Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
06PORTOFSPAIN1328
2006-11-16 17:52:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Port Of Spain
Cable title:
T&T UNLIKELY TO OPPOSE BELARUS'S RETALIATORY RESOLUTIONS
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UNCLAS PORT OF SPAIN 001328
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR WHA/CAR
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PHUM PREL BO TD
SUBJECT: T&T UNLIKELY TO OPPOSE BELARUS'S RETALIATORY RESOLUTIONS
AGAINST U.S.
REF: A. STATE 187018
UNCLAS PORT OF SPAIN 001328
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR WHA/CAR
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PHUM PREL BO TD
SUBJECT: T&T UNLIKELY TO OPPOSE BELARUS'S RETALIATORY RESOLUTIONS
AGAINST U.S.
REF: A. STATE 187018
1. The Ambassador made a number of attempts on November 15 to
schedule an immediate meeting and/or make telephone contact with
Foreign Minister Arnold Piggott in order to present Reftel talking
points. When we received no response, Polchief faxed the talking
points to the MFA and followed up on November 16 with MFA
Multilateral Division Director Susan Gordon.
2. Without having studied the three resolutions herself, Gordon
took note of the talking points, undertook to communicate gain with
the T&T mission in New York, but said that, unless we hear from her,
T&T will likely not budge from its long standing policy of
abstaining on country specific human rights resolutions.
Accordingly, she said we may expect T&T to abstain on "Situations on
Human Rights and Democracy in the United States of America" and on
"Inadmissibility of Human Rights Violations through the Practice of
Secret Detention and Unlawful Transfers While Countering Terrorism".
SIPDIS
As for "Promotion of Equitable and Mutually Respectful Dialogue on
Human Rights", Gordon said that, provided it is worded to T&T's
satisfaction, T&T may well support it.
AUSTIN
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR WHA/CAR
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PHUM PREL BO TD
SUBJECT: T&T UNLIKELY TO OPPOSE BELARUS'S RETALIATORY RESOLUTIONS
AGAINST U.S.
REF: A. STATE 187018
1. The Ambassador made a number of attempts on November 15 to
schedule an immediate meeting and/or make telephone contact with
Foreign Minister Arnold Piggott in order to present Reftel talking
points. When we received no response, Polchief faxed the talking
points to the MFA and followed up on November 16 with MFA
Multilateral Division Director Susan Gordon.
2. Without having studied the three resolutions herself, Gordon
took note of the talking points, undertook to communicate gain with
the T&T mission in New York, but said that, unless we hear from her,
T&T will likely not budge from its long standing policy of
abstaining on country specific human rights resolutions.
Accordingly, she said we may expect T&T to abstain on "Situations on
Human Rights and Democracy in the United States of America" and on
"Inadmissibility of Human Rights Violations through the Practice of
Secret Detention and Unlawful Transfers While Countering Terrorism".
SIPDIS
As for "Promotion of Equitable and Mutually Respectful Dialogue on
Human Rights", Gordon said that, provided it is worded to T&T's
satisfaction, T&T may well support it.
AUSTIN