Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
08ROME602
2008-05-12 14:46:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Rome
Cable title:
ITALIANS CAUTIOUS ABOUT FRENCH UNSCR ON BURMA
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C O N F I D E N T I A L ROME 000602
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR IO/UNP PAUL WICKBERG AND EAP/MLS AARON COPE
USUN FOR JEFF RENEAU
E.O. 12958: DECL: 05/12/2018
TAGS: PREL PHUM UNSC BM IT
SUBJECT: ITALIANS CAUTIOUS ABOUT FRENCH UNSCR ON BURMA
REF: STATE 49813
Classified By: A/DepPolCouns Gabriel Escobar, for reasons 1.4 (b) and (
d).
(C) POLOFF delivered reftel demarche to Italian MFA Southeast
Asia Office Director Alberto Vecchi and UN Office Director
Natalia Quintavalle on May 12. Vecchi said Italy fully
agreed that the humanitarian situation in Burma was dire and
that the junta needed to do much more to allow access by
relief workers. Quintavalle was pessimistic, however, about
the utility of introducing the French draft UNSCR, given that
it seemed almost certain to be entirely unacceptable to both
Russia and China. Presenting a resolution that creates more
division in the Council, or falls to a veto, would be worse
than no Council action at all, she feared. Vecchi thought it
might be more effective to simply use the threat of a
resolution to press the junta to ease humanitarian access.
Nevertheless, both assured us that if it came before the
Council, Italy would support the French draft UNSCR.
SPOGLI
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR IO/UNP PAUL WICKBERG AND EAP/MLS AARON COPE
USUN FOR JEFF RENEAU
E.O. 12958: DECL: 05/12/2018
TAGS: PREL PHUM UNSC BM IT
SUBJECT: ITALIANS CAUTIOUS ABOUT FRENCH UNSCR ON BURMA
REF: STATE 49813
Classified By: A/DepPolCouns Gabriel Escobar, for reasons 1.4 (b) and (
d).
(C) POLOFF delivered reftel demarche to Italian MFA Southeast
Asia Office Director Alberto Vecchi and UN Office Director
Natalia Quintavalle on May 12. Vecchi said Italy fully
agreed that the humanitarian situation in Burma was dire and
that the junta needed to do much more to allow access by
relief workers. Quintavalle was pessimistic, however, about
the utility of introducing the French draft UNSCR, given that
it seemed almost certain to be entirely unacceptable to both
Russia and China. Presenting a resolution that creates more
division in the Council, or falls to a veto, would be worse
than no Council action at all, she feared. Vecchi thought it
might be more effective to simply use the threat of a
resolution to press the junta to ease humanitarian access.
Nevertheless, both assured us that if it came before the
Council, Italy would support the French draft UNSCR.
SPOGLI