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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
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Effective from January 1983

The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign

Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
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OPPORTUNITIES

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
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Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)

Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
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Effective from May 1983

Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
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Effective from August 1983

The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
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Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)

Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
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Effective from March 1983

The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
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Effective from October 1997

Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)

The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc

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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
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Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
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Effective from April 1984

Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
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Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)

Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:

* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).

Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
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Effective from July 2001

Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
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Effective from August 1989

Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
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Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

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KCOM: Chief of Mission
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Effective from March 2004

Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
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Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

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KCRM: Criminal Activity
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Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
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Effective from May 1991

Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
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Effective from December 2007

Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
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Effective from August 1986

Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
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Effective from May 2007

Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
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Effective from September 2006

Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
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Effective from June 2000

Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
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Effective from August 2006

Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)

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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
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Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
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Effective from January 1999

Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
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Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.

(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
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Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
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Effective from August 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
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Effective From October 1999

Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
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Effective from April 1984

Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
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Effective from February 1984

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
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Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
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Effective from May 2000

Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
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Effective from November 1984

Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
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Effective from August 1996

Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
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Effective from March 1993

Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
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Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)

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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
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Effective from February 1983

Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
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Effective from October 1997

Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
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Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)

Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
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Effective from July 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
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Effective from June 1984

Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
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Effective from September 2008

Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
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Effective from November 1995

Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
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Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
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Effective from June 1995

Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
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Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
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Effective from January 1983

Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
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EXCHANGE OPERATIONS

Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
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Effective from January 1983

Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
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Effective from October 1999

Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
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Effective from January 1983

Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
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Effective from January 1983

Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
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Effective from January 1983

A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)

The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
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Effective from January 1983

Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
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Effective from January 1985

The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
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Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)

People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
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Effective from January 1983

The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
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Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
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Effective from March 1995

The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)

