APPLICATION OF THE U.S. - RUSSIA CTR AND MPC&A DIPLOMATIC

UNCLAS MOSCOW 000290 SIPDIS SIPDIS E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PARM PREL RS SUBJECT: APPLICATION OF THE U.S. - RUSSIA CTR AND MPC&A DIPLOMATIC NOTE DELIVERED REF: STATE 6686 ¶1. On January 29, Embassy delivered reftel diplomatic note and the suggested response note regarding the application of the U.S. - Russia Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Umbrella Agreement and Materials Protection Control and Accounting (MPC&A) agreements to DOE's Second Line of Defense (SLD) and Radiological Threat Reduction (RTR) programs to Aleksey Karpov, Senior Counselor in the MFA Department for Security and Disarmament Affairs. Moscow DOE delivered a courtesy copy to Rosatom's Vladimir Kuchinov immediately following Embassy's delivery of the notes to MFA. ¶2. Karpov stated that he would submit the diplomatic note for review by experts and contact us when he had a response. BURNS