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Mexico-Canada Security Relations The Security
and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) and The
Mexico-Canada Security Working Group (GTS)
Maritime Security Conference, Halifax, Nova
Scotia, 11 June 2009
Embassy of Mexico Centre for Investigation and
National Security (CISEN)
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Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP)

• Created on March 23rd, 2005 under Canadian Prime
  Minister Paul Martin and Presidents of Mexico,
  Vicente Fox, and of the US, George W. Bush, in
  Waco, TX
• First occasion meeting of the three leaders to
  discuss North American issues since their
  predecessors had gathered in San Antonio, on
  October 2nd 1992 to initiate the NAFTA Treaty
• Change in relation among the three countries
  because of the 9-11 incidents
• It promotes joint collaboration on the promotion
  of the regions economy and the creation of a
  compatible security strategy

Coordinating parties per country
Privy Council Office White Houses National
Security Council Mexicos Presidency
Security and Prosperity Partnership
1 Prosperity Agenda 2. Security Agenda
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SPP Security Agenda

• Smart Border Agreement Canada-US (12 December
  2001)
• US-Mexico Border Partnership (22 March 2002)
• North America Initiative (NAI) (2003-May 2004,
  never implemented)
• It complements other current bilateral and
  trilateral efforts

It collects previous bilateral security
agreements
Coordinating parties per country
Privy Council Office / Public Safety Canada White
Houses National Security Council /
DHS CISEN/SEGOB
10 Goals, 38 Objectives and 186 deliverables

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SPP Security Work Plan

• Secure North America from external threats
• Develop and implement a North American traveler
  security strategy for screening prior to
  departure from a foreign port and at the first
  port of entry to North America
• North American cargo security strategy to ensure
  compatible screening methods for goods and cargo
• North American bioprotection strategy to assess,
  detect, and respond to intentional as well as
  naturally occurring threats to public health,
  food and agriculture system
• Prevent and respond to threats within North
  America
• Establish equivalent approaches to aviation
  security
• Enhance maritime transportation and port security
• Integrated strategy for combating transnational
  threats (terrorism, organized crime, illegal
  drugs, migrant/contraband smuggling and
  trafficking)
• Enhance partnerships on intelligence related to
  North American security
• Develop a common approach to North American
  critical infrastructure protection, and response
  to cross-border terrorist incidents and, as
  applicable, natural disasters
• Further streamline the secure movement of low
  risk traffic across its borders
• Border facilitation strategy to build capacity
  and improve the legitimate flow of people and
  cargo at ports of entry within North America
• Identify, develop, and deploy new technologies to
  advance our shared security goals and promote the
  legitimate flow of people and goods across our
  borders

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Maritime Security under SPP

• Develop and implement a strategy to enhance North
  American maritime transportation and port
  security.
• Enhance security of North American ports and
  vessels through the conduct of equivalent threat,
  vulnerability and risk assessments, and mutually
  recognized audit programs
• North American Maritime Transportation Security
  WG to lead and coordinate these activities (MX
  SCT, SEMAR / CAN TC / US Coast Guard in DHS)
• Develop strategies for the sharing of
  information, including information sharing visits
  with a view toward developing effective vessel
  and port facility security measures and
  harmonizing their implementation.
• Develop compatible strategies for the
  implementation of the International Ship and Port
  Facility Security Code (ISPS) and corresponding
  national regulations for offshore and at sea
  infrastructure
• Share information on threat vulnerability and
  risk assessment methodologies
• Develop/implement a plan to make compatible
  regulatory and operational maritime security
  regimes
• Negotiate common understandings on strategies for
  North American Maritime Security that could lead
  to eventual bilateral agreements
• Develop coordinated strategy to maintain and
  expand compatible national regulatory regimes and
  programs for private, commercial, pleasure and
  fishing vessels (share vessel movement
  information with the use of Automated
  Identification Systems, AIS)
• Enhance regional operations to secure our
  maritime approaches and contiguous maritime
  borders and ensure effective maritime threat
  response
• Develop strategies for enhanced coordination of
  global maritime security intelligence efforts and
  sharing at all appropriate levels in accordance
  with national legal frameworks

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Mexico-Canada Security Working Group

