US embassy cable - 05AMMAN7

C O N F I D E N T I A L AMMAN 000007 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/03/2010 
TAGS: PREL, PGOV, IZ, JO 
SUBJECT: PREPARATIONS FOR IRAQ NEIGHBORS' CONFERENCE, 
JANUARY 6 
 
REF: A. 04 AMMAN 10192 
 
     B. 04 STATE 275109 
     C. 04 AMMAN 10314 
 
Classified By: Charge David Hale, Reasons 1.4 (B) & (D) 
 
1.  (C) Foreign Minister al-Mulki updated Charge on January 3 
on plans for the Iraq neighbors, ministerial, scheduled to 
be held in Amman on January 6.  All neighboring states have 
confirmed Foreign Ministers, attendance, except Iran.  Mulki 
has had several phone conversations with Iranian Foreign 
Minister Kharrazi, which sound as though they have been held 
in the same barbed spirit as recent public exchanges between 
the two countries.  At this stage, Mulki said, Tehran is 
sending someone below Kharrazi,s rank.  At the IIG,s 
request, he had earlier told Charge, AL SYG Moussa would not 
be invited. 
 
2.  (C) Mulki said the draft communique was negotiated and 
very nearly ready; he would provide a copy to Charge late on 
January 3.  He described it as strongly supportive of U.S. 
and IIG objectives to encourage maximum (ie, Sunni) 
participation in Iraq,s elections, without delay ) in 
keeping with the President,s message to King Abdullah during 
the November 2004 visit. 
 
3.  (C) Mulki also previewed his January 4 trip to Beirut. 
He undertook to press there on the importance of 
implementation of UNSCR 1559, keeping the Syrian hand out of 
the Spring parliamentary elections, and on containing 
Hizballah, especially from persisting in the shipment of 
terrorist material and personnel through Jordan into the West 
Bank.  He would be reinforcing these points in a phone call 
with Shara later on January 3. 
HALE