Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07MUSCAT532
2007-05-29 12:46:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Muscat
Cable title:
ENCOURAGING COUNTRIES TO SUBSCRIBE TO HCOC: OMAN
how-toVZCZCXRO8695 PP RUEHDE RUEHDIR DE RUEHMS #0532 1491246 ZNY CCCCC ZZH P 291246Z MAY 07 FM AMEMBASSY MUSCAT TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 8301 INFO RUEHZM/GULF COOPERATION COUNCIL COLLECTIVE
C O N F I D E N T I A L MUSCAT 000532
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR NEA/ARP, ISN/MTR
E.O. 12958: DECL: 05/29/2017
TAGS: PREL MNUC MTCRE KSCA ETTC TSPA MU
SUBJECT: ENCOURAGING COUNTRIES TO SUBSCRIBE TO HCOC: OMAN
REF: STATE 72346
Classified By: Ambassador Gary A. Grappo for Reasons 1.4 (b, d)
(C) Acting DCM delivered reftel points on May 29 to Abdullah
al-Riyami, Deputy Director of the International Affairs
Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, urging Oman to
subscribe to the Hague Code of Conduct Against International
Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCOC). Riyami responded
that he was well acquainted with the HCOC and said that he
would forward our points to relevant government authorities.
He added that he was not aware of any "substantive
objections" to the code, and that the possibility of Omani
subscription remained "under review." He confided, however,
that "some within the government" appeared reluctant for Oman
to be the first GCC country to subscribe to the HCOC.
GRAPPO