Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
06JAKARTA5551
2006-05-03 01:23:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Jakarta
Cable title:
DEMARCHE TO INDONESIA ON IRAN'S HUMAN RIGHTS
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C O N F I D E N T I A L JAKARTA 005551
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 05/02/2016
TAGS: KUNR PHUM PREL UNHRC IR ID
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE TO INDONESIA ON IRAN'S HUMAN RIGHTS
COUNCIL CANDIDACY
REF: A. STATE 66050 (CANDIDACY OF IRAN)
B. STATE 68575 (FOLLOW-UP ON CANDIDACY OF IRAN)
Classified By: Marc L. Desjardins, Political Counselor. Reason: 1.4 (b
, d)
C O N F I D E N T I A L JAKARTA 005551
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 05/02/2016
TAGS: KUNR PHUM PREL UNHRC IR ID
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE TO INDONESIA ON IRAN'S HUMAN RIGHTS
COUNCIL CANDIDACY
REF: A. STATE 66050 (CANDIDACY OF IRAN)
B. STATE 68575 (FOLLOW-UP ON CANDIDACY OF IRAN)
Classified By: Marc L. Desjardins, Political Counselor. Reason: 1.4 (b
, d)
1. (SBU) We met May 2 with with Jonny Sinaga, Deputy Director
of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs at the Indonesian
Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA),to deliver demarches
contained reftels on our opposition to Iran's candidacy for
the UN Council on Human Rights. Drawing on talking points in
reftel A, we stressed that we were committed to a Human
Rights Council that was an improvement over the old Human
Rights Commission. Morever, criteria in the UNGA resolution
setting up the Human Rights Council clearly preclude
countries with human rights records like Iran's from
membership on the council, we argued. We pointed out that
the Asia Group and the OIC, both of which Indonesia belongs
to, have many Human Rights Council candidates better
qualified than Iran, and that we believed that debate should
focus on these rather than candidacies such as Iran's, which
by any rational standard should be obvious non-starters.
2. (SBU) Sinaga agreed that the new Council should be more
credible than the old Human Rights Commission, and that only
members with good human rights records could make this
possible. He repeated his view, expressed in previous
meetings, that the U.S. non-candidacy was a loss for the
international community. Indonesia, he said, hopes that the
U.S. will seek membership in the near future. While stopping
short of committing not to support for Iran, Sinaga
acknowledged that its candidacy was problematic. Iran, he
said, had not demarched Jakarta seeking support so far.
3. (C) Comment. Iranian President Ahmadinejad will make a
state visit to Indonesia prior to the D-8 meeting in Bali May
12 - 14. Despite this, it should be easy for Indonesia to
vote against Iranian HRC membership if voting is secret. The
GOI is very much focused on its own bid for membership on the
Council. End comment.
PASCOE
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 05/02/2016
TAGS: KUNR PHUM PREL UNHRC IR ID
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE TO INDONESIA ON IRAN'S HUMAN RIGHTS
COUNCIL CANDIDACY
REF: A. STATE 66050 (CANDIDACY OF IRAN)
B. STATE 68575 (FOLLOW-UP ON CANDIDACY OF IRAN)
Classified By: Marc L. Desjardins, Political Counselor. Reason: 1.4 (b
, d)
1. (SBU) We met May 2 with with Jonny Sinaga, Deputy Director
of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs at the Indonesian
Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA),to deliver demarches
contained reftels on our opposition to Iran's candidacy for
the UN Council on Human Rights. Drawing on talking points in
reftel A, we stressed that we were committed to a Human
Rights Council that was an improvement over the old Human
Rights Commission. Morever, criteria in the UNGA resolution
setting up the Human Rights Council clearly preclude
countries with human rights records like Iran's from
membership on the council, we argued. We pointed out that
the Asia Group and the OIC, both of which Indonesia belongs
to, have many Human Rights Council candidates better
qualified than Iran, and that we believed that debate should
focus on these rather than candidacies such as Iran's, which
by any rational standard should be obvious non-starters.
2. (SBU) Sinaga agreed that the new Council should be more
credible than the old Human Rights Commission, and that only
members with good human rights records could make this
possible. He repeated his view, expressed in previous
meetings, that the U.S. non-candidacy was a loss for the
international community. Indonesia, he said, hopes that the
U.S. will seek membership in the near future. While stopping
short of committing not to support for Iran, Sinaga
acknowledged that its candidacy was problematic. Iran, he
said, had not demarched Jakarta seeking support so far.
3. (C) Comment. Iranian President Ahmadinejad will make a
state visit to Indonesia prior to the D-8 meeting in Bali May
12 - 14. Despite this, it should be easy for Indonesia to
vote against Iranian HRC membership if voting is secret. The
GOI is very much focused on its own bid for membership on the
Council. End comment.
PASCOE