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Viewing cable 06GENEVA2161, SEPTEMBER 1 INFORMALS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL'S

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06GENEVA2161 2006-09-05 15:21 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED US Mission Geneva
VZCZCXRO1358
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DE RUEHGV #2161/01 2481521
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
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FM USMISSION GENEVA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 0902
RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK 1578
INFO RUEHZJ/HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL COLLECTIVE
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 GENEVA 002161 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR IO/RHS, DRL/MLA, L/HRR 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PHUM UNHRC
SUBJECT: SEPTEMBER 1 INFORMALS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL'S 
SECOND SESSION AND REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE 
 
GENEVA 00002161  001.2 OF 002 
 
 
Summary 
------- 
 
1.  Human Rights Council (HRC) President Luis Alfonso de Alba 
chaired informal consultations September 1 to discuss the 
upcoming HRC session (Sept. 18-Oct. 6), which is expected to 
deal with substantive matters deferred at the first session 
in June.  According to de Alba's draft timetable, each 
mandate holder would have one hour to report and participate 
in an interactive dialogue session.  The order in which the 
rapporteurs would give their reports was tied to the order in 
which rights were addressed in the Universal Declaration of 
Human Rights.  De Alba stressed the timetable was simply a 
draft for discussion and that substantive talks would be held 
on September 6.  Attacking the order of reports, which mixed 
thematic and country mandates, Cuba demanded that all country 
reports be clustered together so that "the virus" could be 
dealt with.  China echoed Cuba's demand, taking it a step 
further by suggesting that the Council, as the parent body, 
decide their fate at the upcoming session without input from 
the working group specifically created to review all 
mandates.  Given the large number of overdue reports, de Alba 
proposed an omnibus resolution to cover all special procedure 
reports to save time. Septel reports on de Alba's 
announcement regarding the fact-finding mission to Lebanon. 
Proposed program of work for the September session of the 
Council was e-mailed to DRL/MLA, IO/RHS, and L/HRR.  Action 
request at paras 5 and 6.  End Summary. 
 
Going After Country Mandates 
---------------------------- 
 
2.  De Alba, who had previously told us he wanted to avoid 
making the country-specific mandates a target, proposed that 
special procedures mandate holders give their reports in the 
order in which the themes or rights appear in the Universal 
Declaration of Human Rights.  Most countries were cautious 
about the approach with the EU asking that they be done in 
alphabetical order according to the last name of the special 
rapporteur or chair.  Cuba immediately and directly attacked 
de Alba's proposal, demanding that all country-mandate 
reports be clustered.  Cuban PermRep Juan Antonio Fernandez 
Palacios, accused de Alba of manipulating the program of work 
and order of the reports to protect the "virus" of 
country-specific mandates, which should be dealt with as one. 
 He also rejected de Alba's suggestion that states refrain 
from presenting individual resolutions on the reports, saying 
that Cuba would not give up its right to present resolutions 
"up to the final minute" of the session. Fernandez also 
called for the five rapporteurs ("the brave ones"), who had 
requested access to Guantanamo Base, to be clustered to give 
their report on Guantanamo jointly. China, Russia, Belarus 
and a several members of the Organization of the Islamic 
Conference (OIC) also insisted that country mandate holders 
be clustered together.  China took the idea even further by 
suggesting that the Council as the parent body -- rather than 
the mandate review working group -- review country-specific 
mandates during the upcoming session and decide whether to 
keep or eliminate them.  U.S. del as well as UK and Canada 
stressed that the working group on mandate review had been 
charged with reviewing all mandates and making 
recommendations to the plenary and the outcome of that review 
could not be prejudged. 
 
Omnibus Resolution 
------------------ 
 
3.  To save time, de Alba suggested combining all special 
procedure reports into one omnibus resolution or HRC 
consensus statement that would highlight the key action items 
in each report.  He said it would only be done for the 
September session and the Council could revert back to the 
traditional system of having a resolution for each report at 
subsequent sessions.  He acknowledged that many of the 
rapporteurs had more than one report to present, so his 
intention was simply to save time for everyone by negotiating 
a resolution for the scores of reports originally scheduled 
to be given during the last CHR session in March.  De Alba 
asked that in the case individual resolutions were presented, 
states refrain from including the operative paragraph 
traditionally included at the end of resolutions, calling for 
an issue to be placed on the Council's agenda.  He reminded 
states that this had, at least in part, led to a large and 
unwieldy agenda for the Commission.  Speaking on behalf of 
the European Union, Finland said it was important that each 
mandate holder be given sufficient time to present reports. 
In all, de Alba said there were more than 150 resolutions to 
be considered at the September three-week session.  Most 
delegations did not immediately address this proposal, 
 
GENEVA 00002161  002.2 OF 002 
 
 
preferring to study it and offer reactions at the September 6 
informals. 
 
New Segment 
----------- 
 
4.  De Alba also announced that in the interest of making the 
HRC more effective on the ground, he planned to include a new 
segment during the HRC sessions dedicated to following up on 
decisions taken by the HRC. He hopes to use this time to 
highlight the importance of implementation of human rights 
decisions. 
 
Action Requests 
--------------- 
 
5.  Mission Geneva requests the Department's guidance on the 
proposals made by de Alba for the second session.  On the 
order of special procedures reports, Mission believes it is 
important to avoid clustering the country mandate reports by 
either following alphabetical order or the UDHR order 
proposed by de Alba.  We do see, however, difficulties with 
the omnibus resolution or consensus HRC statement. It is not 
within de Alba's mandate as HRC president or within the 
Secretariat's mandate to decide which, if any, recommendation 
 
SIPDIS 
in a report takes precedence over the others for 
implementation.  Many of the reports contain recommendations 
that exceed the mandate of the rapporteur, expert or working 
group.  How would inclusion of these recommendations in an 
omnibus resolution be addressed.  A likely scenario if such a 
resolution or statement were presented, would be a paragraph 
by paragraph vote.  In preparation for the inter-active 
dialogue with special procedures, Mission will forward 
separately a list of reports and interventions to which the 
United States may wish to respond. 
 
6.  De Alba's request that no resolutions be presented during 
the September session will most probably be disregarded, as 
indicated by Cuba's vehement rejection of the proposal (and 
its likely plan to propose a resolution to eliminate the Cuba 
mandate).  Mission understands that decisions are pending 
regarding U.S. support for resolutions or intention to ask 
friendly HRC member states to run resolutions on our behalf. 
With the HRC scheduled to begin September 15, Mission notes 
that we have only two weeks to agree upon and carry out a 
strategy for gaining support for any resolution we may want 
to see adopted by the HRC. 
TICHENOR