NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL 26- Feb- 1994 08 17 EDT VAX MAIL@oEOB GOTTRMOELLER@Al@OEOB BRANSCUM@Al@OEOB BEYRLE@Al©OEOB PROM SUBJECT White House Situation Room WHSR@Al@WIISR SPACE COOPE ATION WITH UKRAINE DIST SIT BEYRLE BRANSCUM GOTTEMOELLER VAX PREC IMMEDlAT E CLAS WN c IDEN'l 11 L OSRI RUEHKV DTG DECLASSIFIED PER E O 13526 26 1 255Z FEB 94 ORIG AHBMBASSY KIEV TO SECSTATE WASHDC lMMEDlATE 4119 SUBJ SPACE COOPERATION WITH UKRAINB TEXT C Q II PI g ENT Ir - I SECTION 01 OF 02 KIEV 001539 DEPT PLS PASS TO NSC-BURNS GOTTEMORLLER OBPT PLS PASS TO NASA-GOLDIN E O 12356 DECL OADR TAGS PARM PREL TSPL KNNP KTIA MNUC UP SUBJECT SPACE COOPERATION WITH UKRAINE REF KIEV 01009 l • Q91fi'iS8tPJit t - ENTIRE TEXT • AGREEMENT ON u s -UKRAINB SPACE COOPERATION QOft f -OCD'I ·t-1 OS Jalu I H1 ld E 2 DURING A RBCENT MEETING WITH ANDRIJ TITARBNI O PROTECT DRPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE UXRAINIAN NATIONAL SPACE AGENCY WE WERE ADVISBD THAT THE GOU IS SERIOUSLY INTERESTED IN SPACE COOPERATION WITH THB U S AND WANTS TO BUILD ON THB INITIATIVES PROPOSED BY DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER SHMAROV IN HIS FBBRUARY 2 LETTER TO NASA DIRECTOR GOLDIN REPTBL • TITARENKO STATED THAT THB CABINET OP MINISTERS HAS DIRECTED THE RELEVANT From the Nunn-Lugar collection of the National Security Archive MEMORANDUM FOR • 3 TITARENJ O ACKNOWLEDGED THAT UKRAINIAN MEMBERSHIP IN THE MTCR REGIMB IS A NECESSARY PRECONDITION FOR FUTURE SPACE COOPERATION WITH THE U S RECOGNIZING THIS FACT STATED THAT THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL DISARMAMENT COMMITTEE COMPOSED OF REPRESENTATIVES FROM RELEVANT MINISTRIES HAS RECOMMENDED TO THB CABINET OF MINISTERS THAT UI RAINE JOIN THB MTCR REGIME TITARBNKO UNDERSCORED THAT UKRAINE WILL NEED U S ASSISTANCE IN IMPLEMENTING MTCR GUIDELINES IN CONVERSATIONS WITH MPA OPFICIALS WE WERE TOLD THAT THE ISSUB OF MTCR ADHERENCE IS UNDER REVIEW BY THB CABINET OF INISTERS VISIT OF NASA EXPERTS TO UKRAINE HE -- ----------------------------4 TITARBNKO TOLD US THAT THB NATIONAL SPACE AGENCY HAS BEEN IN DIRECT TELEPHONE CONTACT WITH NASA AND IS EXPECTING A GROUP OF EXPERTS TO COMB TO XIEV IN MIDMARCH TO DISCUSS SPACE COOPERATION DEPUTY MINISTER OF FOREIGN ECONOMIC RELATIONS SERH·IY OSSYKA WHO IS A CLOSE CONTACT OF URRAINIAN SPACE AGENCY CHAIRMAN GORBULIN TOLD US GORBULIN PLANS TO SHOW NASA EVERYTHING THINGS WE HAVEN'T SHOWN ANYONE YET IN ORDER TO ENCOURAGE SERIOUS COOPERATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BNTER 5 TITARENKO ALSO CONFIRMED THAT THE CABINET OF MINISTERS HAS DESIGNATED THE NATIONAL SPACE AGENCY AS THE LEAD ON THE CENTER REPORTED SEPTEL ACCORDING TO TITARENRO THE GOU PROPOSES TO IMPLEMENT THE STCU AGREBMBNT BY PRESIDENTIAL DECREE THEREBY OBVIATING THE NEED FOR RADA RATIFICATION COMMENT 6 SPACB COOPERATION IS A KBY UKRAINIAN CONCERN THE GOU WANTS TO PRESBRVE ITS SPACE-RELATED INDUSTRY BECAUSB IT BELIBV S THAT THE GIANT MISSILE COMPLEX IN DNEPROPETROVSK HAS ENORMOUS BCONOMIC POTENTIAL POLITICALLY THE FUTURE OF THIS COMPLEX IS IMPORTANT TO THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL SECTOR WHICF HAS SUBSTANTIAL INFLUENCE IN THE GOVBRNMBNT AND THE RADA THERE IS ALSO A CI BAR NERD TO DELIVER SOMETHING THAT WILL SATISPY PRESIDENT KRAVCHUX'S MAIN OPPONENT - LRONID KUCHMA - WHO HAS BOTH A PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL From the Nunn-Lugar collection of the National Security Archive MINISTRIES TO PREPARE A DRAFT TBXT OF A u s -UKRAINE AGREEMENT ON SPACE COOPERATION ACCORDING TO TITARENKO THE AGREEMENT MAY BE PRESENTED BY KRAVCHUX DURING HIS MARCH VISIT TO WASHINGTON MFA OFFICIALS CONP'IRMlm THAT SUCH AN AGREEMENT IS BRING PREPARED BUT WERE NOT OPTIMISTIC THAT THE DRAFT WOULD CLEAR THB INTERAGBNCY PROCESS BEFORE KRAVCHOK'S VISIT THE NATIONAL SPACE AGENCY IS ALSO PROPOSING THAT A JOINT STATEMENT OR PROTOCOL ON SPACE COOPERATION BE SIGNED DURING THE VISIT UJCRAINE PLANS TO JOIN MTCR ·• INTEREST IN THIS ISSUE THIS MAY PARTIALLY ACCOUNT FOR THE AMBIVALENCE ON THE PART OF SOME OI RAINIAN LOWER LEVEL OFFICIALS ON THE OUBSTION OF DISMANTLEMENT OF SS24 MISSILES ANO SILOS THE INFLUENCE OF THIS SECTOR ALSO MAY EXPLAIN THE DECISION OF THE CABINET OF MINISTERS IN DESIGNATING THE NATIONAL SPACB AGENCY TO ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY FOR THB SCIENCB AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER THE GOU IS CONCERNED ABOUT A POSSIBLE BRAINDRAIN OF MISSILE SPECIALISTS IF THE SPACE INDUSTRY BT 11539 NNNN SECT SECTION 01 OF 02 From the Nunn-Lugar collection of the National Security Archive JS DISMANTLED THEREBY ADDING TO THE PROLIFERATION PROBLEM 7 WE BELIEVE THAT IT WOULD BE HELPFUL FOR WASHINGTON TO SIGNAL U S INTEREST DURING THE UPCOMING VISIT BY CON FI 9 B H If I An SECTION 02 OF 02 KIEV 001539 DEPT PLS PASS TO NSC-BURNS GOTTBMOELLBR DEPT PLS PASS TO NASA-GOLDIN E O 12356 DECL OADR TAGS PARM PRBL TSPL KNNP KTIA MNUC UP SUBJECT SPACE COOPERATION WITH UXRAINE PRESIDENT KRAVCHUK IN PURSUING DIRECT SPACE COOPERATION WITH Ul RAINE A POTENTIAL U S POLICY PROPOSAL COULD INCLUDE UKRAINIAN AGREEMENT IN PRINCIPLE TO ADHERE TO THE MTCR IN EXCHANGE FOR A U S AGREEMENT IN PRINCIPLE TO COOPBRATB IN THIS AREA THB THEMES OP O S UKRAINIAN SPACE COOPERATION COULD INCLUDE A JOINT STUDY ON HOW TO INTEGRATE t Jl RAINE INTO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE MARKET JOINT SPACE PROJ'BCTS AND JOINT INDUSTRY EFFORTS WITH POSSIBLE SEED MONEY FROM THE GOVERNMENT IN THE NEAR TERM WE COULD SHOW U S INTERBST IN SPACE COOPERATION THROUGH VISITS OF U S GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS RBPRESBNTATIVES 8 ANOTHER SUGGESTION WOULD BE TO EXPAND OUR COOPERATION WITH UKRAINE BY ESTABLISHING A MECHANISM PARALLEL TO THE GORE-CHERNOMYRDIN COOPERATION FORUM WITH RUSSIA THE FORUM COULD BR USED TO COORDINATE COOPERATION ON A BILATERAL AND TRILATERAL WITH RUSSIA BASIS IN THB AREAS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SPACE AND ENERGY WE COULD UNDERSCORE OUR INTEREST BY PROPOSING SUCH A FORUM POSSIBLY DURING THE KRAVCHUK VISIT AND SEND THE VICE PRESIDENT TO KIEV TO ANNOUNCE IT WE COULD ALSO USE THE VISIT TO INITIATE THE OPERATION OF THE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CBNTER 9 WE SHOULD NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE PROLIPERATION PROBLEM THAT WOULD RESULT IP UKRAINE'S SIGNIFICANT SPACE CAPABILITY IS NOT CHANNELBD IN THB PROPER DIRECTION OR IS ALLOWED TO DISINTEGRATE MBANINGFOL ENGAGEMENT NOW WILL GO A LONG WAY IN INSURING THAT OUR NON-PROLIFERATION BFFORTS ARE SUCCESSFUL MILLBR SSN 1539 TOR 940226081348 M0904686 SBCT SECTION 02 OF 02 SSN ' From the Nunn-Lugar collection of the National Security Archive 1539 TOR 940226081349 M0904687