VZCZCXYZ0009
PP RUEHWEB
DE RUEHFR #7887 3551715
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 211715Z DEC 06
FM AMEMBASSY PARIS
TO RUEHPU/AMEMBASSY PORT AU PRINCE PRIORITY 0706
RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 3918
UNCLAS PARIS 007887
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: FR PREF CU HA SOCI
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE DELIVERED: FRANCE DECLINES REQUEST TO
RESETTLE PROTECTED MIGRANTS FROM CUBA AND HAITI
REF: A. A. SECSTATE 193573
B. B. PARIS 7478
C. C. STATE 181903
1. (SBU) Poloff delivered answers to follow-up questions
from reftel A. on Cuban and Haitian protected migrants (see
also reftels B. and C.) on December 8 to Pierre Brethes, MFA
officer in the Office of Asylum and Immigration. Brethes
responded that illegal immigration to France from its
overseas departments in the western hemisphere was already a
significant issue and that the GOF did not wish to
participate at this time in resettling protected migrants
from the Guantanamo Bay Migrant Operations Center.
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http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/eur/paris/index.c fm
HOFMANN