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INFO IMMEDIATE UKMIS VIENNA
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UKMIS VIENNA TELNO NO. 1 TO UKREP BRUSSELS: CHERNOBYL
1. BEFORE THE COREPER DISCUSSION ON 22 MAY (MY TELNO 1716), AT WHICH WE WERE WARNED THAT THE FAILURE TO REACH AGREEMENT IN VIENNA ON A COMMUNITY STATEMENT TO THE EXTRAORDINARY BOARD OF GOVERNORS MEETING ON 21 MAY WOULD BE RAISED, I WAS INSTRUCTED BY TELEPHONE (TELECON BRENTON/YOUNG) TO SUPPORT THE IDEA OF A COMMUNITY STATEMENT TO THE NEXT REGULAR BOARD OF GOVERNORS MEETING IN JUNE. I DULY DID SO. THE LINE SUGGESTED BY MR. WILMSHURST IN HIS TUR WILL THEREFORE NOT DO. NOR IS IT CONSISTENT FOR HIM TO BE TAKING THAT LINE IN
VIENNA.
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THE SET OF ARGUMENTS AGAINST A COMMUNITY STATEMENT SET OUT IN THE TUR WILL NOT CUT MUCH ICE HERE, NOR I SUSPECT IN MOST OTHER COMMUNITY CAPITALS. TO EQUATE THE COMMUNITY WITH THE GROUP OF 77, THE WEOG, OR THE EAST EUROPEANS WOULD BE FRANKLY PROVOCATIVE GIVEN THE RELEVANCE OF SUBSTANTIAL PARTS OF THE EURATOM TREATY TO SOME, ALTHOUGH BY NO MEANS ALL, OF THE POST-CHERNOBYL ISSUES UNDER DISCUSSION IN THE IAEA.
3. I ALSO BELIEVE IT WOULD BE AGAINST OUR INTERESTS TO OPEN UP AN IRRITANT IN OUR RELATIONS OVER NUCLEAR MATTERS WITH OTHER MEMBER STATES IN THE RUN UP TO THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL IN THE HAGUE AT WHICH WE KNOW NUCLEAR ISSUES WILL BE DISCUSSED AND WHERE WE WILL NEED ALL THE SUPPORT WE CAN GET TO FEND OFF PROBLEMS WHICH MAY ARISE FOR US
OVER SELLAFIELD.
4. I HOPE THEREFORE WE CAN WORK BOTH HERE AND IN VIENNA FOR A
SUITABLY GUARDED COMMUNITY STATEMENT AS WELL AS FOR A JOINT POSITION
ON THE MAIN POST-CHERNOBYL ISSUES.
HANNAY
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