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Viewing cable 05LJUBLJANA126, SLOVENIA: MFA SHEDS LIGHT ON ISAF AND NTM-I

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
05LJUBLJANA126 2005-02-24 06:39 2011-08-30 01:44 CONFIDENTIAL Embassy Ljubljana
This record is a partial extract of the original cable. The full text of the original cable is not available.
C O N F I D E N T I A L LJUBLJANA 000126 
 
SIPDIS 
 
 
DEPT FOR EUR/NCE AND EUR/RPM 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/23/2015 
TAGS: PREL MARR SI NATO
SUBJECT: SLOVENIA: MFA SHEDS LIGHT ON ISAF AND NTM-I 
CONTRIBUTION PLANS 
 
REF: A. LJUBLJANA 0011 
 
     B. LJUBLJANA 0092 
     C. IIR 6 952 0013 05 
     D. IIR 6 952 0014 05 
 
Classified By: Deputy Chief of Mission Dean J. Haas for reasons 1.4(b) 
and (d). 
 
1.  (C) SUMMARY:  During an unrelated demarche on 22 
February, DCM and Pol-Miloff pressed MFA Security Policy 
Department Head Borut Mahnic for more information about 
Slovenian decisions to send officers to an ISAF Provincial 
Reconstruction Team (PRT) and military trainers to a third 
country under NTM-I.  On the PRTs, Mahnic said MFA and MOD 
decision-makers have not yet finalized a proposal for the 
Cabinet to decide whether to partner with the Germans or 
Italians.  Regarding military trainers for NTM-I, Mahnic said 
Slovenia has offered five trainers and is waiting to hear 
where they are needed.  END SUMMARY 
 
PRT OFFICERS FOR ISAF: UNDECIDED WHETHER TO JOIN WITH GERMANS 
OR ITALIANS 
--------------------------------------------- ----- 
 
2.  (C) Despite recent statements by MOD officials and 
Slovenian Armed Forces (SAF) contacts indicating that 
Slovenia plans to send two SAF officers to join a German-led 
PRT later this year (refs A, B and D), Mahnic said the GoS 
has not yet taken an official decision on PRT involvement. 
In fact, Mahnic said that a debate continues among MFA and 
MOD decision-makers about whether to send two officers to a 
German-led or an Italian-led PRT.  While MOD officials have 
pointed to the German option as a foregone conclusion, Mahnic 
said that certain stakeholders would prefer to see SAF 
officers deployed with one of the new Italian-led PRTs in 
western Afghanistan.  In an informal conversation on 07 
February, DefMin Karl Erjavec told COM that Slovenia would 
likely send two officers to a German-led PRT this year and 
additional officers to an Italian-led PRT in the future (ref 
B).  Mahnic, whose staff is preparing the draft proposal on 
PRTs for the Cabinet, said the decision would be to join 
either the Germans or the Italians, but not both.  MFA and 
MOD will meet during the week of 28 February to discuss the 
proposal further, according to Mahnic.  As reported ref D, 
the SAF General Staff currently expects to deploy two 
officers to a PRT in July 2005 but they have not yet started 
any PRT training or certification procedures.  Slovenia 
currently has 29 troops deployed to ISAF, including a 
reconnaissance unit, two veterinarians, and four firefighters 
to protect Kabul Airport. 
 
NTM-I: FIVE SLOVENIAN TRAINERS WITH NO PLACE TO GO 
--------------------------------------------- ----- 
 
3.  (C) Mahnic said a destination has not yet been decided 
upon for the five military trainers offered by Slovenia to 
work through NTM-I in a third country.  While the SAF has 
reportedly identified as many as nine trainers for the 
mission (ref C), Mahnic said the location of the mission 
continues to remain an open question.  Mahnic said the GoS 
considers Jordan a "realistic possibility" based on an 
understanding that Jordan had offered to host a mission.  He 
said "any other place" (meaning any other "third country") is 
also a possibility and suggested that the Slovenes have put 
their offer on the table at NATO and are simply waiting to be 
told where they are needed.  On 22 February, PM Janez Jansa 
commented to TV Slovenija that his Government would consider 
sending military trainers to work inside Iraq if conditions 
become safe.  Jansa stressed to the reporter that training 
Iraqi Security Forces is a "UN-compatible activity" with 
unanimous backing within NATO.  Slovenia currently has five 
police trainers from the Ministry of Interior posted to 
Jordan to work with the Iraqi police.  The GoS has pledged 
EUR 100,000 for the NTM-I Trust Fund and is making 
arrangements to send EUR 5.2 million worth of light arms and 
other equipment to the Iraqi Security Forces (ref B). 
ROBERTSON 
 
 
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