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REF: (A) HARARE 5514, (B) STATE 186563

CLASSIFIED BY AMBASSADOR TOM MCDONALD FOR REASONS 1.5
(B) AND (D).


1. (C) SUMMARY: DURING AN HOUR'S MEETING OCTOBER 2
THREE MEMBERS OF THE UN/UNDP MISSION SEARCHED FOR AN
OPENING IN OUR POSITION ON THE CURRENT LAND REFORM
IMPASSE TO REKINDLE DONOR DIALOGUE WITH THE GOVERNMENT
OF ZIMBABWE. THROUGHOUT THE DISCUSSION THE AMBASSADOR
AND EMBASSY OFFICERS STRESSED THAT THE USG WANTS TO BE
HELPFUL BUT RULE OF LAW AND MACROECONOMIC STABILITY MUST
BE ESTABLISHED IN ZIMBABWE. THE UN/UNDP TEAM SKETCHED
OUT THE LINES OF A POSSIBLE PACKAGE THAT AT ONCE WOULD
BE FACE SAVING FOR MUGABE, RETAINING THE FAST TRACK
APPROACH TO LAND REFORM, AND SATISFY DONOR QUALMS ABOUT
INVESTING HERE. ESSENTIALLY THE DONORS WOULD OFFER TO
PAY FOR 211 UNCONTESTED FARMS CURRENTLY ON OFFER AND THE
GOVERNMENT WOULD END THE LAWLESSNESS ON THE FARMS AND
EMBARK ON A DIALOGUE ON LARGER POLITICAL ISSUES.
WITHOUT KNOWING ALL THE DETAILS, WE WERE POSITIVE BUT
REGISTERED OUR CONCERN THAT THE PLAN BE RATIONAL AND
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ACHIEVABLE. THE TEAM APPEARS GENUINELY INTERESTED IN
REACHING A RESOLUTION TO THE CURRENT IMPASSE AND IT IS
FACILITATING THE SORT OF COMMUNICATION AND DIPLOMACY
THAT IS CURRENTLY IN SHORT SUPPLY HERE. END SUMMARY.


2. (C) ON OCTOBER 3 UN/UNDP MISSION MEMBERS CHONCHOL,
OKOTH AND BARUT MET WITH AMBASSADOR MCDONALD, THE DCM,
ACTING USAID DIRECTOR MARTIN AND USAID OFFICER LOKEN FOR
AN HOUR TO TAKE SOUNDINGS ON THIS EMBASSY'S VIEW ON
RESUMING DIALOGUE WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF ZIMBABWE ON
LAND REFORM. BY WAY OF PREFACE, AMBASSADOR MCDONALD
WELCOMED THE MISSION MEMBERS AND CONVEYED HIS
UNDERSTANDING OF THE COMPLEXITY OF THEIR TASK. HE
CONTINUED THAT THE USG VIEWED A TRANSPARENT AND ORDERLY
LAND REFORM PROGRAM AS NECESSARY FOR ZIMBABWE AND INDEED
A MATTER OF SOCIAL JUSTICE, HOWEVER, WHAT WAS OCCURRING
IN THE COUNTRY NOW DID NOT MEET THAT DEFINITION. HE
ARGUED THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAD TO RESTORE RULE OF LAW ON
THE FARMS AND THE USG REMAINED CONCERNED FOR THE FARM
WORKERS AND THEIR FAMILIES WHO WOULD BE DISPLACED IN THE
GOVERNMENT'S FAST TRACK EXERCISE. IF PRESIDENT MUGABE
WERE TO MAKE A CLEAR STATEMENT THAT IT WAS TIME TO MOVE
OFF THE LAND, THE AMBASSADOR REASONED, MOST OF THE
OCCUPIERS WOULD LEAVE AND THE POLICE COULD MOP UP ANY
RECALCITRANT RINGLEADERS.


