WIKILEAKS: ARMENIA WILL NOT SUPPORT IRAN ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
Tert.am
25.08.11
In May 2006 Armenia’s ex-foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan took a final
decision not to support Iran’s bid for a seat in the UN human rights
council, according to a recently leaked WikiLeaks cable/
“On May 6, Deputy Foreign Minister Armen Baiburtian phoned DCM to
inform that Minister Oskanian had taken the final GOAM decision
not/not to support Iran’s bid for a seat on the new UN Human Rights
Council. Baiburtian said that Oskanian’s decision, taken after his
return from a conference in Vilnius, was influenced by the Secretary’s
letter,” reads the cable.
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