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Viewing cable 09DAMASCUS282, RE: DEMARCHE REQUEST - HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
09DAMASCUS282 2009-04-16 11:58 2011-08-24 01:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Damascus 
VZCZCXYZ0000
PP RUEHWEB

DE RUEHDM #0282 1061158
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 161158Z APR 09
FM AMEMBASSY DAMASCUS
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 6258
INFO RUEHGVA/USMISSION GENEVA PRIORITY 0676
RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK PRIORITY 0593
 
UNCLAS DAMASCUS 000282 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPT FOR NEA/ELA, IO/RHS, DRL/MLGA 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PHUM PREL UN SY
SUBJECT: RE: DEMARCHE REQUEST - HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 
 
REF: STATE 36629 
 
ΒΆ1. (SBU) Charge d'Affaires delivered the diplomatic note 
contained in reftel to Vice Foreign Minister Faisal Miqdad on 
April 15.  Miqdad harkened back to his tenure at the Syrian 
Mission to the UN in New York and recalled that Syria had 
vowed its support for the U.S. candidacy to the now-defunct 
UN Commission on Human Rights.  After the vote, Miqdad, said, 
he had been asked if Syria had indeed supported the 
ultimately unsuccessful U.S. candidacy; he recalled his 
reply:  "When Syria gives its word it keeps it."  Obviously 
intrigued by the news the U.S. was seeking a seat on the 
Human Rights Council, Miqdad told the Charge that the Syrian 
government would "seriously look into the issue with great 
interest." 
CONNELLY