Identifier
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10KHARTOUM89
2010-02-01 13:50:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Khartoum
Cable title:
UNMIS SRSG Qazi Reportedly Plans to Depart Sudan
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C O N F I D E N T I A L KHARTOUM 000089
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AMEMBASSY YAOUNDE PASS TO AMEMBASSY MALABO
E.O. 12958: DECL: 2020/02/01
TAGS: PREL KPKO SU UN
SUBJECT: UNMIS SRSG Qazi Reportedly Plans to Depart Sudan
CLASSIFIED BY: REWhitehead, CDA, State, EXEC; REASON: 1.4(B),(D)
C O N F I D E N T I A L KHARTOUM 000089
SIPDIS
AMEMBASSY YAOUNDE PASS TO AMEMBASSY MALABO
E.O. 12958: DECL: 2020/02/01
TAGS: PREL KPKO SU UN
SUBJECT: UNMIS SRSG Qazi Reportedly Plans to Depart Sudan
CLASSIFIED BY: REWhitehead, CDA, State, EXEC; REASON: 1.4(B),(D)
1. (sbu) Derek Plumbly, Chairman of the Assessment and Evaluation
Commission, on February 1 informed Commission members that he had
just met with Special Representative of the Secretary General
(SRSG) Ashraff Qazi, who has directed the United Nations Mission in
Sudan (UNMIS) since the expulsion of first SRSG Jan Pronk. Qazi
told Plumbly that he planned to debrief the resident diplomatic
corps on February 3 and definitively depart Sudan the following day
so that his recently-named successor, Haile Menkerios, can take up
the position at once. Until last week, Qazi was expected to remain
in place through the April National Elections. Menkerios will
reportedly arrive in early March.
2. (c) With the arrival last week of Joint SRSG Ibrahim Gambari
to take over the reins of the United Nations and African Union
Mission to Darfur (UNAMID),and Menkerios' anticipated arrival,
there are hopes that the sister UN peacekeeping missions will play
a more robust role as Sudan moves into the crucial final year of
implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, concluding
with the Southern Sudanese and Abyei referenda for
self-determination in January 2011. Qazi had an often thorny
relationship with the Government of Southern Sudan, which at one
point threatened to sever all contact with him. There are
questions about how much time Menkerios, who is rumored to be
intent on holding on to his current position as UN Assistant
Secretary General for Political Affairs, will spend in Sudan.
Gambari, who immediately traveled to El Fasher in Darfur and
announced his intention to spend most of his time there, replaced
Rudolphe Adada, who during much of his tenure was an absentee
landlord.
WHITEHEAD
SIPDIS
AMEMBASSY YAOUNDE PASS TO AMEMBASSY MALABO
E.O. 12958: DECL: 2020/02/01
TAGS: PREL KPKO SU UN
SUBJECT: UNMIS SRSG Qazi Reportedly Plans to Depart Sudan
CLASSIFIED BY: REWhitehead, CDA, State, EXEC; REASON: 1.4(B),(D)
1. (sbu) Derek Plumbly, Chairman of the Assessment and Evaluation
Commission, on February 1 informed Commission members that he had
just met with Special Representative of the Secretary General
(SRSG) Ashraff Qazi, who has directed the United Nations Mission in
Sudan (UNMIS) since the expulsion of first SRSG Jan Pronk. Qazi
told Plumbly that he planned to debrief the resident diplomatic
corps on February 3 and definitively depart Sudan the following day
so that his recently-named successor, Haile Menkerios, can take up
the position at once. Until last week, Qazi was expected to remain
in place through the April National Elections. Menkerios will
reportedly arrive in early March.
2. (c) With the arrival last week of Joint SRSG Ibrahim Gambari
to take over the reins of the United Nations and African Union
Mission to Darfur (UNAMID),and Menkerios' anticipated arrival,
there are hopes that the sister UN peacekeeping missions will play
a more robust role as Sudan moves into the crucial final year of
implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, concluding
with the Southern Sudanese and Abyei referenda for
self-determination in January 2011. Qazi had an often thorny
relationship with the Government of Southern Sudan, which at one
point threatened to sever all contact with him. There are
questions about how much time Menkerios, who is rumored to be
intent on holding on to his current position as UN Assistant
Secretary General for Political Affairs, will spend in Sudan.
Gambari, who immediately traveled to El Fasher in Darfur and
announced his intention to spend most of his time there, replaced
Rudolphe Adada, who during much of his tenure was an absentee
landlord.
WHITEHEAD