H/W SUPPORT CABLE <SANITIZED> FOR 07 JULY 1998

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06848451
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: June 29, 2021
• Case Number: F-2019-00845
• Publication Date: July 7, 1998

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P 070626Z JUL 98
FM CIA
SERT
SECTION 1 OF 2
FROM: ODDI/NPT INFO ODDI/NID
SUBJECT: H/W SUPPORT CABLE
FOR 07 JULY 1998
1. GUYANA: ACCORD INTENDED TO DEFUSE POLITICAL CRISIS
PEOPLE'S NATIONAL CONGRESS (PNC) LEADER HOYTE AND PRESIDENT JAGAN
LAST WEEK SIGNED AN AGREEMENT TO END PNC DEMONSTRATIONS--SOME OF
WHICH HAVE BEEN VIOLENT--AGAINST THE ELECTION VICTORY BY JAGAN'S
PARTY IN DECEMBER. AN AUDIT IN MAY CONDUCTED BY THE CARIBBEAN
COMMUNITY AND COMMON MARKET (CARICOM) FOUND NO EVIDENCE OF THE
FRAUDULENT BALLOTING HOYTE ALLEGED.
THE CARICOM-BROKERED AGREEMENT CALLS FOR THE PNC TO ACCEPT
THE AUDIT AND TAKE ITS SEATS IN PARLIAMENT AND FOR BOTH PARTIES TO COOPERATE IN
ADVANCING CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.
HOYTE AND THE PNC HAVE UNTIL 15 JULY TO CLAIM THEIR PARLIAMENTARY
SEATS.
THIS IS THE SECOND TRUCE SIGNED IN SEVEN MONTHS--HOYTE DISREGARDED
THE PREVIOUS ACCORD AND URGED HIS FOLLOWERS TO TAKE TO THE STREETS.
//ETHNIC-BASED TENSION BETWEEN HOYTE'S AFRO-GUYANESE FOLLOWERS AND JAGAN'S
INDO-GUYANESE SUPPORTERS REMAINS HIGH, AND HOYTE IS LIKELY TO RE-IGNITE PROTESTS
UNLESS JAGAN OFFERS CONCESSIONS ON CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.//
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