Cablegate: Estonia Tip Action Plan Demarche Delivered

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SUBJECT: ESTONIA TIP ACTION PLAN DEMARCHE DELIVERED

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1. (U) On August 29 Poloff delivered talking points
(as per reftel) to Riina Pihel, Acting MFA Director
for Human Rights, and Karen Tikenberg, Third
Secretary, to explain to the GOE specific areas of

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concern noted in the 2006 TIP Report. Pihel said
the GOE was thankful for the "valuable suggestions",
as the TIP problem is a relatively new phenomenon,
and GOE officials are still relatively inexperienced
combating it. Pihel said the MFA would carefully
review and consider the USG's recommendations within
the coming month.

2. (U) Tikenberg gave to Poloff the Nodic Baltic
Task Force's Final Report against Trafficking in
Human Beings. Although the mandate of the Task
Force expired in August 2006, the eight Foreign
Ministers (Iceland, Finland, Norway, Denmark,
Sweden, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia) decided that
the Task Force will continue to work on a technical
level (until 2008) as the anti-trafficking work is
taken over by the Council of The Baltic Sea States
(CBSS), which importantly includes Russia. The
Final Report can be accessed on the Nordic Baltic
Task Force's website: www.against-trafficking.org.

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