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