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Viewing cable 06BUENOSAIRES787, ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR'S POST MEMORANDUM FOR OIG
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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 07 BUENOS AIRES 000787
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
STATE/OIG FOR AMBASSADOR EILEEN MALLOY FROM AMBASSADOR LINO
GUTIERREZ
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: AMGT ASIG BBG
SUBJECT: ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR'S POST MEMORANDUM FOR OIG
INSPECTION
REF: A. SECSTATE 39775
¶B. 05 BUENOS AIRES 02835
¶C. 05 BUENOS AIRES 2517
¶D. 05 BUENOS AIRES 2518
¶1. (SBU) BACKGROUND: Argentina's size, importance to the
regional economy, and ability to contribute to U.S. security
goals make the bilateral relationship important to U.S.
interests. Argentina is the size of the United States east
of the Mississippi, with a population of 39 million
inhabitants. Like the United States, Argentina is a nation
of immigrants, whose society, culture and language have been
uniquely shaped by repeated influxes of European immigration.
Argentina's economy has recovered impressively and at a
rapid rate since the economic crisis of 2001-2002 and is on
track to perform well in 2006, provided that Argentina is
able to attract more investment and inflation is kept under
control. U.S. two-way trade with Argentina grew an estimated
20 percent in 2005 and totaled almost 9 billion dollars. The
U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires includes representatives from
nine U.S. government agencies with 117 direct hire Americans,
12 FMA employees and 219 Argentine FSN employees.
¶2. (SBU) HOST GOVERNMENT RELATIONS: Our relations with
Argentina were negatively affected by President Kirchner's
poor handling of the tone and substance of the Fourth Summit
of the Americas held in resort town of Mar del Plata.
Nevertheless, on a broad scale Argentina maintains positive
relations with the U.S. and cooperates as a major non-NATO
ally in regional security, counterterrorism, drug
interdiction, and in contributing troops to UN peacekeeping
missions. Argentina actively works with the U.S. in
counterterrorism operations in the Tri-border area as a
committed member of the 3 1 framework (Argentina, Brazil,
Paraguay and the U.S.). Despite popular opposition,
Argentina sent a sizable contingent of troops to Haiti in
support of UN peacekeeping operations. President Kirchner
has been an active supporter of Bolivia's political and
economic stability. President Kirchner has maintained
friendly relations with President Chavez of Venezuela.
Nevertheless, he did play a constructive role in pressing
President Chavez to hold a recall referendum and has met on
several occasions with Venezuelan opposition leaders. In
September 2004, following ten years of negotiations in which
Post bridged the gap between GOA objections and USG
guidelines, the GOA signed a Letter of Agreement with the
Department of State. The conclusion of the agreement
demonstrated the GOA's increasing willingness to work with
the U.S. on counternarcotics issues and enabled the U.S. to
begin providing assistance to the GOA.
¶3. (SBU) Argentina has been a strong partner on
counterproliferation issues. The GOA is the only South
American country to have endorsed the Proliferation Security
Initiative (PSI) and has offered to host a PSI exercise. We
have also facilitated Argentina's participation in three PSI
exercises in 2005. On Iran, the GOA favors a tough line. It
voted with the U.S. at the February 4 IAEA Board of Governors
meeting to refer Iran's noncompliance to the UNSC. Finally,
the GOA has implemented the Container Security Initiative
(CSI) and is in the final stages of negotiating an MOU on the
Megaports Initiative -- which will passively detect
radioactive materials moving through the Buenos Aires seaport
-- the first such agreement in South America. We are also
confident that in the coming months we will be able to create
Trade Transparency Units as a way to more effectively combat
the threat of money laundering and terror financing.
¶4. (SBU) KEY GOALS OBJECTIVES AND WORK PLAN: Our mission in
Embassy Buenos Aires is to actively engage the Kirchner
Administration to advance security cooperation, strengthen
democratic institutions, expand economic opportunity and
further U.S. regional policy objectives. Argentina's
successful debt restructuring in early 2005, President
Kirchner's strengthened domestic political situation
following the October 2005 elections and the full payment of
Argentina's IMF debt in January 2006 has given the GOA the
ability to focus on other issues beyond Argentina's economic
and political stability. The Mission will seize the moment
to encourage Argentina to enhance its efforts to promote
regional stability in Bolivia, Haiti and Venezuela. The
Embassy will continue to press on major issues of
disagreement, such as Cuba, the FTAA and Article 98.
