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Do you really want to meet with him next week? It seems like he is asking
for a meeting between your friend and your dad when in town next week. Let
me know if you want me to schedule something (call? coffee?) with Jared.

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 6:36 PM, <hbiden@rosemontseneca.com> wrote:

> Let's get together next week to discuss.
>
> RHB
> 202-333-1880
>
> On Mar 22, 2016, at 1:26 PM, Jared Genser <jgenser@perseus-strategies.com>
> wrote:
>
> Dear Hunter,
>
> Hi! Hope you are well. So our mutual friend is coming into town on March
> 30-31. We are close to completing, after a massive effort, a
> highly-detailed platform with 50 specific commitments if he is elected. Of
> course it has a strong exec summary and ten highlighted commitments up
> front.
>
> Taking this public, as he will, on around April 7-8th, will actually be
> historic – regardless of how the race turns out — given that no candidate
> for the position has ever published anything about their vision in running,
> let alone something like this. And the platform will drive discussions
> among the candidates for SG.
>
> He is making his way around the world consulting with the P5 about the
> ideas in his draft platform to seek and secure their input.
>
> I’ve asked for meetings for him with Tony (or Tom Shannon) at State, Ben
> Rhodes/Steve Pomper at the NSC, and then chair/ranking on SFR and foreign
> ops approps subcommittees so Corker/Cardin/Graham/Leahy and
> Royce/Engel/Granger/Lowey.
>
> It would seem to me that this might be the right time for our guy to have
> a private substantive discussion w/your Dad, if you thought that made
> sense. While our guy has had to walk a delicate line with nods to the P5
> on their core interests, the platform is *very strong and progressive
> overall*, embracing fully sustainable development and climate change
> efforts, addressing the most urgent issues in peacekeeping around
> responding to the threat of terrorism and rebuilding failing states in
> MENA, and on human rights and UN reform. Securing his input now to make
> sure his priorities make it into the final draft would be invaluable of
> course.
>
> Best,
>
> Jared
>
>
> *Jared Genser*
>
> Managing Director
>
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>
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>
>
> I’m now tweeting
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> !
>
>
> *The UN Security Council in the Age of Human Rights*
>
> Cambridge University Press, 2014
>
> Co-Edited by Jared Genser and Bruno Stagno Ugarte
>
>
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> <http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/law/public-international-law/united-nations-security-council-age-human-rights>
>
>
> For decades the UN Security Council skirted human rights, addressing them
> sporadically, reluctantly, and typically without reference to binding
> standards. That began to change with the end of the Cold War, as easing
> political tensions allowed the Council gradually to act on the fact that
> upholding the norms against atrocities is intimately connected to its
> classic mandate of defending international peace and security. Yet even
> since then, that evolution has been contested, particularly when the
> Council’s permanent five members fear the topic might come back to haunt
> them or their close allies. This exceptional volume of essays provides a
> comprehensive assessment of the Council’s conflicting views on human rights
> with more nuance, sophistication, and historical memory than anything else
> around. It helps us to understand how the shifting battles over human
> rights are being waged in the Council and provides guidance as to how the
> Council can more effectively defend our rights in the future.
>
>
> *Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch*
>
>
> During the last 20 years, the UN Security Council has embraced the
> protection of individual rights as a matter of international peace and
> security. That said, progress has been uneven and there have been both
> great strides forward and terrible setbacks. This timely and important book provides
> the first comprehensive assessment about how the Security Council works to
> address major human-rights challenges around the world and recommends ways
> it can do so more effectively.
>
>
>
> *Luis* *Moreno Ocampo, First Prosecutor, International Criminal Court
> (2003-2012)*
>
>
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