IG ON IAEA REASSESSMENT: OCTOBER 15 MEETING

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• Publication Date: October 20, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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October 20; 1982
MEMORANDUM:
TO IG PARTICIPANTS
SUBJECT IG on IAEA Reassessment: October 15 Meeting
The second meeting of the IG, chaired by Under Secretary
Kennedy, was held from 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. October 15 in room 6909.
Mr. Kennedy began the meeting by outlining the reassess-
ment situation, specifically:
-- There is no high level contact between the U.S. Mission
and the IAEA;
-- Attendance by USG participants at IAEA meetings has
been cancelled;
In response to Australia's request, we have decided
not to protest Herron's action to the Secretariat; but we hope
to persuade Australia (Herron is Australian) that our concerns
are more basic than the Legal Adviser's erroneous opinion.
Many of our friends still feel we are overreacting,
but there is a growing understanding that we are serious. We
will undertake wide ranging consultations with them and others
in the future before making final IG recommendations.
-- The Secretary will issue a statement shortly making
it clear that we will take strong measures, including with-
holding of funding, toward any UN body that acts against UN
principles. It will include announcing that we are with-
holding further payments to the IAEA pending the outcome of
the reassessment.
Mr. Kennedy summarized several "dramatic" actions con-
templated as possible means to remedy what happened in Vienna.
They are:
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1) ICJ: After L's arguments why we or Israel taking
the case to the ICJ would be fraught with problems, Mr. Kennedy
put this proposal on hold.
2) Special Board of Governors Meeting. It was agreed to
put aside this idea for the present because it is premature
and would require a great deal of preparation in advance with
no guarantee of a positive result.
3) Change how the General Conference proceedings are
handled. There was some discussion as to how Blix's memorandum
could be used to ensure that voting procedures and credentials
issues could be dealt with differently in the future.
Congressional. and Press relations were discussed.
Mr. Kennedy mentioned that he had just received a letter
from Senator Mathias on the IAEA and our reassessment; we
anticipate many more such letters from the Congress. In our
conversations with the Hill, we all should stress that the
issue is not just one of Israel's credentials but that the
Agency itself was creating a climate in which the credentials
issue could arise and be handled in a cavalier manner. On
the press, Mr. Kennedy said we need Qs and As and agreed upon
guidance.
Strategy Papers.
Mr.. Kennedy, noting the good beginning in the papers
drafted so far, stated that our next efforts should focus
on the outcome we seek and how best to achieve that outcome.
He added that, in doing these papers, we should keep it in
mind that, while the U.S. is not at war with the Secretariat,
we, not the Agency, are the aggrieved party. Moreover, the
drafts so far all come to the predetermined conclusion that
the IAEA is irreplaceable, but many of our problems over the
last few years have arisen because countries believe and act
on basis that the Agency is irreplaceable to the U.S. We
must look into the question of alternatives should it not be
possible to return the Agency to its mandated tasks.
In conclusion, it was agreed that we need new drafts
prepared that focus more sharply on:
-- what we want achieved;
-- the total package of recognized problems for
attention over the longer term;
-- alternatives to the Agency; and
-- proposed steps with recommendations for the
Secretary and the President..
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As agreed at the meeting, the following
prepared:
papers will,be
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1.
Effecti-ve Changes.in proceedings
State/L and State/IO
(as in -ICAO)
2.
Examine basic principles of UN
State/L
memberships vis-a-vis.universality
3.
Qs and As on principle of
State/L and State/IO
universality
4.
Alternatives to the IAEA
DOE
5.
Study ILO's practice of vetting
State/IO and State/L
resolutions in advance
6.
New draft of overall strategy
State/OES
paper
The next IG.meeting will be on October
in room 6210.
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