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P 041538Z OCT 07
FM AMEMBASSY WARSAW
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 5291
INFO RUCNRAQ/IRAQ COLLECTIVE PRIORITY
RUEHGB/AMEMBASSY BAGHDAD PRIORITY 0124
RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK PRIORITY 1405
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UNCLAS WARSAW 002059 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
FOR EUR/NCE AND IO/UNP 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PREL IZ PL UNSC
SUBJECT: POLAND SEEKS US SUPPORT FOR UN SECURITY COUNCIL 
STATEMENT CONDEMNING ATTACK ON POLISH AMBASSADOR 
 
 
¶1. (SBU) On Thursday, October 4,  Andrzej Sados, Under 
Secretary of State for International Relations called in the 
 
SIPDIS 
DCM to request US support in reqeusting that the UN Security 
Council issue a statement condemning the October 3 attack on 
the Polish Ambassador to Iraq. The DCM was handed the 
proposed text for the statement. Please see paragraph 3 for 
the text of the statements. 
 
¶2. (SBU) The Polish Government is flexible on the 
language/phrasing of the statement, however, Sados expressed 
strong interest in having the text released as a Presidential 
Statement from the President of the UN Security Council 
instead of a press release.  Sados indicated that the Polish 
Ambassador to the UN had already shared the proposed text 
with the USMission to the UN and with the President of the 
Security Council. 
 
¶3. (U) Text of proposed statement: 
 
--The Security Council condemns the October 3 attack in 
Baghdad against the Polish Ambassador to Iraq which resulted 
in the wounding of the Ambassador and the killing of one 
member of his personal security detachment team and injuries 
to two others. The attack also killed at least one Iraqi 
civilian. 
 
--The Security Council expresses its deepest sympathy and 
condolences to the victims of this attack and to their 
families, and to the Government of the Republic of Poland. 
 
--The Security Council underlines the need to bring the 
perpetrators, organizers, financiers and sponsors of this act 
to justice and urges all States, in accordance with their 
obligations under international law and resolution 1373 
(2001), 1566 (2004) and 1624 (2005), to cooperate with the 
Governments of Poland and Iraq in this regard. 
 
--The Security Council reaffirms that terrorism in all its 
forms and manifestations constitutes one of the most serious 
threats to international peace and security and that any acts 
of terrorism are criminal and unjustifiable, regardless of 
their motivations, wherever, whenever and by whomsoever 
committed. 
 
--The Security Council further reaffirms the need to combat 
by all mean, in accordance with the Charter of the United 
Nations, threats to international peace and security caused 
by terrorist acts. The Council reminds States that they must 
ensure that any measures taken to combat terrorism comply 
with all their obligations under international law, in 
particular international human rights, refugee and 
humanitarian law. 
 
--The Security Council reiterates its determination to combat 
all forms of terrorism, in accordance with its 
responsibilities under the Charter of the United Nations. 
ASHE