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### Viewing cable 08ASUNCION62, THREE PLUS ONE READOUT

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08ASUNCION62 | 2008-01-29 17:16 | 2011-07-11 00:00 | CONFIDENTIAL | Embassy Asuncion

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    VZCZCXYZ0001
    PP RUEHWEB

    DE RUEHAC #0062/01 0291716
    ZNY CCCCC ZZH
    P 291716Z JAN 08
    FM AMEMBASSY ASUNCION
    TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 6559
    INFO RUCNMER/MERCOSUR COLLECTIVE

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    C O N F I D E N T I A L ASUNCION 000062

    SIPDIS

    SIPDIS

    WHA/FO CMCMULLEN, S/CT VPALMER, ASIERRA, WHA/BSC MDRUCKER,
    BFRIEDMAN, CCROFT, DOJ/OPDAT KO'CONNER, TREASURY, DHS/ICE

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/17/2028
    TAGS: PTER KCRM PGOV GTIP SNAR PA BR AR
    SUBJECT: THREE PLUS ONE READOUT

    Classified By: Ambassador James C. Cason; reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).

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    SUMMARY
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    ¶1. (C) The January 10-11 Three-Plus-One Security Dialogue
    with Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and the United States in
    Asuncion played out as expected, with fruitful coordination
    on the margins of the meeting, but plenary interventions from
    the three focused primarily on crime fighting and preserving
    the reputation of the Tri-Border Area (TBA).  U.S.
    presentations noted that the United States, as host of the
    next meeting, planned to broaden discussions to include arms
    and drug trafficking, money laundering and copyright piracy,
    the focus of past Three-Plus-One sessions. The Argentine
    delegation noted for the first time at a "3 Plus 1" plenary
    that AMIA bombing conspirators had worked through the TBA.
    Progress on the Brazilian-sponsored Regional Intelligence
    Center in Foz do Iguazu remains slow, but the three will meet
    in February to confirm staffing arrangements.  Paraguay noted
    that illicit financing often leads to terrorist financing,
    but stressed that there was no evidence of operational
    terrorist cells in the region.  The final communiqu included
    a loosely worded commitment to work on a joint illicit
    finance study (threat assessment) before the next plenary
    which we hope will facilitate discussion of multilateral
    cooperation (including on cash couriers) and technical
    assistance.  In addition to offers of cash courier and
    document fraud training for countries in the region, the
    United States should host meetings of experts from the group
    (e.g. Financial Intelligence Units) to create positive
    momentum for cooperation.  END SUMMARY.

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    U.S. OPENING INTERVENTION
    --------------------------

    ¶2. (U) S/CT Deputy Coordinator Virginia Palmer and WHA DAS
    Chris McMullen jointly led an interagency delegation to the
    6th annual plenary session of the Three-Plus-One Security
    Group, January 10-11 in Asuncion. Their opening statements
    emphasized the value of continued counter-terrorism (CT)
    cooperation and the need for broader engagement within the
    region on security concerns. Palmer outlined global terrorist
    trends, including links between transnational crime and
    terrorism; an increase in homegrown (or guerrilla vice
    expeditionary) terrorist groups loosely affiliated with al
    Qaida; and the aggregation of regional terrorist groups and
    continued terrorist interest in acquiring weapons of mass
    destruction.  She highlighted successes in international
    cooperation to bring terrorists to justice and noted the
    importance of addressing the conditions that terrorists
    exploit.  Palmer noted the U.S. Congressional endorsement of
    the Three-Plus-One mechanism in HR 435.

    ¶3. (U)  WHA DAS Chris McMullen reiterated the need for
    expanded engagement among the partners. He commended the
    progress made by the three countries in improving passport
    controls, investigating suspicious activities, increasing
    custom controls, and conducting joint patrols of land and sea
    borders. DAS McMullen also noted the need to address common
    crimes and transnational threats.  In a subsequent
    intervention he suggested expanding the discussion to include
    broader security issues and the plans to address trafficking
    in arms, drugs, and persons, money laundering, and document
    fraud at next year,s plenary.  McMullen expressed USG
    willingness to provide capacity building through training in
    bulk cash smuggling; bioterrorism and food defense; waterways
    management; and detection of arms and munitions trafficking.

