staff paper on the U.S. position on the draft IAEA
statute would soon be circulated. (See AEC 751/88,
subsequently circulated.) He pointed eut that two
major problems involved in estabiishing
the Agency concerned the application of safeguard
provisions and the power to be vested in the
Agency's Board of Governors as opposed to the
general conference of the Agency.
Mr. Hall reported on the recent action by
the Government of Brazil in abrogating its thorium
procurement and joint exploration agreemeats with
the U.S. He said that similar future agreements
must now be approved by the Brazilian Congress,
and he did not believe that the bilateral agreement
being negotiated with Brazil would be conciuded.
Mr. Hall said he believed the prestige of the U.S.
and the AEC would suffer as a result ef the
Brazilian action. In response to a question by
Mr, Libby, Mr. Hall said no official reports on
this matter had been received but he would discuss
these developments with the State Department on
September 6. Mr. Libby asked whether it would
be advisable to accept this action without
objections and Mr. Hal! said he believed the U.S.
should rely on pro-American elements in the
government to take any further action.
In response to a question by Mr. Murray
concernin:, ‘".e tripartite conference in October
with the U.K. and Canada, Mr. Libby said that he
had requested this conference in order to discuss
with representatives of these countries sampling
techniques and measurements for radioactive
fallout.
Mr. Hall also commented that Sir Edwin
P lewden and Sir Joha Cockcroft would be in
Washington in September for a meeting of the
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