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Viewing cable 09BRUSSELS1733, U.S.-EU Drugs Troika Advances Counternarcotics Cooperation

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09BRUSSELS1733 2009-12-29 16:41 2011-08-30 01:44 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY USEU Brussels
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R 291641Z DEC 09
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INFO RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK
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RUCNMEU/EU INTEREST COLLECTIVE
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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 04 BRUSSELS 001733 
 
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TAGS: SNAR KCOR KCRM PGOV KCOR VXY EUN ZL
 
SUBJECT:  U.S.-EU Drugs Troika Advances Counternarcotics Cooperation 
in West Africa 
 
1. (SBU) Summary:  INL Assistant Secretary David T. Johnson led the 
U.S. delegation (USDEL) to the U.S.-EU Informal Drugs Troika meeting 
on December 1, 2009 in Brussels, Belgium.  The meeting focused 
primarily on U.S.-EU cooperation in combating West African drug 
trafficking, and produced the following four deliverables: (1) U.S. 
and EU technical experts will discuss curriculum development for 
their regional law enforcement training centers in West Africa via 
digital video conference o/a January 2010 under the incoming Spanish 
European Commission (EC) presidency; (2) prior to that, the U.S. 
will take the lead in coordinating U.S. and EU assistance efforts by 
combining matrices detailing all U.S. and EU criminal justice sector 
program assistance and highlighting gaps and duplication; (3) U.S. 
and EU consular and legal experts will meet to explore cooperation 
on visa denial for drug traffickers and corrupt officials; and (4) 
the U.S. and EU will take the lead in efforts to reform the United 
Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) data collection process at 
the March 2010 Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND).  A/S Johnson met 
separately with Monique Pariat, Director of General Affairs for the 
Directorate-General for Justice, Freedom, and Security at the 
European Commission (EC) to discuss ongoing assistance efforts in 
the Western Balkans, and conducted broadcast interviews with Radio 
France International and Spanish radio station Cadena Ser.   End 
Summary. 
 
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West Africa: Trends, Intel Sharing, and Training 
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2. (U) The Swedish EC President chaired the recent U.S.-EU Drugs 
Troika meeting in Brussels, which focused primarily on U.S.-EU 
cooperation in combating West African drug trafficking.  Europol 
opened the meeting with a brief overview of the current and emerging 
threats in West Africa.  Europol reports increasing use of 
alternative drug trafficking transit routes in the region, including 
traffickers traveling up the East African coastline and into Europe 
via Black Sea and Balkans routes, as well as transiting northward 
from West Africa across the Sahara and into Europe via North African 
countries such as Morocco.  Consequently, Romania, Bulgaria, and 
Greece are all seeing increased seizures.  Europol believes this 
balloon effect is due to increased law enforcement pressure in West 
Africa that is forcing traffickers to identify alternate routes to 
European markets. 
 
3. (U) Next, the U.S. and EU exchanged information on their 
respective regional training centers - a French-led EU training 
center planned for the Sahel and a U.S.-led training center planned 
for either Ghana or Senegal. (Note: the location of the U.S. 
training center was still to be confirmed at the time of the 
meeting.  In the meantime, the Department has decided to locate the 
center in Ghana.  End Note.)  The U.S. expressed its desire to 
coordinate closely with European counterparts on course development 
and curriculum planning to avoid what A/S Johnson called a 
"piecemeal approach that does not really build institutional 
capacity."  The EU agreed and encouraged a comprehensive approach to 
long-term institutional capacity building that incorporates the work 
of existing training institutions and fits into other regional 
counternarcotics initiatives, like the ECOWAS Action Plan.  Both 
sides agreed that further working-level coordination on curriculum 
development for the new training centers should be done via digital 
video conference (DVC) o/a January 2010 under the new Spanish EU 
presidency.  Both sides also expressed interest in conducting a 
pilot, test-bed training program with one particular country, an 
idea that INL will explore further in the DVC. 
 
