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07KINSHASA943	NATIONAL TELEVISION JOURNALISTS ARRESTED FOR UNION ACTIVISM [...] (SBU) Summary: Three journalists of the public broadcaster Radio Nationale Television Congolaise (RTNC) were arrested because of their trade union activities on 26 and 27 July 2007. A local human rights organization condemned the arrests and warned of a pattern of questionable detainments acros [...]	2007-08-07 16:40:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO CG

07KINSHASA945	DRC SUPREME COURT REINSTATES KASAI OCCIDENTAL [...] (U) The DRC's Supreme Court in July 31 technical ruling declared unconstitutional a no-confidence motion adopted June 7 by the Kasai Occidental provincial assembly against Governor Tresor Kapuku, a member of the pro-Kabila Alliance for the Presidential Majority (AMP) election coalition (ref A) [...]	2007-08-08 10:59:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM CG
07KINSHASA96	KABILA ALLIES WIN LION'S SHARE OF WESTERN KASAI'S [...] (U) Candidates aligned with President Joseph Kabila's Alliance for the Presidential Majority (AMP) will make up most of the national Senate delegation from Western Kasai. AMP coalition candidates won at least five -- and possibly as many as seven -- of the province's eight Senate seats January [...]	2007-01-26 11:14:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS
07KINSHASA976	JOURNALIST KILLED IN EASTERN DRC [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 9, 2007, a national press agency journalist was killed by unidentified gunmen in Goma, eastern Congo. The motive behind the assassination is not known. In the case of a journalist murdered in 2006, prosecutors have asked for capital punishment for three of four defendan [...]	2007-08-15 14:45:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO CG UNESCO
07KINSHASA991	KABILA RELAXED AND UPBEAT IN FAREWELL MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary. During Ambassador Meeece,s August 14 farewell call, President Kabila asked for greater USG involvement in building democratic institutions and reforming the security sector. Kabila believes the border dispute with Uganda can be resolved. He cited a date certain (September 3) f [...]	2007-08-21 13:00:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM MARR CG UG RW
07KUALALUMPUR1049	YOUNG PROGRESSIVES RETAIN INFLUENCE IN PAS PARTY [...] (SBU) Summary: Malaysia's Islamist opposition party, the Islamic Party of Malaysia (PAS),held its annual general meeting and biennial party elections June 1-3 in Kota Bharu, Kelantan, the only state controlled by PAS. As expected, party president Abdul Hadi Awang ran unopposed and retained [...]	2007-06-19 00:05:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL KDEM MY
07KUALALUMPUR1154	ANWAR IBRAHIM PROJECTS OPPOSITION GAINS, DECRIES [...] (C) Former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim told the Ambassador during their July 11 discussion that he believed opposition parties could capture some 40 parliament seats or more in the next general election, projecting from results of the April Ijok by-election. Anwar's People's Justice P [...]	2007-07-16 10:21:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR ECON KDEM MY
07KUALALUMPUR1155	ANWAR'S AIDE DETAINED UNDER OFFICIAL SECRETS ACT [...] (SBU) Malaysian police on July 13 arrested Nathanial Tan, an aide to Anwar Ibrahim and an activist within the opposition People's Justice Party (KeADILan or PKR),and on July 14 remanded Tan for four days under the Official Secrets Act (OSA). According to initial reports, the charges relate [...]	2007-07-16 10:34:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM KJUS MY
07KUALALUMPUR1174	NAJIB'S "ISLAMIC STATE" REMARK DRAWS THE IRE OF [...] (C) Summary: Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister Najib Tun Abdul Razak set off a fire storm on July 17 when, in response to a reporter's question, he stated that Malaysia is and has always been an "Islamic state." Malaysia's minorities and opposition parties attacked the DPM's comments as viola [...]	2007-07-20 09:05:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PINR SOCI KISL MY
07KUALALUMPUR1257	CHINESE VOTERS DISSATISFIED WITH RULING COALITION, [...] (C) Corruption, crime and vernacular education remain among the top electoral priorities for Malaysia's ethnic Chinese community, and in the run-up to the next national election Chinese dissatisfaction with the ruling Coalition's handling of such issues appears on the rise. To explore ethnic [...]	2007-08-07 07:38:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM MY
07KUALALUMPUR1278	PM CHIMES IN ON "ISLAMIC STATE" DEBATE [...] (C) The debate over whether Malaysia is an "Islamic state" continued with Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi's August 4 comments that Malaysia is neither a theocratic state nor a secular one. These remarks came as Minister Bernard Dompok broke ranks and stated his disagreement with the descriptio [...]	2007-08-13 09:06:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM SOCI KISL MY
07KUALALUMPUR1363	MALAYSIA: IDENTIFYING INDIVIDUALS FOR ISLAM AND [...] (C) Post recommends one Malaysian scholar and one influential Islamic cleric as possible candidates for ref A events. -- Professor Emeritus Osman Bakar, of the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC),is an outstanding scholar of Islam who has published art [...]	2007-09-05 23:41:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM MY
07KUALALUMPUR1377	POLICE BREAK UP OPPOSITION RALLY IN TERENGGANU, [...] (C) Summary: Malaysian police efforts to forcibly prevent an opposition rally from proceeding without a police permit in Kuala Terengganu on September 8 turned into a four-hour long riot, during which the police used tear gas and a water-cannon to break-up a crowd of some 500 opposition supp [...]	2007-09-10 13:32:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL KDEM MY
07KUALALUMPUR1400	PM'S AIDE SAYS TERENGGANU RIOT WILL SCARE AWAY [...] (C) Wan Farid (protect throughout),a political aide to Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi, during a September 12 meeting with polchief, denied his involvement in the September 8 Terengganu riot and instead alleged opposition parties had planned the violence in order to boost public sympathy for [...]	2007-09-14 09:42:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM KISL MY
07KUALALUMPUR1446	VIDEO OF JUDGE FIXING ROCKS MALAYSIA'S JUDICIARY [...] (C) Former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim rocked Malaysia's legal establishment on September 19 when he held a press conference to release an eight minute videotaped conversation purportedly showing a phone conversation between a famously corrupt Malaysian attorney and the current Chief J [...]	2007-09-21 09:15:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM KJUS MY
07KUALALUMPUR1458	MALAYSIA'S LAWYERS TAKE TO THE STREETS OVER [...] (C) With limited government response to the September 19 allegations of corruption and judge fixing (ref A),the Malaysian Bar Council announced its intent to march on the Prime Minister's office and demand the establishment of a royal commission of inquiry. Malaysia's law minister quickly de [...]	2007-09-26 12:10:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM KJUS MY
07KUALALUMPUR153	ANWAR IBRAHIM ATTACKS NAJIB, SEES LIMITED [...] (S) Former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, speaking with polchief January 18, amplified his recent attacks on Deputy Prime Minister Najib, alleging official cover-up of Najib's connection with the Altantuya murder case and Najib's involvement in corrupt military procurements. Anwar (pro [...]	2007-01-24 11:16:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM KISL MY
07KUALALUMPUR1594	BAR COUNCIL, PRIME MINISTER FACE OFF DURING LAW [...] (C) The Malaysian Bar Council's October 29-31 law conference drew national attention as respected Sultan of Perak Azlan Shah and Bar Council President Ambiga Sreenevasan, in the wake of recent judicial scandals, delivered speeches critical of the government, calling for reforms to strengthen [...]	2007-11-05 12:11:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON KDEM KJUS MY
07KUALALUMPUR1604	OPPOSITION AND POLICE HEADED FOR SHOWDOWN OVER [...] (C) Opposition parties and the election NGO Bersih are organizing a major rally in Kuala Lumpur for November 10, despite police warnings not to proceed without a permit. Organizers optimistically hope for 10,000 demonstrators to participate in the rally, and expect the event to culminate in a [...]	2007-11-07 10:50:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL KDEM MY
07KUALALUMPUR1613	MALAYSIA'S OPPOSITION DRAWS TENS OF THOUSANDS TO [...] (C) Malaysia's major opposition parties operating under the election-reform umbrella organization BERSIH on November 10 carried out possibly the country's largest opposition demonstration since 1998, gathering 20,000 or more demonstrators to present an election reform petition to the National [...]	2007-11-13 11:41:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KISL KDEM ASEC MY
07KUALALUMPUR1624	CHALLENGES TO MALAYSIA'S STATUS QUO: WINDS OF [...] (C) Subtle as well as more abrupt challenges to Malaysia's political status quo have emerged over the past few months, further signifying that times have changed since Mahathir's era of tight control. The Sultans quietly reasserted a claim to a measure of constitutional authority, which they [...]	2007-11-16 12:15:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM KJUS MY
07KUALALUMPUR1646	MALAYSIAN POLICE ARREST ETHNIC INDIAN ACTIVIST [...] (C) Summary: Police arrested an ethnic Indian lawyer serving as legal advisor to the Hindu Rights Action Force (HINDRAF) on charges of sedition ahead of a planned demonstration on November 25. HINDRAF had applied to the Kuala Lumpur Police for a permit to hold an assembly in front of the Bri [...]	2007-11-23 08:46:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM MY
07KUALALUMPUR1647	POLICE BREAK UP ETHNIC INDIAN PROTEST IN KUALA [...] (C) Thousands of ethnic Indian Malaysians took to the streets of Kuala Lumpur in protest on November 25, the second major anti-government demonstration in two weeks. Despite police warnings, early arrests (ref A) and heavy police presence on the streets of Kuala Lumpur, approximately 20,000 e [...]	2007-11-26 11:08:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ASEC KDEM MY
07KUALALUMPUR1663	GOVERNMENT WARNS ON FUTURE PROTESTS, TAKES LEGAL [...] (C) In the aftermath of the November 25 ethnic Indian street demonstration, which police forcibly dispersed, the Malaysian government has raised the stakes for its critics who proceed with public rallies in defiance of government bans. Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi warned the nation on Novem [...]	2007-11-30 10:42:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM MY
07KUALALUMPUR1664	GOVERNMENT WARNS ON FUTURE PROTESTS, TAKES LEGAL [...] (C) In the aftermath of the November 25 ethnic Indian street demonstration, which police forcibly dispersed, the Malaysian government has raised the stakes for its critics who proceed with public rallies in defiance of government bans. Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi warned the nation on Novem [...]	2007-11-30 10:44:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM MY
07KUALALUMPUR1684	INDIAN GRIEVANCES AND RACIAL TENSIONS; GOM TRIES [...] (C) The ethnic Indian protest on November 25 and the government's strong law enforcement response have increased domestic and international attention on Malaysia's Indian community. Despite constituting nearly 8 per cent of Malaysia's population, ethnic Indians hold only 1.2 per cent of the n [...]	2007-12-06 16:19:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM ASEC MY
07KUALALUMPUR1691	POLICE ARREST HUMAN RIGHTS DAY MARCHERS; ANOTHER [...] (C) Malaysian police on December 9 arrested organizers of an attempted march in Kuala Lumpur by lawyers, activists and opposition party officials in support of freedom of assembly. The short-lived march involved some 100 participants and took place after the Bar Council, under police pressure [...]	2007-12-10 11:54:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM ASEC MY
07KUALALUMPUR1694	EMBASSY RAISES CONCERNS OVER FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY, [...] (C) Summary: Embassy raised concerns over freedom of assembly with two senior Malaysian officials on December 6 and December 11, respectively, in light of the continued arrests of opposition and civil society organizers of rallies critical of the government. An advisor to the Prime Minister [...]	2007-12-11 09:33:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KJUS MY
07KUALALUMPUR1695	POLICE ARREST OPPOSITION LEADERS ATTEMPTING [...] (SBU) Summary: Malaysian police on December 11 arrested 24 opposition party and NGO activists, organized under the Bersih electoral reform coalition, in connection with a planned rally at Parliament. Police released at least seven of the activists later in the day. Those arrested included f [...]	2007-12-11 10:46:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM ASEC MY
07KUALALUMPUR1710	HINDRAF LEADERS DETAINED UNDER INTERNAL SECURITY [...] (C) The Malaysian government on December 13 arrested five ethnic Indian leaders of the small NGO HINDRAF using the Internal Security Act (ISA),which provides for detention without trial, and indicated they would be help for two years. Senior Malaysian officials, including Prime Minister Abd [...]	2007-12-13 11:59:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PHUM KDEM ASEC MY
07KUALALUMPUR1711	HINDRAF LEADERS DETAINED UNDER INTERNAL SECURITY [...] (C) The Malaysian government on December 13 arrested five ethnic Indian leaders of the small NGO HINDRAF using the Internal Security Act (ISA),which provides for detention without trial, and indicated they would be held for two years. Senior Malaysian officials, including Prime Minister Abd [...]	2007-12-13 12:25:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM ASEC MY
07KUALALUMPUR1721	AMBASSADOR RAISES ISA CONCERNS WITH LAW MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met on December 14 with de facto Law Minister Nazri Aziz and raised U.S. concerns over Malaysia's use of the Internal Security Act (ISA) in light of the December 13 detention of five ethnic Indian activists. Minister Nazri vigorously defended use of ISA as necessar [...]	2007-12-14 11:02:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER KDEM KJUS MY
07KUALALUMPUR1732	JUDICIAL REFORM ELUSIVE, DESPITE ROYAL COMMISSION [...] (C) Following months of inconclusive investigations into a major judge-fixing scandal (ref A),Malaysia's King confirmed on December 12 the government's appointment of a royal commission of inquiry. The King tasked the royal commission to investigate the origin and veracity of the now infamous [...]	2007-12-21 00:30:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM KJUS MY
07KUALALUMPUR1733	2007 UMNO GENERAL ASSEMBLY FIZZLES, BUT KHAIRY [...] (C) Summary: The United Malays National Organization (UMNO) held its 58th Annual General Assembly in Kuala Lumpur from November 5 - 9 and despite the usual fanfare proved to be little more than a pep rally for the upcoming general election. Although party elections remain a year away, chang [...]	2007-12-21 01:11:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM KISL MY
07KUALALUMPUR352	PAS AND UMNO EYE KELANTAN ELECTION; KEDAH AND [...] (C) The Islamic Party of Malaysia (PAS) and the United Malays National Organization (UMNO) in PAS-controlled Kelantan state are positioning themselves for a tough fight in the next national election. During polchief's February 5-9 visit to the northern Malaysian states, PAS leaders in Kelant [...]	2007-02-23 08:42:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM KISL MY
07KUALALUMPUR506	ELECTORAL REFORM NOT ON THE HORIZON [...] (C) As Malaysia moves closer to its next national elections, electoral reform faces a very steep uphill battle, a conclusion highlighted during our recent meetings with Election Commission (EC) officials, NGO leaders and several academics. The UMNO-led Barisan Nasional (BN) governing coalition ret [...]	2007-03-16 08:18:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM MY
07KUALALUMPUR705	HONEY, I CONVERTED THE KIDS: MALAYSIA'S APPEALS [...] (C) In the latest high-profile legal battle between a Muslim and non-Muslim involving civil law, Malaysia's secular Court of Appeal reached a decision that supports Shari'a court jurisdiction over a non-Muslim. On March 13, the Court of Appeal upheld a High Court ruling that would allow a Mus [...]	2007-04-18 10:06:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV KDEM KWMN PINR SOCI KISL MY
07KUALALUMPUR867	PM ABDULLAH'S AIDE ON ANWAR, ELECTIONS AND NAJIB [...] (S) Wan Farid (protect throughout),a political aide to Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi, argued in a May 15 meeting with polchief that opposition figure Anwar Ibrahim's strategy of addressing national issues in the recent Ijok by-election backfired as voters demonstrated that they care most about l [...]	2007-05-16 11:33:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM KISL MY
07KUALALUMPUR904	UMNO QUESTIONS ANWAR IBRAHIM OVER "FOUNDATION FOR FUTURE" ROLE [...] (C) Summary: Prime Ministerial son-in-law and UMNO youth leader Khairy Jamaluddin has publicly called on opposition figure Anwar Ibrahim to explain his role in the Foundation for the Future and his connections with outgoing World Bank President Wolfowitz. Anwar, as Foundation chairman, issued a s [...]	2007-05-22 09:59:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO MY
07KUALALUMPUR905	ANWAR IBRAHIM TAKES CENTER STAGE AT PAS DEDICATION [...] (C) Summary: Former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim was the center of attention at the grand opening and dedication ceremony for the new party headquarters building for the Islamic Party of Malaysia (PAS). Despite the attendance of all the party's senior leadership, both the media and PA [...]	2007-05-22 10:05:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL KDEM MY
07KUALALUMPUR949	MALAYSIA'S HIGHEST COURT RULES AGAINST APOSTATE [...] (C) Malaysia's apex court ruled on May 30 that Muslims who seek to apostatize may not do so outside the Shari'a court system. In a 2-1 decision in the case of apostate Lina Joy, the Federal Court ruled that the National Registration Department (NRD) may only change a Malaysian Muslim's offici [...]	2007-05-31 10:48:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV KDEM KWMN SOCI KISL MY
07KUALALUMPUR950	ANWAR'S RECENT STRUGGLES FOR RELEVANCE [...] (C) Leaders throughout the United Malays National Organization (UMNO) heralded the results of the Ijok by-election in late April as a personal defeat for Anwar Ibrahim and declared him irrelevant in Malaysian politics. Anwar, on the other hand, touted the local Ijok contest as a moral victory [...]	2007-05-31 10:49:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL KDEM MY
07KUWAIT1025	MINISTER OF FINANCE ON CABINET RESIGNATIONS, THE [...] (C/NF) Summary: During a June 30 farewell call with the Ambassador, Minister of Finance Bader Meshari Al-Humaidhi said resignations of both the Minister of Oil and the Minister of Communication were imminent (these occurred later in the day). He was optimistic that Parliament will pass long [...]	2007-06-30 14:00:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EFIN EPET KDEM KU PGOV PREL
07KUWAIT1026	OPPOSITION MPS SCORE VICTORY AS OIL AND [...] (SBU) Minister of Oil Shaykh Ali Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah and Minister of Communications/National Assembly Affairs Shireeda Al-Mousharji resigned from Cabinet June 30, only five days after Al-Jarrah was subjected to nine hours of questioning by opposition parliamentarians (reftel). Facing a no conf [...]	2007-06-30 14:23:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EPET ECPS KDEM KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
07KUWAIT113	NEXT STEPS FOR THE FREEDOM AGENDA IN KUWAIT [...] (S/NF) Summary: Over the last year, Kuwait has implemented two of the three key elements of the Freedom Agenda strategy that we described in May 2005 (05 Kuwait 2091). These were: women's registration for and participation in national elections and the passage of a new press and publications [...]	2007-01-27 14:55:00	Embassy Kuwait	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL KDEM KISL KU FREEDOM AGENDA
07KUWAIT1473	AMIR MAKES IMPASSIONED APPEAL FOR COOPERATION IN [...] (U) Amir Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al Sabah appealed to the National Assembly and the media on October 3 to end the bickering and partisan sniping that has dominated Kuwaiti politics since the Amir assumed power in January 2006. In a televised address to the nation on the occasion of the final [...]	2007-10-04 13:58:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PREL KPAO
07KUWAIT1502	KUWAIT TO PARTICIPATE IN BERLIN BMENA [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-11 06:13:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMPI KDEM GM EUN KU
07KUWAIT1509	UPDATED KUWAIT DEMOCRATIC REFORM STRATEGY [...] (U) Introduction: Kuwait proudly identifies itself as the region's oldest functioning democracy. Kuwaitis across the spectrum express continuing loyalty to the constitution, which establishes an elected National Assembly and separate executive, legislative, judicial branches. Respect for bas [...]	2007-10-11 15:30:00	Embassy Kuwait	SECRET	PGOV PREL KPAO KMPI KDEM ECON AMGT XF KU
07KUWAIT1529	SCENESETTER FOR THE FIRST LADY'S VISIT TO KUWAIT [...] (U) Embassy Kuwait warmly welcomes your visit, which presents a terrific opportunity to reaffirm the strong U.S. friendship with Kuwait; to recognize the strides Kuwait has made in women's activism; and to highlight some of the contributions we have made in women's issues and in the field of [...]	2007-10-17 11:17:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV KPAO KDEM KMPI SCUL SOCI KU
07KUWAIT1562	GOVERNMENT REMOVES CONTROVERSIAL MINISTERS IN NEW [...] (C) On October 28, the Kuwaiti Government announced the formation of a new 16-person cabinet. The new ministers took the oath of office before the Amir earlier the same day and assumed their new positions immediately. Seven ministers, including FM Shaykh Dr. Mohammad Al Sabah and Prime Mini [...]	2007-10-29 09:58:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
07KUWAIT1573	MPS ATTACK GOVERNMENT DURING OPENING SESSION OF [...] (SBU) Parliament began its 2007-08 session on October 30 amid great tension. MPs ignored the Amir and Prime Minister's opening speeches, which at times warned and at other times pleaded with the Parliament to de-escalate the conflict with the Government and give the recently reformed cabine [...]	2007-11-01 13:18:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
07KUWAIT1575	FIRST LADY PROMOTES EDUCATION AND WOMEN'S [...] (U) Summary: First Lady Laura Bush visited Kuwait October 24-25 as part of her regional trip to highlight education, breast cancer awareness, women's issues, and the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI). At a diwaniyya (traditional discussion salon) hosted by Higher Education Undersec [...]	2007-11-01 14:29:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PDEM KWMN KDEM KU
07KUWAIT1590	OIL MINISTER RESIGNS AS GOVERNMENT TRIES TO DEFUSE [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Shaykh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al Sabah accepted the resignation of Oil Minister Bader Al-Humaidhi on November 5. The resignation should end the state of tension between the Government and Parliament in the short term, but the ultimate sources of contention between t [...]	2007-11-05 15:06:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
07KUWAIT1627	KUWAIT: MINIMAL PARTICIPATION AT MALI CD [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-18 07:35:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PHUM PREL UNGA KU
07KUWAIT172	MIXED REVIEWS ON SHAYKH SABAH'S FIRST YEAR AS AMIR [...] (C/NF) Summary: January 29 marked Shaykh Sabah's first anniversary as Amir. He has presided over an historic year during which Kuwait experienced several significant developments, including the constitutional dissolution of Parliament and new elections in which women participated both as vot [...]	2007-02-05 12:52:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL KDEM KU FREEDOM AGENDA
07KUWAIT174	PARLIAMENT COMMITTEE APPROVES "LANDMARK WOMEN'S [...] (U) On February 4, Parliament's Women's Affairs Committee approved a bill, introduced by Islamist MPs (reftels),that would give Kuwaiti women a host of new benefits, including the right to apply for government housing, longer paid maternity and mourning leave, unemployment allowances for sta [...]	2007-02-06 13:50:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KWMN KDEM KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS
07KUWAIT258	MPS SUBMIT NO CONFIDENCE MOTION ON HEALTH MINISTER [...] (SBU) Shaykh Ahmed Abdullah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the Minister of Health and the Amir's nephew, was brought before Parliament February 19 and questioned for ten hours on alleged corruption and mismanagement in his ministry and on the overall deterioration of health services in the countr [...]	2007-02-20 14:32:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
07KUWAIT292	CABINET RESHUFFLE LIKELY PRIOR TO MARCH 5 NO [...] (C) Our contacts almost unanimously agree that there will be a Cabinet reshuffle prior to the March 5 no confidence vote on Minister of Health Shaykh Ahmed Abdullah Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah. The Minister, who is also the Amir's nephew, was brought before Parliament February 19 for questioning over [...]	2007-02-28 14:06:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
07KUWAIT317	KUWAIT CABINET RESIGNS UNDER PRESSURE FROM [...] (SBU) Kuwait's Cabinet resigned en masse March 4 on the eve of a scheduled parliamentary vote of no confidence on Health Minister Shaykh Ahmed Abdullah Al-Sabah. The Cabinet, the 23rd since Kuwait gained independence in 1961, lasted only eight months. The Amir will now begin the customary c [...]	2007-03-04 13:31:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY FREEDOM AGENDA
07KUWAIT32	PARLIAMENT'S OPPOSITION ALLIANCE CRACKS AS POPULAR [...] (SBU) Parliament's nine-member Popular Action Bloc announced January 7 its withdrawal from the 34-member Reform Bloc formed last October (ref B). The other two opposition blocs, the liberal National Action Bloc (8 MPs) and the Islamic Bloc (17 MPs),will continue to cooperate formally within [...]	2007-01-09 14:39:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
07KUWAIT447	INCREASING PESSIMISM ABOUT NEW CABINET, LEADERSHIP [...] (C) Summary: Reactions to the new Cabinet have been muted, an indication of Kuwaitis' frustration with the political leadership in both the government and Parliament. Few Kuwaitis expect the new Cabinet to resolve the tensions that characterized the previous government's relations with Parlia [...]	2007-03-28 14:24:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
07KUWAIT479	FREEDOM AGENDA: KUWAITI ACADEMICS SHARE VIEWS ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Kuwaiti academics shared their views on democratic development in Kuwait with visiting American professor Dr. Michael Herb during an April 2 reception. Overall, they were cynical about Herb's argument that Kuwait was in the process of transitioning from a monarchy to a parliame [...]	2007-04-04 11:26:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KU FREEDOM AGENDA
07KUWAIT508	READOUT OF NDI MEETINGS WITH KUWAITI POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: Senior NDI representative for Kuwait Kelley Jones briefed PolOffs on her April 3-7 meetings with Kuwaiti political associations. She said the organizations were open to receiving NDI training and assistance, but liberal groups expressed concerns about being viewed as too closely [...]	2007-04-08 13:28:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KMPI MEPI KU FREEDOM AGENDA
07KUWAIT522	ISLAMIST MPS' GRILLING REQUESTS REKINDLE [...] (C/NF) Summary and comment: While many opposition MPs appeared willing to give the new government a chance to show it can perform, two tribal Islamist MPs have kept the political heat on, calling for parliamentary grillings of the Finance and Islamic Affairs Ministers. Most politicians and [...]	2007-04-10 13:36:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV KISL KDEM KU ISLAMISTS
07KUWAIT56	PARLIAMENT TO GRILL RULING FAMILY MINISTER [...] (SBU) On January 17, three Members of Parliament (MPs) formally submitted a request to question Minister of Health Shaykh Ahmed Abdullah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah over procedural irregularities in approving Kuwaitis for medical treatment abroad, alleged "administrative violations" in the min [...]	2007-01-17 13:51:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV KDEM KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY FREEDOM AGENDA
07KUWAIT566	AMIR'S ATTEMPT TO QUELL RULING FAMILY DISPUTES [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: In a rare meeting of senior Al-Sabah family members April 14, Amir Shaykh Sabah issued a strong warning not to air intra-ruling family rivalries in public via proxies and stressed that he had no intention to dissolve Parliament or amend the constitution. The Crown [...]	2007-04-16 14:13:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV KDEM KU FREEDOM AGENDA NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
07KUWAIT836	TEMPERATURES RISE AS OPPOSITION MPS TARGET OIL [...] (C/NF) Summary: Opposition MPs have demanded the resignation of Oil Minister Shaykh Ali Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah and are threatening to question him in Parliament for defending his cousin and former Oil/Finance Minister Shaykh Ali Al-Khalifa Al-Sabah, one of five former Kuwait Oil Tanker Company (K [...]	2007-05-29 12:52:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV EPET KDEM KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
07KUWAIT882	INFLUENTIAL AL-SABAH PREDICTS CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (S/NF) Summary and comment. An influential, younger Shaykh in the inner circle of the ruling family told the Ambassador June 4 that there was a "90% chance" the Amir would dissolve Parliament within a month and call for end of summer elections. Shaykh Mohammed Al-Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Saba [...]	2007-06-06 10:14:00	Embassy Kuwait	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PINR PREL KDEM KU FREEDOM AGENDA
07KUWAIT889	SPEAKER DOWNPLAYS PARLIAMENT DISSOLUTION RUMORS; [...] (C/NF) Summary: Speaker of Parliament Jassem Al-Khorafi told the Ambassador June 5 he did not think the Kuwaiti Amir would dissolve Parliament, despite his frustration with opposition MPs' constant attacks against the Government. Al-Khorafi believed if there was a dissolution it would be cons [...]	2007-06-06 13:36:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL KDEM KPAL LE IZ IR KU
07KUWAIT919	PARLIAMENT FORCES OIL MINISTER TO TESTIFY ON [...] (U) Three opposition MPs formally submitted on June 10 a request to "grill" Kuwait's Oil Minister, Shaykh Ali Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah. The grilling will require Shaykh Ali Al-Jarrah to go before parliament on June 25 to answer questions related to accusations of financial and administrative impr [...]	2007-06-13 13:00:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KISL KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
07KUWAIT989	OIL MINISTER TORCHED IN GRILLING; FACES NO [...] (C) Summary and comment: On June 25, ten MPs submitted a no confidence motion on the Oil Minister following a nine-hour "grilling" by three opposition MPs on corruption-related charges. The motion was supported by MPs from all four parliamentary blocs, suggesting it will get the 25 votes nee [...]	2007-06-26 13:30:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EPET KDEM KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
07KYIV131	UKRAINE/GUAM: NEW MFA TEAM IN CHARGE, TIMING OF [...] (SBU) Summary. The Ukrainian MFA team overseeing GUAM issues told us they anticipate approval of the GUAM Charter bill in the Rada session that starts February 6. However Rada Foreign Policy Committee Chairman Vitaliy Shybko, a Socialist Party member, was more pessimistic. He noted the oppo [...]	2007-01-19 12:09:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM MARR RS AZ GG MD UP
07KYIV1324	UKRAINE: GUAM AS A REGIONAL ORGANIZATION -- A TWO [...] (C) Summary: Executive Director of the GUAM Information Office Heorhiy Nazarov acknowledged that the impasse over scheduling early parliamentary elections had made it unlikely that the parliament (Rada) would vote on the GUAM Charter anytime soon. He said Ukraine's failure to ratify the GUAM [...]	2007-05-31 13:17:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM MARR RS AZ GG MD UP
07KYIV1418	UKRAINE: CRIMEA UPDATE - LESS TENSE THAN IN 2006; [...] (C) Summary: During Ambassador's May 29-30 visit to Simferopol, Crimea and an earlier poloff visit May 17-18, all of our interlocutors agreed that the situation in Crimea appears less tense than it did six months ago (reftels). The primary issues in play remain control/ownership of land; the [...]	2007-06-08 08:50:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI KDEM PREL UP
07KYIV214	UKRAINE: UNCERTAIN FUTURE FOR COMMUNITY OF [...] (C) Summary. The Community of Democratic Choice (CDC),as described in an August 2005 joint statement by Ukrainian President Yushchenko and Georgian President Saakashvili, was to be a continuing dialogue and series of meetings to promote democracy, human rights, and civil society in former Sov [...]	2007-01-30 14:10:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM GG UP
07KYIV2831	UKRAINE: PEACEKEEPERS AND KOSOVO POST-INDEPENDENCE [...] (U) This is a request for Department guidance. Please advise on how we should respond to Ukrainian Defense Minister Hrytsenko's inquiry on contingency planning for possible Kosovo independence. 2. (C) During a November 15 meeting with EUR DAS David Kramer, Defense Minister Hrytsenko inquir [...]	2007-11-16 12:42:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS KDEM UNMIK OSCE YI MD RS UP
07KYIV654	UKRAINE/BELARUS SUMMIT STILL PLANNED FOR MARCH [...] (C) Summary: Plans are still proceeding for a Kyiv summit between President Yushchenko and Belarusan President Lukashenko, according to Deputy Foreign Minister Veselovsky during a meeting with EUR DAS Kramer, NSC Director Sterling, and the Ambassador. Kramer warned Veselovsky that such a mee [...]	2007-03-22 08:57:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PHUM ENRG EPET BO UP
07KYIV756	CREATION OF A GUAM SECRETARIAT CENTRAL TO GUAM'S [...] (C) Summary. First Deputy Minister of Georgia and GUAM National Coordinator Valery Chechelashvili sounded an optimistic note during our conversation with him after the March 15-16 GUAM Council of National Coordinators (CNC) meeting. Chechelashvili, slated to be GUAM's new Secretary General o [...]	2007-03-30 14:13:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM MARR RS AZ GG MD UP
07KYIV784	UKRAINE: CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS OVER RADA DISMISSAL [...] (C) Summary: Justifying his April 2 decree dismissing the Rada (parliament) and calling pre-term elections for May 27, President Yushchenko told G-7 ambassadors April 3 that new elections were a democratic instrument to resolve a political crisis that stemmed from a parliamentary crisis. The [...]	2007-04-03 13:53:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL PHUM PINR UP
07LAGOS100	SITREP 12 & NIGER DELTA ROUNDUP: 31 IN CAPTIVITY, [...] (C) Summary. This is an update on kidnappings and militant attacks in southern Nigeria in 2007. Approximately 31 hostages are currently being held in the Niger Delta. American citizen Bill Graham remains a captive and is the only American currently being held. Roughly sixty individuals hav [...]	2007-02-09 15:39:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS103	ONDO STATE'S OIL REVENUE BRINGS GREAT EXPECTATIONS [...] (C) Summary: People's Democratic Party (PDP) Governor Olusegun Agagu will run for a second term in Ondo State. While his supporters tout his achievements, critics note the State's poor roads and infrastructure, wondering why, with Ondo's handsome oil revenues, more people have not benefited fr [...]	2007-02-12 07:11:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM EPET NI
07LAGOS105	SITREP 13: NO CHANGE TO HOSTAGE CASE; OIL MAJOR [...] (C) Summary. There has been no contact with Amcit Bill Graham or Nigerian national Ezekiel Akwa or their captors since the release of British national Neil Mirrlees on February 7. A recent spate of incidents in Port Harcourt caused Shell to encourage expatriate staff to work from their resi [...]	2007-02-12 17:01:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS11	LAGOS GUBERNATORIAL ELECTIONS: A POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: Gubernatorial elections in Lagos are shaping up to be a tough fight. Govrnor Tinubu's AC has been shaken by internal dissent and several key defections due to his attempt to impose his loyal but unpopular chief of staff as the party's gubernatorial candidate. Meanwhile, the PDP has [...]	2007-01-08 15:37:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS110	SITREP 14: SSS CONFIRMS HOSTAGES UNHARMED [...] (C) Rivers State Security Service (SSS) confirmed to John Walker of Control Risks Group on February 12 that American citizen Bill Graham and Nigerian national Ezekiel Akwa are "fine." Walker reported to the Pivot-GIS Hostage Crisis Group on February 13 there has been no progress toward the h [...]	2007-02-13 16:46:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS112	OBASANJO ADVISOR'S GLOOMY ASSESSMENT OF THE [...] (S) Summary: In a January 30 meeting with the Consul General, Special Presidential Advisor and former Minister of State for Defense Lawal Batagarawa gave a gloomy assessment of electoral politics and the presidential race. Batagarawa predicted generalized unrest in the North should People's [...]	2007-02-14 09:17:00	Consulate Lagos	SECRET	PREL PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS116	SITREP 15: NO SSS CONTACT WITH AMCIT; FILIPINO [...] (C) John Walker of Control Risks Group told the February 14 Pivot-GIS Hostage Crisis Group that he was unable to speak to Rivers State Security Service (SSS) on February 13. Walker speculated SSS may have been working on the February 13 release of 24 Filipino hostages. American citizen Bill [...]	2007-02-14 16:34:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS12	LAGOS PDP ELECTS GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE AMID [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-08 15:52:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS123	TRADITIONAL RULER SUPPORTS YAR'ADUA; CALLS BUHARI [...] (C) Summary: In a February 5 meeting with the Consul General, Yoruba traditional leader the Ooni of Ife, Okunade Sijuade, suggested presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari was a religious "fanatic" who would sow discord if elected. PDP candidate Umaru Yar'Adua, on the other hand, would maintai [...]	2007-02-15 14:11:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS124	SITREP 16: SSS OPENS NEW LINE OF COMMUNICATION [...] (C) Pivot-GIS employees American Bill Graham and Nigerian Ezekiel Akwa remain hostages. John Walker of Control Risks Group told the February 15 Pivot-GIS Hostage Crisis Group he met the Director of Rivers State Security Service (SSS),Alhaji Kola Adeshina, on February 14. Adeshina informed [...]	2007-02-15 14:49:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS128	SITREP 17: GRAHAM & AKWA STILL HOSTAGE; SSS AWAITS [...] (C) John Walker of Control Risks Group told the February 16 Pivot-GIS Hostage Crisis Group American Bill Graham and Nigerian Ezekiel Akwa remain hostages. The State Security Service (SSS) told Walker on February 15 they will wait for the return from the creek area of the tribal elder who is n [...]	2007-02-16 15:52:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS13	JONATHAN'S MEDIA ADVISOR: CANDIDATE TAKING NOTHING [...] (C) Summary: Francis Sheen, media manager for Bayelsa State Governor Goodluck Jonathan's 2007 People's Democratic Party (PDP) vice presidential campaign (strictly protect),told Pol/Econ Chief and Poloff on December 28 that the PDP must still court the military's support for the Yar'Adua-Jona [...]	2007-01-09 07:32:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS136	SITREP 18: HOSTAGES RELEASED; 3 EXPATS KIDNAPPED, [...] (C) Pivot employees American citizen Bill Graham and Nigerian national Ezekiel Akwa were released from captivity on February 17. Once State Security Service (SSS) had established some leverage in their communications with the kidnappers and once Rivers State Governor Peter Odili lent the mat [...]	2007-02-22 08:10:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS142	PDP LEGACY CAMPAIGN: TARGET GRASSROOTS & NEW [...] (C) Summary: According to Francis Sheen, Director of Communications for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) 2007 Presidential Legacy Campaign to be launched in late February, the PDP faces challenges by Igbos from within the party, "bluebloods" outside the party, and former party members who [...]	2007-02-23 11:31:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
07LAGOS15	LAGOS PDP ELECTS GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE AMID [...] (C) Summary: Amid irregularities, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro emerged as the Lagos State People's Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial candidate on December 14. Obanikoro beat Hilda Williams, widow of slain gubernatorial aspirant Funso Williams. Obanikoro's success came in spite of the political [...]	2007-01-10 12:45:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS152	ELECTION YEAR PORK BARREL POLITICS IN OSUN STATE [...] (C) Summary: To improve his heretofore tepid and scattered support, Osun State Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola has actively distributed patronage in the run up to the April 2007 election. His main opponent is Action Congress (AC) candidate Rauf Aregbesola, whose campaign theme is Oyinlola has m [...]	2007-03-01 10:35:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS160	DISSECTION OF A 25 DAY KIDNAPPING [...] (C) Summary. Pivot employees American citizen Bill Graham and British national Neil Mirrlees were under surveillance for five days by their captors and abducted when they were boxed-in by vehicles on their way to work. Though the Nigerian Government does not admit officially to paying a rans [...]	2007-03-05 10:57:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS162	GOVERNOR IBORI BACKS PDP TICKET & ATIKU'S BID TO [...] (C) Summary. Despite his pro-Vice President Atiku antecedents, Governor James Ibori of Delta State has pledged strong financial support for the People's Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential ticket. Yar'Adua will win the Presidency "one way or another," according to Governor James Ibori. Vice [...]	2007-03-06 11:18:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS163	PARTY CHAIR WARNS OF DETERIORATING SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: In a February 21 meeting with Econoff, Democratic People,s Alliance (DPA) Chairman Chief Supo Shonibare said security in Lagos was getting worse as the political season progressed. He identified polling areas likely to be fraught with irregularities and marred by violence. Speakin [...]	2007-03-07 15:29:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS168	APRIL ELECTIONS UNLIKELY, SAYS PROMINENT ECONOMIST [...] (C) Summary: In a February 22 conversation with the Consul General, Financial Derivatives Managing Director Bismarck Rewane said the brinkmanship between President Obasanjo and Vice President Atiku was approaching its climax, with Atiku sure to go to court to enjoin Obasanjo and the Electoral [...]	2007-03-09 10:54:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM NI

07LAGOS173	SSH GRANT HELPS BUILD CLASSROOMS IN ENUGU [...] (U) On March 5, Poloffs visiting Enugu State commissioned three classrooms at the Comprehensive Secondary School, Oruku township. A grant from the Ambassador's Special Self-Help (SSH) Fund funded the classrooms. Local traditional ruler Igwe Nomeh hosted the ceremony, which was attended by Pr [...]	2007-03-12 13:38:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PGOV EAID ECON SOCI NI
07LAGOS175	UTOMI: OBASANJO MUST STEP DOWN [...] (C) Summary: The Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) debacle may provide the National Assembly the impeachment fodder necessary to ensure President Obasanjo departs the presidency, said Patrick Utomi, presidential candidate for the African Democratic Congress (ADC). The threat of Ec [...]	2007-03-12 15:00:00	Consulate Lagos	SECRET	PREL PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS188	OYO FORECAST: VIOLENCE AND VOTING MANIPULATION [...] (C) Summary: A January visit by Poloff to Oyo State showed the return of Rashidi Ladoja to the governor's seat had further complicated the political climate of the State. People's Democratic Party (PDP) strongman Lamidi Adedibu and his ally Deputy Governor Christopher Alao-Akala continue to de [...]	2007-03-14 14:55:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS190	CONGRESSMAN CHRISTOPHER SMITH REVIEWS LAGOS ANTI-TIP [...] (U) Summary: Nigeria Trafficking in Persons (TIP) experts told Congressman Christopher Smith during his February 22-24 visit to Lagos that rehabilitation of TIP victims needs more resources and funding. Efforts in Lagos to work with TIP victims have been overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of vi [...]	2007-03-15 09:47:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KDEM EAID ELAB PHUM SOCI KWMN SMIG KCRM NI
07LAGOS191	DELTA FLASH POINTS: INCREASING VOLATILITY [...] (C) Summary: In a February 22 conversation with the Consul General, Financial Derivatives Managing Director Bismarck Rewane described Niger Delta that had an increasing number of unstable flash points. Ijaw militant groups were proliferating and each offshoot was becoming more unruly and unpre [...]	2007-03-15 10:19:00	Consulate Lagos	SECRET	PREL PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS192	GOVERNOR KALU VOWS TO FIGHT OBASANJO TO THE END [...] (C) Summary: In a late February conversation with the Consul General, Progressive People's Alliance (PPA) presidential candidate Governor Orji Kalu said President Obasanjo hoped to so rankle the opposition that members of the opposition would react dramatically. Obasanjo would use that drama [...]	2007-03-15 11:35:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS193	CONGRESSMAN CHRISTOPHER SMITH REVIEWS NATIONAL ANTI-TIP [...] (U) Summary: Nigeria Trafficking in Persons (TIP) experts told Congressman Christopher Smith during his February 20-22 visit to Abuja that Nigeria's anti-TIP network does not include the military. Victims' lack of marketable skills, parents' ignorance of the dangers of trafficking, cultural v [...]	2007-03-15 13:55:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KDEM ELAB PHUM SOCI KWMN CODEL NI
07LAGOS194	CONGRESSMAN CHRISTOPHER SMITH REVIEWS NATIONAL ANTI-TIP [...] (U) Summary: Nigeria Trafficking in Persons (TIP) experts told Congressman Christopher Smith during his February 20-22 visit to Abuja that Nigeria's anti-TIP network does not include the military. Victims' lack of marketable skills, parents' ignorance of the dangers of trafficking, cultural v [...]	2007-03-15 13:56:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	CODEL PREL PGOV KDEM ELAB PHUM SOCI KWMN NI
07LAGOS198	FIVE EUROPEAN HOSTAGES AND ONE FILIPINO RELEASED; [...] (SBU) Summary: Two Italian Agip employees held hostage since December 7 were released March 14; two Croatians and one Montenegrin working for oil service company Hydrodrive International were released March 12 after 22 days in captivity; and a Filipino Shell employee abducted February 6 was r [...]	2007-03-15 14:46:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS22	ELECTION 2007: SOUTHERN PDP GUBERNATORIAL PRIMARIES [...] (SBU) Summary. This is a survey of the results of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial primaries in southern states, which took place December 9. Most candidates chosen were those who had pledged fealty to state governors or, where the governors were weak, to the PDP national lea [...]	2007-01-12 11:24:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM NI
07LAGOS222	ENUGU STATE: AN EMERGING MODEL FOR PDP DOMINANCE [...] (C) Summary: A March 5 visit by Poloffs to Enugu State showed the People's Democratic Party (PDP) dominating the political scene and building towards the future. Controlling the PDP primary, Governor Chimaroke Nnamani chose protege Sullivan Chime as his successor. Opposition parties are wea [...]	2007-03-23 11:06:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS223	DESPERATION MARKS LAGOS ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: In two March 15 meetings, a Progressive Peoples Alliance and a People's Democratic Party candidate gave opposing views on the likelihood of timely elections. They agreed that Lagos State would be the site of fiercely-disputed elections and thus sporadic, unpredictable violence wou [...]	2007-03-23 11:58:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS226	PARTY CHAIR SPEAKS OF ALLIANCES, SECURITY IN LAGOS [...] (C) Summary: In a March 19 meeting with Econoff, Democratic Peoples Alliance (DPA) Chairman Supo Shonibare described an alliance with the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) at the state level. This alliance, intended to capitalize on rifts within the Action Congress (AC) and People's Democratic [...]	2007-03-23 15:19:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS227	ANAMBRA STATE ELECTIONS: PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR [...] (C) Summary: A visit by Poloffs to Anambra State on March 6 showed the political scene remains volatile but People's Democratic Party (PDP) candidate and Special Presidential Advisor Andy Uba has the upper hand in the race for the gubernatorial ticket. To bolster his chances, he likely has [...]	2007-03-26 06:46:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM NI
