Cablegate: Demarche to Drc: December Vote On "Defamation Of
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SUBJECT: DEMARCHE TO DRC: DECEMBER VOTE ON "DEFAMATION OF
RELIGIONS"
REF: STATE 122637
(SBU) Polcouns and poloff delivered reftel points on December
3 to Banza Ngoy Katumwe, thanking the GDRC for having
switched its vote in a positive manner in the Third Committee
and urging the GDRC to vote no or, at the least, to abstain
in the UNGA plenary session during the week of December 7-12.
Ngoy said that the GDRC was considering voting no in the
plenary session. The DRC, Ngoy stressed, was fundamentally a
lay state, which respected freedom of expression (Comment:
Although Ngoy intimated that the GDRC might vote no, an
abstention is more likely. End comment).
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