Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07MADRID1933
2007-10-03 16:27:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Madrid
Cable title:
DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UNGA RESOLUTION ON RAPE AS
how-toVZCZCXRO5630 PP RUEHAG RUEHDF RUEHIK RUEHLZ RUEHROV DE RUEHMD #1933 2761627 ZNR UUUUU ZZH P 031627Z OCT 07 FM AMEMBASSY MADRID TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 3574 INFO RUCNMEM/EU MEMBER STATES COLLECTIVE PRIORITY RUEHGV/USMISSION GENEVA PRIORITY 0861 RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK PRIORITY 0381
UNCLAS MADRID 001933
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
IO/RHS FOR LINDA LUM
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: AORC UN PHUM KWMN SOCI
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UNGA RESOLUTION ON RAPE AS
INSTRUMENT OF STATE POLICY
REF: STATE 135255
(U) Poloff delivered reftel demarche and draft text to
Fernando Fernandez-Arias, Spanish Deputy Director General for
Human Rights, on October 2. Fernandez-Arias was very
appreciative of the draft text, but declined to comment on it
until he had vetted it through Aurora Mejia, Spanish Special
Ambassador for the Promotion of Gender Equality Policies, and
the Spanish Women's Institute at the Ministry of Labor and
Social Affairs. Fernandez-Arias said he understood perfectly
U.S. concerns about co-sponsor amendments that would endanger
U.S. sponsorship of the resolution, and he noted that Spain
has a particular and somewhat different approach to these
issues than the U.S. He said Spain would have to first
internally coordinate its position in Madrid before engaging
in EU coordination in NY on October 4.
LLORENS