GODR SUPPORT OF US BACKED UNGA POSITIONS

UNCLAS SANTO DOMINGO 006706 SIPDIS DEPARTMENT FOR IO AND WHA/CAR (MCISAAC) E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PHUM PREL DR SUBJECT: GODR SUPPORT OF US BACKED UNGA POSITIONS REF: A. STATE 317277 ¶B. STATE 309045 ¶1. Poloff delivered reftel A and B talking points to Ambassador Rhadys Abreu de Polanco, Deputy Director of the International Organizations Desk at the Dominican Foreign Ministry. Reftel B diplomatic note was delivered to the Foreign Ministry on November 12th. ¶2. Ambassador Abreu told poloff on November 20, that the GODR will vote in support of the Canadian UN resolution on the human rights situation in Iran. She also said that the GODR will support Ralph Boyd, the U.S. candidate for the UN Committee on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD),and vote for him on January 14, in New York. HERTELL