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Cablegate: Terrorist Finance: Domestic Usg Designation Of
VZCZCXYZ0000
PP RUEHWEB
DE RUEHKO #6924 3450730
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 110730Z DEC 06
FM AMEMBASSY TOKYO
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 8980
RUEATRS/TREASURY DEPT WASHDC PRIORITY
INFO RUEAWJA/JUSTICE DEPT WASHDC PRIORITY
RUEAIIA/CIA WASHDC PRIORITY
UNCLAS TOKYO 006924
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
TREASURY PASS TO AMIT SHARMA
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: EFIN ETTC JA KTFN PREL PTER XR
SUBJECT: TERRORIST FINANCE: DOMESTIC USG DESIGNATION OF
HIZBALLAH-RELATED INDIVIDUALS/ENTITIES IN THE TRI-BORDER
AREA
REF: SECSTATE 196015
1. (SBU) Embassy Tokyo Political Officer and Deputy Financial
Attach conveyed reftel demarche to Ministry of Foreign
Affairs International Counterterrorism Cooperation Division
Deputy Director Miyako Ishimura and Ministry of Finance Legal
Office Deputy Division Chief Shunichi Fukushima on December
7, 2006. Both contacts noted that the Government of Japan has
not designated Hizballah as a terrorist entity, but both
thanked Emboffs for the information.
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