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