PAGE OI OF O2 USUH GIRLS OD OF O3 ASBOTTZ ACTION IO-IG INFO LOG-OB ACDA-IT CFE-OO C-OI DOEE-OO L-OD M41 PMW P-OI SDEL-DO SNP-OO SP-OO SS-OB T-OI SA-OD 2982522 33 TSOOISZ OCT 9 FM USMISSION USUN NEH YORK TO SECSTATE NASHDC PRIORITY 1481 INFO AMEMBASSY TOKYO AMEMBASSY PARIS AMEMOASSY MOSCOH AMEMOASSY LONDON AMENBASSY BONN SECDEF NASHDC USMISSION USUIENNA USMISSION GENEUA JOINT STAFF NASNDC USDOE NASHDC AMEMOASSY OTTAHA AHEMBASSY CANBERRA AMEMBASSY THE HAGUE I I A USUN NEH YORK CRISIS ACDA FOR NPI DOE FOR DPIOACI JCS FOR ISIDDINI SECOEF FOR OSDIISPI GENEUA FOR USUIENNA FOR UNUIE E O 12355 DECL OADR TAGS PARM UNGA CDC NPT SUBJECT ATTN UNGAYFIRST COMMITTEE - NPT CONSULTATIONS NESTERN GROUP LUNCH 1 THIS IS TO ORA ICONFIDENTIAL - ENTIRE TENT 2 SUMMARY ON NEDNESDAY OCTOBER 21 ACDA ASSISTANT DIRECTOR GORDON HOSTED A LUNCH FOR NESTERH REPRESENTATIVES TO DISCUSS ISSUES RELATED TO AND FOR THE 935 NPT CONFERENCE ALL AGREED THAT LESS POSED DIFFERENT CHALLENGES FROM PAST REUIEN CONFERENCES IN ADDITION TO PREDICTABLE DEMANDS FOR MORE PROGRESS IN ARMS CONTROL REPS HELIEUED THAT DEMANDS RELATED TO ARTICLE IN NOULD BE AN IMPORTANT ASPECT OF THE I995 CONFERENCE END SUMMARY 3 ON THE EUE OF THE OCTOBER 22 NPT CAUCUS AT THE UN ACDA ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR NONPROLIFERATION POLICY BRAD GORDON HOSTED A LUNCH FOR A NUMBER OF NESTERN REPRESENTATIUES ATTENDING THE LUNCH HERE BRIAN OONNELLY UNI AMB ERRERA AMB AMB NAGENMANERS NETHERLANDSI AMD MASON MARTIN RREMER GERMANY MR HANATANI JAPAN ON THE U S SIDE HERE AND LEDOGAR AND SUSAN DURK ACDAINP I IN HIS OPENING REMARKS GORDON ENPIAINED THAT THE PURPOSE OF THE THREE HAS TO SHARE UIENS ON THE 1995 AF-OO CI EAP-BO CONFERENCE IN THIS CONNECTION THE U S STRONGLY HELIEUES THAT THE INDEFINITE EXTENSION OF THE NPT IN 1335 IS AN ACHIEUAHLE GOAL ALTHOUGH IT NOUED NOT BE EASY HE NOTED THAT LONG-STANDING ARMS CONTROL HOBBY HORSES SUCH AS A CTB MAY NO LONGER BE THE ISSUE IN 19353 RATHER NE MIGHT EXPECT THERE TO BE EFFORTS TO THE TO DEMAND FOR EXAMPLE THAT THE NUCLEAR HEAPON BY A DATE UNITED STATES DEPARTNIENT OF STATE REVIEW AUTHORITY ROBERT HOMME SHC2133 CIAE-OO EUR-DO PRS-OL PT ID 04 NOV 2011 200802837 UNCLASSIFIEDZ 4 NOULD POSE PROBLEMS IN 1595 INCOMI TELEGRAM Department of State RELEASED IN FULL SHC2153 JD USUN H4915 OD OF 83 LBOOIRZ CERTAIN TO MODE TO ZERO NUCLEAR NEAPONS OTHER ISSUES THAT MIGHT AFFECT THE 1995 CONFERENCE HOULD BE DEVELOPMENTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND IN THE FORMER SOUIET UNION HE REMARKS BY EMRHASIZING THE NEED FOR THE PARTIES TO KNOR THE OUTCOME OF THE 1995 CONFERENCE BEFORE IT BEGINS IN THIS CONNECTION IT HAS ESSENTIAL THAT THERE BE A STRONG MAJORITY OF PARTIES NITN INSTRUCTIONS TO SUPPORT AN ACCEPTABLE EXTENSION OUTCOME HHEN THE CONFERENCE CONUENES E BRIAN DONNELLY INTERUENED TO NOTE THAT IN ADDITION TO THE TRADITIONAL ARMS CONTROL ISSUES THAT HAD PREOCCUPIED PAST REUIEH CONFERENCES HE MIGHT ALSO EXPECT GREATER