US embassy cable - 04THEHAGUE2143

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TRANSLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS REPORTS AND POSTING ON EMBASSY WEBSITES

Identifier: 04THEHAGUE2143
Wikileaks: View 04THEHAGUE2143 at Wikileaks.org
Origin: Embassy The Hague
Created: 2004-08-27 10:05:00
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Tags: KPAO PHUM PREL KDEM NL
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.

UNCLAS THE HAGUE 002143 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SECSTATE FOR EUR/PPD, EUR/UBI, DRL 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KPAO, PHUM, PREL, KDEM, NL 
SUBJECT: TRANSLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS REPORTS AND 
POSTING ON EMBASSY WEBSITES 
 
REF:   STATE 180557 
 
1.   Embassy The Hague has regularly posted the Human 
Rights, Religious Freedom and Trafficking in Persons reports 
on the embassy web site and alerted key contacts to their 
existence.  We have not, however, translated the reports 
into Dutch given the extraordinarily high proficiency in 
English.   According to the government, 75 percent of Dutch 
know  English; this is particularly true among likely 
consumers of the report. We, therefore, judged it not 
necessary to translate the referenced documents into Dutch. 
For the record, translating only selected excerpts, the 
summaries, best practices and Netherlands-related sections 
would cost a total of 1,620 Euros ($1,975.61 USD). 
 
2.   The Embassy has made the link to these reports more 
direct (one click from the first page of the website) and 
will continue to review ways of disseminating these reports 
to key contacts and audiences. 
RUSSEL 

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