Argentina's membership on the UN Security Council in 2006
provides an opportunity for cooperation on a variety of
multilateral issues, including non-proliferation. Looking to
the future, a successful implementation of our strategic
goals will strengthen Argentina's democracy and economy and
allow Argentina to be a more active partner in helping the
U.S. meet its regional objectives.
¶5. (SBU) COUNTERTERRORISM: The Mission's top goal is to work
with Argentine authorities to disrupt terrorist operations,
protect U.S. citizens and increase Argentina's capability to
contribute to regional counterterrorism initiatives.
Argentina was twice a victim of international terrorist
attacks in the 1990s and has been a cooperative partner in
countering terrorism, especially in the Tri-border area. We
will assist the GOA in its continued investigation of the
AMIA bombings; work with the GOA to secure antiterrorism,
money laundering, and terrorism finance legislation and to
strengthen local enforcement. We will assist the GOA in
bolstering its Financial Intelligence Unit, within the
restraints created by Brooke Amendment penalties. We will
support the GOA in strengthening the organizational
capabilities and enforcement powers of the National Arms
Registry, which controls explosives in Argentina. We will
assist in modernizing the Argentine military, focusing on
strengthening the security forces' capacity to respond to
threats from terrorist organizations. We will work to
protect Americans at home and abroad by strengthening visa
fraud detection and information-sharing, transportation
security, and by promoting the safety of Americans visiting
and residing in Argentina. The Tri-border area remains a
focus of concern for terrorism and the criminal activity that
supports it. We will strengthen the 3 1 framework to
guarantee a joint, coordinated and sustained campaign to
address this problem region.
¶6. (SBU) REGIONAL STABILITY: A key Mission priority is to
encourage Argentina to enhance its efforts to support
political stability in the region, increase its military
inter-operability, and strengthen the legal protections for
U.S. citizens and military personnel in Argentina. We will
seek to increase Argentina's role in supporting
constitutional democracy in Bolivia and in encouraging
President Evo Morales to uphold Bolivia's democratic and free
market system. We will also continue to encourage the GOA to
act as a moderating influence on President Chavez's
government in Venezuela. The Embassy will promote the
maintenance of the GOA's peacekeeping commitment in Haiti.
We will work toward the passage of legislation to permit
military-to-military exercises to be carried out in
Argentina. We will also continue to support productive
military exchange and training programs.
¶7. (SBU) DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS: The Mission is committed
to strengthening Argentina's democratic institutions.
Argentina is a functioning democracy that recently overcame
one of the worst economic and social crises in its history
without a break in the democratic order. At the same time,
however, Argentina's lack of a strong opposition provides the
opportunity for the abuse of authority. Argentina needs
strong democratic institutions to match President Kirchner's
strengthened political situation. Some of President
Kirchner's actions have helped to strengthen institutions.
For example, since assuming office, President Kirchner has
worked to remove four Supreme Court justices accused of
corruption and political cronyism and replace them with
independent, well-respected jurists. Some of Kirchner's
other actions have been of concern, such as his heavy use of
executive decrees to bypass Congress and his recent reform of
the Council of Magistrates that will increase his control
over the judicial process. Efforts to attack corruption in
the federal government, judiciary, Senate, the Federal Police
and other institutions continue. Sustaining the initiative
will require significant effort and political capital. We
will work with the GOA, the media and civil society to
strengthen democratic institutions and fight corruption. We
will seek to promote a healthy debate on the need for
political reform, such as ending the election of
representatives by party slate lists, increasing governmental
transparency, limiting public corruption and strengthening
the political independence of the judicial branch. We will
also continue to cultivate the GOA as a cooperative partner
in multilateral fora and seek Argentina's cooperation in the
defense of democracy and human rights in countries like Cuba,
Bolivia, Haiti and Venezuela.
