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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 06 STATE 069343 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KNNP MNUC PARM PREL
SUBJECT: PSI: SUMMARY OF MAY 28-29, 2008 PSI 5TH 
ANNIVERSARY SENIOR LEVEL MEETING AND OUTREACH WORKSHOP 
 
REF: A. STATE 023568 
     ¶B. STATE 023570 
 
 ¶1.  SUMMARY:  On the occasion of the fifth anniversary since 
the President's announcement of the Proliferation Security 
Initiative (PSI), the U.S. hosted a PSI Senior Level Meeting 
and PSI Outreach Workshop on May 28-29, 2008 in Washington, 
DC.  The May 28 senior level meeting was for senior 
nonproliferation policy-makers from all PSI endorsing states. 
 The 86 PSI states represented at the meeting reviewed the 
PSI's results and successes over the last five years and 
looked at ways to continue strengthening the Initiative for 
the future.  On May 29, the U.S. and PSI partners presented a 
PSI outreach workshop that provided detailed information on 
the broad range of PSI activities for all states interested 
in learning more about the PSI, both endorsing states and 
non-endorsing states.  21 non-PSI states attended the 
outreach workshop, as well as all but a few of the PSI 
endorsing states. 
 
¶2.  OBJECTIVE AND ACTION REQUESTED:  Washington wishes to 
provide PSI-endorsing states the following summaries of the 
results of the PSI Senior Level Meeting and Outreach 
Workshop.  Posts are requested to provide the following 
summaries of the May 28-29 meetings to host government 
officials from relevant agencies such as Ministries of 
Foreign Affairs, Ministries of Defense, Law Enforcement 
Agencies (including Customs, Border Guards, etc.), and 
Intelligence Agencies. 
 
¶3.  POINTS OF CONTACT:  Additional meeting materials and 
presentations for posts' reference can be provided by 
State/ISN/CPI Carlos Guzman (GuzmanCS@state.gov) or Jane 
Purcell (PurcelJA@state.gov) upon request. 
 
¶4.  BEGIN TEXT OF SUMMARY OF THE PSI FIFTH ANNIVERSARY SENIOR 
LEVEL MEETING HELD ON MAY 28, 2008: 
 
John C. Rood, U.S. Acting Under Secretary of State for Arms 
Control and International Security, chaired the Senior-Level 
Meeting on Wednesday, May 28, 2008, open to all states that 
have endorsed the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI). 
86 of the 92 PSI endorsing countries sent representatives to 
the meeting.  The focus of the meeting was to review the 
 
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PSI,s results and successes over the last five years and 
look at ways to continue strengthening the PSI for the future. 
 
The meeting covered a broad range of topics, including 
reviewing the first five years of the PSI and identifying 
challenges for the future; discussing efforts to strengthen 
international frameworks to combat WMD proliferation; and 
expanding distribution of PSI information to all PSI 
partners.  Stephen J. Hadley, Assistant to the President for 
National Security Affairs, gave the keynote address 
discussing proliferation challenges for the 21st century, and 
how the PSI can continue to help meet the 
counterproliferation challenges in the years ahead. The 
address was the only event open to the media and attracted 
considerable attention from the press. 
 
-- TAKING STOCK: THE FIRST FIVE YEARS.  France led a panel of 
speakers from Spain, The Netherlands, Russia, and Italy that 
reviewed the first five successful years of the PSI; looked 
back at lessons learned over the last five years on 
implementing PSI; described issues that pose obstacles in 
implementing the PSI Statement of Interdiction Principles, 
and raised ideas about the way ahead to solve them. During 
open discussion the panel challenged PSI partners to develop 
ideas on the right tools to intervene and to focus on those 
problems that need improvement both at the national and 
international level. Panelists introduced ideas to maintain 
momentum such as continued PSI exercises, improved national 
decision-making processes, improvements in legal frameworks, 
outreach to industry, and outreach to non-PSI countries. 
Through these means, PSI partners will maintain the ability 
to adapt to the ever changing and deceptive methods used by 
proliferators. 
 
-- LOOKING AHEAD: CONTINUING TO STRENGTHEN THE PSI.  The UK 
led a panel of speakers from Turkey, New Zealand, Croatia, 
Lithuania, and Kazakhstan that discussed current 
proliferation threats; challenges of the current 
proliferation environment and ideas on how to deal with them; 
how to improve international cooperation for more rapid 
interdiction action; ways to increase PSI countries, 
participation in PSI activities; ideas on how PSI countries 
can improve regional capacities and cooperation; and the 
importance and challenges of countering proliferation by air. 
 
