US embassy cable - 04YEREVAN884

Disclaimer: This site has been first put up 15 years ago. Since then I would probably do a couple things differently, but because I've noticed this site had been linked from news outlets, PhD theses and peer rewieved papers and because I really hate the concept of "digital dark age" I've decided to put it back up. There's no chance it can produce any harm now.

UNCHR 60: ARMENIA TO ABSTAIN ON CHINA, VOTE 'YES' ON CUBA

Identifier: 04YEREVAN884
Wikileaks: View 04YEREVAN884 at Wikileaks.org
Origin: Embassy Yerevan
Created: 2004-04-14 13:12:00
Classification: CONFIDENTIAL
Tags: PHUM PREL AM
Redacted: This cable was not redacted by Wikileaks.
This record is a partial extract of the original cable. The full text of the original cable is not available.

C O N F I D E N T I A L YEREVAN 000884 
 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPT FOR EUR/CACEN 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/14/2014 
TAGS: PHUM, PREL, AM 
SUBJECT: UNCHR 60: ARMENIA TO ABSTAIN ON CHINA, VOTE 'YES' 
ON CUBA 
 
REF: STATE 77769 
 
Classified By: Pol/Econ Chief Cynthia Doell for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d) 
. 
 
1. (C) Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian told the Ambassador 
April 14 that Armenia would abstain on both the vote to take 
'no action' on the China resolution and on the resolution 
itself.  He said that Armenia would vote to approve the Cuba 
resolution, as requested by the United States.  Oskanian 
emphasized that this decision was "balanced as far as 
Washington is concerned." 
 
2. (C) Oskanian said that the GOAM had "looked at the 
resolutions from all angles" and that the decision on the 
China and Cuba resolutions was a "package deal" and fair.  He 
noted that Armenian President Kocharian plans to make a state 
visit to China in the second half of the year, and voting to 
approve the China resolution was not a realistic option at 
this point. 
ORDWAY 

Latest source of this page is cablebrowser-2, released 2011-10-04