Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09DAMASCUS282
2009-04-16 11:58:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Damascus
Cable title:
RE: DEMARCHE REQUEST - HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
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UNCLAS DAMASCUS 000282
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR NEA/ELA, IO/RHS, DRL/MLGA
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PHUM PREL UN SY
SUBJECT: RE: DEMARCHE REQUEST - HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
REF: STATE 36629
UNCLAS DAMASCUS 000282
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR NEA/ELA, IO/RHS, DRL/MLGA
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PHUM PREL UN SY
SUBJECT: RE: DEMARCHE REQUEST - HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
REF: STATE 36629
1. (SBU) Charge d'Affaires delivered the diplomatic note
contained in reftel to Vice Foreign Minister Faisal Miqdad on
April 15. Miqdad harkened back to his tenure at the Syrian
Mission to the UN in New York and recalled that Syria had
vowed its support for the U.S. candidacy to the now-defunct
UN Commission on Human Rights. After the vote, Miqdad, said,
he had been asked if Syria had indeed supported the
ultimately unsuccessful U.S. candidacy; he recalled his
reply: "When Syria gives its word it keeps it." Obviously
intrigued by the news the U.S. was seeking a seat on the
Human Rights Council, Miqdad told the Charge that the Syrian
government would "seriously look into the issue with great
interest."
CONNELLY
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR NEA/ELA, IO/RHS, DRL/MLGA
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PHUM PREL UN SY
SUBJECT: RE: DEMARCHE REQUEST - HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
REF: STATE 36629
1. (SBU) Charge d'Affaires delivered the diplomatic note
contained in reftel to Vice Foreign Minister Faisal Miqdad on
April 15. Miqdad harkened back to his tenure at the Syrian
Mission to the UN in New York and recalled that Syria had
vowed its support for the U.S. candidacy to the now-defunct
UN Commission on Human Rights. After the vote, Miqdad, said,
he had been asked if Syria had indeed supported the
ultimately unsuccessful U.S. candidacy; he recalled his
reply: "When Syria gives its word it keeps it." Obviously
intrigued by the news the U.S. was seeking a seat on the
Human Rights Council, Miqdad told the Charge that the Syrian
government would "seriously look into the issue with great
interest."
CONNELLY