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04ROME3999
2004-10-18 07:16:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Rome
Cable title:  

ITALY SUPPORTS ESTABLISHING OSCE SPECIAL REP FOR

Tags:  PREL PHUM IT OSCE EUN 
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UNCLAS ROME 003999 

SIPDIS


DEPT FOR EUR/OHI

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL PHUM IT OSCE EUN
SUBJECT: ITALY SUPPORTS ESTABLISHING OSCE SPECIAL REP FOR
ANTI-SEMITISM


Guidance request - see para 4

UNCLAS ROME 003999

SIPDIS


DEPT FOR EUR/OHI

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL PHUM IT OSCE EUN
SUBJECT: ITALY SUPPORTS ESTABLISHING OSCE SPECIAL REP FOR
ANTI-SEMITISM


Guidance request - see para 4


1. On October 15, MFA OSCE Office Director Fabio Cristiani
told EUR/OHI Director Don Braum (in Rome for the Holocaust
Education Task Force) that Italy fully supports US view that
a special representative for anti-Semitism should be
established in the OSCE. EU representatives met at 25 to
discuss the issue on the margins of the OSCE Human Dimension
Implementation Meeting on October 12 in Warsaw. The EU will
take up the subject again on October 19 at the EU COSCE
meeting in Brussels.


2. Italy supports establishing two new representatives, one
for anti-Semitism and one for all other forms of intolerance.
Cristiani was fairly confident that such an approach would
address concerns of some participating States, especially
Islamic countries, that anti-Semitism was being given special
treatment. Cristiani added that Italy would not support
establishing any more than two special representatives. He
warned that there was a danger of "proliferation" of special
representatives for every type of intolerance. Cristiani
promised to make his views clear at the COSCE.


3. Cristiani questioned the necessity of a third OSCE meeting
on anti-Semitism, especially if it covered the same ground
and employed the same format as the Berlin conference. He
said that Italy would consider supporting a meeting at a
working level, or one that covered anti-Semitism one day and
other forms of intolerance the next.


4. Finally, Cristiani asked at what level the US would be
represented at the OSCE Ministerial in Sofia in December.
Poloff promised Cristiani he would check with Washington.


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2004ROME03999 - Classification: UNCLASSIFIED