Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
06SKOPJE973
2006-10-16 06:54:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Skopje
Cable title:
MACEDONIA LEANS TOWARD EU POSITION ON DECLARATION
how-toVZCZCXRO0572 RR RUEHAST DE RUEHSQ #0973 2890654 ZNR UUUUU ZZH R 160654Z OCT 06 FM AMEMBASSY SKOPJE TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 5275 INFO RUEHZL/EUROPEAN POLITICAL COLLECTIVE RHEHNSC/WHITE HOUSE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK 2067
UNCLAS SKOPJE 000973
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE FOR EUR/SCE, IO/UNP
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PHUM PREL KTIA UN MK
SUBJECT: MACEDONIA LEANS TOWARD EU POSITION ON DECLARATION
ON RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
REF: A. STATE 169257
¶B. BRUSSELS 3493
P/E Chief delivered ref A demarche points summarizing USG
objections to the Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples
(DRIPS) to MFA State Counselor Svetlana Geleva on October 12.
Geleva said she would review the points, but noted that
Macedonia, following the EU lead (ref B),had supported the
Declaration when it was adopted in June by the Human Rights
Council.
MILOVANOVIC