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08ROME261
2008-03-03 16:06:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Rome
Cable title:
ITALY ON UNHRC DRAFT CLIMATE CHANGE RESOLUTION:
how-toVZCZCXYZ0426 RR RUEHWEB DE RUEHRO #0261 0631606 ZNR UUUUU ZZH R 031606Z MAR 08 FM AMEMBASSY ROME TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 9921 INFO RUEHBS/USEU BRUSSELS 4610 RUEHLJ/AMEMBASSY LJUBLJANA 0544 RUEHGV/USMISSION GENEVA 6379
UNCLAS ROME 000261
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E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PHUM KGHG PGOV PREL UNHRC MV IT
SUBJECT: ITALY ON UNHRC DRAFT CLIMATE CHANGE RESOLUTION:
POSITION WILL BE DECIDED AT EU LEVEL
REF: STATE 19889
(SBU) SCICOUNS delivered reftel demarche on February 28 to
the MFA Environment and Sustainable Development Director,
Counselor Giovanna Piccarreta. Piccarreta said that the
GOI sympathizes with the U.S. view that climate change and
human rights are discreet issues that should be dealt with
separately. However, she cautioned, this is an issue on
which the European Union is establishing a common position,
and thus she could not say what the GOI position would be,
since Italy will defer to the EU consensus on it. She
recommended that the USG approach the Slovenian EU
Presidency on the issue, in addition to the usual
coordination that takes place among the missions to the
United Nations entities in Geneva.
SPOGLI