Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09KINGSTON904
2009-10-27 19:52:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Kingston
Cable title:
JAMAICA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON 64TH UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
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UNCLAS KINGSTON 000904
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
STATE FOR WHA/CAR (JMACK-WILSON) (BALVARADO) (VDEPIRRO) (WSMITH)
L/LEI (CHOLLAND) (AKLUESNER)
INR/IAA (GBOHIGAN)
JUSTICE FOR OIA (PPETTY)
TREASURY FOR ERIN NEPHEW
INR/RES (RWARNER)
CENTRAL AMERICAN CARIBBEAN BASIN COLLECTIVE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PHUM HURI PREL KOCI KWMN KISL ISCON UN UNGA UNGA
JM, XL, BM, IR, KN
SUBJECT: JAMAICA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON 64TH UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
THIRD COMMITTEE, 2009 - PRIORITIES
REF: STATE 108921
UNCLAS KINGSTON 000904
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
STATE FOR WHA/CAR (JMACK-WILSON) (BALVARADO) (VDEPIRRO) (WSMITH)
L/LEI (CHOLLAND) (AKLUESNER)
INR/IAA (GBOHIGAN)
JUSTICE FOR OIA (PPETTY)
TREASURY FOR ERIN NEPHEW
INR/RES (RWARNER)
CENTRAL AMERICAN CARIBBEAN BASIN COLLECTIVE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PHUM HURI PREL KOCI KWMN KISL ISCON UN UNGA UNGA
JM, XL, BM, IR, KN
SUBJECT: JAMAICA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON 64TH UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
THIRD COMMITTEE, 2009 - PRIORITIES
REF: STATE 108921
1. (U) Per reftel, EmbOff delivered demarche to solicit cooperation
and support for USG priorities at the 64th UN General Assembly
(UNGA),Third Committee, and to seek the Government of Jamaica
(GOJ)'s insights on other resolutions. Demarche was delivered to
Ms. Norma Taylor Roberts, Director of the International
Organizations Department of the GOJ's Ministry of Foreign Affairs
and Foreign Trade on the afternoon of October 26.
2. (U) Ms. Roberts stated that GOJ's priorities for this year's
Third Committee would include resolutions on the Rights of the
Child, HIV/AIDS, crime, and the drug trade. Emboff presented USG
positions on no-action motions, Iran, Burma, and North Korea; Ms.
Roberts was noncommittal, suggesting that the GOJ's new Permanent
Secretary to the UNGA, Evadne Coye, would have to consider those
issues. Ms. Roberts intimated that the GOJ would be supportive of
the USG resolution on free elections and welcomed the news that the
USG was interested in negotiating language so as to be able to
finally ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
3. (U) Regarding the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC)'s
Defamation of Religion resolution, Ms. Roberts confided that, while
the GOJ shares many of the USG's concerns, the GOJ has abstained on
the motion in the past in the interest of maintaining relations
with the Islamic world. Ms. Roberts suggested that it was unlikely
that the GOJ would vote against the resolution in the current
session, but left open the possibility that it might abstain once
again. Emboff and Ms. Roberts agreed that the resolution on Human
Rights and Cultural Diversity might be a more appropriate mechanism
for addressing the concerns of the Muslim world regarding such
issues.
Parnell
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
STATE FOR WHA/CAR (JMACK-WILSON) (BALVARADO) (VDEPIRRO) (WSMITH)
L/LEI (CHOLLAND) (AKLUESNER)
INR/IAA (GBOHIGAN)
JUSTICE FOR OIA (PPETTY)
TREASURY FOR ERIN NEPHEW
INR/RES (RWARNER)
CENTRAL AMERICAN CARIBBEAN BASIN COLLECTIVE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PHUM HURI PREL KOCI KWMN KISL ISCON UN UNGA UNGA
JM, XL, BM, IR, KN
SUBJECT: JAMAICA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON 64TH UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
THIRD COMMITTEE, 2009 - PRIORITIES
REF: STATE 108921
1. (U) Per reftel, EmbOff delivered demarche to solicit cooperation
and support for USG priorities at the 64th UN General Assembly
(UNGA),Third Committee, and to seek the Government of Jamaica
(GOJ)'s insights on other resolutions. Demarche was delivered to
Ms. Norma Taylor Roberts, Director of the International
Organizations Department of the GOJ's Ministry of Foreign Affairs
and Foreign Trade on the afternoon of October 26.
2. (U) Ms. Roberts stated that GOJ's priorities for this year's
Third Committee would include resolutions on the Rights of the
Child, HIV/AIDS, crime, and the drug trade. Emboff presented USG
positions on no-action motions, Iran, Burma, and North Korea; Ms.
Roberts was noncommittal, suggesting that the GOJ's new Permanent
Secretary to the UNGA, Evadne Coye, would have to consider those
issues. Ms. Roberts intimated that the GOJ would be supportive of
the USG resolution on free elections and welcomed the news that the
USG was interested in negotiating language so as to be able to
finally ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
3. (U) Regarding the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC)'s
Defamation of Religion resolution, Ms. Roberts confided that, while
the GOJ shares many of the USG's concerns, the GOJ has abstained on
the motion in the past in the interest of maintaining relations
with the Islamic world. Ms. Roberts suggested that it was unlikely
that the GOJ would vote against the resolution in the current
session, but left open the possibility that it might abstain once
again. Emboff and Ms. Roberts agreed that the resolution on Human
Rights and Cultural Diversity might be a more appropriate mechanism
for addressing the concerns of the Muslim world regarding such
issues.
Parnell