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). “summary: IN MEETINGS WITÉ RiaRDAN PRESIDENT AND
PATRIOTIC FRONT LEADERSHIP, DAS BUSENELL URGED SPEEDY
INSTALLATION OF ‘TRANSITION REGIME, NOTED U.S.
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AND INTENTION TO MOVE AREAD FROM BOTH SIDES. THE
PRESIDENT WAS CONCERNED ‘ABOUT THE SVENTUAL SUCCESS OF
THE TRANSITION, “GIVEN THE LEVELS OF DIiSTRUST NOW IN
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THE BODY POLITIC, BUT SAID HE WOULD KEEP HIS WORD TO.
IMPLEMENT THE ARUSHA ACCORD.
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THÉ PATRIOTIC FRONT LEADERS BLAMED THE PRESIDENT FOR
THE IMPASSE AND DEPLORED HFFORTS, TO GAIN CONCRSSTONS
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REMINDED ‘THE FRONT THAT THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
COULD NOT PUT THE GOVERNMENT IN PLACE - THEY WOULD
HAVE ‘TO WORK OUT THE POLITICAL ARRANGEMENTS THAT MADE
THAT HAPPEN. END SUMMARY. : .
3. PRESIDENT HABVYARIMANA RECEIVED DAS BUSENELY, AND
Aw/C DIRECTOR RENDER 3/21 FOR AN HOUR - LONG DISCUSSION
OF RKWANDA’S POLITICAL IMPASSE. MS. BUSANELL YOLD THE
PRESIDENT THAT SHE HAD TRAVELLED À LONG WAY TO BRING
HIM WASHINGTON’S. PERSPECTIVE ON THE SITUATION.
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RWANDA WAS IN AN HISTORIC TRANSITION, ONE WHICH : ° 77.
HISTORIANS WOULD RECORD AS BEING GLHORIOUS, OR
IGNOMINIOUS AND TRAGIC. THE PRESIDENT'S NAME WOULD
HIFAD THAT CHAPTER OF HISTORY. THE UNITED STATES AND
THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY HAD DONE EVERYTHING IT
COULD TO HELP RWANDA PASS THROUGH THIS ‘TRANSITION
GLORIOUSLY, BUT WE HAD NOT SEEN THE SAME COMMITMENT
FROM RWANDAN LEADERS..
A. ‘THE SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING WHICH WOULD DECIDE
WHETHER TO CONTINUE PEACEKEEPING EFFORTS IN RWANDA
WAS COMING UP FAST, RUSHNELL REMINDED THE PRESIDENT.
NEXT WEEK SHE WOULD MEET WITH THE INTERAGENCY GROUP
THAT WOULD DECIDE THE U.S. POSITION AT THE SECURITY
COUNCIL. LAST SUMMER SHE HAD TO WORK VERY HARD TO
CONVINCE SKEPTICS THAT DEACEKEEPING COULD WORK IN
RWANDA. NOW SHE HAD ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO BRING TO
THE TABLE TO OVERRIDE SUCH SKEPTICISM. SHE HAD TO
ÉRING BACK FROM THIS TRIP GOOD NEWS ABOUT THE -
INSTALLATION OF TRANSITION INSTITUTIONS OR RWANDA'S
CASE COULD NOT BE SUSTAINED.
S. DAS BUSHNELL TOLD THE PRÉSIDENT THAT RWANDA WAS ‘
LOSING FUNDING WITH EACH DAY OF DELAY IN ESTABLISHING
ITS GOVERNMENT. SHE HAD RECENTLUY HAD TO DIVERT USD 2
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(ILLION FROM RWANDAN DEMOBILIZATION FUNDING TO
ANOTHER COUNTRY BECAUSE THERE WAS NO GOVERNMENT AND “
JO PROGRAM TO WHICH IT COULD BE ALLOCATED. SHE
JEEDED AN ENCOURAGING WORD TO TAKE BACK TO KASHINGTON
FROM RWANDA IN ORDER TO SAVE U.S: ASSISTANCE ‘
PROGRAMMING FOR RWANDA'S- RECONSTRUCTION. SHE HOPED
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THAT ENCOURAGING WORD WOULD COME FAST.
