I have a question in international trade law involving the Vienna 
Convention on Consular Relations and wonder if you could track it down.

In any number of cases 
the US failed to advise foreign national of their rights to 
contact their embassy upon arrest.  The US lost 3 cases at 
the ICJ, against Paraguay, Germany and Mexico.  The first 
edition of the book says: 

"In January 1998,the State Department published a booklet on 
consular notification and access and, as of November 2000, 
had distributed over 44,000 booklets to state law 
enforcement officials.  In addition, the Department 
distributed to state officials over 400,000 hand-held 
reference cards, in various languages, that police can use 
to explain the right of consular notification to foreign 
nationals."

I am wondering if we can update these figures. It will 
either be on the state dept webpage, or on some human rights 
NGO that tracks the issue. Thanks for the help. Ben

Dear Ben,

These are the latest figures that I have found.

In August 2002 at a daily press briefing, Philip T. Reeker, Deputy
Spokesman, stated ?We have seen out 82,000 consular notification and
access brochures and 520,000 pocket cards for police use.? 
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2002/12644.htm

In a submission to ?the UN Committee on Human Rights Concerning the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights October 21,
2005?.
It was reported that, 
?Since 1998, the State Department has distributed to federal, state
and local law enforcement over 1,000,000 training videos, booklets and
pocket cards that provide instructions for arrests and detentions of
foreign nationals.
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/55504.htm

The documentation can be downloaded off their web site so I do not
know whether this is logged as part of the above figures.

Consular Notification and Access
http://travel.state.gov/law/consular/consular_753.html


As for the numbers in the following article, I have been unable to
confirm them. If he is a good journalist, I hope he will have obtained
the numbers from a State Department spokesperson.

January 16, 2004
New York Times
?State Department lawyers described "the very substantial efforts
undertaken by the United States to comply with its obligations,"
including the circulation of 100,000 copies of a compliance manual and
600,000 pocket cards to local law enforcement officials. Still, they
noted, there are 700,000 law enforcement officials in the United
States in 18,000 separate state and local jurisdictions.?
http://www.ocadp.org/news/2004/torres/1.16.04_nytimes.html


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Dear Ben,
Thank you for the tip and your kind comments. Pleased I could help.
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