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C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 USUN NEW YORK 000980 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/08/2017 
TAGS: AF PGOV PREL SU UNC UN KPKO
SUBJECT: UPDATE ON DARFUR PEACEKEEPING DEPLOYMENT NOVEMBER 8 
 
REF: USUN 964 
 
Classified By: Ambassador J. Wolcott for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). 
 
¶1. (C) SUMMARY: AMB Wolcott met with DPKO U/SYG Guehenno 
November 8 to discuss UNAMID deployment.  Guehenno reported 
that Sudanese Major General had backpedaled on his promise to 
meet in Addis Ababa after the UN communicated that the 
meeting would be primarily technical and not an opportunity 
to renegotiate UNAMID.  Guehenno said he would know by noon 
November 9 whether the meeting would take place. 
 
Deployment Updates: 
 
--Personnel: AMIS Force Commander Agwai supports contracted 
US military advisors continuing in their current positions; a 
shortage of UN staff personnel on the ground is hampering 
progress toward Transfer of Authority (TOA); 
 
--Force Generation: High Ranking Operational and Technical 
Advisory Team (HROTAT) visits have begun; 
 
-- DPKO has not yet identified TCCs to provide helicopters 
and transportation units as required for UNAMID; 
 
--Heavy Support Package (HSP) Deployment Update: The Chinese 
engineer battalion is currently in the process of deploying 
into Darfur; 
 
--Contracting issues surrounding the Operations and 
Maintenance (O&M) contract are moving towards resolution. 
 
END SUMMARY. 
 
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DPKO-GOS Addis Meeting 
Still Not Confirmed 
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¶2. (C) AMB Wolcott met with DPKO U/SYG Guehenno November 8 to 
discuss UNAMID deployment and Guehenno's plans to meet with 
Sudanese Major General Maghzoub in Addis Ababa (ref A). 
Guehenno reported that the Government of Sudan (GOS) had not 
yet confirmed the meeting after Guehenno had called Sudanese 
General Maghzough to clarify that the meeting would be 
primarily technical in nature and not an opportunity for the 
GOS to renegotiate the TCC list or make changes to the 
deployment timeline.  Guehenno said he expected to receive a 
response from the GOS regarding the meeting by early November 
9 as he is scheduled to depart for Addis Ababa the afternoon 
of November 9th.  If the Sudanese do not confirm the meeting, 
SRSG Mullet, already scheduled to be in Khartoum November 
10th, will engage with the GOS in Khartoum on the need to 
finalize the TCC list. 
 
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Command and Personnel 
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¶3. (C) AMIS Force Commander General Agwai reportedly supports 
the retention of the 16 U.S. Military Observers in their 
capacity as advisors.  Agwai's staff still needs to generate 
a formal request in order to renew the contract.  Sector 
Commanders have been nominated and are pending final UN 
approval. 
 
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Force generation 
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¶4. (C) High Ranking Operational and Technical Advisory Team 
(HROTAT) visits:  The mission of the HROTAT is to determine 
if potential TCCs meet the equipment and sustainability 
requirements necessary for the UNAMID Mission.  In the event 
that the minimum requirements are not met, the HROTAT will 
ascertain if they can achieve suitability with assistance or, 
they could be removed from the TCC list and the UN and the AU 
would have to go through the selection process for 
replacement TCC's again. 
 
¶5. (C) The first round of visits started November 1 with UN 
DPKO Acting Military Advisor Major General Five traveling to 
Senegal, Mauritania and Gambia.  The team returns 9 November 
and a briefing from the team has been scheduled for shortly 
thereafter.  Preliminary information indicates that 
Mauritania is not capable of deploying and sustaining a full 
infantry battalion.  However, Mauritania may be able to 
contribute a single company. Also, Gambia does not have the 
capacity to deploy a recon company (NFI). 
 
 
USUN NEW Y 00000980  002 OF 002 
 
 
¶6. (C) The second round of visits to Burundi, Tanzania Malawi 
and Ethiopia is scheduled to begin on 12 November, followed 
by Mali, Ghana, Burkina Faso and Cameroon from 26 November to 
2 December (COMMENT: Ethiopia and Malawi have requested that 
the U.S. provide equipment in support of their deployment to 
Darfur.  USUN MSC recommends that US Defense Attaches in 
these countries be tasked to monitor the HROTAT visit and 
report on outcome and potential shortfalls. END COMMENT.) 
 
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UNAMID Shortfalls 
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¶7. (C) The UN has not yet identified TCCs for either the 
attack or utility helicopters, or the required transport 
units.  UN demarches have been issued to potential 
contributors including Denmark and Egypt, both of which 
declined to provide support.  The offer of helicopters from 
Jordan was turned down by DPKO because they did not meet 
mission requirements for flight range or for night 
capability. 
 
¶8. (C) Ukrainian Pol Counselor approached USUN MSC rep on 8 
Nov to acknowledge receipt of another demarche in Kiev from 
both U.S. and UK concerning the provision of helicopters. 
The Ukrainian Pol Counsellor stated that the Ukrainian 
government was reviewing the request but that the Ministry of 
Defense was adamantly against supporting the mission. 
 
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HSP Deployment 
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¶9. (C). The deployment of the AMIS HSP force protection 
battalions from Rwanda and Nigeria was completed on October 
31, with 800 personnel and 23 APC's deployed.  The Nigerians 
still need to deploy 13 APCs but are in the process of doing 
so.  The advance party of the Chinese Engineering Company for 
the HSP has begun to deploy with the first of eleven flights 
landing in Nyala on November 7.  The first tranche of 135 
engineers is scheduled to be in sector NLT November 30. 
 
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Contracting 
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¶10. (C) The UN is addressing the AMIS Operations & 
Maintenance contract for January through March 2008. The 
requested contract terms were forwarded from the USG to the 
UN. Currently, the UN is attempting to translate the contract 
terms into their own tender and by limiting the number of 
bids they accept, they could establish their own contract 
thereby obviating the need to reimburse the USG. If the UN is 
unable to get their own contract established, they will 
reconsider the reimbursement plan. 
 
Khalilzad