US embassy cable - 05VIENNA2327

UNCLAS VIENNA 002327 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
 
STATE FOR INL/PC, NEA/I, EUR/PGI AND EUR/AGS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV, PTER, KCRM, MARR, SOCI, SNAR, AU 
SUBJECT: UPDATE ON EXTENDING THE MANDATE OF AUSTRIAN 
TRAINERS AT THE JORDAN INTERNATIONAL POLICE TRAINING CENTER 
 
REF: A. (A) VIENNA 1886 
     B. (B) VIENNA 1439 
     C. (C) STATE 72189 
 
This cable is sensitive but unclassified.  Please handle 
accordingly. 
 
1.  (SBU) EconPolCouns and Poloff met on July 11 with 
Brigadier Kurt Hager, the Austrian Interior Ministry's 
Director of Bilateral Affairs.  We asked for an update on 
Hager's efforts to secure an extension of the mandate of 
Austria's police trainers at the Iraqi Police Academy in 
Amman through the end of 2006.  Hager said there was broad 
agreement among relevant elements of the Austrian government 
to approve the extension.  Now, Interior Minister Liese 
Prokop had to win Cabinet approval for the measure.  This 
would likely come in the first Cabinet meeting after the 
summer break.  Hager said he saw no reason this would not 
happen, barring a dramatic negative change of circumstances 
at the Academy. 
 
2.  (SBU) Hager said he had not won approval to recommend an 
enlargement of the Austrian police training team from the 
current number of four.  Austria's other international police 
training commitments, including in Central Asia, precluded an 
expansion, he said. 
Brown