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.
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