US embassy cable - 05ASUNCION1149

UNCLAS ASUNCION 001149 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR WHA/BSC, WHA/EPSC, EB/IFD/OIA 
STATE PASS TO USTR FOR LYANG 
USAID FOR AA/LAC ADOLFO FRANCO 
TREASURY FOR OSIA MAUREEN WAFER 
COMMERCE ITA SARAH COOK 
NSC FOR MIKE DEMPSEY AND SUE CRONIN 
SOUTHCOM FOR POLAD 
US SOUTHERN COMMAND MIAMI, FLORIDA 
 
SENSITIVE 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KTFN, ETTC, EFIN, PTER, KSEP, CVIS, KPAO, OIIP, PA 
SUBJECT: PARAGUAY: POST PLAN FOR UNSCR 1617 
 
Ref: 05 STATE 145310 
 
1.  (U) Sensitive but unclassified.  Please protect 
accordingly. 
 
2.  (SBU) Post agrees with Department's view on the 
importance of the passage of UNSCR 1617 and has developed an 
action plan as suggested in refel.  Our public diplomacy 
strategy plans to incorporate all relevant points into our 
public diplomacy outreach efforts at post - involving media 
appearances of the AMB, DCM, PAO and others.  Post was able 
to use recent visits by SecDef Rumsfeld and Treasury A/S 
Glazer to broach these themes in public and press-related 
fora.  Post also has a U.S. speaker program scheduled for 
October, focused on the specific theme of CT-ML, and will 
request more.  Relevant Washington File material on the 
subject will continue to be pressed upon media contacts. 
Post will endeavor to feature this thematic priority on the 
embassy website as well. 
 
3.  (SBU) The global effort spearheaded by UNSCR 1617 comes 
at a particularly opportune time for our situation in 
Paraguay.  The government submitted a modern anti-money 
laundering law, drafted with the help of USG advisors from 
Treasury and Justice, to Congress in May 2004, where it has 
languished.  The host government has indicated its 
hesitation to be seen as responding to a specifically US-led 
attack on money laundering and terrorist financing.  The 
demonstrably multi-lateral effort and concern represented by 
UNSCR 1617 provides an important tool for our public 
diplomacy and for our private interactions with the 
executive and legislative branches. 
 
KEANE