CONFIDENTIAL
Page 127
3. SAFEGUARDS AND NON-PROLIFERATION
CONFIDENT LAL
THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (LORD CHALFONT)
recalled that earlier in the month the Ministers concerned had agreed
that if the United States Government offered, in order to make a non-
proliferation treaty nore acceptable to states which did not possess
nuclear weapons, to place their civil nuclear industry under inter-
national safeguards, we should match this offer, provided that those
states accepted a non-proliferation treaty including such safeguards.
We had now been informed that the United States Government had
decided to offer in this context to make all their civil nuclear
installations open to international inspection as part of the non-
proliferation treaty. They proposed to inform the North Altantic
Treaty Organisation accordingly on Wednesday, 19th April. In these
circumstances we should now nake a similar offer in the sense which
had previously been agreed. The Ministerial decision to that
effect provided sufficient flexibility to the adaptation of our
statement to the terms of the offer which the United Sates
was about to make.
Government
The Committee
Took note of the statement by the Minister of State
for Foreign Affairs.
Cabinet Office, S.W.l.,
14th April 1967
-5-
Page 127
CONFIDENTIAL
Page 127
{