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### Viewing cable 09MADRID614, SCENESETTER FOR DHS. SEC. NAPOLITANO'S JULY 1

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    S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 04 MADRID 000614

    NOFORN
    SIPDIS

    FOR EUR/WE, EUR/ERA, INR
    PASS TO MARC FREY, DAVE GORDNER, KIKO CORTI, MIKE
    SCARDAVILLE OF DHS

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/25/2024
    TAGS: PREL PINS PTER PINR KHLS KCIP KCRM SP PGOV
    SUBJECT: SCENESETTER FOR DHS. SEC. NAPOLITANO'S JULY 1
    MEETINGS IN MADRID

    MADRID 00000614 001.2 OF 004

    Classified By: Charge D'Affaires Arnold A. Chacon for reasons 1.4 (b) a
    nd (d)

    ¶1. (C//NF) Madam Secretary, Embassy Madrid warmly welcomes
    your visit, which comes on the heels of your June 24 meeting
    with Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba in
    Washington (Ref A). While one of the highlights of his trip
    was signing the bilateral accord on Preventing and Combating
    Serious Crime, one of the centerpieces of your Madrid trip
    will be to sign an MOU to formalize the DHS Immigration
    Advisory Program (IAP) at Madrid's Barajas Airport and a
    declaration of intent for our two governments to work toward
    concluding an agreement on Cooperation in Science &
    Technology for Homeland Security Matters. You will hold
    meetings with President Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, his
    Second Vice President, Elena Salgado, who also serves as
    Minister of Economy and Finance, and Interior Minister
    Rubalcaba. The Embassy also will co-host a reception in your
    honor, which will give you and your delegation an opportunity
    to meet a range of additional senior-level officials in the
    Spanish Government. Your visit will help to highlight the
    importance that the USG places on the overall bilateral
    relationship and the numerous programs that the DHS is
    working on with our Spanish hosts. While the focus of your
    trip will be on discussing bilateral issues, your
    interlocutors may express GOS interest in preliminary
    discussions to increase collaboration on justice and home
    affairs issues during Spain's upcoming stint as President of
    the European Union (EU) during the first half of 2010.

    //US-SPAIN RELATIONS//

    ¶2. (C//NF) U.S.-Spain relations are strong and based on
    shared global interests. Spain is a valued US partner and an
    important geostrategic player that has achieved a remarkable
    transformation since the end of the Franco dictatorship 30
    years ago. It is one of the leading democracies in Europe,
    and has the ninth-largest economy in the world. Spain is an
    important friend and ally, and we value its cooperation
    against terrorism and a range of other security issues.
    Since the U.S. presidential election in November, a strong
    atmosphere of goodwill has emerged in Spain for closer
    bilateral cooperation. As a gesture of this goodwill, the
    GOS presently is considering accepting some of the detainees
    currently held at Guantanamo (GTMO, see Ref B). In
    Washington, Rubalcaba publicly stated that Spain may accept
    as many as five detainees. Spain is an important NATO ally,
    a key player in the EU, and during January-June 2010 will
    hold the EU's rotating Presidency. XXXXXXXXXXXX, judicial, and information-sharing
    efforts, at least with us. The USG and GOS signed the
    Homeland Security Presidential Directive 6 (HSPD-6)
    information-sharing agreement in 2007. XXXXXXXXXXXX. The DHS/ICE office within Embassy Madrid has
    worked with GOS counterparts over the past year on successful
    running of the IAP and in operations targeting bulk-cash
    smuggling at Barajas Airport. Spain also is a founding
    member of the Proliferation Security Initiative and an active
    member in the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism.
    As per Ref C, Spain currently is being considered for

    MADRID 00000614 002.2 OF 004

    membership in the G-8 Partnership Against the Spread of
    Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction. Spain also allows
    us the use of two military bases that are critical transit
    points between the U.S. and Iraq and Afghanistan. One recent
    irritant in bilateral relationship is are the efforts by some
    investigating judges - invoking "universal jurisdiction" - to
    indict former USG officials for their allegedly involvement
    in torture at GTMO (Ref D).

    ¶3. (SBU) Your visit to Madrid and Rubalcaba's visit to
    Washington are but the latest in a series of high-level
    exchanges, including a presidential bilateral on the margins
    of the U.S.-EU Summit in Prague in April, a meeting between
    National Security Adviser Gen. Jones and King Juan Carlos I
    in Florida in February, and Foreign Minister Moratinos's
    February meeting in Washington with Secretary Clinton. At
    the end of May, U.S. Transportation Secretary LaHood became
    the first cabinet-level visitor to Spain on behalf of the
    Obama Administration. While you are in Madrid, Defense
    Minister Carme Chacon will be in Washington during June 30 -
    July 2 for discussions with Secretary Gates, among other
    meetings (Ref E).