The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
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Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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07ABIDJAN175COTE D'IVOIRE MINISTRY OF FINANCE DISCUSSES
[...] EconOff spoke with the Ministry of Finance's Director of Cabinet Ahoutou about points raised in reftel. Ahoutou said the government of Cote d'Ivoire takes the matter seriously, and government agencies charged with enforcing limits on international cash transfers are well trained and vigilant. [...]
2007-02-16 15:54:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN EFIN ETTC PREL PTER
07ABUDHABI1104UAE CENTRAL BANK STILL WILLING TO TRAIN IRAQ FIU
[...] (U) On June 21, 2007 OFAC Attache and Treasury Representative Erin English met with Abdulrahim Al Awadi, Head of the Anti-Money Laundering and Suspicious Cases Unit (AMLSCU),the financial intelligence unit (FIU) of the UAE Central Bank. Mr. English, who was recently stationed in Baghdad, rep [...]
2007-07-01 12:06:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PTER KTFN ETTC PREL ECON IZ AE
07ABUDHABI1293UAE CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR ON IRANIAN BANK SEPAH,
[...] (U) This contains business proprietary information. 2. (C) Summary: On August 1, Ambassador, accompanied by OFAC Attach and Econchief, met with UAE Central Bank Governor Sultan Nasser Al-Suwaidi. Al-Suwaidi confirmed that Iranian Bank Sepah's trade finance accounts with UAE banks remained [...]
2007-08-01 13:07:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRETPTER KTFN PREL IR AE
07ABUDHABI1388U/S LEVEY TALKS IRAN WITH UAEG
[...] (S/NF) Summary: On August 13, UAE Central Bank Governor Al-Suwaidi told U/S Levey the Central Bank had seen an increase in outflows from Iran in April and May and then a drop. He stated that this movement appeared to reflect capital flight from ordinary business people and not government fun [...]
2007-08-19 12:19:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRET//NOFORNETTC KTFN PARM PREL ECON PTER AE IR
07ABUDHABI1389(S//NF) IN TOUR OF THE HORIZON WITH U/S LEVEY, UAE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-19 13:01:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRET//NOFORNECON KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PARM AE IR
07ABUDHABI1734ADIA OFFICIALS PLEDGE TO CONTINUE OUTREACH TO
[...] (S//NF) Summary. On 18 October 2007, Treasury Attache Matthew Epstein and Econ Chief Oliver John met with Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) officials Mohammed bin Rouda Al Ameri and Mohammed Saif Al Suwaidi. Epstein and John passed an updated list of banks believed to maintain financial r [...]
2007-10-21 04:40:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRET//NOFORNECON AE IR PREL PTER KTFN
07ABUDHABI1776UAE CENTRAL BANK AFFIRMS COMMITMENT TO MENA-FATF
[...] (S//NF) Summary. On 23 October 2007, Treasury Attach Matthew Epstein and Econ Chief Oliver John met with UAE Central Bank official Abdulrahim al Awadi, head of the Anti-money Laundering and Suspicious Cases Unit. Treasury Attach and Econ Chief inquired about the ongoing MENA-FATF review of the [...]
2007-10-25 12:49:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRET//NOFORNAE ECON IR KTFN PREL PTER
07ABUDHABI1838UAE: FOLLOW-UP ACTION REQUEST ON ILLICIT CASH
[...] (C) Summary: Post has worked with the UAEG to have it focus on the issue of bulk cash smuggling. DHS/ICE has twice provided training to customs officials and DOJ/OPDAT will be providing money laundering prosecutorial training this December (which will have a bulk cash smuggling component). The USG [...]
2007-11-05 10:25:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETTC KTFN PTER KCRM PREL AE
07ABUDHABI1864ASSESSMENT OF UAE TOOLS FOR USE AGAINST IRANIAN
[...] (S/NF) Summary. In response to ref A, Embassy provides the following assessment of UAE tools that could be used against Iranian financial institutions. Responses are keyed to reftel, to the extent possible. End summary. Regulatory Regime ----------------- Â [...]
2007-11-08 04:40:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRET//NOFORNEFIN ETTC KTFN KNNP AE
07ABUDHABI1881ABU DHABI COMMERCIAL BANK REDUCING IRAN EXPOSURE;
[...] (C) Summary. Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank sees dirham revaluation as inevitable. Subprime fallout starting to affect regional banks. CEO announces "no new Iran activity -- zero." End Summary. 2. (C) On 13 November 2007, Treasury Attach Matthew Epstein met with Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (ADCB) [...]
2007-11-14 10:49:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALAE ECON IR KTFN PREL PTER
07ABUDHABI1898UAE SKEPTICISM ON SOVEREIGN WEALTH INITIATIVES;
[...] (C) Summary. UAE government and finance officials remain skeptical over U.S. and international sovereign wealth fund initiatives, but eagerly await additional details to further evaluate. UAE-based investment firms cite increased political risk surrounding foreign investment in the U.S., and ar [...]
2007-11-19 11:53:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALAE ECON EFIN KTFN PREL PTER EINV
07ABUDHABI1979UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-10 04:47:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN WTRD PTER KTFN
07ABUDHABI245TERRORIST FINANCE: HUMAN APPEAL INTERNATIONAL
[...] (S) Summary. The USG has approached the UAEG since 2003 about concerns with Human Appeal International (HAI) with little progress. Despite assurances U/S Levey received in May 2006, HAI,s Dubai branch office still appears to be operational. Post has no objections to a designation but sugges [...]
2007-02-13 15:39:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRETEFIN PTER KTFN ETTC PREL ECON AE
07ABUDHABI473TREASURY U/S LEVEY DISCUSSES UNSCR SANCTIONS ON
[...] (S) Summary. On March 6, 2007 Treasury U/S Stuart Levey met with UAE Central Bank Governor Sultan Nasser al-Suweidi to discuss financial measures against Iran including UNSCR 1737 and recent USG actions against Bank Sepah and Bank Saderat. U/S Levey expressed concern that increasing European [...]
2007-03-20 07:39:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRETPREL KTFN ECON PTER IR AE
07ABUDHABI479TREASURY U/S LEVEY DISCUSSES WITH FOREIGN MINISTER
[...] (S) Summary. On March 6, 2007 Treasury U/S Levey met with UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan (AbZ) to encourage the UAE to apply financial pressure to Iran. U/S Levey discussed Iran,s financing of terrorism, WMD proliferation and its deceptive financial practices. Levey emphas [...]
2007-03-20 13:21:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRETPREL KTFN ECON PTER IR AE
07ABUDHABI494UAE- TERRORISM FINANCE: JIHAD AL BINA DESIGNATION
[...] ACTION REQUEST: Please see paragraph 4. 2. The Embassy received via diplomatic note March 19 a request from the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs for more information on Jihad al-Bina and whether or not it has activities in the UAE. 3. Begin Embassy translation. The UAE Ministry of Fore [...]
2007-03-22 13:22:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN EFIN PTER PREL ECON AE
07ABUDHABI524UAE HOSTS 4TH INTERNATIONAL HAWALAS CONFERENCE
[...] (U) Summary. On March 18 and 19, 2007, at the Fourth International Conference on Hawalas the UAE Central Bank (CB) stressed the importance to poor workers of hawalas, and the need to regulate without being overly burdensome and expensive. In the UAE there are 215 registered Hawaladars, each [...]
2007-03-28 12:58:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KTFN ECON PTER AE
07ABUDHABI526IMPORTANCE OF SWIFT IMPLEMENTATION OF UNSCR 1747
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-28 13:38:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRETKNNP KTFN PARM EFIN ETTC IR AE
07ADDISABABA1278ETHIOPIA: TREASURY AND GOE CLOSE TO SIGNING
[...] SUMMARY: Governor of Ethiopia's central bank Teklewold Atnafu met with the Ambassador and representatives from the Department of Treasury April 9 to conclude negotiations on the terms of reference for a Treasury-staffed technical assistance program to develop an anti-money laundering and coun [...]
2007-04-24 14:50:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDPTER KTFN EFIN ET
07ADDISABABA3283ETHIOPIA: RESPONSE ON ILLICIT CASH COURIERS
[...] SUMMARY: Per reftel, post is providing updated information on illicit cash couriers and the actions Ethiopia is taking to prevent bulk cash smuggling. Ethiopia has laws in place prohibiting cash smuggling and is in the process of developing forms requiring that cash be declared upon entry. Ho [...]
2007-11-08 14:14:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN KCRM PREL PTER ET
07ADDISABABA3490TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICERS FOR
[...] Per reftel, post provides the following information for TFCO and Deputy TFCO: TFCO: Kathryn Dorminey, Economic Officer, 251-11-517-4111, dormineykt@state.gov, dormineykt@state.sgov.gov Deputy TFCO: Kimberly Wright, Political/Economic Officer, 251-11-517-4112, wrightke2@state.gov, wrightke [...]
2007-12-10 14:13:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC PTER KTFN
07ADDISABABA452ADDIS RESPONSE: HUMAN APPEAL INTERNATIONAL
[...] (S) Regarding reftel A query on likely host government reaction to domestic designation of Human Appeal International (HAI),Addis Ababa Country Team assesses that the GOE will have either a neutral or positive response. The GOE actively monitors and investigates Islamic NGO's, particularly [...]
2007-02-13 12:08:00Embassy Addis AbabaSECRETECON EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER
07AITTAIPEI2586TAIWAN: TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-10 09:42:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC PTER KTFN TW
07AITTAIPEI360TERRORIST FINANCE: USG CONCERN OVER ILLICIT CASH COURIERS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Per reftel, AITOFF recently shared U.S. concern over illicit cash couriers with Taiwan officials. Taiwan officials responded positively, described current compliance with recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF),and indicated they will enhance compliance effo [...]
2007-02-14 03:44:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC KTFN EFIN PTER LE PREL TW
07ALGIERS1634REDOUBLED EFFORTS TO COMBAT BULK CASH SMUGGLING AS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Algeria criminalized bulk cash smuggling in 1996 and maintains strict reporting requirements and a non-convertible currency that limit most Algerians' access to foreign exchange. The value and frequency of smuggled cash interdictions dropped from 2005 to 2006, although this may [...]
2007-11-07 19:57:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KTFN KCRM PREL PTER AG
07AMMAN1163PM DISCUSSES ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING LAW'S PROSPECTS
[...] (C) Summary: Jordanian Prime Minister Marouf Bakhit told Ambassador March 13 that while the draft Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Law currently before Parliament is a top legislative priority, its passage during this parliamentary session is unlikely due to imminent adjournment. End Summary. 2 [...]
2007-03-14 14:46:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALEFIN PTER KTFN JO PGOV
07AMMAN1218TREASURY UNDER SECRETARY LEVEY'S MEETINGS IN AMMAN
[...] (C) Summary: In separate meetings with Jordan's Deputy Prime Minister/Finance Minister Ziad Fariz and Central Bank of Jordan (CBJ) Governor Umayya Toukan during his March 5th visit to Amman, Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Stuart Levey discussed Jordan's draft [...]
2007-03-19 05:28:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALEFIN PTER KTFN PREL ECON JO
07AMMAN1384CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR DISCUSSES ANTI-MONEY
[...] (C) Summary: Central Bank of Jordan (CBJ) Governor Umayya Toukan told the Ambassador March 27 that the draft Anti-Money Laundering (AML) law did not pass during the just-concluded session of Parliament because of inadequate government lobbying, a recalcitrant Parliament, and a lingering belief [...]
2007-03-29 05:23:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALEFIN PGOV KDEM KTFN JO
07AMMAN1476STOPPING TRAVEL TO ANNUAL PKK MEETING - DEMARCHE
[...] (S) Polcouns delivered reftel information and request March 29 to Thamer Adwan, director of Foreign Minister Khatib's private office. Adwan was already aware of the upcoming PKK meeting and said MFA would consult with other GoJ agencies on the issue. Note: MFA usually refers requests of thi [...]
2007-04-04 13:38:00Embassy AmmanSECRET//NOFORNPTER KTFN PREL TU IZ JO
07AMMAN1567KING RECALLS PARLIAMENT FOR EXTRAORDINARY SESSION
[...] ( SBU ) King Abdullah issued a decree on April 5 recalling Parliament for an extraordinary session, a move that some GoJ contacts were not expecting (ref A). The session, which begins April 15, will probably last one month, and will consider eight government-drafted bills. 2. ( SBU ) Jor [...]
2007-04-12 15:12:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM KTFN MCAP JO
07AMMAN16975TH MENA-FATF PLENARY
[...] (U) Summary: Jordan hosted and presided over the fifth plenary of the Middle East North Africa Financial Action Task Force (MENA-FATF) from April2-4 at the Dead Sea. Over the course of the plenary, delegates endorsed a World Bank anti-money laundering/combating the financing of terrorism (A [...]
2007-04-19 12:48:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN PTER PREL XF JO
07AMMAN1959JORDAN'S LOWER HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT ENDORSES AML LAW
[...] (SBU) Summary: After nearly six years since the subject first arose in Jordan's Parliament, the Lower House endorsed the Anti-Money Laundering Law on May 6. The law, which still requires Senate approval (expected May 9),criminalizes money laundering and provides the legal basis for the Gover [...]
2007-05-07 12:43:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALKTFN EFIN PGOV KDEM JO
07AMMAN1997JORDANIAN SENATE ENDORSES AML LAW
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-10 13:45:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN EFIN PGOV KDEM JO
07AMMAN3288DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CO-SPONSORSHIP OF SUBMISSIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-02 15:03:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALEFIN KTFN PTER PREL UNSC JO
07AMMAN3392TERRORISM FINANCE: AL-SALAH SOCIETY DEMARCHE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-13 09:51:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PREL PTER KTFN JO
07AMMAN3393TERRORISM FINANCE: MARTYRS FOUNDATION AND AL-QARD
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-13 09:52:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PREL PTER KTFN JO
07AMMAN380MFA DELIVERS LAST RESPONSES TO LONG-PENDING
[...] (C) The legal office of the Jordanian Foreign Ministry delivered to LEGATT January 28 the final outstanding tranche of documents responding to pending Department of Justice requests for judicial cooperation. 2. (C) LEGATT obtained custody of 15 binders of certified documents. The majorit [...]
2007-01-29 13:10:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALEFIN KTFN PREL SNAR JO
07AMMAN700TERRORIST FINANCE: HUMAN APPEAL INTERNATIONAL
[...] (S//NF) The Government of Jordan (GOJ) is unlikely to object to the proposed designation of Human Appeal International (HAI). While the GOJ does not yet have clear legal authority to administratively freeze the economic resources of persons designated pursuant to UN Security Council Resolutio [...]
2007-02-14 13:48:00Embassy AmmanSECRET//NOFORNEFIN PTER KTFN ETTC PREL ECON
07ANKARA1317UN COUNTERTERRORISM COMMITTEE REINFORCES U.S.
[...] (C) Summary: A group of experts from the UN counter-terrorism committee's Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) visited Turkey May 11-21 to consult on Turkey's counter-terrorism regime, write a report, and identify training needs and other follow-up. The UN group honed in on [...]
2007-05-30 15:25:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPTER KTFN TU
07ANKARA2119(S) DESIGNATING TAK AS A PKK ALIAS
[...] (S) Ref solicited post views on the designation of the Turkish terrorist group, TAK. As extensive IC reporting indicates, TAK has been established by the PKK to create the appearance of separateness. This allows TAK to attack tourist areas in western Turkey while PKK disavows responsibility [...]
2007-08-16 14:03:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPTER KTFN TU
07ANKARA262EURO-TURKISH PROSECUTORS' ANTI-TERRORISM ROUNDTABLE
[...] (SBU) Summary: On January 25-26, the US Department of Justice, Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development Assistance and Training ("OPDAT") through post's Resident Legal Adviser, hosted a legislative roundtable on methods to investigate and prosecute terrorist organizations, particularly t [...]
2007-02-07 15:51:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER KTFN TU FR NL UK
07ANKARA2736DEMARCHE TO TURKISH GOVERNMENT ON HAMAS
[...] (U) This contains an urgent action request - please see para 5 below. 2. (C) Charge raised reftel points November 8 with MFA Deputy Undersecretary Rafet Akgunay. He was accompanied by Middle East Deputy Director General Omer Onhon. Charge stressed both USG and Palestinian Authority Presid [...]
2007-11-08 09:45:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV KTFN TU
07ANKARA2745TERRORIST FINANCE: FOLLOW-UP ON ILLICIT CASH
[...] We spoke with Ergin Ergul, Deputy Director General for Foreign Relations at the Justice Ministry. His comments related to questions in reftel are shown below. In addition, we have included information from the April 2007 Financial Action Task Force review of Turkey, which are relevant to th [...]
2007-11-09 08:19:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN KCRM EFIN ETTC PREL PTER
07ANKARA2751DEMARCHE TO TURKISH GOVERNMENT ON HAMAS
[...] (S) Ambassador used the opportunity of a meeting late November 8 with Turkish FM Babacan on other subjects to urge steps by the Turkish authorities to stop the planned "International Jerusalem Meeting" planned for Istanbul and prevent HAMAS-related fundraising that may be planned there. Drawi [...]
2007-11-09 14:56:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPTER PREL PGOV KTFN TU
07ANKARA2760DEMARCHE TO TURKISH GOVERNMENT ON HAMAS
[...] (s) Further to ref a, Ambassador raised November 13 with Turkish Presidency/PM foreign affairs advisor Davutoglu US objections to the "International Jerusalem Meeting" planned for Istanbul. Davotoglu indicated that President Gul had discussed this earlier in the day with Palestinian President [...]
2007-11-13 13:17:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPTER PREL PGOV KTFN TU
07ANKARA2917BLOCKING MONEY FLOWS TO THE PKK IN NORTHERN IRAQ:
[...] (S) Summary. As the United States works together with Turkey to implement the President's directive for effective action against PKK terror, we must also redouble our efforts to shut down the financial support that flows from Europe into PKK headquarters located in northern Iraq. While previ [...]
2007-12-07 14:48:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETKTFN EFIN PTER PREL TU IZ
07ANKARA2989MAY 1 DANISH FLIGHT SEARCH NETS 19 PKK CASH
[...] (S) Danish authorities briefly detained 19 suspected PPK cash couriers on a May 1 charter flight that stopped in Copenhagen en route from Stockholm to Erbil in northern Iraq, Danish Embassy Police Liaison Officer Jens Mortensen told Regional CT Coordinator on December 14. The flight was given [...]
2007-12-17 16:05:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPTER PREL EFIN KTFN IZ DA TU
07ANKARA2992PKK-LINKED ROJ-TV DOMINATES TURKEY-DENMARK CT
[...] (C) Summary. Denmark needs "better" evidence from the Turks to successfully prosecute PKK-linked ROJ-TV, Danish U/S Taksoe-Jensen told his Turkish counterparts during inaugural Turkey-Denmark CT consultations on December 12. Given the strict independence of Denmark's prosecutors, he suggested [...]
2007-12-17 18:11:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL KTFN DA TU
07ANKARA336ANKARA DELIGHTED WITH PKK ARRESTS IN FRANCE AND
[...] (S) Summary: Turkish MFA Director General for Security Guven stressed the importance of the recent French and Belgian arrests of PKK individuals and looked forward to further cooperation with the French on the case. At the same time, Guven noted French concerns about press reports crediting [...]
2007-02-15 15:32:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETKTFN PTER EFIN FRU TU BE
07ANKARA382U/S JOSEPH ASKS TURKISH FINANCE MINISTER FOR
[...] (C) Summary: U/S Joseph briefed Turkish Finance Minister Unakitan on the nuclear threat from Iran and sought Turkish support in taking financial measures against Iran, with specific reference both to export credits and sanctions on entities controlled by AIO and IRGC. Unakitan seemed concerned [...]
2007-02-22 12:14:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETKNNP KTFN EFIN TU IR
07ANKARA391HIGH ADMINISTRATIVE COURT MAINTAINS FREEZE ON
[...] (SBU) Summary: Turkey's High Administrative Court has maintained the freeze on Yassin Al-Qadi's assets in Turkey by overruling last July's lower court ruling. The lower court had challenged the Government's authority to freeze. The High Court's ruling appears to be final, unless the Council [...]
2007-02-23 14:11:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALKTFN TU
07ANKARA463NEXT STEPS ON PKK IN EUROPE
[...] (S) Summary: Recent French arrests of PKK operatives on criminal charges are a good sign of progress against PKK networks in Europe. To most effectively build on this, we need to follow up to move law enforcement and intelligence cooperation with Europeans to an operational level. Post recom [...]
2007-03-01 14:23:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETKTFN TU
07ANKARA661PKK: PUSHING INTRA-EUROPEAN COOPERATION ON S/CT
[...] (S) Summary: Turkish MFA Security Affairs DG Hayati Guven recommends that S/CT Urbancic use his travel to Paris, Brussels and Copenhagen next week to maximize intra-European information-sharing on PKK financial operations. He stressed the financial links between the PKK financiers arrested i [...]
2007-03-22 17:14:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETEFIN PTER KTFN TU JO IZ FR DA BE
07ANKARA74TERRORISM FINANCE: U/S LEVEY MEETINGS IN ANKARA
[...] (C) Summary: In his meetings with the Turkish Foreign and Finance Ministries, Treasury Under Secretary Stuart Levey pointed out how better use of counterterrorism finance tools could help Turkey elicit stronger European cooperation against PKK. Turkish MFA expressed satisfaction with U.S. coo [...]
2007-01-16 15:56:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALKTFN PTER EFIN ETTC TU
07ASHGABAT1226 TURKMENISTAN 2007-2008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL
[...] This is the 2007-2008 INCSR Part II report on Turkmenistan. The text is keyed to the questions in reftel. The Post's point of contact for the INCSR, Part II draft is Kristine Marsh, Economic Officer (MarshKA@state.gov). GENERAL 2. Turkmenistan is not an important regional financial ce [...]
2007-11-13 03:20:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV EFIN SNAR KCRM KTFN TX
07ASHGABAT1314TERRORISM FINANCE: SYRIA/LEBANON DESIGNATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-03 10:40:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN TX
07ASHGABAT281Demarche Delivered to Turkmenistan on Illicit Cash
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-13 13:07:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC KTFN LE PREL PTER TX
07ASUNCION850THREE PLUS ONE UPDATE
[...] (C) Pol/econ chief met October 11 with the MFA's Director of Special Affairs, Minister Victor Hugo Pena, pursuant to reftel. Pena indicated that the Paraguayan government is open to expanding the 3 plus 1 agenda, but asked that Post formalize its request via diplomatic note. Pena demonstrated [...]
2007-10-11 21:56:00Embassy AsuncionCONFIDENTIALPREL EFIN KTFN PGOV PTER SNAR PA
07ASUNCION964PARAGUAY ON "THREE PLUS ONE" AGENDA
[...] (U) In response to reftel and pursuant to instructions from WHA/BSC, Embassy sent the Paraguayan government the following diplomatic note on October 24, 2007, proposing expansion of the Three Plus One agenda for the January meeting to be hosted by Paraguay. The text of the Embassy's diplomatic [...]
2007-11-15 21:42:00Embassy AsuncionCONFIDENTIALPGOV EFIN PREL KTFN PTER SNAR PA
07ATHENS1037UNSCR 1267: GREEK RESPONSE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-22 04:40:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN EFIN PTER UNSC
07ATHENS1621MINFIN BULLISH ON GOG'S PRE-ELECTION ECONOMIC
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Econ Counselor and Econ deputy met with Ministry of Economy and Finance SecGen Ioannis Sidiropoulos August 9 to take his pulse on economic developments in advance of presumptive fall elections, and to see how the GOG is responding to the FATF's very critical report on Greece's p [...]
2007-08-13 04:56:00Embassy AthensCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN KTFN PGOV GR
07ATHENS2118GREEK MFA ON COMBATING PKK TERRORISM
[...] (S) On September 28 and October 25, DepPolCouns delivered, respectively, ref a and ref b points on combating PKK terrorism to Ambassador Alexandros Rallis, deputy head of the MFA D1 Directorate for International Organizations. 2. (S) On October 25, D1 First Secretary Photis Bourlogiannis pr [...]
2007-10-26 09:00:00Embassy AthensSECRETPTER PREL PGOV KTFN IZ GR
07BAKU531AZERBAIJAN: TERRORIST FINANCE AND REVIVAL OF
[...] (S/NF) Post delivered reftel points regarding the Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS) to the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs Security Department. MFA officials noted that the Government of Azerbaijan (GOAJ) closed RIHS's office in Baku in December 2001 and that there is current [...]
2007-05-02 03:49:00Embassy BakuSECRET//NOFORNPTER KTFN EFIN ETTC PREL ECON AJ
07BAMAKO1397TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICERS (TFCO)
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-10 16:07:00Embassy BamakoUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC PTER KTFN ML
07BANJUL76THE GAMBIA: TERRORIST FINANCE:USG CONCERN OVER
[...] (SBU) Ambassador made reftel demarche to Foreign Affairs Permanent Secretary William Joof, emphasizing need for redoubled efforts by the international community to prevent illicit cash smuggling used to finance terrorism and other illegal activity. Providing non-paper, Ambassador urged the GO [...]
2007-02-12 15:07:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER GA
07BEIJING2058CHINA URGED TO IMPLEMENT SWIFTLY UNSCR 1747
[...] (S) China will fulfill its international obligation to implement fully UN Security Council Resolution 1747, MFA International Organizations Department Acting Director Sun Xiaobo told Poloff on March 27 in response to reftel points, urging China to implement swiftly the sanctions mandated by UN [...]
2007-03-27 09:51:00Embassy BeijingSECRETKNNP IR PARM EFIN KTFN ETTC SA AE CH
07BEIJING7407BEIJING TFCO CONTACT INFORMATION
[...] (U) Per reftel (State 164437),Embassy Beijing's Terrorist Finance Coordinator is Rachel Brunette-Chen, Second Secretary, Economic Section. Her contact information is as follows: 86-10-6532-3831 x. 6859; BrunetteChenR@state.gov; ChenRX@state.sgov.gov. 2. (U) Deputy Terrorist Finance Coordina [...]
2007-12-07 09:42:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC PTER KTFN
07BEIRUT228LEBANON: TERRORIST FINANCE: HUMAN APPEAL
[...] No summary [...]
2007-02-12 16:59:00Embassy BeirutSECRETECON EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER LE
07BEIRUT588LEBANON: BYBLOS BANK DEMARCHE RESPONSE
[...] (S) On April 25 Econoff and Econ Specialist met with Dr. Francois Bassile, Chairman of Byblos Bank SAL. Dr. Bassile responded to reftel demarche questions as follows. 2. (S) Bassile said Byblos Bank does not transact any business with or on behalf of Bank Saderat. They do have some relati [...]
2007-04-25 15:27:00Embassy BeirutSECRETPTER UNSC EFIN KTFN LE
07BEIRUT96LEBANON: BANKS DENY RELATIONS WITH IRAN, HIZBALLAH
[...] (S) Pol-EconOff delivered reftel demarche to senior officials at six banks, per reftel request. The officials denied any current relations with Iran- or Hizballah-related entities, and reasoned that there is neither a market nor a political basis for such relationships. The officials told us [...]
2007-01-18 16:38:00Embassy BeirutSECRETETTC KTFN PTER EFIN PREL LE
07BELGRADE1709SERBIA: 2007-2008 INCSR II ON MONEY LAUNDERING
[...] Reftel requested post update for Serbia on efforts to combat money laundering and terrorist financing. Serbia is upholding all international commitments to eliminate money laundering and terrorist financing. END SUMMARY. SERBIA: Not a Financial Center ------------------------------ 2. [...]
2007-12-20 14:43:00Embassy BelgradeUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM EFIN KTFN SNAR SR
07BELMOPAN620 BELIZE-DEMARCHE DELIVERED-TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-22 22:06:00Embassy BelmopanUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL BH
07BERLIN1127TERROISM FINANCE: GERMANY NOTIFIED OF AKA
[...] (C) Global Affairs officer deliveredref demarche to German MFA International Cooperaion on Counterterrorism Division Desk Officer Hoger Kraemer at OOB, June 4, as instructed in reftel. Kraemer said he would forward to appropriate German officials the information concerning the U.S. action to [...]
2007-06-05 16:15:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALEFI ETTC EUN KTFN PREL PTER GM
07BERLIN497TERRORIST FINANCE: GERMANY ON CASH COURIERS
[...] (SBU) Emboffs delivered demarche (ref A) to the German Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Finance, and the Interior. The MFA recalled the previous (G-8) discussion on the issue, stated Germany does not object to the U.S. proposal, and said the G-8 Lyon-Roma Group should be able to address the issue [...]
2007-03-12 08:12:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETTC KTFN PTER GM
07BERLIN758TERRORISM FINANCE: TROIKA AND FINANCIAL SANCTIONS
[...] (SBU) Global Affairs Officer passed ref A list to Susanne Welter, MFA Deputy Office Director for Counterterrorism Cooperation. Her only reaction was to ask whether USEU would provide a delegation list to the European Commission in Brussels; Global Affairs Officer responded they would. 2. ( [...]
2007-04-13 15:16:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PREL PTER ETTC KTFN EUN GM
07BERLIN855RECENT GERMAN ACTIONS AGAINST THE PKK: RAIDS AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In the course of the last two months, German authorities have taken a number of actions against the PKK, including arresting two key PKK leaders and conducting raids on the homes and offices of numerous suspected PKK members. The actions again demonstrate German intentions and abi [...]
2007-04-27 09:01:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALPTER ETTC PREL KTFN GM TU
07BERLIN861TERRORISM FINANCE: JIHAD AL BINA DESIGNATION
[...] (C) Holger Kraemer, MFA desk officer in the office of Counterterrorism Cooperation, notified us April 25 that German agencies have completed their searches and have found no Jihad al-Bina assets in Germany. KOENIG [...]
2007-04-27 14:41:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALPTER ETTC KTFN GM
07BERLIN864TERRORIST FINANCE: DISRUPTING TALIBAN FINANCING:
[...] (S) Global Affairs Off delivered ref demarche to Mathias Sonn, MFA Office Director for International Counterterrorism Cooperation, who said he agrees completely with the idea of German and joint approaches to Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and the UAE along the lines of reftel. Given the military [...]
2007-04-27 18:04:00Embassy BerlinSECRETPTER EFIN KTFN KPAO AF PK GM ZU ZP
07BERLIN912TERRORIST FINANCE: DISRUPTING TALIBAN FINANCING:
[...] (U) This message contains an action request. See para 3. 2. (S) As previewed ref B, Pol-Mil Chief followed up on the demarche concerning Taliban financing (ref A) with Eckhart Blaurock, the Afghanistan action officer in the MFA's NATO Office May 3. Blaurock indicated that he had discussed [...]
2007-05-04 16:55:00Embassy BerlinSECRETPTER EFIN KTFN KPAO AF GM PK ZU ZP
07BISHKEK1371KYRGYZSTAN: 2007-2008 INSCR, PART II, FINANCIAL CRIMES AND
[...] (U) No report was published for the Kyrgyz Republic in the 2006-2007 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, Part II, Financial Crimes and Money Laundering. Embassy point of contact for this report is Resident Legal Advisor Irfan Saeed, e-mail: SaeedIA@state.gov. 2. (SBU) Follow i [...]
2007-11-16 06:57:00Embassy BishkekUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM EFIN KTFN SNAR PGOV KG
07BISHKEK1462EMBASSY BISHKEK'S TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-11 08:14:00Embassy BishkekUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC PTER KTFN KG
07BISHKEK338KYRGYZ RECEIVE CASH COURIER INQUIRY
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-28 03:30:00Embassy BishkekUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER KG
07BISHKEK514KYRGYZ RESPONSE TO CASH COURIER INQUIRY
[...] (U) In response to Post's March 16 request for information regarding cash courier regulations (Ref B),the Kyrgyz Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a diplomatic note April 11 that stated the Kyrgyz Republic takes necessary efforts to prevent the illegal movement of cash or other financial instr [...]
2007-05-03 06:33:00Embassy BishkekUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER KG
07BRASILIA1664BRAZIL,S FOREIGN MINISTRY DISSES AND DISMISSES
[...] (C) Summary: The director of the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations (Itamaraty) Office of Transnational Crimes, Virginia Toniatti, told PolCouns in a meeting August 27 that Brazil does not see the Brazil/Argentina/Paraguay tri-border cooperation mechanism and the 3 1 mechanism that incl [...]
2007-08-31 11:47:00Embassy BrasiliaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPTER EFIN PREL PGOV SNAR KTFN PA BR AR
07BRASILIA2188BRAZIL: ILLICIT CASH COURIERS
[...] On November 19, 2007 Econoff met with an advisor to the Council for Financial Activities Control (COAF) in Brasilia. COAF has actively worked with Customs to discourage illegal transportation of funds domestically and internationally. Brazilian regulations allow up to Reais $10,000 (approx [...]
2007-11-27 11:31:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEEB INL ECON KTFN PTER EETC PREL BR
07BRATISLAVA492TERRORIST FINANCE: PRE-NOTIFICATION OF DESIGNATION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-31 14:40:00Embassy BratislavaSECRETKTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL LO
07BRATISLAVA7TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICER
[...] (SBU) Terrorist Finance Coordinating Officer is: Lawrence Silverman Deputy Chief of Mission Ph: 421-2-5922-3323 E-mail: silvermanlr@state.gov Deputy Terrorist Finance Coordinating Officer is: James Potts Economic Officer Ph: 421-2-592-3278 E-mail: pottsjh@state.gov 2. (SBU) Regar [...]
2007-01-04 14:12:00Embassy BratislavaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN EFIN PTER LO
07BRIDGETOWN1330 Terrorism Finance: Designation of Three Saudi Nationals
[...] Per reftel instructions, demarche was delivered by fax under cover of Diplomatic Notes (Antigua #1017, Barbados #1018, Dominica #1019, St. Kitts #1020, St. Lucia #1021, St. Vincent #1022) on October 16, 2007. The original Diplomatic Notes were also mailed on this date. 2. Post will report [...]
2007-10-16 20:10:00Embassy BridgetownUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL SA XL
07BRUSSELS1222BELGIUM IS ON TRACK TO FULLY IMPLEMENT UNSCR 1737
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In conformity with its role as chair of the UNSC Iran sanctions committee, Belgium has pledged full compliance with the United Nations Security Council Resolutions (UNSCR) 1737 (ref D) and 1747. Belgian financial institutions appear to be fully implementing relevant freeze obl [...]
2007-04-11 15:28:00Embassy BrusselsUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC KNNP KTFN BE IR
07BRUSSELS1421TREASURY DISCUSSIONS WITH EU ON SWIFT NARROW KEY
[...] 1. (C/NF) Summary and comment. On April 25, FinCEN Director James Freis, Director General for Justice, Freedom and Security at the European Commission, Jonathan Faull, and Berthold Leber, Deputy Director General at the German Ministry of Finance, continued discussions to resolve EU concern [...]
2007-04-27 10:16:00USEU BrusselsCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNECON EFIN KTFN PTER EUN
07BRUSSELS1894BELGIAN VIEWS ON IRAN SANCTIONS -- KEEP GOING
[...] (C) Werner Bauwens (protect),director of the Belgian MFA's non-pro division, discussed UNSCRs 1737 and 1747 with visiting A/S Paula DeSutter. Describing 1747 as more effective than the other because of it targeted specific names and because it reflected a broad, carefully cultivated consensu [...]
2007-06-08 15:55:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL EFIN ETTC KTFN BE IR
07BRUSSELS253EUROPEAN COMMISSION OUTLINES PNR-STYLE APPROACH TO
[...] (C/NF) Summary and comment. Treasury Deputy Assistant General Counsel, James Freis, and Michael Jacobson, from Treasury,s Terrorism Finance Office, met with the European Commission, the Council Secretariat and key member states in Brussels to discuss how to resolve the SWIFT issue January 16 [...]
2007-01-25 14:07:00USEU BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPETR KJUST EFIN KTFN PGOV EUN BE
07BRUSSELS3171TERROR FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF THREE SAUDI
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-17 08:45:00USEU BrusselsUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PTER KTFN ETTC PREL SA EUN
07BRUSSELS3363EU TOOLS FOR POSSIBLE USE AGAINST IRANIAN
[...] (S/NF) In response to Refs A and B, Mission submits the following information regarding possible tools for use against Iranian financial institutions and follow-up to the October 11 FATF Statement on Iran. The EU remains divided over next steps on sanctions and has continued discussions in v [...]
2007-11-20 07:13:00USEU BrusselsSECRET//NOFORNPREL KNNP IR PARM EFIN ETTC KTFN EUN
07BRUSSELS450TERRORIST FINANCE: CASH SMUGGLING IN BELGIUM
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Officials in the Belgian Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU),Belgian customs, and Ministry of Justice are aware of the problem of cash smuggling and are taking steps to combat it. As required by law, Belgium is on track to implement the European Parliament and Council of the Euro [...]
2007-02-09 16:29:00Embassy BrusselsUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KTFN PTER PGOV BE
07BRUSSELS996TERRORISM FINANCE: EU PRESSES FOR US RESPONSE ON
[...] (C/NF) This is an action request. USEU requests that Washington agencies respond as soon and as fully as possible, but not later than March 29, to the EU request on draft statements of reason for terrorism finance designations as requested in ref C. The EU Council Secretariat called USEU o [...]
2007-03-26 14:38:00USEU BrusselsCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKTFN PTER EUN
07BUENOSAIRES1125ARGENTINE SENATE PASSES COUNTER-TERRORISM FINANCE
[...] (C) The Argentine Senate passed the draft anti-terror and counter terrorism finance (CTF) bill on June 6. There are positive indications that the lower house -- Chamber of Deputies -- will consider the law soon, but it is unclear whether it will be able to pass the bill prior to the Financial [...]
2007-06-07 18:59:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALKTFN EFIN PTER SNAR ETTC PREL AR
07BUENOSAIRES1183ARGENTINE CONGRESS EXPEDITES PASSAGE OF COUNTER
[...] (SBU) The Argentine Chamber of Deputies passed the GoA's draft counter-terrorism and counter-terrorism finance law on June 13, just one week after it passed the Senate on June 6. Neither house made changes to the government's draft, so the law will go directly to the office of the President for [...]
2007-06-15 17:57:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALKTFN EFIN PTER SNAR ETTC PREL AR
07BUENOSAIRES1364SUPPORT FOR ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING OTA TECHNICAL
[...] (SBU) I am writing in support of a Treasury Office of Technical Assistance (OTA) initiative to offer direct technical assistance (TA) and training to the Government of Argentina (GoA) in the areas of anti-money laundering (AML) and counter terrorism finance (CTF). 2. (SBU) I understand that [...]
2007-07-17 13:50:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN EFIN PREL AR
07BUENOSAIRES1417SUPPORT FOR ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING OTA TECHNICAL
[...] (SBU) I am writing in support of a Treasury Office of Technical Assistance (OTA) initiative to offer direct technical assistance (TA) and training to the Government of Argentina (GoA) in the areas of anti-money laundering (AML) and counter terrorism finance (CTF). 2. (SBU) I understand that [...]
2007-07-23 11:02:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN EFIN PREL AR
07BUENOSAIRES1685NEXT STEPS ON THREE PLUS ONE MECHANISM AND TBA
[...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) In Ref B, Embassies Buenos Aires, Asuncion and Brasilia recommended expanding the Three Plus One mechanism (3 1) to encompass other illicit activities and sources of illicit financial flows, while continuing to give preeminence t [...]
2007-08-27 12:55:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALPTER EFIN PREL PGOV SNAR KTFN PA BR AR
07BUENOSAIRES1709ARGENTINE MINISTER OPEN TO BROADER 3 + 1 DIALOGUE
[...] (C) Ambassador asked Argentine Minister of the Interior (MOI) Anibal Fernandez August 27 about his views on dealing with terrorist threats and other serious problems in the Tri-border area (TBA). He asked the Ministe his views on the potential benefits of addressing a broader scope of issue [...]
2007-08-29 20:17:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER KTFN AR BR PA
07BUENOSAIRES1795ARGENTINE TAX AUTHORITY SEEKS CLOSER TIES WITH IRS AND
[...] This is an Action Request for the Department of Treasury/IRS. See paragraphs 2 and 8. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) The Argentine revenue authority, AFIP, wants to negotiate a Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA) with the IRS. Responding to earlier U.S. Treasury guidance that [...]
2007-09-10 12:38:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN KTFN AR
07BUENOSAIRES1800ARGENTINE TAX AUTHORITY ON CSI, 9/11 ACT, MEGAPORT, AND
[...] (SBU) The Argentine customs and revenue authority, AFIP, is pleased with the development of its Container Security Initiative (CSI) pilot program and hopes to expand pre-clearance cargo examinations to two additional port terminals in the Buenos Aires region. With this expansion, AFIP's Direct [...]
2007-09-10 15:29:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON EIPR KTFN AR
07BUENOSAIRES1813ARGENTINA: TERRORIST FINANCE DEMARCHES DELIVERED
[...] (S) Econoff conveyed the pre-notification demarche on the USG designation to the UN 1267 Sanctions Committee of five Saudi individuals (Ref A) on September 10 to Jose Ignacio Tobella, Acting Director, Office of Terrorism Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Tobella reiterated his office's no [...]
2007-09-11 19:48:00Embassy Buenos AiresSECRETEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL AR
07BUENOSAIRES1826ARGENTINE PRESIDENT SIGNS NATIONAL ANTI-MONEY
[...] (C) In a high-profile ceremony on September 11, President Kirchner signed the GoA's new "National Agenda" on money laundering and terrorism financing. The Agenda is designed to serve as the roadmap for the GoA to improve coordination and enforcement on anti-money laundering and counter-terror [...]
2007-09-12 20:52:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALKTFN EFIN PTER SNAR ETTC PREL AR
07BUENOSAIRES1946ARGENTINA PREPARED TO SUPPORT U.S. ON BOLIVIA,
[...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche on encouraging Bolivia, Colombia, and Paraguay to pay their delinquent dues to the Financial Action Task Force for South America (GAFISUD) on September 26 to Justice Minister Alberto Iribarne. Iribarne agreed that GAFISUD members should encourage the d [...]
2007-09-28 18:43:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL AR
07BUENOSAIRES2100ARGENTINA: TERRORIST FINANCE DEMARCHES DELIVERED
[...] (C) Econoff conveyed the pre-notification demarche on the USG designation to the UN 1267 Sanctions Committee of seven Iraqi individuals (Ref A) on October 10 to Jose Ignacio Tobella, Acting Director, Office of Terrorism Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. As per reftel instructions, Econoff [...]
2007-10-25 14:42:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL AR
07BUENOSAIRES2119ARGENTINE JUSTICE MINISTER DISCUSSES TIP, MONEY
[...] (C) Introduction: This cable covers and provides updates on issues that Justice Minister Alberto Iribarne and the Ambassador discussed during their recent meeting (reftels). They include: 1) status of Trafficking in Persons legislation and Justice Ministry efforts to push for its passage; 2) [...]
2007-10-26 16:43:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON KTFN SNAR KJUS KCRM PHUM KWNM
07BUENOSAIRES2198ARGENTINE SUPPORT FOR FATF STATEMENT ON IRAN
[...] (C) Econoff delivered Ref A demarche on FATF's statement on Iran November 7 to Dr. Juan Felix Marteau, the Argentine government's National Coordinator for anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism finance (AML/CTF). Marteau, who reports directly to the Minister of Justice, is the GoA's repr [...]
2007-11-09 19:09:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALKTFN EFIN PTER PREL PARM MNUC AR
07BUENOSAIRES2217GAFISUD AND ARGENTINA SEEK U.S. HELP TO AVOID
[...] (C) In separate conversations, GAFISUD's Executive Secretary Alejandro Montesdeoca and Argentina's National SIPDIS Coordinator Dr. Juan Felix Marteau expressed grave concerns to Emboffs that GAFISUD (South American Financial Action Task Force) would be forced to suspend Bolivia's membership [...]
2007-11-15 16:52:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALKTFN EFIN PTER PREL PARM MNUC AR BL CO PA
07BUENOSAIRES2241ARGENTINE TAX AUTHORITY'S ABAD ON CRISTINA GOVERNMENT, TAX
[...] (SBU) Alberto Abad, head of Argentina's customs and revenue authority, AFIP, sees key economic challenges facing the incoming Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) administration as re-inserting Argentina into global capital markets, dealing with inflation, reducing the heavy burden of state sub [...]
2007-11-20 15:18:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAR ETRD ECON KTFN
07BUENOSAIRES2272GAFISUD WILL SUSPEND BOLIVIA, COLOMBIA, PARAGUAY
[...] (C) The Executive Secretary of GAFISUD (the South American Financial Action Task Force),Alejandro Montesdeoca, told TreasAttache November 29 that Bolivia, Colombia, and Paraguay will have their membership in GAFISUD suspended as of December 1. Following Bolivia and Paraguay's recent partial [...]
2007-11-30 13:39:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALKTFN EFIN PTER PREL PARM MNUC AR BL CO PA
07BUENOSAIRES618CAPABLE ARGENTINE TAX AUTHORITY COOPERATING ON CSI, TRADE
[...] This is an Action Request -- See Paras 2, 4, 8 and 17. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) The Argentine revenue authority (AFIP) seeks to expand cooperation with the U.S. on a range of important areas, according to its Director Alberto Abad. Argentina is a Latin American leader in Conta [...]
2007-03-30 20:01:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN KTFN AR
07BUENOSAIRES619CAPABLE ARGENTINE TAX AUTHORITY COOPERATING ON CSI, TRADE
[...] This is an Action Request for the Departments of Energy (Paras. 2, 8) and Treasury (Paras. 4, 17). ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) The Argentine revenue authority (AFIP) seeks to expand cooperation with the U.S. on a range of important areas, according to its Director Alberto Abad. A [...]
2007-03-30 20:39:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN KTFN AR
07BUENOSAIRES626ARGENTINA PARTICIPATION IN U.S.-LATIN AMERICAN
[...] Per reftels, Post delivered invitations to the Argentine Central Bank President Martin Redrado and Ministry of Economy and Production Felisa Miceli on March 21. At the request of the Central Bank, Post sent similar letters and information on the conference to the GoA's Financial Intelligence [...]
2007-04-03 19:08:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC KTFN KVPR PREL PTER AR
07BUENOSAIRES78ARGENTINE PRESIDENT KIRCHNER SENDS
[...] (C) On December 20, Argentine President Kirchner sent the GoA's draft anti-terrorism and counter-terrorism finance bill to Congress. The GoA took this action in order to comply with Financial Action Task Force (FATF) demands, and avoid sanctions. Post lobbying contributed to this significant [...]
2007-01-17 20:59:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALKTFN EFIN PTER SNAR ETTC PREL AR
07BUENOSAIRES907ARGENTINE DRAFT COUNTER TERRORISM FINANCE LAW
[...] (C) It appears increasingly uncertain that the Argentine Congress will pass pending counter-terrorism finance legislation prior to the June 2007 Financial Action Task Force (FATF) deadline, despite strong support from within the GoA, the private sector, and even within Congress. The main obst [...]
2007-05-10 16:31:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALKTFN EFIN PTER SNAR ETTC PREL AR
07CARACAS2301EMBASSY CARACAS: TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION
[...] Name and contact information for Embassy Caracas' Terrorism Finance Coordination Officer (TFCO) and Deputy TFCO are below. TFCO Andrew N. Bowen Economic Counselor 58-212-907-8412 bowenan@state.gov bowenan@state.sgov.gov Deputy TFCO David Galbraith Economic Officer 58-212-907-8406 [...]
2007-12-07 20:00:00Embassy CaracasUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETTC PTER KTFN VE
07CARACAS686MEETING WITH BANKING SUPERINTENDENT: MONEY
[...] (C) Econoffs met with Banking Superintendent Trino Diaz and Director of Venezuela's Financial Intelligence Unit (UNIF) Francisco Canela March 29 to discuss the sector's outlook and to follow-up several anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism finance demarches (refs A and B). Diaz was confide [...]
2007-04-02 20:44:00Embassy CaracasCONFIDENTIALEFIN KTFN VE
07COLOMBO1554SRI LANKA: TRO DESIGNATION WELCOMED BY GOVERNMENT
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-16 10:55:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALKTFN PTER PREL SL
07COLOMBO1564SRI LANKA: TRO ASSET FREEZE ALIENATES TAMILS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Tamils and some non-Tamil Sri Lankans have conveyed to post predictably negative reactions to the U.S. Government's Executive Order 13224 designation of the Tamils Rehabilitation Organisation (TRO)(ref A). They assert the move will hurt Tamils and embolden the government to ta [...]
2007-11-19 12:27:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN PTER PREL PHUM CE
07COLOMBO1565SRI LANKA: TRO DESIGNATION WELCOMED BY GOVERNMENT
[...] (C) Summary and comment: Ambassador informed the Government of Sri Lanka the evening of November 15 of the forthcoming U.S. designation of the Tamils Rehabilitation Organisation shortly before Treasury's Washington announcement of the Executive Order 13224 designation. The government welcomed [...]
2007-11-20 10:42:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALKTFN PTER PREL SL
07COLOMBO1580 SRI LANKA: INCSR PART II 2007-2008 SUBMISSION
[...] The following is Embassy Colombo's International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) Part II regarding money laundering and financial crimes, per request in reftel. 2. Begin text: Sri Lanka Sri Lanka is neither an important regional financial center nor a preferred center for money [...]
2007-11-21 11:34:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM EFIN KTFN SNAR KMCA CE
07COLOMBO608SRI LANKA: INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE TO RECOMMEND TRO
[...] (C) Embassy Colombo would support a designation of the Tamils Relief Organization (TRO) if convincing evidence of TRO financial links to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eeleam (LTTE) exists. Post has not seen solid evidence against the TRO and is therefore not in a position to make the case for [...]
2007-04-24 11:12:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALKTFN PTER CE
07COLOMBO957SRI LANKA: NO OBJECTION TO PROPOSED TRO DESIGNATION
[...] (C) Embassy Colombo would support an E.O. 13224 designation of the Tamil Relief Organization (TRO) if the USG determines that there is sufficient evidence to establish that the TRO is channeling funds to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) for arms purchases or terrorist activities. [...]
2007-07-06 05:23:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALKTFN PTER CE
07CONAKRY1210RESPONSE TO TERRORISM FINANCE DEMARCHE: DESIGNATION OF
[...] (U) On November 2, Econoff met with the Secretary General of the Ministry of Finance, Karamokoba Camara, to deliver reftel demarche list of three individuals designated by the U.N. as supporters of terrorist financing. 2. (U) In response to the demarche, Mr. Camara confirmed Guinea's cont [...]
2007-11-05 10:25:00Embassy ConakryUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN EFIN ETTC PTER PREL GV
07CONAKRY1244GUINEA 2007-8 INCSR REPORT DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-15 14:13:00Embassy ConakryUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KCRM KTFN SNAR ECON GV
07DAKAR457TERRORIST FINANCE: SENEGAL'S RESPONSE TO USG CONCERN OVER
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Per Ref A request, Econ Counselor met separately with Senegal's Financial Intelligence Unit (CENTIF),Senegal's Department of Customs, and ECOWAS' Inter-Governmental Action Group Against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA),to exchange views on the capacity and willingness [...]
2007-02-28 12:53:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KTFN PTER ECON EAID SG
07DAMASCUS173311 SANCTIONS CASTING A SHADOW ON THE CBS'S FUTURE
[...] (C) Summary. Financial sanctions under USAPATRIOT Act Section 311 continue to put pressure on the Commercial Bank of Syria (CBS) nearly a year after the final ruling was imposed. Nonetheless, the CBS, up till now, is managing to maintain its central role in Syria's banking sector. While some [...]
2007-02-22 14:13:00Embassy DamascusCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN SANC ETTC PREL KTFN SY
07DARESSALAAM139TERRORISM FINANCE: DOCKRATS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-01-30 08:27:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN PGOV PREL TZ
07DARESSALAAM141TERRORISM FINANCE: TERRORIST FACILITATORS AND
[...] (SBU) The Government of Tanzania will contact the Bank of Tanzania regarding Mullah Krekar and Mohammed Moumou due to the United Nations' 1267 Sanctions Committee having placed them on the 1267 list, Susan Mkapa, Director of the Legal Services Department of the Ministry of Finance, told Econo [...]
2007-01-30 08:28:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN PGOV PREL TZ
07DARESSALAAM1496TERRORIST FINANCE: FOLLOW-UP ACTION REQUEST ON
[...] Status of host nation laws specifically criminalizing bulk cash smuggling: In January 2007 The Government of Tanzania (GOT) enacted the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2006. This law does not specify what constitutes bulk cash movement, but addresses the issue of seizure and sanctions and sta [...]
2007-11-14 03:19:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KCRM PTER KTFN PREL TZ
07DHAKA1781TERRORIST FINANCE: FOLLOW-UP ACTION REQUEST ON
[...] (U) The following is the response to an action request (reftel) for information on cash couriers from Bangladesh: 2. (U) Bangladesh has ratified the UN International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism. It also implements FATF Special Recommendation IX through its f [...]
2007-11-13 08:16:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDBG EFIN ETTC KCRM PREL PTER KTFN
07DHAKA1910ANTI-TERRORISM LEGISLATION FACES HURDLES,
[...] (C) Summary: Prepared with USG assistance, a series of amendments that would strengthen Bangladesh,s Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Act and a draft Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) are being held up in the Law Ministry, in contravention of instructions from the Chief Adviser that they be enacted by the [...]
2007-12-09 09:39:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALEFIN PTER PREL PGOV KCRM KTFN SNAR BG
07DHAKA241TERRORIST FINANCE: HUMAN APPEAL INTERNATIONAL
