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08PARIS1975 2008-10-28 15:14 2011-08-30 01:44 CONFIDENTIAL Embassy Paris
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DE RUEHFR #1975/01 3021514
ZNY CCCCC ZZH
P 281514Z OCT 08
FM AMEMBASSY PARIS
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 4658
INFO RUEHZG/NATO EU COLLECTIVE PRIORITY
RUEHAH/AMEMBASSY ASHGABAT PRIORITY 0200
RUEHBJ/AMEMBASSY BEIJING PRIORITY 1810
RUEHDBU/AMEMBASSY DUSHANBE PRIORITY 0068
RUEHIL/AMEMBASSY ISLAMABAD PRIORITY 0807
RUEHBUL/AMEMBASSY KABUL PRIORITY 0699
RUEHNT/AMEMBASSY TASHKENT PRIORITY 0284
RHEHNSC/NSC WASHINGTON DC PRIORITY
C O N F I D E N T I A L PARIS 001975 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/23/2018 
TAGS: PREL AF FR UZ TZ CH TA
SUBJECT: BOUCHER AND FRENCH OFFICIALS DISCUSS AFGHAN 
NEIGHBOR'S MEETING, SECURITY AND PAKISTAN 
 
Classified By: Political Minister-Counselor Kathleen Allegrone 
for reasons 1.4(b) and (d). 
 
1.  (C) Summary.  During an October 21-22 visit to Paris, 
Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs, 
Richard Boucher discussed with numerous French officials the 
next steps of the UN "Friends of Pakistan" group and U.S. 
efforts to tighten security by supporting police and trainers 
in Pakistan's frontier tribal areas.   On Afghanistan, he 
encouraged additional European support for expanding the 
reach of Afghanistan's government and recruitment of police 
trainers and he provided USG input to help shape France's 
proposed "Afghanistan Neighbor's Meeting" by ensuring that 
the United Nations and the government of Afghanistan play 
central roles.  French interlocutors including Philippe 
Errera and Eric Chevallier, advisors to Foreign Minister 
Kouchner, requested that the U.S. help them demonstrate to 
European politicians (and publics) that they are important 
partners in Afghanistan by consulting closely on military and 
civilian strategy.  Michel Miraillet, Strategic Affairs 
Director at the Ministry of Defense, requested UK-France-U.S. 
tri-lateral consultations at the expert's level on 
Afghanistan and Pakistan to better coordinate on important 
issues.  Francois Richier, Strategic Affairs advisor to 
President Sarkozy, focused the discussion on maintaining 
European commitments in Afghanistan and the complex questions 
involved in any Afghan-led reconciliation process.  Boucher 
also met with parliamentarians, think tankers and his 
interview with Le Monde was published October 23.  End 
Summary. 
 
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PAKISTAN: POSITIVE SIGNS 
------------------------------------- 
 
2.  (C)  All of the French interlocutors were interested in 
the latest developments in Pakistan, with Francois Descouyte, 
the new Director of Asia at the Foreign Ministry (Assistant 
Secretary-equivalent), noting that Pakistan was formerly 
neglected in French foreign policy, except for the concern 
over terrorism.  Richier, who had recently accompanied 
Sarkozy military advisor Admiral Guillaud to Afghanistan and 
Pakistan, confirmed that the French government now considers 
Pakistan to be of strategic importance.  Elysee Asia advisor 
Bertrand Lortholary noted that Sarkozy had positive 
discussions with Zardari on the margins of the UN General 
Assembly in New York in September and was planning to visit 
Pakistan at some point next year.  Lortholary said France 
also views efforts to address financial security in Pakistan 
as part of improving overall security in the region. To all 
of his interlocutors, Boucher observed that recent 
developments in Pakistan were mostly positive: it is a 
democratic state with an elected civilian government which is 
now working more cooperatively with the Pakistan military to 
fight terrorism in the tribal areas.  Pakistan will present a 
strategy paper at the next "Friends of Pakistan" meeting in 
Abu Dhabi in mid-November and the U.S. is hoping that the 
United Nations will take over the secretariat function of the 
group.  The U.S. is also proposing a World Bank trust fund be 
established for all of the frontier area, to include 
Baluchistan.  Pakistan has a major problem with its currency 
reserves, but is in discussions for an agreement with the 
International Monetary Fund.  Significant challenges remain, 
but the Zardari government is showing serious commitment to 
addressing them.  The French Defense Ministry had the most 
negative views of Pakistan, with Miraillet expressing 
concerns over Inter-Services Intelligence bureau activities 
and contacts with insurgents. 
 
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EXPANDING AFGHANISTAN'S GOVERNMENT 
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3.  (C) Boucher expressed appreciation for the June 
conference held in Paris to support Afghanistan.  Following 
up on the conference's broader strategy, the international 
community now needs to expand the Afghan government out to 
the provinces and focus on police training to improve 
security.  He urged Europe to increase its EU police training 
mission (currently at 177 and expected to go up to 400 
trainers) and concentrate on getting police trainers willing 
to deploy out to the regions.  The U.S. believes Afghanistan 
needs up to 3000 new police trainers and we are hoping to 
assist by providing up to 500 U.S. experts in the near 
 
future.  We also want to empower the Afghan government by 
giving social outreach funding to governors and local leaders 
for development projects.  Miraillet noted that the work of 
police trainers needed in Afghanistan and Pakistan is more 
military in nature (similar to the French gendarmes), whereas 
most European countries only have truly civilian police 
capacities.  This makes recruiting difficult.  Errera noted 
that Afghanistan will be on the agenda of the November 
meeting of EU Foreign Ministers (GAERC) and the EU could 
consider the EUPOL mandate and police training commitments at 
that time. 
 