ATTENTION TO QUESTIONS OF ACCESS TO AND SUPPLY OF NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY NE NAUE CHANGED THE HAY HE LOOK AT THE PEACEFUL USES OF NUCLEAR ENERGY SINCE THE NPT HAS NEGOTIATEO IN 1358 NON NITH THE GRONTN OF SUPPLIER REGIMES AND THE INCREASED LINKING OF ALL HEAPOHS OF MASS DESTRUCTION SOME STATES SEE THE TRANSFER OF INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY AS BEING INCREASIHGLY CONSTRAINED DY NONPROLIFERATION CONCERNS AS A MATTER OF FACT NPT ADHERENCE HAS BECOMING A BASIC CRITERIA FOR SUPPLY-OF ALL KINDS OF INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY NOT JUST NUCLEAR TURNING TO THE DRAFT UNGA RESOLUTION THAT THE UK HAD CIRCULATED TO ALL PARTIES DONNELLY REPORTED THAT THE RECEPTION TO IT HAS BEEN GENERALLY POSITIUE NITN REGARD TO UIEHS ON EXTENSION IT HAS EARLY FOR MANY STATES TO COMMIT TO A PARTICULAR EXTENSION OUTCOME AT THE SAME TIME IN ITS CONSULTATIONS IN CONNECTION NITH THE UNGA RESOLUTION THE UK HAD HOT ENCOUNTEREO ANY SPECIFIC RESERUATION TO EXTENDING THE TREATY E AND MASON CANADA AGREED THAT CONCERN ABOUT MOUING THE GOALPOSTS HAS RIGHT ON TARGET IN FACT THIS HAS ALREADY HAPPENING NIGERIA FOR EXAMPLE HAS CALLING CATEGORICALLY FOR A CTR THE TOTAL ABOLITIDN OF NUCLEAR HEAPDNS AND SOLID GUARANTEES OF ACCESS TO NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY THIS KIND OF APPROACH NOULD GAIN MOMENTUM GORDON RESPONDED THAT IT HAS IMPORTANT THAT ALL STATES INTERESTED IN THE FUTURE OF THE NPT PARTICULARLY THE NON-NUCLEAR NEAPON STATES COMMITTED TO INDEFINITE EXTENSION DE ACTIUE IN PROMOTING THEIR COMMON OBJECTIUES IT HAS NOT ENOUGH FOR THE NUCLEAR NEAPON STATES TO PROMOTE INDEFINITE EXTENSION 7 AND ERRERA INTERUENED TO SAY THAT THE FRAMEHORK FOR DISCUSSIONS IN 1535 MAY DIFFERENT FROM THE ONE NE FACE TODAY CONSEOUENTLY TOO MUCH ADUANCE PLANNING FOR THE 1995 CONFERENCE MAY NOT BE USEFUL SUPPORTERS OF INDETINITE EXTENSION HILL NOT GET ANAY NITN SUCH AN OUTCOME ALL THAT HE SAID THIS NOTING THAT IT HAS NITN THE PAIN OF A NNS NHO IS COMING UNDER PRESSURE IN THE NPT CONTEXT TO DO MORE AS THE THO NUCLEAR SUPERPOHERS HERE DOING HE AGREED NITN DONNELLY THAT ARTICLE IV NUCLEAR COMMERCE HAS NOT DEVELOPED THE RAY STATES THOUGHT IT HOULDE CONSECUENTLY THE BARGAIN OF 1968 IS NO LONGER THERE NE ALSO AGREED THAT THERE NOULD BE INTEREST IN ACHIEUING TOTAL NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT IN THIS REGARD THE HHS CAN HAUE AN IMPORTANT HEARING ON THE OTHER STATES THE MORE THE HHS ARE ON THE OEFENSIUE THE LESS EFFECTIDE THEY HILL BE AS A COUNTRY THAT LOUES THE STATUS DUO ERRERA SAID THAT IT PAINED HIM TO HAUE TO SAY THAT MAINTAINING THE STATUS ODO IS NOT IN THE INTEREST OF SUPPORTERS OF INDEFINITE EXTENSION NE 46 C0 rims MG 0 04 43 60X 44 UNCLASSIFIED CONFIDENTIAL Department of State PAGE OD OF OR USUN 94915 GO OF O3 2998121 CALLED FOR ACTION IN THE NEAR FUTURE FOR EXAMPLE OH ISSUES LIKE NEGATIUE SECURITY ASSURANCES INSAI AND NUCLEAR