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### Viewing cable 06BOGOTA10462, SCENESETTER FOR NOVEMBER 13-14 VISIT OF PRESIDENT

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06BOGOTA10462 | 2006-11-09 20:08 | 2011-02-20 12:12 | CONFIDENTIAL | Embassy Bogota

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    C O N F I D E N T I A L BOGOTA 010462

    SIPDIS

    SIPDIS

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/09/2016
    TAGS: PREL PGOV PTER PHUM SNAR EAID ETRD ECON CO
    SUBJECT: SCENESETTER FOR NOVEMBER 13-14 VISIT OF PRESIDENT
    URIBE TO WASHINGTON, D.C.

    Classified By: Ambassador William B. Wood
    Reason: 1.4 (b,d)

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    Summary
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    ¶1.  (C) President Uribe arrives in Washington for November
    13-14 meetings with executive and legislative branch
    officials in the wake of a highly successful visit to
    Colombia by U/S for Political Affairs R. Nicholas Burns.
    Uribe will emphasize the importance to Colombia of
    ratification of the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, and
    of ATPDEA extension, pending ratification of the FTA.  Uribe
    is also likely to advocate ATPDEA extension for other Andean
    beneficiaries.

    ¶2.  (C) Uribe remains the country's dominant political
    figure, with approval ratings close to 70 percent.  His
    congressional coalition controls both houses of Congress, but
    is increasingly difficult to manage.  Tensions between the
    military and police have heated up.  Progress on paramilitary
    demobilization has slowed; Uribe's success in removing over
    32,000 paramilitaries from the battlefield has not been
    matched by effective reintegration programs for former
    combatants, and some demobilized are returning to crime.  The
    GOC and ELN are conducting peace talks; it is unclear whether
    the ELN is willing to agree to implement a cease-fire.  Uribe
    suspended outreach to the FARC on humanitarian exchange of
    some FARC hostages for jailed FARC terrorists following an
    October 19 car bomb attack in Bogota; there is no sign the
    FARC is serious about the talks.  End summary.

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    Strategic Relationship and Plan Colombia Consolidation
    --------------------------------------------- ---------

    ¶3.  (C) U/S Burns and Uribe agreed to strengthen the
    strategic relationship across the board during the Under
    Secretary's October 24-26 visit to Colombia.  Burns

    SIPDIS
    encouraged Colombia to seek stronger partnerships with
    Mexico, Peru, Chile and Brazil.  Burns and Uribe discussed
    the importance of Colombia's efforts to help promote regional
    economic integration, intensify security relationships, and
    deepen democratic cooperation.  Burns and Uribe agreed to
    prepare a Plan Colombia Consolidation Plan by January for
    submission to the U.S. Congress.  The Plan would chart
    assistance levels through 2013 and define the GOC's
    increasing assumption of responsibility for Plan Colombia
    costs.

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    Counternarcotics
    ----------------

    ¶4.  (C) Aerial eradication is at a new record of 145,716
    hectares, with 1.5 months left in the year.  Interdictions
    and lab destructions continue at a rapid pace, and seizures
    of money and other assets are increasing.  Nationalizing
    programs is our priority.  This is complicated since missions
    and goals have increased in the last few years, as have the
    number of air assets that require support.  The Colombians
    set up a pilot Colombian government spray package (with a lot
    of USG support).  It has sprayed over 2,600 hectares.

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    Bilateral Issues
    ----------------

    ¶5.  (C)

     -- Economic: Colombia's economy is expanding by nearly 6
    percent annually.  We expect the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade
    Agreement (FTA) to be signed on November 22, although
    necessary review by the Constitutional Court will only occur
    in 2007.  We expect Colombia's Congress to approve it this
    year.  There is no date yet for submission to our Congress.
    Colombia's Andean Trade Preference and Drug Eradication Act
    (ATPDEA) preferences are set to expire at the end of this
    year.  Extension of ATPDEA until entry into force of the FTA
    for Colombia is a matter of urgent priority for the GOC,
    whose senior officials have also emphasized the importance of
    ATPDEA extension for Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador.

     -- Paramilitary Demobilization/Justice: The GOC has removed
    over 32,000 former paramilitaries from the battlefield, in
    addition to 11,000 individual deserters from all terrorist
    groups, in the last four years.  The GOC's appointment of a
    High Commissioner for Demobilization (Frank Pearl) is
    welcome, and reintegration of ex-paramilitaries is slowly
    getting off the ground.  Reintegration programs have not
    materialized, and ex-paramilitaries are returning to crime.
    Implementation of the Justice and Peace law is also lagging.

     -- Extradition: Uribe has extradited over 380 Colombians to
    the U.S., including FARC terrorists "Simon Trinidad,"
    currently on trial in New York for abetting kidnapping of 3
    U.S. citizens, and FARC finance expert "Sonia," whose U.S.
    trial starts in January.  Uribe approved, but suspended,
    extradition of 5 paramilitary leaders, subject to full
    compliance with Justice and Peace Law terms.  U/S Burns and
    INL A/S Patterson emphasized it was vital that extraditions
    continue, and noted the GOC's increased use of suspensions
    will be viewed skeptically in Congress and elsewhere.

     -- Victims, Justice, and Reparations: The National
    Reparations and Reconciliation Commission has opened two of
    its five regional offices to register victims of paramilitary
    violence and assist them with legal issues associated with
    implementation of the Justice and Peace Law.  The Commission
    will design individual and collective reparations.  The
    Commission has been seized with organizational issues, and
    has launched few concrete programs. U/S Burns stressed the
    need for the Commission to start programs that recognize
    victims' suffering and begin the reconciliation process.

     --FARC and ELN Talks: Prior to an October 19 car bomb
    attributed to the FARC at the Nueva Granada military
    university in Bogota, the GOC and FARC had traded public
    statements on a possible exchange of imprisoned FARC
    terrorists for FARC "political" hostages.  Uribe accepted a
    FARC proposal for an "encounter zone" for negotiations but
    insisted it be free of armed FARC.  Uribe has always insisted
    FARC prisoners do not return to criminal activities.  The car
    bomb led Uribe to suspend outreach to the FARC as long as it
    conducted terrorist acts.  To date, the FARC has not shown it
    is serious about the talks.  The ELN is negotiating with the
    GOC but it is unclear whether it is ready to implement a
    cease-fire; the U.S. supports a process that leads to ELN
    cease-fire, disarmament, and demobilization.

     -- Human Rights: Recent GOC actions to strengthen human
    rights protections are promising.  Defense Minister Santos
    appointed the first civilian, a woman, to head the Military
    Penal Justice (MPJ) system and announced the need for
    additional MPJ reforms.  The Prosecutor General's Office is
    implementing an MOU it signed with the MOD that assigns
    civilian investigators to cases of alleged military human
    rights abuses, and permits the Office to make the initial
    decision to send a case to civilian courts.  The Prosecutor
    General's office arrested 14 military officials since late
    August for their alleged involvement in extrajudicial
    killings, and four deputies for alleged involvement in
    paramilitary criminal activities.  In October, the GOC
    published an implementing decree on the Justice and Peace Law
    that largely meets our concerns.  New head of the Office of
    the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Juan Pablo
    Corlazzoli, has a positive relationship with the GOC, and
    with us.

    WOOD

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