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Viewing cable 08ABUJA1264, ECOWAS: 34TH SESSION OF THE HEADS OF STATE AND

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08ABUJA1264 2008-06-30 13:40 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Abuja
VZCZCXRO6436
PP RUEHMA RUEHPA
DE RUEHUJA #1264/01 1821340
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 301340Z JUN 08
FM AMEMBASSY ABUJA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 3257
INFO RUEHZK/ECOWAS COLLECTIVE
RUEHOS/AMCONSUL LAGOS 9516
RHMFISS/HQ USAFRICOM STUTTGART GE
RHEBAAA/DEPT OF ENERGY WASHDC
RHEHNSC/NSC WASHINGTON DC
RUEAIIA/CIA WASHINGTON DC
RUEKDIA/DIA WASHDC
RHMFISS/HQ USEUCOM VAIHINGEN GE
RUZEJAA/JAC MOLESWORTH RAF MOLESWORTH UK
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 ABUJA 001264 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPT FOR AF/W, INR/AA 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PREL AORC SNAR ECON NI
SUBJECT: ECOWAS: 34TH SESSION OF THE HEADS OF STATE AND 
GOVERNMENT 
 
1. (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 23, 2008, ECOWAS held its 
Thirty-Fourth Ordinary Session of Authority of Heads of State 
and Government in Abuja, Nigeria.  Nine heads of state and 
six minister-level delegates attended the session, which was 
opened with speeches by Nigerian President Umaru Musa 
Yar'Adua, Burkinabe President Blaise Compaore, and Liberian 
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.  During the closed-door 
meeting, the delegates heard reports by Commission President 
Dr. Mohamed Ibn Chambas, the ECOWAS Council of Ministers, and 
member states' Ministers of Agriculture, Trade, and Finance. 
The Session's Final Communique contained no major new 
decisions or declarations.  However, in both the closing 
ceremonies and in a second, separate communique, ECOWAS 
expressed concerns over food security issues and the poor 
state of the region's infrastructure.  The Ambassador 
attended the opening event as well as the closing ceremonies, 
along with other invited diplomats and UN Envoys Ibrahim 
Gambari and Said Djinnit.  Ambassador also held a separate 
bilateral meeting with Dr. Chambas which will be reported in 
septel.  END SUMMARY. 
 
2. (SBU) President Yar'Adua opened the 34th Ordinary Session 
of the Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government with 
a speech applauding the "relative socio-political and 
economic stability within our region", as well as the fact 
that "there is at present no 'active conflict'" in West 
Africa. (Note: The written copy of the President's speech put 
"active conflict" in quotation marks, presumably to note 
interstatal conflict and issues in Guinea, and not Nigeria's 
own ongoing crisis in the Niger Delta.  End note.)  In 
addition, he highlighted the need for progress in regional 
economic integration efforts, such as the Protocols on the 
Common External Tariff (CET), Free Movement of Goods and 
Persons, Right of Residence, and Right of Establishment, and 
called for a resolution to the conflicting interpretations of 
these protocols that have delayed their adoption.  (Note: 
Nigeria is by far one of the worst offenders in lack of 
implementation of the CET. End note.)  He also asked for 
consideration of unspecified "requisite structural and 
institutional reforms," and voiced Nigerian support for 
recent recommendations made by the ECOWAS Session of 
Ministers of Agriculture, Trade, and Finance. 
 
3. (U) The President of Burkina Faso Blaise Compaore, who is 
completing 18 months as Chairman of the Commission, declared 
the 34th Session open by delivering an address congratulating 
the region on the gains made in stabilizing Cote D'Ivoire and 
calling for the Community to aid Guinea in recovering from 
its ongoing political and security crisis.  He also 
reaffirmed ECOWAS' "total" support for the governments of 
Mali and Niger as they dealt with internal insurgencies, and 
urged member states to be committed to a national, as well as 
regional, fight against narcotics trafficking.  He emphasized 
the importance of the West Africa-European Union Economic 
Partnership Agreement (EPA) as a tool for reducing regional 
poverty.  Finally, President Compaore requested a region-wide 
effort in solving West Africa's food crisis, made more severe 
by ongoing desertification and drought. 
 
4. (U) Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf affirmed 
ECOWAS' important role as a building block toward an 
"unwavering" commitment of creating a "Union Government for 
Africa."  She noted that both Sierra Leone and her own 
country have gone from being "breeders of armed conflict" to 
being "exporters of peace," thanked the Community for its 
support for Liberia's ongoing stabilization, and highlighted 
Nigeria's, Ghana's, and Benin's roles under the leading roles 
of the U.S. and UN.  She echoed Compaore's emphasis on the 
potentially destabilizing effects of hunger, and asked that 
the region's agriculture and trade ministers be tasked with 
establishing a database on food production and supply, a 
mechanism for trading food surpluses, and a means to share 
information on agriculture best practices. 
 
5. (U) On June 24, Commission President Chambas called 
together representatives of foreign missions to distribute 
the Session's Final Communique.  In reviewing the region's 
economic performance, the Communique lamented the fact that 
member states' otherwise strong 5% growth rate was 
insufficient to meet Millennium Development Goals, 
 
ABUJA 00001264  002 OF 002 
 
 
particularly in light of high fuel and food prices.  It also 
stressed the important role of infrastructure in ensuring 
heightened economic performance, and noted that the 
Presidents of Cote D'Ivoire and Guinea-Bissau, Laurent Gbagbo 
and Joao Bernardo Vieira, had been tasked with coordinating 
regional infrastructure building efforts. (Note: A separate 
communique was distributed at the meeting highlighting this 
fact.  End note.)  The implementation of the above mentioned 
Protocols was urged, as was the establishment of the CET and 
food supply security mechanisms.  In the security sector, the 
Session condemned the insurgencies in Mali and Niger, and 
called upon Niger Delta militants to desist from violence. 
Finally, it noted that the regional conference on drug 
trafficking would be held in October 2008, presumably in 
Guinea-Bissau. 
 
6. (SBU) COMMENT: While the 34th Session highlighted 
important progress, especially the EPA and the stabilization 
of Sierra Leone and Liberia, the regional leaders made no 
important new decisions or declarations at the event.  The 
leaders virtually ignored a number of major issues, such as 
Nigeria's crisis in the Niger Delta and fighting in northern 
Mali and Niger.  The crisis in Zimbabwe was only mentioned 
briefly, in response to an inquiry from a foreign mission 
member.  Dr. Chambas mentioned that ECOWAS had partially 
deployed an election observation team which would have been 
led by former Nigerian President Yakubu Gowon (though given 
the turn of events in Zimbabwe, Gowon never deployed).  An 
observer might fairly conclude that, while the opening 
speeches were interesting, and West Africa faces no shortage 
of serious challenges and important opportunities, at present 
ECOWAS is not the forum of choice for its leaders to make 
serious headway or make pronouncements on the region's or 
continent's most important political challenges, such as 
Zimbabwe, or even Nigeria's own downward-spiralling Niger 
Delta conflict.  END COMMENT. 
SANDERS