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### Viewing cable 04THEHAGUE1446, G/TIP MILLER MEETS DUTCH FOREIGN AND JUSTICE

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04THEHAGUE1446 | 2004-06-10 18:06 | 2011-01-27 00:12 | UNCLASSIFIED | Embassy The Hague

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    This record is a partial extract of the original cable. The full text of the original cable is not available.

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    UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 THE HAGUE 001446

    SIPDIS

    E.O. 12958: N/A
    TAGS: KCRM PGOV PHUM SMIG NL
    SUBJECT: G/TIP MILLER MEETS DUTCH FOREIGN AND JUSTICE
    MINISTERS WHO RESPOND TO CONTINUING ACTION PLAN

    REF: SECSTATE 115541

    SUMMARY
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    17734

    2004-06-10

    04THEHAGUE1446

    Embassy The Hague

    UNCLASSIFIED

    04SECSTATE115541

    UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 THE HAGUE 001446

    SIPDIS

    E.O. 12958: N/A
    TAGS: KCRM PGOV PHUM SMIG NL
    SUBJECT: G/TIP MILLER MEETS DUTCH FOREIGN AND JUSTICE
    MINISTERS WHO RESPOND TO CONTINUING ACTION PLAN

    REF: SECSTATE 115541

    SUMMARY
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    ¶1. During a June 7 meeting with G/TIP Director Miller, Dutch
    Foreign Minister Bot and Justice Minister Donner acknowledged
    a shared commitment for concrete action against Trafficking
    in Persons (TIP). Although critical of the tone and
    unilateral nature of the U.S. benchmarks outlined in the TIP
    Continuing Action Plan (reftel) and insistent on tackling the
    problem in their own way, the Ministers agreed clear
    guidelines to measure progress in fighting TIP were
    desirable. Both sides agreed to continue their dialogue on
    TIP in a constructive manner and expressed confidence we
    would come to a solution.

    MILLER MEETING WITH FOREIGN AND JUSTICE MINISTERS
    --------------------------------------------- --

    ¶2. The Secretary is considering Tier 1 placement for the
    Netherlands in the 2004 TIP Report, with a re-assessment in
    November 2004. At the direction of the Deputy Secretary,
    G/TIP Director John Miller visited The Hague June 7. With
    Amb. Sobel, he met with Dutch Foreign Minister Bot and
    Justice Minister Donner to discuss the quantifiable, specific
    benchmarks in the TIP Continuing Action Plan (reftel) on
    which the Dutch will be evaluated in November. Other U.S.
    participants included G/TIP Acting Deputy Director JoAnn
    Schneider, EUR/PGI Doug Hoyt, DCM Danny Russel, and Global
    Issues officers Drew Mann and Erin Webster-Main. Dutch
    participants were P.P. (Peter) van Wulfften Palthe, MFA DG of
    Regional Policy and Consular Affairs, Arie Ijzerman, MoJ
    Director of International Criminal Affairs & Drugs Policy,
    and Marjo Crompvoets, MFA Senior Policy Advisor on Judicial
    and Police Cooperation.

    ¶3. The initial reception by the Dutch was cold with
    considerable push back. Both Ministers Donner and Bot
    criticized the harsh tone of the benchmarks and the apparent
    unilateral imposition of U.S. TIP priorities upon the Dutch.
    FM Bot said this is not how sovereign nations should deal
    with each other. He acknowledged the terrible scourge of
    TIP and reiterated the Dutch commitment to eradicate the
    problem. Still, as a sovereign country, Bot said, the
    Netherlands would tailor its TIP approach to national
    circumstances and priorities. For example, Donner noted the
    benchmarks laid a heavy emphasis on licensed brothels in the
    Amsterdam Red Light District, when a more pressing concern
    for the Dutch was the phenomenon of lover boys preying on
    minors, against which the Dutch had undertaken information
    campaigns and increased prosecutions.

    ¶4. Mr. Miller first reviewed the possibility of the Secretary
    doing a conditional Tier 1 placement to be reassessed in
    November and listed the conditions we felt necessary to
    maintain that rating in our evaluation. He expressed
    G/TIP,s view that the Dutch decision to legalize
    prostitution and maintain a sex industry with zones like the
    Amsterdam Red Light District created a magnet for TIP crimes.
    As such, the Dutch shouldered special obligations to rid the
    legalized sector of TIP victims. The Ministers agreed a link
    existed between prostitution and trafficking, but they
    distinguished the two activities and stated that licensing
    and regulating prostitution was, in fact, a Dutch effort to
    stop TIP. The Ministers questioned whether G/TIP,s focus on
    legalized prostitution exceeded the Trafficking Victims
    Protection Act mandate.

