Do you recall meeting [U.N. Force Commander General Romeo] Dallaire?
I do. I just don’t recall exactly the circumstances, but I do recall going to New York during that period when he was preparing to go out. But I couldn’t tell you exactly when we first met. Where does the U.N. commander fit in your scope? He would be somebody with whom I would normally have contact. In terms of that level of people, the U.N. special representative would be one, and then the force commander would be the other. I guess I would say, though, [that I] recall several other major operations going on at the same time. Pru Bushnell [said], “I’m busy doing this; can you take this one?” But she was principally responsible for that [along with] the director of our Office for Central Africa at the time. It was Pru, I recall, who did go out to Rwanda in the run-up to the events of April. Subsequently, afterwards, she went back out several times, both to Rwanda and to Burundi. Do you recall ever talking to Kofi Annan? No, not specifically about this. That would have been a level abov
