US embassy cable - 05ALMATY3376

UNCLAS  ALMATY 003376 
 
SIPDIS 
 
 
DEPT FOR NP/ECC PVANSON, ACHURCH, ACUMMINGS 
CBP/INA FOR PWARKER AND CDONOFRIO 
USDOE/NNSA FOR TPERRY 
DEPT FOR EUR/ACE DMARTIN 
DOC FOR PETERSON-BEARD 
AMEMBASSY BERLIN FOR CUSTOMS ATTACHE 
AMEMBASSY TASHKENT, BISHKEK, BAKU, DUSHANBE FOR EXBS 
ADVISORS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: ETTC, MNUC, PARM, PREL, KSTC, KNNP, KZ, EXBS 
SUBJECT:  EXBS: KAZAKHSTAN ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE 
(AUGUST 2005) 
 
 
I. BROAD ITEMS OF INTEREST TO ADVISORS AND AGENCY MANAGERS: 
 
1.   Anne Cummings is now the Action Officer for EXBS 
Kazakhstan.  Thank you to Joanna Gabryszewski for all her 
good work on the EXBS Kazakhstan program. 
 
II. COMPLETED ACTIONS FOR THE REPORTING PERIOD 
 
A. SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS CONDUCTED 
 
1. August 5 - EXBS Advisor Offenbacher and Program Manager 
Abildaeva met with four representatives of the Maritime 
Division of the Kazakhstani Border Service on the eve of 
the four's departure to Port Orchard, Washington to attend 
a 3-week SAFE Boat training. 
 
B.  TRAINING DURING THE REPORTING PERIOD 
 
1. August 2-5 - The Department of Commerce, Bureau of 
Industry and Security, Office of International Programs 
hosted a Regulations Technical Forum and Workshop in 
Washington DC for six Kazakhstani senior export control 
officials.  Both American and Kazakhstani sides noted the 
numerous productive discussions and judged the event a 
success. 
 
2. August 8-26 - Two engineers and two coxswains 
representing the Maritime Division of Kazakhstan's Border 
Service attended a training program at SAFE Boat 
International's headquarters in Port Orchard, WA.  The 
training was provided in connection with the delivery of 
three 42-foot SAFE boats to Kazakhstan later this year. 
EXBS Almaty received positive feedback from the American 
side on Kazakhstan's choice of trainees for the course. 
Upon completion of the course, the Kazakhstani students 
remarked that the training was highly useful. 
 
3. August 22-23 and 25-26 - David Gilmore of Commonwealth 
Trading Partners (CTP) conducted two Internal Control 
Program deployments in Stepnogorsk and Petropavlovsk.  CTP 
received in-country support from the NGO Center for Export 
Control, IVT Astana. 
 
C. EQUIPMENT DELIVERED DURING THE REPORTING PERIOD. 
 
1. August 30 - The U.S. Coast Guard procurement of three 
SAFE Boats was completed when ownership of the vessels was 
signed over from SAFE Boat International to the Government 
of Kazakhstan.  Although EXBS Almaty initially had some 
difficulty getting the Kazakhstani Border Guard to identify 
an official authorized to sign for the boats, a letter from 
Embassy Almaty's DCM and eleventh hour assistance from 
NP/ECC and the U.S. Coast Guard produced the necessary 
result and an official from the Embassy of Kazakhstan in 
Washington signed for the boats.  Custody of the boats will 
now be transferred to a shipping company, which will 
deliver the boats to their final destination in Bautino, 
some 100km to the north of the Caspian Sea port of Aktau. 
 
D. IMMINENT TRAINING OR EQUIPMENT STATUS UPDATE. 
 
1. September 8-17 - Batyr Hommadov, Ashgabat EXBS FSN, will 
attend an EXBS office procedures training session in 
Almaty. 
 
2. September 20-22 - Three Kazakhstani export control 
officials representing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 
Customs Control Committee and Border Service will attend 
the Seventh Annual Export Control Conference in Stockholm, 
Sweden. 
 
3. September 26-29 - The National Nuclear Security 
 
 
Administration's International Nonproliferation and Export 
Control Program will hold the fifth Technical Experts 
Working Group at the Alatau Sanatorium in Almaty.  This 
regional event provides a forum for nuclear technical 
experts working in the field of export control. 
 
4. September 26-28 - Integrity Awareness training will be 
conducted by CTP for 25 Kazakhstani Customs 
representatives. 
 
5. September 29-30 - Two CTP representatives will attend 
"Industry Outreach Compliance" meetings in Astana.  The 
goal of these meetings is to obtain agreement on which 
Kazakhstani agency has the primary role in building 
criminal export enforcement cases, as well as to determine 
how training materials should be customized to meet 
Kazakhstan's needs. 
 
6. October 3-7 - Strategic Enforcement Tracker training 
will be held at a Kazakhstani Border Guard training 
facility near Almaty.  The course is funded by DTRA and is 
designed to assist the Border Guard in securing the "green" 
border areas between ports of entry.  Training will be 
conducted by a team of Department of Homeland Security, 
Bureau of Customs and Border Protection patrol officers. 
 
7. October 11-13 - EXBS Advisor Offenbacher and three 
representatives from the Maritime Division of the 
Kazakhstani Border Service will attend the Black Sea and 
Caspian Maritime Conference on Nonproliferation in Baku, 
Azerbaijan.  The regional conference is being co-hosted by 
the governments of the United States and Azerbaijan. 
 
E. SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENTS IN EXPORT CONTROLS, 
NONPROLIFERATION, OR RELATED BORDER SECURITY. 
 
1.    None. 
 
F. CASPIAN SECURITY UPDATE. 
 
1. Nothing for this reporting period. 
 
III. RED FLAG ISSUES. 
 
1. None. 
 
Point of contact for this report is Andrew S. Offenbacher, 
EXBS Advisor, OffenbacherAS@state.gov, tel: +7(3272)50- 
4945, cell: +7(333)225-1156. 
 
ORDWAY 
 
 
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