REQUEST FOR WEEKLY UPDATE ON DARFUR PEACEKEEPING

UNCLAS STATE 147043 SIPDIS SIPDIS E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PREL UNSC KPKO SU SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR WEEKLY UPDATE ON DARFUR PEACEKEEPING DEPLOYMENT ¶1. PURPOSE: This is an action request. The Department is increasingly concerned about the pace of peacekeeping deployment to Darfur. In order to provide more assistance in speeding deployment, the Department will be meeting more regularly at the Assistant Secretary-level. In order to support these efforts, the Department asks USUN to please provide weekly updates in a front-channel cable regarding the deployment of the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) and the UN Light and Heavy Support Packages for the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS). We are particularly interested in the following: ¶A. Establishing UNAMID headquarters and command. ¶1. Allocation of senior posts ¶2. US military advisors ¶B. Financial arrangements to cover troop costs. ¶C. Force generation. ¶1. Troop commitments, including readiness, UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations deployment visit scheduling, and timelines ¶2. Helicopters and transport units. ¶3. Police: Individual police. Formed Police Units (FPUs). ¶4. Possible donor support. ¶D. Deploying the Heavy Support Package. ¶1. Complete expansion of seven camps. ¶2. Deploy two new battalions for AMIS. ¶E. Deploying the UNAMID Early Effects package. ¶F. UN assumption of USG Operations & Maintenance Contracts. ¶G. Transfer of USG assets to the UN. ¶H. MINURCAT, including recruitment of individual police and FPUs. ¶2. TIMING: We would appreciate your cable by close of business every Thursday and your participation in an interagency conference call every Friday or as otherwise scheduled. ¶3. POINT-OF-CONTACT: Grace M. Kang, IO/PSC 202-736-7735. RICE