CANADA: IMPLEMENTING THE TRAVEL BAN AND TRAVEL

C O N F I D E N T I A L OTTAWA 000496 SIPDIS SIPDIS STATE FOR ISN/RA RISA MONGIELLO AND RICHARD NEPHEW E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/09/2018 TAGS: MNUC KNNP IR UNSC CA SUBJECT: CANADA: IMPLEMENTING THE TRAVEL BAN AND TRAVEL VIGILANCE IN UNSCRS 1737, 1747, AND 1803 REF: STATE 34974 Classified By: PolMinCouns Scott Bellard, reasons 1.4 (B) and (D) ¶1. This is an action request - see para 4. ¶2. (C) According to Shawn Caza, Deputy Director of the Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (Nuclear) Division of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada has fully followed the UN guidance for the implementation of UNSCRs 1737, 1747, and 1803, and has enacted a travel advisory with a reporting requirement for most individuals named, with a travel ban on the small group. Caza promised to take our suggestion that Canada make the call for vigilance and restraint a de facto travel ban back to his superiors. He stressed, however, that in the meantime the named individuals are extremely unlikely to want to travel to Canada, and that, if they did, they would be flagged and watched while having no access to any assets or financial transfers. Canada has also implemented all voluntary parts of the resolutions; there are no export credits for Iran, and any cargo coming in from Iraq (which cannot export to Canada in any event) would be subject to search. All exports to Iran, which are extremely limited, are also searched, he noted. ¶3. (C) Caza made three requests for help from the United States. First, the more data we can provide on the individuals named in the UNSCR, the more it would stiffen Canada's system. When Canada receives names in such cases, the government supplements the information with its own data (if any),but the better it can "populate the lists" with identifying and background data, the better. Second, sharing experiences in implementation, especially in extraterritorial cases. would be helpful. Canada has had some discussions on this with the UK, but Caza commented that a kind of "four eyes" discussion with us on how to stiffen our responses on implementation might yield new ideas for Canada. Third, he asked for any watch lists that we might have developed for items that are not already covered by sanctions (not including things such as the NSG lists). He said that his office was attempting to develop such a list for policymakers in order to broaden Canada's restrictions, and would benefit from any thinking or background we may have on the issue. ¶4. (C) Action request: Please provide any additional information in response to para 3 requests in order further to advance this issue here. Visit Canada,s Economy and Environment Forum at http://www.intelink.gov/communities/state/can ada WILKINS