COUNTERTERRORISM ACTION GROUP CONVENTIONS AND

UNCLAS DJIBOUTI 001622 SIPDIS FOR S/CT AND IO E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PTER ASEC PREL SUBJECT: COUNTERTERRORISM ACTION GROUP CONVENTIONS AND PROTOCOLS REF: STATE 269653 ¶1. (U) Acting Pol/Econ Off delivered demarche (reftel) to Mohamed Ali Hassan, Director of Bilateral Relations in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Hassan said that in the past three months Djibouti has passed many of the counterterrorism conventions that had previously been stalled in the government bureaucracy. He said he was unaware of any objections to these two remaining conventions (Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism and Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material),and that he will pass CTAG's request to the appropriate committee and the Office of International Organizations. RAGSDALE