APPRECIATION FOR MISSION GERMANY ASSISTANCE WITH THE

UNCLAS MUNICH 000092 SIPDIS STATE FOR EUR EUR/AGS SIPDIS C O R R E C T E D C O P Y (ADDED SIPDIS CAPTION) E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PGOV GM SUBJECT: APPRECIATION FOR MISSION GERMANY ASSISTANCE WITH THE MUNICH SECURITY CONFERENCE REFS: A) 06 MUNICH 838, B) Munich 81 ¶1. Consulate General Munich wishes to express its appreciation for the assistance provided by colleagues in Mission Germany supporting the 43d Munich Security Conference. This was the largest Security Conference in history with four heads of government, 16 foreign ministers, and 24 defense ministers. The U.S. delegation held 17 bilateral meetings. U.S. participation was substantial, with a total delegation of 242, including Secretary of Defense Gates, a senior-level CODEL with 10 members of Congress headed by Senators Lieberman and McCain, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Kimmitt, EUR PDAS Volker, Ambassador to Germany Timken, Ambassador to NATO Nuland, Ambassador Galbraith of USNATO, and representatives from USOSCE, EUR/RPM, and EUR/AGS. ¶2. In particular, post would like to recognize the following offices/individuals from elsewhere in Mission Germany who assisted with the conference. Without their assistance and teamwork, our Mission could not have made the important participation by senior U.S. Government officials at the conference a success: - Berlin DATT/ODC (Dave Allwine, Mike Curci, Tim McCandless, Peter Richter, Dan Stiver): for assisting in coordination with the Office of the Secretary of Defense. - Berlin GSO (Jafar Butt, Stefan Knop): for providing excellent chauffeur services in an extremely difficult traffic/security environment. - Berlin PA (Maja Boehm, Anne Chermak, Nancy Rajczak, Julia Sebastian, Robert Wood): for arranging press interviews for U.S. participants, including Ambassador Timken, Ambassador Nuland, and Deputy Treasury Secretary Kimmitt; providing rapid transcriptions of Secretary Gates' remarks; and preparing media reaction. SIPDIS - Berlin Pol-Mil (Ken Kero, Thorsten Schulz, Mark Wilson): for notetaking during conference sessions and providing rapid, detailed reporting to Washington. - Joshua Bauer (ARSO Frankfurt): for critical protection of principal VIPs. - DCM John Koenig: for outstanding strategic guidance in planning the U.S. delegation's engagements at the conference. - Wolf Meyer (Berlin GSO): for coordinating logistical support for a record number of bilateral meetings for the delegation. - Doug Neumann (Berlin ECON): for supporting Deputy Secretary Kimmitt's busy agenda before, during and after the event. - Jeff Rathke (Berlin POL): for serving as a liaison with the German Foreign Office and supporting PDAS Kurt Volker during the conference. ¶3. (U) Previous reporting from Munich is available on our SIPRNET website at www.state.sgov.gov/p/eur/munich/ . NELSON