S E C R E T NEW DELHI 002599

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/07/2015
TAGS: PARM PREL IR IN CBW GOI
SUBJECT: S35-04: INDIAN INVESTIGATION OF SANDHYA ORGANIC
CHEMICALS, PVT.

REF: STATE 221872

Classified By: PolCouns Geoffrey Pyatt, for Reasons 1.4 (B, D)


1. (S) On March 25, MEA Under Secretary, Disarmament and
International Security Affairs (DISA), Nutan Kapoor outlined
for PolMilOff the status of the GOI investigation of Sandhya
Organic Chemical's shipment of phosphorous oxychloride, a CW
precursor, to Iran.


2. (S) According to Kapoor, Sandhya is a CWC Schedule 3
facility and the export of phosphorous oxychloride is
permissible under GOI law because Iran is a CWC state party.
Any diversion by the Iranian end-user would come to light at
the annual declarations of the Organization for the
Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Kapoor stated. She
requested that the USG provide further "persuasive
information" about the end-user.
MULFORD