Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09STATE40431
2009-04-22 21:30:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Secretary of State
Cable title:
NATO GUIDANCE: SENIOR RESOURCE BOARD (SRB) APRIL
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C O N F I D E N T I A L STATE 040431
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/21/2019
TAGS: NATO PREL AMGT
SUBJECT: NATO GUIDANCE: SENIOR RESOURCE BOARD (SRB) APRIL
23 AND 24 PLENARY MEETING
REF: USNATO 000149
Classified By: EUR/RPM Director Bruce I. Turner
C O N F I D E N T I A L STATE 040431
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/21/2019
TAGS: NATO PREL AMGT
SUBJECT: NATO GUIDANCE: SENIOR RESOURCE BOARD (SRB) APRIL
23 AND 24 PLENARY MEETING
REF: USNATO 000149
Classified By: EUR/RPM Director Bruce I. Turner
1. (U) In general terms, Washington concurs with positions
outlined by USNATO in Refs A. Additional guidance is
provided below.
2. (C) Ref Item I, ISAF. In discussion of resource
implications of recent Summit agreement to establish a NATO
Training Mission-Afghanistan (NTM-A),Washington instructs
Mission to emphasize U.S. expectation that NTM-A will require
limited common funding on a level analogous to that provided
for the NATO Training Mission-Iraq (Washington Comment: this
position is rooted in a desire not only to limit calls on
NATO common funding, which is under pressure this year, but
also to shield NTM-A from recurring and potentially
contentious debates on approving requests for common funding
in SRB. End comment.) Mission should also point out that a
detailed discussion of NTM-A resourcing should await
provision of NATO military advice as to its proposed
structure and operation.
CLINTON
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/21/2019
TAGS: NATO PREL AMGT
SUBJECT: NATO GUIDANCE: SENIOR RESOURCE BOARD (SRB) APRIL
23 AND 24 PLENARY MEETING
REF: USNATO 000149
Classified By: EUR/RPM Director Bruce I. Turner
1. (U) In general terms, Washington concurs with positions
outlined by USNATO in Refs A. Additional guidance is
provided below.
2. (C) Ref Item I, ISAF. In discussion of resource
implications of recent Summit agreement to establish a NATO
Training Mission-Afghanistan (NTM-A),Washington instructs
Mission to emphasize U.S. expectation that NTM-A will require
limited common funding on a level analogous to that provided
for the NATO Training Mission-Iraq (Washington Comment: this
position is rooted in a desire not only to limit calls on
NATO common funding, which is under pressure this year, but
also to shield NTM-A from recurring and potentially
contentious debates on approving requests for common funding
in SRB. End comment.) Mission should also point out that a
detailed discussion of NTM-A resourcing should await
provision of NATO military advice as to its proposed
structure and operation.
CLINTON