DOMINICAN REPUBLIC AGREES TO CO-SPONSOR UNGA

UNCLAS SANTO DOMINGO 005982 SIPDIS STATE FOR IO/UNP, WHA/CAR E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PREL KCIP IO PM DR SUBJECT: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC AGREES TO CO-SPONSOR UNGA RESOLUTION ON INTERNATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE NETWORK FOR COMBATING THE CRIMINAL MISUSE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES REF: STATE 223568 ¶1. Embassy delivered reftel demarche to the MFA on October ¶19. On October 29, Deputy IO Ddirector Rhadys Abreu de Polanco called to say that Foreign Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso had approved the Dominican Republic's co-sponsoring the proposed U.S. draft UNGA resolution on the international law enforcement assistance network for combating the criminal misuse of information technology. Polanco said she would immediately send instructions to the Dominican mission to the UN in New York. KUBISKE