[...] (S/NF) Per Ref A request, Post assessed whether the GOB would object to U.S. designation of Human Appeal International (Human Appeal) under E.O. 13224 and/or UNSCR 1267. Post does not believe the GOB would object to designation under either authority. 2. (S/NF) According to information in [...]
2007-02-12 09:11:00Embassy DhakaSECRET//NOFORNEFIN PTER KTFN ETTC PREL ECON
07DHAKA381TERRORIST FINANCE: BANGLADESH ADDRESSES ILLEGAL
[...] (SBU) Econoff delivered points reftel to Mr. Swapan Bishwas, Deputy General Manager, Anti-money Laundering Department of the Bangladesh Bank (the country's central bank). Mr. Biswaw affirmed Bangladesh's commitment to preventing the illegal movement of currency. He cited the following as ev [...]
2007-03-07 05:33:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER LE BG
07DHAKA55TERRORIST FINANCE: PRESENCE OF REVIVAL OF ISLAMIC
[...] (S/NF) Per Ref A request, Post assessed whether the GOB would object to US designation of the Kuwaiti-based Revival of Islamic Heritage Society branch in Bangladesh (RIHS-B) under E.O. 13224 and/or UNSCR 1267. Post does not believe the GOB would object to designation under either authority. I [...]
2007-01-11 09:19:00Embassy DhakaSECRET//NOFORNPTER KTFN ETTC PREL EFIN BG
07DOHA1054DEMARCHE ON QATAR'S HOLD ON UNSCR 1267 TERRORIST
[...] (C) Econoff and British Political Secretary James Lynch delivered Ref A demarche November 8 to Adel Al-Khal, Director of International Organizations, Conferences and Treaties at the MFA. Al-Khal explained that at the time of the UN 1267 Committee meeting, the Qatari mission at the United Nati [...]
2007-11-08 14:44:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALPTER ETTC KTFN UNSC QA IZ
07DOHA135QATAR FINANCIAL CENTRE: SOLID REGULATIONS,
[...] Summary. On 28 January Qatar Financial Centre (QFC) regulatory officials told EmbOffs that the Authority has licensed 17 financial services firms and focuses on corporate governance as the primary risk in evaluating applications. The Authority, which regulates the QFC as a sort of financial fr [...]
2007-02-07 12:18:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN QA KTFN
07DOHA978TERRORIST FINANCE: PRE-NOTIFICATION OF DESIGNATION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-08 13:37:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL IZ QA
07DUBLIN261IRISH BANKS ALERTED ON UNSCR 1747
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-30 14:57:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYIR KNNP PARM EFIN KTFN ETTC SA AE EI
07DUBLIN526IRELAND: NO INFORMATION ON MAHAMEDOU OULD SLAHI
[...] No summary [...]
2007-06-29 13:00:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC EUN KTFN PREL PTER EI
07DUBLIN766IRISH RESPONSE TO TERRORIST FINANCE: DESIGNATION
[...] (C) On October 4, Econoff delivered reftel demarches to Gary O'Doherty in the Department of Foreign Affairs United Nations unit. O'Doherty said that he would pass on the information to the appropriate agencies within the government of Ireland and alert us immediately if they come across any i [...]
2007-10-04 14:49:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER EI
07DUBLIN889EMBASSY DUBLIN'S TERRORIST FINANCE COORDINATION
[...] Embassy Dublin's Terrorist Finance Coordination Officer (TFCO) is Dwight Nystrom, Econ Officer, 353-1-630-6274, nystromdd@state.sgov.gov (classified),nystromdd@state.gov (unclassified). The Deputy TFCO is Ted Pierce, Political Officer, 353-1-630-6273, piercets@state.sgov.gov (classified),[...]
2007-12-10 09:13:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC PTER KTFN
07DUSHANBE1742TAJIKISTAN - TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICER
[...] Dushanbe terrorism finance coordination officer is pol/econ chief D. Matt Purl, telephone 992-37-229-2000, ext. 2501. Unclassified email: purldm@state.gov, Classified email: purldm@state.sgov.gov. 2. Dushanbe deputy terrorism finance coordination officer is pol/econ officer James Ricker, [...]
2007-12-12 17:18:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC KTFN PTER TI
07DUSHANBE1746TAJIKISTAN - TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICER
[...] Dushanbe terrorism finance coordination officer is pol/econ chief D. Matt Purl, telephone 992-37-229-2000, ext. 2501. Unclassified email: purldm@state.gov, Classified email: purldm@state.sgov.gov. 2. Dushanbe deputy terrorism finance coordination officer is pol/econ officer James Ricker, [...]
2007-12-13 10:53:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC KTFN PTER TI
07FRANKFURT1245MEETING WITH DRESDNER BANK ON SUSPECTED DPRK
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Post called the attention of Dresdner Bank to information that it may have facilitated (intentionally or not) a transaction for OFAC-designated Tanchon Commercial Bank. Dresdner representatives promised to look into the report and asked for more information (ACTION REQUEST IN PAR [...]
2007-03-14 16:01:00Consulate FrankfurtCONFIDENTIALEFIN KTFN ETTC GM
07FRANKFURT220FURTHER STEPS AGAINST PKK: RAIDS, ARREST, PRISON
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: German efforts against the PKK were again apparent this past week in southwest Germany with targeted raids, an arrest of one suspected PKK leader, and the sentencing of another to two years in prison. END SUMMARY. Anti-PKK Raids and an Arrest ---------------------------- [...]
2007-01-17 08:46:00Consulate FrankfurtCONFIDENTIALPTER ASEC KTFN KCRM GM TU
07FREETOWN478SIERRA LEONE: TERRORISM FINANCE - DOMESTIC USG
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-10 12:20:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN PREL PTER KTFN SL
07FREETOWN737SIERRA LEONE: TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION
[...] Per reftel, Post designates Political/Economic Officer Amy N. LeMar as Terrorism Finance Coordination Officer (TFCO) for Sierra Leone and Regional Security Officer Bryan Scruggs as Deputy TFCO. TFCO Amy Lemar is not due to arrive at post until January 2008. 2. Contact information: Name: [...]
2007-12-11 16:24:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC PTER KTFN SL
07GEORGETOWN1075INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT, PART II
[...] (U) Post presents its 2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, Part II, Money Laundering and Financial Crimes. Begin text: Guyana is neither an important regional nor an offshore financial center, nor does it have any free trade zones. Money laundering is perceived as a serio [...]
2007-12-11 11:19:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM EFIN KTFN SNAR GY
07HAMBURG29GERMANY/PKK: WHY HAMBURG RELEASED CANSIZ
[...] (C) On May 2, Office Director of the Hamburg Minister of Justice Henning Clasen informed ConGen Hamburg that PKK leader Sakine Cansiz had been released from jail on April 25 and that she had already returned to Paris, France. Cansiz had been arrested in Hamburg on March 19 pursuant to a Turkis [...]
2007-05-04 15:49:00Consulate HamburgCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL KTFN GM TU FR
07HANOI666VIETNAMESE RESPONSE TO DESIGNATION OF IRAN'S DEFENSE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-10 08:40:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN PREL KNNP PARM KN IR VM
07HANOI920DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON IMPORTANCE OF UNSCR 1267 CT
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-18 10:24:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER KTFN EFIN VM
07HELSINKI121TERRORISM FINANCE: FINLAND'S PLAYS BY EU RULES
[...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel demarches to Juha Rainne, Legal Officer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Finland's representative to the EU's Sanctions Working Group. In response to the question raised reftel A, Finland does not maintain a separate national list of banned terrorist ent [...]
2007-02-22 14:36:00Embassy HelsinkiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC FI KVPR PREL PTER KTFN
07HELSINKI736FINNISH RESPONSE: COMBATING PKK TERRORISM IN EUROPE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-09-28 11:26:00Embassy HelsinkiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PREL PGOV KTFN OSCE TU EUN FI
07HELSINKI801FINLAND: COMBATING PKK TERRORISM IN EUROPE
[...] (C) PolChief delivered subject demarche to Finnish MFA Counterterrorism Coordinator Pekka Oinonen Oct. 29. Oinonen welcomed our views as a follow-up to recent PKK-related demarches and said that Finland )- as a longtime friend of Turkey )- was following developments with great concern. He we [...]
2007-10-30 09:41:00Embassy HelsinkiSECRETPTER PREL PGOV KTFN EUN TU IZ FI
07HELSINKI871FINLAND TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICERS
[...] In response to reftel, Embassy Helsinki reports the following: Terrorism Finance Control Officer: Jane Messenger Economic Section Chief Telephone: (358 9) 6162-5468 Unclassified e-mail: MessengerJS@state.gov SIPDIS Classified e-mail: messengerjs@state.sgov.gov Deputy Terrorism Fina [...]
2007-12-12 12:53:00Embassy HelsinkiUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC PTER KTFN FI
07ISLAMABAD2023SINDH HIGH COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF AL RASHID TRUST
[...] (SBU) Summary: On April 26, the Sindh High Court (SHC) suspended the Pakistan government's decision to freeze the assets of Al Rashid Trust (ART) and seal its offices. The two-member bench, which included the Chief Justice, ruled there was no justification for the closing of the offices. Th [...]
2007-05-05 09:12:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPTER KTFN EFIN KPAO PK
07ISLAMABAD2113PAKISTAN'S ACTION ON DISRUPTING EXTERNAL FINANCING TO THE TALIBAN
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-11 06:50:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNEFIN KPAO KTFN PK PTER
07ISLAMABAD2866HIGH LEVEL APG DELEGATION TO VISIT REGARDING STALLED AML
[...] (U) This is an action cable. Please see paragraph 8. 2. (SBU) Summary: The Asia Pacific Group is sending a high level delegation to Pakistan July 2-3 in order to impress on the GOP the seriousness with which they regard Pakistan's lack of progress on passing anti-money laundering legislat [...]
2007-06-29 12:24:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN PTER EFIN PK
07ISLAMABAD2950HIGH-LEVEL APG DELEGATION EXPRESSES CONCERN TO GOP
[...] (C) Summary: A high-level delegation of the Asia-Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG),a regional subsidiary of FATF, traveled to Pakistan on July 2-3 to gage the country's progress on passing Anti-Money Laundering (AML) legislation, and to send a message that quick movement was necessary [...]
2007-07-06 08:54:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALKTFN EFIN PTER ECON PREL PK
07ISLAMABAD3217DEMARCHE ON AML BILL DELIVERED TO GOP
[...] (SBU) Summary: On July 16 EconCouns delivered reftel demarche to Muhammad Javed Malik, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Finance and Nuzhrat Bashir, Joint Secretary for Banking, Ministry of Finance. EconCouns pointed out the extensive amount of time Pakistan has been working on passing Anti-M [...]
2007-07-25 09:19:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN EFIN PTER ECON PREL PK
07ISLAMABAD3236DEMARCHE ON AL RASHID TRUST DELIVERED TO GOP
[...] No summary [...]
2007-07-26 10:20:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETECON EFIN EINV KTFN PREL PK
07ISLAMABAD4926TERRORIST FINANCE: PAKISTAN FOLLOW-UP TO ACTION REQUEST ON
[...] (U) The following is Embassy Islamabad's response to reftel request for additional information on illicit cash couriers. 2. (SBU) Pakistan places statutory limits on the international transportation of currency. The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) legally allows individuals to carry up to USD [...]
2007-11-20 01:55:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KTFN KCRM PREL PTER PK
07ISLAMABAD5226TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICERS FOR PAKISTAN
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-11 09:43:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC PTER KTFN PK
07ISLAMABAD5336DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON FATF STATEMENT AND GUIDANCE ON IRAN
[...] (SBU) On December 10, Econ Off informed officials at the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Americas Section of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) statement on Iran. Officials at both ministries pledged that the USG points will be conveyed to relevant agencies of [...]
2007-12-20 12:23:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL MNUC EFIN KTFN PK
07JAKARTA1625A/S HILL MEETING WITH VICE PRESIDENT KALLA
[...] (C) Summary: Visiting EAP Assistant Secretary Hill focused on economic issues in his May meeting with Vice President Jusuf Kalla. Hill praised Indonesia for its new investment law, but urged Indonesia to do more to attract foreign investment, as Vietnam is doing. Hill also raised the Newmon [...]
2007-06-12 05:50:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV KTFN PREL PTER EINV ID
07JAKARTA2040TERRORIST FINANCE - DUJANA, PATEK DESIGNATIONS
[...] (S) Summary: National Police and Foreign Ministry officials told us they had no objections to a UN 1267 designation for Abu Dujana and Umar Patek. Foreign Ministry officials gave the familiar line that they would not support the designation, but would not stand in the way of the U.S. and did [...]
2007-07-27 10:02:00Embassy JakartaSECRETEFIN KTFN PREL PTER ID
07JAKARTA2161PSI: FOLLOW-UP WITH INDONESIA
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (C) Mission is in the process of following up with relevant Indonesian officials to discuss the points provided ref a on the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI). Pol/C plans to meet with Director for International Security and Disar [...]
2007-08-09 04:03:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL PHSA KTFN ETRD ID
07JAKARTA2218REVIEW OF PROLIFERATION SECURITY INITIATIVE POINTS
[...] (C) Summary: Pol/C reviewed latest points concerning the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) with key GOI maritime expert Ambassador Hasyim Djalal. Djalal underscored that further review by the GOI was necessary, elaborating that the Yudhoyono administration was concerned that an outright [...]
2007-08-14 10:04:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHSA KTFN PARM ID
07JAKARTA2295PDAS MCNERNEY RAISES PSI WITH INDONESIA
[...] (C) Visiting ISN PDAS Patricia McNerney passed reftel nonpaper on the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) to Desra Percaya, Director for International Security and Disarmament Affairs at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU),on August 14. Percaya remarked that DEPLU's thinking on PSI [...]
2007-08-22 08:51:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHSA KTFN PARM ID
07JAKARTA2463TERRORIST FINANCE: SAUDI FIVE PRE-NOTIFICATIONS
[...] (S) In response to demarche delivered on September 6, 2007, Aris Munandar, Deputy Director for Terrorism at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He said that Indonesia would probably not place a hold on the designations of five Saudi individuals named in reftel. But he said the final decision wo [...]
2007-09-06 09:39:00Embassy JakartaSECRETKTFN PTER PGOV EFIN UNSC ID
07JAKARTA2743INDONESIA - TRILATERAL STRATEGIC ISSUES
[...] (SBU) Summary. The missions of Australia, the U.S. and Japan in Indonesia, at a September 20 meeting, agreed to pursue several issues in close coordination, including avian influenza sample sharing, encouraging better Government of Indonesia (GOI) compliance with UN 1267 Al-Qaeda-related asset [...]
2007-09-28 02:55:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR KTFN KFLU PREL PTER PGOV ID
07JAKARTA2820TERRORIST FINANCING -- INDONESIA WILL REVIEW
[...] (C) In Mission's latest step to curb terrorist financing in coordination with the GOI, poloff delivered reftel demarche October 4 to Aris Munandar, Deputy Director for Terrorism at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU). Poloff informed him that three Saudi individuals will be recommended f [...]
2007-10-04 10:07:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETTC PREL PTER SA KTFN ID
07JAKARTA2900TERRORIST FINANCE - SEVEN IRAQI INDIVIDUALS
[...] (S) Embassy delivered reftel demarche on October 10, 2007, to Aris Munandar, Deputy Director for Terrorism at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He said that Indonesia would not place a hold on the designation of the Iraqi individual (Fawzi Mutlaq Al-Rawi, the leader of the Iraqi Wing of the Sy [...]
2007-10-15 08:30:00Embassy JakartaSECRETEFIN KTFN PREL PTER ID
07JAKARTA3140INDONESIA - INCSR II, MONEY LAUNDERING AND FINANCIAL
[...] This report responds to reftel request for an anti-money laundering and financial crimes update for INCSR II. Background and Overview ----------------------- 2. Although neither a regional financial center nor an offshore financial haven, Indonesia is vulnerable to money laundering and t [...]
2007-11-13 08:34:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM EFIN KTFN SNAR ID
07JAKARTA3328TERRORISM FINANCE: SYRIA/LEBANON DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] (SBU) Reftel points were passed on December 6 to Deputy Director for Terrorism and UN Sanctions Aris Munandar at Indonesia's Foreign Ministry. Munandar said he would consult with colleagues and give us any comments. Munandar also noted that his Directorate for International Security & Disarm [...]
2007-12-06 05:04:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN KTFN PTER PREL SY ID
07JAKARTA3340TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICER - INDONESIA
[...] (U) Per reftel request, the Terrorism Finance Coordinating Officer for Indonesia is Deputy Economic Counselor Ruth M. Hall, until May 2008. Beginning in June 2008, incoming officer Debra Juncker will take over those responsibilties. Economic Counselor Peter Haas will assign tasks as appropria [...]
2007-12-07 05:20:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PTER ID
07JEDDAH396SAUDI FOREIGN MINISTER ON: AMCIT DEPENDENT, FUTURE
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY. During a September 12 discussion with Ambassador Ford Fraker and Jeddah Consul General Tatiana Gfoeller, Foreign Minister Prince Saud al Faisal summarized the SAG position on a variety of issues. The Prince stated the importance of working in partnership with the U.S. to addr [...]
2007-09-13 12:35:00Consulate JeddahSECRET//NOFORNCVIS ETTC EFIN PGOV PREL PTER KIRF KTFN SA
07JERUSALEM1276GAZA BANKS OPERATING NORMALLY BUT TAKING
[...] (C) Summary: Palestinian and regional banks operating in Gaza are open and report "business as usual." Hamas is currently taking a "hands-off" approach to Gaza's banking sector, but banks are implementing some precautionary measures, such as restricting the authority of Gaza-based staff and [...]
2007-06-20 15:19:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALEFIN KTFN KWBG IS
07JERUSALEM1321GAZA CASH SHORTAGE MAY PREVENT PA SALARY PAYMENTS
[...] (C) Summary: Banks in Gaza do not have sufficient cash to pay Palestinian Authority (PA) employee salaries next week, and Israeli authorities are preventing cash transfers through the Erez crossing, according to bank officials. Cairo Amman Bank should begin paying UNRWA salaries in two days, [...]
2007-06-27 08:43:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN KWBG KTFN IS
07JERUSALEM1334ABU MAZEN EXEMPTS GAZANS FROM PA TAXES TO DENY
[...] (SBU) PA President Abbas issued a presidential decree June 26 exempting Gazans from fees for services provided by PA entities, value-added tax on local activity, and from income tax on companies and individuals. Press accounts described the move as a response to the difficult circumstances u [...]
2007-06-27 15:17:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN KTFN PTER PGOV KWBG
07JERUSALEM151PALESTINIAN MONETARY AUTHORITY DEPUTY GOVERNOR ON
[...] (S) Summary: The Palestinian Monetary Authority (PMA) is now emphasizing actions against money laundering over countering terrorist financing because of the current political situation in the PA. It continues to draft anti-money laundering legislation that will put into law many of the same [...]
2007-01-26 07:18:00Consulate JerusalemSECRETEFIN PGOV PTER KTFN KWBG IS IZ
07JERUSALEM1863PROMINENT FATAH FIGURES CALL FOR HAMAS TO BE
[...] (C) Summary. In separate meetings on August 28, Palestine Stock Exchange (PSE) CEO Hassan Abu Libdeh and Al-Ayyam Editor Akram Haniyah told NEA DAS Robert Danin that Israeli and international support is crucial to demonstrate tangible improvement in Palestinians' daily lives. Abu Libdeh said [...]
2007-09-05 16:15:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER KPAL KWBG IS KTFN ECON EFIN
07JERUSALEM1910LIST OF 105 ORGANIZATIONS CLOSED BY PA
[...] (U) Post has received from the Palestinian Authority (PA) Ministry of Interior (MOI) a list of 105 charities and NGOs closed on August 27 (reftel). Post translation of the list below, at para 3. 2. (C) MOI officials claim that the first 84 organizations listed below are suspected of having [...]
2007-09-11 09:37:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALEFIN PTER KTFN KPAL KWBG
07KABUL1353GOVERNMENT OF AFGHANISTAN EFFORTS TO UPDATE UNSCR
[...] (S) On April 19, 2007, POLOFF and CSTC-A Plans and Operations Officer (Pol-Mil Affairs) delivered reftel to Office of the National Security Council (ONSC) officials Mohd Zia Salehi, Director of the Situation Room and Senior Advisor to National Security Advisor, and Abdul Malik Quraishi, Direct [...]
2007-04-22 06:22:00Embassy KabulSECRETEFIN ETTC KTFN PGOV PREL PTER UNSC FR UK AF
07KABUL1555AFGHANISTAN TERROR FINANCE - DISRUPTING EXTERNAL
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-08 12:43:00Embassy KabulSECRET//NOFORNPTER KTFN EFIN KPAO AF
07KABUL2300GOA ADDITIONS TO UN1267 LIST NOT IMMINENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: GOA remains willing to cooperate with the UN 1267 Committee by updating biographic information and responding to specific requests to add names to the 1267 list, but expresses frustration with the Committee's inability to delist individuals, particularly Uruzgan Governor Monib. O [...]
2007-07-17 15:39:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETTC KTFN PGOV PREL PTER UNSC AF
07KABUL755 TERRORIST FINANCE - USG CONCERN OVER ILLICIT CASH
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-05 13:16:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL AF
07KAMPALA1774UGANDA: 2007-2008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY
[...] (SBU) Uganda is not a regional financial center or a major hub for narcotics trafficking and terrorism financing. Money laundering takes place in Uganda, but the GOU has no systematic research on its scope and magnitude. Recent efforts by GOU officials to address the smuggling of counterfeit [...]
2007-11-16 09:32:00Embassy KampalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KCRM KTFN PTER SNAR ASEC UG
07KATHMANDU155TERRORISM FINANCE: TERRORIST FACILITATORS AND
[...] No summary [...]
2007-01-22 09:37:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER NP
07KATHMANDU1987NEPAL: DRAFT 2007-2008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS
[...] Nepal is not a regional financial center and there are no indications that the country is used as an international money laundering center. The Government of Nepal (GON) has not yet criminalized money laundering. Draft anti-money laundering legislation has been prepared but has not yet pass [...]
2007-11-16 10:18:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KCRM KTFN SNAR NP
07KATHMANDU2052TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICERS FOR NEPAL
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-07 06:12:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC PTER KTFN NP
07KATHMANDU2061NEPAL'S CENTRAL BANK COMMITTED TO CURBING
[...] Ramhari Neupane, Deputy Director of the Banks and Financial Institutions Regulations Department at Nepal Rastra ("National") Bank or NRB, provided a written response to Reftel demarches from November regarding the designations of Saudi nationals and Iranian individuals and entities variously [...]
2007-12-11 09:03:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PTER KNNP PARM ETTC PREL ECON MNUC
07KATHMANDU228NEPAL: TERRORISM FINANCE: DOCKRATS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-02-01 07:53:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER KTFN NP
07KATHMANDU465NEPAL: TERRORIST FINANCE: USG CONCERN OVER ILLICIT
[...] (C) Post delivered reftel talking points to Shanker Bairagi, Under Secretary for Europe and the Americas in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stressing concern over illicit cash carriers given Nepal's substantial reliance on non-traditional forms of money transfer. Bairagi said he would share [...]
2007-03-02 10:48:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV EFIN ETTC KTFN PTER PREL NP
07KHARTOUM1779SUDAN CHAPTER: 2007-2008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL
[...] Attached, below, is the draft text for the Sudan chapter of the INCSR, Part II, Money Laundering and Financial Crimes. To our knowledge, this is the first time the report has been submitted for Sudan. POC at post for this report is Paul J Martin: email martinpj@state.gov; tel: (011-249-1-83- [...]
2007-11-15 15:03:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KCRM KTFN SNAR SU
07KHARTOUM214TERRORIST FINANCE: POST-VETTING OF HUMAN APPEAL
[...] (S) ORCA reports that it has no information on Human Appeal International's (HAI) activities in Sudan. However, HAI, which is based in Ajman, United Arab Emirates, has strong ties to HAMAS and has raised funds on its behalf. HAI is also believed to have a close relationship with the Internat [...]
2007-02-13 15:12:00Embassy KhartoumSECRETEFIN PTER KTFN ETTC PREL ECON SU
07KIGALI1112INFORMATION ON TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION
[...] (U) Embassy Kigali submits the following information on our Terrorism Finance Coordination Officer (TFCO) and Deputy TFCO: TFCO: Richard Kaminski Title: Chief, Political/Economic Section Phone: 250 505 601 x3304 Unclassified email: KaminskiRM@state.gov SIPDIS Classified email: Kaminski [...]
2007-12-10 14:02:00Embassy KigaliUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC PTER KTFN RW
07KINGSTON256JAMAICA: DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE RE TERRORIST
[...] DCM raised the problem of illicit cash courier activity during a meeting with Financial Secretary Colin Bullock of the Ministry of Finance and Planning on February 15, and provided background information paragraphs seven through thirteen of Reftel. 2. Bullock expressed thanks, assured us [...]
2007-02-22 11:58:00Embassy KingstonUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC KTFN LE PREL PTER JM
07KUALALUMPUR1317Ambassador's Farewell on Malaysian Central Bank Governor
[...] Summary: The Ambassador paid a farewell call on Malaysian Central Bank (Bank Negara) Governor Dr. Zeti Aziz on August 15. He relayed U.S. appreciation for Malaysia's efforts to combat money laundering and terrorist finance; congratulated the central bank on its successful initiatives in develo [...]
2007-08-21 23:41:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN KTFN EINV MY
07KUALALUMPUR1609TERRORIST FINANCE: MALAYSIA DINGED ON ILLICIT CASH COURIERS
[...] Summary: This cable responds to reftel requesting information on cash couriers in Malaysia. The Financial Action Task Force Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering (FATF/APG) conducted a Mutual Evaluation of Malaysia in February 2007. "Cross Border Declaration and Disclosure" of cash was the o [...]
2007-11-09 08:05:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ETTC KTFN KCRM PREL PTER MY
07KUWAIT1056AMBASSADOR STRESSES CUTTING OFF FOREIGN FIGHTERS
[...] (C/NF) The Ambassador met 3 July with MFA Under Secretary Khalid Al-Jarallah to emphasize the importance of cutting off foreign fighters going to Iraq. The Ambassador emphasized that the foreign fighters make up a majority of the suicide bombers and thus have a disproportionate destabilizing [...]
2007-07-03 14:58:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEFIN IZ KU PREL PTER ECON PGOV KTFN
07KUWAIT1057KUWAITI FACILITATOR AL-JALAHMAH DETAINED, RELEASED
[...] (S/NF) On June 24, U.S.-designated terrorist facilitator Jaber Al-Jalahmah was taken into custody by GOK authorities for questioning regarding his involvement in the recruitment of Kuwaiti jihadists. He was released on July 1 on a KD 300 (USD 1050) bond. (Background: Jaber Al-Jalahmah is a [...]
2007-07-03 14:58:00Embassy KuwaitSECRET//NOFORNECON PGOV PTER PREL KU KTFN
07KUWAIT1061KUWAITI FACILITATOR AL-JALAHMAH DETAINED, RELEASED
[...] (S/NF) On June 24, U.S.-designated terrorist facilitator Jaber Al-Jalahmah was taken into custody by GOK authorities for questioning regarding his involvement in the recruitment of Kuwaiti jihadists. He was released on July 1 on a KD 300 (USD 1050) bond. (Background: Jaber Al-Jalahmah is a [...]
2007-07-03 14:58:00Embassy KuwaitSECRET//NOFORNECON PGOV PTER PREL KU KTFN
07KUWAIT1073KEEPING THE KUWAITIS FOCUSED ON FOREIGN FIGHTERS
[...] (S/NF) During a July 7 farewell call on Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah, the Ambassador emphasized the need to keep up the pressure on the flow of foreign fighters to Iraq and Afghanistan and go after those who facilitate and fund them. Th [...]
2007-07-07 15:11:00Embassy KuwaitSECRET//NOFORNPREL PTER IZ KU DEMARCHE PGOV KTFN ECON
07KUWAIT1312TERRORISM FINANCE: DOMESTIC USG DESIGNATION OF
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-29 12:56:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALIS KTFN EFIN PREL PTER DEMARCHE KU
07KUWAIT1556TERRORISM FINANCE DEMARCHE: DESIGNATION OF THREE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-24 09:31:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDSA KTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL
07KUWAIT1560DEMARCHE DELIVERED: DESIGNATIONS OF IRANIAN
[...] (SBU) On 25 October CDA called MFA Under Secretary Khaled Al-Jarallah and A/DCM called Finance Minister Bader Al-Humaidhi's Office Director Khaled Al Rowayeh to deliver reftel talking points. Copies of the non-paper and the official transcript of the announcement by the Secretary and Treasury [...]
2007-10-25 16:35:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYIR KNNP PREL PARM EFIN KTFN
07KUWAIT1588TERROR FINANCE: REPORTED PROGRESS IN DOMESTIC
[...] (C) Summary: A/DCM and Econoff met recently with Nasser Al-Ammar, Director of the Charities and Philanthropic Department at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor (MOSAL) to discuss GOK efforts to strengthen oversight of Kuwaiti charity organizations. Al-Ammar was encouraged by the progres [...]
2007-11-05 10:33:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALECON KU PGOV PREL PTER KTFN
07KUWAIT1607TERRORIST FINANCE: RESPONSE TO FOLLOW-UP ACTION
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel post provides the following responses. 2. (SBU) Status of host nation laws specifically criminalizing bulk cash smuggling: On March 10, 2002, the Amir (Head of State) of Kuwait signed Law No. 35/2002, which criminalized money laundering. Law No. 35 crimina [...]
2007-11-08 15:15:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KCRM PREL PTER KTFN
07KUWAIT1701TREASURY DEPSEC KIMMITT ADVOCATES SWF
[...] (C) During a dinner meeting with Amiri Economic Adviser and former Finance Minister Dr. Yousef al-Ebraheem on December 2, Treasury Deputy Secretary Robert Kimmitt strongly urged the GOK to engage positively in the international effort to develop voluntary best practices for sovereign wealth f [...]
2007-12-05 13:02:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALEFIN EINV PTER KTFN KU IZ
07KUWAIT1711GOK HOSTS AML/CTF CONFERENCE, DISCUSSES DRAFT
[...] (C/NF) Summary and Comment: Several recent events in Kuwait have given some impetus to Kuwait's anti-money laundering capabilities. The Central Bank of Kuwait hosted a conference on anti-money-laundering and terror finance on December 2-3 attended by over 400 professionals from government, l [...]
2007-12-11 08:21:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETTC KCRM PREL PTER KTFN KU
07KUWAIT1715KUWAIT TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICER
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-12 13:02:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN PTER KTFN KU
07KUWAIT1769NEW MINISTER OF SOCIAL AFFAIRS AND LABOR ON TIP
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 13, CDA met with MoSAL/Justice Minister Jamal Ahmed Al-Shihab. The Minister said that the GOK was appreciative of external pressure (up to a point) to resolve TIP issues and promised to partner with the Embassy to make further progress on TIP. Minister Al-Shihab was [...]
2007-12-31 04:52:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALECON ELAB KIPR KU PGOV PHUM PREL KTFN TIP
07KUWAIT178TERROR FINANCE: PROGRESS BUT CHARITIES "STALLING"
[...] (C/NF) Summary: Following up on the Ambassador's January 16 meeting with the Minister of Social Affairs and Labor (MOSAL, ref A),Econoff met with Nasser Al-Ammar, Director of the Charities and Philanthropic Department at MOSAL on February 3 to discuss ongoing GOK efforts to strengthen overs [...]
2007-02-07 11:58:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNECON PGOV PTER PREL KU KTFN
07KUWAIT219TERRORIST FINANCE: REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE IN
[...] (C/NF) The following response is keyed to ref A. 2. (S/NF) Effectiveness of Tranche I Designations: Tranche I designations have had little discernible impact on the three Kuwaitis identified as terrorist facilitators -- Hamad Al-Ali, Jaber Al-Jalamah, and Mubarak Al-Bathali -- though we [...]
2007-02-14 13:29:00Embassy KuwaitSECRET//NOFORNKU QA KTFN EFIN ETTC PREL PTER
07KUWAIT40TERROR FINANCE: EMBASSY KUWAIT VIEWS ON POSSIBLE
[...] (S/NF) Through recent actions and private comments to us and senior USG officials, the GOK has made clear its opposition to the designation of the Kuwaiti charity Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS). Going back almost a year, to the April 2006 visit of Treasury U/S Levey and our trans [...]
2007-01-11 08:37:00Embassy KuwaitSECRET//NOFORNECON PGOV PTER PREL KU KTFN
07KUWAIT401SOMALI PRESIDENT, AWQAF MINISTER VISIT KUWAIT
[...] (C) Summary: In a March 3-6 visit to Kuwait, Somali President Abdullahi Yusef asked the Amir for humanitarian assistance and support for an upcoming reconciliation conference. The Amir agreed to send humanitarian support, but did not commit to other assistance. Somali Ambassador Abu Bakr [...]
2007-03-18 13:51:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPREL KTFN SO KU
07KUWAIT446KUWAIT BRINGS TOGETHER IRANIAN AND ARAB SHI'A,
[...] (C/NF) Summary: Kuwait hosted March 26-27 a conference that brought together Shi'a Awqaf officials from around the region. The discussion highlighted what some Shi'a, especially in the Gulf, see as a disconnect between centralized, distant Awqaf authorities and ordinary Shi'a donors. Some [...]
2007-03-28 14:23:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV KISL PTER KTFN IR IZ LE BA SA KU SHI
07KUWAIT59MINISTER OF SOCIAL AFFAIRS AND LABOR: WE WILL
[...] (C) Summary: Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Shaykh Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah told Ambassador January 16 that in March his Ministry would begin a campaign to bring Kuwaiti charities into compliance with existing laws regulating charitable contributions so that the Ministry could better [...]
2007-01-18 07:06:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNECON PGOV PTER PREL KU KTFN
07KUWAIT615AMBASSADOR AND DEFENSE/INTERIOR MINISTER DISCUSS
[...] (S/NF) Summary: During an April 24 meeting with Defense/Interior Minister Shaykh Jaber Al-Mubarak, the Ambassador emphasized USG readiness to provide security assistance to Kuwait, stressed the need to continue investigating suspected terrorist financiers, and urged follow up on the recommend [...]
2007-04-26 12:54:00Embassy KuwaitSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV PTER ASEC KTFN KU TERROR FINANCE
07KUWAIT808TERRORIST FINANCE: TREASURY A/S O'BRIEN ENGAGES
[...] (S/NF) Summary: On April 23-24, Treasury Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes Sipdis Patrick O'Brien met with senior GOK officials on anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism finance (AML/CTF) issues. He conveyed USG concerns about the activities of the Kuwait-based [...]
2007-05-22 09:42:00Embassy KuwaitSECRET//NOFORNKTFN EFIN ETTC PREL PTER
07KUWAIT816TERRORIST FINANCE: GOK RELEASES RIHS FINDINGS
[...] (C/NF) On May 19, Embassy Kuwait received a long-promised report from the MFA (drafted by the Department of Follow-up and Coordination headed by Khalid Al-Maqamis) containing the findings of its investigation into the international activities of the Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS) [...]
2007-05-23 07:04:00Embassy KuwaitSECRET//NOFORNKTFN EFIN ETTC PREL PTER
07KUWAIT832TERROR FINANCE: ANOTHER RUN AT THE MFA ON
[...] (C/NF) Summary: Econcouns met with MFA Director of Follow-up and Coordination Khalid Maqamis on May 27 to hand-deliver a diplomatic note pressing our case on the designation of three Kuwaiti terrorist facilitators in light of their continued freedom of movement and access to international me [...]
2007-05-28 12:23:00Embassy KuwaitSECRET//NOFORNEAID EFIN ETTC IZ KU PREL PTER KTFN
07LAPAZ3271EMBASSY LA PAZ TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-17 23:01:00Embassy La PazUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC PETER KTFN BL
07LAPAZ500TERRORISM FINANCE: FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE UNIT
[...] (C) Post delivered reftel demarches to Bolivia's Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) on February 1. The UIF conducted a search of its database and told Econoff on February 23 that it had discovered no information on the names and organizations mentioned in refs A and B. (Note: The UIF's databa [...]
2007-02-23 20:06:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN KTFN PREL PTER SNAR BL
07LIMA1944PERU'S FINANCIAL INTEL UNIT MERGING WITH BANKING
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On May 31, the Peruvian Congress passed a law moving Peru's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) into the Superintendency of Banking, Securities and Pension Funds (SBS). This law reverses the GOP's March 1 Supreme Decree which ordered the FIU's incorporation into the Ministry of [...]
2007-06-01 21:15:00Embassy LimaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN ECON SNAR PGOV PE
07LISBON218PORTUGAL: SUPPORTIVE OF TFTP AND SWIFT "INFORMED
[...] (SBU) In response to Embassy outreach on the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP) and SWIFT per reftel a, Ministry of Finance Chief of Staff Goncalo Castilho dos Santos responded via a Jan 10 letter acknowledging the program's important role in fighting terrorist finance, encouraging cont [...]
2007-01-24 15:45:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PTER KTFN PO
07LJUBLJANA134SLOVENIA: IMPLEMENTING ANTI-TERRORIST FINANCE
[...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel points to Andrej Plausteiner, Acting Director of the Office of Money Laundering Prevention at the Ministry of Finance. Plausteiner is also the point of contact for terrorist finance issues. The Government of Slovenia (GOS) is in the process of harmonizing its la [...]
2007-03-07 13:57:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER LE SI
07LJUBLJANA18TERRORISM FINANCING COORDINATING OFFICER
[...] (SBU) At Embassy Ljubljana the following people are the Terrorism Finance Coordination Officers (TFCOs): Terrorism Financing Coordinating Officer (TFCO): Maryruth Coleman, Deputy Chief of Mission Office number: 01-200-5588 Unclassified email: colemanMX@state.gov Cla [...]
2007-01-12 14:25:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC KTFN KVPR PREL PTER SI
07LJUBLJANA581SLOVENIA: TERRORIST FINANCE - PRE-NOTIFICATION OF
[...] (S) Pol/Econ Chief shared reftel's points with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Americas Division on a close hold basis. The MFA appreciated our pre-notification; however, they indicated that it was very doubtful that any of these individuals were active in Slovenia. COLEMAN [...]
2007-09-06 05:20:00Embassy LjubljanaSECRETEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL SA SI
07LJUBLJANA683SLOVENIA: ALIGNED WITH EU POLICY ON COMBATTING PKK
[...] (S) In an October 26 meeting with Ambassador Andrej Grasseli of the MFA's Department for Southeastern Europe and Turkey, A/DCM drew upon reftel's points to raise U.S. concerns about the rise in PKK attacks and the need for concrete actions to stop this terrorist threat. After condemning the P [...]
2007-10-26 15:34:00Embassy LjubljanaSECRETPTER PREL PGOV KTFN TU IZ EUN SI
07LJUBLJANA684TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF THREE SAUDI
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-29 15:26:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN PTER ETTC PREL KTFN SI
07LJUBLJANA688SLOVENIA CONSIDERING THEMES FOR FINANCIAL
[...] (SBU) In an October 30 meeting with Andrej Svetlicic from the Legal Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Emboffs invited Svetlicic and other senior Slovenian officials attending the Lisbon financial sanctions workshop to meet on November 28, immediately after the Portuguese-hosted wo [...]
2007-10-30 15:27:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN PREL PTER KTFN EUN SI
07LJUBLJANA764SLOVENIA: TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION
[...] (SBU) At Embassy Ljubljana the following people are the Terrorism Finance Coordinating Officers (TFCO): Terrorism Finance Coordinating Officer (TFCO): Maryruth Coleman, Charge d'Affaires Office Number: 01-200-5588 Unclassified email: ColemanMX@state.gov Classif [...]
2007-12-17 08:32:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC PTER KTFN SI
07LONDON2984(S) TERRORIST FINANCE:UK SUPPORTS USG SUBMISSION
[...] (S) Econoff delivered reftel demarche and non-paper July 31, 2007 to Clive Hughes, Desk Officer Multilateral and Strategic Allies Section Counter Terrorism Policy Department at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). Hughes said the UK favors co-sponsoring U.S. submissions to the UN 1518 a [...]
2007-08-03 06:30:00Embassy LondonSECRETEFIN FI IZ JO KTFN PREL PTER SA UK UNSC
07LONDON3228BRITISH AGREE TO COSPONSOR TO 1518 COMMITTEE, BUT
[...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 6. 2. (S) The British are seeking Ministerial approval to co-sponsor to the 1518 Committee names 2-7 in State 104666, according to Sarah Bennett and James Smith of the Sanctions Team, International Organizations Department, Foreign and Commonwea [...]
2007-08-20 17:35:00Embassy LondonSECRETEFIN KTFN UK UNSC
07LONDON3283(S) BRITISH QUESTION TWO NAMES ON PROPOSED 1518
[...] (S) Two of the names on Ref E's proposed listings to the UN's 1518 Committee "might be promising" participants in the Iraq Reconciliation process, according to the FCO's James Smith, Desk Officer Iraq Directorate, and Sarah Bennett, Sanctions Team, International Organizations Department. The [...]
2007-08-24 15:24:00Embassy LondonSECRETEFIN KTFN UK UNSC
07LONDON3571UK WORRIED ABOUT IRAN, THEY TELL TREASURY A/S
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: British officials told Patrick O'Brien, A/S for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes, Treasury, on September 6, that they are very worried about Iran. Both sides agreed we should continue to turn up the pressure on Iran within the context of the United Nations Security Cou [...]
2007-09-17 18:16:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNEFIN KTFN PTER IR LY UK
07LONDON3766BRITISH AGREE TO CO-SPONSOR ALL 1518 COMMITTEE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-02 16:20:00Embassy LondonSECRETEFIN KTFN UK UNSC
07LONDON4310INCSR VOL II FOR UK
[...] Following is post draft of Volume II of the UK INCSR for 2008. POC is Econ Couns John McNamara (mcnamarajf@state.gov) 2. (SBU) Begin Text: United Kingdom The United Kingdom (UK) plays a leading role in European and world finance and remains attractive to money launderers because of [...]
2007-11-20 18:47:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM EFIN KTFN SNAR UK
07LONDON4328(C/NF) UK SHARES U.S. GOALS ON IRAN; WE SHOULD RE-FOCUS UK DOMESTIC EFFORTS AND INCREASE COORDINATION REF: A. STATE 156409 B. STATE 157039 LONDON 00004328 001.2 OF 006
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-21 16:16:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MNUC EFIN PTER KTFN IR UK
07LONDON4512UK OFFICIALS TELL U/S LEVEY THAT WILL ON IRAN IS
[...] (C/NF) Summary: Senior UK officials told Treasury Under Secretary Stuart Levey November 30 that international action SIPDIS against Iran has increased pressure on the regime and made life "significantly uncomfortable" for Iranian leadership, but has not so far succeeded in changing Iran's nu [...]
2007-12-10 12:24:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEFIN KTFN PREL MNUC PTER IR UK
07LONDON4680IRAN: ALLEGED EX-IRGC MEMBER LISTS QUDS FORCE
[...] (S/NF) Summary. Mohammed Ali Khatami (please protect),claiming to have been in the past a long-term operative for the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC),provided London Iran Watcher (Poloff) detailed written allegations concerning long-term IRGC-Quds Force involvement in de-stabilizing Ira [...]
2007-12-28 15:41:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNEFIN KTFN PREL MNUC PTER IR UK
07LONDON515TERRORIST FINANCE: HUMAN APPEAL INTERNATIONAL
[...] (S/NF) Summary. Embassy London believes that HMG would object to a UN listing of the Human Appeal International (HAI) in its entirety unless we were able to provide it with specific information linking the UK branch to al Qaida or demonstrating that HAI-UK operated under the direction of HAI [...]
2007-02-09 15:29:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNKTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL ECON
07LONDON519TERRORISM FINANCE: REQUEST FOR POSTS ASSISTANCE IN
[...] (S/NF) In response to reftel, Embassy contacted officials in the international organizations and counterterrorism policy departments at the Foreign Office to request feedback on the first tranche of terrorist facilitators and inciters designations. Both officials with whom we spoke commented that, [...]
2007-02-09 16:22:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UK
07LONDON52UK CONSIDERING BANK SADERAT OPTIONS
[...] (S/NF) Summary: An HMG intra-agency group met with U.S. Treasury officials to review new "evidence" of illicit activities by Bank Saderat Iran and its London-based subsidiary, Bank Saderat PLC. HMG officials requested further information indicating the London subsidiary is controlled by the [...]
2007-01-05 18:04:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNEFIN KTFN PREL PTER ETTC IR UK
07LONDON6TERRORIST FINANCE: DOCKRAT PRENOTIFICATION
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Embassy delivered reftel prenotification to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on December 22. On January 3, Rod Mackenna of the FCO's Counter Terrorism Policy Department notified us that the UK will support a UN 1267 designat [...]
2007-01-03 15:17:00Embassy LondonSECRETEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER ZU UK
07LONDON71TERRORIST FINANCE: REVIVAL OF ISLAMIC HERITAGE
[...] (S/NF) Summary: Unless the U.S. has compelling information which either: a) demonstrates that the London branch of the Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS) is under the operational control of Kuwait-based headquarters or b) shows a clear linkage between the London branch and al-Qaida, we [...]
2007-01-09 14:02:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNETTC KTFN PTER PREL EFIN UK
07LONDON794UK ANNOUNCES TERRORISM FINANCE STRATEGY
[...] (S/NF) Summary and Comment: The UK's new strategy to tackle financial crime and terrorism does not represent a dramatic point of departure, but rather confirms an evolutionary trend towards a more aggressive approach to countering terrorism finance. The strategy, announced by Economic Secreta [...]
2007-03-01 16:21:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNETTC KTFN PTER EFIN UK
07LUXEMBOURG354DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SAUDI FIVE PRE-NOTIFICATION
[...] (C) Econoff delivered points and names contained reftel to the Luxembourg Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) on 29 August 2007. There was no immediate comment from the MFA. The FIU informed Post on 30 August that "it would take the necessary actions in due time. [...]
2007-08-30 15:26:00Embassy LuxembourgCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEFIN PTER ETTC PREL KTFN LU
07MADRID1074TERRORISM FINANCE: SPAIN'S RESPONSE ON MAHAMEDOU
[...] No summary [...]
2007-06-04 15:47:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC KTFN PTER SP EUN PREL
07MADRID1486TERRORISM FINANCE: SPAIN ON DOMESTIC USG
[...] No summary [...]
2007-07-30 10:27:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PREL PTER LE SP ECON
07MADRID1611TERRORISM FINANCE: SPAIN ON AL-SALAH SOCIETY
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-21 14:44:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PREL PTER IS SP ECON
07MADRID1709TERRORIST FINANCE: PRE-NOTIFICATION TO SPAIN OF
[...] (S) On August 30, EconOff delivered reftel points to Ivo Pascual Herrera, desk officer within MFA's Terrorism Sub-Directorate. Pascual told EconOff that his office would notify Post next week on Spain's position as well as on any information GOS may have regarding the referenced individuals. [...]
2007-08-31 16:22:00Embassy MadridSECRETPREL EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC SP
07MADRID1840DISRUPTING TALIBAN FINANCE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-09-25 08:44:00Embassy MadridSECRETPTER KTFN EFIN KPAO SP
07MADRID1916TERRORIST FINANCE: SPAIN ON SAUDI FIVE UPDATE
[...] (C) On October 1, EconOff delivered reftel points to Ivo Pascual Herrera, desk officer within MFA's Terrorism Sub-Directorate. Pascual expressed appreciation for the update and reported that Spain had no position concerning the designations of the reftel A Saudi nationals under domestic and U [...]
2007-10-03 08:58:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER SA
07MADRID1996TERRORISM FINANCE: SPAIN NOTIFIED OF DESIGNATION
[...] (U) As requested, Post informed the GOS via the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Terrorism Sub-directorate of the UN listing of the three Saudi nationals (reftel). EconOff had previously provided identifying information on these individuals but re-supplied that information. EconOff requested tha [...]
2007-10-22 07:10:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL SA SP
07MADRID2063DEPUTY CHIEF OF MISSION DISCUSSES PKK TERRORISM,
[...] (C) PKK: DCM met October 31 with MFA Director General for Foreign Policy Rafael Dezcallar and delivered reftel points. Dezcallar said Spain shared U.S. concerns regarding the PKK and understood the delicacy of the situation between Turkey and Iraq. He emphasized that Spain wanted to be helpfu [...]
2007-11-02 15:16:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV KTFN TU IZ EUN SP
07MADRID2072TERRORIST FINANCE: FOLLOW-UP ACTION REQUEST ON
[...] (SBU) This message is sensitive but unclassfied. 2. (SBU) The information provided in this message is keyed to the questions in reftel's para. 5. 3. (U) The June, 2006 Financial Action Task Force (FATF) mutual evaluation of Spain found that Spain's "structures for dealing with terrorist [...]
2007-11-06 15:30:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC KTFN KCRM PREL PTER SP
07MADRID2084FATF/IRAN STATEMENTS DELIVERED TO SPAIN
[...] DCM shared on 10/31/07 reftel points on the Financial Action Task Force's (FATF) statements on Iran with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Political Director Rafael Dezcallar. Embassy is also sharing reftel points with Ministry of Economy Secretary of State David Vegara's office. 2. Comment: Our [...]
2007-11-07 15:47:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL MNUC ECON KTFN IR SP
07MADRID2272TERRORIST FINANCE: SPAIN ON DOMESTIC DESIGNATION
[...] (C) EconOff delivered reftel demarche to Area Specialist Laura Martinez from the MFA's Directorate of Counter-Terrorism on December 18. Martinez expressed appreciation for the information and said that she would share it with law enforcement and intelligence channels. She agreed to provide a [...]
2007-12-19 18:06:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL SP
07MANAGUA1431NICARAGUA: FACING CHALLENGES IN ADDRESSING CASH
[...] (SBU) Summary: On May 24, Econoff delivered reftel demarche on illicit cash couriers to representatives of the Nicaraguan inter-agency Anti-Terrorism Working Group (ATWG). ATWG representatives responded that cash couriers are an issue of growing concern in Nicaragua, but current laws and the [...]
2007-06-05 20:55:00Embassy ManaguaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL NU
07MANAMA155BAHRAIN: UNSCR 1737 - FREEZING ASSETS OF IRANIAN
[...] (U) NEA/ARP Office Director Alan Misenheimer and Econoff February 14 delivered reftel demarche concerning U.S. suggestions on how states can most fully implement the asset freeze required under UNSCR 1737 to Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) Director of Financial Institution Supervision Abdul-Rahm [...]
2007-02-19 08:32:00Embassy ManamaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN EFIN PTER BA CTR ECTRD
07MANAMA168BAHRAIN: USG CONCERN OVER ILLICIT CASH COURIERS
[...] (U) NEA/ARP Office Director Alan Misenheimer and Econoff February 14 delivered reftel demarche concerning the threat posed by cash couriers and bulk cash smuggling used to finance terrorism and other illicit activity to Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) Director of Financial Institution Supervisio [...]
2007-02-22 13:27:00Embassy ManamaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL BA CTR ECTRD
07MANILA1017STRENGTHENING THE CASE AGAINST THE RAJAH SOLAIMAN
[...] (S/REL AUS/UK) Summary. USG cooperation has helped strengthen the Philippine initiative to seek a listing of the Rajah Solaiman Movement with the UN 1267 Committee. The Philippines intends to consult Australia, Great Britain, Japan, and Indonesia about co-sponsorship, along with the U.S. T [...]
2007-03-29 09:07:00Embassy ManilaSECRETPTER EFIN ETTC PREL KTFN PINR AS ID JA UK RP
07MANILA1301PHILIPPINES SEEKING CO-SPONSORS FOR 1267 LISTING
[...] (S/REL AUS/JA/UK) Summary. Philippine officials informally briefed representatives from U.S., Australian, Japanese, and British Embassies on April 23 seeking a listing of the Rajah Solaiman Movement and some of its key members with the UN 1267 Sanctions Committee and to explore possible co-sp [...]
2007-04-23 09:39:00Embassy ManilaSECRETPTER EFIN ETTC PREL KTFN PINR AS ID JA MY
07MANILA2926TERRORIST FINANCE: PRE-NOTIFICATION OF DESIGNATION
[...] (S) Embassy delivered reftel demarche and background paper to Philippine Anti-Money Laundering Council Compliance and Investigation Head Richard Funk on August 29. Funk agreed to relay the information to other members of the Council and inform us of any responses. KENNEY [...]
2007-08-29 05:32:00Embassy ManilaSECRETKTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL RP
07MANILA3891UPDATING INFORMATION FOR TERRORISM FINANCE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-11 01:06:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN EFIN ETTC PTER
07MANILA781TERRORISM FINANCE: PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT READY TO
[...] (U) This is an action message -- see para 8. 2. (S) SUMMARY. The Philippine government is ready to move soon on listing the Rajah Solaiman Movement and a selected number of its members with the UN 1267 Sanctions Committee. The National Intelligence Coordinating Agency has prepared a sepa [...]
2007-03-09 08:25:00Embassy ManilaSECRETPTER EFIN ETTC PREL KTFN RP
07MASERU282LESOTHO: UNSCR 1267 AND UNHRC DEMARCHES
[...] On May 16, Poloff spoke with Acting Principal Secretary for Foreign Affairs P.P. Makosholo regarding continued implementation of UNSCR 1267 (ref A) and Bosnia's candidacy for the UN Human Rights Council (ref B). Regarding UNSCR 1267, Makosholo stated that he would encourage a representative o [...]
2007-05-16 19:00:00Embassy MaseruUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC LT
07MEXICO1119TERRORIST FINANCE: MEXICAN OFFICIAL DISCUSSES
[...] (SBU) The head of Mexico's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU),Luis Urrutia, called Econoff on March 5, 2007 about the non-paper she sent him on illicit cash couriers (Refs A and B). Urrutia told Econoff that Mexico understands the threats associated with illicit cash courier activity and that [...]
