Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
06YEREVAN323
2006-03-05 13:54:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Yerevan
Cable title:
CONTRASTING INDIA AND IRAN FOR THE ARMENIANS
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C O N F I D E N T I A L YEREVAN 000323
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/06/2016
TAGS: AM IR IN KSCA PARM PREL
SUBJECT: CONTRASTING INDIA AND IRAN FOR THE ARMENIANS
REF: A. STATE 33729
B. STATE 34761
C. YEREVAN 295
Classified By: Ambassador John M. Evans for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
C O N F I D E N T I A L YEREVAN 000323
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/06/2016
TAGS: AM IR IN KSCA PARM PREL
SUBJECT: CONTRASTING INDIA AND IRAN FOR THE ARMENIANS
REF: A. STATE 33729
B. STATE 34761
C. YEREVAN 295
Classified By: Ambassador John M. Evans for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
1. (C) Ambassador delivered points contained refs A and B to
Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakossian March 6,
editorializing that, whereas India, though not a signatory of
the NPT, had now agreed with the United States to enter the
non-proliferation mainstream, Iran, an NPT signatory, was
still defying the IAEA and the international community.
2. (C) Ambassador added that, as Armenia considered how to
handle the requests of both India and Iran for observer
status at this June's meeting in Yerevan of the Association
of State Nuclear Authorities of Countries Operating VVER-Type
reactors (Ref C),it might be worth taking into account the
different approaches that India and Iran had chosen.
3. (C) DFM was accompanied by MFA Arms control and
International Security Advisor Vartuhi Asaturian and Americas
Desk officer Lilit Toutkhalian. Participants on both sides
were aware that the IAEA Board of Governors meeting in Vienna
was underway at the time. Armenian officials told us
February 28 that they were waiting on the outcome of that
meeting, and possibly action also in the UNSC, before taking
a final decision on the issue of whether to sustain the
Association's decision of last year in Finland to invite
China, India and Iran. The Armenian officials made no
commitment to issuing a statement on the U.S.-India nuclear
agreement.
EVANS
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/06/2016
TAGS: AM IR IN KSCA PARM PREL
SUBJECT: CONTRASTING INDIA AND IRAN FOR THE ARMENIANS
REF: A. STATE 33729
B. STATE 34761
C. YEREVAN 295
Classified By: Ambassador John M. Evans for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
1. (C) Ambassador delivered points contained refs A and B to
Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakossian March 6,
editorializing that, whereas India, though not a signatory of
the NPT, had now agreed with the United States to enter the
non-proliferation mainstream, Iran, an NPT signatory, was
still defying the IAEA and the international community.
2. (C) Ambassador added that, as Armenia considered how to
handle the requests of both India and Iran for observer
status at this June's meeting in Yerevan of the Association
of State Nuclear Authorities of Countries Operating VVER-Type
reactors (Ref C),it might be worth taking into account the
different approaches that India and Iran had chosen.
3. (C) DFM was accompanied by MFA Arms control and
International Security Advisor Vartuhi Asaturian and Americas
Desk officer Lilit Toutkhalian. Participants on both sides
were aware that the IAEA Board of Governors meeting in Vienna
was underway at the time. Armenian officials told us
February 28 that they were waiting on the outcome of that
meeting, and possibly action also in the UNSC, before taking
a final decision on the issue of whether to sustain the
Association's decision of last year in Finland to invite
China, India and Iran. The Armenian officials made no
commitment to issuing a statement on the U.S.-India nuclear
agreement.
EVANS