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05BRASILIA3125
2005-11-29 18:44:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Brasilia
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BRAZIL DEMARCHE ON U/S BURNS & U/S JOSEPH SFRC

Tags:  KNNP PARM PREL IN BR US 
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C O N F I D E N T I A L BRASILIA 003125 

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/29/2015
TAGS: KNNP PARM PREL IN BR US
SUBJECT: BRAZIL DEMARCHE ON U/S BURNS & U/S JOSEPH SFRC
TESTIMONY REGARDING INDIA CIVIL NUCLEAR INITIATIVE

REF: STATE 203310

Classified By: PolCouns Dennis Hearne, 1.4 (B) & (D)

C O N F I D E N T I A L BRASILIA 003125

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/29/2015
TAGS: KNNP PARM PREL IN BR US
SUBJECT: BRAZIL DEMARCHE ON U/S BURNS & U/S JOSEPH SFRC
TESTIMONY REGARDING INDIA CIVIL NUCLEAR INITIATIVE

REF: STATE 203310

Classified By: PolCouns Dennis Hearne, 1.4 (B) & (D)


1. (C) Embassy presented the text of the testimonies of U/S
Burns and Joseph November 28 to Santiago Mourao, Director of
the Foreign Ministry's Disarmament and Sensitive Technologies
Division. Mourao said he had seen references to the
testimony of the two Undersecretaries and looked forward to
fully reviewing the texts. He reviewed the Brazilian
position on the issue, noting that Brazil received the
information on the civil nuclear cooperation with some
perplexity. While the GOB understood the U.S. desire to
build a strategic partnership with India, Brazil had actually
been pursuing such a partnership with India (and South
Africa) without making any concessions on the disarmament
front. Brazil, he said, does not recognize a separation of
disarmament from non-proliferation and therefore does not
understand how one can make concessions on disarmament in
order to gain progress on non-proliferation.


2. (C) Mourao added that there was an internal Brazilian
dimension to the issue: Brazil's decision to accede to the
NPT had been a difficult one. That difficulty is being
relived as the GOB considers the issue of the Additional
Protocol. From the perspective of this issue, the U.S.-India
announcement has not helped matters.


3. (C) Finally, he said, because of Brazil's strategic
relationship with India, this initiative has put Brazil in an
awkward position. In order not to strain relations with
India, Brazil has refrained from saying much publicly on the
issue.


4. (C) Noting that Brazil will assume the Chair of the
Nuclear Supplier's Group (NSG) next year, Mourao said Brazil
had been pleased to note that the U.S. was not asking the NSG
to take any action in regard to the India initiative until
India had taken the necessary actions to move forward civil
nuclear cooperation with the U.S. He said some of the
necessary actions will not be easy for the Indians to take,
so he will be interested to see how the situation develops.

LINEHAN