Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
08LUSAKA1167
2008-12-12 06:39:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Lusaka
Cable title:
ZAMBIA SUPPORTS UN PKO IN SOMALIA; WILL REACH OUT,
how-toP 120639Z DEC 08 FM AMEMBASSY LUSAKA TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 6546 INFO SOUTHERN AF DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY COLLECTIVE PRIORITY AMEMBASSY ADDIS ABABA PRIORITY AMEMBASSY LONDON PRIORITY AMEMBASSY NAIROBI PRIORITY AMEMBASSY PARIS PRIORITY USMISSION USUN NEW YORK PRIORITY
C O N F I D E N T I A L LUSAKA 001167
STATE FOR AF/E - N. GARVEY
STATE FOR AF/RSA - M. BITTRICK
STATE FOR IO/PSC - T. KHAMBATTA
STATE ALSO FOR AF/S - M. SHIELDS
ADDIS ABABA FOR USAU
E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/12/2018
TAGS: PREL PGOV KPKO ZA SO
SUBJECT: ZAMBIA SUPPORTS UN PKO IN SOMALIA; WILL REACH OUT,
BUT WON'T SPEAK OUT
REF: STATE 129524
Classified By: Charge d'Affaires Michael Koplovsky for Reason(s) 1.4 (b)
and (d)
(C) Zambian Foreign Affairs Permanent Secretary Tens Kapoma
emphatically told Charge on December 12 that Zambia very much
supports a United Nations (UN) Peacekeeping role in Somalia,
however, the Zambian Government (GRZ) is unlikely to express
its position publicly, judging from Kapoma's uncomfortably
silent response to reftel points. Kapoma agreed to raise a
UNPKO in Somalia with other Security Council members' local
representatives (including France, UK, Germany, and South
Africa),saying he would broach the issue during already
scheduled meetings with South African and British High
Commissioners.
KOPLOVSKY