P 291854Z APR 08
FM SECSTATE WASHDC
TO NPT COLLECTIVE PRIORITY
USMISSION USUN NEW YORK PRIORITY
USMISSION UNVIE VIENNA PRIORITY
USMISSION GENEVA PRIORITY

UNCLAS STATE 045218 
 
SIPDIS 
 
 
PLEASE SLUG REPLIES TO ISN/MNSA - SCOTT DAVIS / TERRILL RAY / STEVE 
ADAMS 
GENEVA FOR CD 
UNVIE FOR IAEA 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PREL NPT IAEA
SUBJECT: U.S. DEMARCHE ON NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY 
(NPT) PREPARATORY COMMITTEE MEETING 
 
¶1.  This is an action cable.  Department requests that action 
addressees present the points in paragraph 7 as a demarche to 
appropriate host government officials and report responses. 
Embassies Buenos Aires, Brasilia, Cairo, Jakarta, Kuala 
Lumpur, Mexico, Pretoria, Santiago, and Singapore are 
requested to present points in paragraph 8, in addition to 
those in para 7.  Embassies Beijing, London, Paris, and 
Moscow are requested to present points in paragraph 9, in 
addition to those in para 7.  Embassy Cairo will receive an 
additional demarche to Egypt that will be delivered by Septel 
and should deliver the demarches at the same time.  U.S. 
Mission Geneva is requested to provide the points in 
paragraph 7 to Ambassador Volodymyr Yelchenko, chairman of 
the upcoming Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty Preparatory 
Committee meeting, for his information.  Septel requests 
delivery of two U.S.-proposed papers on NPT topics, and posts 
may wish to deliver these messages on the same occasion. 
These actions are requested by COB Friday, May 2. 
 
¶2.  Background: From 28 April until 9 May 2008, NPT parties 
will convene in Geneva, Switzerland, for the  second session 
of the Preparatory Committee (PrepCom II) for the 2010 NPT 
Review Conference (RevCon).  The  Treaty-established review 
process will discuss the operation of the Treaty and how best 
to preserve its integrity and fulfill its purposes. 
 
¶3.  The PrepCom convenes in each of the three years prior to 
the RevCon.  The PrepCom is charged with making the necessary 
procedural arrangements for the RevCon and, if possible, 
making recommendations to it.  PrepCom III will be charged 
with attempting to make consensus recommendations on matters 
of substance to the RevCon. 
 
¶4.  PrepCom I, held last spring in Vienna, was judged by many 
states to have been a successful beginning to the new review 
cycle despite Iran having prevented substantive discussion 
for nearly a week on procedural grounds related to the agenda 
for the meeting. The U.S. delegation focused its engagement 
in PrepCom I on ensuring compliance with the Treaty,s core 
nonproliferation obligations, expanding peaceful nuclear 
cooperation in proliferation-responsible ways, deterring 
withdrawal from the Treaty by treaty violators, and the U.S. 
record on nuclear disarmament. 
 
¶5.  PrepCom II convenes at a time of great challenge to the 
NPT.  Most prominent and pressing among these are Iran's 
continued defiance of the international community regarding 
the ongoing and serious concerns about its nuclear program 
and the DPRK's announcement of withdrawal from the Treaty and 
detonation of a nuclear device in October 2006.  The United 
States anticipates continued discussion of the issues 
considered at PrepCom I, particularly the alleged lack of 
U.S. commitment to disarmament and peaceful nuclear 
cooperation, and U.S. policy towards the Middle East and 
India.  End Background 
 
¶6.  Action Requested:  Department requests that action 
addressee posts deliver the talking points in paragraph 7 to 
appropriate host government officials by COB Friday, May 2. 
Please copy the U.S. Delegation to the Conference on 
Disarmament in Geneva on all replies.  Post may use its 
discretion to provide the talking points to host government 
in the form of a non-paper. 
 
¶7.  Begin Talking Points for all NPT governments: 
 
-- The United States looks forward to discussions with your 
government and other Parties to the Treaty on the 
Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) at the upcoming 
NPT Preparatory Committee meeting and throughout the 
remainder of the 2010 review cycle. 
 
-- Preventing and countering the proliferation of nuclear 
weapons is one of the highest security priorities of the 
United States, and the NPT is a key element of global 
nonproliferation strategy. 
 
-- The United States is firmly committed to its NPT 
obligations and will continue to play a leading role in 
strengthening the nonproliferation regime, including through 
the implementation of U.N. Security Council 
resolutions that address the threat of proliferation and 
noncompliance. 
 
-- PrepCom II of the NPT Review Process will convene in 
Geneva, Switzerland from 28 April to 9 May.  We hope it will 
remain focused on substantive discussion on the most serious 
challenges facing the NPT. 
 
-- The NPT,s primary objective is to prevent proliferation 
of nuclear weapons to additional countries. Yet Iran remains 
defiant of the international community,s ongoing and serious 
concerns about its nuclear program, and North Korea has 
tested a nuclear device it pursued while a Party. Syria 
continues to deny IAEA attempts to follow-up on evidence of 
its clandestine nuclear program.  Also pressing are concerns 
relating to clandestine nuclear supply networks and non-state 
actor interest in acquisition or use of a nuclear weapon. 
 
