PRIORITY 0870 RUEHTV/AMEMBASSY TEL AVIV PRIORITY 1472
C O N F I D E N T I A L WARSAW 001758
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/21/2011
TAGS: MARR MOPS PREL LE PL
SUBJECT: POLAND: SOLICITING SUPPORT FOR ROBUST UNIFIL-PLUS
AND POSSIBLE ITALIAN LEAD
REF: A. STATE 137424
B. EUR-VOLKER EMAIL 8/21/06
C. WARSAW 1746 AND PREVIOUS
Classified By: Political Counselor Mary Curtin, reasons 1.4(b) and (d)
C O N F I D E N T I A L WARSAW 001758
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/21/2011
TAGS: MARR MOPS PREL LE PL
SUBJECT: POLAND: SOLICITING SUPPORT FOR ROBUST UNIFIL-PLUS
AND POSSIBLE ITALIAN LEAD
REF: A. STATE 137424
B. EUR-VOLKER EMAIL 8/21/06
C. WARSAW 1746 AND PREVIOUS
Classified By: Political Counselor Mary Curtin, reasons 1.4(b) and (d)
1. (C) Pol External Chief delivered Ref A points August 22 to
Krzysztof Plominski, MFA Director for ME-Africa. Plominski
said that FM Fotyga was to meet at 1200 with DefMin Sikorski
to review GOP plans for UNIFIL-plus in advance of the August
23 meeting of selected EU foreign ministers in Brussels.
Plominski rushed a copy of the points to MFA U/S
Waszczykowski, who was on his way to the Fotyga-Sikorski
meeting, and also instructed his staff to distribute the U.S.
position to members of the GOP's interagency Lebanon working
group.
2. (C) Plominski indicated that the GOP was conducting
extensive consultations about UNIFIL with key governments.
He himself had visited Paris ten days earlier, and the MFA
was consulting closely Rome with as well. Plominski said
that U/S Waszczykowski was planning to visit "Beirut and
Jerusalem" August 28-29, both for consultations on the
Lebanon situation and to advance President Lech Kaczynski's
planned visit to Israel September 10.
3. (C) Although unwilling to predict the outcome of the
Fotyga-Sikorski meeting, Plominski seemd relatively
optimistic. He allowed that the GOP was considering three
options for UNIFIL-plus, status quo with the current approx.
220 troops; a small increase in the contingent; or a larger
increase in the contingent. He did not discuss numbers.
(N.B. Charge has raised UNIFIL several times with Deputy FM
Kowal (Ref C),and Ambassador will also raise it in his
August 24 call on PM Jaroslaw Kaczynski.)
4. (C) COMMENT. Poland has limited troops available for
foreign missions, and they are already stretched thin by
commitments in Iraq, Afghanistan, and international missions
in the Balkans and the Middle East (including UNIFIL, MFO and
the Sinai). However, based on public statements by U/S
Waszczykowski and Charge discussions with DefMin Sikorski, we
believe the GOP can probably afford to augment its UNIFIL
contingent by a maximum of 300. Due to the restructuring of
the Composite Command in Afghanistan, the Poles had already
determined in consultation with ISAF that they needed only
700 of the 1000 troops originally designated to undergo
training for the Polish ISAF command rotation. These 300
could still be deployed to augment the Afghanistan
commitment, or they could go UNIFIL-plus. END COMMENT.
HILLAS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/21/2011
TAGS: MARR MOPS PREL LE PL
SUBJECT: POLAND: SOLICITING SUPPORT FOR ROBUST UNIFIL-PLUS
AND POSSIBLE ITALIAN LEAD
REF: A. STATE 137424
B. EUR-VOLKER EMAIL 8/21/06
C. WARSAW 1746 AND PREVIOUS
Classified By: Political Counselor Mary Curtin, reasons 1.4(b) and (d)
1. (C) Pol External Chief delivered Ref A points August 22 to
Krzysztof Plominski, MFA Director for ME-Africa. Plominski
said that FM Fotyga was to meet at 1200 with DefMin Sikorski
to review GOP plans for UNIFIL-plus in advance of the August
23 meeting of selected EU foreign ministers in Brussels.
Plominski rushed a copy of the points to MFA U/S
Waszczykowski, who was on his way to the Fotyga-Sikorski
meeting, and also instructed his staff to distribute the U.S.
position to members of the GOP's interagency Lebanon working
group.
2. (C) Plominski indicated that the GOP was conducting
extensive consultations about UNIFIL with key governments.
He himself had visited Paris ten days earlier, and the MFA
was consulting closely Rome with as well. Plominski said
that U/S Waszczykowski was planning to visit "Beirut and
Jerusalem" August 28-29, both for consultations on the
Lebanon situation and to advance President Lech Kaczynski's
planned visit to Israel September 10.
3. (C) Although unwilling to predict the outcome of the
Fotyga-Sikorski meeting, Plominski seemd relatively
optimistic. He allowed that the GOP was considering three
options for UNIFIL-plus, status quo with the current approx.
220 troops; a small increase in the contingent; or a larger
increase in the contingent. He did not discuss numbers.
(N.B. Charge has raised UNIFIL several times with Deputy FM
Kowal (Ref C),and Ambassador will also raise it in his
August 24 call on PM Jaroslaw Kaczynski.)
4. (C) COMMENT. Poland has limited troops available for
foreign missions, and they are already stretched thin by
commitments in Iraq, Afghanistan, and international missions
in the Balkans and the Middle East (including UNIFIL, MFO and
the Sinai). However, based on public statements by U/S
Waszczykowski and Charge discussions with DefMin Sikorski, we
believe the GOP can probably afford to augment its UNIFIL
contingent by a maximum of 300. Due to the restructuring of
the Composite Command in Afghanistan, the Poles had already
determined in consultation with ISAF that they needed only
700 of the 1000 troops originally designated to undergo
training for the Polish ISAF command rotation. These 300
could still be deployed to augment the Afghanistan
commitment, or they could go UNIFIL-plus. END COMMENT.
HILLAS