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-- International deliberations regarding UNSC expansion among
key groups of countries: self-appointed frontrunners for
permanent UNSC membership Brazil, Germany, India, and Japan (the Group of Four or G-4); the Uniting for Consensus group
(especially Mexico, Italy, and Pakistan) that opposes
additional permanent UNSC seats; the African Group; and the
EU, as well as key UN officials within the Secretariat and
the UN General Assembly (UNGA) Presidency.
¶11. (SBU) Asked about progress toward safeguards
implementation in India, Rauf confirmed the GOI had submitted
a "formal list" of facilities that was not a document the
Agency would characterize as a formal declaration under its
safeguards agreement. India was under no mandatory timeline
to make its declaration as it was not an NPT signatory.
(Comment: Rauf's characterization was flat wrong. Mission
had learned from the Safeguards Department three weeks before
this meeting that India had officially "notified" two new
facilities (Raps 5 and 6) under its 2008 safeguards
agreement, that surveillance systems had been installed, and
the facilities were under safeguards. End Comment.)
¶1. (S) A well-connected Iranian businessman who owns a
Baku-based oil services company told Baku Iran watcher that a
company called "INSULTEC," owned by UK citizens of Indian
origin, has secretly provided cladding, thermal insulation,
and ancillary equipment to the government of Iran in a
variety of shipments via Turkey and the U.A.E. According to
the Baku source, whose company operates in Russia,
Kazakhstan, and the U.A.E. as well as Azerbaijan, the
materials allegedly sent by INSULTEC in falsely labeled
containers were of type that could be used in nuclear reactor
construction.
While the following has been posted before , it interesting to see that Mexico and Italy are also opposed to adding the 'self-appointed frontrunners' as permanent members of the UNSC
http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/cable/2009/07/09STATE80163.html
Indian-origin company supplying nuclear-related material to Iran
http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/cable/2009/03/09BAKU179.html
Indian nukes under IAEA survelance
http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/cable/2009/12/09UNVIEVIENNA540.html
Its a company run by an Indian origin guy and not an Indian origin company. Even if it is so, he might be following AQK s lead as he is the undisputed King of proliferation with China and NK as close seconds.
INSULTEC has maintained a sanctions-evading relationship
with Iranian government companies for some time. Source said
that the company was officially headquartered in the U.K.,
and has offices in Germany, the USA, and elsewhere, its
manufacturing base and the bulk of its staff are in India.
It shows India is fulfilling its obligations, one of the requisites for India-US Nuke deal.
¶4. (S/NF) Levitte asked when the administration was planning
on pushing for ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban
Treaty (CTBT), as U.S. ratification would be key to Chinese
ratification, the true French goal. U/S Tauscher said that
getting the post-START treaty ratified would be a first
priority, but that discussions of CTBT would start soon,
including an upcoming report by the National Academy of
Sciences. Levitte stated that only when the U.S. ratifies
the CTBT will it be possible to put real pressure on the
Chinese. On a fissile material cutoff treaty (FMCT), Richier
said the French have "reason to believe" that China has been
pushing Pakistan to keep up its opposition to starting
negotiations at the Conference on Disarmament, adding that
Pakistan does not seem to care that it is isolated.
Russia said that in June 2008, it had received information
from the State Department that within the framework of the
Ashura program, Iran is producing a 3-stage missile called
the Ghadr-110. At that time, the U.S. told Russia that this
missile is very similar to the Pakistani Shaheen-II and has a
range of 2,000 km with a throw weight of one ton. Testing of
the Ghadr-110 may have started in 2008, and Russia would like
additional information on this system. The U.S. said that
there appeared to be some confusion: the Ashura is a
two-stage solid propellant missile with a 2,000 km range, and
the Ghadr-110 is the Fateh-110, a single-stage SRBM.