Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
06BUENOSAIRES564
2006-03-10 16:35:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Buenos Aires
Cable title:
COUNTER-TERRORISM MINISTER BLAMES MISUNDERSTANDING
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C O N F I D E N T I A L BUENOS AIRES 000564
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/09/2016
TAGS: PTER PREL USOAS AR
SUBJECT: COUNTER-TERRORISM MINISTER BLAMES MISUNDERSTANDING
- ARGENTINA WILL SUPPORT CICTE DECLARATION
REF: STATE 31112
Classified By: AMB Lino Gutierrez, for Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
C O N F I D E N T I A L BUENOS AIRES 000564
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/09/2016
TAGS: PTER PREL USOAS AR
SUBJECT: COUNTER-TERRORISM MINISTER BLAMES MISUNDERSTANDING
- ARGENTINA WILL SUPPORT CICTE DECLARATION
REF: STATE 31112
Classified By: AMB Lino Gutierrez, for Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
1. (C) Visiting Desk Officer Gomez, accompanied by POLOFF and
POL Intern, delivered (REFTEL) talking points on March 8 to
Minister Gustavo Urrutia, Deputy Director of the Office of
Counter Terrorism and Related Crimes.
2. (C) Regarding the Declaration of San Carlos, Urrutia said
that Argentina does indeed support the Declaration language
on the connection between terrorism and illicit transnational
activity. He said the perception of Argentine opposition at
the OAS must have been either a misunderstanding in the
translation or a delegate who did not express himself
adequately. He emphasized that terrorism is still very much
considered by Argentina to be a criminal act and a threat to
security and peace.
3. (C) However, Urrutia pointed out that he sees a danger in
implying that there is necessarily a link between terrorism
and other organized international crime (drug trafficking,
human trafficking, money laundering). He said that both the
origins and the end goals of these two kinds of activities
are very different (drug trafficking for example seeks a
profit, he said, whereas terrorism has political goals),and
that while there may be connections in some cases, they are
not necessarily one and the same. (Note: This opinion is
consistent with the language in the draft. End note.) He
expressed concern that international laws and norms created
expressly to combat terrorism could spill over and be
inappropriately applied to other forms of organized crime.
GUTIERREZ
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/09/2016
TAGS: PTER PREL USOAS AR
SUBJECT: COUNTER-TERRORISM MINISTER BLAMES MISUNDERSTANDING
- ARGENTINA WILL SUPPORT CICTE DECLARATION
REF: STATE 31112
Classified By: AMB Lino Gutierrez, for Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
1. (C) Visiting Desk Officer Gomez, accompanied by POLOFF and
POL Intern, delivered (REFTEL) talking points on March 8 to
Minister Gustavo Urrutia, Deputy Director of the Office of
Counter Terrorism and Related Crimes.
2. (C) Regarding the Declaration of San Carlos, Urrutia said
that Argentina does indeed support the Declaration language
on the connection between terrorism and illicit transnational
activity. He said the perception of Argentine opposition at
the OAS must have been either a misunderstanding in the
translation or a delegate who did not express himself
adequately. He emphasized that terrorism is still very much
considered by Argentina to be a criminal act and a threat to
security and peace.
3. (C) However, Urrutia pointed out that he sees a danger in
implying that there is necessarily a link between terrorism
and other organized international crime (drug trafficking,
human trafficking, money laundering). He said that both the
origins and the end goals of these two kinds of activities
are very different (drug trafficking for example seeks a
profit, he said, whereas terrorism has political goals),and
that while there may be connections in some cases, they are
not necessarily one and the same. (Note: This opinion is
consistent with the language in the draft. End note.) He
expressed concern that international laws and norms created
expressly to combat terrorism could spill over and be
inappropriately applied to other forms of organized crime.
GUTIERREZ