Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
08ROME1290
2008-10-24 13:47:00
CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN
Embassy Rome
Cable title:
ITALY TO VOTE YES ON UNGA DEALERTING RESOLUTION
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C O N F I D E N T I A L ROME 001290
NOFORN
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/24/2018
TAGS: PARM MNUC UNGA IT
SUBJECT: ITALY TO VOTE YES ON UNGA DEALERTING RESOLUTION
REF: STATE 111744
Classified By: Political Minister-Counselor Barbara A. Leaf for Reasons
1.4 (B) and (D)
C O N F I D E N T I A L ROME 001290
NOFORN
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/24/2018
TAGS: PARM MNUC UNGA IT
SUBJECT: ITALY TO VOTE YES ON UNGA DEALERTING RESOLUTION
REF: STATE 111744
Classified By: Political Minister-Counselor Barbara A. Leaf for Reasons
1.4 (B) and (D)
1. (C/NF) Italian MFA Deputy Director General for Political
Cooperation Filippo Formica informed the DCM on October 23
that Italy would vote in favor of the UNGA First Committee
Resolution on Dealerting (Reftel). Separately, MFA Director
for Nonproliferation and Arms Control Emanuele Farruggia told
Poloff that Italy had not yet decided how to vote on the
Resolution on Depleted Uranium, but that a yes vote was
likely.
2. (C/NF) Farruggia (please protect) said that his office
shared the U.S. view of the Dealerting Resolution and had
pushed for an abstention, but that heavy lobbying by New
Zealand, Sweden and Switzerland had prevailed. He said that
the co-drafters had made every effort to make the language as
innocuous as possible in order to attract yes votes from NATO
members and had succeeded. He said that his office had
recommended against a yes vote on the Depleted Uranium
Resolution, but that he feared the final decision of the GOI
would be to vote in favor, as it did last year. POLOFF
stressed that the U.S. remains firmly opposed to both
resolutions.
DIBBLE
NOFORN
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/24/2018
TAGS: PARM MNUC UNGA IT
SUBJECT: ITALY TO VOTE YES ON UNGA DEALERTING RESOLUTION
REF: STATE 111744
Classified By: Political Minister-Counselor Barbara A. Leaf for Reasons
1.4 (B) and (D)
1. (C/NF) Italian MFA Deputy Director General for Political
Cooperation Filippo Formica informed the DCM on October 23
that Italy would vote in favor of the UNGA First Committee
Resolution on Dealerting (Reftel). Separately, MFA Director
for Nonproliferation and Arms Control Emanuele Farruggia told
Poloff that Italy had not yet decided how to vote on the
Resolution on Depleted Uranium, but that a yes vote was
likely.
2. (C/NF) Farruggia (please protect) said that his office
shared the U.S. view of the Dealerting Resolution and had
pushed for an abstention, but that heavy lobbying by New
Zealand, Sweden and Switzerland had prevailed. He said that
the co-drafters had made every effort to make the language as
innocuous as possible in order to attract yes votes from NATO
members and had succeeded. He said that his office had
recommended against a yes vote on the Depleted Uranium
Resolution, but that he feared the final decision of the GOI
would be to vote in favor, as it did last year. POLOFF
stressed that the U.S. remains firmly opposed to both
resolutions.
DIBBLE