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His Excellency Talal Al Teneiji, Director of the Executive Office for Control and Non-Proliferation (EOCN),  met with His Excellency Waleed Al Awadhi, Chief Operating Officer, and Ms. Kawthar Kazem, Director of Human Resources at the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA). During the meeting, they attended a presentation by Ms. Afra Al-Falasi, a specialist at the DFSA, outlining the outcomes of her secondment at the EOCN in the foundational training program, which focused on implementing Targeted Financial Sanctions and combating sanctions evasion.

This initiative is part of the EOCN and DFSA vision to open new opportunities for cooperation, knowledge exchange, and building competencies at both technical and operational levels, as well as to learn about best practices to strengthen the framework for combating terrorism financing, proliferation financing  and sanctions evasion.

This program aims to enhance capacity building and knowledge in government authorities, including supervisory bodies in the financial and non-financial sectors, to identify the requirements of Targeted Financial Sanctions and aims to strengthen and improve the national cooperation procedures and exchange of information to combat sanctions evasion.