FRENCH WILL RAISE OBJECTIONS TO CHINESE REJECTION

C O N F I D E N T I A L PARIS 005130

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/24/2014
TAGS: PTER ETTC PREL FR KFIN UNSC
SUBJECT: FRENCH WILL RAISE OBJECTIONS TO CHINESE REJECTION
OF FATF REFERENCES

REF: STATE 135839

Classified By: POLITICAL MINISTER-COUNSELOR JOSIAH ROSENBLATT, FOR REAS
ONS 1.4 B/D

(C) On July 22, we raised reftel demarche on Chinese
objections to FATF references in the Counterterrorism
Committee and the draft text of the 1267 successor resolution
with Claudia Delmas-Scherer, the MFA's acting DAS-equivalent
for Security. Delmas-Scherer said she was pleased to see
that the U.S. was holding the line on Chinese objections.
She said she would cable the French Embassy in Beijing July
22 to inform them of our demarche and to instruct them to
make a similar demarche to the Chinese. She said the French
demarche would focus on the fact that Chinese objections to
FATF references are inconsistent with their application for
full FATF membership.
STAPLETON