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06PARIS7243
2006-11-06 16:23:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Paris
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UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE COUNTRY SPECIFIC HUMAN RIGHTS

Tags:  PHUM PREL KTIA UN FR 
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C O N F I D E N T I A L PARIS 007243 

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E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/06/2016
TAGS: PHUM PREL KTIA UN FR
SUBJECT: UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE COUNTRY SPECIFIC HUMAN RIGHTS
RESOLUTIONS

REF: STATE 182267

Classified By: POLITICAL MINISTER COUNSELOR JOSIAH ROSENBLATT FOR REASO
NS 1.4 (b) AND (d)

Uzbekistan
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C O N F I D E N T I A L PARIS 007243

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/06/2016
TAGS: PHUM PREL KTIA UN FR
SUBJECT: UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE COUNTRY SPECIFIC HUMAN RIGHTS
RESOLUTIONS

REF: STATE 182267

Classified By: POLITICAL MINISTER COUNSELOR JOSIAH ROSENBLATT FOR REASO
NS 1.4 (b) AND (d)

Uzbekistan
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1. (C) In a November 3 meeting, Aurelia Bouchez, MFA DAS
equivalent for Russia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus,
expressed general support for the U.S.-led UNGA resolution on
the human rights situation in Uzbekistan. Bouchez expressed
surprise, however, that the U.S. had already sent a demarche
to capitals. The French Embassy in Washington, she said, had
reported November 2 that the U.S. would not pursue the
resolution until after France and other EU countries held
talks with the Uzbeks in Brussels on November 8. She
stressed that the tabling of the resolution prior to the
Brussels discussions had already tainted the atmosphere, but
that demarching in capitals before EU talks could foreclose
any possibility of Uzbek cooperation. France and Germany had
hoped that the Brussels talks might lead to a framework for
further dialogue on human rights and security issues that
could then be endorsed by the UNGA resolution, making it a
more constructive tool and calling international attention to
possible Uzbek commitments taken in Brussels. At the very
least, she said, the talks were a necessary step toward a
common EU position. Bouchez asked if the U.S. was prepared
to wait until after November 8 to pursue passage of the
resolution, thereby signaling that it remained open to
incorporating additional substantive language.

Belarus
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2. (SBU) Bouchez confirmed that the GOF has no objections to
the UNGA Resolution on Belarus and anticipates fully
supporting its passage.

DPRK, Iran, Burma
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3. (SBU) On November 6, Post also informed Jacques Pellet,
MFA DAS equivalent for Humanitarian and Human Rights Affairs,
that the U.S. was delivering demarches in support of EU and
Canadian initiatives on the DPRK, Iran and Burma Third
Committee resolutions.


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