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control provisions of the bilateral agreements for cooperation.
D.
ACCESS TO FOREIGN SOURCE MATERTALS
| Domestic production of source material within the United States ang firm
foreign arrangements (contracts and options) will provide ample materia] to
meet foreseeable or projected requirements through 1966.
Beyond 1966,
neither domestic nor foreign requirements to be furnished by the U.S. chn be
clearly determined.
Consequently, there is a continuing interest in assuring
U.S. access to foreign supplies of source materials.
This interest is a
principal basis for the foreign exploration assistance program now underway,
and will contime to be an objective in the development of the peaceful|uses
of atomic energy.
E.
PREVENTING DIVERSION OF MATERTALS
Extensive provisions relating to safeguards and the control of materials
are included in the IAEA Statute, in research and power bilateral agreements,
and in the planning of EURATOM and the OEEC.
Furthermore, the British Rave
included comparable safeguards provisions in the draft research bilateral with
Germany and in the draft power bilateral with Japan.
Canada on its own
initiative has formally notified govermments seeking uranium that Canad4 plans
to require safeguards in uranium sales contracts.
An initial approach to the
USSR to ascertain whether it also was interested in uniformity of bilateral
safeguards produced an evasive response; this matter will be pursued with the
USSR if any prospect of success appears.
While attainment of safeguard provisions in the IAEA Statute has been
encouraging, provisions of the IAEA Statute mst now be translated into jan
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