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Cablegate: Npt Prepcom Information Delivered

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RR RUEHWEB

DE RUEHMO #3896 2211103
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 091103Z AUG 07
FM AMEMBASSY MOSCOW
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 2791
INFO RUEHGV/USMISSION GENEVA 5079
RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK 0345
RUEHUNV/USMISSION UNVIE VIENNA 0496

UNCLAS MOSCOW 003896

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STATE FOR ISN/MNSA, VCI/NA
GENEVA FOR CD
USUN NEW YORK FOR POL

SENSITIVE
SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PARM KNNP ENRG PREL MNUC NPT RS
SUBJECT: NPT PREPCOM INFORMATION DELIVERED

REF: STATE 102585

SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY.

1. (SBU) On July 25, 2007, we shared reftel information concerning
the 2008 NPT PrepCom with Mikhail Kondratenkov, Second Secretary in
the MFA's Department of Security and Disarmament Affairs.
Kondratenkov told us on July 27, 2007 that Anatoliy Antonov,
Director of the same office, will likely head the Russian delegation
to the 2008 PrepCom. Antonov is also expected to lead the Russian
delegation to the IAEA Board of Governors and General Conference
Meetings in Vienna in September. Konstantin Pulikovskiy, the head
of the Russian Federal Service for Ecological, Technological, and
Nuclear Supervision (Rostekhnadzor), is also expected to attend.

RUSSELL

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