--  KEYNOTE LUNCHEON ADDRESS.  Poland's MFA Under Secretary 
of State Witold Waszczykowski discussed the contributions PSI 
has made in the last five years, highlighted the regional 
cooperation in Central and Eastern Europe in PSI activities, 
 
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and encouraged all PSI partners to organize regional 
activities and outreach, so as to continue broadening the 
international consensus in support of the fight against the 
proliferation of WMD. 
 
-- EFFORTS TO STRENGTHEN INTERNATIONAL FRAMEWORKS.  Japan led 
a panel of speakers from Canada, Australia, the UAE, and 
Spain on how new treaties and frameworks support the PSI; and 
how the PSI can fill gaps and assist in examining and 
strengthening national legal authorities and applicable 
international law.  The panelists discussed the role of UN 
Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1540, UNSCRs 1718 (DPRK) 
and 1737/1747/1803 (Iran), proliferation finance guidance 
produced by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), illicit 
WMD proliferation during meetings of the International Civil 
Aviation Organization (ICAO), and the 2005 protocols to the 
Convention on the Suppression of Unlawful Acts (SUA) Against 
the Safety of Maritime Navigation. 
 
-- EXPANDING THE DISTRIBUTION OF PSI INFORMATION.  Germany 
offered a detailed brief on its efforts to develop a web 
portal available to PSI partners to enhance collective and 
individual interdiction capability through 
information-sharing, using a password-protected PSI website. 
The PSI website is available for initial review by all PSI 
partners. Access to the website can be obtained through the 
local German Embassy for login and password information. 
 
-- WASHINGTON DECLARATION FOR THE PSI 5TH ANNIVERSARY SENIOR 
LEVEL MEETING.  The meeting concluded with the adoption of 
the Washington Declaration reaffirming the commitment of all 
PSI partners to the Statement of Interdiction Principles and 
renewed efforts to strengthen the PSI at both the national 
and international level. 
 
Meeting information can be found at the U.S. PSI webpage at 
www.state.gov/t/isn/c10390.htm , to include the Washington 
Declaration, NSA Stephen Hadley's speech, updated PSI fact 
sheet, and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's). Available 
presentation materials were distributed to PSI country 
representatives who attended the meeting on May 28. 
Presentation materials are available upon request. 
 
END TEXT. 
 
¶5.  BEGIN TEXT OF SUMMARY OF THE PSI FIFTH ANNIVERSARY 
OUTREACH WORKSHOP HELD ON MAY 29, 2008: 
 
Patricia A. McNerney, Acting Assistant Secretary for the 
 
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International Security and Nonproliferation Bureau of the 
U.S. Department of State, chaired a PSI Outreach Workshop on 
Thursday, May 29, open to all PSI countries and non-PSI 
countries.  21 non-PSI countries attended the meeting.  The 
workshop provided detailed information on the broad range of 
PSI activities, and shared best practices and tools that have 
been developed to assist countries with implementing the PSI 
Statement of Interdiction Principles. 
 
-- OVERVIEW OF THE PSI.  France led a panel of speakers from 
the U.S. and UK that addressed the origins of the PSI, the 
Statement of Interdiction Principles and its practical 
implications as a equal and voluntary initiative that fully 
respects national and international laws; and presented new 
examples of PSI successes and the benefits of PSI, 
demonstrating how the PSI enhances the global 
nonproliferation objectives of all countries. 
 
-- CURRRENT PROLIFERATION THREATS AND CHALLENGES. The UK led 
a panel of speakers from Australia, Canada and Italy that 
discussed the challenges posed by transshipments by sea, 
land, and air and lessons learned during the last five years; 
cooperation with industry and involvement of industry in 
support of effective interdiction activities; and challenges 
with interdicting dual-use items and materials. In addition, 
the topic of proliferation finance was introduced to convey 
how proliferators exploit financial vulnerabilities of the 
international financial system to finance the trade of 
prohibited proliferation sensitive items and how FATF has 
developed guidance to deal with this problem at the national 
and international level.  The organization of national 
customs operations to prevent and stop proliferation-related 
trafficking was also covered. 
 
