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### Viewing cable 08GENEVA498, NEW HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL PRESIDENT MARTIN UHOMOIBHI \

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08GENEVA498 | 2008-07-01 12:12 | 2011-03-13 00:12 | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | US Mission Geneva
Appears in these articles: http://www.letemps.ch/swiss_papers

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    2008-07-01 12:57:00	08GENEVA498	US Mission Geneva	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN		VZCZCXYZ0006\
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    	C O N F I D E N T I A L GENEVA 000498 \
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    C O R R E C T E D C O P Y - NOFORN CAPTION ADDED \
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    SIPDIS \
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    NOFORN \
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    E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/26/2018 \
    TAGS: UNHRC PHUM PINR NI
    SUBJECT: NEW HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL PRESIDENT MARTIN UHOMOIBHI \
     \
    Classified By: Ambassador Warren W. Tichenor, Reasons 1.4(b)(d) \
     \
    ¶1.  (C)  Summary:  Nigerian Permanent Representative to the \
    UN in Geneva, Martin Uhomoibhi, was formally elected \
    President of the UN Human Rights Council June 18.  His \
    nomination by the African Group to serve as the Council's \
    President for the 2008-2009 session had been contested from \
    within the Group by Djibouti, which had the strong backing of \
    Egypt, which wanted a Muslim PermRep from a majority Muslim \
    country to hold the presidency.  Uhomoibhi, a practicing \
    Roman Catholic who is close to the Holy See's mission in \
    Geneva, beat out his Djiboutian counterpart in an 18-15 vote \
    within the African Group.  Uhomoibhi, who took up his post in \
    Geneva on March 15, 2007, has attended Council sessions \
    infrequently; we are not aware of any previous experience he \
    may have handling human rights issues.  Mission Geneva has \
    dealt closely with him at both the World Intellectual \
    Property Organization (WIPO) and on International \
    Organization on Migration (IOM) issues and found him \
    approachable, articulate, and principled.  He is reportedly \
    strongly influenced by his faith, and has proven himself \
    willing to stand up to pressure from Organization of the \
    Islamic Conference (OIC) countries under many circumstances. \
    Uhomoibhi's relative independence from African Group \
    "group-think" could be very useful to Western Group views at \
    the Council.  Based on our past dealings with him, Uhomoibhi \
    has been willing to broker compromises with the U.S. and \
    other WHRG countries if we are active and engaged, although \
    he would not necessarily favor Western views otherwise. \
    Uhomoibhi has informed Ambassador Tichenor that he wants to \
    work closely with the U.S. and that he wants to lead the \
    Council to become a body "that is worthy of U.S. engagement." \
     End Summary. \
     \
    Standing Up to the OIC \
    ---------------------- \
     \
    ¶2.  (C/NF)  Ambassador Uhomoibhi has little track record at \
    the Human Rights Council, but both there and in other \
    Geneva-based fora has demonstrated some independence from the \
    views of the OIC.  His predecessor as Nigeria's PermRep in \
    Geneva had been Muslim and had been much more closely aligned \
    to the OIC.  Uhomoibhi's close election by the African Group \
    as Council President highlights a fault line in the group \
    along religious lines which bears close monitoring in the \
    Council on important issues such as defamation of religions \
    and freedom of expression.  Uhomoibhi told Ambassador \
    Tichenor that Egyptian PermRep (and future Egyptian \
    Ambassador to the U.S.) Sameh Shoukry had pressured him to \
    "protect" Sudan at the Council from those who would criticize \
    its human rights record.  In another context, when serving as \
    President of the WIPO General Assembly, Uhomoibhi told \
    Ambassador Tichenor that he had received visits from both the \
    Egyptian and Algerian PermReps, claiming that he was "not a \
    good African" for cooperating with those who were attempting \
    to force WIPO Director General Kamil Idris from office. \
    Unlike some of his African Group counterparts, Uhomoibhi \
    appears to pursue no pre-cooked agenda within Geneva fora, \
    instead relying on where his principles guide him.  This \
    willingness to consider various issues on their merits has \
    made and continues to make him potentially a sympathetic ally \
    to the U.S under certain circumstances. \
     \
    Uhomoibhi's Record as WIPO General Assembly President \
    --------------------------------------------- -------- \
     \
    ¶3.  (C/NF)  Mission Geneva views of Ambassador Uhomoibhi are \
    strongly influenced by our experience working with him since \
    September 2007 in his role as WIPO GA President.  At WIPO, \
    the U.S. and other close allies were working to help force \
    the resignation of WIPO DG Idris, a Sudanese national who had \
    falsified his UN personnel records for personal gain. \
    Uhomoibhi made the principled decision to support Idris's \
    removal, and was supported by Zambia, Ghana and Rwanda, a \
    similar split within the African Group to that we have seen \
    at the Human Rights Council.  Because he believed that Idris \
    should resign, Uhomoibhi was accused by some of his African \
    Group colleagues of being a tool of Western interests at \
    WIPO.  He stood up under the pressure, apparently deciding \
    that Idris, by lying on his UN personnel records, had \
