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UNCLAS  ALMATY 004386 
 
SIPDIS 
 
 
DEPT FOR NP/ECC PVANSON, ACHURCH, ACUMMINGS 
CBP/INA FOR PWARKER AND CDONOFRIO 
USDOE/NNSA FOR TPERRY 
DEPT FOR EUR/ACE 
DOC FOR PETERSON-BEARD 
AMEMBASSY BERLIN FOR CUSTOMS ATTACHE 
AMEMBASSY TASHKENT, BISHKEK, BAKU, DUSHANBE FOR EXBS 
ADVISORS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP KZ EXBS
SUBJECT:  EXBS: KAZAKHSTAN ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE 
(NOVEMBER 2005) 
 
¶I. BROAD ITEMS OF INTEREST TO ADVISORS AND AGENCY MANAGERS: 
 
     ¶1. EXBS Advisor Offenbacher will travel to the United 
States on December 10 for training (December 12-16), 
consultations (January 9-13), vacation, and to sign a new 
contract.  He hopes to be able to return to return to post 
by mid-January. 
 
II. COMPLETED ACTIONS FOR THE REPORTING PERIOD 
 
¶A. SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS CONDUCTED 
 
     ¶1. November 3 - EXBS Advisor Offenbacher and Program 
Manager Abildaeva participated in an information-sharing 
meeting with Douglas Brisson and the Defense Threat 
Reduction Agency's (DTRA) Mark Sullivan to discuss the 
recently-signed WMD-PPI agreement.  WMD-PPI efforts in 
Kazakhstan are focused on the Caspian region and program 
implementation is not likely to begin until later next 
year.  In the interim, Sullivan and Brisson intend to 
develop a needs and requirements document. 
 
     ¶2. November 16 - EXBS Advisor and Program Manager 
attended a reception hosted by DTRA's International 
Counterproliferation Program (ICP) at the Hyatt Hotel in 
Almaty.  The event was organized for Kazakhstani 
participants from several agencies attending two 
nonproliferation-related training courses held by DTRA ICP 
that week. 
 
     ¶3. November 28-29 - EXBS Advisor and Program Manager 
traveled to Astana to attend two meetings with senior 
Customs Control Committee and Border Service officials to 
discuss their EXBS program needs in FY2006.  The 
conversations with both agencies' representatives were both 
candid and fruitful, and provided the EXBS Advisor with a 
more detailed understanding of their training and equipment 
priorities. 
 
¶B.  TRAINING DURING THE REPORTING PERIOD 
 
     ¶1. November 13-16 - The National Nuclear Security 
Administration's (NNSA) Office of Global Security 
Engagement and Cooperation sponsored a "Central Asia 
Technical Workshop to Prevent the Illicit Trafficking of 
Nuclear and Radioactive Materials" in Istanbul, Turkey. 
Alexandra Vozhakova, Chief of the Customs Control 
Committee's Radiological Control Department, and Tazhikhan 
Serikbai, Head of Customs' Contraband Department, 
represented Kazakhstan at the event. 
 
     ¶2. November 13-15 - The NNSA's International 
Nonproliferation Export Control Program (NNSA/INECP) 
conducted a seminar in Shymkent on export controls and 
internal compliance for representatives of several South 
Kazakhstan Oblast uranium extraction facilities. 
 
¶C. EQUIPMENT DELIVERED DURING THE REPORTING PERIOD 
 
     ¶1. November 1 - EXBS Program Manager Gulnara Abildaeva 
traveled to Aktau to transfer two URAL 4320 high-clearance, 
six-wheel diesel trucks to the Border Service of 
Kazakhstan.  The vehicles will be stationed in Aktau and at 
the Beineu frontier station and are to be deployed along 
the Kazakhstan-Uzbekistan "green border" for the transport 
of troops and supplies.  Funding for the purchase of the 
trucks was received by EXBS Almaty in September 2005 and 
was authorized in State 170780. 
 
     ¶2. Mid-November - EXBS Kazakhstan transferred 96 DTRA- 
purchased evidence collection kits to three Kazakhstani 
agencies: 38 to Customs, 10 to the Border Service, and 48 
to the Traffic Police.  Although the kits were originally 
 
 
shipped to Kazakhstan in December 2002, their distribution 
was delayed until now for bureaucratic reasons. 
 
¶D. IMMINENT TRAINING OR EQUIPMENT STATUS UPDATE 
 
     ¶1. In the first half of November the State Department 
approved an export license for three 42-foot SAFE boats. 
The boats were procured by the U.S. Coast Guard for the 
Maritime Division of the Kazakhstani Border Service and are 
currently en route to the Border Service unit at Bautino. 
It is estimated they will arrive to the Caspian in early 
January. 
 
     ¶2. November 25 - A Kohler diesel generator to be given 
to Kazakhstan was delivered to the Almaty airport.  The 
procurement was arranged by the EXBS Regional Maritime 
office in Baku and was requested by the Kazakhstan Border 
Guard's Marine Division for their SeaArk boat.  Due to a 
miscommunication the generator was delivered to Almaty 
instead of Aktau.  The logistics company will forward the 
generator to Aktau as soon EXBS Baku can ascertain who is 
liable for the additional shipping charges. 
 
     ¶2. December 7-13 - A Bechtel team of two will perform 
regularly scheduled maintenance on Kazakhstan's two x-ray 
vans.  The vans are located at the Kordai and Zhibek Zholy 
ports of entry.  The van at Zhibek Zholy (near Shymkent) is 
currently out of commission and EXBS Kazakhstan hopes the 
team will be successful in making it operational again. 
 
     ¶3. December 12-14 - Two representatives from 
Commonwealth Trading Partners (CTP), a Department of 
Commerce contractor, will travel to Astana to conduct 
project review meetings.  They will discuss, among other 
things, the progress to date on the customization of the 
Product Identification Tool (PIT). 
 
The PIT Instructor Training event originally scheduled to 
be held the week of December 12 had to be postponed due to 
local contractor issues. 
 
     ¶6. February 17 - A turnover ceremony for the three 
SAFE boats has been scheduled to be held in either Aktau or 
Bautino. 
 
¶E. SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENTS IN EXPORT CONTROLS, 
NONPROLIFERATION, OR RELATED BORDER SECURITY 
 
     Within the framework of the Eurasian Economic 
Community (EurasEC), the Parliament of Kazakhstan has 
ratified an agreement on uniform export control procedures. 
Five countries are currently members of EurasEC: Russia, 
Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan.  This 
development is significant because it may make it easier 
for controlled commodities to cross the borders between 
these countries. 
 
¶F. CASPIAN SECURITY UPDATE 
 
     Please see section C, paragraph 1 and section D, 
paragraph 1 above. 
 
III. RED FLAG ISSUES. 
 
     None. 
 
The point of contact for this report is Andrew S. 
Offenbacher, EXBS Advisor, OffenbacherAS@state.gov, tel: 
+7(3272)50-4945, cell: +7(333)225-1156. 
 
ORDWAY 
 
 
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