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### Viewing cable 09HELSINKI458, AFGHANISTAN: FINLAND TOPPING UP OMLT, EUPOL,

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09HELSINKI458 | 2009-12-04 17:10 | 2011-04-24 00:00 | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | Embassy Helsinki

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    VZCZCXRO8159
    OO RUEHDBU RUEHPW RUEHSL
    DE RUEHHE #0458/01 3381710
    ZNR UUUUU ZZH
    O 041710Z DEC 09
    FM AMEMBASSY HELSINKI
    TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 5310
    INFO RUCNAFG/AFGHANISTAN COLLECTIVE IMMEDIATE

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    UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 HELSINKI 000458

    SENSITIVE
    SIPDIS

    E.O. 12958: N/A
    TAGS: AF FI MOPS PGOV PREL
    SUBJECT: AFGHANISTAN: FINLAND TOPPING UP OMLT, EUPOL,
    ANATF, BUT NOT CONSIDERING UPPING ITS COMMITMENTS

    REF: A. HELSINKI 447
         ¶B. HELSINKI 441

    ¶1. (SBU) SUMMARY: President Obama's December 1 speech and the
    request for more support in Afghanistan from NATO Secretary
    General Rasmussen have triggered an extensive public
    discussion in Finland's political and media circles.  There
    is a broad consensus behind the current level of commitment
    of resources and on the goal of helping Afghanistan's
    security forces take responsibility for their own country,
    but no indications that Finland is yet ready to make any
    major increase in troop or civilian commitments.  The GOF is
    working to fill out its OMLT and EUPOL contingents to levels
    already set in the summer and is pointing to its doubling of
    support to the ANA trust fund, all of which it hopes are seen
    as indications that it is doing its part.  END SUMMARY.

    -------------------------------------------
    PUBLIC COMMENTS FOCUS ON INCREASED TRAINING
    -------------------------------------------

    ¶2. (U) Since the POTUS December 1 Afghanistan speech, the
    debate on whether Finland can provide additional support to
    Afghanistan has begun in earnest.  Speaking to national
    broadcaster YLE on December 2, Foreign Minister Stubb
    suggested that Finland might be able to send about 15
    additional trainers, though he pointed out the difficulties
    in recruiting them (Note: Finland has not yet filled some 15
    of its OMLT positions, and MFA officials have previously
    mentioned the possibility of raising the number of Finns in
    EUPOL from 24 to 30.  End Note).  Also speaking to YLE on
    December 3, Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee Chair
    Pertti Salolainen (NCP) echoed both the idea of sending
    additional trainers (police and/or military) and the
    difficulties in recruiting them.  When asked whether there
    should be a date for Finnish troops to start coming home
    since the U.S. was going to start withdrawing in July 2011,
    Salolainen explained that President Obama probably was
    influenced by the U.S. political calendar in setting this
    date and that he did not see a need for a specific date for a
    Finnish withdrawal.

    ------------------------------------
    NO SURPRISES IN PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE
    ------------------------------------

    ¶3. (SBU) On December 3 Parliament held a hastily scheduled
    plenary session focusing on Afghanistan (the last being only
    two months ago).  Some 36 MPs from all parties as well as the
    Prime Minister, Foreign, Defense, Development, and
    Immigration ministers took part.  FM Stubb delivered the
    government's opening statement in which he expressed
    Finland's support for President Karzai's goal of taking
    security responsibility within five years and echoed
    President Obama's reminder that the threat of extremism in
    Afghanistan and Pakistan is a threat to all nations.  Stubb
    went on to emphasize that strengthening both ISAF and
    civilian crisis management was key, and that soldiers are
    necessary to protect the civilian presence.  Noting the
    requests of the NATO Secretary General and the U.S. for
    additional troops and trainers, Stubb closed by stating that
    Finland had doubled its civilian support in the last year,
    becoming the third largest participant in EUPOL with some 25
    police trainers on the ground.  Stubb declared that the GOF
    would not make any new commitments at the ISAF foreign
    ministerial he was attending the next day.