    undermined the overall integrity and dignity of all Africans. \
     Uhomoibhi worked closely with us on the text of Idris's \
    retirement letter, not accepting Mission Geneva's proposed \
    draft verbatim, but using it as the basis for constructive \
    negotiations in which he served as intermediary between the \
    U.S. and Idris.  Once the WIPO GA accepted Idris's \
    resignation, Uhomoibhi ran the election process for his \
    replacement with scrupulous fairness, resulting in the \
    election of a qualified candidate with high integrity. \
     \
    ¶4.  (C/NF)  That is not to say, however, that left to his own \
    devices, Uhomoibhi will always act in U.S. interests.  As the \
    long process of inducing WIPO DG Idris to resign ran its \
    course, Uhomoibhi accepted the U.S. proposal to create a \
    "friends of the chair" group to bridge disagreements over how \
    to act on an internal audit report documenting misconduct on \
    the part of Idris.  Once the "friends" group was created, \
    however, Uhomoibhi initially acquiesced to an attempt to \
    stack the deck against the good governance side by allowing \
    representatives from groups such as the OIC, G-77 and other \
    blocs on the "friends" group -- players sympathetic to \
    Idris's efforts to remain in his job.  However, when the U.S. \
    countered by arguing that, in that case, other blocs \
    irrelevant to the issue like JUSCANZ, the EU, etc. should \
    also be represented among "friends of the chair," Uhomoibhi \
    changed his position, deciding that only the coordinators of \
    WIPO's seven regional groups would serve as "friends." \
     \
     \
    Nigeria's Role in IOM/Swing Election Campaign \
    --------------------------------------------- \
     \
    ¶5. (C/NF)  Nigeria, as well as most other African Group \
    members, supported U.S. candidate Bill Swing in June 18 \
    elections for Director General of the IOM.  Uhomoibhi took \
    the initiative to host a lunch for select African Group \
    ambassadors with all four IOM DG candidates.  Uhomoibhi told \
    us he was hosting the lunch and promoting a separate meeting \
    for Swing with the entire Africa Group to help bolster \
    Swing's chances.  In fact, we did not favor the lunch and it \
    was soon clear that Uhomoibhi was acting also to demonstrate \
    his own leadership among the Africans.  While he did campaign \
    among Africans for Swing -- who ultimately won -- the lesson \
    we draw is that while Uhomoibhi can be likeminded in pursuit \
    of shared enterprise, he remains independent and devoted to \
    advancing his own agenda. \
     \
    Biographical Information \
    ------------------------ \
     \
    ¶6.  (C)  Martin Ihoeghian Uhomoibhi is married to Dr. \
    Perpetua E. Uhomoibhi and has two children, a college-age \
    daughter studying in Nigeria and a pre-teenage son who lives \
    with the family in Geneva.  Uhomoibhi reportedly speaks \
    little French, a factor that we understand undermined support \
    for him among Francophone African Group members.  Colleagues \
    at the Mission of the Holy See in Geneva confirm that \
    Uhomoibhi is a practicing Roman Catholic who is close to \
    their Mission.  Through repeated conversations with \
    Uhomoibhi, Ambassador Tichenor has learned that Uhomoibhi's \
    faith is central to his work, and Ambassador Tichenor \
    considers Uhomoibhi's faith the basis of his willingness to \
    take principled positions.  A UNOG press release dated 19 \
    June 2008 on Ambassador Uhomoibhi's appointment as Council \
    President follows: \
     \
    ¶7.  (U)  Martin Ihoeghian Uhomoibhi is currently serving as \
    Ambassador of Nigeria to Switzerland and Permanent \
    Representative to the United Nations Office at Geneva.  Dr. \
    Uhomoibhi begins his one-year term as President of the Human \
    Rights Council today.  Prior to his appointment to Geneva, \
    Dr. Uhomoibhi served as the acting Director of the Office of \
    the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of \
    Nigeria from 2004 to 2007.  From July 2003 to January 2004, \
    he was Deputy Director and Head of Division for Inter-African \
    Affairs at the Ministry.  In 2000, Dr. Uhomoibhi was \
    appointed Minister and Deputy Head of Mission to the Nigerian \
    Embassy in Addis Ababa, where he concurrently served as his \
    country's representative to the African Union and to the \
    Economic Commission for Africa until 2003.  In 1999 he was \
    appointed Consul General of Nigeria in Atlanta, with \
    responsibility for United States-Nigeria relations in the 16 \
    states of the south-eastern United States.  Dr. Uhomoibhi has \
    also been serving as the President of the General Assembly of \
    the World Intellectual Property Organization since September \
    ¶2007. \
     \
    From 1995 to 1999, Dr. Uhomoibhi served as Special Assistant \
    to the Minister for Foreign Affairs.  Prior to that, from \
    1993 to 1995, he served as the coordinator and alternative \
    representative of Nigeria to the Security Council in New \
    York.  Dr. Uhomoibhi started his diplomatic career in 1984, \
    when he joined the Minister of Foreign Affairs as a Senior \
    First Secretary.  In his previous career, from 1977 to 1984, \
    he was a lecturer in diplomatic and African history at the \
    University of Ibadan in Nigeria. \
     \
    Dr. Uhomoibhi graduated from the University of Ibadan in 1976 \
    with a bachelor's degree in history.  He also holds a \
    master's in history and political science from the University \
    of Ibadan and a D.Phil from Oxford University in Modern \
    History and International Relations. \
     \
    Born on 3 November 1954 in Nigeria, Dr. Uhomoibhi is married \
    with children. \
    TICHENOR \

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