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### Viewing cable 09BERLIN382, GERMANY: SUPPORTIVE OF PROPOSED AF/PAK

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09BERLIN382 | 2009-03-31 19:07 | 2011-01-25 00:12 | CONFIDENTIAL | Embassy Berlin

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    INFO RUEHZG/NATO EU COLLECTIVE PRIORITY
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    RUEHBUL/AMEMBASSY KABUL PRIORITY 0621
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    RHMFISS/HQ USAFE RAMSTEIN AB GE PRIORITY
    RUEKJCS/JOINT STAFF WASHINGTON DC PRIORITY
    RHMFISS/CDRUSAREUR HEIDELBERG GE PRIORITY
    RHMFISS/HQ USEUCOM VAIHINGEN GE PRIORITY

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    C O N F I D E N T I A L BERLIN 000382

    SIPDIS
    STATE FOR SCA/A-TOM REOTT, EUR/RPM-AARON COPE,
    EUR/ERA-DANIEL WEISFELD

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/31/2019
    TAGS: PREL NATO EU AF PK UN GM
    SUBJECT: GERMANY: SUPPORTIVE OF PROPOSED AF/PAK
    DELIVERA...

    199909
    2009-03-31
    09BERLIN382
    Embassy Berlin
    CONFIDENTIAL
    09BERLIN369|09STATE28929|09STATE29482
    C O N F I D E N T I A L BERLIN 000382
    SIPDIS
    STATE FOR SCA/A-TOM REOTT, EUR/RPM-AARON COPE,
    EUR/ERA-DANIEL WEISFELD
    E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/31/2019
    TAGS: PREL NATO EU AF PK UN GM
    SUBJECT: GERMANY: SUPPORTIVE OF PROPOSED AF/PAK
    DELIVERABLES FOR NATO AND U.S.-EU SUMMITS
    REF: A. BERLIN 369
    ¶B. STATE 29482
    ¶C. STATE 28929
    Classified By: POL-MIL/EXTERNAL AFFAIRS UNIT CHIEF BILL MOELLER. REASON
    S: 1.4 (B) AND (D).

    ¶1. (C) SUMMARY. German officials have been uniformly
    positive about the new U.S. Afghanistan/Pakistan strategy and
    largely supportive of our proposed deliverables for the NATO
    and U.S.-EU summits. The Germans are committed to covering
    almost all of the outstanding requirements in the north of
    Afghanistan, including election support forces, OMLTs, ANA
    infrastructure, and police trainer/mentors. Germany's
    contribution to the ANA Trust Fund remains under internal
    discussion, but Chancellor Merkel is expected to make an
    announcement on this at the NATO Summit. Germany stands by a
    previous commitment to double its contribution of police
    trainers/mentors to EUPOL, but it is becoming increasingly
    convinced that the Focused District Development (FDD) police
    training program has greater potential for success. END
    SUMMARY.

    FOLLOW-UP

    ¶2. (C) As reported ref A, Post delivered points from refs B
    and C to officials in the MFA, MOD and Chancellery on March
    26, outlining the results of the U.S. Afghanistan-Pakistan
    Strategic Review and our desired deliverables for the NATO
    and U.S.-EU summits. Post followed up with officials on
    March 30-31 to get a further read-out of German views.

    ELECTION SUPPORT FORCES AND OMLTs

    ¶3. (C) MFA ISAF Action Officer Lukas Wasielewski said Germany
    agreed that at the NATO Summit, Allies should demonstrate
    that they are committed to fully staffing the election
    support forces and deploying the necessary additional
    Operational Mentoring and Liaison Team (OMLTs). He noted
    that Germany would deploy some 620 additional soldiers in the
    north by June -- 220 for temporary election support and 400
    for permanent augmentation of the German presence (to
    increase the RC-North QRF to battalion size and beef up force
    protection at the PRTs in Kunduz and Feyzabad). He claimed
    that with the German contribution, the entire Combined Joint
    Statement of Requirements (CJSOR) for election support in the
    north would be fulfilled. He also noted that Germany would
    help partners suffering budgetary problems because of the
    economic crisis make their election support contributions.
    For example, Germany is providing airlift to move a company
    of Hungarian infantry from Budapest to the Hungarian PRT in
    Baghlan Province.

    ¶4. (C) Wasielewski claimed that by the end of the year,
    Germany and other northern partners would also fulfill all of
    the OMLT requirements for the two Afghan National Army (ANA)
    brigades currently based in the north. He noted that the
    U.S. is proposing to move forward the establishment of the
    3rd Brigade in the north from 2013 to 2011. Wasielewski
    volunteered that Germany was not against this idea and
    would be ready, in cooperation with northern partners, to
    provide the OMLTs for that brigade as well. He noted that
    Germany had just recently built a garrison in Feyzabad for a
    company of ANA troops of the 2nd Brigade, and was prepared to
    consider building the infrastructure needed for the 3rd
    Brigade as well.

    ¶5. (C) Wasielewski emphasized that Germany was committed to
    helping Combined Security Transition Command (CSTC-A) carry
    out its initiative to establish a series of branch schools
    for the ANA, including expanding the logistics school in
    Kabul into a combat support school and building the proposed
    engineer school in Mazar-e Sharif. He acknowledged that
    there was wrangling within the German government about how to
    fund these projects, especially the engineer school, but gave
    assurances that we will do it.

