Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
06BERLIN1595
2006-06-12 14:20:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Berlin
Cable title:
FMCT: GERMAN COMMENTS ON U.S. PROPOSAL
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C O N F I D E N T I A L BERLIN 001595
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR ISN/MNSA, EUR/PRA, AND EUR/AGS; NEW YORK FOR
USUN-POL; GENEVA FOR USCD
E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/12/2016
TAGS: MNUC PARM KNNP PREL CDG GM
SUBJECT: FMCT: GERMAN COMMENTS ON U.S. PROPOSAL
REF: STATE 92033
Classified By: Acting Political Minister-Counselor John Lister; reasons
1.4(b) and (d).
(C) Poloff delivered the message in reftel June 8 to Hellmut
Hoffmann, Director of the MFA's Office of Nuclear
Nonproliferation Policy. Responding to our points, Hoffmann
said that Germany welcomed the USG's proposal to begin
negotiations on a Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty (FMCT). He
underlined that the German government also does not want
linkages made to other issues at the Conference on
Disarmament. Insisting that Germany wants to approach the
matter "pragmatically", Hoffmann added that, while Germany
would not stand in the way of opening FMCT negotiations on
the basis of the USG proposal, Berlin was not abandoning its
long-held view that a verification regime of some kind
ultimately would be desirable.
BAUMAN
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR ISN/MNSA, EUR/PRA, AND EUR/AGS; NEW YORK FOR
USUN-POL; GENEVA FOR USCD
E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/12/2016
TAGS: MNUC PARM KNNP PREL CDG GM
SUBJECT: FMCT: GERMAN COMMENTS ON U.S. PROPOSAL
REF: STATE 92033
Classified By: Acting Political Minister-Counselor John Lister; reasons
1.4(b) and (d).
(C) Poloff delivered the message in reftel June 8 to Hellmut
Hoffmann, Director of the MFA's Office of Nuclear
Nonproliferation Policy. Responding to our points, Hoffmann
said that Germany welcomed the USG's proposal to begin
negotiations on a Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty (FMCT). He
underlined that the German government also does not want
linkages made to other issues at the Conference on
Disarmament. Insisting that Germany wants to approach the
matter "pragmatically", Hoffmann added that, while Germany
would not stand in the way of opening FMCT negotiations on
the basis of the USG proposal, Berlin was not abandoning its
long-held view that a verification regime of some kind
ultimately would be desirable.
BAUMAN