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FM AMEMBASSY KIGALI
TO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 5870
INFO AMEMBASSY BRUSSELS
AMEMBASSY BUJUMBURA
AMEMBASSY DAR ES SALAAM
AMEMBASSY KAMPALA
AMEMBASSY KINSHASA
AMEMBASSY NAIROBI
AMEMBASSY PARIS
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USMISSION USUN NEW YORK
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SUBJECT: TRANSITION INSTITUTIONS: THE DIALOGUE
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REF: KIGALI 0933
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2. WHILE THE RWANDAN PATRIOTIC FRONT (RPF) HAS
PUBLICLY AND FIRMLY REJECTED RESULTS OF ALL-PARTY
MEETINGS 2/25 AND 2/27 CHAIRED BY PRESIDENT
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE
REVIEW AUTHORITY: JOHN L MILLS
DATE/CASE ID: 01 NOV 2007 200103014
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HABYRIMANA (REFTEL), IT HAS NOT BROKEN CONTACT WITH
GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AND PARTY LEADERS. RPF VICE
PRESIDENT MAZIMHAKA HAS BEEN IN TOWN 3/1-3/3 IN
MEETINGS WITH THE PRIME MINISTERS, PARTY OFFICIALS,
PRESIDENTIAL COUNSELORS, AND UN OFFICIALS. JUST
BEFORE MAZIMHAKA RETURNED TO RPF HEADQUARTERS AT
MULINDI, UN MINISTER BOOH BOOH AND TANZANIAN
FACILITATOR TAMBWE MET WITH PRESIDENT HABYRIMANA. WE
DO NOT KNOW IF MAZIMHAKA TOOK A DEAL BACK WITH HIM TO
MULINDI.
3. PRIME MINISTER-DESIGNATE TWAGIRAMUNGU BRIEFED ME
3/3 ON THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS. HE HAD ARRANGED A
COMPROMISE IN WHICH THE NDASINGWA FACTION OF THE
LIBBRAL PARTY WOULD ACCEPT FIVE DEPUTIES FROM THE
MUGENZI FACTION WHILE KEEPING SIX OF THEIR OWN. IN
RETURN, MINISTER NDASINGWA HAD INSISTED, AS HE DID AT
ALL-PARTY MEETINGS 2/25 AND 2/27, THAT HIS FACTION
GET TWO MINISTRIES, PRESUMABLY HIS OWN MINISTRY OF
LABOR AFFAIRS AND THE MINISTRY OF JUSTICE. LIBERAL
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PARTY PRESIDENT MUGENZI AND HIS PRESIDENTIAL BACKERS
ARE NOT YET WILLING TO DEAL AWAY THE MINISTRY OF
JUSTICE WHERE MUGENZI'S POLITICAL MENTOR (AND FORMER
CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE MRND) IS HAPPILY
ENSCONCED.
4. I SUGGESTED TO THE PRIME MINISTER, AS I HAD TO
PRESIDENTIAL CABINET DIRECTOR RUHIGIRA TWO DAYS
EARLIER, THAT BOTH MUGENZI AND LANDO MIGHT AGREE
TOGBTHER ON SOME THIRD MINISTERIAL CANDIDATE
GENERALLY ACCEPTABLE TO RWANDAN POLITICIANS.
RUHIGIRA SAID IT WOULD BE DIFFICULT TO MOVE THE
CURRENT MINISTER. THE PRIME MINISTER CLAIMED IT
WOULD BE NEXT TO IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND AN INDEPENDENT,
COMPROMISE CANDIDATE. NONETHELESS, HE ARGUED THAT,
SINCE HE HAD NOW CONSULTED WITH BOTH FACTIONS, HE
SHOULD EXERCISE HIS RIGHT AS PRIME MINISTER-DESIGNATE
TO NAME THE JUSTICE MINISTER OF HIS CHOICE. THE
PRIME MINISTER DERIDED THE NOTION PROPAGATED BY THE
PRESIDENT'S PARTY AND ADVISORS THAT PUTTING A TUTSI
IN THAT OFFICE COULD BRING ABOUT CIVIL WAR.
5. IN BRIEFING OF THE WESTERN OBSERVER GROUP,
GENERAL DALLAIRE REPORTED THAT HE HAD BEEN IN CONTACT
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WITH BRITISH HIGH COMMISSIONER CLAY IN KAMPALA WHO
HAD PRESENTED HIS CREDENTIALS TO PRESIDENT
HABYARIMANA 2/25. ACCORDING TO DALLAIRE, HIGH
COMMISSIONER CLAY MET WITH MUSVENI 3/1 AND AT UN
OFFICIALS' REQUEST URGED MUSVENI TO ENCOURAGE RPF TO
KEEP TALKING AND WORKING FOR INSTALLATION OF
TRANSITION INSTITUTIONS. A RWANDAN MINISTRY OF
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DENENSE OFFICIAL TOLD DALLAIRE THAT MUSVENI MET WITH
RPF AT MBARARA LATE 3/1.
6. DISCUSSIONS OF THE WESTERN OBSERVER GROUP WITH UN
OFFICIALS 3/2 CONCLUDED THAT THE JUSTICE MINISTRY
SEEMED TO BE THE MAJOR STUMBLING BLOC TO COMPROMISE
AMONG THE PARTIES AND THE INSTALLATION OF
INSTITUTIONS. NONE WERE CONFIDENT ABOUT RPF
INTENTIONS, GIVEN THE LEVEL OF THEIR PIQUE AT BEING
EXCLUDED FROM RECENT ALL-PARTY DISCUSSIONS IN
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KIGALI. UN MINISTER BOOH BOOH AND GENERAL DALLAIRE
IN THEIR 2/2 MEETINGS WITH RPF AT MULINDI FOUND THEM
VERY INSISTENT ON THEIR POSITION, EVEN WHILE
PROCLAIMING THAT THEY DID NOT INTEND TO RESUME
HOSTILITIES.
7. COMMENT. THE COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN
MEETING ALL DAY 3/4. SINCE THE COUNTRY SEEMS CALM
AND KIGALI IS AGAIN BUSTLING, WE HAVE TO ASSUME THAT
THE COUNCIL IS DISCUSSING THE POLITICAL IMPASSE. IT
REMAINS TO BE SEEN WHETHER THE GOVERNMENT WILL COME
OUT WITH COMPROMISE THAT THE RPF CAN ACCEPT, OR A
COMMUNIQUE THAT WILL AGAIN SET RPF'S TEETH ON EDGE.
IN SPITE OF RPF ASSURANCES TO UN OFFICIALS AND TO
MYSELF THAT THEY DO NOT WANT TO FIGHT AND ARE WILLING
TO COMPROMISE (AS LONG AS COMPROMISES DO NOT CHANGE
THE POLITICAL EQUILIBRIUM OF THE ARUSHA ACCORDS), WE
HESITATE TO HAZARD A BET ON RPF'S REAL INTENTIONS.
END COMMENT.
8.
EMBASSY CONTINUES DAILY SECURITY BRIEFS ON
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