Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07VILNIUS503
2007-07-10 06:47:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Vilnius
Cable title:
LITHUANIA: PROS MAY OUTWEIGH CONS OF COMPROMISE ON
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UNCLAS VILNIUS 000503
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR DRL/MLGA:LJORDAN, IO/RHS:RLEATHAM AND AOSTERMEIER
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PHUM LH
SUBJECT: LITHUANIA: PROS MAY OUTWEIGH CONS OF COMPROMISE ON
UNHRC
REF: SECSTATE 91929
We delivered reftel points to Darius Staniulis, head of the
MFA,s Human Rights and NGOs Division, on July 5. Staniulis,
who attended the recent UNHRC meetings, felt that the virtual
clean slates given to Belarus and Cuba as well as the focus
on Israel were unfortunate. He thought, however, that those
concessions by "Western" countries were part of a compromise
that may facilitate a more effective HRC due to procedural
advances, to which countries usually soft on human rights
conceded as their part of the compromise. He added that,
because of Chairman de Alba's poor management, "sometimes
countries didn't know what was happening."
CLOUD
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR DRL/MLGA:LJORDAN, IO/RHS:RLEATHAM AND AOSTERMEIER
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PHUM LH
SUBJECT: LITHUANIA: PROS MAY OUTWEIGH CONS OF COMPROMISE ON
UNHRC
REF: SECSTATE 91929
We delivered reftel points to Darius Staniulis, head of the
MFA,s Human Rights and NGOs Division, on July 5. Staniulis,
who attended the recent UNHRC meetings, felt that the virtual
clean slates given to Belarus and Cuba as well as the focus
on Israel were unfortunate. He thought, however, that those
concessions by "Western" countries were part of a compromise
that may facilitate a more effective HRC due to procedural
advances, to which countries usually soft on human rights
conceded as their part of the compromise. He added that,
because of Chairman de Alba's poor management, "sometimes
countries didn't know what was happening."
CLOUD