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Viewing cable 02HARARE343, AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES ELECTION OBSERVATION, ELECTION

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02HARARE343 2002-02-07 14:11 2011-08-30 01:44 CONFIDENTIAL Embassy Harare
This record is a partial extract of the original cable. The full text of the original cable is not available.

071411Z Feb 02


                           CONFIDENTIAL     PTO8694

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ACTION AF-00    

INFO  LOG-00   NP-00    ACQ-00   CIAE-00  USNW-00  DODE-00  WHA-00   
      DS-00    EAP-00   VC-00    TEDE-00  INR-00   LAB-01   VCE-00   
      NSAE-00  USIE-00  IIP-00   DSCC-00  DRL-02   NFAT-00  SAS-00   
        /003W
                  ------------------637E05  071428Z /38    
FM AMEMBASSY HARARE
TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 0893
INFO SOUTHERN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY PRIORITY
AMEMBASSY ABUJA PRIORITY 
AMEMBASSY CANBERRA PRIORITY 
AMEMBASSY KINGSTON PRIORITY 
AMEMBASSY OTTAWA PRIORITY 
AMEMBASSY NAIROBI PRIORITY 
AMEMBASSY ADDIS ABABA PRIORITY 
NSC WASHDC PRIORITY
C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 HARARE 000343 
 
SIPDIS 
 
NSC FOR SENIOR DIRECTOR FRAZER 
PARIS FOR NEARY 
LONDON FOR GURNEY 
NAIROBI FOR PFLAUMER 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/06/12 
TAGS: PREL PGOV ZI
SUBJECT: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES ELECTION OBSERVATION, ELECTION 
PROSPECTS AND POST-ELECTION PLANNING WITH BRITISH OFFICIALS 
 
REF:  HARARE 315 
 
CLASSIFIED BY POLITICAL SECTION CHIEF MATT HARRINGTON.  REASONS: 
1.5 (B) AND (D). 
 
1.  C)  THE BRITISH HIGH COMMISSIONER TO ZIMBABWE, BRIAN DONNELLY, 
JOINED BY FCO DIRECTOR FOR SOUTHERN AFRICA ANDREW POCOCK AND IAN 
BAILEY FROM THE BRITISH CABINET OFFICE CALLED ON THE AMBASSADOR ON 
FEBRUARY 6.  THE AMBASSADOR WAS ACCOMPANIED BY POLITICAL SECTION CHIEF. 
 
ELECTION OBSERVATION 
-------------------- 
 
2.  (C) DONNELLY REPORTED THAT THE EU HAD BEEN GIVEN AN UNSIGNED 
LETTER BY FOREIGN MINISTER MUDENGE ON FEBRUARY 5 INVITING THE EU 
AND ACP TO SEND AN OBSERVER DELEGATION.  HE SAID THE WORDING OF THE 
INVITATION WAS STRANGE, SAYING  "THE GOVERNMENT OF ZIMBABWE WOULD 
BE HONORED IF THE EU-ACP DELEGATION INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING NINE 
COUNTRIES..."  THE SIX EU MEMBERS NOT LISTED, DONNELLY SAID, WERE 
THE UNITED KINGDOM, GERMANY, DENMARK, SWEDEN, FINLAND, AND THE 
NETHERLANDS.   THE EU, POCOCK NOTED, NOW NEEDS TO DETERMINE WHETHER 
THE LATTER SIX COUNTRIES HAVE BEEN DEFINITIVELY RULED OUT OR 
WHETHER THE GOZ HAS SIMPLY EXPRESSED A PREFERENCE THAT THEY NOT 
PARTICIPATE. POCOCK SAID HE ASSUMED THAT IMPOSITION OF TARGETED 
SANCTIONS BY THE EU WOULD LIKELY PRECLUDE AN EU OBSERVER MISSION, 
SO IT MIGHT MAKE MORE SENSE TO HOLD BACK ON A SANCTIONS DECISION AT 
LEAST UNTIL THE FULL DELEGATION WAS IN PLACE.  DONNELLY ADDED THAT 
MDC PRESIDENT MORGAN TSVANGIRAI HAD TOLD THEM THAT MORNING THAT 
GETTING OBSERVERS ON THE GROUND SHOULD BE THE PRIMARY OBJECTIVE, 
                       CONFIDENTIAL 
 
