UKRAINE: Cuba Embargo Resolution at UNGA -- Demarche

UNCLAS KYIV 002714 SIPDIS SENSITIVE SIPDIS E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PREL PHUM ETRD UNGA UN CU US UP SUBJECT: UKRAINE: Cuba Embargo Resolution at UNGA -- Demarche Delivered REF: STATE 148506 SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. NOT FOR INTERNET. ¶1. (SBU) DCM delivered reftel points regarding the Cuba embargo resolution October 26 to MFA Second Territorial Department Director (A/S equivalent) Ihor Hrushko. Hrushko noted that Cuba continues to provide substantial assistance for the "Chornobyl children" (belonging to families affected by the 1986 Chornobyl nuclear disaster) and that Ukraine's position is to oppose the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba. Notwithstanding, MFA had decided October 25 that Ukraine would support the EU statement on the annual UNGA resolution introduced by Cuba condemning the U.S. economic embargo against Cuba. The statement, he noted, had two aspects: while it condemned the U.S. trade embargo, it was also quite critical of the Cuban regime's human rights violations. ¶2. (U) Visit Embassy Kyiv's classified website: www.state.sgov.gov/p/eur/kiev. Taylor