VZCZCXRO6151
OO RUEHHM
DE RUEHHI #1359 3500935
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
O 150935Z DEC 08
FM AMEMBASSY HANOI
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 8858
INFO RUEHHM/AMCONSUL HO CHI MINH PRIORITY 5386
RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK 0252
UNCLAS HANOI 001359
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
FOR NEA/IPA (KNOPF), IO/UNP (MORRISON), EAP/MLS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL UNSC PGOV PHSA KCRM SO XA XW VM
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNSC SOMALIA PIRACY RESOLUTION
REF: STATE 130496
(SBU) On December 15, the Ambassador delivered reftel points to Vice
Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh, urging Vietnam to support a new
UNSCR on Somali piracy at the UNSC Ministerial December 16. VFM
Minh acknowledged that robust action was necessary to combat piracy,
but said that Vietnam's UN Mission had reservations about operative
paragraph four, which it would relate directly in discussions in New
York. Before Vietnam comes to a position on the proposed new
resolution, it would weigh heavily the briefing from Somalia's
Foreign Minister on December 16.
MICHALAK