Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07ROME2207
2007-10-18 14:54:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Rome
Cable title:
RESOLUTION ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS DEALERTING: ITALY
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C O N F I D E N T I A L ROME 002207
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE FOR ISN/MNSA
UN FOR U.S. FIRST COMMITTEE DELEGATION
GENEVA FOR CD DELEGATION
E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/19/2017
TAGS: PARM MNUC UNGA IT
SUBJECT: RESOLUTION ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS DEALERTING: ITALY
NOW INCLINED TO SUPPORT NZ RESOLUTION
REF: A. STATE 140048
B. ROME 2148
C. STATE 144647
Classified By: Acting Political Minister-Counselor Jonathan Cohen for R
easons 1.4 (B) and (D)
C O N F I D E N T I A L ROME 002207
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE FOR ISN/MNSA
UN FOR U.S. FIRST COMMITTEE DELEGATION
GENEVA FOR CD DELEGATION
E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/19/2017
TAGS: PARM MNUC UNGA IT
SUBJECT: RESOLUTION ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS DEALERTING: ITALY
NOW INCLINED TO SUPPORT NZ RESOLUTION
REF: A. STATE 140048
B. ROME 2148
C. STATE 144647
Classified By: Acting Political Minister-Counselor Jonathan Cohen for R
easons 1.4 (B) and (D)
1. (C) Emanuele Farruggia, Italian MFA Director for
Disarmament, Arms Control and Nonproliferation contacted
Poloff to follow up on our October 5 demarche opposing the
New Zealand Draft Resolution on the De-Alerting of Nuclear
Forces (Ref B). He said that he had been informed by the
Italian Mission in Geneva that the revised draft currently
being circulated had dropped the stipulation that warheads be
stored separately from their delivery vehicles and that the
Germans were leaning in favor of supporting it. If that is
the case, he said, the Italian PermRep at Geneva, Amb.
Trezza, is inclined to go along with the Germans unless there
is a strong push within the group of EU member states to
maintain consensus with the UK and France, who are expected
to oppose it. Poloff said that the U.S. would still oppose a
revised resolution on the grounds that we have already
undertaken many of the de-alerting measures proposed in the
resolution and that to do more would raise questions about
the effectiveness of our deterrent (Ref C). Farruggia said
he would stay in touch with the EMBASSY as the GOI position
developed.
SPOGLI
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE FOR ISN/MNSA
UN FOR U.S. FIRST COMMITTEE DELEGATION
GENEVA FOR CD DELEGATION
E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/19/2017
TAGS: PARM MNUC UNGA IT
SUBJECT: RESOLUTION ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS DEALERTING: ITALY
NOW INCLINED TO SUPPORT NZ RESOLUTION
REF: A. STATE 140048
B. ROME 2148
C. STATE 144647
Classified By: Acting Political Minister-Counselor Jonathan Cohen for R
easons 1.4 (B) and (D)
1. (C) Emanuele Farruggia, Italian MFA Director for
Disarmament, Arms Control and Nonproliferation contacted
Poloff to follow up on our October 5 demarche opposing the
New Zealand Draft Resolution on the De-Alerting of Nuclear
Forces (Ref B). He said that he had been informed by the
Italian Mission in Geneva that the revised draft currently
being circulated had dropped the stipulation that warheads be
stored separately from their delivery vehicles and that the
Germans were leaning in favor of supporting it. If that is
the case, he said, the Italian PermRep at Geneva, Amb.
Trezza, is inclined to go along with the Germans unless there
is a strong push within the group of EU member states to
maintain consensus with the UK and France, who are expected
to oppose it. Poloff said that the U.S. would still oppose a
revised resolution on the grounds that we have already
undertaken many of the de-alerting measures proposed in the
resolution and that to do more would raise questions about
the effectiveness of our deterrent (Ref C). Farruggia said
he would stay in touch with the EMBASSY as the GOI position
developed.
SPOGLI