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ACTION AF-06
INFO OCT-01 ISO-00 PM-04 NSC-05 SP-02 SS-15 CIAE-00 INR-07
NSAE-00 DODE-00 AID-05 FBO-02 A-01 EB-07 OMB-01
TRSE-00 COME-00 /056 W
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R 031025ZHFOV 75
FM AMEMBASSY MOGADISCIO
TO SECSTATE WASHDC 3341
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J.O. 11652:N/A
TAGS: OCON, EFIN, SO, IBRD, ABLD
SUBJECT: MEETING WITH VICE PRESIDENT CULMIE
1. IN MEETING WITH VICE PRESIDENT AT HIS REQUEST SUNDAY 2 NOV, TOLD
CULMIE THAT US WOULD NOT PARTICIPATE IN NOV 10-12 IBRD MEETING
MOGADISCIO AND THAT TIMING AND MODALITIES RESUMPTION US AID UNDER
REVIEW IN WASHINGTON. VP SAID HE UNQWARE ANY DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS
TO ADDOU REGARDING IBRD R.R. PROGRAM OR USAID PARTICIPATION
THEREIN. VP LEFT ME WITH IMPRESSION HE NOT PRIVY TO LATEST DETAILS
$60 MILLION IBRD PACKAGE. HE DID HOWEVER RAISE SUBJECT MOGADISCIO
WATER WORKS. REVIEWED ODEVIOUS CORRESPONDENCE AS WELL AS AF/AID/
ADDOU DISCUSSIONS THIS SUBJECT FOR HIS INFO. WHETHER CULMIE
CONVINCED WE HAVE NO FURTHER INTENTIONS EXPANSION/MODERNIZATION
MOG WATER WORKS REMAINS BE SEEN; HOWEVER, BELIEVE HE DOES
UNDERSTANDPWHAT OUR AID EFFORTS WILL BE CHANNELED TO RURAL POOR
AND FOOD PRODUCTION AND NOT TO URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS.
2. TOOK OPPORTUNITY OUR MEETING REMIND CULMIE THAT GSDR COMMISSION'S
REPORT ON FOREIGN DIPLOMATIC PROPERTIES MOGADISCIO INCLUDING OUR
COMPOUND ARE EAGERLY AWAITED. VP STATED COMMISSION HAD NOT
COMPLETED ITS WORK BUT THAT HE WOULD INSTRUCT SEC PUBLIC WORKS
COMMENCE DISCUSSIONS WITH EMBASSY TO RESOLVE THIS PROBLEM. WHILE
ON THIS SUBJECT HE RESURFACED HIS OWN SOLUTION, I.E., WEALTHY US
COULD EASILY AFFORD DONATE ENTIRE COMPOUND AND BUILDINGS TO FUTURE
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UNIVERSITY SOMALI. REMINDED VP THAT WE WERE LOOKING FORWARD TO
NEGOTIATIONS IN WHICH BOTH SIDES WOULD LEAVE CONFERENCE TABLE
SATISFIED WITH RESULTS; HIS PROPOSAL HOWEVER WAS NOT ACCEPTABLE.
COMMENT: LEARNED FROM CHIEF PROTOCOL FOLLOWING MEETING THAT CULMIE
HAD SUMMONED ME DISCUSS CATALOGUE POSSIBLE R. R. PROJECTS FOR US
AID BUT UNFORTUNATELY STAFF WORK NOT COMPLETED PRIOR TO OUR
MEETING8
DECON 12/31/76.
LOUGHRAN
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