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Viewing cable 07STATE60916, OUTREACH REQUEST ON U.S. PROPOSAL TO EXPAND AND
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SUBJECT: OUTREACH REQUEST ON U.S. PROPOSAL TO EXPAND AND
EXTEND THE G8 GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP: CANADA
REF: A. BERLIN 000845
¶1. (U) ACTION REQUEST: See Para 7 below.
¶2. (SBU) SUMMARY: At the April 3 Political
Directors, meeting, the U.S. rolled out a proposal
(coordinated by the NSC with strong U.S. interagency support)
to expand and extend the G8 Global Partnership Against
Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction (GP)
for another 10 years (2022)/$20 billion (U.S.
$10 billion; other GP donors $10 billion) to
address new and emerging global WMD threats.
This proposal was also raised at the April 26-27
Sherpas meeting and more extensively in the
April 23 Global Partnership Working Group meeting
(GPWG) (reftel). All GP members recognize the
evolving global weapons of mass destruction (WMD)
threat, but most have been resistant to our
proposal ) largely due to worries about cost
and potential for dilution of ongoing efforts
in Russia and the former Soviet Union (FSU).
Canada and the UK are the most supportive. Russia
poses the strongest opposition and has expressed
that the original Kananaskis priorities must be
completed before moving forward. Germany has
expressed similar concerns. Therefore the U.S.
is increasing senior diplomatic outreach to G8
partners on this proposal, emphasizing that
this commitment will help address critical
global proliferation challenges, including
the requirements of United Nations Security
Council Resolution 1540, the Global Initiative
to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (Global Initiative),
and other G8 priorities. END SUMMARY.
----------------
BACKGROUND
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¶3. (SBU) The Global Partnership (GP) is a G8
initiative that was created at Kananaskis in
2002 to address the spread of WMD, and now
includes the G8 plus 13 additional donor
nations and the EU. 2007 marks the halfway
point for the Global Partnership,s initial
10-year, $20 billion commitment. GP donor
pledges to date come in at over $17 billion
(including $10 billion from the U.S.), plus
an additional $6 billion from Russia. The
current GP scope addresses WMD threats only
within Russia and other former Soviet states
(the U.S. recognizes all former Soviet nations
as GP recipients, but so far only Russia and
Ukraine are officially recognized as recipient
states by the entire Partnership). The
Kananaskis document anticipated an expansion
by mandating that GP programs begin
&initially in Russia8 but not be limited
to Russia. In the context of the G8, the
GP is handled by the GPWG, which reports
to the Nonproliferation Directors Group
(NPDG). The GP is a unique model of multilateral
cooperation to combat WMD and missile threats and
has made great progress in its first five years to
reduce the proliferation threat, including
chemical weapons destruction; redirection of
former WMD scientists, technicians and engineers;
improving security for fissile nuclear materials,
chemical weapons stocks and biological agents;
and dismantlement of decommissioned nuclear
submarines.
¶4. (SBU) The U.S. proposal to expand and extend
the GP to combat new and emerging global WMD
threats includes four components: 1) Immediate
expansion of geographic scope outside of Russia
and the former Soviet Union (to include the
broadest possible participation of new recipient
states worldwide); 2) Immediate inclusion of
broadest possible functional scope to include
all chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear
and missile threats; 3) Extension of time
commitment for an additional 10 years (2012-2022);
and 4) Increased financial commitment of an
additional $20 billion for 2012-2022 with the
same parameters as original commitment (U.S.
$10 billion; $10 billion from other donors).
The proposal builds on a Leaders' statement
at the 2004 Sea Island Summit, in which the
G8 committed to coordinate activities to
reduce the global WMD threat through the GP.
Note that the U.S. and other G8 donors (notably
Canada and the UK) believe that the Kananaskis
Guidelines and Principles, on which the GP was
formed, already include a broad interpretation
of threats (chemical, biological, radiological,
nuclear and missile); however Russia has strongly
argued to limit scope to Russia,s most important
priorities of chemical weapons destruction and
nuclear submarine dismantlement.
