HUNGARY'S RESPONSE TO U.S. DEMARCHE ON NPT PREPCOM

UNCLAS BUDAPEST 000646 SIPDIS SIPDIS EUR/NCE MICHELLE LABONTE, ISN/MNSA SCOTT DAVIS E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: KNNP ENRG MNUC PARM PREL HU SUBJECT: HUNGARY'S RESPONSE TO U.S. DEMARCHE ON NPT PREPCOM REF: SECSTATE 54147 ¶1. (U) In follow-up to delivery of reftel demarche, MFA Security Policy and Non-Proliferation desk officer Zoltan Papp thanked poloff for sharing our input saying, "several departments are carefully reviewing the text" thus he cannot offer a substantive response at this time. Papp promised to contact poloff with further input "as appropriate" in advance of the NPT meetings. ¶2. (U) Regarding the official GOH delegation, Mr. Papp said "Hungary will be represented in the second week" of the NPT meetings by Ambassador Gyorgyi Martin-Zanathy, the Permanent Representative to Hungary's UN Mission in Vienna. The remainder of the delegation includes the Ambassador's deputy to the UN Mission in Vienna Minister Plenipotentiary Attila Zimonyi, Geneva Mission disarmament expert Gyula Somogyi and Hungarian Atomic Energy Ministry representative Kristof Horvath. Mr. Papp will also attend the NPT PrepCom as part of the GOH delegation. FOLEY