SWEDISH RESPONSE ON AMENDING NSG GUIDELINES FOR

UNCLAS STOCKHOLM 000762 SENSITIVE SIPDIS E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: KNNP ENRG ETTC MNUC PARM TRGY IAEA SW SUBJECT: SWEDISH RESPONSE ON AMENDING NSG GUIDELINES FOR TRANSFERS OF ENRICHMENT AND REPROCESSING (ENR) EQUIPMENT AND TECHNOLOGY REF: STATE 115509 ¶1. (SBU) On November 13, Eskil Renstrom, Senior Advisor, Department for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA),told us that Sweden is actively working on capacity-building measures regarding transit/transhipment-related activities and counter-proliferation issues. He added that Sweden is very interested gaining knowledge and perspectives regarding past experiences (lessons learned) PSI-related incidents. Renstrom commented that Sweden is especially interested in the following issues: - Adapting for timely and effective responses to PSI-related incidents. - Identifying gaps in and developing regulations for interdiction and, if necessary, the seizure of dual-use products under transit/transhipment activities of proliferation concern. - Capacity-building instruments for conducting effective dialogues with the transportation sector aimed at raising awareness and exchanging information. - Capacity-building measures for effective information exchange between national actors and international partners. - The training of field officers in detecting and acting on anomalies in transit/transhipment activities. - Qualitative methods for effective and focused scenario-based exercises (live and table-top) for the above-mentioned capacity-building measures. WOOD