MEXICO WILL RAISE CONCERNS ON GOM IN FIRST

C O N F I D E N T I A L MEXICO 002866 SENSITIVE SIPDIS NSC TO SENIOR DIRECTOR FOR WHA RESTRAPO, WHA FOR DAS ROBERTA JACOBSON, WHA FOR MEX DIRECTOR LEE AND STAFF E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/02/2019 TAGS: MX PGOV PREL IR MNUC PARM SUBJECT: MEXICO WILL RAISE CONCERNS ON GOM IN FIRST COMMITTEE REF: SECSTATE 99897 Classified By: Confidential by Deputy Minister Councelor for Political Affairs James P. Merz for Reasons: 1.4 (b),(d). ¶1. (C) Poloff delivered demarche in coordination with Emboffs from the French and British Embassies. We emphasized that a P5 1 delegation, including Under Secretary Burns, was in the process of meeting with Iranian representatives October 1, at the same time as our meeting with Julian Juarez Cadenas, the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs' (SRE) Director General for Nuclear, Security, and Legal Issues. We underscored that, based on the troubling information regarding the secret facility the Iranian Government has been constructing for the last several years, the burden is clearly on Iran to prove the nature of its nuclear program is peaceful. In coordination with the French and British Emboffs, Poloff asked Juarez that the GOM make public statements in the IAEA Board of Govenors or elsewhere in support of this policy. ¶2. Juarez told us that the GOM shared our concern regarding the discovery at Gom. Mexico no longer sits on the IAEA Board of Govenors, as it stepped down from the rotating seat in September. However, Juarez noted that the UN's First Committee commmences its work next week and told us the GOM would voice its concern over the issue in that forum. Visit Mexico City's Classified Web Site at http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/wha/mexicocity and the North American Partnership Blog at http://www.intelink.gov/communities/state/nap / PASCUAL