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Cablegate: Demarche Delivered: Opposing Cuba Embargo

VZCZCXYZ0001
RR RUEHWEB

DE RUEHYE #1587 3121416
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 081416Z NOV 06
FM AMEMBASSY YEREVAN
TO SECSTATE WASHDC 4383

UNCLAS YEREVAN 001587

SIPDIS

SENSITIVE
SIPDIS

DEPT FOR EUR/CARC AND
IO/UNP-BETTS

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PHUM PREL UNGA UN CU AM
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE DELIVERED: OPPOSING CUBA EMBARGO
RESOLUTION

REF: A) STATE 182099 B) STATE 184156

1. (SBU) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please
protect accordingly.

2. (SBU) We delivered reftel points to Valery Mkrtumyan, head
of the MFA's International Organizations Department.
Mkrtumyan said that Armenia has voted in favor of the Cuba
Embargo Resolution in the past, and likely would be unwilling
to change that voting pattern at this time. He said he would
pass the information to Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian to
determine Armenia's position on the Australian amendment.
GODFREY

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