Cablegate: Zimbabwe: 1997 Annual Terrorism Report

P 241305Z NOV 97
FM AMEMBASSY HARARE
TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 6032

UNCLAS HARARE 009435

FOR S/CT FOR REAP

E.O. 12356: N/A
TAGS: PTER ZI
SUBJECT: ZIMBABWE: 1997 ANNUAL TERRORISM REPORT

REF: A) STATE 245276

1. FORMAT PER REFTEL:

(A) PROSECUTIONS INVOLVING INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM
AND/OR SIGNIFICANT ACTS OF DOMESTIC TERRORISM:

THERE WERE NO ACTS OF POLITICALLY MOTIVATED
VIOLENCE IN ZIMBABWE IN 1997:

(B) EXTRADITION OF SUSPECTED TERRORISTS:

THERE WERE NO CASES INVOLVING EXTRADITION OF
SUSPECTED TERRORISTS IN ZIMBABWE IN 1997

(C) IMPEDIMENTS TO PROSECUTION OR EXTRADITION OF
SUSPECTED TERRORISTS:

AN EXTRADITION TREATY BETWEEN THE US AND ZIMBABWE
HAS BEEN SIGNED BY BOTH SIDES. IT IS PRESENTLY
AWAITING SUBMISSION TO THE SENATE FOR RATIFICATION,
WHICH WILL HOPEFULLY OCCUR IN THE SPRING OF 1998.
SINCE THE GOZ HAS SIGNED THE TREATY, THIS IS A
POSITIVE SIGN INDICATING THEY WOULD ACT RESPONSIBLY
IN A CASE INVOLVING INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM.

D. HOST COUNTRY RESPONSES OTHER THAN PROSECUTION:

NO SPECIFIC ACTION WAS TAKEN IN RESPONSE TO
TERRORISM IN 1997

F. SUPPORT FOR INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM:

THOUGH ZIMBABWE CONTINUES TO MAINTAIN DIPLOMATIC
RELATIONS WITH THE SEVEN COUNTRIES IDENTIFIED AS
SPONSORING INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM (CUBA, LIBYA,
NORTH KOREA, IRAN AND SUDAN MAINTAIN MISSIONS IN
HARARE), THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THE GOVERNMENT OF
ZIMBABWE SUPPORTS OR CONDONES TERRORIST ACTS
PERPETRATED BY THESE COUNTRIES.

G. PUBLIC STATEMENTS IN SUPPORT OF TERRORISM:

THE GOVERNMENT OF ZIMBABWE ISSUED NO STATEMENTS IN
SUPPORT OF TERRORIST ACTIVITIES IN 1997.

H. SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN ATTITUDE TOWARDS
TERRORISM SINCE 1996:

NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGE HAS BEEN NOTED.

I. U.S. COUNTERTERRORISM EFFORTS AND INITIATIVES:

THERE WERE NO SIGNIFICANT COUNTERTERRORISM EFFORTS
AND INITIATIVES IN ZIMBABWE DURING THE PAST YEAR.

J. COOPERATION SOUGHT FROM THE HOST GOVERNMENT
DURING THE PREVIOUS FIVE YEARS IN THE INVESTIGATION
OR PROSECUTION OF AN ACT OF INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM
AGAINST THE UNITED STATES:

ZIMBABWE HAS NOT BEEN REQUESTED TO COOPERATE IN THE
INVESTIGATION OR PROSECUTION OF ANY TERRORIST ACT.

CARRAGHER

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