date:2006-04-13T05:36:00
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SIPDIS

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/12/2016
TAGS: EFIN, ETTC, KTFN, PREL, PTER, NZ
SUBJECT: TERRORISM FINANCE: JI-4 PRENOTIFICATION: NEW
ZEALAND'S RESPONSE

REF: A. STATE 56381
B. STATE 50398
C. STATE 41362
D. STATE 40404
E. STATE 40313
F. STATE 39886

(U) Classified by Acting DCM Katherine B. Hadda. Reasons:
1.4 (b) and (d).

1. (S) The New Zealand government has decided to co-sponsor a
request to the UN 1267 Sanctions Committee to list four
Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) leaders: Abu Bakar Ba'asyir, Gun Gun
Rusman Gunawan, Taufik Rifki and Abdullah Anshori (ref C and
F).

2. (C) Taha McPherson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and
Trade's Security Policy Division informed post April 13 of
the decision made by the government's ministers. McPherson
said the decision also would be conveyed to New Zealand's UN
mission and to the Australian government. Australia's High
Commissioner in New Zealand, John Dauth, on April 11 met with
Ministry officials and urged them to co-sponsor the
submission to the UN committee.

3. (C) McPherson noted that the delay in the request to the
UN committee (ref B) gave New Zealand officials the time they
needed to run the issue through their interagency process.
Particularly since New Zealand co-sponsored the UN request to
designate JI itself, the officials considered from the
beginning the co-sponsorship of the JI leaders' listing to
have merit, McPherson said. He added that the month taken to
respond to our request for co-sponsorship (ref F) reflects
New Zealand's cumbersome interagency process.

4. (C) Post is especially grateful to Treasury for providing
additional information that helped the New Zealand government
officials reach their decision.
McCormick