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06THEHAGUE1097
2006-05-15 15:20:00
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Embassy The Hague
Cable title:
NETHERLANDS/SYRIA: ADDRESSING HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES
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TAGS: PHUM KDEM PREL SY NL
SUBJECT: NETHERLANDS/SYRIA: ADDRESSING HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES
REF: STATE 77093
(SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Human Rights
Divsion officer Eric Litver May 15. Litver stressed that The
Netherlands is a leader within the EU on human rights,
including with respect to Syria. Dutch Foreign Minister Bot
presented the Geuzen Penning award to Syrian human rights
activist Haitham al-Maleh in March 2006. At the ceremony, in
a speech covered by Dutch press, Bot called for greater
Syrian respect for human rights.
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