2007-03-06 14:20:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER MX
07MEXICO2724DEMARCHE DELIVERED: IMPORTANCE OF INTL SUPPORT FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-25 21:12:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN PTER UNSC MX
07MEXICO351MEXICAN FINANCE SECRETARY DISCUSSES REFORM AGENDA,
[...] (C) Ambassador Garza met with Mexican Finance Secretary Agustin Carstens on January 22, 2007. The Ambassador began the meeting by congratulating Carstens for the Calderon administration's strong start -- highlighting their counterdrug and anticrime efforts. Carstens told the Ambassador that [...]
2007-01-24 14:28:00Embassy MexicoCONFIDENTIALKTFN PGOV PTER PINR MX
07MEXICO5793TERRORIST FINANCE: MEXICO CITY'S RESPONSE TO
[...] (SBU) This cable is Mexico City's response to Ref A. -- Status of laws specifically criminalizing bulk cash smuggling, and key elements of those laws 2. (SBU) The Government of Mexico continues efforts to implement an anti-money laundering program according to international standards such [...]
2007-11-09 18:57:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER MX
07MEXICO6099TERRORISM FINANCING COORDINATING OFFICERS IN
[...] (SBU) As per reftel's request, the Terrorism Finance Coordination Officer (TFCO) at Embassy Mexico City is Manuel Larragoity, Deputy Attache for DHS/ICE. He may be reached at (52-55) 5080-2384 or via e-mail at manuel.larragoity@dhs.gov. 2. (SBU) Post TFCO Deputy is Laura M. Lausier, Economi [...]
2007-12-11 14:03:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER MX
07MEXICO961TERRORIST FINANCE: EMBASSY RAISED PROBLEM OF
[...] No summary [...]
2007-02-26 21:54:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER MX
07MINSK1026TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICER
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-14 16:23:00Embassy MinskUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC PTER KTFN BO
07MINSK1052Terrorism Finance - Syria/Lebanon Designation Information
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-26 16:35:00Embassy MinskUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN PTER LE SY BO
07MINSK1053Terrorism Finance - Domestic Designation of Former Regime
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-26 16:35:00Embassy MinskUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PTER KTFN IZ BO
07MINSK727TRUSTBANK REQUESTS RECONSIDERATION BY TREASURY
[...] (C) Trustbank requested a meeting with post to seek a means to remove the bank from the Department of Treasury's list of money laundering concerns. Bank officials conceded its continued profitability remained highly doubtful without rehabilitation, and they offered to consider any recommendat [...]
2007-08-24 12:46:00Embassy MinskCONFIDENTIALEFIN KTFN PTER PREL BO
07MINSK811LUKASHENKO'S ARMS DEALER BACK FROM MALTA?
[...] (C) A Minsk businessman claims suspected Belarusian arms dealer Vladimir Peftiyev just returned to Minsk permanently after several years residing in Malta. The move, if true, suggests Lukashenko may have transferred ill-gotten assets elsewhere. End summary. Major Weapons Trader Returns to [...]
2007-09-21 11:19:00Embassy MinskCONFIDENTIALKTFN EFIN PREL PINR BO MT
07MONROVIA580LIBERIA: DEMARCHE ON IMPORTANCE OF INTERNATIONAL
[...] Embassy delivered reftel demarche May 16 to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Acting Minister for American Affairs Moiba Fofana. Emboff promised to send Fofana the texts of UNSCR resolutions 1267 and 1735. Fofana said he would brief Minister of Foreign Affairs George Wallace on the demarche. Mazel [...]
2007-05-17 10:05:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PTER UNSC LI
07MOSCOW103RUSSIAN SUSPECT BEHIND CENTRAL BANKER'S MURDER
[...] (SBU) Russia's Prosecutor General Yury Chaika announced on January 11 the arrest of a Russian citizen believed to be the mastermind behind Central Bank First Deputy Chairman Andrey Kozlov's murder in September 2006. Chaika's statement did not mention Aleksey Frenkel by name, but Frenkel's atto [...]
2007-01-12 15:04:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALKTFN EFIN ECON RS
07MOSCOW1413RUSSIA TO REVIEW TALIBAN LIST
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-30 10:35:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALAF RS EFIN ETTC KTFN PGOV PREL PTER UNSC
07MOSCOW1414RUSSIA NOTIFIED ABOUT BANK SEPAH, STILL NO DECREE
[...] (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 [...]
2007-03-30 10:35:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALKNNP IR RS PARM EFIN KTFN
07MOSCOW2253RUSSIA ON REVIVAL OF ISLAMIC HERITAGE SOCIETY
[...] (C) Post delivered reftel points on the Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS) to the MFA's Department of International Organizations and the Department of New Threats and Challenges. Vladimir Prokhorov, Senior Legal Advisor in the Department of New Threats and Challenges, responded that [...]
2007-05-15 14:27:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPTER KTFN EFIN ETTC PREL ECON RS
07MOSCOW3935NON-PAPER ON UN'S ROLE IN THE WAR ON TERRORISM
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-10 14:56:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER KTFN RS
07MOSCOW437FSB REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON AL-QAIDA ACTIVITY
[...] (C) On January 22, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) passed a note to Embassy Moscow ORC requesting information the USG might have regarding Al Qaida financial activity in the Russian Federation. Below is an unofficial Embassy translation of the note. A copy of the original Russian-la [...]
2007-02-01 14:27:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALKTFN PTER PREL RS
07MOSCOW4410TERRORIST FINANCE: SAUDI FIVE PRE-NOTIFICATION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-09-07 12:53:00Embassy MoscowSECRETKTFN PTER ETTC PREL RS
07MOSCOW4831RESPONSE TO PKK TERRORISM IN EUROPE DEMARCHE:
[...] (SBU) In an October 2 meeting, we delivered reftel demarche to MFA New Threats and Challenges Senior Counselor Vladimir Prokhorov. Prokhorov expressed dismay over the flight of Riza Altun and disappointment with the lack of cooperation between France and Austria. He told us that he would pa [...]
2007-10-02 14:14:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PREL PGOV KTFN OSCE TU IZ EU RS
07MOSCOW5151DESIGNATION OF IRANIAN ENTITIES FOR THEIR SUPPORT OF
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-25 14:02:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN IR RS
07MOSCOW5183UPDATED DEMARCHE TO EUROPEAN CAPITALS ON COMBATING
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-29 08:52:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV KTFN TU IZ EUN RS
07MOSCOW5819EMBASSY MOSCOW'S TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION
[...] Embassy Moscow's Terrorism Finance Coordination Officer is: Kathleen Doherty, Deputy Minister-Counselor for Economic Affairs, 7 (495) 728-5179, DohertyKX@state.sgov.gov, DohertyKA@state.gov. 2. The Deputy Terrorism Finance Coordination Officer is Clayton Hays, Financial Economist, 7 (49 [...]
2007-12-14 13:19:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC PTER KTFN RS
07MOSCOW754IRAN: SANCTIONS DECREE SUBJECT OF INTERAGENCY
[...] (C) We discussed reftel requests regarding implementation of UNSCR 1737 (Iran) with Vladimir Safronkov, Chief of the UN Political Affairs Section in the MFA's International Organizations Department. Safronkov told us that a draft presidential decree necessary to implement the sanctions regim [...]
2007-02-21 13:03:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP EFIN ETTC KTFN IR RS
07MUSCAT101TERRORIST LIST: OMAN RESPONSE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-01-31 13:01:00Embassy MuscatCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETTC KTFN KVPR PREL PTER MU
07MUSCAT1107UPDATING OMAN'S TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-10 11:05:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC KTFN MU
07MUSCAT627DELIVERY OF NON-PAPER ON U.S. EXECUTIVE ORDER
[...] Post delivered ref A non-paper on additional designations under Executive Order 13382 to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs via diplomatic note on June 18, 2007. In accordance with Oman's previous responses to similar notifications, the Central Bank will publish and distribute the names of the i [...]
2007-06-18 09:03:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC KTFN KVPR PREL PTER MU
07NAIROBI1015AML BILL TO BE TOP GOK PRIORITY IN MARCH
[...] (SBU) Summary: Kenya Anti-Money Laundering Task Force (AMLTF) officials say they adopted many of USDOJ's suggested amendments to the anti-money laundering bill, including the critical definition of criminal offense, and that the bill will be one of the Government of Kenya's top priorities in th [...]
2007-03-02 11:05:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KTFN LE PREL PTER KCRM KE
07NAIROBI4178Kenya: NGO Board Offers Prize to Encourage Best Practices
[...] (SBU) Summary: On October 17, Kenya's NGO Coordination Board (NGO Board) and the NGO Resource Alliance of the UK launched their new "NGO of the Year" awards to be presented in July 2008 to NGOs that demonstrate competence and integrity with their service recipients and their donors. Separately [...]
2007-10-23 10:57:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID PHUM PGOV KCRM EFIN KTFN KCOR KE
07NAIROBI4416KENYA TERRORIST FINANCE: FOLLOW-UP ACTION REQUEST ON
[...] (SBU) In response to ref A, the situation in Kenya regarding cash smuggling has not improved or changed from that described in ref B. The 2007 INCSR text remains accurate: Kenya has little in the way of cross-border currency controls. GOK regulations require that any amount of cash above $5,000 [...]
2007-11-09 08:23:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KTFN KCRM PREL PTER KE
07NAIROBI4720EMBASSY NAIROBI TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICERS
[...] The terrorism Finance Coordination Officer (TFCO) in Embassy Nairobi is Economic Counselor John F. Hoover, 254-20-363-6050, hooverjf@state.gov (unclass) and hooverjf@state.sgov.gov (class). Hoover is scheduled to depart Nairobi summer 2008, probably in June. 2. The Deputy TFCO in Embassy Na [...]
2007-12-11 07:56:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC PTER KTFN KE
07NAIROBI875Kenya Terrorist Finance: Illicit Cash Couriers
[...] (SBU) Summary: Kenyan officials share USG concern over cash couriers and money laundering, partly because of cash smuggling over the Somali border. Kenya's draft anti-money laundering (AML) bill contains provisions requiring declaration of monetary instruments over USD 5,000, criminalizes will [...]
2007-02-23 10:04:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER KCRM KE
07NASSAU967TERRORISM FINANCE: MARTYRS FOUNDATION AND AS-QARD
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-07 22:22:00Embassy NassauUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN PREL PTER PGOV BF
07NDJAMENA149CHAD'S GRAND IMAM REQUESTS HELP TO INVESTIGATE
[...] (C) Post calls attention to the following request from Chad's Grand Imam, Sheikh Hissein Hassan Abakar, conveyed in a February 7 meeting with the Ambassador (reftel). In the meeting, Abakar requested assistance from Post and the USG to investigate and interdict possible terrorist and extremis [...]
2007-02-15 16:26:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALKTFN CD PGOV PREL
07NDJAMENA852CHAD: TERRORISM FINANCE DEMARCHE DELIVERED:
[...] Post delivered reftel demarche to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in November. Post will report any substantive response septel. TAMLYN [...]
2007-11-05 09:10:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL CD
07NDJAMENA854CHAD: TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF THREE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-05 09:30:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL CD
07NEWDELHI188INDIA KEEN TO BAN KUWAIT'S REVIVAL OF ISLAMIC
[...] (C) India is likely to support strongly US efforts to designate domestically and under UNSCR 1267 Kuwait's Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS) as a financier of international terrorism. Indian officials have previously expressed their fear of spillover of the group's activities in Bang [...]
2007-01-12 12:05:00Embassy New DelhiSECRETPTER KTFN ETTC PREL EFIN KISL PAK IN
07NEWDELHI1885NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS
[...] Below is a compilation of Economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of April 16-20, 2007. ---------------------------------- New FDI Regulations Go into Effect ---------------------------------- 2. (U) India's new FDI regulations in telecom were officially notified by the [...]
2007-04-20 12:00:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCVIS EAGR EAIR EFIN EINV PTER KTFN ETRD IN
07NEWDELHI2036NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS
[...] (U) Below is a compilation of Economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of April 23-27, 2007. ------------------------------ OIL AND GAS MINISTER DISCUSSES LNG WITH TEHRAN ------------------------------ 2. (SBU) India's Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Murli Deora met [...]
2007-04-27 12:17:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCVIS EAGR EAIR EFIN EINV PTER KTFN ETRD IN
07NEWDELHI2456POINTS ON UNSCRS 1267 AND 1735 DELIVERED
[...] (C) PolCouns delivered reftel points to Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Joint Secretary (Americas) Gaitri Kumar May 21. Kumar reconfirmed the Government of India's (GOI) commitment to implement fully all UN Security Council Resolutions. She said she had discussed these demarches with ME [...]
2007-05-23 11:58:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC IR IN
07NEWDELHI2912NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS
[...] (U) Below is a compilation of Economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of June 18-22, 2007. FIRST ROUND ON INDIA/EC FTA TALKS TO BEGIN NEXT WEEK -------------- 2. (SBU) European Commission Trade Counselor Bermejo told us that the first round of negotiations for an Indian [...]
2007-06-22 11:12:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV EAIR PTER KTFN PREL ENRG ECON IN PK IR
07NEWDELHI3034NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS
[...] (U) Below is a compilation of Economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of June 25-29, 2007. COMING SOON - EFFORTS TO AMEND THE MONEY LAUNDERING ACT --------------------------------------------- --- 2. (SBU) During a meeting with Econoff on June 29, Joint Secretary of Reve [...]
2007-06-29 11:42:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV EAIR PTER KTFN PREL ENRG ECON IN PK IR
07NEWDELHI3132NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS
[...] (U) Below is a compilation of Economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of July 2-6, 2007. Foreign Banks Report High Profit Growth, Yet Opportunity Costs are Extreme ----------------- 2. (U) Major foreign banks in India have reported a healthy growth in net profits in the [...]
2007-07-09 10:13:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV ETRD EAIR PTER KTFN PREL ENRG ECON IN IR
07NEWDELHI4902INDIA PREFERS QUIET APPROACH ON FATF STATEMENT AND
[...] (SBU) Econoff and Poloff delivered the demarche and background paper (reftel A) to the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) Director Anand Bajaj at the Ministry of Finance on November 7 and to Joint Secretary (Americas) Gaitri Kumar at the Ministry of External Affairs on November 2, respectiv [...]
2007-11-08 06:10:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL MNUC ECON KTFN EFIN PTER ETTC IN
07NEWDELHI909SCENESETTER: INDIA COUNTER-TERRORISM JOINT WORKING
[...] (S) Summary: Embassy New Delhi warmly welcomes the visit of Acting Coordinator for Counterterrorism Frank Urbancic, and looks forward to adding dynamism to the India-U.S. Counter-Terrorism Joint Working Group (CTJWG) and developing an atmosphere where ideas and information are easily exchanged by b [...]
2007-02-23 11:41:00Embassy New DelhiSECRETPREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL KTFN
07OSLO1008TERRORIST FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF SEVEN IRAQI
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-04 14:37:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALEFIN PTER ETTC PREL KTFN NO
07OSLO1118TERRORISM FINANCE: TRO
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-20 12:38:00Embassy OsloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PTER PREL KTFN NO
07OSLO1151TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICERS (TFCO):
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-10 14:27:00Embassy OsloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC PTER KTFN NO
07OSLO163(C) NORWEGIANS NOTE FATF COMPLIANCE; PAKISTAN
[...] (C) On February 14 we delivered reftel points to MFA Legal Department Deputy Director Martin Sorby, who confirms that Norway has fully implemented FATF recommendations. Norway is also currently implementing follow-up recommendations associated with a 2005 review of its FATF compliance. Sorb [...]
2007-02-20 06:10:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETTC LE PREL PTER KTFN
07OSLO584NORWEGIANS RECEIVE SLAHI POINTS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-06-05 09:58:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETTC EUN PREL PTER KTFN NO
07OSLO779TERROR FINANCE: MARTYRS FOUNDATION AND AL-QARD
[...] No summary [...]
2007-07-26 13:04:00Embassy OsloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PTER EFIN KTFN NO
07OSLO787(S) NORWEGIANS CONSIDER DESIGNATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-07-30 11:47:00Embassy OsloSECRETEFIN PREL PTER UNSC KTFN NO
07OSLO878TERROR FINANCE: SAUDI FIVE PRENOTIFICATIO
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-29 14:29:00Embassy OsloSECRETEFIN PTER ETTC PREL KTFN NO
07OSLO989NORWEGIANS REVIEW SAUDI PRE-NOTIFICATION UPDATE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-01 13:02:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETTC PREL PTER KTFN NO
07OTTAWA1030CANADIAN AGREEMENT ON IMPORTANCE OF INTL SUPPORT
[...] (SBU) Econoff delivered points in reftel to Yves Beaulieu, Deputy Director of the Department of Foreign Affairs' (DFAIT's) International Crime and Terrorism Division, and Georges Flanagan Whalen, Policy Advisor in the same division. Whalen said Canada had attended the May 22 UN briefing on ef [...]
2007-05-31 19:32:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN EFIN PTER UNSC
07OTTAWA105MEETING WITH FINANCE CANADA OFFICIALS RAISES
[...] (SBU) Summary and action request: A meeting with the Director General, Financial Sector Policy Branch of Finance Canada allowed ECON Minister-Counselor to raise USG concerns about mischaracterizations of USG policy that have recently appeared in the Canadian press after disclosure that the Ro [...]
2007-01-19 23:29:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCA EFIN KTFN PINS PTER
07OTTAWA1063CANADA'S RESPONSE: AKA MAHAMEDOU OULD SLAHI
[...] No summary [...]
2007-06-05 18:25:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN EFIN ETTC PREL PTER
07OTTAWA1868(S) TERRORIST FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF SEVEN IRAQI
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-05 17:51:00Embassy OttawaSECRETCA EFIN ETTC IZ KTFN PREL PTER
07OTTAWA1872CANADA AND NASREDDIN 1267 DE-LISTING REQUEST
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) Econcouns delivered ref A message that the USG has tentatively determined that it would be appropriate to de-list Ahmed Idris Nasreddin from UNSCR 1267, contigent on certain actions by Nasreddin, to Yves Beaulieu, Counter Terror [...]
2007-10-05 18:08:00Embassy OttawaSECRETCA EFIN KTFN PREL PTER USUN
07OTTAWA2015GOVERNMENT OF CANADA AGREES WITH FATF STATEMENT
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-01 19:08:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL MNUC ECON KTFN CA
07OTTAWA2062TERRORIST FINANCE: CANADA'S PROVISIONS AGAINST
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-08 20:34:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC KTFN KCRM PTER CA
07OTTAWA2107(C) CANADA STILL CONSIDERING DESIGNATION OF TRO
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-16 20:30:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALEFIN KTFN PTER PREL CE CA
07OTTAWA2227EMBASSY OTTAWA'S TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-07 16:28:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN EFIN ETTC PTER
07OTTAWA578CANADA'S IMPLEMENTATION OF UNSCR 1747 ON IRAN
[...] (SBU) On March 28, Economic Minister-Counselor delivered ref B demarche to John Hannaford, Director of DFAIT's United Nations, Human Rights, and Economic Law Division and urged quick GoC action to implement sanctions imposed by UNSCR 1747, especially with regard to Bank Sepah. Economic Minist [...]
2007-03-28 21:48:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP PARM EFIN KTFN ETTC IR CA
07OTTAWA753CANADA'S PROVISIONS AGAINST CASH COURIERS
[...] (SBU) Although econoff delivered the points in reftel to an official from Finance Canada in February, that official had no comment but offered to set up a meeting for the Embassy with Canadian officials who are better acquainted with the problems of illicit cash couriers. To that end, the Eco [...]
2007-04-25 20:01:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KTFN LE PREL PTER CA
07PANAMA1471TERRORIST FINANCE: SAUDI FIVE PRE-NOTIFICATION -
[...] (C) Econ Chief delivered ref points and background on Aug. 30 to Delia Villamonte, Director General for International Organizations, and Leoncio Hernandez, Director for Anti-Terrorist Issues, both with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Neither Villamonte nor Hernandez offered any imme [...]
2007-08-31 20:31:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PM
07PARAMARIBO136TERRORIST FINANCE: USG CONCERN OVER ILLICIT CASH
[...] (U) Per reftel, Pol/EconOff raised USG concern over illicit cash couriers with GOS Ministry of Foreign Affairs Americas Division Head, Terence Craig. Craig agreed that cash smuggling is a serious problem, and said his government enforces money laundering laws whenever possible. He acknowledg [...]
2007-03-20 20:08:00Embassy ParamariboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KTFN LE PREL PTER
07PARAMARIBO403INFORMATION DELIVERED: MARTYRS FOUNDATION AND
[...] Per reftel, post delivered demarche to Nalinie Sewpersadsingh, Head of the International Organizations Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Suriname (GOS),and to Deputy Head of the Americas Division, Eurydice Hofwijks. Sewpersadsingh and Hofwijks acknowledged rec [...]
2007-08-02 19:26:00Embassy ParamariboUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN EFIN PREL PTER LE NS
07PARAMARIBO548KTFN TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF THREE SAUDI
[...] (U) Per reftel, post delivered message October 15 to Terence Craig, Head of the Americas Division of Suriname's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Craig had no immediate reaction but said he will pass the information to the Ministry of Justice and Police. 2. (U) Post will report any substant [...]
2007-10-16 17:04:00Embassy ParamariboUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL SA NS
07PARAMARIBO604SURINAME: 2007-2008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL
[...] (U) 1. Post presents its 2008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT (INCSR),Part II, Money Laundering and Financial Crimes. Suriname: I. Summary: Suriname is not a regional financial center and is not yet a significant site for money laundering when compared to other count [...]
2007-11-21 19:48:00Embassy ParamariboUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR EFIN KCRM KTFN NS
07PARAMARIBO619DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CASH COURIER INITIATIVE
[...] (U) Per reftel, post delivered message to Rosita Hubard, head of the International Organizations Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Suriname. The Government of Suriname had no immediate reaction. 2. (U) Post will report any substantive response from the Government of Surina [...]
2007-12-04 14:59:00Embassy ParamariboUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PREL PTER ASEC NS
07PARAMARIBO661UPDATING INFORMATION FOR TERRORISM FINANCE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-21 20:05:00Embassy ParamariboUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC PTER KTFN NS
07PARIS1157UNSCR 1267: FRENCH REACTION TO UPDATING TALIBAN NAMES
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-23 16:57:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALEFIN PTER ETTC KTFN PGOV PREL UNSC FR
07PARIS1228A/S O'BRIEN MEETINGS ON IRAN SANCTIONS
[...] (S) Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Patrick O'Brien consulted March 15-16 with French officials to discuss implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1737 on Iran sanctions, share information on individuals and entities involved in Iran's nuclear weapons program, learn the status of [...]
2007-03-27 16:27:00Embassy ParisSECRET//NOFORNPTER PREL EFIN ETTC KTFN KNNP IR FR
07PARIS1306FRENCH IMPLEMENTATION OF UNSCR 1747: BANK SEPAH
[...] (S) France clamped down on Bank Sepah just before adoption of UNSCR 1747, ensuring no capital flight would occur and thereby allow Iran to elude an asset freeze. The French Banking Commission acted in advance of French or EU implementing texts. END SUMMARY. Bank of France Pre-Action ----- [...]
2007-04-02 16:43:00Embassy ParisSECRET//NOFORNPTER PREL EFIN ETTC KTFN KNNP IR FR
07PARIS3340THE WAR ON TERROR: FRANCE ON U.S. PROPOSALS FOR
[...] SUMMARY: (C) Poloff shared reftel non-paper in late July with Louis Blin, Acting MFA DAS-Equivalent for Security and Counterterrorism in the Bureau of Strategic Affairs. Following up in an August 7 meeting, Blin told poloff that the GOF was particularly impressed with the U.S. initiative, espe [...]
2007-08-08 11:51:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER KTFN FR
07PARIS3750TERRORIST FINANCE: SAUDI FIVE DESIGNATION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-09-10 12:18:00Embassy ParisSECRETKTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL FR
07PARIS3827TERRORIST FINANCE: FRENCH FOLLOWUP ON SAUDI FIVE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-09-14 15:32:00Embassy ParisSECRETFR KTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL
07PARIS4276MINFIN OFFICIAL BRIEFS DEPSEC KIMMITT ON WEALTH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In an October 12 meeting with Treasury Deputy Secretary Kimmitt, Finance Ministry Director General Xavier Musca highlighted his concerns regarding sovereign wealth fund (SWF) investments, particularly when not made via intermediaries. When the Deputy Secretary inquired as to how [...]
2007-10-16 16:56:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALEFIN KTFN UNSC IR FR
07PARIS4320NON-COMPLIANCE WITH UNSCR 1267 OBLIGATIONS: HASSAN
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-19 16:13:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN PREL PTER UNSC
07PARIS4401PKK: GOF AGREES WITH U.S. AND WANTS INFO ON ALTUN
[...] (S) Embassy delivered ref A talking points to MFA counterterrorism officials on October 26. The GOF fully agrees with the U.S. assessment of the PKK and promised to continue encouraging its European partners to take action against PKK operatives in Europe. Poloff was told in the meeting that [...]
2007-10-31 17:55:00Embassy ParisSECRETPTER PREL PGOV KTFN TU IZ EUN FR
07PARIS4511TERRORIST FINANCE: ILLICIT CASH COURIERS
[...] SUMMARY: France has had measures in place and investigative units dedicated to money laundering detection and prosecution since 1990. Cross-border movements of cash and other negotiable instruments worth 10,000 euros or more must be declared to Customs. In 2006, Customs seized 126 million eu [...]
2007-11-16 12:37:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC KCRM KTFN PREL PTER FR
07PARIS652TERRORIST FINANCE: HUMAN APPEAL INTERNATIONAL (HAI)
[...] No summary [...]
2007-02-21 09:56:00Embassy ParisSECRETEFIN PTER KTFN ETTC PREL ECON FR
07PRAGUE1196CZECHS VIGILANT ON PKK; NO DOMESTIC PRESENCE KNOWN
[...] (SBU) Czech MFA Director of Southern Europe and Eastern Europe, Tomas Szunyog, thanked us for our comments related to the PKK (reftel). Szunyog noted that the Czech government takes this topic seriously and acknowledged that the Czechs have been in touch with the Turkish Embassy to discuss the [...]
2007-11-02 14:02:00Embassy PragueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PREL PGOV KTFN TU IZ EZ EUN
07PRAGUE1278CZECH REPUBLIC: DESIGNATED TERRORISM FINANCE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-07 09:51:00Embassy PragueUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC EZ PTER KTFN
07PRAGUE334CZECH REPUBLIC: NO BANK SEPAH ACTIVITY
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-29 08:54:00Embassy PragueUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP IR PARM EFIN KTFN ETTC EZ
07PRETORIA1138DELIVERED: DESIGNATION OF IRAN'S DEFENSE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-30 15:41:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PARM KNNP KTFN KN IR SF
07PRETORIA2186DELIVERED: DESIGNATION OF IRANIAN ENTITIES
[...] No summary [...]
2007-06-18 14:56:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PARM KNNP KTFN IR SF
07PRISTINA810KOSOVO: EFFECTS OF POSSIBLE SERBIA ECONOMIC
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite negative consequences for its own economy, Serbia appears determined to implement an economic blockade against Kosovo when independence is declared. While the length and degree of a blockade is impossible to predict, complete closure of every Serbia-Kosovo checkpoint to a [...]
2007-12-07 17:53:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD ECON EAID EAIR ETTC PTER KTFN UNMIK
07PRISTINA829KOSOVO'S WATER SYSTEM: INTERDEPENDENCE OF NORTH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Gazivoda reservoir, located in the northern Serb-majority municipality of Zubin Potok, is Kosovo's largest body of water and a vital resource for both Kosovo Albanian and Kosovo Serb communities. The lake supplies drinking water to areas of northern Kosovo and essential cooling [...]
2007-12-20 16:34:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD ECON EAID EAIR ETTC PTER KTFN UNMIK
07QUITO1238ECUADOR -- DEMARCHE ON COUNTERTERRORISM OBJECTIVES
[...] On May 23 post delivered reftel points to Lourdes Puma Puma, Director of Multilateral Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Puma said the GOE understands the importance of strengthening its ability to monitor financial transactions in order to stop individuals or entities suspected of [...]
2007-05-30 14:06:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PTER UNSC EC
07QUITO484ECUADOR - RESPONSE TO ILLICIT CASH COURIER ACTIVITY
[...] (SBU) This a response to State 16120, requesting posts to raise the problem of illicit cash courier activity with host government officials. DEA country attache raised the issue of illicit cash courier activity with Ecuador's Director of the Antinarcotics Directorate (part of the police depar [...]
2007-03-02 17:25:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KTFN LE PREL EC
07QUITO796US-LATIN AMERICA PRIVATE SECTOR DIALOGUE
[...] (U) Post delivered reftel invitations on March 20 to Ecuadorian Central Bank General Manager Mauricio Pareja, Superintendent of Banks Alfredo Vergara, and Minister of Economy and finance Ricardo Patino Aroca. As of April 3, the latter two declined citing prior official engagements, and the fo [...]
2007-04-04 21:34:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ETTC KCRM KTFN PREL PTER
07RABAT1719MOROCCO - FOLLOW-UP ON ILLICIT CASH COURIERS
[...] (SBU) The U.S. mission in Morocco continues to pursue the expansion and enhancement of counterterrorism (CT) cooperation with the GOM, which includes combating terrorism finance, cash couriers, and money laundering. Post's CT working group coordinates numerous CT related programs managed by t [...]
2007-11-08 13:32:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KCRM PTER KTFN MO
07RABAT329TERRORIST FINANCE: USG CONCERN OVER ILLICIT CASH
[...] No summary [...]
2007-02-16 17:08:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC MO PREL PTER KTFN
07RABAT889AML: MOROCCO'S NEW LAW ENTERS INTO FORCE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Morocco's long-awaited anti-money laundering statute officially entered into force on May 3, 2007, with its publication in the country's "Bulletin Officiel." Moroccan officials tell us they are currently working to finish the decrees that will implement the new law, and that th [...]
2007-05-18 12:04:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN EFIN PTER PGOV MA
07RABAT909RE-PROGRAMMING FY2007 AML RESOURCES FOR PUBLIC
[...] (SBU) With confirmation from Moroccan Finance Ministry officials that planned USG assistance to help establish Morocco's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) and train its personnel would be most effective if provided in 2008, after the unit is up and running, post recommends that a portion of th [...]
2007-05-24 11:35:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALKTFN EFIN PTER PGOV MA
07RABAT955U/S LEVEY CONGRATULATES MOROCCO ON NEW AML LAW AND
[...] (S) Summary: In a series of meetings on May 29, Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Stuart Levey congratulated GOM officials on the recent passage of Morocco's long-awaited anti-money laundering law and emphasized USG readiness to help with its implementation. He [...]
2007-06-06 08:54:00Embassy RabatSECRETKTFN EFIN PTER PGOV MA
07RANGOON1109BURMA: INCSR II MONEY LAUNDERING AND FINANCIAL CRIMES
[...] This report responds to reftel request for the INCSR II Money Laundering and Financial Crimes Report update. 2. Burma, a major drug-producing country, has taken steps to strengthen its anti-money laundering regulatory regime in 2006 and 2007. The country's economy remains dominated by state [...]
2007-11-15 08:37:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KCRM KTFN SNAR BM
07RIGA228LATVIA: IMPORTANCE OF SWIFT IMPLEMENTATION OF
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-27 14:59:00Embassy RigaCONFIDENTIALKNNP IR PARM EFIN KTFN ETTC LG
07RIGA366LATVIA SUPPORTS UNSCR 1267 CT OBJECTIVES, WILL
[...] (C) PolEconOff delivered reftel points May 16 to Liga Rozeniece, Head of International Organizations Division at the MFA. Rozeniece responded that the GOL agrees that both UNSCR 1267 and UNSCR 1735 are important and effective counter-terrorism instruments. She added that the cover sheet prov [...]
2007-05-17 14:46:00Embassy RigaCONFIDENTIALEFIN KTFN PTER UNSC LG
07RIYADH1632SAUDIS UNDECIDED ON SUBMITTING IRAQIS TO UN 1518
[...] (S) The Saudis are still considering whether to support the submissions to the UN 1518 and 1267 Sanctions Committees requested in reftel. Abdulrahman Al-Ahmad, a First Secretary in the International Organizations Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs working on terrorism issues, repo [...]
2007-08-05 13:34:00Embassy RiyadhSECRETEFIN PTER ETTC KTFN PREL SA
07RIYADH1891FOLLOW-UP ON SAUDI "REFORMERS"
[...] (S//NF) The international media recently published several articles about a ten-page petition addressed to King Abdullah demanding that the SAG release a group of nine "reformers" arrested on February 2-3, 2007 in Jeddah. The articles focused on the legitimate fundraising efforts of certain [...]
2007-09-10 14:35:00Embassy RiyadhSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR PTER KTFN KDEM PHUM SA
07RIYADH1894TERRORIST FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF FIVE SAUDIS
[...] (S/NF) Summary: On September 5, Post's Terrorism Finance Coordinator delivered reftel A points to the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stressing USG's interest in submitting a request to the UN 1267 Sanctions Committee on or about September 12. Embassy Riyadh fully supports the objectives o [...]
2007-09-11 08:24:00Embassy RiyadhSECRET//NOFORNEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER SA
07RIYADH1981PROMINENT SAUDI SCHOLAR PUBLICLY CRITICIZES BIN
[...] (U) On the sixth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States, Saudi Arabian Sheikh Salman bin Fahd al-Awdah posted a letter on his popular internet website, www.islamtoday.com, strongly criticizing Al-Qa'ida for its militant ideology and targeting of innocent civilians. In [...]
2007-09-25 13:58:00Embassy RiyadhSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR PTER KTFN KDEM KPAO PHUM SA
07RIYADH212SCENESETTER FOR APHSCT TOWNSEND VISIT TO SAUDI
[...] (S) Ambassador Oberwetter and the entire US Mission in Saudi Arabia warmly welcome you back to Riyadh. As you have witnessed during the course of your many visits to the Kingdom, our bilateral relationship is developing into robust, multi-faceted cooperation. One indication of this was King [...]
2007-02-01 12:35:00Embassy RiyadhSECRET//NOFORNPREL EFIN CVIS KTFN PTER GCC SA
07RIYADH299HUMAN APPEAL INTERNATIONAL: POST RESPONSE TO
[...] (S/NF) Mission Saudi Arabia appreciates the opportunity to comment on the potential UNSCR 1267 designation of the NGO Human Appeal International (HAI). After consulting internally within Embassy Riyadh, we have concerns with the reliance of evidence of this case on Hamas, which is not sanctiona [...]
2007-02-12 16:28:00Embassy RiyadhSECRET//NOFORNECON EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER SA
07RIYADH305TERRORIST FINANCE: REQUEST FOR POST ASSISTANCE IN
[...] (S/NF) Embassy Riyadh appreciates the opportunity to comment on the effectiveness of tranche I designations under the Terrorist Facilitators and Inciters Initiative. While the Mission of Saudi Arabia fully supports the objective of this initiative - to sanction individuals that both financially [...]
2007-02-13 16:00:00Embassy RiyadhSECRET//NOFORNEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER SA
07RIYADH366APHSCT TOWNSEND FEBRUARY 6 MEETING WITH CROWN PRINCE SULTAN
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Townsend met on February 6 with Crown Prince Sultan at the Crown Prince´s offices in Jeddah. Both parties reiterated the positive cooperation between the U.S. and Saudi governments, and the Crown Prince expressed [...]
2007-02-24 12:19:00Embassy RiyadhSECRETPTER PGOV PREL PINR EFIN KTFN KWMN GCC SA
07RIYADH367APHSCT TOWNSEND FEBRUARY 6 MEETING WITH FOREIGN
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Francis Fragos Townsend covered both counterterrorism cooperation and regional political issues in her meeting with Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal at his home in Jeddah on February 6. Saud described the Feb [...]
2007-02-24 12:20:00Embassy RiyadhSECRETPTER PGOV PREL PINR EFIN KTFN MEPP KPAL SA
07RIYADH369APHSCT TOWNSEND'S FEBRUARY 6 MEETING WITH SAUDI
[...] (C) Summary: On February 6 in Jeddah, Saudi Finance Minister Ibrahim Al Assaf told Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Frances Fragos Townsend that the SAG would implement the Royal Decree requiring individuals carrying those funds in excess of $16,000 to decl [...]
2007-02-24 12:59:00Embassy RiyadhCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER EFIN KTFN CVIS GCC SA
07RIYADH37TERRORISM FINANCE: SAG RESPONSE TO AL-TAIBA UN
[...] (SBU) On January 6, 2007 Post received the following diplomatic note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding the addition of Lashkar al-Taiba to the UN 1267 Sanctions list of individuals/entities associated with Usama bin Laden, the Taliban or Al Qaida. Complimentary opening -- Th [...]
2007-01-09 13:59:00Embassy RiyadhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN EFIN ETTC PTER SA
07RIYADH497ARREST OF SAUDI "REFORMERS"
[...] (S//NF) SUMMARY: On February 2-3, the SAG internal security service (Mabahith) arrested ten men in Jeddah on the suspicion that they were collecting donations illegally and distributing them to unspecified "suspicious" persons (reftel). The Mabahith initially charged these individuals with [...]
2007-03-12 07:36:00Embassy RiyadhSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR PTER KTFN KDEM PHUM SA
07RIYADH56USG'S SUCCESSFUL TRAINING FOR SAUDI ARABIA'S
[...] (U) Summary. On December 20, 2006, EconOff and FBI representative to the Terrorist Financing Operations Section (TFOS),offered a one-day seminar to the Saudi Arabian Financial Intelligence Unit (SAFIU) geared towards basic analytical and investigative techniques for terrorism finance and m [...]
2007-01-10 15:30:00Embassy RiyadhCONFIDENTIALEFIN PTER KTFN ETTC SA
07RIYADH955TERRORISM FINANCE DEMARCHES DELIVERED
[...] (SBU) Post delivered several terrorism finance demarches to the SAG on the following dates: --ref A, "Designation of Additional Syrian Entities," on 13 February via diplomatic note 07-248; --ref B, "Designation of Five Terrorist Facilitators and Inciters," on 13 February via diplomatic [...]
2007-05-08 04:50:00Embassy RiyadhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON KTFN PGOV PINR PREL PTER SA
07RIYADH976TREASURY A/S PATRICK O'BRIEN MEETS WITH SAUDI
[...] (U) On April 23, the newly-appointed Saudi Customs Director General Saleh bin Manea Al-Khilwey told Treasury Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes Patrick O'Brien that the implementation of new cash declaration procedures is imminent. The SAG has relayed the same m [...]
2007-05-09 12:44:00Embassy RiyadhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETTC KTFN PTER SA
07ROME1TERRORIST FINANCE - ITALY: DOCKRAT PRENOTIFICATION
[...] (S) Econoff met with Giampaolo Cantini, Head of the Counter Terrorism Policy Unit at the MFA's Department for Multilateral Political Affairs on December 28 to discuss reftel points. Cantini stated that the GOI Financial Security Committee (FSC) would research the individuals listed in refte [...]
2007-01-03 17:19:00Embassy RomeSECRETEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER ZU IT
07ROME120ITALY - DESIGNATIONS OF ADDITIONAL SYRIAN ENTITIES UNDER E.O. 13382
[...] No summary [...]
2007-01-18 16:01:00Embassy RomeSECRETPREL PTER KTFN KNNP EFIN ETTC SY IT PARM
07ROME1281BANK OF ITALY PUTS BANK SEPAH ROME UNDER "SPECIAL
[...] (S/NF) The Bank of Italy (BOI) regulator overseeing BOI administration of Bank Sepah Rome since passage of UNSCR 1747 informed Econoff June 8 that BOI "special administration" of the branch is now in place. The Ministry of Finance approved BOI's request to move to a special administration of [...]
2007-06-11 16:31:00Embassy RomeSECRET//NOFORNKNNP PARM PREL EFIN KTFN ETTC ECON UN IR IT
07ROME2143TERRORIST FINANCE: ITALIANS STILL NOT ON BOARD
[...] (S) Summary: An Italian Ministry of Finance official predicted lengthy discussions on UNSCR 1737 (Iran) implementation at the October 12 Financial Action Task Force (FATF) plenary in Paris. Italian officials are also close to announcing a decision to approve delisting Italian national Nasredd [...]
2007-10-05 16:56:00Embassy RomeSECRETKTFN EFIN ETTC PREL PTER IT IR
07ROME2313ITALY: FOLLOW-UP ACTION REQUEST ON ILLICIT CASH
[...] (C) Summary. Italian officials are making progress on combating illicit cash couriers. The GOI has recently issued a ministerial decree to bring its own regulations on cash transactions in compliance with EU norms and is drafting a law to update enforcement provisions. Seizures of bulk cash i [...]
2007-11-08 17:35:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKTFN KCRM EFIN ETTC PREL PTER
07ROME2361TERRORISM FINANCE: ITALY TO STUDY TRO ACTIVITY
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-21 14:53:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PREL KTFN IT
07ROME2513PKK TERRORISM: ITALIAN RESPONSE TO UPDATED
[...] (S) Poloff followed up on Ref A and B demarches with Italian MFA Counterterrorism Officer Stefania Fancello on December 21, stressing that U.S. concern over PKK activities in Europe has grown since our first demarche on the Riza Altun case (Ref C) given increased tensionspQsdoD5EL5Q( Europe tha [...]
2007-12-27 17:21:00Embassy RomeSECRETPTER PREL PGOV KTFN TU IZ EUN IT
07ROME2517ITALY - UPDATE ON TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-28 17:03:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN EFIN ETTC PTER IT
07ROME267TERRORISM FINANCE: U.S. DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF
[...] No summary [...]
2007-02-09 09:32:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER IT
07ROME289TERRORIST FINANCE: ASSESSMENT OF TERRORIST
[...] (S) Econoff discussed reftel points with contacts at the Ministry of Finance (MOF) Office of Financial Crimes and the MFA Office of Counterterrorism Policy February 8. Our contacts reported that their offices referred the UN 1267 designations to the GOI Financial Security Committee (FSC) to [...]
2007-02-12 14:26:00Embassy RomeSECRETEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UNSC IT
07ROME291TERRORIST FINANCE: HUMAN APPEAL INTERNATIONAL
[...] (S/NF) Post convened its bi-weekly law enforcement meeting February 9 to discuss reftel. The following represents both the views of those USG law enforcement agencies at post attending the meeting and the views of ConGen Milan, where one HAI branch is reportedly located. 2. (S/NF) To be [...]
2007-02-12 16:03:00Embassy RomeSECRET//NOFORNEFIN KTFN ETTC PREL PTER ECON IT
07ROME384TERRORIST FINANCE: CASH COURIERS IN ITALY
[...] (C) Summary: GOI officials have demonstrated a commitment to combating bulk cash smuggling by putting into place effective controls to monitor financial activity. However, challenges remain. Limited resources hamper Italian law enforcement's ability to investigate illicit cash courier acti [...]
2007-02-26 15:57:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER IT
07ROME628BANK OF ITALY ACTS AGAINST BANK SEPAH ROME
[...] (S/NF) Summary: The Bank of Italy (BOI) has sent two "provisional administrators" to manage Bank Sepah Rome's affairs for the next 60 days, effectively placing the branch under BOI control. After that, BOI will decide whether to request that the Ministry of Finance (MOF) appoint a "special [...]
2007-03-27 17:00:00Embassy RomeSECRET//NOFORNKNNP PARM PREL EFIN KTFN ETTC ECON IR IT
07ROME703WORKING WITH ITALY TO BETTER COMBAT FINANCIAL CRIME
[...] (SBU) Italy has made significant strides over the past several decades in investigating and combating financial crimes, such as terrorism finance and money laundering. The government's highly public fights against the Sicilian Cosa Nostra mafia and the "Tangentopoli" ("Bribery-gate") scandal [...]
2007-04-05 15:35:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER PGOV IT
07ROME95IRAN - GOI REACTION TO BANK SEPAH DESIGNATION
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: MFA Political Director Terzi told visiting EUR A/S Fried that Italy expects European Commission political directors to come to agreement on a common position regarding the U.S. designation of Bank Sepah, within the next few days. Domestically, the GOI is considering revising [...]
2007-01-17 07:42:00Embassy RomeSECRETPREL EFIN ETTC KTFN KNNP KN PARM IR IT
07SANAA1418PART ONE OF FOUR: RESULTS OF FINANCIAL SYSTEMS
[...] Summary. A multi-agency Financial Systems Assessment Team (FSAT) conducted a week-long, in-country evaluation of Yemen,s capacity to combat money laundering and terrorist financing, in order to determine its most critical training and technical assistance needs on March 1-7, 2007. Yemen is [...]
2007-07-24 07:39:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN KCRM PREL PTER SNAR EFIN YM
07SANAA1423PART TWO OF FOUR: RESULTS OF FINANCIAL SYSTEMS
[...] Summary. A multi-agency Financial Systems Assessment Team (FSAT) conducted a week-long, in-country evaluation of Yemen,s capacity to combat money laundering and terrorist financing, in order to determine its most critical training and technical assistance needs on March 1-7, 2007. This secon [...]
2007-07-24 09:08:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN KCRM PREL PTER SNAR EFIN YM
07SANAA1424PART THREE OF FOUR: RESULTS OF FINANCIAL SYSTEMS
[...] Summary. A multi-agency Financial Systems Assessment Team (FSAT) conducted a week-long, in-country evaluation of Yemen,s capacity to combat money laundering and terrorist financing, in order to determine its most critical training and technical assistance needs on March 1-7, 2007. This thir [...]
2007-07-24 10:02:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN KCRM PREL PTER SNAR EFIN YM
07SANAA1425PART FOUR OF FOUR: RESULTS OF FINANCIAL SYSTEMS
[...] Summary. A multi-agency Financial Systems Assessment Tean (FSAT) conducted a week-long, in-country evaluation of Yemen's capacity to combat money laundering and terrorist financing, in order to determine its most critical training and technical assistance needs on March 1-7, 2007. This four [...]
2007-07-24 10:09:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN KCRM PREL PTER SNAR EFIN YM
07SANAA1527TERRORISM FINANCE: MARTYRS FOUNDATION AND AL-QARD
[...] (U) This is an action request; see para 5. 2. (SBU) On August 1, EconOff delivered reftel demarche to Ambassador Abdulrahman Khamees, the ROYG Foreign Minister's Office Director. 3. (SBU) Khamees responded that Iranian foundations neither operate nor support humanitarian causes in Yem [...]
2007-08-06 06:39:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN PREL PTER YM
07SANAA2045FATF STATEMENT ON IRAN DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] (C) Emboffs delivered reftel demarche on October 31 to the ROYG National Anti-Money Launderng Committee (NAMLC) Chairman Ahmed Ghaleb. Also attending the meeting were Mohammed Al-Wareeth of the Yemen Bankers Association, Said Al-Khamery of the Ministry of Interior, Omer Ibrahim of the Minist [...]
2007-11-04 09:23:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL MNUC ECON EFIN KTFN PTER YM
07SANJOSE1519USG CONCERN OVER ILLICIT CASH COURIERS
[...] On August 9, PolOff conveyed reftel information and concerns to Randolph Coto, Assistant Director of the Disarmament and Terrorism Section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). 2. Mr. Coto advised the GOCR is aware of these concerns which are troubling to Costa Rica as well. He indicat [...]
2007-08-15 20:28:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC KTFN LE PREL PTER CS
07SANJOSE2063NOMINATIONS FOR OFFICERS TO COORDINATE TERRORISM
[...] Embassy San Jose nominates Mark Kissel of the Economic section to be the Terrorism Finance Coordination Officer (TFCO) and Rob Andrew of the Political section to be the Deputy TFCO. 2. The contact information for the proposed TFCO and Deputy TFCO follows below: TFCO Name: Mark Kissel T [...]
2007-12-17 23:38:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC PTER KTFN
07SANSALVADOR2404SAN SALVADOR TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-14 19:32:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC PTER KTFN ES
07SINGAPORE1018U/S LEVEY WARNS AGAINST IRANIAN FINANCIAL
[...] (S) Summary. Singapore officials assured Treasury Under Secretary Levey that they were taking the necessary steps to SIPDIS thwart any attempt by the Iranian government or Iran-linked entities to exploit Singapore for terrorism and proliferation-related activities. U/S Levey underscored t [...]
2007-05-25 09:10:00Embassy SingaporeSECRET//NOFORNKTFN ETTC KCRM EFIN PTER ECON EINV SN
07SINGAPORE1131U.S.-SINGAPORE COUNTERPROLIFERATION DIALOGUE
[...] (S) Summary: The second U.S.-Singapore Counterproliferation (CP) Dialogue in Washington June 14 offers an opportunity to review our steadily expanding bilateral CP cooperation and encourage Singapore to further strengthen its export control regime )- in particular through monitoring of transs [...]
2007-06-12 09:32:00Embassy SingaporeSECRETPARM MNUC KNNP ETTC ETRD KTFN PREL SN
07SINGAPORE1426LEGAL PROFESSION ADOPTS ENHANCED AML/CFT MEASURES
[...] The Law Society of Singapore recently amended its Legal Profession (Professional Conduct) Rules to strengthen its anti- money laundering (AML) requirements. The revised regulations, which come into effect August 15, represent another effort by Singapore to bring its AML (and countering the fi [...]
2007-08-02 02:33:00Embassy SingaporeUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KCRM EFIN KTFN SN
07SINGAPORE1607SINGAPORE PROPOSES NEW CASH COURIER REPORTING
[...] The Singapore government presented to parliament two amended pieces of legislation designed to enhance the country's anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML-CFT) regime on August 27. These actions are part of a series of steps Singapore has taken in recent months [...]
2007-08-30 04:23:00Embassy SingaporeUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC KTFN ECON KCRM SN
07SINGAPORE2037SINGAPORE 2007-2008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL
[...] (U) In response to reftel instructions, this message is Post's draft chapter on Singapore for the 2007-2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, Part II - Money Laundering and Financial Crimes. We also have emailed to INL the text of the draft report in MS Word format showing chan [...]
2007-11-13 07:13:00Embassy SingaporeUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM EFIN KTFN PTER KSEP ETTC SNAR SN
07SINGAPORE480DEMARCHE ON INTERPOL'S AMIA PROPOSAL DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-09 06:33:00Embassy SingaporeCONFIDENTIALIR AR PGOV PREL FBI PTER KJUS ASEC KTFN KISL
07SINGAPORE585DPM WONG RESPONDS TO LAW ENFORCEMENT COOPERATION
[...] (C) Summary: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs WONG Kan Seng told the Ambassador on March 23 that he planned to discuss recent law enforcement cooperation developments during his upcoming visit to Washington. He acknowledged that much effort was required to conclude a Mutu [...]
2007-03-23 08:46:00Embassy SingaporeCONFIDENTIALETTC SNAR KTFN KCRM PREL PTER ECON SN
07SINGAPORE703SINGAPORE ANTICIPATES FAVORABLE FATF REVIEW
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 11. 2. (C) Summary: GOS officials claim they are well prepared for an upcoming Financial Action Task Force (FATF) peer review to assess Singapore's anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) regime. Recent ste [...]
2007-04-09 07:13:00Embassy SingaporeCONFIDENTIALETTC KTFN EFIN KCRM ECON ETRD EINV SN
07SINGAPORE745SCENESETTER FOR DPM WONG KAN SENG'S VISIT TO
[...] (C) Summary: Singapore Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs WONG Kan Seng is Singapore's key figure for domestic security, law enforcement, and intelligence cooperation. His April 19-22 visit to Washington and New York offers an excellent opportunity to expand the programmatic [...]
2007-04-13 06:08:00Embassy SingaporeSECRETKCRM PTER SNAR KTFN ETTC EFIN KWMN SN
07SINGAPORE933FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE COOPERATION BETTER, ALBEIT
[...] (C) Summary: GOS officials told Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) Regional Specialist Rena Miller April 18 that they expected to process 4,000 to 5,000 Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs) in 2007, up from about 1,760 in 2004. Miller noted that information sharing had improved [...]
2007-05-14 09:16:00Embassy SingaporeCONFIDENTIALETTC KTFN KCRM EFIN PTER SNAR ECON EINV SN
07SKOPJE392MACEDONIA SUPPORTS UNSCR 1267
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-18 13:45:00Embassy SkopjeUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PTER UNSC MK
07SKOPJE695MACEDONIA: A/S O'BRIEN VISIT HIGHLIGHTS TERRORISM
[...] (SBU) During his June 11-12 visit, A/S Patrick O'Brien encouraged Macedonian government officials to continue strengthening the country's counter-terrorism financing and anti-money laundering law, as well as those institutions responsible for implementation of the law. O'Brien applauded the [...]
2007-08-22 08:27:00Embassy SkopjeSECRET//NOFORNKTFN PTER EFIN PREL MK
07SOFIA1182GOB VIGILANT ON PKK IN EUROPE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-02 14:42:00Embassy SofiaSECRETPTER PREL PGOV KTFN OSCE TU IZ EU BU
07SOFIA1285BULGARIA STRONGLY CONDEMNS PKK USE OF VIOLENCE.
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-01 15:20:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIEDPTER PREL PGOV KTFN TU IZ EUN BU
07SOFIA424BULGARIA IMPLEMENTING UNSCR 1747 AND TARGETING
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-04 12:55:00Embassy SofiaSECRET//NOFORNPTER PREL EFIN ETTC KTFN KNNP IR BU
07STATE135198TERRORISM FINANCE: MALAYSIAN QUESTIONS
[...] Washington agencies appreciate post's dialogue with the Malaysian FIU and provide the following response keyed to questions raised by FIU head Jeremy Lee. 2. Post may relay the following response to the GOM: (1) If a designee,s assets are frozen and he believes his designation was in e [...]
2007-09-25 19:29:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PTER PREL MY
07STATE139684ENGAGING THE G7 PLUS LIECHTENSTEIN ON NASREDDIN
