Identifier
Created
Classification
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08USNATO221
2008-06-26 14:46:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Mission USNATO
Cable title:
RFG: JULY 1 NAC DISCUSSION ON WHITHER NATO-PAKISTAN
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C O N F I D E N T I A L USNATO 000221
SIPDIS
CENTCOM FOR SOCCENT AND CENTCOM FWD
E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/26/2018
TAGS: NATO PREL MOPS MARR AF PK
SUBJECT: RFG: JULY 1 NAC DISCUSSION ON WHITHER NATO-PAKISTAN
REF: A. USNATO 215 B. USNATO 212 C. USNATO 208
Classified By: Charge Richard G. Olson, for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
C O N F I D E N T I A L USNATO 000221
SIPDIS
CENTCOM FOR SOCCENT AND CENTCOM FWD
E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/26/2018
TAGS: NATO PREL MOPS MARR AF PK
SUBJECT: RFG: JULY 1 NAC DISCUSSION ON WHITHER NATO-PAKISTAN
REF: A. USNATO 215 B. USNATO 212 C. USNATO 208
Classified By: Charge Richard G. Olson, for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
1. (U) This cable contains a request for guidance in
paragraph 4.
2. (C) As reported in reftels and other channels, the role
of Pakistan as a safehaven for insurgents in Afghanistan and
how NATO's political and military engagement with Pakistan
should evolve has become an increasingly high-profile issue
within NATO HQ. NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General
Ambassador James Pardew met with Pakistani officials June
22-23 in Islamabad to exchange views on the border, assess
the general political climate as it relates to NATO-Pakistan
relations, lay groundwork for a visit to Islamabad by
Secretary General de Hoop Scheffer later this year, and
examine whether any forward movement is possible on
longstanding NATO-Pakistan negotiations for a military
liaison and transit arrangements for ISAF. He will debrief
the NAC on July 1, and following his debrief, the Private
Office has ceded to a Turkish request to schedule a briefing
by the Turkish Ambassador to Pakistan.
3. (C) This informal July 1 meeting among NATO PermReps
offers the first opportunity in some time for nations to lay
out detailed thinking on next steps for NATO in its political
and military relationship with Pakistan. It will also set
the initial course for discussion and development of the
themes and messages that NATO wants the SecGen to deliver to
the Pakistani government when he eventually travels to
Islamabad in Fall 2008. (Comment: FM Qureshi invited the
SecGen to Islamabad when they met June 12 on the margins of
the Paris Support Conference, but the Private Office tells us
that the earliest the SecGen could conceivably travel would
be October. We also understand that Ambassador Pardew
reiterated to his interlocutors the SYG's June 12 invitation
to Qureshi for either Qureshi or PM Gilani to address the
NAC. If accepted, this might precede the SYG's anticipated
travel to Islamabad. End comment.) It will be important for
the United States to play a leading role in this discussion,
and help steer Allies in a direction where we would like to
see NATO head over the next several months and the longer-term.
4. (C) RFG: Mission requests interagency cleared talking
points no later than OOB Brussels Tuesday, July 1, for use
during this discussion. Points should take into account
commitments made by HOSG at Bucharest with regard to
NATO-Pakistan relations (PO(2008)0059-NC, emailed to
EUR/RPM),and would ideally permit Charge to suggest
actionable items for NATO to work on in the coming months.
Further details on the discussions here at NATO HQ, as well
as USNATO's ideas on how we might direct NATO's engagement
with Pakistan were included in reftel B.
OLSON
SIPDIS
CENTCOM FOR SOCCENT AND CENTCOM FWD
E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/26/2018
TAGS: NATO PREL MOPS MARR AF PK
SUBJECT: RFG: JULY 1 NAC DISCUSSION ON WHITHER NATO-PAKISTAN
REF: A. USNATO 215 B. USNATO 212 C. USNATO 208
Classified By: Charge Richard G. Olson, for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
1. (U) This cable contains a request for guidance in
paragraph 4.
2. (C) As reported in reftels and other channels, the role
of Pakistan as a safehaven for insurgents in Afghanistan and
how NATO's political and military engagement with Pakistan
should evolve has become an increasingly high-profile issue
within NATO HQ. NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General
Ambassador James Pardew met with Pakistani officials June
22-23 in Islamabad to exchange views on the border, assess
the general political climate as it relates to NATO-Pakistan
relations, lay groundwork for a visit to Islamabad by
Secretary General de Hoop Scheffer later this year, and
examine whether any forward movement is possible on
longstanding NATO-Pakistan negotiations for a military
liaison and transit arrangements for ISAF. He will debrief
the NAC on July 1, and following his debrief, the Private
Office has ceded to a Turkish request to schedule a briefing
by the Turkish Ambassador to Pakistan.
3. (C) This informal July 1 meeting among NATO PermReps
offers the first opportunity in some time for nations to lay
out detailed thinking on next steps for NATO in its political
and military relationship with Pakistan. It will also set
the initial course for discussion and development of the
themes and messages that NATO wants the SecGen to deliver to
the Pakistani government when he eventually travels to
Islamabad in Fall 2008. (Comment: FM Qureshi invited the
SecGen to Islamabad when they met June 12 on the margins of
the Paris Support Conference, but the Private Office tells us
that the earliest the SecGen could conceivably travel would
be October. We also understand that Ambassador Pardew
reiterated to his interlocutors the SYG's June 12 invitation
to Qureshi for either Qureshi or PM Gilani to address the
NAC. If accepted, this might precede the SYG's anticipated
travel to Islamabad. End comment.) It will be important for
the United States to play a leading role in this discussion,
and help steer Allies in a direction where we would like to
see NATO head over the next several months and the longer-term.
4. (C) RFG: Mission requests interagency cleared talking
points no later than OOB Brussels Tuesday, July 1, for use
during this discussion. Points should take into account
commitments made by HOSG at Bucharest with regard to
NATO-Pakistan relations (PO(2008)0059-NC, emailed to
EUR/RPM),and would ideally permit Charge to suggest
actionable items for NATO to work on in the coming months.
Further details on the discussions here at NATO HQ, as well
as USNATO's ideas on how we might direct NATO's engagement
with Pakistan were included in reftel B.
OLSON