EURATOM-IAEA: FRENCH RESERVATIONS MAY DELAY RATIFICATION OF THE NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION TREATY

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• Document Creation Date: July 13, 2023
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2022
• Case Number: F-2019-01488
• Publication Date: August 23, 1972

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Central Intelligence Bulletin
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23 August 1972
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23 August 1972
Central Intelligence Bulletin
CONTENTS
VIETNAM: Government counterattacks achieve some
7g7grilit- (Page 1)
CHILE: Violence ends but military leaders are
aTiCassing coup plans. (Page 3)
MOROCCO: Hassan calls for elections at some in-
definite time. (Page 4)
JAPAN: Space program making limited progress.
(17-a-47 6)
EURATOM-IAEA: French reservations may delay rat-
ification of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
(Page 7)
LAW OF THE SEA: UN committee agrees on agenda
for conference (Page 8)
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/EURATOM-IAEA: New French reservations about
safeguard verification arrangements between EURATOM
and the IAEA threaten further delays in European
ratifications of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
(NPT).
Ratification of the NPT by the non-nuclear-
weapon members of EURATOM has depended on an agree-
ment with IAEA to verify EURATOM's safeguards and
thus satisfy NPT provisions. France now says no
IAEA-EURATOM agreement can be completed until the
EC Council has approved the negotiations, and Paris
is objecting to the arrangements negotiated with
IAEA by the EC Commission. Paris apparently will
argue that the Commission has exceeded its author-
ity. In return for its approval of the verifica-
tion arrangements, Paris is likely to seek conces-
sions that could further weaken the applicability
of EURATOM safeguards to France. As the only
nuclear weapons state in EURATOM, France has long
argued that it should be under no more constraints
than are the super-power signatories of the NPT.
Most of France's EURATOM partners are appar-
ently willing to put off notification of the agree-
ment with the IAEA in order not to provoke the
French. They probably believe that France does
not want to be responsible for delaying the NPT
indefinitely--and its controls over any West Ger-
man nuclear ambitions. They may be prepared even-
tually to grant Paris further exceptional status
within EURATOM, although this could pose consider-
able political problems, especially for Bonn.
A formal announcement that the EURATOM-IAEA
agreement is ready for ratification had been sched-
uled for September. Any delay will almost certainly
draw a sharp Soviet response. Moscow has already
protested Washington's decision to continue to sup-
ply fissionable materials to EURATOM before NPT
ratification by EURATOM's non-nuclear-weapon members.
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