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i. L k k I L LL LkL L L L L L SE SISo Department of Stute INCOMING SS 06 8 00 SSOH800 PAGE 01 LONDON 2757201 OF 06 2117161 0508 E 01 LONDON 21512 01 OF 06 2111161 0508 21/17442 JIBE RUMSFELD MET FOR 90 MINUTES WITH IRAQI PRESIDENT O EDO1 NEA-01 SSN-01 X-01 FAIRØ1 /005 AD SADDAM HUSSEIN DECEMBER 20. FOREIGN MINISTER FARIO AZIZ,INTERPRETER AND NOTETAIHER ATTENDED ACTION OS-00 ON IRAQI SIDE; EAGLETON AND PELLETREAU ON US BOTH IRAQI LEADERS WERE IN MIL ITARY DRESS WITH INFO OCT-00 COPY-01 ADS-00 SSO-OS /026 W 216141 2117 212 /43 PISTOLS ON HIPS. WHILE SECURITY WAS ELABORATE, BOTH APPEARED VIGOROUS AND CONFIDENT. IRAQI E 0 2116521 BEC 83 IV PHOTOGRAPHED SADDAN'S INITIAL GREETING OF X FM AMEMBASSY LONDON RUMSFELD AND PRESENTATION OF PRESIDENT REAGAN'S TO SECSTATE WA6IC IMMEDIATE1419 LETTER. RU1ISFELD OPENED BY CONVEYING PRESIDENT'S INFO AMEMBASSY AMMAN GREETINGS AND EXPRESSING HIS PLEASURE AT BEING IN AMEIIBASSY BEIRUT BAGHDAD ANO WITH HIS INTERESTING AND INFORMATIVE AHEMBASSY CAIRO EXCHANGE WITH FOREIGN MINISTER PREVIOUS EVENING. s AMEMBASSY DAMASCUS US INI BAGHDAD SADOAM WELCOMED RUMSFELD AND SAIO HE HAD AMEIIBASSY CAIRO READ PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE AND BEEN BRIEFED DV MEETING AMEPIBASSY ANKARA HE SAID HE WAS PLEASED AMEMSASSY PARIS WITH FOREIGN MINISTER. THAT POLITICAL DISCUSSIONS HAD BEEN TAKING PLACE AMEIIDASSY ROME HE WAS ALSO E USMISSION IJSUN NEW YORK WITH SERIOUSNESS AND FRANKNESS. PLEASED THAT PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE INDICATED DEEP AIIEIIBASSY KUWAIT X AMEMDASSY MANAMA AND SERIOUS UNDERSTANDING OF IMPLICATIONS OF CONFIRMATION OF IRAQ/IRAN WAR AND ITS DANGERS. AMEMBASSY DOUA THIRDLY, HE WAS PLEASED THAT US WISHED TO SEE AMEMBASSY ARI OHABI FURTHER DEVELOPMENT IN ITS RELATIONS WITH IRAQ, I? AMEMBASSY MUSCAT IRAQ VALUED USELO RIYADH INCLUDING EXCHANGE OF AMBASSADORS. s THIS POSITIVE APPRECIATION BY THE US OF THE NEED AMEMBASSY JIDDA AMCONSUL JERUSALEM FOR A HIGH LEVEL OF RELATIONS. AMEMBASSY TEL AVIV AMEMBASSY ISLAMABAD FURTHER EXPANDING HIS THINKING ON US-IRAQI C YE T SECTION 01 OF 06 LONDON 21512 RELATIONS, SADDAM SAID IRAQ ALSO FELT THAT NOT BEING ABLE TO CONDUCT RELATIONS AT A FULL DEPARTMENT PASS S/SN TOM MILLER E.0.12356: DECL: 12/21/13 TAGS: PREL,IO,US, XI SUBJECT: RUMSFELD MISSION: DECEMBER 20 MEETING WITH IRAQI _jPRESIDENT SADDAM HUSSEIN ENTIRE TEXT. E 2. SUMMARY AND