Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07USUNNEWYORK996
2007-11-09 19:37:00
UNCLASSIFIED
USUN New York
Cable title:
PALESTINIAN COMPLAINT - REMOVAL OF POLICE POST
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UNCLAS USUN NEW YORK 000996
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR IO/UNP, DS, AND NEA/IPA
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: OFDP ASEC PLO UN
SUBJECT: PALESTINIAN COMPLAINT - REMOVAL OF POLICE POST
UNCLAS USUN NEW YORK 000996
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR IO/UNP, DS, AND NEA/IPA
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: OFDP ASEC PLO UN
SUBJECT: PALESTINIAN COMPLAINT - REMOVAL OF POLICE POST
1. Ambassador Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of
Palestine, called Ambassador Wolff on November 9 to register
his concern with the New York Police Department's decision to
reduce and then eliminate police coverage in the security
booth located in front of the PLO Mission to the UN. Mansour
said he was visited late last week by one NYPD and two
Diplomatic Security officers, who informed him that effective
November 1 police presence in front of his Mission would be
reduced from round-the-clock coverage to working days only
between 10AM and 6PM. After November 30, the NYPD will no
longer man the security booth, although we understand that
the booth itself will remain in place. Mansour understood
that the decision was based partly on a revised security
assessment and as a cost-saving measure. He said that he
told the DS agents that he was concerned with the loss of
police protection and that he intended to relay those
concerns to Ambassador Khalilzad.
2. Mansour told Ambassador Wolff that he disagreed that the
security situation at his mission had changed. The Mission
continues to receive threatening phone calls and emails. The
upcoming meetings in Annapolis and their results could
exacerbate the present security situation. He plans to send
Ambassador Khalilzad a protest note, which will request that
the former police presence be reinstated. USUN will forward
the note to IO/UNP when received.
3. NYPD has made the same reduction in police presence in
front of the Cuban Mission, and has eliminated it completely
at the residence of the UN Secretary-General. The Turkish
Mission will receive reduced coverage beginning on December 1
with elimination of police presence on January 1. USUN
understands that IO and the regional bureaus are discussing
with DS what might be done to reverse the NYPD decision.
Khalilzad
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR IO/UNP, DS, AND NEA/IPA
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: OFDP ASEC PLO UN
SUBJECT: PALESTINIAN COMPLAINT - REMOVAL OF POLICE POST
1. Ambassador Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of
Palestine, called Ambassador Wolff on November 9 to register
his concern with the New York Police Department's decision to
reduce and then eliminate police coverage in the security
booth located in front of the PLO Mission to the UN. Mansour
said he was visited late last week by one NYPD and two
Diplomatic Security officers, who informed him that effective
November 1 police presence in front of his Mission would be
reduced from round-the-clock coverage to working days only
between 10AM and 6PM. After November 30, the NYPD will no
longer man the security booth, although we understand that
the booth itself will remain in place. Mansour understood
that the decision was based partly on a revised security
assessment and as a cost-saving measure. He said that he
told the DS agents that he was concerned with the loss of
police protection and that he intended to relay those
concerns to Ambassador Khalilzad.
2. Mansour told Ambassador Wolff that he disagreed that the
security situation at his mission had changed. The Mission
continues to receive threatening phone calls and emails. The
upcoming meetings in Annapolis and their results could
exacerbate the present security situation. He plans to send
Ambassador Khalilzad a protest note, which will request that
the former police presence be reinstated. USUN will forward
the note to IO/UNP when received.
3. NYPD has made the same reduction in police presence in
front of the Cuban Mission, and has eliminated it completely
at the residence of the UN Secretary-General. The Turkish
Mission will receive reduced coverage beginning on December 1
with elimination of police presence on January 1. USUN
understands that IO and the regional bureaus are discussing
with DS what might be done to reverse the NYPD decision.
Khalilzad