¶5. (SBU) After working this proposal at the
level of the GPWG and Political Directors,
the U.S. has gained strong support from Canada
and the UK and more modest support from Japan
and France for the first two objectives (geographic
and programmatic expansion), with limited to no
support for the 10-year extension and additional
financial commitments at this time. Russia objects
to the entire proposal.
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CANADIAN POSITION ON U.S. PROPOSAL TO EXPAND AND
EXTEND THE G8 GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP
--------------------------------------------- ---
¶6. (SBU) Canada has been a strong supporter
of the U.S. proposal with particularly avid
interest in the need to geographically and
programmatically expand the GP to combat new
and emerging global WMD threats. However,
Canada has stopped short of being able to
specifically endorse new financial commitments
and the 10-year expansion at this time. The
Canadian Political Director (Colleen Swords)
sent a letter expressing strong support for
the first two pieces of our proposal, with a
preference to continue to work on the financial
commitment and timeline for extension over the
course of the next few years. Nonetheless, in
the April 23 GPWG meeting, Canada was outspoken
in its support for our proposals, focusing on
the need to expand the Partnership worldwide
and carefully not showing their inability to
make the political commitment on new funds.
Continued outreach on the proposal might help
bring Canada around in their support for the
entire proposal, and can only serve to strengthen
their resolve to push hard with other G8 nations
for geographic and programmatic expansion.
¶7. (SBU) ACTION REQUEST: Post is requested to
reach out, at the highest appropriate level, to
Canada to thank them for their outstanding
support for geographic and programmatic expansion
of the GP and press for support for the entire
proposal as part of the Nonproliferation Leaders,
statement. The Draft G8 Leaders' language
proposed by the U.S. for inclusion in the
Nonproliferation statement (as mentioned in
the points below) will follow as an attachment
by email to Post.
Recommended talking points are included in Para 8.
¶8. (U) TALKING POINTS FOR USE AS NEEDED AND APPROPRIATE:
--We have greatly appreciated Canada,s strong support
for our proposal to expand the Global Partnership to
combat new and emerging global WMD threats. Your
support in the GPWG and through your Political
Director and Sherpa has been critical.
--We now have Japan and France expressing interest
in the geographic expansion, but Germany is still
cool to the proposal. We seek your continued strong
support at the highest possible levels to garner
stronger support from Germany, to maintain the
support we have from Japan and France, and to
press the Italians to come around.
--We are also reaching out to Russia in hopes that
they can come to the table with us as a partner in
a geographic expansion and time extension of the GP
) especially given Russia,s solid support for joint
initiatives to combat WMD worldwide, such as the
Global Initiative and United Nations Security
Resolution 1540.
--However, without new funding commitments to the GP
to go along with the geographic expansion, Russia,s
support will be more difficult, and global
programming will take more time.
--We recognize that the funding commitment is the most
difficult part of the proposal, but we hope that you
will be able to join us in supporting the full proposal,
including the financial commitment and 10-year extension.
--At Sea Island, our Leaders committed to coordinate
activities to reduce the global WMD threat through
the GP. It is time now to take the next step to
continue and expand the GP.
--The U.S. is prepared to commit an additional $10
billion for 2013-2022, and we hope that Canada and
other GP donors can also be able to match this.
--We greatly appreciate Canada,s continued strong
support for geographic and programmatic expansion,
and we hope that you will continue to consider the
financial commitment and time extension.
--Can we count on you to strongly endorse this as
an integral part of the Nonproliferation Leaders,
statement?
--If possible, Canadian outreach to Germany and
other G8 nations to support inclusion of this
language in Nonproliferation Leaders statement
and GP Midpoint Review document would be
especially helpful.
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¶9. (U) Department requests that reporting on this
action request be slugged for ISN (Andrew Semmel),
NSC (Mary Alice Hayward, Carolyn Leddy, and Stephen
Newhouse), ISN/CTR (Andrew Goodman, Phil Dolliff,
Elizabeth Cameron, David Evans), E (John Duncan and
Benedict Wolf), P (Maren Brooks), T (Susan Koch and
Jim Timbie), S/P (Ed Lacey), EUR/PRA (Anita Friedt,
Lisa Benthien), DoD/NNSA (Joyce Connery and Gerald Stacey)
and DoD/CTR (Jim Reid, Monette Melanson,
Andy Weber).
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