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08USUNNEWYORK1192 2008-12-19 21:06 2011-08-30 01:44 CONFIDENTIAL USUN New York
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C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 05 USUN NEW YORK 001192 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/01/2025 
TAGS: PREL PHUM PINR PINS ECON XW XY ZF ZU
SUBJECT: UNGA: REPORT ON AFRICAN DELEGATIONS AT THE 63RD 
GENERAL ASSEMBLY 
 
REF: USUN 1193 07 
 
Classified By: Minister-Counselor Jeffrey DeLaurentis for reasons 1.4 ( 
D) 
 
 1. (U) Gerald Scott is again serving as Senior Advisor for 
Africa at USUN during the regular session of the General 
Assembly.  These are his personal reflections on African 
participation as the regular session draws to a close.  (Note 
that while in the UN context the African Group includes the 
states of the North African littoral, usage of the term in 
this cable reflects Ambassador Scott's portfolio which deals 
only with the delegations of the AU members falling within 
the purview of State's Bureau of African Affairs.) 
 
SUMMARY 
 
2.(SBU) This General Assesmbly has been less charged than 
usual. There were no major battles over Security Council 
seats or contested elections to important bodies in which we 
had a candidate.  The AF Missions have retained their 
reputation for group solidarity, but it is perhaps slightly 
less pronounced than formerly.  While support for our 
country-specific human rights resolutions was a bit weaker, 
we gained slightly in the anti-Israeli votes and in other 
issues of importance to the U.S. 
 
THE GENERAL DEBATE 
 
3. (U) The GA begins with a General Debate, addresses mostly 
by Chiefs of State and Heads of Government setting out an 
over-all view of the challenges that face the world.  This 
year the themes most often voiced were the global financial 
problem, the food and energy crises, and the need to meet the 
Millennium Development Goals.  Africans joined others in 
calling for UN reform, particularly Security Council reform, 
which in the African context means a reiteration of the 
Ezulwini Consensus calling for two permanent UNSC seats with 
veto, and five non-permanent seats (though some admitted in 
private that this is a formula open to negotiation).Some 
speakers praised the US: Comoros, Cameroon (as a witness of 
the Greentree Agreements dealing with the resolution of the 
dispute with Nigeria over the Bakassi Peninsula), Zambia (for 
AIDS relief), Togo, Botswana. 
 
4. (U)  Some speakers criticized the US by name.  Re our 
Cuban policy: Lesotho, Angola, Sao Tome and Namibia 
(mentioned in 5 of the last 6 General Debates).  Zimbabwe's 
President Mugabe vehemently attacked the US and UK 
"themselves international perpetrators of genocide, acts of 
aggression and mass destruction.  The masses of innocent men, 
women and children who have perished by their thousands in 
Iraq surely demand retribution and vengeance.  Who shall heed 
their cry? Surely those who invaded Iraq under false 
pretences and on the strength of contrived lies and in 
blatant violation of the Charter and international law must 
be made liable for them!"  The Foreign Minister of Eritrea 
devoted his speech almost entirely to the Eritrea-Ethiopia 
boundary dispute and other points of conflict in the Horn of 
Africa.  It was perhaps the most anti-American speech of the 
General Debate.  "These multi-faceted problems are, of 
course, rooted in multiple causes. At the same time, it 
cannot be denied that many of them have been exacerbated, if 
not instigated, by the misguided and domineering policies of 
the US Government.  Indeed, the fingerprints of the sole 
super-power are discernible in most of the conflict 
situations that are raging in many parts of our globe with 
the deleterious economic, financial and humanitarian 
ramifications that they invariably entail."  And re Somalia: 
"a pre-emptive invasion by Ethiopia under the instigation of 
the United States to produce the largest humanitarian tragedy 
that dwarfs other contemporary crises in Africa." 
 
