Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09MEXICO870
2009-03-24 22:26:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Mexico
Cable title:
MEXICO ON THE "DEFAMATION OF RELIGION" RESOLUTION
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UNCLAS MEXICO 000870
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
STATE FOR DRL/MLGA (YETKEN) AND IO/RHS (OSTERMEIER)
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PHUM PREL MX
SUBJECT: MEXICO ON THE "DEFAMATION OF RELIGION" RESOLUTION
AT THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
REF: STATE 27376
(SBU) Poloff stressed with Armando Vivanco Castellanos, the
Foreign Ministry's Deputy Director General for Human Rights
and Democracy, March 24 the importance the U.S. attached to
Mexico's voting against the "Defamation of Religion"
resolution in the upcoming vote at the UN Human Rights
Council in Geneva. Recalling that Mexico abstained on a
similar resolution last year, Vivanco agreed with the concept
of not conferring to religions rights that are reserved for
individuals and told Poloff that the Government of Mexico was
reviewing its stance on the subject.
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 /
BASSETT
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
STATE FOR DRL/MLGA (YETKEN) AND IO/RHS (OSTERMEIER)
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PHUM PREL MX
SUBJECT: MEXICO ON THE "DEFAMATION OF RELIGION" RESOLUTION
AT THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
REF: STATE 27376
(SBU) Poloff stressed with Armando Vivanco Castellanos, the
Foreign Ministry's Deputy Director General for Human Rights
and Democracy, March 24 the importance the U.S. attached to
Mexico's voting against the "Defamation of Religion"
resolution in the upcoming vote at the UN Human Rights
Council in Geneva. Recalling that Mexico abstained on a
similar resolution last year, Vivanco agreed with the concept
of not conferring to religions rights that are reserved for
individuals and told Poloff that the Government of Mexico was
reviewing its stance on the subject.
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 /
BASSETT