¶8. (SBU) ECONOMIC PROSPERITY AND SECURITY: The Mission seeks
to encourage the GOA to implement economic reform, better
integrate Argentina into the hemispheric and global economic/
commercial/agricultural/scientific framework and promote U.S.
exports to Argentina. As part of this effort, we will work
to protect and promote U.S. investment with the aim of
ensuring "national treatment" for U.S. firms. We will
encourage the GOA to resolve outstanding investment disputes
with U.S. companies and to reach an agreement with those
bondholders left out of the 2005 debt exchange agreement. We
will also work with the GOA toward a successful conclusion of
the WTO and FTAA negotiations. Our goal for the future is an
Argentina that is financially sound, growing in a sustainable
manner and open to foreign investment. Despite the populist
rhetoric, the Kirchner administration has adhered to fiscal
orthodoxy and has so far not resorted to large-scale state
intervention in the economy. Argentina has achieved GDP
growth rates in excess of 9 percent in 2004 and 2005, and is
projected to continue to grow at a significant rate in 2006.
Key economic goals for Argentina in the coming years will be
to attract investment, maintain high levels of economic
growth, and reduce poverty and unemployment.
¶9. (SBU) Two of the biggest economic challenges Argentina
faces are rising inflation and potential energy shortages.
The rise in inflation has been fueled by the Argentine
Central Bank's adoption of an expansive monetary policy,
while the energy difficulties are a consequence of a decline
in investment prompted by government efforts to control
prices. We will encourage Argentina to manage these problems
through orthodox economic policies, rather than through the
coercion of the private sector. We will use the visits of
high-level USG officials and the Embassy's efforts to
encourage Argentina to maintain free market policies and
resolve specific investment issues and trade barriers. The
various Embassy agencies will continue to work with their
Argentine counterparts to persuade the GOA to complete
Argentina's integration into existing international
agreements. We will work with private sector organizations
and the GOA to promote HIV/AIDS education, prevention and
AIDS research in support of the White House Global Initiative
on HIV/AIDS.
¶10. (SBU) INTERNATIONAL CRIME AND DRUGS: The U.S. has a keen
interest in strengthening the GOA's law enforcement and
judicial capacity to combat international crime and
narcotics. The growing crime and narcotics problem in
Argentina, coupled with the possibility of less narcotics
interdiction cooperation with neighboring Bolivia in the
future, makes Post's work in the area of narcotics
interdiction even more important now then in prior years.
The GOA is increasingly focused on countering the recent
upsurge in crime, drug consumption and trafficking. We will
continue to play a pivotal role in Argentina's efforts in
this area. The Country Team has been very active in
providing advice and assistance to the GOA in developing
their national security and national drug prevention plans.
Law enforcement agencies have cooperated extensively with
their USG counterparts on drug interdiction efforts, fugitive
arrests and information-sharing. Eradicating corruption
continues to be a priority for the GOA, but these efforts
have been limited by endemic institutional weaknesses. To
assist the GOA in overcoming these weaknesses, we will focus
on institutional capacity building and expanding training
opportunities for law enforcement officials, prosecutors and
judges.
¶11. (SBU) PUBLIC DIPLOMACY AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS: The Mission
seeks to influence public opinion, strengthen mutual
understanding and increase support for our key strategic
goals among Argentine decision makers and the public through
a sustained public outreach effort. Argentina has the lowest
U.S. approval ratings in Latin America. Negative perceptions
of the United States are due in part to resentment over
perceived lack of USG support during the 2001 financial
crisis, opposition to the military interventions in
Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as historic antipathy against
alleged USG hegemonic tendencies. At the same time,
Argentines hold a remarkably wide admiration for the strength
of our democratic institutions and the rule of law, our
technological advances and American culture. We will focus
our efforts on deepening contacts with members of all sectors
of society and maximizing the use of PD-funded and other
USG-supported programs aimed at broadening exposure of
Argentines to the U.S., such as Post's Speaker Program, the
International Visitors Program and Ambassadorial speeches.