TESTING AND UNDERLINED THE NEED TO TAKE THE OFFENSIUE IH-APPROACHINC IOOE -NE THE OTHER HAND THAT A HUGE MAJORITY OF THE THIRD HORLD ATTACHED GREAT INPORTANCE TO NONPROLIFERATIOH TRYING TO PORTRAY THIS AS A ISSUE HERE NOT NAUING MUCH SUCCESS 3 AND IAUSTRALIAI SAID THAT HE HAD BEEN STRUCK BY FIRST COMMITTEE STATEMENT TO THE EFFECT THAT 1995 OFFERED AN OPPORTUNITY TO RECONSTITUTE THE NPT DEAL THIS INTEREST IN REDOING THE BARGAIN HAS DUE IN LARGE MEASURE TO THE LACK OF UIABILITY OF NUCLEAR ENERGY AND THE INCREASING IRRELEUANCE OF NUCLEAR HEAPONS HE STRONGLY NOPED THAT THE PARTIES COULD AUDIO A SITUATION IN 1995 THAT INUOLUED A TRADE-OFF BETHEEH THE EXTENSION OF THE NPT AND ZERO NUCLEAR HEAPOHS IN UIEH OF CONCERNS ABOUT NORTH KOREA AND CHINA TOTAL NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT BY THE NHS HOULD BE GREATLY TROUDLING TO AUSTRALIA GORDON ASSURED NIM THAT SUCH A TRADE-OFF HAS NOT REMOTELO IN THE REALM OF THE POSSIBLE URGED THE U S AND OTHERS TO GIUE CAREFUL THOUGHT TO MANAGEMENT OF A CTR BECAUSE THIS NIGHT BE ENOUGH TO GET THROUGH 1595 HITH AN ACCEPTABLE OUTCOME 9 AND HAGENMAKERS IHETNERLANDSI UOICED HIS AGREEMENT HITH MUCH OF HHAT HAD BEEN SAID HE SHARED THE UIEHS OF THOSE HNO SAH ARTICLE IN AS BEING AN IMPORTANT ISSUE FOR 1995 HE MENTIONED THAT IN A CONVERSATION HITH NIGERIA THE NIGERIAN REP HAD MENTIONED A GROUP OF 15 NE DID NOT KNOH THE COMPLETE AND SAID THAT NIGERIA HAS TAKING THE LINE THAT THE HAS NOT THAT IMPORTANT IF ONE HAD FRIENDS LIKE INDIA MEXICO AND INDONESIA 10 GORDON REITERATED HIS EARLIER COMMENT THAT THE PROCESS HOULD NOT BE EASY NE SAID THAT IT HAS IHCUMBENT ON ALL NPT SUPPORTERS TO USE EUERY EFFORT TO ACHIEUE AN ACCEPTABLE OUTCOHE IN 1995 11 TURNING TO MORE PROCEDURAL MATTERS GORDON REUIEHEO U S THINKING ON SOME OF THE PROCEDURAL ISSUES RAISED DY THE CONFERENCE HITH RESPECT TO THE NATURE OF THE CONFERENCE THE U S BELIEUED THAT A SINGLE CONFERENCE COULD ACCONPLISH BOTH A REUIEH AND THE EXTENSION OF THE NPT HITH REGARD TO THE INTEREST DY SOME NON-PARTIES IN ATTENDING THE PREPCOH AS OBSERUERS THE U S HOULD HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THIS AT FIRST BLUSH HE HERE NOT PARTICULARLY ATTRACTED TO THE IDEA IF RAISED AT THE OCT 22 NPT CAUCUS NE NOPED THAT THE PARTIES HOULD AGREE THAT THIS HAS AN ISSUE FOR THE PREPCOM TO DECIDE HHEN IT CONUEHED ON CONFERENCE FINANCING HE ASKED THE REPS TO CONSIDER HNETHER IT MADE SENSE TO SHITCH TO THE UN SCALE OF ASSESSMENTS IN DIUIDING UP CONFERENCE COSTS IN UIEH OF THE NEAR UNIUERSALITY OF THE NPT INOTE JAPANESE REP NAHATANI FOLLOHED UP HITH BURK LATER THAT DAY TO NOTE THAT THE USE OF THE UN SCALE OF ASSESSHEHTS FOR THE 1995 NPT CONFERENCE HOULD RESULT IN AN INCREASE IN ASSESSMENT BURN RESPONDED THAT THE IDEA HAD BEEN SUGGESTED FOR CONSIDERATION ONLY THE U S HAS PREPARED TO STICK HITH THE EXISTING SCALE OF ASSESSMENTS HOHEUER HITH THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOUIET UNION AND THE RESULTING