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05PARIS478
2005-01-26 17:41:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Paris
Cable title:
FRENCH PARTICIPATION AT THE SAUDI COUNTERTERRORISM
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UNCLAS PARIS 000478
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PTER PREL SA FR
SUBJECT: FRENCH PARTICIPATION AT THE SAUDI COUNTERTERRORISM
CONFERENCE
REF: STATE 9866
(SBU) Following mid-January delivery of reftel demarche on
participation at the February 5-8 Saudi counterterrorism
conference, the MFA's office director-equivalent for
terrorism and security issues, Claudia Delmas-Scherer, told
us January 25 that the exact composition of the French
delegation was still not finalized. Nevertheless, her office
had heard that UCLAT head Gilles Leclair would probably lead
the French delegation. UCLAT is the counterterrorism
coordination cell within the Ministry of Interior. Other
probable members of the delegation would be Philippe Meunier,
the MFA's DAS-equivalent for terrorism and security, and
other officials from the MFA and the DST, France's internal
intelligence service. Delmas-Scherer said the French
delegation planned on presenting two papers at the
conference: the first would be a "lessons learned" paper and
the second would focus on the repression of terrorist cells.
Leach
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PTER PREL SA FR
SUBJECT: FRENCH PARTICIPATION AT THE SAUDI COUNTERTERRORISM
CONFERENCE
REF: STATE 9866
(SBU) Following mid-January delivery of reftel demarche on
participation at the February 5-8 Saudi counterterrorism
conference, the MFA's office director-equivalent for
terrorism and security issues, Claudia Delmas-Scherer, told
us January 25 that the exact composition of the French
delegation was still not finalized. Nevertheless, her office
had heard that UCLAT head Gilles Leclair would probably lead
the French delegation. UCLAT is the counterterrorism
coordination cell within the Ministry of Interior. Other
probable members of the delegation would be Philippe Meunier,
the MFA's DAS-equivalent for terrorism and security, and
other officials from the MFA and the DST, France's internal
intelligence service. Delmas-Scherer said the French
delegation planned on presenting two papers at the
conference: the first would be a "lessons learned" paper and
the second would focus on the repression of terrorist cells.
Leach