We are also reaching out to non-traditional associations,
such as alumni networks and youth. We have promoted
sister-city/sister-province relationships and have developed
a nationwide network of past International Visitor
participants to help advance our goal of improving the U.S.
image in Argentina. We are establishing a Virtual Presence
Post to better engage with Argentines in the geographically
remote Patagonian region. We will work to strengthen our
outreach to journalists and to broaden our means of
distributing information to the media through the use of
advanced technology and ensure U.S. policies are accurately
and fairly presented to the widest possible audience.
¶12. (SBU) MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL EXCELLENCE: The
Mission must optimize management services during a time of
scarce resources and to increase the physical security of the
Embassy. Current Post resources have been stretched to the
limit, constraining room for future growth. Post will work
on a country team level to develop a strategy to more
efficiently manage our people and resources and meet growing
demands. We will also begin to implement strategies, such as
ISO-9000, to address this goal. We will continue with the
open floor space plan to complete our reorganization of all
identified sections. On the security front, Post has
completed a review of the security problems affecting our
Embassy. The Mission is moving forward on a plan to increase
the physical security of the chancery to mitigate the
vulnerabilities identified in the security review. We are
well ahead of schedule in implementing the Phase 2 security
project with OBO, which entails approximately 2.5 million
dollars of security upgrades to the facility to address one
of the major vulnerabilities to terrorist attacks by
strengthening our perimeter.
¶13. (SBU) POLICY, OPERATIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT
PROBLEMS: There are a number of resource challenges and major
constraints undermining our ability to achieve our
objectives. From the external standpoint, the polls
consistently show that the Argentine public has the worst
opinion of the United States in the Western Hemisphere.
These negative popular perceptions create a highly adverse
operational context for our diplomatic initiatives. The
Kirchner Administration has capitalized on the existing
resentment and strengthened its political hand by using
populist rhetoric against the IMF and Argentina's
international creditors. Argentina's poor performance as
host of the Summit of the Americas in November 2005 created
friction in the bilateral relationship and undermined
confidence in its ability to serve as a reliable partner (See
Reftel B - 05 Buenos Aires 02835).
¶14. (SBU) On the internal side, the main obstacles we face
relate to personnel and funding shortages. In order to
counter the U.S.'s negative image in Argentina, we requested
in the last three Mission Performance Plans (MPP) that our
Assistant Information Officer (IO) position be restored. To
date this has been denied. The IO position would provide the
Mission with a significantly augmented capacity to better
gauge and address deep-seated native views, monitor media,
plan and implement media strategy and events, and carry the
USG's message to additional media. We have also have
requested in the last three MPPs that our INL officer in the
Political Section be made a permanent position. This request
has been denied, and beginning in summer 2006, the Embassy
will be without an INL officer at a time when events in
neighboring Bolivia are increasing the importance of
counternarcotics in Argentina. Counternarcotics is one of
the key areas of bilateral cooperation, and the GOA is short
of resources and incapable of controlling a potential major
increase in narcotics flows from Bolivia without U.S.
assistance.
¶15. (SBU) Funding of salary increases, leases, travel and
other program and ICASS spending has been severely curtailed
this year. Thus post has had to find ways to reduce the
demand on funding while not affecting the overall mission's
ability to achieve its goals and objectives. Post
anticipated this reduction and had already commenced a
comprehensive reduction in spending two years prior and has
been able to mitigate the initial cuts. However further
reduction in funding will result in a reduction in services
to our customers.
¶16. (SBU) POLITICAL SECTION: The Political Section currently
consists of six officers, an OMS and an FSN political
assistant. Of the officers, one serves concurrently as the
Labor Attach. A second officer is designated the
Political-Military Officer. At any given time, the Section
normally has one U.S. citizen student intern. The Section's
primary responsibility is to implement the Mission Program
Plan through a program of diplomatic outreach to Argentine
government officials, political and opinion leaders, and
non-governmental organizations, and analytical reporting.
The Section engages in an active travel and public outreach
program, coordinating closely with other sections and
agencies in the Embassy, in particular the Drug Enforcement
Administration, the Milgroup and the Defense Attache's
office. The Political Section specifically coordinates with
Milgroup, DAO, and EAO on counterterrorism in the Tri-border
area. POL also works with TSA, ECON, and ICE on Container
Security Initiative (CSI) and maritime security issues. POL
closely cooperates with DEA, Legatt, ICE, RSO and TSA on
internal security issues, especially counternarcotics control.
