Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07USUNNEWYORK802
2007-09-28 16:46:00
CONFIDENTIAL
USUN New York
Cable title:
SYG BAN ON BURMA AND ZIMBABWE
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C O N F I D E N T I A L USUN NEW YORK 000802
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 09/27/2017
TAGS: PREL PGOV PHUM UNSC BM ZI
SUBJECT: SYG BAN ON BURMA AND ZIMBABWE
(U) Classified by Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, Permanent
Representative, for Reasons 1.4 (b and d).
C O N F I D E N T I A L USUN NEW YORK 000802
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 09/27/2017
TAGS: PREL PGOV PHUM UNSC BM ZI
SUBJECT: SYG BAN ON BURMA AND ZIMBABWE
(U) Classified by Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, Permanent
Representative, for Reasons 1.4 (b and d).
1. (SBU) Ambassador Khalilzad met with Secretary General Ban
briefly on September 27. Topics included Burma, Zimbabwe and
the prospects for a U.S. candidate for controller of the UN
(septel).
BURMA
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2. (C) Secretary General Ban told Ambassador Khalilzad on
September 27 that Special Advisor for Burma Ibrahim Gambari
will/will receive a visa to enter Burma. The SYG said he
practically threatened the Burmese Foreign Minister that if
Rangoon did not cooperate, the international community would
unite and come down very hard. The SYG said he would be
seeing the FM again at 12:30 today to press again about the
escalating violence. The SYG also reportedly instructed
Gambari to return to New York immediately after his visit to
Burma to report to the Security Council.
ZIMBABWE
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3. (C) The SYG reported to Ambassador Khalilzad that UK
Minister Mark Malloch Brown had proposed the idea of a
humanitarian envoy for Zimbabwe. The SYG raised it with
Mugabe, whose reaction was "hostile, even impudent." Mugabe
charged that there were no problems in Zimbabwe, that there
was no hunger, and that the SYG should not fall prey to "the
colonialists" who were behind this move. The SYG persisted
and raised the idea with the presidents of South Africa and
Ghana. Both advised B that this was the wrong time. They
recommended waiting until after the March elections in
Zimbabwe as their expectation was that Mugabe would not run
or would be defeated.
KHALILZAD
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 09/27/2017
TAGS: PREL PGOV PHUM UNSC BM ZI
SUBJECT: SYG BAN ON BURMA AND ZIMBABWE
(U) Classified by Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, Permanent
Representative, for Reasons 1.4 (b and d).
1. (SBU) Ambassador Khalilzad met with Secretary General Ban
briefly on September 27. Topics included Burma, Zimbabwe and
the prospects for a U.S. candidate for controller of the UN
(septel).
BURMA
--------------
2. (C) Secretary General Ban told Ambassador Khalilzad on
September 27 that Special Advisor for Burma Ibrahim Gambari
will/will receive a visa to enter Burma. The SYG said he
practically threatened the Burmese Foreign Minister that if
Rangoon did not cooperate, the international community would
unite and come down very hard. The SYG said he would be
seeing the FM again at 12:30 today to press again about the
escalating violence. The SYG also reportedly instructed
Gambari to return to New York immediately after his visit to
Burma to report to the Security Council.
ZIMBABWE
--------------
3. (C) The SYG reported to Ambassador Khalilzad that UK
Minister Mark Malloch Brown had proposed the idea of a
humanitarian envoy for Zimbabwe. The SYG raised it with
Mugabe, whose reaction was "hostile, even impudent." Mugabe
charged that there were no problems in Zimbabwe, that there
was no hunger, and that the SYG should not fall prey to "the
colonialists" who were behind this move. The SYG persisted
and raised the idea with the presidents of South Africa and
Ghana. Both advised B that this was the wrong time. They
recommended waiting until after the March elections in
Zimbabwe as their expectation was that Mugabe would not run
or would be defeated.
KHALILZAD