GUIDANCE: CSW RESOLUTION ON PALESTINIAN WOMEN

UNCLAS STATE 024506 SENSITIVE SIPDIS E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PREL UN IS KPAL KWMN SUBJECT: GUIDANCE: CSW RESOLUTION ON PALESTINIAN WOMEN ¶1. (SBU) USUN should call for a vote and vote against the resolution before the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) on the "Situation of and Assistance to Palestinian Women." ¶2. (SBU) Mission is authorized to draw on previously cleared Departmental press guidance and Mission's Explanation of Vote (EOV) on the resolution on this topic presented at the 2008 CSW session in presenting an EOV this year. In presenting an EOV, Mission should prominently note that the universalist values of the CSW render it inappropriate for it to single out, for narrow political reasons, the circumstances of one population of women, when many other populations of women around the world also face unique and challenging circumstances. CLINTON