MTCR PLENARY: IRELAND FAVORS SYRIA MODEL ON NORTH

C O N F I D E N T I A L DUBLIN 001116 SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/31/2015 TAGS: PARM PREL ETTC KSCA TSPA MTCRE MUNC SUBJECT: MTCR PLENARY: IRELAND FAVORS SYRIA MODEL ON NORTH KOREA PROPOSAL REF: STATE 160777 Classified By: Deputy Chief of Mission Jonathan S. Benton; Reasons 1.4 (B) and (D). (C) On September 7, Post delivered reftel demarche regarding the U.S. proposal on North Korea for the September 12-16 Madrid MTCR Plenary to Therese Healy and Michael Keaveney, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) First and Third Secretaries, respectively, for Disarmament and SIPDIS Nonproliferation. Healy, who will attend the Madrid Plenary, noted that, if consensus could not be achieved on the U.S. proposal, Ireland would likely announce that it would implement the substance of the proposal on a national basis. She pointed out that Ireland was one of 27 MTCR countries to annouce at the 2004 MTCR Plenary that it would adopt the substance of similar U.S. proposals on Syria. Healy believed that the Department of Enterprise, Trade, and Employment (DETE, the agency responsible for export controls) would authorize the Irish delegation in Madrid to follow the "Syria model" for North Korea if consensus could not be reached. BENTON