• Background
• Established in February 23, 2007 by the Canadian
  Minister of Public Safety and the Mexican
  Secretary of the Interior, in his role as
  Executive Secretary to the National Security
  Council
• Objective to promote strategic security
  cooperation. It creates a forum for the
  exchanging of information and experiences between
  security agencies in Mexico and Canada
• PSC Deputy Minister and CISEN Director agreed on
  a work plan with practical initiatives for key
  areas of cooperation migration, emergency
  management, maritime security and law
  enforcement.
• Progress
• October 25 2007 Visit to NRAC. Discussions and
  first level exchange on Canada's approach to risk
  assessment and information on technology applied,
  as Mexico has begun to construct its own system
• October 2007 Second Phase of the Marine Training
  for Mexico on Container Contraband and Inspection
  was carried out. Forty Mexican Customs officials
  participated in the five day course
• July 2008 RCMP provided officials from CISEN
  with a copy of their CBRNE database as a first
  step towards the promotion of data sharing and
  further cooperation between specialized agencies
• October 2008 TC hosted a Mexican delegations
  visit to Port of Montreal to exchange best
  practices on port and marine security measures.
  Reciprocal visit to Port of Manzanillo in 2009
• Officials from the RCMP and CISEN maintain
  discussions on the development of a cooperative
  work program on anti-corruption initiatives and
  training
• February 2008 RCMP provided in the Mexican
  Federal Police Academy training session on
  combating organized crime through the seizing of
  profits derived from criminal activity
• RCMP is developing a Memorandum of Understanding
  with Mexicos SSP, to enhance cooperation in law
  enforcement

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Mexico-Canada Security Working Group Work Plan

• Migration Issues
• Undertake a joint Canada/Mexico assessment of
  irregular migration patterns (e.g. underlying
  factors, Mexican refugee claimants, high risk
  migration flows) CAN CBSA, MX SEGOB
• Mexican delegation to visit Canadas National
  Risk Assessment Centre CAN CBSA, MX CISEN
• Emergency management
• Identify Mexican interests in accessing the
  RCMPs Chemical, Biological, Radiological,
  Nuclear and Explosive (CBRNE) incident database
  (CID/SOCIUS) CAN RCMP, MX CISEN
• Undertake visit of offshore crude oil and natural
  gas extraction platforms operating in the Sonda
  de Campeche to determine feasibility for
  conducting a CIP exercise CAN TC PSC, MX
  SCT SEMAR
• Marine Security
• Launch second phase of the Canada/Mexico Marine
  Training Program (vessel rummage and container
  contraband examination training courses, train
  the trainer sessions) CAN CBSA, MX
  SHCP(Revenue)
• Bilateral Ports Facility Visit Initiative with
  the goal of enhancing mutual awareness/understandi
  ng and exchanging of lessons learned on the
  implementation of port and marine security
  measures in accordance with International
  Maritime Organization (IMO) standards CAN TC,
  MX SEMAR SCT
• Law Enforcement Cooperation
• Exchange national police training curricula to
  identify training opportunities (e.g. Criminal
  intelligence, document fraud, Techniques on
  Criminal Investigation and Interrogation CAN
  RCMP, MX SSP
• Develop an information exchange protocol between
  CISEN and the RCMP on drug trafficking (e.g.
  organization of cartels, smuggling routes,
  transit and shipping points) CAN RCMP, MX
  CISEN
• Identify common interests and a cooperative work
  program to combat organized crime and money
  laundering CAN RCMP, MX SSP UIF/SHCP
• Law enforcement cooperation MOU between federal
  agencies CAN RCMP, MX SSP

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New proposals for the GTS under negotiation
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Min. Ricardo Campos Embassy of Mexico in
Canada 45 OConnor St. Suite 1000 Ottawa, Ontario
K1C 5C8 CANADA Tel. [phone] rcampos_at_embame
xcan.com
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Contenido del Plan de acción de Seguridad de la
ASPAN
Matriz compuesta por 3 apartados, que incluye
10 Metas, con 38 objetivos y 186 acciones
específicas.