6: THE PRESIDENT IN RESPONSE SAID THAT HE HOPED TO
PUT THE INSTITUTIONS IN PLACE SOON- WHAT WORRIED HIM
SUCCEED. HE NAS GREATLY DISQUIETED BY THE LACK OF .
CONFIDENCE, LACK OF RESPECT, AND LACK OF GOOD FAITH ‘
IN THE CURRENT POLITICAL ATMOSPHERE. HE HOPED THE
UNITED STATES COULD HELP SUPPORT RECONCILIATION °
WITHIN THE TRANSITION PERIOD JUST 2S WE HAD HELPED
WITH.THE WAR DISERLACED AND WITH STRENGTHENING
DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS. HE HAS SUPPORTED THE ARUSHA
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ACCORD AND WOULD CONTINUE TO DO 50. HIS SIGNATURE
WAS ON IT, AND HE KÉPT HIS WORD. ° -
7.1 THE WASHINGTON YISITORS ALSO RECORBED DEEP
CONCERN OVER THE MOUNTING VIOLENCE IN RWANDA. THAT
VIOLENCE WAS DESTROYING RWANDA‘ 5 GOOD NAME ABRORD,
BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY IT PUT EVERY RWANDAN CITISEN AT
RISK. Ar/C DIRECTOR RENDER NOTED THE DISTRIBUTION OF
ARMS AND .ARMS CACHES AS À DANGEROUS CHALLENGE TO
PEACE. DAS BUSHNELL ASKED THE PRESIDENT TO BRING
SECURITY TO HIS PHOPLE. WHEN HABYARIMANA PROTESTED
HIS LIMITED ABILITY TO INFLUENCE THE SECURITY
SITUATION, AMBASSADOR RAWSON EXPRESSED APPRECIATION
FOR HOW EFFECTIVE THE PRESIDENT HAD BEEN AFTER |
PREVIOUS DEMARCHES ON SECURITY IN RESTORING CAILM.AND
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8. THE PRESIDENT THEN RAISED- THE SITUATION IN
BURUNDI. : DAS AUSHNELL EXPRESSED THE U.S.
GOVERNMENT" 5 CONSTERNATION OVER THE EVENTS TRERE .
AF/C DIRECTOR RENDER NOTED THE QUICK US. ACTION TO
PROTEST THE KILLINGS. SUSDEND ASSISTANCE BND
GALVANIZE INENATIONAL OPINION AGAINST THE COUP
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HE MILITARY, BUT THE SITUATION WAS UNSTABLE . -
IABYARIMANA REPORTED HOW DEEPLY THE EVENTS IN BORUND
[(NFLUENCED ATTITUDES AND CHOICES EN RWANDA.
