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2. SUMMARY. EFFORTS OF TANZANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER
TO BREAK POLITICAL DEADLOCK DURING WEEK-LONG VISIT
MAY BEAR FRUIT AFTER HIS DEPARTURE 3/18. BUT IF
PRIME MINISTER DESIGNATE MAKES UNILATERAL
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REVIEW AUTHORITY: JOHN L. MILLS
DATE/CASE ID: 20 NOV 2002 200003723
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ANNOUNCEMENT OF CABINET, WITHOUT CONSULTING THE
PRESIDENT'S SIDE, WE MIGHT HAVE JUST TURNED IN ONE
MORE CIRCLE. END SUMMARY.
FACILITATOR'S EFFORTS
3. TANZANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER'S ONE WEEK STAY IN
RWANDA HAS ENDED WITHOUT A CLEAR BREAKTHROUGH. THE
RPF SEEMED THE RECALCITRANT PARTY, HE TOLD WESTERN
AMBASSADOR'S IN A BRIEFING 3/16. THE RPF TOLD HIM
THEY COULD ABSOLUTELY NOT ACCEPT COMPROMISES REACHED
UNDER DURESS AT THE PRESIDENT'S FEBRUARY 25/27
MEETING. THE PARTIES WHO COMPROMISED INSISTED THEY
MADE THEIR COMPROMISES FOR POLITICAL REASONS, AND FOR
THE GOOD OF THE COUNTRY, NOT BECAUSE THEY WERE
TERRORIZED FOLLOWING THE ASSASSINATION OF GATABAZI.
ALL-PARTIES MEETING FAILS
4. IN ORDER TO HAVE THE VARIOUS SIDES MAKE THEIR
POINTS DIRECTLY TO EACH OTHER, THE FOREIGN MINISTER
CALLED AN ALL PARTIES MEETING FOR 3/17, WITH ARUSHA
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OBSERVERS PRESENT. IN THIS FORUM, HE REASONED, THE
PARTIES AT THE PRESIDENT'S MEETING COULD SAY WHETHER
THEY HAD FELT TERRORIZED OR NOT. ALL ARRIVED EXCEPT
THE PRESIDENT'S PARTY AND THE MUGENZI FACTION OF THE
PL. A SECOND ATTEMPT TO HOLD THE MEETING 3/18 HAD
THE SAME RESULT. THE MINISTER SAID HE COULD NOT,
THEREFORE, CONVENE THE MEETING.
INFORMAL MEETING INSTEAD
5. THE PARTIES PRESENT AT THE FACILITATOR'S MEETING
DECIDED TO HAVE AN INFORMAL EXCHANGE OF VIEWS IN THE •
PRESENCE OF THE TANZANIAN FOREIGN MINSISTER AND THE
OTHER DIPLOMATS. MINISTER LANDO, WHO HEADS THE PL
FACTION OPPOSED TO MUGENZI, TOLD THE ASSEMBLED GROUP
THAT HE HAD ACCEPTED A 6-5 DIVISION IN THE NATIONAL
ASSEMBLY SEAT OF THE LIBERAL PARTY UNDER PRESSURE OF
CIRCUMSTANCES BUT ULTIMATELY OUT OF CONSIDERATION FOR
THE GOOD OF THE COUNTRY. THE ELECTED PRESIDENT OF
THIS FACTION, CURRENTLY CABINET DIRECTOR AT THE
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MINISTRY OF JUSTICE, STATED THAT HE ENDORSED THE 6-5
SPLIT. (NOTE. SINCE HE IS KONFIDEL
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NER, THIS DERNALED TACIT APPROVAL OF THE RPF
FOR THIS SPLIT, A POSITION THEY ESCHEWED TIL NOW.
END NOTE.) PRIME MINISTER-DESIGNATE, FAUSTIN
TWAGIRAMUNGU, TOLD THE MEETING THAT HE WAS READY TO
NAME HIS CABINET AND WOULD DO SO AFTERNOON OF 3/18.
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6. AMBASSADOR TOOK THE FLOOR TO URGE THE PARTIES TO
MAKE DIRECT CONTACT WITH THE PRESIDENT'S MRND TO
DISCUSS THEIR CONCERNS AND REASONS FOR THEIR ABSENCE
FROM THE MEETING. ARUSHA HAD SHOWN, HE SAID, THAT
RWANDANS WERE BEST PLACED TO WORK OUT THEIR PROBLEMS
INFORMALLY AMONG THEMSELVES. HE ALSO COUNSELLED THE
PRIME MINISTER TO INFORM THE PRESIDENT ABOUT HIS
CABINET CHOICES PRIOR TO ANNOUNCING THEM. THE
BELGIAN AMBASSADOR SUPPORTED THIS POSITION.
WHY NO MRND
8. PRESIDENTIAL POLITICAL ADVISOR JUVENAL RENZAHO
TALKED AT LENGTH WITH AMBASSADOR EVENING BETWEEN TWO
FAILED MEETINGS. HE ALLEGED THAT THE PRESIDENCY HAD
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NO OFFICIAL INVITATION TO THE MEETING. HE ALSO SAID
THAT SUCH A MEETING WAS LIKELY TO DETERIORATE INTO A
SHOUTING MATCH OF ACCUSATIONS AND COUNTER-ACCUSATIONS
DUE TO THE RECENT ASSASSINATION AT KINIHIRA IN WHICH
AN MRND RELATIVE OF PRESIDENT'S CABINET DIRECTOR AND
A PL DEPUTY (MUGENZI FACTION) WERE KILLED. MUGENZI
REPORTEDLY FORMALLY DECLINED TO ATTEND.
COMMENT
8. THE KILLINGS EARLIER THIS WEEK CERTAINLY POISONED
THE ATMOSPHERE DURING THE TANZANIAN FOREIGN
MINISTER'S WEEK-LONG EFFORTS TO BROKER A COMPROMISE.
WE DO NOT KNOW WHETHER TWAGIRAMUNGU WILL CONSULT THE
PRESIDENT, WHICH HE NOTED WOULD DELAY HIS
ANNOUNCEMENT. NEVERTHELESS, IT IS ALREADY AFTER 3 PM
AND NO ANNOUNCEMENT HAS BEEN MADE. EMBASSY IS ALERT
TO THE POTENTIAL FOR WEEKEND VIOLENCE CREATED BY YET
ANOTHER SUSPENDED EFFORT TO BRING THE VARIOUS SIDES
TO AN UNDERSTANDING SO THE PEACE PROCESS CAN MOVE
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