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FM AMEMBASSY KIGALI
TO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 4985
USMISSION USUN NEW YORK PRIORITY
INFO AMEMBASSY ADDIS ABABA
AMEMBASSY BRAZZAVILLE
AMEMBASSY BRUSSELS
AMEMBASSY BUJUMBURA
AMEMBASSY CAIRO
AMEMBASSY DHAKA
AMEMBASSY DAR ES SALAAM
AMEMBASSY KAMPALA
AMEMBASSY KINSHASA
AMEMBASSY NAIROBI
UN SECURITY COUNCIL COLLECTIVE
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GENNVA FOR RMA
WHITEHOUSE PASS TO NSC
E.O. 12356: DECL: OADR
TAGS: PREL, KDEM, PGOV, MOPS, PREF, UNSC, BY, RW
SUBJECT: UNITED NATIONS ASSISTANCE MISSION
FOR RWANDA (UNAMIR)
REFS: USUN 05647, USUN 05646
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE
REVIEW AUTHORITY- WILLIAM E LANDFAIR
DATE/CASE ID: 18 JAN 2005 200401096
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2. SUMMARY: THE GOR HAS INSTRUCTED ITS UN MISSION
TO SIGN THE SOMA. UNAMIR LAUNCHED ITS OPERATION IN A
FLAG CEREMONY NOVEMBER 1, FOLLOWING CEREMONIES
MARKING ITS TAKEOVER FROM THE NMOG. IT IS NOT YET
CLEAR WHEN THE ENTIRE UN BATTALION WILL REACH KIGALI,
BUT THE FIRST BELGIAN UNITS ARE EXPECTED NEXT WEEK.
IF THE BELGIANS DO NOT SUPPLY AN ENTIRE BATTALION,
UHAMIR EXPECTS BANGLADESH TO PROVIDE TWO COMPANIES
FOR KIGALI. UNAMIR COMMANDER GENERAL DALLAIRE HAS
BEEN VERY WELL RECEIVED BY BOTH THE GOR AND THE RPF.
END SUMMARY.
SOMA
3. UPON RECEIPT OF REFTELS, I SPOKE IMMEDIATELY WITH
THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE MFA, SIMON INSONERE,
ABOUT THE DELAYS IN COMPLETING THE SOMA. INSONERE
TOLD ME THAT HE WAS AWARE THAT THE GOR HAD PROPOSED
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MINOR CHANGES TO THE UN-PROVIDED DRAFT; HE AGREED
COMPLETELY THAT THIS WAS A MATTER OF GREATEST
URGENCY, AND PROMISED TO CHECK IT OUT IMMEDIATELY.
HE CALLED BACK THIS AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 4, TO ASSURE
ME THAT INSTRUCTIONS HAVE BEEN SENT TO NEW YORK TO
SIGN THE SOMA.
UN FLAG PLANTED
4. IN A FORMAL CEREMONY AT KINIHIRA IN THE
DEMILITARIZED ZONE ON NOVEMBER 1, GENERAL DALLAIRE
RAISED THE UN FLAG, THEN LOWERED IT TO HALF MAST IN
RESPECT FOR THE PERIOD OF MOURNING DECREED BY
PRESIDENT HABYARIMANA FOLLOWING THE ASSASSINATION OF
NEIGHBORING PRESIDENT NDADAYE. WITH THIS CEREMONY,
THE UNITED NATIONS ASSISTANCE MISSION FOR RWANDA
(UNAMIR) GOT UNDERWAY.
5. DURING THE CEREMONY, DALLAIRE MADE AN INSTANT HIT
WITH THE GOVERNMENT, THE RPF AND THE THOUSANDS OF
OBSERVERS BY MAKING PART OF HIS SPEECH IN
KINYARWANDA. THE WELCOME FROM THE GOVERNMENT SIDE
WAS MADE BY FOREIGN MINISTER ANASTASE GASANA, AND
FROM THE RPF SIDE BY COORDINATOR PATRICK MAZIMHAKA.
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ALSO PRESENT AT THE CEREMONY WERE RPF CHAIRMAN ALEXIS
KAMYARENGWE, PRIME MINISTER-DESIGNATE FAUSTIN
TWAGIRAMUNGU, THE ENTIRE DIPLOMATIC CORPS, AND
MILITARY OFFICERS ON BOTH SIDES, UNARMED OF COURSE.
THE NMOG DEPARTS
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6. THE FLAG RAISING BY THE UN WAS THE FINAL STAGE OF
THE TRANSITION FROM THE OAU NMOG TO THE UN. THE
TRANSITION BEGAN ON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, WITH A
CEREMONY OF TURNOVER OF THE EQUIPMENT PROVIDED BY THE
FRENCH, GERMANS AND BELGIANS TO THE UN. TECHNICALLY,
THE EQUIPMENT WAS TRANSFERRED FROM THE OAU BACK TO
THE DONORS AND THEN IMMEDIATELY TRANSFERRED TO THE
UN. THE OAU CHOSE TO KEEP POSSESSION OF THE MINE
DETECTORS AMD OTHER EQUIPMENT PURCHASED FROM THE
UNITED STATES. THE STATUS OF THE U.S.-SUPPLIED
RATIONS REMAINS UNCLEAR, ALTHOUGH I TOLD BOTH PARTIES
THAT I COULD SEE NO PROBLEM WITH THE RATIONS BEING
TRANSFERRED FROM THE OAU TO THE UN.