--  We anticipate that parties will use the remainder of the 
2010 review process to continue discussions of: 
Ensuring compliance with the Treaty's nonproliferation 
obligations; Deterring and responding to Treaty withdrawal by 
states in violation of their nonproliferation obligations; 
Achieving universal adherence to the International Atomic 
Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards agreements and the Additional 
Protocol and making the Protocol part of the standard for 
international safeguards; Recognizing the need for all states 
to live up to the strictest standards of safety and security 
in their peaceful nuclear activities; Supporting the fullest 
possible cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy; 
and Explaining the strong U.S. record of accomplishment in 
fulfilling Article VI of the NPT. 
 
-- We would like to draw your attention to the following key 
points on which the U.S. delegation looks forward to engaging 
with you further in Geneva. 
 
NONPROLIFERATION 
 
-- Unaddressed noncompliance with the Treaty,s 
nonproliferation obligations undermines assurances the 
Treaty provides against nuclear proliferation, the emergence 
of new nuclear weapons programs, and the 
increased threat of nuclear war.  Noncompliance also 
undermines efforts to bring about universal adherence to the 
Treaty, undermines the foundation of trust upon which the 
benefits of international nuclear cooperation are necessarily 
built; and undercuts the aspirations of the international 
community to nuclear disarmament. 
 
--  It is imperative that States Party to the Treaty place at 
the top of their agenda for PrepCom II, and this review cycle 
generally, the development and implementation of vigorous and 
sustained efforts to detect violations of nonproliferation 
obligations, to return violators to compliance, and to deter 
future would-be violators from following such a path. 
 
--  The United States is committed to the 1995 Resolution in 
the NPT Review and Extension Conference on the Middle East 
and its goal of ridding the region of weapons of mass 
destruction.  During this review cycle, NPT parties should 
address proliferation problems in the Middle East and how to 
make progress toward the achievement of a comprehensive 
regional peace. 
 
SAFEGUARDS 
 
-- The IAEA,s experiences with Iran, North Korea, and Iraq 
have shown us that safeguards can no longer be concerned with 
merely tracking declared materials, but must address possible 
clandestine activities as well. 
 
--  NPT parties must respond to these challenges by 
strengthening the legal structure of safeguards 
agreements, including the universalization of the Additional 
Protocol and increasing the technical capabilities of the 
safeguards system to make it both more effective and 
efficient. 
 
--  Adoption and implementation of a comprehensive IAEA 
safeguards agreement and the Additional Protocol should 
become the international safeguards standard. 
 
DISARMAMENT 
 
-- The U.S. delegation will explain the enduring U.S. 
commitment to the goals expressed in Article VI and the 
Preamble to the NPT and our continued progress in reducing 
our nuclear stockpile, delivery systems, and weapons-grade 
fissile material reserves, as well as reducing our reliance 
on nuclear weapons. 
 
PEACEFUL NUCLEAR COOPERATION 
 
-- The United States has long supported peaceful nuclear 
cooperation with NPT States Party in compliance with their 
Treaty obligations and is working with its partners to 
develop improved technologies and mechanisms to facilitate 
worldwide expansion and cooperation in the peaceful uses of 
nuclear energy. 
 
--  The U.S. delegation will stress the nuclear cooperation 
benefits of the Global Nuclear Energy 
Partnership and the proposals made in 2006 for the creation 
of a robust and reliable system of nuclear fuel 
supplies.  Such efforts hold out the promise of expanding 
worldwide nuclear cooperation to the great benefit of all 
states, while eliminating the need for new countries to 
develop proliferation-risky fuel-cycle capabilities. 
 
End talking points for all NPT governments. 
 
¶8.  Begin talking points only for Brasilia, Buenos Aires, 
Cairo, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Mexico, Pretoria, Singapore, 
and Santiago 
 
--  The United States has long been a staunch supporter of 
the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), 
and remains committed to ensuring full compliance with all 
its.  The United States believes that the most pressing 
challenge facing the NPT regime today concerns noncompliance 
with its nonproliferation provisions, but we are also 
dedicated to making progress on expanded international 
nuclear, and moving toward the goal of disarmament. 
 
--  As we move toward the 2010 NPT Review Conference, it will 
be important to work together in the 2008 and 2009 PrepComs 
to narrow remaining differences and resolve as many of them 
as possible. 
 
--  This engagement has included intensified efforts to 
explain how much we are doing to fulfill the important 
commitments of Article VI. 
 
--  At the upcoming PrepCom, we will be seeking to build 
consensus on key NPT issues, such as the peaceful uses of 
nuclear energy and dissuading states from withdrawing from 
the Treaty. 
 
--  We believe that developing broad and explicit agreement 
on such issues now can provide next year,s 
PrepCom, and the 2010 Review Conference itself, with good 
building blocks, for a constructive and achievable 
consensus Final document in 2010.  We hope you will be 
willing to join us in support of the joint paper drafts we 
will be circulating on these two topics, and look forward to 
discussing these matters with you further. 
 
End talking points only for Brasilia, Buenos Aires, Cairo, 
Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Mexico, Pretoria, Singapore, and 
Santiago 
 
¶9.  Begin talking points only for Beijing, London, Paris, and 
Moscow 
 
--  We are pleased that our cooperation on NPT matters has 
intensified since last fall's meeting on the margins of the 
UN General Assembly's First Committee in New York.  We attach 
considerable importance to P-5 cooperation and unity on NPT 
matters. 
 
--  We appreciate that the UK has drafted and circulated a 
P-5 statement for the PrepCom.  We look forward to working 
with your delegation to come to agreement on this draft and 
to coordinate on other NPT matters during the meeting. 
 
End talking points only for Beijing, London, Paris, and Moscow 
RICE 
 
 
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