Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07ASHGABAT839
2007-08-15 13:09:00
SECRET
Embassy Ashgabat
Cable title:
TURKMENISTAN: PRESIDENT APPROVES WORKING TO
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S E C R E T ASHGABAT 000839
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE FOR SCA/CEN, DS/IP/SCA
E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/15/2017
TAGS: PGOV PREL PINR ASEC TX
SUBJECT: TURKMENISTAN: PRESIDENT APPROVES WORKING TO
RESTART SURVEILLANCE DETECTION PROGRAM
REF: ASHGABAT 0780
Classified By: CDA RICHARD E. HOAGLAND FOR REASONS 1.4 (B) AND (D)
S E C R E T ASHGABAT 000839
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE FOR SCA/CEN, DS/IP/SCA
E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/15/2017
TAGS: PGOV PREL PINR ASEC TX
SUBJECT: TURKMENISTAN: PRESIDENT APPROVES WORKING TO
RESTART SURVEILLANCE DETECTION PROGRAM
REF: ASHGABAT 0780
Classified By: CDA RICHARD E. HOAGLAND FOR REASONS 1.4 (B) AND (D)
1. (S) At the end of their August 14 meeting, EEB Assistant
Secretary Daniel Sullivan asked to meet briefly one-on-one
SIPDIS
with President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov. Sullivan delivered
the following talking points:
-- Mr. President, I have a very important but sensitive favor
to ask of you. I would like to ask that you allow our
embassy to restart its Surveillance Detection program.
-- No matter what you may have heard, I want to assure you
that this important program is solely for the protection of
our own embassy and its employees, including citizens of
Turkmenistan. It has no other purpose, either here or
anywhere else in the world.
-- We will be totally transparent about it with your
government, and would welcome representatives of your
law-enforcement and security agencies to participate in it
fully and at all times.
2. (S) Berdimuhamedov responded, "We are not against this
program in principle, but the issue is how you implement it.
Our law-enforcement organs have facts, clear facts, that you
violated our law. No one has the right to violate our law.
We need to establish clear limits for this program. I will
instruct the foreign ministry and law-enforcement organs to
work with your embassy so we have mutually agreed limits."
3. (S) COMMENT: Charge will follow up with Foreign Minister
Meredov. We believe Berdimuhamedov's intention is that we
draw up a memorandum of understanding about the program and
its implementation. This will not come quickly or easily,
but we are optimistic that it is doable. END COMMENT.
HOAGLAND
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE FOR SCA/CEN, DS/IP/SCA
E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/15/2017
TAGS: PGOV PREL PINR ASEC TX
SUBJECT: TURKMENISTAN: PRESIDENT APPROVES WORKING TO
RESTART SURVEILLANCE DETECTION PROGRAM
REF: ASHGABAT 0780
Classified By: CDA RICHARD E. HOAGLAND FOR REASONS 1.4 (B) AND (D)
1. (S) At the end of their August 14 meeting, EEB Assistant
Secretary Daniel Sullivan asked to meet briefly one-on-one
SIPDIS
with President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov. Sullivan delivered
the following talking points:
-- Mr. President, I have a very important but sensitive favor
to ask of you. I would like to ask that you allow our
embassy to restart its Surveillance Detection program.
-- No matter what you may have heard, I want to assure you
that this important program is solely for the protection of
our own embassy and its employees, including citizens of
Turkmenistan. It has no other purpose, either here or
anywhere else in the world.
-- We will be totally transparent about it with your
government, and would welcome representatives of your
law-enforcement and security agencies to participate in it
fully and at all times.
2. (S) Berdimuhamedov responded, "We are not against this
program in principle, but the issue is how you implement it.
Our law-enforcement organs have facts, clear facts, that you
violated our law. No one has the right to violate our law.
We need to establish clear limits for this program. I will
instruct the foreign ministry and law-enforcement organs to
work with your embassy so we have mutually agreed limits."
3. (S) COMMENT: Charge will follow up with Foreign Minister
Meredov. We believe Berdimuhamedov's intention is that we
draw up a memorandum of understanding about the program and
its implementation. This will not come quickly or easily,
but we are optimistic that it is doable. END COMMENT.
HOAGLAND