Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07NEWDELHI2107
2007-05-03 07:07:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy New Delhi
Cable title:  

UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL - CANDIDACY OF BELARUS

Tags:  PREL PGOV PHUM UNHRC BO IN 
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OO RUEHBI RUEHCI RUEHDBU RUEHLH RUEHPW
DE RUEHNE #2107 1230707
ZNY CCCCC ZZH
O 030707Z MAY 07
FM AMEMBASSY NEW DELHI
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 5332
INFO RUCNCLS/ALL SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIA COLLECTIVE
RUEHBJ/AMEMBASSY BEIJING 6084
RUEHLO/AMEMBASSY LONDON 3525
RUEHSK/AMEMBASSY MINSK 0018
RUEHMO/AMEMBASSY MOSCOW 2031
RUEHUL/AMEMBASSY SEOUL 1226
RUEHKO/AMEMBASSY TOKYO 4914
RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK 4569
RUEHGV/USMISSION GENEVA 6844
C O N F I D E N T I A L NEW DELHI 002107

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DEPARTMENT FOR IO/RHS, DRL/MLGA, EUR/PGI

E.O. 12958: DECL: 05/03/2017
TAGS: PREL PGOV PHUM UNHRC BO IN
SUBJECT: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL - CANDIDACY OF BELARUS
DEMARCHE DELIVERED

REF: SECSTATE 58036

Classified By: Acting PolCouns Atul Keshap for Reasons 1.4 (B, D)

(C) PolOff delivered reftel demarche May 1 to Ministry of
External Affairs (MEA) Acting Director (UN Economic and
Social) T. Armstrong Changsan, who said the Government of
India (GOI) would take into consideration the USG point of
view on the candidacy of Belarus for the UN Human Rights
Council (UNHRC). The GOI was aware of the issue of the
appropriateness of countries with poor human rights records
running for the UNHRC, he said, but the GOI was not prepared
to disclose for whom it would vote in a secret ballot
election.
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