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SUBJECT: DIPLOMATS REVIEW INSTALLATION ISSUES
1. GERMAN AMBASSADOR INVITED SECRETARY GENERAL'S
SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE BOOH BOOH, OAU'S FELLI, EEC
AND WORLD BANK REPS, AND WESTERN OBSERVERS TO LUNCH,
THURSDAY, 3/10, WITH PATRIOTIC FRONT'S MAZIMHAKA,
PRIME MINISTER-DESIGNATE TWAGIRAMUNGU AND PRESIDENTIAL
COUNSELOR RENZAHO. AMBASSADOR RENZAHO DID NOT SHOW
UP; THE REST OF THE TABLE REVIEWED STATUS OF
NEGOTIATIONS ON INSTALLATION OF THE ARUSHA ACCORD.
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE
REVIEW AUTHORITY: JOHN L MILLS
DATE/CASE ID: 01 NOV 2007 200103014
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2. PM-DESIGNATE SAID MOST PARTIES WERE READY FOR
INSTALLATION OF INSTITUTIONS. HE HAD A WORKABLE
SOLUTION FOR HIS OWN PARTY, THOUGH HE WOULD NOT
REVEAL DETAILS. SINCE HE HAD CONSULTED WITH BOTH
SIDES OF THE LIBERAL PARTY CONCERNING THEIR
MINISTERIAL CANDIDATES, HE COULD NOW NAME THE
MINISTERS; HE THOUGHT RPF WOULD HAVE TO ACCEPT A 6/5
COMPROMISE AMONG LIBERAL DEPUTIES. IN REPONSE TO A
QUERY FROM THE U.S. AMBASSADOR, THE PM SAID THAT THE
COMMITTEE FOR THE DEFENSE OF THE REPUBLIC (CDR)
DEPUTY SHOULD BE SWORN IN WITH THE REST OF THE
ASSEMBLY, EVEN THOUGH CDR'S SIGNATURE ON THE PARTY
CODE OF CONDUCT HAD NOT BEEN VALIDATED BY THE
CONSTITUTIONAL COURT. WHAT MATTERED WAS THAT CDR HAD
NOW AGREED TO PLAY BY ARUSHA RULES.
3. PATRIOTIC FRONT'S MAZIMHAKA SAID THEIR PARTY WAS
READY FOR INSTALLATION, INDEED EVERYONE WAS READY
EXCEPT PRESIDENT HABYARIMANA, THE ONLY ONE BLOCKING
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INSTALLATION. IT WAS TIME FOR THE INTERNATIONAL
JUST AS THE INTERNATIONAL
COMMUNITY TO ADMIT THIS.
COMMUNITY HAD PUT PRESSURE ON THE PRESIDENT TO SIGN
AT ARUSHA IN AUGUST, SO NOW IT SHOULD TWIST HIS ARM A
BIT HARDER TO GET HIM TO INSTALL THE INSTITUTIONS.
U.S. AMBASSADOR COMMENTED THAT IT SOUNDED LIKE SOME
PARTIES WANTED TO IMPOSE THEIR SOLUTION ON THE
PRESIDENT AND HIS ALLIES. THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR SAID
THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY HELD ALL RWANDAN
POLITICAL LEADERS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE IMPASSE;
RWANDANS WERE MISGUIDED IF THEY THOUGHT THEY COULD
COUNT ON THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOREVER.
MINISTER BOOR BOOH SAID THAT THE UN WAS THINKING OF
PULLING OUT. U.S. AMBASSADOR NOTED THAT THE ARUSHA
ACCORD WAS, IN ITS TOTALITY, A COMPROMISE WORKED OUT
BY RWANDAN PARTIES, NOT BY THE INTERNATIONAL
COMMUNITY. IT WAS TIME FOR RWANDANS TO IMPLEMENT THE
ACCORD.
4. MINISTER BOOR BOOM TOLD U.S. AMBASSADOR THAT HE
AND TANZANIAN AMBASSADOR TAMBWE WOULD BE SEEING THE
PRESIDENT TOMORROW MORNING, 3/11, TO COMMUNICATE
RPF'S POSITION AND PRESS FOR EARLY RESOLUTION OF THE
IMPASSE. TANZANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER IS COMING TO
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TOWN TOMORROW, HOPEFULLY TO PUT THE WRAPS ON A DEAL.
THE BELGIAN DEFENSE MINISTER IS ALSO IN TOWN,
3/10-12, AND WILL CALL ON POLITICAL PARTY LEADERS AS
WELL AS REVIEW BELGIUM'S UNAMIR CONTINGENT.
OBSERVERS AND FACILITATORS WILL MEET AT U.S.
RESIDENCE TOMORROW AFTERNOON TO GET A READOUT OF
MEETING WITH PRESIDENT AND PLAN NEXT STEPS.
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