Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07SINGAPORE1255
2007-07-02 05:40:00
SECRET
Embassy Singapore
Cable title:  

(S) SINGAPORE'S MESSAGE TO MALTA REGARDING M/V

Tags:  KNNP PARM PREL NMUC ETTC IR SN 
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DE RUEHGP #1255 1830540
ZNY SSSSS ZZH
O 020540Z JUL 07
FM AMEMBASSY SINGAPORE
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 3503
INFO RUEHBJ/AMEMBASSY BEIJING PRIORITY 2560
RUEHVT/AMEMBASSY VALLETTA PRIORITY 0011
RUEAIIA/CIA WASHDC PRIORITY
RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK PRIORITY 0073
S E C R E T SINGAPORE 001255 

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

ISN FOR MARK FELIPE

E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/02/2017
TAGS: KNNP PARM PREL NMUC ETTC IR SN
SUBJECT: (S) SINGAPORE'S MESSAGE TO MALTA REGARDING M/V
GANT STAR

REF: SINGAPORE 1242

Classified By: E/P Chief Ike Reed for reasons 1.4(b) and (d)

S E C R E T SINGAPORE 001255

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

ISN FOR MARK FELIPE

E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/02/2017
TAGS: KNNP PARM PREL NMUC ETTC IR SN
SUBJECT: (S) SINGAPORE'S MESSAGE TO MALTA REGARDING M/V
GANT STAR

REF: SINGAPORE 1242

Classified By: E/P Chief Ike Reed for reasons 1.4(b) and (d)


1. (S) MFA delivered the following non-paper to us on June

29. Per reftel, this language was to be given to Malta on
June 28 via Singapore's mission to the United Nations in New
York. Also per reftel, Singapore has agreed to the U.S.
raising this issue in follow-up discussions with Malta on the
Proliferation Security Initiative.


2. (S) Begin text of non-paper:

SECRET

SIPDIS

Releasable to Governments of Malta and the US

In April 2007, Singapore authorities off-loaded 20 containers
from a Maltese flagged vessel, the M/V Gant Star, on
suspicion that they contained sodium perchlorate monohydrate
bound for an entity listed in the Annex of UNSC Resolution

1747. The vessel, which entered the port of Singapore in
order to seek medical attention for a crew member who had
taken ill, was traveling from Dalian in China and headed to
Bandar Abbas in Iran. The contents of the off-loaded
containers were inspected and confirmed to be sodium
perchlorate monohydrate.

End text of non-paper.

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