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08STATE63968
2008-06-13 15:25:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Secretary of State
Cable title:
PRESS STATEMENT ON US-EU PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE
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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 STATE 063968
SIPDIS
CONSULATE FLORENCE FOR SAN MARINO
CONSULATE MARSEILLE FOR MONACO
CONSULATE BARCELONA FOR ANDORRA
CONSULATE PORT MORESBY FOR VANUATU
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: EUN PHUM PREL
SUBJECT: PRESS STATEMENT ON US-EU PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE
DECLARATION
REF: A. 2008 STATE 40380 B. 2008 STATE 38600 C. 2007 STATE 147620
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 STATE 063968
SIPDIS
CONSULATE FLORENCE FOR SAN MARINO
CONSULATE MARSEILLE FOR MONACO
CONSULATE BARCELONA FOR ANDORRA
CONSULATE PORT MORESBY FOR VANUATU
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: EUN PHUM PREL
SUBJECT: PRESS STATEMENT ON US-EU PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE
DECLARATION
REF: A. 2008 STATE 40380 B. 2008 STATE 38600 C. 2007 STATE 147620
1. (U) This is an action request. Please see para 2.
2. (U) Department requests action addressees to approach
respective Foreign Ministries to thank them for their support
for the prisoners of conscience declaration and provide a
courtesy copy of a draft press statement the USG plans to
issue June 17 through the Department Spokesman and the U.S.
Mission to the United Nations to highlight the release of
the declaration. Additionally, Embassies Canberra, Wellington
and Ljubljana should be thanked for the critical role they
played lobbying countries to support the declaration. If
appropriate, co-sponsors should be encouraged to issue
similar press statements for domestic audiences and through
their UN missions in New York. We have already approached the
EU to ask that they issue a statement, but EU member states
are urged to also issue statements on a bilateral basis.
3. (U) Following is the text of the draft press statement
on Prisoners of Conscience, which may be left as a non-paper.
## Draft Prisoners of Conscience Press Statement
The United States is pleased to join the 27 members of the
European Union and 36 other countries from all parts of the
world in co-sponsoring a declaration at the United Nations
on the plight of prisoners of conscience. The Prisoners of
Conscience Declaration, which was entered into the United
Nations record and circulated to all Member States on June 17,
calls on all nations to work for the freedom of prisoners of
conscience throughout the world in accordance with the
principles set forth sixty years ago in the Universal
Declaration on Human Rights. The declaration commits co-sponsor
nations to work for the freedom of all individuals who have
been imprisoned for peacefully exercising fundamental rights
to gather in public and to speak and publish opinions,
including opinions that are critical of governments, and to
make their release a key priority in their relations with other
states.
We stand in solidarity with the courageous individuals around
the globe who are imprisoned, often times in deplorable
conditions, for exercising these inalienable rights, and we
urge all United Nations Member States to work for the freedom
of these individuals.
End text.
REPORTING DEADLINE
- - - - - - - - -
7. (U) Posts are requested to use the SIPDIS caption and
report the results of this demarche by June 17, 2008. Please
forward individual country press statements on the prisoner
of conscience declaration to DRL/MLGA Danika Walters and
IO/RHS Rebecca Jovin on the unclassified system. Please
contact Walters x74659 and Jovin x73902 if you have any
questions.
RICE
SIPDIS
CONSULATE FLORENCE FOR SAN MARINO
CONSULATE MARSEILLE FOR MONACO
CONSULATE BARCELONA FOR ANDORRA
CONSULATE PORT MORESBY FOR VANUATU
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: EUN PHUM PREL
SUBJECT: PRESS STATEMENT ON US-EU PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE
DECLARATION
REF: A. 2008 STATE 40380 B. 2008 STATE 38600 C. 2007 STATE 147620
1. (U) This is an action request. Please see para 2.
2. (U) Department requests action addressees to approach
respective Foreign Ministries to thank them for their support
for the prisoners of conscience declaration and provide a
courtesy copy of a draft press statement the USG plans to
issue June 17 through the Department Spokesman and the U.S.
Mission to the United Nations to highlight the release of
the declaration. Additionally, Embassies Canberra, Wellington
and Ljubljana should be thanked for the critical role they
played lobbying countries to support the declaration. If
appropriate, co-sponsors should be encouraged to issue
similar press statements for domestic audiences and through
their UN missions in New York. We have already approached the
EU to ask that they issue a statement, but EU member states
are urged to also issue statements on a bilateral basis.
3. (U) Following is the text of the draft press statement
on Prisoners of Conscience, which may be left as a non-paper.
## Draft Prisoners of Conscience Press Statement
The United States is pleased to join the 27 members of the
European Union and 36 other countries from all parts of the
world in co-sponsoring a declaration at the United Nations
on the plight of prisoners of conscience. The Prisoners of
Conscience Declaration, which was entered into the United
Nations record and circulated to all Member States on June 17,
calls on all nations to work for the freedom of prisoners of
conscience throughout the world in accordance with the
principles set forth sixty years ago in the Universal
Declaration on Human Rights. The declaration commits co-sponsor
nations to work for the freedom of all individuals who have
been imprisoned for peacefully exercising fundamental rights
to gather in public and to speak and publish opinions,
including opinions that are critical of governments, and to
make their release a key priority in their relations with other
states.
We stand in solidarity with the courageous individuals around
the globe who are imprisoned, often times in deplorable
conditions, for exercising these inalienable rights, and we
urge all United Nations Member States to work for the freedom
of these individuals.
End text.
REPORTING DEADLINE
- - - - - - - - -
7. (U) Posts are requested to use the SIPDIS caption and
report the results of this demarche by June 17, 2008. Please
forward individual country press statements on the prisoner
of conscience declaration to DRL/MLGA Danika Walters and
IO/RHS Rebecca Jovin on the unclassified system. Please
contact Walters x74659 and Jovin x73902 if you have any
questions.
RICE