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R 140737Z JUL 09
FM AMEMBASSY LUSAKA
TO SECSTATE WASHDC 7145
INFO SOUTHERN AF DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY COLLECTIVE

C O N F I D E N T I A L LUSAKA 000492 
 
 
DEPT FOR AF/S BRIAN WALCH 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/14/2019 
TAGS: PGOV SADC ZI ZA
SUBJECT: SADC ON ZIMBABWE - TIME IS ON OUR SIDE 
 
REF: STATE 70664 
 
Classified By: Ambassador Donald E. Booth for Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d) 
 
¶1. (C) With Foreign Minister and Permanent Secretary out of 
country, PolOff delivered reftel demarche July 10 to Kimbala 
Meleka, Assistant Director for Africa and the Middle East at 
the Zambian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.  Meleka acknowledged 
that the Southern African Development Community (SADC), as a 
guarantor of the Zimbabwe Global Political Agreement (GPA), 
is fully aware of the challenges to the GPA that have been 
raised by Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). 
Meleka said SADC heads of state haven't acted on their 
concerns because President Robert Mugabe has promised he 
would act on MDC's concerns.  Meleka suggested that the 
numerous challenges "may not be addressed in one go" but that 
SADC is "closely monitoring the evolution of the situation" 
and, depending on events on the ground, "may intervene."  He 
said the issue was not raised at the June 20 SADC 
Extraordinary Summit because the focus at that meeting was 
squarely on the situation in Madagascar.  Meleka said the 
situation in Zimbabwe would be addressed during the July 18 
-20 Interstate Politics and Diplomacy Committee meetings to 
be held in Swaziland (comprised of SADC Ministers of Foreign 
Affairs), where Zimbabwe will be in attendance to speak to 
specific political and security issues. 
 
 
BOOTH