Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09STATE23142
2009-03-11 22:55:00
SECRET
Secretary of State
Cable title:
DEMARCHE REQUEST: INDIA AND LET 1267 DESIGNATIONS
how-toO P 112255Z MAR 09 FM SECSTATE WASHDC TO AMEMBASSY NEW DELHI IMMEDIATE INFO AMEMBASSY ISLAMABAD PRIORITY AMEMBASSY BEIJING PRIORITY AMCONSUL KOLKATA PRIORITY AMCONSUL CHENNAI PRIORITY AMCONSUL MUMBAI PRIORITY USMISSION USUN NEW YORK PRIORITY
S E C R E T STATE 023142
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/11/2019
TAGS: EFIN PTER IN
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE REQUEST: INDIA AND LET 1267 DESIGNATIONS
REF: USUN NY 236
Classified By: SCA DAS Michael Owen for reasons 1.4(b) and (d)
S E C R E T STATE 023142
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/11/2019
TAGS: EFIN PTER IN
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE REQUEST: INDIA AND LET 1267 DESIGNATIONS
REF: USUN NY 236
Classified By: SCA DAS Michael Owen for reasons 1.4(b) and (d)
1. (U) This is an action request for Embassy New
Delhi. See paragraph 3.
2. (S) India's UN mission told USUN (Ref ) that India is
ready to move forward on UN 1267 designations for three
Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LET) members; Masood Azhar, Azam Cheema,
and Hafiz Abdul Rahman Makki. The U.S. is now working, along
with its allies, to lay the groundwork to designate a number
of senior Pakistan-based Lashkar operatives, but efforts to
attain consensus in the U.S. Interagency and with other 1267
member countries and allies may mean this package is not
formally presented to the 1267 Committee for a few more
months. We believe that if the Government of India proposes
designations of Pakistan-based Lashkar operatives it will be
extremely difficult for the designations to make it through
the 1267 Committee and will further complicate the Government
of Pakistan,s ability and/or impede its will to move forward
with the Mumbai investigations. In our view, India,s direct
involvement may serve to heighten Pakistan,s reluctance not
only regarding any planned Lashkar-e-Tayyiba designations,
but also regarding terrorism sanctions more generally.
3. (C) ACTION REQUEST: Post is requested to approach the
appropriate Indian Government officials and strongly encourage
that the Indian government not take the proposed Lashkar-e-Tayyiba
designation package before the UN 1267 Committee at this time
but rather work with the United States and other interested
partners in coming up with a coordinated strategy that is most
likely to achieve success within the 1267 Committee. We are also
interested in any information India has on these three (Azhar,
Cheema, and Makki),so we can build a stronger case together.
CLINTON
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/11/2019
TAGS: EFIN PTER IN
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE REQUEST: INDIA AND LET 1267 DESIGNATIONS
REF: USUN NY 236
Classified By: SCA DAS Michael Owen for reasons 1.4(b) and (d)
1. (U) This is an action request for Embassy New
Delhi. See paragraph 3.
2. (S) India's UN mission told USUN (Ref ) that India is
ready to move forward on UN 1267 designations for three
Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LET) members; Masood Azhar, Azam Cheema,
and Hafiz Abdul Rahman Makki. The U.S. is now working, along
with its allies, to lay the groundwork to designate a number
of senior Pakistan-based Lashkar operatives, but efforts to
attain consensus in the U.S. Interagency and with other 1267
member countries and allies may mean this package is not
formally presented to the 1267 Committee for a few more
months. We believe that if the Government of India proposes
designations of Pakistan-based Lashkar operatives it will be
extremely difficult for the designations to make it through
the 1267 Committee and will further complicate the Government
of Pakistan,s ability and/or impede its will to move forward
with the Mumbai investigations. In our view, India,s direct
involvement may serve to heighten Pakistan,s reluctance not
only regarding any planned Lashkar-e-Tayyiba designations,
but also regarding terrorism sanctions more generally.
3. (C) ACTION REQUEST: Post is requested to approach the
appropriate Indian Government officials and strongly encourage
that the Indian government not take the proposed Lashkar-e-Tayyiba
designation package before the UN 1267 Committee at this time
but rather work with the United States and other interested
partners in coming up with a coordinated strategy that is most
likely to achieve success within the 1267 Committee. We are also
interested in any information India has on these three (Azhar,
Cheema, and Makki),so we can build a stronger case together.
CLINTON