DEMARCHE TO GDRC ON SADC POSITION ON HUMAN CLONING

UNCLAS KINSHASA 001971 SIPDIS E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: TBIO XA CG UNGA KSCI SUBJECT: DEMARCHE TO GDRC ON SADC POSITION ON HUMAN CLONING BAN REF: SECSTATE 226987 ¶1. (U) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Djoli Eseng Ekeli, Deputy Cabinet Director to FonMin Ramazani, on October 22, ¶2004. Ekeli indicated that the GDRC maintained its support for the U.S. co-sponsored Costa Rican resolution calling for a convention to ban all human cloning. He explained that the Ministry of Health would be informed of the official government position supporting a ban on all types of human cloning, not just reproductive cloning, and directed to follow this position. ¶2. (U) Additionally, CDC has delivered U.S. position paper and supporting materials to the Director of Cabinet at the Ministry of Health. MEECE