TANZANIA AND THE CONSOLIDATED PRENOTIFICATION LIST

C O N F I D E N T I A L DAR ES SALAAM 000685 SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 4/05/2015 TAGS: ETTC KTFN EFIN PTER KSEP CVIS KVPR TZ SUBJECT: TANZANIA AND THE CONSOLIDATED PRENOTIFICATION LIST REF: A) STATE 32688, B) DAR ES SALAAM 0597 Classified by CDA M. Owen for reason 1.4 (b) and (d) ¶1. (C) Post has reservations about being included on the Terrorist Finance consolidated prenotification list as described reftel A. For the reasons noted below, post requests to be allowed to deliver prenotification demarches at our discretion, and not to be required to make a demarche at every prenotification. ¶2. (C) Tanzania's capacity to handle the onslaught of additional demarches as a member of the UNSC has already been severely strained. Our past experience suggests that Tanzania is very unlikely to be engaged on prenotification issues (see reftel B) unless there is clear evidence that an entity is currently present in Tanzania. ¶3. (C) Tanzania will almost certainly never block action on designations, and is also very unlikely to participate in joining the U.S. in making designations. In addition, Tanzania's capacity to take quick action (i.e., in the days between prenotification and official designation) is extremely limited. However, the risk of an information leak during that time is, in our estimation, very significant. (Note: At the first prenotification demarche, Foreign Ministry officials left the sensitive documents face up on a desk in a public area while accompanying poloff outside the building.) ¶4. (C) In the past, econoff has delivered the terrorist finance lists to the Ministry of Finance once the lists are made public. While the Ministry of Finance has a mechanism to relay the information to the central bank and other financial institutions, its capacity to quickly identify and seize assets is highly questionable. To date, no/no assets have been frozen in Tanzania under the UN 1267 designations. ¶5. (C) Post will continue to deliver the information on official designations after the fact with Ministry of Finance officials and will continue to engage both Foreign Ministry and Finance Ministry officials on the issue. Post should remain on the consolidated prenotification list as long as Tanzania is on the UNSC, but post requests case-by- case discretion in determining whether to share the prenotification information with Tanzanian officials. OWEN