WEEKLY SUMMARY

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• Document Creation Date: June 22, 2015
• Document Release Date: December 15, 2008
• Case Number: F-2008-00942
• Publication Date: June 30, 1967

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WEEKLY SUMMARY
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NONPROLIFERATION TREATY NEGQTIATIONS CONTINUE AT GENEVA
Moscow is expected to agree
soon to the tabling at the Eight-
een Nation Disarmament Committee
meeting in Geneva of a revised
draft nonproliferation treaty
(NPT) worked out by the US and
Soviet delegations. Recognition
of the dangers which could have
arisen had the Arabs or Israelis
possessed nuclear weapons has
added impetus to the effort to
get a treaty. In addition, the
Johnson-Kosygin and Rusk-Gromyko
talks on the subject have raised
hopes at Geneva.
The revised draft leaves
blank the controversial Article
III on safeguards.. For Article
IV, which sets forth the means
of amending the treaty, two pro-
posals have been referred to Mos-
cow. The first would allow amend-
ment by a majority of the signa-
tory states; any such amendment
would not be binding on a state
which declined to accept it, and
any of the nuclear states could
veto it outright.. The second
proposal would make binding on all
signatory states any change ac-
cepted by a majority but would
give veto rights to all 30 nations
on the Board of Governors of the
International Atomic Energy Au-
thority (IAEA) at the time of the
vote. Only the nuclear states
have permanent seats on the board.
When the NATO foreign minis-
ters at their 14 June meeting
approved tabling the revised NPT
draft of Geneva, West Germany's
Brandt initially demurred, and
Bonn still has doubts about sev-
eral aspects of the treaty. In
a demarche delivered last week
the Germans insisted the US stick
to the essence of the Article III
safeguards clause previously
agreed to by the NATO allies and
cautioned against accepting, even
for negotiating purposes, any
Soviet proposal without full con-
sultation with the allies. The
German note also reiterated oppo-
sition to the second alternative
amendment clause for Article IV
and stated that even the first is
unsatisfactory because it gives
a veto only to the nuclear powers.
The safeguards issue still
focuses on the roles of EURATOM
and the IAEA, and two compromise
proposals have been raised. One
would have Article III refer
neither to verification of EURATOM
safeguards by IAEA nor to any
specific transition period in
which safeguard arrangements would
be worked out between the two
agencies, but the EURATOM coun-
tries would withhold final ratifi-
cation until there is a IAEA-
EURATOM agreement. IAEA officials
and the Soviets are very cool to
this.
The other proposal would
have each nonnuclear party to
the NPT undertake to conclude
within three years' time "bilat-
eral or multilateral" agreements
with IAEA. The term "multilateral"
could apply only to EURATOM, but
the omission of-any specific ref-
erence to EURATOM might make this
resolution acceptable to all con-
cerned. EURATOM officials, how-
ever, are objecting to the three-
year time limit on grounds that
it would give all the bargaining
ower to the IAEA.
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