60TH UNFC: FRANCE AGREES AD HOC COMMITTEES A BAD

C O N F I D E N T I A L PARIS 006984 SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/07/2015 TAGS: CA MX AORC PARM PREL MNUC SUBJECT: 60TH UNFC: FRANCE AGREES AD HOC COMMITTEES A BAD IDEA REF: SECSTATE 185313 Classified By: Political Minister-Counselor Josiah Rosenblatt for Reaso ns 1.4(b) and (d). Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA DAS equivalent for Chemical, Biological and Conventional Weapons disarmament, Marion Paradas and her deputy, Arnaud Roux on October 6. In a follow-up conversation on October 7, Paradas said that the French believe that the draft resolution seeking to establish ad hoc committees would play a destructive rather than a constructive role for nonproliferation. She said that the French would be sending out their own instructions to demarche state authors of the draft resolution to get them to reconsider. If it failed, she said, they would issue instructions to a broader array of capitals. She added that she had heard that the British were doing the same. Please visit Paris' Classified Website at: http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/eur/paris/index.c fm STAPLETON