Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09LIBREVILLE57
2009-02-12 16:04:00
SECRET
Embassy Libreville
Cable title:
GABON: CHAD-SUDAN PEACE PROCESS WAY OFF TRACK
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S E C R E T LIBREVILLE 000057
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/12/2019
TAGS: PGOV PREL PHUM SU CD CF GB
SUBJECT: GABON: CHAD-SUDAN PEACE PROCESS WAY OFF TRACK
REF: STATE 08780
Classified By: Poloff Leslie Doumbia for reasons 1.4(b) and (d).
(C) Chad and Sudan will not likely engage in further talks
anytime soon, according to Gabonese Ministry of Foreign
Affairs Legal Advisor Michel Biang. Biang told Poloff
February 11 that in Gabon's view the efforts of the Dakar
Contact Group are at best on hold. Biang cited the scathing
remarks delivered by the head of the Chadian delegation at
the recent African Union (AU) summit in Addis Ababa. Biang
said that in Gabon's view the Chadians are serious when they
say that further talk with Sudan are pointless. Biang also
noted Sudan's lack of response to reconciliation efforts,
suggesting they are preoccupied by the International Criminal
Court's impending arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar
Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir. COMMENT: Both Gabonese President El
Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba and Republic of Congo (Brazzaville)
President Denis Sassou Nguesso are currently in Morocco,
where Bongo's wife Edith Bongo is either dead or gravely ill.
Edith Bongo is also the daughter of President Sassou
Nguesso. Major governmental initiatives in Gabon are
currently on hold, including any effort to reinvigorate the
Dakar Contact Group process. END COMMENT.
REDDICK
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/12/2019
TAGS: PGOV PREL PHUM SU CD CF GB
SUBJECT: GABON: CHAD-SUDAN PEACE PROCESS WAY OFF TRACK
REF: STATE 08780
Classified By: Poloff Leslie Doumbia for reasons 1.4(b) and (d).
(C) Chad and Sudan will not likely engage in further talks
anytime soon, according to Gabonese Ministry of Foreign
Affairs Legal Advisor Michel Biang. Biang told Poloff
February 11 that in Gabon's view the efforts of the Dakar
Contact Group are at best on hold. Biang cited the scathing
remarks delivered by the head of the Chadian delegation at
the recent African Union (AU) summit in Addis Ababa. Biang
said that in Gabon's view the Chadians are serious when they
say that further talk with Sudan are pointless. Biang also
noted Sudan's lack of response to reconciliation efforts,
suggesting they are preoccupied by the International Criminal
Court's impending arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar
Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir. COMMENT: Both Gabonese President El
Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba and Republic of Congo (Brazzaville)
President Denis Sassou Nguesso are currently in Morocco,
where Bongo's wife Edith Bongo is either dead or gravely ill.
Edith Bongo is also the daughter of President Sassou
Nguesso. Major governmental initiatives in Gabon are
currently on hold, including any effort to reinvigorate the
Dakar Contact Group process. END COMMENT.
REDDICK