Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07LISBON507
2007-02-28 17:15:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Lisbon
Cable title:
PORTUGAL UNDECIDED ON SELECTION FOR UNHRC
how-toVZCZCXYZ0014 RR RUEHWEB DE RUEHLI #0507 0591715 ZNR UUUUU ZZH R 281715Z FEB 07 FM AMEMBASSY LISBON TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 5603 INFO RUEHGV/USMISSION GENEVA 0542 RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK 1466
UNCLAS LISBON 000507
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
EUR/PGI, IO/RHS AND DRL/MLGA
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PHUM PREL PO
SUBJECT: PORTUGAL UNDECIDED ON SELECTION FOR UNHRC
REF: SECSTATE 21984
Pol-Econ Officer met with MFA International Organizations
Officer Celia Morais to discuss our concerns about the UN
Human Rights Council's progress and to underscore the
importance of selecting a candidate from democratic Eastern
Europe in the upcoming election. Morais agreed that nations
committed to democracy should be selected whenever possible
and said Portugal would take our endorsement of Bosnia into
consideration. Portugal is currently in the process of
evaluating which Eastern European candidate it will support.
Hoffman