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. (SBU) Per reftel, Ahmed Idris Nasreddin (an Eritrean-born Italian citizen) applied on April 13 for de-listing for himself and 12 entities associated with him from UNSCR 1267 (al Qaida Taliban Sanct [...]
2007-10-03 21:48:00Secretary of StateSECRETEFIN KTFN LS PREL PTER USUN
07STATE142289CTC CHAIRMAN ARIAS TO BRIEF UNSC ON
[...] Counter-terrorism Committee (CTC) Chairman Arias will provide on, October 10, an informal briefing to the Security Council updating the UNSC on Member States' implementation of UNSCR 1373. The basis for the briefing is to report progress on Preliminary Implementation Assessments (PIAs),which h [...]
2007-10-10 16:11:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PTER KTFN UNSC
07STATE145621NON-COMPLIANCE WITH UNSCR 1267 OBLIGATIONS:
[...] This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 3 and 4. ---------------------- SUMMARY AND OBJECTIVES ---------------------- 2. Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys was listed in November 2001 pursuant to UNSCR 1267 (Al-Qa'ida/Taliban sanctions) and subsequent resolutions. The 1267 sanctions r [...]
2007-10-17 23:28:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN PREL PTER UNSC XA ER
07STATE149594GUIDANCE FOR CTC'S FIFTH SPECIAL MEETING IN
[...] The UNSC's Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) will hold its Fifth Special Meeting with International and Regional Organizations on the Prevention of Terrorist Movement and Effective Border Security on October 29-31 in Nairobi, Kenya. This event will address key issues related to the need to se [...]
2007-10-26 20:13:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN PREL PTER KE XA
07STATE152814RAISING NON-COMPLIANCE WITH UNSCR 1267
[...] This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 4 and 5. ---------------------- SUMMARY AND OBJECTIVES ---------------------- 2. Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys was listed in November 2001 pursuant to UNSCR 1267 (al-Qaida/Taliban sanctions) and subsequent resolutions. The 1267 sanctions regim [...]
2007-11-05 23:01:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN PREL PTER UNSC XA ER
07STATE170925DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE
[...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 3. 2. (C/Rel UN) The Department of Justice (DOJ),in conjunction with the U.S. Attorney,s Office for the Western District of Missouri, is conducting a criminal investigation regarding the Islamic American Relief Agency (IARA) and its alleged f [...]
2007-12-28 21:50:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALKTFN PTER UNSC XA XD PK
07STATE31244RESPONDING TO GOF REQUEST TO CO-SPONSOR LISTING
[...] (U) This is an action request for USUN and Embassy Paris. See paragraph 3. 2. (S) Summary: France is considering whether or not to request a listing of detained senior al-Qaida leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) under UNSCR 1267.(Ref) KSM, considered the "principal architect of the 9/11 a [...]
2007-03-13 00:21:00Secretary of StateSECRETEFIN FR KTFN PREL PTER
07STATE36625UNSCR 1267: UPDATING TALIBAN NAMES ON THE
[...] (U) This is an action cable. See paragraph 3. 2. (C) Summary: Per reftel, updating the Taliban entries on UN 1267 Consolidated List is an important measure to implement UNSCR 1735, a resolution drafted by the USG which calls for updating the Taliban sanctions list to enhance its utility as [...]
2007-03-22 18:13:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALAF EFIN ETTC FR KTFN PGOV PREL PTER UK UNSC
07STATE67683MISSING AMERICAN CITIZEN IN IRAN
[...] (U) This is an action message ) please see paragraph 5. 2. (S) The United States has reason to believe Iranian security services targeted and detained retired FBI Special Agent Bob Levinson on March 8, 2007, during a trip to Kish Island. Iranian authorities may have believed he was sti [...]
2007-05-17 14:51:00Secretary of StateSECRETAR KISL KJUS LE PGOV PREL PTER FBI PRT KTFN ASEC IR
07STOCKHOLM370SWEDEN:
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-05 13:28:00Embassy StockholmSECRETPTER KTFN PREL PGOV TU IZ SW
07TALLINN121ESTONIA'S STANCE ON ILLEGAL CASH COURIERS
[...] (U) Econoff delivered reftel points to Jaap Ora, Director of the 1st Division of the MFA's Policy Planning Department - which is responsible for coordinating Terrorist Financing issues for the GOE. 2. (U) Estonia's main legal instrument in the fight against terrorist financing and illeg [...]
2007-02-26 15:06:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KTFN LE PREL PTER EN
07TALLINN703ESTONIA: CONDEMN PKK USE OF VIOLENCE
[...] (SBU) On October 29, Polecoff met with Kadri Jogi, Middle East Desk Officer and Annilee Poolekese, Terrorism and Cyber Security Desk Officer to discuss reftel. According to Jogi, the Government of Estonia (GOE) strongly condemns PKK activities, in particular those which have resulted in the de [...]
2007-10-31 12:14:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIEDPTER PREL PGOV KTFN TU IZ EUN EN
07TASHKENT1196GOU SUSPENDS PORTIONS OF MONEY
[...] (SBU) In late spring, President Karimov signed legislation suspending aspects of Uzbekistan's 2004 law on preventing money laundering and terrorist financing until 2013. The new legislation suspends the authority of the Department on Combating Tax, Currency Crimes, and Legalization of Criminal [...]
2007-06-25 10:54:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV EFIN PTER KTFN UZ
07TASHKENT1481PASSING THE BUCK ON MONEY LAUNDERING
[...] (C) Government of Uzbekistan officials provided little information on anti-money laundering efforts during a roundtable with international donors on August 7. Donors expressed concern at the suspension of Uzbekistan's money laundering law, warning that the decision makes Uzbekistan's particip [...]
2007-08-14 08:48:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV EFIN PTER KTFN UZ
07TASHKENT2072TERRORISM FINANCE: SYRIA/LEBANON DESIGNATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-04 11:26:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON KTFN EFIN PREL PTER UZ
07TELAVIV1436ISRAEL AGREES WITH USG POINTS ON UNSCR 1267; TO
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-16 11:34:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN PTER UNSC IS
07TELAVIV2808TREASURY, GOI DISCUSS SUPPORT FOR SHARING OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A delegation from the Treasury Department's Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes (OTFFC),led by Deputy Assistant Secretary Daniel Glaser, met September 10-11 with an inter-agency Government of Israel (GOI) group to follow up on a GOI request to restart discussions o [...]
2007-09-20 13:09:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALEFIN KTFN KCRM KWBG EAID IS
07TELAVIV2984GOI LOOKS TO POSTAL BANK FOR CONTINUED FINANCIAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In light of the Government of Israel's (GOI) recent designation of Gaza as a "hostile territory," Israel's commercial banks announced plans to discontinue correspondent services to banks in Gaza. This decision may represent the first step in the complete termination of relations [...]
2007-10-15 14:56:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALEFIN KTFN KWBG PTER IS
07TELAVIV3585ISRAEL AMENDS TERRORIST FINANCE LAW TO INCLUDE
[...] SUMMARY: The Government of Israel (GOI) recently passed amendments to the Prohibition on Terrorist Financing Law allowing for the designation of foreign terrorist entities. Until this week, the GOI only designated "domestic" terrorist groups in the West Bank, Gaza, and surrounding countries. T [...]
2007-12-20 15:12:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDPREL EFIN KTFN IS
07TELAVIV736ISRAEL MFA INFORMED OF USG INTEREST IN AMIA CASE
[...] (C) Responding to reftel demarche, Israeli MFA Nonproliferation and Counterterrorism Department Director Yehuda Yaakov expressed appreciation for the update on the USG interest in the Argentine-Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA) bombing case, calling it a "front and center" issue for the MFA. [...]
2007-03-08 13:25:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV PREL FBI KJUS ASEC KTFN KISL KIRF
07THEHAGUE1158TERRORISM FINANCE: SLAHI REMOVAL DEMARCHE
[...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel points June 4 to Joost van Ettro, Policy Officer, Terrorism and New Threats Unit, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Anne Chris Visser, Senior Advisor, Integrity Division, Dutch Ministry of Finance. 2. (SBU) Both officials said they had no information o [...]
2007-06-15 15:45:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN EUN PREL PTER NL
07THEHAGUE1452TERRORIST FINANCE: DUTCH NONCOMMITTAL ON
[...] (S) On July 31, Econoffs delivered points concerning USG request for co-sponsorship of the submission of six Iraqi individuals listed in reftel to the UN 1518 and 1267 Committees to Onno Kervers, Head of Terrorism and New Threats Unit, Political Affairs Department, Dutch Ministry of Foreign A [...]
2007-08-06 05:45:00Embassy The HagueSECRETKTFN EFIN PREL PTER UNSC NL
07THEHAGUE1505 SWIFT/INFORMATION EXCHANGES: DUTCH RELEASE REPORT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A June report to Parliament by the Dutch Ministries of Finance and Justice provided the results of the ministries' review of the SWIFT program and four cases of reported direct contact between Dutch financial institutions and the USG. SWIFT's recent registration with the Depart [...]
2007-08-16 14:33:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN EFIN ECON PTER PGOV KCRM NL
07THEHAGUE1514TERRORISM FINANCE: DOMESTIC USG DESIGNATION OF
[...] (U) This message includes an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (SBU) Econoff delivered on August 9 reftel points and background information concerning the USG domestic designation -- under E.O. 13224 -- of the Al-Salah Society and the Al-Salah Society's Ahmad Al-Kurd to Erik Ligtha [...]
2007-08-20 08:16:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER KTFN NL
07THEHAGUE1624TERRORIST FINANCE: SAUDI FIVE PRE-NOTIFICATION
[...] (S) Econoff delivered on August 29 reftel points and background information concerning the USG intention to submit the names of five Saudi terrorist financiers to the UN 1267 Sanctions Committee to Wendela Haringhuizen, Senior Policy Officer in the Terrorism and New Threats Unit at the Dutch [...]
2007-09-04 15:30:00Embassy The HagueSECRETEFIN KTFN PREL PTER ETTC NL
07THEHAGUE163SWIFT/TFTP: TREASURY EXPLORES NEXT STEPS WITH THE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. A Dutch interagency group told visiting Treasury officials that there is a general consensus within the GONL and the Dutch Central Bank on the need to shift the current debate on SWIFT procedures away from only data privacy issues to broader national security interests. Treasur [...]
2007-01-29 16:21:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALKTFN EFIN ECON PTER PGOV EUN NL
07THEHAGUE171TFTP/SWIFT: DUTCH MOF MEETS WITH NATIONAL DATA
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In its reply to the EU Commission query on SWIFT and the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP),the GONL will propose a short term solution that addresses data privacy concerns and a long term approach that addresses implications to the broader global financial system. Dutch F [...]
2007-01-30 14:50:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALKTFN EFIN PTER ECON NL
07THEHAGUE186TERRORISM FINANCE: DUTCH TO MONITOR DESIGNATION OF
[...] (SBU) Econoff delivered ref A points December 8 regarding domestic designation, and submission to the UN 1267 Sanctions Committee, of five terrorist facilitators (list 83) to Joost van Ettro, Policy Officer, Terrorism and New Threats Unit, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),and Anne-Chris [...]
2007-02-01 12:20:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN EFIN ETTC PREL PTER NL
07THEHAGUE1944DESIGNATIONS OF IRANIAN ENTITIES DELIVERED TO DUTCH
[...] (U) Econoff shared on October 26 reftel points concerning the designation of Iranian entities and individuals under U.S. executive orders with Wendela Haringhuizen, Senior Policy Officer, Terrorism and New Threats Unit, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),and Anne-Chris Visser, Senior Advisor [...]
2007-10-29 06:56:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP PREL PARM EFIN KTFN IR NL
07THEHAGUE1968FATF/IRAN STATEMENT: DUTCH TO ADDRESS WITH BANKS
[...] Econoff shared on October 31 reftel points concerning FATF's public statement and guidance on Iran with Dutch officials Huib Mijnarends and Wendela Haringhuizen, both Senior Policy Officers in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Terrorism and New Threats Unit, and Anne-Chris Visser, Senior Advis [...]
2007-11-06 14:29:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL MNUC ECON KTFN IR NL
07THEHAGUE1977NETHERLANDS/CASH COURIERS: DUTCH ANTI-CASH
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Dutch implemented on June 15 cross-border reporting requirements for travelers carrying currency in excess of 10,000 euros. GONL deployment of dogs at road checks and key air and sea ports to interdict cash smuggling had already been catching some 30 cash smugglers annua [...]
2007-11-08 16:11:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM EFIN ETTC PREL PTER KTFN NL
07THEHAGUE2020 NETHERLANDS/INCSR: PART II, MONEY LAUNDERING AND FINANCIAL
[...] The following is Embassy The Hague's submission of Part II of the 2007-2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report: Money Laundering and Financial Crimes. Embassy Point of Contact for this report is Deputy TFCO/Econoff Jay Heung at heungj2@state.gov, +31.70.310.2339. As requested re [...]
2007-11-30 08:14:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM EFIN KTFN SNAR NL
07THEHAGUE2056TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICER AT EMBASSY
[...] Embassy The Hague's TFCO is Economic Officer Jason (Jay) Heung, 31-70-310-2339, heungjx@state.sgov.gov, heungj2@state.gov. 2. Embassy The Hague's TFCO backup is Economic Section Chief Karen Enstrom, 31-70-310-2773, enstromkx@state.sgov.gov, enstromkl@state.gov. Arnall [...]
2007-12-12 15:48:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN EFIN ETTC PTER NL
07THEHAGUE343DUTCH VIEWS ON ADDITIONAL IRANIAN DESIGNATIONS
[...] (SBU) Both Foreign Affairs and Finance officials say the Dutch will not sanction additional Iranian entities until the EU completes negotiations over implementing regulations for UNSCR 1737. Huib Mijnarends, Senior Policy Officer responsible for sanction issues, Terrorism and New Threats Unit, [...]
2007-02-23 15:31:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP PREL PARM KTFN KN IR NL
07THEHAGUE345TERRORIST FINANCE: DUTCH ON ILLICIT CASH COURIERS
[...] (SBU) The Dutch Ministry of Finance (MOF) is hopeful that a soon to be implemented EU regulation will help detect and prosecute bulk cash smugglers. In a February 22 conversation, MOF official Paul ten Westeneind, Policy Officer, Integrity Division, told Econoff that the environment for combati [...]
2007-02-23 15:50:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KTFN LE PREL PTER KCRM NL
07THEHAGUE54TERRORIST FINANCE: REVIVAL OF ISLAMIC HERITAGE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-01-12 10:32:00Embassy The HagueSECRET//NOFORNPTER KTFN ETTC PREL EFIN NL
07THEHAGUE566UNSCR 1737/IRAN: DUTCH RECEPTIVE TO TREASURY UNDER
[...] (S) SUMMARY. In meetings March 8 in The Hague, senior GONL officials told visiting Treasury Under Secretary Levey that a nuclear-armed Iran would be unacceptable. While supporting USG aims for a second UN resolution on Iran, these officials stressed the need for practical and non-discriminatory mea [...]
2007-03-27 15:21:00Embassy The HagueSECRETEFIN KTFN PTER PREL ETTC IR NL
07THEHAGUE642NEW DUTCH FINANCE MINISTER READY TO TACKLE THE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Only one month in the job, new Dutch Finance Minister Bos is clearly not afraid to take on some of the politically sensitive issues handled by his ministry. He recently told Ambassador Arnall that his ministry's investigation into the transfer of data from Dutch banks to U.S. [...]
2007-04-05 15:24:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALEFIN KTFN PTER PGOV PINR EUN NL
07THEHAGUE767NETHERLANDS/PKK: DUTCH AWARE OF PKK CONGRESS
[...] (S) Emboffs have communicated reftel demarches to Dutch Foreign Ministry, law enforcement and intelligence officials. Dutch intelligence officers confirmed their awareness of the upcoming PKK meetings and potential participants. MFA officials acknowledged the importance of closely monitoring [...]
2007-04-24 14:58:00Embassy The HagueSECRETPTER PREL KTFN NL
07THEHAGUE86TERRORIST FINANCE: DELAY IN DOCKRAT DESIGNATION
[...] (S) Econoff delivered reftel A points on December 21 regarding Dockrat prenotification and reftel B points on January 8 regarding a delay in Dockrat designation to Joost van Ettro, Policy Officer, Terrorism and New Threats Unit, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Anne-Chris Visser, Senior [...]
2007-01-18 15:08:00Embassy The HagueSECRETEFIN ETTC PREL PTER KTFN NL
07THEHAGUE87TERRORIST FINANCE: DUTCH TO MONITOR DOMESTIC USG
[...] (SBU) Econoff delivered on December 8 reftel points and background paper on the USG designation of Hizballah-related entities in the tri-border area to Joost van Ettro, Policy Officer, Terrorism and New Threats Unit, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Anne-Chris Visser, Senior Advisor Inte [...]
2007-01-18 15:08:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC PREL PTER KTFN NL
07THEHAGUE936TERRORIST FINANCING/NETHERLANDS: DISRUPTING
[...] (U) This message includes an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (S) Econoff delivered reftel points on May 1 to Anne-Chris Visser, Senior Advisor, Financial Markets Policy Directorate, Ministry of Finance, and on May 2 to Joost van Ettro, Policy Officer, Terrorism and New Threats Un [...]
2007-05-16 14:13:00Embassy The HagueSECRETKTFN PTER EFIN KPAO NL
07TOKYO1376IMPORTANCE OF SWIFT IMPLEMENTATION OF UNSCR 1747
[...] (C) FINATT met with Ministry of Finance, Legal Office, International Bureau official Hiroshi Yamashita on March 27 to discuss the details and importance of UNSCR 1747. Using Treasury Deputy Secretary Kimmitt's comments to underscore our committment to implementing UNSCR 1747, FINATT and Yamash [...]
2007-03-29 07:18:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPARM EB ISN KNNP IR EFIN KTFN ETTC SA AEMR
07TOKYO147TERRORIST FINANCE: JAPAN'S RESPONSE TO DELAY IN
[...] No summary [...]
2007-01-12 06:08:00Embassy TokyoSECRETEFIN EMIN ETTC JA KTFN PREL PTER ZU
07TOKYO3720JAPAN,S RESPONSE TO DOMESTIC USG DESIGNATION OF
[...] (SBU) Embassy Tokyo Political Officer conveyed reftel demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs International Counterterrorism Cooperation Division Deputy Director Miyako Ishimura and Ministry of Finance Legal Office Deputy Division Chief Shunichi Fukushima on August 9, 2007. Both counterparts [...]
2007-08-13 08:40:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN JA
07TOKYO4053JAPAN,S RESPONSE TO TERRORIST FINANCE: SAUDI FIVE
[...] (S) Embassy Tokyo Political Officer and Deputy Financial Attache conveyed reftel demarche on August 30 to Ministry of Foreign Affairs International Counterterrorism Cooperation Division official Miyako Ishimura and Ministry of Finance Legal Office Deputy Division Chief Shunichi Fukushima. S [...]
2007-08-31 06:12:00Embassy TokyoSECRETKTFN EFIN PREL PTER JA
07TOKYO4682TERRORIST FINANCE: PRE-NOTIFICATION OF DESIGNATION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-05 04:52:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETTC JA KTFN PREL PTER SA
07TOKYO5194RESPONSE TO: TERRORIST FINANCE: FOLLOW-UP ACTION
[...] (C) Summary. ICE Attach and FINATT in separate meetings discussed bulk cash smuggling and currency transportation reporting requirements with Ministry of Finance (MOF),Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) and National Police Agency (NPA) officials. The officials we spoke to are aware of Finan [...]
2007-11-09 07:55:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALKTFN KCRM EFIN ETTC PREL PTER JA
07TRIPOLI1058UPDATING INFORMATION FOR TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-23 12:22:00Embassy TripoliUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC PTER KTFN
07TUNIS1439TUNISIA INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY
[...] There is no discernible money laundering or terrorist finance activity occurring in Tunisia. Tunisia is not considered an important regional financial center due in large part to the very strict control exercised by the Central Bank over financial transactions, particularly those involving fo [...]
2007-10-30 10:15:00Embassy TunisUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KCRM KTFN SNAR PTER TS
07TUNIS1442DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON FATF STATEMENT AND GUIDANCE
[...] On October 30, 2007, reftel points were transmitted to the Americas Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Tunisian Financial Analysis Commission (Tunisia's FIU) and the Ministry of Finance. Any reactions, comments, or response received from the GOT will be reported septel. 2. In [...]
2007-10-30 13:03:00Embassy TunisUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL MNUC ECON EFIN KTFN TS
07TUNIS1564TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICERS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-07 13:45:00Embassy TunisUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER TS
07TUNIS1579TERRORISM FINANCE: DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF IRAQI
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-17 08:13:00Embassy TunisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER IZ TS
07USNATO384TERRORIST FINANCING/USNATO: DISRUPTING EXTERNAL
[...] (C) In response to reftel, Mission has continuously raised the importance of denying all sources of support to the Taliban, including financial support, with NATO and other foreign officials. The issue of illicit financial support to the Taliban is highlighted particularly starkly during dis [...]
2007-06-22 14:46:00Mission USNATOCONFIDENTIALPTER KTFN NATO PREL
07USUNNEWYORK1024UN/1267 SANCTIONS: RUSSIANS UNYIELDING ON REMOVING
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Belgian PermRep and Chairman of the 1267 (Taliban/Al-Qaida) Sanctions Committee Johan Verbeke convened P-5 ambassadors plus Afghanistan on November 8 to discuss the outstanding Afghan requests to remove from the 1267 sanctions list twenty individuals who have renounced their ties t [...]
2007-11-15 19:48:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALPREL AF EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC
07USUNNEWYORK115PAKISTANI NON-COMPLIANCE WITH AL-QAIDA SANCTIONS
[...] (S) Ambassador Wolff told Pakistani PermRep Akram that the United States considers any alleged violations of the UN al-Qaida/Taliban sanctions regime to be a serious matter. The two ambassadors spoke on February 8 after Ambassador Akram, the previous day, raised with Ambassador Wolff a U.S. re [...]
2007-02-09 21:18:00USUN New YorkSECRETETTC EFIN UNSC PREL KTFN PK
07USUNNEWYORK128PAKISTAN UN PERMREP ON SANCTIONS ENFORCEMENT
[...] (S) Although initially critical of U.S. efforts to raise in New York the issue of Pakistan's apparent lack of compliance with UNSCR 1267 (al-Qaida/Taliban),following Ambassador Wolff's intervention (ref A),Pakistani PermRep Akram reported that he had advised Islamabad to "take steps" to addr [...]
2007-02-13 17:58:00USUN New YorkSECRETETTC EFIN UNSC PREL PTER KTFN PK
07USUNNEWYORK129EVALUATION OF TERRORIST FACILITATORS/INCITERS
[...] (S/NF) UNSC 1267 (al-Qaida/Taliban) Sanctions Committee members treated as normal the November 30 joint request by the United States and the United Kingdom to sanction five terrorist facilitators and inciters (TF and I). The Statements of Case demonstrated that these individuals were "associa [...]
2007-02-13 19:18:00USUN New YorkSECRET//NOFORNEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER KU QA SW NO UNSC
07USUNNEWYORK173MAKING TALIBAN SANCTIONS RELEVANT
[...] (U) This is an action cable. Please see paragraph 10. 2. (C) SUMMARY: This cable provides a status report on implementation of UNSCR 1735, a resolution drafted by the USG which calls for updating the Taliban sanctions list to enhance its utility as a relevant and potent tool to combat the [...]
2007-03-02 23:18:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALETTC EFIN UNSC PREL PGOV KTFN PTER AF
07USUNNEWYORK492INDONESIA'S SUPPORT FOR AL-QAIDA SANCTIONS
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Deputy PolCouns delivered ON June 14 REFTEL demarche calling for Indonesian leadership on multilateral efforts in counterterrorism to Indonesian Deputy PermRep, Ambassador Hassan Kleib, who stressed that Indonesia's national interest due to repeated terrorist bombings ensures that [...]
2007-06-15 22:20:00USUN New YorkSECRETKTFN ETTC EFIN UNSC PREL PTER ID
07USUNNEWYORK555AL-QAIDA SANCTIONS AND THE INTERNET
[...] (SBU) The Security Council 1267 (al-Qaida/Taliban) Sanctions Committee discussed on June 25 al-Qaida's misuse of the Internet to recruit, fundraise, train, spread propaganda, and plan terrorist attacks. The Committee Chairman structured the debate around a Monitoring Team paper on the issue ( [...]
2007-07-06 20:54:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN ETTC EFIN UNSC PREL PTER
07USUNNEWYORK590UNSC AL-QAIDA/TALIBAN SANCTIONS COMMITTEE: FOCAL
[...] (SBU) USUN Poloff met on July 9 with G7 counterparts and delivered REFTEL points regarding Ahmed Idris Nasreddin's delisting request. Nasreddin is currently under UN sanctions because of his association with al-Qaida. Nasreddin petitioned for delisting through the newly established focal poi [...]
2007-07-18 21:44:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN ETTC EFIN UNSC PREL PTER
07USUNNEWYORK666UN/1267 SANCTIONS: USUN SEEKING GUIDANCE ON
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) During an August 13 meeting with Algerian PermRep Youcef Yousfi, USUN Ambassador Jackie Sanders raised the Algerian Mission's August 3 request to the Al-Qaeda/Taliban Sanctions Committee to designate for targeted sanctions Abd [...]
2007-08-14 00:09:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALAL ETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC
07USUNNEWYORK759COUNTRY CLEARANCE: PAUL DERGARABEDIAN AND BRUCE
[...] (U) Country Clearance request (reftel) granted for Paul Dergarabedian, Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crime, Department of the Treasury and Bruce Miller, DHS, Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, to lead a training workshop on trade-based issues involving money launderin [...]
2007-09-17 15:27:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPTER KTFN PREL UNSC
07VIENNA1928AUSTRIA OFFERS LAME EXCUSES FOR RELEASE OF RIZA
[...] (S) Following an initial run-around with GoA bureaucrats, the Minister of Justice's Chief of Staff, Albin Dearing, briefed the Charge and Acting EconPol Counselor July 19 on the Riza Altun case. Dearing acknowledged that there had been an internal GoA communication breakdown, as Austrian pol [...]
2007-07-20 16:24:00Embassy ViennaSECRETPREL PTER PGOV KTFN AU TU
07VIENNA2304TERRORIST FINANCE: SAUDI FIVE PRE-NOTIFICATION TO
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-31 08:56:00Embassy ViennaSECRETEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL AU
07VIENNA244SWIFT: AUSTRIA IN HOLDING PATTERN
[...] (C) On January 31, DCM and Econ Unit Chief met with Thomas Wieser, the Ministry of Finance's Director General for Economic Policy and Financial Markets, and Birgit Ertl, MoF Adviser, to inquire about Austria's latest thinking on SWIFT. Ertl, who is the MoF's POC for SWIFT, said that the GoA h [...]
2007-02-02 09:37:00Embassy ViennaCONFIDENTIALEFIN PTER KTFN PREL
07VIENNA2561TERRORIST FINANCE: PRE-NOTIFICATION TO AUSTRIA OF
[...] (S) On October 4, EconUnit Chief delivered ref A background paper and names to Angelika Schloegel in the Financial Markets Unit of the Ministry of Finance. Schloegel said she will distribute the information immediately, on a close-hold basis, to the appropriate authorities in the Ministry of [...]
2007-10-04 13:30:00Embassy ViennaSECRETEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL
07VIENNA2921EMBASSY VIENNA TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-11 08:46:00Embassy ViennaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC PTER KTFN AU
07VIENNA440ILLICIT CASH COURIERS: AUSTRIAN LAW IN COMPLIANCE
[...] On February 15, EconUnit Chief delivered reftel nonpaper to Birgit Ertl and Elisabeth Ottawa in the Ministry of Finance's Financial Markets Division. Ottawa noted that in August 2006, Austria had implemented a domestic regulation, which already incorporates all provisions of the EU's Regulat [...]
2007-02-20 11:25:00Embassy ViennaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER AU
07VIENNA810DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA: IMPORTANCE OF SWIFT
[...] (S) On March 28, EconUnit Chief delivered reftel statement from Deputy Treasury Secretary Kimmitt to Birgit Ertl, Assistant to the Ministry of Finance's (MoF) Director General and to Elisabeth Ottawa, the MoF's Terrorist Financing Coordinator. EconUnit Chief underscored the importance of imp [...]
2007-03-28 14:58:00Embassy ViennaSECRETPARM KNNP EFIN KTFN ETTC AU IR
07VIENNA856TREASURY A/S PATRICK O'BRIEN'S DISCUSSIONS WITH
[...] (U) On March 14, Treasury Assistant Secretary Patrick O'Brien led a delegation to Vienna to meet with officials at the Austrian Ministry of Finance, Ministry of European and International Affairs (formerly the Ministry of Foreign Affairs),Bank Austria Creditanstalt (BACA),and Raiffeisen Ze [...]
2007-03-30 12:23:00Embassy ViennaSECRETEFIN KTFN PREL ECON AU
07VIENNA918AUSTRIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON STOPPING TRAVEL TO
[...] (S) On April 5 EconUnit Chief met with Bettina Kirnbauer, Deputy Head of the Austrian Ministry of European and International Affairs' Justice and Home Affairs Division, to convey USG concerns about PKK leaders in Europe traveling to Iraq in the April/May period. EconUnit Chief noted that, wi [...]
2007-04-05 15:19:00Embassy ViennaSECRETPTER KTFN PREL AU TU IZ
07VIENTIANE290ILLICIT CASH COURIERS IN LAOS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Econoff met with Bank of Laos (BOL) Deputy Director General Mr. Leuane March 16, and NAS Director met with Lao Customs Deputy Director of International Relations Mr. Vongchan April 5 to discuss reftel and deliver nonpaper. DDG Leuane understands Financial Action Task Force (FA [...]
2007-04-06 10:01:00Embassy VientianeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KTFN LE PREL PTER LA
07VIENTIANE599TERRORISM FINANCE: TELLING LAOS ABOUT DOMESTIC
[...] No summary [...]
2007-07-27 09:35:00Embassy VientianeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN LA PREL PTER
07VILNIUS781LITHUANIA REPORTS NO PKK PRESENCE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-31 09:01:00Embassy VilniusUNCLASSIFIEDPTER PREL PGOV KTFN TU IZ EUN LH
07WARSAW2171POLAND: DESIGNATIONS OF IRANIAN ENTITIES AND
[...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified/NOT for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) On October 29, post delivered reftel points to Mieczyslaw Kuzinski and Marian Siemakowicz of the Security Policy Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),and to Elzbieta Frankow-Jaskiewicz of the Department [...]
2007-10-31 13:41:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KNNP IR PARM EFIN KTFN ECON PL
07WARSAW2349UPDATING INFORMATION FOR TERRORISM FINANCE
[...] (U) Post provides the following information in response to reftel. Post's TFCO is Economic Counselor, Richard A. Rorvig. His office phone number is (48)(22)504-2711, cell number (48)(22)0608-338-330. His classified e-mail address is RorvigRA@state.class and unclassified RorvigRA@state.gov. [...]
2007-12-10 15:52:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC PTER KTFN PO
07WELLINGTON270New Zealand - Prenotification Information Delivered
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-01 22:07:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER NZ
07WELLINGTON51TERRORIST FINANCE: POST VETTING OF ISLAMIC
[...] (S/NF) In response to reftel, Post country team has discussed the likely domestic NZ response to a potential U.S. and UNSCR designation of the Kuwait-based Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS). We believe there would be little if any reaction to a designation. 2. (S/NF) Post is not a [...]
2007-01-12 04:52:00Embassy WellingtonSECRET//NOFORNEFIN ETTC PREL PTER KTFN
07WELLINGTON550 NEW ZEALAND - TERRORISM FINANCE: DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF
[...] No summary [...]
2007-07-29 23:08:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PREL PTER NZ
07WELLINGTON599 NEW ZEALAND - TERRORISM FINANCE: DOMESTIC USG DESIGNATION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-16 03:21:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PREL PTER NZ
07WELLINGTON657 TERROROISM FINANCE: Saudi Five Pre-notification
[...] No summary [...]
2007-09-03 23:11:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN EFIN PREL PTER ETTC NZ
07YAOUNDE1374CAMEROON'S FIU SEEKS CLOSER TIES WITH US
[...] (SBU) This is an action request for INL. See para. 5. 2. (SBU) In a November 14 conversation with Poloff, Hubert Nde Sambone, the Director of Cameroon's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) said he was eager to build working relationships with USG counterparts and to begin the process of jo [...]
2007-11-21 12:49:00Embassy YaoundeCONFIDENTIALKTFN EAID ECON EFIN KCOR PTER CM
07YEREVAN211ARMENIA SHARES USG CONCERN OVER ILLICIT CASH COURIERS
[...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel demarche to Armenian Central Bank (CBA) Financial Monitoring Center Methodologist Armen Malkhasyan and Analyst Aram Zakaryan on February 22. Malkhasyan said that Armenia was very concerned about bulk cash transfers and was working to improve its compliance with rela [...]
2007-02-27 13:34:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC PREL PTER KTFN AM
07YEREVAN551 ARMENIA JOINS EUROGIRO MONEY TRANSFER NETWORK
[...] (U) On April 27, the Armenian National Postal Operator "Haypost" signed a membership agreement with the Eurogiro Network, allowing Haypost offices to provide electronic money transfer services to and from more than 60,000 post offices across Europe. Under this agreement, accountholders will b [...]
2007-05-03 04:03:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV PTER KTFN AM
07YEREVAN97TERRORIST FINANCE: U.S. DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF DOCKRATS -
[...] No summary [...]
2007-01-30 09:15:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC PTER EFIN KTFN PREL AM
07ZAGREB1044CROATIA 2007 INCSR REPORT - PART II: FINANCIAL CRIMES AND
[...] Below is post's submission per reftel of part II of the INCSR on money laundering. 2. Croatia is a middle income transition economy that is neither a financial center nor a venue of choice for money laundering activities. Tourism and services make up the largest portion of GDP. Croatian [...]
2007-11-29 07:36:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KCRM KTFN HR
07ZAGREB1070ZAGREB TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICERS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-12 10:39:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC PTER KTFN HR
07ZAGREB243MORE COORDINATION AGAINST MONEY LAUNDERING BUT
[...] (C) Summary: The recent establishment of an inter-ministerial working group on money laundering is a positive development in Croatia's weak institutional framework for tackling economic crime. The aim of the new working group, comprised of eleven different ministries, agencies and offices is [...]
2007-03-09 10:29:00Embassy ZagrebCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN KCOR KTFN HR
08ABIDJAN907U.S. TREASURY TRAINS WEST AFRICAN FINANCIAL
[...] Summary. December 15-19, advisors from the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Technical Assistance (OTA) provided training in financial investigative techniques to 55 individuals from francophone and lusophone West Africa. Ambassador delivered opening remarks. On margins of the course, eco [...]
2008-12-31 10:13:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPTER EFIN ECON KCRM KTFN IV
08ABUDHABI1381U/S LEVEY PRESSES UAE ON IRAN SANCTIONS
[...] (S) Summary. On 18 November 2008, Treasury Under Secretary Stuart Levey and DCM Doug Greene (in Abu Dhabi) and Paul Sutphin, the Consul General (in Dubai) discussed with UAE counterparts recent U.S., international and UAE steps to increase financial pressure on Iran. In particular, Levey detai [...]
2008-12-03 14:31:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRET//NOFORNAE ECON IR KTFN PREL PTER
08ABUDHABI543APRIL 2008 MENAFATF PLENARY SUMMARY
[...] (SBU) The Middle East and North Africa Financial Action Task Force (MENAFATF) held a plenary session (MENAFATF VII),and working group meetings from April 6-9, 2008 at the Hilton Hotel in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE). Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Fi [...]
2008-05-01 07:01:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN KTFN PREL PTER AE QA YM
08ABUDHABI684TREASURY U/S LEVEY MEETING WITH UAE CENTRAL BANK
[...] (S) Summary: On June 2, Treasury U/S Stuart Levey discussed Iran and the UAE's FATF mutual evaluation with UAECentral Bank Governor Sultan Nasser Al-Suwaidi. A-Suwaidi explained that he had not seen much groth in the portfolios of Iranian banks in the UAE In response to U/S Levey's question [...]
2008-06-08 10:42:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRETPTER KTFN PREL IR AE
08ABUJA1899NIGERIAN TERRORISM BILL PASSES 2ND SENATE READING,
[...] (U) Summary: On September 16, the Nigerian Senate voted to send counterterrorism legislation to an ad-hoc committee comprised of members of the Senate National Security & Intelligence, Judiciary and Foreign Affairs committees, after passing its second reading. The ad-hoc committee, headed by [...]
2008-09-22 12:27:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPTER PINS PINR PGOV KCRM KHLS KTFN EPET NI
08ABUJA236NIGERIA: 2007-2008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY
[...] Although the Federal Republic of Nigeria is not an offshore financial center, Nigeria's large economy is a hub for the trafficking narcotics and other contraband. Nigeria is also a center of criminal financial activity, reportedly for the entire continent. Individuals and criminal organizations [...]
2008-02-05 14:14:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN SNAR KTFN KCRM NI
08ACCRA1475Ghana: 2009 International Narcotics Control
[...] Ghana is not a regional financial center, but due to continuing turmoil in the region, GhanaQs financial sector is likely to become more important regionally as it develops. Most of the money laundering found in Ghana involves narcotics and public corruption. Ghana is a significant transship [...]
2008-11-20 16:04:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN SNAR KCRM KTFN GH
08ADDISABABA1546LACK OF POLITICAL WILL PROMPTS TREASURY PROJECT SUSPENSION
[...] SUMMARY: Seven months after the signing of the Terms of Reference (TOR) between the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) and the U.S. Treasury Department for an Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing (AML/CFT) program, the U.S. Department of Treasury has decided to suspend work on the [...]
2008-06-06 05:33:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN EAID ECON EFIN PTER PREL ET
08AITTAIPEI1467 TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF FIVE INDIVIDUALS AND TWO
[...] (U) Per reftel, Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) issued a formal instruction on October 3, 2008, providing all banking institutions with information on an additional five individuals and two entities pursuant to E.O. 13438 for threatening the peace and stability of Iraq and the G [...]
2008-10-14 10:18:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC ECON IZ IR SY TW
08AITTAIPEI1482 TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF FIVE INDIVIDUALS AND TWO
[...] Per reftels, the Central Bank of the ROC (Taiwan) has searched, but not found, any bank record of foreign exchange receipts from or payment to the following five individuals and two entities designated by the U.S. Department of the Treasury on September 16, 2008 pursuant to E.O. 13438 for thre [...]
2008-10-17 09:03:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC ECON IZ IR SY TW
08AITTAIPEI1614 TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF GULF-BASED AL-QAIDA
[...] Per reftel, Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) issued a formal instruction on November 11, 2008, providing all banking institutions with information on three Gulf-based al-Qaida financiers added on October 10, 2008 to its list of entities/individuals subject to targeted sanctions. [...]
2008-11-14 03:54:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC ECON BA QI TW
08AITTAIPEI1645 TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF GULF-BASED AL-QAIDA
[...] Per reftels, the Central Bank of the ROC (Taiwan) has searched, but not found, any bank record of foreign exchange receipts from or payment to the following three financiers designated by the UN 1267 Committee pursuant to resolution 1267 on October 10, 2008: --Khalifa Muhammad Turki Al-Subaiy, [...]
2008-11-24 07:13:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC ECON BA QI TW
08AITTAIPEI1715 TERRORISM FINANCE: U.S. DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF THREE
[...] Per reftel, Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) issued a formal instruction on December 8, 2008, providing all banking institutions with information on three members of al-Shabaab, designated by the U.S. under E.O. 13224 on November 20, 2008, for supporting terrorism. These three [...]
2008-12-11 07:28:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR UNSC ECON ET KE TW
08AITTAIPEI1744 TERRORISM FINANCE: U.S. DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF THREE
[...] Per reftels, the Central Bank of the ROC (Taiwan) has searched, but not found, any bank record of foreign exchange receipts from or payment to the following three members of al-Shabaab, designated by the U.S. under E.O.13224 on November 20, 2008 for supporting terrorism: --Ahmed Abdi Aw-Moh [...]
2008-12-17 08:39:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR UNSC ECON ET KE TW
08AITTAIPEI1776 TERRORISM FINANCE: U.S. DESIGNATION OF UNION OF GOOD
[...] (U) Per reftel, Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) issued a formal instruction on December 22, 2008, providing all banking institutions with information on the U.S. Department of the Treasury's designation of the Union of Good, a Saudi Arabia-based organization, as a supporter of t [...]
2008-12-24 05:51:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR KWBG KPAL UNSC ECON
08AITTAIPEI22 FATF STATEMENT AND GUIDANCE ON IRAN
[...] Per ref A, Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) issued a formal instruction on December 25, 2007, providing all banking institutions and securities finance companies with copies of the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF) October 2007 statement and guidance on Iran [...]
2008-01-07 23:43:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN EFIN PTER PREL FARM MNUC ECON TW IR
08AITTAIPEI221 TERRORISM FINANCE: SYRIA/LEBANON DESIGNATIONS
[...] Per ref A, Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) issued a formal instruction on February 2, 2008, providing all banking institutions and securities finance companies with information on three individuals, Assaad Halim Hardan, Wi'am Wahhab, and Hafiz Makhluf designated by the U.S. Dep [...]
2008-02-19 10:07:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN EFIN PTER PREL FARM MNUC ECON TW IR
08AITTAIPEI222 TERRORISM FINANCE: DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF FOUR
[...] Per ref A, Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) issued a formal instruction on February 2, 2008, providing all banking institutions with information on four individuals (including Ahmed Foruzandeh) and one entity (Al Zawra Television Station) designated by the U.S. Department of Tre [...]
2008-02-19 10:07:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN EFIN PTER PREL FARM MNUC ECON TW IR
08AITTAIPEI226 TERRORISM FINANCE: DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF IRAQI FORMER
[...] Per ref A, Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) issued a formal instruction on February 2, 2008, providing all banking institutions with information on seven individuals (including Fawzi Mutlaq Al-Rawi) with ties to the Iraqi insurgency and the former Iraqi regime. 2. The FSC a [...]
2008-02-19 10:08:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN EFIN PTER PREL FARM MNUC ECON TW IR
08AITTAIPEI261 TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF THREE KUWAIT-BASED
[...] Per reftel, Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) issued a formal instruction on February 18, 2008, providing all banking institutions with information on three individuals --Hamid Al-Ali --Jaber Al-Jalamah, and --Mubarak Mushakhas Sanad Al-Bathali designated on January 16, 200 [...]
2008-02-25 09:49:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN EFIN PTER PREL UNSC ECON TW KU
08AITTAIPEI301 TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF THREE KUWAIT-BASED
[...] Per reftels, the Central Bank of the ROC (Taiwan) has searched, but not found, any bank record of foreign exchange receipt from or payment to the following three individuals designated on January 16, 2008 by UN 1267 Sanctions Committee in LIST 83: Hamid Al-Ali, Jaber Al-Jalamah, and Mubarak [...]
2008-03-05 09:36:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN EFIN PTER PREL UNSC ECON TW KU
08AITTAIPEI302 TERRORISM FINANCE: DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF FOUR
[...] Per reftels, the Central Bank of the ROC (Taiwan) has searched, but not found, any bank record of foreign exchange receipts from or payment to the following four individuals and one entity designated by the U.S. Department of Treasury pursuant to US E.O.13438 on January 9, 2008: Four individu [...]
2008-03-05 09:37:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN EFIN PTER PREL PARM MNUC ECON TW IR
08AITTAIPEI303 TERRORISM FINANCE: DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF IRAQI FORMER
[...] Per reftels, the Central Bank of the ROC (Taiwan) has searched, but not found, any bank record of foreign exchange receipts from or payment to the following individual designated by the U.S. Department of Treasury pursuant to US E.O.13224 on December 6, 2007: --Fawzi Mutlaq Al-Rawi, and th [...]
2008-03-05 09:37:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN EFIN PTER PREL FARM MNUC ECON TW IR
08AITTAIPEI304 TERRORISM FINANCE: SYRIA/LEBANON DESIGNATIONS
[...] Per reftels, the Central Bank of the ROC (Taiwan) has searched, but not found, any bank record of foreign exchange receipts from or payment to the following three individuals designated by the U.S. Department of Treasury pursuant to US E.O.13441 on November 5, 2007: --Assaad Halim Hardan, -- [...]
2008-03-05 09:37:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN EFIN PTER PREL FARM MNUC ECON TW IR
08ALGIERS774ENHANCING ALGERIA'S ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING CAPACITY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Algeria's still nascent financial intelligence unit is ready to cooperate on a technical assistance program to be offered through the Office of Technical Assistance (OTA) at the U.S. Department of Treasury in the area of anti-money laundering and terrorist finance (AML/TF). Bo [...]
2008-07-08 15:58:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECIN KTFN KCRM KJUS PREL PTER ECON AG
08AMMAN1208JORDAN: DEMARCHE ON ANNUAL PKK MEETING DELIVERED
[...] (S) PolCouns delivered reftel demarche April 21 to Jamal Al-Shamayleh, Director of the Foreign Minister's private office. Shamayleh said he would inform the Minister and advise his counterpart at the General Intelligence Directorate (GID). 2. (S) Post is following up directly with GID. HA [...]
2008-04-21 15:05:00Embassy AmmanSECRETKTFN PREL PTER IZ TU JO
08AMMAN393REMINDER OF FEBRUARY 11 DEADLINE TO NOMINATE
[...] Embassy Amman would like to remind action addressees of the February 11 deadline for submitting the names of candidates for the Interdiction and Investigation of Bulk Cash Smuggling (BCS) seminar to be delivered in Amman, Jordan from March 10-13, 2008 (reftel). The seminar will be presented b [...]
2008-02-06 15:26:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETRD KTFN SNAR XF
08AMMAN99INVITATION TO ATTEND MARCH BULK CASH SMUGGLING SEMINAR IN
[...] This message contains action requests. Please see paragraphs 4-8. 2. The U.S. Treasury's Office of Technical Assistance (OTA) and the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (DHS-ICE and CBP) will jointly deliver a [...]
2008-01-13 09:42:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETRD KTFN SNAR XF
08ANKARA1075TURKEY: 1267 NOTIFICATION ON AL RASHID TRUST AND
[...] (SBU) On June 6, we shared reftel points with Metin Ergin, Office Director for Security Affairs at the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ergin thanked us for the information, and said he would share it promptly with all appropriate parties in the Government of Turkey. 2. (S) In Reftel [...]
2008-06-10 14:26:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETKTFN EFIN PTER PINR PREL
08ANKARA1232TURKEY: TERRORISM FINANCE: VENEZUELA-BASED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-09 07:46:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN EFIN ETTC PTER PREL CVIS VE TU
08ANKARA1791TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF FIVE INDIVIDUALS
[...] On October 14, we shared reftel information with Can Oguz, Office of the Special Envoy for Iraq, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Oguz thanked us for the information, said he would promptly share it with the appropriate parties, and made no substantial additional comment. Visit Ankara's [...]
2008-10-15 15:07:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC TU IZ IR SY
08ANKARA1907TURKEY: CAPITAL REPATRIATION LAW WILL NOT EXEMPT
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary: We met October 31 with Hasan Aktan, Undersecretary of Finance, to discuss the GOT's draft Capital Repatriation law and press reports that the GOT draft bill would exempt repatriated capital from money launderi [...]
2008-11-04 11:17:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN EFIN TU
08ANKARA234TURKEY - TERRORIST FINANCE: PRE-NOTIFICATION OF
[...] On February 8, we shared reftel information and points with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Deputy Director General Sakir Torunlar. He promised to share the information with relevant GOT ministries and offices promptly. He expressed appreciation for the notification and will follow up with us i [...]
2008-02-08 15:03:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETKTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL
08ANKARA235TURKEY : TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF THREE
[...] On February 8, we shared reftel information and points with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Deputy Director General Sakir Torunlar. He promised to share the information with relevant GOT ministries and offices promptly. He expressed appreciation for the notification and will follow up with us i [...]
2008-02-08 15:03:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC
08ANKARA379TURKEY: U/S LEVEY ON DANGERS OF DOING BUSINESS
[...] (C) Summary: In his January 28th meetings with the Turkish Foreign, Finance, and Treasury Ministries and Halkbank, Treasury Under Secretary Stuart Levey discussed the dangers of doing business with Iran and warned of the need for constant vigilance and extraordinary scrutiny in financial relat [...]
2008-02-27 12:37:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETEFIN KTFN KNNP EINV TU IR
08ANKARA645EL KADI'S ASSETS REMAIN FROZEN IN TURKEY
[...] (SBU) On April 2, the Administrative Court Council rejected the appeal of Saudi national Yassin el Kadi to release his frozen assets. El Kadi had appealed to vacate an earlier decision by the Danistay, or Council of State, that reconfirmed the authority of the Turkish Government to freeze hi [...]
2008-04-04 15:11:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER KTFN TU
08ANKARA748TURKEY: STOPPING TRAVEL TO ANNUAL PKK TERRORIST
[...] (S) Turkey is appreciative of USG efforts to raise the level of attention paid by European and regional governments to the potential for PKK members to travel to northern Iraq to participate in the group's annual conference, as instructed in ref a. MFA Department Head for the PKK Ceren Etiz t [...]
2008-04-22 09:38:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETKTFN PTER PREL IZ TU
08ANKARA932TURKISH RESPONSE ON UNSCR 1267 LISTING REQUEST
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph four. 2. (S) Summary. We met May 14 with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Deputy Director General for Security Affairs Inan Ozyildiz and Section Chief Metin Ergin. Ozyildiz promised to share reftel A information promptly with appropriate e [...]
2008-05-14 14:24:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETKTFN PTER PINR EFIN PREL BA QA TU
08ANTANANARIVO850GOM NOTIFIED OF LASHKAR-E-TAYYIBA TERRORIST
[...] (SBU) The names and talking points provided in reftel were delivered to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Malagasy financial intelligence unit (SAMIFIN),and the Central Bank on December 18. Post will report any substantive responses received from the GOM. MARQUARDT [...]
2008-12-19 07:53:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR UNSC MA
08ASHGABAT1277Terrorism Finance: Designation of Five Individuals and Two
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Per reftel, on September 26, 2008 Embassy informed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan of the designation under EO 13438 and provided related background information and key points in a non-paper. Any substantive [...]
2008-09-26 10:09:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN TX
08ASHGABAT311DESIGNATION OF FOUR ABU GHADIYAH NETWORK MEMBERS DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-06 11:25:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PTER PREL TX
08ASHGABAT742TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF FOUR LET OPERATIVES
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-11 02:58:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC
08ASHGABAT751TERRORISM FINANCE: U.S. DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF GULF-BASED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-13 06:04:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR UNSC BA QA TX
08ASHGABAT781TERRORIST FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF NINE NAMES DELIVERED TO
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-19 12:44:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PTER PINR UNSC BA QA TX
08ASHGABAT809TERRORISM FINANCE: INFORMATION ON U.S. DOMESTIC DESIGNATION
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-27 12:45:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PTER EFIN KTFN ETTC UNSC TX
08ASHGABAT96TERRORISM FINANCE: DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF FOUR INDIVIDUALS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-18 03:02:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN TX
08ASHGABAT978INFORMATION ON DESIGNATION OF AL-QUAIDA-AFFILIATED TERROR
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-29 09:56:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PTER PREL AG TX
08ATHENS1453EEB DAS HENGEL DISCUSSES BANK SADERAT AND NEW
[...] (C) During a meeting with EEB DAS for Energy, Sanctions and Commodities Doug Hengel on October, 14, Bank of Greece Director of Bank Supervision Panagiotis Kyriakopoulos outlined the measures the Bank of Greece is taking against Iranian Bank Saderat. Kyriakopoulos indicated that while the Bank [...]
2008-10-17 14:08:00Embassy AthensCONFIDENTIALMNUC ECON KNNP IR GR KTFN EFIN
08ATHENS1490TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF GULF-BASED AL-
[...] (U) On October 30, A/Deputy Economic Counselor delivered reftel points to Ioannis Sidiropoulos, Secretary General of the Ministry of Economy and Finance; Panagiotis Thomopoulos, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Greece (BG); and Panagiotis Kyriakopoulos, Director of Monetary Policy of Banks of the [...]
