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09STATE80163 | 2009-07-31 20:08 | SECRET//NOFORN | Secretary of State

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    S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 24 STATE 080163

    NOFORN
    SIPDIS

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/31/2034
    TAGS: PINR KSPR ECON KPKO KUNR
    SUBJECT: (S) REPORTING AND COLLECTION NEEDS: THE UNITED
    NATIONS

    REF: STATE 048489

    Classified By: MICHAEL OWENS, ACTING DIR, INR/OPS. REASON: 1.4(C).

    ¶1. (S/NF) This cable provides the full text of the new
    National HUMINT Collection Directive (NHCD) on the United
    Nations (paragraph 3-end) as well as a request for continued
    DOS reporting of biographic information relating to the
    United Nations (paragraph 2).

    ¶A. (S/NF) The NHCD below supercedes the 2004 NHCD and
    reflects the results of a recent Washington review of
    reporting and collection needs focused on the United Nations.
     The review produced a comprehensive list of strategic
    priorities (paragraph 3) and reporting and collection needs
    (paragraph 4) intended to guide participating USG agencies as
    they allocate resources and update plans to collect
    information on the United Nations.  The priorities should
    also serve as a useful tool to help the Embassy manage
    reporting and collection, including formulation of Mission
    Strategic Plans (MSPs).

    ¶B. (S/NF) This NHCD is compliant with the National
    Intelligence Priorities Framework (NIPF), which was
    established in response to NSPD-26 of February 24, 2003.  If
    needed, GRPO can provide further background on the NIPF and
    the use of NIPF abbreviations (shown in parentheses following
    each sub-issue below) in NHCDs.

    ¶C. (S/NF) Important information often is available to
    non-State members of the Country Team whose agencies
    participated in the review of this National HUMINT Collection
    Directive.  COMs, DCMs, and State reporting officers can
    assist by coordinating with other Country Team members to
    encourage relevant reporting through their own or State
    Department channels.

    ¶2. (S/NF) State biographic reporting:

    ¶A. (S/NF) The intelligence community relies on State
    reporting officers for much of the biographical information
    collected worldwide.  Informal biographic reporting via email
    and other means is vital to the community's collection
    efforts and can be sent to the INR/B (Biographic) office for
    dissemination to the IC.

    ¶B. (S/NF) Reporting officers should include as much of the
    following information as possible when they have information
    relating to persons linked to : office and

    STATE 00080163  002 OF 024

    organizational titles; names, position titles and other
    information on business cards; numbers of telephones, cell
    phones, pagers and faxes; compendia of contact information,
    such as telephone directories (in compact disc or electronic
    format if available) and e-mail listings; internet and
    intranet "handles", internet e-mail addresses, web site
    identification-URLs; credit card account numbers; frequent
    flyer account numbers; work schedules, and other relevant
    biographical information.

    ¶3. (S/NF) Priority issues and issues outline:

    ¶A.  Key Near-Term Issues
          1) Darfur/Sudan (FPOL-1)
          2) Afghanistan/Pakistan (FPOL-1)
          3) Somalia (FPOL-1)
          4) Iran (FPOL-1)
          5) North Korea (FPOL-1)

    ¶B.  Key Continuing Issues
          1) UN Security Council Reform (FPOL-1)
          2) Iraq (FPOL-1)
          3) Middle East Peace Process (FPOL-1)
          4) Human Rights and War Crimes (HRWC-3)
          5) UN Humanitarian and Complex Emergency Response
    (HREL-3)
          6) Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction
    (WMDN-5H)
          7) Terrorist Threat to UN Operations (TERR-5H)
          8) Burma (FPOL-1)

    ¶C.  UN Peace and Peacebuilding Operations
          1) Africa (FPOL-1)
          2) Outside Africa (FPOL-1)
          3) Policy Issues (FPOL-1)

    ¶D.  UN Security Council
          1) Procedures and Dynamics (FPOL-1)
          2) Sanctions (FPOL-1)

    ¶E.  UN Management
          1) UN Leadership Dynamics (FPOL-1)
          2) Budget and Management Reform (FPOL-1)

    ¶F.  UN General Assembly Tactics and Voting Blocs (FPOL-1)

    ¶G.  Other Substantive Issues
          1) Food Security (FOOD-3)
          2) Climate Change, Energy, and Environment (ENVR-4)
          3) Transnational Economic Issues (ECFS-4H)
          4) Arms Control and Treaty Monitoring (ACTM-4)
          5) Health Issues (HLTH-4)
          6) Terrorism (TERR-5H)
          7) Trafficking, Social, and Women's Issues (DEPS-5H)

    STATE 00080163  003 OF 024

    ¶H.  Intelligence and Security Topics
          1) GRPO can provide text of this issue.
          2) GRPO can provide text of this issue.
          3) Foreign Nongovernmental Organizations (FPOL-1)
          4) Telecommunications Infrastructure and Information
    Systems (INFR-5H)

          ¶15.  Collection requirements and tasking

    (Agriculture is the Department of Agriculture; Commerce is
    the Department of Commerce; DHS is the Department of Homeland
    Security; DIA/DH is Defense Intelligence Agency/Defense
    HUMINT; Energy is the Department of Energy; DNI/OSC is the
    Open Source Center of the Director of National Intelligence;
    FBI is the Federal Bureau of Investigation; HHS is the
    Department of Health and Human Services; Navy is the Navy
    HUMINT element; NCS/CS is the CIA's Clandestine Service;
    OSC/MSC is the Map Services Center of OSC; State is the
    Department of State; TAREX (Target Exploitation) collects
    information using HUMINT Methods in support of NSA's
    requirements; Treasury is the Department of Treasury; USAID
    is the U.S. Agency for International Development; USSS is the
    U.S. Secret Service; USTR is the U.S. Trade Representative;
    WINPAC is the Weapons Intelligence, Nonproliferation, and
    Arms Control Center.)

    ¶A.  Key Near-Term Issues

          1) Darfur/Sudan (FPOL-1).
    -- Views of United Nations (UN) member states on contributing
    troops and air transportation equipment, such as helicopters,
    to the UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) and the African Union
    (AU)-UN Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID).
    -- Details of deployments of troop contributor countries to
    UNMIS/UNAMID.
    -- Details on actions and views of UN personnel deployed in
    UNMIS/UNAMID.
    -- Views of UNSC members on the success or failure of
    UNMIS/UNAMID.
    -- Operational plans of UNMIS/UNAMID from both the UN
    Department of Peacekeeping Operations in New York, and
    UNMIS/UNAMID in Sudan.
    -- Details of diplomatic engagement between UNMIS/UNAMID
    Special Envoys for the Darfur Peace Process in Sudan, and the
    Sudanese government or Darfur rebel groups.
    -- Views of member states on UN activities in Sudan
    (including Darfur).
    -- Divisions between UN member and UN Secretariat assessments
    of the situation on the ground as it affects UN action.

