Identifier
Created
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07MOSCOW2125
2007-05-08 13:43:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Moscow
Cable title:
RUSSIA WILL NOT BID ON IRANIAN REACTOR TENDER
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C O N F I D E N T I A L MOSCOW 002125
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT ALSO FOR ISN/RA (NEPHEW)
E.O. 12958: DECL: 05/08/2012
TAGS: KNNP IR MNUC PARM ENRG RS
SUBJECT: RUSSIA WILL NOT BID ON IRANIAN REACTOR TENDER
REF: A. STATE 61194
B. MOSCOW 1877
Classified By: EST Counselor Daniel O'Grady. Reasons: 1.4 (b,d)
C O N F I D E N T I A L MOSCOW 002125
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT ALSO FOR ISN/RA (NEPHEW)
E.O. 12958: DECL: 05/08/2012
TAGS: KNNP IR MNUC PARM ENRG RS
SUBJECT: RUSSIA WILL NOT BID ON IRANIAN REACTOR TENDER
REF: A. STATE 61194
B. MOSCOW 1877
Classified By: EST Counselor Daniel O'Grady. Reasons: 1.4 (b,d)
1. (SBU) On May 8 we took advantage of a lunch with Aleksandr
Shilin, the MFA's point person for Iran issues in the
Department of Security and Disarmament Affairs (DVBR),to
discuss Russian intentions regarding Iran's tender to
construct two new 1,000-1,600 MW nuclear power plants (REF
A). Delivering REFTEL points, we urged that Russia, a
nuclear supplier state, make clear that it will not respond
to the Iranian tender.
2. (SBU) Shilin repeated and amplified the assurance given by
DFM Kislyak to A/S Rood during the U.S.-Russia Strategic
Security talks on April 17 (REF B). Shilin told us that
submitting a bid would violate both UNSCRs 1737 and 1747,
resolutions that the Russian Goverment fully supports.
Therefore, he said, neither Rosatom nor Atomstroyexport will
provide any response to the Iranian invitation. The same
holds for the new jointly held government-private enterprises
that come under the Atomenergoprom umbrella, Shilin said.
3. (SBU) We pressed Shilin further regarding whether
enterprises that are 100 percent privately owned would be
prevented from responding to the Iranian tender. Shilin
responded that although privately held firms may not be
prevented from placing bids on portions of the Iranian
project, those firms dealing with sensitive technologies
would in fact be barred from participating. We asked how
this would be done, to which Shilin replied that Russia's
interagency committee on export licensing would not grant
licenses for any sensitive technology to be exported to Iran.
Such requests would be denied based on UNSCRs 1737 and 1747,
notwithstanding those provisions that currently allow light
water reactor technology to be exported for construction of
the Bushehr nuclear power plant. We asked about firms that
fill support roles that in fact have nothing to do with
reactor technology. Shilin agreed with us that these are the
only enterprises that could potentially have a role in any
new Iranian project.
BURNS
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT ALSO FOR ISN/RA (NEPHEW)
E.O. 12958: DECL: 05/08/2012
TAGS: KNNP IR MNUC PARM ENRG RS
SUBJECT: RUSSIA WILL NOT BID ON IRANIAN REACTOR TENDER
REF: A. STATE 61194
B. MOSCOW 1877
Classified By: EST Counselor Daniel O'Grady. Reasons: 1.4 (b,d)
1. (SBU) On May 8 we took advantage of a lunch with Aleksandr
Shilin, the MFA's point person for Iran issues in the
Department of Security and Disarmament Affairs (DVBR),to
discuss Russian intentions regarding Iran's tender to
construct two new 1,000-1,600 MW nuclear power plants (REF
A). Delivering REFTEL points, we urged that Russia, a
nuclear supplier state, make clear that it will not respond
to the Iranian tender.
2. (SBU) Shilin repeated and amplified the assurance given by
DFM Kislyak to A/S Rood during the U.S.-Russia Strategic
Security talks on April 17 (REF B). Shilin told us that
submitting a bid would violate both UNSCRs 1737 and 1747,
resolutions that the Russian Goverment fully supports.
Therefore, he said, neither Rosatom nor Atomstroyexport will
provide any response to the Iranian invitation. The same
holds for the new jointly held government-private enterprises
that come under the Atomenergoprom umbrella, Shilin said.
3. (SBU) We pressed Shilin further regarding whether
enterprises that are 100 percent privately owned would be
prevented from responding to the Iranian tender. Shilin
responded that although privately held firms may not be
prevented from placing bids on portions of the Iranian
project, those firms dealing with sensitive technologies
would in fact be barred from participating. We asked how
this would be done, to which Shilin replied that Russia's
interagency committee on export licensing would not grant
licenses for any sensitive technology to be exported to Iran.
Such requests would be denied based on UNSCRs 1737 and 1747,
notwithstanding those provisions that currently allow light
water reactor technology to be exported for construction of
the Bushehr nuclear power plant. We asked about firms that
fill support roles that in fact have nothing to do with
reactor technology. Shilin agreed with us that these are the
only enterprises that could potentially have a role in any
new Iranian project.
BURNS