Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
08ROME995
2008-08-06 11:35:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Rome
Cable title:
ITALY: OSCE HUMAN DIMENSION MEETING DEMARCHE
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C O N F I D E N T I A L ROME 000995
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/06/2018
TAGS: OSCE PREL PHUM KDEM IT
SUBJECT: ITALY: OSCE HUMAN DIMENSION MEETING DEMARCHE
DELIVERED
REF: STATE 76294
Classified By: A/DepPolCouns Elisabeth Rosenstock-Siller for reasons
C O N F I D E N T I A L ROME 000995
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/06/2018
TAGS: OSCE PREL PHUM KDEM IT
SUBJECT: ITALY: OSCE HUMAN DIMENSION MEETING DEMARCHE
DELIVERED
REF: STATE 76294
Classified By: A/DepPolCouns Elisabeth Rosenstock-Siller for reasons 1.
4 (b) and (d).
(C) POLOFF delivered reftel demarche to MFA OSCE Office
Director Elena Basile August 5, sharing USG concerns about
discrimination against Italy's Roma and Sinti minority in the
lead-up to the fall OSCE Human Dimension Implementation
Meeting (HDIM) in Warsaw. Basile thanked us for sharing
these concerns in private before the HDIM, and said she would
relay them to the cabinet of FM Frattini. Basile said the
government has received criticism from EU institutions and
the Council of Europe over the ongoing "census" of camp
residents and recent violence targeting Roma and Sinti. She
also pointed out that an OSCE delegation recently visited
Italy on a fact-finding mission to survey Italian fulfillment
of OSCE commitments. The government has prepared a detailed
response to the various criticisms leveled against it, and
said she did not expect the GOI's position to change. Basile
questioned why this demarche was being delivered in Rome,
instead of at the Italian mission to the OSCE in Vienna,
which she thought was a more appropriate forum, given that it
concerns Italian commitments to a multilateral organization,
and not bilateral commitments between the United States and
Italy. She said a formal response would be forthcoming.
SPOGLI
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/06/2018
TAGS: OSCE PREL PHUM KDEM IT
SUBJECT: ITALY: OSCE HUMAN DIMENSION MEETING DEMARCHE
DELIVERED
REF: STATE 76294
Classified By: A/DepPolCouns Elisabeth Rosenstock-Siller for reasons 1.
4 (b) and (d).
(C) POLOFF delivered reftel demarche to MFA OSCE Office
Director Elena Basile August 5, sharing USG concerns about
discrimination against Italy's Roma and Sinti minority in the
lead-up to the fall OSCE Human Dimension Implementation
Meeting (HDIM) in Warsaw. Basile thanked us for sharing
these concerns in private before the HDIM, and said she would
relay them to the cabinet of FM Frattini. Basile said the
government has received criticism from EU institutions and
the Council of Europe over the ongoing "census" of camp
residents and recent violence targeting Roma and Sinti. She
also pointed out that an OSCE delegation recently visited
Italy on a fact-finding mission to survey Italian fulfillment
of OSCE commitments. The government has prepared a detailed
response to the various criticisms leveled against it, and
said she did not expect the GOI's position to change. Basile
questioned why this demarche was being delivered in Rome,
instead of at the Italian mission to the OSCE in Vienna,
which she thought was a more appropriate forum, given that it
concerns Italian commitments to a multilateral organization,
and not bilateral commitments between the United States and
Italy. She said a formal response would be forthcoming.
SPOGLI