Identifier
Created
Classification
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06SEOUL3458
2006-10-11 07:47:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Seoul
Cable title:
TRIPARTITE DEMARCHE ON THE UN DECLARATION ON THE
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UNCLAS SEOUL 003458
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PHUM PREL KTIA UN
SUBJECT: TRIPARTITE DEMARCHE ON THE UN DECLARATION ON THE
RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
REF: STATE 169257
UNCLAS SEOUL 003458
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PHUM PREL KTIA UN
SUBJECT: TRIPARTITE DEMARCHE ON THE UN DECLARATION ON THE
RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
REF: STATE 169257
1. (SBU) Per reftel request, New Zealand's Ambassador to the
ROK, Jane Coombs, Australian POL Counselor Martin Quinn, and
poloff delivered the tripartite demarche on the draft UN
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (DRIP) to
MOFAT Director-General for International Organizations Kang
Kyung-hwa on October 11.
2. (SBU) DG Kang responded that in June the ROKG voted in
favor of the adoption of the text during the first session of
the Human Rights Council (HRC). This issue was of limited
interest to the ROKG, but Seoul wanted the inaugural session
of the HRC to produce some kind of result. Consequently,
Seoul went along with the flow on a vote that she said was
largely in favor of adoption of the text. However, she would
take our concerns on board and investigate whether there was
room for the ROKG to rethink its position during the UNGA
vote.
VERSHBOW
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PHUM PREL KTIA UN
SUBJECT: TRIPARTITE DEMARCHE ON THE UN DECLARATION ON THE
RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
REF: STATE 169257
1. (SBU) Per reftel request, New Zealand's Ambassador to the
ROK, Jane Coombs, Australian POL Counselor Martin Quinn, and
poloff delivered the tripartite demarche on the draft UN
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (DRIP) to
MOFAT Director-General for International Organizations Kang
Kyung-hwa on October 11.
2. (SBU) DG Kang responded that in June the ROKG voted in
favor of the adoption of the text during the first session of
the Human Rights Council (HRC). This issue was of limited
interest to the ROKG, but Seoul wanted the inaugural session
of the HRC to produce some kind of result. Consequently,
Seoul went along with the flow on a vote that she said was
largely in favor of adoption of the text. However, she would
take our concerns on board and investigate whether there was
room for the ROKG to rethink its position during the UNGA
vote.
VERSHBOW