TRANSFER OF TAJIK GTMO DETAINEE JUMMA JAN

S E C R E T DUSHANBE 000997

SIPDIS

DEPARTMENT FOR S/WCI AND SCA/CEN

E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/30/2018
TAGS: KDRG PHUM PINR PTER TI
SUBJECT: TRANSFER OF TAJIK GTMO DETAINEE JUMMA JAN

REF: SECSTATE 77238

Classified By: Ambassador Tracy A. Jacobson, Reasons 2.4 (b) and (d).


1. (S) On July 29, 2008 PolEcon Chief delivered reftel
demarche to Khusrav Nosiri, Head of the Department of
European and North American Affairs at the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs. PolEcon Chief specified that the date range
for the transfer would be September 10-16, per email
communication with S/WCI subsequent to the transmission of
reftel. Nosiri foresaw no problem with that date range, and
said he would circulate in the Government reftel's requests
for assurances on humane treatment and speedy USG access to
returnees. Nosiri requested the Embassy contact him after
August 1 for a more substantive response to reftel requests.


2. (S) PolEcon Chief thanked Nosiri for Tajikistan's
cooperation in allowing Embassy access to previous GTMO
returnees earlier this year, and asked if the response time
on future requests could be shortened to five working days,
per reftel. Nosiri said the quickest possible response time
by the Tajik Government to a U.S. request for access to a
GTMO returnee would be two weeks. He explained that this
simply reflected the speed of official communications between
the concerned departments of the Government of Tajikistan,
and was a best-case response time.


3. (U) Dushanbe Point of Contact for this matter is PolEcon
Chief Matt Purl, purldm@state.gov.
JACOBSON