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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 03 STATE 037720 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: DTRA PARM PREL PTER KGIC KNNP BA
SUBJECT: BAHRAIN ENDORSES GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT 
NUCLEAR TERRORISM 
 
REF: STATE 36044 (NOTAL) 
 
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SUMMARY 
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¶1.  (U) Bahrain became a partner nation to the Global 
Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GI) on March 24, 
2008, when Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed 
al-Khalifa presented Secretary Rice with a diplomatic note 
indicating Bahrain's endorsement of the GI Statement of 
Principles.  Bahrain is the 67th GI partner nation and the 
first in the Gulf region. Department requests that posts in 
current GI partner nation capitals notify host governments of 
Bahrain's GI endorsement.  END SUMMARY. 
 
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OBJECTIVES 
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¶2. (U) Department requests posts to pursue the following 
objectives: 
 
 
STATE 00037720  002 OF 003 
 
 
--Inform host government Global Initiative counterparts that 
Bahrain is a new partner nation of the Global Initiative and 
that the U.S. has transmitted the current GI Plan of Work to 
the Government of Bahrain. 
 
--Inform host government that the U.S. has requested Bahrain 
to provide information on their GI Points of Contact.  Upon 
receipt, the U.S. will distribute it to partner nations so 
that they can begin to include Bahrain in their Global 
Initiative correspondence. 
 
--Inform host government that the U.S. has encouraged Bahrain 
to directly contact the host country point of contact for any 
Global Initiative activity in which they might want to 
participate.  The U.S. has also encouraged Bahrain to 
consider hosting/proposing an activity in 2008-2009. 
 
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REPORTING DEADLINE 
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¶3. (U) Department requests that Embassy report results of 
efforts by cable by April 21. 
 
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POINT OF CONTACT 
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STATE 00037720  003 OF 003 
 
 
¶4.  (U) All cables associated with the Global Initiative 
should be slugged to the department for ISN/WMDT, T: Tim 
Katsapis, S/CT as well as the relevant regional bureaus. 
E-mails regarding the Global Initiative can also be sent to 
globalinitiative@state.gov. 
RICE