Identifier
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08STATE16174
2008-02-15 23:34:00
SECRET
Secretary of State
Cable title:  

NONPAPERS FOR DELIVERY PRIOR TO 25 FEBRUARY

Tags:  IR KNNP PREL PARM XF ZP AE 
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S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 03 STATE 016174 

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SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/15/2018
TAGS: IR KNNP PREL PARM XF ZP AE
SUBJECT: NONPAPERS FOR DELIVERY PRIOR TO 25 FEBRUARY
COUNTERPROLIFERATION TASK FORCE MEETING

REF: STATE 098673

Classified By: NEA/ARP A.Steinfeld for reasons 1.4 b and d

S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 03 STATE 016174

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/15/2018
TAGS: IR KNNP PREL PARM XF ZP AE
SUBJECT: NONPAPERS FOR DELIVERY PRIOR TO 25 FEBRUARY
COUNTERPROLIFERATION TASK FORCE MEETING

REF: STATE 098673

Classified By: NEA/ARP A.Steinfeld for reasons 1.4 b and d


1. (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph two.

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SUMMARY
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2. (U) The Department requests that post deliver as soon as
possible two nonpapers to the UAE in preparation for the
Counterproliferation Task Force Meeting scheduled for
February 25.

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OBJECTIVE
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3. (S) The two nonpapers attached below have been cleared by
the interagency to pass to the UAEG in advance of the
upcoming US-UAE Counterproliferation Task Force Meeting
scheduled for 25 February in Abu Dhabi. It is important that
we prompt UAEG thinking on these issues prior to the CTF
meeting. Department will transmit training plan mentioned in
the first nonpaper, which was first sent via cable in July
2007 (reftel),via UNCLASS email. Papers should be
distributed to UAE participants in preparation for the CTF in
the manner post deems most effective. The Department will
provide post with word document copies of the two attached
documents by email.

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NONPAPERS
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4. BEGIN FIRST SECRET/REL UAE NON-PAPER:

Non Paper on the Status of Proliferation-Related
Interdictions, Companies, and People

We appreciate the cooperation between our two countries in
confronting the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction
and in trying to prevent the spread of weapons and materials
that are being used to kill coalition forces and innocent
Iraqi civilians. We also applaud your efforts in passing an
export control law.

Over the last year, you have stopped several shipments at our
request that were going to Iran in violation of UNSCRs. We
wanted to express our appreciation for these efforts. We
know that in many cases we were only able to give you very
short notice of the arrival and we appreciate your
responsiveness. We would welcome your thoughts on how to
improve information flow in both directions.


We want to assure you that we focus our efforts on other
transit countries and on the countries originating the goods.
Unfortunately, due to the nature of the information, we do
not always have enough advance warning to be able to do that
and, given your location, many of these shipments transit
your ports. On a broader note, we would welcome a discussion
on how we can work together to develop a better system to
prevent transshipments of items through your ports.

We would like to give you an update on our efforts to have
shipments recalled and would like to hear how your efforts
and investigations are proceeding.

We would also like to reiterate our request for access to the
goods for our experts so that they might be able to develop
more information to assist in your investigations.

We hope as well to discuss various aspects of your export
control law and we have attached a list of questions for
discussion during the CTF meeting on February 25. As you
move toward implementation of your export control law, we
would also like to offer export control training. In
particular we would like to discuss the export control
training plan that we provided you in June 2007.

For the sake of our discussion, we are attaching a list of
interdictions, companies, and individuals that we have
discussed either during CTF meetings or within the overall
counterproliferation cooperation framework. We want to
discuss the status of these cases in more detail.


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Interdictions

-- Iran Tabatabaei (August 2007 shipment of U.S. origin
aircraft parts and aluminum)

-- Sinotrans Qingdao (September 2007, steel tubes)

-- YM Energy (September 2007, cold-drawn seamless tubes)

-- M/V Seventh Ocean (November 2007, potassium perchlorate)

-- M/V Anne E (January 2008, anhydrous hydrogen fluoride)

Companies and People

-- Al Mazroui Medical and Chemical Supplies

-- Mayrow affiliates Atlinx and Neda Overseas Electronics
Adcom

-- Al Minzal Medical Equipment and Industries (connected to
Medline)

-- Choe Myong Chol (moving money from Tanchon held accounts
from Kish Island's Bank Sepah branch to Dubai)

-- A and N Group and Modern Plastics Industry (parts for
Improvised Explosive Devices used in Iraq)

END FIRST SECRET/REL UAE NON-PAPER

BEGIN SECOND UNCLASSIFIED UAE NON-PAPER:

Non Paper on UAE Implementation of the Federal Export Control
Law

We want to commend you on passage of your export control law
and stand ready to assist you as you implement it by
providing expert level consultations and export control
training. We understand, however, that implementing a law
can be a challenge and we welcome a discussion on the status
of your efforts on implementation.

Questions for the UAE:


1. When will the UAE issue implementing regulations?


2. Does the UAE have questions or concerns regarding the
implementing regulations that it would like to discuss with
U.S. experts?


3. Will the implementing regulations be published?


4. When will a Chief of the Executive Agency of the
Strategic Commodities Control Committee be named and have
Committee Staff been selected?


5. What will the responsibilities be for the organizations
that will comprise the Strategic Commodities Control
Committee?


6. Will the UAE adopt the 2007 EU control list which covers
all four multilateral control regimes? If yes, when?


7. How will the law deal with items not on control lists?


8. Who will enforce the law and how will enforcement be
coordinated among all UAE law enforcement authorities?


9. How will the UAE educate industry on the provisions of
the export control law?


10. How does the law provide authority to freeze financial
assets related to the financing of proliferation-related
exports or transshipments?

END SECOND UNCLASSIFIED UAE NON-PAPER:

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REPORTING DEADLINE
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5. (U) Mission should report on delivery of these points as
soon as possible. Please slug replies for ISN, IO, T,
TREASURY, NEA/IR, and NEA/ARP. Please include SIPDIS in all
replies.

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POINT OF CONTACT
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6. (U) Washington point of contact for follow-up

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information is Chris Herrington, ISN/CPI, (202) 647-5035,
HerringtonC@state.sgov.gov.


7. (U) The Department thanks Post for its assistance.
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