Identifier
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06YEREVAN389
2006-03-19 11:55:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Yerevan
Cable title:
SHIPMENT OF RADIOLOGICAL SOURCES: CORRECTING THE
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UNCLAS YEREVAN 000389
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR EUR/CARC, EUR/PRA JOHN CONLON
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV PREL ASEC EAID ENRG KNNP RS AM
SUBJECT: SHIPMENT OF RADIOLOGICAL SOURCES: CORRECTING THE
RECORD
REF: A) YEREVAN 258 B) CONLON-WITMER 2/23/06 E-MAIL
Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly.
(SBU) On March 20, the executive director of the Armenian
quasi-governmental "Research Center for the Problem of the
Nonproliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction" (NPC) Karen
Gasparyan, corrected inaccurate assertions (ref A) that the
U.S. Department of Energy would fund the transfer of two
radiological sources from Armenia to Russia. Gasparyan told
us the IAEA, and not the U.S. Department of Energy, would
provide the funds to facilitate the transfer. A series of
commercial and government contracts involving the IAEA,
Russian "Isotop," RusAtom, the Armenian quasi-governmental
Radioactive Waste Storage Agency, and Armenia's NPC, paved
the way to deliver the sources to Russia, Gasparyan said.
Under terms of the contract, the parties had until "the end
of 2006" to complete the transfer, according to Gasparyan.
Gasparyan told us the NPC is still working to finalize
import-export logistics "and other contract requirements,"
including obtaining shipping containers from Russia, before
the NPC delivers the radiological materials to Isotop.
EVANS
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR EUR/CARC, EUR/PRA JOHN CONLON
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV PREL ASEC EAID ENRG KNNP RS AM
SUBJECT: SHIPMENT OF RADIOLOGICAL SOURCES: CORRECTING THE
RECORD
REF: A) YEREVAN 258 B) CONLON-WITMER 2/23/06 E-MAIL
Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly.
(SBU) On March 20, the executive director of the Armenian
quasi-governmental "Research Center for the Problem of the
Nonproliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction" (NPC) Karen
Gasparyan, corrected inaccurate assertions (ref A) that the
U.S. Department of Energy would fund the transfer of two
radiological sources from Armenia to Russia. Gasparyan told
us the IAEA, and not the U.S. Department of Energy, would
provide the funds to facilitate the transfer. A series of
commercial and government contracts involving the IAEA,
Russian "Isotop," RusAtom, the Armenian quasi-governmental
Radioactive Waste Storage Agency, and Armenia's NPC, paved
the way to deliver the sources to Russia, Gasparyan said.
Under terms of the contract, the parties had until "the end
of 2006" to complete the transfer, according to Gasparyan.
Gasparyan told us the NPC is still working to finalize
import-export logistics "and other contract requirements,"
including obtaining shipping containers from Russia, before
the NPC delivers the radiological materials to Isotop.
EVANS