07LAGOS230	FIVE EXPATS KIDNAPPED; TWO RELEASED SINCE MARCH 17 [...] On March 23, one Lebanese and one Indian national employed by the Nigerian construction company Setraco, were reportedly kidnapped at gunpoint near Warri, Delta State. Media and security sources claim these two hostages were released March 25. Also on March 23, a Dutch security manager worki [...]	2007-03-26 14:54:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM PGOV PREL NI
07LAGOS24	APGA REGROUPS, SEEKING TO REMAIN A FACTOR IN IGBO [...] (C) Summary: Visits with All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) officials in Enugu and Abia States reveal a bruised party looking to regain support and goodwill lost during the intraparty fighting of the last two years. A predominantly Igbo party, APGA saw apparent electoral success in the 20 [...]	2007-01-16 07:21:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM NI
07LAGOS248	PDP MONOPOLY SET TO CONTINUE IN EBONYI STATE [...] (C) Summary: A March 28 visit by Poloff to Ebonyi State showed the People's Democratic Party's (PDP) dominance had no signs of abating. Ebonyi State Governor Sam Egwu has used patronage to make himself the dominant political figure in the State. Egwu chose previously unheralded Martin Elechi [...]	2007-04-10 10:32:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS252	INTERNECINE PDP POLITICS IN IMO STATE [...] (C) Summary: A March 29 visit by Poloff to Imo State showed the feuding People's Democratic Party (PDP) still trying to determine its candidate for Governor. The April 5 Supreme Court ruling in favor of Senator Ifeanyi Araraume makes him the favorite to make the ballot. Whoever takes the PD [...]	2007-04-10 15:38:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS254	ABIA STATE GOVERNOR RACE HAS NATIONAL IMPLICATIONS [...] (C) Summary: Poloff's visit to Abia State on March 29 showed a tight gubernatorial race. Obasanjo adversary Governor Orji Kalu steered the the Progressive People's Alliance (PPA) nomination to his Chief of Staff Theodore Orji, but Orji faces a tough challenge from People's Democratic Party ( [...]	2007-04-11 06:35:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS256	NOBEL LAUREATE SEES ELECTION TROUBLES, DELAYED [...] (C) Summary: In a discussion with the Consul General, political activist Wole Soyinka and leading democracy advocate Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin said a group of opposition parties, coupled with civic organizations, had planned to publicly protest the Independent National Electoral Commission's (INEC [...]	2007-04-11 12:02:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS259	LAGOS GOVERNOR SAYS ELECTIONS PREPARATION IS [...] (C) Summary: In an April 9 meeting with the Consul General, Lagos State Governor Bola Tinubu said the Independent Electoral Commission's (INEC) preparations for the April 14 gubernatorial elections in Lagos State were essentially non-existent. He claimed the People's Democratic Party (PDP) pla [...]	2007-04-12 11:11:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS261	SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHEAST NIGERIAN POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: Political violence in the South has been connected to acrimonious local races. The police have been biased against the opposition, and the opposition anticipates the military will show similar bias. The violence has concentrated in the Southwest because of the tight races betwee [...]	2007-04-13 11:33:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM NI
07LAGOS262	AD CALLS FOR ELECTION POSTPONEMENT; QUESTIONS [...] (C) Summary: In a March 31 meeting with Consul General, Chief Reuben Fasoranti, chairman of the pre-eminent Yoruba social Qganization Afenifere, said there have been no election preparations in Ondo State, and he proposed that the Independent National Election Commission's (INEC) failure coul [...]	2007-04-13 11:42:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI ELECTIONS
07LAGOS264	LACK OF ELECTION PREPARATION RAISES QUESTIONS IN [...] (C) Summary: Election preparations in Oyo, a key southwestern state, have been scant. Neither Governor Rashidi Ladoja nor Action Congress (AC) gubernatorial candidate Taoheed Adedoja have seen voter registration lists, prototype ballots, ballot boxes, nor the hiring of sufficient numbers of [...]	2007-04-13 12:26:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI ELECTIONS
07LAGOS267	LAGOS VIOLENCE TO CONTINUE [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-13 15:06:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI ELECTIONS
07LAGOS269	ELECTION 2007: THE OUTLOOK FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary: For the current elections, Southern Nigeria appears to follow the dictum that all politics are local. Greater attention will focus on the state gubernatorial races than on the presidential race. Few people expect a credible exercise. Most expect the People's Democratic Party (PDP [...]	2007-04-13 15:55:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM NI
07LAGOS271	SOUTHEAST PERSPECTIVE ON THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE [...] (C) SUMMARY: A visit to the Southeast by Poloffs to discuss the up-coming April elections with political leaders, nongovernmental organizations, and journalists indicated most Nigerians in the southeast were apathetic. Our interlocutors agreed there were only three major candidates for presid [...]	2007-04-16 07:49:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS274	SOUTHEAST PERSPECTIVE ON THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE, [...] (C) Summary: A visit to the Southeast states of Ebonyi, Abia, and Imo on March 28-29 showed the essential presidential calculation had not changed. People's Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Umaru Yar'Adua was expected to win all five states in the presidential vote. However, People's Progres [...]	2007-04-17 06:05:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS279	NIGER DELTA: SIX EXPATRIATES REMAIN HOSTAGES; NO [...] Warri police confirmed to security sources that two Indian employees working for Delta Steel Company were abducted on April 16 near Warri, Delta state. 2. Two Turkish nationals working for Merpa, contracted to the Italian oil major Agip, remain hostages after being abducted from their veh [...]	2007-04-18 14:58:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM PGOV PREL NI
07LAGOS28	UTOMI BELIEVES HE MAY BE A VICE-PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary: African Democratic Congress (ADC) Presidential candidate Pat Utomi told the Consul General his candidacy has resonated within segments of the electorate tired of traditional Nigerian politics, which is more personality-oriented than issue-based. Utomi plans to reach out to voters [...]	2007-01-16 15:09:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM NI
07LAGOS290	EFCC CHAIR ARGUES FOR REPLACING "OLD GUARD" [...] (S) Summary: In an April 19 conversation with the Consul General, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Chairman Ribadu (STRICTLY PROTECT) declared this eection represented a contest between new reformist politicians and the old guard. Claiming electoral excesses were committed by al [...]	2007-04-26 11:09:00	Consulate Lagos	SECRET	PREL PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS291	PDP DISSONANCE ON GUBERNATORIAL ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: In an April 21 conversation with the Consul General, Special Advisor to the Foreign Minister, Aminu Wisdom (STRICTLY PROTECT) said the People,s Democratic Party (PDP) was split between two camps with conflicting views of the April 14 gubernatorial elections. Which view ultimately [...]	2007-04-26 11:11:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PREL PHUM NI
07LAGOS3	BAYELSA GOVERNOR WINS VICE PRESIDENTIAL BID [...] (C) Summary: Oronto Douglas, a confidant of Bayelsa State Governor Goodluck Jonathan, told Poloff early December 18 that Jonathan was chosen to be PDP presidential aspirant Umaru Yar'Adua's running mate because he is well respected among Ijaw leaders such as Chief Edwin Clark, because he has [...]	2007-01-04 15:55:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS30	LAGOS INCREDULOUS OVER CENSUS RESULTS [...] (SBU) Summary: For a moment shunting aside the partisan bickering of the election season, Lagosians of all stripes and religious persuasions collectively uttered a hue and cry at the recent national census results. They reject the notion that Kano State is more populous than Lagos. Feeling [...]	2007-01-17 08:46:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM SOCI ECON EAID NI
07LAGOS302	UNIONS: ELECTION PROTEST ON THE TABLE BUT NOT IN [...] (C) Summary: The Nigeria Labor Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC),in conjunction with the Labor and Civil Society Coalition (LASCO) will celebrate the Nigerian Labor Day on May 1 with rallies in Abuja, Lagos and Benin City and with signs protesting the recent elections. As of Apr [...]	2007-04-30 15:42:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB KDEM NI PGOV PHUM
07LAGOS303	AMERICAN CITIZEN, 4 ITALIANS AND 1 CROAT KIDNAPPED [...] (SBU) Summary: American citizen John Stapleton, four Italians and one Croatian national were kidnapped around 5:30 AM on May 1, off the shore of Bayelsa State. Stapleton was employed by Chevron Nigeria Ltd. while the other five expatriates were working for a Chevron shipping subsidiary. The [...]	2007-05-01 09:50:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS307	SITREP 2: COMMANDER AFRICA AND MCGUYVER MAY BE [...] (C) Summary: In addition to American citizen John Stapleton, Italian nationals Raffele Pascsariello, Alfonso Frawza, Ignazio Gugliota, Mario Celetano and Croatian national Juricha Ruic were abducted May 1 from a ship owned by a supply company working for Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL). Chevr [...]	2007-05-02 14:45:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS309	SITREP 3: APPROXIMATELY 24 KIDNAPPED SINCE MAY 1 [...] (C) Summary: American citizen John Stapleton, four Italians and one Croatian remain hostages after being abducted on May 1. Stapleton takes medication daily and without it, is susceptible to seizures. The Secretary to Bayelsa State Government Dr. Godknows Igali is aware of Stapleton's need [...]	2007-05-03 14:41:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS312	POST-ELECTION MILITANT ACTIVITY ON THE UPSWING [...] Summary: Human rights activist Patrick Naagbanton told Poloff on April 24 militant leaders Soboma George and Ateke Tom reportedly met April 18 to discuss shifting from criminal to politically-motivated attacks. Naagbanton believed Rivers Governor Peter Odili bribed Soboma George and Ateke Tom [...]	2007-05-04 13:22:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM PGOV PREL NI
07LAGOS313	SITREP 4: BAYELSA TAKES THE LEAD; 6 AGIP HOSTAGES [...] (C) Summary: American citizen John Stapleton, four Italians and one Croatian remain hostages after being abducted on May 1. Chevron is following Bayelsa State Government's lead in securing the hostages release and has passed to the government Stapleton's medication. Bayelsa Secretary to the [...]	2007-05-04 14:31:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS318	SITREP 5: AMCIT STILL HOSTAGE; NO PROOF OF LIFE [...] (C) Summary: American citizen John Stapleton, four Italians and one Croatian started their seventh day as hostages. The State Security Service (SSS) could not confirm delivery of Stapleton's medication (Ref A) over the weekend and, as of May 7, had not received photos of the hostages. Chevro [...]	2007-05-07 14:47:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS321	SITREP 6: AMCIT REMAINS HOSTAGE; 3 PIPELINES [...] (C) Summary: After being abducted May 1, six expatriates, including American citizen John Stapleton, four Italians and one Croatian remain in captivity. Chevron has not received proof of life for any of the hostages. Chevron planned to pass a third care package containing food, water, clothe [...]	2007-05-08 15:12:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS322	SITREP 7: 5 AMCITS HELD HOSTAGE IN 2 DIFFERENT [...] (C) Summary: Four American citizen oil service workers were kidnapped May 8 from a Global Industries barge offshore Delta State. The kidnappers are presumably Bayelsa state-based. The Bayelsa State Government and Chevron have received information suggestive of proof of life for American cit [...]	2007-05-09 16:46:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS323	OONI OF IFE CALLS YAR'ADUA "RIGHT MAN FOR THE JOB" [...] (C) Summary: A close supporter of President Obasanjo, the Ooni of Ife, believes Yar'Adua is "the right man for the job" of President. The Ooni believes opposition criticisms of the election, although strident, will yield little concrete action and will dissipate quickly. The Ooni was collabor [...]	2007-05-09 16:46:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS331	SITREP 8: FIVE AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGES; MILITANTS [...] (C) Summary: Four American citizens abducted from Global Industries' Cheyenne barge on May 8 near Delta State were allowed to call their families the following day, thereby providing proof of life. The kidnappers of the four Americans purportedly demanded all expatriates depart Nigeria, Chev [...]	2007-05-10 15:08:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS332	VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT'S EVOLVING PLANS FOR [...] (C) Summary: Vice President-elect Goodluck Jonathan told Consul General the new administration would immediately address the Niger Delta crisis and the problems of inadequate electrical power generation. Secretary of Bayelsa State Government Dr. Godknows Igali envisions providing militants a [...]	2007-05-10 16:37:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS336	SITREP 9: FIVE AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGES; COMPANY [...] (C) Summary: Four American citizens abducted from Global Industries' Cheyenne barge on May 8 remain hostages. Company representatives planned to meet Delta State Secretary and Governor-elect Emmanuel Uduaghan later today, May 11. One hostage, Amcit Faller, told his wife via cell phone the ca [...]	2007-05-11 15:47:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS338	SITREP 10: FIVE AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGES; ITALIANS [...] (C) Summary: American citizens Kevin Faller, Christopher Gay, Michael Rousell, and Larry Plake, abducted May 8 remain hostages. The hostages' employer, Global Industries, has not met Delta State officials despite several attempts. American citizen John Stapleton, four Italians, and one Croat [...]	2007-05-14 15:44:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS343	BABANGIDA CONFIDANT FORESEES POST-INAUGURATION [...] (S) Summary: In an April 28 conversation with the Consul General, Professor Ukande Damachi, confidant to former military head of state Ibrahim Babangida, said Babangida and many other former general officers allied to him were furious at the manner the Independent National Electoral Commission [...]	2007-05-15 14:20:00	Consulate Lagos	SECRET	PREL PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS344	SITREP 11: 5 AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGES; POOR DELTA [...] (C) Summary: Four American citizens employed by Global Industries (GI) abducted May 8 remain hostages. Telephone calls from the four Americans have escalated their families' anxieties. GI plans to send representatives to meet Delta State government officials. Chevron's six employees, inclu [...]	2007-05-15 16:02:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS347	SITREP 12: PROOF OF LIFE FOR AMCIT STAPLETON; [...] (C) Summary: Amcit John Stapleton called Chevron representatives May 16 to say that he and the other five captives are well, and have received the medicines sent to them. The militants are demanding a generator and a source of potable water in exchange for release of the hostages. Four Ameri [...]	2007-05-16 16:19:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS355	SITREP 13: 5 AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGES; GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary: Amcit John Stapleton, four Italians, and one Croatian remain hostages. Despite the May 16 attack on Bayelsa Governor Goodluck Jonathan's house, Chevron has decided not to alter its release plan. Secretary to the State Government Dr. Godknows Igali said he was actively pursuing [...]	2007-05-17 15:40:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS359	SITREP 14: 5 AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGES; MEDS [...] (C) Summary: Chevron's six expatriate employees, American citizen John Stapleton, one Croatian and four Italians, begin their eighteenth day as hostages. Dr. Godknows Igali, Secretary to the Bayelsa State Government, continues to use SIPDIS other militant groups to pressure Victor Ebikabow [...]	2007-05-18 15:18:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS362	SITREP 15: 5 AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGES; KIDNAPPERS [...] (C) Summary: Chevron's six expatriate employees, American citizen John Stapleton, one Croatian and four Italians, kidnapped May 1 remain hostages. The abductors have complained Chevron's welfare packages are too small; the company plans to deliver another package of medication, water, and a [...]	2007-05-21 16:07:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS363	ATTACK ON VP-ELECT'S HOUSE MARKS THIRD ATTACK IN [...] (C) Vice President-elect Governor Goodluck Jonathan's country residence in Bayelsa State was attacked early morning on May 16. According to press reports, militants approached the house by boat, fired shots and detonated dynamite, purportedly killing one policeman. Jonathan left Yenagoa imm [...]	2007-05-21 16:28:00	Consulate Lagos	SECRET	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM PGOV PREL NI
07LAGOS367	SITREP 16: 5 AMCITS, 2 INDIANS, 1 LEBANESE, 1 [...] (C) Summary: Six expatriates employed by Chevron, including American citizen John Stapleton, begin their twenty-second day in captivity. Bayelsa Secretary to the State Government Dr. Igali and Chevron suspect the hostages will be released by May 29. Four American citizens held captive in De [...]	2007-05-22 15:43:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS368	OIL SECTOR LABOR UNIONS THREATEN MAY 24-25 STRIKE [...] According to press reports, workers of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) will wear red starting May 21 in protest of the recent Bureau of Public Enterprise's (BPE) sale of the Port Harcourt and Kaduna refineries and Stallion House in Lagos. If the Federal Government fails to [...]	2007-05-22 16:28:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB KDEM NI PGOV PHUM
07LAGOS372	SITREP 17: FIVE AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGES [...] (C) American citizen John Stapleton, four Italians, and one Croatian remain hostages after being kidnapped off the shore of Bayelsa State on May 1. As of May 23, the State Security Service (SSS) emissary had not delivered Chevron's welfare package containing water, soft drinks, food and naira [...]	2007-05-23 16:45:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS376	SITREP 18: FIVE AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGES; 22 EXPATS [...] (C) Summary: On May 23, a welfare package was reportedly delivered to Chevron's six expatriate employees, including American citizen John Stapleton, who are being held hostage in Bayelsa State. The State Security Service (SSS) emissary told Chevron that the Bayelsa State Government had promis [...]	2007-05-24 14:44:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS388	WITH EVIDENT FRUSTRATION, OYO STATE OPPOSITION [...] (C) Summary: During a May 9 visit by Poloff to Ibadan, interlocutors expressed their consternation over how the recent elections were conducted while the opposition discussed their support for the electoral tribunals. All Nigeria People's Party (ANPP) gubernatorial candidate Abiola Ajimobi pl [...]	2007-05-25 12:29:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS389	SITREP 19: EIGHT AMCITS HOSTAGE MAY 25 IN THREE [...] (C) Summary: On May 25, nine expatriates, including American citizens Bobbie Tyner, Shane McMorris, and Richard Moore employed by TransCoastal, were abducted from three vessels in the riverine area near Sangana, Bayelsa State. May 25 was the twenty-fifth day of captivity for Chevron employees [...]	2007-05-25 13:48:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS392	CIVIL SOCIETY SEEKS TO ENGAGE THE POPULACE TO JOIN [...] (C) Summary: In a May 21 meeting with Poloff, Chairman of the Coalition for Democracy and Rule of Law (CODERL) and Pronaco Media and Publicity Director Wale Okunniyi discussed the election, Pronaco's proposed new constitution, and plans for future protests. Civil society organizations will pa [...]	2007-05-25 16:22:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM NI
07LAGOS394	SITREP 20: 3 AMCIT LIVES THREATENED; 8 AMCITS [...] (C) Summary: On May 27, a news source reported the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND),"Bayelsa State Chapter," issued Nigeria's Federal Government a May 29 deadline to release jailed militant leader Dokubo Asari or "risk the death of seven expatriate oil workers", includ [...]	2007-05-27 20:22:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS395	SITREP 21: 8 AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGES, GON RECEIVED [...] (C) Summary: According to the Minister of Information, the GON had not received any ultimatum to release jailed militant leader Dokubo Asari or risk the death of seven expatriates, including three American hostages, as reported in the press on May 27 (Ref A). On the eve of the May 29 inaugur [...]	2007-05-28 12:50:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS399	SITREP 22: MEND ATTACKS KIDNAPPERS; 8 AMCITS [...] (C) Summary: Global Industries (GI) believes its four American employees are now under militant leader Tom Polo's custody and there could be a May 30 release. Three American citizens kidnapped off the shore of Bayelsa State on May 25 remain hostage but are well, Amcit Shane McMorris said on M [...]	2007-05-30 15:45:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS403	SITREP 23: 4 AMCITS RELEASED MAY 30, 4 REMAIN [...] (C) Summary: Four American citizens, Kevin Faller, Christopher Gay, Michael Rousell and Larry Plake, employed by Global Industries (GI) and taken hostage on May 8, offshore Delta State, were released on May 30. Three American citizens employed by TransCoastal and seven other individuals begi [...]	2007-05-31 11:09:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS412	SITREP 24: 4 AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGES, WOMEN & [...] (C) Summary: Three American citizens, four British nationals, one South African, one Filipino and one Nigerian employed by TransCoastal and kidnapped on May 25 remain hostages. Six Chevron employees, including American citizen John Stapleton, begin their second month in captivity. On May 31 [...]	2007-06-01 15:18:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS415	SITREP 25: 1 AMCIT RELEASED, 3 REMAIN HOSTAGES; 4 [...] (SBU) American citizen John Stapleton, four Italians and one Croatian kidnapped on May 1 off the shore of Bayelsa State were released from captivity on June 2 to Bayelsa State Governor, Timipre Sylva. All six hostages are said to be "in good condition." The six individuals are expected to de [...]	2007-06-02 15:12:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS419	SITREP 26: 3 AMCITS, 33 EXPATRIATES REMAIN HOSTAGE [...] (SBU) Summary: Approximately 36 expatriates are being held hostage in the Niger Delta, including three American citizens kidnapped May 25 off the shore of Bayelsa State. Since June 1, 12 expatriates, no American citizens, have been abducted in Rivers and Akwa Ibom states. Twelve Indian nati [...]	2007-06-04 12:56:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS422	SITREP 27: 3 AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGE IN BAYELSA STATE [...] (SBU) Three American TransCoastal employees (Bobbie Tyner, Shane McMorris, and Richard Moore),four British nationals, one South African, one Filipino, and one Nigerian begin their eleventh day in captivity. The ten individuals were kidnapped off the shore of Bayelsa State on May 25. ----- [...]	2007-06-05 13:38:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS427	SITREP 28: 3 AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGE; TRANSCOASTAL [...] (C) American nationals Bobbie Tyner, Shane McMorris, and Richard Moore, four British nationals, one South African, one Filipino, and one Nigerian remain hostages. TransCoastal believes the 10 hostages have been divided into two groups; one group of four and one group of six. According to Tr [...]	2007-06-06 15:14:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS434	SITREP 29: 3 AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGE [...] (C) Three American citizens, Bobbie Tyner, Shane McMorris, and Richard Moore, four British nationals, one South African, one Filipino, and one Nigerian remain hostages after being kidnapped off the shore of Bayelsa State on May 25. TransCoastal (TCO) said they last had contact with the host [...]	2007-06-07 11:24:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET PGOV PREL KDEM NI
07LAGOS435	TANKER DRIVERS MOLLIFIED WITH PARKING LOT [...] On June 6, the Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) union under the Nation Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Employees (NUPENG) suspended their strike which began on June 4. According to a NUPENG representative, the lack of a parking area forced tanker drivers to park along bridges outside Lagos c [...]	2007-06-07 11:39:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB PGOV PHUM PTER KDEM NI
07LAGOS437	SITREP 30: 3 AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGE; UK ENGAGING GON [...] (C) On June 8, ten hostages kidnapped off the shore of Bayelsa State on May 25 begin their third week in captivity. TransCoastal (TCO) representatives told us on June 7 that they believe Amcit Bobbie Tyner, two British nationals, and the South African hostage are being held by "The General," [...]	2007-06-08 12:06:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET PGOV PREL KDEM NI
07LAGOS439	ELECTION TRIBUNALS GET UNDERWAY IN SOUTHERN NIGERIA [...] (SBU) Summary: In several states of Southern Nigeria, the election tribunals are underway. The expectation is the tribunals will begin deciding cases in the next few months. The opposition hopes the recent independent decisions by the judiciary will continue in the election tribunals, and ov [...]	2007-06-08 16:48:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM NI
07LAGOS44	DELTA STATE: IJAWS' FRUSTRATION INCREASES [...] (C) Summary: In a January 6 conversation with Consul General, Ijaw businessman Joseph Penawou warned of the feud starting to percolate between Delta State Governor Ibori and the Ijaw community in Warri. According to Penawou, the lack of political concessions to the Ijaw community has embittered [...]	2007-01-23 11:12:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS442	SITREP 31: 3 AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGE; GOVERNOR [...] (C) American citizens Bobbie Tyner, Shane McMorris and Richard Moore, four British nationals, one South African, one Filipino and one Nigerian national kidnapped offshore Bayelsa State on May 25 remain hostage. On June 11, TransCoastal (TCO) reported there has been "no real change" to the si [...]	2007-06-11 15:35:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET PGOV PREL KDEM NI
07LAGOS445	SITREP 32: 13 HOSTAGES, INCLUDING 3 AMCITS, [...] (C) Bayelsa Governor Timipre Sylva and TransCoastal (TCO) representatives confirmed the June 11 release of American citizens Bobbie Tyner, Shane McMorris and Richard Moore, four British nationals, one South African, one Filipino and one Nigerian national, who were kidnapped offshore Bayelsa St [...]	2007-06-12 14:09:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET PGOV PREL KDEM NI
07LAGOS447	OGUN STATE: PDP SUGGESTS TRY HARDER NEXT TIME, AS [...] (C) Summary: In Ogun State, the bitter aftermath of the elections brought garlands for the victors and disappointment for supporters of free and fair elections. The ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) believe they have ushered in a new wave of reform in the state and argue the opposition f [...]	2007-06-13 15:28:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS457	SUPREME COURT UPENDS ANAMBRA STATE POLITICS BY [...] (SBU) Summary: Peter Obi, the proverbial cat with nine lives, was granted yet another return to office when the Supreme Court ruled that he should remain the Governor of Anambra State until 2010, giving him a full four-year term and making null and void the state's April 2007 gubernatorial el [...]	2007-06-19 07:16:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS48	SELECTION OF PDP PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE CAUSES RIFT [...] (C) Summary: Many influential PDP members were stunned by President Obasanjo,s unalloyed, convention-eve endorsement of Katsina Governor Umaru Yar,Adua as PDP presidential candidate, presidential advisor Lawal Batagarawa told Consul General. Obasanjo,s somewhat Delphic selection of Yar,Adua, a [...]	2007-01-24 09:47:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS480	YAR'ADUA & LABOR RELATIONS MAY IMPROVE [...] (C) Summary: It was not until President Yar'Adua directly negotiated with the NLC and TUC labor leaders in a closed-door session that the 2007 national labor strike was resolved, according to Denja Yaqub, Assistant Secretary to the Nigeria Labor Congress (NLC). Yar'Adua reportedly told the l [...]	2007-06-28 11:48:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PHUM PTER KDEM NI
07LAGOS487	RIVERS KIDNAPPERS UP THE ANTE: ABDUCT BRITISH CHILD [...] (U) Rivers State police confirmed that on July 5, a three-year-old British girl, was kidnapped in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on her way to school. This is the second time expatriate children have been kidnapped in the Niger Delta; the first incident involved two Indian children who were ab [...]	2007-07-06 08:54:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC CASC EPET PGOV PREL KDEM NI
07LAGOS506	SOUTHERN NIGERIA POLITICAL TIDBITS FOR JUNE 2007 [...] (U) Summary: This cable is a summary of recent political events in the Southern Nigeria political region. End summary. -------------------------------------- Popular South East Party Conspicuously Absent from Unity Government Proposal -------------------------------------- 2. (C) Cons [...]	2007-07-17 12:11:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS525	OYO STATE FACES A SUMMER OF DISCONTENT [...] (C) Summary: Poloff's visit to Oyo State showed Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala enjoying no political honeymoon following his election in the controversial April poll. The civil service is on strike and after an outburst of violence between strikers and transport workers loyal to Akala, attempts [...]	2007-07-26 13:04:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS526	MASSOB PRESSES FOR UWAZURUIKE'S RELEASE [...] (C) Summary: Representatives of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) explained to Poloff the case of their detained leader, Ralph Uwazuruike, in prison on treason charges. MASSOB claimed President Umaru Yar'Adua should release Uwazuruike as he has rele [...]	2007-07-26 13:26:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS540	FORMER BAYELSA GOVERNOR PLEADS GUILTY TO [...] (U) On July 26, the Lagos High Court sentenced former Bayelsa State Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha to two years in prison for corruption. Alamieyeseigha pleaded guilty to six of the thirty-three counts of corruption, with each count carrying a two-year sentence. However, the judge declared [...]	2007-07-27 14:03:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS565	CIVIL SOCIETY REPRESENTATIVE ARGUES MASS VOTER [...] (C) Summary: Civil society activist Abiodun Aremu of the United Action for Democracy (UAD) told Poloff there was a failure to protest the April elections because of sparse voter education and widespread apathy toward the elections and politics in general. Aremu contended that civil society s [...]	2007-08-09 10:15:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM NI
07LAGOS575	GOVERNOR OBI'S SUMMER OF OPTIMISM IN ANAMBRA STATE [...] (C) Summary: In a July 30 visit by Pol-econ chief to Anambra State, Governor Peter Obi optimistically believed with the court cases finally resolved in his favor, now was the time for Anambra State to be the "Light of the Nation". Political observers agree that Obi has an opening to transform [...]	2007-08-15 11:54:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS580	EBONYI STATE EXPERIENCES A SEAMLESS TRANSITION [...] (C) Summary: In a July 31 visit by Pol-econ chief to Ebonyi State, Governor Martin Elechi praised U.S. involvement in Nigeria and cited his top priorities as reforming the civil service and promoting development. Some observers contended Elechi's bureaucratic experience and acumen would bene [...]	2007-08-17 14:03:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS603	Southern Election Tribunals [...] (SBU) Summary: Election Tribunals in southern states are rejecting challenges to their jurisdiction and affirming rights granted petitioners under the Electoral Act. Nonetheless, Governors elected in Nigeria's deeply flawed April 14 election continue to use every means the law allows to assur [...]	2007-08-30 15:52:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS605	A POLITICAL NOVICE TAKES OVER IN ENUGU STATE [...] (C) Summary: Enugu state has continued to live up to its reputation for political intrigue. After an election fraught with violence and controversy, newly-inaugurated Enugu State People's Democratic Party (PDP) Governor Sullivan Chime distanced himself from his political patron, former Governo [...]	2007-09-05 10:35:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS609	A LOOK BACK: OBASANJO REVIEWS HIS PRESIDENCY WITH [...] (C) Summary: In an August 21 meeting with HIRC Africa Subcommittee Chair Donald Payne, former President Olusegun Obasanjo said he would attend former President Clinton's Global Institute from September 26-28, dates which coincide with the second week of plenary sessions of the U.N. General Ass [...]	2007-09-05 10:39:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KPKO NI
07LAGOS622	MILITANTS SEIZE PDP CHIEFTAINS IN ONDO STATE; MEND [...] (U) On September 9, militants claiming to be members of Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) seized 11 chieftains of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State, a state which had previously been unscathed by kidnapping activity. However, a MEND spokesperson disclaimed [...]	2007-09-11 14:03:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS624	SOUTHERN NIGERIA POLITICAL TIDBITS FOR JULY/AUGUST [...] (SBU) Summary: Musings on the national political scene. Imo State Governor appoints Iwu family members. MASSOB leaders dismiss Yar'Adua's promise to pay Biafran pensions as propaganda. Some biographical tidbits on the new ministers. End summary. --------------------------------- Musings o [...]	2007-09-12 08:58:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR NI
07LAGOS629	Struggles Over State Electoral Commissions Precede LGA [...] (U) Summary: Elections in the 353 Local Government Area (LGA) Councils of Nigeria's 17 southern states are scheduled to be held in the last quarter of this year. Struggles continue over control of the State Electoral Commissions which handle the LGA electoral process. End Summary. --------- [...]	2007-09-18 10:45:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM KDEM NI
07LAGOS64	NIGER DELTA:"STATE OF INSURRECTION" PART II [...] (C) Summary: During a January 21 conversation with the Consul General, Bayelsa State Secretary Godknows Igali stressed that the activity of militant groups in the Niger Delta was approximating a "state of insurrection." Amending previous estimates of aggregate militant strength, Igali asserted [...]	2007-02-02 07:57:00	Consulate Lagos	SECRET	PREL PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS67	SITREP 7: PROOF OF LIFE FOR NIGERIAN HOSTAGE [...] (C) The Pivot-GIS Hostage Crisis Group met February 2. American citizen Bill Graham and British National Neil Mirrlees remain in captivity. Proof of life was established for the third hostage, Ezekiel Akwa, who is a Nigerian employed as a driver by Pivot, when he spoke to Pivot's Wole Osinu [...]	2007-02-02 14:08:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS684	NIGERIA'S DOCK WORKERS ON STRIKE [...] (U) The Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) went on strike on October 18 to support a non-unionized group of Apapa terminal dockworkers. The Apapa dockworkers are legally recognized as casual employees and, therefore, unable to organize or receive guaranteed conditions of service. (Note [...]	2007-10-19 14:04:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM NI
07LAGOS685	NIGERIA'S EDO STATE RIVEN OVER TRIBUNALS, LG ELECTIONS [...] (U) Summary: The Edo State Election Petition Tribunal has been sitting daily to expedite proceedings, but has no jurisdiction to hear complaints alleging violent intimidation of witnesses. Edo State opposition parties will boycott November local government elections. Sitting Governor Osunbor' [...]	2007-10-19 14:15:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM KDEM NI

07LAGOS686	KALU'S CORRUPTION TRIAL PITCHES EFCC AGAINST ATTORNEY [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) trial of former Abia State Governor Orji Uzor Kalu has set the EFCC and Attorney General (AG),Michael Aondoaaka, on a collision course. Aondoaaka wants the EFCC to discontinue Kalu's trial in obedience to an earlier Abia State [...]	2007-10-22 12:40:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM KDEM NI
07LAGOS688	PRISON RIOT SPARKS DEBATE ON PRISON REFORM [...] (U) SUMMARY: Several prisoners died recently during an attempted jail break in a federal prison in Ibadan, Oyo State. The Government of Nigeria (GON) pledged to institute lasting prison reform that would improve prisoners' living conditions. However, human rights activists argued that no mean [...]	2007-10-22 12:41:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS729	Southern Nigeria Election Tribunals Rule On Challenges [...] (U) Summary: Election tribunals in Nigeria's southern states continued to hand down rulings, some of which may be appealed. Bayelsa and Ogun State tribunals ruled against Action Congress (AC) and All Nigerian People's Party (ANPP) challengers in governorship elections. House races were over [...]	2007-11-07 15:19:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM KDEM NI
07LAGOS76	SIT REP #8: DIFFICULT COMMUNICATION WITH SSS [...] (C) The Pivot-GIS Hostage Crisis Group has not met since February 2, however Control Risk Group (CRG) provided the following information. On February 3, Director of State Security Services (SSS) Alhaji Kola Adeshina told CRG that the Oral Rehydration Treatment (ORT) sachets had not been passe [...]	2007-02-05 15:34:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM CASC NI
07LAGOS778	NIGERIA: ADEDIBU LOSES GROUND [...] (C) Summary: Signs point to the slow decline of Lamidi Adedibu's influence in Oyo State politics. His recent court appearance in Abuja and struggles with NAFDAC show his weakened position. Traditional ruler Gbola Adesiyan says Adedibu's "godson" Governor Adebayo Akala anticipates that the t [...]	2007-12-12 14:46:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PHUM NI
07LAGOS87	SITREP 9: HOSTAGES REMAIN CAPTIVE; GOVERNMENT [...] (C) On February 5, American citizen Bill Graham told Pivot employee Wole Osinupebi the negotiation process should conclude as soon as possible because British national Neil Mirrlees's condition is very weak. John Walker of Control Risks Group could not confirm delivery of the Oral Rehydratio [...]	2007-02-06 15:37:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS89	TINUBU CHARTS THE AC'S COURSE IN THE ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: In a January 29 conversation with the Consul General, Lagos Governor Bola Tinubu stated he would suggest to his old friend Vice-President Atiku Abubakar to step down from the presidential race. Tinubu thinks his friend's chances are nil given the strength of presidential enmity [...]	2007-02-07 15:17:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
07LAGOS91	SITREP 10: BRITISH NATIONAL MIRRLEES RELEASED; [...] (C) Around 7:30 AM on February 7, militants released British national Neil Mirrlees due to the noticeable decline in his health since being held hostage. Mirrlees has been taken to a health clinic in Port Harcourt. Pivot will fly Mirrlees, a long time resident of Port Harcourt, to Lagos Feb [...]	2007-02-07 16:03:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS94	SITREP 11: HOSTAGES REMAIN CAPTIVE; FILIPINO FOUND [...] (C) Summary. John Walker of Control Risks Group told the Pivot-GIS Hostage Crisis Group on February 8 American citizen Bill Graham and Nigerian national Ezekiel Akwa remain in captivity. Security contacts confirmed to Regional Security Officer (RSO) a Filipino woman abducted on February 7 in [...]	2007-02-08 14:30:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS95	STATE OF EMERGENCY BRINGS SOME CALM TO EKITI STATE [...] (C) Summary. Although controversial, President Obasanjo's declaration in October 2006 of a state of emergency in Ekiti State has provided citizens a respite from the State's tumultuous political climate. Special Administrator Tunji Olurin has brought some order to Ekiti. However, the party [...]	2007-02-09 07:07:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM NI
07LAPAZ1718	CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY: SEVEN COMMISSIONS FILE [...] (U) Despite a June 21 deadline only seven of the Constituent Assembly's twenty-one commissions issued their final reports. Of the seven, only the Coca and Rural Development commissions have issued consensus reports, while the other five commissions have each issued majority and minority repor [...]	2007-06-25 12:04:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON PHUM KDEM BL
07LAPAZ2687	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON U.S. PRIORITIES FOR THE [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-04 20:35:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PHUM PREL UNGA PGOV BL
07LIBREVILLE1	OFFICIAL ELECTION RESULTS SLIGHTLY REDUCE RULING [...] Summary: Gabon's ruling party won 81 out of 120 seats in the National assembly; other candidates expected to support the government won an additional 21 seats. Opposition parties have a larger presence than in the past, with 17 seats. Electoral reforms may have contributed to greater transp [...]	2007-01-03 07:11:00	Embassy Libreville	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM GB
07LIBREVILLE156	CONSTITUTIONAL COURT SURPRISES RULING PARTY WITH [...] (U) On March 31 the Constitutional Court issued its final rulings on challenges to the results of the December 27, 2006 legislative elections. Sixteen elections were ruled invalid due to violations of election law, and voters in those constituencies will return to the polls at an unspecified [...]	2007-04-03 11:44:00	Embassy Libreville	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM GB
07LIBREVILLE25	OPPOSITION PARTIES DECLINE TO JOIN NEW GOVERNMENT [...] (U) In December's legislative elections, Gabon's ruling party -- the PDG -- won 83 out of 120 seats in the National Assembly; allied parties expected to support the government picked up 16 seats. In addition, 4 individuals running as independents (without any party affiliation) won seats. Op [...]	2007-01-17 14:39:00	Embassy Libreville	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV GB KDEM
07LIBREVILLE268	PARTIAL LEGISLATIVE ELECTION RESULTS [...] (U) On June 10 voters cast their ballots for twenty legislative seats throughout Gabon. Nineteen of these positions were left vacant after the Constitutional Court invalidated various December 17 election results in several districts (reftel). 2. (U) Despite several issues with the voter re [...]	2007-06-12 16:32:00	Embassy Libreville	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM GB
07LIBREVILLE308	GABON MISCELLANY [...] CHINESE PRESENCE/PRESENTS. On June 26, the Gabonese Minister of Public Construction and the Minister of Telecommunication visited the construction site of the new national radio and television-broadcasting center being built by the PRC in Gabon. Construction began on this project in 2005. The [...]	2007-07-17 15:53:00	Embassy Libreville	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM KDEM GB
07LIBREVILLE46	NEW GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCED [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-26 10:39:00	Embassy Libreville	UNCLASSIFIED	GB KDEM PGOV
07LIBREVILLE47	OPPOSITION PARTIES WALK OUT [...] (U) The National Assembly members were sworn-in January 24 and turned to the day's agenda: electing the President of the National Assembly and also selecting members of the "Bureau," the entity that controls the operation of the Assembly. Guy Nzouba Ndama was, without controversy, re-elected [...]	2007-01-26 12:04:00	Embassy Libreville	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM GB
07LIBREVILLE70	MEETING WITH OPPOSITION LEADER MAMBOUNDOU [...] On February 06, Ambassador Walkley met with Pierre Mamboundou -- leader of the UPG, the largest of Gabon's opposition political parties -- to discuss the opposition agenda and relations with President Omar Bongo. Mamboundou said the UPG and the other opposition parties are united in refusing [...]	2007-02-07 12:20:00	Embassy Libreville	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV GB KDEM
07LILONGWE101	PRESIDENT DECLARES "TOTAL WAR ON CORRUPTION" [...] (SBU) Summary: President Mutharika reaffirmed his commitment to the country's anti-corruption drive at National Anti-Corruption Day on February 5. In a speech launching an anti-corruption survey, Mutharika proclaimed his "position against corruption is even stronger today than it was three ye [...]	2007-02-07 11:59:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM MI
07LILONGWE105	WORRY AT STATE HOUSE OVER POSSIBLE MULUZI RETURN [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-08 08:11:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM MI
07LILONGWE124	MALAWI STILL IN LIMBO OVER SOMALIA MISSION [...] (U) Action request: See paragraph 7. 2.(SBU) Summary: Ambessador Eastham met with Minister of Defense Davis Katsonga on February 15 to discuss Malawi's potential involvement in an AU peacekeeping mission to Somalia. Katsongasaid that Malawi, while committed to peacekeeping on the continent, [...]	2007-02-16 10:20:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM MI
07LILONGWE144	MALAWI AND ITS NEIGHBORS [...] (U) Summary: Malawi's role in the Southern African region is limited, as the GOM is primarily focused on internal politics and local economic development. While Malawi is a founding member of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC),it is not particularly involved in the development or [...]	2007-02-26 05:46:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM MI
07LILONGWE146	POLITICAL RHETORIC HEATS UP IN MALAWI [...] (SBU) Summary: In another sign that the 2009 election campaign is in full swing, President Bingu wa Mutharika and his predecessor and presumptive presidential candidate Bakili Muluzi exchanged barbs over the weekend at competing public rallies. Mutharika also lashed out at Malawi Congress Part [...]	2007-02-26 14:47:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KCOR MI
07LILONGWE186	THE ONCE AND FUTURE PRESIDENT? MULUZI DECLARES [...] (SBU) Summary: Former President Bakili Muluzi, renowned for his government's corruption while in office, has announced that he will run for President again in 2009. Muluzi, famously coy regarding his political intentions, said at a mass ral\|y in Blantyre on March 11 that he was ready to run "i [...]	2007-03-13 15:43:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KCOR MI
07LILONGWE194	ANOTHER PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE BITES THE DUST [...] (SBU) Summary: With raw Malawian power politics on full display, Parliament rejected the President's nominee for Auditor General on March 13. The rejection, the latest in a string of high profile presidential nominees to be refused, comes as a result of government's inept management of parlia [...]	2007-03-14 13:13:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KCOR MI
07LILONGWE226	SUPPLEMENTAL BUDGET REJECTED AS PARLIAMENT CLOSES EARLY [...] (SBU) Summary: Parliament finished a four week session on March 22 amid controversy over the opposition's refusal to pass a mid-year supplemental budget. The session ended without any substantive work having been accomplished, and important bills pertaining to local government elections, a nat [...]	2007-03-22 06:51:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KCOR MI
07LILONGWE229	ISLAM IN MALAWI - PAST AND PRESENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Muslims make up over twenty percent of Malawi's population, and are actively engaged in political, economic, and civil society. After a perceived golden age for Muslims under former president and fellow Muslim Bakili Muluzi, many now complain of marginalization under the rule o [...]	2007-03-22 14:28:00	Embassy Lilongwe	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PREL MI
07LILONGWE254	MALAWI ARMY STOPS OPPOSITION RALLY [...] (SBU) Summary: The Malawi Defense Force (MDF) stopped former President Bakili Muluzi, Chairman of the United Democratic Front (UDF) opposition party and 2009 presidential candidate, from holding a campaign rally on March 25. Citing the incapacity of the police and concerns over the safety of [...]	2007-03-29 07:42:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM MI
