Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
06MADRID2834
2006-11-06 12:17:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Madrid
Cable title:
SPAIN: OPPOSING ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS
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C O N F I D E N T I A L MADRID 002834
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/06/2016
TAGS: PREL UNGA IS SP
SUBJECT: SPAIN: OPPOSING ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS
REF: STATE 178061
Classified By: A/DCM Kathy Fitzpatrick for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
(C) Emboff delivered reftel demarche to Juan Manuel
Gonzalez de Linares Palou, MFA Subdirector General for the
United Nations, on November 2. Linares thanked Emboff and
said he was very familiar with the subject matter as the
Israeli Embassy had approached him with a similar demarche,
providing a "thick" dossier on the matter. He said that all
of these considerations would go into the overall UN reform
process of considering which mandates to renew and that it
would be a lengthy political process. However, he
acknowledged that the anti-Israeli institutions are
absolutely redundant, and he acknowledged that it was unfair
to ask UN contributors such as Israel and the U.S. to pay for
unbalanced institutions solely designed to criticize them.
Linares said that given the current Middle East climate, it
seemed difficult to be too hopeful for much progress this
year, but he said perhaps it would be possible to streamline
these UN bodies into one. He declined to indicate how Spain
would vote on the resolutions, and he did not mention an EU
consensus position.
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Visit Embassy Madrid's Classified Website;
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/eur/madrid/
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AGUIRRE
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/06/2016
TAGS: PREL UNGA IS SP
SUBJECT: SPAIN: OPPOSING ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS
REF: STATE 178061
Classified By: A/DCM Kathy Fitzpatrick for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
(C) Emboff delivered reftel demarche to Juan Manuel
Gonzalez de Linares Palou, MFA Subdirector General for the
United Nations, on November 2. Linares thanked Emboff and
said he was very familiar with the subject matter as the
Israeli Embassy had approached him with a similar demarche,
providing a "thick" dossier on the matter. He said that all
of these considerations would go into the overall UN reform
process of considering which mandates to renew and that it
would be a lengthy political process. However, he
acknowledged that the anti-Israeli institutions are
absolutely redundant, and he acknowledged that it was unfair
to ask UN contributors such as Israel and the U.S. to pay for
unbalanced institutions solely designed to criticize them.
Linares said that given the current Middle East climate, it
seemed difficult to be too hopeful for much progress this
year, but he said perhaps it would be possible to streamline
these UN bodies into one. He declined to indicate how Spain
would vote on the resolutions, and he did not mention an EU
consensus position.
--------------
Visit Embassy Madrid's Classified Website;
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/eur/madrid/
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AGUIRRE