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07CAIRO1360
2007-05-09 13:46:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Cairo
Cable title:  

SUDAN: EGYPTIANS PROPOSE UN/AU ENVOYS DRAFT A

Tags:  PREL PGOV EG SU 
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C O N F I D E N T I A L CAIRO 001360 

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E.O. 12958: DECL: 05/09/2017
TAGS: PREL PGOV EG SU
SUBJECT: SUDAN: EGYPTIANS PROPOSE UN/AU ENVOYS DRAFT A
DARFUR ROADMAP

REF: KHARTOUM 676

Classified by Minister Counselor for Economic and Political
Affairs, William R. Stewart, for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).

C O N F I D E N T I A L CAIRO 001360

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E.O. 12958: DECL: 05/09/2017
TAGS: PREL PGOV EG SU
SUBJECT: SUDAN: EGYPTIANS PROPOSE UN/AU ENVOYS DRAFT A
DARFUR ROADMAP

REF: KHARTOUM 676

Classified by Minister Counselor for Economic and Political
Affairs, William R. Stewart, for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).


1. (C) During a May 9 meeting, MFA Cabinet staff member
responsible for African affairs Ahmed Abu Zeid told poloff
that the foreign minister was putting the final touches on an
oral message on Darfur which would be transmitted later the
same day. The message would be addressed, he said, to
Secretary Rice, other P-5 capitals, Brussels, the African

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Union, and regional parties involved in the Darfur conflict.
In brief, he explained, the message would propose creation of
a new "Roadmap" for Darfur, to be crafted by AU envoy Salim
Ahmed Salim and his UN counterpart Jan Eliasson as a result
of their international consultations. This issue formed the
substance of discussions in Cairo on May 7 between FM Aboul
Gheit and the two envoys.


2. (C) A Darfur Roadmap, he said, would energize the
political process and would follow upon the general agreement
during international consultations in Tripoli on April 28-29
(reftel). While participants in the Tripoli talks, he said,
agreed on the need to move forward on the political track,
the GOE is focused on how to implement such agreement. The
Roadmap that Eliasson and Salim would craft should include a
timetable for actions, clear principles and objectives, and
clarity on the relationship between the political process and
peace-keeping operations in Darfur. There must be clear
incentives and punitive measures in the document, he said.
Once a document is crafted by the two envoys, the UN Security
Council and the international community must endorse the
plan. It is crucial, he continued, that we send a clear
signal to all parties that there is no patience for games;
the international community is serious about reaching a
lasting political solution to the conflict. A general
political framework is necessary, he added, in which
principles, parameters, and expectations for all parties are
clear. Echoing public remarks made by Eliasson and Salim
following their May 7 meeting with Aboul Gheit in Cairo, Abu
Zeid called for international pressure on both sides - the
government and the rebel movements - to ensure each carries
out its responsibilities to end the conflict. (Note: During
their joint press conference on May 7, Aboul Gheit and the
two envoys reportedly agreed "the main problem has been that
the rebels have felt they are protected against sanctions."
End note).


3. (U) Minimize considered.
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