US embassy cable - 05HELSINKI320

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FINLAND: CHR RESOLUTION ON CUBA

Identifier: 05HELSINKI320
Wikileaks: View 05HELSINKI320 at Wikileaks.org
Origin: Embassy Helsinki
Created: 2005-03-15 14:27:00
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Tags: PHUM CU FI UNCHR
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 HELSINKI 000320 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
 
STATE FOR IO, WHA, EUR/NB 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PHUM, CU, FI, UNCHR-1, EUN 
SUBJECT: FINLAND: CHR RESOLUTION ON CUBA 
 
REF: SECSTATE 44494 
 
 (SBU)  Poloff delivered reftel demarche and draft resolution 
to officials in the MFA's Global Affairs Bureau on March 15. 
The Finnish officials said that while they shared U.S. 
concerns about Cuba's human rights abuses, no decisions had 
been made at the MFA as regards the Cuba resolution at the 
UNCHR.  Moreover, the Finnish official specifically 
responsible for the Cuba resolution was in Geneva and 
unavailable for comment. The MFA officials said that Finland 
would support whatever common or consensus position emerged 
during EU deliberations on the issue;  they believed that 
Finland was unlikely to play a leading role in such 
deliberations, however.  One official opined that she 
believed Spain would play the lead role in crafting the EU's 
strategy as regards the resolution. 
MACK 

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