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    FIU'S
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    ¶4. (U)  During the session devoted to the efficient exchange
    of information, Palmer noted the usefulness of the FIUs,
    intercessional activities.  In response to Brazilian concerns
    regarding delays in FinCen's response times to requests for
    case information, FinCen,s Mauricio Pastora held sidebars
    and orchestrated a joint meeting of FIU representatives on
    the margins of the meeting to discuss collaboration and
    enhanced financial information sharing, including: timely
    information exchanges, voluntary and spontaneous disclosures,
    and bilateral cooperation between each of the South American
    countries, FIUs and FinCen. All four FIU representatives
    committed to continued collaboration on both money laundering
    and terrorist finance, a review of pending cases and regular
    telephone follow up.
    --------------------------------------------- ---
    TTU'S -- EXPANDING REGIONAL INFORMATION SHARING
    --------------------------------------------- ---

    ¶5. (U)  U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS/ICE)
    delegates Carlos Maza and Guillermo Cancio commended the work
    of the Tri-Border countries' Trade Transparency Units (TTUs)
    which utilize import and export data to identify suspicious
    trading patterns indicative of criminal activity.  The three
    TTUs currently share data bilaterally with only the USG.
    The DHS/ICE delegates urged regional trade data sharing and
    suggested using the Foz de Iguazu Regional Intelligence
    Center as a host for trade-related data.

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    BIOTERRORISM COOPERATION
    -------------------------

    ¶6.  (U) Andrea Lauritzen of State,s Office of Environment
    and Science briefed on integrated efforts on bioterrorism and
    agroterrorism and provided the Argentine and Brazilian
    delegations with sample training materials on strengthening
    food defense.  Brazilian assertions (backed up by the
    Argentine delegation) that food defense issues were not
    relevant in the TBA effectively shut down the Three-Plus-One
    mechanism as a forum for discussion of bioterrorism issues,
    however.

    ¶7. (U) COMMENT: The Brazilian delegation was not persuaded
    that matters not strictly related to the TBA were relevant to
    Three-Plus-One discussions.  GOB argued that bio or
    agroterrorism attacks were not likely to come from the TBA,
    but in any event were subjects more appropriately discussed
    in another forum.  Nonetheless, during side conversations,
    Argentine and Paraguayan officials expressed interest in
    collaborating bilaterally on efforts to counter bioterrorism
    and agroterrorism as well as strengthen food defense.  As a
    condition of mentioning bioterrorism in the meeting's final
    communiqu, GOB insisted on including a statement that it did
    not believe that Three-Plus-One was the appropriate venue for
    these discussions.  END COMMENT.

    -----------------------------------------
    DOCUMENT FRAUD AND CASH COURIER TRAINING
    ------------------------------------------

    ¶8. (U) All delegations welcomed efforts to improve document
    security.  The United States offered to provide training
    similar to successful programs provided Paraguay and
    Argentina to Brazil. (Note: Dates for the Document Fraud
    Training were forwarded to the GOB on January 21. End Note.)
    Palmer briefed on worldwide efforts to combat bulk cash
    smuggling and terrorist use of cash couriers, stressing that
    the OAS' CICTE efforts were part of this effort and would not
    focus on the TBA.

    ¶9. (U)  U.S. Department of Treasury officials Charles Ott and
    Rachel Fedewa introduced the concept of threat assessment as
    a tool for identifying gaps and possible initiatives in
    combating money laundering and terrorist financing.  They
    suggested that the four countries work together to produce a
    joint threat assessment of the TBA prior to the next plenary
    session.  Communiqu language (informal translation) states:
    "The participants of the Mechanism consider it very important
    to identify between now and the next meeting of the Group
    affairs that may constitute specific problems related to
    illegal financing and other affairs referring to the security
    of the tri-border area.  The participants have estimated that
    thus they will be in a better position to direct the problems
    identified in the framework of the Three-Plus-One, in
    addition to the endeavors already carried out by national
    authorities in the three countries."

    ¶10. (U) During the discussion of United Nations Security
    Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1373, the U.S. delegation detailed
    its progress in meeting its obligations.  The USG assessment
    of its compliance with UNSCR 1373 is available on the
    internet.

