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Viewing cable 08GENEVA155, AFRICA GROUP AND OIC FACE OFF AGAINST EU IN DURBAN

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
08GENEVA155 2008-02-29 15:11 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED US Mission Geneva
VZCZCXRO1420
PP RUEHAT
DE RUEHGV #0155/01 0601511
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 291511Z FEB 08
FM USMISSION GENEVA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 6108
INFO RUEHZJ/HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL COLLECTIVE PRIORITY
RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK PRIORITY 2658
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 GENEVA 000155 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPT FOR IO/RHS, DRL/MLGA, L/HRR 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PHUM UNHRC
SUBJECT: AFRICA GROUP AND OIC FACE OFF AGAINST EU IN DURBAN 
AD HOC COMMITTEE 
 
 
1.  SUMMARY: The inaugural week-long meeting of the Ad Hoc 
Committee on the Elaboration of Complementary Standards 
displayed the irreconcilable rifts between the European Union 
(EU) and the African Group (AG) and Organization of Islamic 
Conference (OIC) approaches to racism issues.  Nothing less 
than a new optional protocol to the ICERD on religious issues 
will satisfy the AG and OIC, while the EU does not see 
defamation of religion and incitement to religious hatred as 
racial issues.  The lack of consensus and conclusive results 
from the Committee's meeting bodes ill for productive action 
in other Durban follow-up fora.  END SUMMARY. 
 
2.  The work of the Ad Hoc Committee session had two parts: 
1) reviewing three documents on substantive gaps in current 
international anti-racism instruments, which had originally 
come from CERD, the Intergovernmental Working Group on Durban 
Implementation (IGWG), and the Group of Five Eminent Experts 
(G5); and 2) discussion of specific recommendations for 
eventual complementary standards.  Delegations recommended 
the following issues for complementary standards: 
- AG/Egypt: incitement to religious and racial hatred (as 
"previewed" in HRC 3/103) and xenophobia; 
- OIC/Pakistan: defamation of religion; 
- Syria: the inherent racism of foreign occupation; 
- Algeria:  racism of foreign occupation and xenophobia. 
 
3.  Given the appearance of this same handful of issues in 
every Durban-related forum, it seems likely that upcoming 
Durban fights will center on them.  Referring to ICCPR 
Article 19, CERD 4, and General Comment 15 of ICERD as 
precedents, Egypt and Pakistan argued for the acceptance of 
curbs on freedom of speech to prevent defamation of religion. 
 Near the end of the week-long meeting, given the absence of 
any agreement, the Algerian President of the Ad Hoc 
Committee, Ambassador Jazairy, suggested a narration of the 
discussion as the outcome document.  The final record remains 
open to edits until the second half of the session, which is 
to be scheduled later. 
 
FLASHPOINTS 
----------- 
 
4.  Egypt for the AG and Pakistan for the OIC repeatedly 
accused the G5 of shirking what they characterized as the 
G5's mandated duty to formulate a draft of a new optional 
protocol to the ICERD.  The AG interpreted the request of the 
Durban Declaration and Plan of Action (DDPA) for an 
elaboration of mechanisms to address gaps as meaning that the 
existence of substantive gaps was already agreed upon.  The 
EU, by contrast, repeatedly insisted the main problem with 
anti-racism measures is a lack of political will in 
individual states and expressed doubt that increased 
instruments would fix that problem.  Seeking the most 
expedient solution to the admitted gaps in anti-racism 
action, the EU supported the experts' recommendations to 
better implement current instruments and to formulate a 
convention on human rights education. 
 
5.  There was broad agreement that a nexus between religion 
and racial discrimination exists, but absolutely no agreement 
that the African Group and OIC proposals are within the 
purview of the ICERD.  The AG-OIC coalition insisted that 
since anti-Muslim discrimination targets even non-religious 
people from Muslim regions, it constitutes racism.  The EU 
said it could go along with a CERD general comment on that 
topic, but did not agree that the issue merits an optional 
protocol.  The EU indicated it would also like to bring up 
other "multiple aggravated forms of racism," to include 
sexual orientation, whereas Egypt scoffed that discrimination 
on grounds of sexual orientation was not even a real 
discrimination issue. 
 
6.  The AG and OIC insisted that a new optional protocol 
should be drafted, with or without consensus, because, in 
their view, the DDPA mandates it, while everyone else in the 
session insisted on the need for consensus.  After the 
session, several EU delegates expressed growing exasperation 
with the tenor of the racism discussion and worried that 
ramming defamation of religion into the Durban process 
endangers consensus on everything else in the DDPA and 
seriously harms international anti-racism efforts.  They 
hoped to convince GRULAC and the sub-Saharan states to oppose 
this dilution of the DDPA, although in the session, GRULAC 
had remained unwilling to oppose the African Group on this 
issue. 
 
COMMENT 
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GENEVA 00000155  002 OF 002 
 
 
7.  The Algerian chair made little pretense of impartiality. 
Above all, he shaped the final document to reflect his view 
that there is a strong tie between defamation of religion and 
racial discrimination.  The document may be a fairly accurate 
record of the range of views expressed, but, particularly 
given that it was approved as the meeting's outcome, it risks 
becoming a basis for future discussions.  It could thus 
strengthen the position of those who insist on bringing 
defamation of religion and incitement to religious hatred 
into the anti-racism regime. 
TICHENOR