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07MAPUTO371
2007-03-29 08:54:00
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Embassy Maputo
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Mozambique: Demarche on SADC Heads of State Meeting and
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SUBJECT: Mozambique: Demarche on SADC Heads of State Meeting and
UNSCR 1747 on Iran
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SUBJECT: Mozambique: Demarche on SADC Heads of State Meeting and
UNSCR 1747 on Iran
1. On March 28 Charge and pol/econoff met with Enrique Banze, Vice
Minister of Foreign Affairs, to deliver the demarche on the Southern
African Development Community's (SADC) response to the Zimbabwe
situation and the demarche on UNSCR 1747 on Iran.
2. Banze noted our concern about the situation in Zimbabwe,
particularly agreeing that the beating of opposition leaders was
unacceptable. He noted, as well, that the international community
had been speaking out, but he did not volunteer that the GRM would
do the same. He said that he expected that the heads of state would
discuss this matter in depth -- special meetings are called for
unusual circumstances that must be addressed, is how he put it --
though he seemed to believe that other items would be on the agenda.
3. President Guebuza had already departed for the SADC meeting at
the time of our demarche, and Banze was clearly not an insider on
the President's plan for the SADC meeting, but he made it plain that
he did not expect Mozambique to be seen speaking out publicly on
Zimbabwe. What the GRM would do, he said, was encourage dialogue
between the Zimbabwean government and opposition. Banze
acknowledged that Zimbabwe presented an image problem for the rest
of South Africa, that violence and instability could spread across
borders and that economic growth in Mozambique would be negatively
affected by the situation in Zimbabwe. That said, the solution for
Zimbabwe's problems lay in Zimbabwe, not elsewhere, he told us.
4. On UNSCR 1747, Charge conceded that Mozambique and Iran have
insignificant economic ties, but he noted that broad international
support will be essential to making sanctions effective. Banze
nodded agreement, accepted our non-paper, and seemed disturbed by
news of the recent Iranian seizure of British sailors.
Johnson
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TAGS: PREL PGOV PHUM MZ
SUBJECT: Mozambique: Demarche on SADC Heads of State Meeting and
UNSCR 1747 on Iran
1. On March 28 Charge and pol/econoff met with Enrique Banze, Vice
Minister of Foreign Affairs, to deliver the demarche on the Southern
African Development Community's (SADC) response to the Zimbabwe
situation and the demarche on UNSCR 1747 on Iran.
2. Banze noted our concern about the situation in Zimbabwe,
particularly agreeing that the beating of opposition leaders was
unacceptable. He noted, as well, that the international community
had been speaking out, but he did not volunteer that the GRM would
do the same. He said that he expected that the heads of state would
discuss this matter in depth -- special meetings are called for
unusual circumstances that must be addressed, is how he put it --
though he seemed to believe that other items would be on the agenda.
3. President Guebuza had already departed for the SADC meeting at
the time of our demarche, and Banze was clearly not an insider on
the President's plan for the SADC meeting, but he made it plain that
he did not expect Mozambique to be seen speaking out publicly on
Zimbabwe. What the GRM would do, he said, was encourage dialogue
between the Zimbabwean government and opposition. Banze
acknowledged that Zimbabwe presented an image problem for the rest
of South Africa, that violence and instability could spread across
borders and that economic growth in Mozambique would be negatively
affected by the situation in Zimbabwe. That said, the solution for
Zimbabwe's problems lay in Zimbabwe, not elsewhere, he told us.
4. On UNSCR 1747, Charge conceded that Mozambique and Iran have
insignificant economic ties, but he noted that broad international
support will be essential to making sanctions effective. Banze
nodded agreement, accepted our non-paper, and seemed disturbed by
news of the recent Iranian seizure of British sailors.
Johnson