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Viewing cable 10BUDAPEST23, HUNGARY'S COMMENTS ON AFGHAN TRANSITION PLANNING

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
10BUDAPEST23 2010-01-15 16:05 2011-08-24 01:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Budapest
VZCZCXRO9671
PP RUEHSL RUEHSR
DE RUEHUP #0023 0151605
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 151605Z JAN 10
FM AMEMBASSY BUDAPEST
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 4809
INFO RUEHXP/ALL NATO POST COLLECTIVE PRIORITY
RUEHPG/AMEMBASSY PRAGUE PRIORITY 0663
RUEKJCS/SECDEF WASHINGTON DC PRIORITY
RUEHNO/USMISSION USNATO PRIORITY 0487
RUEKJCS/JOINT STAFF WASHINGTON DC PRIORITY
RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK PRIORITY 0165
UNCLAS BUDAPEST 000023 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPARTMENT FOR EUR/RPM AARON COPE, S/SRAP DERECK HOGAN, 
SCA/A, EUR/CE JAMIE MOORE, AND EMBASSY PRAGUE ACTING DCM 
JOHN LAW 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PREL MARR MOPS NATO AF HU
SUBJECT: HUNGARY'S COMMENTS ON AFGHAN TRANSITION PLANNING 
AND PRAGUE PRT CONFERENCE 
 
REF: A. SECSTATE 4108 
     B. SECSTATE 3595 
     C. 2009 BUDAPEST 876 
 
1. (SBU) PolOff delivered ref A and B points to the MOD 
Policy State Secretary Jozsef Bali and MFA's Security Policy 
and Non-proliferation Deputy Department Head, Gabor Horvath, 
January 15.  Both expressed appreciation for the ref A's 
clarifying points and acknowledged the importance of 
continued, unwavering support for ISAF efforts in 
Afghanistan.  Horvath expressed interest in further 
information as to what impact the proposed ISAF transition 
plan would have on the Hungarian PRT in Baghlan province, 
stating that he would follow up with the Hungarian Permanent 
Representative at NATO. 
 
2. (SBU) In response to ref A point on the upcoming Defense 
Ministerial in Istanbul February 4, Bali reiterated Hungary's 
offer to add 200 troops in 2010 outlined in ref C.  Bali was 
unaware that the Prime Minister told the Ambassador January 
14 that the number will increase to 235 (septel), but 
confirmed that the Prime Minister and Finance Minister had 
recently met to source funding for the additional troops from 
2010 budget reserves. 
 
3. (SBU) Turning to the ref B proposed meeting with D/SRAP 
Paul Jones at the January 25-27 PRT conference in Prague, 
Horvath said that Eszter Sandorfi, MFA's NATO Section Head 
and Deputy Secretary of the GOH Cabinet's PRT Committee, will 
lead Hungary's delegation and would gladly participate in the 
closed, pre-conference session. 
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