ARMENIA STILL UNDECIDED ON THIRD COMMITTEE

C O N F I D E N T I A L YEREVAN 001991 SIPDIS DEPT FOR IO/UNP, EUR/CACEN, EUR/PGI E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/09/2015 TAGS: PHUM PREL PINR AM UNHRC SUBJECT: ARMENIA STILL UNDECIDED ON THIRD COMMITTEE RESOLUTIONS REF: STATE 204646 Classified By: DCM A.F.Godfrey for reasons 1.4 (b,d). (C) In response to our inquiry, Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs International Organizations Department Chief Valery Mkrtumyan told us that the GOAM is still studying the country resolutions pending at the UN Third Committee and that the MFA had not yet given final instructions to its mission in New York. He said that Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian (currently traveling with President Robert Kocharian in Greece) was discussing the Iran issue with the President directly. He added that Oskanian had charged Deputy Foreign Minister Armen Baibourtian (who is on official travel in Singapore this week) to talk with his interlocutors about implications of the resolutions on North Korea and Burma, although he said he did not expect "any major change" on those issues. EVANS