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DOE FOR NA-24 SCHEINMAN; NA-243 GOOREVICH 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/13/2018 
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SUBJECT: IAEA/INDIA: ENCOURAGING SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS 
TOWARDS AN ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL 
 
Classified By: Ambassador Gregory L. Schulte, reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). 
 
 1.  (C)  Summary.  In an August 14 meeting with International 
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director of External Relations 
and Policy Coordination (EXPO) Vilmos Cserveny, Ambassador 
Schulte raised the need for India and the IAEA to achieve 
"substantial progress" toward concluding an Additional 
Protocol (AP).  Cserveny took the view that an IAEA-India 
meeting in Vienna next week on the margins of the August 
21-22, Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) plenary, at which India 
would receive a draft AP from the IAEA, would constitute 
substantial progress.  Cserveny undertook to contact Indian 
Permanent Representative Kumar to encourage the Government of 
India (GOI) to meet with the IAEA on the AP next week.  Also, 
Ambassador Schulte plans to speak to Kumar to stress the 
importance of ensuring an IAEA-India meeting in Vienna next 
week and to urge the GOI to accept a draft AP from the IAEA. 
Mission recommends Under Secretary 
Burns convey the same message to Indian Political Director 
Menon.  End Summary. 
 
 2.  (C)  Ambassador Schulte and notetaker met with IAEA EXPO 
Director Vilmos Cserveny and IAEA Senior EXPO Officer 
Lourdes Vez-Carmona on August 14 to discuss actions the GOI 
might take between now and early September which could 
constitute "substantial progress" toward concluding an AP. 
As Ambassador Schulte explained, such progress would be 
helpful within the NSG context but also with regard to the 
U.S. Presidential Determination process.  Ambassador 
Schulte noted that the U.S. had urged the GOI to send a 
high-level delegation to Vienna next week in order to promote 
the initiative on the margins of the NSG plenary, and that he 
has been in regular contact with Kumar to this end. 
Ambassador Schulte confirmed that Deputy Atomic Agency Head 
Grover would be part of the Indian delegation. 
 
 3.  (C)  Cserveny welcomed the news that Grover would be in 
Vienna next week.  He indicated that the IAEA had already 
had two meetings (one at the Director General level) with the 
GOI on the AP and that a follow-up third meeting in 
Vienna next week, where the GOI would receive a draft AP from 
the IAEA, would, in his view, be a reasonable step and 
constitute substantial progress.  According to Cserveny, the 
IAEA could assemble a draft AP within twenty-four hours 
to give to the Indians.  Cserveny promised to call Kumar 
immediately to urge the GOI to meet with the IAEA on the AP 
next week, and Ambassador Schulte, in turn, said he would 
call Kumar with the same message.  Ambassador Schulte and 
Cserveny agreed to remain in touch over the next few days on 
this issue. 
 
 4.  (C)  Comment and Recommendation.  Cserveny appeared 
relaxed and willing to coordinate with us to encourage the 
GOI 
to take steps towards concluding an AP.  He seemed confident 
that a third meeting, in what he portrayed as a series of 
IAEA-India meetings on the AP, would be an appropriate 
opportunity to provide the GOI with a draft text.  In order 
to 
set the stage with the GOI, we are conveying this message 
with the Indians here in Vienna.  We also recommend that 
Under Secretary Burns reinforce the same message with 
Political Director Menon.  End Comment and Recommendation. 
SCHULTE