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TAGS: PARM PREL CWC
SUBJECT: CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR 
WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 24 
 
This is CWC-111-06. 
 
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2007 BUDGET 
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¶1. (U) Budget consultations were held on November 22.  Once 
again the focus was Article VI inspections, and once again 
the Director General attended and made an impassioned plea 
for delegations to accept the Technical Secretariat's Article 
VI proposal found in the budget.  The DG urged delegations 
not to make what should be a technical decision into a 
political decision. 
 
¶2. (U) Delegates then reviewed the TS information paper, 
circulated a week earlier, on industry inspections.  China 
indicated that it had no problem with the proposed number of 
Schedule 1 inspections, but still had strong objections to 
the proposed increase in OCPF inspections.  India said they 
were still concerned about the proposed number of Schedule 2 
inspections and as such could not accept the TS proposal on 
Article VI inspections. 
 
¶3. (U) Several experts from the TS were present to answer 
questions from delegations, but in the end little progress 
was made. Delegations agreed that consultations would 
continue next week. 
 
¶4.  (U) A brief follow-up session was held with a small 
number of interested delegations (U.S., China, Iran, India, 
and the UK) on November 24.  The opinions expressed and the 
outcome was the same as the earlier meeting.  After the 
departure of the facilitator, Iran took the opportunity to 
change the topic and ask for an update regarding progress on 
the destruction deadline extension requests.  The UK handled 
the majority of the brief response, mostly reporting in 
minimal detal the progress on consultations with Russia on 
te issue of visits. 
 
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CHINA'S CONCERNS ON 2007 OCPFINSPECTION LEVELS 
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¶5. (U) On November 21, Ambassadr Javits had a working lunch 
with the Ambassadorof China, Mrs. Xue Hanqin.  The main 
focus of the meeting was to try to get a clearer picture into 
the Chinese concerns abot the level of OCPF inspections in 
the TS proposd budget for 2007.  Ambassador Xue indicated 
tha her delegation and the NAM States Parties can agre to 
the level of 200 inspections in 2007.  Their concern is that 
the OCPF inspection levels need o ramp up more gradually, 
not all in one year.  he indicated that the ould even 
consider two cnsecutive years of 25-percent increases.  She 
stted that Beijing wants more time to prepare its budet, as 
well as the human resources to meet the nw inspection 
levels.  She also said that Chineseand Japanese efforts on 
destruction of abandonedchemical weapons (ACW) have become a 
significantdrain on their resources. 
 
¶6. (U) Ambassador Javis commented that we did not want to 
see resource wasted in adding additional Schedule 1 and 2 
inpections to what the TS proposed.  Ambassador Xue id not 
oppose that sentiment, although it is uncear whether that 
view is a personal one or one tht would be supported by 
Beijing. 
 
¶7. (U) Ambasador Xue indicated that she expected a hardened 
osition coming from Beijing to be expressed in theupcoming 
budget consultations, and thought that ight be the case also 
with the NAM States Parties  She indicated that their 
analysis of Bill Kane's (IVB) presentation on distribution of 
industry inspections, given last week, showed it to contain 
technical flaws.  Ambassador Javits challenged her to bring 
these supposed flaws to the attention of the TS during the 
consultations to see if they can be rebutted.  She also 
expressed a desire to have more information from the DG about 
further OCPF inspection ramp-ups in out-years. 
 
¶8. (U) Ambassador Xue reiterated that her government's 
 
biggest concern is the destruction of the Japanese ACW, their 
concern being the ramp-up this has required for them and what 
might be needed additionally if the Japanese do not 
follow-through.  She stated that the nature of the Chinese 
chemical industry makes their declarations very changeable 
from year to year, and she has asked Beijing to do a better 
job of making accurate declarations, particularly taking into 
account sites that are no longer declarable.  She also 
pointed out that the Chinese concern with the large increase 
in OCPF inspections is not from their industry, but rather 
from their government bureaucracy and its ability to support 
additional inspections in their country. 
 
¶9.  (U) Javits sends. 
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