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### Viewing cable 08BEIJING2104, THE U.S.-CHINA HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE, WORKING

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    OO RUEHCN RUEHGH RUEHVC
    DE RUEHBJ #2104/01 1511040
    ZNY CCCCC ZZH
    O 301040Z MAY 08
    FM AMEMBASSY BEIJING
    TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 7651
    INFO RUEHOO/CHINA POSTS COLLECTIVE
    RHMFISS/CDR USPACOM HONOLULU HI
    RUEKJCS/SECDEF WASHINGTON DC
    RHEHNSC/NSC WASHDC
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    C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 04 BEIJING 002104

    SIPDIS

    DEPARTMENT FOR DRL

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 05/30/2033
    TAGS: PHUM PREL KOLY NK BR CH
    SUBJECT: THE U.S.-CHINA HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE, WORKING
    LUNCH, MAY 26, 2008: UNHRC, ICCPR, NORTH KOREA, BURMA

    Classified By: POLITICAL MINISTER COUNSELOR AUBREY CARLSON. REASONS 1.4
     (B) AND (D).

    ¶1. (U) May 26, 2008; 1:30 p.m.; Beijing, Diaoyutai State
    Guesthouse

    ¶2. (U) Participants:

    U.S.
    David J. Kramer, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy,
    Rights, and Labor
    John V. Hanford, Ambassador at Large for International
    Religious Freedom
    Thomas Christensen, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for
    East Asian and Pacific Affairs
    Dan Picutta, Charge d'Affairs, a.i., Embassy Beijing
    Robert K. Harris, Assistant Legal Advisor, Department of State
    Richard W. Behrend, PRM Advisor, Department of State
    Susan O'Sullivan, Senior Advisor, Bureau of Democracy,
    Rights, and Labor, Department of State
    Dan Kritenbrink, Internal Unit Chief, Political Section,
    Embassy Beijing
    Emilie L. Kao, Foreign Affairs Officer, Bureau of Democracy
    Rights, and Labor, International Religious Freedom,
    Department of State
    Jeannette M. Windon, Special Assistant, Office of Democracy
    and Global Affairs, Department of State
    Andrea Goodman, Political Officer, Bureau of East Asian and
    Pacific Affairs, Department of State
    Steve Goldrup, Second Secretary, Embassy Beijing
    Gregory May, Second Secretary, Embassy Beijing (notetaker)
    James Brown, Interpreter

    PRC
    Wu Hailong, Director General, International Organizations and
    Conferences Department, MFA
    Shen Yongxiang, Deputy Director General, International
    Organizations and Conferences Department, MFA
    Yao Maochen, Deputy Inspector of United Front Work
    Department, CPC Central Committee
    Teng Wei, Deputy Director General, Criminal Division,
    Legislative Affairs Commission of the National People's
    Congress Standing Committee
    Wan Yonghai, Presiding Judge, Second Criminal Division,
    Supreme People's Court
    Sun Maoli, Deputy Director General, Legal Affairs Department,
    Ministry of Public Security
    Liu Guoyu, Deputy Director General, Prison Administration
    Department, Ministry of Justice
    Guo Wei, Director General, Foreign Affairs Department, State
    Administration for Religious Affairs
    Liu Zhengrong, Director General (acting), Internet
    Department, State Council Information Office
    Suolang Renzeng, Deputy Chief, Administration for Ethnic and
    Religious Affairs, Tibetan Autonomous Region
    Zhao Yubin, Director, North American and Oceanian Affairs
    Department, MFA
    Yan Jiarong, Director, International Organizations and
    Conferences Department, MFA
    Yao Shaojun, Deputy Director, International Organizations and
    Conferences Department, MFA
    Xu Jing, Deputy Director, International Organizations and
    Conferences Department, MFA Zheng Zeguang, Director General,
    North American and Oceanian Affairs
    Zu Yanwei, Attache, International Organizations and
    Conferences Department, MFA
    Liu Lingxiao, Attache, International Organizations and
    Conferences Department, MFA
    Fang Qiang, Interpreter, MFA

