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02KATHMANDU1349
2002-07-11 08:56:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Kathmandu
Cable title:  

Nepal and International Counter-Terrorism

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UNCLAS KATHMANDU 001349 

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PTER PREL NP
SUBJECT: Nepal and International Counter-Terrorism
Conventions

REF: A) State 125639, B) 01 Kathmandu 2202

UNCLAS KATHMANDU 001349

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PTER PREL NEPAL'>NP
SUBJECT: NEPAL and International Counter-Terrorism
Conventions

REF: A) State 125639, B) 01 Kathmandu 2202


1. NEPAL is working to sign the Convention for the
Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism (CSFT) at an
early date, Arjun Kant Mainali of the MFA's Division for
the U.N., International Organizations and International
Law told Poloff July 10. Mainali was responding to
Poloff's report that the U.S. has now become a party to
all twelve international counter-terrorism conventions
(Ref A).


2. To date, NEPAL has ratified or signed six of the twelve
conventions (Ref B). The CSFT would be the seventh.
NEPAL's efforts to ratify both the Protocol for the
Suppression of Unlawful Acts of Violence at Airports and
the Convention on the Marking of Plastic Explosives are
still in the early stages.


3. As related Ref B, because NEPAL does not produce or use
nuclear material, it has not given priority to ratifying
the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear
Material. Similarly, as a landlocked country NEPAL is
unlikely to act quickly on the Protocol for the
Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Fixed
Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf and the
Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the
Safety of Maritime Navigation.

MALINOWSKI