    Countries:  Austria, Burkina Faso, China, Costa Rica,
    Croatia, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Indonesia, Japan, Libya,
    Mexico, Nigeria, Russia, Rwanda, Sudan, Turkey, Uganda,

    STATE 00080163  004 OF 024

    Vietnam
    International Organizations:  AU, European Union (EU), UN

          2) Afghanistan/Pakistan (FPOL-1).
    -- Plans and intentions of key UN leaders and member states
    regarding the ongoing operations of the UN Assistance Mission
    in Afghanistan (UNAMA), including force protection in
    Afghanistan.
    -- Information on plans and intentions of UN leadership or
    member states affecting elections in Afghanistan.
    -- Reactions to and assessments of security threats directed
    at the UN or aid personnel attempting to render humanitarian
    assistance.
    -- Plans and intentions of key member states and Secretariat
    leadership concerning Afghan political and economic
    reconstruction, including efforts to combat warlords and drug
    trafficking.
    -- Afghan, Pakistani and Iranian intentions or reluctance to
    secure and safeguard UN and nongovernmental organization
    (NGO) personnel (international as well as locally-hired
    staff).

    Countries:  Afghanistan, Austria, Burkina Faso, China, Costa
    Rica, Croatia, France, Iran, Japan, Libya, Mexico, Pakistan,
    Russia, Turkey, Uganda, Vietnam
    Terrorist Groups: Taliban
    International Organizations:  EU, UN, World Bank

          3) Somalia (FPOL-1).
    -- UN plans and potential to expand, reinforce, or replace
    the UN Political Office for Somalia (UNPOS) and African Union
    (AU) Mission in Somalia (AMISOM).
    -- Plans and intentions of UN leadership, the Department of
    Peacekeeping Operations, and member states to deploy a UN-led
    maritime force to monitor piracy off the coast of Somalia.
    -- Willingness of member states to pledge troops or air
    transport to a possible UN or multinational force in Somalia.
    -- Views of Somali population on the deployment of a UN or
    multinational peacekeeping force in Somalia.
    -- Details of diplomatic engagement between UN envoys and
    Somali government or Somali opposition officials.
    -- Information on World Food Program activities in Somalia.
    -- Details of UN Development Program (UNDP)-Somalia training
    Transitional Federal Government police officers and Alliance
    for the Reliberation of Somalia officials in the Joint
    Security Force.

    Countries:  Austria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, China, Costa
    Rica, Croatia, Ethiopia, France, Japan, Libya, Mexico,
    Russia, Somalia, Turkey, Uganda, Vietnam
    International Organizations:  AU, EU, NATO, UN

          4) Iran (FPOL-1).
    -- Plans and intentions of the UN Secretary General (SYG),

    STATE 00080163  005 OF 024

    Secretariat staff, or member states to address efforts by
    Iran to develop, test, or proliferate nuclear weapons.
    -- Positions and responses of member states to future
    International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA) Director
    General reports on Iran,s Implementation of Safeguards and
    relevant provisions of UN Security Council (UNSC) resolutions.
    -- Specific plans and activities of the UK, France, Germany
    (EU-3), and Russia with respect to IAEA policy toward Iran.
    -- Plans and intentions of key UN leaders and member states,
    especially Russia and China, regarding human rights in Iran,
    sanctions on Iran, Iran,s arming of HAMAS and Hizballah, and
    Iran,s candidacy for UN leadership positions.
    -- Plans and intentions of Perm 5, other key member states,
    coalition partners, and key Secretariat officials concerning
    sanctions against Iran.
    -- Member support/opposition/subversion of US positions
    regarding Iranian sanctions.
    -- Iranian diplomatic efforts with the IAEA and UN member
    states to avoid passage of additional sanctions and effective
    implementation of existing sanctions, as well as its efforts
    to end UNSC involvement in Iran's nuclear program by
    returning Iran's nuclear file to the IAEA.
    -- Information on Iran,s activities as chair of the UNDP and
    within the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
    -- Development and democratization activities of the UNDP in
    Iran; details about the UNDP Resident Coordinator,s
    relationship with Iranian officials.

    Countries:  Austria, Burkina Faso, China, Costa Rica,
    Croatia, France, Germany, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Libya,
    Mexico, Russia, Turkey, Uganda, Vietnam
    Terrorist Groups: HAMAS, Hizballah (Lebanese)
    International Organizations:  EU, IAEA, UN
    Non-State Entities:     West Bank and Gaza Strip

          5) North Korea (FPOL-1).
    -- Plans and intentions of UNSC members, especially the P-5,
    to consider additional resolutions against North Korea and/or
    sanctions under existing resolutions.
    -- Information on the plans and actions of UNSC members to
    address efforts by North Korea to develop, test, or
    proliferate nuclear weapons.
    -- UN views on food aid to North Korea, designating it as a
    nation in famine, and misuse of aid.
    -- North Korean delegation views and activities;
    instructions/plans of delegation officials on North Korean
    WMD-related issues.
    -- Development and democratization activities of the UNDP in
    North Korea.
    -- Details about the UNDP Resident Coordinator,s
    relationship with North Korean officials.
    -- Biographic and biometric information on ranking North
    Korean diplomats.

    STATE 00080163  006 OF 024

    Countries: Austria, Burkina Faso, Burma, China, Costa Rica,
    Croatia, France, Japan, Libya, Mexico, North Korea, Russia,
    Turkey, Uganda, Vietnam
    International Organizations: EU, IAEA, UN

    ¶B.  Key Continuing Issues

          1) UN Security Council Reform (FPOL-1).
    -- Positions, attitudes, and divisions among member states on
    UN Security Council (UNSC) reform.
    -- Views, plans and intentions of Perm 5 and other member
    states on the issue of UNSC enlargement, revision of UNSC
    procedures or limitation of Perm 5 privileges.
    -- International deliberations regarding UNSC expansion among
    key groups of countries:  self-appointed frontrunners for
    permanent UNSC membership Brazil, Germany, India, and Japan
    (the Group of Four or G-4); the Uniting for Consensus group
    (especially Mexico, Italy, and Pakistan) that opposes
    additional permanent UNSC seats; the African Group; and the
    EU, as well as key UN officials within the Secretariat and
    the UN General Assembly (UNGA) Presidency.
    -- Willingness of member states to implement proposed reforms.
    -- Reactions of UN senior leadership towards member
    recommendations for UNSC reform.

    Countries:  Austria, Brazil, Burkina Faso, China, Costa Rica,
    Croatia, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Libya, Mexico,
    Pakistan, Russia, Turkey, Uganda, Vietnam
    International Organizations:  AU, EU, UN

          2) Iraq (FPOL-1).
    -- Plans and intentions of the Perm 5, other key member
    states, coalition partners, and key Secretariat officials
    concerning Iraqi political and economic reconstruction, the
    UN Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI), and internal Iraqi
    boundaries.
    -- Plans and intentions of the International Organization for
    Migration to assist with the reintegration of internally
    displaced persons and refugees.
    -- Extent to which member states will support or subvert US
    positions regarding Iraqi objectives, including
    reconstruction efforts.
    -- Information on plans and intentions of the SYG,
    Secretariat staff, or member states affecting elections in
    Iraq.
    -- Iraqi actions to convert UNAMI to a Chapter 6 mission.
    -- Iraqi attitudes toward the UN.
    -- Reactions to and assessments of security threats directed
    at the UN or aid personnel attempting to render humanitarian
    assistance.

