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RUCNEXC/EXBS COLLECTIVE
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RUEKJCS/JOINT STAFF WASHINGTON DC
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RUEHVB/AMEMBASSY ZAGREB 5363

UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 03 PRISTINA 000071 
 
SIPDIS 
SENSITIVE 
 
STATE FOR ISN/ECC RBALDWIN 
STATE ALSO FOR EUR/SCE FOR BEVANS; EUR/ACE FOR DFROMAN 
USCBP/INA FOR BSUBER 
DTRA DULLES WASHDC FOR MMYERS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP KV
SUBJECT: EXBS: KOSOVO MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE JANUARY 2010 
 
SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED-PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY 
 
¶1. (SBU) BROAD ITEMS OF INTEREST TO ADVISORS AND AGENCY MANAGERS 
 
N/A. 
 
¶2. (SBU) COMPLETED ACTIONS FOR THE REPORTING PERIOD 
 
N/A. 
 
¶3. (SBU) SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS DURING REPORTING PERIOD 
 
A) January 12, 2010:  EXBS Advisor Milam and Program Assistant met 
with Bahri Berisha, Customs Director of Law Enforcement and Bajram 
Rexha, Customs Director of Revenue Operations, to discuss upcoming 
equipment donations and Kosovo training needs.  EXBS Advisor 
suggested offering a refresher course for technical EXBS donated 
equipment.  EXBS informed Berisha and Rexha of the upcoming baggage 
X-ray scanner scheduled to arrive in Kosovo within 60 days.  The 
baggage X-ray unit will be donated to Customs for use at the Vermica 
Border Crossing Point (BCP).  Additionally, EXBS Advisor gave course 
information on the upcoming joint Kosovo and Albania International 
Border Intervention Training (IBIT II), which is scheduled for late 
March at the Hotel Sharr, near Prizren.  Kosovo Customs agreed to 
support the IBIT II training by providing transportation for Customs 
officers from Pristina to the training site at the Vermica BCP. 
EXBS Advisor offered to fund a future Best Practices Visit by Kosovo 
Customs to the Croatian Customs Academy in Zagreb Croatia.  The 
Visit will help build the capacity of Kosovo Customs and identify 
which courses could be held by Croatian Customs academy officials in 
Kosovo. 
 
B) January 12, 2010:  EXBS Program Advisor and Program Assistant met 
with core group members Suzana Krasniqi, Ministry of Foreign Affairs 
and Izer Arifi, Ministry of Trade and Industry, to review the draft 
Law on Export Control.  The core members agreed to schedule a second 
meeting with Commonwealth Trading Partners, in Pristina, during the 
first week of March, 2010, to work on the draft Law final version. 
 
 
C) January 13, 2010:  EXBS Advisor Milam and Assistant conducted a 
site visit at Vermica BCP and met with Customs and Border Police 
field staff to discuss the use of EXBS donated equipment and 
training.  EXBS informed Customs Head of BCP, Xhemajl Prekaj, on the 
details of upcoming baggage scanner.  EXBS Advisor examined the site 
where Customs will house the Baggage X-ray scanner.  Border Police 
were equipped with Mini-Rad pagers.  A request was made for 
additional rechargeable type batteries specific to the flashlights 
donated by EXBS. 
 
D) January 14, 2010:  EXBS Advisor Milam and Assistant met with 
Aurora Castillo, ICITAP, and George Clarke, ICITAP, to discuss 
upcoming EXBS training and equipment to be donated to Border Police. 
 The purpose of the meeting was to de-conflict future trainings and 
equipment donations that would be provided to the Kosovo Border 
Police by EXBS and ICITAP.  EXBS Advisor informed ICITAP that he 
would continue to keep an active line of communication with them and 
share information on upcoming equipment and training scheduled for 
the Kosovo Border Police during FY10. 
 
