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Reference ID	Created	Released	Classification	Origin
01HARARE1572	2001-05-10 16:25	2011-08-30 01:44	CONFIDENTIAL	Embassy Harare

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                           CONFIDENTIAL     PTO4941

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                  ------------------E9EDF4  101616Z /38    
FM AMEMBASSY HARARE
TO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 8840
INFO NSC WASHDC IMMEDIATE
SOUTHERN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY
RWANDA COLLECTIVE

C O N F I D E N T I A L HARARE 001572 
 
SIPDIS 
 
NSC FOR SENIOR AFRICA DIRECTOR JENDAYI FRAZER 
LONDON FOR CHARLES GURNEY 
PARIS FOR BISA WILLIAMS 
BRUSSELS FOR HINSON-JONES 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 05/10/11 
TAGS: PREL PINR ZI RW CG
SUBJECT: RWANDAN PRESIDENT'S VISIT TO HARARE 
 
REF: KIGALI 1856 
 
                       CONFIDENTIAL 
 
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CLASSIFIED BY CHARGE D'AFFAIRES EARL M. IRVING FOR 
REASONS: 1.5 (B) AND (D). 
 
¶1.  (C) THE ZIMBABWE FOREIGN MINISTRY'S DIRECTOR FOR 
AFRICA, GODFREY MWEDZI, SPOKE TO POLOFF ON MAY 10 ABOUT 
RWANDAN PRESIDENT KAGAME'S ONE-DAY VISIT TO HARARE ON 
MAY 7.  MWEDZI STATED THAT KAGAME'S LUNCH MEETING WITH 
PRESIDENT MUGABE WAS "EXCLUSIVELY BETWEEN THEM" AND DID 
NOT INCLUDE ANY MINISTERS OR OTHER GOZ OFFICIALS.  ONLY 
ON ONE OCCASION DID KAGAME BRIEFLY MEET WITH ZIMBABWEAN 
MINISTERS.  THE ZIMBABWEAN DIPLOMAT STATED THAT 
DEBRIEFINGS ON WHAT WAS DISCUSSED HAD NOT YET TRICKLED 
DOWN TO HIS LEVEL (WHICH IS JUST BELOW THAT OF PERMANENT 
SECRETARY).  MWEDZI STATED THAT THE PRESIDENTIAL MEETING 
 
SIPDIS 
WAS CORDIAL, AND THEY SURELY DISCUSSED THE DRC, BUT IT 
WOULD BE "PURE SPECULATION" ON HIS PART TO OFFER ANY 
DETAILS OF THE DISCUSSION.  MWEDZI TRIED TO DOWNPLAY THE 
SIGNIFICANCE OF KAGAME'S VISIT, STATING THAT ZIMBABWE 
AND RWANDA WERE NOT AT WAR, AND THEY CONTINUED TO 
MAINTAIN NORMAL DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS; RWANDA DID SO 
THROUGH ITS MISSION IN PRETORIA. 
 
¶2.  (C) COMMENT: DESPITE THE DIPLOMAT'S DOWNPLAYING, IT 
IS SIGNIFICANT THAT KAGAME WOULD COME TO HARARE, HIS 
FIRST PUBLIC VISIT HERE SINCE THE WAR IN THE DRC BROKE 
OUT IN 1998 (KAGAME MADE A SURREPTITIOUS VISIT BROKERED 
BY SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT MBEKI IN 1999).  WE CAN 
SURMISE THAT KAGAME SOUGHT TO BREAK SOME OF THE ICE THAT 
HAS FORMED IN THE RWANDAN-ZIMBABWEAN RELATIONSHIP, AND 
ALSO TO SHOW THAT HE CAN BE A REASONABLE STATESMAN WHO 
IS NOT INTERNATIONALLY ISOLATED.  IN ADDITION, KAGAME 
                       CONFIDENTIAL 
 
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UNDOUBTEDLY WANTED TO ENSURE THAT RWANDAN INTERESTS, 
SUCH DISARMING THE INTERAHAMWE IN THE DRC, ARE TAKEN 
INTO ACCOUNT BY ZIMBABWE AT THIS CRUCIAL JUNCTURE IN THE 
DRC PEACE PROCESS.  NOT TO BE OUTDONE, THE UGANDANS SENT 
A SPECIAL ENVOY WITHIN 24 HOURS OF KAGAME'S DEPARTURE. 
END COMMENT. 
 
IRVING 
 
                       CONFIDENTIAL 
 
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