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04ABUDHABI2181
2004-06-30 13:15:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Abu Dhabi
Cable title:  

MLAT bogged down in UAE bureaucracy

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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

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INFO RUEAWJA/DEPT OF JUSTICE WASHDC
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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