07LILONGWE27	UDF LEADERS ARRESTED FOR DISSEMINATING BINGU RECORDING [...] (SBU) Summary: Police arrested two opposition leaders on January 11 for distributing a recording of President Mutharika instructing an unnamed GOM official to "shake up" former President and political nemesis Bakili Muluzi. The two officials, arrested on charges of sedition, played the recordi [...]	2007-01-12 12:42:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM MI
07LILONGWE28	MALAWI CONSIDERS SENDING BATTALION TO SOMALIA [...] (SBU) Malawi is considering sending a 538-man battalion of peace-keepers to join an African Union force in Somalia. The Malawi Defense Force (MDF) had been focused on preparations to send a battalion to the UN/AU mission in the Sudan but was very recently asked by the AU to join a forthcoming [...]	2007-01-12 12:45:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PMIL KDEM MI IO
07LILONGWE299	MALAWI PKO DEPLOYMENT POSSIBILITIES [...] (SBU) Summary: According to MOD officials, Malawi is still planning on sending an MDF battalion to join the PKO mission in Darfur, though there are currently no plans to deploy to Somalia. Minister of Defense Davies Katsonga is currently in Addis Ababa, in part to discuss the mission with Afri [...]	2007-04-19 14:15:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	IO KDEM MARR PGOV MI
07LILONGWE320	MALAWI PKO - MOD RULES OUT SOMALIA, SUDAN A [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Eastham met with Minister of Defense Davies Katsonga and separately with Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Henri Mumba on April 24 to renew our request that Malawi commit to sending a battalion of peacekeepers to join either the AMISOM or AMIS peacekeeping operations [...]	2007-04-25 15:29:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM IO MI
07LILONGWE332	CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW RECONVENES, PROPOSES REFORMS [...] (SBU) Summary: From April 17-19 the Malawi Law Commission hosted the second constitutional review conference, ahead of their official presentation of proposed constitutional amendments to President Mutharika's Cabinet. The Commission presented their opinions on a number of controversial const [...]	2007-05-02 14:42:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV MI
07LILONGWE361	MUTHARIKA'S CABINET BALOONS TO 44 POSTS [...] (SBU) Summary: President Mutharika extensively reshuffled his cabinet on May 10, firing two ministers outright and adding nine new ministers or deputy ministers, to bring the total cabinet positions up to 44 (two of which Mutharika has filled himself). This is the largest cabinet since former [...]	2007-05-11 10:45:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM MI
07LILONGWE389	DEMARCHE DELIVERED - REINFORCING UN COMMAND OF HYBRID FORCE [...] (U) Ambassador Eastham delivered reftel talking points to Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Henri Mumba on May 21. Mumba thanked the Ambassador for bringing up the subject, and expressed his view that the "situation (in Sudan) is very frustrating and cannot continue." Mumba, however, could n [...]	2007-05-21 15:00:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM MI
07LILONGWE402	FIRST LADY ETHEL MUTHARIKA DIES [...] (SBU) First Lady Ethel Mutharika passed away on the afternoon of May 28 after a two-year bout with cancer. Mutharika passed away at home in Lilongwe's New State House with President Bingu wa Mutharika by her side. The Government of Malawi has announced a thirty-day period of mourning for the [...]	2007-05-29 14:52:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM MI
07LILONGWE415	MUTHARIKA'S THIRD YEAR: REFORM CONTINUES, BUT SLOWLY [...] (SBU) Summary: President Mutharika in May marked the completion of his third year in office. As with his first two years, the president's record in this past twelve months is one of mixed success. Mutharika has overseen a substantial improvement in Malawi's economy, but slow action in enactin [...]	2007-06-01 14:02:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM ECON EAID MI
07LILONGWE42	MALAWI HAS MADE DECISION TO GO TO SOMALIA, BUT NEEDS [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-19 12:59:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM MI
07LILONGWE420	DEMARCHE DELIVERED - US 60-DAY REPORT ON UNSCR 1747 [...] Poloff met with Director of Political Affairs Paul Chiunguzeni on June 4, 2007 to discuss reftel talking points. Chiunguzeni thanked Poloff for the USG 60-day report, and said it was discouraging that Iran had refused to halt their nuclear program. He made no commitments on submitting a Malawi [...]	2007-06-04 14:36:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM MI
07LILONGWE425	PROFILE OF MALAWI FOREIGN MINISTER JOYCE BANDA [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Foreign Affairs Joyce Banda is well respected by the Malawian public, and lauded for her strong pro-human rights past. Banda is admittedly out of her element at Foreign Affairs and possesses only a basic knowledge of international relations, however she comes across a [...]	2007-06-05 13:38:00	Embassy Lilongwe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR MI
07LILONGWE468	SUPREME COURT RULES ON FLOOR-CROSSING--40 [...] (SBU) Summary: Malawi's Supreme Court upheld the validity of the constitutional provision outlawing "floor-crossing" on June 15, putting the seats of over half of the ruling party's parliamentarians at risk. President Mutharika had challenged the provision due in large part to the fact that f [...]	2007-06-19 14:52:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM MI
07LILONGWE512	COURT INJUNCTION PUTS BRAKES ON FLOOR-CROSSING [...] (SBU) Summary: In an electric atmosphere charged with political tension, Parliament resumed its annual budget session on June 29 with Malawi's floor-crossing provision at the top of the agenda. In an announcement that caught the opposition off-guard, the Speaker of Parliament opened the sessi [...]	2007-07-02 15:44:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM MI
07LILONGWE644	MALAWI'S POLITICAL IMPASSE CONTINUES [...] (SBU) Summary: Malawi's political impasse continues amidst a flurry of legal actions by both the ruling and opposition parties, and bickering in the National Assembly. Popular opinion seems to have convinced opposition leaders to agree at least to substantive discussion on the budget as of Au [...]	2007-08-16 12:03:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM EFIN EAID MI
07LILONGWE646	MALAWI BEGINS BUDGET DEBATE, ENDING IMPASSE [...] (U) Ending a 78 day impasse, On August 15, the opposition opened debate on the government's K172 billion budget (USD 1.2 billion). While United Democratic Front (UDF) and Malawi Congress Party (MCP) leaders still prefaced their responses with protests concerning the lack of a financial resoluti [...]	2007-08-20 07:15:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM EFIN EAID MI
07LILONGWE715	MALAWI: PRESIDENT WINS BUDGET APPROVAL, THEN [...] (SBU) Summary: After nearly four months of political confrontation, Malawi's Parliament passed the USD 1.24 billion national budget on September 11 -- a major victory for President Mutharika. The prudent, pro-poor budget is consistent with the President's Malawi Growth and Development Strateg [...]	2007-09-18 12:27:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM EAID EFIN MI
07LILONGWE83	DEMARCHE DELIVERED - AU CHARTER ON DEMOCRACY, ELECTIONS AND [...] (SBU) Poloff met with Ministry of Foreign Affairs US desk officer Pamela Mkwamba on January 30 to discuss reftel demarche. Mkwamba said that while she was not aware of an official GOM position on the charter, that she was confident that Malawi would support it. She said she would pass on the [...]	2007-01-31 11:07:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM MI
07LILONGWE84	MUTHARIKA BACKS OFF TROOP COMMITMENT TO [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-31 13:36:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM MI
07LILONGWE864	MALAWI: SPECIAL LAW COMMISSION RELEASES CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: The Special Law Commission, which was mandated in 2005 to recommend improvements to Malawi's hastily-drafted 1994 Constitution, released an ambitious report on October 12. The review produced a number of controversial recommendations relevant to the current Malawian political s [...]	2007-11-19 15:03:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PHUM MI
07LIMA309	GARCIA RE-CENTRALIZES DECENTRALIZATION [...] (SBU) Summary: The Garcia government in late January formally placed the bureaucratic entity responsible for decentralization into the Council of Ministers structure. Some observers emphasize the irony that the central government has reasserted control over a mechanism intended to distribute a [...]	2007-02-02 15:04:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PE
07LIMA3589	PERU RESPONSE: ADVANCING THE DEMOCRACY AGENDA AT [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-07 20:34:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PHUM PREL UNGA PE
07LISBON217	EARLY DISCUSSIONS ABOUT PORTUGUESE COMMUNITY OF [...] (SBU) Summary: In preparation for Portugal's upcoming Presidency of the Community of Democracies (CD) Convening Group starting in November, the MFA called for a meeting to solicit input from some members' diplomatic missions in Lisbon. The Ukrainian ambassador offered several suggestions in i [...]	2007-01-24 13:51:00	Embassy Lisbon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PREL PO
07LISBON2443	PORTUGUESE RESPONSE ON OCTOBER COMMUNITY OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Portuguese MFA Deputy Director General for Foreign Policy Antonio Ricoca Freire concurred with the U.S. priorities for the October meeting (reftel) and reported that Portugal would probably be represented by its Ambassador in Washington due to Minister Amado's other commitments. [...]	2007-09-20 15:39:00	Embassy Lisbon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PHUM PREL PGOV PO
07LISBON2456	PORTUGAL'S PLANS REGARDING THE PARTNERSHIP FOR [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-21 08:50:00	Embassy Lisbon	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM EAID PO
07LISBON2881	PORTUGAL ALSO CONCERNED WITH RUSSIA'S RESPONSE TO [...] (SBU) Portuguese interlocutors told us that they are also concerned with the Government of Russia's response to the OSCE regarding election monitoring for the December 2 Duma elections. They said that they are engaged with the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) [...]	2007-11-09 17:40:00	Embassy Lisbon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	RS KDEM PREL PHUM PO
07LISBON2923	PORTUGAL CONCERNED BUT RESERVES JUDGMENT ON [...] (C) Pol-Econ officer met with MFA Venezuela Desk Officer Leandro Amado to detail U.S. concerns regarding the Chavez government's proposed constitutional amendments, highlighting the potential risks to free speech, due process, and civil liberties. Amado acknowledged reftel points and confirmed [...]	2007-11-15 17:21:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM PO
07LISBON694	PORTUGAL SEEKS REPLACEMENT LEADER FOR COMMUNITY OF [...] (SBU) Summary: MFA Deputy Director General for Foreign Policy Antonio Ricoca Freire announced that, due to resource strains caused by Portugal's upcoming EU Council Presidency, Portugal would be stepping down as President of the Working Group for Inter-regional Cooperation in the Community of [...]	2007-03-16 15:28:00	Embassy Lisbon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PREL PO
07LJUBLJANA22	SLOVENIA'S RELATIONSHIP WITH IRAN [...] (C) Summary. Slovenia has a small mission in Tehran headed by a charge and staffed with one additional officer. The second officer speaks Farsi and both will be in Tehran through Slovenia's EU presidency which will conclude in July 2008. According to MFA Iran desk officer Maja Novak, the p [...]	2007-01-17 10:57:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM KPAO SI IR
07LJUBLJANA256	SLOVENIA: BALKANS, MIDEAST AND (NOW) CUBA ON [...] (C) Summary. Slovenian FM Dimitrij Rupel sees Kosovo as the make or break issue for the entire Western Balkans, and in a meeting with EUR PDAS Kurt Volker, urged continued unity between the US and EU as well as a comprehensive program with strong western perspective for Serbia, Kosovo and the [...]	2007-04-20 10:55:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PHUM CU YI SI
07LJUBLJANA559	SLOVENIA: TRAVEL BAN ON SYRIAN ACTIVIST RIAD SEIF [...] (C) In an August 28 meeting with Director General of the Slovenian Foreign Ministry's Directorate for European Affairs and Bilateral Political Relations Bogdan Benko, Charge d'Affaires requested that Slovenia issue a public statment similar to the Department's August 15 statement calling on th [...]	2007-08-30 11:56:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM EUN JA KDEM PREL SA SY SI
07LJUBLJANA564	OECD ACCESSION CRITERIA FOR SLOVENIA [...] (SBU) In post's judgment, Slovenia should not have many difficulties fulfilling the accession to the OECD. It meets many of the pre-accession criteria and shares the fundamental common values. Since independence in 1991, its foreign policy goal has been to integrate into the Euro-Atlantic co [...]	2007-08-30 17:36:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ECON ETRD PGOV OECD KDEM SENV SI
07LJUBLJANA701	SLOVENIA SUPPORTS DEMOCRACY AGENDA AT 4TH [...] (C) On November 6, EmbOff met with Blazka Kepic, head of United Nations System Section of the MFA's Division for International Organizations and Human Security, to inquire about Slovenia's delegation list to the 4th Community of Democracies (CD) Meeting, urge the GOS to support the draft decl [...]	2007-11-06 14:43:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PHUM PREL UNGA SI
07LJUBLJANA705	SLOVENIA SUPPORTS PRESSING GOR ON ODHIR, BUT NOT [...] (C) On November 9, Emboff delivered reftel points to Damjan Bergant, Section Head for OSCE in the MFA Division for International Organizations and Human Security. Bergant stated that Slovenia shares US disappointment in the GOR's approach to the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and H [...]	2007-11-09 13:10:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM RS SI
07LJUBLJANA747	SLOVENIA ON ENCOURAGING RAPID LEBANESE [...] (C) In a December 6 meeting with the MFA's European Correspondent, Aljaz Arih, Emboff urged that the Government of Slovenia (GOS) include in its public statements and private messages to key players expressions of support for immediate Lebanese presidential elections being held without linkage [...]	2007-12-07 05:37:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM LE SY SI
07LOME176	UFC LEADERSHIP IN CAMPAIGN MODE, UNLIKELY TO ENTER [...] (C) Summary. The Union of Forces for Change (UFC),arguably the largest opposition party in Togo, has ruled out participating in the national unity government formed last September. The unity government's primary mandate is to prepare for free and fair legislative elections in 2007. Although t [...]	2007-03-02 14:40:00	Embassy Lome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR TO
07LOME208	TOGO: PLANNING FOR UPCOMING LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS [...] (U) On February 25, DCM attended the opening session of the third statutory congress of the Party for Democracy and Renewal (PDR),a small northern party aligned with the ruling RPT party. Zarifou Ayeva, Togo,s Foreign Minister, was reelected president of the PDR. 2. (U) Present at the op [...]	2007-03-14 10:35:00	Embassy Lome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM TO
07LOME210	DONORS DISCUSS TOGO ELECTION PROGRESS [...] Ambassador and DCM attended an expanded donors "Group of Five" meeting on March 9 called by German Ambassador Hubert Kolb. Also present were the Ambassador of France and his DCM, the Delegate from the EU and his DCM, the Resident Representative of UNDP, the Resident Representative of the UN Hi [...]	2007-03-14 17:04:00	Embassy Lome	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PREL EAID TO
07LOME257	FRANCOPHONIE ELECTION EVALUATION MISSION VISITS [...] (SBU) Summary: A technical evaluation mission from the Intergovernmental Francophone Agency (Francophonie),led by Nelson Messone, called on Ambassador on March 28 and shared observations of the political situation in Togo in the run up to legislative elections scheduled for June 24. The group [...]	2007-04-02 16:34:00	Embassy Lome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PREL TO
07LOME329	TOGO - PROGRESS IN PREPARING 2007 LEGISLATIVE [...] Summary: The GoT and the Electoral Commission, in consultation with the EU and UNDP, are moving ahead slowly with preparations for the legislative elections scheduled for June 24. According to the press, few believe the June 24 date will hold. UNDP experts say elections are not possible bef [...]	2007-05-08 12:04:00	Embassy Lome	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM TO
07LOME553	TOGO: VOTER REGISTRATION LAUNCHES WITH SOME FLAWS [...] SUMMARY: Togo completed on July 22 the first week of voter registration to mixed reviews. Representatives from six political parties have worked collegially during the week to administer the registration process, and there have been no allegations of fraud. However, mechanical and logistical [...]	2007-07-26 16:07:00	Embassy Lome	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL TO KDEM
07LOME571	TOGO ELECTION UPDATE: SOFTWARE PROBLEMS JEOPARDIZE [...] (C) Summary. The opening round of voter registration for Togo's upcoming legislative elections - the centerpiece of the ongoing reform and reconciliation process -- have revealed a number of problems related to the registration software. Of particular concern to the National Independent Elect [...]	2007-08-03 17:19:00	Embassy Lome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL KDEM TO
07LOME804	TOGOLESE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OPENS; OPPOSITION [...] (U) SUMMARY. The newly-elected Togolese National Assembly (see reftel) held its first session on Tuesday, November 13, with all elected members attending. Notably, the Union for the Forces of Change (UFC),the largest opposition party, took its seats, marking the first time it has ever partici [...]	2007-11-17 17:28:00	Embassy Lome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV TO
07LONDON3285	PARTNERSHIP FOR DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE: UK DECLINES [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-24 16:06:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID KDEM UK
07LONDON3674	UK SHARES USG PRIORITIES FOR COMMUNITY OF [...] (SBU) The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office generally shares U.S. priorities for the upcoming Community of Democracies ministerial meeting (ref),but is still reviewing its position on a CD Secretariat, according to Nick Abbott, of the Foreign Office's Democracy and Human Rights Office. Abbo [...]	2007-09-24 18:23:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL UK UNGA
07LONDON4688	(SBU) PAKISTAN: UK URGES ELECTIONS WITHOUT [...] (SBU) HMG "agrees completely" with the USG that Pakistan's elections should proceed on schedule if possible, and if not, the postponement should be to a specified new date, according to Laura Guy, Head of FCO's Pakistan Section. Responding to reftel, Guy said HMG is keen on "as much electio [...]	2007-12-31 11:26:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KDEM PTER PK UK
07LONDON788	SURVEYING EU MEMBERS ON THEIR IRAN CIVIL SOCIETY [...] (C) The Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Iran Team Human Rights Leader, Stephen Hickey, described to Poloff several overlapping project areas, centering on media outreach, judicial reform and human rights, in which UK Government is supporting democratic reform in Iran. Hickey provided this [...]	2007-03-01 14:15:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM KPAO PGOV PREL EUN IR UK
07LUANDA166	CAROL THOMPSON DISCUSSES ELECTIONS WITH THE [...] (SBU) Summary. During AF/DAS Carol Thompson,s visit to Angola, the Chairman of the National Election Commission was bullish on the success of the voter registration process while opposition leaders had reservations about elections in general. Opposition leaders thanked us for our support for [...]	2007-02-21 10:56:00	Embassy Luanda	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM AO
07LUANDA444	ANGOLAN NGO GIVES REGISTRATION PROCESS HIGH MARKS [...] (U) Summary: The Angolan Electoral Platform, a group of civil society election observers, gave the voter registration process high marks when it publicly announced results of its months long monitoring observations. Observers were routinely accorded access to registration centers; found that [...]	2007-05-08 14:41:00	Embassy Luanda	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PHUM AO
07LUANDA622	ANGOLAN ELECTION PREPARATIONS ON TRACK DESPITE [...] Summary: A/S Jendayi Frazer reinforced USG interest in seeing elections occur in 2008 and 2009 according to GRA announcements and advocated that the GRA publish an electoral calendar so that all parties can fully prepare for the elections. In Caala, Huambo province, she was positively impress [...]	2007-06-21 13:45:00	Embassy Luanda	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM OVIP AO
07LUANDA651	ANGOLA: THE ROOSTER FLIES AGAIN AS UNITA ANNOUNCES [...] (C) Summary: On June 26th 2007, in front of a boisterous crowd of supporters, UNITA formally opened the campaign for party president and announced Isaias Samakuva and Abel Chivukuvuku as the two candidates. Though party insiders call the campaign "too close to call," all players stress that m [...]	2007-06-28 08:18:00	Embassy Luanda	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM AO
07LUANDA696	ANGOLA PROVINCIAL NOTES: SLOW DEVELOPMENT IN LUNDA [...] (SBU) Summary: Diamond-rich Lunda North province is on the slow track to development. Despite the important role of the diamond sector in contributing to Angola,s non-petroleum derived economy the province remains rural, underdeveloped and isolated from the rest of the country. Few employment [...]	2007-07-11 16:07:00	Embassy Luanda	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM EMIN ECON PREF PINR SOCI KDEM AO
07LUANDA700	ANGOLA PROVINCIAL NOTES: IN LUNDA NORTH, DIAMONDS [...] (C) Summary: Residents in Caito, a small village in Lunda Norte province, faced with limited economic opportunities and no government assistance, have turned to the diamond trade as a means of survival. Village leaders tried to sell Emboffs diamonds during their visit, and stated that the poli [...]	2007-07-11 16:11:00	Embassy Luanda	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM EMIN ECON PREF PINR SOCI KDEM AO
07LUANDA756	ANGOLA: SAMAKUVA RE-ELECTED FOR UNITA PARTY [...] (SBU) Summary: Incumbent UNITA President Isaias Samakuva trounced rival Abel Chivukuvuku in the party elections held on July 19. In an electoral process designed to position UNITA as the only party prepared to bring transparency and democracy to Angola, the 1,076 delegates to UNITA's 10th Par [...]	2007-07-23 07:13:00	Embassy Luanda	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM AO
07LUANDA785	ANGOLA PROVINCIAL NOTES - HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTION [...] (C) Summary: Diamond prospecting, legal or otherwise, is the only game in town for the majority of the people in Lunda Norte province. Lunda Norte's diamond riches come packaged with reports of human right abuses committed by both government and private security forces against iLLegal diamond [...]	2007-07-31 21:22:00	Embassy Luanda	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EMIN PHUM ECON PREF PINR KDEM SOCI AO
07LUSAKA275	ZAMBIA: STATUS OF UNDEF PROGRAMS [...] Per reftel, Post requested the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Zambia to provide information on the status of the UNDEF-funded constitutional reform project, which is being implemented by the UNDP. UNDP advised that the project document is currently being finalized. Once the docu [...]	2007-03-09 09:06:00	Embassy Lusaka	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID KDEM KPAO PGOV PREL UN NGO OIIP ZA
07LUXEMBOURG24	LUXEMBOURG ON IRAN CIVIL SOCIETY AND DEMOCRACY [...] (C) DCM delivered reftel information on U.S. democratization initiatives for Iran to Luxembourg's Cooperation and Development Director Marc Bichler January 16. Bichler welcomed the information and confirmed that Luxembourg has no programs of any type in Iran. 2. (U) As a matter of national [...]	2007-01-16 15:35:00	Embassy Luxembourg	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KPAO IR EUN LU
07LUXEMBOURG356	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: TRAVEL BAN ON SYRIAN ACTIVIST [...] (SBU) On 29 August 2007 Pol/Econ officer delivered points contained reftel to the Luxembourg Ministry of Foreign Affairs along with the Department's 15 August public statement. The MFA was unaware of the situation (NOTE: Our contacts who normally handle EU Affairs and Middle Eastern portfolio [...]	2007-08-31 15:39:00	Embassy Luxembourg	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KDEM PHUM PREL LU SY
07LUXEMBOURG457	LUXEMBOURG NOT ATTENDING COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-13 13:22:00	Embassy Luxembourg	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PHUM PREL UNGA
07LUXEMBOURG483	LUXEMBOURG: NO STATEMENTS ON LEBANESE ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Pol/econ officer delivered points contained reftel to Jean-Louis Thill, MFA Coordinator for Near and Middle-Eastern Affairs on 7 December. Thill thanked Pol/econ officer for the information but responded that despite FM Jean Asselborn's personal interest in Lebanon, there were no statem [...]	2007-12-07 13:30:00	Embassy Luxembourg	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PREL PGOV LE LU
07MADRID1035	SPAIN ON SYRIA REFERENDUM [...] (C) Poloff contacted MFA Subdirector General for the Middle East Alberto Ucelay on 5/25 to relay reftel points, urging Ucelay to issue a statement calling attention to Syria's sham May 27 Presidential Referendum. Ucelay, who had returned that day from Lebanon, acknowledged that Spain did not [...]	2007-05-29 13:49:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PREL SY SP
07MADRID121	SPAIN NOT ACTIVE ON IRAN CIVIL SOCIETY AND [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche and discussed Spain's human rights and democracy promotion programs with Spanish MFA Subdirector General for Human Rights Fernando Fernandez-Arias on January 22. Fernandez-Arias thanked Poloff for the information on USG programs in Iran and promised to s [...]	2007-01-23 11:37:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KPAO IR SP
07MADRID1644	SPAIN SUPPORTS EU EFFORTS ON RIAD SEIF [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-28 14:38:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EUN JA KDEM PHUM PREL SA SY SP
07MADRID2094	SPANISH SHARE U.S. CONCERNS ABOUT ODIHR MISSION TO [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-13 09:15:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM RS SP
07MADRID634	UNDEF: CLUB DE MADRID PROMOTES ARAB DEMOCRATIC [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Spain-based NGO Club de Madrid is using UN Democracy Fund (UNDEF) funding to help fund a project aimed at promoting freedom of association in several key Arab nations, the "Dialogue on Democratic Values in the Arab World." The Club de Madrid is pleased with its relationship [...]	2007-04-04 15:58:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID KDEM KPAO PGOV PREL UN NGO OIIP
07MANAGUA1021	ANOTHER CONVERGENCIA MEMBER QUESTIONS ORTEGA,S [...] (C) Summary: Azucena Ferrey, a former Contra and longstanding Christian Democrat currently associated with Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) political ally Convergencia, tells us that a number of Convergencia members are disillusioned with the Ortega administration. Ferrey, who di [...]	2007-04-23 14:34:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1028	IN SEARCH OF OPPOSITION UNITY [...] (C) Summary: A group of democratic-minded Nicaraguans are attempting to create a political opposition force to counter President Ortega's apparent determination to turn Nicaragua into an autocratic regime along the lines of Chavez's Venezuela. The group proposes to establish a new national d [...]	2007-04-23 20:11:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1036	LIBERAL MAYORS REJECT ALEMAN, PLEDGE TO SUPPORT [...] (C) Summary: A group of mayors from the Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC) meeting with leaders of the Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) strongly rejected any role for convicted PLC leader Arnoldo Aleman in the Liberal unification process. The mayors plan to form local commissions ahead of th [...]	2007-04-23 23:32:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1043	NEW MOVIMIENTO DIRECTOR: CIVIL SOCIETY AND [...] (C) Summary: The new Movimiento por Nicaragua (MpN) executive director, Violeta Granera, is convinced that the Ortega government's apparent disorientation is a ruse to divert attention from the Sandinista National Liberation Front's (FSLN) clear plan to gain political and economic power and [...]	2007-04-24 15:38:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM NU PGOV PHUM PINR PREL
07MANAGUA106	ORTEGA BLAIMS "NEO-LIBERALISM" FOR NICARAGUAN [...] (U) Summary: New Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega assumed office on January 10 singing the praises of his Bolivarian "twin" Hugo Chavez and proclaiming the failure of "neo-liberalism." Ortega repeated his campaign promises to alleviate poverty through national and regional "unity," joining [...]	2007-01-17 17:40:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL ECON KDEM NU

07MANAGUA1065	EMISSARY OF LIBERAL MAYORS' GROUP CLAIMS [...] (C) Summary: Elvin Sandigo, Executive Director of the Association of Patriotic Mayors (ASALPAT),claims that his organization is no longer an organ of the Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC). According to Sandigo, the 58 Liberal mayors that form ASALPAT's membership support Liberal unification [...]	2007-04-25 21:56:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1067	ORTEGA,S FIRST 100 DAYS -- AUTOCRATIC TRENDS DRAW [...] (C) Summary: In its first 100 days, President Ortega's government was characterized by a blur between party and state; autocracy and secrecy; dependency on Chavez; disregard for law and human rights; the dismissal of thousands of government employees; and, a pointed effort to financially "sta [...]	2007-04-25 22:35:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL KDEM NU SNAR IR
07MANAGUA1069	FORO LIBERAL SEEKS LIBERAL UNITY VIA [...] (C) Eight Liberal Forum (Foro Liberal) members, who invited the Ambassador, DCM, and PolCouns to meet over breakfast on April 24, are seeking to foster Liberal unity at the municipal level and through the National Assembly's Nicaragua Liberal Alliance (ALN) and the Liberal Constitutional Part [...]	2007-04-26 14:57:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1083	NICARAGUAN EDUCATION SYSTEM IN CRISIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Over the past month, Nicaragua's chronically under-funded and fragile education system suffered turmoil over wage disputes, worsened by political rivalries. Teachers demanding a larger salary increase have paralyzed schools throughout the country through partial or complete wor [...]	2007-04-27 14:49:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV ECON ELAB NU
07MANAGUA1097	NICARAGUAN POLICE CHIEF SHARES VIEWS ON POLICE ROLE [...] (C) Summary: Police Chief Aminta Granera is committed to counternarcotics and enforcement efforts as well as ensuring public safety, although she has no faith in the Nicaraguan judicial system and receives little assistance from other government agencies. During meetings with Emboffs, Graner [...]	2007-04-27 23:05:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM NU PGOV PINR SNAR
07MANAGUA1113	LIBERAL DEPUTIES AGREE TO WORK ON JOINT [...] (C) Summary: Liberal National Assembly deputies from the Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC) and Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) recently pledged during a meeting with poloffs to jump-start negotiations on a joint legislative agenda and methods to coherently oppose objectionable proposals from [...]	2007-05-02 21:33:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR EINV KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1174	THE OPPOSITION'S RECIPE FOR SUCCESS: A [...] (C) Summary: Two former presidential candidates, Eduardo Montealegre of the Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) and Edmundo Jarquin of the Sandinista Renovation Movement (MRS),are working on forging a political alliance to counter President Ortega,s increasingly authoritarian inclinations. The [...]	2007-05-07 22:30:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1183	MADRIZ - ORTEGA PROMISES REMAIN UNFULFILLED [...] (C) SUMMARY: Citing higher gas prices, no new jobs, and political favoritism, the citizens of Somoto and Totogalpa, Madriz spoke to the Ambassador of growing dissatisfaction with President Ortega's administration. While local opposition leaders are talking, they have not unified or capitali [...]	2007-05-08 16:12:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM ECON PGOV PINR NU
07MANAGUA1195	IN SEARCH OF OPPOSITION UNITY - PART II [...] (C) Summary: The group of prominent democrats introduced in ref B reports that they are planning a major declaration of opposition unity some time in late May. Despite past declarations of support from the three defeated ex-Presidential candidates however, several seem to be waffling in their [...]	2007-05-08 22:16:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1223	ORTEGA APPOINTS ANOTHER PSEUDO-MINISTER OF DEFENSE [...] (C) Summary: President Ortega recently appointed former spokeswoman for the Nicaraguan Supreme Court Ruth Tapia Roa to the post of Secretary General of the Ministry of Defense "with the rank of minister." Tapia's chief qualifications appear to be her relationship to former Sandinista military [...]	2007-05-10 23:00:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA125	ALN NEGLECTING DISGRUNTLED LIBERALS [...] (C) Summary: The Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) is missing an historic opportunity to capture disgruntled Liberal voters from the Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC),claims Liberal Matagalpino Eugenio Rodriguez. According to Rodriguez, Liberals in key northern areas are upset with the PLC [...]	2007-01-18 17:18:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA127	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES BILATERAL CONCERNS WITH [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador recently met with Arturo Cruz, Nicaragua's Ambassador-designate to the United States. During the conversation, Cruz first insisted on the importance of President Ortega's participation in the annual Prayer Breakfast; he later reconsidered and suggested Ortega decline the inv [...]	2007-01-18 17:57:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM MARR MOPS PGOV PINR PREL SNAR IR NU
07MANAGUA1318	FOREIGN MINISTER DOWNPLAYS GON ENDORSEMENT OF [...] (C) On May 21, the Ambassador raised with Foreign Minister Samuel Santos the Nicaraguan government's (GON) position vis a vis North Korea (DPRK),specifically noting our concern over President Ortega's recent public remarks virtually endorsing the DPRK's efforts to become a nuclear power, a p [...]	2007-05-23 15:24:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KGIT XE NU
07MANAGUA1340	MONTEALEGRE UNDER INTENSE PRESSURE TO MAKE DEAL [...] (C) Summary: Opposition leader Eduardo Montealegre of the Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) is under intense pressure to make a deal with convicted ex-President and Liberal Constitutional Party Leader (PLC) Arnoldo Aleman to unite the Liberal forces. During a recent session with Washington vi [...]	2007-05-24 23:36:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1350	MISKITOS READY TO MOBILIZE BUT LACK RESOURCES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Diverse anti-Sandinista Miskito groups in Nicaragua's North Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAN) are slowly unifying into a single movement. Significant challenges remain, but the group is convinced of the need to win the municipal elections in four key RAAN municipalities in 2008 [...]	2007-05-28 16:40:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PHUM NU
07MANAGUA1377	GROUP VOICES SUPPORT OF NICARAGUAN POLICE AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: A group of fourteen prominent Nicaraguans, who call themselves the "Grupo de Opinion" (Opinion Group) are voicing their support of the Nicaraguan National Police and the Armed Forces in order to prevent them from being co-opted by President Daniel Ortega. Rafael Cordoba, a memb [...]	2007-05-30 22:28:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA140	CENTAM AMBASSADORS CONCERNED ABOUT NICARAGUA'S [...] (C) Summary: Central American ambassadors in Nicaragua were startled by the populist rhetoric and procession of infamous guests surrounding the inauguration of President Daniel Ortega (reftel),but maintain a cautious optimism that regional and international agreements will constrain the Orteg [...]	2007-01-18 23:43:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1427	MRS DEFECTORS PLAN NEW CAUCUS IN ASSEMBLY, [...] (C) Summary: While Liberal infighting grabs the most headlines in Nicaragua, post-election squabbling has also fractured the reformist Left. Many FSLN party activists who left the Sandinista Front to support former Managua mayor Herty Lewites' presidential bid later became disenchanted with t [...]	2007-06-05 20:53:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1482	OPPOSITION LABOR PUSHES FOR LIBERAL UNITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Liberal labor federation Permanent Workers' Congress (CPT) seeks to form a "Pro Unity Committee" to create a unified Liberal platform and break the political impasse between the Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) and the Liberal Constitutionalist Party (PLC). CPT leaders wor [...]	2007-06-12 18:23:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL ELAB
07MANAGUA1495	LABOR - POTENTIAL KEY TO OPPOSITION UNITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: There is growing unrest and resentment towards President Daniel Ortega among organized labor, sparked by turmoil in the education sector earlier this year. Human rights NGO Nicaraguan Permanent Commission for Human Rights (CPDH) hopes to capitalize on the situation by working w [...]	2007-06-13 23:18:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL ELAB
07MANAGUA1537	ACTING MINISTER OF DEFENSE PLANS MINISTRY PURGE, [...] (C) Summary: According to an internal memorandum obtained by post, Acting Nicaraguan Minister of Defense Ruth Tapia Roa plans to fire the few remaining officials from the previous administration and replace them with Army-approved loyalists. She also alerts President Ortega to the Army's "new [...]	2007-06-18 15:38:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PARM KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1541	NEW ACTING MINISTER OF DEFENSE RECEIVES AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Ambassador met with Ruth Tapia Roa, the new Secretary General and acting Minister of Defense (reftel),on June 4 to discuss issues of mutual concern. Although Tapia's office delayed granting the appointment for several weeks, the meeting was cordial. She led the meeting on behalf of the [...]	2007-06-18 22:52:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1543	CIVIL SOCIETY UNDER SIEGE, CLAMOURING FOR [...] (C) Over the past 2-3 months, the political section has received over a dozen proposals from civil society organizations concentrated in three areas: human rights defense, organized labor, and indigenous (Miskito) groups. Each organization claims to oppose President Daniel Ortega and seeks fi [...]	2007-06-18 23:22:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB EAID KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL NU
07MANAGUA1547	TEACHERS HOPE TO FORM FIRST "SUPER" UNION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Democratic teachers' unions hope to form a national alliance ("Central") in order to gain negotiating power with the Ortega government and more effectivley contest the alliance between Education Minister Miguel De Castilla and pro-Sandinista teachers' union ANDEN. Union leaders [...]	2007-06-20 16:15:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL NU
07MANAGUA155	EX-SANDINISTA VP SERGIO RAMIREZ: RECENT ORTEGA [...] (C) Summary: Sergio Ramirez, a renowned author and Vice President during the 1980s Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) era who is estranged from the FSLN, paints a discouraging map of the course the new Ortega government has set over the past week. He recently warned the Ambassador [...]	2007-01-19 21:19:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1562	CHINANDEGANOS CONCERNED ABOUT ORTEGA, OPPOSITION [...] (C) Summary: The politically active citizens of Nicaragua's north-western department of Chinandega are concerned about President Ortega's centralization of government and attempts to establish local citizens' councils. Members of the private sector note that economic activity is generally dec [...]	2007-06-21 16:26:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ECON KDEM MCC NU
07MANAGUA157	REGIONAL AMBASSADORS SHARE THOUGHTS ON ORTEGA [...] (C) Summary: Ambassadors to Nicaragua from Spain, Mexico, Chile, Brazil, and Colombia are concerned that the authoritarian tendencies and lack of experience of many officials in the Ortega administration, combined with the "destabilizing" influence of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, may nega [...]	2007-01-19 22:35:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1588	USG COMMITMENT TO GOOD RELATIONS WITH SANDINISTAS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In May 29-June 1 meetings in Managua, WHA/CEN Office Director John Feeley reaffirmed with senior FSLN leaders that USG policy is to pursue productive and positive relations with the Ortega government. At the same time he communicated that President Ortega's increasingly anti-US [...]	2007-06-26 19:11:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV NU
07MANAGUA1592	FSLN TO USE PRN TO FURTHER DIVIDE LIBERALS IN 2008 [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Nicaraguan Resistance Party's (PRN) internal problems continue. The Supreme Electoral Counsel canceled internal PRN elections, citing irregularities and internal struggles. There is a serious rift between PRN president Salvador Talavera and vice president Julio Blandon. T [...]	2007-06-28 17:27:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV NU
07MANAGUA1621	FIVE PILLARS OF FSLN STRATEGY [...] (C) A document leaked to the press recently revealed that the FSLN has readied a plan called the "Five Pillars of the Revolutionary Project" to be formally announced on the July 19 celebration of the 28th anniversary of the Somoza overthrow. The 5 Pillars are: direct democracy and civilian po [...]	2007-07-02 16:39:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR ECON KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1663	ALN DEPUTY SUBJECT OF FSLN/PLC WITCH HUNT [...] SUMMARY: Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) deputy Alejandro Bolanos Davis' seat in the National Assembly hangs by a thread. Led by Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC) magistrates, the Nicaragua Supreme Electoral Counsel (CSE) voted to strip Bolanos of his seat over supposed citizenship irregu [...]	2007-07-05 22:55:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV NU
07MANAGUA175	PLC DEPUTIES FORM NEGOTIATING COMMITTEE WITH THE [...] (C) Summary: A group of National Assembly deputies from the Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC) recently expressed a willingness to work with the Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) on legislative issues and reported they have formed a negotiating committee with the ALN. The deputies, including [...]	2007-01-23 14:41:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA178	LACAYO: FSLN INTEREST GROUPS COMPETE FOR DOMINANCE [...] (C) Summary: Antonio Lacayo, secretary minister of the presidency during Violeta Chamorro's presidency and her son-in-law, believes that the power struggle among competing Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) interest groups will "test" the new Ortega government and could be exploited [...]	2007-01-23 15:43:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM NU PGOV PINR PREL ENRG EPET
07MANAGUA179	FOREIGN MINISTER SANTOS STRUGGLES TO JUGGLE THE [...] (C) Summary: Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Samuel Santos (Refs. E-H) is struggling to juggle the demands and impositions of anti-U.S., populist, authoritarian-minded allies against the concerns and expectations of the U.S. and other like-minded governments. We reminded Santos that any dangers [...]	2007-01-23 15:56:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA181	BONILLA: LIBERALS MUST MEND THEIR DIFFERENCES OR [...] (C) Summary: Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) lawmaker Yamileth Bonilla, who heads the National Assembly's Foreign Affairs Committee, believes that President Ortega's efforts to consolidate his power only days after assuming office have shocked the ALN and rival Liberal Constitutional Party [...]	2007-01-23 17:00:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA182	HUMAN RIGHTS NGO TERMS ORTEGA GOVERNMENT "WORST [...] (C) Summary: Members of the Permanent Human Rights Council (CPDH) believe that the turn the Ortega government has taken since it assumed power is the "worst-nightmare scenario." They recently warned the Ambassador that President Ortega will not leave office for at least ten years unless Nic [...]	2007-01-23 18:37:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PINR KDEM NU PREL
07MANAGUA1866	2006 REPORT ON THE POLITICAL CULTURE OF DEMOCRACY [...] (U) The newly-published 2006 Report on Political Culture of Democracy in Nicaragua presents important data on the long-term patterns of public opinion regarding democracy, corruption, economic well-being, and the effectiveness of national vs. municipal government. Produced under USAID auspices, the [...]	2007-08-08 17:40:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1880	AMBASSADOR'S AUGUST 6 MEETING WITH EDUARDO [...] (C) The Ambassador met with Eduardo Montealegre leader of Nicaragua's Liberal Alliance (ALN) at Montealegre,s request on August 6. Montealegre expressed his doubts about the possibilities of forming a strategic liberal alliance with Liberal Constitutional Party of Nicaragua (PLC) before the [...]	2007-08-09 18:14:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCOR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1904	CATHOLIC CHURCH LEADER IN NICARAGUA ON HUMAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Monsignor Bernardo Hombach, Catholic archbishop of the diocese of Granada offered his assessment of the human rights situation in Nicaragua, citing a corrupt judicial system, a government run on political patronage, and illegal narcotics trafficking as the gravest challenges facin [...]	2007-08-13 22:49:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KCRM KDEM PGOV NU
07MANAGUA1921	MOMENT OF TRUTH FOR THE PLC [...] (C) Nicaragua's Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC) stands at a pivotal juncture. An upcoming vote (date TBD) on the issue of Citizens' Councils in the National Assembly will auger whether former President and convicted felon Arnoldo Aleman's power over the party is waning. At stake too are [...]	2007-08-15 20:41:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCOR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1944	ORTEGA RAMPS-UP CITIZEN COUNCILS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Legal reforms pushed through the National Assembly early in the year have enabled President Daniel Ortega to put in play his "direct democracy" gambit through Citizen Councils (CPC). Under the control of the First Lady, Rosario Murillo, Ortega plans to have nearly 17,000 CPCs ( [...]	2007-08-20 17:09:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1963	FEAR AND LOATHING ON NICARAGUA'S ATLANTIC COAST [...] (C) SUMMARY: Our contacts on Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast ("costenos") support the Ambassador's non-combative engagement strategy with President Ortega's administration. With many households almost wholly dependent on remittances from family members working in the U.S., costenos are fearful of [...]	2007-08-22 13:12:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON KDEM NU
07MANAGUA2001	BOLANOS-DAVIS CASE: SILENCING CRITICS MADE EASY [...] (C) National Assembly Deputy Alejandro Bolanos-Davis met with us on August 24 to give us his reaction to his seemingly permanent expulsion from the National Assembly, the next moves in his case, and his overview of Nicaraguan politics. Bolanos-Davis is convinced that the Ortega regime will not [...]	2007-08-30 14:43:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCOR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA202	SECRETARY LEAVITT,S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT-ELECT [...] (C) Summary: On January 9, 2007, in a meeting at Sandinista Party Headquarters, the U.S. Presidential Delegation (Presdel),led by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Michael Leavitt, discussed with then SIPDIS President-elect Daniel Ortega a new regional health-care training initiat [...]	2007-01-25 14:55:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU PREL
