Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07DAKAR114
2007-01-12 17:26:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Dakar
Cable title:
SOMALIA: SENEGAL WILL NOT CONTRIBUTE TO AU FORCE
VZCZCXRO7163 RR RUEHPA DE RUEHDK #0114 0121726 ZNY CCCCC ZZH R 121726Z JAN 07 FM AMEMBASSY DAKAR TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 7325 INFO RUEHZK/ECOWAS COLLECTIVE RUEHDS/AMEMBASSY ADDIS ABABA 0545 RUEHKH/AMEMBASSY KHARTOUM 0054 RUEHNR/AMEMBASSY NAIROBI 1246
C O N F I D E N T I A L DAKAR 000114
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE FOR IO/PSC, AF/RSA, AF/SPG AND AF/W
E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/12/2017
TAGS: PREL KPKO SO SG SU
SUBJECT: SOMALIA: SENEGAL WILL NOT CONTRIBUTE TO AU FORCE
REF: NAIROBI 207
Classified By: CDA ROBERT P. JACKSON FOR REASONS 1.4 (B) AND (D).
(C) On January 11, drawing upon reftel and earlier guidance
from the Department, Charge answered Acting Senegalese
Foreign Minister Claude Absa Diallo's questions about the
situation in Somalia. Ambassador Diallo hoped that the
Ethiopians would withdraw quickly to avoid being seen as an
occupier. Diallo opined that she did not know where the
African Union would find peacekeepers. She said that with
Senegal's recent decision to augment its peacekeepers in
Darfur by 300, Senegal could not contribute to a Somalia
mission.
JACKSON
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE FOR IO/PSC, AF/RSA, AF/SPG AND AF/W
E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/12/2017
TAGS: PREL KPKO SO SG SU
SUBJECT: SOMALIA: SENEGAL WILL NOT CONTRIBUTE TO AU FORCE
REF: NAIROBI 207
Classified By: CDA ROBERT P. JACKSON FOR REASONS 1.4 (B) AND (D).
(C) On January 11, drawing upon reftel and earlier guidance
from the Department, Charge answered Acting Senegalese
Foreign Minister Claude Absa Diallo's questions about the
situation in Somalia. Ambassador Diallo hoped that the
Ethiopians would withdraw quickly to avoid being seen as an
occupier. Diallo opined that she did not know where the
African Union would find peacekeepers. She said that with
Senegal's recent decision to augment its peacekeepers in
Darfur by 300, Senegal could not contribute to a Somalia
mission.
JACKSON