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AND HAD URGED THE EU TO KEEP THE POSSIBILITY OF SANCTIONS PENDING 
AND HANGING OVER THE GOZ FOR NOW.  POCOCK SAID THE GERMANS AND THE 
DANES ARE THE EU'S HARDLINERS ON ZIMBABWE AND ARE PUSHING FOR AN 
IMMEDIATE IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS. (LATE ON FEBRUARY 6, DONNELLY 
TOLD THE AMBASSADOR THAT THE EU RECEIVED THE FINAL, SIGNED VERSION 
OF THE MUDENGE LETTER WHICH ADDS EXTRA SALT TO THE MIX BY INSISTING 
THAT THE ACP HEAD THE EU DELEGATION.  BRITISH HC TOLD THE 
AMBASSADOR THAT THIS ADDED INSULT COULD SWING THE EU MINISTERIAL 
MEETING OF FEB 8 AGAINST ACCEPTING SUCH AN OBSERVATION INVITATION 
AND IN FAVOR OF SANCTIONS, SINCE GERMANY AND OTHERS WERE ALREADY 
ARGUING IN FAVOR OF SANCTIONS.) THE AMBASSADOR REPORTED THAT MDC MP 
DAVID COLTART HAD IMPRESSED UPON HIM THE DAY BEFORE THE IMPORTANCE 
OF ENSURING THAT INTERNATIONAL OBSERVERS BE PRESENT AT ALL 120 
COUNTING CENTERS, AND THAT THEY BE DEPLOYED AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE 
TO TROUBLE SPOTS OF MOUNT DARWIN, BEITBRIDGE, AND GOKWE. 
 
3.  (C) AMBASSADOR SULLIVAN NOTED THAT A TEAM OF FOUR PEOPLE FROM 
THE COMMONWEALTH SECRETARIAT HAD ARRIVED IN HARARE THE PREVIOUS DAY 
AS THE ADVANCE PARTY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OBSERVER MISSION.  WE HAD 
BEEN TOLD BY JOHN SHEPPARD, THE LEADER OF THE ADVANCE GROUP, THAT 
SIX OBSERVERS WOULD ARRIVE BY FEBRUARY 11 AND THAT THE ENTIRE 
DELEGATION OF 30 OBSERVERS AND 15 SUPPORT STAFF WOULD BE IN PLACE 
BY FEBRUARY 23.  THE AMBASSADOR QUESTIONED WHETHER SUCH A 
DELEGATION MIGHT BE TOO SMALL TO DO A COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT AND 
ASKED WHETHER THE UK MIGHT ASSIST IN PROVIDING FUNDS TO BEEF UP THE 
SIZE.  POCOCK WAS NOT SURE, BUT REPORTED THAT THE COMMONWEALTH 
SECRETARY-GENERAL HAD CIRCULATED A LETTER TO MEMBERS REQUESTING 
 
SIPDIS 
TOTAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF 400,000 POUNDS TO FINANCE THE COSTS OF THE 
OBSERVER DELEGATION.  WHILE SOME EARLY COMMONWEALTH OBSERVERS ARE 
ON THE GROUND, WE HEARD FROM THE NIGERIAN HC THAT THE ZIMBABWEANS 
CONTINUE PLAYING FOR TIME, INSISTING THAT THE NIGERIAN MEMBER OF 
                       CONFIDENTIAL 
 
PAGE 04        HARARE  00343  01 OF 02  071428Z 
THE OBSERVATION MISSION MAY NOT COME UNTIL THE LETTER OF INVITATION 
IS RECEIVED IN COMMONWEALTH HEADQUARTERS, A DELIVERY WHICH IS 
REGULARLY DELAYED, 
 
MDC'S PROSPECTS 
--------------- 
 
4.  (C) POCOCK SAID TSVANGIRAI SEEMED GENUINELY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT 
HIS CHANCES OF UNSEATING PRESIDENT MUGABE.  HE REPORTEDLY BELIEVES 
THE MDC HAS GAINED SIGNIFICANT SUPPORT IN THE ZANU-PF STRONGHOLDS 
OF MASHONALAND -- PARTLY A PRODUCT OF INTENSIVE LOBBYING OF THE 
TRADITIONAL LEADERS IN THAT REGION.  TSVANGIRAI SAID HE THOUGHT THE 
MDC COULD WIN AS MANY AS HALF THE VOTES IN MASHONALAND CENTRAL 
PROVINCE AND IN THE LOW 40 PERCENT RANGE IN MASHONALAND EAST. 
(NOTE:  THOSE FIGURES ARE CONSISTENT WITH THE PREDICTIONS OF 
TSVANGIRAI'S SPECIAL ADVISOR -- SEE REFTEL.  END NOTE.)  CEPHAS 
 
SIPDIS 
MSIPA, GOVERNOR OF MIDLANDS PROVINCE, PREDICTED TO OUR 
INTERLOCUTORS THAT THE MDC WOULD LIKELY WIN MIDLANDS.  (COMMENT: 
MSIPA'S PREDICTION IS REMARKABLE FOR TWO REASONS:  THE GOVERNOR IS 
A SENIOR OFFICAL IN ZANU-PF, AND THE RULING PARTY WON 62 PERCENT OF 
THE VOTE IN MIDLANDS IN THE JUNE 2000 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS.  AN 
 