2008-10-30 17:26:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL PINR UNSC GR
08ATHENS1724TERRORISM FINANCE: U.N. DESIGNATION OF FOUR
[...] (U) On December 29, A/Deputy Economic Counselor delivered reftel points to Ioannis Sidiropoulos, Secretary General of the Ministry of Economy and Finance; Panagiotis Thomopoulos, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Greece (BG); and Panagiotis Kyriakopoulos, Director of Monetary Policy of Banks of th [...]
2008-12-30 07:02:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC GR
08ATHENS542GREEK QUESTIONS ON PKK CONFERENCE IN IRAQ
[...] (U) This is an ACTION request. SEE PARAGRAPH 3. 2. (S) Poloff verbally delivered referenced demarche on the PKK conference in northern Iraq and provided the Europe-Erbil direct flight non-paper on April 16 to Deputy Director of the MFA A4 Directorate for Turkey, Katarina Nassika. Nassika [...]
2008-04-16 12:17:00Embassy AthensSECRETPREL PTER KTFN IZ GR TU
08ATHENS652TERRORISM FINANCE: GREEK MFA FAVORABLE TO LISTING
[...] (S) On May 5, DepPolCouns delivered reftel demarche on the upcoming UNSCR 1267 listing request of three individuals linked to al-Qaida to MFA A6 Middle East Directorate deputy head Giorgos Ayfantis. Ayfantis said he believed the GOG would have no difficulty with the listing and might co-spons [...]
2008-05-13 15:02:00Embassy AthensSECRETPTER PINR EFIN PREL KTFN GR
08ATHENS660EMBASSY ATHENS RESPONSE: PRE-NOTIFICATION OF
[...] (S) On May 14, Economic Section delivered reftel points to Ioannis Sidiropoulos, Secretary General of the Ministry of Economy and Finance, and to Panagiotis Thomopoulos, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Greece (BG). Both replied that they will pass along the information to appropriate offices w [...]
2008-05-14 13:40:00Embassy AthensSECRETKTFN PTER PINR EFIN PREL ECON GR
08ATHENS661EMBASSY ATHENS RESPONSE: CO-SPONSORSHIP AND
[...] (S) On May 14, Economic Section delivered reftel points to Ioannis Sidiropoulos, Secretary General of the Ministry of Economy and Finance, and to Panagiotis Thomopoulos, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Greece (BG). Both replied that they will pass along the information to appropriate offices w [...]
2008-05-14 13:43:00Embassy AthensSECRETKTFN EFIN PTER PINR PREL ECON GR
08ATHENS803GREEK RESPONSE: PRE-NOTIFICATION FOR UPCOMING
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-09 13:55:00Embassy AthensSECRETKTFN EFIN PTER PINR PREL ECON GR
08ATHENS830EMBASSY ATHENS RESPONSE: DESIGNATION OF FOUR LET
[...] (SBU) On June 9, Acting Deputy Economic Counselor delivered reftel information to Ioannis Sidiropoulos, Secretary General of the Ministry of Economy and Finance, and to Panagiotis Thomopoulos, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Greece (BG). Both replied that they will pass along the information t [...]
2008-06-11 11:35:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC
08ATHENS867TERRORISM FINANCE:U.S. DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-18 15:48:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL PINR UNSC
08ATHENS874GREECE ON IRAN: CARROTS BETTER THAN STICKS, BUT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Greek MFA officials dealing with various aspects of Iran issues indicated that Greece did not intend to break an EU consensus on stiffening Iran sanctions, but that it had concerns about the direction of Iran policy. Greece believed the evidence did not indicate the Iranians were [...]
2008-06-19 14:24:00Embassy AthensSECRETAORC EFIN ETRD ETTC EUN GR IR KCRM KNNP KTFN
08ATHENS985GREECE/IRAN: GREECE WON'T HINDER EU CONSENSUS ON
[...] (C) DCM spoke July 10 with MFA Secretary General Agathocles to inquire about the Greek position on the EU package of measures to implement UNSCR 1803; DCM said that we understood many in the EU were supportive of a common position with robust measures, but that Greece and a few others were ex [...]
2008-07-10 13:17:00Embassy AthensCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETRD ETTC EU GR IR KCRM KNNP KTFN
08BAGHDAD1275GOI RESPONSES TO STOPPING TRAVEL TO ANNUAL PKK
[...] (S/NF) Ambassador raised ref a points to President Talabani on April 14 and Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister on April 17 (ref b and septel),both of whom pleaded ignorance of the event but promised to look into it. President Talabani said it was possible to put pressure on th [...]
2008-04-24 11:26:00Embassy BaghdadSECRET//NOFORNPREL PTER KTFN TU IZ
08BAGHDAD1296RESULTS OF FINANCIAL SYSTEMS ASSESSMENT TEAM VISIT TO THE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-27 03:26:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PGOV PREL KTFN KCRM PTER SNAR IZ
08BAGHDAD1347RESULTS OF FINANCIAL SYSTEMS ASSESSMENT TEAM VISIT TO THE
[...] (U) This is an RRT Erbil reporting cable. 2. (SBU) A tailored Financial System Assessment Team (FSAT) consisting of Gary Novis (Department of State, Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism (S/CT)-Head of Delegation),Robert Stapleton, (Department of Justice, Asset Forfeiture and Money [...]
2008-05-01 09:56:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PGOV PREL KTFN KCRM PTER SNAR IZ
08BAGHDAD1348RESULTS OF FINANCIAL SYSTEMS ASSESSMENT TEAM VISIT TO THE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-01 09:57:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PGOV PREL KTFN KCRM PTER SNAR IZ
08BAKU122SCENESETTER FOR S/CT FRANK URBANCIC'S VISIT TO BAKU
[...] (C) Frank: My team and I look forward to your February 13-16 visit. Your visit provides a valuable opportunity to address key security issues with the GOAJ, particularly extending our non-intelligence CT cooperation and pushing the GOAJ to address its energy infrastructure gaps. 2. (C) [...]
2008-02-11 14:03:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV ENRG KTFN KISL AJ
08BAKU126CORRECTED COPY OF SCENESETTER FOR S/CT FRANK
[...] (C) Frank: My team and I look forward to your February 13-16 visit. Your visit provides a valuable opportunity to address key security issues with the GOAJ, particularly extending our non-intelligence CT cooperation and pushing the GOAJ to address its energy infrastructure gaps. 2. (C) [...]
2008-02-12 12:59:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV ENRG KTFN KISL AJ
08BAKU178S/CT URBANCIC DISCUSSES ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE
[...] (S/NF) Summary: S/CT Principal Deputy Counterterrorism Coordinator Urbancic's February 14-15 visit to Baku reaffirmed USG appreciation for Azerbaijan's cooperation in the war on terror and underscored USG interest in deepening bilateral CT cooperation. GOAJ officials confirmed they are work [...]
2008-02-29 10:44:00Embassy BakuSECRET//NOFORNPTER PREL PGOV ENRG KTFN KISL AJ
08BAKU484AZERBAIJAN'S RESPONSE TO PRE-NOTIFICATION FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-23 16:03:00Embassy BakuSECRET//NOFORNEFIN KTFN PTER PINR PREL AJ
08BAMAKO695MALI RESPONSE TO DESIGNATION OF
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-31 17:24:00Embassy BamakoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL PINR UNSC ML
08BAMAKO821MALI CREATES UNIT FOR COUNTERING TERRORIST
[...] On September 25 the Embassy met with former Minister of Housing Modibo Sylla and Customs Inspector Seydou Diawara to discuss Mali's newly created financial information unit (CNTIF). The CNTIF was created in May 2008 to comply with requirements of the West African Monetary Union (UEMOA) and s [...]
2008-10-01 14:15:00Embassy BamakoUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KTFN SNAR PTER ML
08BANGKOK1589TERRORISM FINANCE: REVIVAL OF ISLAMIC HERITAGE
[...] (C) Thailand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) notified post on May 21 that the Royal Thai Government (RTG) was not likely to co-sponsor the proposed UNSCR 1267 listing of Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS),but would not object to U.S. plans to do so. Counselor for the MFA's Intern [...]
2008-05-22 09:42:00Embassy BangkokCONFIDENTIALKTFN EFIN PTER PINR PREL
08BANGKOK3302DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL IRANIAN ENTITIES AND
[...] (C) On October 28 and 29, Econoff passed ref a points (regarding the United States' designation of the Export Development Bank of Iran and three affiliated entities under E.O. 13382) and ref b points (regarding the UN 1267 Committee's addition of three Gulf-based Al-Qaida financiers to its lis [...]
2008-11-06 01:20:00Embassy BangkokCONFIDENTIALKNNP KTFN PTER PREL UNSC PINR MNUC PARM EFIN
08BANGKOK3673TERRORISM FINANCE: U.S. DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF
[...] (SBU) On December 4, Econoff passed reftel points regarding the United States' designation of Saudi Arabia-based Union of Good as a supporter of terrorism under Executive Order 13224 to three offices within the RTG: the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' (MFA) International Security Unit, the Nation [...]
2008-12-17 05:51:00Embassy BangkokCONFIDENTIALKTFN KWBG KPAL EFIN PTER ETTC PREL PINR
08BEIJING1927REQUEST TO SECURE CHINESE SUPPORT FOR UN 1267
[...] (C) PolOff on May 19 conveyed reftel points requesting China's support for adding the names of four operatives of Lashkar e-Tayyiba (LeT) to the list of individuals and entities associated with Usama bin Laden, the Taliban or al-Qaida that are subject to UN Security Council (UNSC)-mandated san [...]
2008-05-19 08:03:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL EFIN KTFN UNSC CH
08BEIJING2047SUDAN -- DESIGNATING FOUR INDIVIDUALS
[...] (C) PolOff on May 28 delivered to MFA reftel points on designating four individuals for targeted sanctions and urged China to refrain from putting a hold on the designations in the 1591 Committee. MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division Deputy Director Shen Yiny [...]
2008-05-28 08:33:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL ETTC EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC SU CH
08BEIJING2185PRE-NOTIFICATION OF REQUEST TO ADD AKAS TO 1267 COMMITTEE LIST
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-06 02:57:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALCN EFIN KTFN PINR PK PREL PTER
08BEIJING2201CHINA OPPOSES FOUR SUDAN-RELATED DESIGNATIONS
[...] (C) MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division Deputy Director Sun Xiaobo told PolOff June 6 that China will oppose adding the four Sudan-related names (ref B) to the asset freeze and travel ban list maintained by the 1591 Committee. Sun said China takes a "cautiou [...]
2008-06-06 07:21:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL ETTC EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC SU CH
08BEIJING2277CHINA URGED TO RECONSIDER FOUR SUDAN-RELATED
[...] (C) Per ref A instructions, PolMinCouns on June 11 urged China to support the addition of four names to the UN Security Council Resolution 1591 (2005) Sudan Sanctions Committee's consolidated asset freeze and travel ban list. MFA International Organizations Department Deputy Director General L [...]
2008-06-11 09:38:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC SU CH
08BEIJING2525DRAFT UNSCR TO RENEW MANDATE OF 1267 MONITORING
[...] (C) PolOff on June 26 delivered to MFA reftel points seeking China's support for a U.S.-drafted UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) to renew the mandate of the UNSCR 1267 monitoring team. MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division Deputy Director Sun Xiaobo said [...]
2008-06-26 09:42:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UNSC AG CH
08BEIJING2570CHINA HOPES FOR UNANIMOUS VOTE ON UNSC 1735
[...] (C) PolOff on June 30 delivered reftel points to MFA asking China to support publicly the follow on resolution to UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1735. MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division Deputy Director Sun Xiaobo said that China and the United State [...]
2008-06-30 08:23:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UNSC AG CH
08BEIJING3907CHINA ON UPCOMING UNSCR 1267 LISTING REQUEST OF
[...] (S) PolOff on October 10 conveyed to MFA ref A's updated Statements of the Case (SOCs) on one Chinese and three Pakistani individuals that the United States plans to propose to add to the UN Security Council Resolution 1267 Sanctions Committee list of individuals and entities associated with U [...]
2008-10-14 08:28:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPREL PTER EFIN KTFN PINR UN CH
08BEIJING4600DELIVERY OF UNION OF GOOD TERRORISM FINANCE
[...] (SBU) On December 18, 2008, Econoffs and Finatt conveyed reftel to the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Department of External Security Affairs, Mr. Wu Shifan, as it relates to bilateral counterterrorism efforts. We expressed his appreciation and indicated he would pass the information on [...]
2008-12-19 01:11:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR KWBG KPAL IS
08BEIRUT1618LEBANON: DESIGNATION OF IRANIAN ENTITIES AND
[...] (SBU) Econoff on October 3 and 4 delivered reftel demarche, Designation of Additional Iranian Entities and Individuals under E.O. 13382, to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Head of the Americas' Desk Oussama Khachab and to Central Bank of Lebanon Governor Salameh. Salameh heads the Special In [...]
2008-11-12 14:30:00Embassy BeirutUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER ECON KTFN KNNP LE IR
08BEIRUT1796LEBANON: DESIGNATION OF IRANIAN ENTITIES UNDER
[...] (SBU) Econoff on December 23 delivered reftel demarche, Designation of Additional Iranian Entities under E.O. 13382, to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Head of the Americas' Desk Oussama Khachab. 2. (SBU) Post will forward any substantive responses separately. SISON [...]
2008-12-30 09:06:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPTER ECON KTFN KNNP LE IR
08BELGRADE1201SERBIA: 2008-2009 INCSR II ON MONEY LAUNDERING
[...] Reftel requested post update for Serbia on efforts to combat money laundering and terrorist financing. Serbia is upholding its international commitments to eliminate money laundering and terrorist financing. END SUMMARY. BEGIN INCSR II TEXT Serbia: Not a Financial Center -------------- [...]
2008-11-21 14:07:00Embassy BelgradeUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM EFIN KTFN SNAR SR
08BERLIN1048GONO DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO GERMANS - NO OBJECTION
[...] (SBU) EconOff delivered reftel demarche to German Ministry of Foreign Affairs representatives Julian Luebbert, Desk Officer, International Economic and Financial Policy and Antje Haeusler, Southern Africa Division. Both officers expressed appreciation for the informaton. They stated that t [...]
2008-07-31 17:32:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC ZI
08BERLIN1652TERRORISM FINANCE: U.S. DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF
[...] (SBU) EconOff delivered reftel demarche to the German Ministries of Finance, Economics, and Foreign Affairs regarding the U.S. designation of the Saudi Arabia-based Union of Good organization as a supporter of terror and encouraged the ministries to pursue similar measures. None of our Germa [...]
2008-12-11 15:02:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR KWBG KPAL IS
08BERN321ENCOURAGING SUPPORT FOR UN 1267 SANCTIONS AND
[...] (C) Poloff delivered message in reftel on July 2 to Daniel Frank, MFA Deputy Coordinator for Counter-terrorism. Frank said that the GOS had not yet formulated its official response to UNSCR 1822, but that the MFA noted and appreciated the positive elements. He remarked that UNSCR 1822 was a [...]
2008-07-03 17:09:00Embassy BernCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL ETTC EFIN KTFN UNSC SZ
08BERN564TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF GULF-BASED AL-
[...] (U) Poloff delivered the message in reftel on October 29 to Alessandro Capelli, Deputy Counterterrorism Coordinator, Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, and to Rene Bruelhart, Director Financial Intelligence Unit, National Administration of the Principality of Liechtenstein. 2. (SB [...]
2008-11-03 15:17:00Embassy BernUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL PINR UNSC SZ
08BISHKEK118TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF THREE KUWAIT-
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-04 03:59:00Embassy BishkekUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC KG
08BISHKEK1206KYRGYZSTAN: 2008-2009 INCSR, PART II, FINANCIAL CRIMES AND
[...] (U) No report was published for the Kyrgyz Republic in the 2007-2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, Part II, Financial Crimes and Money Laundering. Embassy point of contact for this report is Pol-Econ Chief Robert Burgess, email: burgessrg@state.gov. 2. (SBU) Follow is Em [...]
2008-12-03 02:51:00Embassy BishkekUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM EFIN KTFN SNAR PGOV KG
08BOGOTA3408COLOMBIA PLEASED WITH OFAC KINGPIN ACT
[...] (C) Charge told Colombian Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos on September 11 that the USG will designate three current and former Venezuelan officials under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act for materially assisting the narcotics trafficking activities of the Revolutionary Armed F [...]
2008-09-12 15:12:00Embassy BogotaCONFIDENTIALKTFN PTER PINR EFIN SNAR PREL KCRM VE CO
08BRASILIA1257 BRAZIL- DEMARCHE DELIVERED -OFAC NARCOTICS KINGPIN ACT
[...] (SBU) On September 18, 2008 ECONOFF delivered reftel demarche to the Council for the Control of Financial Activities (COAF) at the Ministry of Finance. COAF officials Joaquim da Cunha Neto and Bernardo Mota took delivery of the document, which outlined the reasons behind the designation of thr [...]
2008-09-22 14:32:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN PTER PINR EFIN VE BR SNAR AND KCRM PREL
08BRASILIA1353BRAZIL: DEMARCHE DELIVERIES: OFAC KINGPIN ACT DESIGNATIONS
[...] (SBU) On October 3, 2008 Econoff delivered ref A and B demarches to the Council for the Control of Financial Activities (COAF) at the Ministry of Finance. COAF official Bernardo Mota took delivery of ref A document regarding the Department of the Treasury's (DOT) Office of Foreign Assets Contr [...]
2008-10-10 19:52:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN PTER PINR EFIN NU CI UY PA PM CA VE BR AR
08BRASILIA1612BRAZIL: DEMARCHE DELIVERIES: TERRORIST FINANCE DESIGNATIONS
[...] (SBU) On 12 December 2008, ECONOFF met Council for the Control of Financial Activities (COAF) official Bernardo Motta to follow up previous discussions regarding the recent USG designations of individuals and organizations as supporters of terrorism under Executive Order 13224 (refs A, B, and [...]
2008-12-16 19:23:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN ETTC PTER PINR EFIN KCRM PREL BR
08BRUSSELS1007BELGIAN PRESS STATEMENT ON UNSCR 1822
[...] Summary: Below is a press statement circulated by the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs supporting the adoption of the UN Security Council Resolution 1267 against Al Qaeda and the Taliban. Belgium chairs the committee overseeing UNSCR 1267. End Summary. BEGIN PRESS STATEMENT Foreign Mi [...]
2008-07-02 14:30:00Embassy BrusselsUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UNSC AG BE
08BRUSSELS1044INFORMATION FOR UN AND EU SANCTIONS ON ZIMBABWE -
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-10 11:53:00Embassy BrusselsUNCLASSIFIEDETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC ZI BE
08BRUSSELS1050 TERRORIST FINANCING / CHARITIES: EU SENSITIVITIES FOR
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: USEU met on June 16 with a European Commission terrorist financing contact regarding U.S. proposals to discuss with the EU the abuse of charities by terrorist organizations. Contact expressed doubt that a U.S.-EU workshop on this topic can be agreed by the EU during the French [...]
2008-07-11 15:44:00USEU BrusselsUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC EFIN KTFN PTER FR EUN PINR UNSC EZ
08BRUSSELS1059U.S.-EU TROIKA ON TERRORIST FINANCING, MAY 23, 2008
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Charities, cash couriers, and UN sanctions reform were the focus of the May 23 bi-annual U.S.-EU Troika meeting on Terrorist Financing in Brussels. The EU will consider the U.S. proposal for a financial sanctions workshop program to address combating terrorist abuse of the non [...]
2008-07-14 15:49:00USEU BrusselsCONFIDENTIALCE EAID EFIN ETTC EUN FR KCRM KTFN PINR PREL
08BRUSSELS1106EU MAINTAINS MEK ON TERRORIST LIST
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The Council of the European Union issued its semi-annual review of terrorist-related groups and individuals July 15. Despite the UK's domestic de-listing of the Mujahedin-E Khalq (MEK) on June 24, the Council decided to maintain the MEK on its list. END SUMMARY. 2. (U) T [...]
2008-07-22 09:05:00USEU BrusselsSECRET//NOFORNPTER PREF PINR ETTC EFIN KTFN IR IZ EUN UK
08BRUSSELS1459BELGIAN BANK WILL LOOK INTO REPORTS OF ITS DOING
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Belgian officials were receptive to Treasury U/S Levey,s explanation of Iranian deceptive banking practices and guarded over any suggested implications of Belgium,s KBC Bank in illicit Iranian financial transactions. KBC Bank showed surprise and dismay at the suggestion that [...]
2008-09-22 14:45:00Embassy BrusselsSECRET//NOFORNKTFN EFIN KNNP ETTC BE IR
08BRUSSELS1468IRAN SANCTIONS: U/S LEVEY MEETINGS WITH EU
[...] (S//NF) SUMMARY: On September 8 and 9, U.S. Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Stuart Levey met with EU and Member State officials to take stock of U.S.-EU cooperation regarding Iran's illicit proliferation activities. U/S Levey underscored the effectiveness o [...]
2008-09-23 10:45:00USEU BrusselsSECRET//NOFORNETTC EFIN ENRG KNNP KTFN PTER PHUM PINR IR
08BRUSSELS71 EU PROPOSAL TO USG FOR CASH COURIERS / CONTROLS
[...] (SBU) Summary: EU Member State representatives will discuss on Jan. 16 how to respond to U.S. proposals for the next U.S.-EU practitioners' workshop on countering terrorist financing at the EU's Committee on Terrorism (COTER) working group. A Council Secretariat contact predicted to USEU tha [...]
2008-01-15 14:35:00USEU BrusselsUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC EFIN PTER KTFN KCRM KJUS KHLS SNAR EUN
08BRUSSELS870(S//NF) IRAN/TERRORISM: EU LIKELY TO REMOVE MEK
[...] (S//NF) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: Triggered by a recent UK court decision, the EU is debating whether to remove the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK, also included on the U.S. list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations) from the EU's terrorist designation list as early as the end of June. Delisting cou [...]
2008-06-09 14:43:00USEU BrusselsSECRET//NOFORNPTER PREF PINR ETTC EFIN KTFN IR IZ EUN UK
08BRUSSELS894IRAN: EU EXPLAINS 1803 NEXT STEPS TO A/S O,BRIEN,
[...] (S//NF) SUMMARY: U.S. Treasury Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing Patrick O'Brien met senior EU and Member State representatives on May 14 and 15 to stress the importance of EU action on sanctions against Iran. EU interlocutors explained the current EU implementation status for UNS [...]
2008-06-12 15:16:00USEU BrusselsSECRET//NOFORNEFIN ETTC ETRD KTFN PREL PARM PINR PTER KNNP
08BRUSSELS924STATUS ON EU SANCTIONS ON IRAN
[...] (S//NF) SUMMARY:Our diplomatic and political efforts to speed up European implementation of UN Security Council Resolutions (UNSCRs) and related financial sanctions appear to be gaining traction following the President,s trip to European capitals and a trip by the European Union,s High Repr [...]
2008-06-17 16:49:00USEU BrusselsSECRET//NOFORNEFIN ETTC ETRD KTFN PREL PARM PINR PTER KNNP
08BRUSSELS928EU READOUT OF SOLANA VISIT TO TEHRAN
[...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. On June 17, EU Council contact characterized HiRep Solana's June 14 meetings in Tehran as "better than expected." FM Motaki insisted on linking Iran's response to the P5 1 incentives package to a P5 1 response to Iran's proposals, but Jalili said Iran would "carefully study" [...]
2008-06-18 13:50:00USEU BrusselsCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PARM EFIN PTER KNNP ETTC ETRD KTFN AORC
08BRUSSELS955SYRIA AND IRAN: UNVIE AMBASSADOR SCHULTE AND
[...] (C) During a June 13 visit to Brussels, U.S. Mission to the IAEA Ambassador Gregory Schulte met with EU Council Secretariat Director General Robert Cooper to discuss nuclear non-proliferation efforts vis a vis Iran and Syria. Schulte obtained Cooper's assurance that the EU would take formal a [...]
2008-06-24 11:28:00USEU BrusselsCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL ECON EFIN KTFN MNUC KNNP PARM IR SY EUN
08BRUSSELS986 TERRORIST FINANCING / CHARITIES: EU SENSITIVITIES FOR
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: USEU met on June 16 with a European Commission terrorist financing contact regarding U.S. proposals to discuss with the EU the abuse of charities by terrorist organizations. Contact expressed doubt that a U.S.-EU workshop on this topic can be agreed by the EU during the French [...]
2008-06-27 15:38:00USEU BrusselsUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC EFIN KTFN PTER FR EUN PINR UNSC EZ
08BRUSSELS991ENCOURAGING SUPPORT FOR UN 1267 SANCTIONS AND
[...] (C) Charge delivered the requested points to Wilm Geurts of the MFA's UN Directorate on the Security Council. Geurts said that Belgium is very supportive and fully committed. The challenge is to get 1735 fully implemented by member states. 2. (C) Belgium is satisfied with UNSCR 1735 al [...]
2008-06-30 13:53:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UNSC AG BE
08BUCHAREST385TERRORISM FINANCE: RESPONSE TO 1267 DEMARCHE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-21 08:57:00Embassy BucharestUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN PTER PINR EFIN PREL
08BUCHAREST771ROMANIA: DOMESTIC TERRORISM DESIGNATIONS DIFFICULT
[...] (C) EconOff met on September 23rd with Elena Paris, Unit Chief in the Office for the Implementation of International Sanctions at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),to deliver reftel demarche regarding a U.S. Domestic Designation under E.O. 13438. Paris explained that the Government of Ro [...]
2008-10-01 12:15:00Embassy BucharestCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETTC PTER PREL PGOV KTFN RO
08BUCHAREST772ROMANIA ON C-RE8-01539 AND TERRORIST FINANCE:
[...] (S/NF) Summary. In response to ref A request for information, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) provided EconOff a brief outline of the procedure that led up to the Muhajedin-E Khalq (MEK) listing within the EU. MFA believes that this listing will remain in place for the immediate future [...]
2008-10-01 12:38:00Embassy BucharestSECRET//NOFORNEFIN ETTC PTER PREL PGOV PINR UNSC KTFN RO
08BUDAPEST1095TERRORISM FINANCE: DELIVERY OF GULF-BASED AL-QAIDA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-17 17:13:00Embassy BudapestUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL HU
08BUENOSAIRES1281ARGENTINA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON OFAC DESIGNATIONS
[...] (SBU) Per reftel, Poloff on September 12 delivered notice of the impending OFAC Narcotics Kingpin Act designations of three senior Venezuelan officials to Ricardo Roselli, the Director General for International Narcotics Affairs at the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Points were also p [...]
2008-09-12 21:52:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN PTER PINR EFIN SNAR KCRM PREL VE AR
08BUENOSAIRES1543ARGENTINE SUPPORT FOR OCTOBER 2008 FATF STATEMENTS
[...] (C) EconOff delivered reftel demarche November 7, 2008, to GoA National Coordinator for anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism finance Alejandro Strega. Strega, who reports to Argentina's Minister of Justice Anibal Fernandez, is Argentina's representative to the Financial Action Task For [...]
2008-11-07 21:00:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALKTFN EFIN PTER PREL PARM MNUC KNNP AR
08BUENOSAIRES1572POST FOLLOW-UP ON ARGENTINE SUPPORT FOR OCTOBER
[...] (C) Following on Post's November 7 delivery of Ref A demarche to Alejandro Strega, the GoA's National Coordinator for anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism finance (Ref B),EconOff delivered same message on November 14 to Zenon Biagosch, Vice Superintendent of Financial Institutions at t [...]
2008-11-18 15:26:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALKTFN EFIN PTER PREL PARM MNUC KNNP AR
08BUENOSAIRES1635ARGENTINA 2008-2009 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL
[...] (U) Per reftel, Post provides following draft of 2008-2009 INCSR II report on money laundering and financial crimes for Argentina. 2. (SBU) Begin Text: Argentina: Argentina is neither an important regional financial center nor an offshore financial center. Money laundering related to na [...]
2008-12-02 09:05:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KCRM KTFN SNAR AR
08BUENOSAIRES425CODEL Shelby discusses bilateral relationship, TIP, and
[...] (SBU) During a March 25 meeting with Justice Minister Anibal Fernandez, a delegation of four U.S. Senators and one Representative, led by Senator Shelby (R-AL),noted U.S. Congressional interest in Argentina's efforts to combat terrorism, terrorism financing, and money laundering, particularly [...]
2008-04-04 19:14:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV GTIP PTER KTFN ECON OREP AR
08BUENOSAIRES48ARGENTINA 2007-2008 INCSR PART II: FINANCIAL
[...] The following is Embassy Buenos Aires' input for the 2007-2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) part II -- Financial Crimes and Money Laundering. Marked-up text sent separately via email. Post POC is EconOff Chris Landberg (LandbergCA@State.Gov). Begin Text: Argent [...]
2008-01-14 14:43:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KCRM KTFN PTER SNAR AR
08BUENOSAIRES725ARGENTINE CENTRAL BANK PRESIDENT COMMENTS ON
[...] (SBU) Ambassador informed Argentine Central Bank (BCRA) President Martin Redrado May 19 that Treasury's Office of Technical Assistance had nearly completed a technical assistance agreement on terrorism finance for the BCRA and GOA regulatory agencies. The question now is how to fund it, and R [...]
2008-05-28 12:54:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN EFIN PREL AR
08CAIRO72 Updating Information for Terrorism Finance Coordination
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-17 05:17:00Embassy CairoUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC PTER KTFN EG
08CARACAS1748DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.S. DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-19 21:02:00Embassy CaracasUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN VE
08CARACAS870TERRORISM FINANCE: NOTIFICATION OF U.S. DOMESTIC
[...] (C) As requested, Charge d'Affaires (CDA) delivered information in paragraphs four and six of reftel and copies of the Treasury Department Press notice to representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). 2. (C) MFA officials declined to schedule a meeting for June 18. Instead CDA [...]
2008-06-19 19:41:00Embassy CaracasCONFIDENTIALKTFN PTER PINR EFIN PREL VE LE
08CARACAS998NEW BANKING SUPERINTENDENT OPTIMISTIC ABOUT HEALTH
[...] (C) Summary: Newly appointed Superintendent of Banks Maria Elena Fumero (strictly protect throughout) told Ecouncouns she believes the financial sector is generally in good shape. The structured notes (reftel) were problematic, she said, but did not represent a systemic threat to the sector [...]
2008-07-18 23:01:00Embassy CaracasCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN KTFN VE
08CHENNAI55POLICE CONTINUE TO INVESTIGATE POSSIBLE TERRORISTS
[...] (C) Summary: Police officials in the South India state of Karnataka arrested two individuals on January 9 who have since made statements suggesting that they are involved in plotting terror attacks in India. At least one of the suspects claimed to have received training at a Lashkar-e-Tayyib [...]
2008-02-14 08:50:00Consulate ChennaiCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV KTFN PK BG NP SA IN PINR
08CHISINAU1126MOLDOVA: 2008-2009 INTERNATIONAL
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-19 14:44:00Embassy ChisinauUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN SNAR KCRM KTFN ASEC MD
08CHISINAU1161MOLDOVA RECEIVED DEMARCHE CONCERNING
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-01 05:59:00Embassy ChisinauUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN PTER PREL UNSC PINR MD
08CHISINAU264TERRORISM FINANCE, ABU GHADIYAH--MOLDOVA WILL BLOCK AND
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-11 11:10:00Embassy ChisinauUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC IZ SY MD
08CHISINAU619MOLDOVA RECEIVES REFTEL TALKING POINTS ON U.S. DOMESTIC
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-13 14:33:00Embassy ChisinauUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL PINR UNSC BA QA MD
08CHISINAU637MOLDOVA RECEIVES TALKING POINTS ON DESIGNATION OF NAMES
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-18 13:16:00Embassy ChisinauUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN ETTC PTER PREL CVIS KVPR MD
08CHISINAU645MOLDOVA RECEIVED TALKING POINTS ON U.S. DOMESTIC
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-19 12:45:00Embassy ChisinauUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL PINR UNSC KU MD
08CHISINAU677MOLDOVA RECEIVES DEMARCHE ON VENEZUELA-BASED HIZBALLAH
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-27 09:45:00Embassy ChisinauUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL PINR UNSC VE LE MD
08CHISINAU829MOLDOVA RECEIVES DEMARCHE REGARDING THE DESIGNATION OF
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-18 07:18:00Embassy ChisinauUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR UNSC AG MD
08COLOMBO281SRI LANKA: CITIBANK BLOCKS SRI LANKAN AIRLINE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Citibank Sri Lanka has blocked a $250,000 transaction between Sri Lankan Airlines and Iranian Bank Melli, in accordance with Executive Order 13382 sanctions against Bank Melli. The blocked transaction was intended to pay for routine civil aviation overflight fees due to the gov [...]
2008-03-19 01:08:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALKTFN EFIN KNNP CE IR
08COLOMBO335SRI LANKAN AIRLINES APPLICATION TO OFAC TO RELEASE
[...] (C) Summary and recommendation: Sri Lankan Airlines has submitted a license application to the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) requesting release of a Pounds Sterling 125,124.70 payment that Citibank's Sri Lanka branch blocked in accordance with Executive Order 13382 because the r [...]
2008-04-01 12:20:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALEFIN KNNP KTFN IR CE
08DAKAR125 RESULTS OF FINANCIAL SYSTEMS ASSESSMENT TEAM VISIT TO
[...] (SBU) This cable is largely derived from the initial report by an interagency Financial System Assessment Team (FSAT),which conducted an onsite visit to Senegal November 5-9, 2007. The team met with a wide array of government and private sector entities in Senegal and came away with a nuance [...]
2008-02-04 08:59:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN PTER KCRM PREL SNAR PGOV SG
08DAKAR126 RESULTS OF FINANCIAL SYSTEMS ASSESSMENT TEAM VISIT TO
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-04 09:26:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN PTER KCRM PREL SNAR PGOV SG
08DAKAR522008 GUINEA-BISSAU INCSR PART II: FINANCIAL CRIME AND MONEY
[...] This cable is Part Two of the 2007-2008 National Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR),Financial Crimes and Money Laundering report for Guinea-Bissau. Included is a narrative overview (paras 2-11). Para 12 contains responses keyed to the numbered questions beginning with Reftel paragrap [...]
2008-01-14 10:47:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KCRM KTFN PTER SNAR PU
08DAKAR824SENEGAL BALKS AT PASSING TERRORISM FINANCING LAW
[...] (S) SUMMARY: The UEMOA Council of Ministers has approved a uniform law (directive) by the regional Central Bank for countering the financing of terrorism (CFT). The law has been forwarded to Senegal and other member states for ratification by country parliaments. According to Senegal's Finan [...]
2008-07-15 11:57:00Embassy DakarSECRETPTER KTFN ECON PGOV PREL KCOR SG
08DAKAR866SENEGAL/TERRORISM FINANCING LAW - MORE CONCERNS
[...] (S) Summary: Despite professional and perhaps personal risk, Senegal's Minister of Finance, via the IMF Resrep, wants the USG to know that President Wade does not want to move forward with required counter-terrorism financing legislation. Wade is reportedly worried about the enhanced invest [...]
2008-07-28 07:48:00Embassy DakarSECRETPTER KTFN ECON PGOV PREL KCOR SG
08DHAKA1146INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC RELIEF ORGANIZATION (IIRO)
[...] (C) Recent press accounts suggested that Islami Bank of Bangladesh had recently released money frozen for two years belonging to the International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO). Sister organizations of the IIRO have ties to al- Qaida and have been listed as terrorist-affiliated by the Un [...]
2008-11-03 11:06:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALEFIN PINR PREL PTER KTFN BG UN
08DJIBOUTI554DJIBOUTI: EFFORTS TO FIGHT TERRORIST FINANCE
[...] SUMMARY: During a May 28 seminar co-sponsored by Post and the Central Bank of Djibouti, over thirty participants from the Central Bank, local commercial banks, money transfer operations, and the GODJ Technical Counterterrorism Committee discussed Djibouti's progress in combating terrorist finan [...]
2008-06-26 12:51:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN KPAO PGOV PTER ECON EFIN ETTC DJ
08DJIBOUTI567IMF IN FINAL NEGOTIATIONS FOR DJIBOUTI PRGF
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a June 23 briefing, an International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation briefed donors in Djibouti on the results of their week-long mission to negotiate a new Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) agreement with the GODJ. While the IMF team was upbeat about the overall ec [...]
2008-06-30 10:33:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV PREL KTFN DJ
08DOHA155SCENESETTER FOR U/S LEVEY'S FEBRUARY 24-25 VISIT
[...] (S/NF) Your February 24-25 visit to Qatar should advance our engagement with the GOQ on CT cooperation and counter-terrorist finance, and continue our on-going discussions with the Qataris on the need for vigilance against money-laundering and Iranian exploitation of the international banking [...]
2008-02-21 12:19:00Embassy DohaSECRETPTER KTFN QA IR
08DOHA169QATAR UNLIKELY TO ISSUE WARNING ON IRAN TO BANKING
[...] (C) In the context of a broader discussion about Iranian financial activity in the Gulf (see septel),Qatar Financial Center Regulatory Authority (QFCRA) Managing Director for Supervision Michael Lesser told Treasury Under Secretary Stuart Levey February 25 that the QFCRA is unlikely to issue [...]
2008-02-27 13:23:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALEFIN KTFN KNNP MNUC IR QA
08DOHA186U/S LEVEY URGES QATAR TO PREVENT IRANIAN BANKS
[...] (C) During February 25 meetings, Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Stuart Levey commended Qatar's financial leaders for the progress they have made in expanding Qatar's financial services, warned them of deceptive practices being undertaken by Iranian banks and [...]
2008-03-05 05:31:00Embassy DohaSECRETEFIN KTFN ECON QA IR
08DOHA505QATAR CONTINUES BALANCING ACT WITH IRAN'S BANK
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Qatar's Deputy Central Bank Governor Sheikh Fahad Bin Faisal Al Thani told Charge the early June opening of a second Bank Saderat branch in Doha was the result of last-minute Iranian action on an old license. He asserted that the Central Bank is watching Iranian activity closely [...]
2008-07-15 06:40:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALPREL KTFN KNNP INRB PARM MNUC ECON EFIN IR QA
08DUSHANBE879TERRORIST FINANCE: PASSAGE OF RAJAH SOLAIMAN
[...] On June 24, Post delivered reftel demarche regarding the addition of eight Rajah Solaiman Movement names to the list of individuals/entities associated with the Taliban or al Qaida, via dipnote to the Americas Department of the Tajik Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Post will submit any substant [...]
2008-07-02 12:17:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPREL TI KTFN PTER EFIN CVIS KVPR
08GABORONE992GOB TO RESPECT DESIGNATION OF GULF-BASED AL-QAIDA
[...] (SBU) PolOff met with the Director of the Department of Multilateral Affairs in Botswana's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Mmamosadinyana Punkie Josephine Molefe November 12. PolOff discussed the UN Security Council 1267 Sanctions Committee approval to add three Gulf- [...]
2008-11-13 13:32:00Embassy GaboroneUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR UNSC BA QT BC
08GUATEMALA1578GUATEMALA DELIVERED DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-24 08:11:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN KNNP EFIN PARM GT
08HANOI757 VIETNAM: DEMARCHE ON RENEWAL OF UNSCR 1267 MONITORING TEAM
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-30 00:30:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UNSC VM
08HANOI762 VIETNAM: DEMARCHE TO ENCOURAGE SUPPORT FOR UN 1267
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-30 09:35:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAG EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UNSC VM
08ISLAMABAD1678GOP RESPONSE TO SUPPORT FOR UN 1267 REGIME
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-25 12:39:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETKTFN PK PREL PTER
08ISLAMABAD169 GOP RESPONSE ON UPCOMING LET DESIGNATION
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-11 09:33:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETEFIN KTFN PETER PREL PK
08ISLAMABAD2095PAKISTAN: RESPONSE TO PRE-NOTIFICATION OF TRUST ALTERNATIVE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-11 11:32:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETKTFN PREL PTER PK
08ISLAMABAD3237CHARGE'S MEETING WITH THE FINANCE SECRETARY
[...] (C) Summary: On September 8, Charge d'Affaires met with Finance Secretary Waqar Masood to deliver the demarche in reftel (Ref. B). The Charge and Masood also discussed changes at the Finance Ministry and the general economic situation, including the rapid drop in the rupee's value, the tradin [...]
2008-10-09 12:17:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PINR PTER KTFN PK
08JAKARTA1114UPDATE ON SATELINDO BROADCASTING OF AL-MANAR TV
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Based on meetings with Indosat and Government of Indonesia (GOI) officials, they are not inclined to stop broadcasting Al-Manar in Indonesia without a legal basis. While Indosat responded positively towards our arguments, they said they would not cancel their contract with Al-Manar unt [...]
2008-06-06 08:38:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL KPAO ECIP KTFN ID LE XC
08JAKARTA1138TERRORIST FINANCE -- DEMARCHE ON ADDING ALIASES TO
[...] (C) On June 9 poloff met with Aris Munandar, Deputy Director for Terrorism at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) to discuss the addition, per ref A, of the aliases of two groups already on the UN 1267 list. Poloff provided information on the aliases, requested Indonesian support for t [...]
2008-06-11 06:56:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALEFIN KTFN PTER ID
08JAKARTA1190TERRORIST FINANCE -- RAJAH SOLAIMAN MOVEMENT
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Mission presented reftel points to Fikry Cassidy, Deputy Director for International Security at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU),on June 18. Poloff stressed the importance of the UN Security Cou [...]
2008-06-18 09:42:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER EFIN KTFN ID
08JAKARTA1396SE Asian Hot Topics at Regional AML-CFT Meetings
[...] (SBU) The annual meetings of the regional Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG),held in Bali July 7 to 11, helped highlight the challenges facing Southeast Asian countries and clarify many acute training needs. The APG discussed and adopted three joint Mutual Evaluation Reports (MERs) [...]
2008-07-21 09:24:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON ETRD EINV PGOV PREL KCRM KTFN KCOR ID MY
08JAKARTA1496TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF
[...] (SBU) Embassy delivered information and points contained in reftel on July 31, 2008 to the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU). On August 6, Embassy spoke with Aris Munandar, Deputy Director for Counter Terrorism, Department of Foreign Affairs, to discuss the designations and urg [...]
2008-08-06 08:22:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALKTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL PINR UNSC ID
08JAKARTA1839AUSTRALIAN REGULATOR INVESTIGATING AL MANAR
[...] (C) The Australian Embassy has requested assistance from the Indonesian Broadcast Commission for an ongoing investigation into the broadcast of Al-Manar to Australia by the Indonesian telecommunications company Indosat. According to contacts at the Australian Embassy, the Australian Communica [...]
2008-09-30 00:18:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL KPAO ECIP KTFN LE XC ID
08JAKARTA2251 INDONESIA 2008-2009 INCSR PART II, MONEY LAUNDERING AND
[...] The following information was previously relayed via unclassified e-mail with tracked changes from the 2007-2008 INCSR (ref A),as requested by ref B. 2. As noted in ref A, report provided the USD equivalent figures reflecting an exchange rate of IDR 12,000/USD. The rupiah has been extre [...]
2008-12-15 02:59:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM EFIN KTFN SNAR ID
08JAKARTA2285TERRORISM FINANCE -- LASHKAR-E TAYYIBA DESIGNATION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Per reftel, Mission has urged the GOI to block the travel and assets of four target individuals and the Lashkar-e Tayyiba organization following their recent designation by the UN 1267 Committee. We passed on the information for individuals and the organization as a way to facil [...]
2008-12-18 04:36:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KTFN UNSC ID IN PK
08JAKARTA618A/S O'BRIEN'S VISIT TO JAKARTA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-27 08:59:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALKTFN PREL PTER EFIN ECON ID
08JAKARTA724A/S O'BRIEN EMPHASIZES IRAN, ASSET FREEZING IN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-10 02:40:00Embassy JakartaSECRETKTFN EFIN PTER PGOV ID
08JAKARTA725A/S O'BRIEN EMPHASIZES IRAN, ASSET FREEZING IN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-10 02:51:00Embassy JakartaSECRETKTFN EFIN PTER PGOV ID
08JAKARTA729A/S O'BRIEN EMPHASIZES IRAN, ASSET FREEZING IN
[...] (C) Summary: Treasury Assistant Secretary for Terrorism Financing and Financial Crimes O'Brien visited Indonesia April 2-3 to urge Indonesian government officials, regulatory agencies and private sector to be vigilant about Iran's outreach plans in the region and to more vigorously enforce ass [...]
2008-04-10 06:54:00Embassy JakartaSECRETKTFN EFIN PTER PGOV ID
08JAKARTA919TERRORIST FINANCING -- INDONESIA NOT LIKELY TO
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-09 08:06:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETTC PREL PTER KTFN ID KU
08JAKARTA922DEMARCHE RESPONSE ON SATELINDO BROADCASTING OF AL-MANAR TV
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Based on initial meetings with Government of Indonesia officials, it appears there are three possible routes for ending the broadcast of al-Manar television in Indonesia: 1) a formal U.S. complaint to the Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (IBC) and the Department of Foreign Affairs ba [...]
2008-05-09 09:11:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL KPAO ECIP KTFN ID LE XC
08JAKARTA947TERRORISM FINANCE / UNSCR 1267 LISTING
[...] (C) On May 13, poloff discussed the proposed listing of three individuals under UNSCR 1267 (reftel) with Aris Munandar, Deputy Director for Terrorism at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU). Poloff provided information on the three individuals and USG intention to designate them under [...]
2008-05-13 08:50:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETTC PREL PTER KTFN ID
08JERUSALEM1203NABLUS MALL CLOSURE SPARKS PA ANGER
[...] (C) Summary. PA leaders say they are furious about the IDF's closure of Nablus' largest mall (reftel). Prime Minister Salam Fayyad told the Consul General on July 8 that the GOI had not previously mentioned the mall (owned by publicly-traded real estate company al-I'timan) in GOI-PA discuss [...]
2008-07-09 14:30:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON KTFN KWBG PTER KISL KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM1320PREVIEWING HAMAS DESIGNATIONS WITH PM FAYYAD
[...] (S) EconChief delivered reftel points and list of organizations to Aziz Abu Dagga, chief of staff to PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, on July 21. Abu Dagga expressed appreciation for the information in advance of Treasury DAS Glaser's upcoming visit and said that he would convey it directly to [...]
2008-07-22 08:55:00Consulate JerusalemSECRETEFIN ETTC KTFN KWBG PTER
08JERUSALEM1329FURTHER NABLUS ARRESTS AND INCURSIONS; FUTURE OF
[...] (C) Summary: According to PA security and Nablus business contacts, the IDF made several incursions into Nablus July 21-22 and made twenty arrests, including a PLC member and board members of al-I'timan, the developer of the Nablus shopping mall ordered closed by the GOI on July 6 (reftels). [...]
2008-07-22 14:13:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON PREL PGOV KWBG PTER KTFN KISL IS
08JERUSALEM1450PM FAYYAD AND PMA GOVERNOR AL-WAZIR DISCUSS
[...] (S) Summary: Treasury DAS Daniel Glaser met with PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad on July 28 to discuss the USG's intent to designate thirteen organizations and one individual for their ongoing support of Hamas (Ref A). PM Fayyad said his government has already taken "courageous" steps to cut of [...]
2008-08-07 14:10:00Consulate JerusalemSECRETPTER KTFN EFIN ECON PHUM KISL KWBG IS EAID
08JERUSALEM1451DOJ ATTORNEYS DISCUSS ZAKAT COMMITTEES WITH AWQAF
[...] (C) Summary: Department of Justice attorneys met with Palestinian Authority Deputy Minister of Awqaf and Religious Affairs Salah Zuheika on July 15 to review the operation and composition of zakat committees in the West Bank and the Palestinian Authority's restructuring of these committees in [...]
2008-08-07 14:24:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNECON EFIN KTFN KWBG PTER PGOV KISL
08JERUSALEM1553NABLUS MALL SHOPS REMAIN OPEN AS IDF CLOSURE
[...] (C) Summary: Shops in Nablus' largest shopping mall remain open following expiration of the IDF's August 15 closure deadline. EconOff toured the mall on August 19 and found all shops operating normally. Shop owners say the IDF has "frozen" the closure order it imposed on the mall's 68 shop [...]
2008-08-21 13:56:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON PREL PGOV KWBG PTER KTFN KISL IS
08JERUSALEM1849GAZA FOOD AND FUEL: MORE DIESEL THROUGH THE TUNNELS
[...] (SBU) Summary. Gaza-based contacts report that shipments of humanitarian and commercial goods into Gaza from Israel were slightly higher in September compared to previous periods. Fuel imports remain restricted, encouraging smuggling of diesel from Egypt. Gaza sources and press reports note [...]
2008-10-07 14:37:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM ECON EAID PTER KTFN KWBG IS
08JERUSALEM2084FAYYAD RAISES CONCERNS ABOUT CORRESPONDENT BANKING
[...] (C) Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Salam Fayyad told the Consul General on November 19 that he is concerned about the apparent decision of Israeli commercial banks to terminate correspondent banking services for Palestinian banks (reftel). Fayyad predicted the cut-off will have th [...]
2008-11-20 15:36:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN KTFN KWBG PREL IS
08KATHMANDU1008NEPAL: FINANCIAL INFORMATION UNIT EAGER TO BECOME
[...] (C) On August 27 and September 5, Hari Kumar Nepal, one of only two personnel assigned to Nepal's new Financial Information Unit (FIU),explained the progress the FIU has made in drafting guidelines and the challenges it would have to tackle to become a functional entity in anti-money launder [...]
2008-09-09 10:49:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR EFIN KTFN NP
08KATHMANDU1200NEPAL: DRAFT 2009 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL
[...] Nepal is not a regional financial center and there are no indications that the country is used as an international money laundering center. In January 2008, the Government of Nepal (GON) for the first time passed legislation on anti-money laundering. There were no prosecutions or even arres [...]
2008-11-14 16:59:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KCRM KTFN SNAR NP
08KATHMANDU142TERRORISM FINANCE: DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF FOUR
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-01 11:29:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL IZ IR NP
08KATHMANDU143TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF THREE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-01 11:30:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC KU NP
08KATHMANDU25TERRORISM FINANCE: DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF FORMER
[...] On January 3, Emboff delivered reftel information on the U.S. domestic designation of Iraqi Former Regime Elements (FRE) to Mani Bhattarai, Section Officer for UN and International Organizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Bhattarai reviewed the information and asked if the Uni [...]
2008-01-08 06:27:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL IZ NP
08KATHMANDU26TERRORISM FINANCE: SYRIA/LEBANON DESIGNATIONS
[...] On January 3 and 7, Emboff delivered reftel information regarding the U.S. domestic designation of Syrian and Lebanese individuals to Mani Bhattarai, Section Officer for UN and International Organizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Bhattarai reviewed the information and said t [...]
2008-01-08 06:29:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN KTFN PREL PTER SY LE NP
08KATHMANDU743NEPAL/TERRORISM FINANCE: NEW FINANCIAL INFORMATION
[...] (SBU) On June 26, K. B. Manandhar, the Acting Governor of Nepal's central bank, the Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB),told Emboffs that the NRB's Financial Information Unit (FIU) would be the focal point for engaging with post on terrorism finance issues. The Government of Nepal in April 2008 first s [...]
2008-07-01 02:10:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PTER PREL EFIN KTFN NP
08KUALALUMPUR273TREASURY DEPARTMENT ENGAGES MALAYSIANS ON IRAN AND
[...] (C) Summary: During meetings on March 31 and April 1, Treasury Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes Patrick O'Brien impressed upon his Malaysian counterparts at the Central Bank, the Ministries of Finance and Foreign Affairs, charities regulators, and private banks [...]
2008-04-17 09:19:00Embassy Kuala LumpurCONFIDENTIALKTFN EFIN ETTC PTER PGOV KNNP MNUC PARM UNSC
08KUWAIT1006KUWAIT: HEAD OF KUWAIT'S FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE
[...] (SBU) Summary: During their September 22 introductory meeting, Mr. Talal Al-Sayegh, Head of Kuwait's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) and Deputy Manager of On-Site Supervision, confirmed to Ecouns that the final draft of the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) law had been delivered to the Ministry [...]
2008-09-24 10:12:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KCRM PTER KTFN KU
08KUWAIT1099GOK RESPONSE TO THE DESIGNATION OF GULF-BASED AL-QAIDA FINANCIERS
[...] (SBU) On October 27, 2008 post delivered reftel to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). On October 30 the GoK informed Post that it had contacted the appropriate authorities in the Ministries of Finance, Interior and Commerce and the Central Bank of the UN 1267 Designation of the Gulf-bas [...]
2008-11-04 12:15:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYBA EFIN ETTC KTFN PINR PREL PTER QT UNSC
08KUWAIT1104TREASURY DEPUTY SECRETARY KIMMITT MEETS KUWAITI PRIME MINISTER AND FOREIGN MINISTER REF: A. A: KUWAIT 947 B. B: KUWAIT 1088
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-05 08:44:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPREL EFIN ECON EINV KTFN IZ IR KU
