BDG ACCEDES TO EIGHT COUNTER-TERRORISM CONVENTIONS

UNCLAS DHAKA 003496 SIPDIS E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PREL PTER BG BG SUBJECT: BDG ACCEDES TO EIGHT COUNTER-TERRORISM CONVENTIONS ¶1. (SBU) The BDG informed Post by Diplomatic Note dated July 18 that it has deposited its Instruments of Accession to the following eight Counter-Terrorism Conventions and Protocols: -- Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crime against Internationallly Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents; -- International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages; -- Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material; -- Protcol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts of Violence at Airports Servicing International Civil Aviation, supplementary to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation; -- Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation; -- Protocol for Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the Contiental Shelf; -- Convention on the Marking of Plastic Explosives for the Purpose of Detection; and -- International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombing. ¶2. (SBU) The BDG has separately advised that it expects to accede to the Convention for the Suppression of Financing of Terrorism by the end of 2005. CHAMMAS