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R 271345Z FEB 07
FM AMEMBASSY HELSINKI
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 3014
INFO RUEHUNV/USMISSION UNVIE VIENNA 0030
RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK 0063
UNCLAS HELSINKI 000130
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
SECSTATE FOR ISN, IO, NEA
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KNNP IR FI
SUBJECT: FINNISH RESPONSE - IAEA REPORT ON IRANIAN
COMPLIANCE WITH UNSCR 1737
REF: SECSTATE 23001
(SBU) PolChief delivered subject demarche Feb. 27 to Laura
Kansikas-Debraise, Office Director of the Unit for Arms
Control, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation. Kansikas-
Debraise thanked us for sharing the US position and said
that the GOF is fully in agreement that Iran's continued
noncompliance with UNSCR 1737 requires a strong response if
diplomacy is to succeed. For Finland, she added, Iran has
only one option: to halt its program of uranium enrichment
and to comply with 1737's other provisions. And the
international community -- led by the P5 1 -- must find a
way to convince Iran that diplomacy is the only way
forward, she added.
WARE