Identifier	Created	Classification	Origin
08ROME440	2008-04-08 14:38:00	CONFIDENTIAL	Embassy Rome

Cable title:

ITALY SUPPORTS U.S. POSITION ON UNSCR 1540

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VZCZCXRO6471
PP RUEHFL RUEHNP
DE RUEHRO #0440 0991438
ZNY CCCCC ZZH
P 081438Z APR 08
FM AMEMBASSY ROME
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 0105
INFO RUEHMIL/AMCONSUL MILAN PRIORITY 9334
RUEHFL/AMCONSUL FLORENCE PRIORITY 2993
RUEHNP/AMCONSUL NAPLES PRIORITY 3141
RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK PRIORITY 0870
RUEHUNV/USMISSION UNVIE VIENNA PRIORITY 0126

					  C O N F I D E N T I A L ROME 000440 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
ISN/CPI FOR TOM WUCHTE; IO/UNP FOR TOM JOHNSON 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 2/29/2018 
TAGS: PREL AORC KPAO PTER UNSC KNNP IT
SUBJECT: ITALY SUPPORTS U.S. POSITION ON UNSCR 1540 
COMMITTEE MANDATE EXTENSION 
 
REF: STATE 34968 
 
Classified By: Acting Political Minister-Counselor Jonathan Cohen for R 
easons 1.4 (B) and (D)

1. (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Italian MFA
Director for Arms Control and Nonproliferation Emanuele
Farruggia on April 4. Farruggia had seen the Russian draft
language for the technical rollover and was satisfied with
it, but said he would take the U.S. position in favor of a
strengthened five-year mandate renewal on board. Farruggia
subsequently contacted Poloff to advise that the MFA had
instructed the Italian Mission to the UN to support the P-3
language in favor of a strengthened five-year mandate. He
agreed that the five-year extension would better allow the
Committee carry out long-term plans for outreach to member
states seeking to comply with the resolution and provide
technical assistance to states designing domestic
counterproliferation controls.
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