BAHRAIN: GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR

C O N F I D E N T I A L MANAMA 000209 SIPDIS SIPDIS FOR NEA/ARP, ISN/WMDT, T-TKATSAPIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/06/2017 TAGS: PREL PTER KNNP PARM BA ROW CTR SUBJECT: BAHRAIN: GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR TERRORISM LAW ENFORCEMENT CONFERENCE REF: A. STATE 26678 ¶B. MANAMA 0180 ¶C. STATE 21535 Classified By: DCM Susan L. Ziadeh for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). (C) Pol/Econ Chief March 6 delivered Ref A demarche concerning the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism Law Enforcement Conference to MFA Director for International Organization Affairs Ghassan Shaikho. Shaikho said that he had already sent the information on joining the Global Initiative (Refs B and C) to the Foreign Minister, and he directed his assistant to forward the information about the June law enforcement conference to the Minister as well. He said that he considered the Global Initiative to be complementary to the Proliferation Security Initiative, which Bahrain had already joined. He thought the June meeting could be a convenient target date to use as a deadline for prompting a GOB decision about joining the Global Initiative. ********************************************* ******** Visit Embassy Manama's Classified Website: http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/nea/manama/ ********************************************* ******** MONROE