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06MASERU230
2006-05-11 10:35:00
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Embassy Maseru
Cable title:
UNODC HOLDS A FOUR-DAY WORKSHOP ON COUNTER TERRORISM IN
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UNCLAS MASERU 000230
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RANGOON FOR PATRICK MURPHY
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV PTER PREL KDEM LT
SUBJECT: UNODC HOLDS A FOUR-DAY WORKSHOP ON COUNTER TERRORISM IN
MASERU: 09 - 12 MAY, 2006
UNCLAS MASERU 000230
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
RANGOON FOR PATRICK MURPHY
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV PTER PREL KDEM LT
SUBJECT: UNODC HOLDS A FOUR-DAY WORKSHOP ON COUNTER TERRORISM IN
MASERU: 09 - 12 MAY, 2006
1. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is
holding a four-day workshop on counter terrorism in Maseru from
9 to 12 May, 2006. The purpose of the workshop, requested by the
GOL, is to provide counter terrorism training and legislative
drafting skills to senior criminal justice officials and policy
makers. The workshop is being presented in partnership with
the Commonwealth Secretariat.
2. Opening the workshop on Tuesday, May 9, the Minister in the
Prime Minister's Office, Mokone Lehata, pointed out that the
role of international organizations is to ensure that approaches
taken by countries around the world under their domestic
legislative and law enforcement regimes are coordinated to make
collective international measures both efficient and effective.
3. He stated that Lesotho has seen the need to negotiate and
accede to international legal instruments aimed at enhancing
international cooperation. Lehata indicated that Lesotho is a
party to the Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
and its protocols that address corruption, trafficking of women
and children and smuggling of migrants. (NOTE: while Lesotho has
signed the Convention, it has not taken significant steps
domestically to combat human trafficking; there is no statute
against trafficking, for example. END NOTE.) He added that
Lesotho is a party to seven UN counter terrorism conventions
and two African Union (AU) counter terrorism legal instruments.
4. Speaking at the same occasion, Kimberly Prost, Chief, Legal
Advisory Section, Division for Treaty Affairs, UNODC, stressed
that the focus of the workshop should be on how to better
understand and implement the crime and terrorism prevention
measures.
5. Ms. Prost was accompanied by Michael De Feo, Consultant,
Terrorism Prevention Branch, UNODC and Anton Du Plessis,
Terrorism Prevention Expert, UNODC.
6. COMMENT: The USG has sponsored seminars for members of
parliament, civil society, and the financial sector on
transnational security matters. (Also, post has submitted an
ESF proposal to combat human trafficking.) We consider the
workshop a positive reinforcement of training we have also
provided to law enforcement and intelligence officials.
PERRY
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
RANGOON FOR PATRICK MURPHY
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV PTER PREL KDEM LT
SUBJECT: UNODC HOLDS A FOUR-DAY WORKSHOP ON COUNTER TERRORISM IN
MASERU: 09 - 12 MAY, 2006
1. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is
holding a four-day workshop on counter terrorism in Maseru from
9 to 12 May, 2006. The purpose of the workshop, requested by the
GOL, is to provide counter terrorism training and legislative
drafting skills to senior criminal justice officials and policy
makers. The workshop is being presented in partnership with
the Commonwealth Secretariat.
2. Opening the workshop on Tuesday, May 9, the Minister in the
Prime Minister's Office, Mokone Lehata, pointed out that the
role of international organizations is to ensure that approaches
taken by countries around the world under their domestic
legislative and law enforcement regimes are coordinated to make
collective international measures both efficient and effective.
3. He stated that Lesotho has seen the need to negotiate and
accede to international legal instruments aimed at enhancing
international cooperation. Lehata indicated that Lesotho is a
party to the Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
and its protocols that address corruption, trafficking of women
and children and smuggling of migrants. (NOTE: while Lesotho has
signed the Convention, it has not taken significant steps
domestically to combat human trafficking; there is no statute
against trafficking, for example. END NOTE.) He added that
Lesotho is a party to seven UN counter terrorism conventions
and two African Union (AU) counter terrorism legal instruments.
4. Speaking at the same occasion, Kimberly Prost, Chief, Legal
Advisory Section, Division for Treaty Affairs, UNODC, stressed
that the focus of the workshop should be on how to better
understand and implement the crime and terrorism prevention
measures.
5. Ms. Prost was accompanied by Michael De Feo, Consultant,
Terrorism Prevention Branch, UNODC and Anton Du Plessis,
Terrorism Prevention Expert, UNODC.
6. COMMENT: The USG has sponsored seminars for members of
parliament, civil society, and the financial sector on
transnational security matters. (Also, post has submitted an
ESF proposal to combat human trafficking.) We consider the
workshop a positive reinforcement of training we have also
provided to law enforcement and intelligence officials.
PERRY