SECRETARY'S LETTER ON GUANTANAMO DETAINEES

C O N F I D E N T I A L KUWAIT 002558 SIPDIS NOFORN SIPDIS FOR NEA/ARP AND S/WCI E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/26/2016 TAGS: PREL PGOV PTER KAWC OPDC KU SUBJECT: SECRETARY'S LETTER ON GUANTANAMO DETAINEES DELIVERED REF: A. STATE 100105 ¶B. BERNS/BROWN E-MAIL DATED 6/23/2006 Classified By: CDA Matt Tueller for reasons 1.4(b) and (d) ¶1. (C) The Charge delivered June 27 ref A letter from the Secretary to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Undersecretary SIPDIS Khaled Al-Jarallah on the five Kuwaiti nationals detained at Guantanamo. (Senior MFA officials returned to work June 26 after accompanying the Amir on a 10-day trip to Asian countries.) He restated U.S. interest in transferring the detainees to Kuwaiti custody and noted that in order to do so, the Department of Defense required additional information on the GOK's efforts to monitor detainees repatriated to Kuwait and to prevent them from carrying out future crimes. He shared with the U/S ref B questions, commenting that the questions would be taken up soon with the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the U.S. ¶2. (C) Al-Jarallah responded that the GOK was eager to resolve the detainee issue, hopefully before the September visit of the Amir to Washington. He asserted that the five detainees would be closely monitored and subject to travel bans, and said the GOK would respond to the DOD questions as soon as possible. ********************************************* * For more reporting from Embassy Kuwait, visit: http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/nea/kuwait/?cable s Visit Kuwait's Classified Website: http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/nea/kuwait/ ********************************************* * TUELLER