US embassy cable - 05TEGUCIGALPA2319

UNCLAS TEGUCIGALPA 002319 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
 
STATE FOR IO/UNP, DRL/MLA, NEA/NGA, EAP/K, WHA/PPC, WHA/CEN 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PHUM, PREL, PGOV, HO, UNHRC-1, UNGA 
SUBJECT: HONDURAS SUPPORTS UN 3RD COMMITTEE RESOLUTIONS ON 
IRAN AND NORTH KOREA AND OPPOSES NO-ACTION MOTIONS 
 
REF: A. STATE 207928 
     B. MANDOJANA/OLSEN E-MAIL 11/14/05 
     C. STATE 204646 
 
1. (SBU) PolOff delivered reftel demarche on UN Third 
Committee Resolutions to Irene Cardona, Director of 
Multilateral Policy at the Foreign Ministry, on November 8. 
PolOff followed up November 10 with Cardona, who said that 
she had sent a memo to Foreign Minister Mario Fortin and 
would follow-up with him.  PolOff followed-up again with 
Cardona on November 14 and she indicated that GOH would 
support the resolutions on Iran and North Korea but that FM 
Fortin had not taken any decision on the remaining countries. 
 PolOff also emphasized that GOH oppose any "no action" 
motion on the Iran resolution. 
 
3. (SBU) PolChief spoke the evening of November 14 with Vice 
Foreign Minister Juan Antonio Lara Bueso FM on the same 
issue.  The Vice FM reiterated the GOH position in support of 
the Iran and North Korea resolutions and stated that the GOH, 
as in the past, continued to opposed no action motions on 
principle.  He also reiterated the GOH had not yet taken a 
position on the other country-specific resolutions. 
 
4. (SBU) Comment: Post notes that the GOH's abstention in 
2004 on the Iran resolution was due to miscommunication 
between the MFA and the Honduran Mission to the UN according 
to Fortin, back when he was Vice FM, and that at the time 
Fortin assured PolOff that the mistake would not happen 
again.  End Comment. 
Ford