Identifier
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Classification
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10STOCKHOLM24
2010-01-20 15:30:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Stockholm
Cable title:
DEMARCHE DELIVERED: TRANSITION TO AFGHAN LEAD
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C O N F I D E N T I A L STOCKHOLM 000024
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR EUR/RPM AARON COPE, S/SRAP, AND SCA/A
E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/20/2020
TAGS: MARR MOPS NATO PREL AF SW
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE DELIVERED: TRANSITION TO AFGHAN LEAD
PROVINCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
REF: STATE 4108
Classified By: Political Counselor Marc Koehler for reasons 1(b) and (d
).
Pol Counselor delivered reftel points to Amb. Klas Molin,
Director General for Asian Affairs at the Swedish MFA, on
January 19. Molin said he fully understood the focus on a
conditions-based approach and that Sweden would make plans
for its ongoing participation in ISAF based on conditions
that prevail in the four provinces of its PRT (note: the
Swedes have 500 troops operating in Jowzjan, Sar-e Pul, Balkh
and Samangan Provinces). Sweden has had, and plans to have,
a long-term presence in Afghanistan, he added; the Swedish
Afghanistan Committee has been running education and health
care projects in the country since the 1970s. Molin agreed
that ISAF members need to maintain a unified message on these
points.
BARZUN