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10WARSAW113 | 2010-02-22 18:25:00 | CONFIDENTIAL | Embassy Warsaw |
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SIPDIS DEPT FOR IO (MUSSER) AND EUR/CE (GLANTZ) E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/22/2020 TAGS: PHUM PREL UNGA IO PL SUBJECT: POLAND TO CONSIDER NEGATIVE VOTE ON GOLDSTONE REPORT REF: STATE 15722 Classified By: POL - Craig Conway for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). (C) Warsaw shares U.S. views concerning the Palestinian-drafted resolution on the Goldstone Report (reftel) and will continue to lobby accordingly within the EU group at the UN. MFA Political Director Witold Sobkow told us that even though the Goldstone Report was not on the formal agenda of the February 22 EU Foreign Ministers' meeting, Poland would continue efforts to persuade fellow Member States to vote against the resolution. Separately, Josef Osas, Minister-Counselor in the MFA's Africa and Middle East Department declined to predict how Poland would ultimately vote, but he pointedly noted that Warsaw had voted with the United States on the November 5 resolution -- one of only a handful of EU members to do so. He further observed that the EU remained divided on the issue. FEINSTEIN |