Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07LONDON1142
2007-03-23 17:15:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy London
Cable title:
UK OPPOSED TO PERMANENT EXTENSION OF THE OCCUPIED
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C O N F I D E N T I A L LONDON 001142
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DEPARTMENT FOR DRL/MLGA JULIETA VALLS NOYES
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/23/2017
TAGS: PREL PHUM UNHCR UK
SUBJECT: UK OPPOSED TO PERMANENT EXTENSION OF THE OCCUPIED
TERRITORIES MANDATE AT UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
REF: STATE 35404
Classified By: PolCouns Richard M. Mills, reasons 1.4 (b & d).
(C) UK Foreign and Commonwealth (FCO) Head of Middle East
Peace Process Team Mark Bryson-Richardson told Poloff March
23 that HMG supports our reftel points and is opposed to an
indefinite extension of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur
on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian
Territories Occupied Since 1967. HMG agreed that the tabled
resolution in the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) to extend the
mandate was a procedural problem that could short-circuit the
ongoing work of the Mandate Review Working Group and was
inconsistent with the one-year extension already granted to
HRC mandates. FCO also told us that HMG's position was
consistent with the EU consensus to vote against this
resolution, if the language requesting the extension remains
in the resolution, but to abstain if the reference is removed.
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