US embassy cable - 05WELLINGTON647

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NEW ZEALAND ON UNESCO CULTURAL DIVERSITY CONVENTION

Identifier: 05WELLINGTON647
Wikileaks: View 05WELLINGTON647 at Wikileaks.org
Origin: Embassy Wellington
Created: 2005-08-23 23:19:00
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Tags: ETRD NZ UNESCO WTO
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 WELLINGTON 000647 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR IO/UNESCO-JCOWLEY, EB/TPP/MTA-TNISSEN AND 
EAP/ANP-DRICCI 
STATE PLEASE PASS TO USTR-CAROL BALASSA 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: ETRD, NZ, UNESCO, WTO 
SUBJECT: NEW ZEALAND ON UNESCO CULTURAL DIVERSITY CONVENTION 
 
REF: STATE 149077 
 
Post on August 18 delivered reftel demarche to the New 
Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT).  James 
Hartley of MFAT's Legal Division reported August 24 that the 
ministry still was consulting with various government 
agencies before developing a final position on the UNESCO 
Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity 
of Cultural Expressions.  A Cabinet decision on the 
government's position is likely to be required . New Zealand 
hopes to send Crawford Falconer, its ambassador to the WTO, 
to the August 25 informal meeting to discuss the convention, 
but his schedule has not yet been confirmed. 
Burnett 

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