3. (C) AMBASSADOR MCDONALD CONTINUED THAT THE USG HAD
PLEDGED TO PROVIDE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO ZIMBABWE'S
LAND REFORM PROGRAM THROUGH THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN
LAND TENURE CENTER, BUT THAT RECENT EVENTS HAD SEVERELY
CURTAILED SUCH SUPPORTING ACTIVITIES. HE OBSERVED THAT
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THE USG COULD CONTINUE TO HELP WITH MONEY FOR TECHNICAL
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROGRAM AND EVEN RESETTLEMENT, BUT
IT WOULD BE VERY DIFFICULT TO OBTAIN FUNDS TO BUY LAND.
HANDING OVER A NON-PAPER THAT REFLECTED DONOR
PERSPECTIVES ON WHAT WOULD BE NECESSARY TO RESUME
DIALOGUE ON LAND REFORM, THE AMBASSADOR ASKED THE
MISSION MEMBERS TO WORK CLOSELY WITH US, LEST THEY GET
AHEAD OF OUR POSITION ON THIS MATTER.


4. (C) CHONCHOL CONCEDED THAT THE MISSION HAD MET ONLY
WITH THE INDIGENOUS COMMERCIAL FARMER'S UNION (ICFU) AND
THE COMMERCIAL FARMERS' UNION (CFU) AND WOULD MEET WITH
THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE ON OCTOBER 3. HE OBSERVED
THAT THE GOVERNMENT WANTED TO ACCELERATE ITS LAND REFORM
GOAL BUT IT HAD LITTLE MONEY, AND SO IT CHANGED THE
CONSTITUTION. "PEOPLE SAY," CHONCHOL CONTINUED, THAT
THERE'S NEED FOR DIALOGUE AND THAT THE GOVERNMENT COULD
CONDUCT LAND REFORM IF IT HAD FUNDS. THE DONORS, ON THE
OTHER HAND, WILL NOT GIVE MONEY UNLESS THERE IS RESPECT
FOR THE LAW. "WHAT IS FOR YOU THE RULE OF LAW?"
AMBASSADOR MCDONALD REPLIED THAT THE U.S. WAS NOT
INTERESTED IN GETTING INTO A DEBATE ON SEMANTICS. THE
FARM OCCUPATIONS AND THE ATTENDANT VIOLENCE HAD BEEN A
ZANU-PF CAMPAIGN TACTIC, BUT NOW THE ELECTION WAS OVER.
THE ZIMBABWE REPUBLIC POLICE, WHICH IS QUITE GOOD,

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SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO DO ITS JOB, THE AMBASSADOR SAID.
HE ALSO SAID THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH SHOULD ENFORCE COURT
ORDERS AGAINST TRESPASSERS, AS WELL AS FIND AND
PROSECUTE INDIVIDUALS WHO PERPETRATED SERIOUS CRIMES
FROM DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY TO MURDER IN THE PRE-
ELECTION PERIOD.


5. (C) CHONCHOL THEN ASKED WHERE SHOULD THE PEOPLE
ALREADY ON THE FARMS BE PUT, SINCE TO REMOVE THEM
SUMMARILY WOULD PRESENT THE GOVERNMENT A POLITICAL
PROBLEM. THE AMBASSADOR RESPONDED THAT THE COMMERCIAL
FARMERS' UNION HAD OFFERED FARMS VOLUNTARILY. CHONCHOL
ACKNOWLEDGED THAT 211 FARMS HAD BEEN OFFERED, BUT THAT
THE GOVERNMENT HAD NOT REACTED TO THE OFFER. THE
AMBASSADOR SPECULATED THAT THE GOVERNMENT WOULD ACCEPT
THE FARMS BUT WOULD WANT MORE. USAID OFFICER LOKEN
EXPLAINED THAT THE ZIMBABWEAN GOVERNMENT HAD EXPENDED
ITS ENTIRE BUDGET AND NOW HAD NO MONEY TO PAY FOR FARMS.
UNTIL IT DID, IT WOULD NOT ENGAGE THE FARMERS. POLITICS
PLAYED A PART AS WELL: WHEN THE FARMERS INITIALLY
INSTITUTED A SUIT AGAINST THE PRESIDENT THE GOVERNMENT
RESPONDED WITH SILENCE; WHEN THE COMMERCIAL FARMERS'
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UNION DROPPED THE SUIT, COMMUNICATION RESUMED. WITH THE
SUIT NOW REINSTATED, ATTITUDES WERE HARDENING AGAIN,
LOKEN OBSERVED.


