Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
06DAKAR3020
2006-12-27 13:42:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Dakar
Cable title:  

SENEGAL INVITES ASSAD TO VISIT AND RECEIVES

Tags:  PREL PTER SY SG 
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R 271342Z DEC 06
FM AMEMBASSY DAKAR
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 7168
INFO RUCNISL/ISLAMIC COLLECTIVE
C O N F I D E N T I A L DAKAR 003020 

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

STATE FOR NEA/ELA, AF/RSA AND AF/W

E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/27/2016
TAGS: PREL PTER SY SG
SUBJECT: SENEGAL INVITES ASSAD TO VISIT AND RECEIVES
INVITATION FOR WADE TO VISIT SYRIA

REF: STATE 197800

Classified By: CDA Robert P. Jackson for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).

C O N F I D E N T I A L DAKAR 003020

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

STATE FOR NEA/ELA, AF/RSA AND AF/W

E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/27/2016
TAGS: PREL PTER SY SG
SUBJECT: SENEGAL INVITES ASSAD TO VISIT AND RECEIVES
INVITATION FOR WADE TO VISIT SYRIA

REF: STATE 197800

Classified By: CDA Robert P. Jackson for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).


1. (C) Before the Embassy could deliver reftel demarche, we
discovered that Senegalese Senior Minister for Foreign
Affairs Cheikh Tidiane Gadio was en route to Damascus. On
December 13, Gadio extended an invitation to Syrian President
Assad to visit Senegal; Gadio in turn received an invitation
for President Wade to visit Syria. Gadio,s meetings
reportedly focused on the Organization of the Islamic
Conferences (OIC) and on Iraq, on which the two sides shared
&identical views.8


2. (C) COMMENT: Syria has an Embassy in Dakar. For its
part, Senegal is preparing to host the next OIC summit in
March 2008. Given President Wade,s frequent travels to OIC
member countries, we cannot rule out a Wade visit to Syria
before or after the Hajj. END COMMENT.
JACKSON