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### Viewing cable 07KHARTOUM1461, UN/AU UPDATE ON DARFUR PEACE PROCESS IN LEAD-UP TO

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07KHARTOUM1461 | 2007-09-17 12:16 | 2011-08-23 00:00 | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | Embassy Khartoum

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    UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 03 KHARTOUM 001461

    SIPDIS

    SENSITIVE
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    DEPARTMENT FOR AF A/S FRAZER, AF S/E NATSIOS, AND AF/SPG
    ADDIS ABABA ALSO FOR USAU

    E.O. 12958: N/A
    TAGS: PREL PGOV UN AU CD LY SU
    SUBJECT: UN/AU UPDATE ON DARFUR PEACE PROCESS IN LEAD-UP TO
    NEW YORK

    KHARTOUM 00001461  001.2 OF 003

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    Summary
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    ¶1. (SBU) One week before the September 21 meeting on Darfur
    in New York, the UN/AU provided an update on the peace
    process for representatives in Khartoum.  With the exception
    of a proposed meeting of Darfur rebel leaders in N'djamena
    from September 16-17, the UN/AU provided few details on its
    plan for preparing the parties for negotiations at the end of
    October.  However, the UN/AU presented a broad agenda for the
    talks encompassing power-sharing, wealth-sharing and security
    and asked the "non-regional" governments of the Tripoli
    Format to select four representatives to participate in the
    negotiations.  While several key rebel leaders, including
    Abdulwahid al Nur, Khalil Ibrahim, and Ahmed Abdulshafie may
    not attend the talks, the potential of reaching an inclusive
    agreement--in the brief timeframe laid out by the UN/AU and
    heartily supported by the Sudanese Government--is
    questionable.  The U.S. should present clear positions on the
    following issues during the September 21 UN/AU-sponsored
    meeting in New York: a single UN/AU negotiator, issue-based
    "shuttle diplomacy" prior to the start of negotiations,
    UN/AU-facilitated dialogue among the factions of the SLM,
    realistic outcomes for the Libya talks, and an agile contact
    group with leverage on all of the parties.  End summary.

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    Preparation (or Lack Thereof)
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    ¶2. (SBU) The UN/AU held a briefing for the Khartoum
    representatives of the "Tripoli Format" governments on
    September 14 to provide an update on the Darfur peace process
    in the lead-up to the September 21 meeting on Darfur in New
    York.  Sam Ibok, co-chair of the Joint Mediation Support Team
    (JMST), said that the UN/AU planned to convene a September 16
    preparatory meeting for the Darfur rebels in N'djamena with
    the "leading personalities" from the late-July Arusha
    conference.  Without providing specifics, Ibok said that the
    meeting would focus on bringing the rebel movements together,
    with minimal UN/AU intervention.  Sudan Liberation Movement
    (SLM) faction leader Abdulwahid al Nur had declared he would
    not attend.  Others, such as Justice and Equality Movement
    (JEM) leader Khalil Ibrahim were also ambivalent.

    ¶3. (SBU) Beginning around October 17, Ibok said that the
    UN/AU planned to hold a series of workshops for the rebel
    movements in Libya to prepare a "rebel platform" for the
    negotiations.  The Chairman of the Darfur Darfur Dialogue and
    Consultation (DDDC), Abdul Mohammed, recalled that the most
    progress during the Abuja talks had occurred just after
    successful workshops with the rebel movements.

    ¶4. (SBU) Poloff asked whether, given the continued disunity
    within the rebel movements, the UN/AU was able to conduct
    "shuttle diplomacy" between the parties, as envisioned in the
    UN/AU roadmap.  Ibok responded that the "shuttle continues;"
    UN/AU representatives spoke to rebel leaders daily to
    determine the most productive "models" for representation at
    the talks and were seeking meetings with the Sudanese
    Government to discuss the current fighting and to review the
    draft agenda for the Libya talks.