¶17. (SBU) The Political Section will lose its only junior
officer position during the upcoming transfer season as a
result of the Department's ongoing restructuring of overseas
positions. The incumbent in this position is responsible for
managing INL programs and activities in Argentina, in close
coordination with the DEA. The fight against narcotics
trafficking is one of the Embassy's top MPP priorities.
Through INL programs, the Embassy provides important
assistance to such programs as the Northern Border Task
Force, which plays a critical role in intercepting drug
transshipments from neighboring countries. The current
Political Section officer travels frequently on INL-related
matters and spends approximately 50 percent of his time on
INL-related activities. We have requested the Department to
reconsider its decision to remove this position from Buenos
Aires.
¶18. (SBU) THE MANAGEMENT SECTION: This office is responsible
for providing administrative support services to seven State
embassy sections and twelve other agencies (DEA, FCS, DAO,
MILGRP, FAS, TSA, LEGATT, APHIS, TREASURY, SSA, FBIS, DHS)
with a total of 320 employees. Manages and provides
leadership for 8 U.S. staff and 89 local employees. The most
significant problems that inhibit achievement of post
objectives are funding and the lack of qualified candidates
for specific sensitive EFM positions.
¶19. (SBU) Post has had a very dynamic infrastructure
renovation project encompassing such areas as security,
office space, residential properties, and the Chief of
Mission Residence. The Management section has tried
unsuccessfully to staff several rovers and escort positions
crucial to the Facilities Maintenance Operations. The rovers
provide essential backup to the American five direct OMSes in
the Embassy. The Security escort allows the Facilities
Maintenance section to complete projects within the
Controlled Access Areas. Because of the lack of qualified
personnel to fill these positions, several projects have not
been completed, case in point; the roof project, and the
facade project. Post has aggressively been recruiting
throughout the American community and post EFM's arriving at
post. We have also maintained those positions open without a
closing deadline in order to facilitate the recruitment of
eligible candidates. We have had limited success but realize
that this will be a perennial problem within the embassy.
¶20. (SBU) ECONOMIC SECTION: The twelve-member Economic
Section includes an Economic Counselor, a Finance and
Development Officer, and Trade and Investment Officer, two
Economic Sectors Officers, and OMS, an FSN Economic
Specialist, an FSN Financial Specialist, and an FSN Economic
Assistant (secretary/translator/interpreter), two year-round
U.S. interns, and a year-round Argentine intern. The
Economic Section's time has been evenly divided between
traditional economic reporting, cooperative operational
activities with the GOA, and business advocacy on behalf of
U.S. companies. The Economic Section also carries out an
active public speaking program. The Economic Section's
reporting includes: macroeconomics developments, private debt
renegotiations, negotiations with the IMF, trade
developments, investment disputes, strikes and disruptions in
the oil and aviation sectors, sectoral reports, provincial
trip reports, and required annual reports. The Economic
Section's activities are integrated in Post's Reporting,
Representational and Travel Plans.
¶21. (SBU) The Economic Section's cooperative operational
activities reflect the expanded level of bilateral
cooperation efforts in aviation safety, port security,
anti-money laundering, and anti terrorism finance that has
taken place since the election of the Kirchner government in
May 2003. The Economic Section works closely with the
Ambassador, DCM, Public Affairs Section, FAA, TSA, ICE, FBI,
DEA, the Departments of Justice, Treasury and Homeland
Security in the implementation of these bilateral cooperation
efforts. Some of the many examples of cooperation between
these sections include: the Economic and Commercial
Counselors both participate in AMCHAM's monthly Board of
Directors meetings; the Economic and Agricultural Counselors
are invited to participate in the Commercial Section's annual
off-site planning event, and Economic Officers manage the
Commercial Section in the absence of the Commercial Counselor
and Commercial Attache. Among the many examples of the
Economic Section's successful bilateral cooperation efforts
are: Argentine ratification of the OAS Convention on
Terrorism and the UN Convention on the Suppression of the
Financing of Terrorism in March 2005, the restoration of
Argentina's FAA Category I Flight Safety Status in October
2005, Argentina's inclusion as the first South American
participant in the Department of Homeland Security's
Container Security Initiative in November 2005 and the
ongoing discussion of proposed legislation to criminalize
money laundering and terrorism finance.
