Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07ROME2115
2007-10-03 11:08:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Rome
Cable title:
ITALY AWAITING COMMON EU POSITION ON RAPE
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C O N F I D E N T I A L ROME 002115
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
IO/RHS LINDA LUM
E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/03/2017
TAGS: AORC UNAUS PHUM KWMN SOCI IT
SUBJECT: ITALY AWAITING COMMON EU POSITION ON RAPE
RESOLUTION
REF: SECSTATE 135255
Classified By: A/Pol M/C Jonathan R. Cohen, for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
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(C) Poloff spoke September 28 with MFA Human Rights Office
Director Laura Carpini to deliver reftel demarche and a copy
of the U.S. draft resolution, "Condemning the Use of Rape as
an Instrument of State Policy." Poloff urged Italy to
cosponsor the resolution and requested cooperation in
preventing amendments or alterations that would fundamentally
alter the resolution or require the U.S. to withdraw its
sponsorship. Carpini thanked us for providing the text of
the resolution, which she had heard about but not seen, and
took note of our request on limiting changes to the text.
She said the Italian position on the resolution would depend
on the outcome of the EU human rights coordinating meeting in
Brussels October 9-10, during which a common EU position on
the resolution would be discussed, but that in principle
Italy supported the substance of the resolution.
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