Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09BUDAPEST835
2009-11-20 14:48:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Budapest
Cable title:
HUNGARY RESPONSE: UNGA RESOLUTIONS WITH
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C O N F I D E N T I A L BUDAPEST 000835
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR IO/UNP ANDREW MORRISON AND EUR/CE JAMIE MOORE
E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/20/2019
TAGS: KPAL PREL UNGA HU
SUBJECT: HUNGARY RESPONSE: UNGA RESOLUTIONS WITH
ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS
REF: SECSTATE 118799
Classified By: PolOff Ryan Leong, DoS Reason(s): 1.4 (b),(d)
(C) PolOff passed ref talking points and list of 63rd UNGA
resolutions explicitly critical of Israel to Bernadett Kollar
of the GoH MFA's Human Rights and International Organizations
Department on November 18. Kollar was unavailable for a
response until November 20, when another colleague in her
department, Anna Miklos, confirmed Hungary's awareness of ref
U.S. positions. Miklos advised that Hungary intended to
essentially follow EU consensus on these resolutions and did
so during voting on 19 November. She also noted that Hungary
abstained during voting on the resolution entitled "Work of
the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices
Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and
Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories." Miklos had no
further information from the Hungarian Mission to the UN at
this time but did not expect Hungary to depart from
mainstream EU voting practices on this issue.
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