Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
08MOSCOW1004
2008-04-11 13:49:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Moscow
Cable title:
DEMARCHE ON TRAVEL BAN DELIVERED
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C O N F I D E N T I A L MOSCOW 001004
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/09/2018
TAGS: MNUC KNNP IR UNSC
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE ON TRAVEL BAN DELIVERED
REF: STATE 33674
Classified By: Political Officer Robert Patterson for Reasons 1.4 (b) a
nd (d).
(C) On April 10 we delivered reftel demarche to MFA
Department of International Organizations Counselor Albert
Sitnikov, who said the GOR had prepared a Presidential decree
that would bring the travel ban into force. The decree would
most likely be signed by early May, he said. Sitnikov noted
the GOR had determined that paragraph 17 of UNSCR 1803, if
implemented, would contradict the Russian constitution. "The
Russian judiciary is completely independent and cannot be
told which cases it should hear and how to rule on them," he
said. He inquired how the USG planned to handle implementing
this provision of the UNSCR.
RUSSELL
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/09/2018
TAGS: MNUC KNNP IR UNSC
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE ON TRAVEL BAN DELIVERED
REF: STATE 33674
Classified By: Political Officer Robert Patterson for Reasons 1.4 (b) a
nd (d).
(C) On April 10 we delivered reftel demarche to MFA
Department of International Organizations Counselor Albert
Sitnikov, who said the GOR had prepared a Presidential decree
that would bring the travel ban into force. The decree would
most likely be signed by early May, he said. Sitnikov noted
the GOR had determined that paragraph 17 of UNSCR 1803, if
implemented, would contradict the Russian constitution. "The
Russian judiciary is completely independent and cannot be
told which cases it should hear and how to rule on them," he
said. He inquired how the USG planned to handle implementing
this provision of the UNSCR.
RUSSELL