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C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 MADRID 000139 
 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPARTMENT FOR EUR/WE (ALEX MCKNIGHT, STACIE ZERDECKI) AND 
ISN (BONNIE JENKINS, SUSAN BURK) 
DEPARTMENT PASS TO NSC (GARY SAMORE, JOYCE CONNERY, LAURA 
HOLGATE) 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/04/2020 
TAGS: PARM EAID TBIO IAEA NPT AORC CDG ENRG MNUC
PGOV, PREL, UNGA, SP 
 
SUBJECT: SPAIN: INFORMED OF DIFFERENT OBJECTIVES FOR NSS 
AND NPT REVCON 
 
REF: A. SECSTATE 5891 
     ¶B. SECSTATE 7493 
 
Classified By: POL Counselor William H. Duncan for Reasons 1.4 (b) and 
(d) 
 
¶1. (C) SUMMARY:  POLOFF on February 1 met LTC. Anibal 
Villalba Fernandez, an adviser to President Jose Luis 
Rodriguez Zapatero on foreign and security issues, to review 
Ref A points on the different objectives for the Nuclear 
Security Summit (NSS) that President Obama will host in the 
Washington DC area during April 12-13, 2010 and the Nuclear 
Non-Proliferation Treaty's Review Conference (NPT RevCon). 
While Villalba understood the different objectives and was 
not surprised by any of the Ref points, he focused discussion 
on the NSS, which Zapatero will attend, and spent less time 
on the NPT RevCon, which Zapatero will not.  Post shared Ref 
A points with MFA contacts but was unable to speak with them 
at length and they had no substantive comments.  Similarly, 
Post coordinated the delivery of Ref B Note Verbale to the 
MFA, although MFA contacts were unavailable for a joint 
demarche.  END SUMMARY. 
 
//Overall Positive Assessments on the NSS// 
 
2 (C) Villalba, who attended the Sherpa meetings in 
Washington and Tokyo and will attend the one in The Hague 
during February 9-11, was well-versed in preparations for the 
NSS.  While Deputy FM Angel Losada is the NSS Sherpa and MFA 
DG for Strategic Affairs and Terrorism Carmen Bujan has told 
us she is the NSS Sous-Sherpa, Villabla represents the Office 
of the President in the working-level preparations.  He 
commented that he believes it is a good idea to hold the NSS 
and assessed that the preparations are going "very well." 
Villalba added that Spain has been pleased with the 
transparency with which the event is being organized, 
suggesting that it is generating goodwill among the attendees 
at the Sherpa meetings and is contributing to the open 
exchange of ideas.  Villalba also praised his NSC contacts 
for their substantive knowledge and organizational work. 
 
¶3. (C) Although informed that the USG envisions no direct 
linkages between the NSS and NPT RevCon, Villabla recognized 
that the former will conclude 2.5 weeks before the latter 
begins and suggested there will be considerable pressure for 
the NSS to end on a positive note.  He emphasized that the 
NSS "must" be successful and applauded the pragmatism of NSS 
organizers for their efforts to be inclusive, omitting 
divisive items in the search for consensus on complex issues 
among nearly four dozen participants.  He noted that reaching 
consensus on this topic is especially difficult considering 
Egypt and Israel are among those invited.  As another 
positive sign of support for the NSS, Villalba informed 
POLOFF that Russia has offered to host a follow-up NSS in 
¶2011. 
 
//Remarks on Attendance at the NSS// 
 
¶4. (C) Villalba suggested the frequent requests for 
additional countries to be added to the list of NSS invitees 
have been an encouraging sign.  However, he noted that some 
countries had pushed back when it was suggested NATO's 
Secretary General be invited, reasoning that NATO is a 
regional vice worldwide organization and if regional 
organizations were to be included, why NATO and not the OSCE 
or why not an Asian regional organization?  Villalba gave no 
indication that Spain shared these views. 
 
//Noting Others' Reservations About Proposed NSS Speakers// 
 
¶5. (C) Villalba noted that four or five invitees - including 
Russia and China, but not Spain - had expressed reservations 
 
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about the proposal that Australia be the one to address the 
summit on the risks posed by nuclear terrorism.  According to 
Villalba, those countries claimed that the IAEA, as a UN 
body, would be best qualified to deliver those remarks 
because an individual country might inject too much of its 
own national perspective into its remarks. 
 
//The Role Of the Private Sector at the NSS// 
 
¶6. (C) Villalba shared with POLOFF his understanding that VP 
Biden will meet with nuclear industry CEOs in a parallel 
meeting outside the main NSS event and that the VP will then 
deliver to the NSS participants the conclusions of those 
talks on the private sector's vision of nuclear security. 
Villalba suggested it might not unreasonable to think that 
the CEOs may want to be in attendance while the VP delivers 
the conclusions and appear in a photo opp with the heads of 
government/state. 
SOLOMONT