Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09NDJAMENA103
2009-03-25 10:13:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Ndjamena
Cable title:
TURKEY PLANNING TO OPEN EMBASSY IN CHAD, PERHAPS
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UNCLAS NDJAMENA 000103
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
STATE FOR AF/C, AF/SPG, NEA/MAG, AND EUR/SE
NSC FOR GAVIN AND HUDSON
PARIS FOR POL - DELIA AND KANEDA
LONDON FOR POL - LORD
ADDIS ALSO FOR USAU
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL PGOV LY SU TU ODIP CD
SUBJECT: TURKEY PLANNING TO OPEN EMBASSY IN CHAD, PERHAPS
LATER THIS YEAR
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A TURKISH EMBASSY IN CHAD?
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UNCLAS NDJAMENA 000103
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
STATE FOR AF/C, AF/SPG, NEA/MAG, AND EUR/SE
NSC FOR GAVIN AND HUDSON
PARIS FOR POL - DELIA AND KANEDA
LONDON FOR POL - LORD
ADDIS ALSO FOR USAU
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL PGOV LY SU TU ODIP CD
SUBJECT: TURKEY PLANNING TO OPEN EMBASSY IN CHAD, PERHAPS
LATER THIS YEAR
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A TURKISH EMBASSY IN CHAD?
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1. (U) Visiting Turkish AMB-Designate to Chad Omur Solendil
told AMB March 24 that Turkey was planning to open an Embassy
in Chad, perhaps before the end of this year. A political
decision had been made in Ankara, Solendil said, but now the
funding issue had to be worked out.
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INCREASED TURKISH PRESENCE
IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
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2. (U) Solendil said that the Chad Embassy was part of a
broader effort to increase Ankara's diplomatic presence in
Sub-Saharan Africa. Solendil, who is resident in Tripoli and
accredited there, said that the Chad Embassy was one of 12
additional African posts that the Turks were planning to
open. Slated for establishment at about the same time as the
embassy in Chad would be embassies in Mali, Tanzania, Ghana
and Cameroon.
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COMMENT
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3. (SBU) A Turkish Embassy here would be useful if Ankara
were to lend its weight to encouraging reduction in
Chad-Sudan tensions, a solution in Darfur, and continued
Libyan engagement to those ends.
4. Tripoli minimize considered.
NIGRO
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
STATE FOR AF/C, AF/SPG, NEA/MAG, AND EUR/SE
NSC FOR GAVIN AND HUDSON
PARIS FOR POL - DELIA AND KANEDA
LONDON FOR POL - LORD
ADDIS ALSO FOR USAU
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL PGOV LY SU TU ODIP CD
SUBJECT: TURKEY PLANNING TO OPEN EMBASSY IN CHAD, PERHAPS
LATER THIS YEAR
--------------
A TURKISH EMBASSY IN CHAD?
--------------
1. (U) Visiting Turkish AMB-Designate to Chad Omur Solendil
told AMB March 24 that Turkey was planning to open an Embassy
in Chad, perhaps before the end of this year. A political
decision had been made in Ankara, Solendil said, but now the
funding issue had to be worked out.
--------------
INCREASED TURKISH PRESENCE
IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
--------------
2. (U) Solendil said that the Chad Embassy was part of a
broader effort to increase Ankara's diplomatic presence in
Sub-Saharan Africa. Solendil, who is resident in Tripoli and
accredited there, said that the Chad Embassy was one of 12
additional African posts that the Turks were planning to
open. Slated for establishment at about the same time as the
embassy in Chad would be embassies in Mali, Tanzania, Ghana
and Cameroon.
--------------
COMMENT
--------------
3. (SBU) A Turkish Embassy here would be useful if Ankara
were to lend its weight to encouraging reduction in
Chad-Sudan tensions, a solution in Darfur, and continued
Libyan engagement to those ends.
4. Tripoli minimize considered.
NIGRO