(S) NIAG 4130/6001: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON PAKISTANI NUCLEAR-RELATED PROCUREMENT IN CHINA

S E C R E T STATE 113997





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E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/11/2016

TAGS: PREL, KNNP, PARM, MNUC, CH, PK

SUBJECT: (S) NIAG 4130/6001: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON

PAKISTANI NUCLEAR-RELATED PROCUREMENT IN CHINA



REF: A. STATE 113089

B. STATE 8869

C. BEIJING 1300





Classified By: EAP/CM Acting Director Robert Forden

for reasons 1.4 b and d



1. (S/NF) During the June 7 U.S.-China Consultation on Arms

Control and Nonproliferation (ref A),Acting Assistant

Secretary of State for International Security and

Nonproliferation Frank Record provided Chinese Foreign

Ministry Director General for Arms Control Zhang Yan with

additional information on Chinese national Gao Yiming's

efforts to supply Pakistan's unsafeguarded nuclear program

with an aluminum production line that could assist Pakistan's

development of an indigenous capability to manufacture

uranium centrifuge components (refs B and C). For

informational purposes, Washington would like to provide

Embassy Beijing a copy of the interagency-cleared non-paper

provided to DG Zhang.



2. (S/Rel China) Begin non-paper.



-- We raised with your Government in January 2006 that

Chinese national Gao Yiming was engaged in efforts to provide

enrichment-related items to Pakistan's unsafeguarded nuclear

program.



-- In particular, we shared that Gao was coordinating the

supply of an aluminum production line from China's Taiyuan

Heavy Industry Company.



-- We are troubled to have received reports that the transfer

of this aluminum production line to Pakistan's unsafeguarded

nuclear program continues to move forward.



-- Our information indicates that Taiyuan Heavy Industry

Company recently received a payment associated with the

extrusion press contract and that the entities involved are

now involved with preliminary shipping details.



-- Additionally, another Chinese entity, China Nonferrous

Metals Processing Technology (CNPT) Company, Ltd., is also

involved in the transaction. CNPT is located at No. 1 Xiyuan

Rd., Luoyang, Henan.



-- We would also like to make you aware that the contract may

identify the buyer of the equipment as a Pakistani metal

works firm, rather than Pakistan's unsafeguarded nuclear

program.



-- We continue to be very concerned about the transfer of

this aluminum production line to the recipient country's

unsafeguarded nuclear program. As we shared with you in

January, the production line could be used for the production

of thick-walled aluminum tubes, which could assist the

recipient country's development of an indigenous capability

to manufacture uranium centrifuge components such as outer

casings, molecular pumps, crash rings and cascade piping.



-- The Basic Principle as prescribed in the NSG Guidelines

asks NSG Participating Governments not to authorize transfers

of items that would contribute to a nuclear explosive

activity or an unsafeguarded nuclear fuel cycle activity or,

in general, where there is an unacceptable risk of diversion

to such an activity. We believe you would agree that the

transfer to an unsafeguarded nuclear program of such an

aluminum production line would meet this level of concern.



-- We would also like to underscore our previously stated

concerns that this transaction would be inconsistent with

China's 1996 pledge to not assist unsafeguarded nuclear

facilities anywhere.



-- We urge you to re-double your efforts to act upon the

additional information we have provided by taking aggressive

steps to prevent this transfer from going forward. We are

very seriously concerned that as the transfer proceeds, our

window to stop this export is closing. We encourage you to

make every effort to stop this transaction now.



End non-paper.





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