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ENTIRE TEXTJ • IRAQI FURf IGN MINISTER SAIADllN HAMMAD CALLE D ME TO THE p•INISTRY AT lQOO JUNE B I TOOK NOTES sn FULLO ING REPORT rs ALMOST VFRAATIM1 MINUS KEPEDillONS · HAMMAnl SAID THAT WHEN IKAQ 1 $ NUCLEAR INSTALLATION kAS ATTACHEn Y STERDAY IRAQI SUSPECTED JSREAL NOW ISRAEL AS ANNnU C D THAT ITS AIR FURCF CAPRIED OUT THE RAID THIS JS A VERY DANGFRDUS ANO GRAVE INCIDENT IRAQ HAS Nn BORDFR WITH ISRAEL ANO TH RE IS ND ACTIVE hAR BETWEEN 5ENSITlV I PAGE 555 SELECTED SITUATION ISTJNG DATE 06 i9 81 l70 SlTU TJONi CHECK SUBJ CT CATAGORYi LIST MESS1GE I ANNOTAl ONI US ISRAEL JS USJNG l TS AIR FOPCF TO REACH WHEREVER TT WISHES 4 HAMMAUJ CONtINUEO THAT TH NUCLEAR PLANT COST IRAQ cDNSJOERABLE RESOURCES IN ITS HOUEST PROGRAM FDR THE PEACEFUL U OF NU LEAR ENERGY IRAO HAS SIGNED THE NDN PROFLTFERATIDN TREATY HAMMDI SAID J WAS THE FIRST FOREIGN REPRESENTATIV8 HE HAD CALLED IN BECAUSE THE UNITED STATES HAS A SPECIAL RESPONSJBILITY THE UNITED STATES µAS ALWAYS 0 SAID THAT IT WISHED TLl MAINTAIN PEACE AND THE PRINCIPLE OF JUSTICE THE IRAQIS KNOW DF THE SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE U $ AND ISRAEL AND THEY KNOW THAT WHF N THf U S HAS WlSHED lS EAL TO REFRAIN FROM rERTAIN ACTIONS IT HAS DONE SD IT IS THE IRAQI EVALUATION THAT IF THE UNITED STATES HAD ANTED TO RESTRAIN ISRAEL FROM SUCH AN ACTION T GOULD HAVE DUNE 50 HAMMAD ADDED THAT TH UNITEn STATES HAS IMPORTANT iNTERESTS IN THE AREA ALONG WITH SPECIAL RELATIONS W TH iSRAEL WHICH INCLUDE THE PRACTICE OF CONTINUOUS CONSULTATIONS p S AvlACS COVER THE AREA ISRAEL WOULD NOT TAKE SUCH aCTION WJTHnUT CONSULTING THE UNITED STATES 6• HAMMAD CONCLUDED HIS OPENING STATEMENT WITH A REFERENCE TO IRAQIS WILLINGNESS TO IMPRnVE RELATIONS TRAQI HAS SHOWN GOOD WILL MOW THAT SUCH A THING HAS APENED IRAQ WISHES TD EXPRESS ITS SERIOUS CONCERN TO THE UNITED STATES - l THANKED THE MINISTER FOR USING THIS CHANNEL TD ARING AN IMPORTANT MATTER TD THE ATTENTION Of THE USG 1 SAID I EXPECTED AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT ON THE RAID OUT DF WASHINGTON MEANWHILE1 I COULD OFFICIALLY ASSURE THE MINISTER THAT UNITED STATES HAD ND FORE KNO LEDGE OF THE RAID IT WOULD BE A SERIOUS MISTAKE JF THE IRAQI GOVERN- ENT CALCULATED OTHERWISE THE U S TDD CONSlDERS THE pAID A SERIOUS DEVELOPMENT AMONG OTHER THINGS IT HAS COME AT AN INOPPnRTUNE TIME WHEN WE WERE MAKING A MAJOR EFFORT TD DEFUSE THE CAJSJS IN LEBANON J PROMISED TD CONVEY THE MINISTEAIS MESSAGE TD WASHINGTUN p HAMMADI SATO THAT EVEN SUPPOSJNG THAT ISRAEL DID NOT tONSULT T E UNITE ES AHEAD UF TIME I OBSERVED THAT EVEN IF E HAD HAD 1NDICATILJN5 UF SUCH FLIGHTS WE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN IN A pDSITlON TO DD ANYTHING ABOUT JT q IN CrNCLUS UN HAMMAD SAID IRAQ WOULD CALL FOR AN JJP GENT Ml ETING OF THE SECURITY CiJUNClL IRA J HOPES THE lioSo WlL SUPPORT THIS CALL AND OPPOSE THE OBVIOUS aCT OF AGGRE SIDN HE HAP PREFERKED TD CALL US IN SF NSITIVE I SENSITIVE PAGE 556 SELECTED SITUATION LISTING DATE 06 19 81 l70 SITUATION CHECK SUBJcCT CATAGDRY LIST HEAD OF TIME SINCE WE HAD I1 DJCATED DUA DESIRE TD FSTABLISH FRIIENDLY RELATIUNS wITH COUNTRIES IN THE AREA PIRAQ TnO IS LuDKJNG FOR FRIENDS BUT THIS IS A VERY _ FRIOlJS DF VFLOPMENT 11 • 10 ON RETURNING TO THE RESIDENCE I hAS TOLD BY A STAFF EMBER THAT THE VOICE OF AMERICA HAD JUST CARRIED A sTATE ENT CONDEMNING THE ISRAELI ATTACK AND REFERRING TD THE PUSSJBLE USE OF U S EQUIPMENT I PnDNEO HAMMADI aND FOUND THAT HE HAD ALREADY BEfN TULD OF THE REPORT HE WAS TROUALEO BY DUR SUGGESTinN THAT THERE MJGHT HAVE REEN SOME R40 ATION FROH THE DAMAGED REACTOR SINCE THIS rDULD ''CAUSE CONFUSION''• HE COULD ASSURE US THERE WAS NO RilDIATinN 1t COMMENT IRAQI REACTION THUS FAP IS THE BEST WE rOULO HOPF FOR A STATEMENT BY THE PEVOLUTIDNARY COMMAND rDUNC L WHICH HAS JUST B EN CARRIED UN IRAQI RADIO DID NDT MFNTIDN THE UNITED STATES BUT INSTEAD RELATED THE tSRAELI ATTACK TO T E CONFLICT WITH lRAN I SUGGEST THAT THE HEAU OF THE IRAQ INTERESTS SECTION IN WASHINGTON RF CALLED JN AT A HIGH LEVEL ANn GIVEN THE OfFIC AL 11NITEO STATES REACTION IT WllULO ALSU BF USEfUL HERE IF 1 COULD HAVE A PERSONAL MESSAGE FPUM THE SECRETARY TO rDNVEY TU FOREIGN MINSTER HAHMDOl FAGLETON f T 111560 NNN $ENSIT VE