Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07ULAANBAATAR169
2007-03-13 06:54:00
SECRET
Embassy Ulaanbaatar
Cable title:  

SENIOR LEADERS ENDORSE 3-MONTH EXTENSION OF TROOPS

Tags:  MARR PREL PTER MG IZ PL 
pdf how-to read a cable
VZCZCXYZ0001
OO RUEHWEB

DE RUEHUM #0169 0720654
ZNY SSSSS ZZH
O 130654Z MAR 07
FM AMEMBASSY ULAANBAATAR
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 0912
INFO RUEHWR/AMEMBASSY WARSAW PRIORITY 0036
RUEHBY/AMEMBASSY CANBERRA PRIORITY 0111
RUEHKO/AMEMBASSY TOKYO PRIORITY 2415
RUEHBJ/AMEMBASSY BEIJING PRIORITY 5464
RUEHGB/AMEMBASSY BAGHDAD PRIORITY 0032
RHEHNSC/NSC WASHDC PRIORITY
RUCJACC/CENTCOMREAR MACDILL AFB FL PRIORITY
RHHMUNA/PACOM HONOLULU HI PRIORITY
RUEKJCS/OSD WASHDC PRIORITY
S E C R E T ULAANBAATAR 000169 

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/13/2017
TAGS: MARR PREL PTER MG IZ PL
SUBJECT: SENIOR LEADERS ENDORSE 3-MONTH EXTENSION OF TROOPS
IN IRAQ

REF: ULAANBAATAR 156 AND PREVIOUS

Classified By: Ambassador Mark C. Minton, for reasons 1.5(B) and (D).

S E C R E T ULAANBAATAR 000169

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/13/2017
TAGS: MARR PREL PTER MG IZ PL
SUBJECT: SENIOR LEADERS ENDORSE 3-MONTH EXTENSION OF TROOPS
IN IRAQ

REF: ULAANBAATAR 156 AND PREVIOUS

Classified By: Ambassador Mark C. Minton, for reasons 1.5(B) and (D).


1. (S) On March 13, Foreign Policy Advisor to the President
Tsogtbaatar told Ambassador and ADCM that the National

SIPDIS
Security Council (the President, Speaker, and Prime Minister)
had met on Friday, March 9, and recommended that the
government decide to extend for three months Mongolia's 7th
rotation of 100 soldiers in Iraq. The Cabinet would decide
on the recommendation at its weekly meeting on March 14, he
said.


2. (S) Tsogtbaatar noted that the 7th rotation had been
scheduled to leave Iraq within days. The three-month
extension would allow the government sufficient time to
discuss an 8th rotation and to recruit and train it once a
decision is made. Tsogtbaatar stated that the President
would work to support an 8th rotation, but had felt it best
to make the first decision be the three month extension of
the troops now in Iraq. (Note: Defense Minister Sonompil is
scheduled to leave Mongolia on March 16 and visit Mongolia's
troops in Iraq on/about March 18 to convey the news of the
7th rotation's extension. The rotation, which arrived in
Iraq in early October, was scheduled to depart Camp Echo on
March 20.)
MINTON