08KUWAIT1108DEPUTY SECRETARY KIMMITT MEETS TOP KUWAITI FISCAL
[...] (C) Summary: Deputy Treasury Secretary Robert Kimmitt discussed the global response to the financial crisis with the Kuwaiti Finance Minister, Central Bank Governor and the head of the Kuwait Investment Authority on October 30. The Kuwaiti interlocutors agreed on the need for coordinated fol [...]
2008-11-05 11:19:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALEFIN EINV ECON KTFN ETTC KU
08KUWAIT128TERROR FINANCE: DESIGNEES CONTINUE TO RANT WITH SOME SUPPORT FROM PARLIAMENT
[...] (C) Summary: The reaction by the Kuwaiti media and GOK to the January 16 UN Security Council designation of three Kuwaitis -- Hamed Al-Ali, Jaber Al-Jalahmah and Mubarak Al-Bathali-- as terrorist facilitators and inciters has remained relatively subdued with the exception of defiant statements from [...]
2008-01-31 14:46:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALEFIN KU KTFN PGOV PREL PTER
08KUWAIT218TERROR FINANCE: MFA ON GOK
[...] (C) On February 13 A/Polcouns and Econoff called on Ambassador Khaled Al-Maqamis, MFA Director of Follow-up and Coordination to discuss the implementation of Kuwait's obligations to freeze the assets of three recently Kuwaiti terrorist financiers under UNSCR 1267. This discussion was prompted [...]
2008-02-24 13:32:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALEFIN KU KTFN PGOV PREL PTER
08KUWAIT227TERROR FINANCE: MFA ON GOK
[...] (C) On February 13 A/Polcouns and Econoff called on Ambassador Khaled Al-Maqamis, MFA Director of Follow-up and Coordination to discuss the implementation of Kuwait's obligations to freeze the assets of three recently Kuwaiti terrorist financiers under UNSCR 1267. This discussion was prompted [...]
2008-02-28 09:38:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALEFIN KU KTFN PGOV PREL PTER
08KUWAIT283(C) TERROR FINANCE: GOK SLOW TO FREEZE ASSETS OF
[...] (S) Summary and Comment: Despite assurances by senior officials from the Kuwaiti MFA and National Security Bureau, the head of AML/CTF at the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) said he has not received any instructions from the GOK and therefore has not taken any action to freeze the accounts of the [...]
2008-03-12 12:20:00Embassy KuwaitSECRETEFIN KU KTFN PGOV PREL PTER
08KUWAIT337U.S.-KUWAIT GULF SECURITY DIALOGUE TALKS (MARCH
[...] (S/NF) Summary: Kuwait hosted the third round of the U.S.-Kuwait Gulf Security Dialogue on March 10. During these discussions, Kuwait condemned Iran's support for terrorism, reiterated its commitment to engaging Iran diplomatically, and expressed its support in implementing UNSC resolutions 1 [...]
2008-03-26 06:55:00Embassy KuwaitSECRET//NOFORNPREL PARM MARR MASS PTER KPAL KTFN KCIP ASEC
08KUWAIT368GOK HOSTS FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE IMPLEMENTATION
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-06 06:04:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETTC KCRM PREL PTER KTFN KU
08KUWAIT370SECRETARY CHERTOFF DISCUSSES CT WITH KUWAITI
[...] (C) During a March 24-25 visit to Kuwait, DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff met with Kuwait's Amir, Crown Prince, PM, FM, MinDef and National Security Bureau President (NSB) to discuss counterterrorism and information sharing, Iran and Iraq, Critical Energy Infrastructure Protection and the USG's [...]
2008-04-06 06:05:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER KCIP KDRG KTFN KU IZ IR
08KUWAIT390GOK HOSTS FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE UNIT
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: From March 31-April 2, 2008, the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) in cooperation with U.S. Department of Treasury and the U.S. Department of Justice hosted a Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) Implementation Seminar. The three-day event was attended by 53 GOK officials in [...]
2008-04-09 11:34:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETTC KCRM PREL PTER KTFN KU
08KUWAIT396DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PRE-NOTIFICATION OF
[...] (C) CDA delivered Ref. A demarche to MFA Under Secretary Khaled Al-Jarallah on 8 April. Al-Jarallah thanked CDA for the advance warning, but cautioned that this was a very sensitive issue for Kuwait. Al-Jarallah reiterated GOK requests for evidence against RIHS and UNSCR 1267-designated [...]
2008-04-10 14:50:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPTER KTFN PREL PGOV KU DEMARCHE
08KUWAIT476TERROR FINANCE: DESPITE GOK CONFIRMATION UN 1267
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: Despite assurances by MFA officials in March, contacts at the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) and Kuwait Finance House (KFH) continue to tell us they are unaware of any official instruction to freeze the assets of the three recently designated Kuwaiti terrorist facilita [...]
2008-05-01 15:47:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALEFIN KU KTFN PGOV PREL PTER
08KUWAIT555TERROR FINANCE: GOK NOT ON BOARD WITH UN 1267
[...] (C) On May 12, following a meeting between S/CT Dailey and MFA Director of Follow-up and Coordination Ambassador Khaled Maqamis (septel),Econoff met separately with Maqamis to solicit his response to S/CT Dailey's request that GOK support, a pending UNSCR 1267 designation of the Revivial of [...]
2008-05-18 11:02:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALEFIN KU KTFN PGOV PREL PTER
08KUWAIT556TERROR FINANCE: GOK NOT ON BOARD WITH UN 1267
[...] (C) On May 12, following a meeting between S/CT Dailey and MFA Director of Follow-up and Coordination Ambassador Khaled Maqamis (septel),Econoff met separately with Maqamis to solicit his response to S/CT Dailey's request that GOK support, a pending UNSCR 1267 designation of the Revivial of [...]
2008-05-18 11:02:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALEFIN KU KTFN PGOV PREL PTER
08KUWAIT557S/CT DAILEY OFFERS CT COOPERATION; KSS DESCRIBES
[...] (S) In separate meetings May 12 with Kuwait State Security (KSS) and MFA officials, on May 12, S/CT Dailey briefed on the USG paradigm of counterterrorism (CT) efforts and urged speedy and transparent information and intelligence exchanges and tighter border controls. S/CT Dailey also urged [...]
2008-05-18 11:02:00Embassy KuwaitSECRETPTER PGOV KDRG PREL KTFN KU
08KUWAIT559TERROR FINANCE: GOK NOT ON BOARD WITH UN 1267
[...] (C) On May 12, following a meeting between S/CT Dailey and MFA Director of Follow-up and Coordination Ambassador Khaled Maqamis (septel),Econoff met separately with Maqamis to solicit his response to S/CT Dailey's request that GOK support, a pending UNSCR 1267 designation of the Revivial of [...]
2008-05-18 11:02:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALEFIN KU KTFN PGOV PREL PTER
08KUWAIT560TERROR FINANCE: KUWAI FINALLY FREEZES ASSETS OF THREE FINANCIERS
[...] (C) Officials from the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) and Kuwait Finance House (KFH) confirmed to Econoff on May 12 that they have frozen the accounts of the three terrorist financiers Hamed Al-Ali, Jaber Al-Jalahmah, and Mubarak Al-Bathali, upon instruction of the MFA. 2. (C) xxxxxxxxxxxx tol [...]
2008-05-18 11:07:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALEFIN KU KTFN PGOV PREL PTER
08KUWAIT585TERRORIST FINANCIER MUBARAK AL-BATHALI REMAINS IN
[...] (C) Kuwaiti press reported on May 21 that Kuwaiti terrorist financier and UNSCR 1267 designee Mubarak Al-Bathali had been arrested on May 8 for inciting youth to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan. The article indicated that although Al-Bathali was initially due to be released from detention on Ma [...]
2008-05-21 16:01:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALEFIN KU KTFN PGOV PREL PTER
08KUWAIT586TERRORIST FINANCIER MUBARAK AL-BATHALI REMAINS IN
[...] (C) Kuwaiti press reported on May 21 that Kuwaiti terrorist financier and UNSCR 1267 designee Mubarak Al-Bathali had been arrested on May 8 for inciting youth to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan. The article indicated that although Al-Bathali was initially due to be released from detention on Ma [...]
2008-05-21 16:01:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALEFIN KU KTFN PGOV PREL PTER
08KUWAIT604SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY PAULSON'S MAY 31-JUNE 1
[...] (C) Secretary Paulson, Embassy Kuwait welcomes you, Mrs. Paulson, and the members of your delegation to Kuwait. While we have requested meetings with the Amir and senior Kuwaiti leadership, we are able at this time to confirm only the Central Bank Governor, Kuwait Investment Authority Managin [...]
2008-05-27 09:16:00Embassy KuwaitSECRET//NOFORNECON EFIN PREL PTER KTFN KU
08KUWAIT637AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES TIP AND RIHS DESIGNATION WITH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador's introductory meeting June 3 with newly appointed Minister of Social Affairs and Labor (MOSAL),Bader Al-Duwaila, coincided with the planned June 4 release of the 2008 TIP report and Kuwait's downgrade to a Tier 3 ranking. Ambassador urged immediate action to me [...]
2008-06-04 11:21:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PINR GTIP KTFN KHUM KU
08KUWAIT694KSS TO WAINSTEIN: KUWAIT CT LEGISLATION INADEQUATE
[...] (S) Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism (APHSCT) Kenneth Wainstein, in a June 11 meeting with Kuwait State Security (KSS) Director Muhaylan, conveyed the President's appeal for increased counterterrorism (CT) cooperation and information sharing among partners [...]
2008-06-18 11:21:00Embassy KuwaitSECRETPTER PGOV KDRG PREL KTFN KU
08KUWAIT695JUNE 11 WAINSTEIN MEETING WITH SOCIAL
[...] (SBU) Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, Kenneth L. Wainstein, accompanied by the Ambassador on June 11 met with newly appointed Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Bader Al-Duwaila to discuss U.S.-Kuwaiti CT cooperation. Al-Duwaila thanked Wainstein for [...]
2008-06-18 11:21:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALEFIN KU KTFN PGOV PREL PTER
08KUWAIT696NSB ACKNOWLEDGES INCREASED AL QAEDA ACTIVITY AND
[...] (S) Summary: Kenneth Wainstein, President Bush's Assistant for Homeland Security and Counter-terrorism (APHSCT),met with the President of the National Security Bureau (NSB),Ahmed Al-Fahd on 11 June. The principals discussed the recent increase in Al-Qaeda-related activity in Kuwait, ongoin [...]
2008-06-18 11:21:00Embassy KuwaitSECRETPTER PGOV KDRG PREL KTFN KU
08KUWAIT701APHSCT WAINSTEIN MEETS WITH KUWAITI PRIME MINISTER
[...] (S) Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism (APHSCT) Kenneth Wainstein accompanied by AMB Jones met on June 11 with Kuwaiti Prime Minister (PM) Shaykh Nasser Al Sabah and Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al Sabah. APHSCT Wainstein shared a letter from Presid [...]
2008-06-19 03:26:00Embassy KuwaitSECRETPREL PTER KTFN SY PINS
08KUWAIT704TERRORISM FINANCE: GOK CONDEMNS USG DECISION TO
[...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Both liberal and conservative newspapers and politicians have been outspoken in criticizing the USG's action to designate the Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS). (See Refs A and B for Kuwait media reaction to RIHS designation.) The GOK Council of Ministers [...]
2008-06-19 11:28:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KU KTFN PGOV PREL PTER
08KUWAIT720TERRORIST FINANCIER MUBARAK AL-BATHALI WILL REMAIN
[...] (U) Kuwaiti press reported on June 24 that Kuwaiti terrorist financier and UNSCR 1267 designee Mubarak Al-Bathali will remain in detention for an additional 14 days pending further investigation into his role in inciting youth to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan (reftel). Al Bathali has been in [...]
2008-06-25 05:20:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KU KTFN PGOV PREL PTER
08KUWAIT755DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.S. DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF
[...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel points via diplomatic note to the MFA on July 1, 2008. Post will report further action septel. ********************************************* * For more reporting from Embassy Kuwait, visit: http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/nea/kuwait/?cable s Visit Kuwait's Clas [...]
2008-07-02 12:46:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC VE
08KUWAIT771TERRORIST FINANCIER BATHALI OUT ON BAIL
[...] (U) Kuwaiti press reported on July 8 that Kuwaiti terrorist financier and UNSCR 1267 designee Mubarak Al-Bathali (see reftel) was released on 1000 KD (USD 3775) bail, but is banned from travel (Note: His January 2008 UN 1267 designation already bans his international travel. End note.) Pres [...]
2008-07-08 15:21:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KU KTFN PGOV PREL PTER
08KUWAIT782AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES RIHS AND TIP WITH THE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador discussed the UNSCR 1267 designation of Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS) (Ref B) and TIP July 9 with Hussain Nasser Al-Huraiti, the new Minister of Justice and Minister of Awqaf (religious endowments) and Islamic Affairs. The Minister, a RIHS boardmember, de [...]
2008-07-10 09:50:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KTFN KISL TIP KU
08KUWAIT79GOK APPEALS TO STOP DESIGNATION OF KUWAITI
[...] (C) Director of the MFA Americas Desk Ambassador Ali Hussain Al-Sammak sought an urgent meeting with CDA on January 17 to request, on instruction from the Kuwait FM, that the U.S. use "its good offices" to end the initiative to designate three Kuwaiti terrorist financiers (Hamid Al-Ali, Jaber [...]
2008-01-17 17:27:00Embassy KuwaitSECRET//NOFORNECON PGOV PTER PREL KU KTFN
08KUWAIT97TERROR FINANCE: LIMITED MEDIA REACTION SO FAR TO
[...] (SBU) Initial Kuwaiti media reaction to the January 16 decision by the UN Security Council to designate three Kuwaitis -- Hamed Al-Ali, Jaber Al-Jalahmah, and Mubarak Al-Bathali -- as terrorist facilitators and inciters has been subdued. There has been little reaction by the local press with [...]
2008-01-24 15:59:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALEFIN PGOV PTER PREL KU KTFN
08KUWAIT982DEMARCHE DELIVERED: AMBASSADOR INFORMS MFA U/S OF
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-16 05:48:00Embassy KuwaitSECRETKTFN EFIN PREL PTER KU
08KUWAIT994DEMARCHE DELIVERED: OFAC NARCOTICS KINGPIN ACT
[...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel demarche and background paper to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on September 17. Post will report substantive response septel. ********************************************* * For more reporting from Embassy Kuwait, visit: http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/nea/kuwait [...]
2008-09-18 05:20:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN PTER PINR EFIN VE LE SNAR AND KCRM PREL
08LILONGWE360MALAWI: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UN 1267 SANCTIONS COMMITTEE'S
[...] (SBU) On June 18, emboffs delivered reftel demarche to Mr. Paul Chiunguzeni, Director of Political Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Chiunguzeni informed emboffs that he would give the nine names to Malawi's National Counterrorism Committee. EASTHAM [...]
2008-06-19 07:40:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN ETTC PTER PREL CVIS KVPR MI
08LISBON2588PORTUGUESE DEMARCHED ON OFAC NARCOTICS KINGPIN ACT
[...] (U) Pol-Econ Officer informed Portuguese MFA America's Director Helena Coutinho and EU Deputy Correspondent Florbela Cardy of the Kingpin designation on Venezuelan officials on September 12 per reftel request. Neither offered a response specifically to the notification, but MFA officials have [...]
2008-09-18 11:24:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIALLE KTFN KCRM PTER PINR EFIN SNAR PREL PO
08LISBON2622PORTUGAL - TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF FIVE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-06 10:52:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC IZ IR SY PO
08LISBON2667PORTUGAL INFORMED OF DESIGNATION OF GULF-BASED AL-
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-27 13:56:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL PINR PO
08LISBON2751PORTUGAL NOTIFIED ABOUT U.S TERRORIST FINANCE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-05 09:39:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL PINR PO
08LISBON2752PORTUGAL NOTIFIED ABOUT U.S TERRORIST FINANCE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-05 09:39:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL PINR PO
08LISBON2785PORTUGAL TERRORISM FINANCE: UN DESIGNATION OF FOUR
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-17 11:36:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC PO
08LJUBLJANA206SLOVENIA: NO OBJECTION TO UNSCR 1267 TERRORISM
[...] (C) On May 8, EmbOff informed Andrej Slapnicar, MFA Security Policy official and EU COTER Chair, of the U.S. intention to request the listing under UNSCR 1267 of the Kuwait-based international Islamic charity Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS) and all its branches and to convey the req [...]
2008-05-09 14:13:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALEFIN KTFN PTER PINR PREL KU SI
08LJUBLJANA215SLOVENIA: NO OBJECTION TO UNSCR 1267 TERRORISM
[...] (C) On May 13, EmbOff informed Andrej Slapnicar, MFA Security Policy official and EU COTER Chair, of the U.S. intention to request that the UN 1267 Sanctions Committee add the names of three individuals (Bahrainis 'Abd al-Rahman Muhammad Jaffar 'Ali, Adil Muhammad Mahmud Abd al-Khaliq, and Qat [...]
2008-05-15 16:04:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALEFIN KTFN PTER PINR PREL BA QA SI
08LONDON1170COURT KNOCKS DOWN TERRORIST ASSET-FREEZING POWERS:
[...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: A UK court ruled on April 24 that the UK had illegally frozen the assets of five individuals accused of terrorism finance. The ruling found fault with the fact that the UK did not engage in parliamentary debate in its implementation of UN Security Council Resolutions on Al-Qae [...]
2008-04-25 11:56:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNECON KTFN UK
08LONDON1204IRAN: UK PUSHES BACK ESTIMATED DATE OF EU'S
[...] (C) Summary. The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) told Embassy there is "an eighty percent chance" the EU will vote to designate Bank Melli and 34 other persons and entities at the "next available" EU-level ministerial meeting. FCO was optimistic a text on designations will be f [...]
2008-04-29 15:40:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALEFIN KTFN PREL MNUC PTER EU IR UK
08LONDON129TERRORISM FINANCE: UK TO CO-SPONSOR LET-4
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-15 15:15:00Embassy LondonSECRETKTFN EFIN PTER PREL UK
08LONDON130TERRORIST FINANCE: UK AGREES TO UN DESIGNATION OF
[...] (S) The UK agrees to support U.S. designation of Badran Turki Hishan Al Mazidih and members of his network, the five individuals in Ref A, according to Giles Cutler, 1267 Committee expert, International Organizations Department, Foreign Office. However, they have not yet decided whether to co [...]
2008-01-15 15:18:00Embassy LondonSECRETEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC IZ SY UK
08LONDON1327TERRORISM FINANCE: CO-SPONSORSHIP AND
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-12 16:59:00Embassy LondonSECRETKTFN EFIN PTER PINR PREL UK
08LONDON1352IRANIAN BANKING IN LONDON: UK PLANS AND CONCERNS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-14 15:16:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNEFIN KTFN MNUC IR UK
08LONDON1396IRAN: EU BANK MELLI DESIGNATION PUSHED TO MID/LATE
[...] (S) Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) working level contacts on May 19 told Embassy London Iran Watcher (Poloff) that, although the EU has agreed politically to designate Bank Melli, the EU has pushed the expected designation date, previously set for May 19 (ref),back to mid- or late [...]
2008-05-19 16:21:00Embassy LondonSECRETEFIN KTFN PREL MNUC PTER EU IR UK
08LONDON1505SUDAN: UK SUPPORTS DESIGNATION OF REFTEL
[...] (C) HMG supports sanctioning all four individuals in reftel A, FCO Sudan Unit Senior Political Officer Rachel Edis said May 30. If other UNSC members oppose the entire list, however, sanctioning Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) leader Khalil Ibrahim and Doussa Deby would be the preferred o [...]
2008-05-30 16:24:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC SU UK
08LONDON1586U/S JEFFERY AND A/S O’BRIEN PRESS UK ON IRANIAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: State Under Secretary Reuben Jeffery and Treasury Assistant Secretary Patrick O'Brien met with UK banking regulators on May 15 to urge increased scrutiny and tougher actions against Iranian banks operating in London. O'Brien and State Acting Assistant Secretary Patricia McNerney also d [...]
2008-06-09 10:58:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNEFIN KTFN ECON IR UK
08LONDON1597(S) UK MEASURES TO STEM BANK MELLI'S ASSET FLIGHT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-10 15:26:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNECON EFIN IR KTFN MNUC UK
08LONDON1645IRAN: FCO READOUT ON SOLANA IN TEHRAN AND PM
[...] (S/NF) Summary: Although Iran did not provide an immediate response to the P5 1 refreshed offer, Iran NSC Secretary Jalili unexpectedly agreed to "study the offer carefully," and also agreed it is now up to Iran, rather than the P5 1, to respond (ref a). A reference by Prime Minister Gordon [...]
2008-06-17 16:41:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNPREL ECON EFIN KTFN MNUC PINS IR UK
08LONDON1690UK PLEASED WITH U.S. DRAFT TEXT UNSCR TO RENEW
[...] (SBU) Foreign Office officials Angus Stewart, Susie Kitchens and Will Taylor, of the International Organisations Department, told us June 24 the British government is "pleased" with the U.S. draft 1267 Monitoring Team renewal. HMG agrees with the need to keep the focus on stopping the flow of [...]
2008-06-24 16:36:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN ETTC PREL PTER UNSC UK
08LONDON2053UK REQUESTS U.S. INFORMATION ON TERRORIST FINANCE
[...] Action request, see Paragraph 4. 2. (SBU) HM Treasury has passed us names of individuals and groups for which it is requesting any and all updated information, identifiers and statements of cases (SOCs) in order to comply with it's 2007 policy to conduct yearly reviews of all designated par [...]
2008-08-06 14:47:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC UK
08LONDON2196DRC SANCTIONS: UK APPRECIATES INFORMATION, KEEN TO
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-27 13:22:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UNSC ZF CG RW UK
08LONDON2486SCENESETTER FOR CODEL SHELBY'S OCTOBER 10-12 VISIT TO
[...] (SBU) The UK economy is reeling from the effects of the global economic crisis, with housing prices falling even faster and further than in the United States. The UK economy continues to slide into recession with negative GDP growth forecast for the second semester of 2008. Inflation, fueled b [...]
2008-09-30 14:26:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN KTFN UK
08LONDON2589SOMALIA: UK SUPPORTS USG COMPROMISE LANGUAGE IN SANCTIONS UNSC RESOLUTION REF: STATE 108662
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-10 12:40:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UNSC XW SO UK
08LONDON2766UK APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS ASSET-FREEZING REGIME
[...] (SBU) Summary: The UK Court of Appeals supported the British government's asset-freezing regime after it had been struck down in an April High Court ruling, in an October 30 decision. HM Treasury was largely pleased with the outcome, although they will have to make modifications to UK regulati [...]
2008-10-31 16:57:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON KTFN UK
08LONDON2798(C) UK'S POTENTIAL NEW FINANCIAL TOOL AGAINST IRAN Classified By: KATHLEEN DOHERTY, ECON COUNSELOR FOR REASONS 1.4 B & D
[...] (C/NF) Summary. The British government amended the Counter-Terrorism Bill (CT Bill) on November 3, which would potentially give HMG stronger financial powers against Iran and other rogue nations. If approved by Parliament, HM Treasury would obtain power to impose measures on private entities doing [...]
2008-11-04 16:59:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEFIN KTFN MNUC IR UK
08LONDON3110IRAN: FCO QUIETLY URGES PRESSURE ON GERMANS FOR EU
[...] (S/NF) Summary: Germany has deep political reservations over bank designations proposed against Iran under the EU's Common Policy, and is making legal and intelligence arguments within E4 against UK and French proposals to designate several Iranian banks, according to a UK Foreign and Commonweal [...]
2008-12-12 18:03:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNEFIN ENRG IR KTFN MNUC PTER UK
08LONDON592UK TO DESIGNATE THREE MEMBERS OF LIBYAN ISLAMIC
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-26 17:08:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNKTFN EFIN PTER LY UK
08LONDON694UK MEASURES ON IRAN: HMG STILL LAYING GROUNDWORK
[...] (C) On immediate EU sanctions steps in follow-up to passage of UNSCR 1803, FCO working level contacts on March 7 advised London Iran Watcher (Poloff) that "nothing substantive will happen on the EU track" at the GAERC session Monday March 10: "there will be no Iran conclusions." According to [...]
2008-03-10 13:02:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEFIN KTFN PREL MNUC PTER EU IR UK
08LONDON71TERRORISM FINANCE: CONSULTATION ON UPCOMING
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-08 16:56:00Embassy LondonSECRETKTFN EFIN PTER PREL
08LONDON765UK SUPPORTS U.S. G8 CASH COURIER INITIATIVE
[...] (SBU) We delivered Reftel to Peter Storr, Home Office Lyon-Roma Head of Delegation, who indicated general UK support for U.S. aims on tackling cash and bulk couriers in the upcoming G8 Lyon-Roma meetings. The response in paragraph two is from Natalie Keough, Terrorist Finance expert, Home Off [...]
2008-03-13 18:02:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER KTFN UK
08LONDON989REQUEST FOR IDENTIFIER AND BACKGROUND INFORMATION
[...] (S) London Iran Watcher (Poloff) delivered reftel demarche April 3 to Foreign and Commercial Office Iran Coordination Group Sanctions Implementation Officer Neil Kernohan. Poloff explained absolute need of U.S. financial institutions for identifier information for 1803 implementation to be e [...]
2008-04-07 14:43:00Embassy LondonSECRETEFIN KNNP PARM PREL MNUC PTER KTFN IR UK
08LUXEMBOURG74AMBASSADOR WAGNER WARNS BANKERS ABOUT THE RISKS OF DOING
[...] (U) During a March 14 speech to the International Bankers Club of Luxembourg, the Ambassador discussed the USG position and policy on Iran sanctions. She reviewed the operations of the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and emphasized the reputational risk of doing b [...]
2008-03-20 15:25:00Embassy LuxembourgUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN PREL ECON IR LU
08MADRID1008REPSOL CONFIRMS NO PLANS WITH IRAN AND INDICATES
[...] (S) Ambassador Aguirre met September 17 with Repsol General Counsel and Secretary to the Board Luis Suarez de Lezo. During the discussion, Suarez de Lezo advised the Ambassador that, after Repsol had allowed to expire its option on its block in Iran's South Pars field (reftels),it had no remaining [...]
2008-09-22 10:49:00Embassy MadridSECRETECON EFIN EINV ETRD KTFN PREL PARM PTER IR
08MADRID1020SPAIN: DEMARCHE ON OFAC KINGPIN ACT DESIGNATION OF
[...] On September 12, Econoff delivered reftel demarche and nonpaper concerning the OFAC designations of Venezuelan officials under the Kingpin Act to Iago Lossada in the MFA,s International Counter-Terrorism Directorate. Econoff subsequently shared the information with Conchita Cornejo Garcia of [...]
2008-09-24 13:49:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PTER PREL PINR SNAR KCRM VE SP
08MADRID104TERRORIST FINANCE: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-01 18:04:00Embassy MadridSECRETEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL IZ SY SP
08MADRID285TREASURY DEPUTY SECRETARY KIMMITT'S MEETING WITH
[...] (C) Summary: Treasury Deputy Secretary Kimmitt met with Secretary of State for Economy David Vegara on March 6. Kimmitt expressed his confidence in the underlying strength of the U.S. economy. Both agreed that accounting rules would be very important for dealing with issues surrounding the p [...]
2008-03-10 09:51:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EINV KTFN SP IR
08MADRID286TREASURY DEPUTY SECRETARY KIMMITT'S MEETING WITH
[...] (C) Summary: On March 5, visiting Deputy Treasury Secretary Kimmitt, accompanied by DCM, discussed with Bank of SIPDIS Spain (central bank) Deputy Governor Jose Vinals the U.S. and Spanish economic situations, sovereign wealth funds, and Iran. The Deputy Secretary said that the U.S. econom [...]
2008-03-10 09:53:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN KTFN IR SP
08MADRID294TREASURY DEPUTY SECRETARY KIMMITT'S MEETING WITH
[...] (S) Summary: Deputy Treasury Secretary Kimmitt, accompanied by DCM, met with Spanish Secretary of State for Security Camacho March 6. Camacho outlined the GOS' views of the threat from Islamic terrorism and emphasized the importance of exchanging information. He suggested the creation of a task for [...]
2008-03-11 13:18:00Embassy MadridSECRETECON EFIN KTFN SP IR
08MADRID301TERRORISM FINANCE: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON FOUR
[...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel demarche March 10, notifying the Ministry of Foreign Affairs about the recent E.O. 13224 designation of four Syria-based members of the Abu Ghadiyah network. Ivo Pascual, desk officer at the MFA's Directorate of Counter-Terrorism, accepted the additional informa [...]
2008-03-11 18:26:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC SY SP
08MADRID418BANCO SABADELL SUSPENDS IRAN REPRESENTATIONAL
[...] (SBU) On April 14, post received a letter from Banco Sabadell President Jose Oliu announcing that Sabadell had decided on March 31 to suspend all activities of its Iran representational office. Para 3 contains an informal translation of the letter, which responded to a letter post had sent Oliu the [...]
2008-04-16 11:21:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALEFIN IR KTFN SP
08MADRID48TERRORISM FINANCE: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON LET-4
[...] (S) On January 16, Econoff delivered reftel demarche to Laura Martinez, Area Specialist within MFA's Directorate of Counter-Terrorism. Econoff advised Martinez of U.S. plans to request that the UN 1267 Sanctions Committee add the "LET 4" operatives to the list of terrorist entities. Martinez [...]
2008-01-17 17:57:00Embassy MadridSECRETEFIN KTFN PTER PREL ETTC SP
08MADRID486FINANCE VICE MINISTER LETTER ON IRAN SANCTIONS
[...] (C) As a followup to visiting Deputy Treasury Secretary Kimmitt's meeting with Spanish Secretary of State (vice minister) for Economy David Vegara on March 6 (reftel),the Ambassador wrote Vegara a letter about Spanish transactions with Iranian banks. Vegara has responded with the following l [...]
2008-04-29 17:46:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALEFIN KTFN SP IR
08MADRID490ADDITIONAL TERRORISM FINANCE CHARGE AGAINST
[...] (C) Summary: Judge of Instruction Ismail Moreno has filed charges against jailed Al Qaeda leader Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas, alias Abu Dahdah, for efforts to continue financing jihadist groups from his jail cell, according to an April 28 report in El Pais, Spain's leading daily. The charges wer [...]
2008-04-30 15:57:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALEFIN PTER KTFN SP
08MADRID50TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICERS (TFCOS) AT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-18 09:33:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC PTER KTFN SP
08MADRID503FINCEN DIRECTOR, SPANISH OFFICIALS DISCUSS MONEY
[...] (U) This cable has been cleared by FinCEN Director Jim Freis. 2. (C/NF) Summary. During a visit to Madrid April 23-24, Department of Treasury FinCEN Director Jim Freis met with Spanish government officials involved in anti-money laundering and counter terrorism finance (AML-CTF) activitie [...]
2008-05-09 07:22:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL SP ECON EFIN KTFN
08MADRID517TERRORISM FINANCE: SPAIN ON UPCOMING UNSCR 1267
[...] (S) Econoff delivered reftel demarche on May 8 to MFA's Directorate of Counter Terrorism area specialist Laura Martinez. Martinez expressed appreciation for the information and advance notice concerning the proposed UNSCR 1267 listing of the Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS). She co [...]
2008-05-09 16:17:00Embassy MadridSECRETEFIN KTFN PTER PINR PREL KU
08MADRID522SPAIN/COUNTERTERRORISM - CHARGE'S MEETING WITH MINISTRY OF INTERIOR CHIEF OF STAFF
[...] (S) The Charge, accompanied by EconOff, met with Gregorio Martinez, Chief of Staff to Interior Minister Rubalcaba, on May 9. Charge stressed the need for better inter-agency cooperation in Spain in the fight against terrorism. Responding to the Charge's expressions of concern regarding the front-pa [...]
2008-05-12 06:18:00Embassy MadridSECRETEFIN KTFN SP PTER
08MADRID526MINISTRY OF INTERIOR CHIEF OF STAFF SAYS BARAKAT
[...] (S) Late on Friday, May 9, Ministry of Interior Chief of Staff Gregorio Martinez called the Charge about the April 28 El Pais story that suggested that Barakat Yarkas had financed terrorist cells from jail. The Charge had discussed the issue in person with Martinez the morning of May 9 (ref A) [...]
2008-05-12 11:26:00Embassy MadridSECRETEFIN PTER KTFN SP
08MADRID541PRE-NOTIFICATION OF UPCOMING UNSCR LISTING REQUEST
[...] (U) EconOff delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Area Director Laura Martinez on 5/13/08. Martinez said she would get back to EconOff if the GOS has a reaction. Llorens [...]
2008-05-14 15:29:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN PTER PINR EFIN PREL SP
08MADRID643TERRORISM FINANCE: PRE-NOTIFICATION DELIVERED TO
[...] (S) Econoff delivered reftel pre-notification on June 6 to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Directorate of Counter-Terrorism officer Ivo Pascual. Pascual expressed appreciation for the information and advance notice concerning the USG's intention to submit to the UNSCR 1267 committee a list of [...]
2008-06-09 16:20:00Embassy MadridSECRETAINR ECON EFIN PINR PREL PTER SP KTFN PK
08MADRID714TERRORISM FINANCE: DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF GULF-
[...] (C) On June 23, Econoff informed MFA Directorate of Counter-Terrorism Officer Laura Martinez that the U.S had proceeded with the domestic designations of reftel A al-Qaida financiers, reftel B Revival of Islamic Heritage Society, and reftel C LET operatives. Martinez thanked Econoff for the i [...]
2008-06-30 07:50:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR UNSC BA QA SP
08MADRID733SPANISH AUTHORITIES DETAIN INDIVIDUALS LINKED TO
[...] (C) Spain's Guardia Civil detained four Algerian-born individuals (three on June 30 and another on July 1) suspected of belonging to a terrorism finance cell linked to Al Qaida. Three of the men were arrested near the southern town of Huelva in the province of Andalusia while the other was arr [...]
2008-07-03 15:06:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALSP PREL PTER EFIN PINR KTFN
08MADRID757TREASURY UNDER SECRETARY LEVEY SCENESETTER
[...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Madrid warmly welcomes your visit. Your presence provides an excellent opportunity to reinforce our message on Iran financial sanctions with both government and private sector representatives. (Note: Your schedule has been sent via e-mail to staff.) You will also have an oppo [...]
2008-07-10 09:18:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EINV ETC ETTC ETRD KTFN PREL PARM
08MADRID836IRAN FOCUS OF TREASURY UNDER SECRETARY LEVEY TRIP
[...] (C) Summary: Treasury Under Secretary Stuart A. Levey, accompanied by Chief of Staff Christy Clark and Policy Advisor DeAnna Fernandez, traveled to Madrid, Spain July 15-17, 2008 to press for Spanish support for implementation of UNSCR 1803 per the EU-3 1 proposal and to provide information on the [...]
2008-07-28 16:29:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EINV ETRD KTFN PREL PARM PTER IR SP
08MADRID845TERRORISM FINANCE: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON
[...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel demarche to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Laura Martinez from the Directorate of Counter-Terrorism on July 28. Econoff explained that following the UNSC 1267 designation of 4 leaders of AQIM, the U.S. domestically designated these individuals under E.O. 13224 [...]
2008-07-29 14:42:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR UNSC
08MADRID86TERRORISM FINANCE: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON
[...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel demarche on January 28 to Ivo Pascual Herrera at MFA's Directorate of Counter-Terrorism. Econoff informed Pascual that the UN 1267 Sanctions Committee had approved the designation of the three reftel Kuwait-based terrorist facilitators, and that the U.S. had sim [...]
2008-01-28 17:14:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC KU SP
08MANAMA299TERRORISM FINANCE: UPCOMING UNSCR 1267 DESIGNATION OF THREE INDIVIDUALS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-08 13:00:00Embassy ManamaSECRETPTER KTFN EFIN PREL BA
08MANILA115TERRORIST FINANCE: DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF FOUR
[...] We delivered reftel demarche to Anti-Money Laundering Council Executive Director Vicente Aquino on January 15. Aquino said that per standard its practice in such cases, his office would notify us if any financial transactions involving the designated entities were found. KENNEY [...]
2008-01-15 09:03:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL
08MANILA207TERRORISM FINANCE MANILA UPDATE JANUARY 2008
[...] (S) Legatt and Econ officers met with Philippine Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) Executive Director Vicente Aquino on January 25 to discuss terror finance issues raised in ref A related to Rajah Solaiman Movement listing by the UN 1267 Committee, and to deliver the talking points and bac [...]
2008-01-25 08:49:00Embassy ManilaSECRETRP KTFN EFIN PTER PREL ETTC
08MANILA625TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF FOUR
[...] We delivered reftel demarche to Philippine Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) Executive Director Vicente Aquino on March 7. Aquino said his office would inform us if any financial transaction involving any of the named individuals was found. KENNEY [...]
2008-03-13 04:18:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC
08MANILA626RP SUPREME COURT SUPPORTS BANK SECRECY
[...] (U) Summary: The Philippine Supreme Court has ruled that a bank account holder must be given prior notification before inquiry can be made into their bank records during investigation of money laundering or corruption cases. Both Philippine and U.S. criminal law enforcement efforts may be ne [...]
2008-03-13 04:21:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN KCRM EFIN RP
08MANILA668 China-Philippines Trade Discrepancy
[...] (SBU) Summary: There is a difference in excess of USD20 billion between Philippine and Chinese estimates of 2007 bilateral trade between the two countries. Even after various adjustments, a large discrepancy remains compared with China's trade statistics with other ASEAN countries. The disc [...]
2008-03-14 10:09:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN KCRM ETRD ECCT PGOV RP
08MEXICO1097VISITING FINCEN DIRECTOR DISCUSSES ANTI-MONEY
[...] (U) This is a joint message from Embassy Mexico City and FinCEN. 2. (SBU) Summary: Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) Director James H. Freis, Jr. visited Mexico City 19-23 February to meet with senior Mexican officials and address a joint FinCEN-FIU strategic analysis training [...]
2008-04-11 17:18:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETRD KTFN PTER MX
08MEXICO1779MEXICAN BANKERS DISCUSS ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING
[...] (SBU) Summary. During roundtable discussions with Embassy officials, bank compliance officers said their institutions base their anti-money laundering (AML) and combating terrorism financing (CTF) practices on international standards. They commented on how difficult it can be to stop illicit [...]
2008-06-10 21:11:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN PTER MX
08MINSK83TERRORISM FINANCE LIST 83 DELIVERED TO BELARUS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-07 14:29:00Embassy MinskUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC BO
08MONROVIA976LIBERIA: 2008-09 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY
[...] Attached is the text of Liberia's 2008-09 INSCR report. The text has been e-mailed as instructed reftel. Monrovia POC is economic officer Lucy Abbott abbottlk@state.gov. (Note: URLs exceeding 55 characters have been removed but are included in the text sent via e-mail. End note.) 2. B [...]
2008-12-01 08:06:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM EFIN KTFN SNAR ECON LI
08MOSCOW1282RUSSIA SUPPORTS G8 INITIATIVE AGAINST ABUSE OF
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-07 14:27:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN PREL PTER RS
08MOSCOW1444RUSSIA SUPPORTS UNSCR 1267 LISTING REQUEST FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-22 13:55:00Embassy MoscowSECRETKTFN EFIN PTER PINR RS
08MOSCOW1445RUSSIA SUPPORTS REQUEST FOR UNSCR 1267 LISTING OF
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-22 13:56:00Embassy MoscowSECRETKTFN EFIN PTER PINR RS
08MOSCOW1533DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SUDAN - SEEK SUPPORT FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-30 13:16:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC SU RS
08MOSCOW1672DESIGNATION OF FOUR LET OPERATIVES DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-11 13:39:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC PREL PTER KTFN UNSC
08MOSCOW1673DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SUDAN/CHAD - URGE SUPPORT FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-11 13:40:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC SU RS
08MOSCOW1679DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SUDAN/CHAD - URGE SUPPORT FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-11 14:46:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC SU RS
08MOSCOW1709TERRORISM FINANCE: U.S. DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-16 13:41:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYBA EFIN ETTC PINR PREL PTER QA UNSC KTFN
08MOSCOW1710GOR TO SUPPORT DESIGNATION OF FOUR LET OPERATIVES
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-16 13:41:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC PREL PTER KTFN UNSC
08MOSCOW1817RUSSIA CONCERNED WITH UNSCR 1267 DELISTING OF
[...] (C) MFA Department of International Organizations Director Gennadiy Gatilov told IO DAS Brian Hook on June 19 that Russia was concerned with the process of reconciling Taliban with the Afghan government and would continue to approach 1267 delisting cautiously. He explained that the GOR did not [...]
2008-06-25 13:03:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER KTFN UNSC AF RS
08MOSCOW74RUSSIA REPORT FOR FINANCIAL CRIMES PORTION OF 2007-2008
[...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. The tracked changes version of this report will be sent to individuals specified in reftel. Post's point of contact for this report is Economic Officer Clayton Hays (hayscp@state.gov). 2. (SBU) Russia's financial system does not attract a s [...]
2008-01-14 12:53:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KCRM KTFN SNAR RS
08NAIROBI1088KENYAN GOVERNMENT SUBMITS ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING BILL TO
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Kenya (GOK) has submitted the Proceeds of Crime and Anti-Money Laundering Bill to Parliament by publishing it in the official Gazette on April 18. This is the first bill gazetted by the new grand coalition government to the new parliament, indicating perhaps th [...]
2008-04-25 04:47:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER KCRM KTFN ECON EFIN KE
08NAIROBI1099KENYAN GOVERNMENT SUBMITS ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING BILL TO
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Kenya (GOK) has submitted the Proceeds of Crime and Anti-Money Laundering Bill to Parliament by publishing it in the official Gazette on April 18. This is the first bill gazetted by the new grand coalition government to the new parliament, indicating perhaps th [...]
2008-04-26 11:04:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER KCRM KTFN ECON EFIN KE
08NAIROBI1272KENYA: ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING BILL MOVES FORWARD
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Proceeds of Crime and Anti-Money Laundering bill survived its second reading in Kenya's Parliament on May 8. Despite criticism from some MPs, the bill was sent to two committees for review, amendment and decision. The GOK's interagency Anti-Money Laundering Task Force is opt [...]
2008-05-19 05:42:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER KCRM KTFN ECON EFIN KE
08NAIROBI1486COLLABORATION ON ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING TRAINING IN KENYA
[...] This is an action request. Please see para 5. 2. Prof. Kinandu Muragu, Executive Director at the Central Bank of Kenya's School of Monetary Studies (KSMS),asked if the USG can collaborate in introducing anti-money laundering (AML) courses at the School. Noting that the regulatory response [...]
2008-06-17 15:00:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN PTER KCRM ECON KTFN KE
08NAIROBI1487COLLABORATION ON ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING TRAINING IN KENYA
[...] This is an action request. Please see para 5. 2. Prof. Kinandu Muragu, Executive Director at the Central Bank of Kenya's School of Monetary Studies (KSMS),asked if the USG can collaborate in introducing anti-money laundering (AML) courses at the School. Noting that the regulatory response [...]
2008-06-17 15:01:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN PTER KCRM ECON KTFN KE
08NEWDELHI2048DEMARCHE DELIVERED: US DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-25 11:18:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP KTFN EFIN PARM PTER ETTC IR IN
08NEWDELHI2255DEMARCHE DELIVERED: DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-21 05:49:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP MNUC PREL PARM EFIN KTFN PTER IR GM
08NEWDELHI2671U.S. TREASURY AND GOI DISCUSS PROLIFERATION AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 9-11, Treasury Assistant Secretary for Terrorism Finance and Financial Crimes Patrick O'Brien met with GOI and banking officials in Delhi and Mumbai to discuss the following: (a) international efforts to counter the illicit financial and commercial activities of Iran [...]
2008-10-07 13:26:00Embassy New DelhiSECRETKTFN ECON EFIN PREL PINR PTER IR IN
08NEWDELHI2672INDIA AND DEMARCHE DELIVERED: DESIGNATION OF THE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-07 13:39:00Embassy New DelhiSECRETKTFN EFIN PTER ETTC ECON ETRD KNNP PREL IN
08NEWDELHI485NSA NARAYANAN ENCOURAGES GREATER ASIAN COOPERATION
[...] (SBU) Summary: National Security Advisor MK Narayanan unsurprisingly highlighted India,s &benign and stabilizing role8 in his remarks at the Munich Conference on Security Policy on February 10. Although much of Narayanan,s address to the primarily European audience pointed to India,s role [...]
2008-02-14 11:28:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PTER PINR MOPS KTFN PK IN
08NEWDELHI623INFLUENTIAL DEOBAND MADRASSA GATHERING DECLARES
[...] (SBU) Summary: At a February 25 conference at the influential and conservative Darul Uloom madrassa in Deoband, Uttar Pradesh, approximately 10,000 - 15,000 Islamic clerics declared terrorism un-Islamic. In equal measure, the declaration by clerics of the madrassa regarded as the ideologica [...]
2008-02-27 13:38:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER KISL SCUL ASEC CASC PREL KTFN KCRM KIRF
08NEWDELHI641THINK-TANKERS MULL WAYS TO CURB NAXALITE INSURGENCY
[...] (U) The challenges for India in confronting the Naxalite/Maoist threat were highlighted in a seminar at the Indian think-tank Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS),an independent well-respected Delhi-based institution. The discusants agreed: the primary driver of the Naxalite/Maois [...]
2008-02-29 09:56:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PGOV ASEC CASC PREL KTFN KCRM IN
08NIAMEY1133NIGER: NOVEMBER 25-27, 2008 REGIONAL SEMINAR ON TERRORISM
[...] Summary. The Government of Niger (GON),in cooperation with the Government of France (GOF),hosted in Niamey a regional seminar on terrorism and trafficking from November 25-27, 2008. The GON Minister of Justice (MOJ) and French Ambassador delivered opening and closing remarks at the seminar, [...]
2008-12-03 11:28:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIEDPTER SMIG SNAR PHUM ASEC MCAP KTFN NG XY
08OSLO130TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF MEMBERS OF ABU
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-10 06:55:00Embassy OsloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PTER ETTC PREL KTFN NO
08OSLO69TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF THREE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-07 12:15:00Embassy OsloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC KTFN NO
08OTTAWA187TERRORIST FINANCE: PRE-NOTIFICATION OF DESIGNATION
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-06 19:39:00Embassy OttawaSECRETIZ KTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL CA
08OTTAWA347TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF FOUR
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-07 19:48:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCA EFIN ETTC IZ KTFN PREL PTER SY UNSC
08OTTAWA36TERRORISM FINANCE: LET OPERATIVES MESSAGE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-08 21:11:00Embassy OttawaSECRETKTFN EFIN PTER PREL CA
08OTTAWA633CANADA AND UPCOMING UNSCR 1267 LISTING REQUEST OF
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-07 20:17:00Embassy OttawaSECRETCA EFIN KTFN KU PINR PREL PTER
08OTTAWA634CANADA CONCERNED ABOUT REDUNDANCY OF G8 INITIATIVE
[...] (U) On May 5 Econoff delivered reftel points to Yves Beaulieu, Deputy Director, International Crime and Terrorism, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. Beaulieu confirmed that Canada had received the proposal on April 10 and stated that Canada share the USG's concern regardin [...]
2008-05-07 21:13:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PREL PTER KTFN CA
08OTTAWA756TERRORISM FINANCE: CANADA'S RESPONSE TO
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-06 20:07:00Embassy OttawaSECRETEFIN KTFN PTER PINR PREL PK CA
08OTTAWA816DESIGNATION OF WORLD TAMIL MOVEMENT AS A TERRORIST ENTITY
[...] (U) Summary. On June 16, the Government of Canada listed the Toronto-based World Tamil Movement (WTM) as a terrorist entity under the anti-terrorism provisions of the Criminal Code, describing it as the "leading front organization" for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Canada, whic [...]
2008-06-17 17:59:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER KTFN CA CE
08OTTAWA974CANADA INFORMED OF E.O. 13382 DESIGNATION OF
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-18 19:19:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN IR KNNP PARM KTFN CA
08OUAGADOUGOU1045BURKINA FASO: 2008-09 INSCR PART II MONEY LAUNDERING AND
[...] Per reftel request, below is Part Two of the International Narcotics Control Strategy Report concerning Money Laundering and Financial Crimes, submitted in narrative form. Embassy Ouagadougou will forward a copy of the most recently published submission via unclassified email to the addressees [...]
2008-12-02 14:23:00Embassy OuagadougouUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM EFIN KTFN SNAR UV
08PANAMA419GOP COOPERATES ON UN 1267 SANCTION COMMITTEE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-22 19:54:00Embassy PanamaSECRETKTFN PTER PINR EFIN PREL PM
08PANAMA485TERRORISM FINANCE: RECENT PRE-NOTIFICATIONS AND
[...] (S) Econoff delivered ref points and background information for the three reftels on June 10 to Delia Villamonte, Director General of International Organizations and Conferences. Leoncio Hernandez, the Foreign Ministry's Director of the Department of Analysis Against Terrorist Activity, was un [...]
2008-06-12 17:51:00Embassy PanamaSECRETEFIN ETTC PREL PTER PGOV KTFN UNSC PM
08PANAMA515PANAMA: DEMARCHE SOLICITING SUPPORT FOR DRAFT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-23 22:10:00Embassy PanamaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PTER EFIN ETTC KTFN UNSC PM
08PARAMARIBO111DEMARCHE DELIVERED: TERRORISM FINANCE:
[...] (U) Per reftel, Post shared information with Terence Craig, head of the Americas Division, and Rosita Hubard, head of the International Organizations Division of the Government of Suriname (GOS),on March 14, 2008. 2. (U) Post will report any reaction from the GOS. SCHREIBER HUGHES [...]
2008-03-17 14:22:00Embassy ParamariboUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PTER PREL NS
08PARIS1005SUDAN/CHAD: FRENCH WILL CONSIDER SANCTIONING FOUR
[...] (C) GOF MFA Sudan desk officer Frederic Bouvier on May 28 said that the French would seriously consider joining us in seeking sanctions against the four individuals named in reftel. He said that the GOF would have to study reftel demarche before coming to a decision but he indicated that, a [...]
2008-05-28 11:24:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC SU FR
08PARIS1038UNMEE, CHAD/SUDAN, DJIBOUTI/ERITREA: MFA DAS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA AF/C/E DAS-equivalent Helene Le Gal said that she understood that Belgium would draft a letter on behalf of the UNSC to be sent to Eritrea and Ethiopia to determine their views on UNMEE's future, which could indicate a preferred course of action should one or both reject co [...]
2008-06-02 14:22:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC KPKO PBTS ETTC EFIN KTFN PTER ET
08PARIS1100FRANCE AGREES WITH USG APPROACH ON RWANDAN FDLR
[...] (S) MFA Great Lakes desk officer Laurent Chevallier on June 9 told AF/C Director Wycoff that France agreed with the USG approach to Rwandan FDLR sanctions as expressed reftel (other aspects of the discussion reported separately). Chevallier said that seven of the eight names on the U.S. list [...]
2008-06-10 12:21:00Embassy ParisSECRETETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC XA FR
08PARIS1104SUDAN/CHAD: FRANCE STILL OPPOSED TO USG APPROACH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: French Presidential AF-advisor Romain Serman on June 9, 10, and 11 reiterated France's opposition to the USG position on sanctioning four individuals in connection with Sudan and Chad, particularly with respect to Daoussa Deby Itno, indicating that sanctioning Daoussa was a vir [...]
2008-06-11 11:16:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC SU CD FR
08PARIS11991267 MONITORING TEAM: SOLICITING SUPPORT FOR DRAFT
[...] (SBU) MFA Security and Strategic Affairs bureau took on board reftel points and text and subsequently informed Embassy of three points relating to the preamble, notifications and list reviews, all of which were included in MFA instructions sent to the French mission to the UN. The GOF wants t [...]
2008-06-25 12:23:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN EFIN ETTC PREL PTER UNSC
08PARIS1286ZIMBABWE: FRANCE FAVORS SANCTIONING GIDEON GONO
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-08 17:14:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC ZI FR
08PARIS888FRANCE: G8 INITIATIVE ON TERRORIST ABUSE OF CHARITIES
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-09 11:07:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN PREL PTER FR
08PRAGUE614CZECH REPUBLIC: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON OFAC
[...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel demarche to the Czech Ministry of Finance, Financial Analytical Unit (FAU) on September 12 and to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, America's Desk on September 15. On September 17, FAU Director Karel Korynta reported that his office had found no records of any of t [...]
