Cablegate: Liechtenstein Voting Plans Regarding Unga

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OO RUEHWEB

DE RUEHSW #0605 3311248
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
O 261248Z NOV 08
FM AMEMBASSY BERN
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 5479
INFO RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK PRIORITY 0222

UNCLAS BERN 000605

SENSITIVE
SIPDIS

DEPT FOR IO/UNP (A.MORRISON), NEA, AND EUR/CE
(Y.SAINT-ANDRE)

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL UNGA IS
SUBJECT: LIECHTENSTEIN VOTING PLANS REGARDING UNGA
RESOLUTIONS WITH ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS

REF: A. SECSTATE 123081
B. BERN 00599

1. (SBU) Further to reftel B, Doris Frick, DCM of the
Liechtenstein Embassy in Bern, informed poloff on November 26
that the GOL will abstain on the resolutions reaffirming
three UN bodies (i.e., The Committee on the Exercise of the
Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (62/80);
Division for Palestinian Rights of the Secretariat (62/81);
and Work of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli
Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian
People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories (62/106).
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