COMMENT: IN HIS 90-MINUTE MEETING X WITH RUMSFELD, SADDAM HUSSEIN SHOWED OBVIOUS PLEASURE WITH PRESIDENT'S LETTER AND RUMSFELDS VISIT AND IN HIS REMARKS REMOVED WHATEVER OBSTACLES REMAINED IN THE WAY OF RESUMING DIP- s LOMATIC RELATIONS, BUT DID NOT TAKE THE DECISION TO DO SO. HE SAID ARABS SHOULD PRESS SYRIA TO LEAVE LEBANON AND ALSO THAT IRAQ FAVORED DEVELOPMENT OF POSITIVE RELATIONS BETWEEN PLO AND JORDAN. RUMSFELD TOLD SADDAM liS ANO IRAQ HAD SHARED INTERESTS IN PREVENTING IRANIAN AND SYRIAN EX- PANSION. lIE SAIO US WAS URGING OTHER STATES TO CURTAIL ARMS SALES TO IRAN AND BELIEVED IT HAD SUCCESSFULLY CLOSED OFF US-CONTROLLED EXPORTS DY THIRD COUNIRIES TO IRAN. IN RESPONSE TO RUMSFELD'S INTEREST IN SEEING IRAQ INCREASE OIL EXPORTS, INCLUDING THROUGH POSSIBLE NEW PIPELINE ACROSS JORDAN TO AQABA, SADDAM SUGGESTED ISRAELI THREAT OF SUCH A LINE WAS MAJOR CONCERN 'S HNIGIkT BE ABLE TO PROVIDE SOME ASSURANCES IS REGARD. OUR INITIAL ASSESSMENT IS THAT (SECURITY.TING MARKED POSITIVE MILESTONE IN DEVELOPMENT OF US-IRAQI REALTIONS AND WILL PROVE TO BE OF WIDER BENEFIT IO US POSTURE IN THE REGION. END SUMMARY ANO COMMENT. ALERT COPY SE 'î DECL/\8SJF!EDsiso Department of State INCOMING r \GE 01 LONDON 27572 02 OF 26211717Z 0510 5506802 PAGE 01 LONDON 2757202 OF 06 2117171 0510 S506802 21/17451 CONFLICTS BETWEEN THE BAATH AND THE IRAQI CON- :0 ED-OS NEA-21 55K-01 X-01 FAIR-01/205 A2 JWB MUNIST PARTY,IRAQ HAD NO COMPLEXES ABOUT ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE USSR. IRAQ HAD DEVELOPED ACTION SS-00 RELATIONS WITH WEST ON THE SAME BASIS. FRANCE IN PARTICULAR UNDERSTOOD THE IRAQI VIEW. US INFO OCT-02 COPY-01 AIS-00 550-02 /026 W NEEDED TO UNDERSTAND AREA BETTER, RECEIVE IRAQI 216215 211727Z /53 VIEWS AND ANALYSIS IN CORRECT AND COMPREHENSIVE E O 2116521 DEC 83 MANNER SD IT DID NOT MAKE MISTAKES IN AREA NO X FM AMEMBASSY LONDON COUNTRY OR PEOPLE CAN LIVE IN TRUE INDEPENDENCE TO SECSTATE WA1DC IMMEDIATE1420 OR PROSPERITY IFITIS ISOLATED. INFO AMEMBASSY AMMAN AMEPIRASSY BEIRUT 7. TURNING TO OTHER SUBJECTS, SADDAM NOTED AMEMBASSY CAIRO THAT ARAB WORLD HAD BOTH VERY RICH AND VERY s AMEIIBASSY DAMASCUS POOR COUNTRIES. WEST DID NOT WISH MIDDLE EAST TO USINT BAGHDAD FALL UNDER SOVIET INFLUENCE. ARAB WORLD ALSO AMEMBASSY CAIRO WANTED TO AVOID COMING UNDER INFLUENCE OF EITHER AMEMBASSY ANKARA SUPER POWER. US, AS IRAQ UNDERSTOOD IT,WAS NOT AMEPIBASSY PARIS TRYING TO BRING ARABS INTO AMERICAN