Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07KHARTOUM1
2007-01-03 04:41:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Khartoum
Cable title:
Sudan/Uganda/DRC: Special Envoy for LRA Issues Returning
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UNCLAS KHARTOUM 000001
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV PRELL SU CG UG
SUBJECT: Sudan/Uganda/DRC: Special Envoy for LRA Issues Returning
to the Region
UNCLAS KHARTOUM 000001
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV PRELL SU CG UG
SUBJECT: Sudan/Uganda/DRC: Special Envoy for LRA Issues Returning
to the Region
1. (SBU) The UNSYG's special envoy for areas affected by the Lord's
Resistance Army, former Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano, is
tentatively planning return to the region January 11-22 for
extensive consultations. Government of Southern Sudan-brokered
peace talks, now in recess, are expected to resume by mid-January.
2. (SBU) According to a UN briefing in Juba, Chissano's tentative
plans include consultations in Uganda January 11-14. The notional
schedule for Uganda includes meetings with President Museveni,
ethnic Acholi leaders, and the diplomatic core group (U.S., U.K.,
Netherlands, Norway and others). Chissano's Uganda schedule also
includes a visit to northern Uganda, probably Gulu.
3. (SBU) Chissano will spend January 15-18 in southern Sudan, with
plans to meet GOSS President Salva Kiir, VP Riek Machar, UN agency
heads and both the GOU and LRA delegations to the peace talks.
There is a chance that Chissano will travel to the Sudan-Congo
border to meet with LRA leadership at the Ri-Kwangba assembly point
or the neighboring Sudanese village of Nabanga. On January 18-20
Chissano travels to Khartoum for meetings with the Government of
National Unity. After Khartoum, he is slated to visit The Hague for
consultations with the International Criminal Court (ICC).
4. (U) LRA chief Joseph Kony and three other senior commanders are
under indictment by the ICC. The ICC indictments have emerged as a
critical issue in the ongoing peace talks, with LRA representatives
pressing for assurances from the Government of Uganda (GOU) that the
indictees will be protected from ICC prosecution.
HUME
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV PRELL SU CG UG
SUBJECT: Sudan/Uganda/DRC: Special Envoy for LRA Issues Returning
to the Region
1. (SBU) The UNSYG's special envoy for areas affected by the Lord's
Resistance Army, former Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano, is
tentatively planning return to the region January 11-22 for
extensive consultations. Government of Southern Sudan-brokered
peace talks, now in recess, are expected to resume by mid-January.
2. (SBU) According to a UN briefing in Juba, Chissano's tentative
plans include consultations in Uganda January 11-14. The notional
schedule for Uganda includes meetings with President Museveni,
ethnic Acholi leaders, and the diplomatic core group (U.S., U.K.,
Netherlands, Norway and others). Chissano's Uganda schedule also
includes a visit to northern Uganda, probably Gulu.
3. (SBU) Chissano will spend January 15-18 in southern Sudan, with
plans to meet GOSS President Salva Kiir, VP Riek Machar, UN agency
heads and both the GOU and LRA delegations to the peace talks.
There is a chance that Chissano will travel to the Sudan-Congo
border to meet with LRA leadership at the Ri-Kwangba assembly point
or the neighboring Sudanese village of Nabanga. On January 18-20
Chissano travels to Khartoum for meetings with the Government of
National Unity. After Khartoum, he is slated to visit The Hague for
consultations with the International Criminal Court (ICC).
4. (U) LRA chief Joseph Kony and three other senior commanders are
under indictment by the ICC. The ICC indictments have emerged as a
critical issue in the ongoing peace talks, with LRA representatives
pressing for assurances from the Government of Uganda (GOU) that the
indictees will be protected from ICC prosecution.
HUME