    ¶4. (SBU) Statements by governing party lawmakers were
    strongly supportive of Finland's participation in both
    military and civilian crisis management in Afghanistan, often
    focusing on the importance of building a just society there
    in which women's and children's rights were respected.  Other
    supporting voices emphasized that a greater effort in
    training Afghan security forces would allow international
    forces to hand over security responsibility, some referring
    to the 2011 date mentioned in President Obama's speech.
    Opposition SDP Leader Jutta Urpilainen noted that Finland's
    policy was well-founded and should continue, especially with
    regard to police training, and area in which Finland was
    well-suited to provide help.  Urpilainen and other opposition
    MPs then took the opportunity to grill the government over
    its recurring failure (in their view) to share information
    both within the government, with the President, and with
    parliament, about foreign and security policy.  The PM
    responded by denying that there was any systemic problem.
    (NOTE: The government has provided ample ammunition for these
    rhetorical attacks.  Earlier this week the PM publicly stated
    that he first heard about the NATO SYG request for more
    support in the press while in October both the President and
    Foreign Minister misstated the departure time frame for
    Finnish Election Support Forces in Afghanistan.  In September

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    the PM claimed that he heard about the Security Police (SUPO)
    plan to post personnel abroad from the press. END NOTE.)

    ¶5. (SBU) Neither the government nor did any MPs suggest that
    Finland provide additional soldiers to ISAF, with several
    explicitly noting that no military solution was possible.
    There was a general consensus that, to the extent possible,
    Finland should put more emphasis on training Afghans.
    Recruiting trainers, however, was recognized as increasingly
    difficult due to the danger and lack of sufficient
    compensation or career incentives.  Defense Minister Hakamies
    acknowledged the difficulty of recruiting trainers, but
    indicated that currently Kosovo posed a more difficult
    challenge in this regard than Afghanistan.  Green Party MP
    Pekka Haavisto focused on the weak credibility of the Karzai
    government and called for a political process to include
    dialogue with unspecified opponents of the government.  NOTE:
     In the past, including at the previous parliamentary plenary
    on Afghanistan in October, there was substantially more
    discussion of the need for political solutions including
    negotiation or dialogue with "moderate Taliban."  In sharp
    contrast, Haavisto was the only speaker who addressed this
    issue in the December 3 debate.  END NOTE.

    -------------------------------------------
    GOF WORKING ON FILLING OMLT AND EUPOL SLOTS
    -------------------------------------------

    ¶6. (SBU) The ISAF team leader in MFA's Security Policy unit
    told poloff December 4 that for now the most likely tangible
    increases in support from the GOF would be completely filling
    those positions in its OMLT and within EUPOL which were
    currently vacant and increasing its contributions to the ANA
    trust fund.  While the GOF had approved providing an OMLT of
    30 personnel, only eight are currently on the ground.
    Finland will also try to increase its EUPOL complement from
    24 to 30.  Its contribution to the ANA trust fund will double
    this year to 600,000 euros and the same amount is committed
    for 2010.

    --------------------------------------
    EDITORIALS SKEPTICAL OF OBAMA STRATEGY
    --------------------------------------

    ¶7. (U) Editorials in the aftermath of President Obama's
    December 1 speech largely focused on Obama's "ownership" of
    the war and the 2011 "deadline" for U.S. troops to begin
    withdrawing.  Tabloid Aamulehti (circ. 139,165) opined that
    Afghanistan was "ever more clearly Obama's war, branding his
    entire presidency" while citing favorably Senator McCain's
    criticism of the 2011 pullout date.  Daily Keskisuomalainen
    (circ. 75,000) asserted that "it is increasingly apparent
    that the fundamental problems, like the corruption of
    Afghanistan's tribal- and clan-based government . . . will
    not be solved by raising the number of troops."  While
    stating that Finland must stay in Afghanistan, daily Kaleva
    (circ. 81,000) asserted that it was "not absolutely
    necessary" to increase Finnish contributions, which in any
    case would not be done "in accordance with a policy speech by
    the president of the United States."

    -------------------------------------------
    MOST FINNS COMMITTED TO HELPING AFGHANISTAN
    -------------------------------------------

    ¶8. (U) The annual (conducted since 1964) government-sponsored
    Advisory Board for Defense Information (ABDI) poll of the
    Finnish public regarding attitudes towards national defense
    included a series of questions about Afghanistan for the
    first time.  Carried out by Gallup in September and October
    2009 and published December 4, the poll indicates that while
    67 percent of Finns do not want to "pull out" of Afghanistan,
    over 70 percent felt that the international community had not
    been successful in its objectives of improving the status of
    women, combating terrorism, or creating democratic
    governance.  Finnish participation in providing assistance to
    local government and in developing education and the local
    economy garnered over 80 percent support, while participation
    in activities to eliminate extremist groups using deadly
    force was supported by only 20 percent with 72 percent
    opposing such efforts.
    ORECK

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