Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09OTTAWA821
2009-11-03 21:11:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Ottawa
Cable title:
Canada to vote against UNGA Goldstone Report motion
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C O N F I D E N T I A L OTTAWA 000821
SIPDIS
STATE FOR IO/HR, PAUL KRUCHOWSKI
IO/UNP, ANDREW MORRISON
AND
NEA/IPA, JEFFREY GIAUQUE
USUN NEW YORK FOR ELLEN GERMAIN
AMEMBASSY THE HAGUE PASS TO AMCONSUL AMSTERDAM
E.O. 12958: DECL: 2019/11/03
TAGS: PREL PHUM PTER KPAL UN IS CA
SUBJECT: Canada to vote against UNGA Goldstone Report motion
REF: STATE 112828; OTTAWA 790
CLASSIFIED BY: Scott Bellard, Minister Counselor for Political
Affairs, State, POL; REASON: 1.4(B),(D)
C O N F I D E N T I A L OTTAWA 000821
SIPDIS
STATE FOR IO/HR, PAUL KRUCHOWSKI
IO/UNP, ANDREW MORRISON
AND
NEA/IPA, JEFFREY GIAUQUE
USUN NEW YORK FOR ELLEN GERMAIN
AMEMBASSY THE HAGUE PASS TO AMCONSUL AMSTERDAM
E.O. 12958: DECL: 2019/11/03
TAGS: PREL PHUM PTER KPAL UN IS CA
SUBJECT: Canada to vote against UNGA Goldstone Report motion
REF: STATE 112828; OTTAWA 790
CLASSIFIED BY: Scott Bellard, Minister Counselor for Political
Affairs, State, POL; REASON: 1.4(B),(D)
1. (C) Canada "will vote against" the Goldstone Report resolution
during the November 4 UN General Assembly discussion and shares
U.S. concerns against transmitting the matter to the Security
Council or to the International Criminal Court, according to Greg
Lemermeyer, Deputy Director of the Israel/West Bank and Gaza office
at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
(DFAIT). DFAIT will likely send the final voting instructions to
Canada's Permanent Mission to the UN by COB on November 3. In
response to poloff's question about Canada's silence during the
October 14 UNGA debate on the Report (ref b),Lemermeyer explained
that Canada had not felt it could "add anything to the discussion"
and that Canada had wished to keep a "low profile" on the issue at
that time.
JACOBSON
SIPDIS
STATE FOR IO/HR, PAUL KRUCHOWSKI
IO/UNP, ANDREW MORRISON
AND
NEA/IPA, JEFFREY GIAUQUE
USUN NEW YORK FOR ELLEN GERMAIN
AMEMBASSY THE HAGUE PASS TO AMCONSUL AMSTERDAM
E.O. 12958: DECL: 2019/11/03
TAGS: PREL PHUM PTER KPAL UN IS CA
SUBJECT: Canada to vote against UNGA Goldstone Report motion
REF: STATE 112828; OTTAWA 790
CLASSIFIED BY: Scott Bellard, Minister Counselor for Political
Affairs, State, POL; REASON: 1.4(B),(D)
1. (C) Canada "will vote against" the Goldstone Report resolution
during the November 4 UN General Assembly discussion and shares
U.S. concerns against transmitting the matter to the Security
Council or to the International Criminal Court, according to Greg
Lemermeyer, Deputy Director of the Israel/West Bank and Gaza office
at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
(DFAIT). DFAIT will likely send the final voting instructions to
Canada's Permanent Mission to the UN by COB on November 3. In
response to poloff's question about Canada's silence during the
October 14 UNGA debate on the Report (ref b),Lemermeyer explained
that Canada had not felt it could "add anything to the discussion"
and that Canada had wished to keep a "low profile" on the issue at
that time.
JACOBSON