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