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O P 111142Z AUG 09
FM AMEMBASSY TRIPOLI
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 5141
INFO RUCNFUR/DARFUR COLLECTIVE
RUEHDO/AMEMBASSY DOHA PRIORITY 0034
RUEHLO/AMEMBASSY LONDON PRIORITY 1116
RUEHFR/AMEMBASSY PARIS PRIORITY 0789
RUEHTRO/AMEMBASSY TRIPOLI 5681

UNCLAS TRIPOLI 000650 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPT FOR NEA/MAG, S/USSES AND AF/C 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PREL SU EG QA LY
SUBJECT: LIBYA HOSTING SEPARATE HIGH-LEVEL MEETINGS FOR JEM, SLA/U 
 
REF: Khartoum 372 
 
¶1. (U)  This is an action request.  Please see para 4. 
 
¶2.  (SBU)  Libyan Director of Military Intelligence Abdullah 
Sanussi hosted a meeting August 11 with UN/AU Joint Moderator 
Djbril Bassole, Qatari Minister of State al-Mahmoud and six 
members of the Sudan Liberation Army/Unity faction (SLA/U). 
SLA/U representative Sayyid Sharif provided a brief readout of 
the meeting to poloff via telcon, saying the parties discussed 
modalities for an August 18 meeting in Addis Ababa between SLA/U 
and members of Abdul Wahid's faction to move forward on rebel 
unification.  Separately, the Egyptian embassy said their 
Special Envoy also participated in the meeting, though was 
unable to provide further detail -- including whether Sudanese 
Presidential Advisor Ghazi Salaheddin Atabani participated in 
the meeting.  SLA/U representative Osman Bushra confirmed that 
SLA/U chairman Abdullah Yehia was not present in the meeting. 
Instead, six members from the "Unity Plus" agreement signed in 
Tripoli March 15 (reftel) were represented:  Sayyid Sharif and 
Mahjoub Hussein from SLA/U, Masahra (phonetic) from SLA/Juba, 
Ashraf from JEM/Idris Azraq, and a member of the SLA/Bakhit 
group. 
 
¶3. (SBU)  The Justice and Equality Movement's (JEM) Tripoli 
representative Suliman Abdalla Ismail confirmed that JEM 
President Khalil Ibrahim arrived in Tripoli on August 10 and 
expected to meet Muammar al-Qadhafi some time on August 10 or 
¶11.  JEM and SLA/U representatives told poloff they were aware 
the rival faction was in town for high-level meetings, but SLA/U 
said they would not meet with Khalil Ibrahim unless the JEM 
publicly acknowledged SLA as a viable resistance movement 
operating in Darfur -- a condition they did not expect to be met 
in the short term. 
 
¶4. (SBU)  Comment and action request: Charge has requested an 
official read-out from MFA-equivalent officials here.  Both 
rebel factions expected they would be called for several more 
meetings over the course of the day August 11, and  requested 
meetings with poloff August 12.  We would appreciate the 
Department's guidance on USG views on this latest round of 
negotiations and any upcoming travel related to the unification 
initiative. 
 
POLASCHIK