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    ARGENTINE INTERVENTIONS
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    ¶11. (U) In his opening remarks, the head of Argentina's
    delegation, Amb. Orlando Rebagliati, extolled the cooperation
    of the Three-Plus-One in the TBA and the political will to
    work on "border security issues."  He recalled the early
    recognition by Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay of the
    sensitive areas of vulnerability pertaining to the TBA, which
    led to a meeting in 1996 of security forces from the three
    countries, resulting in a Tripartite Command.  Rebagliati
    said the TBA needs preventive measures, and the GOA hoped
    that dialogue and cooperation among the Three-Plus-One would
    help define priorities and improve coordination.  Echoing the
    opening remarks made by his Brazilian and Paraguayan
    counterparts, Rebagliati said the 3 1 needed to address the
    damage that had been done to the TBA, whose reputation as a
    hotbed for terrorist activity had been greatly "exaggerated
    and distorted."  Rebagliati said the TBA, like many frontier
    zones around the world, was difficult to control, but the
    three countries maintained a "strong presence" there, and the
    preponderance of the region's inhabitants were law-abiding
    citizens who had been unfairly maligned.

    ¶12. (U) In subsequent interventions, Rebagliati emphasized
    the need for real-time sharing of intelligence.  However, he
    also said that, while there is room to improve on exchange of
    information among the Three-Plus-One, they should not
    duplicate exchanges underway in FATF (GAFID), GAFISUD, CICTE,
    or elsewhere.  He said the Three-Plus-One should not attempt
    to take up aspects of each other's global counter-terrorism
    efforts that were not directly related to the TBA.  The
    Three-Plus-One forum should remain focused on the TBA and
    avoid inadvertently encroaching on the jurisdiction of other
    agencies, domestic or international.  In discussing a U.S.
    proposal to have experts from the Three-Plus-One work
    inter-sessionally to develop TBA threat assessments, the
    Argentine delegation said it would need to refer to its
    capital for instructions before agreeing to any
    "institutional deviation" from the above.

    ¶13. (U) In the presentation of contributions to security in
    the TBA, the Argentine delegation highlighted the enactment
    in June of legislation criminalizing terrorism as well as the
    financing of terrorist activity, bringing Argentina into
    compliance with FATF standards. The Argentines noted they
    were already acting on their new legal authority to
    investigate conspiracies to commit terrorist acts, regardless
    of whether the acts took place.  The Argentine delegation
    noted that the Argentine prosecutors investigating the deadly
    July 1994 bombing of the AMIA center had traced the bomber to
    the TBA.

    ¶14. (U) The delegation noted that the GOA had designated SIDE
    and PF liaisons for the Regional Intelligence Center in Foz
    do Iguacu.  It also pointed out the GOA's Coast Guard
    (Prefectura), Gendarmerie, Federal Police, Airport Police,
    and Intelligence Secretariat (SIDE) were participating in the
    Tripartite Command.  The Coast Guard (Prefectura) was engaged
    in joint patrols with Paraguay along the Misiones and
    Corrientes borders to enhance its interdiction of narcotics
    trafficking and arms trafficking.  The Federal Police's (PF)
    Anti-Terrorist Unit (created after the 1994 AMIA bombing) had
    deployed to the PF's station in Puerto Iguazu, where there is
    actually a low crime rate other than contraband.  Argentine
    Customs had begun deploying mobile cargo scanners as well as
    a canine unit, and Migration Police were strengthening their
    border controls, and the Gendarmerie were working with their
    Brazilian and Paraguayan counterparts on cross-border
    kidnapping cases.

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    BRAZIL'S INTERVENTION
    ----------------------

    ¶15. (U) Brazil's opening statement noted its concern with the
    threat from organized crime in border areas and its common
    interest in combating terrorism with its neighbors.  The
    Brazilian delegation expressed concern that focus on the TBA
    could "denigrate" the image of a culturally diverse region,
    where Brazilian agencies have found no evidence of terrorist
    activity.  Brazil further objected to the use of the
    Three-Plus-One as a forum for information sharing, arguing
    that this was better done bilaterally.

