Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09NAIROBI619
2009-03-27 08:06:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Nairobi
Cable title:
KENYA WILL "SERIOUSLY CONSIDER" NOT INVITING GUINEA AND
how-toVZCZCXRO1649 PP RUEHMA RUEHPA DE RUEHNR #0619 0860806 ZNR UUUUU ZZH P 270806Z MAR 09 FM AMEMBASSY NAIROBI TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 8987 INFO RUEHZK/ECOWAS COLLECTIVE RUEHDS/AMEMBASSY ADDIS ABABA 0491 RUEHAN/AMEMBASSY ANTANANARIVO 0276 RUEHRY/AMEMBASSY CONAKRY 0005
UNCLAS NAIROBI 000619
STATE PASS USTR FLORIZELLE LISER, CONNIE HAMILTON, PATRICK DEAN
COLEMAN, AND WILLIAM JACKSON
STATE FOR AF/FO, AF/W JIM HUNTER, AF/E, AND AF/EPS ANN BREITER,
GABRIELLE MALLORY, MARY B. JOHNSON, AND TAWANNA DAVIDSON
STATE ALSO FOR AF/EX SYLVIE MARTINEZ AND SONJA WRAY-BROWN
AF/PD FOR CLAUDIA ANYASO AND TIJEN AYBAR
STATE ALSO FOR EEB/TPP/BTA AMY HOLMAN
STATE PLEASE PASS USAID/EA AND USAID/AFR/SD BRUNO CORNELIO AND JEFF
MALLICK
TREASURY FOR DAN PETERS AND REBECCA KLEIN
COMMERCE FOR KEVIN BOYD, ALICIA ROBINSON, AND BECKY ERKUL
AGRICULTURE FOR DON EVANS AND CATHY MCKINNELL
LABOR FOR SUDHA HALEY AND MAUREEN PETTIS
ADDIS ABABA FOR USAU MISSION
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ETRD ECON AGOA PGOV PREL GV MA KE
SUBJECT: KENYA WILL "SERIOUSLY CONSIDER" NOT INVITING GUINEA AND
MADAGASCAR TO AGOA FORUM 2009
REFS: (A) STATE 27823
(B) 03/17/2009 DRIANO-SLUTZ EMAIL
Sensitive but Unclassified. Not for internet distribution.
UNCLAS NAIROBI 000619
STATE PASS USTR FLORIZELLE LISER, CONNIE HAMILTON, PATRICK DEAN
COLEMAN, AND WILLIAM JACKSON
STATE FOR AF/FO, AF/W JIM HUNTER, AF/E, AND AF/EPS ANN BREITER,
GABRIELLE MALLORY, MARY B. JOHNSON, AND TAWANNA DAVIDSON
STATE ALSO FOR AF/EX SYLVIE MARTINEZ AND SONJA WRAY-BROWN
AF/PD FOR CLAUDIA ANYASO AND TIJEN AYBAR
STATE ALSO FOR EEB/TPP/BTA AMY HOLMAN
STATE PLEASE PASS USAID/EA AND USAID/AFR/SD BRUNO CORNELIO AND JEFF
MALLICK
TREASURY FOR DAN PETERS AND REBECCA KLEIN
COMMERCE FOR KEVIN BOYD, ALICIA ROBINSON, AND BECKY ERKUL
AGRICULTURE FOR DON EVANS AND CATHY MCKINNELL
LABOR FOR SUDHA HALEY AND MAUREEN PETTIS
ADDIS ABABA FOR USAU MISSION
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ETRD ECON AGOA PGOV PREL GV MA KE
SUBJECT: KENYA WILL "SERIOUSLY CONSIDER" NOT INVITING GUINEA AND
MADAGASCAR TO AGOA FORUM 2009
REFS: (A) STATE 27823
(B) 03/17/2009 DRIANO-SLUTZ EMAIL
Sensitive but Unclassified. Not for internet distribution.
1. (SBU) As instructed ref A, Economics Counselor urged the
Government of Kenya (GOK) not to invite Guinea and Madagascar to the
August 4-6, 2009, AGOA Forum in Nairobi.
