Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07TOKYO3785
2007-08-16 08:34:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Tokyo
Cable title:
JAPAN WILL NOT FIELD CANDIDATE FOR UNCAT
how-toVZCZCXYZ0015 PP RUEHWEB DE RUEHKO #3785 2280834 ZNY CCCCC ZZH P 160834Z AUG 07 FM AMEMBASSY TOKYO TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 6558 INFO RUEHGV/USMISSION GENEVA PRIORITY 3145 RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK PRIORITY 5463
C O N F I D E N T I A L TOKYO 003785
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
FOR IO/RHS, L/HRR
E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/15/2017
TAGS: PHUM PREL UNGA JA
SUBJECT: JAPAN WILL NOT FIELD CANDIDATE FOR UNCAT
REF: STATE 108642
Classified By: Acting Charge d'Affairs W. Michael Meserve for reasons 1
.4 (b) and (d).
(C) Embassy Tokyo Political Officer delivered reftel
demarche August 8 and followed up August 16 with MOFA Human
Rights Division Officer Shigeharu Orihara. Orihara said that
Japan would not field a candidate for the UN Committee
Against Torture, and would "carefully read" the information
about U.S. candidate Felice Gaer, noting that the U.S.
Mission to Geneva had delivered a similar message. "It is
too early to know" whether Japan would support Ms. Gaer,
added Orihara, acknowledging that the Japanese government was
waiting to see what other candidates might surface during the
coming months.
MESERVE