7.
THE OAU THEN HELD, UNDER THE CHAIRMANSHIP OF
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SECRETARY GENERAL SALIM SALIM, ITS FINAL DECORATION
CEREMONY AT KINIHIRA ON SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30. BY
MONDAY MORNING, THE NMOG TROOPS HAD BEEN ISSUED BLUE
BERETS AND PARTICIPATED FULLY IN THE UN FLAG RAISING
CBREMONY AS THE ADVANCE UNITS OF THE UW FORCE.
GENERAL DALLAIRE ANNOUNCED THAT HIS TOTAL UNIT AT THE
TIME OF RAISING THE FLAG WAS COMPOSED OF 150 MEN, 126
PERSONS TRAMSFERRED FROM THE NMOG PLUS DALLAIRE'S
STAFF OF ABOUT 25. THE TUNISIANS ARE THE LARGEST AND
MOST OBVIOUS GROUP, WITH THE CONGOLESE BEING SECOND
IN SIZE (APPARENTLY HAVING RECEIVED AUTHORITY TO MOVE
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8. THE FINAL PAGE IN THE NMOG OPERATION WAS PLAYED
OUT SATURDAY NIGHT, OCTOBER 30, WHEN THE CHANCELLOR
OF THE PRESIDENCY PRESENTED THE AWARD OF THE ORDER OF
THE MILLE COLLINES TO SALIM SALIM AT THE DIRECTION OF
PRESIDENT HABYARIMANA. THIS ALSO TOOK PLACE IN THE
PRESENCE OF MUCH OF THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS, LATE AT
NIGHT BECAUSE OF SALIM'S LATE RETURN FROM BUJUMBURA.
9. THIS WAS QUITE A REMARKABLE AWARD FROM
HABYARIMANA WHO HAS THROUGHOUT THE PERIOD OF THE NMOG
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ACCUSED THE OAU FORCE OF BEING BIASED TOWARD THE RPF,
AND HAS CONSISTENTLY REJECTED THE POSSIBILITY OF THE
OAU PROVIDING THE FORCE FOR THE FUTURE TRANSITION.
BUT THERE WAS NO SIGN OF SUSPICION IN THE CEREMONIES
THAT TOOK PLACE IN THE COURSE OF LAST WEEKEND.
RWANDA GAVE FULL AND WARM PRAISE TO THE OAU FOR ITS
EFFORTS, AND CONVEYED ITS HIGHEST HONOR ON THE
SECRETARY GENERAL AT THE END OF THE MISSION.
UNAMIR PROSPECTS
10. GENERAL DALLAIRE TOLD US THAT HE EXPECTS THE
FIRST BELGIAN TROOPS TO ARRIVE SHORTLY, PROBABLY NEXT
WEEK. HE WANTS TO HAVE THE ENTIRE KIGALI BATTALION
MANNED BY ONE COUNTRY, THAT IS THE BELGIANS. BELGIAN
AMBASSADOR SWINNEN TOLD ME TODAY, NOVEMBER 4, THAT
HIS GOVERNMENT HAS NOT YET DECIDED WHETHER OR NOT TO
PROVIDE THE WHOLE BATTALION. UNAMIR, HOWEVER,
BELIEVES THAT BELGIANS WILL SEND ONLY TWO COMPANIES,
AND THE OTHER TWO COMPANIES WILL BE PROVIDED BY
BANGLADESH. AN ADVANCE TEAM FROM DHAKA IS EXPECTED
ABOUT NOVEMBER 15.
11. BEFORE THE CRISIS IN BURUNDI, THERE WAS THOUGHT
HERE OF TRYING TO NEGOTIATE WITH THE RPF AND THE
GOVERNMENT TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF RPF BODYGUARDS,
AGREED TO PREVIOUSLY AT 600, THAT WOULD ACCOMPANY THE
RPF, SO THAT THE UN COULD ALSO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF
ITS INITIAL DEPLOYMENT TO KIGALI AND HAVE THE FRENCH
LEAVE AND THE GOVERNMENT FORMED AT AN EARLIER STAGE.
IT APPEARS THAT ANY IDEA OF NEGOTIATING DOWN THESE
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NUMBERS DISAPPEARED IMMEDIATELY WITH THE CRISIS IN
BURUNDI. HABYARIMANA WILL INSIST ON A FULL UN
BATTALION, AND THE RPF WILL INSIST ON ITS FULL
BATTALION, BECAUSE OF THE HEIGHTENED SECURITY
SUSPICIONS ON BOTH SIDES.
12. COMMENT: GENERAL DALLAIRE HAS MADE AN
OUTSTANDING IMPRESSION ON ALL PARTIES. HE HAS TAKEN
SERIOUSLY OUR SUGGESTION TO MAKE PROGRESS REPORTS
PUBLICLY TO KEEP THE RWANDAN PUBLIC AND THE RPF AWARE
OF THE PROGRESS THAT HE IS MAKING. BUT IT IS STILL A
RACE AGAINST TIME TO SEE IF HE CAN INSTALL A FORCE
AND MOVE FORWARD WITH THE FORMATION OF GOVERNMENT
BEFORE POLITICAL FORCES SUCCEED IN UPSETTING THE
PROCESS. THE MORE THERE IS PROGRESS, THE MORE LIKELY
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THAT HE WILL SUCCEED. END COMMENT.
13. BUJUMBURA MINIMIZE CONSIDERED. FLATEN
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