US embassy cable - 05PRETORIA2952

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SOUTH AFRICA: CHINESE OBJECTIONS TO UN RESOLUTION FATF REFERENCES

Identifier: 05PRETORIA2952
Wikileaks: View 05PRETORIA2952 at Wikileaks.org
Origin: Embassy Pretoria
Created: 2005-07-26 10:22:00
Classification: CONFIDENTIAL
Tags: PTER ETTC PREL KTFN SF CH KFIN UNSC
Redacted: This cable was not redacted by Wikileaks.
This record is a partial extract of the original cable. The full text of the original cable is not available.

C O N F I D E N T I A L PRETORIA 002952 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/26/2015 
TAGS: PTER, ETTC, PREL, KTFN, SF, CH, KFIN, UNSC 
SUBJECT: SOUTH AFRICA: CHINESE OBJECTIONS TO UN RESOLUTION 
FATF REFERENCES 
 
REF: STATE 135839 
 
Classified By: Charge d'Affaires Jeff Hartley for 
Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d) 
 
(C) On July 22, post delivered reftel talking points to South 
Africa's Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and Financial 
Intelligence Centre (FIC).  DFA's multilateral desk passed on 
the information to its delegation at the UN in New York, but 
did not know if they had or would approach the Chinese about 
this issue.  DFA's multilateral desk confirmed that FIC 
officials were the appropriate ones to respond to this 
demarche.  FIC Director Murray Michell is well aware of the 
issue and has received the talking points.  However, he is 
currently out of the country traveling with South Africa's 
Financial Action Task Force (FATF) President, Kader Asmal. 
Post will report on Michell's response when received. 
HARTLEY 

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