    ANA TRUST FUND

    ¶6. (C) Wasielewski said that Germany welcomed the decision
    to expand the ANA Trust Fund to cover sustainment costs and
    agreed it was important that it be adequately financed.
    However, confirming what we were told last week by the MOD
    (ref A), he said it was still not clear how much Germany
    would contribute. He acknowledged that no single ministry
    had sufficient resources to cover the entire $100 million
    annual contribution requested by the U.S. Therefore, the
    decision would have to be taken at the highest levels of
    the government, i.e., the Chancellor herself. He thought the
    Chancellery was well aware that the Chancellor had to be
    ready to say something about this at the NATO Summit.

    ¶7. (C) We followed up with Ina Schuett, an action officer in
    the Security Affairs Office at the Chancellery, who confirmed
    that the issue was still under discussion. While she could
    not name a figure at this point for how much Germany would
    contribute, she too thought that the Chancellor would make an
    announcement on this at the Summit.

    NTM-A

    ¶8. (C) Wasielewski reiterated that Germany supported the
    establishment of NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan (NTM-A)
    and hoped that the French and the other European Gendarmerie
    Force (EGF) members would, in the end, decide to deploy their
    paramilitaries through NTM-A. He noted that French FM
    Kouchner's proposal at the informal EU Gymnich meeting this
    past weekend to deploy the EGF as an independent European
    contribution, and to seek ad hoc logistical and force
    protection from NATO, had fallen flat. He said even High Rep
    Solana, who presumably would tend to favor this approach,
    saw problems with the French proposal. Wasielewski noted
    that the Italians favor deploying the EGF via NTM-A, but he
    conceded it was unclear whether France would accept having
    the EGF subordinated to the dual-hatted U.S. CSTC-A commander.

    ¶9. (C) MFA Deputy European Correspondent Thomas Schieb
    confirmed that Solana voiced caution when Kouchner made his
    EGF proposal at the Gymnich meeting. He noted that the
    French were also looking to share the costs of the EGF
    deployment, presumably through EU common funding. Schieb
    said Germany's position was that costs should lie where they
    fall, with each EGF country paying its own way.

    POLICE MENTORS: FDD VS. EUPOL

    ¶10. (C) Wasielewski revealed that while Germany would stand
    by its commitment to double its contribution of police
    mentors/trainers to EUPOL to 120 as part of the doubling of
    the entire EUPOL mission to 400, it saw greater potential for
    success with the Focused District Development (FDD) police
    training program. He noted that the initial reports from
    Germany's experience since beginning FDD in January in
    districts around Mazar-e Sharif were very positive. As a
    result, there were already internal discussions about
    possibly doubling the German FDD commitment from 10 districts
    to 20. He explained that there are now some 50 German
    civilian police trainer/mentors dedicated to the mission --
    20 who work at the training center in Mazar-e Sharif, where
    district police forces get their initial training, and 32
    more who are (or will soon be) deployed on police mentoring
    teams (4 per team) that accompany and mentor district police
    forces when they return to their districts after basic
    training. Wasielewski pointed out that each police mentoring
    team (PMT) also includes 4 German military policemen, and
    that a total of 45 military policemen are dedicated to the
    mission.

    ¶11. (C) Wasielewski noted that FDD had a much better
    reputation among members of parliament than EUPOL and was
    therefore easier to sell in seeking additional resources
    and support. He also noted that FDD was proving more
    attractive than EUPOL in recruiting German policemen to go to
    Afghanistan, since it offered the opportunity, unlike EUPOL,
    to get off the compound and do something. The rate of
    satisfaction was significantly higher among German policemen
    working on FDD compared to those assigned to EUPOL.
    Wasielewski conceded that there was already an internal
    debate brewing about how Germany should allocate its scarce
    police resources in Afghanistan in the future. Still, he
    emphasized, there was no question that Germany would stand by
    its existing commitment of providing 120 police
    mentors/trainers to EUPOL.

    ¶12. (C) Wasielewski noted that the current criteria for
    German participation in FDD required that the district in
    question be within an hour's drive of a German PRT or other
    installation. He acknowledged that this restriction would
    have to be re-examined once the close-in districts around the
    provincial capitals in the north were taken care of. One
    idea, he said, was setting up safe houses in the outer
    districts that are going through FDD, where the PMTs could
    overnight. These safe houses would be manned by a force of
    50 or so soldiers, as the Provincial Advisory Team (PAT) in
    Takhar Province is.

    CIVILIAN-MILITARY PLANNING CELLS

    ¶13. (C) Wasielewski admitted that while Germany saw little
    need for a civilian-military planning cell in RC-North, the
    U.S. should not take German rejection of the idea at last
    week's NATO PermReps coffee as the final word. That reaction
    was spurred by a sense that this had been suggested as a
    one-size-fits-all solution, without taking into
    consideration the different situation in the north. Germany
    looked forward to receiving more information about the idea
    and was open to being convinced.

    ELECTION FINANCING

    ¶14. (C) Wasielewski reported that Germany would donate $12
    million this year on a bilateral basis in support of the
    upcoming Afghan elections, up from the $10 million it
    contributed last year.

    EU-PAKISTAN SUMMIT

    ¶15. (C) Deputy European Correspondent Schieb agreed that the
    EU has an important role to play in assisting Pakistan and
    promoting its stability, and that a EU-Pakistan Summit would
    be useful in forging a closer relationship. However, he did
    not think it would be realistic to hold such a summit before
    some time next year. He stressed it was important that such
    a summit have a clear agenda and be properly prepared.
    Koenig

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