Cablegate: Gicnt: The United Arab Emirates (Uae) to Host

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SUBJECT: GICNT: THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) TO HOST
2010 PLENARY MEETING JUNE 29-30, 2010

1. This is an action request ) see paras 3 and 4.

SUMMARY
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2. Appropriate Embassy officials are requested, in concert
with their Russian and UAE counterparts (if possible, but not
required), to inform host governments that the 2010 Global
Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT) Plenary
Meeting will be hosted by the United Arab Emirates in Abu
Dhabi from June 29-30, 2010. The GICNT conducts annual
Plenary meetings at the Undersecretary/Deputy Foreign
Minister-level to evaluate work that has been done in the
previous year and determine new priorities for the coming
year. The Plenary meeting is a centralized forum for
partners to voice their thoughts to the wider GICNT
partnership. Additionally, the 2010 GICNT Plenary meeting
will provide Partners with the opportunity to vote on a
revision to the Original 2006 Terms of Reference (TOR). The
Plenary Meeting will be a 2-day event, with the first day
(June 29) set aside for the senior Plenary delegation to
dialogue and vote. On that day, each Partner will have the
opportunity to make a brief two minute statement to the
partnership regarding their progress in implementing the
Statement of Principles. Statements can provide an update on
the partner's implementation of the Statement of Principles
or describe plans to host future GICNT activities, but should
remain under two minutes to allow for substantial discussion
on the TOR revisions. The second day (June 30) will include
a series of expert level working groups to begin work on the
functional areas prioritized by the Co-Chairs. End Summary.

OBJECTIVES
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3. Department requests Global Initiative Coordinating
Officers (GICOs) or appropriate Embassy official, together
with their Russian and UAE counterparts (if possible but not
required), to inform host countries of the following (Note:
Embassy Moscow and Embassy Abu Dhabi are excepted from this
action request, and this serves as INFO only for them):

Begin announcement:

--To all Global Initiative Partners and Observers:

The United Arab Emirates (UAE), together with the United
States and the Russian Federation, as Co-Chairs of the Global
Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT), are pleased
to announce that the 2010 Global Initiative Plenary Meeting
will be hosted in the United Arab Emirates. The meeting is
scheduled to take place in Abu Dhabi June 29-30, 2010.

The GICNT conducts annual Plenary meetings at the
Undersecretary/Deputy Foreign Minister-level to evaluate work
that has been done in the previous year and determine new
priorities for the coming year. The Plenary meeting is a
centralized forum for partners to voice their thoughts to the
wider GICNT partnership. Additionally, the 2010 GICNT
Plenary meeting will provide Partners with the opportunity to
vote on a revision to the Original 2006 Terms of Reference
(TOR). The revised TOR gives the partnership new tools to
generate shared plans, policies, procedures, and best
practices for the Statement of Principles. Additionally, it
activates the Implementation and Assessment Group (IAG),
which will act as an advisory body to the Co-Chairs. The
June 2010 Plenary will vote on the election of an IAG
Coordinator to lead the IAG for the coming 2 years. The
Plenary Meeting will be a 2-day event, with the first day
(June 29) set aside for the senior Plenary delegations to
dialogue and vote. On that day, each Partner will have the
opportunity to make a brief two minute statement to the
partnership. Statements can provide an update on the
partner's implementation of the Statement of Principles or
describe plans to host future GICNT activities, but should
remain under two minutes to allow for substantial discussion
on the TOR revisions. The second day (June 30) will include a
series of expert level working groups to begin work on the
functional areas prioritized by the Co-Chairs. These working
groups will begin the work of establishing activities that
will generate core competencies for consideration by the
GICNT in selected functional areas.

Further details regarding content of the 2010 Plenary
Meeting will be available in the coming months and will be
posted on the Global Initiative Information Portal (GIIP)
website, which can be accessed at

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(https://global-initiative.info). The Terms of Reference
document to be voted on by the partnership will be released
in advance of the event once the Co-Chairs have completed
drafting a joint proposal.

We ask that those nations who are interested in serving
as IAG Coordinator notify both Co-Chairs by 5 April, 2010.

The Co-Chairs would like to thank the Government of the
United Arab Emirates for graciously offering to host the 2010
Plenary Meeting.

End announcement.

REPORTING DEADLINE
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4. The Department requests the demarche to be delivered by 12
March 2010. GICOs or appropriate Embassy officials should
report results of efforts by cable before 19 March 2010. The
Department greatly appreciates Post,s assistance.

POINT OF CONTACT
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5. All cables associated with the GICNT should be slugged to
the Department for ISN/WMDT and the relevant regional
bureaus. E-mails regarding the GICNT may be sent to
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BACKGROUND
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6. The Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
(GICNT), which is co-chaired by the United States and the
Russian Federation, was launched in July 2006. Its mission
is to strengthen international cooperation and collaboration
to build partners, individual and collective capacity to
combat the threat of nuclear terrorism. GICNT partners are
committed to a set of principles, which encompass a broad
range of deterrence, prevention, detection, and response
objectives. Through multilateral activities and exercises,
partners share best practices and lessons learned,
particularly with regional neighbors. To date, over thirty
multilateral activities and five senior-level GICNT meetings
have been conducted, resulting in strengthened policies,
enhanced information sharing techniques, and greater partner
nation transparency and collaboration. There are now 77
partners in the GICNT and four official observers: the
European Union (EU), the International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA), the International Criminal Police Organization
(INTERPOL), and the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime
(UNODC).

7. The GICNT holds annual Undersecretary/Deputy Foreign
Minister-level meetings, which provide leadership with the
opportunity to determine key themes for the upcoming year and
provide a centralized forum for nations to voice their
thoughts to the GICNT partnership. Earlier meetings were
held in Rabat, Morocco (November 2006); Ankara, Turkey
(February 2007); Astana, Kazakhstan (June 2007); Madrid,
Spain (June 2008), and The Hague, Netherlands (June 2009).
CLINTON

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