Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09OTTAWA739
2009-09-21 17:34:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Ottawa
Cable title:
CANADA EAGER TO JOIN INFORMAL MEETING OF CTBT
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C O N F I D E N T I A L OTTAWA 000739
SIPDIS
STATE FOR ISN/MNSA TRAY AND ALIEBOWITZ
UNVIE FOR ARMS CONTROL
GENEVA FOR CD
E.O. 12958: DECL: 09/20/2019
TAGS: PARM PREL CA
SUBJECT: CANADA EAGER TO JOIN INFORMAL MEETING OF CTBT
SUPPORTERS AT ARTICLE XIV CONFERENCE
REF: A. STATE 97170
B. STATE 95946
Classified By: PolMinCouns Scott Bellard, reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
C O N F I D E N T I A L OTTAWA 000739
SIPDIS
STATE FOR ISN/MNSA TRAY AND ALIEBOWITZ
UNVIE FOR ARMS CONTROL
GENEVA FOR CD
E.O. 12958: DECL: 09/20/2019
TAGS: PARM PREL CA
SUBJECT: CANADA EAGER TO JOIN INFORMAL MEETING OF CTBT
SUPPORTERS AT ARTICLE XIV CONFERENCE
REF: A. STATE 97170
B. STATE 95946
Classified By: PolMinCouns Scott Bellard, reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
1. (SBU) Summary: Canada is enthusiastic about
participating in the informal meeting on the margins of the
Article XIV Conference. Foreign Minister Cannon will deliver
Canada's national statement at the conference, and the
Assistant Deputy Minister for International Security is
expected to attend the informal meeting. End summary.
2. (SBU) Pol/miloff delivered the invitation contained in
ref a on September 21 to Chris Grout, Policy Officer in the
Division of Non-Proliferation and Disarmament at the
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
(DFAIT). Grout was aware of the proposal for an informal
meeting on the margins of the Article XIV Conference, and
confirmed Canadian plans to attend. Yves Brodeur, DFAIT's
Assistant Deputy Minister for International Security and
Political Director, will likely represent Canada; Grout
promised to confirm ADM Brodeur's attendance as soon as
possible.
3. (SBU) Grout extolled the importance of having Secretary
Clinton deliver the U.S. national statement, and said that
Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon would likewise deliver
Canada's national statement. He expressed the hope that
other nations would follow suit, based on the U.S. example.
He suggested that such high level engagement would be good
for the conference, and expressed appreciation for the U.S.
decision.
4. (C) With respect to participation, Grout suggested that
the Finns should also be invited to the informal meeting,
since they are the only members of the "Friends of the CTBT"
group not already included. He also raised a concern in
response to the point that Indonesia had pledged to ratify
the CTBT if the U.S. does. Grout recounted that, in previous
conversations with the Indonesians, they had not raised any
political obstacles to ratification, but claimed instead that
internal bureaucratic problems hampered ratification. Grout
took it as "step backwards" that Indonesia NOW seemed to be
claiming political conditions to its ratification. His
understanding is that Indonesia was NOW making its
ratification contingent upon similar steps by both China and
the U.S.
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SIPDIS
STATE FOR ISN/MNSA TRAY AND ALIEBOWITZ
UNVIE FOR ARMS CONTROL
GENEVA FOR CD
E.O. 12958: DECL: 09/20/2019
TAGS: PARM PREL CA
SUBJECT: CANADA EAGER TO JOIN INFORMAL MEETING OF CTBT
SUPPORTERS AT ARTICLE XIV CONFERENCE
REF: A. STATE 97170
B. STATE 95946
Classified By: PolMinCouns Scott Bellard, reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
1. (SBU) Summary: Canada is enthusiastic about
participating in the informal meeting on the margins of the
Article XIV Conference. Foreign Minister Cannon will deliver
Canada's national statement at the conference, and the
Assistant Deputy Minister for International Security is
expected to attend the informal meeting. End summary.
2. (SBU) Pol/miloff delivered the invitation contained in
ref a on September 21 to Chris Grout, Policy Officer in the
Division of Non-Proliferation and Disarmament at the
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
(DFAIT). Grout was aware of the proposal for an informal
meeting on the margins of the Article XIV Conference, and
confirmed Canadian plans to attend. Yves Brodeur, DFAIT's
Assistant Deputy Minister for International Security and
Political Director, will likely represent Canada; Grout
promised to confirm ADM Brodeur's attendance as soon as
possible.
3. (SBU) Grout extolled the importance of having Secretary
Clinton deliver the U.S. national statement, and said that
Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon would likewise deliver
Canada's national statement. He expressed the hope that
other nations would follow suit, based on the U.S. example.
He suggested that such high level engagement would be good
for the conference, and expressed appreciation for the U.S.
decision.
4. (C) With respect to participation, Grout suggested that
the Finns should also be invited to the informal meeting,
since they are the only members of the "Friends of the CTBT"
group not already included. He also raised a concern in
response to the point that Indonesia had pledged to ratify
the CTBT if the U.S. does. Grout recounted that, in previous
conversations with the Indonesians, they had not raised any
political obstacles to ratification, but claimed instead that
internal bureaucratic problems hampered ratification. Grout
took it as "step backwards" that Indonesia NOW seemed to be
claiming political conditions to its ratification. His
understanding is that Indonesia was NOW making its
ratification contingent upon similar steps by both China and
the U.S.
Visit Canada,s North American partnership community at
http://www.intelink.gov/communities/state/nap /
BREESE