Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07COLOMBO1462
2007-10-25 07:35:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Colombo
Cable title:
MALDIVES: POSITIONS ON UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE
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UNCLAS COLOMBO 001462
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR SCA/INS, IO, AND DRL
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV PHUM PREL KTIA UN MV
SUBJECT: MALDIVES: POSITIONS ON UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE
RESOLUTIONS
REF: STATE 145641
Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Maldives Ministry of
Foreign Affairs Assistant Director for UN Affairs Ahmed
Shiaan on October 23. Shiaan said Maldives remains undecided
on the country specific resolutions on Burma, North Korea,
Belarus, and Iran. The Maldives delegation in New York is
still reviewing the U.S. sponsored resolution on rape as an
instrument of state policy. He noted that although Maldives
is an OIC country, the Government will carefully review the
text of the OIC resolution on religious defamation before
deciding whether to endorse it. He confirmed that Maldives
will oppose the EU resolution on the death penalty.
MOORE
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR SCA/INS, IO, AND DRL
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV PHUM PREL KTIA UN MV
SUBJECT: MALDIVES: POSITIONS ON UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE
RESOLUTIONS
REF: STATE 145641
Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Maldives Ministry of
Foreign Affairs Assistant Director for UN Affairs Ahmed
Shiaan on October 23. Shiaan said Maldives remains undecided
on the country specific resolutions on Burma, North Korea,
Belarus, and Iran. The Maldives delegation in New York is
still reviewing the U.S. sponsored resolution on rape as an
instrument of state policy. He noted that although Maldives
is an OIC country, the Government will carefully review the
text of the OIC resolution on religious defamation before
deciding whether to endorse it. He confirmed that Maldives
will oppose the EU resolution on the death penalty.
MOORE