UNCLAS TEGUCIGALPA 002586

SIPDIS

DEPT. FOR IO/T, WHA/PPC, AND WHA/CEN

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL AORC KSCA TBIO TPHY HO UNGA
SUBJECT: HONDURAS UNDECIDED ON CLONING CONVENTION

REF: A. STATE 164566

B. STATE 160115

PolCouns demarched MFA Director General of Foreign Policy
Mario Fortin in August on the UN Convention to Ban Human
Cloning (ref B). Fortin told PolCouns that the GOH also
believed that there should be a total ban on cloning. PolOff
delivered Spanish talking points (ref A) September 5 to
Fortin who told PolOff September 11 that while cloning was a
complicated issue, he believed that the UN would arrive at an
accord. He also said that initially the GOH had supported
the German and French approach that would ban only
reproductive cloning, a statement that contradicted his
earlier remarks. Fortin told PolOff that the MFA was
studying the U.S. position and that he would leave
instructions to the Honduran Mission to the UN before he left
UNGA September 20.
PIERCE