Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
08ASHGABAT1338
2008-10-08 12:03:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Ashgabat
Cable title:
TURKMENISTAN: GERMAN AID ORGANIZATION SUCCEEDING
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C O N F I D E N T I A L ASHGABAT 001338
SIPDIS
STATE FOR SCA/CEN; DRL
E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/08/2018
TAGS: PGOV PHUM EAID KDEM TX
SUBJECT: TURKMENISTAN: GERMAN AID ORGANIZATION SUCCEEDING
WITH LEGAL REFORM TRAINING
Classified By: Charge Sylvia Reed Curran for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
C O N F I D E N T I A L ASHGABAT 001338
SIPDIS
STATE FOR SCA/CEN; DRL
E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/08/2018
TAGS: PGOV PHUM EAID KDEM TX
SUBJECT: TURKMENISTAN: GERMAN AID ORGANIZATION SUCCEEDING
WITH LEGAL REFORM TRAINING
Classified By: Charge Sylvia Reed Curran for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
1. (C) SUMMARY: The German Technical Cooperation
Organization GTZ is continuing to conduct conferences and
seminars on legal reform issues in Turkmenistan, but is not
currently working with the government on revision of criminal
and civil codes, although it had proposed that project as an
area for cooperation. GTZ's seminars and other legal
programs are well-attended by Turkmen government officials,
even programs that are conducted elsewhere in the region.
The program where GTZ sent Turkmen city and regional judges
to Kazakhstan to learn about their neighbors' experience with
judicial reform was a great success. END SUMMARY.
2. (C) On October 8, poloff met with GTZ administration
head Svetlana Bairamova and project coordinator Alex Jumayev
to learn more about the organization's work on legal reform,
and in particular, the recent seminar that took a group of
ten city and provincial judges to Kazakhstan. The group had
the opportunity to meet with judges in Kazakhstan's Supreme
Court, as well as city and regional judges, Bairamova said.
The Turkmen delegation especially appreciated learning more
about the problems and issues surrounding broad judicial
reform from a neighboring state with a similar history.
Bairamoa said that while GTZ did not select the Turkmen
participants, they were all fully engaged in what she
described as "an intense, packed program" of activities. GTZ
has learned that the participants all gave very positive
reports to senior Turkmen officials, and Bairamova was
confident that their partnering entity, the Institute for
Democracy and Human Rights, would support a similar seminar
sometime in the future.
3. (C) The seminar was one of a series of events that GTZ
has been conducting this year since its legal and judicial
reform project got underway in Turkmenistan. Jumayev noted
that while Turkmen officials have not taken up GTZ's previous
offer to assist in redrafting several pieces of criminal and
civil legislation, they have been much more enthusiastic
about the conferences and seminars on legal and judicial
reform that GTZ has been organizing. Over the summer, GTZ
succeeded in sending a group of lawyers from Ashgabat and
Balkanabat to a "lawyer summer school" program in Tashkent,
Jumayev said. Senior government officials were also pleased
with an international law conference that GTZ sponsored
several months ago that drew the participation of 220 Turkmen
officials and several international experts. The MFA
permitted some of the students currently enrolled in the
MFA's international affairs academy to attend the conference,
Jumayev said.
4. (C) COMMENT: The government of Turkmenistan appears to
be enthusiastic about the conferences and training that GTZ
has been organizing in the sphere of legal and judicial
reform, and it is particularly noteworthy that a variety of
legal and judicial professionals are attending the programs,
including those held elsewhere in the region. It is no
doubt useful for the Turkmen to learn from the experiences of
other countries in Central Asia. END COMMENT.
CURRAN
SIPDIS
STATE FOR SCA/CEN; DRL
E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/08/2018
TAGS: PGOV PHUM EAID KDEM TX
SUBJECT: TURKMENISTAN: GERMAN AID ORGANIZATION SUCCEEDING
WITH LEGAL REFORM TRAINING
Classified By: Charge Sylvia Reed Curran for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
1. (C) SUMMARY: The German Technical Cooperation
Organization GTZ is continuing to conduct conferences and
seminars on legal reform issues in Turkmenistan, but is not
currently working with the government on revision of criminal
and civil codes, although it had proposed that project as an
area for cooperation. GTZ's seminars and other legal
programs are well-attended by Turkmen government officials,
even programs that are conducted elsewhere in the region.
The program where GTZ sent Turkmen city and regional judges
to Kazakhstan to learn about their neighbors' experience with
judicial reform was a great success. END SUMMARY.
2. (C) On October 8, poloff met with GTZ administration
head Svetlana Bairamova and project coordinator Alex Jumayev
to learn more about the organization's work on legal reform,
and in particular, the recent seminar that took a group of
ten city and provincial judges to Kazakhstan. The group had
the opportunity to meet with judges in Kazakhstan's Supreme
Court, as well as city and regional judges, Bairamova said.
The Turkmen delegation especially appreciated learning more
about the problems and issues surrounding broad judicial
reform from a neighboring state with a similar history.
Bairamoa said that while GTZ did not select the Turkmen
participants, they were all fully engaged in what she
described as "an intense, packed program" of activities. GTZ
has learned that the participants all gave very positive
reports to senior Turkmen officials, and Bairamova was
confident that their partnering entity, the Institute for
Democracy and Human Rights, would support a similar seminar
sometime in the future.
3. (C) The seminar was one of a series of events that GTZ
has been conducting this year since its legal and judicial
reform project got underway in Turkmenistan. Jumayev noted
that while Turkmen officials have not taken up GTZ's previous
offer to assist in redrafting several pieces of criminal and
civil legislation, they have been much more enthusiastic
about the conferences and seminars on legal and judicial
reform that GTZ has been organizing. Over the summer, GTZ
succeeded in sending a group of lawyers from Ashgabat and
Balkanabat to a "lawyer summer school" program in Tashkent,
Jumayev said. Senior government officials were also pleased
with an international law conference that GTZ sponsored
several months ago that drew the participation of 220 Turkmen
officials and several international experts. The MFA
permitted some of the students currently enrolled in the
MFA's international affairs academy to attend the conference,
Jumayev said.
4. (C) COMMENT: The government of Turkmenistan appears to
be enthusiastic about the conferences and training that GTZ
has been organizing in the sphere of legal and judicial
reform, and it is particularly noteworthy that a variety of
legal and judicial professionals are attending the programs,
including those held elsewhere in the region. It is no
doubt useful for the Turkmen to learn from the experiences of
other countries in Central Asia. END COMMENT.
CURRAN