FRENCH ON BURMA UNSC - BENIN

C O N F I D E N T I A L PARIS 007392 SIPDIS EAP/MLS FOR ALEX BARRASSO IO/UNP FOR ROBIN MEYER E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/28/2015 TAGS: PGOV PHUM PREL BM FR UNGA UNSC SUBJECT: FRENCH ON BURMA UNSC - BENIN REF: STATE 195514 Classified By: Political Minister Counselor Josiah Rosenblatt for reaso ns 1.4 (b) and (d). (C) Poloff contacted IO Desk officer Benoit Guidee on October 25 about encouraging Benin's support for bringing Burma before the UNSC. Guidee informed embassy October 28 that the French mission in New York had broached the question with the Beninois delegation, whose "very clear" response had been "positive." Quai d'Orsay did not pursue the matter with the Embassy of Benin in Paris, because any attempt to discuss Asian matters with that Chancery "risked falling into a vacuum." Please visit Paris' Classified Website at: http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/eur/paris/index.c fm Hofmann