Identifier
Created
Classification
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09NDJAMENA417
2009-09-28 11:53:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Ndjamena
Cable title:
EMBASSY N'DJAMENA'S RECENT INTERFAITH DIALOGUE
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UNCLAS NDJAMENA 000417
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL KPAO OIIP SCUL CD
SUBJECT: EMBASSY N'DJAMENA'S RECENT INTERFAITH DIALOGUE
ACTIVITIES
REF: STATE 89406
UNCLAS NDJAMENA 000417
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL KPAO OIIP SCUL CD
SUBJECT: EMBASSY N'DJAMENA'S RECENT INTERFAITH DIALOGUE
ACTIVITIES
REF: STATE 89406
1. (U) As part of our extensive program of outreach to
Chad's Muslims (54 per cent of the total country population),
and to honor the 2009 anniversary of the September 11 attacks
on the United States, Ambassador Nigro hosted an Iftaar for
100-some guests, including Foreign Minister Moussa Faki
Mahamat and other prominent Muslim and Christian
influence-makers, on September 10, near the end of Ramadan.
Separately, EMBASSY Democracy and Development staff
participated in a September 22-25 Interfaith Dialogue
Conference hosted by the Academy for Educational Development
(AED),our primary partner for peace-through-development
projects in conjunction with the TSCTP. This activity
brought together 60-some young leaders of Chad's Muslim and
Christian communities, hailing from diverse regions of the
country, to plan joint projects that will further peace and
understanding. Both events received favorable media
coverage. Per reftel, photographs and reprints of press
articles have been sent to the Department.
2. (U) Ambassador Nigro's remarks, and those of EMBASSY
staff who attended the AED event, emphasized Chad's long
traditions of religious tolerance and solidarity among a
population nearly equally divided between Muslims and
Christians, and involving hundreds of cultural and linguistic
traditions as well. Both the Ambassador and EMBASSY staff
praised Chad's secularism and efforts toward democracy,
making clear that progress would depend on continued mutual
respect among adherents of both major faiths, and on
rejection of extremism and separatism.
BREMNER
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL KPAO OIIP SCUL CD
SUBJECT: EMBASSY N'DJAMENA'S RECENT INTERFAITH DIALOGUE
ACTIVITIES
REF: STATE 89406
1. (U) As part of our extensive program of outreach to
Chad's Muslims (54 per cent of the total country population),
and to honor the 2009 anniversary of the September 11 attacks
on the United States, Ambassador Nigro hosted an Iftaar for
100-some guests, including Foreign Minister Moussa Faki
Mahamat and other prominent Muslim and Christian
influence-makers, on September 10, near the end of Ramadan.
Separately, EMBASSY Democracy and Development staff
participated in a September 22-25 Interfaith Dialogue
Conference hosted by the Academy for Educational Development
(AED),our primary partner for peace-through-development
projects in conjunction with the TSCTP. This activity
brought together 60-some young leaders of Chad's Muslim and
Christian communities, hailing from diverse regions of the
country, to plan joint projects that will further peace and
understanding. Both events received favorable media
coverage. Per reftel, photographs and reprints of press
articles have been sent to the Department.
2. (U) Ambassador Nigro's remarks, and those of EMBASSY
staff who attended the AED event, emphasized Chad's long
traditions of religious tolerance and solidarity among a
population nearly equally divided between Muslims and
Christians, and involving hundreds of cultural and linguistic
traditions as well. Both the Ambassador and EMBASSY staff
praised Chad's secularism and efforts toward democracy,
making clear that progress would depend on continued mutual
respect among adherents of both major faiths, and on
rejection of extremism and separatism.
BREMNER