    ¶16. (U) Brazil took a similar position on other issues.  Both
    TTU and food defense could be of interest to Brazil, but only
    outside the Three-Plus-One.  Brazil would prefer to address
    these issues bilaterally and outside the TBA context.  The
    Brazilians also believed that this was not the proper forum
    for discussion of UN resolution 1373 but noted that Brazil
    has several counter terrorism projects underway.  The
    Brazilian delegation also briefed on steps taken to improve
    border security, including increased bilateral cooperation
    and annual growth in seizures of merchandise at border
    crossings.  The Brazilian delegation responded negatively to
    Treasury's proposal for a threat assessment, noting that
    existing information exchanges would present a clear picture
    of possible threats.
    ¶17. (U) COMMENT: Throughout, the Brazilian delegation sought
    to deflect issues of substance from the Three-Plus-One,
    preferring bilateral approaches with its neighbors. Brazil
    was also defensive regarding the TBA, complaining that the
    GOB did not want "to have to defend the TBA in yet another
    forum."  However, this sensitivity did not prevent Brazil
    from refusing to discuss health-related issues that were not
    unique to the TBA. END COMMENT.

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    PARAGUAY'S INTERVENTION
    ------------------------

    ¶18. (U) In his opening statement, Paraguayan Vice-Minister
    Antonio Rivas lamented the terrorist attack that killed
    Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto and called for a
    renewed commitment from the international community to
    confront terrorist threats.  Rivas said the GOP
    "energetically rejects" any and all terrorist acts.  Rivas
    asserted Paraguay,s interest in combating transnational
    organized crime and ensuring regional security, but also
    noted the absence of any evidence of operational terrorism in
    the region.  He contended there is no causal, automatic link
    between crime and terrorist financing, and urged the other
    delegations not to "satanize" the Tri-Border Region (TBA).

    ¶19. (U) Paraguay,s chief of delegation, Victor Hugo Pena,
    gave a comprehensive presentation on his country,s efforts
    to counter terrorism and transnational crime.  He reported
    increases in marijuana and cocaine seizures in 2007, noting
    that 90 percent of drugs passing through Paraguay are
    destined for Brazil.  He also cited successful operations to
    seize pirated goods and arms and GOP efforts to counter
    trafficking in persons.  In 2007, the public ministry created
    a new counter narcotics prosecutorial unit and revised
    Paraguay,s penal code (which became law on January 16).
    Pena applauded the efforts of SEPRELAD, Paraguay,s
    anti-money laundering secretariat, to prosecute unlicensed
    exchange houses, and also noted Paraguay,s participation in
    US funded OAS/CICTE training courses on document fraud
    prevention, critical infrastructure protection, and
    cyberterrorism.  Pea said construction of the public
    ministry,s forensic lab is ongoing and announced plans to
    install radar to cover Paraguayan air space. (COMMENT: The
    GOP has long lacked radar coverage, but remains far from
    fulfilling this goal in the foreseeable future. END COMMENT).
     He said within the next week, an executive decree would
    expand SEPRELAD,s jurisdiction beyond money laundering to
    cover terrorist finance. Finally, the GOP attempted to allay
    concerns regarding Paraguay,s failure to pass anti-terrorist
    legislation by assuring delegates that the GOP would
    prosecute terrorists under its penal code. (NOTE: President
    Duarte signed Paraguay's new penal code into law on January
    ¶16. END NOTE.)

    ¶20. (U) Paraguayan delegates asserted that socio-economic
    development is critical to preventing crime.  They thanked
    the US delegation for a wide range of assistance, but asked
    that the United States share a "higher quality" of
    information when informing Paraguay of U.S. terrorist
    designations to facilitate local investigations.  Ciudad del
    Este Prosecutor Eber Ovelar thanked the U.S. delegation for
    its offer to share TTU data, noting that false invoices are a
    common customs problem.   Pea requested information
    regarding the Bank of America case, prosecuted by the New
    York District Attorney,s office, regarding money moved
    illegally through Paraguay.  The GOP also requested
    training/assistance on bulk cash smuggling.

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    FINAL COMMENT
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    ¶21. (C) Paraguay and Argentina interventions were more
    helpful than they were last year, when discussions were
    soured by the U.S. designation of nine individuals and
    entities in the Triborder Area.  Paraguay's intervention
    demonstrated its willingness to expand the meeting's agenda
    to broader law enforcement issues per the United States'
    request, but neither Paraguay nor Argentina was willing to
    challenge Brazil directly.  Palmer,s recommendation,
    inspired by comments of Paraguay,s Ambassador in Washington,
    that the group do more publicly to highlight the cooperation
    in the Three-Plus-One mechanism was rejected bluntly by the
    Brazilian delegation, clearly interested in giving the
    mechanism as little weight or public attention as possible.
    END COMMENT.

