BRAZIL: QUESTIONABLE ON GIVING PRESENTATION DURING

C O N F I D E N T I A L BRASILIA 000902 SIPDIS FOR ISN/MTR E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/02/2018 TAGS: MTCR PREL BR SUBJECT: BRAZIL: QUESTIONABLE ON GIVING PRESENTATION DURING MTCR INFORMATION EXCHANGE REF: STATE 65780 Classified By: PolCouns Stephen M. Liston, reasons 1.4 (B and D). ¶1. (C) Poloff delivered reftel talking points on July 2 regarding Brazil's participation in the Missile Technology Control Regime plenary Information Exchange to Santiago Mourao, Head of the Division of Disarmament and Sensitive Technologies for Brazil's Foreign Ministry. In responding to Poloff's encouragement that Brazil consider making a presentation on some of the issues listed in the cable, Mourao was not enthusiastic about adding more presentations to the agenda, noting that the number of presentations planned seem like enough. In his view, a debate on each of the presentations would be more useful than adding more presentations, and he noted perhaps circulating the presentations among the partners ahead of time would contribute to the exchange of ideas on the suggested topics. Nevertheless, he indicated that the MTCR was very important to Brazil and that they would consider the request and how best Brazil could contribute to making the Information Exchange a productive one. SOBEL