ea A at a MD UNITED STATES ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT AGENCY October 16 1992 - 1372 4 FROM Susan Burk RELEASED IN FULL SUBJECT US Hosted Dinner for NPT Nuclear Weapon States On Wednesday September 23 1992 the US ACDA Principal Deputy Assistant Director Norman Wulf hosted a dinner for the NPT Depositaries US UK and Russian Federation plus France and China A list of participants is attached The Depositaries used this opportunity to brief China and France on preparations to date for the 1995 NPT Conference to extend the Treaty The UK reviewed its efforts thus far to obtain support for a draft UNGA resolution setting up the conference Preparatory Committee PrepCom The RF reviewed a number of issues raised by the' PrepCom including the timing and venue of prepcom meetings and its program of work The RF pointed out to the Chinese and French representatives the need to devise appropriate rules of procedure for the extension decision The US reviewed the Depositaries' thinking on the nature of the extension decision and of the conference itself The US rep stated that the Depositaries were amenable during the extension conference but that the extension decision must not be held hostage to the outcome of that review He stressed the importance of obtaining good leadership for the conference - French views on these points were obtained in a previous meeting and are reported in USVienna 2017 28_Sep 92 The Chinese rep said he was grateful for the opportunity to have this meeting As China has only recently acceded to the NPT it will need to get educated on the various NPT issues 4 Chinese support for the NPT however is evident by its adherence He declined to commit on the question of indefinite extension saying that China will need to look at other interna- tional areas before it formulates a view Subsequently RF rep Mayorskiy pressed the GOC rep to join with the Depositaries in support of indefinite extension In an obviously irritated response the Chinese rep responded that indefinite extension would be tantamount to continued maintenance of discrimination between the nuclear weapon states and non nuclear weapon states Before that could be acceptable some movement by the nuclear weapon states would be required He also commented that an unamended NPT would not attract the threshold states Wulf UNCLASSIFIED QQNF I DENT AL DECL OADR UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE REVIEW AUTHORITY ROBERT HOMME ID 21 FEB 2012 200802837 agreed but responded that any effort to amend the NPT would seriously risk its unraveling The Chinese expressed appreciation for the meeting 'and requested to be kept informed COMMENT Chinese position is not yet set but it will be difficult to persuade them to support in e nite extension 31 3143 fear they 21721 be taking position counter to that of most developing countries QONFIDENT IAL UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED US-Hosted NPT Dinner September 23 1992 Vienna Austria HE Norman W Wulf Principal Deputy Assistant Director ACDA 'Amb Jane E Becker UNVIE Susan F Burk Carlton Stoiber LtCol Guy Roberts HE Brian Donnelly Head Non Proliferation and- Defence Department FCO Peter Agrell Asst Secy Atomic Energy Div Dept of Trade and Industry BE Boris Mayorsky Director Directorate for Int'l Scientific and Technical Cooperation MFA Vladimir Pavlinov Counselor Adviser to the Governor Philippe Thiebaud Director Nuclear and Space Affairs MFA Therese Delpech CEA Gilles Andreani Disarmament Dept MFA BEE Wang Jun Deputy Div Chief Dept of Int'l Organizations and Conferences MFA Huang Yu First Secretary Advisor to the Governor UNCLASSIFIED DRAFTED BY CLEARANCES UNCLASSIFIED Susan Burl-1% 10 16 92 377326 N Wulf C Stoibe 59W JCS G Roberts 4 UNCLASSIFIED This document is from the holdings of The National Security Archive Suite 701 Gelman Library The George Washington University 2130 H Street NW Washington D C 20037 Phone 202 994-7000 Fax 202 994-7005 nsarchiv@gwu edu