Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
04KUWAIT3877
2004-11-10 13:20:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Kuwait
Cable title:  

DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN ACTION ON CONVENTION TO

Tags:  TBIO PREL PGOV PHUM UNGA KSCI 
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C O N F I D E N T I A L KUWAIT 003877

SIPDIS

DEPT FOR IO/T; USUN FOR WILLSON AND URBANCIC

E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/09/2004
TAGS: TBIO PREL PGOV PHUM UNGA KSCI
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN ACTION ON CONVENTION TO
BAN HUMAN CLONING

REF: A. STATE 238954 AND PREVIOUS

B. KUWAIT 3759

Classified By: DCM Matthew H. Tueller for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d)

DCM delivered reftel demarche to Ambassador Abdullah
Al-Murad, Director of the MFA Department of International
Organizations, November 10. Al-Murad said Kuwait was "100%
against human cloning," but fully supported stem cell and
other types of research which the GOK fears the resolution
would severely limit. He said he did not yet have a
definitive answer, but hoped Kuwait could vote with the U.S.
He promised to contact Kuwaiti PermRep Nabila al-Mulla to
further discuss the GOK position.
LeBaron