US embassy cable - 05DUBLIN1116

C O N F I D E N T I A L DUBLIN 001116 
 
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E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/31/2015 
TAGS: PARM, PREL, ETTC, KSCA, TSPA, MTCRE, MUNC 
SUBJECT: MTCR PLENARY: IRELAND FAVORS SYRIA MODEL ON NORTH 
KOREA PROPOSAL 
 
REF: STATE 160777 
 
Classified By: Deputy Chief of Mission Jonathan S. Benton; Reasons 1.4 
(B) and (D). 
 
(C) On September 7, Post delivered reftel demarche regarding 
the U.S. proposal on North Korea for the September 12-16 
Madrid MTCR Plenary to Therese Healy and Michael Keaveney, 
Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) First and Third 
Secretaries, respectively, for Disarmament and 
 
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Nonproliferation.  Healy, who will attend the Madrid Plenary, 
noted that, if consensus could not be achieved on the U.S. 
proposal, Ireland would likely announce that it would 
implement the substance of the proposal on a national basis. 
She pointed out that Ireland was one of 27 MTCR countries to 
annouce at the 2004 MTCR Plenary that it would adopt the 
substance of similar U.S. proposals on Syria.  Healy believed 
that the Department of Enterprise, Trade, and Employment 
(DETE, the agency responsible for export controls) would 
authorize the Irish delegation in Madrid to follow the "Syria 
model" for North Korea if consensus could not be reached. 
BENTON