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08ISLAMABAD1691
2008-04-28 10:09:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Islamabad
Cable title:  

PAKISTAN REMAINS OPPOSED TO FMCT NEGOTIATIONS

Tags:  PREL PARM CDG UNGA PK 
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C O N F I D E N T I A L ISLAMABAD 001691 

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PLEASE PASS TO US CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT

E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/11/2018
TAGS: PREL PARM CDG UNGA PK
SUBJECT: PAKISTAN REMAINS OPPOSED TO FMCT NEGOTIATIONS

REF: STATE 41760

Classified By: Anne W. Patterson, for reasons 1.4 (b)(d)

C O N F I D E N T I A L ISLAMABAD 001691

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

PLEASE PASS TO US CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT

E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/11/2018
TAGS: PREL PARM CDG UNGA PK
SUBJECT: PAKISTAN REMAINS OPPOSED TO FMCT NEGOTIATIONS

REF: STATE 41760

Classified By: Anne W. Patterson, for reasons 1.4 (b)(d)


1. (C) During an April 24 call on MFA Foreign Secretary
Riaz Khan, Ambassador raised reftel points and urged
Islamabad to direct the Pakistani Delegation to the
Conference on Disarmament to support commencement of
negotiations on a Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty (FMCT).
Khan reiterated the GOP position, which he noted had been
confirmed by a Pakistan National Command Authority decision
in August 2007, to oppose starting FMCT negotiations based on
the current USG proposed draft.


2. (C) Khan urged that the U.S. "treat us like partners, not
like targets." This, said Khan, was a strategic issue in
which Pakistan has been maligned. Citing Kissinger's 1974
remark that the (nuclear) horse has left the barn and no
others will be allowed to follow, Khan insisted that Pakistan
had been singled out unfairly for responding to the
provocation of Indian nuclear tests. When the Ambassador
pressed for a more forward looking policy and noted that
Pakistan could raise its verification concerns during FMCT
negotiations, Khan repeated the GOP's support for the Shannon
Mandate. Khan also raised Pakistan's increasingly severe
need for energy. Ambassador responded that the U.S. would do
what it could to help Pakistan meet growing energy demand but
urged Khan to reconsider Pakistan's position on FMCT
negotiations.


3. (C) Comment: Post has repeatedly raised this issue with
the MFA with no success to date. Department may want to call
in the Pakistani Ambassador to put this into a larger
bilateral context.
PATTERSON