Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
05DARESSALAAM685
2005-04-06 12:58:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Dar Es Salaam
Cable title:  

TANZANIA AND THE CONSOLIDATED PRENOTIFICATION LIST

Tags:  ETTC KTFN EFIN PTER KSEP CVIS KVPR TZ 
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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)

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