DEMARCHE ON HUMAN RIGHTS RESOLUTIONS

UNCLAS KINSHASA 002058

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PHUM PREL CG
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE ON HUMAN RIGHTS RESOLUTIONS

REF: A:SECSTATE 236869 B: SECSTATE 237932


1. (U) Poloff delivered reftel demarches on UNGA human rights
resolutions to Ambassador Fabien Emery Zulu, Cabinet Director
to FonMin Ramazani, on November 8, 2004. Zulu said that he
would instruct the DRC delegation in New York to work with
the US delegation to support the human rights resolutions
being co-tabled by the USG with the EU on Belarus and
Turkmenistan, and being co-sponsored by the US with the EU on
Sudan and Zimbabwe and with Canada on Iran.


2. (U) Moreover, Zulu indicated that he would instruct the
DRC delegation to oppose Belarus's resolution seeking to
block consideration of the US-sponsored resolution on the
human rights situation in Belarus and a resolution seeking to
shift attention to the US electoral system (reftel B.)
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