SPAIN: FOLLOW-UP ON CWC HOST COUNTRY AGREEMENT

C O N F I D E N T I A L MADRID 000635

SIPDIS

DEPT FOR EUR/WE AND AC/CB;
THE HAGUE FOR CWC DEL

E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/16/2015
TAGS: PREL PARM KTIA SU CWC
SUBJECT: SPAIN: FOLLOW-UP ON CWC HOST COUNTRY AGREEMENT

REF: STATE 26012

Classified By: Ricardo F. Zuniga, Acting Political Counselor.
Reasons 1.4 (B) & (D)

(C) Just prior to receiving reftel points, poloff met with
the Spanish Foreign Ministry's deputy director of
international disarmament affairs Marcos Rodriguez February 9
to re-engage the GOS on our efforts to conclude a host
country agreement on the Chemical Weapons Convention.
Rodriguez said a GOS committee of arms control and defense
experts are concluding comments on the most recent version of
the CWC MOU, but the MFA could not commit at this time to the
U.S. proposal to visit Spain in the March/April 2005 time
frame to conclude the agreement. We will deliver reftel
points to Rodriguez and urge the GOS to provide its comments
as soon as possible.
MANZANARES