Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07ROME2116
2007-10-03 11:11:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Rome
Cable title:
ITALY: RESPONSE ON COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE
VZCZCXYZ0009 PP RUEHWEB DE RUEHRO #2116 2761111 ZNY CCCCC ZZH P 031111Z OCT 07 FM AMEMBASSY ROME TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 9170 INFO RUEHGV/USMISSION GENEVA PRIORITY 6359 RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK PRIORITY 0805
C O N F I D E N T I A L ROME 002116
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR IO/RHS AND L/HRR
E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/03/2017
TAGS: PHUM PREL UNGA IT
SUBJECT: ITALY: RESPONSE ON COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE
ELECTION
REF: A. SECSTATE 130973
B. ROME 1703
Classified By: A/Pol M/C Jonathan R. Cohen for reasons 1.3 (b) and (d).
(C) In response to Ref A, poloff followed up September 28 on
our previous demarche (Ref B) on the Committee Against
Torture election with MFA UN Affairs Desk Officer Gabriela
Biondi. Biondi proposed a vote trade, and followed up
October 3 with a diplomatic note requesting U.S. support for
Renata Archivi, Italy's candidate for the UN Advisory
Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions. Poloff
reminded Biondi of the long-standing U.S. policy against
trading votes, but thanked her for the information on Italy's
ACABQ candidate.
SPOGLI
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR IO/RHS AND L/HRR
E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/03/2017
TAGS: PHUM PREL UNGA IT
SUBJECT: ITALY: RESPONSE ON COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE
ELECTION
REF: A. SECSTATE 130973
B. ROME 1703
Classified By: A/Pol M/C Jonathan R. Cohen for reasons 1.3 (b) and (d).
(C) In response to Ref A, poloff followed up September 28 on
our previous demarche (Ref B) on the Committee Against
Torture election with MFA UN Affairs Desk Officer Gabriela
Biondi. Biondi proposed a vote trade, and followed up
October 3 with a diplomatic note requesting U.S. support for
Renata Archivi, Italy's candidate for the UN Advisory
Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions. Poloff
reminded Biondi of the long-standing U.S. policy against
trading votes, but thanked her for the information on Italy's
ACABQ candidate.
SPOGLI