-- THE PSI OPERATIONAL EXPERTS GROUP (OEG).  The UK 
introduced the role of the OEG, emphasizing that the OEG 
works on behalf of all PSI endorsing states to develop 
operational concepts for interdiction; explore related 
operational issues associated with the legal, law 
enforcement, customs and intelligence arenas; and collaborate 
to develop an exercise program to increase partner capacity 
and improve national and international interoperability. The 
presentation highlighted the record of the OEG in the last 
five years to include 16 meetings, over 30 exercises, 
tabletops, and workshops and developing capacity building 
products such as the New Zealand Model National Response Plan 
and the U.S. WMD Commodity Reference Manual. It concluded 
with addressing the challenges for the OEG in the areas of 
growth, sustaining momentum, and adapting to the threat of 
 
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WMD proliferation. 
 
-- THE PSI AND INDUSTRY OUTREACH. Denmark introduced its 
experience with industry outreach to address ways of 
conducting interdiction operations minimizing impact to 
trade; the importance of information exchange between 
government agencies and industry; developing guidelines for 
cooperation; involving industry during exercises; and 
examples on how to conduct industry outreach at the national 
and international level. 
 
-- THE PSI EXERCISE PROGRAM. Poland led a panel of speakers 
from the U.S., Ukraine, and Croatia that introduced the PSI 
exercise program and the history of PSI exercises; explained 
the exercise strategy for current and future exercises; 
discussed the different types of exercises in the maritime, 
land and air domains and described the different interagency 
actions involved with each area.  The presentation also 
discussed the benefits of participating in exercises and 
ideas on level of involvement and participation in future 
exercises, to include non-PSI countries as observers when 
opportunities arise. Ukraine and Poland offered short briefs 
on their respective hosting experiences concerning two recent 
PSI exercises. Ukraine hosted PSI exercise Eastern Shield in 
October 2007 and Croatia hosted PSI exercise Adriatic Shield 
in May 2008. 
 
-- PSI LEGAL LESSONS LEARNED.  The UK and the Netherlands 
introduced a primer on legal aspects related to the PSI, 
emphasizing that all PSI activities are consistent with 
national and international laws. The presentation highlighted 
the importance of taking stock of existing national 
authorities and emphasized the utility of PSI as a tool to 
enforce UNSCR 1540. Additionally the issue of jurisdiction, 
disposition and liability were addressed, highlighting that 
these issues pose short-term implementation challenges in 
some instances but at the same time, demonstrate a measure of 
the success of the PSI in interdicting prohibited WMD-related 
items. 
 
-- ORGANIZING FOR THE PSI. New Zealand provided an overview 
of the PSI Model National Response Plan that provides 
guidance on key issues that a country needs to consider when 
developing a framework for responding to a PSI situation and 
addresses questions and issues to be addressed when 
developing or improving national plans. A copy of the plan 
was distributed to all PSI and non-PSI countries in 
attendance. Singapore provided a brief on how a government 
can organize internal interagency coordination to optimize 
 
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its ability to achieve overall PSI objectives. It highlighted 
the creation of an Inter-Ministerial Committee to assess, 
coordinate, and advise senior officials on relevant agency 
actions related to PSI events, with the goal of achieving 
interconnectivity by all relevant agencies, prompt exchange 
and flow of information, and a timely response. 
 
-- WALK-THROUGH OF AN INTERDICTION SCENARIO. A U.S. Naval War 
College professor facilitated a panel discussion on two 
interdiction actions based on hypothetical WMD trafficking 
interdiction scenarios. The panel consisted of legal, 
diplomatic, policy, military, and custom/law enforcement 
experts highlighting key issues that may arise during an 
interdiction situation. The scenarios provided participants 
with lessons about the PSI that have been identified through 
previous PSI games, exercises, and real world interdictions. 
 
-- HOW EXPORT CONTROLS SUPPORT THE PSI. Romania and Croatia 
presented briefs on their governments' experience in enacting 
export control laws, emphasizing the importance of 
strengthening primary export control legislation; taking 
stock of existing legislation to address gaps with revised 
and new legislation; highlighting the efficiency of a 
catch-all clause; and asserting that all countries, including 
those not a country of origin, face the threat of WMD 
proliferation and may provide opportunities along a 
proliferation or smuggling route. 
 
Note: Available presentation materials were distributed to 
country representatives who attended the workshop on May 29. 
Presentation materials are available upon request. 
 
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