07MANAGUA2043	NICARAGUAN OPPOSITION IN UNISON: FACT OR FICTION? [...] (C) On September 4, leaders from the two main liberal opposition parties in Nicaragua, the Liberal Alliance of Nicaragua (ALN) and the Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC) announced that they had signed an agreement to pursue a common legislative agenda. A few days later, on September 7, both [...]	2007-09-07 00:38:00	Embassy Managua	SECRET	PGOV PREL KDEM KCOR NU
07MANAGUA2110	ALN PUSHING THE LIBERAL UNITY ENVELOPE [...] (C) The Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance party (ALN) is pushing its fellow opposition Constitutional Liberal Party (PLC) to prove that its true intentions are to cooperate against the Sandinista regime of President Ortega. As reported reftel, The ALN and PLC have signed agreements covering both a [...]	2007-09-13 22:40:00	Embassy Managua	SECRET	PGOV PREL KCOR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA2135	NICARAGUAN CIVIL SOCIETY ALLIANCE UNITES AGAINST [...] (C) Summary: Some ten thousand Nicaraguan opposition members, political leaders, and regular citizens turned out for a rally organized by the pro-democracy civil society organization Movimiento por Nicaragua (MpN) on Sunday, September 9 in the streets of Masaya to voice a united opposition to [...]	2007-09-18 20:33:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA2185	SILENCING CRITICS: ATTACKING THE OPPOSITION LEADER [...] (S) The anti-democratic forces of the Ortega government combined with the corrupt powerbroker Arnoldo Aleman are mounting a politically motivated attack against the leader of the Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) Eduardo Montealegre. The Comptroller General's office has accused Montealegre of [...]	2007-09-24 22:20:00	Embassy Managua	SECRET	PGOV ECON EFIN RELAM KDEM KCOR NU
07MANAGUA2207	CITIZEN COUNCILS - FULL STEAM AHEAD? [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a September 20 meeting, Citizens' Power Councils (CPCs) Managua coordinator Eliaz Chevez asserted the National Assembly's (NA) vote to remove authorization for the executive to create such entities from Law 290 is "not substantial" and that the CPCs will "continue to move for [...]	2007-09-26 18:55:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON KDEM NU
07MANAGUA2246	REAL OPPOSITION, OR AN END TO CHECKS AND BALANCES? [...] (C) Some members of the Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC) appear to be on the verge of joining forces with the pro-democracy Liberal Alliance of Nicaragua (ALN) party, headed by Eduardo Montealegre, despite that fact that under its leader, former President and convicted felon Arnoldo Aleman, [...]	2007-10-03 23:14:00	Embassy Managua	SECRET	PGOV PREL KDEM NU
07MANAGUA225	ATMOSPHERICS OF ORTEGA INAUGURATION: CHAOS AND POPULISM TRUMPS SECURITY AND PROTOCOL [...] (C) Summary: The inauguration of President Daniel Ortega on January 10 projected an odd image of disorder, amateurism, and unceremonious conduct, where populism trumped protocol, and security was virtually non-existent. Heads of state, royalty, ministers, and other dignitaries from over 64 co [...]	2007-01-25 22:36:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV PREL KDEM NU
07MANAGUA2287	LIBERAL UNITY MOVES FORWARD [...] (C) Members of several Nicaraguan opposition parties came together on October 4 to pledge their support for a new "National Unity Alliance." It is too early to tell if this new grouping will be the catalyst for building a strong united opposition to the Sandinista regime of President Ortega. [...]	2007-10-09 15:55:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NU
07MANAGUA2295	NICARAGUA: CRIMINALIZATION OF THERAPEUTIC ABORTION [...] (U) Summary: Women's rights organizations, human rights NGOS, and physicians have reacted sharply to the Nicaraguan National Assembly's vote to include in the country's new Penal Code the criminalization of therapeutic abortion. Opponents of the criminalization of all forms of abortion have [...]	2007-10-10 22:23:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM KWMN NU
07MANAGUA2373	THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL REHABILITATION OF ARNOLDO [...] (C) There is a nascent, subtle process underway in Nicaragua that represents a serious threat to the future of democracy in the country and, by extension, U.S. interests: the public rehabilitation of former President and convicted felon Arnoldo Aleman. Polling data consistently shows that Al [...]	2007-10-23 15:43:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA241	A BLOW TO DEMOCRACY: LIBERALS DELIVER MORE POWER [...] (C) Summary: The Nicaraguan National Assembly approved on January 24 a series of reforms to Law 290 -- which defines the roles of the ministries and other executive institutions -- that grant more authority to the Presidency and reduce transparency by considerably reducing civilian controls ove [...]	2007-01-26 22:46:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA242	MARTINEZ CUENCA LAUDS U.S. POLICY TOWARDS ORTEGA [...] (C) In Sandinista-dissident Alejandro Martinez Cuenca's recent meeting with the Ambassador, he applauded President Bush's "magnificent" decision to call Ortega before the inauguration, terming the gesture the "best antidote to keep Ortega from straying" and to check Venezuelan President Hugo [...]	2007-01-26 22:56:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PINR KDEM NU PREL
07MANAGUA244	SECRETARY LEAVITT,S MEETING WITH SALVADORAN [...] (C) Summary: On January 9, 2007, the U.S. Presidential Delegation (Presdel),led by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Michael Leavitt, discussed with Salvadoran President Tony Saca a new regional health-care training initiative; Salvador's Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) program; bilater [...]	2007-01-29 14:30:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU PREL
07MANAGUA2446	CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM AIMED TO PERPETUATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Constitutional reform is the hot political topic of the moment in Nicaragua. The Sandinista Front for National Liberation (FSLN) and the Constitutional Liberal Party (PLC) are privately negotiating a major overhaul of the Nicaraguan body politic, focused on creating likely t [...]	2007-11-07 22:45:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCOR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA245	SECRETARY LEAVITT,S MEETING WITH GUATEMALAN [...] (C) Summary: On January 9, 2007, the U.S. Presidential Delegation (Presdel),led by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Michael Leavitt, discussed with Guatemalan Vice Foreign Minister Luis Fernando Andrade a new regional health-care training initiative; the Guatemalan Government's (GOG [...]	2007-01-29 14:34:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU PREL
07MANAGUA246	SECRETARY LEAVITT,S MEETING WITH HONDURAN [...] (C) Summary: On January 9, 2007 the U.S. Presidential Delegation (Presdel),led by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Michael Leavitt, discussed with Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya a new regional health-care training initiative; Honduras' petroleum dependency; resolving the need [...]	2007-01-29 14:39:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU PREL
07MANAGUA2466	THE CITIZEN COUNCILS' GROWING SHADOW [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Ortega's Citizen Power Councils (CPC) continue to penetrate Nicaraguan society, increasing fear among civil society leaders. Over the past month, cases have been reported in which the CPCs have incited civil unrest, demanded CPC membership in exchange for emergency aid [...]	2007-11-13 18:12:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON KDEM NU
07MANAGUA247	SECRETARY LEAVITT,S MEETING WITH PANAMANIAN VICE [...] (C) Summary: On January 9, 2007, the U.S. Presidential Delegation (Presdel),led by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Michael Leavitt, discussed with Panamanian Vice President Samuel Lewis and Health Minister Camilo Alleyne a new regional health-care training initiative. Alleyne reit [...]	2007-01-29 14:43:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU PREL
07MANAGUA2486	CITIZEN COUNCILS DEALT BLOW BY NATIONAL ASSEMBLY [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 20, the Nicaraguan National Assembly voted to override with 52 votes Sandinista President Daniel Ortega's veto of legislation to prohibit the transfer of a real measure of Executive authority to the Citizen Power Councils (CPCs). Deputies representing the Nicaraguan [...]	2007-11-21 21:45:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ECON KDEM NU PGOV
07MANAGUA2516	ORTEGA'S CITIZENS' COUNCILS - PANDORA'S BOX? [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 21, a Pandora's Box was opened when the Nicaraguan National Assembly (NA) voted to override President Ortega's veto of a controversial legislative change that would prevent him from creating his Citizen Power Councils (CPC) as an extension of the Executive branch. Si [...]	2007-11-30 13:24:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON KDEM NU
07MANAGUA255	PLC DEPUTY ADMITS RIFTS IN PARTY [...] (C) Summary: Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC) deputy Carlos Noguera recently reported considerable discontent within the PLC rank and file stemming from the dismal results of the national elections and the party's ongoing political pact with the Sandinista Front (FSLN). Local party leaders [...]	2007-01-29 21:55:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA256	PLC DEPUTY ADMITS RIFTS IN PARTY [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-29 21:55:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA268	ORTEGA VICTORY CATALYST FOR CHAVEZ IN RAAN [...] (C) Summary: President Ortega, with backing from his Venezuelan counterpart Chavez, is consolidating power on Nicaragua's resource-rich Atlantic Coast. Miskito leaders believe Ortega and Chavez are conspiring to control the region's base of timber, minerals, and possibly oil, and that Chavez's comm [...]	2007-01-30 18:09:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KDEM PGOV ECON NU VE
07MANAGUA269	RIZO: PLC AND ALN UNDERESTIMATED ONE ANOTHER TO [...] (C) Jose Rizo, the Liberal Constitutional Party's (PLC) presidential candidate in the November 2006 race, acknowledged to PolCouns on January 23 that he had miscalculated the strength of rival Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) candidate Eduardo Montealegre, while Montealegre had also underest [...]	2007-01-30 18:19:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU PREL
07MANAGUA284	MRS LOSES CAUCUS STATUS BUT CONTINUES AS MOST [...] (C) Summary: The Sandinista Renovation Movement (MRS) has lost its official status as a caucus in the Nicaraguan National Assembly, but its deputies continue to offer the most vocal opposition to President Daniel Ortega. MRS members are disappointed by the larger Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance's [...]	2007-01-30 20:38:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KCOR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA295	CONSERVATIVES WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THE ALN... [...] (C) Summary: Conservative National Assembly deputy Alejandro Bolanos, one of the leading Conservative Party voices in Nicaragua, recently confided to poloff that the Conservatives will continue to support the Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) for the foreseeable future. Nevertheless, Bolanos [...]	2007-01-31 17:23:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ELAB KDEM NU
07MANAGUA328	ALN EMBARKS ON REORGANIZATION, RAPPROCHEMENT WITH [...] (C) Summary: Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) planning coordinator Kitty Monterrey recently shared her party's reorganization plans and provided a copy of ALN president Eduardo Montealegre's letter to his Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC) counterpart. In that letter, Montealegre proposes [...]	2007-02-05 20:24:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU PREL
07MANAGUA329	AMBASSADOR-DESIGNATE CRUZ: &BIGGEST CHALLENGE WILL [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador and country team members recently presented an overview of USG programs and their parameters to Nicaraguan Ambassador-designate to the United States Arturo Cruz (Ref. A),similar to the December 2006 presentation to then President-elect Daniel Ortega's transition team [...]	2007-02-05 20:32:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU PREL
07MANAGUA331	CONVERGENCIA DEPUTIES HAVE INDEPENDENT AGENDA FROM [...] (C) Summary: National Assembly deputy Augustin Jarquin recently told us that the non-Sandinista deputies in the Sandinista Front (FSLN) caucus have developed an independent legislative agenda. The deputies -- a mix of Liberals, Conservatives, Resistance leaders, and indigenous representatives [...]	2007-02-05 21:12:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA357	ORTEGA ACTIONS TEST TRIPWIRES [...] (C) SUMMARY/INTRODUCTION: With less than one month in office, President Daniel Ortega and Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) lawmakers have already touched off a number of our tripwires and placed opposition parties and civil society, international financial institutions (IFIs),and [...]	2007-02-07 14:52:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EFIN KDEM MARR NU PARM PINR PREL PTER
07MANAGUA385	MISKITO COMMUNITY COMMITTED BUT FRACTURED [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff talked with political and civil society leaders in Puerto Cabezas, Northern Autonomous Region (RAAN) about the situation there and their views on the Ortega Administration. Leaders of the Moravian church, the historical bedrock of the indigenous Miskito community, admitte [...]	2007-02-09 21:30:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KDEM KIRF PGOV PINS PREL PHUM SOCI EAID NU
07MANAGUA392	NICARAGUA: AMBASSADOR CALLS ON NEW MINISTER OF [...] (SBU) Summary. In a courtesy call on February 2, new Minister of Government Ana Isabel Morales Mazun told the Ambassador that the government intends to honor agreements established by the previous administration and to strengthen the relationship with the United States. The Ambassador querie [...]	2007-02-12 12:55:00	Embassy Managua	SECRET	PGOV PREL KDEM NU
07MANAGUA40	ALN EXAMINES ITS ROLE AS NEW DEMOCRATIC FORCE [...] (C) Summary: During a recent Embassy-hosted lunch, Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) deputies-elect (headed by Eduardo Montealegre) and leaders of the alliance parties discussed strategy, the future of the ALN, Eduardo Montealegre's role in the party and the need for consolidation. Montealeg [...]	2007-01-09 19:06:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NU
07MANAGUA401	MANAGUA MAYOR EYES AMBASSADORIAL POSTING IN ROME, [...] (C) Summary: Managua Mayor Dionisio Marenco confirmed to the Ambassador that he may become Nicaragua's Ambassador to Italy, although the timeline is unclear. The Sandinista (FSLN) mayor, who is interested in establishing sister city relationships with U.S. cities, will also consider the Wisc [...]	2007-02-13 19:04:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU PREL ECON EPET EINV IR
07MANAGUA404	LIBERALS FINALLY OPPOSE FSLN - WILL IT LAST? [...] (SBU) Summary: Nicaragua's previously divided Liberal parties jointly passed two resolutions in the National Assembly opposing actions by the Sandinista Front (FSLN) administration to change the official government seal and attribute powers to citizen councils that are reserved for government [...]	2007-02-13 21:47:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PARM KDEM NU
07MANAGUA415	ORTEGA GOVERNMENT TAGS CARDINAL OBANDO TO HEAD [...] (C) Summary: President Ortega's new National Peace and Reconciliation Council is the centerpiece of Ortega's September 15 accord with Nicaraguan Resistance Party leader Salvador Talavera. Ignoring Archbishop Leopoldo Brenes' reference to an August 2006 pastoral letter issued by the Episcopa [...]	2007-02-14 22:35:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU PREL
07MANAGUA436	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL NELSON [...] (U) SUMMARY: Post welcomes members of CODEL Nelson to Nicaragua February 18 to 20. With the return of Daniel Ortega to the presidency and changes in the National Assembly, your visit comes at a most propitious time. The United States remains committed to supporting Nicaragua's democratic an [...]	2007-02-15 23:57:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON KCRM KDEM PGOV PINR PREL PTER SMIG SNAR NU
07MANAGUA444	BOLANOS TO SECRETARY LEAVITT - DEMOCRACY IS NOT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 10, the U.S. Presidential Delegation (Presdel),led by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Michael Leavitt, discussed with outgoing President SIPDIS Enrique Bolanos his plans for a virtual presidential library, his future role in the National Assembly and his [...]	2007-02-20 13:12:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON EFIN KDEM NU PGOV PINR PREL
07MANAGUA466	OPPOSITION ASSEMBLY CAUCUS LEADERS SEEK TRAINING [...] (C) Summary: National Assembly caucus leaders representing the Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN),Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC),and the Sandinista Renovation Movement (MRS) recently met with the Ambassador and sought more U.S. training assistance, especially for freshmen lawmakers and [...]	2007-02-21 22:37:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU PREL
07MANAGUA471	NICARAGUA: POLL GIVES ORTEGA FAVORABLE RATINGS, [...] (SBU) Summary: A CID-Gallup poll released on February 21 shows President Daniel Ortega enjoying a honeymoon, with high favorability ratings and optimism toward his presidency -- not only from his traditional base of support, but also among the general public. The poll also concludes that hal [...]	2007-02-22 19:50:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PINR KDEM ECON AID NU
07MANAGUA487	RE-MOLDING THE CONTRAS INTO A POLITICAL FORCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: National Convergence (Convergencia) leader and lawmaker Elia Galeano believes that the Resistance movement will continue to be ineffective as a political force in Nicaragua without robust political and leadership training. She proposes transforming an association of ex-combatant [...]	2007-02-23 21:46:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV NU
07MANAGUA493	ALN SEEKS ASSISTANCE TO MAINTAIN MOMENTUM, PREPARE [...] (C) Summary: The Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) is in debt from its campaign commitments and urgently needs funding to maintain its momentum, enable leader Eduardo Montealegre to emerge as the uncontested leader of the opposition, and prepare for the 2008 municipal elections. The ALN plan [...]	2007-02-24 00:09:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU PREL
07MANAGUA530	FOREIGN MINISTER TRIES TO DOWNPLAY ANTI-U.S. [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Samuel Santos appears perturbed by threats against U.S. local residents, tourists, and journalists in Nicaragua's San Juan del Sur area. He has requested details of the incidents and will speak with the mayor of the town about the concerns. Santos informed us t [...]	2007-02-27 17:02:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU PREL
07MANAGUA541	CODEL NELSON MEETS WITH FOREIGN MINISTER SANTOS [...] (C) Summary: In Senator Nelson's meeting with Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Samuel Santos, he impressed upon Santos his desire to establish sincere and positive relations with the new Ortega government and the Nicaraguan people. The Senator commented that Venezuelan President Chavez' lack of s [...]	2007-02-28 17:39:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU PREL
07MANAGUA542	CODEL NELSON MEETS WITH VICE PRESIDENT MORALES [...] (C) Summary: In Senator Nelson's meeting with Nicaraguan Vice President Jaime Morales, he noted his commitment to fostering friendship between the American and Nicaraguan peoples and good relations between their two governments. Morales sought the Senator's support for TPS renewal for Nicara [...]	2007-02-28 17:41:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU PREL
07MANAGUA577	ALN MUST EMBRACE LOCAL LEADERS TO WIN BATTLE FOR [...] (C) Summary: Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) deputy Ramiro Silva believes that the ALN must work with local Liberal elected officials in order to win the battle for Liberal leadership with the Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC) and consolidate opposition forces. Silva holds ALN leader Eduar [...]	2007-03-02 23:22:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA583	THE SANDINISTA GOVERNMENT 60 DAYS OUT - AND OUR [...] (C) Summary: The FSLN administration is fast reverting to its improvisation, secrecy, and centralization of the 1980's, forging an operating style more appropriate for a revolutionary junta than a modern, democratic state. President Ortega appears determined to consolidate his power, circumve [...]	2007-03-05 22:52:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NU PHUM PINR PREL KCOR
07MANAGUA585	OVERVIEW OF MINISTERS AND SENIOR OFFICIALS IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Within two weeks of his January 10 inauguration, President Daniel Ortega had appointed all his ministers save one, the Minister of Defense. Political opposition leaders have characterized the new ministers as "nobodies" who exercise virtually no authority or influence. Instead, [...]	2007-03-06 15:50:00	Embassy Managua	SECRET//NOFORN	KDEM PGOV PREL PINR
07MANAGUA616	(C) EMBASSY JUMP STARTS LIBERAL UNITY DISCUSSIONS [...] (C) Summary: After splintering under the weight of mutual suspicion and recriminations, DCM hosted a cocktail to bring together members of the Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) and Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC) to reactivate discussions on the need to forge a unified opposition to confront [...]	2007-03-08 14:58:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM NU IR TW VE
07MANAGUA617	ALEMAN STORMS ALN HEADQUARTERS, BUT REFUSES TO MEET PRIVATELY WITH MONTEALEGRE [...] (C) Summary: With an entourage of PLC party hacks and media in toe, former president Arnoldo Aleman recently paid an impromptu (although some ALN members appear to have expected it) visit on rival ALN party headquarters. Eduardo Montealegre was in the midst of chairing his party's weekly bo [...]	2007-03-08 15:01:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU PREL
07MANAGUA627	CSE OFFICIAL CLAIMS ELECTORAL COUNCIL SERIOUS [...] (C) Summary: Rodrigo Barreto, Chief of Staff of Nicaragua's Supreme Electoral Council (CSE),claims that most CSE magistrates are ready to implement desperately needed electoral reforms, but the Council requires donor assistance to move forward. The reforms would center around the issuance of [...]	2007-03-08 23:29:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR EAID KDEM NU
07MANAGUA668	THE FIRST 60 DAYS - ORTEGA PRESSURES MEDIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Ortega's attitude and actions towards the mainstream media in the first 60 days of his administration have raised doubts about his commitment to freedom of expression. Sounding more like an attack plan than a government communications strategy, First Lady Rosario Muri [...]	2007-03-12 22:57:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PREL PINR
07MANAGUA669	THE FIRST 60 DAYS - ORTEGA PRESSURES MEDIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Ortega's attitude and actions towards the mainstream media in the first 60 days of his administration have raised doubts about his commitment to freedom of expression. Sounding more like an attack plan than a government communications strategy, First Lady Rosario Muri [...]	2007-03-12 23:00:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PREL PINR
07MANAGUA700	NICARAGUA: AMBASSADOR CALLS ON MINISTER OF LABOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a March 14 meeting with the Ambassador, Nicaraguan Minister of Labor Jeanette Chavez Gomez admitted that the Ministry faces some complex problems. While in favor of increasing the minimum wage, she emphasized the need for a cautious, balanced approach to adjusting the mini [...]	2007-03-16 17:21:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ELAB KDEM PGOV PINR NU
07MANAGUA720	INCREASING VENEZUELAN INFLUENCE ON ATLANTIC COAST [...] (C) Summary: Prominent indigenous activist Javier Williams Slate warns the Ortega Administration is aggressively consolidating power in the North Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAN) to secure a route for their Venezuelan allies to transport oil to the Pacific. According to Williams, Venezuelan [...]	2007-03-19 22:56:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM SOCI SNAR NU VE
07MANAGUA726	ORTEGA FOLLOWS CHAVEZ' LEAD IN CONFRONTING U.S. [...] (C) Summary: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez traveled to Nicaragua on March 11 to use the country as a platform to criticize the United States and the Central American leg of President Bush's recent trip. Chavez' trips to Nicaragua have inspired President Daniel Ortega to abandon his pre-ele [...]	2007-03-20 15:29:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR KDEM NU VE

07MANAGUA745	ORTEGA ACCORDS ALEMAN VIRTUALLY FREE REIGN [...] (C) Summary: In an effort likely aimed to keep Nicaragua's liberals divided and ensure 'buy-in" from the Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC) on the appointment of regime-friendly Supreme Court justices and other government positions, the Ortega government issued instructions on March 16 allowi [...]	2007-03-21 15:50:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU PREL
07MANAGUA776	MARTINEZ CUENCA: GIVE THE ORTEGA GOVERNMENT A BIT [...] (C) Summary: Sandinista-dissident Alejandro Martinez Cuenca believes it is still too soon to assess the performance of the Ortega administration, but he is certain that Ortega's prime goal is to remain in power indefinitely while he leaves First Lady Rosario to run the government. He is con [...]	2007-03-22 23:14:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM NU PGOV PINR PREL SNAR
07MANAGUA783	CONSERVATIVE PARTY WILL TAKE &AKIDO8 APPROACH TO [...] (C) Summary: Conservative Party president Azalia Aviles Salmeron and PC National Assembly lawmaker Alejandro Bolanos are determined to strengthen their party and maintain its alliance with Eduardo Montealegre's Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance. While ultimately they would prefer to establish a Co [...]	2007-03-23 20:45:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU PREL
07MANAGUA784	CENTAM CHIEFS OF MISSION BEWILDERED BY ORTEGA'S [...] (C) Summary: Central American COMs in Nicaragua agree that the Ortega administration is pursuing a "double discourse" in foreign and economic policy, which makes predicting a future trajectory difficult. They have also been perturbed by protocol irregularities, including a delay in the accred [...]	2007-03-23 20:51:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR ECON KDEM NU XK
07MANAGUA789	NICARAGUA REACHES OUT TO IRAQ [...] (C) Ambassador Magda Henriquez, the Director of the Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry's Multilateral Affairs Office, informed PolCouns on March 23 that she had met last week with Iraqi Ambassador to the United Nations, Hamid Al-Biyati, as a first step towards renewing diplomatic ties between the two [...]	2007-03-26 12:55:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU PREL IZ
07MANAGUA791	ORTEGA DESIRES CONSTRUCTIVE RELATIONS WITH THE [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Magda Enriquez, the Director of the MFA's Multilateral Affairs Office, believes President Ortega sincerely desires constructive relations with the United States, but she concedes that some Sandinista party hardliners object. While she acknowledges that Ortega consider [...]	2007-03-26 21:20:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU PREL UNGA IZ IR
07MANAGUA798	FSLN CENSUS AN ATTEMPT TO MAP OPPOSITION LEADERS, [...] (C) Miskito leader Osorno Coleman, who lost his bid for a National Assembly seat on the Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) ticket in November 2006, is convinced that pro-Sandinista (FSLN) Miskito leaders Brooklyn Rivera and Stedman Fagoth are directing an FSLN "census" of ex-combatants on the [...]	2007-03-27 22:52:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM NU PGOV PHUM PINR PREL
07MANAGUA800	NICARAGUAN POLICE URGE DONORS TO COORDINATE SUPPORT [...] (U) The Nicaraguan Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted a meeting of donor nations on March 23, 2007. The meeting, which included remarks by Eva Zetterberg, Swedish Ambassador to Nicaragua and chair of the donor group, was attended by countries who provide support to the Nicaraguan National Po [...]	2007-03-27 23:00:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM NU PGOV PINR SNAR
07MANAGUA81	MINISTRY OF DEFENSE FACES UNCERTAIN FUTURE [...] (C) Summary: Embassy contacts fear that President Daniel Ortega's failure to name a Minister of Defense before his inauguration presages the eventual dismantling/undermining of the Ministry, or represents a stall tactic to eventually ease Lenin Cerna's wife, Marisol Castillo, into the job over [...]	2007-01-12 21:31:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PARM KDEM NU
07MANAGUA810	POLITICAL PUNDITS PLACE ORTEGA GOVERNMENT ON [...] (C) Summary: Six of Nicaragua's leading political analysts concur that the Ortega administration has already reached "yellow alert" status and that President Ortega's primordial objective is to consolidate power. Over breakfast at the Ambassador's residence, they lauded our government's app [...]	2007-03-29 18:04:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM NU PGOV PHUM PINR PREL
07MANAGUA859	AMBASSADOR RAISES UNSCR 1747, DESIGNATION OF [...] (C) On April 2, the Ambassador raised the USG's designation of Iran's Defense Industries Organization (DIO) under E.O. 13382 with Foreign Minister Santos. He also reiterated the importance of the international community's adhering to UNSCR 1747 and urged the Nicaraguan government (GON) to en [...]	2007-04-03 17:58:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KDEM KNNP PARM KN IR NU
07MANAGUA871	NGO GIVES ORTEGA A FAILING GRADE ON HIS FIRST 60 DAYS [...] (U) Summary: After a legal, economic and political analysis of the Ortega administration's first sixty days, Movimiento por Nicaragua (MpN),an influential civil society organization, gave the government a failing grade. Analysts attacked the government's numerous decrees and legislative initi [...]	2007-04-03 21:56:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON KDEM SOCI NU
07MANAGUA875	EU ELECTIONS REPORT MIXED BAG OF VALID [...] (C) Summary: The European Union's final report on Nicaragua's national elections -- belatedly released on March 30 -- contains several useful recommendations, but soft-pedaled direct criticism of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) while unjustifiably bashing the USG and Nicaraguan [...]	2007-04-03 23:08:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM NU XG
07MANAGUA905	LIBERAL UNITY OR DISUNITY COULD DETERMINE OUTCOME OF NICARAGUA,S 2008 MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS, COUNTRY,S FUTURE [...] (C) Summary: According to a recent New Link study, the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) could win 77 of the 153 municipalities in Nicaragua's 2008 municipal elections if the two estranged liberal parties run separately. This outcome would boost the FSLN's chances to win the 2011 [...]	2007-04-10 22:39:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM NU PGOV PHUM PINR PREL
07MANAGUA954	PLC DEPUTIES OPINE ON LIBERAL UNITY, [...] (C) Summary: Moderate deputies of the Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC) blame convicted PLC leader Arnoldo AleU5tA}[...]	2007-04-16 15:43:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA958	ALN: FSLN PLOTTING TO BUY VOTES AND DIVIDE [...] (C) Summary: National Assembly deputies of the Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) agree that, theoretically, the Assembly could serve as a check to President Ortega's totalitarian tendencies. Unfortunately, the FSLN will work hard to maintain Liberal divisions and build popular support through [...]	2007-04-16 20:54:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA964	NICARAGUAN WOMEN ACTIVISTS WARN CHOICE IS [...] (C). SUMMARY: Leading members of the Women's Autonomous Movement of Nicaragua recently met with Embassy officers to discuss the need to encourage women within civil society to defend Nicaragua's democracy, promote development, and stop the slide toward authoritarianism and "legal dictatorship" [...]	2007-04-17 18:56:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KDEM KWMN PDEM PHUM PREL NU
07MANAGUA982	ALN PLANNING ROBUST OPPOSITION, BUT STARVED FOR [...] (C) Summary: Leaders of the Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) are planning new strategies to confront the Ortega administration, but the party faces a severe funding shortage and considerable campaign debt. The party is conflicted on how to approach the 2008 municipal elections and whether the [...]	2007-04-19 15:33:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA987	PLC VICE PRESIDENT: WE MUST ALLY WITH THE ALN [...] (C) Summary: Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC) vice president and National Assembly deputy Wilfredo Navarro informed poloffs that the PLC must form an alliance with the Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) before the 2008 municipal elections or his party will face a devastating route. Navarro ex [...]	2007-04-19 21:57:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA996	ALN LOOKS TO FOREIGN DONORS, SMALL AND MEDIUM [...] (S) Summary: According to ALN National Assembly caucus leader Maria Eugenia Sequeira, Managua's Taiwanese business community is now cognizant of the threat Ortega poses to its future. Taiwanese businessmen recently promised to support the party without imposing a pre-condition of broad Libera [...]	2007-04-20 17:20:00	Embassy Managua	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM NU
07MANAMA1031	COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-15 10:58:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PHUM PREL UNGA BA
07MANAMA1046	TACTICAL ALLIANCE BETWEEN SUNNIS AND SHI'A IN [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-19 13:55:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KISL BA
07MANAMA1051	UPDATE: DEMOCRATIC REFORM STRATEGY FOR BAHRAIN [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-21 14:13:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM BA
07MANAMA133	ELECTION MONITORING REPORT CITES VIOLATIONS, [...] (C) The NGO Joint Election Monitoring Committee (JEMC) issued its report February 10 on the recent parliamentary elections. The report does not clearly acknowledge that the elections were free and fair and enumerates many violations of the election law. However, it also states that the Comm [...]	2007-02-12 12:20:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KMPI BA POL
07MANAMA190	BLOCS IN THE NEWLY-ELECTED BAHRAINI PARLIAMENT [...] (C) The two rounds of parliamentary electQ conducted November 25 and December 2 brought in a Sunni majority (23 of 40 seats),15 of whom are members of two Islamist political societies: Al Asala (Salafi),with eight seats, and Al Minbar (Muslim Brotherhood),with seven seats. Four of the ei [...]	2007-02-28 14:43:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR BA POL
07MANAMA229	BAHRAIN: ADVANCING NGO PROTECTION IN CONJUNCTION [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-12 08:36:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PHUM PREL PGOV BA HUMRIT
07MANAMA263	AL WIFAQ COURTS SUNNIS AND GOVERNMENT BUT RISKS [...] (C) Shia opposition political society Al Wifaq,s strategy since entering the Council of Representatives (COR) in December has been to build trust and consensus with the royal family and Sunni legislators, saving more inflammatory debates over constitutional reform and corruption for later. The [...]	2007-03-22 08:25:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM BA POL
07MANAMA315	BAHRAIN: UN DEMOCRACY FUND PROJECT UPDATE [...] (SBU) In a meeting with UNDP Program Analyst Mohamed Al Sharif March 28, Poloff inquired about the status of a UN Democracy Fund (UNDEF) project being conducted by the UNDP in cooperation with the Bahrain Institute for Political Development (BIPD). Al Sharif explained that the project has un [...]	2007-04-04 12:57:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID KDEM KPAO PGOV PREL UN NGO OIIP BA
07MANAMA44	CROWN PRINCE BRIEFS CNO PANEL ON REGIONAL, [...] (C) Crown Prince Shaikh Salman told CNO Executive Panel co-chairs Zakheim and Skinner January 9 that the two issues of greatest concern in the region are Iran and perceived limitations on the U.S.'s ability to project power. With changes in Iraq and Afghanistan, Iran had been freed of its na [...]	2007-01-17 13:14:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR KDEM BA REGION OFFICIALS
07MANAMA79	KING AND DEPUTY DEFENSE SECRETARY ENGLAND CONFER [...] (C) King Hamad and Deputy Defense Secretary England discussed bilateral relations, Iran, Iraq, Syria, U.S. policy in the region and Bahraini domestic affairs during a January 22 lunch meeting. The King declared that Bahrain is proud of its relationship with the United States and pledged that [...]	2007-01-26 11:48:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR ECON PGOV KDEM BA REGION BILAT
07MANAMA893	COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES MEETING ON MARGINS OF UNGA [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-20 13:54:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PHUM PREL UNGA PGOV BA
07MANILA2418	PHILIPPINES TO CONSIDER U.S. POINTS ON COMMUNITY [...] (SBU) In a meeting on July 18 regarding U.S. priorities for the Community of Democracies Ministerial preparatory meeting (reftel),Director Leah Ruiz of the Department of Foreign Affairs' Office of United Nations and International Organizations (UNIO) said that the Philippines "had no proble [...]	2007-07-19 05:38:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PHUM UNGA CH TW RP
07MANILA2860	PHILIPPINES UPDATE ON ASIA DEMOCRACY PARTNERSHIP [...] (U) This is an action message. Please see para 4. 2. (C) As requested (ref a),post met with the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and encouraged participation in and feedback on the Asia Democracy Partnership (ADP). 3. (C) Melanie Diano, desk officer covering U.S. affairs at DFA's [...]	2007-08-22 10:09:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM RP
07MANILA3299	PHILIPPINES: KEEPING PRESSURE ON BURMA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The ongoing crisis in Burma continues to command high-level interest in Philippine government and media circles. President Arroyo repeated calls for restoration of democracy and the release of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, while condemning the junta's harsh, repressive me [...]	2007-10-03 06:01:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL RP BM
07MANILA3335	PHILIPPINE FOREIGN MINISTER: "WE'RE ON THE SAME [...] (C) SUMMARY: Philippine Foreign Secretary Romulo, traveling with Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in India, personally assured the Ambassador that the Philippine government shares the views of the U.S. regarding violent repression in Burma, and will use the trip to press India fo [...]	2007-10-05 08:24:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL RP BM
07MANILA3620	PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT PLEASED TO ATTEND COMMUNITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a November 6 meeting, Department of Foreign Affairs Director for United Nations and International Organizations Leah Ruiz told poloff that the Philippine government would participate in the 4th Community of Democracies ministerial meeting November 14-17, and in the Asia Paci [...]	2007-11-08 06:01:00	Embassy Manila	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL UNGA MG RP
07MAPUTO138	MOZAMBIQUE - AU CHARTER ON DEMOCRACY, ELECTIONS [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-30 10:03:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PREL MZ XA
07MAPUTO1469	INDIA HOPING TO "CHECKMATE CHINA" IN MOZAMBIQUE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Charge recently paid a courtesy call on the India's High Commissioner to Mozambique, Rajinder Bhagat. The High Commissioner related his country's primary interests in Mozambique, focusing on commercial sector development, agricultural development, and coal mining, while rec [...]	2007-12-17 12:19:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EMIN KDEM PGOV PREL IN MZ CN
07MAPUTO1471	INDIA HOPING TO "CHECKMATE CHINA" IN MOZAMBIQUE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Charge recently paid a courtesy call on the India's High Commissioner to Mozambique, Rajinder Bhagat. The High Commissioner related his country's primary interests in Mozambique, focusing on commercial sector development, agricultural development, and coal mining, while rec [...]	2007-12-17 14:12:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EMIN KDEM PGOV PREL IN MZ CN
07MAPUTO899	PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS DELAYED, BUT MOVING FORWARD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Provincial elections in Mozambique originally set for December 20 face logistical difficulties, voter cynicism, protest by the Muslim community, and a budget shortfall. Despite these challenges, the GRM maintains its commitment to proceeding with the elections, but delayed them [...]	2007-08-01 12:41:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	POL PGOV PREL KDEM MZ
07MAPUTO902	CHARGE'S COURTESY CALL WITH FM ABREU [...] (U) SUMMARY. In a July 31 courtesy call on Minister of Foreign Affairs Alcinda Abreu, the Charge noted the positive and expanding nature of our bilateral relationship, underscored by the recent visit of First Lady Laura Bush and the MCC compact signing. He also advised Abreu of several upcomin [...]	2007-08-02 15:55:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	POL PGOV PREL KDEM MZ
07MAPUTO956	MOZAMBIQUE--DISPARATE VIEWS ON MUGABE [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Guebuza's Chief of Staff Antonio Sumbana told Charge of private GRM concerns about the ongoing political and economic crisis in Zimbabwe, but that the GRM saw little benefit in publicly challenging Robert Mugabe. "Zimbabwe still has the potential to destabilize Mozambiqu [...]	2007-08-14 08:10:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM MZ PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
07MAPUTO988	PRESIDENT GUEBUZA ON ZIMBABWE AND PKO'S [...] (C) Summary: President Guebuza told the Charge on August 20 that he pressed both Mbeki and Mugabe for a speedier solution to Zimbabwe's political crisis at the Lusaka Summit that reflects the will of the Zimbabwean people. He said that Mozambique was interested in participating in peacekeep [...]	2007-08-21 14:58:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM MZ ZI
07MAPUTO998	PRESIDENT GUEBUZA ON ZIMBABWE AND PKO'S [...] (C) Summary: President Guebuza told the Charge on August 20 that he pressed both Mbeki and Mugabe for a speedier solution to Zimbabwe's political crisis at the Lusaka Summit that reflects the will of the Zimbabwean people. He said that Mozambique was interested in participating in peacekeep [...]	2007-08-24 05:44:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM MZ ZI
07MASERU111	LESOTHO: THE STRIKE THAT WAS A GUTTERBALL [...] SUMMARY: Wednesday, February 28, 2007, was the "strike that wasn't" in Lesotho. Rumors and pamphlets swirled through the capital and numerous interior towns after the weekend's political rallies that a potentially disruption work stoppage would occur. In a positive sign for the acceptance o [...]	2007-03-02 12:27:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KDEM LT
07MASERU113	LESOTHO: ELEVEN APPOINTED TO SENATE [...] The Office of the Prime Minister announced on February 28 that His Majesty King Letsie III, in accordance with Section 55 of the Constitution of Lesotho, appointed eleven new members of the Senate, the upper house of Parliament. (NOTE: The Constitution stipulates that the Council of State sho [...]	2007-03-02 12:35:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KDEM LT
07MASERU124	LESOTHO: NEW MEMBERS OF HIS MAJESTY'S CABINET [...] SUMMARY: On Friday, March 2, Lesotho's Chief Justice, in the presence of King Letsie III and Prime Minister and Mrs. Mosisili, swore in the nation's new cabinet in a lengthy ceremony at the Royal Palace. The Cabinet is composed of members of the nation's two houses of Parliament. While the [...]	2007-03-06 20:42:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM LT
07MASERU149	LESOTHO'S NEW FOREIGN MINISTER PRAISES BILATERAL [...] (C) In her first official courtesy call on the "new" Foreign Minister (FOMIN) Mohlabi Kenneth Tsekoa March 14, Ambassador Perry congratulated him on his return to the posting. The Minister graciously accepted the Ambassador's congratulations and remembered our first meeting in 2004 when he ac [...]	2007-03-14 16:09:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM EAID LT
07MASERU157	LESOTHO AND THE CRISIS IN ZIMBABWE [...] (C) With the bad and worsening situation in Zimbabwe, Ambassador raised the issue of (a) what Lesotho as Southern African Development Community (SADC) Chair was going to do about Mugabe, and (b) what Lesotho as a nation would do to stop Mugabe's continued assault on the opposition. The discus [...]	2007-03-15 15:23:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PREL ZI LT
07MASERU160	LESOTHO: OPENING OF PARLIAMENT ENDS WITH SIT-IN, EJECTIONS [...] SUMMARY: After His Majesty King Letsie III officially opened the 7th Parliament of Lesotho on Thursday, March 15, Lesotho's major opposition parties staged a "sit-in," and pledged not to leave the Parliament building until the government had addressed their demands for a redistribution of legi [...]	2007-03-16 12:49:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC LT
07MASERU161	SADC, OPPOSITION AND GOVERNMENT MEETINGS ON POLITICAL [...] (C) Over the past three and a half days, Ambassador Perry has met with the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Executive Secretary and his senior staff, the diplomatic corps and all leaders of the opposition parties concerning the current political crisis and stay-away occurring in L [...]	2007-03-19 15:32:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC LT
07MASERU176	GOL DEFENDS ELECTORAL PROCEDURES [...] (C) The Government of Lesotho (GOL) called an emergency donors meeting on March 21 to discuss its views of the tactics used by the opposition parties, particularly by the All Basotho Convention (ABC) party led by Thomas Thabane. The meeting was convened by the Minister in the Office of the Pr [...]	2007-03-22 15:58:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR PHUM SADC ZI LT
07MASERU177	SADC: POSSIBLE EXTRAORDINARY SUMMIT ON ZIMBABWE [...] (C) Summary: Tanzanian Foreign Minister Membe, in Lesotho for the SADC Council of Ministers meeting, told Maseru-based diplomats on March 22 "in confidence" that the SADC Double Troika ministers had recommended to their respective capitals that Tanzania host an Extraordinary Summit for SADC He [...]	2007-03-22 21:10:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV PINR KDEM ECON ZI LT
07MASERU182	SADC COUNCIL OF MINISTERS MEETING: MEDIA BRIEFING [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-23 12:02:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAGR ETRD PREL PGOV KDEM LT
07MASERU183	SADC DOUBLE TROIKA PRESS RELEASE: MASERU - MARCH 22, 2007 [...] On March 22, Embassy Maseru received a diplomatic note from Lesotho's Ministry of Foreign Affairs extending an invitation to all Diplomatic Missions in Maseru to send representatives to attend a media briefing by Timothy Thahane, the Lesotho Minister of Finance and Development Planning, who is [...]	2007-03-23 12:06:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM ZI LT
07MASERU191	SADC/LESOTHO NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) This message provides a basic chronology and substantive background on our bilateral and multilateral engagements during Lesotho's pre-election, electoral and post electoral developments. The latter more closely involved Southern African Development Community (SADC) Executive Secretary Sa [...]	2007-03-27 16:29:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM LT
07MASERU20	LESOTHO: STATE OF PREPAREDNESS FOR 2007 NATIONAL ELECTIONS [...] Summary: As polling day approaches, anticipation is high across Lesotho and political parties are busy holding rallies to drum up support for the February 17, 2007 national election, less than six weeks away. Fierce competition and internal disputes have delayed some political parties in ide [...]	2007-01-12 12:46:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KDEM LT
07MASERU202	LESOTHO: POST ELECTION CONFERENCE [...] Summary: The Lesotho Council of NGOs (LCN) hosted a two-day conference on Post 2007 National Assembly Elections from March 26 to 27, 2007. The Conference was aimed at reflecting on Lesotho's February 17 2007 National Assembly elections and beyond so as to facilitate the process of learning and [...]	2007-04-02 15:21:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KDEM LT
07MASERU24	LESOTHO REQUESTS USG OBSERVER MISSION FOR NATIONAL [...] This is an action request. Please see para 5. 2. SUMMARY. On January 11, Embassy Maseru received a diplomatic note from Lesotho's Ministry of Foreign Affairs formally announcing the date of forthcoming national elections as February 17, 2007, and inviting the United States Government to [...]	2007-01-18 15:07:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM LT
07MASERU246	LESOTHO: NEW COMMUNICATIONS MINISTER ASKS FOR HELP [...] SUMMARY: In an April 20 meeting with U.S. Ambassador June Carter Perry, Lesotho's new Minister of Communications Mothetjoa Metsing acknowledged the failure of the GOL and the governing party to properly communicate with Lesotho's public and asked the U.S. Embassy in Maseru for assistance. Un [...]	2007-04-26 13:23:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KDEM LT
