GUIDANCE: USUN AUTHORIZED TO AGREE TO EXTENSION

UNCLAS STATE 135318 SIPDIS USUN FOR GERMAIN AND KUJAWINSKI E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PREL IZ SUBJECT: GUIDANCE: USUN AUTHORIZED TO AGREE TO EXTENSION OF 607, SECURITY AGREEMENTS ¶1. This is an action request. USUN is requested to respond affirmatively by diplomatic note to a request by the United Nations (REF DFS-2008-285) to a two year extension of: -- an Agreement between the United States of America and the United Nations Organization Concerning the Provision of Services and Commodities on a Reimbursable Basis in Support of the Operations of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (the "607 Agreement"),first signed in New York on December 29, 2004, and -- the Implementing Arrangement between the Department of Defense on the United States of America and the United Nations Organization Concerning the Provision of Services and Commodities on a Reimbursable Basis in Support of the Operations of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq, first signed at Kuwait on July 18, 2005. Both agreements were renewed on December 29, 2006, and are due to expire on December 31, 2008. The extension would continue both the 607 Agreement and the Implementing Arrangement through December 31, 2010. Moreover, USUN is requested to propose via diplomatic note an additional one year extension of the 607 Agreement and Implementing Arrangement through December 31, 2011. ¶2. USUN is further requested to, through either the US Permanent Representative to the UN or US Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, sign an Agreement between the United States and the United Nations Organization Concerning the Establishment of Security for the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq, based on a similar agreement, signed at New York on December 8, 2005, by then US Permanent Representative John Bolton and Special Representative of the UN Secretary General Ibrahim Gambari, which terminates at the end of the UN mandate for the Multinational Force in Iraq, on December 31, 2008. RICE