E) January 20, 2010:  EXBS Macedeonia and EXBS Kosovo hosted a 
meeting between Macedonia and Kosovo Border Police at the U.S. 
Embassy Skopje conference room.  The meeting was attended by the 
following border police officials:  Macedonian Border Police 
Assistant Director Marinko Kochovski, Training Advisor Kire Mitrev, 
Kosovo Border Police Head Colonel Shaban Guda, Administration 
Director Colonel Mentor Shabani, EXBS Kosovo Advisor Christopher 
Milam, Program Assistant Shpresa Kusari, EXBS Macedonia Advisor 
Matthew Jones, Program Assistant Frosina Ivanovska, and KFOR/U.S. 
Army Captain Shane Clennon.  The purpose of the meeting was to 
encourage both border agencies to discuss training and equipment 
needs.  EXBS sought to gain a better understanding of the preferred 
future training requests for each agency and to identify logistical 
and administrative issues.  The meeting focused on recommendations 
for joint training with Kosovo and Macedonia. 
 
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--TRAINING RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE DISCUSSIONS: 
 
A two week joint training course to be held in Macedonia.  The first 
week of training will take place in Macedonia, and the second week 
will be conducted on the Kosovo-Macedonian border. 
 
-- Training needs identified include the following: 
 
1) Operation and maximization of results using thermal imagers. 
 
2) Ground sensor application and use. 
 
3) GPS joint patrol coordination in identification and interdiction 
of border incursions. 
 
4) First-aid/rescue. 
 
5) A request to coordinate the training with U.S. Border Patrol 
BORTAC unit was made by KPS Colonel Mentor Shabani. 
 
-- EQUIPMENT RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE DISCUSSIONS: 
 
Kosovo will need a ground sensor kit donation. 
 
A) January 22, 2010:  EXBS Advisor Milam and Assistant visited 
Gllobocica BCP, which is limited to non-commercial vehicles.  This 
BCP has very light traffic, with a reported average crossing of 
500-600 vehicles in a 24-hour period. 
 
B) EXBS Advisor Milam met with the Gllobocica Customs Head, Shefqet 
Rexhepi, and the Border Police Logistics Assistant to discuss EXBS 
donated equipment and future trainings.  Customs and Border Police 
are using EXBS equipment together, but lack a dedicated vehicle 
examination area for detailed inspection.  EXBS Advisor observed the 
following equipment at the BCP: mini-rad pagers, night vision 
monocular, buster, inspection mirror, flashlight, and Gerber tools. 
 
 
C) January 28, 2010:  A Kosovo delegation consisting of members from 
the Ministry of Trade and Industry, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and 
Kosovo Security Force traveled to Zagreb for a two-day working 
session with Croatian experts on export control.  EXBS Advisor and 
Program Assistant met with Croatian export control officials at U.S. 
Embassy Zagreb for a final review of Kosovo's Export Control draft 
law. 
 
¶4. (U) Equipment usage report: 
 
N/A. 
 
¶5. (SBU) TRAINING CONDUCTED DURING REPORTING PERIOD 
 
N/A. 
 
¶6. (U) EQUIPMENT DELIVERED DURING REPORTING PERIOD 
 
N/A. 
 
¶7. (SBU) IMMINENT TRAINING OR EQUIPMENT STATUS UPDATE 
 
A) February 1 to February 4, 2010:  DTRA/ICP instructors will 
provide Terrorism and Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction 
(WMD) Course, Vushtrri, Kosovo. 
 
B) February 10 to February 12, 2010:  DHS/ICE instructors will 
provide a joint Kosovo and Albania Export Enforcement course to 30 
Border Police officers in Tirana, Albania. 
 
C) Legal/Regulatory training for GOK officials is scheduled to begin 
on the week of March 1, 2010. 
 
¶8. (U) SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENTS IN EXPORT CONTROLS, 
NONPROLIFERATION, OR RELATED BORDER SECURITY 
 
 
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N/A. 
 
¶9. (U) PORTAL MONITOR OR RADIATION PAGER ALERTS 
 
N/A. 
 
¶10. (SBU) Point of contact is EXBS Advisor Christopher Milam, 
telephone +377-44-508-016, e-mail MilamCJ@state.gov. 
 
MURPHY