07MASERU265	LESOTHO: LCD HOLDS PEACEFUL MARCH TO DEMONSTRATE UNITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In order to demonstrate unity in the face of political opposition rhetoric and allegations of intra-party differences (reftel),the governing Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) party held a march and rally in Maseru on Sunday, May 6 attended by an estimated three thousand sup [...]	2007-05-08 16:11:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PREL PGOV LT
07MASERU337	TANZANIAN FM DELIVERS SADC REPORT TO LESOTHO [...] Summary: On June 11, Tanzanian Foreign Minister Membe, in his capacity as representative of the Chairperson of SADC's Troika on Politics, Defense, and Security, delivered a much anticipated report to Lesotho on the country's contested February 2007 national election. The Troika's recommendati [...]	2007-06-11 18:31:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PGOV PREL LT
07MASERU339	LESOTHO: RADIO STATION WINS CASE AGAINST GOVERNMENT [...] SUMMARY: Harvest FM, a popular local private anti-government radio station, won a last minute court case against the GOL on Saturday, June 9. The outcome of the case overturned a Ministry of Tourism decision to deny the station the right to rent the National Convention Center to celebrate its [...]	2007-06-12 14:56:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PREL PGOV LT
07MASERU340	LESOTHO: GUNMEN FORCIBLY DISARM MINISTERIAL GUARDS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On the night of June 10, unknown gunmen carrying automatic rifles attacked, disarmed, and kidnapped Lesotho Defense Forces (LDF) guards at the residences of the Minister in the Prime Minister's Office Motloheloa Phooko and the Minister of Trade and Industry Popane Lebesa. No sho [...]	2007-06-12 15:02:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KDEM ASEC LT
07MASERU350	LESOTHO: FORMER BOTSWANA PRESIDENT LEADS SADC DIALOGUE [...] (SBU) Summary: A mere two days after a SADC Troika report on Lesotho's political impasse called for a SADC-facilitated dialogue, former Botswana President Ketumile Masire arrived in the capital city of Maseru for a six-day effort aimed at resolving a post-election stand-off that has at times t [...]	2007-06-14 20:41:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PREL LT
07MASERU353	LESOTHO: FRESH ATTACKS ON HOMES OF GOL MINISTER AND [...] (U) SUMMARY: Only four days after the June 10 attack on the residences of two government ministers, unidentified gunmen carried out a new attack on the residence of Mothojoa Metsing, Minister of Communications, Science and Technology, on the night of June 14. Post sources indicated that the a [...]	2007-06-15 13:43:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KDEM ASEC LT
07MASERU357	LESOTHO: SADC ENVOY BRINGS GOL, OPPOSITION TOGETHER [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 16, former President of Botswana Kitumile Masire, head of a SADC mediation team in Lesotho, succeeded in pulling together various stakeholders, including the governing and opposition parties, to discuss the nation's current political stalemate. Masire achieved an agreement [...]	2007-06-19 17:07:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PREL LT
07MASERU358	LESOTHO JUNE 19 SITREP: GOL REVISES CURFEW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the face of public criticism, mounting pressure from Lesotho's political opposition, and a threatened taxi strike, the nation's Police Commissioner announced on June 19 a loosening of Maseru's current 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. daily curfew to the hours of 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. Embassy Mase [...]	2007-06-19 17:42:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KDEM ASEC CASC LT
07MASERU359	LESOTHO JUNE 20 SITREP: CONTINUED QUIET IN MASERU [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A second consecutive night of calm on June 19-20 during newly shorted curfew hours has eased Maseru's immediate tensions. On June 20, Lesotho's powerful taxi associations agreed with a GOL appeal to postpone consideration of a strike until June 25, the GOL's Ombudsman publicly [...]	2007-06-20 16:39:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KDEM ASEC CASC LT
07MASERU365	LESOTHO JUNE 22 SITREP: A CALM BUT UNCERTAIN CURFEW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 22, Maseru remained perfectly calm one week after implementation of a curfew implemented to end attacks on senior political and government figures. The security situation, however, remains unpredictable. There are no signs the Lesotho police have made progress in identi [...]	2007-06-22 13:18:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KDEM ASEC CASC LT
07MASERU368	MASERU APPEALS FOR ADDITIONAL SSH AND DHRF FUNDING [...] SUMMARY: As AF/EPS and AF/RSA consider the best ways to distribute end of year Special Self Help (SSH) and Democracy and Human Rights (DHRF) funding, Embassy Maseru's Special Projects office respectfully requests that these offices consider U.S. Mission Maseru as a highly productive and engag [...]	2007-06-26 13:27:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PHUM KDEM LT
07MASERU37	EMBASSY MASERU'S MLK DAY EVENT SETS TONE FOR UPCOMING [...] SUMMARY: On January 17, Embassy Maseru held a lecture/discussion event in commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, which one resident Ambassador declared "the best and most intellectually stimulating event I've attended since I've arrived in Lesotho." The MLK Day Commemoration event, fe [...]	2007-01-24 07:20:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO KDEM SCUL PREL PGOV LT
07MASERU370	LESOTHO: PM VISITS SOUTH AFRICA DESPITE TROUBLE AT HOME [...] (U) SUMMARY: On June 18-20, the Prime Minister of Lesotho, Phakalitha Mosisili, conducted an official visit to Cape Town, South Africa. An official communiqui on the visit mentioned the signing of agreements on several bilateral issues, including the cross-border movement of citizens. In his [...]	2007-06-26 15:47:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ECON KMCA KDEM EAID SF LT
07MASERU371	LESOTHO: EMBATTLED RADIO PRESENTER FACES SEDITION CHARGES [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-26 17:10:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM LT
07MASERU379	LESOTHO: SADC MEDIATION SUCCESS AMID ABUSE ALLEGATIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After a turbulent week of negotiations (June 25-29),ongoing SADC mediation efforts between Lesotho's governing and opposition parties appear to have made progress as stakeholders have identified outside experts to evaluate Lesotho's implementation of the Mixed Member Proportion [...]	2007-06-29 12:52:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KDEM ASEC PHUM LT
07MASERU384	LESOTHO CONTRADICTIONS: TALKS ADVANCE, OPPOSITION ANNOUNCES [...] SUMMARY: Head of the Southern African Development Community's (SADC) mediation delegation and former President of Botswana Masire successfully concluded the first round of talks between Lesotho's governing and opposition parties on July 1. On the same day, however, Lesotho's largest oppositio [...]	2007-07-02 19:51:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC PHUM LT
07MASERU385	LESOTHO: ABUSED OPPOSITION BODYGUARD FREED ON COURT ORDER [...] (U) SUMMARY: On the evening of July 2, a High Court Justice ordered the Lesotho Defense Forces (LDF) Commander to facilitate the immediate release of Mr. Makotoko Lerotholi to his family. Unidentified gunmen took Mr. Lerotholi, a bodyguard for Thomas Thabane, head of the All Basotho Convention [...]	2007-07-03 15:42:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM ASEC LT
07MASERU389	LESOTHO: PEACEFUL OPPOSITION MARCH DISSIPATES TENSIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On July 5, Lesotho's opposition parties held a large and peaceful march to deliver protest petitions to Lesotho's Commissioner of Police and the Prime Minister's office. The march ended at the National Convention Center, where opposition leaders (with ABC Leader Thomas Thabane [...]	2007-07-05 18:30:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ASEC KDEM PHUM LT
07MASERU398	MOB CONFRONTS MILITARY OVER RE-ARREST OF ALLEGED COUP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On July 7, the Lesotho army's seizure of three soldiers, which Lesotho's High Court had ordered released from GOL custody for a second time, led to an angry mob hurling rocks at military vehicles and burning tires in the vicinity of a Maseru police station. The GOL accuses the [...]	2007-07-09 14:58:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV ASEC KDEM PHUM LT
07MASERU424	LESOTHO: SPEAKER PROGRAM EVALUATION - MR. ROBERT SMOLIK, [...] SUMMARY: From July 13-17, Embassy Maseru hosted international speaker Mr. Robert Smolik, currently the State Department's Diplomat in Residence at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. Mr. Smolik's presentations on democracy, good governance, and anti-corr [...]	2007-07-19 10:55:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KDEM KCOR ECON LT
07MASERU428	LESOTHO: LAWSUITS AND PRESS STATEMENTS AMID RELATIVE QUIET [...] (U) SUMMARY: The past week and a half in Maseru passed quietly without jarring developments relating to Lesotho's ongoing political impasse. Deputy Prime Minister Lehohla addressed the nation on Lesotho Television on July 10, reinforcing the government line that attacks on ministerial reside [...]	2007-07-20 09:30:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KDEM ASEC PHUM LT
07MASERU436	LESOTHO: ARMY AND POLICE RECOVER STOLEN WEAPONS AMID NEW [...] SUMMARY: On June 19, the Lesotho Defense Force (LDF) and the Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS) launched a joint operation to recover weapons stolen from army guards outside of ministerial residences (ref B). In their first major success in locating these weapons, the LDF and LMPS recover [...]	2007-07-23 14:34:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV ASEC KDEM PHUM LT
07MASERU439	LESOTHO: JUDGE'S HOME SEARCHED, OPPOSITION AND CIVIL SOCIETY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Lesotho's political crisis continues to lumber forward, as the Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS) searched the home of a High Court Justice who recently issued two rulings against the GOL. Leaders of Lesotho's five major opposition parties held a press conference on July 24 [...]	2007-07-25 15:02:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ASEC KDEM PHUM LT
07MASERU476	LESOTHO: CHARGE MEETS WITH OPPOSITION, GOL ON CALL FOR AID [...] (C) SUMMARY: Charge met on August 7 with Lesotho's main opposition party leaders, and separately on August 8 with a key GOL minister, to discuss the opposition's recent appeal for a suspension of foreign assistance, including MCC funding, until the country returns to "proper democratic rule." [...]	2007-08-08 16:31:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PHUM PGOV PREL EAID LT
07MASERU548	LESOTHO: SPEAKER PROGRAM EVALUATION - MR. GEORGE TANBER [...] SUMMARY: From September 17-21, Embassy Maseru hosted international speaker and journalist Mr. George Tanber, a former correspondent and investigative reporter/editor for The Toledo Blade. Mr. Tanber's presentation and dialogue with journalists from different media houses came at a timely poi [...]	2007-10-01 11:59:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KDEM LT
07MASERU577	LESOTHO: CONTROVERSIAL RADIO PRESENTER DEPORTED AGAIN [...] SUMMARY: On October 16, listeners to Maseru's popular local radio station Harvest FM were surprised to hear a familiar voice on the airwaves -- the voice of Reverend Adam Lekhoaba, a controversial presenter deported as an illegal alien in May 2007. As Lekhoaba's claim of Lesotho citizenship [...]	2007-10-16 14:21:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KDEM LT
07MASERU60	TEMPERATURE RISING IN LESOTHO'S POLITICAL SEASON [...] SUMMARY: Lesotho's upcoming national election, scheduled for February 17, has raised the tenor and velocity of political discourse in the Mountain Kingdom. While a recent emergency meeting of the Independent Election Commission (IEC) focused on technical election problems, the candidate nomi [...]	2007-02-06 15:34:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KDEM LT
07MASERU623	LESOTHO DEFENCE FORCE COMMANDER: "WE SUPPORT AFRICOM" [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 5, Ambassador paid a courtesy call on Lesotho Defense Force (LDF) Commander Lt. General Thuso Motanyane, during which the Commander expressed strong support for the establishment of AFRICOM and lauded growing military relations between the U.S. and Lesotho. The Amba [...]	2007-12-06 16:50:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM MARR MASS MOPS MCAP LT
07MASERU64	FOREIGN AFFAIRS CONCURS WITH U.S. ON SEVERAL ISSUES; [...] (S) On February 7 ( and over the course of the past 3 weeks) Ambassador raised key U.S. policy issues with Foreign Minister Moleleki. We also discussed the issues facing the February 17 general elections. On the new U.S. Africa Military Command, Moleleki was in complete agreement with the U [...]	2007-02-08 15:40:00	Embassy Maseru	SECRET	PGOV PREL KDEM PTER MARR KNNP EFIN LT
07MASERU642	LESOTHO: SPEAKER PROGRAM EVALUATION - DR. STEVEN LIVINGSTON [...] SUMMARY: From December 10-15, Embassy Maseru hosted media and public affairs expert Dr. Steven Livingston, a professor of Political Communication at George Washington University's School of Media and Public Affairs (SMPA),for a series of workshops with Government of Lesotho officials, journa [...]	2007-12-27 10:59:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KDEM LT
07MASERU69	LESOTHO ELECTION UPDATE: RULING PARTY DITCHES DEBATE [...] SUMMARY: Shocking many observers, the governing Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) pulled out of Lesotho's only political debate between major party leaders just hours before the event on February 10 -- one week before the election. The withdrawal came as a surprise and disappointment to L [...]	2007-02-14 20:23:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM LT
07MASERU73	WINNER TAKE ALL: UPDATE ON LESOTHO'S ELECTION EVE [...] (S) Over the past few weeks, the Ambassador met once or twice weekly with other Chiefs of Mission (COM) as well as political party leaders, the Minister of Foreign Affairs (FOMIN),Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) Chairperson, international observers and civil society representatives. O [...]	2007-02-16 11:04:00	Embassy Maseru	SECRET//NOFORN	KDEM PGOV PREL PINR LT
07MASERU75	LESOTHO ELECTION COMMISSION SPEAKS ON EVE OF ELECTION [...] SUMMARY: As Lesotho approaches polling for the National Assembly election on February 17, Lesotho's Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has consistently stated that it is prepared for polling day. Ballot papers are printed and are in place or being transported by road or helicopter to the [...]	2007-02-16 13:41:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PGOV PREL LT
07MASERU77	LESOTHO: CALM ELECTION DELIVERS WAKE-UP CALL TO GOVERNING [...] SUMMARY: Early unofficial results from Lesotho's national election on February 17 indicate that the governing political party, the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD),will likely retain control of Parliament and form a new government. The LCD, however, received a significant wake-up call fr [...]	2007-02-20 12:07:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PREL PGOV EAID LT
07MASERU82	EMBASSY MASERU'S PRE-ELECTIONS MEDIA WORKSHOP IS TIMELY, [...] SUMMARY: On February 8-9, 2007, Embassy Maseru gathered 25 of Lesotho's state-employed and independent journalists for a two-day pre-election media workshop conducted by Cape Town-based American media trainer Terry FitzPatrick. Mr. FitzPatrick used examples from television, radio, and print [...]	2007-02-20 15:06:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO KDEM SCUL PREL LT
07MASERU86	POST ELECTION UPDATES [...] (C) While the 2007 national elections in Lesotho are over, the questions that remain post election are still lingering throughout the country and particularly in the capital city of Maseru. The overwhelming victory between Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) (61 national assembly seats -- al [...]	2007-02-22 15:38:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC PINR LT
07MASERU87	LESOTHO'S PRIME MINISTER-ELECT SPEAKS OUT ON VICTORY, AGOA, [...] SUMMARY: On February 21, 2007, a victorious and magnanimous Prime Minister-elect Mosisili convened a standing room only press conference to discuss the LCD's election win, alleged abuse of Lesotho's "Mixed Member Proportional" parliamentary system, the MCC, AGOA, and the closure of a popular [...]	2007-02-22 16:19:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PREL PGOV EAID MCC LT
07MASERU90	LESOTHO: FINAL RESULTS OF NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS [...] SUMMARY: The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has released the final results of the February 17, 2007 Lesotho National Assembly election, with a controlling share of seats going to the governing Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD). Voter turnout was 49 percent, and participation by youn [...]	2007-02-26 12:18:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KDEM LT
07MASERU93	PRIME MINISTER MOSISILI SWORN-IN, OPPOSITION HOLDS RALLY [...] SUMMARY: The leader of the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD),Pakalitha Mosisili, was inaugurated for his third term as Prime Minister on February 23, 2007. The inauguration was preceded by a swearing-in ceremony for newly elected members of the National Assembly, which was not attended by [...]	2007-02-27 15:43:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KDEM LT
07MEXICO1357	OUTCOME OF OPENING MEETING OF THE COMMUNITY OF [...] (SBU) Poloff participated in the March 12, 2007 opening meeting of the Community of Democracies (CD) working group on "poverty, development, and democratic governance" held at the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs (SRE) in Mexico City. The SIPDIS working group was inaugurated by Mexican Unders [...]	2007-03-16 21:16:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PHUM PGOV PREL UNGA MX

07MEXICO3926	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON USG PRIORITIES FOR [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-24 22:56:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PREL PHUM UNGA MX
07MEXICO6184	PRESIDENT CALDERON SPEAKS TO ACHIEVEMENTS, [...] Summary. In a series of interviews commemorating his first year in office, President Calderon touted the creation of 800,000 jobs and singled out narco-trafficking as one of Mexico's biggest challenges. The U.S. was assuming greater responsibility on drugs but needed to do more to reduce de [...]	2007-12-14 22:31:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KCRM SNAR SMIG ECON EINV KDEM PINR
07MEXICO6185	MEXICO: ITQ,S DIFFERENT ON THE BORDER [...] Summary. Deputy PolCouns recently traveled to several destinations on the Mexican border with the U.S. as part of an orientation trip. The visit reaffirmed the perception that life in the north of Mexico and, in particular on the border with the U.S., is different from any other place in Me [...]	2007-12-14 22:55:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KCRM SNAR SMIG ECON EINV KDEM PINR
07MINSK812	BREAST CANCER ADVOCACY SUMMIT IN BELARUS [...] (SBU) Ambassador and Emboffs attended the Third Biannual Eastern Europe and Central Asia Breast Cancer Advocacy Summit in Minsk on September 15. The summit, which received Democracy Commission funding, gathered the full spectrum of breast cancer specialists from the region and the United Stat [...]	2007-09-21 12:09:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI BO
07MONROVIA1071	LIBERIA: LEGISLATURE DELAYS RECESS TO ADDRESS CRUCIAL [...] SUMMARY: The Liberian National Legislature has delayed its annual "agricultural break" by one month, to September 30, at the request of the President in order to deliberate several bills introduced at the end of the regular session. Bills before the Senate include acts to create a Legislative [...]	2007-09-05 09:43:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM ECON LI
07MONROVIA1417	LIBERIA: IN WELL-RUN ELECTION, UNITY PARTY AND [...] SUMMARY. Unity Party candidate J.S.B. Theodore Momo and independent candidate Armour Kanie Wesso will advance to round two of the Gbarpolu County by-election to replace the late Senator Samuel Tormetie on December 18. Two Embassy teams, along with UNMIL and several NGOs, observed round one D [...]	2007-12-17 07:36:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PGOV PREL EAID LI
07MONROVIA1431	LIBERIA: UNITY PARTY GAINS SENATE SEAT IN GBARPOLU [...] (U) SUMMARY. The Unity Party has gained a Senate seat following candidate J.S.B. Theodore Momo's win in the December 18 Gbarpolu County by-election, President Sirleaf's party now has six seats in the 30 member Senate. Two Embassy teams, along with UNMIL and several NGOs, observed the second r [...]	2007-12-26 10:45:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KDEM EAID LI
07MONROVIA221	LIBERIAN LEGISLATIVE CRISIS: SPEAKER SNOWE RESIGNS [...] (C) Summary. Edwin Snowe resigned as Speaker of the House of Representatives February 15, but retained his position as a member of the House. At a press conference announcing his resignation, Snowe urged the international community and the Council of Churches to investigate allegations of bri [...]	2007-02-16 17:56:00	Embassy Monrovia	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV LI
07MONROVIA252	LIBERIA: UNITY PARTY CANDIDATE WINS NIMBA COUNTY [...] (U) The candidate of the governing Unity Party (UP),Evans V. Koah, won the February 20 by-election runoff for the House of Representatives seat representing Nimba County's District 6. The first round of the by-election was held February 6 (See Reftel A). Koah garnered 71.4 percent of the vot [...]	2007-02-23 12:35:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM LI
07MONROVIA599	LIBERIA'S CONTROVERSIAL LEGISLATIVE AUTONOMY ACT [...] (SBU) The Senate introduced a bill entitled "An Act to Amend Certain Provisions of the Legislative Law to Provide Financial Autonomy to the Legislature," which it passed on April 23, 2007. The House of Representatives passed the bill on April 24, 2007. (See text of Act in paragraph 5). The j [...]	2007-05-21 18:05:00	Embassy Monrovia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM ECON LI
07MONROVIA617	LIBERIA: SIGNS OF HOPE IN LOFA COUNTY [...] SUMMARY. On a three-day trip through Lofa County, May 16-18 Poloff and UK representative visited International Rescue Committee (IRC) projects funded by the USG and the UK Department for International Development (DFID). After visiting numerous communities, villages, and towns, it became clea [...]	2007-05-24 08:05:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ELAB PHUM KWMN KDEM SOCI LI
07MONROVIA666	CODEL PRICE VISIT TO LIBERIA [...] Summary. Members of the U.S. House of Representatives David Price (D-NC),Chairman of the House Democracy Assistance Commission (HDAC),Jeff Fortenberry (R-NEB),and Gwen Moore (D-WIS),visited Liberia May 31-June 2. Their visit followed up on a July 2006 visit to the Liberian Congress by U. [...]	2007-06-06 09:30:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV OREP KDEM EAID LI
07MONROVIA863	LIBERIA: CONVERSATION WITH GEORGE WEAH AND CDC [...] (C) Summary: On July 6, George Weah, leader of the Coalition for Democratic Change and unsuccessful Presidential Candidate in 2005, met with the Ambassador to discuss his views of the current government led by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. He spoke at length about problems the CDC has with the Sirle [...]	2007-07-18 14:31:00	Embassy Monrovia	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PREL PGOV KDEM SOCI LI
07MONROVIA887	LIBERIA: NEW UNION LEADERSHIP AT FIRESTONE [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-23 15:31:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB EAGR PGOV KDEM PHUM LI
07MONTEVIDEO841	UNGA COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] Objectives and background regarding upcoming Community of Democracies (CD) meeting on the sidelines of UNGA and upcoming CD ministerial in Mali were delivered to Dr. Elsa Borges, Deputy Director of the Ministry of Multilateral Affairs for the Government of Uruguay. The information was received [...]	2007-09-23 19:13:00	Embassy Montevideo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PHUM PREL UNGA PGOV UY
07MONTREAL132	Mosaic under pressure: Quebec's identity and religious [...] (SBU) An undercurrent of social conflict has emerged between Quebec's identity as a "secular" province and the more overt expressions of faith, particularly by immigrants whom Quebec has received in recent years. While "reasonable accommodation" originated in jurisprudence of labor relations b [...]	2007-03-19 18:43:00	Consulate Montreal	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PTER PHUM PINS KDEM KWMN SOCI CA
07MONTREAL137	Mosaic under pressure (part 2 of 2): Politicians Enter the [...] (SBU) This is the second part of our examination of the debate over "reasonable accommodation," the political catch-all term for the building tension between Quebec's identity as a "secular" society and the perceived need to shape its rules and values to "accommodate" religious or cultural cons [...]	2007-03-23 19:26:00	Consulate Montreal	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PTER PHUM PINS KDEM SOCI CA
07MOSCOW1007	SECOND KREMLIN PARTY, "FOR A JUST RUSSIA," DEBUTS [...] (SBU) The campaign for elections, which will take place in fourteen regions March 11, has been marked by much the same behavior that has marred previous contests; refusal to register parties in some contests, the liberal use of "administrative resources" to support Kremlin favorites and discou [...]	2007-03-09 16:57:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PHUM SOCI PINR RS
07MOSCOW1008	TOMSK ELECTIONS: ALL PARTIES IN PLAY, ELECTION [...] (SBU) With a well-educated population fed by six universities and at a safe distance from Moscow, the Siberian region of Tomsk seems tailor-made for liberal-leaning parties like Yabloko or SPS. Disarray within those parties, a popular governor allied with the Kremlin-backed party United Russi [...]	2007-03-09 18:02:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI PINR RS
07MOSCOW1023	REGIONAL ELECTIONS: UNITED RUSSIA WINS THIRTEEN; [...] (SBU) Summary: Preliminary, unconfirmed results from regional elections held March 11 in fourteen Russian regions show the Kremlin-backed United Russia party in first place in thirteen of the fourteen contests. United Russia did not win more than forty percent of the votes in all contests, a [...]	2007-03-12 12:19:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM RS
07MOSCOW1067	REGIONAL ELECTIONS: COMMUNISTS BENEFIT FROM [...] (SBU) Summary: Although final results are not yet in, the big news of the elections which took place in fourteen regions March 11 appears to be the strong showing by the Communist Party, which overcame an attempt to steal its thunder by the Kremlin-fostered For A Just Russia party to win more [...]	2007-03-13 15:47:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR RS
07MOSCOW1120	OTHER SHOE DROPS: VESHNYAKOV OUT OF CEC [...] (C) Summary: Many commentators attribute President Putin's failure to re-appoint Central Election Commission (CEC) Chairman Aleksandr Veshnyakov to his public criticism of election law changes that were initiated by the Kremlin-backed party United Russia. Although many will miss Veshnyakov' [...]	2007-03-15 11:59:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL KDEM RS
07MOSCOW1128	RUSSIAN REACTION TO THE 2006 HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT [...] (SBU) Summary: The MFA spokesman and leading Duma members criticized the 2006 Human Rights Report as biased, hypocritical, and needlessly confrontational. However, Ella Pamfilova, Chairwoman of the President's Human Rights Council, surprised observers by telling the media she agreed with the [...]	2007-03-15 15:19:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KDEM PINR RS
07MOSCOW1240	"OTHER RUSSIA" STAND-OFF WITH NIZHNIY NOVOGOROD [...] (SBU) "Other Russia's" plans to stage the third in its series of marches, this time in Nizhniy Novgorod on March 24, appeared March 22 to be bumping up against much the same kind of problems it had encountered in earlier efforts in Moscow and St. Petersburg. This time around, local law enforce [...]	2007-03-22 16:33:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PHUM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW1367	NEW CEC CHAIR CHUROV [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 27, the Central Election Commission (CEC) elected Vladimir Churov as its new chairman. A physicist and St. Petersburg native, with long-standing ties to Putin, Churov announced that he would implement electoral law, not debate it. Duma members and civil society repr [...]	2007-03-29 06:42:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR RS
07MOSCOW1396	KPRF: PEOPLE POLITICS THE KEY TO SUCCESS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Communist Party of Russia's (KPRF) broad-based and somewhat unexpected success in the March 11 regional elections (reftel),despite a minuscule campaign budget, is attributable to the survival of its party machine and a socialist message that resonates with voters. Althoug [...]	2007-03-30 06:55:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW1431	MARCH 11 REGIONAL ELECTIONS: FINAL SNAPSHOT [...] (SBU) Summary: The results of the March 11 regional elections suggest that the success of the Kremlin's experiment in managed democracy has come at the (minor) expense of the United Russia (YR) party. For A Just Russia (SR) (the other Kremlin-backed party) and the Communist Party (KPRF) emer [...]	2007-03-30 13:43:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PHUM RS
07MOSCOW1703	MOSCOW GEARS UP FOR WEEKEND OF DEMONSTRATIONS [...] (C) Saturday, April 14, promises to be a banner day for Moscow, with three major groups --the anti-government Other Russia, the anti-immigrant Movement Against Illegal Immigration, and the pro-Kremlin youth group Young Guard scheduled to stage separate demonstrations around the city. Other Rus [...]	2007-04-13 16:36:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW1734	ELECTIONS: KRASNOYARSK AS BELLWETHER? [...] (SBU) If Krasnoyarsk is an electoral bellwether, as observers here claim, the five political parties which made it into the regional assembly in voting April 15 may be the ones to make it into the State Duma in December. The ruling pro-Putin United Russia party, led in Krasnoyarsk by popular [...]	2007-04-16 15:59:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PINR RS
07MOSCOW1977	FORUM FOR THE FUTURE: MFA SATISFIED WITH CIVIL [...] (SBU) We shared reftel message with MFA Middle East Peace Process Section Chief Sergey Kozlov, who has coordinated participation by Russian civil society in the Forum for the Future. Efforts to contact the civil society leaders who attended the Forum were not successful in advance of reftel [...]	2007-04-30 13:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM KMPI ECON RS
07MOSCOW2043	TOUGHER ENVIRONMENT FOR PARTIES AS ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Since the 2003 State Duma elections, the legislative environment for the December 2007 State Duma elections has changed significantly: -- registration of political parties and their inclusion in the ballots for elections have become more complicated; -- the deposit t [...]	2007-05-04 09:38:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR RS
07MOSCOW2062	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES U.S. FUNDING OF NGOS WITH DFM [...] (C) SUMMARY: U.S. assistance is intended to help Russia develop its governing institutions and not to interfere in Russian partisan politics, the Ambassador told DFM Aleksandr Yakovenko during a May 4 meeting. Yakovenko said that the State Department's Supporting Human Rights and Democracy [...]	2007-05-04 13:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV EAID KDEM RS
07MOSCOW2129	MEDIA AGENCIES MERGE AHEAD OF ELECTIONS AND [...] (SBU) Summary: Against the background of an increasingly controlled media climate, the GOR has merged the agencies Rosokhrankultur and Rossvyaznadzor into one "super" agency in an effort to consolidate regulatory control of the media and information technology. It will not be known for at l [...]	2007-05-08 15:56:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR RS
07MOSCOW220	PHILANTHROPY GROWS IDIOSYNCRATICALLY IN RUSSIA [...] (SBU) Summary. GOR efforts to exert greater control over Russia's NGO sector and a lack of tax incentives have not reversed a dramatic growth in philanthropy, particularly by large domestic corporations. Philanthropic activity has generally matched the expansion of the Russian economy (about [...]	2007-01-22 06:34:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI ECON RS
07MOSCOW2202	AUTHORITIES DETERMINED TO PREVENT SAMARA [...] (C) Summary: GOR authorities have reacted forcefully to Other Russia organizers' determination to hold a demonstration in Samara on May 18, during the EU - Russia summit. Authorities have detained some of the organizers, imposed tough sentences on two organizers alleged to have violated the [...]	2007-05-11 16:13:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV KDEM PHUM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW2267	GREAT RUSSIA PARTY: SURVIVAL UNLIKELY [...] (SBU) Summary: The Great Russia (GR) party, launched with some fanfare on May 5 by Duma Deputies Aleksey Savelyev and Dmitriy Rogozin, may not be on the December Duma ballot. While interlocutors concur that GR's nationalistic message should make it relatively easy to find the requisite number [...]	2007-05-16 14:03:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM RS
07MOSCOW2331	CRACKDOWN ON OTHER RUSSIA SAMARA DEMONSTRATION [...] (C) Summary: On May 18, Russian airport authorities confiscated the passports and tickets of some Other Russia leaders and two Western journalists, effectively preventing them from attending the sanctioned "March of Dissent" in Samara (reftel). Although authorities agreed to the march, which [...]	2007-05-18 13:10:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KDEM RS
07MOSCOW2463	VOLGOGRAD MAYORAL ELECTION: JUST RUSSIA BOUNCED, [...] (SBU) Summary: In what was portrayed as an electoral upset by the national media, Communist Party (KPRF) candidate Roman Grebennikov won the May 20 Volgograd mayoral election, with United Russia State Duma Deputy Vasiliy Galushkin coming in a distant third. "For A Just Russia's" (SR) candida [...]	2007-05-25 13:28:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PINR SOCI RS
07MOSCOW2469	MEDIA FREEDOM IN THE ELECTION YEAR [...] (C) The Kremlin or its well-wishers have been making erratic attempts to fine tune the press in an effort to ensure that the looming Duma and presidential elections go according to script. Ownership of key media by the government or by those friendly to it has been consolidated, a code of beh [...]	2007-05-25 14:18:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PHUM PGOV SOCI RS
07MOSCOW2471	FOR A JUST RUSSIA: KREMLIN BACKPEDALS ON SUPPORT [...] (SBU) Summary: Since "For A Just Russia's" (SR) more or less successful debut in the March 11 regional elections (reftels),the Kremlin appears to have reconsidered its options and backed away from providing the administrative resources including access to national TV airtime that SR members [...]	2007-05-25 14:46:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PINR SOCI RS
07MOSCOW2562	TAX INSPECTORS UNBLOCK INTERNEWS/EMF BANK ACCOUNTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On May 30, Moscow tax inspectors acknowledged that an earlier decision to freeze the bank accounts of Internews/Educated Media Foundation (EMF) had been a "misunderstanding" and allowed the accounts to be re-opened. The inspectors' decision in the wake of multiple interventions [...]	2007-06-01 03:21:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI PGOV EAID RS
07MOSCOW2651	KASPAROV REVIEWS OTHER RUSSIA MARCHES; KASYANOV [...] (C) In a brief June 1 meeting United Civic Front leader Garry Kasparov reviewed recent Other Russia demonstrations and discussed the efforts of the fragmented, Western-leaning organizations and personalities to agree (to disagree) on a presidential nominee. Whatever the decision of his collea [...]	2007-06-05 12:06:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW2871	A CHANGE IN GOVERNMENT'S TACTICS OTHER RUSSIA [...] (SBU) The conduct of the June 9 St. Petersburg and the June 11 Moscow Other Russia (OR) demonstrations suggests that the authorities have decided to experiment with a somewhat more tolerant approaqch to a movement they have attempted to repress with a heavy hand on the assumption that, if left [...]	2007-06-15 10:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV KDEM PHUM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW2872	A CHANGE IN GOVERNMENT'S TACTICS TOWARD OTHER [...] (SBU) The conduct of the June 9 St. Petersburg and the June 11 Moscow Other Russia (OR) demonstrations suggests that the authorities have decided to experiment with a somewhat more tolerant approaqch to a movement they have attempted to repress with a heavy hand on the assumption that, if left [...]	2007-06-15 10:52:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV KDEM PHUM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW2997	"FOR A JUST RUSSIA" STRUGGLES TO FIND ITS PLACE [...] (C) Recent conversations with members of the For a Just Russia (SR) party suggest that the process of forming party lists has set off a struggle that may leave on the sidelines deputies who have less money to spend or less influence with the Kremlin. Some interlocutors worried that SR was in [...]	2007-06-20 13:26:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI KDEM RS
07MOSCOW3011	AMBASSADOR'S LUNCH WITH METROPOLITAN KIRILL [...] (C) At a June 18 private lunch, Russian Orthodox Metropolitan Kirill related to the Ambassador his concerns about social issues, in particular the large gap between rich and poor and Russia's lagging regions. He described reaction, both in the West and in Russia, to the recent merger of the R [...]	2007-06-21 07:58:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR SOCI RS
07MOSCOW3012	AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY MEETING WITH CENTRAL [...] (C) A very self-confident Central Election Commission (CEC) Chairman Vladimir Churov sketched for the Ambassador at their inaugural meeting June 19 an electoral process fully controlled by a CEC responsive to complaints of voters and working constructively with all active political parties. The pre [...]	2007-06-21 08:17:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR RS
07MOSCOW3024	OSCE SYG DE BRICHAMBAUT'S VISIT: "REFORM" [...] (C) We met with MFA OSCE Section Chief Valeriy Maslin to review OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut's June 14-15 visit. De Brichambaut was in Moscow on a working visit and met with FM Lavrov, as well as with the Russian Security Council, Defense Ministry and the Central Electio [...]	2007-06-21 13:28:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM OSCE RS
07MOSCOW305	KOSOVO: RUSSIA TO BREAK WITH CONTACT GROUP [...] (C) Summary: Welcoming a proposed visit by Special Envoy Wisner, the GOR's Special Envoy on Kosovo Botsan-Karchenko warned that Russia would break the Contact Group consensus on the Ahtisaari timeline at the January 26 Vienna meeting. The GOR will reject an "artificial" timeline, propose p [...]	2007-01-25 12:30:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM UNMIK SR YI RS
07MOSCOW3138	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH GARRY KASPAROV: KOSOVO [...] (C) Garry Kasparov on June 26 talked with the Ambassador about the future of his Other Russia movement, the state of other political parties, the Russian presidential succession, the December Duma elections, and Russian foreign policy. He ascribed President Putin's recent hard line with the We [...]	2007-06-27 14:56:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR RS
07MOSCOW3168	AMBASSADOR'S ROUNDTABLE WITH HUMAN RIGHTS NGOS [...] (C) In a June 27 discussion, five human rights NGO activists offered the Ambassador their advice for coping with an increasingly assertive President Putin. They suggested that like-minded countries speak with one voice, that the "tools" of international organizations and agreements be used as [...]	2007-06-28 15:38:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM PGOV SOCI RS
07MOSCOW3574	UNION OF RIGHT FORCES: WHO IS RIGHT? [...] (C) The public display of disaffection between the Union of Right Forces (SPS) national leadership and the party's Moscow organization has momentarily captured the attention of the media. In retaliation for voting to confirm President Putin's re-appointment of Moscow mayor Luzhkov, the nationa [...]	2007-07-20 14:09:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM RS SOCI
07MOSCOW373	MIXED MESSAGES ON ANTI-DEMONSTRATION LAW [...] (C) On January 24, a United Russia Duma Deputy withdrew amendments to the law on demonstrations that, if adopted, would have significantly restricted the circumstances under which public meetings could occur. The withdrawal seemed to spell the end of an effort by some in the Presidential Admi [...]	2007-01-30 14:11:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM RS
07MOSCOW377	UNITED RUSSIA: CORRUPTION AND THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN [...] (C) As the campaign for the December State Duma election gets underway, the Kremlin-sponsored United Russia (YR) party has announced initiatives to fight Russia's long-festering problem of corruption. Observers expect that, as in past years, the anti-corruption mantra will largely be used to [...]	2007-01-30 14:24:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM RS
07MOSCOW3971	RUSSIANS DEBATE ROLE OF THE CHURCH [...] (SBU) The dog days of August have seen a protracted debate here about the proper role of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) in a country in which church and state are officially separated. The debate was triggered by the near simultaneous expressions of unease by a member of the Public Chamber [...]	2007-08-14 12:28:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KIRF PHUM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW4119	ONCE-PLURALISTIC ALTAY KRAY STARTS TO [...] (SBU) During an August 8-11 visit to Altay Kray, we found the region's traditional political diversity succumbing to the United Russia (YR) political machine fueled by the Governor's May 2007 YR party conversion. Reflecting the national line-up, YR, For a Just Russia (SR),the Communists (KPRF [...]	2007-08-23 04:06:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW4287	The "For A Just Russia" Party Stages Primary [...] (SBU) Summary. For a Just Russia (SR) held a series of public primaries throughout Russia on August 26 in preparation for the December Duma elections. Far from being a well-run, effective sampling of voter preferences, the primaries seemed to have been slapped together in an effort to keep pa [...]	2007-08-31 02:46:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW4418	KASPAROV, KASYANOV'S OPPOSITION: LARGELY [...] (C) The movements led by Other Russia's Garry Kasparov and ex-Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov seem to have fallen prey to an inability to forge coalitions with colleagues similarly inclined to reject the limited opportunities offered by the current electoral cycle. Kasparov's Other Russia appe [...]	2007-09-07 15:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW4441	RUSSIAN OPPOSITION CONFERENCES FOILED [...] (U) Other Russia's effort to hold regional conferences in order to choose a unified candidate for the 2008 presidential election was foiled when venues they had booked were canceled or in some cases, participants were unable to enter the premises. End Summary. -------------------- Regional [...]	2007-09-10 15:58:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM RS
07MOSCOW4483	PRIME MINISTER'S RESIGNS, FIRST DEPUTY FINANCE [...] (C) On the afternoon of September 12, Prime Minister Fradkov resigned, kicking off the long-expected next phase of Russia's succession process. Putin accepted Fradkov's resignation, which the Prime Minister said he had tendered in order to "give (Putin) full freedom in making decisions, inclu [...]	2007-09-12 15:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR RS
07MOSCOW4511	WHAT ZUBKOV'S APPOINTMENT MIGHT MEAN [...] (C) President Putin's surprise decision to replace Prime Minister Fradkov with First Deputy Finance Minister Viktor Zubkov seems to have been the product of Kremlin clan rivalries, a wish to keep all options open, a need to ride herd over avaricious elites and a desire to at least temporarily [...]	2007-09-13 16:21:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL PINR RS
07MOSCOW4538	ZUBKOV CONFIRMED; HINTS AT CABINET RE-SHUFFLE [...] (SBU) As expected, Prime Minister-designate Viktor Zubkov was easily confirmed by the Duma after a perfunctory set of questions and speeches September 14. Only the Communist Party, and perhaps some independent deputies, voted against him. Zubkov used the occasion to suggest that a cabinet re [...]	2007-09-14 15:26:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PINR RS
07MOSCOW4539	ZUBKOV AND SPECULATION ON SUCCESSION [...] (C) The surprise appointment of First Deputy Minister of Finance Viktor Zubkov has intensified speculation about succession. In the absence of authoritative information about President Putin's intentions, much of what we hear is wildly speculative, and ranges from Putin returning to office af [...]	2007-09-14 17:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM RS
07MOSCOW4542	ZUBKOV AND SPECULATION ON SUCCESSION [...] (C) The surprise appointment of First Deputy Minister of Finance Viktor Zubkov has intensified speculation about succession. In the absence of authoritative information about President Putin's intentions, much of what we hear is wildly speculative, and ranges from Putin returning to office af [...]	2007-09-16 17:36:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM RS
07MOSCOW4596	DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER ON IMPORTANCE OF CLIMATE [...] (C) On September 17, Deputy Foreign Minister Yakovenko told Ambassador of Foreign Minister Lavrov's interest in participating in the September 27 - 28 Washington energy security and climate change conference. Yakovenko provided the Ambassador with a non-paper outlining the MFA's traditional c [...]	2007-09-18 13:46:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PHUM SENV RS
07MOSCOW4609	KASYANOV ON OPPOSITION PROSPECTS; PUTIN'S PLANS [...] (C) A relaxed, self confident ex-Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov told Ambassador September 18 that: -- the appointment of 66-year old Viktor Zubkov as Prime Minister meant that President Putin was determined to leave office in 2008, but remained undecided about the succession; -- if Zubkov [...]	2007-09-19 06:07:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR RS
07MOSCOW464	PUTIN'S PRESSFEST [...] (SBU) Summary: Hosting a record number of journalists for a marathon three-and-a-half hour session on February 1, President Putin was relaxed and seemed to enjoy displaying his mastery of facts. Putin was upbeat and positive, especially in describing Russia's economic picture. Some commentat [...]	2007-02-02 14:54:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM RS
07MOSCOW465	PUBLIC CHAMBER ANNIVERSARY: THE JURY'S STILL OUT [...] (C) January marks the one-year anniversary of the Public Chamber, a body created at the initiative of President Putin in order to provide a channel for communication with the public and, in part it is believed, to compensate for the Kremlin's decision to appoint, instead of elect, governors an [...]	2007-02-02 16:26:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR RS
07MOSCOW4730	Party Time: Four Parties Hold Congresses in Moscow [...] (SBU) Over the past week, four of the 15 registered political parties held their national congresses in Moscow to select their candidates for the December Duma elections. As in any election campaign they also attempted to engage an in electoral battle with their rivals. As press reports have n [...]	2007-09-27 03:28:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR KDEM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW4750	PIONTKOVSKIY EXTREMISM CASE ADJOURNED PENDING NEW [...] (C) The trial of writer and Yabloko member Andrey Piontkovskiy on charges of extremism ended inconclusively at Moscow's Basmanniy District Court September 25, when the prosecutor was unable to prove that Piontkovskiy's book, "Unloved Country," contained passages that violated the law on extre [...]	2007-09-27 14:16:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM PGOV PINR SOCI RS
07MOSCOW4772	YABLOKO PARTY LAUNCHES PARTY LIST [...] (SBU) In conversations since the September 15 - 16 Yabloko congress, Yabloko federal list number two Sergey Kovalev, party member Andrey Piontkovskiy, and a member of Yabloko's Murmansk delegation to the congress described to us a party whose continued stress on human rights, as manifested in t [...]	2007-09-28 15:07:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM PINR SOCI RS
07MOSCOW4786	OTHER RUSSIA NOMINATES GARRY KASPAROV FOR PRESIDENT [...] (SBU) About 500 Other Russia loyalists met September 30 in the Concert Hall of the Izmaylovo Hotel Complex to bless an alternative list of Duma deputy candidates and nominate a longshot candidate for President. United Civic Front Chairman Garry Kasparov won the presidential primary race, sque [...]	2007-10-01 11:00:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW4833	PUTIN ENTERS PARTY POLITICS: WHAT IT MIGHT MEAN [...] (C) Vladimir Putin's October 1 announcement that he would head the pro-Kremlin United Russia (YR) party list and possibly opt to become Prime Minister exhibited the President's trademark preference for the unexpected, and again reminded observers that he is at the center of this managed transi [...]	2007-10-02 14:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM PREL RS
