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Viewing cable 08COLOMBO1056, UNGA ANTI-ISRAEL RESOLUTIONS: POSITIVE MOVEMENT

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
08COLOMBO1056 2008-11-24 12:24 2011-08-24 01:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Colombo 
VZCZCXRO7905
PP RUEHDE
DE RUEHLM #1056 3291224
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 241224Z NOV 08
FM AMEMBASSY COLOMBO
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 8953
INFO RUEHUL/AMEMBASSY SEOUL PRIORITY 0828
RUEHTV/AMEMBASSY TEL AVIV PRIORITY 0707
RUEHDE/AMCONSUL DUBAI PRIORITY 0156
RUEHJM/AMCONSUL JERUSALEM PRIORITY 0181
RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK PRIORITY 0859
 
UNCLAS COLOMBO 001056 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPARTMENT FOR SCA/INS, SCA/RA AND IO/UNP (MORRISON) 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PREL UNGA IS PA CE MV
SUBJECT: UNGA ANTI-ISRAEL RESOLUTIONS: POSITIVE MOVEMENT 
FROM MALDIVES, BUT NOT SRI LANKA 
 
REF: SECSTATE 123081 
 
 1.  (SBU) Maldivian Foreign Minister Shaheed assured 
Ambassador that Maldives could probably shift "to a more 
reasonable stance" on the anti-Israel resolutions.  He 
indicated, however, that MFA would have to look at each 
resolution on a case-by-case basis.  He also reported that he 
had instructed the Maldivian Ambassador in New York to break 
ranks with the "conservative majority" in the Organization of 
Islamic Countries and support a resolution banning 
extrajudicial killings. 
 
2.  (SBU) Sri Lankan MFA Director General for UN and 
Multilateral Affairs Wijewardhana reported that Sri Lanka 
would continue to support the resolutions on Palestine as it 
has "for decades".  Wijewardhana confirmed that Sri Lanka 
abstained on the recent UNGA Third Committee resolution on 
DPRK (calling Sri Lanka's "yes" vote last year "unusual.") 
She also said that Sri Lanka had voted against the Iran and 
Burma resolutions. 
Blake