Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09JAKARTA1913
2009-11-19 08:58:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Jakarta
Cable title:
OPPOSING UNGA RESOLUTIONS WITH AN ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS
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C O N F I D E N T I A L JAKARTA 001913
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR EAP, EAP/MTS, EAP/MLS, EAP/RSP, IO, IO/UNP (ANDREW
MORRISON)
E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/19/2019
TAGS: PREL PGOV ID IS
SUBJECT: OPPOSING UNGA RESOLUTIONS WITH AN ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS
REF: STATE 118799
Classified By: Pol/C Joseph L. Novak, reasons 1.4(b+d).
C O N F I D E N T I A L JAKARTA 001913
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR EAP, EAP/MTS, EAP/MLS, EAP/RSP, IO, IO/UNP (ANDREW
MORRISON)
E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/19/2019
TAGS: PREL PGOV ID IS
SUBJECT: OPPOSING UNGA RESOLUTIONS WITH AN ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS
REF: STATE 118799
Classified By: Pol/C Joseph L. Novak, reasons 1.4(b+d).
1. (C) SUMMARY: Mission has reviewed points re upcoming
Israel-related UNGA resolution with Presidential Palace and
Department of Foreign Affairs contacts. We underscored the
overall unbalanced number of UNGA resolutions explicitly
critical of Israel and urged the overall reduction of
one-sided UNGA resolutions. Accordingly, we urged the GOI to
either vote "No" or "Abstain" on three upcoming resolutions.
Our contacts took the USG points on board. END SUMMARY.
2. (C) Per Reftel, Mission on November 19 urged the
government of Indonesia to vote either "No" or "Abstain" in
the proposed reaffirmation of the following three UNGA items
containing an anti-Israel slant:
-- 1) resolution on the "Committee on the Exercise of the
Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People";
-- 2) resolution on the "Division for Palestinian Rights
within the UN Secretariat"; and,
-- 3) resolution on the "Special Committee to Investigate
Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the
Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied
Territories."
Pol/C reviewed the points with Astari Daenuwy, an
international affairs assistant at the President Palace, and
poloff reviewed the points with Cicilia Rusdiharini of the
Americas Desk at the Department of Foreign Affairs.
3. (C) More generally, we also underscored the overall
number of one-sided UNGA resolutions on the Middle East,
noting 21 resolutions out of 311 adopted last year focused on
explicit criticism of Israel and/or support for the
Palestinian people with a criticism of Israeli actions
implied. We also stressed our continued opposition to full
and undifferentiated General Assembly endorsement of the
recommendations of the Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza
Conflict (aka the "Goldstone report").
4. (U) The GOI took our points on board, and said it would
pass them to its offices in New York and Geneva.
HUME
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR EAP, EAP/MTS, EAP/MLS, EAP/RSP, IO, IO/UNP (ANDREW
MORRISON)
E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/19/2019
TAGS: PREL PGOV ID IS
SUBJECT: OPPOSING UNGA RESOLUTIONS WITH AN ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS
REF: STATE 118799
Classified By: Pol/C Joseph L. Novak, reasons 1.4(b+d).
1. (C) SUMMARY: Mission has reviewed points re upcoming
Israel-related UNGA resolution with Presidential Palace and
Department of Foreign Affairs contacts. We underscored the
overall unbalanced number of UNGA resolutions explicitly
critical of Israel and urged the overall reduction of
one-sided UNGA resolutions. Accordingly, we urged the GOI to
either vote "No" or "Abstain" on three upcoming resolutions.
Our contacts took the USG points on board. END SUMMARY.
2. (C) Per Reftel, Mission on November 19 urged the
government of Indonesia to vote either "No" or "Abstain" in
the proposed reaffirmation of the following three UNGA items
containing an anti-Israel slant:
-- 1) resolution on the "Committee on the Exercise of the
Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People";
-- 2) resolution on the "Division for Palestinian Rights
within the UN Secretariat"; and,
-- 3) resolution on the "Special Committee to Investigate
Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the
Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied
Territories."
Pol/C reviewed the points with Astari Daenuwy, an
international affairs assistant at the President Palace, and
poloff reviewed the points with Cicilia Rusdiharini of the
Americas Desk at the Department of Foreign Affairs.
3. (C) More generally, we also underscored the overall
number of one-sided UNGA resolutions on the Middle East,
noting 21 resolutions out of 311 adopted last year focused on
explicit criticism of Israel and/or support for the
Palestinian people with a criticism of Israeli actions
implied. We also stressed our continued opposition to full
and undifferentiated General Assembly endorsement of the
recommendations of the Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza
Conflict (aka the "Goldstone report").
4. (U) The GOI took our points on board, and said it would
pass them to its offices in New York and Geneva.
HUME