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Viewing cable 07BRUSSELS810, DISCUSISONS WITH THE EU AND NATO ON LEGAL ISSUES

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07BRUSSELS810 2007-03-12 06:17 2011-08-30 01:44 CONFIDENTIAL USEU Brussels
VZCZCXRO2278
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DE RUEHBS #0810/01 0710617
ZNY CCCCC ZZH
O 120617Z MAR 07 ZDK CTG #597
FM USEU BRUSSELS
TO RUEAIIA/CIA WASHDC IMMEDIATE
RUEAWJA/DEPT OF JUSTICE WASHDC IMMEDIATE
RHEHNSC/NSC WASHDC IMMEDIATE
RUEKJCS/DOD WASHDC IMMEDIATE
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INFO RUCNMEM/EU MEMBER STATES COLLECTIVE PRIORITY
C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 04 BRUSSELS 000810 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
DOD FOR JIM HAYNES 
NSC FOR RICHARD KLINGLER 
DOJ FOR STEVE BRADBURY AND KEN WAINSTEIN 
CIA FOR JOHN RIZZO 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/08/2017 
TAGS: PTER PREL EUN
SUBJECT: DISCUSISONS WITH THE EU AND NATO ON LEGAL ISSUES 
ASSOCIATED WITH THE WAR ON TERRORISM 
 
 
BRUSSELS 00000810  001.2 OF 004 
 
 
Classified By: Classied by EMIN John Sammis for reason 1.4 (b) and (d) 
 
1.  (C)  Summary.  John Bellinger, Legal Adviser at the State 
Department, and Joshua Dorosin, Assistant Legal Adviser for 
Political and Military Affairs, met February 27 with their 
counterparts from the 27 EU Member States and representatives 
from the Council and Commission Secretariat.  The majority of 
the three hour meeting was devoted to discussion of the U.S. 
response to the EU non-paper on principles of international 
law relevant to counter-terrorism and concluded with a short 
update on developments in the United States.  There was 
considerable discussion of whether it is possible as a legal 
matter for a state to be in an armed conflict with a 
non-state actor, like Al Qaeda, outside that state,s 
territory and what specific rules would govern the treatment 
of individuals detained in such a conflict.  In this 
connection, Bellinger explained that the U.S. Supreme Court 
had decided that only a narrow part of the Geneva Convention 
- Common Article 3 - applies to Al Qaeda detainees and that 
the limited nature of Common Article 3 does not provide a 
comprehensive framework for this kind of conflict.  Bellinger 
stressed that the dialogue with the EU has been beneficial in 
highlighting the complexity and nuances of these issues.  He 
also noted that it is important to remember that the United 
States and EU member states have different legal obligations. 
 Bellinger said that over the next few years the US and 
others will need to work together and assess the sufficiency 
of the existing legal framework.  Discussions with the EU on 
the non-paper will continue in March in Strasbourg.  End 
summary. 
 
Discussions with the EU 
 
2.  (C)  Bellinger started by noting that this dialogue has 
been going on for a year and that the United States has 
benefited from the exchange.  He said that the U.S. position 
has been informed by the comments from the European side and 
has served to clarify the existing legal framework.  Turning 
to the EU non-paper on principles of international law 
relevant to counter-terrorism, he said that the United States 
agrees with many of the elements of the paper.  The points of 
disagreement, he said, are well known and include 
extra-territorial application of the ICCPR and the Convention 
Against Torture (CAT).  Bellinger indicated that some of the 
elements of the EU non-paper are overly broad and do not take 
into account specific scenarios that could arise.  Bellinger 
appreciated that the non-paper accepts that the applicability 
of international humanitarian law (IHL) has to be looked at 
on a case by case basis.  The UK and France agreed that the 
United States and the EU have different legal obligations but 
said that there should be a common interpretation where the 
obligations are the same.  Sweden said that the problem was 
not when a country applied a higher standard but when the 
standard was &watered down.8 
 
Application of international humanitarian law 
 
3. (C)  Bellinger argued that the &global war against 
terror8 is a political rather than a legal statement.  He 
stressed that the important aspect is that there is an armed 
conflict with a non-state actor that is attacking the United 
States in different places around the world.  Bellinger noted 
that the United States and the EU have come closer on this 
question.  Initially, the EU position was that there was no 
conflict anywhere and the EU perception was that the United 
States was saying that the conflict was everywhere; the two 
sides now agree that there is armed conflict in some places. 
Denmark and the UK agreed that a state can be in armed 
conflict with a non-state actor, but stressed the need for 
territorial and other factors that define the conflict.  The 
UK asked how al Qaeda is defined.   Bellinger responded that 
defining when and where IHL applies to the conflict with al 
Qaeda is not easy, but that it is important to recognize that 
IHL does apply in some cases.  In other cases a criminal law 
framework would be appropriate.  Bellinger noted that the UN 
report on Guantanamo had not looked at IHL and therefore 
misstated the appropriate legal framework for the analysis. 
Bellinger encouraged EU member states to raise this problem 
with UN officials. 
 
