C O N F I D E N T I A L KUWAIT 004679

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STATE FOR NEA/ARP

E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/19/2016
TAGS: PARM PREL ETTC MTCRE MNUC TSPA KU DEMARCHES
SUBJECT: KUWAIT DEMARCHE DELIVERED: RESULTS OF THE 2006
COPENHAGEN MTCR PLENARY

REF: STATE 196047

Classified By: Charge d'Affaires Matt Tueller for reasons 1.4 (b) and (
d)

(C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche December 19 to Dr. Hamad
Bou Rahman, the Deputy Director of the International
Organizations Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Bou Rahman thanked the U.S. for providing information about
the 2006 Copenhagen Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR)
Plenary, and promised to pass the information to the relevant
Kuwaiti government agencies. He added that the recent Gulf
Cooperation Council (GCC) statement calling for a nuclear
weapons-free Middle East was aimed at Iran, but said Kuwait
also believed Israel should be required to give up its
nuclear weapons and open its nuclear program to international
inspections.

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