Cablegate: Terrorist Finance: Domestic Usg Designation Of

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P 110730Z DEC 06
FM AMEMBASSY TOKYO
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 8980
RUEATRS/TREASURY DEPT WASHDC PRIORITY
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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.
SCHIEFFER

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