Islamabad: New Wikileaks confirms that Canadian government in December 1976 tried to catch Pakistani Nuclear programme on the direct instructions of United States government working as its second fiddle however failed to trap the then Prime Minister Zulifiqar Ali Bhutto who decided not to stop Nuclear programme.
Raw text of leak is as follow:
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PAGE 01 ISLAMA 13230 301222Z ACTION SS-25 INFO OCT-01 ISO-00 SSO-00 /026 W ——————301308Z 031232 /45 S O R 301135Z DEC 76 FM ISLAMABAD 13230 E.O. 11652: GDS TAGS: PARM, TECH, CAN, PAK SUBJECT: PAK-CANADIAN NUCLEAR COOPERATION EXDIS REF: OTTAWA 5068 1.
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CANADIAN AMBASSADOR MACLELLAN DECEMBER 30 DISCUSSED WITH AMBASSADOR BYROADE LATEST TURN IN PAK-CANADIAN NUCLEAR RELATIONS. 2. MACLELLAN DISCLOSED THAT ON DECEMBER 24 HE HAD GIVEN TO GOP MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS (ADDITIONAL FOREIGN SECRETARY SHAHNAWAZ) AIDE-MEMOIRE EMBODYING TERMS FOR CONTINUED PAK-CANADIAN NUCLEAR COOPERATION. THESE INCLUDE (1) PAK ABANDONING OF NUCLEAR REPROCESSING PLANT, (2) EITHER PAK RATIFICATION OF NPT OR PAK AGREEMENT TO PUT ALL NUCLEAR FACILITIES UNDER IAEA SAFEGUARDS (3) GOP TO MAKE “BINDING” COMMITMENT TO NON-PROLIFERATION, (4) PAK AGREEMENT TO FULL CANADIAN SAFEGUARDS OVER KANUP, INCLUDING CANADIAN VETO OVER DISPOSITION OF ALL NUCLEAR MATERIALS COMING IN AND GOING OUT OF POWER PLANT OF WHATEVER NATIONAL ORIGIN. 3. MACLELLAN ALSO PASSED TO SHAHNAWAZ TEXT OF TOUGH CONFIDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 ISLAMA 13230 301222Z STATEMENT BY CANADIAN FONMIN IN HOUSE OF COMMONS AND HIS SUBSEQUENT REMARKS TO CANADIAN NEWSMEN, IN BOTH OF WHICH HE DECLARED THAT FOR ALL PRACTICAL PURPOSES NUCLEAR COOPERATION BETWEEN CANADA AND PAKISTAN IS EFFECTIVELY AT AN END. 4. MACLELLAN SAID THAT SHAHNAWAZ WAS OBVIOUSLY NOT HAPPY WITH WHAT HAD BROUGHT BUT HE HAD RESERVED SUB- STANTIVE COMMENT PENDING CONSULATION WITH PAEC CHIEF MUNIR KHAN AND PM BHUTTO. BYROADE NOTE BY OC/T: EXDIS CAPTION INSERTED PER INSTRUCTION S/S-O. MR. STEINER. CONFIDENTIAL