5. (SBU) I note that the usages of diplomacy, especially in 
the UN context, weigh so heavily against direct public 
criticism of a friendly government, that I believe we ought 
to note and take exception to any speech in which we are the 
only government singled out for objection. 
 
UN SECURITY COUNCIL ELECTIONS 
 
6. (SBU) New Security Council members were elected by the 
General Assembly in October.  Uganda, which had the 
endorsement of its regional group, was elected with 181 votes 
 
USUN NEW Y 00001192  002 OF 005 
 
 
to replace South Africa in January.  Burkina Faso remains on 
the Council for another year.  Togo and Nigeria are both 
expected to vie for the Burkina Faso seat in the next General 
Assembly.  Countries on the Council gain a certain weight 
because of their presence there.  Uganda will, therefore, 
play a somewhat greater role in Africa Group matters; South 
Africa perhaps a bit less.  Uganda will certainly receive 
much more high-level US Mission attention than is now the 
case. 
 
HUMAN RIGHTS TEXTS IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY 
 
7. (C)  Every year we co-sponsor country-specific resolutions 
criticizing human rights violations in a small number of 
countries, this year only three of them: DPRK, Burma and 
Iran.  Four years ago we co-sponsored a resolution on Sudan, 
and five years ago on Sudan and Zimbabwe, but there were no 
African targets this year to excite the opposition of the 
members of the AU to our efforts.  Even so, the effort was,as 
always,a difficult one for most African delegations.  The 
ususal arguments were deployed: now that we have a "reformed" 
Human Rights Council in Geneva, that is the proper venue for 
such resolutions; the selection of target countries is 
"political," since other equally or worse violators escape 
such censure.  Behind these arguments are the realities of 
the influence of the OIC and Arab group: Missions know that 
if they offend against those interests, their hope for 
support when they have an issue or a candidate for a UN 
position will be much reduced.  Finally, as more than one 
Ambassador has admitted to me over the years, Africans know 
that in many cases they are "one coup away" from serious 
human rights charges against the governments they represent. 
 
8. (SBU) More difficult than the passage of the texts 
themselves is the defeating of motions to adjourn debate, so 
called "no-action motions," which are a procedural move to 
sweep the draft text off the agenda.  Here, the argument is 
perhaps not that the country in question is not deserving of 
censure, but that for various reasons, this is not the time 
and the place -- the argument in favor of Geneva as the sole 
venue is especially deployed in this case.  We have 
historically been able to get our country-specific 
resolutions adopted if we can get past the no-action motion. 
 
9.(U)  As of the writing of this cable, the Third Committee 
human rights texts have not come before Plenary. However the 
votes in Third Committee are as follows: 
 
     Democratic Republic of Korea: There was no motion to 
adjourn debate.  The resolution passed  95(US)-24-62.  The AF 
vote was 10-5-27 and six absent. This is slightly worse than 
last year's Plenary vote of 11-4-27-6.  Those voting YES with 
the US: Botswana, Burundi, Comoros, Eritrea, Ghana, Liberia, 
Madagascar, Malawi, Togo, Tanzania.  Those voting NO were 
Guinea, Namibia (which announced that it meant to abstain), 
Somalia, Sudan, Zimbabwe.  Those abstaining were Angola, 
Benin. B. Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, CAR, Chad, Congo, Cote 
d'Ivoire, Eq. Guinea, Ethiopia, Gambia, G. Bissau, Kenya, 
Lesotho, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Niger, 
Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, S. Africa, Swaziland, Uganda, 
Zambia.  The remaining 6 AF countries did not vote. 
 
    Burma: There was a motion to adjourn debate which failed: 
54-90(US)-34.  The AF vote was 12-6-20-10, notably better 
than last year in Plenary, which was 17-6-16-9.  Those voting 
YES against the US position: Angola, CAR, Chad, Comoros, Cote 
d'Ivoire, Namibia, S.Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Uganda, 
Zambia, Zimbabwe.  Those voting NO with the US: Botswana, 
Burundi, Cape Verde, Congo, Liberia, Mauritius.  Those 
abstaining: Benin, B. Faso, Cameroon, E.Guinea, Eritrea, 
Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, G. Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, 
Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, 
Senegal, Tanzania. The remaining 10 AF countries did not vote. 
 
