Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07BERLIN2191
2007-12-12 14:52:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Berlin
Cable title:
PREVENTING IRANIAN PROLIFERATION - GERMAN
how-toVZCZCXYZ0006 PP RUEHWEB DE RUEHRL #2191 3461452 ZNY CCCCC ZZH P 121452Z DEC 07 FM AMEMBASSY BERLIN TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 0003 INFO RUCNFRG/FRG COLLECTIVE RUEHUNV/USMISSION UNVIE VIENNA 0316 RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK 0567
C O N F I D E N T I A L BERLIN 002191
SIPDIS
SIPDIS, ISN, EUR, NEA, EEB
E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/11/2017
TAGS: ETTC KNNP MNUC PARM IR GM
SUBJECT: PREVENTING IRANIAN PROLIFERATION - GERMAN
GOVERNMENT USING USG-PROVIDED FALSE END-USE WATCHLIST
REF: STATE 164785
Classified By: Global Affairs Counselor Donald R. Shemanski
for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
(C) Global Affairs Officer delivered reftel nonpaper December
11 to MFA Export Control Division Desk Officer Nancy Reck,
MFA Civil Uses of Nuclear Energy Division Deputy Director
Dietrich Becker, Economics Ministry Export Control Division
Director Alexander von Portatius, and German Federal Office
of Economics and Export Control (BAFA) Nuclear Technology
Division Director Bernd Rosenthal. Rosenthal noted that BAFA
officials had received a copy of the nonpaper at the November
Nuclear Suppliers Group Consultative Group meeting and
confirmed that the nonpaper is included among the reference
tools that BAFA officials use to adjudicate export license
applications. MFA officials reiterated that German
regulations prohibit the export of all nuclear-related
technology (including dual-use) to Iran and noted that
Germany maintains stringent Iran-specific catch-all controls
on non-listed goods, services, and financial/technical
assistance.
TIMKEN JR