Cablegate: Spain: Nam Resolutions On Lebanese Children

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E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: UNGA LE IS PHUM PREL PTER SP
SUBJECT: SPAIN: NAM RESOLUTIONS ON LEBANESE CHILDREN
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REF: STATE 176793

(SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Cecilia Robles
Cortes, MFA Director for Human Rights in International
Organizations on October 25. Robles told Emboff that Spain
agrees that the two NAM resolutions on the human rights of
children in Lebanon are not balanced. She said that Spain is
following the EU position of seeking to have the resolutions
withdrawn on technical grounds. If this proves impossible,
she said that Spain would enter into negotiations to improve
the texts.

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