4. (SBU) Discussions on two EU-led intelligence-sharing platforms in 
Ghana and Senegal emphasized the need to develop standard operating 
procedures and protocols that facilitate information sharing between 
EU member states and USG counterparts in INL, the Drug Enforcement 
Administration (DEA), and DOD's Africa Command (AFRICOM).  DEA is 
actively participating in the Ghana platform and maintains a 
full-time USG presence there.  DEA also plans to participate in the 
Senegal platform via electronic and telephone communication from its 
regional headquarters in Paris and from Washington.  USDEL clarified 
USG interagency involvement in these platforms by explaining the 
distinct roles that INL, DEA, and AFRICOM play in counternarcotics 
assistance efforts in West Africa. 
 
5. (U) In an October 14 DVC, EU and USG/INL counterparts agreed to 
exchange comprehensive program planning matrices outlining all 
counternarcotics and criminal justice sector reform programs in West 
African countries.  INL exchanged matrices with the EU prior to the 
 
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December 1 U.S.-EU Drugs Troika meeting, and followed up this 
exchange with further discussion of ways to eliminate perceived 
overlap and duplication in programs and streamline the interagency 
coordination process.  The EU proposed agreeing on uniform language 
to make the matrices more user-friendly and creating a joint matrix 
that would integrate U.S. and EU programs into one cohesive chart. 
Both sides agreed to carry out these proposals in advance of the 
next DVC. 
 
 
 
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Spain Supports Latin America - West Africa Cooperation 
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6. (SBU) A representative from Spain briefed the group on the 
EC/UNODC "Cooperation and Intelligence between the government 
agencies against cocaine trafficking from Latin America to West 
Africa" (COLACAO) project.  COLACAO aims to foster increased 
information exchange among police, law enforcement, and national 
institutions.  The project created a Secure Information Exchange 
System (SIES) for multiregional information exchange that is 
available in four languages and 14 countries.  SIES is a secure 
email exchange system that enables EU liaisons in Latin America to 
communicate with liaisons in West Africa and Europe.  The Spanish 
representative urged USG (and particularly DEA) participation in the 
EU-led project, and USDEL said it would study the program further 
and consider opportunities for U.S. engagement.  (Note: USEU reports 
that this initiative has not gained much traction, and questions its 
longevity.  There is also concern for duplication, as DEA currently 
maintains viable communications in the West Africa region and would 
require additional information on the Spanish project to avoid 
duplication of existing methods of communication.  USEU is in 
contact with EUROPOL for further clarification on this project. End 
note.) 
 
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France to Lead Dublin Group Reform Effort 
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7. (SBU) As the current chair of the central Dublin Group (DG), the 
GOF plans to propose comprehensive reforms to the Dublin Group 
counternarcotics coordinating mechanism in advance of the next 
meeting, scheduled for January 19, 2010 in Brussels.  The GOF will 
distribute a non-paper to DG points of contact proposing ways to 
improve coordination and strategic analysis at the central level, 
increase communication among DG representatives, and strengthen the 
role of the local level "mini-Dublin Groups" in the field.  France 
believes the DG is a flexible, useful framework for information 
sharing and donor-IO coordination that could better support 
implementation of the Economic Community of West African States 
(ECOWAS) Action Plan for West Africa.  INL suggested that the 
central level DG has outlived its usefulness, but supported local 
level DGs as a valuable tool to facilitate coordination in the 
field.  A/S Johnson suggested the reformed central DG focus on West 
Africa as a pilot and push as much working level coordination down 
to the mini-Dublin Groups as possible. 
 
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U.S. - EU to Explore Cooperation on Visa Denial 
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8. (SBU) USDEL proposed visa denial as an effetive tool for 
targeting drug traffickers and orrupt officials in West Africa. 
A/S Johnson argued that strengthened political will and powerful 
sanctions would hit drug traffickers where it hurts and bolster 
international capacity building efforts in West Africa.  EU members 
posed several questions about how such a visa denial program would 
work and which criteria would be applied to visa denial decisions, 
and cited many challenges to operationalizing such a program on an 
EU-wide level.  Despite these issues, the EC's Carel Edwards saw no 
reason not to continue exploring possibilities for U.S. and EU 
cooperation on visa denial.  At Edwards' suggestion, both sides 
agreed to convene a meeting of legal, consular, and anti-corruption 
experts to discuss the matter further. 
 