    Countries:  Austria, Burkina Faso, China, Costa Rica,
    Croatia, France, Iraq, Japan, Libya, Mexico, Russia, Turkey,
    Uganda, Vietnam

    STATE 00080163  007 OF 024

    Terrorist Groups: Insurgents in Iraq, Iraqi Shia Militants
    International Organizations:  EU, UN, World Bank

          3) Middle East Peace Process (FPOL-1).
    -- Details on views, plans and intentions of key Secretariat
    decision-makers, member states and influential blocs and
    coalitions on UN engagement and role in the Middle East Peace
    Process (MEPP), including implementation of the roadmap.
    -- Indications that a UNGA special session on the Middle East
    might be reconvened.
    -- Developments within the UN system that would further the
    Arab-Israeli peace process.
    -- Details about Quartet (EU, UN, US, and Russia) MEPP plans
    and efforts, including private objectives behind proposals
    and envoy negotiating strategies.
    -- Strategy and plans of SYG special envoy regarding US
    positions, Quartet plans, and other (EU, Russia, UK) special
    envoys.
    -- Indications member states or donor countries might scale
    back UN peacekeeping presence in or aid donations to the
    Middle East.
    -- Plans of the SYG or member states to pressure the US on
    the MEPP.
    -- Views, plans and tactics of the Palestinian Authority,
    including its representative to the UN, to gain support in
    the UNSC, UNGA, or UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for its
    strategies and positions on Palestinian-Israeli issues,
    including from Russia and EU countries, especially France,
    Germany, and UK.
    -- Views of Secretary General,s Special Envoy and UNSC on
    possible settlement of the Shab'a Farms dispute to include
    Syria/Lebanon border demarcation.
    -- Secretariat views regarding water management as part of
    the Middle East Peace Process, including domestic and
    regional competition for allocation.
    -- Quartet views on Syria's policies and approach toward
    Israel and Palestinians and on Syrian motives behind and
    efforts to subvert or support Israeli-Palestinian
    negotiations.
    -- UN efforts to influence negotiating positions on
    territorial boundaries, water resources and management, and
    right of return.
    -- Views, plans and tactics of HAMAS to gain support in the
    UNSC or UNGA for its strategies and positions on
    HAMAS-Israeli issues, and on HAMAS-Palestinian Authority
    issues, including from Russia, China, Iran, and EU countries,
    especially France, Germany, and the UK.
    -- Information on UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)
    activities in Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and the West
    Bank, and its relations with HAMAS/Hizballah.
    -- Plans and intentions of member states to support/oppose US
    priority to reduce the number of Middle East resolutions.

    Countries:  Austria, Burkina Faso, China, Costa Rica,

    STATE 00080163  008 OF 024

    Croatia, Egypt, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan,
    Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Mexico, Spain, Syria, Russia, Turkey,
    Uganda, Vietnam
    Terrorist Groups: HAMAS, Hizballah (Lebanese)
    International Organizations:  EU, UN
    Non-State Entities:     Palestinian Authority, West Bank and
    Gaza Strip

          4) Human Rights and War Crimes (HRWC-3).
    -- Plans and policies of UN leaders, member states, and
    foreign NGOs to promote human rights.
    -- Plans and intentions of member states toward the
    International Criminal Court (ICC), International Criminal
    Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the International
    Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the Special Tribunal for
    Lebanon, the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and other
    UN-related courts and tribunals dealing with human rights
    issues.
    -- Plans and intentions of UNHRC members to support or oppose
    US policies in the UNHRC.
    -- Views of UNSC and other member states on Zimbabwe,s
    government policies on human rights, humanitarian assistance,
    democracy, and candidacy for any UN leadership positions.
    -- Views and intentions of UNSC, UN human rights entities,
    and members regarding Sri Lankan government policies on human
    rights and humanitarian assistance;  UN views about
    appointing a Special Envoy for Sri Lanka.
    -- Plans and perceptions of member states toward
    establishment of new measures to prevent genocide, crimes
    against humanity, war crimes, and other systematic human
    rights abuses.
    -- Plans and intentions of member states toward proposals and
    resolutions supported by the US or like-minded states,
    including those advancing democracy; women's rights,
    particularly implementation of UNSC Resolutions 1325 and
    1820; those pertaining to children in armed conflict; or
    those condemning human rights abuses in individual countries.
    -- Information on reactions of member states to resolutions
    designed to promote democracy, human rights and reforms in
    the Muslim world.
    -- Perceived success or failure of abilities and priorities
    of the UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights
    (OHCHR), and efforts by member states to undermine OHCHR
    independence.
    -- Views, intentions and tactics of UNHRC members regarding
    reform and the role of the US.
    -- Member state support for/opposition to objectives of human
    rights, refugee, development, and emergency relief agencies.
    -- Plans and intentions of member states or UN Special
    Rapporteurs to press for resolutions or investigations into
    US counterterrorism strategies and treatment of detainees in
    Iraq, Afghanistan or Guantanamo.
    -- Degree of coordination by and among human rights agencies,
    especially between the UN Human Rights Council, the OHCHR,

    STATE 00080163  009 OF 024

    the UNGA Third Committee, the UN Economic and Social Council,
    and the International Labor Organization.
    -- Plans and agenda for upcoming UNGA Third Committee and
    UNHRC sessions and world human rights conferences,
    particularly plans by developing countries to stymie
    criticism of their human rights records through procedural
    motions or influencing votes.
    -- Plans of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) to
    sponsor resolutions or conventions in the UN restricting
    freedom of speech under the rubric of criminalizing
    "defamation of religion."
    -- Details of UNHRC and OHCHR budget shortfalls.

