TERRORIST FINANCE - OTTAWA: NO GOC ACTION ON HIG

S E C R E T OTTAWA 002834

SIPDIS

STATE FOR EB/ESC/TFS (MBRUNO),S/CT (TKUSHNER),IO/PHO
(BFITZGERALD),AND WHA/CAN
TREASURY (JZARATE),AND OFAC (RWERNER)
NSC (KEMERSON)

E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/30/2015
TAGS: EFIN ETTC PREL PTER KTFN CA
SUBJECT: TERRORIST FINANCE - OTTAWA: NO GOC ACTION ON HIG
IN NEAR FUTURE

REF: OTTAWA 2148 AND PREVIOUS

Classified By: Wendy Moore, Economics Counselor, Ottawa. Reason: 1.4(
e).

(S) Canadian plans to proceed with domestic designation under
the Criminal Code of HIG (Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's faction,
Hezb-e-Islami, the Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin) are on hold for
the time being. Reftel reported that designation was
expected to be convened during the late September meeting of
the Treasury Board. We learned during a recent meeting at
Foreign Affairs that HIG is not on the agenda for Treasury
Board meetings on September 26 or October 3, but our FAC
contact had not heard the reason for the delay.


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