US embassy cable - 02KATHMANDU1349

UNCLAS KATHMANDU 001349 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PTER, PREL, NP, Nepali Government Policy 
SUBJECT: Nepal and International Counter-Terrorism 
Conventions 
 
REF: A) State 125639, B) 01 Kathmandu 2202 
 
1. Nepal is working to sign the Convention for the 
Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism (CSFT) at an 
early date, Arjun Kant Mainali of the MFA's Division for 
the U.N., International Organizations and International 
Law told Poloff July 10.  Mainali was responding to 
Poloff's report that the U.S. has now become a party to 
all twelve international counter-terrorism conventions 
(Ref A). 
 
2. To date, Nepal has ratified or signed six of the twelve 
conventions (Ref B).  The CSFT would be the seventh. 
Nepal's efforts to ratify both the Protocol for the 
Suppression of Unlawful Acts of Violence at Airports and 
the Convention on the Marking of Plastic Explosives are 
still in the early stages. 
 
3. As related Ref B, because Nepal does not produce or use 
nuclear material, it has not given priority to ratifying 
the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear 
Material.  Similarly, as a landlocked country Nepal is 
unlikely to act quickly on the Protocol for the 
Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Fixed 
Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf and the 
Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the 
Safety of Maritime Navigation. 
 
MALINOWSKI