    ¶21. (U) Participants:
    Paraguay Delegation
    -------------------
    Antonio Rivas Palacios, Vice Minister of Foreign Relations,
    Ministry of Foreign Relations
    Victor Hugo Pea Bareiro, Director General, Special Affairs,
    Ministry of Foreign Relations
    Elisa Aguayo Rolon, Chief, International Desk II, Ministry of
    Foreign Relations
    Javier Benitez, Ministry of Foreign Relations
    Desiree Montero, Ministry of Foreign Relations
    Lucio Aguilera, Ministry of Foreign Relations
    Fabian Duarte, Ministry of Foreign Relations
    Luis Carlos Escobar, Ministry of Foreign Relations
    Nelly Delgado, Ministry of Foreign Relations
    Maria Mercedes Dominguez, Ministry of Foreign Relations
    Carlos Alberto Zelaya, Vice Minister of Home Security,
    Ministry of the Interior
    Blanca Lopez, Director of International Cooperation, Ministry
    of the Interior
    Fidel Alejandro Isasa, Commandant General, National Police
    Carlos Ramon Altemburger Santander, Director, Secretariat for
    Terrorism Prevention and Investigation
    Carlos Humberto Benitez Gonzalez, Sub commissioner,
    Secretariat for Terrorism Prevention and Investigation

    SIPDIS
    Armando Ruben Barboza Aguilera, Director, INTERPOL
    Pablo marcial Cespedes Carrillo, Chief, Department of Police
    Intelligence
    Ruben Zaracho, Subcommissioner Foz de Iguazu, Department of
    Police Intelligence
    Guillermo Pastor Gomez Mareco, Chief, Department of Police
    Planning
    Ivan Mauricio Ojeda Aguilera, Director General, General
    Directorate of Migration
    Domingo Quinonez, Secretary General, General Directorate of
    Migration
    Angel Caballero Sostoa, Director of Foreign Admissions,
    General Office of Migration
    Cesar Aguilera, Vice Minister of Defense, Ministry of
    National Defense
    Benito Silvera, Director of Strategic Policy, Ministry of
    National Defense
    Eligio Vera y Aragon, National Coordinator, National Civil
    Aviation Directorate
    Juan Mendez Trebastoni, Chief of Arms Registry, Armaments
    Directorate
    Gedeon Escobar, Chief of Imports and Acquisitions, Armaments
    Directorate
    Venancio Roman,Legal Advisor, Armaments Directorate
    Hernan Morinigo, International Affairs Officer, Armaments
    Directorate
    Americo Ibarra Collar, Chief of Maritime Affairs, National
    Naval Command
    Carlos Alberto Aguero Miranda, Second Commander of the Ciudad
    del Este Area, National Naval Command
    Carlos Arce Obregon, Vice Minister of Justice, Ministry of
    Justice and Labor
    Gladys Santa Cruz, Director of the National Employment
    Service, Ministry of Justice and Labor
    Felix Cruz, Specialized Technical Unit Coordinator, Ministry
    of Industry and Commerce
    Gustavo Ivaldi, Specialized Technical Unit
    Carlos Saucedo Aquino, Specialized Technical Unit
    Miguel Maria Gonzalez Avila, Specialized Technical Unit
    Silvio Amarilla, Intelligence Director, National
    Anti-Narcotics Secretariat
    Juan Carlos Jacquet, Director of Financial Crimes, National
    Anti-Narcotics Secretariat
    Edgar Almada, Special Agent, National Anti-Narcotics
    Secretariat

    SIPDIS
    Angel Gabriel Gonzalez Caceres, Director, Anti-Money
    Laundering Secretariat
    Elizabeth Portillo, Analysis Coordinator, Anti-Money
    Laundering Secretariat
    Crismilda Maricel Espinosa, Judicial Affairs Officer,
    Anti-Money Laundering Secretariat
    Rosa Otazu, Director of International Affairs, National
    Secretariat for Children and Youth

    SIPDIS
    Carlos Laguardia, Vice Director, National Customs Directorate
    Carlos Martini, National Customs Directorate
    Oscar Boidanich Ferreira, Intendent Bank Supervision, Central
    Bank of Paraguay
    Luis Maria Benitez Riera, Supreme Court
    Eber Ovelar,Deputy Attorney General, Ciudad del Este, Public
    Ministry
    Rocio Vallejo,Deputy Attorney General, Public Ministry
    Marco Alcaraz,Deputy Attorney General, Public Ministry
    Juan Emilio Oviedo, Director of International Affairs, Public
    Ministry