6. (C) "COULD DONORS HELP WITH MONEY?" CHONCHOL
INQUIRED. THE AMBASSADOR RESPONDED THAT THE DONORS WERE
PREPARED TO EXPLORE SEVERAL OPTIONS, PROVIDED THE RULE
OF LAW WAS RESPECTED. OKOTH OBSERVED THAT THE RULE OF
LAW ARGUMENT APPEARED TO EMBRACE GOVERNANCE IN GENERAL
IN THE ZIMBABWEAN CONTEXT. "WOULD IT BE POSSIBLE TO
CORDON IT OFF ONLY TO APPLY TO LAND?" THE AMBASSADOR
ANSWERED THAT, "WE WANT TO FOCUS ON LAND, BUT LIFE
DOESN'T HAPPEN IN A VACUUM. WE WANT TO SOLVE THE LAND
QUESTION, BUT THERE IS NO CLEAR LINE BETWEEN WHAT IS
HAPPENING ON THE FARMS AND IN THE REST OF THE COUNTRY'S
POLITICAL LIFE." OKOTH REJOINED THAT IN 1998 THE DONORS
HAD COMMITTED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE LAND REFORM PROCESS,
WHEREAS NOW THE GOVERNMENT OF ZIMBABWE COMPLAINED THAT
THE DONORS STARTED RAISING EXTRANEOUS ISSUES. USAID
OFFICER LOKEN REPLIED THAT THE RULE OF LAW QUESTION WAS
SIMILAR TO THE MACROECONOMIC SITUATION. UNTIL
MACROECONOMIC STABILITY WAS ACHIEVED, NO DONOR WOULD BE
PREPARED TO INVEST IN ZIMBABWE. OKOTH THEN SAID THAT
PERHAPS THE WAY TO PUT IT WAS THAT IF THE GOVERNMENT
MADE A COMMITMENT TO SOLVE THE LAWLESSNESS ISSUE THEN WE
CAN HAVE A DIALOGUE ON THE BIGGER POLITICAL ISSUE.


7. (C) BARUT RETURNED TO THE ISSUE OF WHETHER THERE WAS
ROOM FOR DIALOGUE ON THE GOVERNMENT'S FAST TRACK
PROGRAM, AND WHETHER ANY TINKERING COULD BE DONE TO MAKE
IT ACCEPTABLE TO THE DONORS. THE AMBASSADOR RESPONDED
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THAT WE NEEDED TO UNDERSTAND EXACTLY WHAT THE PROGRAM
ENTAILED. HAVING TALKED ABOUT IT TO SIX MINISTERS, "I
STILL DON'T KNOW THAT THEY HAVE A PROGRAM," THE
AMBASSADOR OBSERVED. BARUT ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THE
MISSION WAS ATTEMPTING TO FIND OUT AS WELL. HE THEN
ASKED WHETHER THE DONOR COMMUNITY DISPUTED THE 5 MILLION
HECTARE GOAL THAT THE GOVERNMENT OF ZIMBABWE INTENDED TO
ACQUIRE. THE AMBASSADOR RESPONDED THAT MUCH DEPENDED ON
THE WILL OF THE GOVERNMENT TO PROCEED SERIOUSLY AND IN A
RATIONAL WAY. THE AMBASSADOR CONTINUED THAT THE LAND
ACQUISITION SHOULD PROCEED IN STAGES, IN ACCORDANCE WITH
CAPACITY AND RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS, YET WITHIN A LONGER-
TERM FRAMEWORK TO ACHIEVE THE GOVERNMENT'S GREATER 5M HA
OBJECTIVE. OKOTH THEN ASKED WHETHER IT WOULD MAKE SENSE
TO GO BACK TO THE INCEPTION PHASE, PUT THE PEOPLE ON THE
LAND SOMEWHERE ELSE AND PLACE THE FAST TRACK PROGRAM
WITHIN THE INCEPTION PHASE? ACTING USAID DIRECTOR
MARTIN SAID THAT WOULD BE ACCEPTABLE AS, IN ESSENCE,
THAT WOULD MEAN RETURNING TO THE PROGRAM APPROVED BY ALL
PARTIES AT THE 1998 DONORS' LAND CONFERENCE. USAID
OFFICER LOKEN SUPPLEMENTED THE ANSWER BY OBSERVING THAT
WHAT WAS GOING ON AT THE MOMENT WAS UNACCEPTABLE,
UNPLANNED, UNDEMOCRATIC AND NOT TRANSPARENT. "HOW DO WE
KNOW THAT RIGHT PEOPLE ARE BEING PLACED ON THE FARMS,"
HE ASKED. MANY SERIOUS ISSUES, SUCH AS PLACING

