Identifier
Created
Classification
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09PARIS57
2009-01-15 14:49:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Paris
Cable title:
DRC/RWANDA: FRANCE SUPPORTS USG APPROACH ON UNSC
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C O N F I D E N T I A L PARIS 000057
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/15/2019
TAGS: EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER ZF UNSC FR
SUBJECT: DRC/RWANDA: FRANCE SUPPORTS USG APPROACH ON UNSC
SANCTIONS
REF: STATE 3354
Classified By: Political Counselor Andrew Young, 1.4 (b/d).
(C) We conveyed on January 14 reftel demarche concerning the
addition of four names to the UNSC DRC Sanctions Committee
list to, separately, MFA desk officers Laurent Chevallier
(AF) and Jeanne Simon (IO). Simon expressed no objection to
the approach outlined in reftel. Chevallier, while saying
that his office would support the U.S. position, noted
potential problems that could emerge on the Rwandan side. He
said that the Rwandans might not be pleased that their
original list of 19 names, submitted some months ago in May
2008, had been reduced to four. He was concerned that the
Rwandans might not be comfortable with presenting the
enhanced Statements of Case to the DRC Sanctions Committee
because doing so might give the impression that Rwanda itself
was no longer interested in pursuing all of the others Rwanda
had originally named and that Rwanda would in effect be doing
what the U.S., France, UK, et al., were telling it to do.
Chevallier said that France, given its own problems with
Rwanda, was acutely aware of Rwandan sensitivities about
being pushed around by outsiders, and that Rwandan officials
might object to how their original list of names had been
treated. Having pointed out these potential problems,
however, Chevallier said that France would support the U.S.
approach but with fingers crossed out of concern for this
possible adverse Rwandan reaction.
STAPLETON
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/15/2019
TAGS: EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER ZF UNSC FR
SUBJECT: DRC/RWANDA: FRANCE SUPPORTS USG APPROACH ON UNSC
SANCTIONS
REF: STATE 3354
Classified By: Political Counselor Andrew Young, 1.4 (b/d).
(C) We conveyed on January 14 reftel demarche concerning the
addition of four names to the UNSC DRC Sanctions Committee
list to, separately, MFA desk officers Laurent Chevallier
(AF) and Jeanne Simon (IO). Simon expressed no objection to
the approach outlined in reftel. Chevallier, while saying
that his office would support the U.S. position, noted
potential problems that could emerge on the Rwandan side. He
said that the Rwandans might not be pleased that their
original list of 19 names, submitted some months ago in May
2008, had been reduced to four. He was concerned that the
Rwandans might not be comfortable with presenting the
enhanced Statements of Case to the DRC Sanctions Committee
because doing so might give the impression that Rwanda itself
was no longer interested in pursuing all of the others Rwanda
had originally named and that Rwanda would in effect be doing
what the U.S., France, UK, et al., were telling it to do.
Chevallier said that France, given its own problems with
Rwanda, was acutely aware of Rwandan sensitivities about
being pushed around by outsiders, and that Rwandan officials
might object to how their original list of names had been
treated. Having pointed out these potential problems,
however, Chevallier said that France would support the U.S.
approach but with fingers crossed out of concern for this
possible adverse Rwandan reaction.
STAPLETON