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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 03 ALMATY 001287 
 
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AMEMBASSY BERLIN FOR CUSTOMS ATTACHE 
AMEMBASSY TASHKENT, BISHKEK, BAKU, DUSHANBE FOR EXBS 
ADVISORS 
 
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TAGS: ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP KZ
SUBJECT:  EXBS: KAZAKHSTAN ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE 
(MARCH 2006) 
 
 
¶I. BROAD ITEMS OF INTEREST TO ADVISORS AND AGENCY MANAGERS: 
 
     ¶1. EXBS Almaty continues its spring cleaning in 
preparation for the June 26 move to Astana. 
 
     ¶2. The Almaty EXBS office initiated the CAJE process 
for a second LES position--an EXBS Program Assistant--and 
expects to have the new employee on board by June. 
 
II. COMPLETED ACTIONS FOR THE REPORTING PERIOD 
 
¶A. SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS CONDUCTED 
 
     ¶1. March 3 - Advisor Offenbacher met with Olga Oliker 
and Jennifer Moroney of the RAND Corporation to discuss the 
EXBS program's activities in Kazakhstan.  Olga and Jennifer 
talked about their research projects to assess security 
assistance in the region. 
 
     ¶2. March 13 - EXBS Advisor and Anne Cummings, EXBS 
Program Officer for Central Asia, discussed the EXBS 
program's activities and priorities in Astana with 
Kazakhstan's Border Service, Customs Control Committee, and 
the Ministry of Industry and Trade. 
 
     ¶3. March 14 - Anne Cummings and Advisor Offenbacher 
attended a meeting with Major General Bauyrzhan Yelubayev, 
the new director of the Almaty-based Military Academy, to 
identify potential areas of cooperation.  Members of the 
Military Academy's Border Control Faculty also attended the 
meeting.  Mr. Yelubayev and his colleagues expressed an 
interest in receiving training and one or more samples of 
each piece of equipment EXBS provides to the Border 
Service. 
 
     ¶4. March 14 - Ms. Cummings and Mr. Offenbacher joined 
two representatives from the Monterey Institute's Center 
for Nonproliferation Studies NIS Representative Office for 
lunch. 
 
     ¶5. March 17 - Ms. Cummings and Advisor Offenbacher met 
with regional USAID representatives Margaret McCarthy and 
John Lord to discuss the possible use of their office's 
services for future EXBS procurements.  USAID felt 
additional time and data would be necessary to determine 
whether this option is advisable. 
 
     ¶6. March 23 - EXBS Advisor met with Ulrich Rainer, 
Project Manager with the European Commission's regional 
office in Almaty, to discuss the EU's Border Management 
Program for Central Asia (BOMCA).  A relatively small 
portion of the 42 million Euros allocated for the program 
from 2002-2009 has been spent to date.  BOMCA's primary 
focus has been on Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan (and 
Turkmenistan, to a lesser extent); several projects are 
currently being planned for Kazakhstan but BOMCA does not 
focus specifically on WMD nonproliferation or export 
controls. 
 
     ¶7. March 28-29 - EXBS Advisor attended the EXBS annual 
meeting in Vienna. 
 
     ¶8. March 30 - Advisor Offenbacher joined the other 
three EXBS Advisors for Central Asia and EXBS Program 
Director Paul Van Son for a meeting at Austrian Ministry of 
the Interior to discuss the BOMCA program. 
 
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¶B.  TRAINING DURING THE REPORTING PERIOD 
 
     ¶1. March 13-17 - A pilot commodity identification 
training was held at a customs training facility in Almaty 
for personnel from Kazakhstan's Customs Control Committee 
and Border Service.  Several years in the works, this week- 
long event had, for the first time, Kazakhstani nuclear 
technical experts teaching most of the course's units.  Two 
representatives of the National Nuclear Security 
Administration's International Nonproliferation Export 
Control Program attended and provided support for the 
training.  The training was well delivered, well received, 
and the students were attentive and actively participated. 
 
¶C. EQUIPMENT DELIVERED DURING THE REPORTING PERIOD 
 
     ¶1. None. 
 
¶D. IMMINENT TRAINING OR EQUIPMENT STATUS UPDATE 
 
     ¶1. SAFE BOATS - The three boats and spare parts 
provided to Kazakhstan by the U.S. Coast Guard were 
delivered to Aktau on March 15.  Although the boats' final 
destination is Bautino, some 100 miles north of Aktau, the 
boats remain in Aktau as Kazakhstani Customs refuses to 
release the vessels from temporary storage without the 
proper documentation.  EXBS has devoted much time and 
effort in working to resolve this issue.  We are 
communicating with Embassy Almaty offices, EXBS Baku, the 
U.S. Coast Guard and its transportation service provider, 
and several Kazakhstani agencies in an effort to break the 
current bureaucratic impasse. 
 
     A turnover ceremony for the boats has been rescheduled 
for the week of May 15 in Bautino, although there is a 
chance this date will slip (once again) due to the present 
difficulties in obtaining customs clearance. 
 
     ¶2. LES TRAINING - EXBS Program Coordinator Gulnara 
Abildaeva will travel to Stockholm, Sweden the week of 
April 24 to attend two training sessions on administering 
grants and cooperative agreements. 
 
     ¶3. CENTRAL ASIA AND CAUCASUS REGIONAL FORUM ON EXPORT 
CONTROL - Kazakhstan will send six delegates (five 
participants and one speaker) to the U.S. Department of 
Commerce's regional event to be held in Tbilisi, Georgia 
from May 16-18.  Mr. Chingiz Massenov of Kazakhstan's 
Atomic Energy Committee will deliver a presentation on risk- 
screening methods. 
 
     ¶4. NUCLEAR SMUGGLING INITIATIVE, PART II - A tentative 
date of May 22 has been established for a follow-on meeting 
to last month's US-Kazakhstani talks on combating nuclear 
smuggling.  The State Department's Office of Cooperative 
Threat Reduction within the Bureau of International 
Security and Nonproliferation is coordinating this effort. 
 
     ¶5. INTERNAL COMPLIANCE PROGRAM WORKSHOP IN KYZYLORDA 
-NNSA's International Nonproliferation Export Control 
Program (NA-242) representatives will participate in this 
ICP outreach event for nuclear industries from May 23-25. 
 
     ¶6. TRACKER EFFORT - This hardware, software and 
training package for import/export licensing communication 
 
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has a long and less than successful history in Kazakhstan. 
Nevertheless, Kazakhstan's Ministry of Industry and Trade 
recently indicated an interest in revisiting the program 
and EXBS Almaty has tentatively scheduled a visit by 
Tracker program representatives the week of May 22. 
 
     ¶7. END-USE/END-USER ANALYSIS WORKSHOP - The NNSA's NA- 
242 intends to hold this event in Astana on June 15-16. 
 
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