US embassy cable - 04DJIBOUTI1618

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GUELLEH WILL NOT TRAVEL TO SUDAN DESPITE SALEH'S URGING

Identifier: 04DJIBOUTI1618
Wikileaks: View 04DJIBOUTI1618 at Wikileaks.org
Origin: Embassy Djibouti
Created: 2004-12-23 10:25:00
Classification: CONFIDENTIAL
Tags: DJ ODIP PREL SA SO SU YM
Redacted: This cable was not redacted by Wikileaks.
This record is a partial extract of the original cable. The full text of the original cable is not available.

C O N F I D E N T I A L DJIBOUTI 001618 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/23/2014 
TAGS: DJ, ODIP, PREL, SA, SO, SU, YM 
SUBJECT: GUELLEH WILL NOT TRAVEL TO SUDAN DESPITE SALEH'S 
URGING 
 
REF: A. DJIBOUTI 1617 
 
     B. SANAA 3144 
     C. STATE 271223 
     D. KHARTOUM 1717 
 
Classified By: Ambassador Marguerita Ragsdale. 
For reasons 1.4 (b) and (d) 
 
 1. (C) Minister of Cooperation in the Ministry of Foreign 
Affairs, Mahamoud Ali Youssouf, confirmed today that 
Djiboutian President Ismail Omar Guelleh will not/not travel 
to Sudan at the end of the month to attend the axis meeting 
of Ethiopia, Sudan and Yemen (see reftel A). Youssouf told 
Ambassador Ragsdale that Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh 
did talk to Guelleh via phone earlier this week and attempted 
to convince him to attend the meeting, but that Guelleh 
reiterated the standing Djiboutian position on the axis: It 
has an anti-Eritrean political agenda and that meetings 
promoting regional welfare should include all Horn of Africa 
states or be mediated through IGAD (see reftel A). Djibouti 
does not wish to embark on such a program, Youssouf said. 
RAGSDALE 

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