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R 191155Z MAR 06
FM AMEMBASSY YEREVAN
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 2716
INFO RHMFIUU/DEPT OF ENERGY WASHINGTON DC

UNCLAS YEREVAN 000389 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPT FOR EUR/CARC, EUR/PRA JOHN CONLON 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV PREL ASEC EAID ENRG KNNP RS AM
SUBJECT: SHIPMENT OF RADIOLOGICAL SOURCES:  CORRECTING THE 
RECORD 
 
REF: A) YEREVAN 258 B) CONLON-WITMER 2/23/06 E-MAIL 
 
Sensitive but unclassified.  Please protect accordingly. 
 
(SBU) On March 20, the executive director of the Armenian 
quasi-governmental "Research Center for the Problem of the 
Nonproliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction" (NPC) Karen 
Gasparyan, corrected inaccurate assertions (ref A) that the 
U.S. Department of Energy would fund the transfer of two 
radiological sources from Armenia to Russia.  Gasparyan told 
us the IAEA, and not the U.S. Department of Energy, would 
provide the funds to facilitate the transfer.  A series of 
commercial and government contracts involving the IAEA, 
Russian "Isotop," RusAtom, the Armenian quasi-governmental 
Radioactive Waste Storage Agency, and Armenia's NPC, paved 
the way to deliver the sources to Russia, Gasparyan said. 
Under terms of the contract, the parties had until "the end 
of 2006" to complete the transfer, according to Gasparyan. 
Gasparyan told us the NPC is still working to finalize 
import-export logistics "and other contract requirements," 
including obtaining shipping containers from Russia, before 
the NPC delivers the radiological materials to Isotop. 
EVANS