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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 ASTANA 001376 
 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPT FOR SCA/CEN, ISN/ECC, EUR/ACE, SCA/RA, CBP/INA 
STATE PASS TO DOE/NNSA 
AMEMBASSY BERLIN FOR CUSTOMS ATTACHE 
AMEMBASSY TASHKENT, BISHKEK, BAKU, DUSHANBE AND ASHGABAT FOR EXBS 
ADVISORS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PARM PREL ETTC MNUC KNNP KSTC KZ
 
SUBJECT:  KAZAKHSTAN:  EXBS ADVISOR'S REPORTING CABLE (JULY 2009) 
 
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¶I.  BROAD ITEMS OF INTEREST TO ADVISORS AND AGENCY MANAGERS 
 
¶1.  The Export Control and Related Border Security Program (EXBS) 
was successful in nominating three Kazakhstani Customs Officers, 
Ermek Smagulov, Marat Kabdushev, and Abzal Shogelbaev, for 
participation in the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) 
in Washington D.C., from August 24 to September 16. 
 
¶2.  On July 27, a Diplomatic Note was sent to the Ministry of 
Foreign Affairs inviting Dr. Gulnara Eligbayeva, Kazakhstan Atomic 
Energy Committee, to a Technical Experts Working Group (TEWG) 
conference in Istanbul, Turkey, from September 15-18.  This event is 
sponsored by the Department of Energy's International 
Nonproliferation Export Control Program (INECP). 
 
¶3.  The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Office of 
International Affairs has announced that Karen Chaisson will replace 
Sandy Baker as Kazakhstan program manager for CBP. 
 
¶4.  The new Astana EXBS advisor, Paul J. Shott, is scheduled to 
arrive in Astana on August 30.  The current Astana EXBS advisor will 
depart post on September 12 and be on leave until the end of his 
contract. 
 
II. COMPLETED ACTIONS FOR THE REPORTING PERIOD 
 
¶A.  SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS CONDUCTED 
 
¶5.  On July 16, the EXBS advisor was informed that Kazakhstan 
Customs Control Committee Chairman Kozy-Korpesh Zhaparkhanovich 
Karbuzov and the Secretary General of the World Customs Organization 
(WCO) Kunio Mikuriya signed a Memorandum establishing a Regional 
Training Centre for Central Asia in Astana, Kazakhstan.  The opening 
ceremony of this Central Asia Regional Training Centre is scheduled 
for December in Astana during the WCO Secretary General's visit. 
 
¶6.  On July 16, the EXBS advisor was informed that Kazakhstan had 
deposited their instruments of accession to the Revised Kyoto 
Convention on the simplification and harmonization of Customs 
procedures to the WCO Secretary General, raising the number of 
contracting parties to sixty-two. 
 
¶7.  On July 17, the EXBS advisor was informed by Colonel Mermankulov 
Meirkhan, Customs Control Committee, that the Government of 
Kazakhstan is interested in entering into an extradition agreement 
with the United States.  Mr. Alzhan Nurbekov, Senior Prosecutor of 
the International Cooperation Department, was designated as the 
Kazakhstani point of contact and Senior Special Agent Kenneth Jones, 
Legal Attache at the U.S. Embassy in Astana, was designated at the 
point of contact for the U.S. 
 
¶8.  On July 28, the EXBS advisor participated in a Security 
Assistance Working Group (SAWG) meeting on border security 
assistance to the Government of Kazakhstan. 
 
¶B. TRAINING COURSES CONDUCTED DURING THE REPORTING PERIOD 
 
¶9.  From July 16-17, the U.S. Department of Justice Office of 
Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training (OPDAT) 
successfully conducted an U.S.-Kazakhstan Export Control and 
Counter-Proliferation Exchange Workshop for prosecutors and 
investigators in Almaty.  The workshop consisted of 23 
representatives from the General Prosecutor Office, Ministry of 
Interior, Customs Control Committee, and National Security 
Committee.  U.S. participants included Nancy Langston, OPDAT 
Resident Legal Advisor, U.S. Embassy Kyrgyzstan; Heather Schmidt, 
Trial Attorney, National Security Division of the U.S. Department of 
Justice; James Warwick, Assistant U.S. Attorney, District of 
 
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Maryland; John Burgess, Senior Special Agent and Assistant ICE 
Attache, U.S. Embassy Singapore; and Olga Kalashnikova, OPDAT 
Program Analyst for Counterterrorism Programs. 
¶C.  EQUIPMENT DELIVERED DURING THE REPORTING PERIOD 
 
¶10.  None 
 
¶D.  IMMINENT TRAINING OR EQUIPMENT STATUS UPDATE 
 
¶11.  The Regional Procurement Support Office/Frankfurt (RPSO) is 
working on the procurement of three (3) portable modular shelter 
complexes valued at $850,000 for the Kazakhstani Border Guard 
Service.   The Nuclear Smuggling Outreach Initiative (NSOI) has 
provided an additional $300,000 in funding to be added to this 
contract for procurement of an additional portable modular shelter 
complex in support of the Kazakhstan Green Border Project. 
 
¶12.  The Regional Procurement Support Office/Frankfurt (RPSO) is 
working on the procurement of six (6) x-ray screening systems valued 
at $625,000 for the Kazakhstan Customs Control Committee. 
 
¶13.  The Astana General Services Office is working on the 
procurement of 85 laptops and nine (9) power point projectors with 
screens valued at $75,000 for the Kazakhstani Border Guard Service's 
Training Centers. 
 
¶E. SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENTS IN EXPORT CONTROLS, NONPROLIFERATION, OR 
RELATED BORDER SECURITY 
 
¶14.  None 
 
¶F.  CASPIAN SECURITY INFORMATION 
 
¶15.  The EXBS advisor notified Shewit Habtemichael, 
U.S. Coast Guard International Affairs, that the Ambassador has 
decided that no U.S. Government funds should be expended to repair 
the "Sea Ark," a 42-foot vessel donated in 1996 to Kazakhstan's 
Maritime Border Guards. 
 
III. RED FLAG ISSUES: 
 
¶16.  None 
 
HOAGLAND