Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
04ABUDHABI2181
2004-06-30 13:15:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Abu Dhabi
Cable title:
MLAT bogged down in UAE bureaucracy
how-tonull Diana T Fritz 02/06/2007 05:30:51 PM From DB/Inbox: Search Results Cable Text: UNCLASSIFIED SIPDIS TELEGRAM June 30, 2004 To: No Action Addressee Action: Unknown From: AMEMBASSY ABU DHABI (ABU DHABI 2181 - ROUTINE) TAGS: PREL, PGOV, KCRM Captions: None Subject: MLAT BOGGED DOWN IN UAE BUREAUCRACY Ref: None _________________________________________________________________ UNCLAS ABU DHABI 02181 SIPDIS CXABU: ACTION: POL INFO: RSO AMB DCM ECON P/M DISSEMINATION: POL CHARGE: PROG APPROVED: CDA:RAALBRIGHT DRAFTED: POL:JFMAYBURY CLEARED: NONE VZCZCADI825 RR RUEHC RUEAWJA RUCNFB DE RUEHAD #2181 1821315 ZNR UUUUU ZZH R 301315Z JUN 04 FM AMEMBASSY ABU DHABI TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 4948 INFO RUEAWJA/DEPT OF JUSTICE WASHDC RUCNFB/DIRFBI WASHDC
UNCLAS ABU DHABI 002181
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
STATE FOR NEA/ARP, L/LEI
DOJ FOR OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL KCRM PGOV TC
SUBJECT: MLAT bogged down in UAE bureaucracy
UNCLAS ABU DHABI 002181
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
STATE FOR NEA/ARP, L/LEI
DOJ FOR OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL KCRM PGOV TC
SUBJECT: MLAT bogged down in UAE bureaucracy
1. (SBU) The UAE Government's review of a U.S.-
proposed text for a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty
(MLAT) is not going to be completed until after the
summer, although the UAE remains committed to the
reaching an agreement, Yacub Al-Hosani, the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs' Director of International
Organizations, told Polchief on June 30. Al-Hosani,
who handled the MLAT portfolio when he was Deputy
Director of Legal Affairs until earlier this year,
said that the UAE interagency committee (consisting of
MFA, Interior, and Justice members) continues to
review the draft text that the Embassy submitted to
the UAEG back in January.
2. (SBU) "We have instructions from our leaders to
strengthen cooperation in law enforcement. We do not
want to conduct this type of business on a case-by-
case basis or ad hoc," Al-Hosani said. Abdul Rahim
Al-Awadi, Director for International Cooperation at
the Ministry of Justice, had told Polchief in April
and again in May that Justice had completed its review
of the document, but he did not characterize his
ministry's position one way or the other.
3. (SBU) Al-Hosani said that the MFA's review of MLAT
may have stalled in the Legal Affairs Department
because its director, Ahmed Al-Jarman, did not have a
deputy for many months. Al-Hosani confided that a
massive restructuring at MFA now under way will result
in Al-Jarman being given a more senior portfolio, and
Al-Hosani returning to Legal Affairs. He was
pessimistic that MLAT would budge over the summer
months because of this and because of staff taking
their vacations.
ALBRIGHT
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
STATE FOR NEA/ARP, L/LEI
DOJ FOR OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL KCRM PGOV TC
SUBJECT: MLAT bogged down in UAE bureaucracy
1. (SBU) The UAE Government's review of a U.S.-
proposed text for a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty
(MLAT) is not going to be completed until after the
summer, although the UAE remains committed to the
reaching an agreement, Yacub Al-Hosani, the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs' Director of International
Organizations, told Polchief on June 30. Al-Hosani,
who handled the MLAT portfolio when he was Deputy
Director of Legal Affairs until earlier this year,
said that the UAE interagency committee (consisting of
MFA, Interior, and Justice members) continues to
review the draft text that the Embassy submitted to
the UAEG back in January.
2. (SBU) "We have instructions from our leaders to
strengthen cooperation in law enforcement. We do not
want to conduct this type of business on a case-by-
case basis or ad hoc," Al-Hosani said. Abdul Rahim
Al-Awadi, Director for International Cooperation at
the Ministry of Justice, had told Polchief in April
and again in May that Justice had completed its review
of the document, but he did not characterize his
ministry's position one way or the other.
3. (SBU) Al-Hosani said that the MFA's review of MLAT
may have stalled in the Legal Affairs Department
because its director, Ahmed Al-Jarman, did not have a
deputy for many months. Al-Hosani confided that a
massive restructuring at MFA now under way will result
in Al-Jarman being given a more senior portfolio, and
Al-Hosani returning to Legal Affairs. He was
pessimistic that MLAT would budge over the summer
months because of this and because of staff taking
their vacations.
ALBRIGHT