DATE=9/18/98
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
NUMBER=2-238906
TITLE=BRAZIL-NUCLEAR (L ONLY)
BYLINE=GIL BUTLER
DATELINE=STATE DEPARTMENT
CONTENT=
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INTRO:   BRAZIL HAS OFFICIALLY JOINED THE NUCLEAR NON 
PROLIFERATION TREATY AND THE NUCLEAR TEST BAN TREATY.  IN 
CEREMONIES AT THE U-S STATE DEPARTMENT BRAZILIAN FOREIGN MINISTER
LUIZ FILIPE LAMPREIA CALLED FOR ELIMINATING ALL NUCLEAR WEAPONS. 
SECRETARY OF STATE ALBRIGHT URGED INDIA AND PAKISTAN TO FOLLOW 
BRAZIL'S EXAMPLE.  V-O-A'SGIL BUTLER HAS MORE FROM THE STATE 
DEPARTMENT.



TEXT:   DRAWING ON THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE'S OBSESSION WITH THE 
CURRENT HOMERUN DUEL BETWEEN BASEBALL HITTERS MARK MCGWIRE AND 
SAMMY SOSA--MS. ALBRIGHT SAID, IN JOINING THE NUCLEAR NON 
PROLIFERATION AGREEMENT AND RATIFYING THE TEST BAN TREATY, BRAZIL
HAD HIT BACK TO BACK HOME RUNS.

THE SECRETARY PRAISED THE COOPERATION BETWEEN ARGENTINA AND 
BRAZIL THAT MADE THE NON PROLIFERATION DECISION POSSIBLE AND 
POINTED TO THE LAST MAY'S NUCLEAR TESTING BY INDIA AND PAKISTAN 
IN CONTRAST.

                      /// ALBRIGHT ACT ///

         IN THE WAKE OF SOUTH ASIA'S NUCLEAR FOLLIES, BRAZIL HAS 
         GIVEN THE LIE TO THE DANGEROUS NONSENSE THAT THE GLOBAL 
         NON PROLIFERATION REGIME IS DEAD.  AND AS A NUCLEAR 
         COULD-HAVE-BEEN, IT HAS SPECIAL STANDING TO SPEAK OUT 
         AND ACT AGAINST NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION.

                         /// END ACT ///


SHE ALSO PRAISED BRAZIL FOR PUBLICLY RENOUNCING ITS NUCLEAR 
COOPERATION AGREEMENT WITH INDIA.  FOREIGN MINISTER LAMPREIA 
OFFERED TO HELP ADVANCE NON PROLIFERATION BY SHARING THE 
EXPERIENCE OF BRAZIL AND ARGENTINA.

                      //// LAMPREIA ACT ///

         ALONG SIDE ARGENTINA, BRAZIL HAS COME FORWARD TO OFFER 
         OUR BILATERAL EXPERIENCE IN THE NUCLEAR FIELD AS AN 
         EXAMPLE OF HOW IT IS POSSIBLE TO SUCCESSFULLY COOPERATE 
         ON NUCLEAR NON PROLIFERATION IN A CLIMATE OF 
         TRANSPARENCY AND TRUST AND IN SO DOING, STRENGTHEN THE 
         INTERNATIONAL NON PROLIFERATION REGIME.  WE HOPE THAT 
         OTHERS WILLSEIZE ON THAT EXAMPLE.

                         /// END ACT ///

THE BRAZILIAN MINISTER SAID THAT UNDER THE NON PROLIFERATION 
TREATY,NUCLEAR POWERS HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO GET RID OF NUCLEAR
WEAPONS. AND WHILE HE RECOGNIZED THAT THE UNITED STATES AND 
RUSSIA HAVE REDUCED STOCKPILES..HE SAID THAT IS STILL FAR SHORT 
OF THE GOAL OF TOTAL NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT.(SIGNED)



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