Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07AMMAN1413
2007-03-29 16:01:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Amman
Cable title:
CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC) - JORDAN/U.S.
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C O N F I D E N T I A L AMMAN 001413
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE FOR ISN/CB - D'ANDREA
THE HAGUE FOR CWC DEL
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/29/2017
TAGS: PARM PREL CWC OPCW MARR MASS MOPS KTIA JO
SUBJECT: CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC) - JORDAN/U.S.
HOST COUNTRY AGREEMENT DEMARCHE DELIVERED
REF: STATE 35514
Classified By: CDA for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
(C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche March 28 to Khalid
Takhayneh, head of the Foreign Ministry's Disarmament
Section. Takhayneh said he is requesting a meeting of the
National Committee for the Implementation of the Chemical
Weapons Convention to discuss HCA implementation. Takhayneh
told Poloff that the Minister of Interior is reluctant to
sign the HCA as he fears that opposition figures will use the
HCA as evidence of the GOJ's willingness to sign anything the
U.S. asks it too. Takhayneh also told poloff that the
committee prefers the text of the Italian HCA, reftel, over
the December 2005 Ad Ref agreement.
RUBINSTEIN
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE FOR ISN/CB - D'ANDREA
THE HAGUE FOR CWC DEL
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/29/2017
TAGS: PARM PREL CWC OPCW MARR MASS MOPS KTIA JO
SUBJECT: CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC) - JORDAN/U.S.
HOST COUNTRY AGREEMENT DEMARCHE DELIVERED
REF: STATE 35514
Classified By: CDA for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
(C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche March 28 to Khalid
Takhayneh, head of the Foreign Ministry's Disarmament
Section. Takhayneh said he is requesting a meeting of the
National Committee for the Implementation of the Chemical
Weapons Convention to discuss HCA implementation. Takhayneh
told Poloff that the Minister of Interior is reluctant to
sign the HCA as he fears that opposition figures will use the
HCA as evidence of the GOJ's willingness to sign anything the
U.S. asks it too. Takhayneh also told poloff that the
committee prefers the text of the Italian HCA, reftel, over
the December 2005 Ad Ref agreement.
RUBINSTEIN