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Viewing cable 08KHARTOUM92, COURTESY CALL ON CIRINO HITENG

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
08KHARTOUM92 2008-01-23 05:17 2011-08-24 16:30 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Khartoum
VZCZCXRO8541
PP RUEHROV
DE RUEHKH #0092 0230517
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 230517Z JAN 08 ZDK
FM AMEMBASSY KHARTOUM
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 9760
INFO RUCNIAD/IGAD COLLECTIVE
RHMFISS/CJTF HOA
UNCLAS KHARTOUM 000092 
 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPT FOR AF/SPG, AF SE WILLIAMSON 
ADDIS ABABA FOR USAU 
DEPT PLS PASS USAID FOR AFR/SUDAN 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV PREL KPKO UNSC SU
SUBJECT: COURTESY CALL ON CIRINO HITENG 
 
1. (SBU) CG Datta paid a courtesy call January 22 on Cirino Hiteng, 
a prominent player in the SPLM and Undersecretary in the Ministry of 
Regional Cooperation. Topics covered ranged from Eritrean-Ethiopian 
border tensions to the CPA. 
 
2. (SBU) Dr. Cirino led off by commenting that a senior delegation 
of Eritreans, identified as Yemane, Abdulla, and General Tekle, had 
just met with President Kiir.  Cirino said that Kiir was doing what 
he could to assume a prominent role in negotiating a resolution to 
the Eritrean-Ethiopian border dispute.  He said that Kiir, in his 
talks with both sides, had convinced them to accept the UN brokered 
border demarcation.  The CG, having spent three years in Eritrea, 
was surprised at this, and expressed his doubts that Meles would be 
able to accept the loss of Badme to the Eritreans, the original 
source of the conflict.  Cirino laughed and commented that he had 
been to Badme and that it was nothing worth fighting over.  The CG 
commented that he, too, had been to Badme, and while he agreed it 
was nothing worth fighting over, the symbolic political value of it 
for both sides had sparked the conflict, which had so far cost an 
estimated 100,000 lives. 
 
3. (SBU) Cirino said that the Eritreans were deeply unhappy that the 
border demarcation was costing them in excess of 200 square miles of 
territory they also thought belonged to them, but that Kiir had 
convinced them to reluctantly accept it.  He said that Kiir had also 
convinced the Ethiopians that, while they have lost Badme, 
conversely they had gained significant territory from Eritrea in the 
bargain, and that Meles could use that to save political face at 
home.  The CG expressed his continuing doubts, given how long this 
dispute has dragged on, but Cirino insisted that Kiir has told them 
to "come to Juba to make peace," and he thought they would. 
 
4. (SBU) Cirino further mentioned that Kiir had urged the Eritreans 
make their peace with the Americans.  The Eritreans, he said, 
complained to Kiir bitterly about the US and its role in the region. 
 Kiir, Cirino said, simply raised his arms and said, "We're all 
friends here." 
 
5. (SBU) The conversation inevitably next went to a discussion of 
the CPA.  Cirino accused the SAF of moving two new divisions into a 
part of the Bahr El Ghazal region, clearly in the south, that is 
believed to hold large copper, aluminum, and possibly uranium 
deposits.  It was nothing, Cirino asserted, but a land grab that the 
SPLM would never accept.  President Kiir has offered to let the Kiir 
River (located in Abyei, known as the Bahr al-Arab in the North) 
serve as a temporary boundary while the true border is decided (both 
in Abyei and between the North and South), but the NCP, he thought, 
will continue to push for more territory wherever it feels it can. 
 
 
6. (SBU) With regard to the recent fighting in Abyei, Cirino 
asserted that the SAF that was arming the Misseriya (a claim we hear 
from everyone in Juba).  The CG asked if the conflict with the 
Misseriya had calmed at all, and Cirino said that it had. Missirya 
loyalties are divided already between the north and the south, and 
those elements who had been fighting have come now to understand how 
they are being used by the north to their own disadvantage. 
 
7. (SBU) Cirino concluded by observing that, in his opinion, the NCP 
will never hold elections in 2009 unless it knows it can either win 
them outright or can cheat to win them, and that they would seek to 
cancel the 2011 referendum.  As both outcomes are heavily in doubt 
following the success of the SPLM boycott, Cirino believed the NCP 
would prefer to call them off. 
 
8. (SBU) Lastly, Cirino claimed that Kiir was told by Bashir when he 
was last in Khartoum that certain Arab states are pressuring him to 
end the CPA, which they said he should never have signed in the 
first place.  It was a violation of Muslim pride.  When Kiir asked 
which Arab states, Bashir reportedly refused to answer.  Cirino 
speculated that it might be Libya or even Egypt, but that time would 
tell. 
 
9. (SBU) Comment: It seems highly unlikely to us that Kiir could 
have finally convinced the Eritreans and Ethiopians to accept the 
UN-brokered border demarcation, but maybe the charms of "coming to 
Juba to make peace" will prevail.  Kiir has increasingly attempted 
to play the role of peacemaker in a number of regional conflicts, 
including in Darfur, with the LRA and in eastern Sudan.  As to Arab 
pressure on Bashir to abrogate the CPA, this is the first we have 
heard of it.  It seems just as likely to us that, if Bashir said it, 
it was meant to create the impression with Kiir that he is standing 
strong against those who want him to end the peace process, a rather 
common NCP ploy. 
 
FERNANDEZ