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June 7, 1994
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SUBJECT:
Decisions on Strategy on Rwanda for OAU Summit
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ISSUES
(1) Whether to ask Salim Salim to call a meeting of
regional leaders on the margins of the OAU summit to discuss
Rwanda.
(2) Whether to meet with representatives of the Rwandan
interim government and RPF in Tunis and, if so, under what
circumstances.
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We understand that Rwanda will be high on the agenda at the
upcoming OAU summit in Tunis. In addition to formal
deliberations, the subject will undoubtedly be discussed in the
corridors on the margins and probably in regional sub-groups.
The summit presents a unique opportunity for us to push our
principal goals in Rwanda to stop the killings, achieve a
cease-fire, and return the parties to the negotiating table
within the Arusha framework. We should seek to make the most
of that opportunity.
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As an operational matter, we would hope that the regional
leaders (Mwinyi, Museveni, Mobutu, Moi, et al.) would meet on
the margins under OAU auspices to discuss reviving the Arusha
process. If these leaders attend (which remains unclear), it
would provide an opportunity to have them meet without haggling
over who should host -- a dispute that led to the cancellation
of the June 6 Nairobi summit and previous efforts. To increase
the likelihood of such a meeting, we recommend asking Salim
Salim prior to the summit to call such a meeting. We would
indicate to him your willingness to participate, if he and the
other leaders agree.
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We would hope to achieve the following with such.a meeting: .
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Outline the actions that the U.S. has taken to resolve the
crisis, pointing out that we have been in the lead in
trying to expedite the expansion on UNAMIR.
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Reach some regional consensus on meeting to press the
parties to agree to a cease-fire.
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Obtain the agreement of the neighbors to provide their full j
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allowing their territories to be used as a logistical
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Make it clear that we and the international community
expect all Rwanda's neighbors to respect the UN arms
embargo.
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Obtain an agreement to resume the Arusha process, with
Tanzania. in its usual role as host and Facilitator,
pointing out that whatever the military outcome, some form,
of power-sharing is inevitable, given the ethnic realities:
Bilateral Meetings with GOR and RPF
Ambassador Uwimana informed us that interim Foreign
Minister Jerome Bicamumpaka (whom we refused to receive in
Washington) will attend the summit. We understand that
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Commerce Minister Justin Mugenzi (PL-Hutu wing) and Amb.
Mathieu Ngirumpatse (head of Habyarimana's NAND party) will be"
in Tunis, as well. RPF rep Gahima informed us that Pasteur,
Bizimungu, who led the RPF negotiating team at Arusha, and !'
Dr. Jean-Bosco Butdra, RPF shadow Minister of Health, will
represent the RPF at the summit. The RPF has just written
Boutros Ghali calling for the Security Council to suspend the,
credentials of the interim government at the UN, and a similar'
credentials challenge may occur at the OAU summit.
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It is highly likely that either or both delegations will
request a bilateral meeting with you, and almost inevitable
that you will encounter them in the hall or at a reception.
Treatment of GOR. Given the interim government's possible,
complicity in the atrocities behind GOR lines, we recommend • 0
that you not meet one-on-one with representatives of the
interim government. Instead, a larger meeting, either With
Salim Salim present or with other Western Arusha observers
(French, Belgians, Germans) in attendance, would be
preferable. This will allow us to make a strong demarche at a •
high level on our key points (stop the killing, immediate
cease-fire, and full cooperation with UNAMIR and relief
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- 3 -efforts), while avoiding an unintentional political endorsement
that a high-level one-on-one meeting might produce. If that is
not possible, OAU watcher Steve Schwartz and Ed Brown, in the
interest of maintaining a dialogue with both sides, should meet
with the interim government representatives. While this may
deprive us of the opportunity to make a high-level one-on-one
demand to the interim government to stop the killing, previous
such demarches have produced only disengenuous statements that
the killings have ended. (In this regard, we note a press
report today that Hutu militia, sensing an RPF victory, have
started delivering Tutsis to safe havens rather than killing
them, no doubt to earn a reprieve from the RPF.)
Treatment of RPF. If possible, we recommend you meet with
the RPF in the presence of Salim Salim or Western Arusha
observers, as suggested for the interim government. However,
if such a meeting is not possible, we recommend that you agree
to meet one-on-one with the RPF. The RPF holds the Kigali
airport and more than half the country; we need their full
cooperation with the UNAMIR deployment and their agreement to a
cease-fire, and must make these points at the highest level.
While this may result in unequal treatment of the two
delegations, we believe the evolving situation on the ground
and the differing human rights concerns merit the difference in
treatment.
RECOMMENDATIONS
That you approve a demarche to Salim Salim asking him to
call a meeting of regional leaders on the margins of the OAU
summit to discu s RWanda.
Approved
Disapproved
That you seek to meet with the interim government and the
RPF in -a multilateral context; if that is not possible, that
you meet with the RPF bilaterally and have Schwartz and Brown
meet with the interim government.
Approved
Disapproved
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