07MOSCOW4894	G8-BMENA FORUM FOR THE FUTURE SUBMINISTERIAL, [...] We delivered reftel demarche on October 4 to MFA Middle East and North Africa Department First Secretary Timur Zabirov. Zabirov conveyed GOR appreciation of Assistant Secretary Daniel Fried's attendance at the G-8 BMENA SIPDIS Subminsterial and said that a suitably high-level official woul [...]	2007-10-05 06:56:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMPI KDEM GM EUN RS
07MOSCOW4910	DUST SETTLES ON PUTIN'S SURPRISE ANNOUNCEMENT [...] (C) Putin's October 1 announcement that he will head the pro-Kremlin United Russia (YR) party list (reftel) has been portrayed by the opposing Kremlin party's Chairman Sergey Mironov as proof that YR had gone into receivership, and had to be bailed out by the President. In a meeting with the [...]	2007-10-05 15:45:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR KDEM RS
07MOSCOW4952	RUSSIA'S DISCRIMINATING APPROACH TO PUBLIC RALLIES [...] (SBU) Separate events over the weekend of October 7 reveal the limits to public expression and assembly in Russia. While a 10,000-person celebratory rally in commemoration of Putin's birthday was facilitated, and a 500 gathering marking the one-year anniversary of Politkovskaya's murder was ca [...]	2007-10-11 08:12:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PHUM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW4967	SPS CHAIRMAN STAYS OPTIMISTIC ON ELECTIONS [...] (C) In an October 10 conversation with the Ambassador, Union of Right Forces (SPS) Chairman Nikita Belykh reacted complacently to the effect President Putin's decision to head the pro-Kremlin United Russia list might have on his party's chances to cross the seven-percent threshold into the Duma [...]	2007-10-12 08:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR PREL RS
07MOSCOW4968	DUMA DEPUTY RYZHKOV ON HIS FUTURE WITHOUT A PARTY, [...] (C) Outgoing Duma Deputy Vladimir Ryzhkov told the Ambassador October 7 that he, unusually for him, backed the GOR's resistance to independence for Kosovo and further NATO expansion, which he termed "real" foreign policy problems. The dispute over anti-missile defenses was for Ryzhkov a "virtu [...]	2007-10-12 08:36:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM PINR SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5066	THE SILOVIKI AND PUTIN [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-18 15:45:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5092	DUMA READY TO BACK CFE SUSPENSION, CHAIRMAN SAYS [...] (SBU) In a meeting with NSC Senior Director Warlick and EUR DAS Kramer, International Affairs Committee Chairman Kosachev underscored the Duma's support for the suspension of CFE on December 12, absent a change in the U.S. position and reiterated GOR opposition to any linkage to Istanbul commi [...]	2007-10-22 10:43:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KCFE PARM MARR WTRO IR KV RS
07MOSCOW5119	ODIHR WAITS FOR INVITE FROM RUSSIA [...] (SBU) The wait continues for an invitation to the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) to monitor Russia's upcoming Duma elections. The Central Election Commission (CEC) will not issue the invitation until it has completed registering party lists, leaving little p [...]	2007-10-24 02:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL KDEM OSCE RS
07MOSCOW5153	PUTIN'S PROBLEM [...] (C) Summary: Putin's problem is that there is no political or honorific perch that will ensure his ability to check the powers granted by the constitution to his successor and, by ruling out a constitutional amendment allowing a third term, some observers believe that he has boxed himself in [...]	2007-10-25 14:33:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5180	RUSSIA TO INVITE ODIHR OBSERVERS, WANTS SMALLER [...] (C) Russia's invitation to the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) to observe the December 2 Duma elections will be sent no later than November 2, according to Central Election Commission (CEC) Chairman Vladimir Churov. Churov described the invitation as uncondit [...]	2007-10-29 04:00:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM OSCE PREL RS
07MOSCOW5205	BACKLASH TO DUMA AMENDMENTS PROPOSING RESTRICTIONS ON [...] (U) Amendments to the "law on referendums" which are working their way through the State Duma, would greatly restrict if not abolish the right of Russian citizens to express their views through national plebiscites. The amendments, offered by three members of the ruling United Russia party, had [...]	2007-10-30 14:04:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PHUM RS
07MOSCOW5246	AMBASSADOR RAISES OBSTACLES ENCOUNTERED BY NGOS [...] (C) Ambassador on November 1 raised with Deputy Foreign Minister Yakovenko problems encountered by Russian and U.S. NGOS as the Duma elections approach, and voiced concerns over the number of ODIHR monitors to be invited to the December 2 Duma election. The Ambassador described to Yakovenko re [...]	2007-11-01 17:13:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM SOCI OSCE RS
07MOSCOW5300	FOR A JUST RUSSIA FIGHTS FOR RELEVANCE [...] (SBU) On the first anniversary of its creation, the political party "For a Just Russia," (SR) finds itself recoiling from its greatest challenge thus far: Putin's decision to head the party list for United Russia (YR). In the weeks after Putin's surprise announcement, SR sank in the polls whi [...]	2007-11-07 12:32:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5337	NEW FACES JOIN RUSSIA'S PUBLIC CHAMBER [...] (SBU) When Russia's 126-member Public Chamber convenes in January, its new ranks will include two well-known human rights activists, who had been dismissive of the Public Chamber when it was first established. Civil society activists remain divided on the value of the Chamber, often concluding [...]	2007-11-09 03:45:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM RS
07MOSCOW5338	RUSSIA RESOLUTE ON LIMITED ODIHR MISSION [...] (SBU) Russia reacted strongly to USG criticism of Russia's decision to limit the number of ODIHR observers to the December 2 parliamentary elections. Official comments and news media commentary maintained that the invitation was consistent with Russia's OSCE and Copenhagen Declaration commitm [...]	2007-11-09 03:46:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL KDEM OSCE RS
07MOSCOW5345	CIVIL SOCIETY ON THE NORTH CAUCASUS: NO NEWS IS NOT [...] (SBU) Summary: In a recent roundtable discussion, Russian civil society leaders expressed uniform pessimism on prospects for democratic development in the North Caucasus - despite relative calm and improved infrastructure in Chechnya. Our interlocutors predict continuing political violence an [...]	2007-11-09 08:26:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREF PHUM KDEM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5355	OPPOSITION LAMENT ON RULING PARTY TACTICS [...] (C) Summary: Just Russia (SR) candidate and Duma Deputy Aleksey Mitrofanov detailed for us how regional leaders, in their efforts to engineer a mandate for the Putin-led United Russia party, were using administrative resources and other tactics to thwart opposition political campaigns. Mitrof [...]	2007-11-10 08:39:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5365	RUSSIA'S LATEST CULTURE WAR [...] (C) A paean to President Putin on his 55th birthday by one of culture's grand old men, film director and actor Nikita Mikhalkov, has revealed fault lines in the cultural community similar to those that are all too apparent among the country's political classes. Mikhalkov's film hagiography of [...]	2007-11-13 14:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCUL KDEM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5370	INITIAL GROUP OF RUSSIAN DUMA ELECTION OBSERVERS [...] (C) Deputy Foreign Minister Yakovenko claimed to Ambassador November 12 that the GOR would invite the 70 ODIHR observers as it had promised and in the timeframe promised, and would expedite visa issuance. In a November 13 conversation (septel),Presidential Administration Deputy Vladislav Surk [...]	2007-11-13 16:45:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM OSCE RS
07MOSCOW5381	IN IRKUTSK NATIONAL POLITICS OVERSHADOW LOCAL [...] (SBU) A recent trip to Irkutsk oblast found a region not immune to the ebb and flow of Russian national politics. While the pro-Putin United Russia Party (YR) has a distinct advantage over also-rans For a Just Russia (SR) and the Communist Party (KPRF) in this region, the endemic corruption wi [...]	2007-11-14 13:14:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5401	RUSSIA: ODIHR UPDATE; U.S. INVITATION [...] (C) On November 14, Vladimir Churov, head of the Russian Central Election Commission (CEC) told reporters that the CEC had received the accreditation applications for all 70 ODIHR election observers that morning and had forwarded them to the MFA for visa issuance. ODIHR Observer Mission Head [...]	2007-11-15 16:13:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM RS
07MOSCOW5410	MEDIA AND THE ELECTIONS: THE DEBATES AND THE ADS [...] (C) The fifteen days of debates that precede the December 2 Duma elections kicked off on November 6 and will wrap on November 30. On most days, a shifting mix of political parties participate in three debates that are broadcast on three separate channels. President Putin's United Russia (YR) [...]	2007-11-16 10:48:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5417	RUSSIA'S RADICAL LIBERALS - SPS PARTY SHIFTS INTO [...] (C) The announcement this week that Russia's Union of Right Forces (SPS) will take part in "Dissenters' Marches" marks the final step in the party's rapid evolution from a "constructive opponent" to total opposition. Over the past six weeks, SPS leaders have radically changed their electoral [...]	2007-11-16 13:18:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KDEM RS
07MOSCOW5431	CALM CAMPAIGN IN RUSSIAN REGION [...] (C) Changes in election law have created a "calm" campaign atmosphere in Voronezh, a city south of Moscow where during a November 14-15 visit we found scant evidence that a parliamentary election is about to take place. Local party representatives said the lack of single-mandate candidates ha [...]	2007-11-16 16:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5432	UNITED RUSSIA MUSCLES ITS WAY INTO STAVROPOL KRAY [...] (C) In Stavropol Kray, United Russia has reasserted itself politically and administratively in the aftermath of the March 2007 elections, in which A Just Russia scored an upset victory. United Russia has stripped the unpopular governor of his party membership, replaced the independent Kray El [...]	2007-11-17 03:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM RS
07MOSCOW5433	THE WEEK IN POLITICS: PUTIN STUMPS FOR, STOMPS [...] (SBU) With just over two weeks remaining until the December 2 Duma elections, Putin, during a visit to Krasnoyarsk, at last began actively stumping for the United Russia party. On November 15, in Tver, about 700 delegates from 79 of Russia's regions returned the favor by actively stumping for [...]	2007-11-17 12:29:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5453	ODIHR BOYCOTT CONTINUES TO RESONATE [...] (SBU) Summary: ODIHR'S November 16 announcement that it would not send election monitors to Russia's December 2 parliamentary elections was the subject of incredulous GOR commentary over the weekend. The Central Election Commission (CEC) saw in the decision confirmation of the GOR's standing [...]	2007-11-19 16:50:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM OSCE RS

07MOSCOW5502	SUBJECT: KRASNOYARSK ELECTION - QUIET ON THE [...] (SBU) A joke is circulating in Krasnoyarsk that the regional electoral commission is taking care to make sure the population doesn't falsify the elections. With less than two weeks before polling day, virtually everyone "knows" the election outcome -- a solid majority for United Russia; enoug [...]	2007-11-23 12:59:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PINR RS
07MOSCOW5506	"JUST RUSSIA" STRUGGLES [...] (C) Summary: With elections just over one week away, the Kremlin-fostered party Just Russia (SR) seems increasingly unlikely to cross the seven-percent threshold to Duma representation, and the media have begun their death watch. Observers peg SR's problems to Putin's decision to head the Uni [...]	2007-11-23 15:57:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5516	THE WEEK IN POLITICS: THE PUTIN NATIONAL [...] (C) Summary: The "For Putin" movement continued to percolate, with a November 21 gathering of five thousand supporters in a Moscow sports hall. The event --part U.S. political party convention, part CPSU congress-- featured an extended attack by Putin on his political opponents, a swipe at t [...]	2007-11-26 11:12:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM SOCI PINR RS
07MOSCOW5526	NGO GOLOS PREPARES TO OBSERVE DUMA ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: The NGO Golos is preparing to observe the Duma elections on December 2, and has begun monitoring pre-election activities. Golos has already run into legal trouble in one region, and while its leaders are unaware of any other impending legal action, they remain potentially vulnera [...]	2007-11-26 15:41:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM RS
07MOSCOW5528	GOR CLAMPS DOWN ON OTHER RUSSIA; KASPAROV [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 24, following a peaceful, sanctioned meeting in central Moscow, about eighty of an estimated two thousand Other Russia/SPS demonstrators attempted to march to the Central Election Commission in defiance of a ban by city authorities. In the melee that followed, poli [...]	2007-11-26 16:07:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR RS
07MOSCOW5529	RUSSIA: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION SET FOR MARCH 2 [...] (U) A week before Russians head to the polls to vote in the State Duma elections, the Federation Council passed a resolution naming March 2, 2008 as the date of the presidential election. The unanimous decision by the upper house of parliament was expected and will become official when it is [...]	2007-11-26 16:10:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM RS
07MOSCOW5532	NGO GOLOS PREPARES TO OBSERVE DUMA ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: The NGO Golos is preparing to observe the Duma elections on December 2, and has begun monitoring pre-election activities. Golos has already run into legal trouble in one region, and while its leaders are unaware of any other impending legal action, they remain potentially vulnera [...]	2007-11-27 03:52:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM RS
07MOSCOW5542	CIVIL SOCIETY SPEAKS OUT OVER OTHER RUSSIA ARRESTS [...] (C) Liberal politicians and human rights activists praised the President's November 26 criticism of the Russian government's detention of opposition protesters. In response to the Ambassador, Acting FM Denisov described the GOR reaction as "unfortunate" but argued that Other Russian leader G [...]	2007-11-27 17:11:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR KDEM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5548	UNITED RUSSIA EXPECTS BIG THINGS FROM ROSTOV-ON-DON [...] (C) The Ambassador's November 19-20 visit to Rostov-on-Don revealed that Russia's fifth most populous region falls squarely in the ruling party vote bank. Governor Vladimir Chub, who has ruled Rostov for sixteen years, appears too busy opening shopping centers and meeting trade delegations to [...]	2007-11-28 08:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM ECON SOCI EAGR RS
07MOSCOW5562	DUMA ELECTION OBSERVER UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador November 26 told acting Foreign Minister Denisov that the USG had played no role in ODIHR's decision not to observe the Russian Duma elections. Denisov insisted that the Russian Embassy in Washington believed the USG had "tipped the scales" on the decision during ODIHR [...]	2007-11-28 16:46:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL RS
07MOSCOW5582	RUSSIA - KPRF THREATENS TO PROTEST ELECTION FRAUD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Communists are taking the offensive to protect their interests in Sunday's Duma election, establishing their own parallel monitoring program and threatening "mass action" if the administration falsifies the results. Party leaders announced on November 28 that the party wil [...]	2007-11-29 14:50:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR RS
07MOSCOW5583	PUTIN MAKES TELEVISED APPEAL TO VOTERS [...] (SBU) Summary: In a November 29 televised appeal, Putin asked voters to support the party whose ticket he leads, United Russia, in Sunday's Duma elections. The brief address, notable for its lack of surprise, was a classic appeal by an incumbent politician to stay the course. Immediately foll [...]	2007-11-29 15:09:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PINR RS
07MOSCOW5584	HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST AND THREE JOURNALISTS BEATEN [...] (C) Summary: In the Ingushetia capital of Nazran on November 24, masked gunmen abducted a human rights worker and three Moscow television journalists from their hotel rooms, robbed them of their equipment and notebooks, and threatened them with execution. The gunmen then took the four victims [...]	2007-11-29 15:19:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM KPAO RS
07MOSCOW5595	UNITED RUSSIA AND THE DUMA ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: With Putin's decision to back United Russia in the Duma race, the prospect, faintly entertained about one year ago of creating something like a real political party system has completely disappeared, and United Russia has become a vehicle for Putin's aspirations to remain influen [...]	2007-11-30 11:06:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5596	RUSSIA: INTERPRETING PUTIN'S DUMA VICTORY [...] (C) Summary: The significance of the December 2 Duma elections is the magnitude -- and not the fact -- of Putin's win and how he can use this "vote of confidence" to dictate presidential succession. Having been transformed into a referendum on Putin, the parliamentary elections are a step [...]	2007-11-30 11:23:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SOCI KDEM RS
07MOSCOW5598	PUTIN AND UNITED RUSSIA DOMINATE MEDIA IN RUN UP [...] (C) Summary. All one has to do is watch the national nightly news to see that President Putin, his administration, and United Russia garner the majority of coverage in the run up to the December 2 Duma elections. Over the past two months, three-fourths of the national television coverage and over h [...]	2007-11-30 12:28:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM KPAO RS
07MOSCOW5631	DUMA ELECTION: VOTER TURNOUT HIGH, PARTIES ALLEGE [...] (SBU) Summary: Eighteen regions of Russia have completed voting and all signs are that voter turnout for the December 2 Duma elections is expected to exceed 2003's turnout of 55.75 percent although three hours remain before polls close across all of Russia. The opposition SPS, Yabloko, and Comm [...]	2007-12-02 15:38:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5682	DUMA ELECTIONS: UNITED RUSSIA WINS BIG, COMMUNIST [...] (C) Summary: With almost all of the votes from the December 3 election counted, Putin's United Russia party has won 64.1 percent, which will give it a constitutional majority in the new Duma. Three other parties: the Communists (11.6%),Vladimir Zhirinovskiy's LDPR (8.2%),and Just Russia (7 [...]	2007-12-03 16:36:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM PHUM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5704	PUTIN SAYS ELECTION GIVES DUMA MORE LEGITIMACY, [...] (U) One day after United Russia's decisive victory in parliamentary elections, Putin thanked voters for supporting United Russia and said that the elections would give the next Duma more legitimacy. He called the election results a sign of "trust" in United Russia and a "good indicator of Russ [...]	2007-12-04 16:43:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PREL PHUM RS
07MOSCOW5745	GOLOS INITIAL ASSESSMENT OF THE DUMA ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: In a December 4 press conference, the USAID-funded voting rights NGO Golos reported widespread violations and irregularities in the December 2 State Duma elections. While much of its information is anecdotal, Golos did provide cursory statistical findings of anomalies, most notab [...]	2007-12-07 11:36:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM RS
07MOSCOW5762	AFTER THE DUMA ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: With the messy Duma elections fast fading from memory here (although the final results will not be certified until at least December 10),attention has shifted to the March 2 presidential elections. The four parties in the new Duma have scheduled their congresses for mid-Decembe [...]	2007-12-07 16:05:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5796	GETTING THE VOTE OUT: HOW UNITED RUSSIA PULLED OFF [...] (C) Summary: A comparison of electoral statistics from the December 2 Duma elections and the previous elections in a number of selected regions shows that United Russia's use of administrative assets to get out an increased number of voters made a difference in the December 2 Duma elections. [...]	2007-12-12 15:26:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM PREL PHUM RS
07MOSCOW5823	KASPAROV DROPS OUT OF RACE FOR RUSSIAN PRESIDENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Garry Kasparov announced December 13 that he will not be a candidate in the March 2 presidential elections. Kasparov made the decision one day after the Central Election Commission (CEC) held firm on its decision that at least 500 members of the United Civil Front (UCF) which [...]	2007-12-14 15:09:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR RS
07MOSCOW5849	UNITED RUSSIA ACCEPTS MEDVEDEV AS CANDIDATE FOR [...] (C) Summary: The 511 delegates at the pro-Kremlin United Russia party's December 17 party congress performed to expectations, when they chose First Deputy Prime Minister Medvedev as their candidate for President. Putin confounded the expectations of some commentators by agreeing, after a wee [...]	2007-12-19 04:00:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM RS
07MOSCOW5850	SPS NOMINATES NEMTSOV, SEARCHES ITS SOUL [...] (C) The Russian liberal-democratic party the Union of Right Forces (SPS) held its party conference in Moscow on December 17 to nominate a candidate for president. A general party soul-searching and consideration of campaign mistakes occupied almost half of the conference agenda. In accepting [...]	2007-12-19 04:00:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5868	FIFTH RUSSIAN DUMA TO BEGIN WORK DECEMBER 24 [...] (U) The fifth Russian Duma will begin its work December 24. Taking seats in the new Duma on behalf of the four winning parties -- United Russia, Communist Party (KPRF),Just Russia, and the Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR) -- will be veteran politicians, youth movement leaders, businessmen an [...]	2007-12-19 15:01:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM RS
07MOSCOW610	PUTIN WILL GO [...] (C) Although rumors swirl after each major public appearance, even diehard skeptics now agree that President Putin will leave office when his second term expires in May 2008. With each passing month the conspiracy theories, which most recently crested in the wake of the Litvinenko assassinati [...]	2007-02-12 13:59:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM PREL RS
07MOSCOW644	RUSSIA: LIBERAL PARTIES STRUGGLE TO STAY IN GAME [...] (C) Political observers believe that the prospect of a liberal political party winning representation in the State Duma is slim, but statistically possible. However, local efforts by ruling party officials to remove the liberal-minded Union of Rightist Forces and Yabloko from some ballots in [...]	2007-02-14 12:16:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW656	OREL: VULNERABLE GOVERNOR CREATES OPPORTUNITIES [...] (SBU) Meetings during an early-February visit to Orel region suggested that a variety of factors could combine to make the March 11 regional elections very competitive. Rumored infighting in United Russia (YR) and an unpopular YR-affiliated governor have allowed the Communist Party (KPRF) to [...]	2007-02-14 14:56:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR KDEM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW695	NGOS: SILVER LINING BUT A LOOMING DARK CLOUD [...] (C) SUMMARY: After initial difficulties in getting re-registered, our U.S. and foreign NGO contacts have resumed normal activities and express little concern over the follow-on reporting requirements. The Federal Registration Service (FRS) surprisingly has even expressed interest in working [...]	2007-02-16 12:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM EAID RS
07MOSCOW827	RUSSIA: THE CASE FOR LIMITED U.S. FUNDING OF RFFE [...] (C) The U.S. Mission strongly supports continued limited USG funding for the Russian Foundation for Free Elections (RFFE) under its existing grant. U.S. monies would be used only to train election observers and to operate a voter hotline. While RFFE does receive some government support, cont [...]	2007-02-27 16:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID KDEM PREL PGOV PHUM RS
07MOSCOW845	"FOR A JUST RUSSIA" POSITIONS SELF AS [...] (SBU) The second, Kremlin-approved party, "For a Just Russia (SR)" at its inaugural congress February 24-27 combined left-wing rhetoric, criticism of the GOR's performance, anger at its treatment in the regions, and patriotism in a credible effort to establish itself as an alternative to the g [...]	2007-02-28 16:00:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR KDEM SOCI PREL RS
07MOSCOW868	KOMI: ALL PARTIES REGISTERED; UNITED RUSSIA IN [...] (SBU) Observers in Komi predicted to Poloff in mid-February that United Russia would capture solid pluralities in the March 11 republic-level and local elections, with "For a Just Russia" poised to place a respectable second, and the Communists and LDPR expected to cross the seven percent thr [...]	2007-03-01 13:25:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR KDEM PHUM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW870	CENTRAL ELECTION COMMISSION CHAIRMAN OFFERS VIEWS [...] (C) Central Election Commission Chairman Aleksandr Veshnyakov on February 28 reviewed with Ambassador the state-of-play in advance of elections to be held in fourteen regions on March 11. Key points: -- average of seven parties registered in each region; -- average of five candidates comp [...]	2007-03-01 13:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR RS
07MOSCOW960	"VICTORY" FOR "A JUST RUSSIA" [...] (SBU) Five youth groups have announced their intention to establish a coalition called "Victory" which would support the newly framed left of center pro-Kremlin party, "For a Just Russia" (SR). "Victory" is positioning itself as a competitor to the youth wing of United Russia (YR),the domi [...]	2007-03-07 07:42:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PINR SOCI RS
07MOSCOW966	OTHER RUSSIA'S BOUNCE FROM GOR OVERREACTION [...] (C) An adviser to ex-Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, United Civil Front leader Garry Kasparov, and Yabloko Deputy Chairman Sergey Ivanenko told us in the wake of the March 3 Other Russia demonstration in St. Petersburg (reftel) that: -- While reports of violence were overblown, St. Petersbu [...]	2007-03-07 12:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR PHUM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW978	MUCH SPECULATION, LITTLE PUBLICALLY-AVAILABLE [...] (C) The March 2 death of veteran Kommersant military correspondent Ivan Safronov has sent shock waves through Moscow's journalistic community. Investigations by the Prosecutor General's office and the Kommersant staff have to date produced no serious evidence that would point to suicide, forc [...]	2007-03-07 16:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM SOCI PINR RS
07MUMBAI38	MUMBAI GOES TO THE POLLS ON FEBRUARY 1 [...] (SBU) Residents of Mumbai and several other cities in Maharashtra will go to the polls on Feb. 1 to elect the 277 members of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC),the city's main municipal body. As in the past, the urban poor, swayed by opportunistic politicians who deliver the pork sh [...]	2007-01-23 05:53:00	Consulate Mumbai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR PTER KDEM KISL IN
07MUMBAI39	BJP, SHIV SENA FACE TROUBLES HEADING INTO MUMBAI ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Since 1992 a "saffron alliance" of Shiv Sena and the BJP has controlled the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC),Mumbai's main municipal body. By all accounts, both parties will struggle to maintain power in the BMC in the elections scheduled for February 1 (ref A). The Shiv Sena w [...]	2007-01-23 07:09:00	Consulate Mumbai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR PTER KDEM KISL IN
07MUMBAI81	SHIV SENA/BJP DEFY EXPECTATIONS, RETAIN CONTROL OF MUMBAI [...] (SBU) Defying nay-sayers, the Shiv Sena/BJP alliance retained control of the Mumbai Municipal Corporation in the February 1 elections (ref A). The alliance will return to power with a smaller majority, however. The result cemented Uddhav Thackeray's claim to succeed his aging father and Shiv [...]	2007-02-08 11:19:00	Consulate Mumbai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR PTER KDEM KISL IN
07MUSCAT1026	POST-ELECTION ANALYSIS AND DEVELOPMENTS [...] (C) Many Omanis continue to comment favorably on the successful October 27 national elections for Oman's Majlis al-Shura. Approximately 70% of the new Majlis member hold a bachelor's degree or higher. According to contacts, some vote-buying did occur and a few voters in several districts re [...]	2007-11-07 11:49:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PINT PGOV KDEM KMPI KWMN MU
07MUSCAT1034	SULTAN QABOOS TO NEW OMAN MAJLIS: STATUS QUO JUST [...] (C) Sultan Qaboos delivered his annual address opening the Majlis Oman on November 6. During the relatively rare public speaking engagement, the Sultan tipped his hat to the work of the Majlis and expressed appreciation for voter participation in the recent national elections (refs A, B). How [...]	2007-11-12 13:23:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM MU
07MUSCAT1040	OMANIS SPEAK OUT ON U.S. FOREIGN POLICY [...] (C) In attempt to get an unvarnished view of U.S. foreign policy from well-educated Omanis, who are normally reluctant to openly share their opinions on political topics, the Ambassador convened on November 6 the first of a planned series of small-scale discussion groups. Entitled "First Tue [...]	2007-11-13 11:58:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL KDEM MU
07MUSCAT1121	OMANI SUPPORT FOR LEBANESE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS [...] (C) The Ambassador delivered reftel demarche on December 12 during a meeting with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secretary-General Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi. Sayyid Badr SIPDIS confirmed that Oman supported the holding of timely Lebanese presidential elections without linkage to other issues, bu [...]	2007-12-12 11:06:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM LE SY MU
07MUSCAT181	OMAN FACES CHALLENGES IN PROMOTING ELECTIONS AS [...] (C) Summary: Registration for candidates for elections to the Majlis al-Shura began February 10 and concluded February 21. In keeping with the government's efforts to promote the elections, the registration process is more user-friendly than previously, although tribalism will continue to h [...]	2007-02-24 09:14:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KMPI MU
07MUSCAT720	PROMOTING DEMOCRACY IN OMAN [...] (C) Oman presents a challenging environment for U.S. efforts to directly promote democracy. Civil society is still in its infancy, the press is constrained by unwritten government redlines and self-censorship, and a large majority of Omanis are content with the political status quo. While t [...]	2007-07-28 11:38:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KMPI KPAO MU
07MUSCAT742	C-NE7-00774: OMAN FORGES AHEAD IN PREPARING FOR [...] (C) A total of 717 candidates, including 20 women, have been certified to run in national elections on October 27 for the Majlis al-Shura. The Omani government has worked aggressively to increase the number of registered voters, including by sending "awareness teams" to address employees at [...]	2007-08-01 05:00:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV KDEM KMPI KWMN MU
07MUSCAT931	C-NE7-00774: OMAN ELECTION UPDATE [...] (C) A total of 632 candidates are competing in the October 27 elections for the Majlis al-Shura. Contacts indicate that only one of the twenty female candidates stands a good chance of being elected. Final voter registration figures show a substantial increase over corresponding numbers for [...]	2007-10-03 12:26:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV KDEM KMPI KWMN MU
07MUSCAT932	C-NE7-00774: OMAN ELECTION UPDATE [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-03 12:26:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV KDEM KMPI KWMN MU
07MUSCAT933	OMAN RESPONSE TO G8-BMENA FORUM REQUEST [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-03 12:26:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMPI KDEM MU
07MUSCAT949	UPDATED DEMOCRATIC REFORM STRATEGY FOR OMAN [...] (C) As reported ref B, Oman represents a challenging environment for U.S. efforts to directly promote democracy. Civil society is under-developed and the registration of new non-governmental organizations and associations (which are limited in their areas of activity) can literally take years. [...]	2007-10-10 10:25:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM KMPI KWMN PGOV PREL MU
07MUSCAT979	C-NE7-00774: FINAL ELECTION PUSH IN OMAN AS VOTING [...] (C) Omanis in 10 countries outside Oman voted without incident on October 20 for their representatives in the Majlis al-Shura. The government continues to assert that all will be ready for national elections inside Oman on October 27 and that various safeguards (e.g. secure voting forms and [...]	2007-10-23 12:33:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV KDEM KMPI KPAO KWMN MU
07MUSCAT992	FEW SURPRISES IN OMAN'S NATIONAL ELECTIONS [...] (C) Thanks in part to a relentless government effort to get out the vote, a larger than expected 62.7% of registered Omani voters reportedly cast ballots in the October 27 Majlis al-Shura elections. According to the results of a speedy electronic vote count, newcomers won 46 of the 84 seats in [...]	2007-10-29 12:08:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV KDEM KMPI KPAO KWMN MU
07NAIROBI1069	KENYA ELECTIONS: MAIN PARTIES STRUGGLE TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: While talk of early or snap elections has faded, the political debate has shifted to the main parties' internal leadership struggles. On the opposition side, leaders continue to put on a brave face regarding the viability of their coalition ODM-K party. In the President's NARC- [...]	2007-03-06 13:37:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PINR KE
07NAIROBI1093	POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE IN KALONZO COUNTRY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Officials and local leaders in Machakos, a medium-sized Kenyan city, are no less engaged in the current general elections debate than their counterparts in the capital, but have a cooler view of what the next 10 months hold. Overwhelmingly populated by members of the Kamba tri [...]	2007-03-07 13:29:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KE
07NAIROBI1128	KENYA ELECTIONS: NARC-K IN THE DARK, ODM ROADSHOW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A day before it was scheduled to kickoff, NARC-Kenya postponed indefinitely its party elections and President Kibaki's expected announcement of his candidacy. The sudden change of plans was accompanied by further protest from one-time government supporter, Health Minister Charit [...]	2007-03-09 10:02:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KCOR KE
07NAIROBI1318	KENYA PRESIDENT REOPENS PARLIAMENT: FOCUSES ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Opening the final session of Parliament before December's general elections, President Kibaki on March 20 delivered a speech strongly focused on his government's development accomplishments. While he noted that the government will reintroduce the anti-money laundering bill and [...]	2007-03-22 12:43:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KDEM PGOV ASEC PTER KE
07NAIROBI1385	KENYA ELECTORAL COMMISSION: PRESSURE'S ON, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Electoral Commission of Kenya Chairman Samuel Kivuitu is confident his team will be able to successfully administer national elections later this year, but skeptical of the government's conduct and attitude toward the Commission. Kivuitu told the Ambassador during a March 22 mee [...]	2007-03-27 13:16:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PGOV KE
07NAIROBI1439	OPPOSITION POLITICS: SUSPICION, ALLIES, AND A [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Two opposition insiders recently shared their views on the current state of play within ODM-Kenya party ranks. While there is plenty of suspicion and alliance-making, there is still no apparent movement towards consensus on a single ODM-K presidential candidate or even on how [...]	2007-03-30 10:07:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PGOV KE
07NAIROBI1514	KENYA CONSTITUTION: MINIMUM REFORMS, MAXIMUM DEBATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A step back from complete overhaul, the current constitutional review debate in Kenya centers on a slate of "minimum reforms." Supporters of the proposed changes, many of which concern the electoral process, argue that these initial reforms must be made before the next general [...]	2007-04-04 09:38:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KE
07NAIROBI1603	BAD GOVERNANCE THE ROOT OF INSECURITY IN MT. ELGON [...] (SBU) Summary: With the death toll approaching 150 and the number of displaced persons rising to above 61,700, the conflict over land settlement in the Mt. Elgon district of Western Kenya has become a major political issue. The Kibaki administration is promoting dialogue among the warring fa [...]	2007-04-12 06:52:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KDEM PGOV PHUM KE
07NAIROBI1704	KENYA: JOURNALISTS QUESTIONED OVER ASSASSINATION [...] (SBU) Following Kenyan daily The Standard's report of an alleged assassination plot against former President Moi's son, four of the paper's managers were questioned by police on April 16 at police headquarters. Human rights groups rallied to support the newspaper, decrying the six-hour quest [...]	2007-04-18 09:46:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PHUM KE
07NAIROBI1747	TWO TOP OPPOSITION CANDIDATES LAY OUT THEIR [...] (C) SUMMARY: During recent separate lunches with the Ambassador, the two top candidates of the main opposition coalition (the Orange Democratic Movement Kenya, ODM-K),Raila Odinga and Kalonzo Musyoka, discussed their strategies for the national elections later this year. While both expresse [...]	2007-04-19 12:57:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PGOV KE
07NAIROBI1789	POLITICS IN LUOLAND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The perception that the central government is actively opposed to the interests of Nyanza Province's Luo community and its leaders motivates many Luos to stand firmly behind "their man" Raila Odinga. Support for Odinga's ODM-K is widespread in Nyanza, but a pile-up in identific [...]	2007-04-23 14:09:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KDEM PGOV KE
07NAIROBI1792	KENYA ELECTIONS: ELECTORAL COMMISSION UPDATE [...] (U) SUMMARY: On April 19, the DCM and the German and Swiss Ambassadors called on Commissioners of the Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) to discuss the ECK's administration of Kenya's next general election, expected in December. Among the topics discussed were: presentation of a non-paper de [...]	2007-04-24 13:57:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KDEM PGOV KE
07NAIROBI1830	FRACTURED LUHYA IN WESTERN PROVINCE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The diverse Luhya groups in Kenya's Western Province defy a single characterization. However, disillusionment with the current administration's failure to deliver on its campaign promises is creating fertile ground for eager opposition ODM-K campaigners. END SUMMARY. Divers [...]	2007-04-26 12:55:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PGOV KE
07NAIROBI1832	UPCOMING BY-ELECTION ON KENYA'S COAST [...] Summary: The Magarini by-election features ten contending parties. The putative incumbent, whose seat was vacated by a court order finding his election in 2002 fraudulent, represents a Coast Province party that advocates decentralization and favored treatment of "indigenous" residents over t [...]	2007-04-26 15:12:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM KE PGOV PHUM
07NAIROBI1907	NURTURING DEMOCRACY -- AMBASSADOR'S VISIT TO [...] Summary. During a four-day trip to Nyanza and Western Provinces (in western Kenyan),the Ambassador talked with a wide cross-section of Kenyans about the state of democracy in the country, and about the importance of an inclusive, fair, and transparent electoral process. Although rich in res [...]	2007-05-03 10:59:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KDEM PGOV KE
07NAIROBI1908	MISSION'S EFFORTS TO COMBAT FEMALE GENITAL [...] Summary: On April 21, the Ambassador participated in a high profile event in Kilgoris in Transmara to support efforts to end female genital mutilation (FGM). See text of Ambassador's speech in paragraph 6. Participation in this event was part of the Mission's broader efforts to address gen [...]	2007-05-03 11:56:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KDEM PGOV KE
07NAIROBI2118	GOVERNMENT-BACKED CANDIDATE WINS COAST BY-ELECTION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With the government's backing, Harrison Kombe, of the Shirikisho party, won the May 14 low-turnout parliamentary by-election in the coastal Magarini constituency. The result was not surprising. Kombe won resoundingly with 37 percent of the votes cast, far ahead of the competi [...]	2007-05-17 14:17:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KDEM PGOV KE
07NAIROBI220	PRESIDENT HAND PICKS ELECTORAL COMMISSIONERS; [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In what opposition leaders are calling a "blow to multi-party democracy," President Kibaki on January 11 appointed nine Commissioners to the Electoral Commission of Kenya, without consulting opposition parties. Although completely within Kenyan law, the move sets a bad preceden [...]	2007-01-12 08:07:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PREL KE
07NAIROBI2215	MUNGIKI: KENYA'S LARGEST CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION [...] (SBU) Summary: The Mungiki, a large criminal organization operating within the Kikuyu community, has a network of supporters within the government bureaucracy and political leadership. It's use of extreme violence to amplify its influence through terror and its parallel government weakens th [...]	2007-05-24 07:41:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC KDEM KE PGOV PREL PTER
07NAIROBI2238	MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT FROM MUNGIKI-LAND: "I'M [...] (C) Summary: Member of Parliament Elias Mbau recounts his own intimidation by the Mungiki in his constituency. He frankly admits that he was forced to change his tune after initially publicly opposing the criminal organization. He also confirms reports that the Mungiki have supporters in gov [...]	2007-05-25 09:58:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ASEC KCRM KDEM KE PGOV PINR PREL PTER
07NAIROBI2240	OPINION LEADERS TALK POLITICS WITH AMBASSADOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a series of conversations with visiting Ambassador Johnnie Carson, opposition leaders, government officials and civil society interlocutors agreed that there was still much uncertainty surrounding the strength of Kenyan political coalitions and President Kibaki's health, that t [...]	2007-05-25 10:35:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PINR PHUM KCOR PTER KE
07NAIROBI2351	KENYAN NOTABLES DISCUSS THE NEIGHBORS WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During his recent visit to Kenya, Ambassador Johnnie Carson, National Intelligence Officer for Africa, discussed developments in Somalia and Sudan with Kenyan interlocutors. From the Kenyan perspective, instability in both countries is of significant concern for Kenya's well-b [...]	2007-06-06 13:05:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PGOV PTER KE SO SU
07NAIROBI2375	KENYAN OPPOSITION POLITICS: DEAL OR NO DEAL? [...] (C) SUMMARY: Uncertainty and mistrust endure within the opposition coalition. While the Orange Democratic Movement-Kenya (ODM-K) continues to struggle with its presidential nomination process, it is increasingly clear that back-room deals will be made, egos will be bruised, and ODM-K leaders [...]	2007-06-07 11:43:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PGOV PHUM KE
07NAIROBI2446	KANU NATIONAL CONFERENCE: KENYATTA HOLDS HIS GROUND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Amid ongoing debate about the party's position within the opposition coalition and an internal power struggle, KANU held its National Delegates' Conference in Nairobi on June 11. According to KANU officials, the meeting was a success as the party made clear its position with r [...]	2007-06-12 13:04:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PGOV KE
07NAIROBI2566	KENYATTA KEEPING HIS OPTIONS WIDE OPEN [...] (SBU) When KANU Chairman and opposition presidential hopeful Uhuru Kenyatta failed to meet the June 15 deadline for formally declaring himself an Orange Democratic Movement-Kenya (ODM-K) candidate, there was speculation that KANU was splitting from ODM-K. Kenyatta has not (yet) pulled KANU o [...]	2007-06-20 13:21:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PGOV KE
07NAIROBI2764	KENYA & SOMALIA SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF ADMIRAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Welcome to Kenya, a stable, dynamic democracy and a key regional partner for the United States. Our partnership with Kenya focuses on five major goals: cooperate to fight insecurity and terrorism; combat disease and save lives; promote prosperity, fight poverty and invest in [...]	2007-07-06 05:02:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM KE PGOV PREL
07NAIROBI3093	ADMIRAL FALLON MEETING WITH PRESIDENT KIBAKI [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a July 19 meeting with visiting CENTCOM Commander Admiral William J. Fallon and the Charge, Kenyan President Kibaki praised the U.S. Kenya partnership, while encouraging greater U.S. attention to the region. With respect to Kenya, Kibaki appealed for greater U.S. assistance f [...]	2007-07-30 07:16:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM MASS PGOV KE
07NAIROBI3457	IT'S HARD OUT THERE FOR A (WOMAN) CANDIDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Three aspiring members of parliament, two women and one first-time candidate, shared their views recently on the difficult and generally very undemocratic process by which a Kenyan attempts to get elected, in particular the party nomination process. Their accounts confirmed wh [...]	2007-08-28 13:20:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PGOV KE
07NAIROBI3513	A TALE OF TWO ORANGE CONVENTIONS: OPPOSITION [...] (SBU) Summary: The Orange Democratic Movement-Kenya (ODM-K) nominated Kalonzo Musyoka for President at its convention held on 31 August. The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) nominated Raila Odinga for President at its convention the following day. As in '92 and '97, the opposition will ente [...]	2007-09-04 08:59:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM KE PGOV PHUM
07NAIROBI3761	KENYA ELECTIONS: ONE-THIRD OF CONSTITUENCIES [...] (SBU) Summary & Introduction: Kenya's first two multiparty elections, in '92 and '97, were marred by widespread violence, most of it organized by the government. The 2002 election was much less violent and the November 2005 referendum was even less violent. This year, we predict little organ [...]	2007-09-21 10:41:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC KDEM KE PGOV PHUM
07NAIROBI3790	KENYA ELECTIONS: LIKELY TIMELINE [...] (SBU) Summary: Our best information at this point indicates dissolution of parliament in early October and an election date of Monday, 17 December. End Summary. 2. (U) Reftel provides information on violence-prone constituencies and references for previous election-related messages. 3. [...]	2007-09-25 13:47:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM KE PGOV PHUM
07NAIROBI3969	KENYA ELECTIONS: A GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED [...] (SBU) Summary: The protagonists in Kenya's election drama have known one another for decades. At various times they were both allies and rivals. Incumbent President Mwai Kibaki will present himself as a stable, mature and dependable leader who reversed Kenya's downward spiral under Moi and i [...]	2007-10-05 03:29:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM KE PGOV PHUM
07NAIROBI3991	KENYA ELECTIONS: MAIN OPPOSITION CANDIDATE ODINGA [...] (C) SUMMARY: During lunch on October 1, the Ambassador discussed the electoral process with Raila Odinga, the main presidential opposition candidate. A relaxed Odinga was looking and sounding presidential, though he professed not to be overly confident. Odinga described the political strategy [...]	2007-10-09 09:27:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PHUM KE
