US embassy cable - 05DJIBOUTI289

Disclaimer: This site has been first put up 15 years ago. Since then I would probably do a couple things differently, but because I've noticed this site had been linked from news outlets, PhD theses and peer rewieved papers and because I really hate the concept of "digital dark age" I've decided to put it back up. There's no chance it can produce any harm now.

Identifier:	05DJIBOUTI289
Wikileaks:	View 05DJIBOUTI289 at Wikileaks.org
Origin:	Embassy Djibouti
Created:	2005-03-22 09:44:00
Classification:	CONFIDENTIAL
Tags:	PREL PGOV SO DJ
Redacted:	This cable was not redacted by Wikileaks.

C O N F I D E N T I A L DJIBOUTI 000289 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR AF AND AF/E 
PARIS AND LONDON FOR AFRICA WATCHER 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/20/2015 
TAGS: PREL, PGOV, SO, DJ 
SUBJECT: SOMALIA - IGAD DEPLOYMENT PLAN AND DJIBOUTI 
 
REF: SECSTATE 47850 
 
Classified By: Ambassador Marguerita D. Ragsdale. 
Reasons 1.4 (B) and (D). 
 
 1. (C) Ref Message reached post after the departure of the 
Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Arab League Summit 
in Algiers.  In his absence, Ambassador presented the 
demarche March 20 to Ahmed Ali Bogoreh, Secretary General of 
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and highest ranking official 
currently at the Ministry.  Bogoreh is not directly active on 
Somalia issues, and is primarily a conduit. As usual, he 
pledged to pass our message to the highest levels of 
Djibouti's government. 
 
2. (C) Both the Acting Foreign Minister and President Guelleh 
are due to return to Djibouti on/about March 25 from Arab 
League meetings in Algiers.  We will re-visit Somalia in 
general with the Acting Foreign Minister at that time. We 
note that when Prime Minister Dileita Mohamed Dileita was in 
Ethiopia March 9, he is said to have agreed with Kibaki and 
Meles that Kenya, Ethiopia, and Djibouti would not/not send 
troops to Somalia but that the IGAD states of Uganda and 
Sudan would. We have not independently confirmed this. 
RAGSDALE