2008-09-19 07:27:00Embassy PragueUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN PTER PINR EFIN SNAR KCRM PREL EZ
08PRAGUE77STATUS OF CZECH ENGAGEMENT WITH IRAN
[...] (C) Summary: Although Czech efforts to upgrade their diplomatic relations with Iran (in advance of the Czech 2009 EU Presidency and on a similar footing with other EU members) met with setbacks last year (ref A and B),the Czech MFA continues to pursue the effort. The GOCR cannot anticipate T [...]
2008-02-06 17:36:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD KTFN IZ EZ
08PRETORIA1388SOLICITING SUPPORT FOR DRAFT TEXT UNSCR TO RENEW
[...] (SBU) Econ OMS Larry Johnson presented reftel draft text to South African Department of Foreign Affairs Deputy Director UN Security Council Llia du Buisson on June 26, 2008. The South African Government provided no immediate response. 2. (U) AmEmb Pretoria POC is Deputy Econ Counselor B [...]
2008-06-26 13:02:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UNSC SF
08PRETORIA1431ENCOURAGING SUPPORT FOR UN 1267 SANCTIONS AND
[...] (SBU) Econ OMS Larry Johnson presented reftel demarche to South African Department of Foreign Affairs Deputy Director UN Security Council Llia du Buisson on July 1, 2008. The South African Government provided no immediate response. 2. (U) AmEmb Pretoria POC is Deputy Econ Counselor Bruce [...]
2008-07-01 13:05:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UNSC SF
08PRISTINA166KOSOVO: COMMERCIAL TRAFFIC FINDS ALTERNATE ROUTES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A visit to several of Kosovo,s border crossings and customs clearance terminals highlighted functional customs operations and a steady stream of commercial traffic. Customs officials on site reported a general increase in commercial traffic for 2008, with a portion of this incr [...]
2008-03-26 12:54:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD ECON EAID EAIR ETTC PTER KTFN UNMIK
08PRISTINA243KOSOVO: AVOIDING CUSTOMS ADMINISTRATIVE GAPS IF
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On June 15, Kosovo's constitution will enter into force. In principle, authorities currently exercised by UNMIK should be transferred to relevant Kosovo Government institutions, though the discussion of UNMIK "reconfiguration" continues and the nature of the actual transition re [...]
2008-05-14 14:16:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD ECON EAID EAIR ETTC PTER KTFN UNMIK
08PRISTINA320KOSOVO: TREASURY DAS ASSESSES TECHNICAL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Treasury Department Deputy Assistant Secretary Larry McDonald visited Kosovo from June 1-4 to assess Treasury,s in-country resident advisor program. In meetings with government counterparts within the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF),DAS McDonald reaffirmed Treasury,s co [...]
2008-06-24 09:45:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD ECON EAID EAIR ETTC PTER KTFN UNMIK
08PRISTINA36KOSOVO: COM ADVISES FINANCE MINISTER SHALA ACTION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a January 15 meeting with new Minister of Economy and Finance Ahmet Shala, COM emphasized the importance of demonstrating government support for the Kosovo Serb community through implementation of meaningful projects in minority areas, with real budgetary resources behind the [...]
2008-01-23 12:27:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD ECON EAID EAIR ETTC PTER KTFN UNMIK
08PRISTINA417KOSOVO OVERSEAS SECURITY ADVISORY COUNCIL (OSAC)
[...] (SBU) On July 31, Embassy Pristina held a meeting to establish a Kosovo Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC). Organized by the Embassy RSO and EconOff, a select group of U.S. businesses and non-profit representatives attended the meeting to gauge the level of interest in establishing such [...]
2008-08-12 13:51:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC ETRD ECON EAID EAIR ETTC PTER KTFN KV YI
08PRISTINA431KOSOVO: THE WAY FORWARD ON TRANSITION TO KOSOVO'S
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Kosovo's privatization process, once highlighted as an UNMIK economic success story, has ground to a halt. Nearly two months after the country's new Privatization Agency of Kosovo (PAK) was to assume the work of the Kosovo Trust Agency (KTA),an UNMIK entity, UNMIK still does no [...]
2008-08-19 10:51:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD ECON EAID EAIR ETTC PTER KTFN UNMIK
08PRISTINA517BATTLING CORRUPTION AND IPR VIOLATIONS: KOSOVO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In the endemic battle to prevent corruption in Kosovo, one notable effort stands out. Kosovo,s Independent Media Commission (IMC) recently took an unusually pro-active initiative to stop cable providers from broadcasting unlicensed television content. The IMC has struggled to i [...]
2008-09-27 09:48:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD ECON EAID EAIR ETTC PTER KTFN UNMIK
08PRISTINA561KOSOVO: KEK PRIVATIZATION REQUIRES RELIABLE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Government of Kosovo (GOK) has publicly announced its commitment to move forward with privatization of the distribution functions of the country's public electric utility, the Kosovo Energy Corporation (KEK). While the pledge to privatize is both significant and necessary, t [...]
2008-11-06 09:13:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD ECON EAID EAIR ETTC PTER KTFN UNMIK
08PRISTINA63KOSOVO PREPARES FOR POST-STATUS SERBIAN EMBARGO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Kosovo is preparing for the economic consequences of an independence declaration, including the likelihood that Serbia will close the border and implement an economic embargo. Government officials and local businesses are actively engaging their colleagues and international coun [...]
2008-02-08 18:13:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD ECON EAID EAIR ETTC PTER KTFN UNMIK
08PRISTINA639KOSOVO: PROMOTING REFORM AND RATIONALITY IN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: For many Kosovars, the declaration of independence in February was a sign that tough economic times were coming to and end, leading to more development, more jobs and more benefits for all. Nearly a year after independence, Kosovars are still waiting for and expecting signific [...]
2008-12-24 14:00:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ETRD ECON EAID EAIR ETTC PTER KTFN UNMIK
08PRISTINA85KOSOVO: NEW SERBIAN CUSTOMS POLICY HARDENS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: After violent demonstrations temporarily closed two border crossings along the Kosovo-Serbia border last week, UNMIK Customs officers have yet to return to these crossings (Gates 1 and D31) in northern Kosovo. International police have returned to duty at these gates but logistic [...]
2008-02-26 18:45:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD ECON EAID EAIR ETTC PTER KTFN UNMIK
08QUITO16UPDATING INFORMATION FOR EMBASSY QUITO TFCOS
[...] (U) In response to reftel, Embassy Quito reports that the following officers continue to serve as Terrorism Finance Coordination Officers: Jefferson Brown, DCM (TFCO),IVG 644-4420, brownjt2(at)state.gov, and brownjt(at)state.sgov.gov; and Bridget Alway-Premont, Econoff (Deputy TFCO),IVG 644 [...]
2008-01-04 19:13:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC PTER KTFN
08QUITO212ECUADOR PROSECUTES LANDMARK MONEY LAUNDERING CASE
[...] (SBU) Summary: On February 18, Ecuador convicted seven associates of Hernan Prada-Cortez, a drug trafficker involved in money laundering. The convictions are the result of an Ecuadorian national police investigation, in concert with DEA, which yielded ten arrests and the seizure of assets in [...]
2008-03-03 15:09:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR ECON EFIN KTFN EC
08RANGOON861BURMA - INCSR I DRUGS AND CHEMICAL CONTROL
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-06 09:14:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KCRM KTFN SNAR BM
08RANGOON890BURMA: 2008-2009 INCSR II MONEY LAUNDERING AND FINANCIAL
[...] This report responds to reftel request for the INCSR II Money Laundering and Financial Crimes Report update. 2. Burma, a major drug-producing country, has taken steps to strengthen its anti-money laundering regulatory regime in 2008. The country's economy remains dominated by state-owned en [...]
2008-11-17 08:43:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KCRM KTFN SNAR BM
08REYKJAVIK291 ICELAND: 2009 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY
[...] Post provides the following submission for Part 2 of the INCSR report. Part 1 (Narcotics) was transmitted Ref B. 2. Begin text of submission: Iceland Money laundering is not considered a major problem in Iceland, though international observers have questioned the effectiveness of th [...]
2008-12-10 16:54:00Embassy ReykjavikUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KTFN EFIN KCRM IC
08RIGA574LATVIA: NO IMMEDIATE POSITION ON KINGPIN DESIGNATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-19 14:42:00Embassy RigaUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN PTER PINR EFIN VE SNAR KCRM LG
08RIYADH1192PASSAGE OF INFORMATION ON DESIGNATION OF AL-QAIDA
[...] (U) As requested in ref action message, Post has passed ref information on the designation by the UN Security Council 1267 Sanctions Committee of individuals associated with an Al-Qaida affiliated terror group in Algeria to the Saudi government on July 27, 2008. GFOELLER [...]
2008-08-04 13:46:00Embassy RiyadhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR UNSC
08RIYADH1271MICROSOFT LEADING COLLABORATION WITH SAG TO COMBAT
[...] (C) Summary: Intellectual property rights (IPR) violations in Saudi Arabia are receiving increased attention from the Saudi government (SAG). The SAG has made significant efforts to address IPR violations, which in the Kingdom occur most notably in the pharmaceutical and software sectors. W [...]
2008-08-19 04:55:00Embassy RiyadhCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD EINV PGOV KIPR KTFN SA
08RIYADH1430DEMARCHE ON RELEASE OF AL-SUBAIY
[...] (S/NF) On September 14, Econoff delivered reftel demarche to Counselor Abdulrahman al-Ahmad of the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Al-Ahmad assured Econoff the information would be passed expeditiously to the highest levels of the Ministry of Interior (MOI). He thanked the USG for providin [...]
2008-09-21 12:32:00Embassy RiyadhSECRET//NOFORNPTER PREL KTFN SA
08RIYADH1435MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND INFORMATION PLANS TO
[...] (C) Econoff met with Ministry of Culture and Information (MoCI) Under Secretary Abdul Rahman Al Hazaa September 8 to discuss ongoing efforts to combat IPR piracy and violations in Saudi Arabia, particularly software, music, and DVDs. Al Hazaa said that IPR enforcement is a priority for Saudi [...]
2008-09-22 14:12:00Embassy RiyadhCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNECON ETRD EINV PGOV KIPR KTFN SA
08RIYADH1538DESIGNATION OF VENEZUELANS DEMARCHE
[...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel demarche on September 23 on the three Venezuelan individuals designated under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act. Post will inform the Department of any response we receive. RUNDELL [...]
2008-10-15 14:56:00Embassy RiyadhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN PTER PINR EFIN VE SA
08RIYADH1688MOHAMMED BIN NAYEF ON SAUDI CT EFFORTS
[...] (S//NF) SUMMARY. ON 25 OCTOBER 2008, TREASURY DEPUTY SECRETARY ROBERT KIMMITT AND AMBASSADOR FRAKER MET WITH ASSISTANT MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR MOHAMMED BIN NAYEF. THEY DISCUSSED SAUDI COUNTERTERRORISM EFFORTS, THE PROPOSED CHARITY COMMISSION, IRAN, U.S.-SAUDI SECURITY COOPERATION AND THE NEED [...]
2008-11-12 04:30:00Embassy RiyadhSECRET//NOFORNPTER KTFN KISL SA IR
08ROME1136DEMARCHE DELIVERED: 1267 DE-LISTING REQUESTS FOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Post presented reftel A points to Italian MFA and Treasury officials on the delisting requests of Youssef Nada and Ali Ghaleb Himmat. The GOI no longer thinks a USG public statement on Nada's case is necessary, though it continues to face pressure from his attorney to suppor [...]
2008-09-10 15:24:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALKTFN EFIN ETTC PREL PTER IT
08ROME1331GOI SEEKS TO DE-LIST HIMMAT; DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] (C) On 27 October Lorenzo Tomassoni of the MFA presented a demarche to Econoff asking if the USG would support de-listing of Ali Ghaleb Himmat at the UN 1267 Committee. Tomassoni provided a letter from Himmat's lawyer noting that Swiss and Italian investigations against him had been closed [...]
2008-11-04 13:00:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALKTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL PINR
08ROME190ITALY/TERROR FINANCE: NEW POLICY RELIES ON LEGAL
[...] (C) Summary: In response to a US request, the GOI will not reveal to Italian National Nada the US decision to oppose his de-listing at the 1267 committee. The GOI repeated its request to be informed of the US position on the de-listing case of Himmat, a colleague of Nada's, before the March 1 [...]
2008-02-11 16:02:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALEFIN IT KTFN PREL PTER UNSC
08ROME629TERRORISM FINANCE: ITALY PRE-NOTIFICATION OF
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-19 13:15:00Embassy RomeSECRETKTFN EFIN PTER PINR PREL IT
08ROME630TERRORISM FINANCE: ITALY PRE-NOTIFICATION FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-19 13:16:00Embassy RomeSECRETKTFN EFIN PTER PINR PREL IT
08ROME725TERRORISM FINANCE: ITALY PRE-NOTIFICATION ON
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-06 16:29:00Embassy RomeSECRETKTFN EFIN PTER PINR PREL IT
08ROME858ITALY: GIDEON GONO SANCTIONS RESPONSE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-09 16:00:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UNSC ZI IT
08SANAA1568UPDATE ON YEMEN'S ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING AND
[...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 7. 2. SUMMARY: The ROYG has recently taken some actions in the field of anti-money laundering (AML),including forming a Supervisory Committee to oversee AML efforts and restructuring of the Central Bank's Anti-Money Laundering Information [...]
2008-09-22 14:05:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KCRM KTFN PREL PTER SNAR YM
08SANJOSE399DEMARCHE DELIVERED: TERRORISM FINANCE
[...] (C) On May 12, we delivered reftel demarche to Carlos Cordero of the MFA's Department of Disarmament, Terrorism and Organized Crime. Cordero informed us that Costa Rica had no formal mechanisms to freeze assets for 1267 listings. He added that the MFA's procedure for 1267 notifications was to [...]
2008-05-15 21:56:00Embassy San JoseCONFIDENTIALPTER PINR EFIN PREL KTFN BA QA CS
08SANJOSE580DEMARCHE DELIVERED: DESIGNATION OF VENEZUELA-BASED
[...] (C) On July 2, we delivered reftel demarche to Carlos Cordero of the MFA's Department of Disarmament, Terrorism and Organized Crime. Cordero seemed very interested that one of the designees was a Venezuelan diplomat. Because Costa Rica had no formal mechanisms to freeze assets for listed ent [...]
2008-07-07 21:31:00Embassy San JoseCONFIDENTIALEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR UNSC VE
08SANJOSE674TERRORISM FINANCE DESIGNATIONS DELIVERED
[...] (SBU) Econoff and Poloff met with Carlos Cordero, Department of Disarmament, Terrorism, and Organized Crime, of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Costa Rica on August 7. Econoff demarched the MFA on several terrorism designations, consisting of both Executive Orders and UN designation [...]
2008-08-19 22:05:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC PREL PTER KTFN UNSC PINR KU IZ SY
08SANJOSE858DEMARCHE DELIVERED: DESIGNATION OF GULF-BASED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-30 21:37:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL PINR UNSC CS
08SANJOSE930COSTA RICA INCSR REPORT 2008-2009 PART II, MONEY LAUNDERING
[...] (U) The text of Costa Rica's 2008-2009 INCSR Part II is below. POC at Post is Robert Andrew. Costa Rica Although Costa Rica is not a major regional financial center, it remains vulnerable to money laundering and other financial crimes. Narcotics trafficking (mainly cocaine) continues to [...]
2008-11-26 23:19:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM KTFN CS
08SANTIAGO1049TERRORISM FINANCE DESIGNATION: 3 MEMBERS OF
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-01 21:16:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR UNSC KE ETRD CI
08SANTIAGO1063CHILE: DESIGNATION OF UNION OF GOOD
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-05 13:51:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR UNSC KE ETRD CI
08SANTIAGO1111CHILE: DESIGNATION OF UNION OF GOOD
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-17 20:02:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR UNSC KE ETRD CI
08SANTIAGO1112CHILE: U.N. DESIGNATION OF FOUR MEMBERS OF
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-18 11:45:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR UNSC KE ETRD CI
08SANTIAGO1142CHILE: DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL IRANIAN ENTITIES
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-23 19:57:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR UNSC KE ETRD CI
08SANTIAGO873DEMARCHE REQUEST: OFAC NARCOTICS KINGPIN ACT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-26 20:50:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KCRM PREL PTER SNAR KTFN VE LE CI
08SANTIAGO874TERRORISM FINANCE DESIGNATION OF FIVE INDIVIDUALS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-26 20:51:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC IZ IR SY CI
08SANTIAGO963TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF GULF-BASED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-27 17:17:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC BA QT CI
08STATE103495UN 1267: REQUESTING ASSISTANCE TO RESOLVE
[...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 6. ---------------------- BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY ---------------------- 2. (C) In March 2005, the GOE nominated 20 names for inclusion on the UN 1267 Committee's Consolidated List of individuals and entities associated with Usama bin Laden, [...]
2008-09-26 23:57:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETTC KTFN PTER UNSC EG
08STATE106306USUN INSTRUCTION: CIRCULATE SUDAN PANEL OF
[...] This is an action request. USUN is instructed to circulate the resolution (text in para 2) that will extend the mandate of the current UNSC Sudan Sanctions Committee's Panel of Experts (POE). The POE's mandate expires 15 October. ------------------ TEXT OF RESOLUTION ------------------ [...]
2008-10-03 21:41:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN PGOV PHUM PREL PTER SU UNSC
08STATE106743USUN INSTRUCTION: SOMALIA SANCTIONS COMMITTEE
[...] This is an action request; see paras 3 and 4. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. As part of security sector reform efforts in Somalia the United States will provide a two-week Interdicting Terrorist Activities Course for nineteen Somali Transitional Federal Government participants. The [...]
2008-10-06 19:30:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM KTFN PGOV PHUM PINS PREL PTER SO XW UNSC
08STATE108662DEMARCHE REGARDING SOMALIA SANCTIONS UNSC
[...] This is an action request. Please see para 2. -------------- ACTION REQUEST -------------- 2. At the highest appropriate level, action addressees are requested to inform French and UK counterparts that the United States cannot agree to the automatic expiration of the sanctions after twel [...]
2008-10-09 22:15:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER XW UNSC
08STATE109267USUN INSTRUCTION: UPDATE LIBERIA SANCTIONS LISTS
[...] This is an action request; see para 3. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. The UK Mission to the United Nations in New York has bilaterally expressed its desire to propose updates to the UNSC Liberia Sanctions Committee's lists of individuals subject to the measures imposed by paragraph 4 [...]
2008-10-10 23:26:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC KTFN UNSC LI
08STATE110279USUN INSTRUCTION: VOTE IN FAVOR OF SUDAN PANEL
[...] This is an action request. USUN is instructed to vote in favor of the resolution (text in para 2) that will extend the mandate of the current UNSC Sudan Sanctions Committee's Panel of Experts (POE). USUN should consult with the Department should there be any changes made to this text. The P [...]
2008-10-15 20:14:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN PGOV PHUM PREL PTER SU UNSC
08STATE113232USUN INSTRUCTION: CHARLES BRIGHT FOCAL POINT
[...] This is an action request. USUN is requested to inform the Focal Point that the United States has no objection to the delisting request for Charles BRIGHT. We do not consider Charles BRIGHT to pose an ongoing threat to peace and stability in Liberia and the subregion. Mr. BRIGHT appears to [...]
2008-10-23 23:34:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC KTFN UNSC LI
08STATE115258USUN INSTRUCTION: VOTE IN FAVOR OF CDI SANCTIONS
[...] This is an action request. USUN is instructed to vote in favor of the adoption of the resolution (text in para 2) that will renew the UNSC Cote d'Ivoire sanctions regime and extend the mandate of the Group of Experts for an additional 12 months. ------------------ TEXT OF RESOLUTION ----- [...]
2008-10-29 16:00:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM KTFN PGOV PHUM PINS PREL PTER UNSC XY
08STATE118603USUN INSTRUCTION: JENKINS DUNBAR FOCAL POINT
[...] This is an action request. USUN is instructed to inform the Focal Point that the United States has no objection to the delisting requests for Jenkins DUNBAR. While Mr. DUNBAR's request only concerns removal from the travel ban list maintained by the UNSC Liberia Sanctions Committee, the Unit [...]
2008-11-06 23:30:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM KTFN LI PGOV PREL PTER UNSC
08STATE119300USUN INSTRUCTION: TALAL EL'DINE FOCAL POINT
[...] This is an action request. USUN is instructed to inform the Focal Point that the United States has no objection to the delisting request for Talal EL'DINE. If delisted by the UNSC Liberia Sanctions Committee, Mr. El'Dine (DOB: 14 April 1955) would no longer be subject to the travel ban impose [...]
2008-11-08 00:17:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM KTFN LI PGOV PREL UNSC
08STATE119781USUN GUIDANCE: UKUN SUDAN SANCTIONS NON-PAPER
[...] (U) This is an action request; see para 3. ------------------- STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE ------------------- 2. (U) The strategic objective is to support efforts that will allow the UN Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1591 (2005) concerning the Sudan to carry out it [...]
2008-11-11 00:33:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNETTC KTFN PGOV PREL SU UNSC
08STATE121624USUN INSTRUCTION: VOTE IN FAVOR OF SOMALIA
[...] This is an action request. USUN is instructed to vote in favor of the adoption of the resolution (text in para 2) that will expand the current UNSC Somalia sanctions regime from a comprehensive arms embargo to include targeted measures (asset freeze and travel ban) for those threatening t [...]
2008-11-16 20:24:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM KTFN PGOV PREL PTER SO XW UNSC
08STATE122043DEMARCHE REQUEST: SEEKING HALT TO TERMINATION OF
[...] (U) This is an action request: see paragraph 3. 2. (C) Summary: Banks Hapoalim and Israel Discount Bank (IDB) have indicated that they plan to terminate all correspondent banking services for Gaza branches of Palestinian banks. Washington is concerned that the planned action by the only two [...]
2008-11-17 21:15:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALEFIN KNNP KTFN KPAL PREL IS
08STATE125548UNSCR 1267: ENGAGING WITH ITALY, FRANCE, ALGERIA
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4 through 6. ------------------------- BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES ------------------------- 2. (SBU) In July 2003, the USG co-sponsored a request by the Government of Italy to list under the UNSCR 1267 (al-Qaida/Taliban sanctions) regime [...]
2008-11-26 19:29:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN PREL PTER UNSC
08STATE13094COUNTERTERRORISM FINANCE: OPPORTUNITY FOR FINANCIAL
[...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 7. 2. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) will hold a Counterterrorism Financial Regulatory training course at the FDIC Training Facilities in Arlington, Virginia for participants from addressee countries. This training is fund [...]
2008-02-07 21:44:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPTER KTFN ECON EFIN PREL KCRM
08STATE131885TERRORISM FINANCE: U.N. DESIGNATION OF FOUR
[...] (U) This is an action cable; see para 3. 2. (SBU) Summary: On December 10, 2008, the UN Security Council's Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee (1267 Committee) approved the addition of four members of the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) for targeted sanctions (including asset f [...]
2008-12-16 23:06:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC PK
08STATE131896USUN INSTRUCTION: LIFT HOLD ON 4 NAMES IN UNSC
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 3. ------------------- STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE ------------------- 2. (SBU) The strategic objective is for the United States to join allies in lifting our holds on a Government of Rwanda request to the UN Security Council Committee established p [...]
2008-12-16 23:36:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC
08STATE135291USUN INSTRUCTION: OBJECT TO FOCAL POINT DELISTING
[...] This is an action request. Prior to the No Objection Deadline on 2 January 2009, USUN is requested to object to the focal point delisting request for Benoni Urey. Urey should continue to be listed as subject to the measures imposed by paragraph 4 of UN Security Council resolution 1521 (2003) [...]
2008-12-30 23:01:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC KTFN LI PREL PTER UNSC
08STATE16088COUNTERTERRORISM FINANCE: UPDATE ON OPPORTUNITY FOR
[...] This is an update of reftel, which invited Embassies Baghdad, Bangkok, Dakar, Doha, Kuwait and Riyadh to nominate up to four host country participants each for the March 10-14 Counterterrorism Financial Regulation training course at the FDIC Training Facilities in Arlington, Virginia. 2. [...]
2008-02-15 21:20:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPTER KTFN ECON EFIN PREL KCRM
08STATE19145LIBYA: DEMARCHE ON LIFTING HOLD ON PROPOSED UNSC
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph three. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. (C) On February 13, USUN proposed listing four Syrian based AQI affiliated members pursuant to UNSC 1267 (al-Qaida/Taliban Sanctions). Libya placed a hold on the request. The Libyan Permane [...]
2008-02-26 16:56:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALEFIN KTFN PREL PTER UNSC LY
08STATE28435AUTHORIZATION TO VOTE TO RENEW COUNTERTERRORISM
[...] This is an action cable. Please see paragraph 3. 2. Per reftel, the UNSC on December 10, 2007 unanimously adopted resolution 1787, extending the initial period of the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate from December 31, 2007, under resolution 1535 (2004),to March 31, 2008. [...]
2008-03-19 02:00:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN PREL PTER UNSC
08STATE35781TERRORISM FINANCE: UN 1267 COMMITTEE AND E.O.
[...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph three. ------- Summary ------- 2. (S/NF) The USG intends to designate the Kuwait-headquartered international NGO Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS) in the near future, including its overseas branch offices, as a Specially Designa [...]
2008-04-07 15:55:00Secretary of StateSECRET//NOFORNPTER KTFN PREL PGOV KU
08STATE36712(U) SECURING GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN SUPPORT FOR
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. (S) Al Qaeda and Taliban terrorists/affiliates in Pakistan pose a critical threat to Pakistan and the international community. We seek the Government of Pakistan,s commitment to support the UN [...]
2008-04-08 23:01:00Secretary of StateSECRETKTFN PREL PTER UNSC
08STATE44321INSTRUCTIONS TO SUBMIT REQUEST FOR 6(I) REVIEW OF
[...] This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 3 and 4. 2. On March 17, 2008, a list of 184 names from the 1267 Consolidated List was circulated to 1267 Committee Members for consideration for review under paragraph 6(i) of the Committee guidelines. The 6(i) process is an internal revie [...]
2008-04-25 23:28:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PTER UNSC
08STATE4740ITALY: INFORMATION REQUEST CONCERNING UN 1267
[...] (U) This is an action request; please see paragraphs 11-14 and 18-19. 2. (C) Summary: On December 21, Stefania Fancello at the Italian MFA's Office of International Cooperation against Terrorism conveyed a request to Embassy Rome officials for more information on the 1267 (al-Qaida/Taliban [...]
2008-01-15 22:07:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEFIN IT KTFN PREL PTER UNSC
08STATE47440SUGGESTED POINTS FOR USUN FOR MAY 5 FORMAL
[...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. On Monday, 5 May, representatives from Denmark, Liechtenstein, Sweden and Switzerland will meet with the 1267 (al-Qaeda/Taliban) Sanctions Committee with a view to having an in-depth discussion on iss [...]
2008-05-05 19:45:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PREL PTER
08STATE47575GUIDANCE FOR USUN FOR THE SECURITY COUNCIL JOINT
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 3 and 4. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. (U) On Tuesday, 6 May, the Chairman of the 1267 (al-Qaeda/Taliban) Sanctions Committee (Belgian PermRep Johan Verbeke),the Chairman of the Security Council Committee established pursuant [...]
2008-05-06 06:01:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PREL PTER UNSC
08STATE48412COUNTERTERRORISM FINANCE: OPPORTUNITY FOR FINANCIAL
[...] This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 6-8. 2. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) will hold a Counterterrorism Financial Regulatory training course at the FDIC Training Facilities in Arlington, Virginia for participants from addressee countries. This training is f [...]
2008-05-07 17:42:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN PTER ECON EFIN PREL KCRM
08STATE52473INSTRUCTIONS TO SUBMIT LISTING PROPOSAL FOR 4
[...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraphs 4 and 5. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. (U) Per ref A, the USG prenotified Security Council members, G-20, and Pakistan of our intention to request the UN 1267 Sanctions Committee to add the names of four operatives of Lashkar e-Tayyiba [...]
2008-05-16 18:24:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN PREL PTER UNSC
08STATE52694DEMARCHE REQUEST TO SECURE CHINESE SUPPORT FOR UN
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. (SBU) On May 16, 2008, USUN will submit a request to add the names of four operatives of Lashkar e-Tayyiba (LeT) to the Committee's list of individuals and entities associated with Usama bin Laden, [...]
2008-05-16 22:45:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCH EFIN KTFN PREL PTER UNSC
08STATE57002INSTRUCTIONS TO USUN TO SUBMIT 3 (2 BAHRAINIS, 1
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 3 and 4. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. (S/NF) The U.S. on May 9, 2008, prenotified (Ref A) its intent to request that the UN 1267 Sanctions Committee add the names of three individuals, Bahrainis 'Abd al-Rahman Muhammad Jaffa [...]
2008-05-28 18:30:00Secretary of StateSECRET//NOFORNEFIN KTFN PREL PTER
08STATE57572USUN GUIDANCE: SIERRA LEONE DELISTING REQUEST
[...] Department authorizes USUN to support the delisting request submitted by the Government of Sierra Leone (names in para 2) on 1 May 2008 to the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1132 (1997) concerning Sierra Leone. These twenty-four individuals were associated with [...]
2008-05-29 19:17:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC SL
08STATE59137USUN GUIDANCE: TERMINATING RWANDA SANCTIONS
[...] Department authorizes USUN to convey to the Chair of the Security Council Sanctions Committee established pursuant to resolution 918 (1994) concerning Rwanda and the Permanent Representative of the Mission of Rwanda that the U.S. supports terminating the remaining sanctions monitored by that C [...]
2008-06-03 00:40:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC RW
08STATE60117COUNTERTERRORISM FINANCE: UPDATE ON OPPORTUNITY FOR
[...] This is an update of reftel, which invited Embassies Abu Dhabi, Amman, Doha, Kuwait and Riyadh to nominate up to five host country participants each for the June 16-20 Counterterrorism Financial Regulation training course at the FDIC Training Facilities in Arlington, Virginia. 2. We conti [...]
2008-06-04 18:45:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN PTER ECON EFIN PREL KCRM
08STATE60579USUN INSTRUCTIONS: BLOCK SALAME FOCAL POINT
[...] This is an action request. USUN is requested to block the focal point delisting request for Mohamed Ahmad SALAME (SALAMI). SALAME (DOB: 22 Sep 1961; Nationality: Lebanese; Lebanese PPT: 1622263) should continue to be listed subject to the measures imposed by paragraph 4 of UN Security Council [...]
2008-06-05 17:00:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC LI
08STATE60813UNSCR 1267-INSTRUCTIONS TO USUN TO SUBMIT ONE
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 3, 4 and 5. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. (C) The United States on May 6, 2008 prenotified (Ref A) our intent to request the listing under UNSCR 1267 of the Kuwait-based international Islamic charity Revival of Islamic Heritage [...]
2008-06-05 20:32:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALEFIN KTFN PTER PREL UNSC
08STATE60880USUN PLACE HOLD ON RWANDAN FDLR SUBMISSION AND
[...] (U) This is an action request. USUN please see para 2. Embassies Brussels, London, and Paris please see para 3. 2. (S) USUN is requested to place a hold on the names submitted for listing by the Government of Rwanda in S/AC.43/2008/NOTE.13 to the UN Security Council Committee established p [...]
2008-06-05 23:13:00Secretary of StateSECRETETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC XA
08STATE61842SUDAN/CHAD - URGE SUPPORT FOR DESIGNATING 4
[...] (U) This is an action request. See para 2. 2. (C) At the highest level appropriate, USUN and Embassy Paris are requested to urge the French to support the addition of the four names in para 3, including Daoussa DEBY ITNO, to the consolidated asset freeze and travel ban list maintained by the [...]
2008-06-09 17:34:00Secretary of StateSECRET//NOFORNETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC SU
08STATE63160USUN GUIDANCE FOR UNSC SUDAN SANCTIONS COMMITTEE
[...] USUN may draw from the following points during the 12 June UN Security Council Consultations on the Sudan Sanctions Committee. - The United States welcomes the statement by the Chair of the 1591 Committee concerning the Sudan. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank the Panel [...]
2008-06-11 22:16:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC SU
08STATE63176USUN INSTRUCTION: LIBERIA PANEL TECHNICAL ROLLOVER
[...] USUN is requested to introduce to the UNSC the resolution in para 2 regarding the Liberia Panel. 2. BEGIN RESOLUTION The Security Council, Recalling its previous resolutions and statements by its President on the situation in Liberia and West Africa, Welcoming the sustained progress [...]
2008-06-12 00:06:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC LI
08STATE65303USUN VOTING INSTRUCTIONS: LIBERIA PANEL OF
[...] USUN is authorized to vote in favor of a UNSC resolution rolling over the mandate of the Liberia Panel of Experts (text in paragraph 2). The Security Council is scheduled to vote on June 18. 2. BEGIN RESOLUTION The Security Council, Recalling its previous resolutions and statements b [...]
2008-06-18 02:56:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC LI
08STATE66897SOLICITING SUPPORT FOR DRAFT TEXT UNSCR TO
[...] (SBU) This is an action request. Drawing on points in paragraph 6, Security Council action addressees are requested to seek host government support at the highest appropriate level for the draft resolution in paragraph 7 below. USUN distributed the text to Security Council delegations on June [...]
2008-06-22 15:41:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAG EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UNSC
08STATE67470INSTRUCTION TO SUBMIT FOR LISTING TO THE 1267
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 3 and 4. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. (S/NF) On April 24, 2002, the Al Rashid Trust was added to the UN 1267 Committee's list of individuals and entities associated with Usama bin Laden, al Qaida or the Taliban. Accordi [...]
2008-06-23 23:29:00Secretary of StateSECRET//NOFORNEFIN ETTC PTER KTFN
08STATE69684ENCOURAGING SUPPORT FOR UN 1267 SANCTIONS AND
[...] (U) This is an action cable. Please see paragraphs 6,7 and 8. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. (U) The follow-on resolution (Septel) to UNSCR 1735 (2006) is intended to guide the work over the next eighteen months of the UN Security Council committee established pursuant to UNSCR 126 [...]
2008-06-27 23:48:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAG EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UNSC
08STATE69956AUTHORIZATION TO VOTE FOR RESOLUTION TO EXTEND
[...] Action request: USUN is authorized to vote in favor of the draft resolution in paragraph 2. 2. Begin draft resolution text. The Security Council, Recalling its resolutions 1267 (1999),1333 (2000),1363 (2001),1373 (2001),1390 (2002),1452 (2002),1455 (2003),1526 (2004),1566 (200 [...]
2008-06-30 15:03:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDAG EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UNSC
08STATE72065INFORMATION FOR EU SANCTIONS - GIDEON GONO
[...] (U) Action Request: Action addressees are requested to deliver the information in para 4 to host governments. Info addressees should also deliver the demarche at that their discretion. ------------------- STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE ------------------- 2. (U) The U.S. listed Gideon Gono, Governo [...]
2008-07-04 00:50:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC ZI
08STATE73077USUN VOTING INSTRUCTION: ZIMBABWE UNSCR
[...] USUN is instructed to table on July 8, for a vote by the Security Council not later than July 9, the draft UNSC resolution (text in paragraph 2),which creates a Zimbabwe sanctions regime. USUN is instructed to vote in favor of the draft resolution. 2. BEGIN RESOLUTION The Security Coun [...]
2008-07-08 18:10:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC ZI XA ZU
08STATE74151USUN VOTING INSTRUCTION: TERMINATING
[...] USUN is authorized to vote in favor of the draft UNSC resolution (text in paragraph 2),which terminates the remaining sanctions monitored by the Security CouncilSanctions Committee established pursuant to resolution 918 (1994) concerning Rwanda. The measures contained in operative para [...]
2008-07-10 18:14:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC RW
08STATE80112USUN INSTRUCTIONS: LIBERIA ARMS EMBARGO EXEMPTION
[...] This is an action request. USUN is requested to seek from the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1521 (2003) concerning Liberia an exemption to the arms embargo on Liberia established by the Security Council. 2. BEGIN LETTER TO THE CHAIR OF THE 1521 (LIBERIA SANCTIONS) COMMITTEE: [...]
2008-07-24 23:25:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC KTFN LI PREL PTER UNSC
08STATE83244URGING RUSSIA TO LIFT HOLDS IN THE UN 1518
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. (SBU) On October 22, 2007, pursuant to UNSCR 1483, we proposed for listing by the UN 1518 Committee 6 former regime elements (FRE) linked to Saddam Hussein. All 6 individuals (see para 3 for additional [...]
2008-08-02 00:56:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN PREL PTER UNSC
08STATE83662REQUESTING COUNTERTERRORISM FINANCE ASSISTANCE TO THE
[...] (U) This is an action request. See para 4. 2. (SBU) Action Request: Department requests that Posts approach host governments at an appropriate level, share the Financial System Assessment Team (FSAT) report provided in Paras 5-58 below, and make the following points and requests: -- Ur [...]
2008-08-04 20:30:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PGOV PREL KTFN KCRM PTER SNAR IZ
08STATE86006FDLR INFORMATION REQUEST FOR UN SANCTIONS IN DRC
[...] (U) This is an action request; see paras 2 - 4. -------------- ACTION REQUEST -------------- 2. (SBU) Embassy Kigali is requested to thank the Government of Rwanda (GOR) again for their extraordinary effort to produce a comprehensive submission of FDLR targets for inclusion on the conso [...]
2008-08-11 18:55:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC
08STATE86598USUN INSTRUCTION: REQUEST DELISTING IN LIBERIA
[...] This is an action request. USUN is to submit to the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1521 (2003) concerning Liberia one individual for delisting. 2. BEGIN LETTER TO THE CHAIR OF THE 1521 (LIBERIA SANCTIONS) COMMITTEE: The United States requests that M. Moussa CISSE (Alias: M [...]
2008-08-12 23:40:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC KTFN LI PREL PTER UNSC
08STATE90905INFORMATION SHARING FOR UN SANCTIONS IN DRC
[...] (U) This is an action request. USUN please see paras 2 and 3. Embassies Brussels, London, and Paris please see para 4. Embassy Paris please also see para 5. -------------- ACTION REQUEST -------------- 2. (SBU) USUN is requested to share the information in paragraph 6 with the Belgian, F [...]
2008-08-23 00:42:00Secretary of StateSECRETEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER ZF UNSC
08STATE91379USUN INSTRUCTIONS FOR DRC CONSULTATIONS
[...] USUN may draw on the following points during the August 26 Security Council Consultations on the UNSC DRC Sanctions Committee: -- The United States would like to thank the Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1533 (2004) concerning the Democratic Republ [...]
2008-08-26 00:07:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER ZF UNSC
08STATE94825USUN INSTRUCTION: CALL P-3 MEETING REGARDING
[...] (SBU) This is an action request. USUN is to request a P-3 meeting be held before COB Friday, 5 September. The U.S. intends to propose the four names in para 2 be added to the consolidated asset freeze and travel ban list maintained by the Committee established pursuant to UN Security Council [...]
2008-09-04 17:41:00Secretary of StateSECRET//NOFORNEFIN ETTC KTFN SU UNSC
08STATE96580USUN INSTRUCTIONS: UNSC CONSULTATIONS ON SUDAN
[...] USUN may draw on the following points during the September 11 Security Council Consultations on the UNSC Sudan Sanctions Committee: -- The United States would like to thank Italian Ambassador Terzi for his statement and for his efforts as the new Chair of the Security Council Committee esta [...]
2008-09-09 23:37:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER SU UNSC
08STATE97316DEMARCHE REQUEST: OFAC NARCOTICS KINGPIN ACT
[...] (SBU) This is an action request; see paragraph 3. 2. (SBU) Summary. On September 12, 2008, the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) will designate two senior Government of Venezuela (GOV) officials and one former official under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin [...]
2008-09-11 15:32:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN PTER PINR EFIN VE LE SNAR AND KCRM PREL
08STATE97379UN 1267: REQUESTING ASSISTANCE TO RESOLVE
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 5-8. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. (C) In August 2004, the Libyan government nominated 74 names for addition to the UN 1267 Committee's Consolidated List of individuals and entities associated with Usama bin Laden, al-Qaida or th [...]
2008-09-11 16:23:00Secretary of StateSECRETEFIN ETTC KTFN PTER UNSC
08STOCKHOLM292DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO SWEDES: STOPPING TRAVEL TO
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-21 10:07:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALKTFN PREL PRTER IZ TU SE
08STOCKHOLM358SWEDISH RESPONSE: TERRORISM FINANCE:
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-12 09:35:00Embassy StockholmSECRETEFIN PTER KTFN PINR PREL KU SW
08STOCKHOLM855TERRORISM FINANCE DEMARCHE ON LASHKAR-E-TAYYIBA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-22 15:48:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC PK SW
08TASHKENT13162008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT INCSR
[...] INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT VOLUME II REPORT ON MONEY LAUNDERING UZBEKISTAN Uzbekistan is not an important regional financial center and does not have a well-developed financial system. Legitimate business owners, ordinary citizens, and foreign residents generally attem [...]
2008-11-17 10:57:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM EFIN KTFN SNAR UZ
08TASHKENT1476UZBEKISTAN: TERRORISM FINANCE DEMARCHE ON DESIGNATION OF AL-SHABAAB
[...] (C) On December 15, Poloff delivered reftel demarche on the U.S. designation of three members of al-Shabaab for supporting terrorism to Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Americas Desk Chief Ismat Fayzullaev, who promised to inform appropriate parts of the Government of Uzbekistan. NORLA [...]
2008-12-18 11:23:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR UNSC KE ET UZ
08TASHKENT1477UZBEKISTAN: TERRORISM FINANCE DEMARCHE ON UNION OF GOOD DELIVERED
[...] (C) On December 15, Poloff delivered reftel demarche onthe U.S. domestic designation of Union of Good as a supporter of terrorism to Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Americas Desk Chief Ismat Fayzullaev, who promised to inform parts of the Government of Uzbekistan who work on the issue. [...]
2008-12-18 11:20:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR KWBG KPAL IS SA WE GZ UZ
08TASHKENT187TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF THREE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-12 11:46:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN UZ
08TASHKENT19TERRORISM FINANCE: DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF FORMER
[...] On December 27, Poloff delivered reftel press release, identifying information, and key points to Ismat Faizullayev, MFA's Chief of Section for U.S. Affairs. Faizullayev indicated that he would share the documents with other members of the Government of Uzbekistan and notify the United States [...]
2008-01-07 09:19:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPTER KTFN UZ
08TASHKENT780UZBEKISTAN TERRORISM FINANCE: REVIVAL OF ISLAMIC
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-07 08:21:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL PINR UNSC KU UZ
08TBILISI2316GEORGIA: TERRORISM FINANCE: U.S. DOMESTIC
[...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on December 5, to Otar Berdzenishvili, MFA's Counselor of the Americas Division. Mr. Berdzenishvili told Poloff that they would study the issue and take it under advisement. LOGSDON [...]
2008-12-10 14:28:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR KWBG KPAL IS
08TELAVIV1075GOI STILL UNCERTAIN THAT POSTAL BANK WILL MANAGE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-22 06:46:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN KWBG KTFN
08TELAVIV1411MFA REPORTS REVISED TERROR FINANCE LAW SOON TO
[...] (U) SUMMARY: In a meeting with the MFA,s Deputy Director for Counterterrorism on June 23, econoff was reassured that the new amendment to Israel,s dated Prohibition on Terrorist Financing law would come into effect within a few weeks. Previously, the GOI has only had the authority to design [...]
2008-07-02 08:53:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL EFIN KTFN IS
08TELAVIV1705TERRORISM FINANCE: GOI SAYS NOW IS THE TIME TO
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-07 09:36:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRETKTFN EFIN ECON KWBG IR IS
08TELAVIV1741GOI: NEW DESIGNATIONS LAW SHOULD BE BROUGHT TO THE
[...] Per reftel "A", econoff transmitted the new list of UN 1267 designations to Roy Keidar, Legal Advisor to the Israeli National Security Council (NSC). On August 7, Keidar responded to econoff to inform him that the GOI still did not have the capacity to designate the new UN 1267 entities within [...]
2008-08-08 07:51:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDPREL EFIN KTFN IS
08TELAVIV1742TERRORISM FINANCE: GOI SAYS NOW IS THE TIME TO ACT AGAINST THE CENTRAL BANK OF IRAN AND INCREASES ITS FINANCIAL ISOLATION OF GAZA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-08 09:45:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRETECON EFIN IR IS KTFN KWBG
08TELAVIV1843GOI INFORMED OF NEW US DESIGNATIONS OF IRANIAN
[...] Per reftel "A", on August 20 econoff transmitted the new list of designations to Roy Keidar, Legal Advisor to the Israeli National Security Council (NSC). Courtesy copies were also left with representatives of Mossad and with Yehuda Shaffer, Director of Israel's FIU, the Money Laundering and T [...]
2008-08-21 10:08:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KNNP KTFN EFIN IS
08TELAVIV2058NON-PAPER ON IRISL TRANSMITTED TO GOI
[...] On September 8, Econoff passed non-paper transmitted reftel to a representative of Udi Levi, Director of the National Security Council's (NSC) Bureau of Counterterrorism Finance. Econoff's GOI contact promised to transmit the non-paper via secure fax to Ariel Shafransky, Deputy Director for C [...]
2008-09-09 12:55:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN KNNP PTER EWWT IS
08TELAVIV2169NON-PAPER ON CHINA TRANSMITTED TO GOI
[...] On September 22, Econoff passed non-paper transmitted reftel to a representative of Udi Levi, Director of the National Security Council's (NSC) Bureau of Counterterrorism Finance. On the same day, Poloff transmitted the non-paper to Haim Waxman, Director of the MFA's Department of Non-Prolife [...]
2008-09-24 05:14:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN KNNP PTER PARM IS
08TELAVIV2268IRISL OBJECTIVES SHARED WITH GOI
[...] On September 10, Econoff transmitted Treasury's press release on the designation of the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) to a representative of Udi Levi, Director of the National Security Council's (NSC) Bureau of Counterterrorism Finance. The press release was also transmitted [...]
2008-10-03 15:17:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN KNNP PTER EWWT IS
08TELAVIV2291ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CORRESPONDENT BANKING
[...] (C) BEGIN SUMMARY AND COMMENT: On Sunday, September 29, Bank Hapoalim (BH),one of only two Israeli commercial banks providing correspondent services to Palestinian banks, informed the Bank of Israel (BOI) that it would end its business relationship and cease all services to Palestinian commer [...]
2008-10-07 13:24:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN KWBG KTFN
08TELAVIV2447CASHLESS IN GAZA?
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-03 12:02:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRETPREL KPAL KTFN EFIN IS
08TELAVIV2452NOBODY REALLY WANTS TO BE BANKING CORRESPONDENT TO
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-03 13:33:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP KTFN EFIN IS
08TELAVIV2603GAZA CASH CRISIS: CBG FISCHER CALLS FOR USG
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-24 12:47:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALEFIN KNNP KTFN KPAL PREL IS
08TELAVIV2713GOI CALLS GAZA CASH CRISIS A HAMAS PLOY
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-04 13:27:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRETEFIN KNNP KTFN KPAL PTER PREL IS
08TELAVIV2760U/S LEVEY REASSURES GOI THAT NO MOMENTUM WILL BE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-10 08:10:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRETKTFN EFIN ECON KWBG IR IS
08TELAVIV2858ISRAEL'S NSC SUPPORTS MINIMUM MONTHLY CASH FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-19 16:43:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRETEFIN KNNP KTFN KPAL PTER PREL IS
08TELAVIV2859ISRAEL'S NSC SUPPORTS MINIMUM MONTHLY CASH FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-19 16:54:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRETEFIN KNNP KTFN KPAL PTER PREL IS
08TELAVIV592PRIVATE ISRAELI COMPANY COLLECTS COUNTER-TERRORISM
[...] (S) On March 7, Econoff received a briefing from senior executives at Hazard Threat Analysis, Ltd. (HTA),a private company specializing in internet-based counter-terrorism (CT) intelligence gathering. Founder and CEO Aviram Halevi explained that all of HTA's research is based on open source [...]
2008-03-13 12:23:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRETPINR PTER KOGL KTFN IR IS
08TELAVIV624ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CORRESPONDENT RELATIONSHIP IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Israel's Bank Hapoalim and Israel Discount Bank (IDB) threatened to sever correspondent relations with Palestinian banks by the end of 2007. Nevertheless, business continues between the two sides and it appears that the Bank of Israel (BOI) has prevented the banks from severing t [...]
2008-03-18 09:22:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN KTFN KWBG IS
08TELAVIV661BOI GOVERNOR FISCHER "FRUSTRATED" BY
[...] (C) In a March 18 meeting with the Ambassador, Governor of the Bank of Israel Stanley Fischer characterized as "very frustrating," ongoing problems with the Israeli-Palestinian correspondent banking relationship (reftel). Fischer explained that one of the main problems in resolving the issue [...]
2008-03-20 12:34:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALEFIN PTER KTFN KWBG IS
08THEHAGUE1011NETHERLANDS/TERRORISM FINANCE: REVOCATION OF
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-08 12:59:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN PTER PREL NL
08THEHAGUE241NETHERLANDS/TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF
[...] (SBU) On March 10, Econoff shared reftel points concerning the U.S. designation of four Syria-based members of Abu Ghadiyah Network with Wendela Haringhuizen, Senior Policy Officer, Terrorism and New Threats Unit, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Anne-Chris Visser, Senior Advisor, Financial In [...]
2008-03-11 13:19:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PTER ETTC PREL KTFN UNSC IZ SY NL
08THEHAGUE412NETHERLANDS/TERRORISM FINANCE: PRE-NOTIFICATION
[...] (S) On May 9, Econoff shared reftel points concerning the upcoming UNSCR 1267 listing request of the Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS) with Anne-Chris Visser, Senior Policy Advisor, Financial Integrity Division, Ministry of Finance. Econoff shared same points May 13 with Kim de Jong, P [...]
2008-05-15 15:49:00Embassy The HagueSECRETEFIN KTFN PTER PINR PREL NL KU
08THEHAGUE413NETHERLANDS/TERRORISM FINANCE: PRE-NOTIFICATION OF
[...] (S) On May 13, Econoff shared reftel points concerning the upcoming UNSCR 1267 listing request of 'Abd al-Rahman Muhammad Jaffar 'Ali, Adil Muhammad Mahmud Abd al-Khalique, and Khalifa Muhammad Turki al-Subaiy with Kim de Jong, Policy Officer, Terrorism and New Threats Unit, Ministry of Foreign [...]
2008-05-15 15:50:00Embassy The HagueSECRETEFIN KTFN PTER PINR PREL NL BA QA
08THEHAGUE495NETHERLANDS/TERRORISM FINANCE: AL RASHID TRUST AND
[...] (S) On June 9, Econoff shared reftel points concerning the upcoming UNSCR 1267 listing request of alternative names being used by Al Rashid Trust and Al-Akhtbar Trust International with Eric Ligthart, Deputy Director, and Anne-Chris Visser, Senior Policy Advisor, Financial Integrity Division, [...]
2008-06-09 12:24:00Embassy The HagueSECRETEFIN KTFN PTER PINR PREL PK NL
08THEHAGUE57NETHERLANDS/TERRORISM FINANCE: LET OPERATIVES
[...] (S) Econoff shared on January 16 reftel points prenotifying the Dutch of the USG intention to seek UN 1267 Sanctions Committee designation of four LeT operatives to Anne-Chris Visser, Senior Advisor, Integrity Division, Dutch Ministry of Finance. Econoff delivered the points separately to W [...]
2008-01-17 13:35:00Embassy The HagueSECRETEFIN PTER PREL ETTC KTFN NL
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