Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09AMMAN1191
2009-05-26 07:25:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Amman
Cable title:
ARMS/SECURITY TEAMS ABOARD MERCHANT VESSELS DEMARCHE
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UNCLAS AMMAN 001191
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
STATE FOR EEB/TRA/OTP and NEA/ELA
DHS FOR TSA
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: EWWT ASEC MARR PARM PREL PHSA KHLS JO
SUBJECT: ARMS/SECURITY TEAMS ABOARD MERCHANT VESSELS DEMARCHE
DELIVERED IN JORDAN
REF: A) STATE 045331
B) Wilson-Haywood emails, May 2009
Sensitive but unclassified; please protect accordingly. Not for
internet distribution or use outside the USG.
UNCLAS AMMAN 001191
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
STATE FOR EEB/TRA/OTP and NEA/ELA
DHS FOR TSA
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: EWWT ASEC MARR PARM PREL PHSA KHLS JO
SUBJECT: ARMS/SECURITY TEAMS ABOARD MERCHANT VESSELS DEMARCHE
DELIVERED IN JORDAN
REF: A) STATE 045331
B) Wilson-Haywood emails, May 2009
Sensitive but unclassified; please protect accordingly. Not for
internet distribution or use outside the USG.
1. (SBU) EconOff and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Attaches
delivered ref A demarche to Al-Moutasem K. Alsaket, Director General
of the Jordan Maritime Authority (JMA),and several members of his
staff in Aqaba on May 18. This meeting also served as the
introductory courtesy call by DHS Attaches. JMA officials noted
that an anti-piracy agreement under the International Maritime
Organization, was currently being circulated among the Red Sea
countries for signing, but promised they would review the questions
from the demarche and respond. DAO Naval and Marine Attache
reported he also passed the demarche points to Royal Jordanian Navy
officials o/a May 21.
2. (SBU) The same information was delivered to Mohammad Al-Qudah,
Secretary-General of the Ministry of Transport, the ministry to
which JMA reports, on May 19. Al-Qudah said he appreciated the
information and would coordinate with JMA and the Royal Navy for a
Jordanian response. Qudah also queried DHS Attache about obtaining
advice and assistance for Marka airport, Amman's regional airfield.
DHS Attache explained that a Transportation Security Team would be
arriving in Jordan in the next few weeks to do a security review,
but their primary focus was airports identified as Last Points of
Departure (LPD) to the U.S., which in Jordan was only Queen Alia
International Airport.
Visit Amman's Classified Web Site at
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/nea/amman
BEECROFT
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
STATE FOR EEB/TRA/OTP and NEA/ELA
DHS FOR TSA
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: EWWT ASEC MARR PARM PREL PHSA KHLS JO
SUBJECT: ARMS/SECURITY TEAMS ABOARD MERCHANT VESSELS DEMARCHE
DELIVERED IN JORDAN
REF: A) STATE 045331
B) Wilson-Haywood emails, May 2009
Sensitive but unclassified; please protect accordingly. Not for
internet distribution or use outside the USG.
1. (SBU) EconOff and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Attaches
delivered ref A demarche to Al-Moutasem K. Alsaket, Director General
of the Jordan Maritime Authority (JMA),and several members of his
staff in Aqaba on May 18. This meeting also served as the
introductory courtesy call by DHS Attaches. JMA officials noted
that an anti-piracy agreement under the International Maritime
Organization, was currently being circulated among the Red Sea
countries for signing, but promised they would review the questions
from the demarche and respond. DAO Naval and Marine Attache
reported he also passed the demarche points to Royal Jordanian Navy
officials o/a May 21.
2. (SBU) The same information was delivered to Mohammad Al-Qudah,
Secretary-General of the Ministry of Transport, the ministry to
which JMA reports, on May 19. Al-Qudah said he appreciated the
information and would coordinate with JMA and the Royal Navy for a
Jordanian response. Qudah also queried DHS Attache about obtaining
advice and assistance for Marka airport, Amman's regional airfield.
DHS Attache explained that a Transportation Security Team would be
arriving in Jordan in the next few weeks to do a security review,
but their primary focus was airports identified as Last Points of
Departure (LPD) to the U.S., which in Jordan was only Queen Alia
International Airport.
Visit Amman's Classified Web Site at
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/nea/amman
BEECROFT