The Burma resolution passed 89(US)-29-63.  The AF vote was 
5-6-31-6.  This is a little worse than last year: 7-2-22-17. 
Those voting YES with the US position: Botswana, Burundi, 
Mauritius, Nigeria, Togo.  Those voting NO: Cote d'Ivoire, 
Namibia, Niger, Somalia, Sudan, Zimbabawe (However, Namibia 
and Niger announced after the vote that they had meant to 
abstain.)  Those abstaining: Angola, Benin, B. Faso, 
Cameroon, Cape Verde, CAR, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Eq. Guinea, 
Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, G. Bissau, Kenya, 
Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, 
 
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Rwanda, Sao Tome, Senegal, S.Africa, Swaziland, Uganda, 
Tanzania, Zambia.  The remaining 6 AF countries did not vote. 
 
 Iran: The Resolution on the "Situation of Human Rights in 
the Islamic Republic of Iran" is considered by us to be the 
most important issue in this year's GA.  We argued for the 
resolution, not only on the grounds of Iran's human rights 
record, but also on the grounds of the general strategic 
situation in which the vote is taking place: to give Iran a 
victory this year after an equivalent resolution has been 
passed by the GA for 21 years (with a few exceptions, every 
year since 1985) would provide a government thwarting the 
international community on Nuclear and other issues a 
domestic argument that would be clearly damaging to our 
efforts to bring them to a more responsible position.  The 
motion to adjourn debate failed 71-81(US)-28. This was a 
satisfying margin: last year in Third Committee the motion 
failed by the narrowest of votes: 78-79-24.  The AF vote in 
Third Committee this year was 24-4-14-6, perhaps very 
slightly worse than the equavalent vote last year in Plenary 
of 27-6-9-6.  Those voting YES against the US position: 
Angola, CAR, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Eritrea, Gambia, Guinea, 
G. Bissau, Kenya, Malawi, Mali Mauritania, Namibia, Sao Tome, 
Senegal, Somalia, S.Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Togo, Uganda, 
Zambia, Zimbabwe.  Those voting NO with the US: Botswana, 
Burundi, Cape Verde, Liberia.  Those abstaining: Benin, 
B.Faso, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Eq. Guinea, Ethiopia, Ghana, 
Lesotho, Mauritius, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, 
Rwanda,Tanzania.  The remaining 6 did not vote. 
 
 The vote on the draft resolution: 70(US)-51-60.  The AF vote 
was 2-14-26-6.  This was about the same as last year in 
Plenary: 3-13-25-7.  Those voting YES with the US: Botswana, 
Liberia.  Those voting NO: Comoros, Eritrea, Gambia, Guinea, 
G.Bissau, Malawi, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Somalia, 
S.Africa, Sudan, Togo, Zimbabwe.  Those abstaining: Angola, 
Benin, B. Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, CAR, Chad, 
Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Eq. Guinea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, 
Lesotho, Mali, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, 
Rwanda, Sao Tome, Swaziland, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia.  The 
remaining 6 AF delegations did not vote. 
 
10.(SBU) Comment: These resolutions and the no action motions 
will appear before Plenary shortly and a few of these votes 
will change as Iran and some Islamic states press, and we and 
the Europeans press on the other side.  Almost everyone 
understands that these are important votes: "why otherwise 
would a country work so hard to defeat the resolution" as one 
delegate remarked here.  I am not sure that we will do better 
in the AF group than last year, but there is a chance of 
improving our score, and in any case, the results, both this 
year and last, show that when the radicals argue for 
observance of an "African consensus" against country-specific 
human rights resolutions, we have the voting sheets to 
demonstrate that no such consensus exists -- at least, so 
long as no African state is the subject of such a resolution. 
 
