DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN ACTION ON CONVENTION TO

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