US embassy cable - 05TEGUCIGALPA2154

UNCLAS TEGUCIGALPA 002154 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR IO/UNESCO, IO/T, IO/UNP, WHA/PPC, AND WHA/CEN 
PARIS FOR US MISSION TO UNESCO 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PREL, ETRD, SCUL, SOCI, AORC, KJUS, HO, UNESCO, UN 
SUBJECT: HONDURAS GIVEN SECRETARY GUTIERREZ'S LETTER ON 
UNESCO CONVENTION AND DIP NOTE/DEMARCHE; NO GOH RESPONSE 
 
REF: A. STATE 192656 
 
     B. STATE 189518 
     C. PARIS 7037 
     D. TEGUCIGALPA 2092 
     E. STATE 184292 
     F. TEGUCIGALPA 2029 
     G. STATE 170909 
     H. TEGUCIGALPA 1916 
     I. STATE 122739 
 
1. This is an action cable for IO/T.  Please see paragraph 4. 
 
2. Post delivered ref B letter from Secretary Gutierrez 
(under cover letter from the Charge) on the UNESCO Convention 
on Cultural Expressions to Minister of Trade and Industry 
Irving Guerrero on October 14.  Post delivered ref A 
diplomatic note and demarche on the same issue to the Foreign 
Ministry on October 19.  PolChief spoke directly with Vice 
Foreign Minister Juan Alberto Lara Bueso to highlight the 
importance and urgency of the demarche.  Post has yet to 
receive any kind of substantive response from the GOH to 
repeated demarches/letters on this topic. 
 
3. Post notes that ref C indicates that the USG candidacy for 
the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO was successful.  This 
makes moot the GOH's request for a vote swap involving this 
candidacy.  However, Post still needs official guidance on 
responding to the Honduran Foreign Ministry's request for USG 
support for the Honduran candidate to the UN International 
Law Commission during elections this fall at UNGA. 
 
4.  Action request for IO/T: Post again requests guidance on 
Post's response to the Honduran request for USG support for 
the Honduran candidate to the UN International Law Commission 
as discussed in refs D and F. 
Williard