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Viewing cable 04RANGOON1357, BURMA TO HOST MAJOR REGIONAL TIPS CONFERENCE

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04RANGOON1357 2004-10-19 00:03 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Rangoon
This record is a partial extract of the original cable. The full text of the original cable is not available.
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 RANGOON 001357 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
 
STATE FOR EAP/BCLTV, DRL,INL, G/TIP, STATE PASS LABOR FOR 
ILAB, COMMERCE FOR ITA JEAN KEELY, TREASURY FOR OASIA JEFF 
NEIL, USPACOM FOR FPA 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PHUM ELAB PGOV BM
SUBJECT: BURMA TO HOST MAJOR REGIONAL TIPS CONFERENCE 
 
REF: A. RANGOON 1301 
     B. RANGOON 1132 AND PREVIOUS 
 
1. (SBU) Summary: The Burmese Government, with support from 
the United Nations, is preparing to host a three-day regional 
conference on trafficking in persons, October 27-29.  This is 
a safe issue for the generals.  It provides an easy platform 
on which to interact with their neighbors and to improve 
their international image.  There are few signs, however, 
that they will be able to control fully either domestic or 
international trafficking in Burma in the near future.  End 
Summary. 
 
2. (U) The Governments of Burma, Cambodia, China, Laos, 
Thailand, and Vietnam plan to meet at the ministerial level 
in Rangoon on October 29 to sign a Memorandum of 
Understanding (MOU) committing their governments to cooperate 
against trafficking in persons (TIPs).  Staff work and 
substantive coordination are being provided by the United 
Nations Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking in the 
Greater Mekong Sub-Region (UNIAP), a Bangkok-based 
organization located in the United Nations Development 
Program (UNDP) with offices in each of the participating 
countries. 
 
3. (U)  The objectives of the MOU are to facilitate 
inter-governmental cooperation among the participants in all 
areas of trafficking, including repatriation and labor.  The 
agreement also aims to strengthen bilateral agreements 
reached earlier on related issues between Thailand-Cambodia 
(2003) and Thailand-Laos (2004).  Understandings reached 
previously between Thai and Burmese authorities served as the 
basis for the repatriation of twenty Burmese girls from Mai 
Sai to Tachileik on August 10.  Six Burmese girls were handed 
over by Thai authorities to Burmese Embassy officials in 
Bangkok and repatriated in December 2003.  The MOU aims to 
extend such bilateral cooperation through both additional 
formal agreements on specific issues of particular interest 
to the participating governments and informal understandings 
on problems as they occur. 
 
4. (U)  In addition to the foregoing, UNIAP's acting 
director, Susu Thathoun (Burmese), told poloff recently that 
the MOU signing will be preceded by two days of talks among 
senior officers of the participating governments, October 
27-28, aimed at developing an "action plan" to support the 
MOU's objectives.  A follow-on senior officers' meeting is 
scheduled for Hanoi in March 2005 to review and refine the 
plan.  Plans for a subsequent ministerial level meeting in 
China are underway. 
 
Background--A Big Tent Over the MOU 
 
5. (U)  UNIAP was formed in 2000 and now brings together, 
according to Susu Thathoun, "six governments, twelve U.N. 
agencies, eight international NGOs, and a wide variety of 
local partners in the anti-trafficking community."  She said 
the Chinese government has played an important role in the 
formative process, and was instrumental in launching the MOU. 
 
6. (U)  UNIAP draws help from faith-based organizations, 
INGOs, U.N. agencies, and the Australian Government.  World 
Vision, with support from the Department, has been an 
important player in Burma.  Through an Australian Aid 
project, "Asia Regional Cooperation to Prevent People 
Trafficking,"  Australian police officers are training 
counterparts in anti-trafficking units in Burma (ref A), 
Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand, all of whom are expected to be 
involved in supporting the MOU. 
 
7. (SBU)  Susu Thathoun cited the drafting in September of a 
Burmese law against trafficking as a major breakthrough in 
the international community's relationship on trafficking 
issues with the Burmese regime.  After some urging, the 
latter agreed to allow open discussion about the new law 
among all concerned--Burmese and foreigners--during the 
drafting process.  Accepting this arrangement had not been 
"intuitive" among the generals and other government 
officials, who nevertheless recognized the value of doing so 
in the end.  The draft law is now under inter-agency review 
and is expected to be approved by the SPDC in December 2004. 
Susu Thathoun spoke very highly of the work done on the law 
by Burkhard Damon, an official with the United Nations Office 
of Drug and Crime Control (UNODC) in Vienna. 
 
8. (SBU)  Comment: We are encouraged by the procedural gains 
described above (and we are also impressed with UNIAP's Susu 
Thathoun, a Burmese citizen with Mon-Arakanese antecedents 
and a Ph.d from a Japanese university).  However, the 
impediments to effective control of trafficking of persons in 
Burma are great.  No one in the 40-man police 
anti-trafficking unit (currently co-located with their 
Australian trainers in a house on the outskirts of Rangoon) 
has been deployed to the field.  Agreement has apparently yet 
to be reached on whether to assign them to existing field 
units or to base them in Rangoon and deploy them on specific 
investigative assignments.  Also, as reported previously (Ref 
A), they are to work solely on international trafficking 
cases. Domestic abuses will be handled by others.  Further, 
according to the deputy head of the Australian training unit 
(John Rennie), police procedures related to trafficking are 
highly antiquated, with related laws dating to the 19th 
century. 
Martinez