SPHERE BUT AMEMBASSY ROME ONLY TO KEEP THEM OUT OF SOVIET SPHERE SD THAT E USMISS ION USUN NEW YORK COMMERCIAL AND OTHER RELATIONSHIPS COULD BE CARRIED AMEMBASSY KUWAIT X ON NORMALLY. MIDDLE EAST, FOR ITS PART, NEEDED AMEMBASSY MANAMA WESTERN EXPERTISE MOST WHEN IT WAS114 A STABLE AMEIIBASSY DOHA SITUATION AND FOCUSSED ON DEVELOPMENT. US, AMEMBASSY ABU DHABI UM, FRANCE AND JAPAN SIIOULD EXTEND MORE FINANCIAL I? A1IEMBASSY MUSCAT ASSISTANCE TO POOR STATES LIKE PORY TO DRAW IT s USELO RIYADH AWAY FROM SOVIET INFLUENCE. SAME WAS TRUE OF AMEPIBASSY J IODA STATES LIKE NORTH YEMEN, SUDAN AND MAURITANIA. AMCONSUL JERUSALEM THIS WAS ALSO A RESPONSIBILITY OF THE ARAB AMEIIBASSY TEL AVIV STATES THEMSELVES, SO THAT CLASS CONFLICT DID NOT AMEMBASSY ISLAMABAD APPEAR IN WAYS THAT ALLOWED OPENINGS FOR FOREIGN INTERFERENCE. THIS WAS WHY IRAQ HAD CA'E T SECTION 02 OF 25 LONDON 27572 X IS DEPARTMENT PASS S/SN - TOM MILLER E. O. 12356: DECL: 12/21/13 S TAGS: PREL,ID,US, XF SUBJECT: RUMSFELO MISSION: DECEMBER 20 MEETING WITH IRAQI DIPLOMATIC LEVEL WAS UNNATURAL. INTERESTINGLY, THE PRESIDENT USED A DIRECT QUOTE FROM RUMSFELD'S STATEMENT TO THE FOREIGN MINISTER THE PREVIOUS E EVENING WHEN HE SAIOHAVING A WHOLE GENERATION X OF IRAQIS ANO AMERICANS GROW UP WITHOUT UNDER- STANDING EACH OTHER HAD NEGATIVE IMPLICATIONS 'J AND COULD LEAD TO MIX-UPS.' EVEN BEFORE THE WAR,IRAQI LEADERSHIP HAD EXAMINED CIRCUMSTANCES OF SEVERANCE OF RELATIONS AND POSSIBLE RESUMPTION, ¿ NOTING NEED TO CONSIDER CAREFULLY THE TIMING OF ANY DECISION. THE WAR HAD INTERVENED ANO ADDED COMPLICATION THAT DECISION ON RESUMPTION MIGHT BE MISUNDERSTOOD BY USG AND OTHERS ANO THE WRONG REASONS ATTACHED TO IT. HE HAD NOW MADE A PUBLIC STATEMENT POINTING OUT THAT RESUMPTION DID NOT DEPEND ON WAR CONTINUING OR NOT, BUT ONLY ON HAVING DECISION WHEN IT WAS MADE UNDERSTOOD CORRECTLY. lAIEN THESE NATURAL CONDITIONS AND TRUE MOTIVES COULD BE ASSURED, IRAQ WOULD TAKE THE NECESSARY DECISION. IRAQ WAS PLEASED US UNDERSTOOD THIS AND LEFT TO IRAQ TO CHOOSE PROPER TIMING ANO CIRCUMSTANCES. (STILL UNWILLING TO LEAVE SUBJECT, SAlDAN 0IRAQ WAS AN INDEPENDENT AND NON-AL IGNED .jNTRY ANO IT WAS INCORRECT AND UNBALANCED TO HAVE RELATIONS WITH SOVIET UNION AND NOT WITH US. IRAQ HAD NO IDEOLOGICAL COMPLEXES ON THIS SCORE. ALTHOUGH THERE HAD BEEN BLOODY ALERT COPY E'C1í s B DECLASSF.S/S-O Department of State GE 01 LONDON 27572 03 OF 06 2117181 8513 SS06804 PAGE 01 LONDON 27572 