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UNCLAS STATE 075341 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KNNP MNUC PARM PREL
SUBJECT: PSI: SUMMARY OF MAY 29, 2008 PSI 5TH ANNIVERSARY 
OUTREACH WORKSHOP 
 
REF: A. STATE 044509 
     ¶B. STATE 048221 
     ¶C. STATE 029766 (WHA ONLY) 
     ¶D. STATE 028990 (AF ONLY) 
     ¶E. STATE 028996 (NEA ONLY) 
     ¶F. STATE 028161 (EAP ONLY) 
     ¶G. STATE 043617 (SCA ONLY) 
     ¶H. STATE 041602 
 
 ¶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. 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 
and tools that have been developed for training, 
organizing for, and conducting interdictions of shipments 
of proliferation concern. The Workshop provided 
information to representatives attending from 21 
countries that have not yet endorsed the PSI, as well 
as most of the PSI endorsing states. This cable is 
addressed to those countries that have not yet 
endorsed or fully committed to the PSI. 
 
¶2.  OBJECTIVE AND ACTION REQUESTED: Washington wishes to 
thank the non-endorsing countries that attended our PSI 
Outreach Workshop and for embassies to continue 
conducting outreach to encourage the non-endorsing 
countries to officially endorse the PSI. Posts are 
requested to provide the following summary of the May 29 
Outreach Workshop 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. Posts are also requested to seek 
host government's views of the PSI after attending the 
Outreach Workshop and advise Washington about prospects 
for PSI endorsement by host government. We would welcome 
Post recommendations for follow-up outreach efforts with 
host government. 
 
¶3.  REPORTING DEADLINE AND POINTS OF CONTACT: Posts are 
requested to report host governments' reactions by 
July 30.  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 
OUTREACH WORKSHOP HELD ON MAY 29, 2008: 
 
Patricia A. McNerney, Acting Assistant Secretary for the 
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.  Representatives from 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. 
 
-- CURRENT 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 vulnerabilities of the international financial 
system to finance the trade of proliferation sensitive 
items and how the Financial Action Task Force (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 WMD proliferation. 
 
-- THE PSI AND INDUSTRY OUTREACH. Denmark introduced its 
experience with industry outreach to address ways of 
conducting interdiction operations while 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 experiences in hosting 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 issues 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 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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