INDIA - MESSAGE ON INDIAN FIRM OFFERING

C O N F I D E N T I A L NEW DELHI 004592 SIPDIS SIPDIS DEPARTMENT FOR ISN/MTR JAMES MAYES AND SCA E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/12/2017 TAGS: PARM PREL ETTC MTCR KSCA IR IN SUBJECT: INDIA - MESSAGE ON INDIAN FIRM OFFERING MTCR-CONTROLLED GRAPHITE DELIVERED REF: A. SECSTATE 141892 ¶B. NEW DELHI 2924 Classified By: Deputy PolCouns Atul Keshap for Reasons 1.4 (B,D) ¶1. (C) PolOff delivered points in Ref A demarche to Ministry of External Affairs (Disarmament and International Security) Under Secretary Jayant Khobargade October 11. Khobargade confirmed that India's export control laws strictly regulate graphite, which will make it easy to prevent this transaction and punish the Indian firm. He promised to provide the result of the investigation. ¶2. (C) Khobargade also volunteered that he will soon provide responses to the seven outstanding onward proliferation cases that Assistant Secretary John Rood brought up in June 2007 (Ref B). MULFORD