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

S E C R E T STATE 113997


NOFORN

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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