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05VIENNA1498
2005-05-09 14:28:00
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Embassy Vienna
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BWC 2005 WORK PROGRAM MEETINGS ON CODES OF

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UNCLAS VIENNA 001498 

SIPDIS

SENSITIVE

DEPARTMENT FOR NP/CBM, EUR/ERA, EUR/PGI AND EUR/AGS

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PARM PREL AU CBW EUN
SUBJECT: BWC 2005 WORK PROGRAM MEETINGS ON CODES OF
CONDUCT: AUSTRIAN RESPONSE

REF: SECSTATE 81766

This message is sensitive but unclassified.

UNCLAS VIENNA 001498

SIPDIS

SENSITIVE

DEPARTMENT FOR NP/CBM, EUR/ERA, EUR/PGI AND EUR/AGS

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PARM PREL AU CBW EUN
SUBJECT: BWC 2005 WORK PROGRAM MEETINGS ON CODES OF
CONDUCT: AUSTRIAN RESPONSE

REF: SECSTATE 81766

This message is sensitive but unclassified.


1. (SBU) Pol Unit Chief delivered reftel demarche and
associated non-paper to acting head of MFA Nonproliferation
Bureau Dorothea Auer on May 6. Auer thanked us for the
information and responded that it was clear that any
"universal" code of conduct was a non-starter. She also
thought it unlikely that the time available would permit any
re-hash of prior-year work programs. However, she observed
that it was difficult to restrain discussion in experts'
groups ("we can't put them in a strait-jacket") and that
keeping the meeting on track would require agile work by the
chair.


2. (SBU) Auer agreed that any discussion of the 2006 RevCon
agenda should wait until December 2005 at the earliest. She
noted that there was little variance between European and
U.S. threat assessments. The EU position that some sort of
verification instruments were needed in the area of
biological weapons was well-known, she continued. She hoped
that the U.S. would demonstrate "some flexibility" in order
for the 2006 RevCon to achieve progress.
Brown