Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
06DUSHANBE410
2006-03-02 11:25:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Dushanbe
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C O N F I D E N T I A L DUSHANBE 000410
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE FOR SCA/CEN, INL, PM
E.O. 12958: DECL: 2/14/2016
TAGS: PGOV PREL SNAR RS TI
SUBJECT: TAJIK BORDER UPDATE
REF: DUSHANBE 390
CLASSIFIED BY: Richard Hoagland, Ambassador, US Embassy
Dushanbe, State.
REASON: 1.4 (b)
C O N F I D E N T I A L DUSHANBE 000410
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE FOR SCA/CEN, INL, PM
E.O. 12958: DECL: 2/14/2016
TAGS: PGOV PREL SNAR RS TI
SUBJECT: TAJIK BORDER UPDATE
REF: DUSHANBE 390
CLASSIFIED BY: Richard Hoagland, Ambassador, US Embassy
Dushanbe, State.
REASON: 1.4 (b)
1. (SBU) This begins a series of cables summarizing
Tajikistan's border security developments and activities of
Embassy Dushanbe's Border Law Enforcement Working Group (BLEWG).
Led by the DCM, with participation from the Senior Law
Enforcement Advisor (SLEA),the EXBS advisor, the Defense
Attachi's Office (DAO),Office of Defense Cooperation (ODC),
Pol/Econ, Pol/Mil and others, the BLEWG is an interagency
working established in 2005 to coordinate all aspects of USG
border security assistance. This cable covers activities for
February 2006.
2. (SBU) At the February 16 meeting of the Border Interagency
Group (BIG),donor agencies formed a Canine Working group to
better coordinate assistance with donors and government
ministries and avoid duplication of efforts. Currently, the
Ministry of Interior (MOI),Drug Control Agency (DCA),and
Border Guards all have drug-detecting programs, but there has
been no coordination or decision at the government level about
who would run or fund dog centers, provide veterinary care or
training. SLEA will work with UN Office of Drug Control
(UNODC) and other major donors to standardize the dog programs.
Donors also agreed to from a training committee to coordinate
all law enforcement training.
3. (U) Ambassador Hoagland and Russian Ambassador Abdulatipov
attended the graduation of Ministry of Interior trainees
February 17. A Swedish-Russian contractor conducted the
U.S.-funded training at a MOI new criminal intelligence center
in Dushanbe
4. (C) At a private reception in his honor February 20,
General Zuhurov, Chairman of the State Border Protection
Committee, highlighted the United States' close relationship
with Tajikistan and Russia's waning influence with the Border
Guards. The dynamics of the private reception indicated that for
all the press attention on Russian assistance and cooperation,
the Border guards consider the United States a true ally
(reftel).
5. (SBU) General Zuhurov told SLEA his trip to the United
States, tentatively scheduled for March, has been postponed
until June. Presidential Advisor Rahmatulloyev confirmed to the
Ambassador the President's Office preferred Zuhurov travel in
June, after the May Counternarcotics Conference.
6. (SBU) Planning continues for the May CENTCOM/Marshall Center
sponsored Counternarcotics Conference, which the Tajiks continue
to enthusiastically support.
7. (SBU) SLEA reports helicopter and truck deliveries of the
$3.2 million of food, fuel and uniforms continue at a slow, but
steady pace to border posts (zastavas) along the Tajik-Afghan
border in Moscovskiy district. The Border Guards took
possession of eight U.S.-funded ambulances to operate at each of
the eight border posts identified for U.S. assistance.
8. (SBU) SLEA and EmbOff completed an assessment Khurmanjo
border post February 19. This pilot renovation project will
serve as a model for future and is scheduled to begin
construction in late spring.
9. (U) Drug interdictions for February (as reported by the
Tajik Press): 160 kg of heroin, raw opium and cannabis in four
raids by the DCA, Border Guards and Ministry of Interior.
HOAGLAND
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE FOR SCA/CEN, INL, PM
E.O. 12958: DECL: 2/14/2016
TAGS: PGOV PREL SNAR RS TI
SUBJECT: TAJIK BORDER UPDATE
REF: DUSHANBE 390
CLASSIFIED BY: Richard Hoagland, Ambassador, US Embassy
Dushanbe, State.
REASON: 1.4 (b)
1. (SBU) This begins a series of cables summarizing
Tajikistan's border security developments and activities of
Embassy Dushanbe's Border Law Enforcement Working Group (BLEWG).
Led by the DCM, with participation from the Senior Law
Enforcement Advisor (SLEA),the EXBS advisor, the Defense
Attachi's Office (DAO),Office of Defense Cooperation (ODC),
Pol/Econ, Pol/Mil and others, the BLEWG is an interagency
working established in 2005 to coordinate all aspects of USG
border security assistance. This cable covers activities for
February 2006.
2. (SBU) At the February 16 meeting of the Border Interagency
Group (BIG),donor agencies formed a Canine Working group to
better coordinate assistance with donors and government
ministries and avoid duplication of efforts. Currently, the
Ministry of Interior (MOI),Drug Control Agency (DCA),and
Border Guards all have drug-detecting programs, but there has
been no coordination or decision at the government level about
who would run or fund dog centers, provide veterinary care or
training. SLEA will work with UN Office of Drug Control
(UNODC) and other major donors to standardize the dog programs.
Donors also agreed to from a training committee to coordinate
all law enforcement training.
3. (U) Ambassador Hoagland and Russian Ambassador Abdulatipov
attended the graduation of Ministry of Interior trainees
February 17. A Swedish-Russian contractor conducted the
U.S.-funded training at a MOI new criminal intelligence center
in Dushanbe
4. (C) At a private reception in his honor February 20,
General Zuhurov, Chairman of the State Border Protection
Committee, highlighted the United States' close relationship
with Tajikistan and Russia's waning influence with the Border
Guards. The dynamics of the private reception indicated that for
all the press attention on Russian assistance and cooperation,
the Border guards consider the United States a true ally
(reftel).
5. (SBU) General Zuhurov told SLEA his trip to the United
States, tentatively scheduled for March, has been postponed
until June. Presidential Advisor Rahmatulloyev confirmed to the
Ambassador the President's Office preferred Zuhurov travel in
June, after the May Counternarcotics Conference.
6. (SBU) Planning continues for the May CENTCOM/Marshall Center
sponsored Counternarcotics Conference, which the Tajiks continue
to enthusiastically support.
7. (SBU) SLEA reports helicopter and truck deliveries of the
$3.2 million of food, fuel and uniforms continue at a slow, but
steady pace to border posts (zastavas) along the Tajik-Afghan
border in Moscovskiy district. The Border Guards took
possession of eight U.S.-funded ambulances to operate at each of
the eight border posts identified for U.S. assistance.
8. (SBU) SLEA and EmbOff completed an assessment Khurmanjo
border post February 19. This pilot renovation project will
serve as a model for future and is scheduled to begin
construction in late spring.
9. (U) Drug interdictions for February (as reported by the
Tajik Press): 160 kg of heroin, raw opium and cannabis in four
raids by the DCA, Border Guards and Ministry of Interior.
HOAGLAND