DEMARCHE TO INDONESIA: HRC OCCUPIED TERRITORIES

UNCLAS JAKARTA 000806 SIPDIS SIPDIS STATE FOR DRL/MLGA AND IO/RHS E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: UNHRC PREL PHUM ISCON ID SUBJECT: DEMARCHE TO INDONESIA: HRC OCCUPIED TERRITORIES MANDATE REF: STATE 35404 (EXTENSION OF OCCUPIED TERRITORIES MANDATE) ¶1. (U) On March 21, met with Heru Santoso and Dicky Yunus of the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs' Human Rights Directorate to urge that the Human Rights Council not take up the question of the Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories outside the context of the Mandate Review Working Group. Drawing on reftel, we argued that such a step would undermine the objectivity and non-selectivity of the Human Rights Council and create a double standard. Santoso and Yunus took our points on board, but stated frankly that Indonesia would not break with any OIC consensus on this issue. HEFFERN