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07SANJOSE254
2007-02-09 17:44:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy San Jose
Cable title:  

COSTA RICA WILL NOT PURSUE UNHRC SEAT

Tags:  PGOV PHUM PREL UNHRC CS 
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FM AMEMBASSY SAN JOSE
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 7192
INFO RUEHZA/WHA CENTRAL AMERICAN COLLECTIVE PRIORITY
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UNCLAS SAN JOSE 000254 

SIPDIS

SENSITIVE
SIPDIS

DEPT FOR WHA/CEN, IO/RHS AND DRL/MGA

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV PHUM PREL UNHRC CS
SUBJECT: COSTA RICA WILL NOT PURSUE UNHRC SEAT

REF: SAN JOSE 202

UNCLAS SAN JOSE 000254

SIPDIS

SENSITIVE
SIPDIS

DEPT FOR WHA/CEN, IO/RHS AND DRL/MGA

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV PHUM PREL UNHRC CS
SUBJECT: COSTA RICA WILL NOT PURSUE UNHRC SEAT

REF: SAN JOSE 202


1. (U) Further to Reftel, we have continued to follow up with
MFA contacts re GOCR interest in a seat on the UN Human
Rights Council. While Deputy Director for Foreign Policy
Alejandro Solano earlier had shared our concerns about the
negative impact of Venezuela taking a seat on the UNHRC, he
was emphatic that the GOCR did not have the "institutional
capacity" to focus on more than one major UN election
campaign at a time. Therefore, Costa Rica's "one and only" UN
election focus for 2007 likely would be for the upcoming
GRULAC vacancy on the Security Council, he stressed.


2. (U) On February 5, Antonio Alarcon, CoS to FM Bruno Stagno
subsequently confirmed his earlier preliminary response
(REFTEL) and echoed Solano's comments: Costa Rica will not
pursue any UN candidacies in 2007 other than for the UNSC.
Alarcon, who conferred briefly with Stagno while Poloffs
waited in his office, made clear that his definitive response
came directly from the FM. Alarcon joked that the best
alternative candidate for GOCR might be the Dominican
Republic, if this removed the DR from the GRULAC UNSC race.
LANGDALE