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    Not So Hidden Agenda
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    ¶5. (SBU) Ibok previewed a broad draft "agenda" for the talks.
     Though UN Envoy Jan Eliasson and AU Envoy Salim Ahmed Salim
    had approved the agenda, Ibok emphasized that it was still
    preliminary and had not been shared with the parties.  While
    the agenda was divided into four categories (wealth-sharing,
    power-sharing, security, and implementation modalities), Ibok
    stressed that the UN/AU had not decided on a sequence for
    discussing each category and that Eliasson and Salim were
    considering whether the components could be negotiated
    concurrently.  However, he outlined the specific issues that
    the UN/AU planned to discuss and asked for feed-back from the
    Tripoli Format governments before or during the September 21
    UN/AU-sponsored meeting in New York.  The agenda will include
    discussion of the following:

    -- Wealth-sharing: compensation; reconstruction and

    KHARTOUM 00001461  002.2 OF 003

    development, including a discussion on the resumption of the
    Darfur Joint Assessment Mission (DJAM) and a donor
    conference; and humanitarian issues, including the return of
    IDPs and refugees, humanitarian assistance, and land
    issues/howakir.

    -- Security: a new cessation of hostilities, which the UN/AU
    hoped would precede the October 27 talks; a comprehensive
    cease-fire agreement; a definition for the UN-African Union
    Mission in Sudan's (UNAMID) support of the political process;
    the disarmament of the Janjaweed, and formal security
    arrangements relating to demobilization and re-integration of
    all of the armed groups.

    -- Power-sharing: one region for Darfur rather than three
    states and a review of the current power-sharing arrangements
    at both the federal and regional level.

    -- Implementation modalities: international guarantees and
    the formal status of the new agreement, i.e. as an "annex" to
    the DPA, a stand-alone agreement, or another mechanism.

    ¶6. (SBU) The French Ambassador, Christine Robichon, asserted
    that it would be difficult to have constructive negotiations
    without a cessation of hostilities to use as a basis for a
    sustainable cease-fire mechanism.  Ibok agreed, saying "if
    what is happening on the ground now (i.e. the ongoing
    Government-rebel violence in South Darfur) continues, we
    cannot have negotiations."  Ibok characterized a cessation of
    hostilities as a "light political statement" to test the
    sincerity of the parties' commitment to the peace process.
    The existing mechanisms of the African Union Mission in Sudan
    (AMIS), plus the UN Heavy Support Package, would monitor
    adherence to the agreement, he posited.

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    Quick Talks, But Who Will Attend?
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    ¶7. (SBU) Ibok said that Eliasson and Salim--under pressure
    from the international community--wanted to conclude the
    negotiations by the end of the year but called this
    expectation an "optimistic projection."  Several outstanding
    issues on participation remained the principal obstacle to
    the process, according to Ibok.  In addition to recalcitrant
    Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) leader Abdulwahid al Nur,
    other key rebel leaders, including the Justice and Equality
    Movement's (JEM) Khalil Ibrahim and SLM faction leader Ahmed
    Abdulshafie have indicated they will not attend the Libya
    talks.

    ¶8. (SBU) The Egyptian Ambassador cautioned that criteria for
    participation in the peace process should not be limited to
    armed groups.  "They can't be negotiating through the barrel
    of a gun...there cannot just be a place (at the negotiating
    table) for those whose only constituency is weapons," he
    said.  Ibok responded that the UN/AU were developing a
    strategy to include civil society groups in the process,
    which would be essential for its success.

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    Hospitality As Leverage
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    ¶9. (SBU) Ibok stressed that addressing the intransigence of
    Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) leader Abdulwahid al Nur
    "should not be left only to the UN/AU" and that it was
    incumbent on other governments, particularly in Europe, to
    ensure his participation in the peace process.  "If there is
    no Abdulwahid, we can pack our bags," he said.  The UN/AU was
    not requesting that Abdulwahid be expelled from Europe,
    according to Ibok, only that European governments "use the
    leverage of hospitality to bring together all of the parties."