07NAIROBI3993	KENYA ELECTIONS: INTERNAL SECURITY MINISTER [...] (C) Summary and Introduction: On October 8, the Political Counselor met with Minister of State for Internal Security John Michuki over lunch at Michuki's swank hotel and country club on the outskirts of Nairobi. PolCouns had planned to have lunch with Michuki's son Francis when Michuki unexpec [...]	2007-10-09 11:46:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KDEM PGOV PHUM KE
07NAIROBI4097	KENYA ELECTIONS: ELECTORAL COMMISSION CHAIRMAN [...] (SBU) Summary and Introduction: The Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) Chairman Samuel Kivuitu recently prepared a speech on the theme "Election 2007: Can Kenya Remain a Model for Africa?" The speech was delivered to the Kenya Alliance of Resident Associations by Kivuitu's deputy, as the Ch [...]	2007-10-16 08:49:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KDEM PGOV KE
07NAIROBI4175	KENYA'S ELECTIONS: PRESIDENT KIBAKI'S NATIONAL DAY [...] (SBU) On October 20, President Mwai Kibaki delivered a National Day speech at Nairobi's Nyayo National Stadium before a near capacity crowd. Rival presidential candidate, Raila Odinga, was seated near the speaker's podium with other senior leaders of the opposition. Kibaki used the occassion [...]	2007-10-22 15:34:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KDEM KE
07NAIROBI4232	KENYA ELECTIONS: WOMEN CANDIDATES INTIMIDATED BUT NOT DEFEATED [...] (SBU) Summary: In the last two months, at least six women candidates for local office and Parliamentary seats have been physically attacked in attempts to intimidate them into dropping out of the race. On October 7, Asha Ali became the latest victim of such an attack. Ali, who is running fo [...]	2007-10-26 09:27:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KE PHUM PREL
07NAIROBI4234	KENYA ELECTIONS: PARTY PRIMARIES TRIGGER SOME VIOLENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: In the run-up to Kenya's national elections, some violence is occurring. Clashes have happened in areas which so strongly favor one party that the person who secures the party nomination is essentially assured of winning the Parliamentary seat. This type of intra-party violenc [...]	2007-10-26 12:09:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KE PHUM PREL
07NAIROBI4235	KENYA ELECTIONS: Kenya Elections: The Swing States Part One: Rift Valley Province [...] (SBU) Summary: Rift Valley Province (RVP) is one of Kenya's most geographically and ethnically diverse provinces, encompassing both desperately poor arid lands and wealthy agricultural regions. Former President Daniel arap Moi, who is backing the re-election campaign of President Kibaki, hails [...]	2007-10-26 12:22:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KE PHUM PREL
07NAIROBI4236	KENYA ELECTIONS: ELECTION DATE SET FOR DECEMBER [...] (U) The Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) just announced that the national elections will take place beginning on December 27. The silver-lining to a nation that now must spend its holiday season embroiled in what promises to be turbulent elections is that most people will be visiting fami [...]	2007-10-26 12:32:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PREL KCOR KE
07NAIROBI424	KENYA: ETHNIC MAKE UP OF THE GOK [...] (SBU) Summary: Kenyans often accuse the Kibaki administration of stacking the government with fellow Kikuyus. Our study of the top 198 government positions indicates that in fact Kikuyu representation is in line with their share of the general population. However, Kikuyu ministers run the k [...]	2007-01-24 11:34:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PREL KE
07NAIROBI4248	KENYA ELECTIONS: UNIFEM ROLLS OUT GENDER RAPID RESPONSE [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-30 10:11:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PGOV PREL KCOR KE
07NAIROBI4258	KENYA ELECTIONS: SWING STATES PART TWO: WESTERN [...] (SBU) Along with Rift Valley and the Coast, we have identified Western Province (WP) as one of Kenya's three key "swing states" in deciding the December 27 national elections. These three provinces potentially contain enough electoral votes and polling volatility to decide the election. Ref [...]	2007-10-30 15:14:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL KE
07NAIROBI4269	KENYA ELECTIONS: ODM RALLY ON THE COAST: FANNING [...] (SBU) Summary: PolCouns observed an Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) rally in the coastal town of Khilifi during which some prominent ODM leaders used explicitly anti-Kikuyu language, receiving roars of approval from the crowd. Other prominent ODM leaders chose to appeal to reason rather than [...]	2007-10-31 12:32:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PREL KE
07NAIROBI4397	JOINT STATEMENT OF U.N. COUNTER-TERRORISM [...] (SBU) The Fifth Special Meeting of the U.N. Counter-Terrorism Committee with Regional and Sub-Regional Organizations on "Prevention of Terrorist Movement and Effective Border Security" was held in Nairobi on October 29-31. A draft "Joint Statement and Plan of Action" on counter-terrorism was [...]	2007-11-07 09:28:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KDEM PGOV KE
07NAIROBI4411	KENYA ELECTIONS COUNTDOWN 1: 49 DAYS AWAY [...] (C) SUMMARY: U.S. Mission Nairobi will send out over 60 observers nationwide for the party nomination process (primaries) scheduled around 16 November. Kalonzo Musyoka has until 13 November to decide if he wants to stand down in Kibaki's favor, as the presidential ballot will be set after tha [...]	2007-11-09 03:54:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KDEM PGOV PREL KE
07NAIROBI4427	KENYA ELECTIONS: Presidential Candidate Kalonzo Musyoka on the Elections [...] (C) Summary. Kalonzo Musyoka, one of the three principal presidential candidates, recently laid out to the Ambassador his campaign strategy and views on the upcoming elections. The bottom line is that Musyoka realizes he has no chance to win the election this round and sees his campaign as a [...]	2007-11-13 14:43:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KE PHUM PREL

07NAIROBI4428	KENYA ELECTIONS: Presidential Candidate Kalonzo Musyoka on the Elections [...] (C) Summary. Kalonzo Musyoka, one of the three principal presidential candidates, recently laid out to the Ambassador his campaign strategy and views on the upcoming elections. The bottom line is that Musyoka realizes he has no chance to win the election this round and sees his campaign as a [...]	2007-11-13 14:43:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KE PHUM PREL
07NAIROBI4430	ELECTORAL COMMISSION CHAIRMAN RE-APPOINTED [...] (SBU) On 12 November, President Kibaki re-appointed Samuel Kivuitu as Chairman of the Electoral Commission of Kenya effective 3 December for a full five year term. The US Mission advocated in favor of Kivuitu's re-appointment over the last several months, including numerous discussions of the [...]	2007-11-14 04:05:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PREL KE
07NAIROBI4457	KENYA ELECTIONS: POLLING MATTERS [...] (C) Our election analysis (reftels) indicates a close race for the presidency. This analysis is based on voter registration data and traditional turnout rates as well as polling on presidential candidate preferences. We were concerned that widely published public opinion polls, which showed [...]	2007-11-14 13:32:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PREL KE
07NAIROBI4483	NINTH PARLIAMENT WRAP UP (CORRECTED FORMAT) [...] (U) President Kibaki dissolved the Ninth Parliament of Kenya on October 22, 2007, ending its five year term. Overall, its record was mixed. Parliament made strides strengthening its role as an independent branch of government. At times Parliament served as an effective counterweight to the his [...]	2007-11-19 12:00:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PGOV KE
07NAIROBI4512	KENYA ELECTIONS COUNTDOWN 2: 37 DAYS AWAY [...] SUMMARY: Nine presidential candidates will contest the 27 December election. The ECK plans to release the final, approved list of parliamentary candidates on 23 November. The final voter register indicates that the top five ethnic voting blocs are Kikuyu/Meru/Embu (27 pct),Kalenjin (13 pct) [...]	2007-11-21 04:07:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PGOV PREL KE
07NAIROBI4601	KENYA ELECTIONS COUNTDOWN 3: 29 DAYS AWAY [...] (U) SUMMARY: An average of 12 candidates will compete in each of Kenya's 210 parliamentary constituencies (2,547 candidates in total). The Steadman poll, generally considered the most credible, now shows Raila at 43.6 percent, Kibaki at 43.3 percent and Kalonzo at 11.4 percent. So far, we [...]	2007-11-28 14:39:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PGOV PREL KE
07NAIROBI4647	KENYA ELECTIONS: ANALYSIS OF PARLIAMENTARY [...] (U) SUMMARY: Nearly ten percent of outgoing Members of Parliament (MPs) were eliminated in party nomination exercises while a further 25 percent lost major party nominations and took refuge with smaller parties where their prospects for reelection are exceedingly dim. President Kibaki's Pa [...]	2007-12-04 15:09:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PREL KE
07NAIROBI4652	Kenya Election: Role of Religious Institutions [...] (SBU) Kenya's vibrant religious institutions play an active role in public life. They have figured prominently in the run up to the 2007 general elections. From sponsoring civic education efforts to backing certain candidates, religious leaders from the Christian and Muslim communities have u [...]	2007-12-05 10:58:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KE
07NAIROBI4745	KENYA ELECTIONS: CREDIBLE VOTE LIKELY, BUT WE'RE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Less than three weeks from the election, we remain confident that the exercise will be generally free and fair. This confidence is based on six pillars: an independent and non-partisan electoral commission, free and vibrant civil society organizations and media, responsible be [...]	2007-12-14 04:01:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PREL KE
07NAIROBI4756	U.S. Support for Kenya's Electoral Process [...] (SBU) SUMMARY & INTRODUCTION: In the run up to Kenya's 27 December presidential and parliamentary elections, the USG is heavily engaged to support a free and fair electoral process in order to preserve, broaden and deepen Kenya?s democratic gains (see also reftel). Given indications that th [...]	2007-12-14 10:53:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PGOV PREL KE
07NAIROBI4759	KENYA ELECTIONS: COUNTDOWN 4: 13 DAYS AWAY: [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Political Section compared notes with other well informed political observers on prominent government and opposition MPs likely to be defeated in the parliamentary contest. The results appear below. In total, we expect the defeat of 136 MPs out of a total of 210 (65 perc [...]	2007-12-17 03:39:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PREL KE
07NAIROBI4788	KENYA ELECTIONS: STATE OF PLAY ON ELECTION [...] Kenya will be awash in election observers by the time voters go to the polls on December 27. Roughly 17,500 international and domestic observers will cover about 27,500 polling stations in 210 parliamentary constituencies, in addition to party agents who will monitor the proceedings on behal [...]	2007-12-18 10:06:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PREL KE PGOV
07NAIROBI4803	KENYA ELECTIONS: COUNTDOWN 5: 9 DAYS AWAY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The latest opinion polls show Odinga in the lead. All three major candidates express public confidence, while some of their prominent supporters express private gloom. There exists a theoretical possibility that Odinga or Kibaki could win the national vote while still failin [...]	2007-12-18 12:40:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PREL KE
07NAIROBI4804	MEDIA COVERAGE OF KENYAN ELECTION CAMPAIGN: REASONABLE [...] Summary: A UNDP-funded, independent assessment of Kenyan mainstream media coverage in the run-up to the December 27 general election indicated that, from November 10 to December 10, media coverage was generally balanced and accurate, with a few notable exceptions. This coincided with US Embas [...]	2007-12-18 12:59:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM PREL OPRC PHUM KPAO KE
07NAIROBI4816	KENYA ELECTIONS: COUNTDOWN 6: 7 DAYS AWAY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Steadman Group released its final poll results: 45.5 percent Raila Odinga, 42.7 percent Mwai Kibaki and 9.6 percent Kalonzo Musyoka. Given the vagaries of turnout rates, this makes the election too close to call. Two pro-Kibaki parliamentary candidates in Odinga's Langata [...]	2007-12-20 14:17:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PREL PHUM KE
07NAIROBI4825	KENYA ELECTIONS: THE BATTLE FOR LANGATA - HOW A [...] (C) Kenya,s Constitution requires that its President also be an elected Member of Parliament. Of the three major presidential candidates, only Raila Odinga lacks a safe seat. Odinga's choice to run for parliament in the ethnically mixed, Nairobi-based Langata constituency he has represented [...]	2007-12-21 12:53:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM KE
07NAIROBI4827	KENYA ELECTIONS: STATE OF PLAY ON ELECTION [...] Kenya will be awash in election observers by the time voters go to the polls on December 27. Roughly 17,500 international and domestic observers will cover about 27,500 polling stations in 210 parliamentary constituencies, in addition to party agents who will monitor the proceedings on behal [...]	2007-12-21 13:20:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PREL KE PGOV
07NAIROBI4828	KENYA ELECTIONS: ELECTORAL VIOLENCE - ECK AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The run up to the December 27 election is proving to be more violent than the last such contest in 2002, but still much less violent than Kenya's first two multiparty elections in 1992 and 1997. The majority of campaign activity falls within the bounds of the Electoral Code of [...]	2007-12-21 13:42:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PREL KE PGOV
07NAIROBI4829	KENYA ELECTIONS: ELECTORAL VIOLENCE - ECK AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The run up to the December 27 election is proving to be more violent than the last such contest in 2002, but still much less violent than Kenya's first two multiparty elections in 1992 and 1997. The majority of campaign activity falls within the bounds of the Electoral Code of [...]	2007-12-21 13:46:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PREL KE PGOV
07NAIROBI4830	KENYA ON THE EVE OF NATIONAL ELECTIONS [...] Summary: On balance, the Kenyan elections set for December 27 will likely be credible, but determining this will require careful reading of what is likely to be a messy process. Although President Kibaki and his Party of National Unity (PNU) could eek out victory, many observers see a win by o [...]	2007-12-24 11:12:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KE
07NAIROBI4832	KENYA'S ELECTIONS - A POSITIVE PROCESS THUS FAR [...] (SBU) Summary. The relatively smooth and peaceful way in which the elections were carried out on December 27 represents a victory first and foremost for the Kenyan people and their democracy. Herculean efforts by the Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK),the responsible statements made by t [...]	2007-12-28 13:55:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KE
07NAIROBI733	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES PARTNERSHIP WITH PARLIAMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following the successful delivery of the presentation of the U.S.-Kenya partnership to President Kibaki in December, a Mission team led by the Ambassador on February 7 gave the Mission's "Partnership Presentation" to the leadership of Kenya's Parliament. During the well-attend [...]	2007-02-13 10:53:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PREL EAID PTER ASEC KE
07NAIROBI820	KENYA NOMINATION - AWARD FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMEN [...] The Ambassador nominates for the Secretary's Award for International Women of Courage Kenyan Member of Parliament Njoki Ndung'u. In the face of fierce opposition, Ms. Ndung'u, one of only 18 women MPs in Kenya, drafted and championed the successful passage of the Sexual Offenses Act 2006. [...]	2007-02-20 11:24:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM KDEM SOCI KE
07NAIROBI927	KENYA & SOMALIA SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF A/S [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Welcome to Kenya, a stable, dynamic democracy and a key regional partner for the United States. Our partnership with Kenya focuses on five major goals: cooperate to fight insecurity and terrorism; combat disease and save lives; promote prosperity, fight poverty and invest in [...]	2007-02-27 11:49:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PREL KE
07NAIROBI973	KENYA & SOMALIA SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF S/WCI [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Welcome to Kenya, a stable, dynamic democracy and a key regional partner for the United States. Our partnership with Kenya focuses on five major goals: cooperate to fight insecurity and terrorism; combat disease and save lives; promote prosperity, fight poverty and invest in [...]	2007-03-01 06:42:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PREL KE
07NASSAU1428	BAHAMAS WILL NOT ATTEND COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES [...] (U) PolChief delivered reftel demarche points October 26 in a conversation with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Permanent Secretary Sheila Carey. She gave no specific indications of SIPDIS the government's position with regard to attendance at the Ministerial meeting in Bamako, Mali. In a foll [...]	2007-11-29 21:56:00	Embassy Nassau	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PHUM PREL UNGA BF
07NASSAU435	PM CHRISTIE CALLS MAY 2 ELECTIONS; TIGHT RACE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 4, Prime Minister Perry Christie dissolved parliament and announced that elections will be held May 2. At present, the race is too close to call, and neither party is likely to enjoy the same parliamentary majority now held by the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP). The key [...]	2007-04-04 21:10:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM
07NASSAU516	TIGHT, EMOTIONAL RACE LEADS TO PRE-ELECTION [...] (C) The Bahamas is generally known for peaceful and fair elections, but with political parties contending desperately for voters in a tight election scheduled for May 2, an increasing lack of civility between the parties has carried over into the public. A brawl between supporters, including [...]	2007-04-23 20:23:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM KCRM BF
07NASSAU550	PRE-ELECTION ROUNDUP: MOMENTUM TO FNM AS PARTIES [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the final run up to May 2 elections, violence has faded, replaced with isolated vote-buying allegations, though these are not expected to compromise outcomes. In its recently released party platform, the opposition Free National Movement (FNM) has promised to restrict foreig [...]	2007-04-30 21:12:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM KCOR BF
07NASSAU551	WATERING THE GRASS ROOTS WITH FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff observed last-minute campaigning by Foreign Minister Fred Mitchell in his hotly-contested Fox Hill constituency. With small constituencies of only about 4000 people, candidates know voters by name, and are expected to visit with each voter personally. The result is a de [...]	2007-04-30 21:38:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCOR KDEM BF
07NASSAU559	INGRAHAM AND FREE NATIONAL MOVEMENT WIN BAHAMIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to still unofficial counts, The Free National Movement (FNM) captured 24 of 41 parliamentary seats in Bahamian elections May 2. Hubert Ingraham, who served as Prime Minister from 1992-2002, returns to office and is expected to name his cabinet in the coming week. Desp [...]	2007-05-03 20:43:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM KCOR BF
07NDJAMENA145	CHAD: European Commisssion support for [...] (SBU) Summary: The European Commission (EC) seeks to develop a program to support the capacity of Chadian political parties to engage in a national political dialogue in the near term, and to be able to compete responsibly in an open democratic process over the longer term. Chad's current pol [...]	2007-02-15 10:35:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PHUM PGOV KDEM CD
07NDJAMENA43	C-130'S FOR CHAD? [...] (C) SUMMARY: Chad wants to buy four C-130 aircraft at a cost of over USD 300 million. Whether Chad needs or can afford so many new aircraft is questionable. Also an issue is how they will be used. Chad wants to buy them primarily to defend the regime against a backlash provoked by its re [...]	2007-01-12 12:06:00	Embassy Ndjamena	CONFIDENTIAL	BEXP EFIN KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL CD
07NDJAMENA446	CHAD ELECTION DIALOGUE: A POSSIBLE OPPORTUNITY? [...] (U) SUMMARY: Discussions on electoral reform are moving forward between the Mouvement Patriotique de Salut (MPS),Chad's ruling party, and the opposition. Agreement could come in the next weeks. Even diehard critics of the regime see promise that the talks could lead toward a more inclusive [...]	2007-05-30 14:47:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL CD
07NDJAMENA499	CHAD: IMPORTANT JUNCTURE IN INTERNAL POLITICAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The ongoing political dialogue in Chad has come to a crunch point. According to a senior official who serves as go-between in the dialogue, several key areas of disagreement remain, but each one is surmountable. A prominent oppositionist has removed himself from the dialogu [...]	2007-06-15 15:42:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL CD
07NDJAMENA553	TRANSFORMING CHAD: A CAUTIONARY TALE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Over the last three years the United States has devoted more attention and resources to Chad than at any time since the joint fight against Libyan aggression in the 1980's. Chad is a major beneficiary of the Trans Saharan Counter-Terrorism Partnership initiative. It receive [...]	2007-07-03 20:54:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID EFIN EPET KDEM KPKO PGOV PHUM PREL PTER
07NDJAMENA557	DEMOCRACY AND STABILITY IN CHAD: IS THERE HOPE? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Idriss Deby Itno is a master survivor in a political culture as cruel and a neighborhood as dangerous as any in the world. Over the course of the last few years he has succeeded once again in facing down all challengers despite the fierce backlash his move to become [...]	2007-07-05 07:35:00	Embassy Ndjamena	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EAID EFIN EPET KDEM KPKO PGOV PHUM PREF PREL
07NDJAMENA61	SUPPORTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY (SHRD) [...] Chad is a centralized republic with a population of approximately 10 million. The Government of Chad,s human rights record remained poor in 2006. President Idriss Deby has ruled the country since taking power in a 1990 rebellion. Political power remained concentrated in the hands of a north [...]	2007-01-23 16:27:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB PGOV PHUM PREF KDEM CD
07NEWDELHI1050	INDIA AND U.S. HOLD COUNTER-TERRORISM JOINT [...] (C) SUMMARY: MEA Additional Secretary (International Organizations) K.C. Singh and Acting Coordinator for Counterterrorism Frank Urbancic chaired the 8th U.S.-India Counter-Terrorism Joint Working Group (CTJWG) on February 28th in New Delhi. Calling the timing "late, but better late than ne [...]	2007-03-02 14:30:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK
07NEWDELHI1051	INDIANS OFFER BLEAK ASSESSMENT OF AFGHANISTAN AND [...] (S) Summary: During the February 28, 2007 session of the U.S.-India Counter-Terrorism Joint Working Group (CTJWG),the Indian delegation gave a tour d'horizon of developments in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Nepal to help set the stage for the day's discussions (reported Septel). Indian int [...]	2007-03-02 14:42:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV EFIN PINR MOPS KDEM KISL IN
07NEWDELHI1101	CONGRESS LEADERS CRITICIZE NUCLEAR DEAL AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following a string of electoral defeats in Bihar, Mumbai, Uttarakhand, and Punjab, the most influential voices in the Delhi cocktail circuit as well as some of our most insightful political contacts in the states are telling us with one voice that Sonia Gandhi and her personal ad [...]	2007-03-06 16:38:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR ECON KISL KDEM KNNP PARM IN
07NEWDELHI1273	BJP RE-ENERGIZED, LOOKING FORWARD [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-15 12:49:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL PINR ECON KISL IN
07NEWDELHI1274	BELLWETHER PROJECT: UTTAR PRADESH ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: The crucial state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) is facing an election in April and May 2007 that could displace the current Samajwadi Party (SP) government. Although the political situation in UP is fluid and changing rapidly, there was a consensus on a number of key points during a mi [...]	2007-03-15 12:54:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SOCI ECON KISL KDEM KCRM IN
07NEWDELHI1295	KASHMIRI REJECTIONIST HARDLINER GEELANI SEEKS U.S. [...] This is an ACTION REQUEST for CA, S/CT, DS, PA, SCA and others. Please see paragraphs 15 and 16. 2. (S) SUMMARY: Hardline Kashmiri separatist leader Sayeed Ali Shah Geelani applied March 16 for a visa to travel to the United States for medical treatment for cancer in his one remaining kid [...]	2007-03-16 11:58:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PTER CVIS ASEC PREL PGOV PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL
07NEWDELHI1328	PRIME MINISTER WARM ON U.S.-INDIA-JAPAN TRILATERAL [...] (C) Summary. PM Singh told Ashley Tellis he hoped a U.S.-India-Japan trilateral dialogue could become official at the Foreign Secretary level. The PM's comment seems to reflect a fairly broad sentiment in New Delhi, as recent public speakers have come out in support of closer trilateral ties [...]	2007-03-19 13:39:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM IN JA
07NEWDELHI1446	BELLWETHER PROJECT: BIHAR IS MORE THAN JUST CROPS [...] (SBU) Summary: For the last two decades, Bihar was ruled by a kleptocratic and corrupt government, suffered from discriminatory central government policies, and was mired in caste and class-ridden social divides. Despite its Buddhist sacred sites, bountiful rivers and fertile soil, Bihar has [...]	2007-03-23 14:41:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL PHUM ECON SOCI KDEM KISL IN
07NEWDELHI1458	BELLWETHER PROJECT: BIHAR IS MORE THAN JUST CROPS [...] (SBU) Summary: For the last two decades, Bihar was ruled by a kleptocratic and corrupt government, suffered from discriminatory central government policies, and was mired in caste and class-ridden social divides. Despite its Buddhist sacred sites, bountiful rivers and fertile soil, Bihar has [...]	2007-03-26 09:00:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL PHUM ECON SOCI KDEM KISL IN
07NEWDELHI1508	NO CLEAR OUTCOME IN SIGHT FOR UPCOMING UTTAR [...] (C) Summary: Although the election is set to commence on April 7, UP politics remain as confused and murky as ever. In the past few weeks, a close associate of Uttar Pradesh (UP) Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav has bolted to form a new party, and his Muslim support base appears to be incr [...]	2007-03-29 13:50:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM KISL SCUL IN
07NEWDELHI1532	DCM REVIEWS FULL SLATE OF BILATERAL COOPERATION [...] (C) In a courtesy call on new Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta on March 30, the DCM recalled their long-standing friendship, briefed Gupta on the many ways that the USG works with the Home Ministry to advance our bilateral agenda, and sought Gupta's help to improve Embassy interactions with his M [...]	2007-03-30 12:43:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ASEC PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PHUM
07NEWDELHI1641	BANGLADESH LEADER TELLS BOUCHER CREDIBLE ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Chief Advisor Fakhruddin Ahmed of Bangladesh told Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher April 5 that free, fair and credible elections were the primary goal of the caretaker government. In a meeting following the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Summit in New Delhi, [...]	2007-04-05 13:37:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM BG IN
07NEWDELHI1675	BJP WINS BIG IN DELHI LOCAL ELECTIONS [...] (C) On April 5, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept Delhi's Municipal Council polls, winning 164 of 272 seats (60 percent),reducing Congress from 103 seats to 67. The widely-predicted outcome boosted BJP spirits on the eve of the multi-stage Uttar Pradesh (UP) elections. After its victo [...]	2007-04-09 14:02:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL PINR IN
07NEWDELHI1699	DESPITE WILD SPECULATION, UTTAR PRADESH ELECTORAL [...] (C) Summary: Uttar Pradesh (UP) completed its first phase of polling on April 7. Due to the active involvement of an effective Election Commission (EC),the vote went smoothly and was violence free. Notoriously unreliable exit polls predict that the SP and BJP will lose seats, while Congre [...]	2007-04-10 13:26:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM PINR SCUL KDEM KISL IN
07NEWDELHI1704	INDO-PAK DISCUSSIONS ON SAARC SIDELINES HINT AT [...] (C) Summary: The recently concluded SAARC Summit (April 3-4) was notable for its lack of major tension over the perennially contentious issues between India and Pakistan. Indo-Pak experts on the sidelines of SAARC saw signals that a proposal may be just around the corner to try to resolve l [...]	2007-04-11 09:02:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
07NEWDELHI1727	PDP WINS PUBLIC BATTLE OVER JAMMU AND KASHMIR [...] (S) Summary: People's Democratic Party (PDP) leader Mufti Muhammad Sayeed rather astutely and with exquisite timing caused a major dilemma that threatened to unravel the Congress-PDP coalition government of Jammu and Kashmir state. In negotiations before the SAARC Summit and on the eve of Ut [...]	2007-04-12 05:14:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PHUM PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
07NEWDELHI1915	RAHUL GANDHI JUMPS INTO THE U.P. ELECTORAL FRAY [...] (C) Summary: Rahul Gandhi, the heir apparent of the Gandhi family dynasty, has made a number of gaffes, suggesting an uneven start to his active political career. During a series of ""roadshows"" meant to jump-start the Congress campaign in ongoing Uttar Pradesh (UP) elections, Rahul made ellipti [...]	2007-04-23 11:56:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM PINR SCUL KDEM KISL IN PK
07NEWDELHI1920	RECORD CROWD ATTENDS HARDLINE SEPARATIST GEELANI'S [...] (C) Summary: In a show of force as well as strength, hardline separatist Sayeed Ali Shah Geelani held a rally in Srinagar on April 22nd to mark his return to the Valley following cancer surgery in Mumbai. Our interlocutors say the rally was attended by several thousand mostly young people -- [...]	2007-04-23 13:17:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
07NEWDELHI1946	NO CLEAR LEADER EMERGES FROM THE FOURTH PHASE OF [...] (C) Summary: The fourth phase of the contentious Uttar Pradesh (UP) elections came off without a hitch in a remote area of the state bordering on Nepal, which has been a stronghold of the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP). An influential caste leader from the area split from the SP and launched h [...]	2007-04-24 12:05:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM PINR SCUL KDEM KISL IN
07NEWDELHI1975	RUMINATIONS OF A BJP LEADER ON DOMESTIC POLITICS [...] (C) On April 24, PolCouns met with former Foreign Minister Yashwant Sinha, who is currently a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament. A party insider who is well-connected to the BJP leadership, Sinha spoke at some length on current Indian domestic politics. Sinha emp [...]	2007-04-25 12:51:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR SCUL KDEM KISL IN
07NEWDELHI1976	ONE PRIVATE SCHOOL IN RAJASTHAN TRIES TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On an April 10-14 trip through Rajasthan, PolOff discussed Indian public education with politicians, school directors, and journalists. They confirmed that the poor quality of public schools compels parents to rely on private options to ensure their children receive a good edu [...]	2007-04-25 13:01:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR KDEM SOCI IN
07NEWDELHI1977	DELHI DIARY, APRIL 20-25 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for April 20-25, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Mid-Election Scandal Could Shake Up Politics -- Bhutan,s Voters Elect "Yellow" in Mock Polls -- Another Bomb Found and Defused in Bhutan [...]	2007-04-25 13:24:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CVIS KCRM KDEM PHUM SOCI PTER MOPS
07NEWDELHI2070	RAJASTHAN STRUGGLES TO ESCAPE FROM THE HINDI BELT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Rajasthan, located in North India and bordering Pakistan, is the country's largest state and embodies numerous contradictions. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Chief Minister (CM) Vasundhara Raje (ref A),although extremely popular, is heavily criticized and not expected to win the [...]	2007-05-01 06:26:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL PINR SOCI ECON KWMN KIRF
07NEWDELHI2072	G-8 SEEKING IMPROVED CT COOPERATION WITH INDIA [...] (C) Summary: PolCouns attended a meeting of the G-8 Counter-Terrorism Action Group (CTAG) in New Delhi, which is now chaired by the German Political Counselor. The group attempts to coordinate G-8 efforts to partner with the Indian government against terrorism. The group discussed each coun [...]	2007-05-01 08:03:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
07NEWDELHI209	MUKHERJEE'S PAKISTAN TRIP YIELDS LITTLE FOR INDIA [...] (C) Summary. Indian Foreign Minister Mukherjee met with Pakistani leaders in Islamabad on January 13th and 14th, announcing that Pakistani Foreign Minister Kasuri will visit New Delhi in February, inaugurating the next round of composite dialogue with Foreign Secretary talks on March 13th a [...]	2007-01-16 10:53:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
07NEWDELHI2092	LATEST UTTAR PRADESH POLL CONFIRMS CONTINUED [...] (C) Summary: The fifth phase of seven phases of the Uttar Pradesh (UP) election concluded on April 28, with a growing consensus that this election will likely spell the end of SP rule. An effective Election Commission has prevented the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) from using dirty tricks to [...]	2007-05-02 11:23:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM PINR SCUL KDEM KISL IN
07NEWDELHI210	COMMUNISTS COPECETIC WITH UPA REGIONAL APPROACH, [...] (C) Summary: The Left Front (LF) and UPA are locked in agreement when it comes to South Asian regional policy, but differ sharply when it comes to the US and countries with which the US has disputes, such as Iran. In preparation for his January 13-14 Pakistan visit, External Affairs Minister [...]	2007-01-16 11:08:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PREF PINR KDEM IN PK BT BG
07NEWDELHI2102	PM HOSTS THIRD JAMMU AND KASHMIR ROUNDTABLE AS [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Singh chaired a third Roundtable Conference in New Delhi with Kashmiri leaders on April 21st, although separatists from both moderate and hard-line political camps refused to attend. The Prime Minister sat through more than 10 hours of presentations by Kashmiri p [...]	2007-05-02 12:48:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
07NEWDELHI2117	INDIAN DEOBANDIS SAY PAKISTANI JUI-F WILLING TO BROKER PEACE TALKS WITH TALIBAN [...] (S) Summary: Poloffs met on April 27th with Pandit N. K. Sharma -- who once headed Muslim Outreach for the Rao government and who claims close ties to the Gandhi family -- as well as Maulana Mahmood Madani, a member of Parliament and prominent leader of the Deobandi political organization Jamiat U [...]	2007-05-03 10:17:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
07NEWDELHI2140	BSP MAINTAINS ITS LEAD IN UTTAR PRADESH SIXTH [...] (U) The sixth phase of the Uttar Pradesh (UP) election took place without significant problems on May 3. Polling was conducted in 52 constituencies in nine districts in a remote area of southeastern UP. Three of the districts are home to Naxalite activity, but they did not emerge from their [...]	2007-05-04 11:14:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PTER SCUL KDEM IN
07NEWDELHI2203	UTTAR PRADESH ELECTIONS CONCLUDED; RESULTS ON MAY [...] (U) On May 8, polling concluded in the seventh and final phase of the protracted election in Uttar Pradesh (UP). The voting took place in 59 constituencies in East UP. Approximately 45 percent of the electorate cast their votes and there were no reported security incidents. The East UP dist [...]	2007-05-09 07:48:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PTER SCUL KDEM IN
07NEWDELHI2223	INDIA-PAKISTAN STILL STUCK ON SIACHEN TALKS [...] (S) Summary: Indian Defense Minister A K Antony traveled to the Army's Siachen base camp to demonstrate his administration's ongoing tough stance toward Pakistan in negotiations over troop withdrawal from the peaks surrounding the glacier, as well as to set a marker by which India can claim v [...]	2007-05-09 12:03:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
07NEWDELHI2247	INDIA REQUESTS FORMAL TERRORISM WATCH LIST EXCHANGE [...] (S) This is an ACTION request for the Department S/CT and SCA. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) Summary: Indian MEA Counter-Terrorism Cell Director I M Pandey passed a request to Poloff that the U.S. and India sign an agreement to create a formal and continuous channel to exchange terrorism [...]	2007-05-10 11:41:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL ASEC
07NEWDELHI2258	TERRORIST INFILTRATION FALLING IN INDIAN KASHMIR, INCREASING IN INDIAN HEARTLAND [...] (S) Summary: The Indian Home Ministry released its finding on May 10th that terrorist infiltration from Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir into Indian Kashmir fell to an all time low from January through March of 2007. Although these winter months are often considered a low period in violence and infil [...]	2007-05-10 13:15:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
07NEWDELHI2266	A MAYAWATI LANDSLIDE IN UTTAR PRADESH ELECTIONS [...] (U) Although the EC has not yet released the final vote tally in the Uttar Pradesh (UP) Legislative Assembly Elections, initial analysis indicates a clear victory for the BSP party of former Chief Minister Mayawati, and Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav has already conceded defeat. NDTV proj [...]	2007-05-11 06:38:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PINR PTER SCUL KDEM IN
07NEWDELHI2268	MAYAWATI VICTORY IN UTTAR PRADESH ELECTION [...] (C) Mayawati's decisive victory in the just-concluded Uttar Pradesh (UP) elections will reverberate throughout India and has serious implications for the UPA government in New Delhi and for India/US relations. Projections now place her Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) party just a hair's breath away [...]	2007-05-11 08:59:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PTER SCUL KDEM KISL IN
07NEWDELHI2313	AFTER UTTAR PRADESH ELECTION DOMESTIC POLITICS [...] (C) Summary: The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) won a landslide victory in Uttar Pradesh (UP) on May 11 and the state and India's domestic politics will never be the same. Mayawati, the new Chief Minister of UP, handed decisive defeats not only to her bitter rivals the Samajwadi Party (SP),but t [...]	2007-05-14 12:32:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR PTER SCUL KISL IN
07NEWDELHI2475	THE UPA AT THREE YEARS - MIRED IN MEDIOCRITY [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh released a "Report to the People" on May 22, outlining the achievements of his UPA government at the three year point. The PM acknowledged that inflation is a problem, providing assurances that his government would take measures to keep it from hur [...]	2007-05-24 10:28:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON PHUM PINR PTER KDEM IN
07NEWDELHI2563	DELHI DIARY, MAY 24-30 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for May 24-30, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Left Groups Disparage United Progressive Alliance Performance -- Kerala Communist Party Punishes Leaders for Public Feud -- BJP Hopes for [...]	2007-05-30 12:45:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KDEM BT IN
07NEWDELHI2621	KASHMIRI PARAMILITARY SEEKING US VISA [...] (S) This is an ACTION Request for the Department. SCA please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) Summary: Kashmiri paramilitary leader and J&K State MLA Usman Abdul Majid is seeking a U.S. visa to attend functions hosted in Washington by the United States Institute of Peace starting on June 7th. Majid is a le [...]	2007-06-04 11:37:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
07NEWDELHI2628	INDIA HAS NO CIVIL SOCIETY OR DEMOCRACY PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-05 05:15:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KPAO IR IN
07NEWDELHI2664	DELHI DIARY, MAY 31-JUNE 6 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for May 31-June 6, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Mayawati Escapes the Noose -- Bhutan Now Has Four Political Parties -- Bhutan Reaffirms Support for "One China" Policy Mayawati Esc [...]	2007-06-06 11:51:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF KDEM PHUM BT CH TW KS IN
07NEWDELHI268	INDIA SEEKS U.S. HELP TO KEEP "UNNECESSARY" [...] (C) MEA Joint Secretary (North) Pankaj Saran called A/PolCouns on January 18 to convey the following demarche regarding the upcoming vote on Nepal in the UNSC: -- In the spirit of superb, close and on-going US-India coordination on Nepal, India wanted the U.S. to keep the "bigger picture" in [...]	2007-01-18 12:04:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AORC MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
07NEWDELHI27	INDIA RESPONDS FAVORABLY TO PARTNERSHIP FOR [...] (C) DCM received a letter dated December 20, 2006 from Manjeev Singh Puri, Ministry of External Affairs Joint Secretary (UN Economic and Social),responding to Ambassador SIPDIS Mulford's letter of November 6, 2006 inviting India to participate in the "Core Group" meeting to help shape the [...]	2007-01-04 01:39:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KCOR BR MX SF IN
07NEWDELHI2763	INDIA'S PRESIDENTIAL RACE STILL WIDE OPEN [...] (C) Summary: On June 13, the Indian Election Commission (EC) notified the Presidential election, stipulating that Presidential nominations must be filed by June 30. The election will occur on July 19 and the winner will be announced July 21. With the election imminent, the ruling United Prog [...]	2007-06-13 11:16:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR KDEM IN
07NEWDELHI2792	HOT, TENSE SUMMER AWAITS JAMMU AND KASHMIR [...] (S) SUMMARY: An unknown group claiming to be Al Qaeda's Indian wing has made and distributed in Jammu recorded statements declaring jihad on India. The Indian Army and several trusted analyst and journalist sources have scornfully dismissed the claim as a hoax, similar to last year's publici [...]	2007-06-15 01:13:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
07NEWDELHI2840	THE NEW UTTAR PRADESH GOVERNMENT WANTS CLOSE U.S. [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-19 05:01:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINS KDEM SCUL SOCI EIND EINV ENRG
07NEWDELHI2935	KASHMIR ANXIOUS WITH LITTLE SHORT-TERM HOPE FOR [...] (S) SUMMARY: Unknown terrorists threw a grenade at a bus stop in Doda in J & K June 25, wounding 15, three critically. Thousands of Kashmiri Muslims, both Shi'a and Sunni, staged minor, non-violent street actions and chanted anti-US slogans June 14 and 15 to protest the Iraq Samarra Mosque bom [...]	2007-06-25 12:32:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
07NEWDELHI306	INDIA ON ALERT AS USUAL FOR REPUBLIC DAY THREATS [...] (C) Summary. As India's Republic Day fast approaches, security in the capital and the country's largest cities has increased to its highest level as Indians prepare for a significant national holiday. Airports remain on alert as press reports surfaced of threats, over the January 13-14 week [...]	2007-01-19 12:47:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR ASEC KDEM KISL PK IN
07NEWDELHI310	INDIA SET TO INCREASE PLEDGED AID TO AFGHANISTAN [...] (S) Summary. PolOffs met with Afghan Second Secretary Asadi to discuss Foreign Minister Mukherjee's January 22nd to 23rd visit to Afghanistan, including press reports that India is considering increasing its aid to Afghanistan by $100 million. Asadi, speaking through an interpreter, also gav [...]	2007-01-19 13:16:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER EAID ETRD MOPS KDEM KISL PK
07NEWDELHI3281	CD DEMARCHE DELIVERED: INDIA HEDGES ON ALL BUT [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-18 12:56:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PREL PHUM UNGA IN
07NEWDELHI3318	U.N. ADVISOR ON BURMA ENCOURAGES INDIA TO PROMOTE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The UN Secretary General's Special Advisor on Burma, Ibrahim Gambari, met with Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon during a July 10-12 visit to New Delhi. According to the MEA, Gambari recognized India's ability to influence Burma, and expresse [...]	2007-07-20 13:09:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM MARR MASS PGOV PHUM BM IN
07NEWDELHI3336	INDIAN LEGISLATORS ELECT FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT [...] (SBU) Summary: After courting controversy and enduring a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led assault (Ref B & C) on her alleged corruption, Pratibha Devisingh Patil swept the Indian Presidential election on July 19, becoming the first woman to hold the mostly ceremonial but prestigious office. On [...]	2007-07-23 14:10:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL KWMN PINR IN
07NEWDELHI342	BJP DOWNPLAYS IMPORTANCE OF FOREIGN POLICY [...] (C) Summary: The UPA's January 3 luncheon meeting with the BJP leadership proved to be largely a flash in the pan. Subsequent events and statements by BJP insiders confirm that little of substance took place at the meeting, which consisted primarily of a briefing by Minister of External Affa [...]	2007-01-22 13:31:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PREF PINR PTER KDEM IN PK BT
07NEWDELHI343	INDIAN NSA NARAYANAN UPBEAT ON PAKISTAN, CAUTIOUS [...] (S) Summary: National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan expressed optimism about the general trajectory of talks with Pakistan during a January 22nd meeting with Ambassador Mulford, although he said Prime Minister Singh was unlikely to schedule a trip to Islamabad before the SAARC summit in Ap [...]	2007-01-22 13:35:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK
07NEWDELHI346	UTTAR PRADESH MUSLIMS - DISILLUSIONED AND MORE [...] (C) Summary: The Muslims of Uttar Pradesh (UP) are increasingly fed-up with the corruption and poor governance of the Samajwadi Party (SP) government of Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, with many ready to desert to Congress and the rival BSP. Lucknow's Shias have historic and cultural tie [...]	2007-01-23 06:08:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PTER KDEM KISL SCUL IN IZ IR
07NEWDELHI3657	VICTORY PREDICTED FOR VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE [...] (C) Our contacts, media reports, and senior FSNs are confident that Ambassador Mohammad Hamid Ansari, the vice presidential nominee of the ruling UPA coalition and Left parties, will emerge victorious from today's contest in the electoral college comprising of members of Parliament. "The Hi [...]	2007-08-10 12:29:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KISL IN
07NEWDELHI396	THE UTTAR PRADESH GOVERNMENT TEETERS ON THE EDGE [...] (C) Summary: A long series of missteps by the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) in Uttar Pradesh (UP),has convinced most observers that its days are numbered and its ouster from power seemingly inevitable. Congress and an important regional party have withdrawn support from the SP government, re [...]	2007-01-25 08:22:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR SCUL KDEM KISL IN
07NEWDELHI406	INDIA MULLING TALKS WITH KASHMIRI SEPARATISTS [...] (S) Summary. Deputy PolCouns met with one of India's chief negotiators with the Kashmiri separatists, Union Cabinet Minister for Water Resources Professor Saifuddin Soz, himself a Kashmiri, to discuss Mirwaiz Omar Farooq's visit to Pakistan, New Delhi's response to the Mirwaiz's statements de [...]	2007-01-25 11:39:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
07NEWDELHI4253	INDIA AND BHUTAN IRF REPORT: DELIVERY, POSTING AND [...] (U) Per Reftel, Post is pleased to report that the International Religious Freedom Report's Introduction, Executive Summary and individual country reports for India and Bhutan were posted in English on the Embassy's website immediately upon release and clearance from the Department. PolOff als [...]	2007-09-17 12:22:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL KDEM PGOV KIRF IN
