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Viewing cable 10DJIBOUTI127, DJIBOUTI: ASD VERSHBOW AND GODJ DISCUSS STRONG BILATERAL

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10DJIBOUTI127 2010-02-02 12:05 2011-08-30 01:44 CONFIDENTIAL Embassy Djibouti
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FM AMEMBASSY DJIBOUTI
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 1327
INFO SOMALIA COLLECTIVE
RHEHAAA/NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL WASHINGTON DC
RHMFISS/CJTF HOA
RUEAIIA/CIA WASHINGTON DC
RUEHYN/AMEMBASSY SANAA 0066
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RUEKJCS/SECDEF WASHINGTON DC
C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 04 DJIBOUTI 000127 
 
SIPDIS 
DEPARTMENT FOR AF/E AND NEA/ARP 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 2020/02/02 
TAGS: PREL PTER MOPS KPKO KPIR DJ YM ER SO
SUBJECT: DJIBOUTI: ASD VERSHBOW AND GODJ DISCUSS STRONG BILATERAL 
PARTNERSHIP, REGIONAL CHALLENGES 
 
CLASSIFIED BY: J. Swan, Ambassador; REASON: 1.4(B), (D) 
 
1.  (C) SUMMARY. During separate January 24 meetings, visiting 
Assistant Secretary of Defense (ASD) for International Security 
Affairs Alexander Vershbow discussed Yemen, Somalia, and Eritrea 
with Djiboutian President Ismail Omar Guelleh, Foreign Minister 
Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, Minister of Defense Ahmed Kifleh Ougoureh, 
and Deputy Chief of Defense staff Major General Zakaria Cheick 
Ibrahim.  President Guelleh thanked ASD Vershbow for current 
cooperation between Djibouti and the United States, and asked for 
increased intelligence-sharing and support to the Coast Guard to 
counter extremist threats.  On Eritrea, Guelleh requested that the 
United States work with France to start inspecting Eritrea-bound 
vessels for arms, in order to enforce the embargo provisions of 
United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1907.  Guelleh 
and Youssouf both underscored Djibouti's ongoing commitment to 
contribute troops to the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), 
and said that Djibouti remained concerned that the threat of 
violent extremism continued to move north from Somalia toward 
Djibouti.  On Yemen, Foreign Minister Youssouf agreed with ASD 
Vershbow that the international community needed to help the 
government of Yemen (ROYG) as it tackled not just extremist threats 
from al-Qaeda, but first and foremost serious internal problems. 
END SUMMARY. 
 
 
 
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USG-GODJ: STRONG PARTNERSHIP 
 
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2. (C) ASD Vershbow thanked President Guelleh and Foreign Minister 
Youssouf for the GODJ's strong partnership with the United 
States--including Djibouti's hosting of U.S. military forces at 
Camp Lemonnier, and collaboration to combat terrorism.  In hosting 
U.S. forces, President Guelleh told ASD Vershbow and Ambassador, 
"we are sure that we're doing what is right."  He thanked ASD 
Vershbow for ongoing U.S. military cooperation and 
intelligence-sharing, and urged continued and increased 
collaboration.  The United States, Guelleh said, should "help 
Africans enforce and maintain peace, meet the economic needs of 
their populations, and assist with capacity-building and 
intelligence." 
 
 
 
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SOMALIA 
 
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3. (C) Planned U.S. Africa Contingency Operations Training and 
Assistance (ACOTA) support for Djibouti was crucial, Guelleh told 
Ambassador and ASD Vershbow, even if there was no "peace yet to 
keep in Somalia."  Guelleh volunteered that the GODJ would seek 
training for two or three battalions (NOTE. Each of about 450 
troops.  END NOTE).  Guelleh assessed that a force of 2,000-3,000 
Transitional Federal Government (TFG) troops could clear al-Shabaab 
from downtown Mogadishu, if AMISOM forces blocked the extremists 
from reinforcing.  Foreign Minister Youssouf--while emphasizing 
that Djibouti would need to train the troops it planned to send to 
AMISOM, and continue evaluating its own security 
situation--contrasted Djibouti's firm commitment with what he 
characterized as Kenya "going back" on its promise to provide 
troops. 
 
 
 
4. (C) Reiterating an ongoing GODJ position, Youssouf said that 
there was an urgent need to revise and expand AMISOM's current 
mandate, empowering it not just to protect the TFG, but to actually 
participate in peacekeeping in Mogadishu.  He warned that expanding 
AMISOM's mandate without providing additional resources would 
merely result in more collateral damage, which al-Shabaab would 
then skillfully exploit as a public relations tool.  Nevertheless, 
 
DJIBOUTI 00000127  002 OF 004 
 
 
Youssouf said, the international community could now "rely on" 
3,000 to 4,000 Somali troops with basic skills, including those 
recently trained in Djibouti.  The Djibouti trainees, Youssouf 
said, were currently assigned to protect Mogadishu's port and 
airport, and remained disciplined despite receiving salaries 
sporadically. 
 
 
 
5. (C) Asked to assess TFG President Sharif's leadership, Youssouf 
said that while Sharif was "growing" as a leader and had 
spearheaded some successful operations, he still looked "small" in 
his attempt to fill the "big" role of statesman in a transitioning 
country.  The international community still needs to give him some 
time, Youssouf urged, and noted that the TFG was currently planning 
a "large-scale attack" to take ground from al-Shabaab in Mogadishu. 
The TFG still needed major assistance with organization, training, 
and logistics, and many members of parliament remained outside of 
Somalia.  Several members of parliament were currently in Djibouti, 
Youssouf mentioned, working on the transitional constitution.  The 
GODJ was advising the TFG to ramp up strategic communications that 
could counter al-Shabaab's recruitment efforts, and had even 
broadcast some messages supportive of this goal through the sole 
state-run television station in Djibouti.  On a positive note, the 
TFG stood to benefit from fundamental splits among extremist groups 
with conflicting political and ideological agendas.  Ordinary 
Somalis are increasingly rejecting extremist claims--such as that 
everything, even including rape, is justifiable in the context of 
jihad--and understand that extremists are simply using Islam as a 
means to an end, to achieve clan or power goals through purported 
religious means. 
 
