Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09MOSCOW2108
2009-08-18 14:17:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Moscow
Cable title:
RUSSIAN CALLS FOR DIALOGUE, NOT PRESSURE AT
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C O N F I D E N T I A L MOSCOW 002108
SIPDIS
FOR EUR/RUS AND DRL
E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/18/2019
TAGS: PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR OSCE RS
SUBJECT: RUSSIAN CALLS FOR DIALOGUE, NOT PRESSURE AT
UPCOMING OSCE HUMAN DIMENSION MEETING
REF: STATE 78227
Classified By: Acting Political Minister Counselor David Kostelancik; r
eason 1.4 (b) and (d)
C O N F I D E N T I A L MOSCOW 002108
SIPDIS
FOR EUR/RUS AND DRL
E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/18/2019
TAGS: PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR OSCE RS
SUBJECT: RUSSIAN CALLS FOR DIALOGUE, NOT PRESSURE AT
UPCOMING OSCE HUMAN DIMENSION MEETING
REF: STATE 78227
Classified By: Acting Political Minister Counselor David Kostelancik; r
eason 1.4 (b) and (d)
1. (C) Per reftel request, we delivered USG views on
Russia's human rights and democracy performance to Tatyana
Sulitskaya, Head of the European Division of the Department
for Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights. Sulitskaya
called for a real dialogue on human rights at the upcoming
OSCE Human Dimension Meeting (HIDM) to be held in Warsaw
September 28 through October 8 in the spirit of the new
relationship between the United States and the Russian
Federation exemplified by the July 2009 visit to Moscow by
President Obama.
2. (C) Sulitskaya warned that, while the U.S. was free to
use its time at the HIDM as it saw fit, using human rights
concerns as a "tool of pressure" would create an immediate
negative reaction from the Russian delegation and would not
create the dialogue on the subject that is necessary for real
progress on these important issues. She added that in the
"rare instances" in which there has been progress on human
rights, such as increasing religious freedom, it was made
possible when the two countries had engaged in a constructive
dialogue on the subject. She cited the cooperation between
the U.S. and Russian delegations at a recent OSCE conference
in Vienna on religious freedom. Sulitskaya had no
substantive response to any of the specific points in reftel
demarche.
3. (SBU) Sulitskaya confirmed that the Russian delegation to
the HIDM would be led by Oleg Mal'ginov, Director of the
MFA's Department for Humanitarian Cooperation and Human
Rights, although she noted that he would only be physically
present in Warsaw for three or four days during the HIDM. In
Mal'ginov's absence, the Russian delegation will be led by
either Mal'ginov's deputy Andrey Nikiforov or Russia's
Permanent Ambassador to the OSCE Anvar Asimov.
RUBIN
SIPDIS
FOR EUR/RUS AND DRL
E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/18/2019
TAGS: PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR OSCE RS
SUBJECT: RUSSIAN CALLS FOR DIALOGUE, NOT PRESSURE AT
UPCOMING OSCE HUMAN DIMENSION MEETING
REF: STATE 78227
Classified By: Acting Political Minister Counselor David Kostelancik; r
eason 1.4 (b) and (d)
1. (C) Per reftel request, we delivered USG views on
Russia's human rights and democracy performance to Tatyana
Sulitskaya, Head of the European Division of the Department
for Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights. Sulitskaya
called for a real dialogue on human rights at the upcoming
OSCE Human Dimension Meeting (HIDM) to be held in Warsaw
September 28 through October 8 in the spirit of the new
relationship between the United States and the Russian
Federation exemplified by the July 2009 visit to Moscow by
President Obama.
2. (C) Sulitskaya warned that, while the U.S. was free to
use its time at the HIDM as it saw fit, using human rights
concerns as a "tool of pressure" would create an immediate
negative reaction from the Russian delegation and would not
create the dialogue on the subject that is necessary for real
progress on these important issues. She added that in the
"rare instances" in which there has been progress on human
rights, such as increasing religious freedom, it was made
possible when the two countries had engaged in a constructive
dialogue on the subject. She cited the cooperation between
the U.S. and Russian delegations at a recent OSCE conference
in Vienna on religious freedom. Sulitskaya had no
substantive response to any of the specific points in reftel
demarche.
3. (SBU) Sulitskaya confirmed that the Russian delegation to
the HIDM would be led by Oleg Mal'ginov, Director of the
MFA's Department for Humanitarian Cooperation and Human
Rights, although she noted that he would only be physically
present in Warsaw for three or four days during the HIDM. In
Mal'ginov's absence, the Russian delegation will be led by
either Mal'ginov's deputy Andrey Nikiforov or Russia's
Permanent Ambassador to the OSCE Anvar Asimov.
RUBIN