Cablegate: Demarche Delivered: Child Labor Lists & Report

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P 140725Z SEP 09
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TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 4784
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E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: EIND ELAB ETRD PHUM RS SOCI
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CHILD LABOR LISTS & REPORT
RELEASED

REF: SECSTATE 92560

1. (U) Per reftel, on September 9 Post delivered a demarche
to Nikolai Smirnov of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' North
America Department on the release of the Department of
Labor's list of goods from countries that the Bureau of
International Labor Affairs has reason to believe are
produced by forced labor or child labor in violation of
international standards; the proposed update to the 2001 list
of products that might have been mined, produced, or
manufactured by forced or indentured child labor; and the
2008 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor. Post did
not receive a response.
Beyrle

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