Cablegate: Brazil Response to North Korea Missile Launches

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E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL PARM KNNP KN BR
SUBJECT: BRAZIL RESPONSE TO NORTH KOREA MISSILE LAUNCHES

REFTEL: STATE 111144

1. Poloff delivered reftel's talking points and the President's
message to Gustavo Bezerra in the MFA's Division for Asia and
Oceania. In the course of the conversation, Bezerra reported that
Brazil had released a statement on July 6 expressing worry over the
situation, lamenting the launch and issuing a call for all parties
to return to the negotiating table. He also noted that the MFA's
North Korean interlocutors had stated that they would not return to
talks because the U.S. had insulted the DPRK with unsubstantiated
accusations of money laundering. These contacts also told the MFA
that the United States, during previous six-party talks, had
promised the DPRK two light-water reactors which it had never
provided.

WILLIAMSON

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