11.(SBU) Meanwhile, as can be discerned, Botswana, Burundi 
and Liberia have been consistent supporters of the US 
position in these votes.  Cape Verde voted with us on both no 
action motions, and Congo and Mauritius voted with us on one 
of them.  We got most support on the DPRK, less on Burma, and 
least on Iran. Effective pressure against these resolutions 
varies, depending in great part on the Islamic presence, and 
countries need to be judged individually according to their 
situation. The magnetic pull of the radical tradition 
motivating, e.g., South Africa, also plays its role. 
 
12. (C) And sometimes an absence is itself significant (e.g., 
the DRC, which last year voted for the Iran and Burma no 
action motions, deliberately did not participate this year -- 
a way of denying support to the no action motion without 
giving the radicals clear grounds to accuse the DRC Mission 
here of betrayal). 
 
ANTI-ISRAELI RESOLUTIONS 
 
13. (U)  There is annually a plethora of anti-Israeli 
resolutions which pass the General Assembly by overwhelming 
margins.  Three of these are sufficiently egregious to 
require a special effort,and we get some support in our 
opposition, if only in the form of abstentions.  The three 
are: 
     -- The Resolution on the Committee on the exercise of 
 
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the inalienable rights of the Palestinian People (a committee 
with 22 members: Senegal chairman; Guinea, Madagascar, Mali, 
Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and South Africa members), 
     -- The Resolution on the Division for Palestinian Rights 
of the Secretariat, and 
     -- The Resolution on the Work of the Special Committee 
to investigate Israeli practices affecting the human rights 
of the Palestinian people and other Arabs of the Occupied 
Territories (a three-member committee of which Senegal is a 
member). 
 
 
14. (U)  The first two of these were adopted in Plenary in 
November, the Committee on the exercise, etc. by a vote of 
107-8(US)-57 (the AF vote: 34-0-1-13 (last year 37-0-2-9)) 
and the Division for Palestinian Rights, etc. by a vote of 
106-8(US)-57 (the AF vote: 33-0-1-14 (last year also 
37-0-2-9)).  All AF delegations voted for the resolutions, 
except for Cameroon which abstained, and Burundi, Chad, DRC, 
Eq. Guinea, Gambia, Madagascar, Malawi, Niger, Rwanda, Sao 
Tome, Seychelles, S. Leone and Tanzania which were absent. 
Somalia voted for the first of these two and was absent in 
the vote for the second. 
 
15.(U) The Resolution on the Work of the Special Committee 
passed in December by a vote of 94-8(US)-73 (the AF vote was 
30-0-6-12 (last year 31-0-5-12)).  This resolution attracted 
considerably less support from AF delegations.  In addition 
to Cameroon, other abstainers were Botswana, Burundi,Cote 
d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, and Liberia.  (Botswana, from Yes last 
year; Burundi and Liberia new this year; DRC and Eq. Guinea 
fell away.)  Absent were B. Faso (from Yes last year), Cape 
Verde, Chad, DRC, Eq. Guinea, Gambia, Madagascar, Nigeria, 
Rwanda, Seychelles, S. Leone, and Somalia. 
 
16.(SBU) Since our goal is to reduce the votes in favor of 
these resolutions, the slight reduction in AF votes for the 
texts is a sign of some progress. 
 
 
COMBATING DEFAMATION OF RELIGIONS 
 
17.(U) The Organization of the Islamic Conference sponsored a 
resolution on "Combating defamation of religions" which has 
been around in one form or another since at least 1999.  It 
passed last year with 108 votes in favor and 51 (US) opposed. 
The resolution has historically been focussed on defamation 
of Islam. This year the OIC in negotiations broadened the 
focus somewhat, but we and others continue to have 
difficulties, in part on free speech grounds since the 
concept has provided the excuse in some countries for 
imprisonment and even worse abuses against individuals who 
have distributed "blaphemous" material or made comments 
"insulting religion."  There were also legal questions, since 
in our view people have rights but religions do not. 
 
