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04DUBLIN1079
2004-07-19 15:59:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Dublin
Cable title:  

ECOSOC: IRISH WILL OPPOSE CUBAN RESOLUTION

Tags:  PHUM PREL 
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UNCLAS DUBLIN 001079

SIPDIS

IO/SHA - JOE BRACKEN AND SASHA MEHRA
USUN - MADELYN SPIRNAK AND MICHELLE ZACK
DRL/MLA - MICHAEL BUTLER AND LYNN SICADE

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PHUM PREL
SUBJECT: ECOSOC: IRISH WILL OPPOSE CUBAN RESOLUTION

REF: STATE 150754

On July 19, Tim Harrington, First Secretary of the Human
Rights Division at DFA said Ireland would take the common EU
position and vote against the Cuban resolution. Harrington
was responding to reftel demarche, delivered July 12. The
GOI believes that the issues in the Cuban resolution are
already being addressed, and that the resolution appears to
be purely politically motivated. Harrington also said that
the EU would oppose any "no-action" motion on the Cuban
resolution, but stressed that the EU opposes all "no-action"
motions out of principal and its vote should not be seen in
any way as support for the substance of the Cuban resolution.
KENNY