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Viewing cable 06RANGOON460, UNODC SEEKS FUNDING FOR BURMA OPIUM SURVEYS

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06RANGOON460 2006-04-05 04:08 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Rangoon
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050408Z Apr 06
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 RANGOON 000460 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR EAP AND INL; DEA FOR OF, OFF; 
USPACOM FOR FPA 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: SNAR KCRM BM
SUBJECT: UNODC SEEKS FUNDING FOR BURMA OPIUM SURVEYS 
 
 
1. (SBU) Summary:  UNODC-Burma is seeking USG support to help 
cover a budget shortfall of $100,000 to complete its ongoing 
2006 opium yield survey, as well as additional funding in the 
amount of $260,000 to conduct its 2007 survey.  These surveys 
offer the most reliable evidence to measure progress in Burma 
on eliminating opium poppy cultivation and to verify the 
impact of cultivation and production bans.  USG influence on 
UN counterdrug efforts in Burma has waned since the Burmese 
military halted our own joint opium survey and we ceased 
funding for UNODC programs in ethnic Wa territory.  USG 
support for UNODC's opium surveys can ensure their viability 
and reassert USG influence in the overall counternarcotics 
process in Burma.  We strongly recommend Washington offer 
support.  End Summary. 
 
2. (U) The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Burma 
approached the Embassy seeking funding for its annual opium 
survey (AD/MYA/02/G43: Illicit Crop Monitoring Programme in 
Myanmar - ICMP).  According to UNODC staff, the organization 
recently revised its project budget to encompass the current 
survey already underway (2006) as well as next year's survey 
(2007). 
 
3. (U) UNODC also revised the ICMP budget to cover an 
increase in the geographical coverage of its annual survey. 
In June 2005, leaders of the United Wa State Army (UWSA) 
implemented an oft-delayed ban on the cultivation of opium 
poppy.  Initial UNODC investigations, conducted during the 
2005 opium survey and during several rapid assessment 
missions in late 2005, revealed that drug traffickers may be 
attempting to shift cultivation, and production, away from 
the Wa Special Region 2 to former growing areas elsewhere in 
Shan State, as well as to new areas in Kachin State and 
possibly Kayah State. 
 
4. (U) UNODC's revised ICMP project will also include a 
socio-economic survey in Kokang and Wa areas of Shan State 
(Special Regions 1 and 2) to study the impact of opium poppy 
elimination and its sustainability.  The UNODC-led "Kokang 
and Wa Initiative" (KOWI), a separate project, seeks to 
improve food security and basic social services in forming 
poppy cultivating areas.  UNODC will conduct the survey to 
support KOWI's NGO and UN partners and to better target 
assistance. 
 
5. (U) UNODC has conducted annual opium yield surveys in 
Burma since 2001.  In addition to supporting the current 
survey and the 2007 survey, the ongoing ICMP project 
(AD/MYA/02/G43) also produced surveys in 2004 and 2005. 
UNODC jointly carries out the field component of the survey 
with the GOB's Central Committee for Drugs Abuse Control 
(CCDAC) and implements the remote sensing component with the 
Ministry of Forestry. 
 
6. (U) UNODC's revised budget for the overall ICMP program in 
2006 and 2007 is $957,900.  According to UNODC staff, the 
agency seeks U.S. support to cover a $100,000 shortfall to 
complete the current opium yield survey and full budget 
support in the amount of $260,000 for the 2007 survey.  Note: 
The full project budget for 2006-2007 also includes a $30,500 
component for "improving national capacity" on opium surveys 
at the GOB's CCDAC and Ministry of Forestry.  We do not 
propose USG support for this component.  End Note. 
 
EMBASSY RANGOON RECOMMENDATIONS 
------------------------------- 
 
7. (SBU) Embassy Rangoon strongly supports USG funding for 
the UNODC opium yield surveys.  The United States conducted 
its own joint opium yield surveys in 1993, 1995, and annually 
from 1997-2004.  Following the 2004 ouster of former Prime 
Minister Khin Nyunt, however, the GOB has failed to provide 
necessary cooperation, so we have not conducted our joint 
survey for the past two years.  Following the unsealing in 
early 2005 of indictments against UWSA leaders, the USG 
redirected, and ultimately eliminated, funding for UNODC 
projects in eastern Shan State.  As a result, the United 
States, previously UNODC's largest donor in Burma, lost 
considerable influence on UN counternarcotics efforts. 
 
8. (SBU) In December 2005 Washington analysts presented 
Rangoon's mini-Dublin Group with findings from the USG's 2005 
opium yield survey.  The analysts emphasized, however, that 
the results were based solely on imagery and that the 
reliability of USG opium yield estimates would erode within 
two years without the "ground truthing" provided by the field 
component of the annual U.S.-Burma joint survey.  The UNODC 
and the USG surveys, using different methodologies, had been 
helpful in reinforcing the validity of each survey's findings. 
 
9. (SBU) The UNODC's opium surveys remain the best way to 
measure progress in Burma on eliminating opium poppy 
cultivation and for verifying the impact of self-imposed 
cultivation bans imposed by various cease-fire and insurgent 
ethnic groups.  USG support can help ensure the viability of 
UNODC surveys and reassert USG influence in the overall 
counternarcotics process in Burma.  We recommend Washington 
favorably consider UNODC's request. 
VILLAROSA