    Argentina Delegation:
    -----------------------
    Orlando Ruben Rebagliati, Ambassador, Argentine Embassy in
    Paraguay
    Jose Ignacio Tobella, Minister, Argentine Embassy in Paraguay
    Gustavo M. Terrera, Counselor, Argentine Embassy in Paraguay
    Rosa Falduto, President, Financial Information Unit
    Graciela Insaurralde, Financial Information Unit
    Graciela Misuraca, Customs General Directorate
    Oscar Alfredo Iribarne, Chief, Antiterrorist Operational
    Division
    Maria Laura Pose, Airport Security
    Victoria Giovenco, National Directorate of Immigration
    Nestor Campora, National Directorate of Immigration
    Rodolfo Barrandeguy, Commandant, Argentine Border Patrol
    Guillermo Raul Rodriguez, Prefect, Argentine Naval Prefecture
    Carlos Gesto, Intelligence Secretariat
    Marcelo Horacio Martin, Principal Officer, Argentine Federal
    Police

    Brazil Delegation
    -----------------
    Virginia Toniatti, Minister, General Coordinator, General
    Coordination of Transnational Illicit Acts
    Paulo Marcio Neves Rodrigues, Executive Secretary, Financial
    Activities Control Council
    Jorge Luiz Vieira Tavares, General Coordination of
    Conservation Units
    Clarissa Forecchi Gloria, General Coordination of
    Transnational Illicit Acts
    Jose Luiz Machado e Costa, Brazil Embassy in Paraguay
    Aloysio Mares Dias Gomide Fihlo, Brazil Embassy in Paraguay
    Camile Nemitz Filippozzi, Brazil Embassy in Paraguay
    Aparecido De Franca, Customs and Taxes Attache, Brazil
    Embassy in Paraguay
    Carlos Cuenca, Brazil Embassy in Argentina
    Roberto Doring Pinho da Silva, Brazil Embassy in Washington
    Jose Carlos Chalmers Calazane, Chief, Federal Police Foz de
    Iguazu
    Marcus Vinicius Da Silva Dantas, Deputy Chief, Division to
    Combat Illicit Arms Traffic
    Fernando Queiroz Segovia Oliveira
    Paulo Tarso Resende Paniagua, Deputy General Coordinator,
    Intelligence of Transnational Illicit Acts
    Paulo Antonio Sousa, Federal Police
    Nelson Rodrigues de Oliveira, Department of Illicit Financing
    Acts, Central Bank
    Jose Ricardo Petardo Botelho, Advisor, Presidential
    Institutional Security Office
    Fernardo Augusto Cunha de Holanda, Ministry of Defense

    United States Delegation
    ---------------------------
    Virginia Palmer, Deputy Assistant Secretary and Deputy
    Coordinator for Regional and Trans-Regional Issues,Office of
    the Coordinator for Counter-Terrorism
    Chris McMullen, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Western
    Hemisphere Affairs
    James Cason, Ambassador, U.S. Embassy in Asuncion
    Arnold Sierra, Counter-Terrorism
    Andrea Lauritzen, Office of International Health and
    Biodefense
    Jennifer Showell, International Narcotics and Law Enforcement
    Affairs
    Caroline Croft, Office of Brazilian and Southern Cone Affairs
    Bruce Kleiner, Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy in
    Asuncion
    Joan Shaker, Political and Economic Chief, U.S. Embassy in
    Asuncion
    Kevin Sundwall, Regional Legal Advisor, U.S. Embassy in
    Asuncion
    Luis Hernandez, Economic Officer, U.S. Embassy in Asuncion
    Alex Featherstone, U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires
    Javier Gonzalez, U.S. Embassy in Brazil
    Charles Ott, Department of Treasury
    Mauricio Pastora, Department of Treasury
    Clyde Rhoades, Department of Treasury
    Nicole Bontrager, Department of Defense
    David Brassanini, Department of Justice
    Sharon Halstead, Department of Justice
    Carlos Maza, Department of Homeland Security
    Guillermo Cancio, Department of Homeland Security
    Douglas Freeman
    Carlos Savignon
    Karrin Morano Taxman
    Ricardo Grave de Peralta
    Rachel Fedewa

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