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FALLY, HABYARIMANA SAID,WHAT BURUNDI NEEDED
NAS SECURITY FOR ÎTS PEOPLE, AND AN ACMY IN WAICH
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9. MRS. HABYARIMANA TELÉPHONED AF/C DIRECTOR RENDER
3/22 PLEADING THAT THE COUNTRY WAS GOING OVER TO THE
PATRIOTIC FRONT. THE PREBCANT N£EEDED PEOPLE ON HIS
SIDGO COANERCS |
TREND. AF/C DIiRECTOR RENDER _
RESPONDED THAT THE BEST SSLURVIN FOR THE PRESIDENT
HAS WITHIN THE ARUSHA ACCORD: IF THE ACCORD WAS NOT
TMPLEMENTED AND VIOLENCE BROKE OUT AGAIN IN RWANDA,
EVEN THE AMERICANS, AFTER YEARS NSRGNCO RWANDA,
OLEGHT HAVE TO GO HOME. THE PRESIDENT MUST AGREE TO
BUT THE INSTITUTIONS IN PLACE IMMEDIATELY AND
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SE HAD WITH PRESIDENT HABYÉARIMANA, REPORTING THAT
TUE UNITED STATES EAD DONE EVERYTHING ET COULD TO
HELP BUT SAW NO PROGRESS ON THE RWANDAN SIDE. SHE
GOVERNMENT BY ACCEPTING À COMPROMISE WORKED .OUT |
WITHIN THE LIBERAL PARTY ON THE DEPEUTIES LIST. DAS ,
BUSHNELL ALSO RECORDED THE U.$. POSITION THAT THE CDR |:
WAS A POLITICAL FORCE WAICH HAD SUBSCRIBED TO ARUSHA
PRINCIPLES AND SHOULD HAVE À PLACE IN THE NATIONAL
ASSEMBLY . |
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LI. KANYARENGYE SAID THAT THE CURRENT POLITICAL
IMPASSE WAS IN NO ONE'S INTEREST. THE FRONT HAD
AGREED TO CHANGES IN THE LIBERAE PARTY, EUT IT HAD A
ZARD TIME ACCEPTING DECISIONS IMEOS ED BY-VIOLENCE.
HÉEN THE LIBERAL PARTY OBSTACLE EHAD BEEN REMOVED,
OTHER BIZARRE ISSUES HAD SUDDENLY EMERGED SUCH &S
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PROBLEM WAS THAT SOMEONE WAS PURPOSÉFULLY CREATING
THE CURRENT IMPASSR. THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
SHOULD ASSUME ITS RESPONSIBILITIES BY IDENTIFYING
CHAT PERSON AND HELPING THE RWANDAN PEOPLE REMOVE THE
TMPASSE. -
13h AF/C DIRECTOR RENDER STRONGLY DEFENDED THE
DRINCIPLE OF INCLUSION. PARTIES COULD NOT BE DENTED.
A SEAT IN THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY JUST BECAUSE THE
FRONT DID NOT HAPPEN TO LIKE THEM. THE FRONT"S
SENDASHONGA (NEXT MINISTER OF YOUTH) RESPONDED BY
INSISTING THAT CDR WAS NOT AN ACCEPTABLE PARTY. 7
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BUSHNELL REMINDED THE FRONT THAT THE INTZRNATIONAL
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FAILURE TO REACH: ACCOMMODATION COULD RESULT IN
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14: COMMENT: THE CDR ISSUE REMAINS THE MAJOR
STUMBLING BLOCK TO SETTING UP INSTITUTIONS . THE
OBSERVER GROUP IS AGREED THAT CDR HAS DULY INDICATED
ITS INTENTION TO ABIDE BY THE ARUSHA ACCORD AND
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HE REITERATED THOSE SENTIMENTS OVER DINNER
AT THE RÉSIDENCE THAT EVENING. AMBASSADOR RAWSON
TOLD HIM THAT IF RPF INSISTED ON A LONG REVIEW IN
WHICH IT SAT AS JUDGE AND JURY ON CDR, THEN
INSTITUTIONS WOULD NEVER BE ESTABLISHED THE FRONT
WOULD HAVE TO DECIDE WHAT HAD PRIMACY FOR THEM. A
FIVE-HOUR MEETING BETWEEN THE TWO GROUPS 3/24 FAILED
TO CONVINCE THE RPF AND FINALLY BROKE DOWN IN MUTUAL
RECRIMINATION. INSTITUTIONS ARE TO BE INSTALLED ON
3/25. IT REMAINS TO BE SEEN WHETHER SOME FORMULA CAN
BE DEVISED FOR REMOVING THIS LOGJAM BEFORE THEN. END
COMMENT.
15. DAS BUSEHNEL AND AF/C RENDER CLEARED PARAS 2-3 OF
THIS CABLE BEFORE DEPARTING KIGALI.
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