Identifier	Created	Classification	Origin
06DUBLIN729	2006-06-22 15:02:00	CONFIDENTIAL	Embassy Dublin

Cable title:

IRISH SHARE USG PRIORITIES FOR NEW HUMAN RIGHTS

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P 221502Z JUN 06
FM AMEMBASSY DUBLIN
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 7120
INFO RUCNMEM/EU MEMBER STATES PRIORITY
RUEHGV/USMISSION GENEVA PRIORITY 0589
RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK PRIORITY 0144

C O N F I D E N T I A L DUBLIN 000729

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E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/12/2016
TAGS: PHUM PREL EI
SUBJECT: IRISH SHARE USG PRIORITIES FOR NEW HUMAN RIGHTS
COUNCIL

REF: SECSTATE 94561

Classified By: Pol/Econ Chief Mary E. Daly, for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)

(C) On June 12 emboff delivered reftel points to Irish
Department of Foreign Affairs Human Rights Director Eamonn
MacAodha. MacAodha said that the GOI shares USG priorities
to start the new UN Human Rights Council with a simple and
open agenda. He added that it was his hope that the first
session establish flexibility in its agenda and not become a
hard template for future sessions, thus allowing for the new
body's evolution into the organization that its predecessor
failed to become. He also said that country-specific
resolutions should not be tabled in the first session and
that working groups need to be formed to review the
Commission on Human Rights mandates and to establish the
rules for the new Universal Periodic Review mechanism. In
reference to the discussion on the adoption of the
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, MacAodha
said that the issue was not relevant to Ireland and that the
GOI has taken no position on it yet.

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