    Countries:  Austria, Burkina Faso, Burma, Chad, China, Costa
    Rica, Croatia, Cuba, France, Georgia, Iraq, Japan, Lebanon,
    Libya, Mexico, North Korea, Russia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone,
    Sudan, Turkey, Uganda, Vietnam, Zimbabwe
    International Organizations:  AU, EU, Human Rights Entities
    and War Crimes Courts, ICC, OIC, UN

          5) UN Humanitarian and Complex Emergency Response
    (HREL-3).
    -- Information on the planning and execution of responses to
    humanitarian emergencies by UN member states and Secretariat;
    indications US assistance may be requested.
    -- Efforts of UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR),
    Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA),
    World Food Program (WFP), UN Development Program (UNDP), UN
    Children's Fund (UNICEF), World Health Organization (WHO),
    and other UN entities to respond to and to coordinate
    activities in humanitarian or refugee crises, including
    environmental disasters.
    -- Views of UN Secretariat, UNSC members, and key member
    states on UNRWA.
    -- Details on effectiveness of UNHCR and OCHA leadership.
    -- Information on ability of UN to gain/not gain humanitarian
    access to troubled areas, especially in light of security
    concerns.
    -- Location of humanitarian facilities, including GPS
    coordinates, and number of personnel.
    -- Details of friction between UNHCR, OCHA and UN Security
    Coordinator Headquarters and field offices.
    -- Level of cooperation and coordination or lack thereof
    between UN aid agencies and non-UN aid programs.
    -- Interoperability and willingness to work with US
    coalitions in humanitarian assistance operations; willingness
    to provide support despite security threats.
    -- Indications of donor fatigue.
    -- Status of and member support for/opposition to efforts by
    UNHCR to refocus organization's work and to redistribute
    programs to other agencies.
    -- Details on UNHCR funding shortfalls.
    -- Perceived ability of the UNDP to coordinate an effective
    UN presence in each country and to promote democratic

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    governance.
    -- Plans and ability to care for and protect internally
    displaced persons.
    -- Communications and logistics problems.

    Countries:  Austria, Burkina Faso, China, Costa Rica,
    Croatia, France, Japan, Libya, Mexico, Russia, Turkey,
    Uganda, Vietnam
    International Organizations:  Economic-Societal Entities,
    Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), UN, World Health
    Organization

          6) Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction
    (WMDN-5H).
    -- Plans and intentions of member states to address threats
    to international security from the proliferation of weapons
    of mass destruction.
    -- Views of member states on tactical and substantive aspects
    of resolutions pertaining to missile proliferation, missile
    defense, nuclear disarmament, the IAEA, and Israel's nuclear
    program.
    -- Information from key Secretariat decision-makers, key IAEA
    Secretariat staff, member states, or influential blocs or
    groups, such as the Nonaligned Movement (NAM), the OIC, or
    the Group of 77 (G-77), on the role of the UN on nuclear
    proliferation or addressing the expansion of capabilities to
    produce or use weapons of mass destruction.

    Countries:  Austria, Burkina Faso, Burma, China, Costa Rica,
    Croatia, France, Japan, Libya, Mexico, Russia, Turkey,
    Uganda, Vietnam
    International Organizations:  EU, IAEA, International Arms
    Control Organizations, OIC, UN

          7) Terrorist Threat to UN Operations (TERR-5H).
    -- Plans and intentions of Secretariat and member states to
    respond to individuals affiliated with terrorist groups or
    state sponsors of terrorism threatening the safety or
    security of domestic and overseas UN personnel, facilities,
    protectees, or installations.
    -- Evidence of relationship or funding between UN personnel
    and/or missions and terrorist organizations.
    -- Debate in Secretariat, UNSC counterterrorism bodies
    (subcommittees), UN agencies and among member states about
    measures for funding of security for UN domestic and overseas
    facilities, operations, and personnel.
    -- Host-country intentions to secure and safeguard UN and NGO
    personnel.
    -- Reactions to and assessments of terrorist acts directed at
    the UN, UN personnel, UN protectees, or domestic and overseas
    UN installations, including foreign UN missions in New York.
    -- Details of UN efforts to acquire, collect, assess and
    disseminate threat information within the US and overseas.
    -- Plans of UN security offices to upgrade security at UN

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    domestic and overseas UN facilities.

    Countries:  Austria, Burkina Faso, China, Costa Rica,
    Croatia, France, Japan, Libya, Mexico, Russia, Turkey,
    Uganda, Vietnam
    International Organizations:  UN

          8) Burma (FPOL-1).
    -- Views of UNSC and member states on Burma,s policies and
    actions on human rights, humanitarian assistance, democracy,
    and attempts to play a larger UN role.
    -- Plans and intentions of the Special Adviser to the UN
    Secretary General on Burma regarding future interaction with
    Burma and engagement with UN member states.
    -- Plans and intentions of the SYG on Burma; level of trust
    in his Special Adviser.
    -- Views of Burmese officials on the SYG, on his Special
    Adviser on Burma, and on key countries in the UN.
    -- Role of the UN in Burmese elections.
    -- Development and democratization activities of UNDP in
    Burma; details about the UNDP Resident Coordinator,s
    relationship with Burmese officials.

    Countries:  Austria, Burkina Faso, Burma, China, Costa Rica,
    Croatia, France, Indonesia, Japan, Libya, Mexico, Russia,
    Turkey, Uganda, Vietnam
    International Organizations: EU, UN

    ¶C.  UN Peace and Peacebuilding Operations.

          1) Africa (FPOL-1).
    -- Plans and intentions of UN leaders and member states
    regarding peace operations, especially in the Democratic
    Republic of the Congo, Somalia, Chad/Central African
    Republic, Burundi, Cote d,Ivoire, and Liberia.
    -- UN peacekeeping plans and intentions regarding military
    operations against rebels based in the eastern part of the
    Democratic Republic of the Congo.
    -- Early warning information available to the Secretariat on
    potential threats to peace and security.
    -- UN views on the role of AFRICOM in African conflict
    resolution and post-conflict capacity building.
    -- UN expectations of US military involvement in African
    peacekeeping missions and how this may influence UN
    willingness to establish, curb, or end missions.
    -- Extent to which UN peace operations in Africa are
    straining the resources of the UN and member states; impact
    of current operations on future operations and readiness.
    -- UN views on peacekeeping mission creep and pressures to
    expand the UN role in African conflict zones, either in the
    form of more comprehensive "peacemaking" mission mandates or
    in areas where security threats demand more aggressive and
    timely UN-led multilateral intervention.
    -- Details on views of the UN Department of Peacekeeping

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    Operations on operational plans, including the ability of the
    UN and its member states to build capacity in Africa,
    including by working with the AU or other regional
    organizations and NGOs.
    -- Efforts by China, France, Iran, and others to gain
    influence in Africa via UN peace operations.
    -- Information on extent of support and capabilities for
    peace operations by the AU and the Economic Community of
    Western African States (ECOWAS).
    -- Official stance on deploying HIV positive troops and
    actual practice.
    -- Degree to which official peacekeeping reporting matches
    unofficial communications of events; views on those
    discrepancies.
    -- Views of African states that host peacekeepers regarding
    UN peacekeeping troops and troop contributing countries.
    -- Attitudes and intentions of Ghana and Rwanda concerning UN
    peace operations in Africa and perception of their relative
    ability to contribute to such efforts.
    -- Attitudes of other African States to Ghana/Rwanda
    participation and leadership.

