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Created
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06ISLAMABAD11103
2006-06-13 04:31:00
CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN
Embassy Islamabad
Cable title:
DEMARCHE DELIVERED: FISSILE MATERIAL CUTOFF TREATY
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C O N F I D E N T I A L ISLAMABAD 011103
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DEPT FOR ISN/MNSA
E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/12/2016
TAGS: PK PREL PARM MNUC KNNP CDG
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE DELIVERED: FISSILE MATERIAL CUTOFF TREATY
REF: A. STATE 92033
B. ISLAMABAD 9098
Classified By: Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker, Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
C O N F I D E N T I A L ISLAMABAD 011103
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SIPDIS
DEPT FOR ISN/MNSA
E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/12/2016
TAGS: PK PREL PARM MNUC KNNP CDG
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE DELIVERED: FISSILE MATERIAL CUTOFF TREATY
REF: A. STATE 92033
B. ISLAMABAD 9098
Classified By: Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker, Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
1. (C) On June 12, POLOFF delivered ref A points to MFA
Director (Disarmament Cell) Mohammad Kamran Akhtar, stressing
the U.S. desire to avoid "linkages" in fissile Material
Cutoff Treaty (FMCT) negotiations at the Conference on
Disarmament (CD). Akhtar responded that the Government of
Pakistan (GOP) is ready to begin negotiations on the FMCT, in
principal. Akhtar noted that several of the issues described
in A/S Rademaker's May 17 address to the CD as unhelpful
"linkages" were normative and legal in nature, representing
substantive concerns, not procedural diversions. Pakistan
does not view these issues as Cold War holdovers; as many
have contemporary relevance, the GOP wants a full discussion
within a balanced framework of negotiations on the FMCT.
Akhtar said that these points have been raised by Pakistan's
Ambassador to the CD.
2. (C) Akhtar continued by noting that the U.S. proposal
for the FMCT addresses only which states will maintain future
stocks of fissile material. The GOP feels that this approach
neglects the two-pronged UNGA mandate for the CD, which
encompassed both non-proliferation and disarmament. The GOP
believes that the FMCT should also address identify (and
verify) existing stockpiles. This is important in a regional
context, according to Akhtar, as the GOP does not want the
FMCT to freeze any asymmetry between India and Pakistan.
3. (C) We've been down this road before, Akhtar said,
recalling that following the 1992 Chemical Weapons Convention
(CWC),India declared itself a non-possessor state. Acording
to Akhtar, Pakistan and India thereafter entered a
non-verifiable bilateral agreement not to develop chemical
weapons. Pakistan was therefore unpleasantly surprise,
Akhtar continued, in 1996 when India declared itself a
possessor state. The GOP does not want to find itself in a
similar position, Akhtar concluded, with regard to the FMCT.
(Note: Akhtar has raised similar concerns regarding regional
stability and verification in earlier discussions (Ref B).
End note.)
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SIPDIS
DEPT FOR ISN/MNSA
E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/12/2016
TAGS: PK PREL PARM MNUC KNNP CDG
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE DELIVERED: FISSILE MATERIAL CUTOFF TREATY
REF: A. STATE 92033
B. ISLAMABAD 9098
Classified By: Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker, Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
1. (C) On June 12, POLOFF delivered ref A points to MFA
Director (Disarmament Cell) Mohammad Kamran Akhtar, stressing
the U.S. desire to avoid "linkages" in fissile Material
Cutoff Treaty (FMCT) negotiations at the Conference on
Disarmament (CD). Akhtar responded that the Government of
Pakistan (GOP) is ready to begin negotiations on the FMCT, in
principal. Akhtar noted that several of the issues described
in A/S Rademaker's May 17 address to the CD as unhelpful
"linkages" were normative and legal in nature, representing
substantive concerns, not procedural diversions. Pakistan
does not view these issues as Cold War holdovers; as many
have contemporary relevance, the GOP wants a full discussion
within a balanced framework of negotiations on the FMCT.
Akhtar said that these points have been raised by Pakistan's
Ambassador to the CD.
2. (C) Akhtar continued by noting that the U.S. proposal
for the FMCT addresses only which states will maintain future
stocks of fissile material. The GOP feels that this approach
neglects the two-pronged UNGA mandate for the CD, which
encompassed both non-proliferation and disarmament. The GOP
believes that the FMCT should also address identify (and
verify) existing stockpiles. This is important in a regional
context, according to Akhtar, as the GOP does not want the
FMCT to freeze any asymmetry between India and Pakistan.
3. (C) We've been down this road before, Akhtar said,
recalling that following the 1992 Chemical Weapons Convention
(CWC),India declared itself a non-possessor state. Acording
to Akhtar, Pakistan and India thereafter entered a
non-verifiable bilateral agreement not to develop chemical
weapons. Pakistan was therefore unpleasantly surprise,
Akhtar continued, in 1996 when India declared itself a
possessor state. The GOP does not want to find itself in a
similar position, Akhtar concluded, with regard to the FMCT.
(Note: Akhtar has raised similar concerns regarding regional
stability and verification in earlier discussions (Ref B).
End note.)
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