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### Viewing cable 10TRIPOLI110, MUBARAK AND QADHAFI CONFER ON AL SUMMIT PLANNING, VISAS FOR

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    C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 TRIPOLI 000110

     SIPDIS

     DEPT FOR NEA/MAG

     E.O. 12958: DECL:  2/3/2020
     TAGS: PREL AL KPAL KSUM EG LY
     SUBJECT: MUBARAK AND QADHAFI CONFER ON AL SUMMIT PLANNING, VISAS FOR
     EGYPTIANS

     REF: A) TRIPOLI 53; B) TRIPOLI 95

     TRIPOLI 00000110  001.2 OF 002

     CLASSIFIED BY: Gene A. Cretz, Ambassador, US Embassy Tripoli,
     Department of State.
     REASON: 1.4 (b), (d)
     ¶1. (C) Summary: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak flew to Libya
     on February 3 for a three-hour meeting with Muammar al-Qadhafi
     to discuss the upcoming Arab League Summit and growing
     differences over requirements for Egyptians entering Libya.
     Qadhafi reportedly also expressed interest in trying to mediate
     between Egypt and Qatar. Mubarak was expected to counsel Qadhafi
     that Libya needed to do more to assure Saudi Arabia that the
     summit would not lead to any new tensions between the two
     countries.  The Egyptian Embassy expects that Iran will be
     invited to the summit at the ministerial level but noted that
     several Arab countries -- including Egypt -- would boycott the
     summit if Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attended.  The Egyptian Embassy
     chalked up recent visits by Hamas Political Chief Khaled Meshaal
     to "independent" rather than official GOL initiatives to broker
     a Hamas-Fatah reconciliation in advance of the March 27 summit.
     Engagement with Qadhafi in the run-up to the Arab League Summit,
     strongly advocated by the Arab diplomatic community here, could
     help manage his notorious unpredictability.  End Summary.

     ¶2. (C) Muammar al-Qadhafi held private talks with Egyptian
     President Hosni Mubarak in Sirte on February 3 to discuss
     Libya's upcoming presidency of the Arab League (AL) and
     continuing differences over entry requirements for Egyptian
     nationals coming to Libya.  Egyptian poloff said the three-hour
     visit would help the two countries coordinate in advance of the
     March 28 Arab League Summit scheduled to take place in Tripoli.
     Mubarak planned to counsel Qadhafi that Libya needed to better
     assure the Saudis that the Libyan-hosted summit would not serve
     as a platform to embarrass the royal family but instead move
     forward in a spirit of reconciliation between the two leaders.

     IRAN EXPECTED TO PARTICIPATE AT THE FM LEVEL

     ¶3. (C) The Egyptian poloff expected that Arab-Iranian relations
     and Palestinian issues would dominate the summit, and he noted
     that Libya had made recent, high profile contact on both issues.
      The Egyptian ambassador also told the Ambassador that Sudan and
     upcoming non-proliferation events in the U.S., as well as
     Qadhafi's possible proposals to create new high-level political
     and military positions in the Arab League along the lines of
     NATO and the EU, would also figure prominently.  Arabs, he said,
     would not tolerate surprises like Libya's management of the July
     2009 African Union Summit in Sirte, where Qadhafi's rumored,
     last-minute invitation of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
     had caused Mubarak to cancel his attendance at that summit at
     the eleventh hour.  (Note: While Iranian diplomats were at the
     venue to advance Ahmadinejad's visit to the AU Summit, his visit
     was cancelled on the day he was supposed to arrive.)  Should
     Ahmadinejad attend, he said, several heads of state -- including
     Egypt's -- would boycott the summit.  He expected Iranian FM
     Manuchehr Motaki, who visited Tripoli on January 14, to
     represent Iran as an observer.  The Iranian outreach by Libya is
     reportedly consistent with Qadhafi's new vision of being able to
     serve as a bridge between Tehran and the Arab world.

     PALESTINIAN UNITY TO FIGURE LARGE ON AGENDA

     ¶4. (C) Recalling the yet-unfulfilled January 2009 pledge by
     Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to provide $1.5 billion in
     reconstruction assistance to Gaza, the Egyptian poloff assessed
     that Palestinian issues would provide plenty of opportunities to
     weaken fragile Arab unity and that Arab leaders would be
     "holding their breath" and hoping to avoid unwelcome surprises
     by the unpredictable Qadhafi.  Although Libya has played host to
     Hamas' Khaled Meshaal twice in as many months, the Egyptian
     poloff did not expect any major initiatives by the Libyan
     government to force Hamas-Fatah resolution before the March 28
     summit.  In his view, "independent" initiatives like those of
     Khalid al-Humeidi -- son of long-time Qadhafi insider al-Khweldi
     al-Humeidi -- would intensify on the outside chance a Libyan
     could reach a breakthrough.  Humeidi reportedly visited Ramallah
     and Gaza earlier this year to meet with Mahmoud Abbas and
     Meshaal and has organized humanitarian assistance to Gaza
     through his quasi-independent International Organization for
     Peace, Care, and Relief (septel).

     ¶5. (C) While MFA A/S-equivalent Omran Abu Kraa and Deputy
     Foreign Minister-equivalent Muhammed Siala have been named to
     lead Libya's preparations for the summit, the organizing

     TRIPOLI 00000110  002.2 OF 002

     committee has not communicated with member states on logistics
     or the agenda.  A purpose-built site for the conference is
     rumored to be under construction on the sprawling grounds of the
     new Libyan Protocol office, though guest palaces nearer public
     view at that site appear to require more than seven weeks to
     complete.  The Egyptian poloff commented that Arab leaders would
     be less forgiving than the African delegations in Sirte -- some
     of whom slept on the beach as they awaited proper room
     assignments from their Libyan hosts.

     EGYPT SEEKS EASING OF LIBYA VISA REQUIREMENTS

     ¶6. (C) During his February 3 meeting with Qadhafi, Mubarak was
     expected to push for resolution of increasingly serious problems
     regarding Libyan entry requirements for Egyptian nationals.
     According to the Egyptian poloff, Egyptians are still subject to
     new requirements for visas or valid work contracts begun earlier
     this year (ref a) while Algerians and Tunisians have reverted to
     earlier rules allowing entry without a visa upon demonstrating
     financial self-sufficiency (in the form of $800 cash).  Recent
     bilateral agreements with countries providing significant labor
     to Libya, including Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, include 500 dinar
     (USD 420) commissions for Libyan sponsors of guest workers from
     those countries.  In the Egyptian poloff's view, officials
     taking advantage of the financial inducements for sponsoring
     workers from those countries bore part of the blame for Egypt's
     continued troubles.  Libya recently began a crackdown on illegal
     Egyptian workers.  The Egyptian ambassador told the Ambassador
     that the Libyan crackdown resulted initially from European
     pressure on Libya to stem illegal traffic to Europe, and
     intensified after the extensive and embarrassing Egyptian press
     coverage given to Mutassim al-Qadhafi's New Year's partying in
     the Caribbean (ref b).

     COMMENT

     ¶7. (C) In the wake of his failed attempt to extend his
     leadership of the African Union, Qadhafi undoubtedly is looking
     to the March 27 Arab League summit and beyond as a way to
     bolster his international standing.  His massive ego and
     notoriously erratic behavior have generated much concern among
     the Arab diplomatic community here about the summit and its
     outcomes.  The Arabs here have been very insistent that the U.S.
     has a role to play in influencing the outcome by engaging
     Qadhafi in the lead-up to the summit.
     CRETZ

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