Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
08KHARTOUM327
2008-03-05 09:03:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Khartoum
Cable title:
DEMARCHE IN PREPARATION OF MARCH 5-6 ARAB LEAGUE
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C O N F I D E N T I A L KHARTOUM 000327
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR NEA/RA (JULIA PALLARES),AF/SPG
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/05/2013
TAGS: PREL LE SY KV AL IZ SU
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE IN PREPARATION OF MARCH 5-6 ARAB LEAGUE
MINISTERIAL MEETING
REF: STATE 19473
Classified By: CDA Alberto M. Fernandez, reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
C O N F I D E N T I A L KHARTOUM 000327
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR NEA/RA (JULIA PALLARES),AF/SPG
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/05/2013
TAGS: PREL LE SY KV AL IZ SU
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE IN PREPARATION OF MARCH 5-6 ARAB LEAGUE
MINISTERIAL MEETING
REF: STATE 19473
Classified By: CDA Alberto M. Fernandez, reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
1. (C) CDA Fernandez delivered subject demarche to Sudanese
MFA Under-Secretary Mutriff Siddiq on the margins of a
meeting to discuss Guantanamo detainee issues. Siddiq said
that Sudan's participant in the upcoming Ministerial,
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Ali Karti, will be
guided by whatever Arab League consensus may emerge on the
three issues listed in reftel. He remarked that, as far as
the terrorism question is concerned, Sudan is already
cooperating with the U.S. on such issues.
2. (C) Siddiq did not expect much controversy on the Kosovo
issue as it will be resolved by consensus but warned that
there may well be no such consensus emerging on Lebanon/Syria
related matters. Except for counter-terrorism, none of these
issues are of major concern to a Khartoum regime focused on
bilateral tensions with the U.S. because of Darfur, Chad and
the implementation of the North-South Comprehensive Peace
Agreement (CPA). Some Sudanese officials, outside the MFA,
do see an independent Kosovo, despite sympathy for the
Kosovar Muslims, as a worrying development that could see an
independent Kosovo today but set a precedent for an
independent Darfur tomorrow.
FERNANDEZ
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR NEA/RA (JULIA PALLARES),AF/SPG
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/05/2013
TAGS: PREL LE SY KV AL IZ SU
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE IN PREPARATION OF MARCH 5-6 ARAB LEAGUE
MINISTERIAL MEETING
REF: STATE 19473
Classified By: CDA Alberto M. Fernandez, reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
1. (C) CDA Fernandez delivered subject demarche to Sudanese
MFA Under-Secretary Mutriff Siddiq on the margins of a
meeting to discuss Guantanamo detainee issues. Siddiq said
that Sudan's participant in the upcoming Ministerial,
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Ali Karti, will be
guided by whatever Arab League consensus may emerge on the
three issues listed in reftel. He remarked that, as far as
the terrorism question is concerned, Sudan is already
cooperating with the U.S. on such issues.
2. (C) Siddiq did not expect much controversy on the Kosovo
issue as it will be resolved by consensus but warned that
there may well be no such consensus emerging on Lebanon/Syria
related matters. Except for counter-terrorism, none of these
issues are of major concern to a Khartoum regime focused on
bilateral tensions with the U.S. because of Darfur, Chad and
the implementation of the North-South Comprehensive Peace
Agreement (CPA). Some Sudanese officials, outside the MFA,
do see an independent Kosovo, despite sympathy for the
Kosovar Muslims, as a worrying development that could see an
independent Kosovo today but set a precedent for an
independent Darfur tomorrow.
FERNANDEZ