VETTING- HAITIAN GOVERNMENT PERSONNEL

UNCLAS PORT AU PRINCE 002226 SIPDIS SIPDIS WHA/CAR FOR DANIEL STEWART WHA/PPC FOR MICHAEL BORDERS AND CHARLOTTE ROE INL FOR MICHELLE GREENSTEIN AND BOB BROWN DRL FOR JENNIE MUNOZ E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: MARR MASS PGOV PHUM HA SUBJECT: VETTING- HAITIAN GOVERNMENT PERSONNEL ¶1. This is an action request for WHA/CAR. See paragraphs 2-3. ¶2. Post requests that the Department initiate review of available human rights reports/files and other sources for the following individual of the Haitian Government for credible information of gross human rights violations. This individual is being vetted pursuant to the Leahy Amendmentto the Foreign Operations Appropriations Act (FOAA). The following individual will attend the "Fuerzas Alidas Humanitarias 07" (FA HUM 07) training in Guatemala City, Guatemala on 5-9 December 2006. Post requests reply not later than 1 December 2006. Last Name: GEORGES First Name: Jean-Marie DOB:08 July 1952 Place of Birth: Cap-Haitien, Haiti ID:001-09-304-0 ¶3. Only upon completion of Departmental review and post's receipt of authorizing cable will we provide the requisite human rigths verification statement for this training. SANDERSON