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90106 12/19/2006 13:10 06KUWAIT4679 Embassy Kuwait CONFIDENTIAL 06STATE196047 VZCZCXYZ0011 PP RUEHWEB DE RUEHKU #4679 3531310 ZNY CCCCC ZZH P 191310Z DEC 06 FM AMEMBASSY KUWAIT TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 7924 INFO RUEHAD/AMEMBASSY ABU DHABI PRIORITY 1602 RUEHAM/AMEMBASSY AMMAN PRIORITY 1728 RUEHBK/AMEMBASSY BANGKOK PRIORITY 0210 RUEHBJ/AMEMBASSY BEIJING PRIORITY 0469 RUEHSL/AMEMBASSY BRATISLAVA PRIORITY 0020 RUEHBM/AMEMBASSY BUCHAREST PRIORITY 0088 RUEHEG/AMEMBASSY CAIRO PRIORITY 0996 RUEHCP/AMEMBASSY COPENHAGEN PRIORITY 0173 RUEHIL/AMEMBASSY ISLAMABAD PRIORITY 0925 RUEHKL/AMEMBASSY KUALA LUMPUR PRIORITY 0039 RUEHLJ/AMEMBASSY LJUBLJANA PRIORITY 0029 RUEHMK/AMEMBASSY MANAMA PRIORITY 2314 RUEHSK/AMEMBASSY MINSK PRIORITY 0032 RUEHNE/AMEMBASSY NEW DELHI PRIORITY 0374 RUEHNC/AMEMBASSY NICOSIA PRIORITY 2355 RUEHRA/AMEMBASSY RIGA PRIORITY 0026 RUEHRH/AMEMBASSY RIYADH PRIORITY 2310 RUEHSG/AMEMBASSY SANTIAGO PRIORITY 0024 RUEHGP/AMEMBASSY SINGAPORE PRIORITY 0319 RUEHTL/AMEMBASSY TALLINN PRIORITY 0031 RUEHTV/AMEMBASSY TEL AVIV PRIORITY 1601 RUEHVT/AMEMBASSY VALLETTA PRIORITY 0017 RUEHVL/AMEMBASSY VILNIUS PRIORITY 0052 RUEHVB/AMEMBASSY ZAGREB PRIORITY 0074 RUEHHK/AMCONSUL HONG KONG PRIORITY 0060 RUEHIN/AIT TAIPEI PRIORITY 0014 C O N F I D E N T I A L KUWAIT 004679
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E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/19/2016 TAGS: PARM, PREL, ETTC, MTCRE, MNUC, TSPA, KU, DEMARCHES SUBJECT: KUWAIT DEMARCHE DELIVERED: RESULTS OF THE 2006 COPENHAGEN MTCR PLENARY
REF: STATE 196047
Classified By: Charge d'Affaires Matt Tueller for reasons 1.4 (b) and ( d)
(C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche December 19 to Dr. Hamad Bou Rahman, the Deputy Director of the International Organizations Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Bou Rahman thanked the U.S. for providing information about the 2006 Copenhagen Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Plenary, and promised to pass the information to the relevant Kuwaiti government agencies. He added that the recent Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) statement calling for a nuclear weapons-free Middle East was aimed at Iran, but said Kuwait also believed Israel should be required to give up its nuclear weapons and open its nuclear program to international inspections.
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