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QUALIFIED WORKERS ON FARMS, HAD TO BE DEALT WITH BEFORE
THE DONORS WOULD BE WILLING TO SUPPORT IT.


8. (C) OKOTH AGREED THAT IT HAD TO BE A RATIONAL AND
ACHIEVABLE PROGRAM. BARUT SUGGESTED ONE APPROACH MIGHT
BE TO START WITH THE 211 FARMS, UNDERSTANDING THAT THE
GOVERNMENT NEEDED MONEY BOTH TO PURCHASE THESE FROM THE
COMMERCIAL FARMERS UNION, MOVE THE PEOPLE ON THE FARMS
TO THEM, AND TRAIN THE LAND RECIPIENTS IN MODERN FARMING
METHODS. IF A TRANSPARENT TRUST FUND IS SET UP AND THE
GOVERNMENT IS ALLOWED TO SAVE FACE, WOULD THE DONORS BE
SATISFIED? ACTING USAID DIRECTOR MARTIN REPLIED THAT
THE TARGET OF THE GOVERNMENT'S CURRENT LAND REFORM
PROGRAM WAS THE WAR VETERANS, MANY OF WHOM ARE THUGS
PAID TO CAUSE MAYHEM AND NOT QUALIFIED TO FARM. THEY
SHOULD NOT BE MOVED TO THE 211 FARMS. AMBASSADOR
MCDONALD CONCURRED, NOTING THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAD
CREATED A PROBLEM FOR ITSELF AND THE DONORS COULD NOT BE
SEEN TO BE REWARDING LAWLESSNESS.


9. (C) SUMMING UP WHAT HE HAD HEARD FROM US AND HIS
ZIMBABWEAN INTERLOCUTORS TO DATE, BARUT SAID THAT "WE
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NEED A PACKAGE" TO OFFER THE GOVERNMENT THAT WOULD
INCLUDE A CLEAR COMMITMENT FROM THE GOVERNMENT TO
RESTORING THE RULE OF LAW ON THE FARMS. FROM THAT BASE
DONORS AND GOVERNMENT COULD BUILD. THE AMBASSADOR
POINTED TO DIFFERENT LOCAL INITIATIVES THAT WERE UNDER
WAY AROUND THE COUNTRY, PARTICULARLY IN THE MIDLANDS
PROVINCE, TO BRIDGE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN FARMER, WAR
VETERAN AND GOVERNMENT AND SUGGESTED THAT SOME OF THESE
WOULD BEAR CLOSE STUDY. CHONCHOL RECALLED A FORMULA
THAT WOULD APPORTION 20 PERCENT OF THE FARMS TO THE WAR
VETERANS, WHICH THE DONORS HAD ACCEPTED EARLIER. LOKEN
RESPONDED IT WOULD BE DIFFICULT TO CUT SUCH A DEAL NOW,
GIVEN PAST ACTIONS AND THE ABSENCE OF ANY ASSURANCE THAT
ANY OF THESE PEOPLE HAD ANY QUALIFICATIONS WHATSOEVER
BEYOND THEIR LOYALTY TO ZANU-PF AND MUGABE. ACTING
USAID DIRECTOR MARTIN SUGGESTED THAT A WIN-WIN FORMULA
WOULD BE A RETURN TO THE 1998 AGREEMENT WHICH ALL
PARTIES ACCEPTED. THE DONOR CAPITALS WERE LOOKING FOR A
RATIONAL PLAN, SOMETHING THE GOVERNMENT OF ZIMBABWE HAD
BEEN UNABLE TO PRESENT, DESPITE NUMEROUS, FAILED HIGH
LEVEL MISSIONS.


