Dutch Support Early FATF Review of Guatemala

UNCLAS THE HAGUE 000065

SIPDIS

SENSITIVE

STATE FOR INL/C/CP, WHA/CEN, WHA/EPSC

Treasury for Office of Financial Crimes/Glaser

Paris also for USOECD

E.O. 12958 N/A
TAGS: ETTC KCRM EFIN PTER SNAR GT
SUBJECT: Dutch Support Early FATF Review of Guatemala

REF: State 6394


(SBU) In response to reftel demarche, Jan van den Wall Bake,
Senior Coordinator for Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorism
Finance at the Ministry of Finance, said that the United
States could count on the full support of the Netherlands
tempered only by the constraints imposed by the short time
frame. Van den Wall Bake told us that he had just sent a
letter to his colleagues from Contributing and Supporting
Nations in the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF)
emphasizing the importance of a timely on-site visit to
Guatamala or - if this is impossible before the FATF-plenary
in February - some other kind of (significant) diplomatic
gesture. In addition to showing support for Guatemala's
democratic renewal, van den Wall Bake said that an early
review is very important to maintaining good relations
between the CFATF and the FATF.


Russel