• PROTECCIÓN DE AMÉRICA DEL NORTE CONTRA AMENAZAS
  EXTERNAS
• Meta 1 Seguridad de Viajeros
• - Desarrollar e instrumentar estándares
  biométricos para mejorar los niveles de seguridad
  de pasaportes, visas y otros documentos
  fronterizos.
• - Desarrollar e instrumentar medidas de
  seguridad migratoria compatibles requisitos para
  admisión, estándares de política para visado.
• - Asegurar la compatibilidad de los sistemas de
  intercambio de información sobre viajeros de alto
  riesgo que viajen hacia o transiten por América
  del Norte.
• Meta 2 Seguridad de Carga
• - Desarrollar y expandir los vínculos entre los
  actores involucrados en la cadena de
  abastecimiento de bienes que arriban a América
  del Norte.
• - Desarrollar estándares, tecnologías y procesos
  compatibles para la seguridad de cadenas de
  abastecimiento, en particular el flujo expedito
  de comercio de bajo riesgo.
• - Desarrollar e implementar un plan para regular
  la importación y exportación de materiales
  nucleares y radioactivos, acorde con los
  lineamientos de la Agencia Internacional de
  Energía Atómica (IAEA, por sus siglas en
  inglés).
• Meta 3 Bioprotección
• - Mejorar la vigilancia de la salud humana,
  animal y vegetal, mediante el desarrollo de
  sistemas compatibles de detección rápida y
  monitoreo de enfermedades infecciosas.
• - Elaborar y ratificar los protocolos para la
  asistencia y apoyo mutuo en casos de emergencias
  fronterizas, así como compartir estrategias para
  el almacenamiento y distribución de vacunas y
  antídotos para humanos y animales.

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• PREVENCIÓN Y RESPUESTA A AMENAZAS DENTRO DE
  AMERICA DEL NORTE
• Meta 4 Seguridad de Aviación
• - Desarrollar e instrumentar un plan para
  establecer un mecanismo de monitoreo comparable
  de pasajeros aéreos, así como de equipaje y
  carga aérea.
• Meta 5 Seguridad Marítima
• - Colaborar en el mejoramiento de la seguridad
  de los puertos, embarcaciones y cargamentos,
  mediante el análisis conjunto de
  vulnerabilidades y riesgos.
• - Desarrollar e instrumentar un plan que
  compatibilice los regímenes regulatorios y
  operativos de seguridad marítima.
• Meta 6 Cooperación en Procuración de Justicia
• - Mejorar el intercambio de información y
  aplicación de la ley, entre investigadores y
  fiscales, sobre actividades transfronterizas
  del crimen organizado.
• - Revisar los esfuerzos de contraterrorismo
  existentes y coordinarlos para maximizar su
  efectividad, identificando las mejores practicas
  y lecciones aprendidas.
• Meta 7 Cooperación en Inteligencia
• - Mejorar nuestras capacidades para combatir el
  terrorismo a través del intercambio apropiado de
  listas de terroristas (watchlists) y el
  establecimiento de vínculos entre las autoridades
  de Canadá, Estados Unidos y México.
• Meta 8 Protección, Prevención y Respuesta
• - Desarrollar e implementar estrategias
  compatibles de protección y respuesta, así como
  programas para infraestructura critica
  compartida y áreas prioritarias transfronterizas.
  
• - Desarrollar e implementar planes conjuntos de
  cooperación, así como ejercicios de respuesta a
  emergencias.

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C) AUMENTAR LA EFICIENCIA DEL FLUJO SEGURO DE
TRANSITO DE BAJO RIESGO A TRAVÉS DE NUESTRAS
FRONTERAS COMPARTIDAS Meta 9 Agilización
Fronteriza - Mejorar la eficiencia de la
infraestructura fronteriza existente y reducir
los tiempos de espera mediante la expansión de
los programas NEXUS, SENTRI y FAST. -
Colaborar con el sector privado y los gobiernos
estatales/municipales y locales para la
construcción de nueva infraestructura
fronteriza, que responda a las demandas de largo
plazo y que incluya la construcción de puertos
de entrada de bajo riesgo. Meta 10 Cooperación
en Ciencia y Tecnología - Continuar la
incorporación de equipo de alta tecnología a lo
largo de la frontera EE.UU.-México para el flujo
eficiente y seguro de personas y bienes, así como
continuar identificando lugares apropiados para
su despliegue. - Establecer un programa de
desarrollo e investigación conjunta para ciencia
y tecnología relacionada con la seguridad basada
en prioridades establecidas.