    ¶5. Both Mr. Miller and the Ministers agreed the goal is to
    reduce the number of TIP victims and increase the number of
    trafficker prosecutions. In fact, both countries share many
    similar tactics in their fight against TIP. Mr. Miller and
    the Ministers acknowledged several of the steps indicated in
    the benchmarks were, in fact, already being undertaken by the
    Dutch.

    ¶6. Noting the common ground between the two countries in
    shared goal and means, Amb. Sobel stressed the need for a
    continued real time dialogue on TIP issues. Rather than
    relying upon proclamations and gestures, everyone recognized
    the importance of establishing concrete, measurable targets
    in the TIP effort. Bot and Donner agreed, noting that
    progress against TIP is made at the street level, not the
    paper level and the Dutch plan to deal with TIP issues in
    the expanded EU during the Dutch Presidency. Donner affirmed
    that national and EU-wide progress on TIP was a top Dutch
    priority and urged that we move forward together on solutions
    and avoid problems of tone. The meeting ended with the
    promise by both sides to continue talking.

    ¶7. After the meeting, Mr. Miller indicated to the Amb. and
    DCM alternative benchmarks might be acceptable, but the
    Deputy Secretary required conditions as substantial, specific
    and measurable as the benchmarks outlined in the Continuing
    Action Plan. Mr. Miller said he could accept such clearly
    defined and measurable alternative benchmarks developed
    jointly by the Dutch and U.S. (including G/TIP) if done
    quickly (i.e., within a month).
    OTHER MEETINGS
    --------------

    ¶8. Prior to his meeting with the Ministers, Mr. Miller toured
    De Roggeveen Shelter for victims of domestic violence and
    trafficking. He discussed the need for improvements in the
    government's B-9 status (e.g., allowing TIP victims to work)
    with the shelter's social workers. Following the shelter
    visit, Mr. Miller met two former TIP victims who had started
    Atalantas, an NGO working to inform other victims of their
    rights under Dutch law. They spoke of their particular
    efforts to focus more attention on victims rather than
    prosecutions by reaching out directly to them, former to
    current victim.
    ¶9. In another meeting, the National Rapporteur told Mr.
    Miller of several areas of progress since their last meeting
    in September - a new joint investigative team involving
    German, Belgian, Bulgarian, Dutch, EUROPOL and EUROJUST
    officials to combat TIP; and an EU twinning project with the
    U.K. in the Czech Republic. She said her third report would
    likely be released during the summer (to include 2002 figures
    - final 2003 figures are expected shortly after its
    publication). Mr. Miller also met with Rob Coster, National
    Police Project Leader for Prostitution and TIP, who discussed
    the shift in police focus from the legal to the illegal
    prostitution sector (including escort services). Coster also
    clarified the Dutch were re-allocating 100 detectives from
    the regional level up to the national level to deal more
    effectively with transnational crimes such as TIP. Coster
    echoed the National Rapporteur,s remarks that the
    Netherlands was instituting new TIP demand reduction
    programs. Finally, a police tour of Amsterdam,s Red Light
    District after the meeting with the Ministers revealed that
    police checked all legal brothels for TIP victims once every
    six weeks on average.

    COMMENT
    --------

    ¶10. Embassy believes the next step is a strong push for
    prompt joint development of clear, measurable benchmarks that
    closely conform to domestic Dutch realities. This will help
    ensure continued bilateral, shoulder-to-shoulder cooperation
    in the fight against TIP, and hopefully ease Dutch
    pre-occupation with the process of producing our yearly
    report. Minister Bot committed the Dutch to attack TIP
    during their upcoming EU presidency. With continued
    bilateral engagement, the U.S. and the Netherlands will be
    able to multiply our individual efforts against TIP at a time
    when EU border policies are under review and its enlarged
    borders increase the risk of trafficking.

    ¶11. G/TIP Director Miller has reviewed and cleared this cable.
    SOBEL

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