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Other Business: 53rd CND, Latin America, Russia 
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9. (U) The EU called for UNODC to place a greater emphasis on demand 
 
BRUSSELS 00001733  003 OF 004 
 
 
reduction activities and to seek a more balanced approach between 
supply reduction and demand reduction in its programming.  The EU 
cited of lack of funding for the UNODC Demand Reduction Office 
Director position (currently held by Gilberto Gerra) as an example 
of the low priority placed on demand reduction activities within 
UNODC.  USDEL offered to follow up on this funding issue with UNODC, 
but noted that as a donor-driven organization, the 'balance' likely 
reflects the desires of the donor community as expressed through 
their contributions to the UNODC.  The U.S. and EU each identified 
points of contact for negotiating a draft CND resolution on drug 
demand reduction and agreed to work together to lead data collection 
reform efforts in UNODC.  The EU envisages a unified, simple, 
efficient approach to data collection that incorporates survey 
questions on demand reduction and simplifies reporting requirements 
for member states. 
 
10. (SBU) The EC's Bolivia Desk Officer reported delays in 
completion of the EC-funded "licit" coca study in Bolivia.  Although 
a survey of household consumption was originally scheduled to 
conclude in January 2010, it is now scheduled to conclude by the end 
of the calendar year.  Surveys on productivity and cultivation are 
also delayed until late 2010.  The Bolivia desk officer did not 
anticipate any major changes in drug policy under the newly 
re-elected Morales administration.  A/S Johnson characterized the 
U.S.-Bolivia relationship on counternarcotics efforts as a 
"challenging relationship" that could be better, and said the U.S. 
is still working to figure out its next steps in Bolivia.  The EU 
expressed its desire to increase funding to Bolivia, but said it 
could not provide commensurate general purpose funds to support 
additional programming at the UNODC and asked the USG to provide 
these funds.  USDEL suggested that the EC consider voluntarily 
paying the full 13.5 percent in program administration costs that 
every other state donor pays UNODC to help lessen the fiscal 
pressure on the UNODC.  (Note: the EC currently pays a discounted 
8.5 percent program administration fee, while other state donors 
including the USG pay the full 13.5 percent.  End Note.)  The EC 
offered to look into this proposal. 
 
11. (SBU) USG and EU officials report receiving mixed signals from 
Russia regarding Russia's commitment to reducing drug use within its 
borders.  The EU is concerned with rising heroin use and rising HIV 
infection rates in Russia, and is "concerned with Russia's lahese issues.  While theOffice 
of National Dr` positive progress in r`lateral meetings on counte JohnsMonique 
Pariat, Director the Directorate-GenerQion in the Western 
Balkans.  Pariat said the EU places great importace on Western 
Balkans development and on U.S.QEU cooperation in the region.  She 
describQd various tools the EU is using to incentivize 3tates to 
comply with EU conditions and to advance the accession process to EU 
membership, suQh as visa liberalization.  Pariat said the EUQcontinues to face 
migration issues, particulQrly migration from 
Kosovo, and that much remains to be done in the region.  She said 
the EC is always open to providing further assistance to Balkans 
states, and welcomes further USG assistance.  A/S Johnson discussed 
expanding the reach of the International Law Enforcement Academy 
(ILEA) in Budapest to areas further south and east and increasing 
U.S.-EU cooperation in training prosecutors in Serbia.  Both sides 
agreed there was room for further cooperation in combating organized 
crime and corruption in the region.  The U.S. proposed a joint 
U.S.-EU site visit to the ILEA Budapest to review the current 
curriculum and courses with an eye towards deconflicting assistance 
efforts and coordinating the thematic focuses of our various USG and 
EU training programs.  Pariat responded enthusiastically to this 
proposal and USEU plans to follow up directly with Pariat's office. 
 
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13. (U) Both delegations were pleased with the new format for the 
meeting, which focused on a single issue of common concern to both 
the U.S. and the EU, in this case drug trafficking in West Africa. 
It was agreed to apply this same format to the next meeting in June, 
though a topic has not yet been agreed upon.  End Comment. 
 
MURRAY