Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
08COLOMBO306
2008-03-25 10:28:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Colombo
Cable title:  

SRI LANKA NONCOMMITTAL ON SUPPORTING SPECIAL

Tags:  PGOV PREL PHUM UNHCR CE 
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VZCZCXRO3674
PP RUEHBI
DE RUEHLM #0306 0851028
ZNY CCCCC ZZH
P 251028Z MAR 08
FM AMEMBASSY COLOMBO
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 7911
INFO RUEHKA/AMEMBASSY DHAKA 0806
RUEHIL/AMEMBASSY ISLAMABAD 7794
RUEHKT/AMEMBASSY KATHMANDU 5982
RUEHNE/AMEMBASSY NEW DELHI 1929
RUEHCG/AMCONSUL CHENNAI 8408
RUEHBI/AMCONSUL MUMBAI 5886
RUEHON/AMCONSUL TORONTO 0596
RUEHGV/USMISSION GENEVA 2687
C O N F I D E N T I A L COLOMBO 000306

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DEPARTMENT FOR SCA/INS, DRL/MLGS KRISTEN MCGEENEY, AND
IO/RHS AMY OSTERMEIER

E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/25/2018
TAGS: PGOV PREL PHUM UNHCR CE
SUBJECT: SRI LANKA NONCOMMITTAL ON SUPPORTING SPECIAL
RAPPORTEUR ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

REF: SECSTATE 29095

Classified By: Ambassador Robert O. Blake, Jr., for reasons 1.4(b,d).

(C) Ambassador and DCM delivered reftel demarche to Foreign
Secretary Palitha Kohona on March 24. Kohona was unfamiliar

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with the Canadian resolution and possible OIC amendments, but
noted the U.S. position and undertook to follow up on the
issue with Sri Lankan officials in Geneva.
BLAKE