MEXICO ON COUNTRY-SPECIFIC RESOLUTIONS AT THE UNGA

UNCLAS MEXICO 003250 SENSITIVE SIPDIS STATE FOR IO/RHS AND DRL/MLGA E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PREL PGOV PHUM UN MX SUBJECT: MEXICO ON COUNTRY-SPECIFIC RESOLUTIONS AT THE UNGA REF: A. STATE 116264 ¶B. MEXICO 03100 (SBU) Poloff conveyed ref. A points November 13 to Juan Jose Gonzalez Mijares, Deputy Director of International Politics on Human Rights at the Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE). Gonzalez appreciated our gratitude for Mexico's opposition to no-action motions as a matter of principle and previous support for the underlying human rights resolutions on Iran, Burma and DPRK (ref B). While reiterating that the Government of Mexico (GOM) as a matter of protocol does not indicate how it will vote beforehand, he said that Mexico is likely to vote in favor of the resolutions as their texts are similar to those of previous years. He added that the GOM would consider advocating these positions with its Latin American counterparts for the upcoming votes in the UN General Assembly to the extent that doing so would be consistent with its own interests. Visit Mexico City's Classified Web Site at http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/wha/mexicocity and the North American Partnership Blog at http://www.intelink.gov/communities/state/nap / PASCUAL