Identifier
Created
Classification
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09PARAMARIBO432
2009-12-21 20:08:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Paramaribo
Cable title:
SURINAME: 2009 Country Reports on Terrorism
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UNCLAS PARAMARIBO 000432
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PTER ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS PINS PREL AEMR NS
SUBJECT: SURINAME: 2009 Country Reports on Terrorism
REF: STATE 109980
UNCLAS PARAMARIBO 000432
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PTER ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS PINS PREL AEMR NS
SUBJECT: SURINAME: 2009 Country Reports on Terrorism
REF: STATE 109980
1. (SBU) Post is pleased to submit the 2009 Country Report
on Terrorism for Suriname.
Suriname
The likelihood of Suriname being used by terrorists as a base for
their operations or as a safe haven remains unchanged from 2008.
Suriname's lead agency for counterterrorism is the Central
Intelligence and Security Agency (CIVD). The Ministry of Justice
and Police (MOJP) has a police Anti-Terrorist Unit (ATU) and a
50-person "Arrest Team" (A-Team). At the end of 2007, the Council
of Ministers approved a new draft counterterrorism law that defined
terrorism as a crime, and provided a framework for more effectively
combating terrorism and the financing of terrorism. This draft
legislation was approved by the State Council and the President in
2008, and has been presented to the National Assembly for
discussion. When this legislation is passed, it should bring
Surinamese law in line with various international treaties dealing
with terrorism and could help pave the way for Surinamese
membership in the Egmont Group. A draft criminal procedure law
was approved by the Council of Ministers in February 2008. This
law will provide the implementing legislation for the new
counterterrorism law, as well as special investigative tools to
assist law enforcement authorities in detecting and investigating
terrorist activities.
Suriname began issuing Caribbean Community (CARICOM)-compliant
machine-readable passports in 2004 and the old passports are no
longer in circulation. The United States provided watch lists
of known terrorists to Surinamese police, but if any terrorists
were present, the likelihood of apprehending them would be low
because of the lack of border and immigration control by police and
other Surinamese government officials, and because Suriname has no
digitized system for registering and monitoring visitors. According
to police sources, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
(FARC) has conducted arms-for-drugs operations with criminal
organizations in Suriname. The Government of Suriname deported
several FARC members to Colombia in 2008.
2. (U) Post point of contact is Geneve Menscher,
Political-Economic Section Chief; menscherge@state.gov; IVG
540-2205 or (597) 472-900 ext. 2205.
NAY
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PTER ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS PINS PREL AEMR NS
SUBJECT: SURINAME: 2009 Country Reports on Terrorism
REF: STATE 109980
1. (SBU) Post is pleased to submit the 2009 Country Report
on Terrorism for Suriname.
Suriname
The likelihood of Suriname being used by terrorists as a base for
their operations or as a safe haven remains unchanged from 2008.
Suriname's lead agency for counterterrorism is the Central
Intelligence and Security Agency (CIVD). The Ministry of Justice
and Police (MOJP) has a police Anti-Terrorist Unit (ATU) and a
50-person "Arrest Team" (A-Team). At the end of 2007, the Council
of Ministers approved a new draft counterterrorism law that defined
terrorism as a crime, and provided a framework for more effectively
combating terrorism and the financing of terrorism. This draft
legislation was approved by the State Council and the President in
2008, and has been presented to the National Assembly for
discussion. When this legislation is passed, it should bring
Surinamese law in line with various international treaties dealing
with terrorism and could help pave the way for Surinamese
membership in the Egmont Group. A draft criminal procedure law
was approved by the Council of Ministers in February 2008. This
law will provide the implementing legislation for the new
counterterrorism law, as well as special investigative tools to
assist law enforcement authorities in detecting and investigating
terrorist activities.
Suriname began issuing Caribbean Community (CARICOM)-compliant
machine-readable passports in 2004 and the old passports are no
longer in circulation. The United States provided watch lists
of known terrorists to Surinamese police, but if any terrorists
were present, the likelihood of apprehending them would be low
because of the lack of border and immigration control by police and
other Surinamese government officials, and because Suriname has no
digitized system for registering and monitoring visitors. According
to police sources, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
(FARC) has conducted arms-for-drugs operations with criminal
organizations in Suriname. The Government of Suriname deported
several FARC members to Colombia in 2008.
2. (U) Post point of contact is Geneve Menscher,
Political-Economic Section Chief; menscherge@state.gov; IVG
540-2205 or (597) 472-900 ext. 2205.
NAY