Protection for detainees 
 
4.  (C)  Bellinger explained that the U.S. Supreme Court had 
 
BRUSSELS 00000810  002.2 OF 004 
 
 
decided that only a narrow part of the Geneva Convention - 
Common Article 3 - applies to Al Qaeda detainees and that the 
limited nature of Common Article 3 does not provide a 
comprehensive framework for this kind of conflict.  France 
and Germany argued that Article 575 of Additional Protocol I 
should also apply.  Bellinger responded that the U.S. 
reflects these stand legal 
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situatioping area 
of the law. He pointed out that human rights law was designed 
to cover a state,s treatment of its own nationals, and 
cannot simply be imported wholesale into situations of armed 
conflict. 
 
Procedural rights of detainees and extraterritorial 
application of ICCPR 
 
7. (C)  The discussion on this element focused on whether the 
detainees have procedural rights (as the EU paper states) or 
whether states have obligations to provide detainees with 
particular forms of process, depending on the status of the 
detainee.  Bellinger agreed that detainees have rights but 
that these flow from the obligation on states to provide 
procedural protections, rather than as individual 
protections.  France, Sweden, and Belgium argued that there 
are individual rights as well, because human rights law, 
which provides individual rights, also applies.  Bellinger 
noted that creating individual rights of action could result 
in a mass of litigation.  On this point, Bellinger stated 
that the United States disagrees that the ICCPR creates a 
legal requirement to extend human rights protections outside 
the territory of a state party.  The EU non-paper states that 
the ICCPR applies to acts done by a state in the exercise of 
its jurisdiction outside its own territory.  The U.S. 
position is that the ICCPR applies to individuals who are 
both within a state,s territory and subject to that state,s 
jurisdiction.   The European Commission, supported by Sweden, 
noted that the U.S. position is creating the impression that 
there is a deliberate gap in the law that applies to 
detainees.  Bellinger accepted this difficulty but stressed 
that this is a result of the current legal framework.  He 
said that over the next few years the United States and 
others will need to work together and assess what rules 
should apply in these circumstances. 
 
Expulsion, return, and extradition 
 
8.  (C)  Bellinger stated that the United States believes 
that Article 3 of the Convention Against Torture does not 
apply to individuals who are outside the territory of the 
State Party.  The EU,s non-paper seems to imply that 
renditions should be prohibited.  Bellinger noted that 
renditions are not per se illegal and, in certain rare 
circumstances, have an important role to play in the fight 
 
BRUSSELS 00000810  003 OF 004 
 
 
against terrorism; he advocated that the EU take a more 
nuanced view on this issue.  Bellinger stated that the U.S. 
policy is not to hand over an individual to another state 
where it is more likely than not that the individual will be 
tortured.  Bellinger said the problem with the non-paper and 
the report of the European Parliament,s Venice Commission is 
that they are overly broad. 
 
Detention without notice 
 
9.  (C)  Bellinger stated that detention without notice does 
not violate international law.  France and Belgium argued 
that secret detention is not legal and noted the recent 
signing of the Enforced Disappearance Convention. 
 
Recent developments in U.S. law 
 
10.  (C)  At the end of the meeting, Bellinger provided an 
update on the recent decision of the D.C. Court of Appeals 
and the military commission rules.  Bellinger explained that 
the court had interpreted the Military Commissions Act and 
found that the statute constitutionally removed habeas 
jurisdiction over the claims of Guantanamo detainees. 
Bellinger stressed that what the press had missed is that 
detainees do have a different right to appeal directly to the 
U.S. courts under the Military Commissions Act and Detainee 
Treatment Act.  Bellinger said that in January DOD finalized 
the rules of procedure that will apply to the military 
commissions.  Dorosin explained that the procedures are 
similar conceptually to court martial proceedings and cover 
three elements: general rules of procedure, rules of 
evidence, and crimes triable by military commission.  Dorosin 
explained that the procedures provide safeguards to ensure a 
full and fair trial that are fully consistent with Common 
Article 3, the standard that the Supreme Court found 
applicable to the U.S. conflict with Al Qaeda.  Dorosin 
indicated that there has been some concern with respect to 
the use of coerce the rules reher hand.  t`@Q`hh es.  To them, t Mr. Bellinger 
noted the United States adheres to the Geneva Conventions but 
stressed that Article 3, which our Supreme Court determined 
was the only part of the Geneva Conventions applicable to our 
conflict with al Qaeda, does not comprehensively address all 
aspects of detention in conflicts with non-state actors. 
Despite the perception that the United States is bending or 
breaking the rules, Mr. Bellinger noted there are in fact no 
clear rules.  While no decisions had been made on how to 
address this situation, if the Geneva Conventions are to be 
changed or enhanced, it will take years of serious 
consultations.  However, Mr. Bellinger reassured the NATO 
PermReps that, in the interim, the rights of detainees are 
being protected to the extent of existing international law 
wherever U.S. troops operate around the world.  He encouraged 
his interlocutors to speak publicly about the limitations of 
international law on these issues. 
 
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13.  This cable has been cleared by Mr. Dorosin. 
 
Gray 
 
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