Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
06NICOSIA375
2006-03-13 15:28:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Nicosia
Cable title:
CYPRUS REPORTEDLY HOSTS CONFERENCE ON ESTABLISHING
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C O N F I D E N T I A L NICOSIA 000375
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/13/2021
TAGS: PREL PHUM PGOV CY IZ
SUBJECT: CYPRUS REPORTEDLY HOSTS CONFERENCE ON ESTABLISHING
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION IN IRAQ
Classified By: Ambassador Ronald L. Schlicher;
Reason 1.4 (b) and (d)
C O N F I D E N T I A L NICOSIA 000375
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/13/2021
TAGS: PREL PHUM PGOV CY IZ
SUBJECT: CYPRUS REPORTEDLY HOSTS CONFERENCE ON ESTABLISHING
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION IN IRAQ
Classified By: Ambassador Ronald L. Schlicher;
Reason 1.4 (b) and (d)
1. (C) On March 13, Sotos Liassides -- Director of
Multilateral Affairs at the MFA -- called polchief to report
that Cyprus had hosted a conference in Larnaca March 8-10 on
the issue of establishing a national human rights commission
in Iraq. According to Liassides, Environment Minister and
Acting Minister for Human Rights Nermin Othman headed the
Iraqi delegation. The GOC did not participate in the
conference, but provided considerable logistical and material
support. Cyprus had agreed to host the meeting at the
request of UN officials in Geneva. Liassides stressed that
the government was keeping even the fact of the conference
confidential. There would be no public announcement and the
SIPDIS
MFA hoped to avoid any press coverage. In truth, Liassides
confessed that he was not certain what, if anything, had
emerged from the conference in the way of substance.
2. (C) Comment: We consider Cyprus's hosting a conference
like this to be positive, as it pushes the GOC to look beyond
the parochial questions that surround the interminable Cyprus
issue and engage with some of the larger concerns that occupy
the rest of the world. Cyprus likes to bill itself as "a
bridge to the Middle East." It is nice, on occassion, to see
the government take constructive action on the basis of that
self-definition.
SCHLICHER
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/13/2021
TAGS: PREL PHUM PGOV CY IZ
SUBJECT: CYPRUS REPORTEDLY HOSTS CONFERENCE ON ESTABLISHING
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION IN IRAQ
Classified By: Ambassador Ronald L. Schlicher;
Reason 1.4 (b) and (d)
1. (C) On March 13, Sotos Liassides -- Director of
Multilateral Affairs at the MFA -- called polchief to report
that Cyprus had hosted a conference in Larnaca March 8-10 on
the issue of establishing a national human rights commission
in Iraq. According to Liassides, Environment Minister and
Acting Minister for Human Rights Nermin Othman headed the
Iraqi delegation. The GOC did not participate in the
conference, but provided considerable logistical and material
support. Cyprus had agreed to host the meeting at the
request of UN officials in Geneva. Liassides stressed that
the government was keeping even the fact of the conference
confidential. There would be no public announcement and the
SIPDIS
MFA hoped to avoid any press coverage. In truth, Liassides
confessed that he was not certain what, if anything, had
emerged from the conference in the way of substance.
2. (C) Comment: We consider Cyprus's hosting a conference
like this to be positive, as it pushes the GOC to look beyond
the parochial questions that surround the interminable Cyprus
issue and engage with some of the larger concerns that occupy
the rest of the world. Cyprus likes to bill itself as "a
bridge to the Middle East." It is nice, on occassion, to see
the government take constructive action on the basis of that
self-definition.
SCHLICHER