U.S. FOLLOW-UP TO PROPOSAL AT NSG PLENARY TO SHARE

UNCLAS BERLIN 001083 SIPDIS SENSITIVE STATE FOR ISN/RA AND EUR/AGS SIPDIS E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: KNNP MNUC IR GM SUBJECT: U.S. FOLLOW-UP TO PROPOSAL AT NSG PLENARY TO SHARE IRAN EXPORT DENIAL INFORMATION PASSED TO GERMANY REF: STATE 69315 ¶1. (SBU) Global Affairs officer passed reftel follow-up information May 23 to Joerg Polster, German MFA International Energy and Nuclear Energy Policy desk officer. Polster, who had attended the NSG Plenary and related meetings in Cape Town, South Africa, from April 16-20, was familiar with the U.S. proposal for the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) to share export denial information concerning Iran with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA),the UNSC Iran Sanctions Committee, and the non-NSG Participating Governments (PGs). Polster said the German Government had not yet decided on a response to the USG proposal, but had some reservations about sharing such information with the proposed recipients. Polster said he will pass the U.S. follow-up message on its proposal to the appropriate members of the German Government for discussion. ¶2. (U) Post will report any substantive German response septel. TIMKEN JR