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START FOLLOW-ON NEGOTIATIONS, GENEVA (SFO-GVA-VII): (U)

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SUBJECT: START FOLLOW-ON NEGOTIATIONS, GENEVA (SFO-GVA-VII): (U)
INSPECTION PROTOCOL WORKING GROUP MEETING, DECEMBER 15, 2009

CLASSIFIED BY: Rose A. Gottemoeller, Assistant Secretary, Department
of State, VCI; REASON: 1.4(B),(D)

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SUBJECT: START FOLLOW-ON NEGOTIATIONS, GENEVA (SFO-GVA-VII): (U)
INSPECTION PROTOCOL WORKING GROUP MEETING, DECEMBER 15, 2009

CLASSIFIED BY: Rose A. Gottemoeller, Assistant Secretary, Department
of State, VCI; REASON: 1.4(B),(D)


1. (U) This is SFO-GVA-VII-144.




2. (U) Meeting Date: December 15, 2009

Time: 10:00 A.M. - 1:00 P.M.

Place: Russian Mission, Geneva



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SUMMARY

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3. (S) The Inspection Protocol Working Group (IPWG),co-chaired by
Secretary of Defense Representative Dr. Warner and Russian Ministry
of Defense Representative Col Ilin, met on December 15, 2009. The
sides reached agreement on sequential inspections and payment of
security and parking fees during inspections. The sides also
reviewed remaining major issues and began discussion of the Parts
to the Annex.




5. (U) SUBJECT SUMMARY: Agreement on Sequential Inspections and
Payment for Security and Parking; Remaining Issues; and Annexes.
End Summary.



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AGREEMENT ON SEQUENTIAL INSPECTIONS

AND PAYMENT FOR SECURITY AND PARKING

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6. (S) The sides agreed to include provisions for sequential
inspections in Sections IV and V and clarified that individual
facilities could not be selected for inspections more than once by
an inspection team.




7. (S) The U.S. side agreed to the Russian proposal that the
inspecting Party would pay for the costs of parking and security
for inspection aircraft contained in Section III.




8. (S) The Parties discussed Section VIII on exhibitions but
without result.


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REMAINING ISSUES

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9. (S) Ilin listed the remaining issues: dealing with heavy
bombers equipped for non-nuclear armaments and definitions of

deployed and non-deployed heavy bombers; terms for restricted or
basing areas; the overall number of annual inspections permitted;
inspections at submarine bases, joint basing of nuclear and
non-nuclear heavy bombers; geographic notifications for heavy
bomber movements outside of national territory; numbers of
launchers subject to inspection under Type 1 inspections;
inspections of restricted/basing areas; numbers of exhibitions for
eliminations; covers for reentry vehicles; and inspection of
nuclear armaments on heavy bombers.




10. (S) During this discussion, Warner made clear that the United
States would not provide more than a general location for heavy
bombers outside of national territory. Separately, Ilin provided
the rationale for Russian resistance to inspections of
restricted/basing areas during Type 1 inspections by explaining
that Russia's logic was that there should be "parity in
verification" and that neither deployed silo ICBMs nor deployed
SLBMs in submarines were inspected. He commented that "each side
has to live with what the counterpart gives them."



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ANNEXES

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11. (S) Warner urged discussion of the Parts to the Annex, but
Ilin resisted, stating that Russian Head of Delegation Ambassador
Antonov had told him that the Parts were "not a priority." Warner
responded that the Parties would have to work through the Parts
sooner or later and that the United States simply could not submit
a treaty for ratification without this work having been completed.





12. (S) After a long sidebar conversation between Warner and Ilin,
the Parties began work on Part 7 (procedures for Type 2
inspections). Ilin raised several concerns with the draft
provisions, emphasizing the Russian side's desire to discourage
gratuitous and unnecessary inspections. Ilin urged that the
inspections focus solely on counting the number of items declared
as opposed to searching for undeclared items, asking, rhetorically,
"Why should we go around looking for stuff?"




13. (S) Warner offered to rework the Part in order to ensure that


inspections conducted were "reasonable," and agreed that
verification provisions, such as reference cylinders, could be
tailored to individual installations.




14. (S) The meeting concluded with Warner noting that the
principal outstanding issues within the purview of the IPWG were:
the number of inspections permitted annually, whether elimination
exhibitions would be deducted from the main inspections quota, and
the Russian reversal, rejecting the emplacement of unique
identifiers on all systems.




15. (U) Participants:



UNITED STATES



Dr. Warner

Mr. Buttrick

Mr. Colby (RO)

LTC Leyde

Ms. Pura

Mr. Rust

Ms. Stewart

Ms. Gesse (Int)



RUSSIA



Col Ilin

Mr. Izrazov

Col Petrov

Col Zaitsev

Ms. Voldopolova

Mr. Pogodin




16. (U) Gottemoeller sends.
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