Identifier
Created
Classification
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07ISLAMABAD1377
2007-03-27 12:20:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Islamabad
Cable title:
PAKISTAN WANTS EFFECTIVE VERIFICATION IN P-6
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C O N F I D E N T I A L ISLAMABAD 001377
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
GENEVA/CD DEL AND ISN/WILLIAM MALZAHN
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/27/2017
TAGS: PK IN KNNP PREL
SUBJECT: PAKISTAN WANTS EFFECTIVE VERIFICATION IN P-6
PROPOSAL
REF: STATE 36980
Classified By: Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker, Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
C O N F I D E N T I A L ISLAMABAD 001377
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
GENEVA/CD DEL AND ISN/WILLIAM MALZAHN
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/27/2017
TAGS: PK IN KNNP PREL
SUBJECT: PAKISTAN WANTS EFFECTIVE VERIFICATION IN P-6
PROPOSAL
REF: STATE 36980
Classified By: Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker, Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
1. (C) On March 26, Deputy Chief of Mission delivered points
in reftel to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Additional Secretary
for UN Affairs Tariq Osman Hyder. Hyder responded that
Pakistan was firm in its opposition to a negotiating mandate
for the Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty that did not include
a reference to "international and effective verification."
Hyder explained that Pakistan supported three of the
proposal's suggestions: ongoing discussion of nuclear
disarmament, negative security assurances, and prevention of
an outer space arms race. He further noted that Pakistan was
not opposed, in principle, to keeping negotiation of the
Fissile Treaty on the Conference's agenda for part II of
2007, but Pakistan would not approve of the P-6 proposal as
written because the negotiating mandate for the Treaty was
too narrow. "It is a matter of resources and national
security," Hyder said; "Our country does not have the
resources to provide for effective verification on its own,
and effective verification is what matters most in this
region." Hyder said Pakistan remained committed to the
"Shannon Mandate" of 1995, which contains the full technical
phrase that Pakistan wanted included in the Conference's
proposed negotiating mandate for the Treaty. Pakistan would
like the treaty to be "non-discriminatory, multilateral and
internationally and effectively verifiable."
CROCKER
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
GENEVA/CD DEL AND ISN/WILLIAM MALZAHN
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/27/2017
TAGS: PK IN KNNP PREL
SUBJECT: PAKISTAN WANTS EFFECTIVE VERIFICATION IN P-6
PROPOSAL
REF: STATE 36980
Classified By: Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker, Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
1. (C) On March 26, Deputy Chief of Mission delivered points
in reftel to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Additional Secretary
for UN Affairs Tariq Osman Hyder. Hyder responded that
Pakistan was firm in its opposition to a negotiating mandate
for the Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty that did not include
a reference to "international and effective verification."
Hyder explained that Pakistan supported three of the
proposal's suggestions: ongoing discussion of nuclear
disarmament, negative security assurances, and prevention of
an outer space arms race. He further noted that Pakistan was
not opposed, in principle, to keeping negotiation of the
Fissile Treaty on the Conference's agenda for part II of
2007, but Pakistan would not approve of the P-6 proposal as
written because the negotiating mandate for the Treaty was
too narrow. "It is a matter of resources and national
security," Hyder said; "Our country does not have the
resources to provide for effective verification on its own,
and effective verification is what matters most in this
region." Hyder said Pakistan remained committed to the
"Shannon Mandate" of 1995, which contains the full technical
phrase that Pakistan wanted included in the Conference's
proposed negotiating mandate for the Treaty. Pakistan would
like the treaty to be "non-discriminatory, multilateral and
internationally and effectively verifiable."
CROCKER