SUDAN/IRAN: POINTS ON NUCLEAR ISSUE PASSED

C O N F I D E N T I A L KHARTOUM 001300

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DEPT FOR NEA/IR

E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/16/2016
TAGS: PREL AORC IAEA KNNP UNSC IR SU
SUBJECT: SUDAN/IRAN: POINTS ON NUCLEAR ISSUE PASSED

REF: A. STATE 87682


B. STATE 89325

Classified By: Charge Andrew Steinfeld for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D)


1. (C) Charge delivered reftel points to MFA America's desk
head, Ambassador Dirdiri, on June 5. Charge stressed the
importance of the evolution of U.S. policy on the Iran
nuclear issue, as well as our unhappiness with the NAM
statement.


2. (C) Charge noted the significance of the P5 plus 1 FM
agreement in Vienna, in which China and Russia joined the
others to present a positive package to Iran on this issue.
Charge said that diplomacy now had a real chance of
succeeding, but that Tehran needed to make the right
decision. Recalling President Bashir's recent trip to
Tehran, Charge said Sudan was in a good position to push
Tehran to a yes. We hoped that Sudan would weigh in both
publicly and privately on this important issue.


3. (C) Dirdiri responded that he would pass our message to
FM Akol and President Bashir immediately. He stressed that
Iran had the right to peaceful nuclear energy, and that this
needed to be stressed. Charge responded that we and the
international community agreed Iran had this right; rather,
the problem was Iran's two-decades record of serious
safeguards failures and breaches of its NPT obligations.
STEINFELD