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Viewing cable 06GENEVA2171, UNITED STATES CONSULTATIONS WITH THE OFFICE OF THE

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06GENEVA2171 2006-09-06 15:37 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY US Mission Geneva
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DE RUEHGV #2171/01 2491537
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FM USMISSION GENEVA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 0916
RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK 1583
INFO RUEHZJ/HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL COLLECTIVE
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 GENEVA 002171 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR IO/RHS, DRL/MLA, L/HRR 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PHUM UNHRC
SUBJECT: UNITED STATES CONSULTATIONS WITH THE OFFICE OF THE 
HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS 
 
 
GENEVA 00002171  001.2 OF 002 
 
 
Summary 
-------- 
 
1.  DRL Deputy Assistant Secretary Erica Barks-Ruggles and 
Ambassador Tichenor, accompanied by PolCouns and Washington- 
and Geneva-based staffers, met with High Commissioner for 
Human Rights Louise Arbour August 31 to discuss a broad range 
of human rights-related issues, including OHCHR field 
operations, support for special procedures mandates, budget 
and management, and the new Human Rights Council (HRC).  DAS 
Barks-Ruggles stressed our strong desire to see the brunt of 
OHCHR's increasing budget go toward results-based field 
operations.  Arbour said her office has made substantial 
progress in bolstering its staffing levels in Geneva and in 
the field and that this would lead to tangible results in 
support of human rights.  Arbour urged the U.S. not to write 
off the new Human Rights Council (HRC) just yet, lamenting 
the bad timing of events in Lebanon and Gaza that directly 
led to anti-Israeli resolutions during the first Council 
session and two subsequent special sessions.  Nevertheless, 
she urged the United States to publicly differentiate her 
office from the HRC in the event that the Council continues 
to perform badly.  End Summary. 
 
Budget and Funding Issues 
------------------------- 
 
2.  Arbour warmly greeted our delegation and immediately 
kicked off the meeting with an obligatory pitch for more 
funding.  OHCHR is trying to expand its donor base.  It had 
persuaded Russia to donate two million dollars and was trying 
to have other traditionally non-donating countries contribute 
voluntary funds - even small amounts - to dispel any notion 
that OHCHR is an "agent of the West."  Asking for less 
earmarking of funds, she welcomed progress with Nordic and 
other European countries to earmark less of their voluntary 
contributions and make commitments for multiple years.  The 
Netherlands, for example, pledged 20 million euros in 
non-earmarked funds over a four-year period.  She praised the 
U.S. record for financial support and hoped that we would 
continue setting the watermark for other countries.  She was 
also hopeful that ACABQ (the UN Advisory Committee on 
Administrative and Budgetary Questions) would clear the way 
this fall for releasing funds for the second phase of OHCHR's 
current biennium. While pleased by last year's decision to 
double OHCHR's annual budget over five years, Arbour stressed 
that the increase should not come at the expense of voluntary 
contributions, thus resulting in no net gain for her office. 
Barks-Ruggles noted the United States' consistent support for 
the OHCHR and explained that our main concern was that these 
extra funds be used to support field operations. 
 
Field Operations 
---------------- 
 
3.  OHCHR's Capacity Building and Field Operations Branch 
(CBB) Chief Fabrizio Hochschild, who also participated in the 
consultations, said that looking at money spent at 
headquarters versus in the field did not accurately reflect 
how the money was being spent since desk and administrative 
jobs in Geneva were being created to support field operations 
not in OHCHR's budget.  For example, there are 450 human 
rights field officers whose salaries are being paid by DPKO; 
however, support for human rights programming comes from 
OHCHR in Geneva.  This, he stressed, could lead to 
misunderstandings that staffing is inappropriately weighted 
towards headquarters operations.  Arbour said that half of 
Geneva's funding comes from the regular UN budget, while the 
other half comes from extra-budgetary funds.  For field 
operations, 10 percent comes from the regular budget and 90 
percent from extra-budgetary funds.  While there was a great 
need for OHCHR to be seen in places like Darfur, Arbour said 
that her office currently had no capacity for it.  Even in 
the best circumstances, it has been difficult to get offices 
up and running, she said, citing recent cases in Guatemala, 
whose government took more than one year to sign the MOU. 
 
4.  As far as field operations, OHCHR is currently working 
with four basic models: 1) stand-alone offices (e.g. 
Colombia, Nepal); 2) partnerships with peace keeping missions 
(e.g. Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo); 3) 
provision of a human rights advisor for country teams with no 
human rights component (e.g. Sri Lanka); and 4) regional 
offices meant both to support national offices and to provide 
support for human rights in countries without a UN human 
rights presence.  In response to Barks-Ruggles' expression of 
concern about the mandate for these regional offices, 
Hochschild admitted that this was indeed a problem. He said 
 
GENEVA 00002171  002.2 OF 002 
 
 
OHCHR was developing a model mandate to be used when 
establishing future regional offices.  Arbour also said that 
past efforts in technical cooperation focused greatly on 
teaching government bureaucrats how to do reports about how 
their countries were not complying with their treaty body 
obligations.  OHCHR was now focusing more attention on 
helping them to comply.  This means that more field officers 
were necessary.  OHCHR expects to complete hiring 
Geneva-based officers and administrative staff by the end of 
2006.  Arbour stressed that this was a necessary first step 
and that field officers are also currently being hired; she 
expected even more to be hired during the second half of the 
2006-2007 biennium. 
 
5.  Arbour said that part of her vision for reform included 
breaking away from the current unspoken rule that technical 
assistance was good and monitoring was bad.  She wanted to 
continue engaging with countries bilaterally and with a 
holistic approach, which she says  builds trust and improves 
the situation on the ground. 
 
OHCHR and the Human Rights Council 
---------------------------------- 
 
 
 
6.  Arbour said the Human Rights Council (HRC) needed more 
time to mature and that the focus on Israel, which happened 
due to "bad timing," should not serve as a distraction to the 
real changes she expected to take place.  She noted that, in 
all events, states should differentiate her office from the 
HRC.  OHCHR had been established with its own mandate to 
promote and protect human rights. While it provides 
administrative support for the HRC and is often tasked by the 
Council, it is not part of that body.  While still hopeful 
that the Council will rise to meet expectations, Arbour wants 
to make sure that OHCHR is not associated with the HRC should 
it fail. 
 
7.   She said it would be "catastrophic" if the United States 
were to disengage in UN human rights fora, but she was 
hopeful that the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process 
would lead to improvements and direct results.  UPR would 
make it possible to review the record of human rights abusers 
who had once avoided scrutiny by hiding behind membership in 
the discredited Commission on Human Rights. However, care 
should be taken to avoid country-to-country comparisons for 
UPRs.  Comparing Botswana's human rights record with its 
previous record, for example, would show whether or not 
progress was being made rather than trying to compare it with 
the record of a country like Norway.  Barks-Ruggles said that 
it was important that the Council not be overwhelmed by the 
UPR process and that it treat all states equally.  Arbour 
said that she supported country-specific mandates but doubted 
they would survive the mandate review process.  There was a 
possibility to link country mandates to the UPR process and 
simply call them something else.  Arbour said it was 
important that the Council not use her office to undermine 
OHCHR's technical cooperation system, since artificial 
capacity building was worse than doing nothing.  She said the 
Sub-Commission was very good at doing that sort of thing, 
joking that her office was asked to check on the "human 
rights situation in Mars." 
 
This cable has been cleared by DRL/DAS Erica Barks-Ruggles. 
TICHENOR