    Countries:  Austria, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Burundi,
    Central African Republic, Chad, China, Congo, Cote d,Ivoire,
    Democratic Republic, Costa Rica, Croatia, Egypt, Ethiopia,
    France, India, Japan, Jordan, Liberia, Libya, Mexico, Nepal,
    Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa,
    Turkey, Uganda, Uruguay, Vietnam, Zimbabwe
    International Organizations:  AU, EU, ICC, NATO, UN
    Non-State Entities:     Lord,s Resistance Army

          2) Outside Africa (FPOL-1).
    -- Plans and intentions of UN leaders and member states
    regarding ongoing peace operations outside Africa.
    -- Willingness of UN leaders and member states to support UN
    peacekeeping efforts and utilize preventive diplomacy in
    areas of potential conflict.
    -- Views of member states on and plans to respond to the
    US-backed G-8 plan to expand global peace operations
    capabilities.
    -- Views and positions of key member states and Secretariat
    toward proposed resolutions, mandates, peacekeeping issues,
    and US-sponsored initiatives.
    -- Information on whether member states will utilize
    references to the ICC to condition support for peace
    operations.
    -- Information on deployment benchmarks, pre-deployment
    screening, and supply and logistic shortfalls in peace
    operations.
    -- Ability to obtain pledges and deploy capable military
    forces, including surge capabilities.
    -- Views of UNSC members, the Secretariat, and key member
    states on Haiti,s government policies and actions on human
    rights, humanitarian assistance, and democracy.

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    -- Views and positions of UNSC members, the Secretariat, and
    key member states regarding the UN Interim Force in Lebanon
    (UNIFIL) and peacekeeping in Lebanon.

    Countries:  Austria, Brazil, Burkina Faso, China, Costa Rica,
    Croatia, France, Georgia, Haiti, Indonesia, Italy, Japan,
    Lebanon, Libya, Mexico, Nepal, Russia, Spain, Turkey, Uganda,
    Uruguay, Vietnam
    International Organizations: AU, EU, ICC, NATO, UN

          3) Policy Issues (FPOL-1).
    -- UN member views, plans, and intentions concerning the
    capability of the UN to organize, lead, and carry out new,
    complex military operations and civilian police operations.
    -- Information on Secretariat or member views on or
    initiatives for peace operations reform.
    -- Information on the appointment of SYG special
    representatives for new peace or political operations.
    -- Scope, objectives, command structures, rules of
    engagement, and threat environment for proposed peacekeeping
    activities, including transportation and communications
    infrastructures and any available maps.
    -- Types, number, and capabilities of troops, equipment, and
    materiel that countries are willing to contribute.
    -- Information on interoperability of equipment and material
    available for logistic support.
    -- Information on turf battles between the Department of
    Peacekeeping Operations, Department of Field Support, and
    Department of Political Affairs over control of peace
    operations.
    -- Information on turf battles between logistic and military
    sides of peace operations.
    -- UN member views on reform of the Department of
    Peacekeeping Operations.
    -- Information on troop contributing countries' tendency to
    follow orders given by troop contributing country commanders
    vice UN field commanders.
    -- Influence of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human
    Rights (OHCHR) and the Office of the High Commissioner for
    Refugees (UNCHR) on including human rights and refugee
    concerns within peace operations mandates.
    -- Host government views and concerns about UN policies
    toward that country.
    -- Influence of UN security coordinator on operational
    planning; field personnel reaction to UN security directives.
    -- Capability/plans for Standby High-Readiness Brigade
    (SHIRBRIG) deployments.
    -- Details on peacekeeper abuse of women and children;
    national and UN responses.
    -- Changes in ability of member states, especially member
    states of EU, AU and ECOWAS, to contribute troops to peace
    operations, including for economic, social, and operational
    reasons.
    -- Details on contributions of member states (in kind,

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    personnel, or financial).

    Countries:  Austria, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, China, Costa
    Rica, Croatia, Ethiopia, France, Ghana, India, Italy, Japan,
    Jordan, Libya, Mexico, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia,
    Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Turkey, Uganda,
    Uruguay, Vietnam
    International Organizations:  AU, EU, UN

    ¶D.  UN Security Council

          1) Procedures and Dynamics (FPOL-1).
    -- Plans, intentions, and agendas of UNSC members and
    Secretariat on issues that come before the UNSC, especially
    voting intentions of UNSC members and priorities or frictions
    among the Perm 5.
    -- Plans and intentions of UNSC members to support or oppose
    US policies in the UNSC.
    -- Specific views and positions of key member states on
    US-sponsored initiatives, initiatives with implications for
    the US, and other proposed resolutions and mandates.
    -- Plans, intentions, views, positions, lobbying, and tactics
    of regional groups, blocs, or coalitions on issues before the
    UNSC, especially those that do not include the US
    (particularly the Africa Group, AU, EU, NAM, G-77, Rio Group,
    Arab League, the OIC, and the Group of Latin America and
    Caribbean Countries (GRULAC).
    -- Differences in the positions of member states, differences
    between UN missions and their capitals, internal procedures
    for determining voting instructions, and voting instructions
    to delegations.
    -- Priorities, plans, and intentions of new member states
    joining the UNSC, and influences on them by regional groups,
    blocs, or coalitions on issues before the UNSC, especially
    those that do not include the US (particularly AU, EU, NAM,
    G-77, Rio Group, Arab League, and the OIC).
    -- Plans and intentions of member states of regional groups
    regarding UNSC candidacy.
    -- Biographic and biometric information on UNSC Permanent
    Representatives, information on their relationships with
    their capitals.

    Countries:  Austria, Burkina Faso, China, Costa Rica,
    Croatia, France, Japan, Libya, Mexico, Russia, Turkey,
    Uganda, Vietnam
    International Organizations:  AU, EU, OIC, UN

          2) Sanctions (FPOL-1).
    -- UNSC member plans, intentions, and views toward sanctions
    issues, especially during negotiations of sanctions
    resolutions.
    -- Willingness of and efforts by UN member states to violate
    sanctions.
    -- Perceived and actual impact of sanctions on target

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    governments, individuals, entities, as well as on civil
    population.
    -- Plans, intentions, and agendas of UNSC sanctions committee
    members.
    -- Plans, intentions, and agendas of UNSC sanctions committee
    expert groups and their ability to support sanctions
    monitoring.
    -- Pressure to limit scope and length of new sanctions,
    especially from coalitions and regional groups.
    -- Views and actions of the Secretariat or member states with
    regard to sanctions, including to bolster UN ability to
    support sanctions implementation and to address violations.
    -- Views of target government on sanctions imposed on it.

