NIGERIA: NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY PREPCOM

UNCLAS ABUJA 000796 SIPDIS SIPDIS DEPT FOR AF/W, ISN/MNSA - SCOTT DAVIS / TERRILL RAY / STEVE ADAMS E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PREL NPT IAEA NI SUBJECT: NIGERIA: NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY PREPCOM DEMARCHE DELIVERED REF: STATE 43044 ¶1. (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche and papers to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director of International Organizations Ambassador Secudo on April 24. Amb. Secudo informed Poloff on April 30 that he passed the papers to the Nigerian PrepCom participants in Geneva and that Nigeria is prepared to cooperate as a co-sponsor of the paper "Expanding International Civil Nuclear Cooperation." He indicated Nigerian PrepCom participants will likely raise concerns regarding the U.S. paper "Deterring and Responding to NPT Withdrawal by Treaty Violators," although he was unable to elaborate on what those concerns might be. SANDERS