1267 COMMITTEE: FRANCO-AMERICAN PROPOSAL ON

UNCLAS STATE 147093 SIPDIS SENSITIVE SIPDIS E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UNSC SUBJECT: 1267 COMMITTEE: FRANCO-AMERICAN PROPOSAL ON PROCEDURAL FAIRNESS REF: A. USUN 1430 ¶B. STATE 65363 ¶C. USUN 917 ¶D. USUN 1078 ¶1. (U) This is an Action Request. Please see Paragraph ¶2. (SBU) The Department appreciates USUN's efforts to draft a compromise proposal with the French Mission regarding procedural protections and fairness in the 1267 (al-Qaida/Taliban) Sanctions Committee (REF A). The Department instructs USUN to secure French agreement to the text in Para 3 (slightly changed from the original) and present the proposal to the 1267 Committee jointly with the French Mission. ¶3. (SBU) BEGIN TEXT: The SC would request the SG to establish, within the Secretariat (Sanctions Branch),a focal point to receive SIPDIS delisting requests. Individuals seeking to submit a request for de-listing could do so either through the focal pointprocess outlined below or throught their state of residence or citizenship, if permitted or required by that state(s) The tasks the focal point would perform would, sequentially, be the following: ¶1. receive requests of delisting from a petitioner (individual(s),groups, undertakings, and/or entities on the sanctions committees lists); ¶2. verify if the request is new or is a repeated request; ¶3. if it is a repeated request and if it does not contain any new justification, return it to the petitioner; ¶4. acknowledge receipt of the request to the petitioner and inform the petitioner on the general procedure for processing that request; ¶5. forward the request, for information and comments (approve, disapprove, no comment, other),to the designating government/s and to the government/s of citizenship and residence. ¶6. (a) If, after consultation with the designating government, any of these governments recommend de-listing, the focal point or that government would forward that government's recommendation to the Chairman of the sanctions committee, accompanied by that government's justification for the recommendation. The Chairman would then place the petition on the Committee's agenda, accompanied by the justification/s provided. ¶6. (b) If, after a reasonable time (3 months),none of the governments which reviewed the petition under paragraph 5 above recommend de-listing or indicate that they are working on the petition and require additional time, the focal point will so notify all members of the committee and provide copies of the de-listing request. Any member of the committee may, after consultation with the designating government, recommend de-listing by forwarding the petition to the Chairman of the sanctions committee, accompanied by a justification, within a set timeframe (one month). (Only one member of the committee would have to recommend de-listing, after consultation with the designating government, in order to place the issue on the Committee's agenda.) ¶7. inform the petitioner (a) of the decision of the sactions committee to de-list him/her; or (b) that the process of consideration of the petition within the commitee has been completed and that he/she remains on the list of the committee. The role of the sanctions committee would be the following: ¶1. Review the requests submitted to it pursuant to 6(a) and 6(b) above; ¶2. decide to accept the request or refuse it or that it is not in a position to accept it at this stage ¶3. request the focal point to inform the petitioner of its decision. END TEXT. RICE