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Viewing cable 08RABAT750, DEMARCHE DELIVERED: URGING MOROCCO TO ACCEPT AN

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
08RABAT750 2008-08-12 07:31 2011-08-24 16:30 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Rabat 
VZCZCXRO8382
PP RUEHTRO
DE RUEHRB #0750 2250731
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 120731Z AUG 08
FM AMEMBASSY RABAT
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 8984
INFO RUEHAS/AMEMBASSY ALGIERS PRIORITY 4877
RUEHNK/AMEMBASSY NOUAKCHOTT PRIORITY 3806
RUEHTRO/AMEMBASSY TRIPOLI PRIORITY 0338
RUEHTU/AMEMBASSY TUNIS PRIORITY 9702
RUEHCL/AMCONSUL CASABLANCA PRIORITY 4269
RUEHGV/USMISSION GENEVA PRIORITY 1093
 
UNCLAS RABAT 000750 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR IO/RHS - OSTERMEIER, DRL/MLGA, AND NEA/MAG 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PHUM UN MO
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE DELIVERED: URGING MOROCCO TO ACCEPT AN 
OHCHR REGIONAL OFFICE 
 
REF: STATE 077748 
 
1.  PolCouns delivered reftel points to Ministry of Foreign 
Affairs (MFA) Chief of Staff Nasser Bourita on July 22. 
Bourita responded positively but noncommittally, saying that 
the Government of Morocco (GOM) supported the idea in 
principle but still had concerns about the Office of the High 
Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) stemming from what it 
perceived as Morocco's unfavorable treatment at the Universal 
Periodic Review session in Geneva on April 8 and during an 
OHCHR delegation visit to Morocco in 2006. 
 
2.  Bourita said the GOM was also sensitive to how questions 
on Western Sahara would be managed by the regional office if 
it was based in Rabat since the UN does not recognize 
Moroccan sovereignty over the territory, and the GOM strongly 
opposes the UN's treating Western Sahara as a separate 
entity. 
 
3.  PolOff followed up with Bourita on August 11, when the 
latter said that there had been "no evolution" in the GOM's 
thinking on the subject.  Bourita reiterated the GOM's 
discomfort with its previous experiences with the OHCHR and 
said that it would have to consider the question over a 
longer period of time. 
 
 
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Riley