    Countries:  Austria, Burkina Faso, China, Costa Rica,
    Croatia, France, Japan, Libya, Mexico, Russia, Sierra Leone,
    Turkey, Uganda, Vietnam
    International Organizations: EU, UN

    ¶E.  UN Management

          1) UN Leadership Dynamics (FPOL-1).
    -- SYG's management and decision-making style, and his
    influence on the Secretariat.
    -- Plans, measures and efforts undertaken by the SYG and
    subordinates on US political and bureaucratic objectives for
    UN management.
    -- Role and influence of Secretariat and other key officials
    with SYG and other UN system agencies.
    -- Views of and brokering by key officials on major issues.
    -- Changes in and appointment and selection process for key
    officials of Secretariat, specialized agency, committee,
    commission, and program officials in New York, Geneva,
    Vienna, and other UN system cities,  to include special
    assistants and chiefs of staff.
    -- Personalities, biographic and biometric information,
    roles, effectiveness, management styles, and influence of key
    UN officials, to include under secretaries, heads of
    specialized agencies and their chief advisers, top SYG aides,
    heads of peace operations and political field missions,
    including force commanders.
    -- Relations between key UN officials and member states.
    -- Views of member states on the next SYG race, to include
    preferred candidates and candidates lacking UN member support.
    -- Views of UNSC members and other member states on Cuban,
    Iranian, or Syrian candidacy for any UN leadership positions.

    Countries:  Austria, Burkina Faso, China, Costa Rica,
    Croatia, Cuba, France, Japan, Libya, Mexico, Russia, Syria,
    Turkey, Uganda, Vietnam
    International Organizations:  UN

          2) Budget and Management Reform (FPOL-1).
    -- Plans, measures and efforts undertaken by the SYG and

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    subordinates on US political and bureaucratic objectives for
    UN management.
    -- Perceptions of member states of the effectiveness of the
    Office for Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) and the Joint
    Inspection Unit (JIU) to combat waste, fraud, mismanagement,
    and corruption.
    -- Effectiveness of the OIOS, in light of the review of the
    OIOS mandate.
    -- Plans and moves to implement OIOS recommendations.
    -- SYG's view of the role of the OIOS.
    -- Secretariat attitudes toward and evidence of corruption in
    UN agencies and programs, and willingness to implement
    measures to reduce corruption.
    -- Plans and intentions of UN member states or the
    Secretariat to address corruption issues at the UN and UN
    agencies.
    -- Plans and intentions of UNDP Executive Board members to
    push for or block management reform proposals.
    -- Plans and intentions of UNDP Executive Board members or
    senior UNDP managers to address potential or actual cases of
    corruption or mismanagement by field missions, including
    efforts to cover up waste, fraud, or abuse.
    -- Internal complaints by UNDP staff about waste, fraud, or
    abuse and efforts by UNDP management to respond to them.
    -- Plans and intentions of Board members, such as Iran, to
    push for increased UNDP funding for programs in their own
    countries or those of their friends.
    -- Degree of independence from UN headquarters of UNDP
    Resident Coordinators in the field and perceptions of field
    staff on UN aid consolidation reforms under the "One UN"
    Program.
    -- Efforts by the G-77 Board members to develop common group
    platforms, especially on budget and management reform issues.
    -- Developments in the implementation of the performance
    based personnel system and contractor reform.
    -- Plans, intentions, and agendas of UN specialized agency
    executive committees.
    -- Impact and effectiveness of whistle-blowing provisions on
    the UN reform process.
    -- Attitudes of UN staff and member states towards extending
    a common whistle-blower protection program to all UN funds
    and programs.
    -- Indications of pressure by member states or groups to
    increase or control growth in the budget.
    -- Secretariat and member attitudes towards changes in the
    scale of assessments.
    -- Options under consideration to resolve financial problems.
    -- SYG views on and plans for responding to Government
    Accountability Office reports calling on the UN to more
    effectively implement results-based budgeting, and make
    further progress on management reform.
    -- Secretariat and member attitudes and plans to improve the
    UN budget process.
    -- Status and use of advanced information systems to

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    streamline UN processes.

    Countries:  Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Burkina Faso, China,
    Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Egypt, France, Japan, Libya,
    Mexico, Russia, South Africa, Syria, Turkey, Uganda, Vietnam
    International Organizations:  UN

    ¶F.  UN General Assembly Tactics and Voting Blocs (FPOL-1).
    -- Plans, intentions, views, positions, lobbying, and tactics
    of regional groups, blocs, or coalitions on issues before the
    General Assembly, especially those that do not include the
    US, i.e., the Africa Group, AU, EU, NAM, G-77, Rio Group,
    Arab League, the OIC, and the GRULAC.
    -- Details of bargaining on votes or candidacies and attempts
    to marginalize or undermine proposed or planned US positions
    or policy initiatives.
    -- Information on the EU agenda in the UNGA, especially as it
    relates to US priorities in the First, Third, and Fifth
    Committees.
    -- Information on efforts by the EU or other member states to
    secure additional voting rights in the UN and its specialized
    agencies.
    -- Lobbying by member states for committee membership
    assignments or vice presidencies.
    -- Information on current and likely future leadership of
    regional groups, blocs, and coalitions.
    -- Differences over positions between UN missions and their
    respective capitals.
    -- Voting instructions to delegations on key resolutions.
    -- Plans, intentions, and agendas of key committee chairs;
    member views of issues that come before these committees.
    -- Efforts of Third World countries to moderate, via NAM and
    G-77, Third World positions on development, defamation of
    religion, or human rights issues.
    -- Intentions of UN members to use non-UN bodies and working
    groups to bypass perceived UN bureaucracy.
    -- Perceptions of member states of the viability and
    potential impact of the US-backed Democracy Caucus.
    -- Biographical and biometric information on key NAM/G-77/OIC
    Permanent Representatives, particularly China, Cuba, Egypt,
    India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, South Africa, Sudan,
    Uganda, Senegal, and Syria; information on their
    relationships with their capitals.

    Countries:  Austria, Burkina Faso, China, Costa Rica,
    Croatia, Cuba, Egypt, France, Indonesia, Japan, Libya,
    Malaysia, Mexico, Pakistan, Russia, Senegal, South Africa,
    Sudan, Syria, Turkey, Uganda, Vietnam
    International Organizations:  AU, EU, OIC, UN

    ¶G.  Other Substantive Issues

          1) Food Security (FOOD-3).
    -- Status and proposals related to the UN Comprehensive

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    Framework for Action to address the global food crisis.
    -- WFP activities and proposals related to reforming donor
    food aid policies and establishing a new standing global fund
    to address regularly occurring food crises.
    -- WFP and FAO plans and proposals regarding the impact on
    food prices and food security of the growing use of ethanol
    and biofuels.
    -- Internal UN responses to international calls for reform of
    FAO and WFP.

