Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07BERLIN960
2007-05-11 16:13:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Berlin
Cable title:
GERMANY NOTIFIED ABOUT IRANIAN INVITATION FOR
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C O N F I D E N T I A L BERLIN 000960
SIPDIS
STATE FOR ISN AND EUR
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 05/11/2017
TAGS: KNNP IR MNUC PARM ENRG GM
SUBJECT: GERMANY NOTIFIED ABOUT IRANIAN INVITATION FOR
REACTOR BIDS
REF: STATE 61194
Classified By: Global Affairs Counselor Donald R. Shemanski, for reason
s 1.4 (b) and (d)
C O N F I D E N T I A L BERLIN 000960
SIPDIS
STATE FOR ISN AND EUR
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 05/11/2017
TAGS: KNNP IR MNUC PARM ENRG GM
SUBJECT: GERMANY NOTIFIED ABOUT IRANIAN INVITATION FOR
REACTOR BIDS
REF: STATE 61194
Classified By: Global Affairs Counselor Donald R. Shemanski, for reason
s 1.4 (b) and (d)
1. (C) Global Affairs officer delivered ref demarche to Joerg
Polster, desk officer of the German MFA's International
Energy and Nuclear Energy Policy Division, May 10. Polster
said Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) partners discussed Iran's
invitation for bids to construct two new nuclear power
reactors in Bushehr Province at the April 16-20 NSG meetings
in Cape Town. Polster, who was a German delegate at the Cape
Town meetings, said the EU gave a presentation on its
measures to implement UNSCRs 1737 and 1747. The EU Council
passed a Regulation on April 19, 2007, banning the export of
all NSG-listed and Missile Technology Control Regime-listed
items to Iran, Polster noted. In addition, the EU created an
additional list of dual-use items that, though unlisted by
the NSG or MTCR, could still be used by Iran for WMD
programs. Given the EU Council Regulation, Polster said, no
EU member state could deliver these listed nuclear-related
items to Iran while it is under UN sanctions.
2. (C) Polster said no German firm is capable of exporting
nuclear reactors, though many German firms manufacture parts
suitable for nuclear programs; however, the EU Council
Regulation would prohibit these parts from being exported to
Iran. The largest German firm associated with nuclear power,
Siemens AG, owns one-third of the shares of French nuclear
power plant manufacturer AREVA Group, according to Polster.
He observed the technicality that light water reactors, such
as solicited by Iran, are not necessarily banned under UNSCR
1737. Nevertheless, AREVA and its German subsidiary would
not bid on the reactors for Iran, in Polster's view.
3. (U) Post will report any other substantive German response
to Iran's invitation for reactor bids septel.
TIMKEN JR
SIPDIS
STATE FOR ISN AND EUR
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 05/11/2017
TAGS: KNNP IR MNUC PARM ENRG GM
SUBJECT: GERMANY NOTIFIED ABOUT IRANIAN INVITATION FOR
REACTOR BIDS
REF: STATE 61194
Classified By: Global Affairs Counselor Donald R. Shemanski, for reason
s 1.4 (b) and (d)
1. (C) Global Affairs officer delivered ref demarche to Joerg
Polster, desk officer of the German MFA's International
Energy and Nuclear Energy Policy Division, May 10. Polster
said Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) partners discussed Iran's
invitation for bids to construct two new nuclear power
reactors in Bushehr Province at the April 16-20 NSG meetings
in Cape Town. Polster, who was a German delegate at the Cape
Town meetings, said the EU gave a presentation on its
measures to implement UNSCRs 1737 and 1747. The EU Council
passed a Regulation on April 19, 2007, banning the export of
all NSG-listed and Missile Technology Control Regime-listed
items to Iran, Polster noted. In addition, the EU created an
additional list of dual-use items that, though unlisted by
the NSG or MTCR, could still be used by Iran for WMD
programs. Given the EU Council Regulation, Polster said, no
EU member state could deliver these listed nuclear-related
items to Iran while it is under UN sanctions.
2. (C) Polster said no German firm is capable of exporting
nuclear reactors, though many German firms manufacture parts
suitable for nuclear programs; however, the EU Council
Regulation would prohibit these parts from being exported to
Iran. The largest German firm associated with nuclear power,
Siemens AG, owns one-third of the shares of French nuclear
power plant manufacturer AREVA Group, according to Polster.
He observed the technicality that light water reactors, such
as solicited by Iran, are not necessarily banned under UNSCR
1737. Nevertheless, AREVA and its German subsidiary would
not bid on the reactors for Iran, in Polster's view.
3. (U) Post will report any other substantive German response
to Iran's invitation for reactor bids septel.
TIMKEN JR