Cablegate: Eurofab: Demarche On Transfer of Fabricated Mox

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181644Z Mar 05

UNCLAS MADRID 001086

SIPDIS

DEPARTMENT FOR EUR/WE

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KNNP ENRG PREL SP
SUBJECT: EUROFAB: DEMARCHE ON TRANSFER OF FABRICATED MOX
FUEL ASSEMBLIES FROM FRANCE TO THE UNITED STATES

REF: A. SECSTATE 47674

B. 04 MADRID 3536

ESTHOFF discussed Ref A demarche March 17 with French DCM
Jean Marc Rives and March 18 with French POLCOUNS Antoine de
Sury. Rives referred to our earlier approach to MFA last
September (Ref B), noting that when he and ESTHOFF had
hand-delivered the points to the MFA, our GOS interlocutor
had merely thanked us for the information and agreed to pass
it to other interested ministries. As a result, and given
that the U.S. had allowed France to determine demarche
modalities, Rives said he had instructed de Sary to make the
points over the phone to MFA and to call ESTHOFF in the event
of a substantive MFA reaction. ESTHOFF confirmed this
arrangement in an early morning March 18 telephone
conversation with de Sury. De Sury called ESTHOFF back later
March 18 to report that France's MFA interlocutor, acting MFA
Disarmament Deputy Director Jose Ramon Garcia Rodriguez, had
no substantive reaction.
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