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COMPLEX ISSUES IN RECONCILIATION 
--------------------------------------- 
 
4.  (C) Many of the French interlocutors were interested in 
U.S. views on reconciliation; in particular the difficulty of 
determining who could be pardoned under a reconciliation 
agreement.  To all, Boucher reiterated that reconciliation 
must be led by Afghanistan and should follow Karzai's already 
stated parameters of requiring that insurgents abandon 
violence, accept the authority of the Afghan government and 
not include al-Qaida.  He noted that the PTS program already 
exists for reconciliation with lower-level insurgents. 
Richier and Lortholary observed that any agreement with the 
Afghan government would require the allies to provide 
necessary guarantees of security to those pardoned.  Boucher 
agreed, but noted that we had as yet seen little serious 
commitment to a peace agreement by higher-level Taliban 
insurgents. 
 
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INITIAL PROPOSALS ON "NEIGHBORS" MEETING 
----------------------------------------- 
 
5.  (C)  French officials referred to the 2002 Kabul 
declaration as a basis for Foreign Minister Kouchner's 
proposed meeting of the neighboring countries of Afghanistan 
in November (or early December).  Philippe Errera, Strategic 
Affairs advisor to Kouchner, is the designated organizer of 
what is now being called an "informal meeting" at 
ministerial-level to take place at the Minister's residence 
in Celle St. Cloud.  Boucher emphasized that both the UN and 
Afghan government should play leading roles in the meeting, 
perhaps serving as co-chairs for the event.  He noted that 
the third Regional Economic Cooperation Conference on 
Afghanistan would likely take place in January, so we wanted 
to ensure that the agendas of the two fora were not 
duplicative.  He suggested three possible areas the 
neighbors' meeting could address, including: reiterating 
non-interference in Afghan affairs, coordinating joint 
efforts in counter-narcotics and counterterrorism, and 
affirming an openness to regional trade (which could include 
transportation, energy, water, etc).  Errera said that in 
consultations with Afghan officials thus far, the Afghans 
were "quite enthusiastic" about the proposal.  Paris would 
like the meeting to generate a chairman's statement or 
summary, rather than an agreed declaration, which is more 
difficult.  The statement would refer to the leading roles of 
Afghanistan and the UN, perhaps be co-signed by them.  Errera 
asserted that France would like to keep the meeting 
participants limited to Afghanistan's geographic neighbors 
and the P-5 (which is a way to include the U.S. and U.K. 
while not opening the meeting to all interested countries). 
Boucher suggested that P-5 countries could be represented at 
a lower rank. 
 
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PLEAS FOR CONSULTATION 
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6.  (C) In every meeting at the Elysee and Ministries of 
Defense and Foreign Affairs, French interlocutors stressed 
the importance of including allies in U.S. military and 
civilian strategic reviews for Afghanistan.  Noting that both 
the White House and General Petraeus are conducting reviews 
of Afghanistan strategy, Eric Chevallier observed that it was 
important for European leaders and publics to feel that they 
are not simply ratifying U.S. demands in the region, but are 
instead full partners in setting the broader strategic goals. 
 He noted that many European parliamentarians feel that there 
is no European influence on the Afghanistan strategy, even 
though they collectively provide half of the ISAF troops. 
 
Richier added that the problem of civilian casualties is 
having a negative impact on European support for troop 
deployments, to which Boucher responded that ISAF and 
Enduring Freedom are doing their best to minimize civilian 
fatalities, but the best means to reduce them is to have 
additional Afghan ground troops so the allies don't have to 
rely on air power.  All of the French officials requested 
U.S. help to convince European public opinion that they have 
an influence on military and civilian strategy in 
Afghanistan.  Chevallier proposed that the U.S. consider a 
statement by the new administration that it looks forward to 
working with European partners on Afghanistan; he said such a 
statement would send an important signal to Europeans. 
Miraillet suggested that the U.S., France and the UK engage 
in expert-level discussions on Afghanistan and Pakistan to 
facilitate coordination, a proposal that Boucher promised to 
consider. 
 
7.  (C) Comment: Assistant Secretary Boucher's meetings made 
clear the increasing priority that France is putting onto 
Pakistan/Afghanistan issues.  It also made clear that French 
officials remain very sensitive to public opinion, especially 
following the death of 10 French soldiers in an August 18 
attack in Afghanistan.  They are looking to the U.S. to 
assist them with convincing their publics that European 
engagement in the region is a true "partnership."  Paris' 
efforts, such as the proposal for the Afghanistan Neighbor's 
meeting, are directly related to its desire to show skeptical 
Europeans that they are genuinely engaged in meeting the 
goals of security by emphasizing our broader stabilization 
and reconstruction strategy in the region.  End comment. 
 
8.  (U) This cable was reviewed and cleared by Assistant 
Secretary Boucher. 
STAPLETON