Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07MOSCOW1414
2007-03-30 10:35:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Moscow
Cable title:
RUSSIA NOTIFIED ABOUT BANK SEPAH, STILL NO DECREE
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C O N F I D E N T I A L MOSCOW 001414
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE FOR EUR/RUS, IO/FO, EEB/ESC/TFS
STATE FOR ISN/RA, ISN/CPI
TREASURY FOR BAKER, ALIKONIS, EDDY
NSC FOR KLECHESKI
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/30/2017
TAGS: KNNP IR RS PARM EFIN KTFN
SUBJECT: RUSSIA NOTIFIED ABOUT BANK SEPAH, STILL NO DECREE
ON UNSCR 1737
REF: A. STATE 38553
B. MOSCOW 1262
C. MOSCOW 1249
Classified By: ECON M/C Pam Quanrud, Reasons 1.4 (b/d).
C O N F I D E N T I A L MOSCOW 001414
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE FOR EUR/RUS, IO/FO, EEB/ESC/TFS
STATE FOR ISN/RA, ISN/CPI
TREASURY FOR BAKER, ALIKONIS, EDDY
NSC FOR KLECHESKI
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/30/2017
TAGS: KNNP IR RS PARM EFIN KTFN
SUBJECT: RUSSIA NOTIFIED ABOUT BANK SEPAH, STILL NO DECREE
ON UNSCR 1737
REF: A. STATE 38553
B. MOSCOW 1262
C. MOSCOW 1249
Classified By: ECON M/C Pam Quanrud, Reasons 1.4 (b/d).
1. (C) Econoff delivered a copy of Treasury Deputy Secretary
Robert M. Kimmitt's statement (provided in Reftel A) on UNSCR
1747's designation of Bank Sepah and Bank Sepah International
to Vladimir Prokhorov, Senior Legal Counsel for the MFA's
Department of New Threast and Challenges. Delivery of the
Deputy Treasury Secretary's statement allowed for a follow-up
meeting with the MFA to discussions that Treasury Assistant
Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes
SIPDIS
Patrick O'Brien had with Russian officials during his March
12-13 visit to Moscow.
2. (C) During that visit, O'Brien relayed the USG's concerns
about Bank Sepah, as well as Bank Saderat, to the Russia's
Counter-Terrorism Coordinator Deputy Foreign Minister Anatoly
Safonov (Reftel B),Deputy Central Bank Chairman Viktor
Melnikov, and Federal Financial Monitoring Service (Russia's
FIU) Director Viktor Zubkov (Reftel C). O'Brien also urged
the presidents of the Association of Russian Banks and the
Russian Association of Regional Banks to alert their members
to requests for transactions from these banks.
3. (C) Prokhorov said that the interagency effort to draft a
Presidential Decree that would allow for implementation of
the previous resolution on Iran, UNSCR 1737, remained a work
in progress. He offered no timeframe for implementation of
UNSCR 1747.
RUSSELL
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE FOR EUR/RUS, IO/FO, EEB/ESC/TFS
STATE FOR ISN/RA, ISN/CPI
TREASURY FOR BAKER, ALIKONIS, EDDY
NSC FOR KLECHESKI
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/30/2017
TAGS: KNNP IR RS PARM EFIN KTFN
SUBJECT: RUSSIA NOTIFIED ABOUT BANK SEPAH, STILL NO DECREE
ON UNSCR 1737
REF: A. STATE 38553
B. MOSCOW 1262
C. MOSCOW 1249
Classified By: ECON M/C Pam Quanrud, Reasons 1.4 (b/d).
1. (C) Econoff delivered a copy of Treasury Deputy Secretary
Robert M. Kimmitt's statement (provided in Reftel A) on UNSCR
1747's designation of Bank Sepah and Bank Sepah International
to Vladimir Prokhorov, Senior Legal Counsel for the MFA's
Department of New Threast and Challenges. Delivery of the
Deputy Treasury Secretary's statement allowed for a follow-up
meeting with the MFA to discussions that Treasury Assistant
Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes
SIPDIS
Patrick O'Brien had with Russian officials during his March
12-13 visit to Moscow.
2. (C) During that visit, O'Brien relayed the USG's concerns
about Bank Sepah, as well as Bank Saderat, to the Russia's
Counter-Terrorism Coordinator Deputy Foreign Minister Anatoly
Safonov (Reftel B),Deputy Central Bank Chairman Viktor
Melnikov, and Federal Financial Monitoring Service (Russia's
FIU) Director Viktor Zubkov (Reftel C). O'Brien also urged
the presidents of the Association of Russian Banks and the
Russian Association of Regional Banks to alert their members
to requests for transactions from these banks.
3. (C) Prokhorov said that the interagency effort to draft a
Presidential Decree that would allow for implementation of
the previous resolution on Iran, UNSCR 1737, remained a work
in progress. He offered no timeframe for implementation of
UNSCR 1747.
RUSSELL