83 OF 06 211718Z 0513 SS 06 8 04 21/17451 CHAOS AND INSTABILITY WOULD RESULT. THE SAME 40 ED-Bl NEA-Bi SSN-81 X-01 FAIR-01 /805 A2 JWB VIlS TRUEIN A SENSE DF THE IRAN/IRAQ WAR. WHEN OTHERS WATCHED AND KEPT QUIET, AS THEY HAD FOR ACTION SS-OB THE FOUR YEARS OF THIS WAR,IT ENCOURAGES ADVENTUROUS THINKING TO EMERGE. IRAQ HAD NOW OHERCONE THE INFO OCT-00 COPY-Ol ADS-00 SSO-OB /026 W DANGEROUS STAGE OF THE MILITARY SITUATION. IT 2162762117281 150 WAS NOW A QUESTION OF TIME. NEVERTHELESS, IRAQ E O 2116522 DEC 83 WAS NOT HAPPY TO HAVE THE WAR PROLONGED. X FM AMEMBASSY LONDON TO SECSTATE WASIDC IMMEDIATE 1421 10. RUMSFELD EXPRESSED APPRECIATION FOR OPPOR- INFO AMEIIBASSY AMMAN TUNITY TO EXCHANGE VIEWS WITH THE PRESIDENT. 9 AHEMBASSY BEIRUT WE HAD SOME AREAS OF HIGH SIMILARITY OF VIEW AMEMBASSY CAIRO AND OTHERS WHERE OUR PERCEPTIONS AND IDEAS s AMEMBASSY DAMASCUS DIFFERED. WHEN HE HAD BEEN ASKED TO UNDERTAKE IJSINT BAGHDAD THIS RESPONSIBILITY, RUNSFELD SAID, HE HAD AMEMBASSY CAIRO RECOGNIZED IMPORTANCE OF VISITING IRAQ. PRESI- AMEMBYISSY ANKARA DENT REAGAN AND SECRETARY SHULTZ HAD AGREED. AMEMBASSY PARIS AREA LEADERS, TOO,IN MOROCCO, JORDAN AND EGYPT AMEMEASSY ROME HAD ENCOURAGED HIS VISIT. KING FAHO HAD WEL- E USIIISSION USAN NEW YORK COMED IT THE PREVIOUS DAY. SUCH CONTACTS WERE AMEMBASSY KUWAIT WITHIN OUR COUNTRIES' BASIC INTERESTS, WITHIN THE X AMEMBASSY MANAMA CONTEXT OF RESPECT FOR THE SOVEREIGNTY OF NATIONS. AMEMBASSY 00KV INDEPENDENT AND SOVEREIGN NATIONS HAD RIGHT TO APIEMBASSY ABA EHABI UNDERTAKE ACTIVITIES WITH WHICH WE OR OTHERS DID 'i AMEMBASSY MUSCAT NOT AGREE, BUT THERE SEEMED TO BE AN OVERRIDING s USCIO RIYADH INTEREST IN STABILITY AND PEACE. IN AN INCREASIKGLY AMEMBASSY JIDDA INTERDEPENDENT WORLD, ALL PEOPLE WERE BETTER APICONSUL JERUSALEM SERVED TO THE EXTENT ThE IR MULTIFACETED RELATIONS AMEIIBASSY TEL AVIV WERE ORDERELY AND DEEP AND SPANNED POLITICAL, AMEIIBASSY ISLAMABAD ECONOMIC AND OTHER AREAS OF LIFE. C,,,''SECTION 03 OF 06 LONDON 27572 t. x0I D DEPARTMENT PASS S/SN TOM MILLER E.0.12356: DCCL:12/21/13 s TAGS: PREL,IO,US, XF SUBJECT: RUMSFELO MISSION: DECEMBER 20 MEETING WITH IRAQI PROPOSED AT THE 1980 ARAB SUMMIT N AMMAN A FUND FOR ARAB DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION. FACT THAT IRAQ HAD PLEDGED ONLY 5500 MILLION OVER TEN E YEARS RATHER THAN 51 BILLION DID NOT INDICATE LACK OF INTEREST, ONLY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE WAR.