¶22. (SBU) The Economic Section's business advocacy has been
extensive, given the economic disruption caused by the
recession, default and devaluation associated with the end of
the collapse of the convertibility regime in late 2001 and
early 2002 and the Kirchner government's intervention in the
economy. Argentina currently has the largest number of
international arbitration cases before the World Bank's
International Commission for the Settlement of Investment
Disputes (ICSID). The Economic Section works closely with
the Ambassador, DCM, Public Affairs Section, Commercial
Section and Agricultural Section in its business advocacy
efforts. A description of the Embassy's extensive business
advocacy activities is contained in Reftels C & D -- 05
Buenos Aires 2517 and 2518.
¶23. (SBU) THE CONSULAR SECTION: The Consul General and Deputy
Section Chief/Visa Chief supervise a consular section staffed
by 11 FSOs, one consular associate and 22 FSNs. The section
provides the full range of consular services -- including the
services of a Federal Benefits Unit -- for all of Argentina.
Though a great deal of management and staff time is devoted
to keeping the visa backlog at reasonable levels and
providing assistance to American citizens, the section is
fully integrated into the Mission's policy planning structure
and enjoys excellent support from the Front Office and
Country Team.
¶24. (SBU) The Consular Section continues to grow in the
aftermath of Argentina's removal from the Visa Waiver Program
in 2002. NIV demand (nearly 104,000 adjudications in FY
2005) and requests for American citizen services have
increased steadily as Argentina emerges from the economic
crisis of 2000-2002. To meet current demand, the Department
has created three new officer positions and one FSN position
for the section. However, application trends strongly point
to a steady rise in NIV demand for the foreseeable future.
It is therefore likely that post will request additional
staff within the next two fiscal years.
¶25. (SBU) THE PUBLIC AFFAIRS SECTION: The Public Affairs
Section manages press, cultural, and educational activities
for the U.S. Embassy in Argentina. The section is headed by
the Public Affairs Officer (PAO) and comprises a Press
Office, a Cultural Office, and an Information Resource
Center. In addition to the PAO, there are four other
American officers (the IO, CAO, ACAO, and IRO), nineteen
FSNs, and one American family member. The section's annual
budget is around $1,700,000. The Public Affairs Section
cooperates closely with all other sections of the Embassy in
their public outreach efforts to meet U.S. policy objectives.
¶26. (SBU) The Press Office (the IO and 5 FSNs) works with
local and foreign media, informing them about U.S. policies
and society through a wide variety of products and services,
including the distribution of press releases, op-eds (print
and audio), and other materials, as well as the organization
of news conferences, interviews, and digital video
conferences. The Office is headed by the Information Officer
who is the Embassy Spokesperson. The Cultural Office (the
CAO and 11 FSNs) works closely with Argentine institutions in
organizing lectures, seminars, workshops, exhibits, and
performances by American government officials, academics,
writers, and artists. This office, headed by the Cultural
Affairs Officer, also manages the Embassy's educational and
cultural exchange programs.
¶27. (SBU) The Information Resource Center (IRC) is located in
the Embassy and is responsible for providing Argentines with
timely, accurate information on U. S. policies, society, and
culture. The IRC is staffed by three professional librarians
and two assistants who rely on a reference collection of over
2,500 books, journal subscriptions, the Internet, and a host
of online databases to respond to inquiries and to develop
information outreach products. The Information Resource
Officer (IRO) provides expertise and guidance to the IRC and
to the Mission as a whole, but she also has regional
responsibilities. The Fulbright Commission provides
academic-exchange opportunities to Americans and Argentines.
The Commission's annual budget is around $2 million.
¶28. (SBU) THE ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SECTION:
The ESTH Section is the lead reporting section on
environmental issues and nuclear energy, but also deals with
other issues such as agricultural biotechnology, health and
biomedicine. The ESTH section consists of an ESTH Counselor,
two American officers, and an FSN. ESTH coordinates their
work with ECON, FCS, and PAS to further U.S. policy
objectives in the environment, science and technology areas.