2. (SBU) During a March 24 meeting between the senior GOK officials
responsible for organizing the forum and a visiting USG AGOA
interagency team, the Kenyans confided they had yet to send letters
of invitation to AGOA-eligible sub-Saharan countries. ECON/C
informed Ministry of Trade Secretary of External Trade Simon Chacha
Nyangi that the United States welcomes the African Union's decisions
to condemn the recent coups in Guinea and Madagascar and suspend the
memberships of both countries. He explained that because Guinea no
longer meets AGOA eligibility requirements, Kenya should not invite
it to the forum. Likewise, Madagascar should not be invited.
Chacha Nyangi responded that Kenya would definitely consider the
United States' objections and seriously consider not inviting Guinea
and Madagascar.
3. (SBU) On March 27 econoff shared reftel points, emphasizing the
AU's suspension of Guinea's and Madagascar's memberships, with
Johnson Weru, head of the Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs'
Economic and External Trade Division and his ministry's senior
representative on Kenya's AGOA Preparatory Committee. Weru said he
would promptly relay our request that Kenya not invite Guinea and
Madagascar to Dr. Cyrus Njiru, the permanent secretary in the
Ministry of Trade.
4. (SBU) Post will also provide the USG position in a diplomatic
note to the Kenyan MFA (copied to the Ministry of Trade) as soon as
possible.
Ranneberger
STATE PASS USTR FLORIZELLE LISER, CONNIE HAMILTON, PATRICK DEAN
COLEMAN, AND WILLIAM JACKSON
STATE FOR AF/FO, AF/W JIM HUNTER, AF/E, AND AF/EPS ANN BREITER,
GABRIELLE MALLORY, MARY B. JOHNSON, AND TAWANNA DAVIDSON
STATE ALSO FOR AF/EX SYLVIE MARTINEZ AND SONJA WRAY-BROWN
AF/PD FOR CLAUDIA ANYASO AND TIJEN AYBAR
STATE ALSO FOR EEB/TPP/BTA AMY HOLMAN
STATE PLEASE PASS USAID/EA AND USAID/AFR/SD BRUNO CORNELIO AND JEFF
MALLICK
TREASURY FOR DAN PETERS AND REBECCA KLEIN
COMMERCE FOR KEVIN BOYD, ALICIA ROBINSON, AND BECKY ERKUL
AGRICULTURE FOR DON EVANS AND CATHY MCKINNELL
LABOR FOR SUDHA HALEY AND MAUREEN PETTIS
ADDIS ABABA FOR USAU MISSION
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ETRD ECON AGOA PGOV PREL GV MA KE
SUBJECT: KENYA WILL "SERIOUSLY CONSIDER" NOT INVITING GUINEA AND
MADAGASCAR TO AGOA FORUM 2009
REFS: (A) STATE 27823
(B) 03/17/2009 DRIANO-SLUTZ EMAIL
Sensitive but Unclassified. Not for internet distribution.
1. (SBU) As instructed ref A, Economics Counselor urged the
Government of Kenya (GOK) not to invite Guinea and Madagascar to the
August 4-6, 2009, AGOA Forum in Nairobi.
2. (SBU) During a March 24 meeting between the senior GOK officials
responsible for organizing the forum and a visiting USG AGOA
interagency team, the Kenyans confided they had yet to send letters
of invitation to AGOA-eligible sub-Saharan countries. ECON/C
informed Ministry of Trade Secretary of External Trade Simon Chacha
Nyangi that the United States welcomes the African Union's decisions
to condemn the recent coups in Guinea and Madagascar and suspend the
memberships of both countries. He explained that because Guinea no
longer meets AGOA eligibility requirements, Kenya should not invite
it to the forum. Likewise, Madagascar should not be invited.
Chacha Nyangi responded that Kenya would definitely consider the
United States' objections and seriously consider not inviting Guinea
and Madagascar.
3. (SBU) On March 27 econoff shared reftel points, emphasizing the
AU's suspension of Guinea's and Madagascar's memberships, with
Johnson Weru, head of the Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs'
Economic and External Trade Division and his ministry's senior
representative on Kenya's AGOA Preparatory Committee. Weru said he
would promptly relay our request that Kenya not invite Guinea and
Madagascar to Dr. Cyrus Njiru, the permanent secretary in the
Ministry of Trade.
4. (SBU) Post will also provide the USG position in a diplomatic
note to the Kenyan MFA (copied to the Ministry of Trade) as soon as
possible.
Ranneberger