18.(U) This year the vote in Third Committee was 
85-50(US)-42.  This represents a significant decline in 
support, not least among African delegations: the AF vote 
last year was 37-0-8; this year in Third Committee the AF 
vote was 25-0-15.    AF delegations which abstained in Third 
Committee were Angola, Benin, Botswana, B. Faso, Burundi, 
Cameroon, Cape Verde, Eq. Guinea, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, 
Malawi, Namibia, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia.  Unfortunately, 
Nigeria went from an abstention last year to a YES this year. 
We continue to press the issue with selected AF delegations 
as the Plenary vote nears. 
 
COMPLIANCE WITH NON-PROLIFERATI0N ...AGREEMENTS AND 
COMMITMENTS 
 
19.(U) Triannually, the US sponsors a resolution in First 
(Disarmament) Committee on "Compliance with 
non-proliferation, arms limitation and disarmament agreements 
and commitments."  The resolution passes overwhelmingly, this 
year in Plenary with a vote of 158(US)-0-18.  AF voted 38-0-2 
and 8 marked absent.  The two abstainers were Sudan and 
Zimbabwe. 
 
20.(SBU) To add further weight to this resolution, we sought 
more co-sponsors.  Thre were no AF co-sponsors in 2005.  This 
year we gained four: Benin, Congo, Madagascar and Malawi.I 
had hoped for a somewhat larger number.  The resolution was 
not controversial and it was an easy way to please the US, 
 
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but four is better than none. 
 
COMMENT 
 
21.(SBU) The Africa Group at the UN is one of the five 
regional groups which are the organizing blocs of much of UN 
and General Assembly work.  The Africa Group consists of the 
states covered in the Africa Bureau, plus the five states of 
the North African litoral.  One result is that the positions 
of the Africa Group here are conditioned to no small degree 
by the views of these major players, Egypt especially.  There 
is also the radical heritage of the anti-colonial struggle, 
especially felt by such as South Africa and Namibia.  There 
is the natural interest of the poor to benefit from the 
resources of the rich (which puts us at odds on budget 
issues, especially.)  Finally, there is the tendency of the 
small and weak to hang together; the Africa Group has a 
reputation for solidarity. I believe that gradually these 
influences are dissipating, and the call to group solidarity 
less convincing -- at least when what are perceived as 
African interests are not directly threatened.  So when we 
remember our diplomatic manners and the limits of the 
possible, we can often gain our objectives (or, more often, 
block those of our adversaries).  But it takes one-on-one 
engagement in New York and in capitals.  And the 48 AF 
constituants represent a formidable bloc, 25 percent of the 
membership. 
 
22.(C) We have currently positioned ourselves less formally 
as critics of the UN.  This is important, since for African 
countries the UN represents a natural ally -- and the GA 
forum in which they can assert their importance and control 
at least some of the decisions.  While this admitedly is not 
always (or even often) to our advantage, it is important that 
we respect the pieties and voice our support of the 
institution when we can.  And in doing so, I find 
considerable support and understanding among most of the 
Missions here, even if they are not able to provide votes on 
all the issues important to us. 
 
23.(C) This year there was some slight improvement in AF on 
the anti-Israeli votes and in support of other US objectives 
(e.g., combating defamation of religions and the compliance 
resolution in First Committee).  Unfortunately, there was at 
this point a bit of a falling back in dealing with the human 
rights texts.  Still, we have, perhaps, made a little 
progress this year with the AF members.  With continued 
focussed engagement, I believe we can make a bit more. All in 
all, and like many international conditions and institutions, 
the UNGA is not a problem to be "solved," but a situation to 
be managed. And African members and their diplomats are an 
inevitable (and often helpful) element in such management. 
Khalilzad