Cablegate: Nigeria: Demarche On Human Cloning Delivered

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DE RUEHUJA #2140 3031619
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O 291619Z OCT 08
FM AMEMBASSY ABUJA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 4316
RUEHFR/USMISSION UNESCO PARIS IMMEDIATE
INFO RUEHOS/AMCONSUL LAGOS 0169

UNCLAS ABUJA 002140

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E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: TBIO UNESCO NI
SUBJECT: NIGERIA: DEMARCHE ON HUMAN CLONING DELIVERED

REF: STATE 114207

Per action request in reftel, ESTHOff delivered subject demarche to
Ambassador M. K. Ibrahim, Director of International Organizations,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Government of Nigeria and
encouraged GON support for the U.S. position. Ambassador Ibrahim
promised to transmit immediately the U.S. position to the Nigerian
Mission to UNESCO. He commented that GON thinking was very close to
that of the U.S.

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