Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
08ABUDHABI1371
2008-12-01 11:05:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Abu Dhabi
Cable title:  

PIRACY CONCERNS NOTED TO UAEG

Tags:  PTER PBTS PHSA MOPS AE 
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DE RUEHAD #1371 3361105
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P 011105Z DEC 08
FM AMEMBASSY ABU DHABI
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 1829
INFO RUEHNR/AMEMBASSY NAIROBI 0116
RUEHBJ/AMEMBASSY BEIJING 0269
RUEHRL/AMEMBASSY BERLIN 0119
RUEHEG/AMEMBASSY CAIRO 1499
RUEHCP/AMEMBASSY COPENHAGEN 0033
RUEHDJ/AMEMBASSY DJIBOUTI 0055
RUEHLO/AMEMBASSY LONDON 1298
RUEHMD/AMEMBASSY MADRID 0102
RUEHMO/AMEMBASSY MOSCOW 0477
RUEHNE/AMEMBASSY NEW DELHI 1415
RUEHFR/AMEMBASSY PARIS 1025
RUEHRH/AMEMBASSY RIYADH 1725
RUEHYN/AMEMBASSY SANAA 1567
RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK 0209
RHBVAKS/COMUSNAVCENT
RHMFISS/HQ USCENTCOM MACDILL AFB FL
C O N F I D E N T I A L ABU DHABI 001371

SIPDIS

DEPARTMENT FOR NEA/ARP, PM/PPA/DGLANCY, PM/ISO/JFREDERICK

E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/01/2018
TAGS: PTER PBTS PHSA MOPS AE
SUBJECT: PIRACY CONCERNS NOTED TO UAEG

Ref: STATE 125514

Classified by Ambassador Richard Olson, reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).

(C) Ambassador emphasized reftel concerns about piracy with both
Chief of Staff of the UAE Armed Forces Lt. General Hamad Mohammed
Thani al-Rumeithy and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr. Anwar
Gargash November 30. Neither offered any immediate insights into
potential UAE policy to deal with the menace, but we have opened the
dialogue.

OLSON