Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
06ISLAMABAD9098
2006-05-18 11:58:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Islamabad
Cable title:
DEMARCHE DELIVERED: US TO TABLE FMCT DRAFT
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C O N F I D E N T I A L ISLAMABAD 009098
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 05/18/2016
TAGS: KNNP MNUC PARM PK PREL
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE DELIVERED: US TO TABLE FMCT DRAFT
REF: STATE 79256
Classified By: Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker, Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
(C) On May 18, poloff delivered reftel demarche points to
MFA Disarmament Cell Director Muhammad Kamran Akhtar, who had
already received a fax from Pakistan's Geneva Mission on U.S
plans to table a draft Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty (FMCT)
at the Conference for Disarmament (CD). Akhtar said that the
Government of Pakistan (GOP) would welcome the start of
serious negotiations on the FMCT and looked forward to
working with the United States in the negotiations. Akhtar
also indicated that verification is very important to the
GOP: given the current state of bilateral relations between
Pakistan and India, each country would be suspicious of the
other's compliance if there was no international mechanism
for verification. Akhtar stressed that the GOP's concerns
regarding verification are specifically based on these
regional considerations.
CROCKER
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 05/18/2016
TAGS: KNNP MNUC PARM PK PREL
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE DELIVERED: US TO TABLE FMCT DRAFT
REF: STATE 79256
Classified By: Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker, Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
(C) On May 18, poloff delivered reftel demarche points to
MFA Disarmament Cell Director Muhammad Kamran Akhtar, who had
already received a fax from Pakistan's Geneva Mission on U.S
plans to table a draft Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty (FMCT)
at the Conference for Disarmament (CD). Akhtar said that the
Government of Pakistan (GOP) would welcome the start of
serious negotiations on the FMCT and looked forward to
working with the United States in the negotiations. Akhtar
also indicated that verification is very important to the
GOP: given the current state of bilateral relations between
Pakistan and India, each country would be suspicious of the
other's compliance if there was no international mechanism
for verification. Akhtar stressed that the GOP's concerns
regarding verification are specifically based on these
regional considerations.
CROCKER