SPAIN AGREES WITH BROAD DEFINITION OF UNSCR 1747

UNCLAS MADRID 000975 SIPDIS SENSITIVE SIPDIS DEPARTMENT FOR ISN/CATR AND EUR/WE E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PREL PARM ETTC UNSC IR SP SUBJECT: SPAIN AGREES WITH BROAD DEFINITION OF UNSCR 1747 "ARMS AND RELATED MATERIEL" REF: STATE 67462 ¶1. (SBU) ESTOFF and POLOFF delivered reftel points on May 18 to MFA Disarmament Affairs Deputy Director General Ignacio Sanchez and MFA Counselor for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Carlos Torres, conveying Department views on the need to interpret broadly operative Paragraph 5 of UNSCR 1747 that prohibits Iran's supply, sale, or transfer of "any arms or related material." Sanchez said that the Government of Spain is in agreement with the U.S. definition of Paragraph 5 and agreed that the key tenets of 1747 should be "applied broadly." Sanchez also agreed with EMBOFFs assertion of the importance of strong, consistent standards in implementing 1747 by all UN member states. LLORENS