US embassy cable - 03OTTAWA1801

Disclaimer: This site has been first put up 15 years ago. Since then I would probably do a couple things differently, but because I've noticed this site had been linked from news outlets, PhD theses and peer rewieved papers and because I really hate the concept of "digital dark age" I've decided to put it back up. There's no chance it can produce any harm now.

Identifier:	03OTTAWA1801
Wikileaks:	View 03OTTAWA1801 at Wikileaks.org
Origin:	Embassy Ottawa
Created:	2003-06-25 19:50:00
Classification:	CONFIDENTIAL
Tags:	AORC PHUM PREL CA UNGA
Redacted:	This cable was not redacted by Wikileaks.

C O N F I D E N T I A L OTTAWA 001801 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/24/2013 
TAGS: AORC, PHUM, PREL, CA, UNGA 
SUBJECT: CANADA INTERESTED IN U.S. INITIATIVES FOR UNGA 58 
 
REF: STATE 175664 
 
Classified By: Political MC Brian Flora for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d) 
 
1.(C)  Post delivered points contained reftel to Peter 
Taylor, Deputy Director of DFAIT's UN and Commonwealth 
Affairs Division and Claude Bibeau, Coordinator for UNGA in 
that division, on June 24, 2003.  Taylor indicated an initial 
interest in each of the five areas enumerated in reftel, 
particularly the women and political participation issue.  He 
stated, however, that Canada's interest in women's issues 
extended beyond political participation into other arenas as 
well. Taylor also said that he wanted to run the initiatives 
past DFAIT's relevant functional bureaus before commenting 
too extensively.  He promised to get back shortly with more 
comments after conferring with his colleagues. 
 
2.(C)  Taylor indicated that Canada had not yet identified 
its top priorities for  UNGA 58.  In addition, Taylor 
admitted that Canada is unlikely to compile a cohesive list 
of objectives having never done so previously.  He agreed, 
however, to pass on pertinent information when it becomes 
available. 
CELLUCCI