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Cablegate: Uganda: 1994 Annual Terrorism Report

R 071222Z NOV 94
FM AMEMBASSY KAMPALA
TO SECSTATE WASHDC 2386

UNCLAS KAMPALA 008986


FOR S/CT FOR REAP

E.O. 12356: N/A
TAGS: PTER
SUBJECT: UGANDA: 1994 ANNUAL TERRORISM REPORT

REF: STATE 286744

1. UGANDA WAS NEITHER A VICTIM NOR A SPONSOR
OF INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM IN 1993.

2. IN RESPONSE TO REFTEL QUESTIONS:

A) THE GOU DID NOT PROSECUTE INTERNATIONAL OR
DOMESTIC TERRORISTS IN 1994.

B) THE GOU NEITHER EXTRADITED NOR REQUESTED
EXTRADITION OF TERORISTS IN 1994.

C) THE GOU DOES NOT HAVE AN EXTRADITION TREATY
WITH THE UNITED STATES.

D) GOU OFFICIALS ARE ON RECORD AS OPPOSING THE
PRACTICE OF TERRORISM.

E) THE GOU IS NOT INVOLVED IN ANY MAJOR
COUNTER-TERRORIST ACTIVITIES. DURING 1994 THE
GOU CONTINUED ITS PROGRAM TO INCREASE THE
SECURITY AT ENTEBBE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TO
MEET INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS.

F) THE GOU DOES NOT SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL
TERRORISM.

G) THE GOU HAS NOT MADE PUBLIC STATEMENTS OF
SUPPORT OF A TERRORIST-SUPPORTING COUNTRY ON A
TERRORIST ISSUE. IT HAS NORMAL DIPLOMATIC
RELATIONS WITH ALL OF THE COUNTRIES ON THE
TERRORIST LIST.

H. THERE WERE NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES SINCE 1993
IN THE GOU'S ATTITUDE TOWARD TERRORISM.

SOUTHWICK

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