¶29. (SBU) A significant part of ESTH's work is focused on
nuclear issues. We coordinate the bilateral Joint Standing
Committee on Nuclear Energy Cooperation's (JSCNEC)
multi-agency meetings. We support the Global Threat
Reduction Initiative (GTRI); in conjunction with overall US
policy to decrease the global supply of weapons grade nuclear
material that could potentially fall into the wrong hands, we
are working to effect the conversion of the RA-6 research
reactor located at the Atomic Center Bariloche from High
Enriched Uranium (HEU) to Low Enriched Uranium. We are also
working to finalize IAEA mandated safeguards requirements to
permit the transfer of spent HEU fuel from the Atomic Center
Constituyentes and provide replacement fuel. In addition, we
support the implementation of the International Radiological
Reduction Initiative, which focuses on non-nuclear materials.
¶30. (SBU) The ESTH Section represents the USG scientific and
technical agencies overseas, many of which have cooperative
projects with Argentine institutions. NIH, for example,
funds Argentine research institutions working with US
principal investigators, expending several hundred thousand
dollars every year. NSF is investing $10 million in a
multinational project located in Mendoza province. NASA is
substantially contributing to the new Argentine SAC-D earth
observation satellite, scheduled for launch in 2008.
Finally, the US National Park System has a long-standing
agreement and program of cooperative activities with the
Argentine National Parks, the second oldest park system in
the Americas, and modeled on that of the US. The ESTH
Section is the Embassy Disaster Relief office. We maintain
contacts with Argentine relief agencies, including the
federal inter-agency body, SIFEM, a partial counterpart to
FEMA. More importantly we are responsible for contacts with
the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance and coordination of
embassy relief efforts in the event of a disaster in
Argentina. A key partner in this effort is the Military
Assistance Group, which has the main resources.
¶31. (SBU) PROBLEMS THAT MERIT SPECIAL ATTENTION: The Embassy
hopes that the Inspectors would closely review some of our
funding and personnel needs. The steady erosion by inflation
of FSN salaries is a growing concern that could impact on
morale and has the potential to erode our ability to retain
some of our top talent. On the policy side, the election of
Evo Morales in Bolivia is likely to undermine regional
counter narcotics cooperation efforts. We believe it is
imperative for the U.S. to boost key allies such as Argentina
who remain staunchly committed to combating illicit drugs.
The current level of INL funds are woefully insufficient to
assist the Argentine security forces to deal with the rapidly
deteriorating drug trafficking situation on the
Argentine-Bolivia border, as is the loss of our Political
Officer/NAS Officer this summer. Likewise, the U.S. faces a
major public diplomacy challenge in Argentina. The addition
of an Assistant Information Officer to our PAS staffing
complement would be of great benefit in this regard.
¶32. (SBU) ACCOMPLISHMENTS: We are extremely proud of and wish
to highlight the exceptional job done by our entire Mission
in support of President Bush's visit to Argentina and
participation in the Fourth Summit of the Americas held
November 3-5, 2005 in Mar del Plata. While President
Kirchner's handling of public relations and policy aspects of
the Summit left much to be desired, the Mission's lead role
in all of the logistical and security preparations and plans
were highly successful and appreciated by the White House
Advance Team, Secretary Rice's staff and the Secret Service.
Our staff led the way in securing the hotel rooms, as well as
the communications, office equipment and transportation
required for the nearly 2,000 civilian and military support
staff that accompanied the President. A few weeks prior to
the Summit, a significant proportion of our staff deployed to
the resort town of Mar del Plata, located 300 miles from our
Embassy in Buenos Aires, to prepare the full organizational
and security support structure for the President's attendance
at a Summit involving 34 other heads of state. Thanks to our
dedicated staff, we were also able to meet every logistical
request made by White House Advance and the Secret Service to
include the most sensitive requests such as special holding
rooms for the President at each site with full classified
communications network set up by WHCA, as well as close
Secret Service unrestricted proximity to the President at all
SIPDIS
Summit meetings, plenary sessions and receptions.
GUTIERREZ