US embassy cable - 04MANAMA1938

UNCLAS MANAMA 001938 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
 
STATE FOR S/CT AND IO 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PTER, ASEC, PREL, BA 
SUBJECT: BAHRAIN:  DEMARCHE ON THE 12 COUNTERTERRORISM 
CONVENTIONS AND PROTOCOLS 
 
REF: STATE 269653 
 
Sensitive but unclassified; not for Internet distribution. 
Please protect accordingly. 
 
(SBU) PolEcon chief delivered reftel points on adoption of 
the 12 counterterrorism conventions and protocols December 27 
to MFA Assistant Under Secretary Shaikh Abdul Aziz bin 
Mubarak Al Khalifa.  Shaikh Abdul Aziz indicated that Bahrain 
had already adopted seven of the 12 and was committed to 
adopting the remaining five.  He said that the GOB had 
already started the ball rolling, noting that Minister of 
State for Foreign Affairs Mohammed Abdul Ghaffar had briefed 
the parliamentary committees concerned with foreign affairs 
on the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts 
Against the Safety of Maritime Navigation and the Protocol 
for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of 
Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf just one 
week earlier. 
 
MONROE