DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL SYRIAN ENTITIES UNDER

S E C R E T BERLIN 000058 SIPDIS STATE FOR ISN, T, TREASURY, NEA, AND EUR/AGS SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/10/2017 TAGS: PREL KNNP PARM SY ETTC GM SUBJECT: DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL SYRIAN ENTITIES UNDER E.O. 13382 PASSED TO GERMANY REF: SECSTATE 1165 Classified By: Global Affairs Counselor Donald R. Shemanski, for reason s 1.4 (b) and (d). ¶1. (S) Global Affairs officer delivered ref demarche January 9 to Ursina Krumpholz, office director of the Economic Ministry's Foreign Trade Law Division, and her deputy, Ernst Roeder-Messell, and, in a separate meeting, to Andreas Kauke in the MFA's Export Control Division. Krumpholz thanked us for the information. She said that the German Government considers the USG provision of information concerning the designations under E.O. 13382 useful. According to her and Roeder-Messell, the German Government is well aware of the role that the Scientific Studies and Research Center (SSRC) plays in Syria's WMD programs. Krumpolz said she will pass the information to the German federal inter-agency export control group for investigation. In response to a question about whether these Syrian entities are already included in the German Government's Early Warning List for exporters, she said she will check. (Note: The Economic Ministry's Export Control Division for Dual-Use Goods for Conventional Weapons administers the Early Warning List. End Note). ¶2. (S) Kauke, in the MFA, said he will check his export control databases to see whether the Syrian entities are already included. Kauke also said that he will pass the information to the federal inter-agency export control group for investigation. ¶3. (U) Post will report any additional substantive German response septel. TIMKEN JR