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TAGS: PREL, MARK, NATO, FR, HA, RW
SUBJECT: ACTING SECRETARY TALBOTT AND FRENCH DEF MIN
LEOTARD DISCUSS BOSNIA, RWANDA AND HAITI
1. SUMMARY. AT A JULY 29 MEETING, ACTING SECRETARY
TALBOTT AND FRENCH DEFENSE MINISTER FRANCOIS LEOTARD
AGREED THAT THE CONTACT GROUP MUST SHOW THE SERBS' THAT
THE GROUP HAS THE POLITICAL WILL TO CARRY THROUGH WITH OUR
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DATE/CASE ID: 04 NOV 2011 201005065
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THREATS. LEOTARD SAID THAT SANCTIONS MUST BE TIGHTENED
AND CURRENT UNSC RESOLUTIONS ENFORCED.
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ACTING SECRETARY AND LEOTARD ALSO DISCUSSED RWANDA, NOTING
THE EXTENSIVE COOPERATION BETWEEN OUR ARMED FORCES. ON
JULY 31, LEOTARD WILL MEET WITH DEFENSE SECRETARY PERRY IN
GOMA. END SUMMARY.
BOSNIA
2. LEOTARD AND THE ACTING SECRETARY AGREED THAT THE SERBS
DO NOT THINK WE HAVE THE POLITICAL WILL TO CARRY THROUGH
WITH OUR THREATS. LEOTARD CHARACTERIZED THE SITUATION AS
"OUT OF CONTROL" AND THE LIKENED THE SITUATION IN SARAJEVO
TO A "BAD MOVIE" IN THAT IT WAS GOING BACKWARDS. LEOTARD
SAID THAT THE CONTACT GROUF COUNTRIES MUST REASSERT
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CONTROL BY TAKING MEANINGFUL ACTION TO TIGHTEN SANCTIONS
AND ENFORCE THE CURRENT UNSC RESOLUTIONS. I
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3. LEOTARD ALSO CRITICIZED UNPROFOR'S TEPID RESPONSES TO
REPEATED SERBIAN PROVOCATIONS AND SAID THAT UNPROFOR
FORCES SHOULD RESPOND WHEN ATTACKED.
RUSSIAN ATTITUDES
4. LEOTARD ASKED THE ACTING SECRETARY FOR HIS ASSESSMENT
OF THE RUSSIAN STANCE. THE ACTING SECRETARY RESPONSDED
THAT HE HAD MET WITH RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ANDREI
KOZYREV RECENTLY IN BANGKOK AND THAT KOZYREV HAD STRESSED
THE SERIOUS DOMESTIC POLITICAL PRESSURE RUSSIA FACES IN
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HAITI
6. LEOTARD SAID THAT FRANCE SUPFORTED OUR DRAFT UNSC
RESOLUTION. HE ALSO RECONFIRMED THAT FRANCE WOULD BE
WILLING TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PHASE II UNMIH UN MISSION
WTTH ROTH svmmovrc AND REAL ASSISTANCE. /
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THAT AIR FRANCE'S LAST FLIGHT FROM HAITI WAS
SCHEDULED TO DEPART JULY 30 AND THAT THE TOTAL CUT-OFF OF
SCHEDULED AIR SERVICE TO HAITI WOULD DEMONSTRATE THE
SOLIDARITY OF THE WORLD COMMUNITY AGAINST THE MILITARY
REGIME.
RWANDA
7. TALBOTT SAID THAT THE FRENCH INTERVENTION "SHOWED
COURAGE" AND THAT WE WOULD LOOK TO THE FRENCH FOR
LEADERSHIP ON RWANDA AND IN PARTICULAR IN GETTING
FRANCOPHONE STATES TO JOIN THE EFFORT. BOTH TALBOTT AND
LEOTARD NOTED THE EFFECTIVE USG/GOF ON-THE-GROUND
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COORDINATION IN GOMA. LEOTARD AND TALBOTT AGREED THAT THE
KEY FROBLEM WAS GETTING MORE CLEAN WATER IN TO FIGHT THE
CHOLERA EPIDEMIC. THE HEAVY USE OF THE GOMA AIRPORT WAS
CAUSING DETERIORATION, BUT WE WERE ADDRESSING THAT
PROBLEM.
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8. LEOTARD EMPHASIZED THAT IT WAS IMPORTANT TO GET KIGALI
UP AS A STAGING AREA -- (1) TO RELIEVE GOMA AND GET THE
HUMANITARIAN EFFORT ON THE WAY IN RWANDA; AND (2) TO DRAW
THE REFUGEES BACK TO RWANDA. LEOTARD ALSO NOTED THAT HE
WOULD BE MEETING WITH SECRETARY PERRY IN GOMA ON JULY 31.
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10. ACTING SECRETARY TALBOTT WAS JOINED BY AMBASSADORS
PAMELA HARRIMAN AND TED MCNAMARA, EUR/WE OFFFCE DIRECTOR
JOHN LEWIS AND EUR/WE NOTETAKER ANNE CARSON. THE GOF WAS
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REPRESENTED BY DEFENSE MINISTER LEOTARD, AMBASSADOR
JACQUES ANDREANI, DCM PATRICK VILLEMUR. AND PARIS-BASED
ADVISORS GERARD ARAUD AND CAPTAIN P. BLAIRON. CHRISTOPHER
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