Identifier
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09USUNNEWYORK667
2009-07-09 23:13:00
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USUN New York
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AMBASSADOR RICE MEETS WITH CTED EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
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TAGS: CT PARM PREF PREL
SUBJECT: AMBASSADOR RICE MEETS WITH CTED EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
MIKE SMITH
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SUBJECT: AMBASSADOR RICE MEETS WITH CTED EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
MIKE SMITH
1. (U) The UN's Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate's
(CTED) Executive Director, Mike Smith, met with Ambassador
Rice on July 7. Ambassador Rice thanked Smith for the
positive impact he has had as Executive Director. Smith
provided an overview of CTED's work and shared some recent
initiatives. He also asked for U.S. support in the area of
human rights and counter-terrorism. As an example, he said
there is an expectation that CTED, when assessing states'
implementation of resolution 1373, will also look at whether
states respect human rights norms in the process. In
response to his request for U.S. support on human rights,
Ambassador Rice said Smith could count on U.S. support in
this area, assuming what he meant by "human rights" in this
context was civil liberties and rule of law.
2. (U) Smith conveyed that CTED has initiated plans for a
three day workshop in Bangladesh in early November for police
officers and prosecutors on effectively countering terrorism.
He also shared that CTED has proposed to hold a judicial
workshop for legislators of the National Assembly and Senate
of Pakistan in Islamabad in the fall. The objective of this
meeting, he said, is to provide Pakistan support in its
effort to improve the legislative framework of its anti-money
laundering regime by offering parliamentary drafters and
other stake holders access to the relevant expertise required
to complete their tasks.
3. (U) In response to Ambassador Rice's question as to how
many countries CTED plans to visit this year, Smith said that
CTED will visit more than twenty. In the previous year,
Smith said CTED visited only eight countries. Now, he said
CTED conducts more focused visits taking less time and some
visits have been regional visits where a number of countries
are visited during one trip. Smith mentioned that the only
region in the world that has not embraced CTED is Latin
America. Although Argentina agreed to a visit while it was
on the Security Council, Smith said Costa Rica, Uruguay and
Brazil have declined a visit from CTED.
RICE
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: CT PARM PREF PREL
SUBJECT: AMBASSADOR RICE MEETS WITH CTED EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
MIKE SMITH
1. (U) The UN's Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate's
(CTED) Executive Director, Mike Smith, met with Ambassador
Rice on July 7. Ambassador Rice thanked Smith for the
positive impact he has had as Executive Director. Smith
provided an overview of CTED's work and shared some recent
initiatives. He also asked for U.S. support in the area of
human rights and counter-terrorism. As an example, he said
there is an expectation that CTED, when assessing states'
implementation of resolution 1373, will also look at whether
states respect human rights norms in the process. In
response to his request for U.S. support on human rights,
Ambassador Rice said Smith could count on U.S. support in
this area, assuming what he meant by "human rights" in this
context was civil liberties and rule of law.
2. (U) Smith conveyed that CTED has initiated plans for a
three day workshop in Bangladesh in early November for police
officers and prosecutors on effectively countering terrorism.
He also shared that CTED has proposed to hold a judicial
workshop for legislators of the National Assembly and Senate
of Pakistan in Islamabad in the fall. The objective of this
meeting, he said, is to provide Pakistan support in its
effort to improve the legislative framework of its anti-money
laundering regime by offering parliamentary drafters and
other stake holders access to the relevant expertise required
to complete their tasks.
3. (U) In response to Ambassador Rice's question as to how
many countries CTED plans to visit this year, Smith said that
CTED will visit more than twenty. In the previous year,
Smith said CTED visited only eight countries. Now, he said
CTED conducts more focused visits taking less time and some
visits have been regional visits where a number of countries
are visited during one trip. Smith mentioned that the only
region in the world that has not embraced CTED is Latin
America. Although Argentina agreed to a visit while it was
on the Security Council, Smith said Costa Rica, Uruguay and
Brazil have declined a visit from CTED.
RICE