SUDAN PEACE: U.S. INITIATIVE TO BREAK ABYEI LOGJAM

C O N F I D E N T I A L DJIBOUTI 000390

SIPDIS

STATE FOR AF/SPG, AF/E
LONDON FOR GURNEY, OSLO FOR BARKS-RUGGLES, NAIROBI FOR
PETERSON

E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/17/2014
TAGS: PREL PGOV PINS SU DJ
SUBJECT: SUDAN PEACE: U.S. INITIATIVE TO BREAK ABYEI LOGJAM

REF: STATE 058604 (NOTAL)

Classified By: AMBASSADOR MARGUERITA RAGSDALE.
REASONS 1.4 (B) AND (D).


1. (C) Ambassador passed reftel message to the Government of
Djibouti via Badri Ali Bogoreh, Secretary General of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation,
during a courtesy call March 17 at the Ministry. Badri would
not comment substantively on the U.S. plan to dispatch
Special Envoy Danforth. He promised to pass the information
to President Guelleh.


2. (C) Bagoreh did remark, however, that he was aware of the
Naivasha impasse over Abyei and recognized the U.S.'s steady
commitment to see the realization of a Sudan peace agreement.
He also said that the Sudan civil war is one of several Horn
of Africa problems that need early solutions, including the
conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea and the situation in
Somalia.
RAGSDALE