US embassy cable - 05PARIS1233

C O N F I D E N T I A L PARIS 001233 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/25/2015 
TAGS: IR, KNNP, PARM, PREL, TRGY, MNUC, IAEA 
SUBJECT: IRAN/IAEA: FRANCE WILL RAISE IRAN AT THE FEB 28 
IAEA BOG MEETING, BUT REQUESTS AMENDMENT TO U.S. STATEMENT 
 
REF: STATE 31323 
 
Classified By: Political Minister-Counselor Josiah Rosenblatt for reaso 
ns 1.4 (b) and (d). 
 
We delivered reftel points to the MFA's office of Disarmament 
and Nuclear Nonproliferation on February 23.  On February 25 
poloff spoke with Nicolas Roche, the desk officer for NP, who 
said that France will make a national statement calling on 
Iran to meet its obligations at the February 28 BOG meeting. 
Roche said that the statement, which is currently being 
prepared, is intended to highlight the like-mindedness of the 
EU3 and put further pressure on Iran to meet its obligations 
with regard to the negotiations.  He said at this point he 
did not know whether the statement is intended to be made on 
behalf of France or the EU3, saying that it would be decided 
in Vienna.  While Roche admitted that he had not seen the 
final text, he said that he expects the statement to put 
forth strongly worded demands for Iran to comply with the 
terms laid out through the course of the negotiations.  He 
said that the statement will call for Iran to implement Board 
of Governors resolutions and respect its commitments for 
suspension in addition to asking the agency to report every 
failure of Iran immediately.  Roche said that France expects 
the U.S. national statement to be strongly worded and more 
detailed than the French statement; however, he said language 
calling for "full cessation and dismantling of Iran's fissile 
material production efforts" will undermine the EU3 
negotiations with Iran because they are the exact terms that 
the EU3 is pushing for in negotiations.  He asked that the 
U.S. delete this verbiage from their national statement. 
Wolff