REGALCULATIOH OF ASSESSMENTS IN THE UN AND IAEA IT SEEMED AT LEAST ADUISABLE TO LOOK AT THIS QUESTION SHE EMPHASILED THAT THE U S USUN DD OF D3 HAS NOT PREPARED TO ACCEPT ANY INCREASE IN ITS ASSESSMENT HHICN HAS ALREADY 3D CR PERCENT OF THE TOTAL COSTS IO GORDON ASKED THE REPS TO BEGIN THINKING ABOUT HNAT THE PREPCOM HOULD DO HHEN IT MET THERE HILL BE A NUMBER OF PROCEDURAL ISSUES THAT HOULD HAUE TO BE TAKEN UP SUCH AS THE RULES OF PROCEDURE FOR THE CONFERENCE BUT THERE HILL ALSO BE DEMANDS THAT SUBSTANTIUE ISSUES RE DISCUSSED AND HE NEED TO CONSIDER NOH HE RESPOND TO SUCH DEMANDS ON THE UENUE FOR THE CONFERENCE GORDON REPORTED THAT THE U S HAS PREPARED TO ACCEPT NEH YORK AS THE UENUE FOR THE CONFERENCE ITSELFI ALTHOUGH HE HERE NOT ADUOCATING IT HE NOTED THAT THE PROSPECTS FOR PARTICIPATION BY A LARGER NUMBER OF PARTIES SEEMEO BETTER FOR NEH YORK HHIGN COULD BE USEFUL IF HE HAD LINED UP A SITABLE MAJORITY IN FAUOR OF AN ACCEPTABLE EXTENSION DECISION FINALLY HITH RESPECT TO THE LEADERSHIP OF THE CONFERENCE NE EMPHASIZED THE IMPORTANCE OF HAUING THE BEST POSSIBLE CONFERENCE PRESIDENT AND ASKED REPS TO CONSIDER THE APPROPRIATE LEUEL OF REPRESENTATION HE DREH THEIR ATTENTION TO THE MARKER PUT DOHN BY THE NONALIGNED IN THE RAM SUMMIT DECLARATION CALLING FOR A NAM MEMBER TO BE PRESIDENT AND NOTED THAT THE NAHES OF I DNANAPALA OF SRI LANKA AND INDONESIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ALATAS HERE CIRCULATING IN THIS CONNECTION AT THE SAME TINE THE RULE OF GEOGRAPHIC ROTATION SUGGESTED THAT IT HAS EASTERN TURN TO PRESIDE DOES THE CONFERENCE NE ASKED REPS HHETHER THEY HAD HEARD ANYTHING FROM THE EASTERN EUROPEANS NO ONE HAD ANY INFORMATION TO IMPART 13 ON THE OBSERUER OUESTION KREMER ICERMANYI SAID THAT GERMANY BELIEUED THE DRAFT NPT RESOLUTION SHOULD INCLUDE SOME LANGUAGE ON THIS SUBJECT THAT HOULD GIUE BRAZIL SOMETHING ICOMHENT IS PUSNING TO ATTEND THE PREPCOMS AS AN OBSERUER END COMMENT I MASON AGREED SAYING THAT IT HAS IMPORTANT TO THINK ABOUT THE SIGNAL HE HANTED TO SEND TO STATES NOT PARTY TO THE NPT GORDON RESPONDED THAT THE U S BELIEUED IT HAS PREMATURE TO MAKE A DECISION ON THIS ISSUE AT THE CAUCUS IN ON THE ISSUE OF UENUE FOR THE CONFERENCE ERRERA EXPRESSED ITS STRONG PREFERENCE FOR GENEVA AS THE CONFERENCE SITE AS THE KEY ISSUES FOR THE NPT ARE THOSE DEALT HITH BY THE CD MASON SAID NEH YORK MAY OFFER BETTER PARTICIPATION UOICED PREFERENCE TO HAVE ONE PREPCON IN GENEUA AND ONE IN UIENHA AS A HAY TO DRAH IN A HIDER GROUP OF PARTICIPANTS INTO THE PREPARATORY PROCESS 15 COMMENT IT HAS CLEAR THAT THERE ARE MANY ISSUES THAT REOUIRE FURTHER NESTERH GROUP CONSULTATION AND COORDINATION IN THE RUN-UP TO THE FIRST PREPCOM AND BEYOND THIS INITIAL GATHERING HAS A CONSTRUCTIUE AND RUNNEHYTIUE START TO THIS CONSULTATIVE PROCESS END 15 ASSISTANT DIRECTOR cannon HAS CLEANED ms CABLE PERKINS UNCLASSIFIED CONFIDENTIAL INCDMING TELEGRAM ASHCZIDR 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