 
 
6. (C) Youssouf said that the GODJ had "confirmed" links between 
piracy and al-Shabaab terrorist activity; payment of pirate ransoms 
has reportedly correlated closely with upticks in attacks around 
Mogadishu.  Youssouf emphasized that the diversion of piracy 
ransoms could be a very dangerous development.  President Guelleh 
emphasized that the international community needed to help 
Somalia's coast guard become capable of combating piracy and 
illegal fishing.  No piracy problem in the world, he noted, has 
ever been solved without tackling pirates' land bases.  Djibouti's 
port-based economy, President Guelleh reiterated, suffers 
economically when piracy drives up shipping insurance rates. 
 
 
 
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EXTREMIST THREATS 
 
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7.  (C) Protecting Djibouti from terrorist threats remains a 
central GODJ preoccupation.  Combating terrorism is a "global 
responsibility," President Guelleh told ASD Vershbow, and not an 
American problem.  Sharing intelligence is a key shield against 
terrorist threats, as is denying extremists safe havens by helping 
governments such as Somalia and Yemen tackle local problems.  The 
threat of terrorist activity continues to move north from Somalia, 
Youssouf said, and Djibouti was concerned that its political 
involvement in Somalia and its hosting of foreign troops made the 
country an attractive target for extremists.  Kenya, he noted, had 
recently become a "less welcoming place" for ethnic Somalis, with 
the result that more and more Somalis--not all of whom may have the 
best intentions--are moving their home base to Djibouti. 
 
 
 
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YEMEN 
 
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DJIBOUTI 00000127  003 OF 004 
 
 
8. (C) ASD Vershbow outlined U.S. cooperation with the ROYG, 
including our emphasis on building partnerships with regional 
states such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.  ASD 
Vershbow highlighted the upcoming January 28 "Friends of Yemen" 
meeting in London, and stressed that while the United States and 
the international community are prepared to assist Yemen, the ROYG 
must also be prepared to make tough decisions.  Djibouti, ASD 
Vershbow told Guelleh, has already sent its neighbors a powerful 
message about taking responsibility in the region.  Guelleh said 
that Yemen's economic crisis was proving a fertile breeding ground 
for terrorists, and urged greater sharing of intelligence on 
threats, particularly among Gulf states.  Although al-Shabaab has 
declared it is taking the fight to Yemen, Youssouf said, serious 
internal political problems in the north and south remain the 
ROYG's biggest challenges, with threats from al-Qaeda and 
al-Shabaab taking second place. 
 
 
 
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ERITREA 
 
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9. (C) Both President Guelleh and Foreign Minister Youssouf asked 
the United States--possibly in tandem with France--to begin 
inspecting Eritrea-bound vessels for violations of the UNSCR 1907 
arms embargo.  Guelleh said that he had raised this issue with 
President Sarkozy during the latter's brief stopover in Djibouti 
January 19.  ASD Vershbow promised to engage France on this 
request, and said that the international community needed to 
prevent Eritrea from continuing to play a regional spoiler role 
based on its "zero sum" relationship with Ethiopia.  Eritrea, 
Youssouf underlined, continued to try to export "anarchy" to 
Djibouti, and remained dangerous in Sudan, Somalia, and Yemen. 
Yemeni President Saleh suspected that Eritrea was arming Houthi 
rebels, and had recently told Djibouti that a vessel full of arms 
had been intercepted en route from Eritrea to Yemen.  It was 
possible, Youssouf said, that Eritrea was fulfilling the agendas of 
other countries-for example, Libya or even Iran.  Domestically, 
Eritrea is an "open air prison," Youssouf told ASD Vershbow, citing 
the recent mass defection of the entire Eritrean national soccer 
team. 
 
 
 
10. (C) Minister of Defense Kifleh Ougoureh asserted that the GSE 
is training Ethiopian Oromo opposition groups, Somali Ogadenis and 
Islamists, and now Djiboutian Afars to destabilize Djibouti and 
cast the border dispute as the result of internal Djiboutian 
unrest.  The Minister thanked ASD Vershbow for strong USG support 
for UNSCR 1907, but warned that Eritrean President Isaias is 
preparing new "maneuvers" to threaten Djibouti. 
 
 
 
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11.  (C) Djiboutians have always been acutely aware that the 
turbulence of their neighborhood can easily disturb their relative 
tranquility.  While well accustomed to instability in the region, 
President Guelleh and his administration have recently felt 
particularly hemmed in between tenuously-controlled Somalia, major 
internal problems in Yemen, regional terrorist threats, and a 
festering border conflict with Eritrea.  Djibouti deeply 
appreciates USG support to mitigate these threats--from political 
backing on UNSCR 1907 to information-sharing.  As evidenced by 
President Guelleh's request for greater intelligence-sharing, 
support to the Coast Guard, and help enforcing the arms embargo 
against Eritrea, Djibouti will likely continue to look to the 
United States as a key regional security partner.  END COMMENT. 
 
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12. (U) ASD Vershbow cleared this cable. 
SWAN