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C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 USNATO 000622 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/17/2016 
TAGS: PREL MOPS MARR MCAP NATO
SUBJECT: 17 OCTOBER COFFEE 
 
REF: USNATO 604 
 
Classified By: Deputy Chief of Mission Richard G. Olson for 
reasons 1.5(b) and (d). 
 
¶1.  SUMMARY: 
--  Riga Communique:  PermReps endorse notion of a short and 
crispy document, SYG will circulate a strawman outline of key 
subjects o/a 31 October. 
--  ANA Training:   SYG intends to circulate under silence a 
tasking to NATO Military Authorities (NMAs) on Afghan 
National Security Forces Training.  PermReps broadly 
supportive, but the French raised red flags. 
--  Middle East Training Initiative:  SYG will circulate a 
paper for further discussion next week. 
--  Afghanistan/Pakistan:  UK reports on withdrawal from 
center of Musa Qaleh, also reported on General Richards's 
meeting with Musharraf, in which latter made the right noises 
about cooperation with NATO. 
END SUMMARY. 
 
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Riga Communique 
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¶2.  (C) SYG proposed a "declaration type communique," a 
single overarching, concise document covering only what Heads 
discussed, starting with a NATO vision section, followed by 
three "chapters": (1) Operations, especially Afghanistan, (2) 
Political transformation including Global Partnerships and 
Englargement, and (3) Defense transformation.  SYG cautioned 
against turning communique into a "Christmas tree" or 
"shopping list."  The French PermRep endorsed this approach. 
Ambassador Nuland advocated arranging the communique in a 
narrative flow, rather than breaking it into chapters.  Most 
PermReps endorsed the SYG's concept and Nuland's approach and 
while most also supported a spare communique, a number 
nonetheless proposed Christmas tree ornaments.  SYG concluded 
by proposing to draft and circulate a strawman outline of 
communique topics o/a 31 October.  This would be discussed at 
the Ambassador level then sent to the SPC for negotiation. 
 
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ANA Training 
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¶3.  (C) SYG announced that he intended to circulate under 
silence a tasking to NMAs for expanding training assistance 
to the ANA and ANP based on the idea in SACEUR's October 2 
letter to the SYG (emailed to EUR/RPM).  The French PermRep 
was broadly supportive (and did not object to inclusion of 
police training) but asked for clarification on the proposed 
NATO liaison officers to CSTC-A, said OMLT concept needed to 
be looked into, opposed common funding, and requested a 
"snapshot" of current state of training efforts.  In response 
to latter, Amb Nuland offered to facilitate a U.S. briefing 
on ANA and ANP training led by CFC-A.  Nuland also flagged 
that after the U.S. takes command of ISAF In February, we 
would likely come back to the NAC with a proposal to 
"NATO-ize" ANA training with U.S. as NATO lead nation.  A 
subsequent conversation between SYG Private Office and the 
French delegation indicates the French want to insert these 
questions into the tasking to NMAs. 
 
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NATO Middle East Training Initiative 
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¶4.  (C) SYG said he intended to circulate in next few days a 
document showing an "evolutionary" approach to be discussed 
by PermReps informally next week, mentioning in passing the 
possibility of mobile training teams in the Middle Eastern 
region.  Spain advocated having the NAC meet with Med 
Dialogue Partners to discuss the proposal.  SYG noted the 
chicken and egg problem of talking to Partners before the 
proposal had been fully developed at NATO.  Amb Nuland said 
that the meeting should include ICI partners, and that the 
NAC also needed to meet with EAPC partners to discuss the 
 
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concept of global partnerships.  French PermRep made an 
unhelpful intervention advocating a "gradual, prudent 
approach," and emphasized that while the NAC could meet with 
partners, the NAC could not generate demand for the project, 
and that MD and ICI partners should be met separately because 
of their supposed sensitivities about being mixed together. 
 
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Pakistan 
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¶5.  (C)  UK PermRep reported on COMISAF's meeting with 
President Musharraf.  Musharraf was reportedly unhappy at 
being seen by NATO as "an enemy," and urged the Alliance not 
to be publicly critical of Pakistan.  The Inter-Service 
Intelligence (ISI) was under orders not to support the 
Taliban, but Musharraf did not rule out the possibility of 
rogue operations.  He acknowledged that the Waziristan peace 
deal might not work, but urged it be given a chance.  The 
Pakistani president also said that Pakistanis perceived 
India's involvement in Afghanistan as a malign influence. 
SYG said he will be meeting with the Pakistani CHOD. 
 
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Musa Qaleh 
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¶6.  (C) UK PermRep reported that the British component in 
ISAF was redeploying away from the center of Musa Qaleh 
(northern Helmand) after consultation with the GOA and tribal 
elders. 
 
¶7.  (C) Deputy Treasury Secretary Kimmit's briefing on the 
Iraq Compact will be reported SepTel. 
NULAND