10. (C) OKOTH OBSERVED THAT IN TALKING TO THE CFU HE
WAS STRUCK BY HOW CONFIDENT IT SEEMED ABOUT TAKING ON
THE GOVERNMENT. IT WAS ALMOST AS IF THE FARMERS HAD A
GODFATHER BEHIND THEM. AMBASSADOR MCDONALD REPLIED THAT
IF SO, IT WAS NOT THE UNITED STATES. THE BRITISH ARE
PREPARED TO PAY FOR LAND WHEN IT IS APPROPRIATE, BUT THE
USG WAS NOT PREPARED TO DO SO AT THIS TIME. CHONCHOL
OBSERVED THAT THE GOVERNMENT WOULD RESPOND TO CFU
INTRANSIGENCE IN KIND AND THAT PRESIDENT MUGABE WAS A
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HARD-LINER WHO WOULD NOT CHANGE HIS POSITION UNLESS HE
SAW THAT IT WAS IN HIS INTEREST TO DO SO. LOKEN THOUGHT
THAT ONE POSSIBLE WAY OUT MIGHT BE THROUGH THE ECONOMIC
MODELING THAT THE WORLD BANK WAS DOING, LOOKING AT THE
SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACT THAT VARIOUS COMBINATIONS AND
PERMUTATIONS OF LAND USE MIGHT HAVE TO REACH A CONSENSUS
WAY FORWARD. MARTIN TOLD HIS INTERLOCUTORS NOT TO LEAVE
THE MEETING WITH THE IMPRESSION THAT THERE WAS NO DONOR
WILLINGNESS TO HELP. ON THE CONTRARY, A GREAT RESERVE
OF GOOD WILL EXISTED, BUT WE CAN NO LONGER TAKE
GOVERNMENT ASSURANCES ON FAITH.


11. (C) COMMENT: THE TEAM MEMBERS HAVE DONE THEIR
HOMEWORK AND ARE EXCELLENT IN THE ART OF INDIRECT
INTERROGATION. CONTRARY TO OUR PRIOR IMPRESSION, THEY
APPEAR TO HAVE A GENUINE INTEREST IN FINDING SOME
RESOLUTION TO THE CURRENT IMPASSE. IN OUR DISCUSSION
THE ELEMENTS OF THE TEAM'S PROPOSALS BEGAN TO COME TO
LIGHT. THE MEMBERS WANT TO PROPOSE A FACE-SAVING
PACKAGE FOR THE ZIMBABWEAN GOVERNMENT THAT PRESERVES AS
MUCH AS POSSIBLE THE FAST TRACK LAND APPROACH. THEY
APPEAR TO BE LOOKING FOR SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNTS OF READY
CASH FROM THE DONOR COMMUNITY TO PURCHASE THE 211
UNCONTESTED FARMS ON OFFER. TURNING THE LAND OVER TO
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SUFFICIENT INCENTIVE TO RETURN TO THE 1998 PRINCIPLES.
THEY HAVE A HARD SELL ON ALL SIDES AND AT THIS WRITING
IT IS NOT AT ALL CLEAR THAT THEY WILL SUCCEED.
NEVERTHELESS, THE UN/UNDP ARE PROBABLY THE RIGHT
MESSENGERS TO CONDUCT THIS MEDIATION EXERCISE. THEY ARE
SUPPLYING THE KIND OF COMMUNICATION AND DIPLOMACY WHICH
CURRENTLY IS IN EXCEEDINGLY SHORT SUPPLY IN ZIMBABWE.
MISSION IS LOOKING FORWARD TO THEIR FINAL REPORT (DE-
BRIEFING SET FOR OCTOBER 12). END COMMENT.

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