Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
08TOKYO708
2008-03-17 08:19:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Tokyo
Cable title:
JAPAN UNAMBIGUOUSLY SUPPORTS COUNTRY-SPECIFIC
how-toVZCZCXYZ0005 PP RUEHWEB DE RUEHKO #0708 0770819 ZNY CCCCC ZZH P 170819Z MAR 08 FM AMEMBASSY TOKYO TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 2600 INFO RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK PRIORITY 8862 RUEHGV/USMISSION GENEVA PRIORITY 3266
C O N F I D E N T I A L TOKYO 000708
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
FOR DRL/MLGA - GIANNA PAZ
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/16/2018
TAGS: PHUM PGOV PREL
SUBJECT: JAPAN UNAMBIGUOUSLY SUPPORTS COUNTRY-SPECIFIC
MANDATES
REF: STATE 27281
Classified By: Ambassador J. Thomas Schieffer for reasons 1.4 (b) and (
d).
MOFA Human Rights Division Principal Deputy Director Takako
Ito was surprised to receive reftel demarche, noting that
Japanese Ambassador Fujisaki made a statement during the
March 14 meeting of the Human Rights Council specifically
supporting the country-specific mandates. Japan has delivered
demarches in support of the mandates in the capitals of all
the countries that expressed opposition on March 14, and has
begun calling representatives from those countries' embassies
in Tokyo in to MOFA to convey the same message, Ito added.
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