    Countries:  Afghanistan, Austria, Burkina Faso, China, Costa
    Rica, Croatia, Ethiopia, France, Haiti, Iraq, Japan, Libya,
    Mexico, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Somalia, Sudan,
    Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, Vietnam, Zimbabwe
    International Organizations:  FAO, UN, World Animal Health
    Organization
    Non-State Entities:     Palestinian Authority, West Bank and
    Gaza Strip

          2) Climate Change, Energy, and Environment (ENVR-4).
    -- Country preparations for the December 2009 Copenhagen UN
    Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Meeting.
    -- Developments related to other UNFCCC meetings and
    discussions on a successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol.
    -- Perceptions of key negotiators on US positions in
    environmental negotiations.
    -- Developments on the Montreal Protocol, including reactions
    to US efforts to limit hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).
    -- Indications that member states working through the UN and
    its specialized agencies are/are not fostering environmental
    cooperation, partnerships and capacity building between and
    among member states and regional and sub-regional
    organizations.
    -- Monitoring of and compliance with UN-sponsored
    environmental treaties; evidence of treaty circumvention.
    -- Information on adherence to member states' own national
    environmental programs, including protection, monitoring, and
    cleanup efforts.
    -- Efforts by treaty secretariats to influence treaty
    negotiations or compliance.
    -- Information on the Convention on Biological Diversity,
    particularly on access, benefit sharing and bio-safety.
    -- Information on the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea,
    including potential efforts to modify or amend its provisions.
    -- Information on excessive maritime claims, including those
    relating to ridges.
    -- Information on efforts to develop a mechanism to add
    chemicals to the list of persistent organic pollutants.
    -- Information and perceptions on the strategic approach to
    international chemicals management, especially efforts of the
    EU's management program.
    -- Information on participation in and compliance with the UN
    Basel Convention.
    -- Status of efforts to set standards to promote

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    environmental protection, including protection of forests,
    desertification, and invasive or endangered species.
    -- Efforts within the UN to protect water resources, and to
    promote development of alternative sources of energy.

    Countries:  Austria, Burkina Faso, China, Costa Rica,
    Croatia, France, Japan, Libya, Mexico, Russia, Turkey,
    Uganda, Vietnam
    International Organizations:  EU, UN

          3) Transnational Economic Issues (ECFS-4H).
    -- Information on efforts by UN member states or
    organizations to promote or obstruct regulatory reform,
    including banking and financial reforms, transparency,
    international law, trade, development, and foreign direct
    investment to reflect the Monterrey anti-poverty consensus
    and the Millennium Development Goals.
    -- Plans, intentions, and tactics of the UNGA President
    regarding international financial problems; views of member
    states regarding these plans.
    -- Plans and intentions of member states to support US
    priorities related to economic freedom and promotion of
    democracy.
    -- Secretariat or member plans to develop multilateral
    economic, trade, or development agreements impinging on US
    interests.
    -- Efforts by member states and the Secretariat to reconcile
    international differences over globalization, especially the
    perceived impact of globalization on human rights, labor, and
    environmental issues.
    -- Member positions on UN decisions, plans, and activities
    concerning environmentally sustainable economic growth
    through market economies, free trade, private investment, and
    efficient multilateral development assistance.
    -- Efforts to expand the global compact involving
    corporations committed to observing human rights,
    environmental, and labor standards.
    -- SYG's views and statements on trade issues and efforts to
    influence future World Trade Organization rounds.
    -- Plans and intentions of UN member states that may impact
    freedom of navigation.
    -- Information on international taxation initiatives.

    Countries:  Austria, Burkina Faso, China, Costa Rica,
    Croatia, France, Japan, Libya, Mexico, Russia, Turkey,
    Uganda, Vietnam
    International Organizations:  EU, FAO, International
    Financial Institutions and Infrastructures, UN, World Bank,
    World Trade Organization

          4) Arms Control and Treaty Monitoring (ACTM-4).
    -- Plans, tactics, timetables, and draft proposals for the
    Eighth Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the
    Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), and especially

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    information related to the 1995 Resolution on the Middle East
    and a Middle East Nuclear Weapons Free Zone initiative, from
    interested individual member states (especially China, Cuba,
    Egypt, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, and South Africa) and
    like-minded groups such as the NAM and the New Agenda
    Coalition (Brazil, Egypt, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, South
    Africa, and Sweden).
    -- Member state views of the major problems facing the NPT;
    whether or under what conditions states would consider
    withdrawing from the NPT.
    -- Member views on and responses to US plans and policies on
    missile defense and positions on a Fissile Material Cutoff
    Treaty, particularly those of Russia, China, and Pakistan.
    -- Information on IAEA plans for safeguards, international
    fuel banks, or other nuclear fuel supply arrangements, and
    meetings of the Board of Governors at the IAEA.
    -- Member views on the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
    (CTBT); prospects for country ratifications and entry into
    force.
    -- Member plans for plenary meetings of the Nuclear Suppliers
    Group; views of the US-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation
    Initiative.
    -- Readiness of member states to reform the agenda of the UN
    General Assembly's First Committee; proposals prepared by
    member states for the First Committee.
    -- Views of key delegations on US proposals on land mines.
    -- Tactical and substantive information regarding periodic
    arms control meetings in New York, Geneva, Vienna and
    elsewhere, including the Biological Weapons Convention, the
    Chemical Weapons Convention, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
    Treaty (NPT) review process, UN experts group on missiles,
    and meetings on conventional arms.
    -- Plans and intentions of member states to introduce new
    arms control or proliferation prevention measures or make
    significant changes to existing agreements.
    - Member or Secretariat plans to address WMD proliferation,
    safeguards, arms control and disarmament, or other threat
    reduction efforts.
    -- Foreign attitudes on UN-sanctioned arms control
    negotiations.
    -- Biographic and biometric data on, and positions of key UN
    arms control interlocutors, especially candidates for the
    position of Director General of the IAEA, and the heads of
    other international institutions.

    Countries:  Austria, Brazil, Burkina Faso, China, Costa Rica,
    Croatia, Cuba, Egypt, France, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland,
    Japan, Libya, Malaysia, Mexico, Pakistan, Russia, South
    Africa, Sweden, Turkey, Uganda, Vietnam
    International Organizations:  EU, IAEA, International Arms
    Control Organizations, NATO, OSCE, UN

          5) Health Issues (HLTH-4).
    -- UN, WHO, and other international organizations,

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    forecasts, expected impacts, plans, proposals, key studies,
    and reactions to major health crises and other health-related
    issues, including efforts on disease eradication, improving
    health standards and access to care and medicine, and
    programs to monitor and respond to emerging infectious
    disease outbreaks and other disasters or emergencies.
    -- Information on deliberations in the UN and other
    international health organizations on health issues and the
    policy positions and objectives of member states and key
    figures, including compromises, insertions, and items omitted
    in published declarations and studies.
    -- Information on international health organizations,
    relationships and interactions with countries and other
    organizations, including relationships with regional offices
    or subsidiaries.
    -- Details on limits and restrictions placed on international
    organizations to investigate reports of diseases that pose an
    international threat, including restrictions placed on the
    nationality of members of investigation teams.
    -- Details on disease transparency, particularly indications
    about inconsistent reporting of outbreaks to appropriate
    international organizations and delivery of specimens to WHO-
    and FAO-affiliated laboratories, and including discussions or
    agreements impacting the publicly disclosed occurrence of
    diseases.
    -- Details of discussions related to the accessibility of
    HIV/AIDS drugs (antiretroviral drugs or ARVs).
    -- Details related to the availability, accessibility, and
    regulation of health care, particularly medications,
    vaccines, and counterfeits.
    -- Member state attitudes toward maintenance of smallpox
    stocks.
    -- Information on global counterfeit medications to include
    surveillance, countermeasures, and research and development
    issues.
    -- Details on efforts to implement health-related Millennium
    Development Goals.
    -- Details on corruption in international health
    organizations or the corrupt use of goods and services
    provided for health issues by bilateral and multilateral
    donors and international health organizations, including WHO,
    UNAIDS, FAO, and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis,
    and Malaria.
    -- Details on irregularities in Global Fund fundraising,
    spending, and treatment of whistle blowers.
    -- Personalities, biographic and biometric information,
    roles, effectiveness, management styles, and influence of key
    health officials, to include the Director General of the WHO,
    head of UNAIDS, the Pan American Health Organization, under
    Secretaries, heads of specialized agencies and their chief
    advisers, and top aides.

