Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07LIBREVILLE492
2007-11-07 15:15:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Libreville
Cable title:
GABON: FOREIGN MINISTER PING RESPONSIVE TO FATF
how-toVZCZCXYZ0008 PP RUEHWEB DE RUEHLC #0492 3111515 ZNY CCCCC ZZH P 071515Z NOV 07 FM AMEMBASSY LIBREVILLE TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 9966 INFO RUEATRS/DEPT OF TREASURY WASHDC PRIORITY
C O N F I D E N T I A L LIBREVILLE 000492
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DEPT ALSO FOR ISN, T, AF BUREAU;
TREASURY FOR LADAN ARCHIN
E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/07/2017
TAGS: PREL ECON PARM MNUC GB IR
SUBJECT: GABON: FOREIGN MINISTER PING RESPONSIVE TO FATF
DEMARCHE
REF: STATE 149648
Classified By: Poloff Leslie Doumbia for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
Foreign Minister Jean Ping responded favorably when CDA
delivered reftel demarche November 6. Ping instructed his
assistants to compose letters to the Minister of Finance, the
governor of the Central Bank of Gabon, and the governor of
the Central Bank of Central Africa in Yaounde detailing
reftel concerns and urging heightened scrutiny of financial
transactions involving Iran. He asked his assistants follow
up with phone calls to ensure cooperation once the letters
were received.
HOLT