                       CONFIDENTIAL 
 
                           CONFIDENTIAL     PTQ6998 
 
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ACTION AF-00 
 
INFO  LOG-00   NP-00    EVG-00   ACQ-00   CIAE-00  INL-00   DODE-00 
      WHA-00   DS-00    EAP-00   VC-00    TEDE-00  INR-00   LAB-01 
      VCE-00   NSAE-00  USIE-00  IIP-00   DSCC-00  DRL-02   NFAT-00 
      SAS-00     /003W 
                  ------------------637E15  071428Z /38 
P 071411Z FEB 02 
FM AMEMBASSY HARARE 
TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 0894 
INFO SOUTHERN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY PRIORITY 
AMEMBASSY ABUJA PRIORITY 
AMEMBASSY CANBERRA PRIORITY 
AMEMBASSY KINGSTON PRIORITY 
AMEMBASSY OTTAWA PRIORITY 
AMEMBASSY NAIROBI PRIORITY 
AMEMBASSY ADDIS ABABA PRIORITY 
NSC WASHDC PRIORITY 
 
C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 02 OF 02 HARARE 000343 
 
SIPDIS 
 
NSC FOR SENIOR DIRECTOR FRAZER 
PARIS FOR NEARY 
LONDON FOR GURNEY 
NAIROBI FOR PFLAUMER 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/06/12 
TAGS: PREL PGOV ZI
SUBJECT: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES ELECTION OBSERVATION, ELECTION 
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PROSPECTS AND POST-ELECTION PLANNING WITH BRITISH OFFICIALS 
 
MDC VICTORY IN THE PROVINCE LESS THAN TWO YEARS LATER WOULD BE A 
SIGNIFICANT TURNAROUND.  END COMMENT.) 
 
5. (C) IN A SEPARATE MEETING WITH THE AMBASSADOR ON FEBRUARY 5, 
COLTART, WHO HAS FREQUENTLY BEEN A PESSIMIST IN THE PAST, WAS QUITE 
BUOYANT.  HE NOTED THAT THE MDC NOW HAD THE LIST OF 6 MILLION 
REGISTERED VOTERS, AN INCREASE OF MORE THAN 700,000 FROM TWO YEARS 
AGO, THEREBY OBVIATING EARLIER FEARS THAT SIGNIFICANT NUMBERS OF 
VOTERS HAD BEEN DISENFRANCHISED AND INDICATING A HIGH INTENTION TO 
VOTE.  COLTART STATED THAT THE SMALL NUMBER OF PEOPLE 
DISENFRANCHISED FOR DUAL CITIZENSHIP WAS COMPARATIVELY 
INSIGNIFICANT.  THE MDC WAS UNDERTAKING TO DELIVER ITS CAMPAIGN 
MATERIAL TO EACH OF THE SIX MILLION REGISTERED VOTERS. 
 
INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE TO AN MDC GOVERNMENT 
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6.  WITH HIS BRITISH INTERLOCUTORS, THE AMBASSADOR NOTED THAT AN 
MDC GOVERNMENT WOULD FACE A RANGE OF SERIOUS CHALLENGES AND WOULD 
REQUIRE SIGNIFICANT ASSISTANCE FROM THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY, 
PARTICULARLY IN THE SHORT-TERM.  HE NOTED THAT THE USG HAS DONE 
SOME THINKING ABOUT HOW WE CAN RESPOND QUICKLY TO A NEW MDC 
GOVERNMENT'S MOST CRITICAL NEEDS AND ASKED WHETHER THE UK HAS 
ENGAGED IN A SIMILAR PROCESS.  DONNELLY NOTED THAT THE MDC HAS 
IDENTIFIED FIVE PRIORITY AREAS FOR ATTENTION DURING THE TRANSITION 
PERIOD:  SECURITY; THE ECONOMY; SOCIAL REHABILITATION (INCLUDING 
HIV/AIDS); GOOD GOVERNANCE (INCLUDING JUDICIAL REFORM, WALKING BACK 
ZANU-PF'S MORE REPRESSIVE LEGISLATION, AND CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM); 
AND LAND REFORM (ALTHOUGH THIS LATTER POINT, TSVANGIRAI TOLD 
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DONNELLY, IS THE LEAST URGENT OF THE FIVE).  POCOCK SAID THE UK IS 
LOOKING AT HOW IT COULD QUICKLY BOOST DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE "BACK 
TO WHERE IT SHOULD BE." IN ADDITION, THE UK IS PRESSING THE IFI'S 
TO BE PREPARED TO RESPOND AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE AND THE EU TO BE 
RESPONSIVE "UNDER THE COTONOU AGREEMENT."  (NOTE:  PRESUMABLY THE 
LATTER POINT REFERS TO A RESTORATION OF SIGNIFICANT ASSISTANCE 
LEVELS AND TRADE PRIVILEGES.  END NOTE.) 
 
SULLIVAN 
 
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