    Countries:  Austria, Burkina Faso, China, Costa Rica,
    Croatia, France, Japan, Libya, Mexico, Russia, Turkey,

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    Uganda, Vietnam
    International Organizations: EU, FAO, UN, World Animal Health
    Organization, WHO

          6) Terrorism (TERR-5H).
    -- Information on plans and intentions of UN bodies and
    member states to respond to or address within UN fora the
    worldwide terrorist threat.
    -- Structure, plans and key figures of UN counterterrorism
    strategy.
    -- Information on plans and activities of UNSC,s four
    counterterrorism sub-bodies.
    -- Plans and intentions of member states to address terrorism
    by implementing anti-terrorism legislation as called for
    under resolutions, particularly as they relate to tracking
    financial transactions.
    -- Views of member states on US policy toward terrorism.
    -- Efforts of member states to support or oppose activities
    undertaken by UN specialized agencies such as the
    International Maritime Organization and the International
    Civil Aviation Organization to improve maritime and airline
    security.
    -- Information on UN support for technical assistance to
    member states to combat terrorism, particularly in Africa.
    -- Views of member states about inclusion or exclusion of
    terrorism against Israel in counterterrorism efforts and
    definition of terrorism.
    -- (For further requirements, see the NHCD on Terrorism
    Threats to US Interests at Home and Abroad, July 13, 2005.)

    Countries:  Austria, Burkina Faso, China, Costa Rica,
    Croatia, France, Japan, Libya, Mexico, Russia, Turkey,
    Uganda, Vietnam
    International Organizations:  UN

          7) Trafficking, Social, and Women's Issues (DEPS-5H).
    -- Plans and intentions of member states to support or oppose
    US priority to combat trafficking and exploitation of men,
    women, and children.
    -- Member state perceptions of ability of UN Economic and
    Social Council (ECOSOC) to follow through on strategies to
    support women and children through UN specialized bodies.
    -- Information on member efforts to combat organized crime,
    narcotics trafficking, and trafficking in persons.
    -- Plans and intentions of member states to address
    reproductive issues, including the aims of the EU vis-a-vis
    the US, GRULAC, Arab, and OIC nations.
    -- Member state perceptions or plans regarding efforts to
    reconcile religious differences worldwide.
    -- Information on reforms undertaken within the UN
    Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
    and future plans of the organization.
    -- Member views on education initiatives.

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    Countries:  Austria, Burkina Faso, China, Costa Rica,
    Croatia, France, Japan, Libya, Mexico, Russia, Turkey,
    Uganda, Vietnam
    International Organizations:  EU, OIC, UN

    ¶H.  Intelligence and Security Topics

          1) GRPO can provide text of this issue and related
    requirements.

          2) GRPO can provide text of this issue and related
    requirements.

          3) Foreign Nongovernmental Organizations (FPOL-1).
    -- Influence of key UN-affiliated foreign NGOs on UN
    decision-making.
    -- Efforts of foreign NGOs to undermine US policy initiatives.
    -- Foreign NGO role in, views toward, and influence on UN
    policies and activities on globalization, justice, human
    rights, the environment, and
    family/women/children/reproductive issues.
    -- Ability and capacity of foreign NGOs to assist refugees,
    displaced persons, and victims of disasters through the UNHCR
    and WFP.
    -- Ability and capacity of foreign NGOs to support the UN
    Environmental Program or national efforts with environmental
    protection, pollution monitoring, and cleanup efforts.
    -- Contacts between foreign NGOs and Secretariat staff that
    could involve sharing of confidential data.
    -- Foreign efforts to strip US or foreign NGOs of UN
    affiliation and to block US or foreign NGOs seeking UN
    affiliation.
    -- Efforts by member states-*particularly China, Cuba,
    Israel, Russia, and Islamic countries*-to obtain NGO
    affiliation for organizations supporting their policies.
    -- Efforts by organizations affiliated with terrorist
    organizations or foreign intelligence organizations to obtain
    NGO affiliation with the UN.
    -- Efforts by the EU through the Arhus convention to place
    NGOs on UN bureaus; reactions of member states to those
    efforts.
    -- Role of NGOs at the Office of the High Commissioner for
    Refugees (OHCR), OHCHR, and UNHRC in the Third Committee of
    the UNGA.

    Countries:  Austria, Burkina Faso, China, Costa Rica,
    Croatia, Cuba, France, Japan, Libya, Mexico, Russia, Turkey,
    Uganda, Vietnam
    International Organizations:  EU, OIC, UN

          4) Telecommunications Infrastructure and Information
    Systems (INFR-5H).
    -- Current technical specifications, physical layout, and
    planned upgrades to telecommunications infrastructure and

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    information systems, networks, and technologies used by top
    officials and their support staffs.
    -- Details on commercial and private VIP networks used for
    official communications, to include upgrades, security
    measures, passwords, personal encryption keys, and types of V
    P N versions used.
    -- Telephone numbers and e-mail addresses of key officials,
    as well as limited distribution telephone numbers/directories
    and public switched networks (PSTN) telephone directories;
    dialing numbers for voice, datalink, video teleconferencing,
    wireless communications systems, cellular systems, personal
    communications systems, and wireless facsimiles.
    -- Information on hacking or other security incidents
    involving UN networks.
    -- Key personnel and functions of UN entity that maintains UN
    communications and computer networks.
    -- Indications of IO/IW operations directed against the UN.
    -- Information about current and future use of communications
    systems and technologies by officials or organizations,
    including cellular phone networks, mobile satellite phones,
    very small aperture terminals (VSAT), trunked and mobile
    radios, pagers, prepaid calling cards, firewalls, encryption,
    international connectivity, use of electronic data
    interchange, Voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP), Worldwide
    interoperability for microwave access (Wi-Max), and cable and
    fiber networks.

    Countries:  Austria, Burkina Faso, China, Costa Rica,
    Croatia, France, Japan, Libya, Mexico, Russia, Turkey,
    Uganda, Vietnam
    International Organizations:  UN
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