    Summary
    -------

    ¶3. (C) China and the United States should cooperate more on
    human rights issues in the United Nations, Shen Yongxiang,
    Deputy Director General of the MFA's Department of
    International Organizations, said during a May 26 working
    lunch.  DDG Shen said the United States should reengage with
    the Council in order to improve it.  DDG Shen said China
    intends to invite the new UN High Commissioner for Human
    Rights to visit, saying there was not enough time left in
    current Commissioner Louise Arbour's term for this.  DRL
    Assistant Secretary Kramer countered that Arbour would
    welcome a chance to visit China.  DDG Shen said China will
    continue to host visits by UN Special Rapporteurs at a rate
    of one per year.  China is working toward ratification of the

    BEIJING 00002104  002 OF 004

    International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
    but must still accomplish further legal reforms, including a
    review of China's Reeducation Through Labor (RTL) system, in
    order to comply with the Covenant.  On North Korean refugees,
    Director General Wu Hailong repeated standard points that
    North Koreans in China are "economic migrants."  However,
    China has been cooperative with the UNHCR and will allow the
    remaining five North Koreans under UNHCR care to depart for
    third countries by the end of June.  EAP DAS Christensen
    urged China to press Burma to grant access to foreign
    disaster relief experts.  DG Wu said Burma continues to be
    suspicious of the United States, yet the Burmese regime is
    taking positive steps, including accepting U.S. material
    assistance.  End Summary.

    UN Human Rights Council
    -----------------------

    ¶4. (C) DDG Shen Yongxiang began the May 26 working lunch with
    an appeal that the United States and China work more closely
    in the UN Human Rights Council.  Shen argued that more
    cooperation in the UN between the United States and China in
    the area of human rights would improve the international
    image of both countries.  China is ready to work with the
    United States to promote a UN body that is "fair, objective
    and non-selective."  DDG Shen complained that, following the
    "serious crimes" carried out by rioters in Lhasa March 14,
    the United States "violated the proceedings" of the UN Human
    Rights Council by unfairly accusing China of rights
    violations in Tibet.  China hopes the United States will
    participate in a "more productive way" in the Human Rights
    Council.  China supports the current process of universal
    periodic review in the Human Rights Council, and the United
    States should take the review process seriously.  DDG Shen
    encouraged the United States to participate in the upcoming
    Durban UN World Conference Against Racism.

    ¶5. (C) A/S Kramer responded that the United States is
    extremely disappointed in the UN Human Rights Council.  The
    periodic review process is a possible positive mechanism, but
    it is too early to tell how successful that mechanism will
    be.  On Durban, A/S Kramer said that while it will ultimately
    be up to the next administration to decide whether the United
    States participates, this would be "extremely difficult"
    unless there is a major overhaul of the approaches to be
    taken at the conference.  A/S Kramer noted that Canada has
    already announced it will skip the Durban conference and
    Israel has serious reservations.  DDG Shen said that while
    China "respects" the views of the United States and its
    disappointment with the Human Rights Council, some current
    deficiencies could have been avoided had the United States
    been more engaged at the start of the reform process.  DDG
    Shen said the United States and other Western countries
    backed the idea that the support of one-third of Human Rights
    Council members is enough to hold a special session, whereas
    China believes a 50-percent threshold would have been fairer.
     Assistant Legal Advisor Harris said that the United States
    agreed that the Council should not have double standards or
    be politicized.  The Council should be willing to address
    fairly the most serious human rights abuses wherever they
    occur.  However, the United States believes it is a double
    standard for the Council to hold many special sessions and
    adopt one-sided resolutions concerning Israel while failing
    to hold special sessions on the most serious human rights
    problems (for example Zimbabwe).  Meanwhile, the Council in
    its first year issued only two special mechanisms mandates,
    which involved Cuba and Belarus.  As a practical matter,
    China's earlier proposal to require a 50-percent majority for
    calling special sessions would not prevent special sessions
    involving Israel.  However, a 50-percent threshold might have
    proven to be a barrier to convening special sessions
    regarding other countries with profound human rights problems.

