UN HLD Demarche Delivered, MFA Requests U.S. Participation

UNCLAS MINSK 000838 SIPDIS SIPDIS G/TIP FOR JENNIFER DONNELLY E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PHUM EAID PREF SMIG UNGA UNGA BO SUBJECT: UN HLD Demarche Delivered, MFA Requests U.S. Participation in anti-TIP Consultations REF: STATE 122513 ¶1. Poloff delivered reftel talking points on the UN High Level Dialogue (HLD) on International Migration and Development to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) in the form of a non-paper on August 4. The talking points were received without comment. ¶2. Separately, MFA Department for Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights Counselor Andrey Taranda informed Poloff that the Belarusian mission to the UN plans to hold consultations in the first half of August at the UN headquarters to discuss Belarus' latest draft resolution on the Global Partnership to Combat Trafficking in Persons. This resolution aims to increase international cooperation in the field of counter trafficking. The MFA requested that U.S. experts participate in the consultations. MOORE