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PREC: ROUTINE
CLASS: UNCLASSIFIED
LINE1: RAAUZYUW RUCNDTA1264 0950038-UUUU--RHEHAAX.
LINE2: ZNR UUUUU ZZH
LINE3: R 050038Z APR 95
LINE4: FM USMISSION USUN NEW YORK
OSRI: RUCNDT
DTG: 050038Z APR 95
ORIG: USMISSION USUN NEW YORK
TO: RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 3760
INFO: RUEHGV/USMISSION GENEVA 7603
SUBJ:
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE - OPENING U. S.
STATEMENT BY ASSISTANT SECRETARY JOHN SHATTUCK
TEXT:
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 03 USUN NEW YORK 001264
STATE PLEASE PASS TO DOJ, DOI, INS
E.0.12356: N/A
TAGS: PHUM, UNHRC-2, KTIA, PGOV, SOCI
SUBJECT: HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE - OPENING U.S.
STATEMENT BY ASSISTANT SECRETARY JOHN SHATTUCK
1. HERE FOLLOWS TEXT OF OPENING U.S. STATEMENT IN THE
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE, IN INTRODUCTION OF THE U.S.
INITIAL REPORT ON IMPLEMENTATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL
COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS, AS DELIVERED BY
JOHN SHATTUCK, ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FOR
DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND LABOR, MARCH 29, 1995:
THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN. IT IS A DISTINCT HONOR TO MAKE
THE FIRST STATEMENT ON BEHALF OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA BEFORE THE DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS OF THIS
COMMITTEE AND INDEED BEFORE ANY OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS
TREATY BODIES. THIS IS AN HISTORIC OCCASION FOR US.
QAT THIS POINT A/S SHATTUCK EXPRESSED REGRET THAT
AMBASSADOR ALBRIGHT COULD NOT BE PRESENT AND READ A
LETTER FROM ATTORNEY GENERAL RENO ADDRESSED TO THE
COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN.
MR. CHAIRMAN, FOR TOO MANY YEARS, THE UNITED STATES HAS
NOT BEEN REPRESENTED IN, AND HAS NOT PARTICIPATED IN THE
WORK OF, THE HUMAN RIGHTS TREATY BODIES BECAUSE WE HAD
NOT RATIFIED THE MAIN HUMAN RIGHTS TREATIES. I AM GLAD
TO SAY THAT IS NO LONGER TRUE.
THE CHANGE BEGAN WITH RATIFICATION OF THE GENOCIDE
CONVENTION IN 1988, FOLLOWED BY RATIFICATION OF THE
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