Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
08AMMAN2064
2008-07-10 13:05:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Amman
Cable title:
KEEPING THE PA AFLOAT - JORDAN DEMARCHE DELIVERED
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C O N F I D E N T I A L AMMAN 002064
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR NEA/ELA AND NEA/IPA:ASACHAR
E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/10/2018
TAGS: KWBG KPAL PGOV PREL ECON PINR JO
SUBJECT: KEEPING THE PA AFLOAT - JORDAN DEMARCHE DELIVERED
REF: STATE 71463
Classified By: Charge d'Affaires Daniel Rubinstein
for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
C O N F I D E N T I A L AMMAN 002064
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR NEA/ELA AND NEA/IPA:ASACHAR
E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/10/2018
TAGS: KWBG KPAL PGOV PREL ECON PINR JO
SUBJECT: KEEPING THE PA AFLOAT - JORDAN DEMARCHE DELIVERED
REF: STATE 71463
Classified By: Charge d'Affaires Daniel Rubinstein
for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
1. (C) POLOFF delivered reftel demarche on July 10 to
Mohammad Al-Khalidi, Director of the Arab and Middle East
Affairs Department at the Foreign Ministry. Khalidi
estimated that Jordan has only disbursed roughly $1 million
of the cash amount pledged to the Palestinian Authority at
the Arab League summit in 2003, but said that Jordan has
exceeded that amount in direct in-kind assistance - medicine
and foodstuffs - that is transferred to the West Bank and
Gaza Strip with some regularity. "Even if we don't pay in
cash, we pay in materials," he said. Khalidi took on board
the point that there are Arab States that have yet to fulfill
their various financial commitments to the PA. POLOFF urged
that the Arab League and its members act quickly to follow
through and to find additional funds given the dire budgetary
situation of the PA.
Biographical Note
--------------
2. (C) Khalidi has been in his current position since 2005.
A career diplomat since 1975, he served in Greece, India,
Tunisia, Jordan's UN Mission in New York, and Cairo before
being appointed Ambassador to Sudan (1997-2000). From late
2000-2005 he served as Ambassador to Yemen. He has two
daughters, Karima and Tala. Karima is studying in Amman
(having spent one and a half years as an undergraduate at
Baruch College in New York City). Tala, the eldest,
graduated from Winona State University in Minnesota, and is
now a graphic designer in Amman. Khalidi's son, Karim, is
earning his BA at Hunter College, in New York City. Khalidi
participated in a USG sponsored one-month program learning
about U.S. decision making in 1994. He is comfortable trying
to communicate in English, but his fluency is probably only
at the 2 level. End Bio Note.
Rubinstein
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR NEA/ELA AND NEA/IPA:ASACHAR
E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/10/2018
TAGS: KWBG KPAL PGOV PREL ECON PINR JO
SUBJECT: KEEPING THE PA AFLOAT - JORDAN DEMARCHE DELIVERED
REF: STATE 71463
Classified By: Charge d'Affaires Daniel Rubinstein
for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
1. (C) POLOFF delivered reftel demarche on July 10 to
Mohammad Al-Khalidi, Director of the Arab and Middle East
Affairs Department at the Foreign Ministry. Khalidi
estimated that Jordan has only disbursed roughly $1 million
of the cash amount pledged to the Palestinian Authority at
the Arab League summit in 2003, but said that Jordan has
exceeded that amount in direct in-kind assistance - medicine
and foodstuffs - that is transferred to the West Bank and
Gaza Strip with some regularity. "Even if we don't pay in
cash, we pay in materials," he said. Khalidi took on board
the point that there are Arab States that have yet to fulfill
their various financial commitments to the PA. POLOFF urged
that the Arab League and its members act quickly to follow
through and to find additional funds given the dire budgetary
situation of the PA.
Biographical Note
--------------
2. (C) Khalidi has been in his current position since 2005.
A career diplomat since 1975, he served in Greece, India,
Tunisia, Jordan's UN Mission in New York, and Cairo before
being appointed Ambassador to Sudan (1997-2000). From late
2000-2005 he served as Ambassador to Yemen. He has two
daughters, Karima and Tala. Karima is studying in Amman
(having spent one and a half years as an undergraduate at
Baruch College in New York City). Tala, the eldest,
graduated from Winona State University in Minnesota, and is
now a graphic designer in Amman. Khalidi's son, Karim, is
earning his BA at Hunter College, in New York City. Khalidi
participated in a USG sponsored one-month program learning
about U.S. decision making in 1994. He is comfortable trying
to communicate in English, but his fluency is probably only
at the 2 level. End Bio Note.
Rubinstein