Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09RIGA540
2009-11-04 13:44:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Riga
Cable title:
LATVIA LIKELY TO ABSTAIN ON GOLDSTONE VOTE
how-toVZCZCXRO8712 RR RUEHIK DE RUEHRA #0540 3081344 ZNR UUUUU ZZH R 041344Z NOV 09 FM AMEMBASSY RIGA TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 6125 INFO RUEHZL/EUROPEAN POLITICAL COLLECTIVE RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK 0115 RUEHTV/AMEMBASSY TEL AVIV 0269 RUEHJM/AMCONSUL JERUSALEM 0024
UNCLAS RIGA 000540
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR IO/HR, PAUL KRUCHOWSKI, IO/UNP, ANDREW
MORRISON, NEA/IPA, JEFFREY GIAUQUE, EUR/CE JAMIE MOORE, AND
USUN NEW YORK, ELLEN GERMAIN.
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL PHUM PTER KPAL LG
SUBJECT: LATVIA LIKELY TO ABSTAIN ON GOLDSTONE VOTE
REF: STATE 112828
(SBU) PolOff delivered reftel demarche to Inese Freimane-Deksne,
head of the Human Rights Section of the MFA International
Organizations Department, on November 4. Freimane-Deksne indicated
that discussions were still ongoing on a possible EU consensus
position. If a consensus did not emerge, she reported that Latvia
is "likely" to abstain in any vote on the Goldstone Report. She
expressed support for many of our points, but was unwilling to
commit to more than an abstention.
GARBER