EU VOTE FOR CUBAN ANTI-EMBARGO RESOLUTION EXPECTED

C O N F I D E N T I A L BRUSSELS 004347

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DEPT FOR WHA/CCA, IO/UNP, EUR/ERA

E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/08/2014
TAGS: PREL PHUM ETRD CU UNGA EUN USEU BRUSSELS
SUBJECT: EU VOTE FOR CUBAN ANTI-EMBARGO RESOLUTION EXPECTED

REF: STATE 215870

Classified By: USEU POLOFF TODD HUIZINGA, FOR REASONS 1.4 (B) AND (D)

(C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Paulo Oliveira, UN
desk officer in the EU Council Secretariat. He said EU
representatives at the UN in New York had not yet discussed
the resolution, but that he expected EU member states, as
last year, to vote unanimously in favor of the Cuban
anti-embargo resolution. He did say that he expected an
explanation of vote to include "tough criticism of Cuba's
human right record," based both on current EU-Cuba tensions
and the EU's experience at this year's UNGA ministerial.
(Cuban FM Perez Roque was a no-show at a scheduled meeting
with Dutch EU presidency FM Bernard Bot.)

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