DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION

UNCLAS KINGSTON 000687

SIPDIS

DEPARTMENT FOR WHA/CAR (BENT) AND AC/CB (ESIDLER)

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: JM PARM ABUD ES CWC CBW OPCW
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION

REF: STATE 026859

On February 16, Poloff called Sheila Sealy-Monteith,
Director, International Organizations Department (IOD),
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT),to
deliver reftel talking points. Sealy-Monteith accepted the
information and then explaind that the GOJ's implementing
legislation had been approved for drafting by the cabinet,
and was subsequently drafted by the Chief Parliamentary
Counsel. She said that the Ministry of Health, which is the
government agency responsible the oversight and adoption of
national implementing measures under Article VII of the
Chemical Weapons Convention, will now review the draft and
circulate it before it begins the approval process.
ROBINSON