    Visits by UN Commissioners, Special Rapporteurs
    --------------------------------------------- --

    ¶6. (C) A/S Kramer urged China to host more Special
    Rapporteurs and to invite UN Human Rights Commissioner Louise
    Arbour to visit Tibet.  DDG Shen said China is "open and
    positive" about receiving a visit by the Commissioner.
    However, her term will expire this year.  China thus will
    extend an invitation to the new Commissioner.  Kramer replied
    that Arbour would welcome the chance to visit China before
    her term expires and could easily find time on her schedule.
    Harris added that the possibility of visiting Tibet is the
    reason Arbour wants to make a visit during the last months of

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    her tenure.  China, DDG Shen said, also welcomes visits by
    various UN Special Rapporteurs and already has extended
    invitations to the Rapporteurs on religious freedom and
    education, among others.  China's goal is to host a visit by
    one Special Rapporteur per year.  However, China has not
    hosted such visits in the last two years while the UN Human
    Rights Council structure has been under review.  Once the
    review is complete, China will resume issuing invitations.
    However, DDG Shen added, China must balance the timing and
    sequencing of Special Rapporteur visits between the
    political, cultural and social realms.  Harris commented that
    the United States hosts on average three Special Rapporteurs
    per year and has had several visits in the past two years.

    ICCPR
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    ¶7. (C) China is "positive" about the International Covenant
    on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), DDG Shen asserted, and
    since signing the Covenant has been making efforts to prepare
    for ratification.  Since 2003, China has engaged in a series
    of judicial reforms that will help smooth eventual
    ratification.  However, China still must make additional
    reforms to its criminal justice system in order to comply
    with the ICCPR, and is currently reviewing its Reform Through
    Labor (RTL) system.  All of these changes will create
    favorable conditions for ratification of the ICCPR.  Finally,
    China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs is working with the
    United Nations to resolve "inconsistencies" that have been
    identified in the Chinese translation of the ICCPR.  China,
    DDG Shen averred, is even more "eager" to ratify the ICCPR
    than the United States is to ratify the International
    Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).
    Harris noted that the United States has not yet announced an
    intention to ratify the ICESCR because, like China, the
    United States wants to be absolutely sure that it can
    implement all the Covenant's provisions.

    North Korea
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    ¶8. (C) PRM Advisor Behrend urged China to stop repatriating
    North Korean refugees against their will, particularly those
    seeking protection from the UN High Commission for Refugees
    (UNHCR) office i China.  China should improve access for
    Nort Korean refugees to UNHCR and grant Chinese iizenship
    to children of mixed Chinese-North Korean parentage, which
    would allow them access to schools and other social services.
     Director General Wu Hailong responded that North Koreans in
    China are not "refugees" but rather economic migrants who
    have entered the country illegally.  Nevertheless, China has
    cooperated in the cases of 30 North Koreans under UNHCR care.
     By June, China will approve the departure to third countries
    of the remaining five North Koreans still under UNHCR care in
    China.  DG Wu urged the United States not to allow U.S.
    nationals to break Chinese law by becoming involved with
    North Korean illegal migrants.  DG Wu noted that illegal
    migrants from North Korea had in the past violated Chinese
    law by storming diplomatic compounds and international
    schools.  The ultimate solution to the North Korean problem
    is to work toward peace and stability on the Korean
    peninsula.  Once the DPRK economy develops, DG Wu predicted,
    the number of illegal border crossers from North Korea will
    decline.

    Burma Humanitarian Relief
    -------------------------

    ¶9. (C) EAP DAS Christensen expressed appreciation for China's
    help in convincing Burma to accept U.S. cyclone relief
    assistance.  Christensen urged China to push Burma to allow
    foreign relief workers into the country.  Though Burma has
    accepted supplies from the United States, the Burmese regime
    should also agree to accept technical experts from around the
    world.  Such experts are needed on the ground to ensure an
    effective aid operation.  DG Wu said China appreciates the
    help the USG has given to Burma.  Any international
    assistance effort, however, must respect the needs and wishes
    of Burma.  The United States has been hostile to Burma's
    development, and this, DG Wu said, has led to suspicion on
    the Burmese side.  Despite this, DG Wu continued, Burma is
    now accepting U.S. aid and recently allowed a visit by U.S.
    Pacific Command's Admiral Keating.  DG Wu observed that Burma
    remains hesitant to admit aid workers and has not granted
    entry to a team of Chinese rescue workers.  After the
    devastating earthquake in Sichuan, China has been very open

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    to offers of international assistance, DG Wu said, and
    China's attitude has affected Burma.  A/S Kramer praised
    China's response to the earthquake and openness to outside
    help.  DG Wu said China's openness shows the progress China
    has made in many areas.
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