    ¶10. (SBU) Robichon called Ibok's comments--a clear allusion
    to Paris--"severe."  "My authorities are working very hard
    with Abdulwahid," she said, adding that France had persuaded
    Abdulwahid to receive a UN/AU team in early summer.  Ibok
    apologized for "giving the impression that he was talking
    about France," noting that Abdulwahid was not the only rebel
    leader who had taken refuge abroad and was obstructing the
    peace process.  "He's just the biggest fish," explained Ibok,
    who then reiterated that "there must be conditions attached
    to hospitality."  Robichon said that France had not granted

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    "political refugee" status to Abdulwahid, meaning that his
    visa expired every three months.  "We are using all of our
    leverage within the rule of law," she said.  In a separate
    meeting on September 17, Robichon told the Charge that France
    was coordinating its Abdulwahid strategy with UN Envoy
    Eliasson.

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    SPLM: No Luck with Abdulwahid
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    ¶11. (SBU) During the briefing, Ibok received word that a
    delegation of the Sudan People's liberation Movement (SPLM),
    led by Government of Southern Sudan Vice President Riek
    Machar, had been unsuccessful after three days of meetings in
    Paris to convince Abdulwahid to attend an SPLM-sponsored
    meeting for the SLM in Southern Sudan.  Noting that the UN/AU
    still considered the SPLM's role in the Darfur peace process
    "important," Ibok said that any effort to re-unify the SLM
    that did not include Abdulwahid was "useless."

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    Contact Group Controversy
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    ¶12. (SBU) UN/AU plans for international participation at the
    Libya talks provoked a strong response from many of the
    European nations.  According to Ibok, the UN/AU would include
    the four "regional" members of the Tripoli Format (Chad,
    Libya, Eritrea, and Egypt) and four non-regional members.
    The UN/AU made it the responsibility of the non-regional
    members of the Tripoli Format to select their representatives
    in preparation for the September 21 meeting in New York.  He
    suggested, however, that one slot each could represent North
    America, Europe, Asia, and the Arab world.  During the Abuja
    talks, negotiations had occurred between the parties and the
    international community, rather than among the parties.  In
    the new process, both the regional and non-regional
    representatives would thus operate within a defined framework
    under the leadership of the UN and AU envoys, said Ibok.

    ¶13. (SBU) The UK called the four-country limit "unrealistic,"
    emphasizing that the UN/AU would need the "maximum leverage
    and positive influence" of a broad range of Western
    participants to bring the parties to compromise.  Dutch
    representatives expressed similar concerns, while calling for
    the appointment of a chief negotiator.  Poloff iterated USG
    support for a single chief negotiator to shepherd the
    process.  (Note: European representatives in Khartoum concede
    that the U.S., China, and the EU must be represented on the
    "contact group."  A UN official told Poloff following the
    meeting that Eliasson had begrudgingly accepted four
    non-regional members, instead of two, and would never consent
    to increasing the number.  End note.)

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    ¶14. (SBU) UN and AU officials, including Ibok, admit that
    there is no concrete strategy to prepare the parties for
    negotiations prior to October 27, with two exceptions: 1) the
    vaguely defined--and possibly little attended--meeting in
    N'djamena, and 2) the workshops in Libya to build a rebel
    platform, an impossible task given the ongoing disunity
    within the Darfur movements.  The UN/AU have interpreted
    "shuttle diplomacy" to mean any UN/AU discussions with the
    Darfur rebel groups and the Sudanese Government, rather than
    an effort to focus on narrowing the parties' positions on key
    issues before the start of talks.  This misinterpretation is
    most evident by the menagerie of issues included in the UN/AU
    draft agenda and the absence of a decision on whether the
    outcome of the Libya talks will be an addendum to the DPA or
    a new agreement.  To address some of the shortcomings in the
    UN/AU process, the U.S. should present clear positions on the
    following issues during the September 21 UN/AU-sponsored
    meeting in New York: a single UN/AU negotiator, issue-based
    "shuttle diplomacy" prior to the start of negotiations,
    UN/AU-facilitated dialogue among the factions of the SLM,
    realistic outcomes for the Libya talks, and an agile contact
    group with leverage on all of the parties.  End comment.

    ¶15. (U) Tripoli minimize considered.
    FERNANDEZ

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