MIXED MESSAGES ON SUDAN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR MANDATE

C O N F I D E N T I A L LUANDA 000364 SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/12/2019 TAGS: PHUM PREL SU AORC AO SUBJECT: MIXED MESSAGES ON SUDAN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR MANDATE REF: A. SECSTATE 55852 ¶B. SECSTATE 59451 Classified By: Charge d'affaires Jeff Hawkins for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d) ¶1. (SBU) Drawing from key talking points (reftels),POLOFF delivered reftel demarches to Jeronimo Gaspar de Almeida, Counselor for the Americas Desk at the Ministry of Foreign Relations. The GRA offered no substantive response. ¶2. (C) British second secretary David Arkley separately told Poloff that the EU delivered a similar demarche to the Director for Africa at the Ministry of Foreign Relations, who said that Angola planned to support an extension of the special rapporteur's mandate, even over the objections of Sudan. Arkley said that the EU had received conflicting information from Geneva. Arkley said that the visiting British Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Lord Malloch Brown will press the issue in his upcoming June 14 meeting with Angolan Foreign Minister Dos Anjos. MOZENA