Identifier
Created
Classification
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04SANAA3086
2004-12-14 09:44:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Sanaa
Cable title:  

UN HUMAN RIGHTS RESOLUTIONS NEED SUPPORT IN

Tags:  PHUM PGOV PREL IR YM DEMARCHE HUMAN RIGHTS 
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C O N F I D E N T I A L SANAA 003086 

SIPDIS

PLEASE PASS TO TRAVELING NEA/ARPI DAS PHILO DIBBLE

E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/13/2014
TAGS: PHUM PGOV PREL IR YM DEMARCHE HUMAN RIGHTS
SUBJECT: UN HUMAN RIGHTS RESOLUTIONS NEED SUPPORT IN
PLENARY DEMARCHE DELIVERED

REF: A. STATE 259878

B. STATE 236869

C. SANAA 2861

Classified By: DCM Nabeel Khoury for reasons 1.4 b and d.

C O N F I D E N T I A L SANAA 003086

SIPDIS

PLEASE PASS TO TRAVELING NEA/ARPI DAS PHILO DIBBLE

E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/13/2014
TAGS: PHUM PGOV PREL IR YM DEMARCHE HUMAN RIGHTS
SUBJECT: UN HUMAN RIGHTS RESOLUTIONS NEED SUPPORT IN
PLENARY DEMARCHE DELIVERED

REF: A. STATE 259878

B. STATE 236869

C. SANAA 2861

Classified By: DCM Nabeel Khoury for reasons 1.4 b and d.


1. (U) Pol/Econ Chief delivered ref A demarche to Deputy
Foreign Minister Mustafa Noman on December 13. Ref B
demarche was delivered November 9 (ref C).


2. (C) Noman said he received the same demarche from the
Dutch December 13. The DFM confided that he agreed with the
USG position on both the Canadian-sponsored Third Committee
Resolution (ref B),as well as to abstain on a no action
motion in the Plenary (ref A). Noman said he would lobby the
ROYG to abstain, but could not promise results.


2. (C) Deputy FM Noman said he had fought against Yemen's
decision to switch its usual Third Committee vote from
abstention to a 'no' vote in the 2003 and again this year,
arguing that it was inconsistent with Yemen's position on
human rights. Noman claimed he did not know the reason for
the change in policy, but that the decision to vote against
the resolution was made jointly by Foreign Minister al-Qirbi
and Prime Minister Bajammal.


3. (SBU) What Noman referred to as a "change in policy" from
previous votes may be overstating the case. In the 56th
UNGA, Yemen did not actually abstain but was 'absent' from
the Third Committee vote and on the Turkmenistan and Iran
votes the ROYG 'refused to vote,' stating that
"politicization of human rights issues, using them as a tool
to target specific States while ignoring others" is rejected
by Yemen as a double standard."
KRAJESKI