Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
08ROME748
2008-06-12 12:46:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Rome
Cable title:
ITALY SUPPORTIVE OF SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING ON
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C O N F I D E N T I A L ROME 000748
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR IO/UNP REBECCA GOLDENBERG
E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/12/2018
TAGS: PHUM PREL UNSC ZI IT
SUBJECT: ITALY SUPPORTIVE OF SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING ON
ZIMBABWE
REF: STATE 63183
Classified By: A/DepPolCouns Gabriel Escobar, for reasons 1.4 (b) and (
d).
(C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA UN Affairs Desk
Officer Leonardo Bencini June 12, requesting Italian support
for a meeting of the UN Security Council to discuss the
political and humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe before the
June 27 presidential run-off election. Bencini said we could
expect Italy to join other Western nations in voting in favor
of a UNSC meeting on Zimbabwe.
SPOGLI