Cablegate: Goc to Implement Sanctions Against North Korea

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E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PARM PREL KNNP HR KN
SUBJECT: GOC TO IMPLEMENT SANCTIONS AGAINST NORTH KOREA

1.(U) PolOff delivered reftel demarche on 11/16/06 to Head of MFA
Dept for International Security Sanja Bujas Juraga.

2. (U) On 11/29/06, Juraga advised that GoC was in the process of
implementing UNSCR 1718 sanctions against North Korea. The GoC's
recently formed Interministerial Working Group on International
Restrictive Measures will meet Dec 8 to develop proposals for how
the GoC will adopt and enforce these sanctions and how police and
customs officials will be directed to carry out enforcement. Once
the GoC adopts the recommendation of the Working Group, according to
Juraga, the sanctions will be published in Croatia's National
Gazette (equivalent of the U.S. Federal Register). Regarding UNSCR
1718 sanctions on luxury goods, Juraga noted that the Working Group
would consider whether the GoC should create its own luxury goods
list or adopt either the USG or EU list.

3.(SBU) COMMENT: This process represents an important step forward
in the institutionalization of Croatian implementation of
international trade sanctions, something that has been done only in
a haphazard way in the past. Currently, violators of these upcoming
sanctions will be punished under Croatian legal provisions against
economic crime and illegal trade - essentially low-penalty customs
violations. Post is assisting the GoC in drafting revisions to its
export control legislation which will allow more stringent
enforcement of both international sanctions and Croatia's export
control regime. END COMMENT

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