    //THE POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT//

    ¶4. (SBU) In office since 2004, Zapatero won reelection to a
    second term in March 2008, but his center-left Spanish
    Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) is seven seats shy of a
    majority in the 350-seat Congress. XXXXXXXXXXXX. Unemployment is over 17%, the
    highest rate in the EU, and it is expected to reach 20%
    sometime in the next year. Although popularity ratings for
    Zapatero and the Socialists are low, the conservative
    opposition Popular Party (PP) has struggled to capitalize on
    this. The PP, hampered by internal divisions, also has been
    dogged by corruption accusations. Nevertheless, Zapatero
    suffered his first serious political reverse since winning
    reelection when his party lost power in March 2009 regional
    elections in Galicia. Zapatero shuffled the cabinet April 7
    as a response to criticism of the GOS' inability to resolve
    the economic crisis and with an eye to the June European
    Parliament elections. The most prominent change was the
    replacement of the Second Vice President/Minister of Economy
    and Finance. Even so, the PP secured more seats than the
    Socialists in the June 7 European Parliament elections,
    another sign that Zapatero needs to focus on the economic
    situation.

    //YOUR MEETINGS//

    ¶5. (S//NF) XXXXXXXXXXXX. He may even take credit, as in the case of
    adjustments in U.S.-Cuba policy, for shaping USG views. He
    is not innately ill-disposed to the USG. For him, foreign
    policy is subordinate to domestic political interests, and
    the U.S. relationship is just one more element to be viewed
    XXXXXXXXXXXX.

    MADRID 00000614 003.2 OF 004

    currently a wave of goodwill for President Obama in Spain,
    which is the answer to Zapatero's prayers in that it enables
    him to engage the USG without being dinged by the traditional
    anti-U.S. sentiment among his socialist base. XXXXXXXXXXXX. Zapatero
    does not speak English, though we think he may understand it.

    ¶6. (C/NF) You will recall Interior Minister Rubalcaba - who
    has wide-ranging responsibilities on security, law
    enforcement and intelligence issues - as very capable and
    serious but also charming. XXXXXXXXXXXX. He is known for his
    intelligence, discretion, hard work, and mastery of detail,
    as well as his negotiating prowess. XXXXXXXXXXXX.
    You and Minister Rubalcaba are scheduled to sign
    an MOU formalizing ongoing cooperation on the DHS's
    Immigration Advisory Program (IAP) at Madrid's Barajas
    Airport, where a successful pilot program recently was
    carried out. You are also scheduled to sign a declaration of
    intent for our two governments to work toward concluding an
    agreement on Cooperation in Science & Technology for Homeland
    Security Matters. Rubalcaba also is likely to continue his
    Washington discussions with you on the US-EU transatlantic
    agenda, border control issues, CSI, document falsification,
    money laundering, and an alert system in case of the theft of
    arms or explosives for terrorist purposes. He may discuss
    further his recent proposal for an exchange of liaison
    personnel to have officials present in each others'
    headquarters. In addition to the preceding topics, you may
    also wish to raise trafficking in persons, illegal
    immigration, Frontex issues, and Special Interest Alien
    Smuggling through Madrid-Barajas Airport en route to the
    United States. Rubalcaba speaks English but prefers to have
    an interpreter present during discussions of some technical
    aspects of his portfolio.

    ¶7. (C) XXXXXXXXXX. Elena
    Salgado is the Second Vice President and Minister of Economy
    and Finance. She was moved up from being Minister of Public
    Administration in April, as part of the broader cabinet
    shuffle intended to highlight an intensified GOS effort to
    combat the impact of the global economic crisis on Spain.
    Rubalcaba reportedly was an influential figure in supporting
    her appointment. XXXXXXXXXX. She previously served as Minister
    of Public Administration (2007-09) and Minister of Health
    (2004-07). The Spanish Government in 2006 unsuccessfully
    nominated Salgado as a candidate for the Presidency of the
    World Health Organization. Salgado also has extensive
    private sector experience in consulting and
    telecommunications industries. Salgado, born in 1949, has
    degrees in industrial engineering and economics. Salgado
    would be an appropriate GOS official with whom to discuss
    CSI, money laundering and bulk-cash smuggling, and the USG's

    MADRID 00000614 004.2 OF 004

    relationship with Spanish Customs. Salgado speaks English.
    CHACON

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