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05GUATEMALA565
2005-03-03 18:14:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Guatemala
Cable title:  

GUATEMALA ON UNGA CONSIDERATION OF DECLARATION ON

Tags:  PREL TBIO GT UNGA KCSI 
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031814Z Mar 05
UNCLAS GUATEMALA 000565

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL TBIO GT UNGA KCSI
SUBJECT: GUATEMALA ON UNGA CONSIDERATION OF DECLARATION ON
HUMAN CLONING

REF: STATE 33916

Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Assistant Director
for Multilateral and U.N. Affairs, Luis Carranza, on March 2.
Carranza assured poloff that Guatemala would again vote in
favor of the Declaration on Human Cloning, as it did in the
Sixth Committee, and reminded poloff that Guatemala voted
against the Belgian amendment. Carranza said Guatemala could
not commit to opposing all amendments without first
considering them, but reiterated Guatemala's support for the
Declaration in its current form. Poloff also met with Nery
Rodenas, Executive Director of the Archbishop's Office of
Human Rights, and First Secretary Monsignor Jerzy Cudny at
the Papal Nucio. Both agreed to pass the message to their
superiors, and both believed their superiors would be willing
to contact the Guatemalan government to express support for
the Declaration.
HAMILTON