RWANDA SUPPORTS US POSITION AT NPT PREPCOM

UNCLAS KIGALI 000319 SENSITIVE SIPDIS ISN/MNSA - SCOTT DAVIS / TERRILL RAY / STEVE ADAMS GENEVA FOR CD UNVIE FOR IAEA E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PREL PGOV RW SUBJECT: RWANDA SUPPORTS US POSITION AT NPT PREPCOM REF: A. A: SECSTATE 45218 ¶B. B: KIGALI 301 ¶1. (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Preparatory Committee meeting to Ben Rutsinga, Director for International Organizations in the Rwandan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on May 2. Rutsinga expressed his government's continuing support for the NPT and for the areas of USG engagement outlined in demarche talking points, and said he would share them with the Rwandan delegation in Geneva. ¶2. (SBU) Rutsinga also stated it was likely that an African nation besides Zimbabwe would put forward a nominee to chair the 2009 NPT Preparatory Committee, but implied that Rwanda would not (reftel B). ARIETTI