Identifier
Created
Classification
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06PARIS2304
2006-04-07 15:10:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Paris
Cable title:
FRANCE ON WMD PROLIFERATOR FINANCING
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UNCLAS PARIS 002304
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
STATE FOR EUR/PGI, EUR/RPM, EUR/WE AND EB/ESC/TFS
TREASURY FOR LEVEY, JFOWLER, OFAC
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: EFIN PARM PGOV FR
SUBJECT: FRANCE ON WMD PROLIFERATOR FINANCING
(SBU) Following up on Treasury U/S Levey,s letter about
coordinating a multinational effort to combat the financial
underpinning of WMD proliferation and suggesting that France
consider sponsoring or co-sponsoring a regional conference
with certain European countries, on April 6 we spoke with
David Bertolotti at the MFA office of disarmament and nuclear
nonproliferation. Bertolotti said a written reply is still
not finished, but would be forthcoming. The substance of the
reply will be that France shares USG objectives and concerns,
and would be willing to consider a regional conference, but
first would like to have another bilateral meeting with the
USG. At that bilateral meeting, a working group could take
up a series of questions raised by the proposal. France
mainly would like to consider how to best integrate this new
initiative into existing institutions and agreements, and
compare the legal tools available. Given that the G8 is
likely to take up this issue in July, Betolotti added that it
would be better to arrange this bilateral meeting soon, and
officials would be prepared to hold it either in Paris or in
Washington.
Please visit Paris' Classified Website at:
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/eur/paris/index.c fm
Stapleton
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
STATE FOR EUR/PGI, EUR/RPM, EUR/WE AND EB/ESC/TFS
TREASURY FOR LEVEY, JFOWLER, OFAC
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: EFIN PARM PGOV FR
SUBJECT: FRANCE ON WMD PROLIFERATOR FINANCING
(SBU) Following up on Treasury U/S Levey,s letter about
coordinating a multinational effort to combat the financial
underpinning of WMD proliferation and suggesting that France
consider sponsoring or co-sponsoring a regional conference
with certain European countries, on April 6 we spoke with
David Bertolotti at the MFA office of disarmament and nuclear
nonproliferation. Bertolotti said a written reply is still
not finished, but would be forthcoming. The substance of the
reply will be that France shares USG objectives and concerns,
and would be willing to consider a regional conference, but
first would like to have another bilateral meeting with the
USG. At that bilateral meeting, a working group could take
up a series of questions raised by the proposal. France
mainly would like to consider how to best integrate this new
initiative into existing institutions and agreements, and
compare the legal tools available. Given that the G8 is
likely to take up this issue in July, Betolotti added that it
would be better to arrange this bilateral meeting soon, and
officials would be prepared to hold it either in Paris or in
Washington.
Please visit Paris' Classified Website at:
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/eur/paris/index.c fm
Stapleton