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Viewing cable 09ABUJA2130, NIGERIAN SECURITY DIALOGUES

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09ABUJA2130 2009-11-24 15:44 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Abuja
VZCZCXRO7250
PP RUEHBZ RUEHDU RUEHGI RUEHJO RUEHMA RUEHMR RUEHPA RUEHRN RUEHTRO
DE RUEHUJA #2130/01 3281544
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 241544Z NOV 09
FM AMEMBASSY ABUJA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 7573
INFO RUEHZO/AFRICAN UNION COLLECTIVE PRIORITY
RUEHZK/ECOWAS COLLECTIVE PRIORITY
RUEHOS/AMCONSUL LAGOS PRIORITY 2363
RHMFISS/HQ USAFRICOM STUTTGART GE PRIORITY
RHEBAAA/DEPT OF ENERGY WASHDC PRIORITY
RHEHNSC/NSC WASHINGTON DC PRIORITY
RUEAIIA/CIA WASHINGTON DC PRIORITY
RUEKDIA/DIA WASHDC PRIORITY
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RUZEJAA/JAC MOLESWORTH RAF MOLESWORTH UK PRIORITY
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 ABUJA 002130 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR AF/FO, AF/W, AF/RSA, DRL, INR/AA, PM/RSAT; 
ADDIS ABABA FOR MISSION TO AU 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV PREL PARM MARR MCAP NI
SUBJECT: NIGERIAN SECURITY DIALOGUES 
 
REF: A. WAUTLET-PETRONE E-MAIL OF 11/12 
     B. STATE 112900 
     C. ABUJA 1757 
 
1. (SBU) Security dialogues by the U.S. Government with the 
Government of Nigeria (GON) and the Economic Community of 
West African States (ECOWAS) are multifaceted and often 
informal.  Embassy compiled the following information, the 
substance of which we forwarded earlier via electronic-mail 
message (ref A). 
 
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BILATERAL DIALOGUES 
------------------- 
 
2. (SBU) At the Ministerial level, the Ambassador has met 
with three Nigerian Ministers of Defense during the last 
twelve months.  She provides the GON with quarterly updates 
on U.S.-Nigerian defense cooperation activities.  The Defense 
Attache Office (DAO) regularly meets with senior military 
officials in useful bilateral working groups to review and 
assess needs and training.  The U.S. Mission also sends 
diplomatic notes to the Defense Minister whenever the U.S. 
proposes major engagement and to request approval for visits 
by senior U.S. Defense Department officials to Nigeria. 
 
3. (SBU) An Office of Security Cooperation (OSC) 
representative meets routinely, at least monthly, with the 
Nigerian Defense Staff and each of the Service Staffs to 
discuss bilateral engagement opportunities.  The capstone 
event for this coordination involves a U.S. Africa Command - 
Nigeria Planning Conference to discuss upcoming events and 
develop longer-term plans.  The first of these conferences 
occurred in Stuttgart in September 2009, with the next one 
scheduled for Abuja in March 2010.  Each of the Nigerian 
Services attend the conference, with the Nigerian Defense 
Staff heading the Nigerian Delegation (ref C).  These 
meetings will become more routine and formal as our bilateral 
military-to-military engagement progresses. 
 
4. (SBU) Also during the Africa Command - Nigeria Planning 
Conference, OSC representatives meet with representatives 
from each of the Nigerian services to coordinate 
military-to-military engagement and State Partnership 
activities.  California serves as Nigeria's partnership 
state. The California National Guard provides 
civilian-to-military technical assistance and is developing a 
plan to assist Nigeria in Coast Guard search and rescue. 
This year, the program became more formal as the Africa 
Command hosted a meeting in Stuttgart with the Training 
Director of each Service Chief.  OSC holds monthly meetings 
with members of the MOD Joint Services Division to discuss 
in-country OSC programs during the following quarter. 
 
5. (SBU) The Department's Global Peace Operations Initiative 
(GPOI) sponsors an annual Peacekeeping Planners Conference, 
which provides an African Contingency Operations Training and 
Assistance (ACOTA) Program Training Strategy Update (TSU). 
Under ACOTA, the U.S. military provides training and 
equipment to host nations participating in United Nations 
(UN) or Africa Union (AU) peace-keeping missions.  The 
purpose of the next conference will be to discuss the 
fiscal-year 2010 training schedule, number and types of 
Nigerian units to receive ACOTA training, and construction 
and infrastructure support needed at Nigeria's Peacekeeping 
Qand infrastructure support needed at Nigeria's Peacekeeping 
Operations Center in Jaji, Kaduna State.  ACOTA provided 
funding for training and equipment worth about 11 million 
dollars during fiscal year 2009. 
 
6. (SBU) Other ad-hoc dialogues include senior leader visits, 
such as by the Nigerian Chief of Defense Intelligence (CDI) 
to Africa Command and the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency 
(DIA) in October 2009, by the Nigerian Navy Chief of Staff to 
the International Seapower Symposium in October 2009, and by 
the Nigerian Air Force Chief to the U.S. Air Staff in October 
2009.  OSC personnel are coordinating a visit by the Nigerian 
Army Chief of Staff to U.S. Army Africa Command (USARAF) in 
Italy and anticipate receiving invitations from the Nigerian 
Air Force and Navy for counterpart visits to Nigeria. 
 
ABUJA 00002130  002 OF 002 
 
 
 
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REGIONAL DIALOGUES 
------------------ 
 
7. (SBU) Ad hoc dialogues occur among Mission Nigeria, the 
State Department's Office of Regional Security Affairs 
(AF/RSA), the Africa Command, with ECOWAS, and the AU.  No 
set dialogues -- such as fixed monthly or annual meetings, 
conferences, or seminars -- occur with ECOWAS counterparts, 
despite several U.S. invitations to do so.  Ambassador 
remains in regular dialogue with the ECOWAS President on all 
regional issues, and ECOWAS invites U.S. Mission personnel to 
attend all ECOWAS Ministerial and Summit meetings held in 
Abuja.  In addition, the U.S. Africa Center for Strategic 
Studies (ACSS) regularly partners with ECOWAS on conferences 
covering specific subjects.  For example, the U.S. co-hosted 
an AU-ECOWAS Rapid Deployment Capability (RDC) Conference in 
Abuja in October 2009 to help the AU integrate the ECOWAS 
Standby Force into a proposed AU-wide Standby Force.  We 
facilitate dialogue with and resources from Africa Command 
for ECOWAS, such as including ECOWAS in the next Africa 
Partnership Station in 2010.  We have asked for assignment of 
a temporary-duty (TDY) officer to ECOWAS to enhance 
coordination. 
 
8. (U) Embassy coordinated this telegram with ConGen Lagos. 
 
 
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