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3. SAFEGUARDS AND NON-PROLIFERATION

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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

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