Talk:Jendayi Frazer

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This section ("Interviews") is extremely unclear and has little biographical information. The second Riz Khan show link can be kept as a general reference but I don't think the content in this section meets biographical criteria as outlined above. I am removing it and posting it here for reference. Twalls (talk) 16:35, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Interviews
On November 21, 2007 Aljazeera's Riz Khan television program John Bolton would confirm on an interview what he has written on his recent book.

Two weeks later on the same Aljazeera's television program interview with Riz Khan on December 3, 2007 Ms. Jendayi denies having to speak Mr. Bolton, "...I never went to him..."

Ms. Jendayi Frazer is in a hot water for comments she made without checking with her boss, she used an emotionally and politically charged phrase "ethnic cleansing" to describe the postelection violence in Kenya. In his briefing State Department spokesman Sean McCormack was unable to hide his frustration with Ms. Frazer.

"She made some comments based on her firsthand assessment from a trip several weeks ago," McCormack told reporters. Asked if the Bush administration shared Frazer's assessment, he replied: "She said what she said. I am going to stick to what I said."


 * I have had to remove this once more. It's poorly worded, and what's more, it adds little to the article. Twalls (talk) 20:59, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Bolton quote
I removed the John Bolton quote. If the information is to be retained, it should have introductory sentences making it relevant to this article. Otherwise, it just seems like hatchet job material that's been pasted in. It read:


 * In his book Surrender Is Not an Option (p. 347), John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to UN, writes: "For reasons I never understood, Frazer reversed course, and asked in early February [2006] to reopen the 2002 Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission decision, which she had concluded was wrong, and award a major piece of disputed territory to Ethiopia. I was at a loss how to explain that to the Security Council, so I didn't." Later he writes: "Ethiopia had agreed on a mechanism to resolve the border dispute in 2000 and was now welching on the deal." 

Twalls (talk) 06:48, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Requesting semi-protection
If the material in violation of WP:biographies of living persons continues to be inserted by the person from 99.231.1xx.xxx, I am going to request that the page be semi-protected. Comments? Twalls (talk) 21:09, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

New section on role in Somali/Ethiopia conflict
I expanded the meager and poorly sourced section on Frazer's role in the Somalia/Ethiopia conflict. New editor here, so be gentle.

Here are transcripts of the two relevant sources that inform this edit:

Al Jazera Interview:

Q: Does the United States back Ethiopian intervention in Somalia?

A: I've said many times that we counseled Ethiopia not to go into Somalia, but Ethiopia went in for its own national security interests, which we understand. They also went in on the invitation of the Transitional Federal Government. And I think that more generally across the region, people recognize that as the Islamic Courts and the extremists within the courts opened up Somalia to terrorists, that it was going to become inevitable that Ethiopia would, on invitation of the Transitional Federal Government, act in Somalia to protect its national security interests.

Wikileaks source document:

Regarding the conflict in Somalia and its potential impact on the peace process, Dr. Frazer considered the situation as “uncertain” and put forward different scenarios. The best-case scenario posits that the Union of Islamic Courts (UICs) and the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) enter into dialogue, and as a result, moderates would emerge thus leading to stability in the country and the rebuilding of the State. The worst-case scenario would result from a total control by the UICs over Somalia and the disintegration of the TFG. This would have a major negative impact on the Horn, and the US [and IGAD] would not allow it. Further, this scenario would pull in Ethiopia which, through a rapid in and out intervention, would strike before the UICs could get to Baidoa (HQs of the TFG). While the US fears this type of reaction, it would rally with Ethiopia if the “Jihadist” took over. Dr. Frazer opined that Ethiopia would not need to pull troops from it's border with Eritrea since it has enough military capabilities. However, she fears that Ethiopian action in Somalia might bring in “foreign elements” and expressed the view that the next weeks would be crucial for capacity building [dialogue UICs-TFG] and stabilization in Somalia. She further confided that the Ethiopians view Eritrean actions in Somalia as tantamount to opening a second front against Ethiopia.

The US Assistant Secretary’s visit to Addis Ababa and meetings with Prime Minister Meles and the presence of Rear Admiral Hunt at her side show Washington’s growing concerns about the evolving situation in Somalia and the Region. If in the past, the US and Ethiopia had diverging views and strategies on the way forward in Somalia (ref our CC CSX 103 of 21/6/06), the UICs military achievements have definitely led to a rapprochement and to the potential development of a common approach to the problem. Any Ethiopian action in Somalia would have Washington’s blessing.

Koijmonop (talk) 05:43, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

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