07NEWDELHI4254	INDIA AND THE COMPLEMENTARY NATURE OF ISLAM AND [...] (C) PolOff spoke with Ministry of External Affairs Under Secretary for United Nations Political Affairs Vishwas Nagee SIPDIS September 10, who stated that the Government of India has not yet decided who will represent India at the Ministerial Meeting of Communities of Democracies in Bamako [...]	2007-09-17 12:54:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KISL IN
07NEWDELHI4714	EMBASSY PLANS TO OBSERVE BHUTAN'S FIRST ELECTION [...] (U) Summary: Marking the transition from absolute monarchy to democracy, the Kingdom of Bhutan will hold its first national elections in December 2007 and March 2008. Though the USG has no formal diplomatic relations with the Bhutanese government, the Bhutanese have welcomed Embassy observers [...]	2007-10-24 11:11:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PHUM PREL PINR PGOV IN

07NEWDELHI4822	MEA SLAMS UNMIN, URGES ELECTIONS AT THE SOONEST [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Joint Secretary (for Nepal and Bhutan) Preeti Saran conveyed in an SIPDIS October 30 meeting with Acting PolCouns her government's disappointment with the electoral delay in Nepal, emphasized the need for New Delhi and Washington to pressure [...]	2007-10-31 13:27:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PREF KDEM UN BT NP IN
07NEWDELHI4847	INDIA CONFIRMS ATTENDANCE AT APDP BREAKFAST, [...] Ministry of External Affairs Joint Secretary (United Nations Political) Sanjiv Arora confirmed to Acting PolCouns November 2 that India's delegation to the Community of Democracies Ministerial in Bamako Nov 14-16 will be headed by Anand Sharma, Minister of State for External Affairs. Arora a [...]	2007-11-05 04:12:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM IN
07NEWDELHI4848	INDIA CONFIRMS ATTENDANCE AT APDP BREAKFAST, [...] Ministry of External Affairs Joint Secretary (United Nations Political) Sanjiv Arora confirmed to Acting PolCouns November 2 that India's delegation to the Community of Democracies Ministerial in Bamako Nov 14-16 will be headed by Anand Sharma, Minister of State for External Affairs. Arora a [...]	2007-11-05 05:46:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM IN
07NEWDELHI4900	APDP BREAKFAST INVITATION DELIVERED TO GOVERNMENT [...] PolCouns delivered ref A invitation to MEA Joint Secretary (United Nations Political) Sanjiv Arora on SIPDIS November 6, drawing attention to the fact that the breakfast has been moved up to eight from eight-thirty am. Arora had previously confirmed GOI attendance at the APDP breakfast (re [...]	2007-11-08 01:30:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM IN ML
07NEWDELHI51	LIMP GOI RESPONSE TO SADDAM EXECUTION DICTATED BY [...] (C) Summary: The GOI issued a tepid if not unhelpful response to the December 30 execution of Saddam Hussein. This was dictated by Congress concerns regarding the sensibilities of India's Muslims. Congress faces a crucial election in Uttar Pradesh (UP) later this year and the state's Muslim [...]	2007-01-04 13:33:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ASEC KDEM KISL SCUL PGOV IN IZ
07NEWDELHI511	SEPARATISTS CONTEMPLATING JOINING 2008 JAMMU AND [...] (U) This is an ACTION REQUEST for SCA. Please see paragraph 8. 2. (S) Summary: Moderate Kashmiri separatist Bilal Lone met with Deputy PolCouns on January 31st to discuss his January 19 to 27 trip to Pakistan with All Parties Hurriyat Council (APHC) leader Mirwaiz Omar Farooq. Bilal told [...]	2007-02-01 15:32:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
07NEWDELHI513	SEPARATISTS CONTEMPLATING JOINING 2008 JAMMU AND [...] (U) This is an ACTION REQUEST for SCA. Please see paragraph 8. 2. (S) Summary: Moderate Kashmiri separatist Bilal Lone met with Deputy PolCouns on January 31st to discuss his January 19 to 27 trip to Pakistan with All Parties Hurriyat Council (APHC) leader Mirwaiz Omar Farooq. Bilal told [...]	2007-02-02 01:15:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
07NEWDELHI5299	BHUTAN EXPERIENCING GROWING PAINS IN ITS [...] (C) Summary: In November, Poloff accompanied Population, Refugee, and Migration (PRM) A/S Ellen Sauerbrey to Bhutan to discuss resolution of the protracted Bhutanese refugee crisis in Nepal (ref A). During this visit, interlocutors including the former King, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, Prime Minis [...]	2007-12-13 09:00:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR KDEM KWMN IN BT
07NEWDELHI5305	HIMACHAL PRADESH ELECTIONS: BJP EDGE [...] (SBU) Summary: With the rhetorical back and forth between Congress and the BJP (Bhartiya Janata Party) over the US-India nuclear initiative and the Gujarat elections, little attention has focused on the December 19 state polls in Himachal Pradesh (HP). Based on anti-incumbency, conventional [...]	2007-12-13 12:19:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI IN
07NEWDELHI5319	DELHI DIARY, DECEMBER 10-14 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for December 10-14, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Bhutan Election Commission Disqualifies Third Political Party. -- India Finally Offers Balanced Assessment of Israeli-Palestini [...]	2007-12-14 12:39:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KDEM KJUS KPAL IS IN BT
07NEWDELHI535	BJP LEADERSHIP SHUFFLE COMPOUNDS CONFUSION [...] (U) On January 29, BJP Party President Rajnath Singh announced a shake-up in the party leadership. He moved Arun Jaitley, considered by many to be the most articulate and perhaps the sharpest of the party's Generation Next leadership, from "Party Spokesman" to "Secretary of the Parliamentary [...]	2007-02-02 12:30:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM KIRF IN
07NEWDELHI574	INDIA PREPARING FOR US-INDIA COUNTER-TERRORISM [...] (S) Summary: Deputy PolCouns met on February 1st with the new Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Director for India's Counter-Terrorism Cell, Indra Mani Pandey, as well as Director (Military Affairs) Brig. AS Nundal, who is acting as a coordinator for the India-U.S. Counter-Terrorism Joint Wo [...]	2007-02-06 09:48:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER EFIN PINR MOPS KDEM KISL IN
07NEWDELHI636	KASHMIRIS IRATE OVER CUSTODIAL KILLINGS; PM SINGH TAKING ACTION [...] (S) Srinagar was once again gripped with protests on February 7th, as police officials announced that they had dug up five unmarked graves in an ongoing investigation of custodial killings. Our interlocutors say Prime Minister Singh is influencing the investigations as a confidence building [...]	2007-02-08 12:50:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PHUM PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
07NEWDELHI659	THE UTTARAKHAND ELECTION: A SMALL CONTEST WITH [...] (C) Summary: Uttarakhand had the good sense in 2000 to break away from Uttar Pradesh (UP). This has spared the state from the chaotic and criminal regional parties that continue to destroy UP. Instead, Uttarakhand has a political system dominated by the two national parties - Congress and [...]	2007-02-09 13:06:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM IN
07NEWDELHI661	PUNJAB'S ELECTION OUTCOME REMAINS MURKY [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-09 13:37:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI KDEM IN
07NEWDELHI662	BELLWETHER PROJECT: INDIA RISING, PUNJAB STRUGGLING [...] (C) Summary: For decades, Punjab has struggled with corruption and bad political leadership. Despite its reputation as the breadbasket of India, Punjab's agriculture economy is failing and the common Punjabi feels left out of India's economic boom. Unemployment is widespread, inflation is r [...]	2007-02-09 13:54:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL PHUM ECON SOCI KDEM IN
07NEWDELHI701	INDIAN NSA NARAYANAN DISCUSSES RUSSIAN MIG-35, [...] (S) Summary: Lieutenant General Maples, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, met with Indian National Security Advisor MK Narayanan on February 8th to discuss joint efforts to increase U.S.-India defense cooperation. NSA Narayanan explained India's longstanding concern about Chinese d [...]	2007-02-12 14:08:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
07NEWDELHI776	MORE BAD NEWS FOR U.P. CHIEF MINISTER MULAYAM [...] (SBU) In Uttar Pradesh (UP),the shaky and beleaguered government of Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav (reftels) came another step closer to falling on February 14. The Supreme Court ruled that the defection of 13 MLAs from the opposition BSP to the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) on August 27, [...]	2007-02-15 11:05:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM IN
07NEWDELHI779	INDIAN DEFENSE MINISTER DEMANDS DEMARCATION ON [...] (U) Speaking to Indian reporters on February 10th on the sidelines of a conference on India and the ASEAN sponsored by the Institute for Defense Studies and Analysis, Indian Defense Minister AK Antony reiterated that any agreement with Pakistan over Siachen would be unacceptable to the Indian [...]	2007-02-15 12:32:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
07NEWDELHI783	GUTIERREZ WEIGHS IN WITH FM MUKHERJEE ON BELL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Even while extolling the significant growth in U.S. ) India economic and political ties and assuring the GOI,s continued support, Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee stubbornly defended to Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez, Under Secretary Frank Lavin, and Ambas [...]	2007-02-15 13:10:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
07NEWDELHI80	CONGRESS GOVERNMENT IN HIMACHAL PRADESH PASSES A [...] (U): On December 29, 2006, the legislature of the Congress run Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh (HP) passed an anti-conversion bill during its truncated four day session. Under the provisions of the bill, any person convicted of engaging in "forced" conversion will face a two year jail s [...]	2007-01-08 10:48:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PHUM SCUL KDEM IN
07NEWDELHI849	SAMJHAUTA EXPRESS TRAIN BOMBINGS UNEXPECTEDLY [...] (C) Summary: Indian and Pakistani officials rushed to mobilize joint efforts in response to the February 18th attack on the New Delhi to Lahore Samjhauta ("friendship") Express train, which killed 67 Indian and Pakistani nationals. Indian press reports point out that this may be the first ti [...]	2007-02-20 14:17:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
07NEWDELHI872	INDIA AWASH WITH SPECULATION ABOUT FRIENDSHIP [...] (S) Summary. As the death toll in the February 19th Samjauta Express bombing continued to rise on February 21st, press reports in India began to hint at rumors that the likely culprits were Lashkar-e-Taiba or Jaish-e-Muhammad. Police and Indian officials, however, continue to join their Pakis [...]	2007-02-21 14:48:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
07NEWDELHI909	SCENESETTER: INDIA COUNTER-TERRORISM JOINT WORKING [...] (S) Summary: Embassy New Delhi warmly welcomes the visit of Acting Coordinator for Counterterrorism Frank Urbancic, and looks forward to adding dynamism to the India-U.S. Counter-Terrorism Joint Working Group (CTJWG) and developing an atmosphere where ideas and information are easily exchanged by b [...]	2007-02-23 11:41:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL KTFN
07NIAMEY123	ISLAM IN NIGER (3): FAITH FOLLOWS THE DOLLAR IN [...] (C) NOTE: This is the third in a series of cables (reftels A&B) reporting on the changing nature of Islam in Niger. END NOTE During recent travel to Agadez, Poloff and AIDoff tried to square an interesting circle. Traditional authorities - the Sultan and Grand Mosque Imam - claimed that the Nig [...]	2007-02-12 10:00:00	Embassy Niamey	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PINR EAID SOCI KDEM NG
07NIAMEY737	NIGER: PARLIAMENT PLAYS WITH PM CENSURE MOTION [...] (U) On Saturday the 26th, the opposition in Niger's National Assembly raised a censure motion against the coalition government of Prime Minister (PM) Hama Amadou, alleging negligence in its management of the investigation of a public school funds scandal rumored to implicate the PM (reftel). A [...]	2007-05-29 13:10:00	Embassy Niamey	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KCOR NG
07NIAMEY739	ISLAM IN NIGER (4): ATTITUDES TOWARD IZALA IN [...] (U) NOTE: This is the fourth in a series of cables (reftels A,B,C) reporting on the changing nature of Islam in Niger. END NOTE ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) Previous cables in this series examined the rise, in Niger, of a Wahhabist-inspired form of Islamic fundamentalism from the Sha [...]	2007-05-29 15:48:00	Embassy Niamey	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID KDEM PGOV PINR PTER SOCI KISL NG
07NIAMEY742	ALIVE AND WELL: PROFILES OF TRADITIONAL [...] During recent travel Poloff examined the role of traditional chiefs in Niger. Characterized since colonialism by a highly-centralized state that often undercut traditional rulers, Niger has recently embraced a system of political decentralization based on democratically elected local governme [...]	2007-05-30 16:04:00	Embassy Niamey	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM PHUM SOCI NG
07NIAMEY756	PM CENSURE: TIDE TURNS AGAINST HAMA? [...] (C) As reported reftel, the Nigerien National Assembly has been considering a motion of censure against the government of Prime Minister Hama Amadou since Saturday. After two days of suspension, the Assembly re-convened this afternoon. Mission contacts indicate that the ground may have shifted [...]	2007-05-31 14:38:00	Embassy Niamey	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KCOR NG
07NIAMEY76	ISLAM IN NIGER (2): STUMBLING BLOCKS FOR IZALA IN [...] (C) Reftel offered several themes to be examined in a series of cables on Islam in Niger. In this edition, Poloff reports on conversations with a prominent Imam that illuminate the extent of fundamentalist penetration into the central Nigerien region of Tahoua - an area linked by proximity and [...]	2007-01-26 08:52:00	Embassy Niamey	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PINR EAID SOCI KDEM NG
07NIAMEY763	GON FALLS ON CENSURE MOTION; NEW PM AND CABINET WILL [...] On May 31, the National Assembly of Niger passed (by 62 votes out of 113) a motion of no confidence moved by opposition MPs against the GON. Prime Minister Hama Amadou and all of the GON's 31 ministers must now resign. President Mamadou Tandja will name a new PM. Yesterday's events brought an e [...]	2007-06-01 13:11:00	Embassy Niamey	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KCOR NG
07NIAMEY783	NIGER: PRESIDENT TANDJA NAMES NEW PRIME MINISTER TO [...] President Tandja appointed Seini Oumarou as Prime Minister to replace Hama Amadou, who was removed by the National Assembly's no confidence vote. The National Assembly's removal of the Prime Minister through constitutional means is a positive sign that Niger's relatively new democratic culture [...]	2007-06-07 10:35:00	Embassy Niamey	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM KCOR NG
07NIAMEY787	NIGER: PRESIDENT TANDJA NAMES NEW CABINET [...] Summary: President Tandja, on June 9, announced a new cabinet made up of 32 members (including the Prime Minister),to replace the one that was dissolved following the National Assembly's May 31 no confidence vote on the former Prime Minister (ref a). Nineteen incumbent ministers, including t [...]	2007-06-11 13:48:00	Embassy Niamey	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM KCOR NG
07NICOSIA136	OPPOSITION PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SOON TO ANNOUNCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: European Parliamentarian and former Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides will stand in Cyprus's 2008 presidential elections, with a formal announcement likely in March. Behind the decision to run was his conviction that a new generation of leaders should take command in Cyprus, [...]	2007-02-14 09:18:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM CY
07NICOSIA209	DIKO: NEW LEADERSHIP, OLD THINK [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Of Cyprus's Big Four political parties, only DIKO saw its vote haul increase in the most recent elections (December 2006). A confident DIKO President Marios Karoyian attributes the success to a reorganization effort he initiated upon taking office in October. The party's mess [...]	2007-03-12 15:09:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM CY TU
07NICOSIA451	CYPRUS CLAIMS "NO TIME" TO TAKE STANCE ON SYRIA'S [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-25 10:17:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PREL PHUM SY EUN CY
07NICOSIA514	CYPRUS TO BE HELPFUL WITHIN EU ON FURTHER [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-14 14:45:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KDEM IR CY PHUM EUN
07NICOSIA640	YOUTH POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS: CYPRUS'S FUTURE [...] (SBU) Summary: Every major political party in the Republic of Cyprus has a youth branch. The two largest and most significant are EDON and NEDISY, affiliates of Cyprus's largest political organizations, AKEL and DISY, respectively. Though distinct from the mother parties, these Greek Cyprio [...]	2007-08-07 11:16:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PREL CY
07NICOSIA669	PRESIDENTIAL CHALLENGER KASOULIDES SEES OUTLOOK [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ebullient and outgoing as ever, DISY-supported presidential candidate Ioannis Kasoulides displayed a new air in a recent meeting with EmbOffs: confidence. Just two months ago, certain he faced a Herculean challenge in defeating incumbent Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos, Ka [...]	2007-08-17 09:21:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PREL CY
07NICOSIA71	CYPRUS SUPPORTIVE BUT DOES NOT HAVE IRAN-FOCUSED [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-25 05:04:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CY PGOV KDEM KPAO EUN IR
07NICOSIA912	CYPRUS WILL SEND REPRESENTATION TO COMMUNITY OF [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-15 13:31:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PHUM PREL UNGA CY
07NICOSIA913	CYPRUS UNRESPONSIVE TO DEMARCHE ON OSCE ELECTION [...] (SBU) The Embassy delivered reftel demarche to MFA First Secretary Alkis Ieromonachou on November 9, highlighting the SIPDIS necessity that Russia allow the OSCE's observer team full and unhindered access in the run-up to December 2 Duma elections. Ieromonachou took note of our position an [...]	2007-11-15 13:59:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PHUM PREL RS CY
07NICOSIA968	NOD TO SLEIMAN "NO SURPRISE" TO CYPRIOTS [...] (C) Polchief December 7 delivered Reftel points on Lebanon to MFA Middle East Desk Officer Dionysus Dionysiou. It was vital that Cyprus support immediate, "non-linked" Lebanese presidential elections in its diplomatic discussions and public commentary, he emphasized. Dionysiou responded by n [...]	2007-12-11 07:54:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PREL PGOV LE CY
07NOUAKCHOTT139	STEPS TOWARD DIALOGUE [...] (U) Post reported reftel on a January 31 meeting of the principal candidates for President, one intended to exchange views, work for success of the transition, and put together a code of conduct. A subsequent statement indicated they also agreed to ask the transitional authorities to abstain f [...]	2007-02-06 18:37:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV MR
07NOUAKCHOTT140	MEETING WITH NATIONAL SECURITY CHIEF [...] (C) Charge and EmbOff called on Director General of National Security Colonel Mohamed Ould Cheikh Mohamed Ahmed, aka Colonel Ghazwany, February 7. Joined by the Director General of State Security, Commissioner Taleb Abeidi Mohamed Abdelahi, Colonel Ghazwany said he understood the principled r [...]	2007-02-07 17:50:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM MASS PGOV PINR PINS MR
07NOUAKCHOTT207	MEETING WITH PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE HANANA [...] (C) Summary. Presidential candidate Saleh Ould Hanana said the August 2005 coup d'etat was a "vindication" of his bloody 2003 coup attempt. While pleased with the transition, he believes that the new government will need to go further in several areas. He was a "witness" to the 1989 Events, w [...]	2007-02-23 16:07:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR EAID KDEM MR
07NOUAKCHOTT33	MILITARY VIEWS ON ELECTIONS AND AFTERMATH [...] (C) Summary. Two high-level military officials express concerns about civilian abilities to govern while listening to our urging non-interference of the military in the presidential elections just ahead. The armed forces intend to focus on their own role and needs in the post-transition peri [...]	2007-01-10 16:52:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM MARR MASS PGOV PHUM MR
07NOUAKCHOTT400	PARLIAMENT CONVENES, ELECTS ITS LEADERSHIP [...] (U) The new parliament met for the first time April 26, in the final step to the return to constitutional order. The Military Council for Justice and Democracy following the August 3, 2005 coup dissolved parliament and suspended the part of the constitution requiring parliamentary decision, a [...]	2007-04-27 13:46:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID KDEM PHUM PINR MR
07NOUAKCHOTT78	MEETING WITH KEY MILITARY OFFICIAL ABDEL AZIZ [...] (C) Summary. The Presidential election will be held as scheduled, without interference and in a transparent manner, according to one of the country's key military officers. Colonel Abdel Aziz said that the ruling Military Council will maintain its neutrality, while an individual, such as he, m [...]	2007-01-29 10:59:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM MASS PGOV MR
07NOUAKCHOTT98	MEETING WITH ISLAMIST LEADERS [...] (C) Charge and DCM called on newly elected National Assembly member Jemil Mansour, coordinator of the RC (Reformistes Centristes) group and head of the political wing of the Islamist movement in Mauritania, January 30, as part of our occasional contact with that group. Our last meeting was re [...]	2007-01-30 18:57:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PINR MR
07OSLO295	UN DEMOCRACY FUNDED PROJECT: OSLO GOVERNANCE CENTRE [...] Summary. Per Ref A, on March 26 we spoke with Director of the Oslo Governance Centre Bjoern Foedre regarding the United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDF) project, Communication for Empowerment. The project is not a Norwegian government initiative, and only has recently begun. End Summary. 2 [...]	2007-03-27 12:08:00	Embassy Oslo	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PGOV PREL OIIP NO KDEM KPAO UN NGO
07OSLO758	NORWEGIANS CONSIDER AZERBAIJAN POINTS [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-19 11:06:00	Embassy Oslo	UNCLASSIFIED	AJ EUN OSCE PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM NO
07OSLO804	NORWEGIANS REVIEWING PDG PARTICIPATION [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-06 14:50:00	Embassy Oslo	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ORECD EUN KDEM NO
07OSLO961	NORWAY DECLINES JOINING PDG [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-21 15:19:00	Embassy Oslo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID KDEM OAS NO
07OTTAWA1107	CANADA'S TAKE ON MISSING/DETAINED AMCITS IN IRAN [...] (SBU) On June 11, POL M/C raised the issue of missing and detained American citizens in Iran with Dennis Horak, Director of the Iran Desk at Foreign Affairs Canada. He asked Horak if Canada would raise this issue in discussions with Iranian officials. 2. (SBU) Horak said Canada shared U.S [...]	2007-06-12 19:42:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL CA EUN IR
07OTTAWA1828	CANADIAN VIEWS ON COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES [...] (C) According to the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade's Democracy Unit Manager Ben Rowswell, Canada's UN Permrep Ambassador John McNee will represent Ottawa in the CD meeting hosted by Mali on October 1. He expressed hope that Deepak Obhrai, Parliamentary Secretary to th [...]	2007-09-26 20:37:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM PREL UNGA PGOV CA
07OTTAWA1831	CANADIAN VIEWS ON PARTNERSHIP FOR DEMOCRATIC [...] (C) According to Graham Shantz, Head of Policy Planning at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada has put a good deal of diplomatic effort into the Partnership for Democratic Governance (reftel) and is pleased to be a founding member and steering group member. The GO [...]	2007-09-27 18:39:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM OAS EAID CA
07OTTAWA1878	CANADA LOOKING FOR NEW APPROACHES TO [...] (C) Summary: Recognizing the need to better organize Canada's institutions to promote democratic development abroad, the Canadian Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development recently conducted a study of democracy promotion. The committee's report was issued in J [...]	2007-10-05 19:06:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV KDEM CA PREL
07OTTAWA2036	CANADIAN VIEWS ON ADVANCING THE DEMOCRACY AGENDA [...] (SBU) In a discussion with PolMinCouns on November 5, Ben Rowswell, Manager of the Democracy Unit in the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT),expressed appreciation for reftel views on the upcoming 4th Community of Democracies Ministerial in Bamako. He said that Pa [...]	2007-11-05 22:36:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KDEM PHUM UNGA CA
07OTTAWA2060	CANADIAN PARTICIPATION IN PDG STEERING GROUP [...] (SBU) According to Nancy Smyth, Deputy Director of Policy Planning at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT),DFAIT's Director General for Economic Affairs John Sloan will lead Canada's delegation to the November 12 Steering Group meeting, joined by Nicole Gesnot fro [...]	2007-11-08 18:36:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID KDEM PREL OECD CA
07OTTAWA496	CANADA TO SUPPORT US POSITION ON PARTNERSHIP FOR [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-15 20:32:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM OECD PREL EAID KDEM CA
07OUAGADOUGOU1086	BURKINA FASO CELEBRATES NATIONAL DAY IN GRAND STYLE FOR THE [...] (U) Key Points: -- On December 11, Burkina Faso held an elaborate celebration marking the 47th anniversary of its 1960 independence from France. The festivities included a Presidential address and a huge parade involving around 7,000 participants from Burkina Faso, including the entire U.S.- [...]	2007-12-17 14:28:00	Embassy Ouagadougou	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM MASS SOCI UV
07PANAMA1856	PANAMA: MARTINELLI CONTINUES TO LEAD POLLS [...] (C) Democratic Change (CD) Party President and presidential candidate Ricardo Martinelli continues to lead the polls in all respects, according to a November 2007 poll conducted by Panama's leading pollster, Dichter and Neira. Overall, the GOP gets a neutral to somewhat negative approval ratin [...]	2007-12-11 20:08:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PM
07PANAMA524	PANAMA: UNDEF PROJECT PROGRESS REPORT [...] (U) Panama's United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF) project is ready to launch pending disbursement of the grant funds, Foundation for the Development of Civil Liberties Executive Director Angelica Maytin told Poloff on April 3. The two-year project to develop a public corruption risk index wo [...]	2007-04-09 21:30:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID KDEM KPAO PGOV PREL UNAUS NGO PM
07PARIS112	FRENCH SHARE VIEWS ON LEBANON CONFERENCE, UNSCR [...] (S) Summary: EB PDAS Liz Dibble and NEA DAS Robert Danin met with the MFA's Herve Besancenot (DAS-equivalent for the Levant) and the Elysee's Dominique Boche (Chirac's Middle East advisor) on January 9 to discuss preparations for the January 25 Lebanon conference (septel to follow) and options [...]	2007-01-10 17:01:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	FR KDEM LE PGOV PREL SY
07PARIS158	UPDATE ON LEBANON DONORS CONFERENCE [...] (U) SUMMARY: FRANCE IS ENCOURAGED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF LEBANON'S PROPOSED ECONOMIC PROGRAM TO GARNER DONOR SUPPORT, AND IS RELATIVELY WELL-ADVANCED IN PREPARATIONS FOR THE JANUARY 25 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR LEBANON. THE LEBANESE ECONOMIC TEAM GAVE A VERY GOOD PRESENTATION OF ITS ECONOMIC [...]	2007-01-16 15:18:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN KDEM PGOV PREL LE SY FR
07PARIS159	FRANCE SEEKS EU COVER ON IRAN CIVIL SOCIETY [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on January 16 to MFA Iran Desk Officer Arnaud Pescheux, who indicated that France had not budgeted any funds for democracy promotion in Iran. "If we were to do something, it would undoubtedly be via Brussels," Pescheux said. He noted that France "anticipate [...]	2007-01-16 15:33:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM LE PGOV PREL FR IR
07PARIS168	UNESCO CONFERENCE ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND MEDIA [...] (SBU) UNESCO hosted a three-day international conference on the "Freedom of Expression and Media Development in Iraq" January 8-10 in Paris, bringing together over 300 participants, including 200 Iraqi journalists, some 20 members of the Iraqi parliament, government officials, and media owners [...]	2007-01-17 14:18:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	UNESCO SCUL KDEM IZ
07PARIS1892	COMOROS: FRANCE SHARES U.S. ASSESSMENT AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA AF DAS-equivalent Jean-Claude Brunet on May 10 said that France shared USG views (refs A and B) on the current situation in the Comoros. The situation had calmed in the past few days, but much depended on how President Sambi now responded to Anjouan "President" Bacar's con [...]	2007-05-14 08:58:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM PINR CN FR
07PARIS243	SCENESETTER FOR THE SECRETARY'S JANUARY 24-25 VISIT TO [...] (C) MADAM SECRETARY, YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THE JANUARY 25 PAGE 02 RUEHFRA0243 C O N F I D E N T I A L INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LEBANON, AND THE STRONG U.S. FINANCIAL PACKAGE YOU BRING TO THE TABLE, WILL BE EXTREMELY IMPORTANT FOR LEBANON AND THUS VERY WELL RECEIVED BY THE FRENCH AND CHIRA [...]	2007-01-22 16:18:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM LE FR
07PARIS257	FRENCH NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR'S VIEWS ON MIDDLE [...] (S) Summary: French NSA-equivalent Maurice Gourdault-Montagne (MGM) told the Ambassador on January 22 that "some" are calling for France to freeze plans for establishing an international tribunal on Lebanon until next autumn, in the hope that this delay would allow Lebanese PM Siniora to break [...]	2007-01-22 17:22:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	FR KDEM LE PGOV PREL SY
07PARIS307	A/S WELCH PRESSES FRENCH TO CAPITALIZE ON LEBANON [...] (S) Summary: NEA A/S David Welch met separately January 24 with Dominique Boche, President Chirac's Middle East Advisor, and Jean Felix-Pagagnon, his French MFA counterpart. Welch strongly urged the French to take advantage of the political moment created by the Lebanon Conference, noting that [...]	2007-01-26 09:31:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	FR IR IS KDEM KPAL LE PGOV PREL
07PARIS309	NEA DAS DANIN PITCHES INFORMAL LEBANON CONTACT [...] (S) Summary: NEA DAS Robert Danin met separately on January 23 with his MFA counterpart, Herve Besancenot, and with President Chirac's Middle East adviser, Dominique Boche. Danin proposed establishing a contact group on Lebanon (with the likely participation of the U.S., France, Italy and Ger [...]	2007-01-26 12:16:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	FR KDEM LE PGOV PREL SY
07PARIS3274	GILCHRIST OLYMPIO: CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC [...] (C) SUMNARY: UFC leader Gilchrist Olympio told us on August 2 that he would travel to Togo within the next few days, arriving in Lome probably on August 6 or 7. He expressed cautious optimism about the legislative elections, which he believed would take place in mid-October, although he di [...]	2007-08-03 09:39:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR KDEM TO FR
07PARIS3363	COMOROS: FRENCH MFA SEES NO EASY SOLUTION TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA Comoros Desk Officer Stephane Le Brech said on August 7 that there appeared to be no ready solution to the current crisis in the Comoros, because of Anjouan "President" Bacar's intransigence and the improbability of any military solution to the impasse. Le Brech said that t [...]	2007-08-10 10:33:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM MOPS EAID PHUM PINR ASEC CN FR
07PARIS3385	METN BY-ELECTION RESULT ALLOWS FRANCE TO RELAX A [...] (C) Summary: The French MFA told us August 9 that FM Kouchner's anticipated August 25 return to Beirut was more tentative than public statements and press reporting have indicated since the hotly contested Metn by-election last weekend has not led to violence. The new DAS-equivalent for th [...]	2007-08-10 16:39:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM FR LE SY IS IR
07PARIS3386	METN BY-ELECTION RESULT ALLOWS FRANCE TO RELAX A [...] (C) Summary: The French MFA told us August 9 that FM Kouchner's anticipated August 25 return to Beirut was more tentative than public statements and press reporting have indicated since the hotly contested Metn by-election last weekend has not led to violence. The new DAS-equivalent for th [...]	2007-08-10 16:40:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM FR LE SY IS IR
07PARIS363	A/S FRIED-POLDIR ARAUD ON IRAN, KOSOVO, GEORGIA, [...] (C) SUMMARY: French Political Director Araud informed EUR A/S Fried during a January 25 meeting that Russian Security Council Chairman Ivanov had revealed to him the previous day while in Paris that he would travel to Tehran February 28 at the behest of President Putin. Araud said the Russian [...]	2007-01-31 12:48:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	PREL KDEM EUN NATO UNO UNMIK FR KCFE RS SR
07PARIS3631	FRENCH NOT PREPARED TO ISSUE PUBLIC STATEMENT ON [...] (C) France does not intend to issue a public declaration on Syrian dissident Riad Seif (reftel),according to French MFA Syria desk officer Jean-Christophe Auge. He indicated August 31 that France had delivered a joint EU demarche on August 29 to Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Miqdad asking [...]	2007-08-31 15:23:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KDEM FR SY LE
07PARIS3772	FRENCH RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR SUPPORT FOR LEBANON [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche late the afternoon of September 7 to French MFA DAS-equivalent for the Levant Ludovic Pouille. He was a bit surprised to receive such a message so late, i.e., after FM Kouchner had already left to attend the Gymnich. After confirming the message was address [...]	2007-09-11 16:40:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM FR LE SY EU
07PARIS3825	TOGO: GILCHRIST OLYMPIO REMAINS "CAUTIOUSLY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Togo's UFC opposition leader Gilchrist Olympio told us on September 13 that he remained "cautiously optimistic" about the integrity of the upcoming October 14 legislative elections in Togo and upbeat about the UFC's chances. He intends to travel to Ghana on September 15 and th [...]	2007-09-14 10:18:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR KDEM UNGA TO FR
07PARIS3921	FRENCH MFA NEA A/S-EQUIVALENT ON LEBANON, [...] (C) French MFA NEA A/S-Equivalent Jean Felix-Paganon reviewed with Polmincouns September 17 FM Kouchner's visit to Beirut during Kouchner's recent swing through the Levant. He provided little detail and began the discussion of Lebanon as a carryover from a preceding discussion of the peace p [...]	2007-09-19 11:54:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM FR LE SY IR
07PARIS3926	FRANCE AND COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-19 13:46:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PHUM PREL UNGA PGOV FR
07PARIS3973	FRANCE: STILL RESERVED ON PARTNERSHIP FOR DEMOCRATIC [...] (SBU) Emboffs have discussed the Partnership for Democratic governance (PDG) on several occasions with French officials in recent weeks. They have told us they do not believe France will join as a founding member, but have not excluded deeper involvement at some later date. 2. (SBU) In a [...]	2007-09-21 16:37:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM EAID FR
07PARIS4313	FRENCH UPDATE ON LEBANON, AS THE "THREE MINISTERS" [...] (C) Summary: France does not believe the October 23 session of the Lebanese parliament will result in the election of a new Lebanese president and sees the visit by French, Italian, and Spanish foreign ministers October 19-20 as a way to remind Lebanese political figures of their &responsib [...]	2007-10-19 09:41:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM FR LE SY IR IT SP
07PARIS4358	FRENCH NEXT STEPS ON LEBANON [...] (C) In an unfortunately abbreviated meeting, French MFA DAS-equivalent for the Levant Ludovic Pouille gave us a quick update October 25 on how the French intend to move forward on Lebanon over the next couple of weeks. --FM Kouchner intends to continue his process of pressing the Lebanese [...]	2007-10-26 12:32:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM FR LE SY IR
07PARIS4382	DRL DAS BARKS-RUGGLES DISCUSSES BMENA WITH FRENCH [...] (SBU) Visiting DRL DAS Erica Barks-Ruggles, accompanied by poloff and pol LES, met October 25 at the French MFA with DAS-equivalent for the Levant Ludovic Pouille, Director of the office of cooperation for the Middle East Jean-Michel Ledain, and the MFA's coordinator for BMENA Nicolas Fondraz [...]	2007-10-30 10:23:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KDEM BMENA FR EG
07PARIS4463	ELYSEE SECRETARY GENERAL FLIES TO BEIRUT NOVEMBER 9 [...] (C) Summary: Claude Gueant, secretary general of the French presidency, arrived in Beirut November 9 for meetings with Lebanese focused on the presidential election -- with an expected emphasis on securing the Maronite Patriarch,s agreement to develop an acceptable list of names. Speculatio [...]	2007-11-09 17:51:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM FR LE SY
07PARIS4515	FORMER FRENCH COOPERATION MINISTER TO LEAD FRENCH [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-16 15:16:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KDEM BMENA FR YE AG
07PARIS4592	MAURITANIA: AMBASSADOR BOULWARE'S CONSULTATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: French officials meeting with U.S. Ambassador to Mauritania Mark Boulware in Paris on November 19 hailed Mauritania's transition to democracy, which the French said they would tout as an example to other African countries and use to justify rewarding Mauritania for its good beh [...]	2007-11-29 10:12:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM EAID ECON MR FR
07PARIS4602	ELSYEE TAKE ON LEBANON: THE INITIATIVE TO ELECT [...] (C) French Presidency NEA adviser Boris Boillon told PolMinCouns and poloff November 29 that he is concerned that the March 14-backed initiative to elect LAF commander Michel Sleiman as president has already failed. He criticized the maladroit way he claimed March 14 had prematurely announce [...]	2007-11-29 17:24:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM FR LE SY IR
07PARIS4742	FRENCH MFA LEVANT DAS ON LEBANON, DECEMBER 18, 2007 [...] (C) French MFA DAS-equivalent for the Levant Ludovic Pouille on December 18 said France was pleased the overall results of the previous day,s Lebanon ministerial. He particularly praised the Secretary's performance at the meeting in the face of initial Egyptian, Arab League, Saudi, Spanish, [...]	2007-12-19 17:55:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM MARR FR LE SY SA EG SP IT
07PARIS516	FRENCH WELCOME FORMATION OF PALESTINIAN UNITY [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points on February 9 to Herv Besancenot, MFA DAS-equivalent for the Levant. Besancenot said that the MFA was finalizing a statement that would be put out later that same day, possibly by FM Douste-Blazy himself. The statement would welcome the formation of the NUG [...]	2007-02-09 10:33:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	FR IS KDEM KPAL PGOV PREL
07PARIS6	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SUPPORTING HUMAN RIGHTS [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-03 09:09:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PHUM PREL
07PARIS637	FRANCE: MFA ON DEVELOPMENT, GOVERNANCE, STABILITY [...] (SBU) Summary: Econ Counselor and Econoff met February 14 with Jerome Walter, Counselor to Minister Delegate for Cooperation and Development Brigitte Girardin, and Herve Magro, Deputy Director for Governance in the MFA's General Directorate for International Cooperation and Development, to tak [...]	2007-02-20 12:27:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID KDEM KCRS FR
07PARIS861	GUINEA: FRANCE OFFERS NEW ASSISTANCE AS "CARROT" [...] (C) SUMMARY: France was quick to respond to the February 25 naming of Lansana Kouyate as Guinea's Prime Minister, sending Minister-Delegate Brigitte Girardin (Cooperation, Development, Francophonie) to Conakry for a lightning visit on March 1. She met with Kouyate and announced a 1.1 milli [...]	2007-03-06 15:01:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS EAID KDEM GV FR
07PHNOMPENH240	THE FIGHT FOR THIRD PLACE IN CAMBODIA'S APRIL [...] (SBU) Summary. Recent discussions with NGOs and political party members suggest that the real race for the April 1 commune council elections will be between FUNCINPEC and the NRP of Prince Norodom Ranariddh probably competing for third place. As the clear front-runner, the ruling CPP conti [...]	2007-02-12 06:12:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM CB
07PHNOMPENH310	LAWSUITS KEEP RANARIDDH OUT OF CAMBODIA; OUT OF [...] (SBU) Summary. Legal action against Prince Norodom Ranariddh by his estranged wife on adultery grounds and by FUNCINPEC over the Prince's alleged improper handling of the sale of FUNCINPEC's party headquarters to a development company have acted to keep Ranariddh largely out of Cambodia sin [...]	2007-02-23 09:04:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KJUS CB
07PHNOMPENH315	CAMBODIA AND NEXT STEPS ON BURMA [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador called on MFA Secretary of State Ouch Borith on February 22 at the latter's request, and used the occasion to raise reftel demarche points regarding Burma. Borith, however, was more eager to discuss North Korean affairs, and related his recent discussions with J [...]	2007-02-26 05:56:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM CB BM
07PHNOMPENH337	SAM RAINSY ON UPCOMING ELECTIONS IN CAMBODIA [...] (SBU) Summary. In recent meetings with Embassy officials and in public statements, opposition leader Sam Rainsy and SRP officials have raised concerns regarding the technical flaws surrounding the upcoming commune council elections, which they claim could impact the results. Rainsy's party [...]	2007-03-02 05:03:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM CB

07PHNOMPENH342	VIETNAMESE MONKS PROTEST SITUATION IN SOUTHERN [...] (SBU) Summary. On February 27, approximately 40 Buddhist monks -- mostly from southern Vietnam -- staged a four-hour protest demonstration near the Vietnamese Embassy to protest conditions affecting the ethnic Khmer in Vietnam; in particular, the defrocking of monks. The unapproved but pea [...]	2007-03-02 10:20:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KDEM PREL CB VM
07PHNOMPENH496	CAMBODIA'S COMMUNE ELECTIONS: CPP WINNING AMID [...] (SBU) Summary. Based on preliminary reports from the April 1 commune elections, the ruling party of Prime Minister Hun Sen has won a majority of the nation's 1,621 communes, with the opposition Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) coming in a clear second. It appears that most of the FUNCINPEC votes went [...]	2007-04-02 11:16:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM CB
07PHNOMPENH551	MONDULKIRI PROVINCE: TRADITION, ELECTIONS AND THE CHINESE [...] (U) Summary. During the Embassy's recent election monitoring program, Emboffs visited Cambodia's remote Mondulkiri Province on the Vietnamese border. Mondulkiri is a rapidly-changing region that encapsulates most of the major issues affecting Cambodia and its minority population -- property [...]	2007-04-13 08:41:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL KDEM ENV CB
07PHNOMPENH631	AFTER THE APRIL 1 ELECTIONS: CAMBODIA'S POLITICAL [...] (SBU) Summary. Discussions with political party sources suggest that Cambodia's parties are reviewing their political futures and respective strategies going into the 2008 national elections. The Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) is focused on uniting the non-ruling parties to face off against the CPP [...]	2007-05-07 09:08:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM CB
07PHNOMPENH751	PRINCE RANARIDDH: WILL HE GET AMNESTY AND RETURN [...] (SBU) Summary. Following a March 13 court verdict sentencing Prince Norodom Ranariddh to 18 months in prison, the Prince's followers petitioned the King for a royal pardon -- even though PM Hun Sen had rejected RGC support for any pardon in advance of Ranariddh's trial. As backroom negotia [...]	2007-06-04 05:05:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM CB
07PHNOMPENH752	UN HUMAN RIGHTS REP YASH GHAI VISITS CAMBODIA, [...] (SBU) Summary. On May 31, UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights Yash Ghai briefed the diplomatic corps regarding his visit to Cambodia and his meeting earlier the same day with DPM and Minister of Interior Sar Kheng, and fielded questions regarding his draft report on Cambodia. Yash Ghai [...]	2007-06-04 08:12:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL KDEM KJUS CB
07PHNOMPENH765	EAP/MLS DEPUTY DIRECTOR NAGY MEETS POLITICAL PARTY [...] (SBU) Summary. Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) Secretary General Mu Sochua told visiting EAP/MLS Deputy Director Eleanor Nagy that 2007 commune council election flaws are a preview of problems likely to arise during the 2008 national elections. Sochua expressed hope for a U.S. delegation visit to Camb [...]	2007-06-06 10:00:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREF PREL PHUM KWMN KDEM CB
07PHNOMPENH778	SAM RAINSY: DISENFRANCHISED VOTERS, KEM SOKHA, AND [...] (SBU) Summary. In a June 6 meeting with the Ambassador, Sam Rainsy and Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) National Assembly Whip Son Chhay conveyed concerns over voter disenfranchisement in the 2008 national elections because of voting registration problems and also discussed the lack of "proper represe [...]	2007-06-08 04:27:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM CB
07PHNOMPENH853	MU SOCHUA ON SRP CONCERNS: VOTER REGISTRATION, [...] (SBU) Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) Secretary General Mu Sochua met with the Ambassador on June 22 to revisit the ongoing problem of voter registration obstructions in preparation for the 2008 national elections. Mu Sochua detailed National Election Committee (NEC) unresponsiveness to SRP's concerns [...]	2007-06-22 11:33:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM CB
07PHNOMPENH904	RUDDERLESS FUNCINPEC NOT RULING ANYTHING OUT [...] (C) Summary. FUNCINPEC's leaders appear to have no guiding vision for their party and are disjointedly discussing party independence, reunification with the Norodom Ranariddh Party (NRP),and a continued coalition with the ruling CPP. At a June 28 lunch with the Ambassador and DCM, FUNCINPE [...]	2007-07-03 10:24:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM CB
07PORTAUPRINCE1081	POLITICAL PARTIES SELF-REGULATE [...] (U) Summary: The Assembly of Haitian Political Parties (Convention des Partis Politiques Haitiens, or CPPH, in French) on May 31 and June 1 held a colloquium on political parties and construction of a democracy. The main focus of the workshop was a debate over a proposed law governing polit [...]	2007-06-20 15:37:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM HA
07PORTAUPRINCE1133	ELECTIONS LIMP FORWARD; CEP STALLING? [...] (U) Summary: Marking another delay to the pending indirect elections, the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) submitted to the GoH in June a new law outlining elections logistics that could make members of the current CEP eligible for the permanent CEP. Beginning at the county council (ASEC) [...]	2007-06-27 12:46:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM HA
07PORTAUPRINCE1134	ELECTORAL COUNCIL TOUTS PROGRESS DESPITE POOR [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified -- please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: The provisional electoral council (CEP) is awaiting action from the executive, specifically President Preval, and parliament before beginning the pending indirect elections process. They purpo [...]	2007-06-27 13:37:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM HA
07PORTAUPRINCE1198	OAS TO REOPEN VOTER REGISTRATION [...] (U) Summary: The Organization of American States (OAS) is working with the Ministry of Justice's national identity office (ONI) to reopen voter registration inside existing civil registry offices. The OAS, though short of funding, plans to begin registration in August but does not expect a [...]	2007-07-10 12:13:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM HA
07PORTAUPRINCE1224	JUSTICE MINISTER MOVING ON JUSTICE REFORM [...] (C) Summary. Justice Minister Rene Magloire on July 3 told the Ambassador that his ministry was moving forward to vet Haiti's judges, even as his legislative reform proposals remain stalled in parliament. Because most judicial terms will expire in the coming months, the minister will use the [...]	2007-07-13 15:30:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KJUS KDEM KCRM SNAR PINR HA
07PORTAUPRINCE1240	PREVAL NEEDS A PUSH ON ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: Since post and Department first addressed the issue of proceeding with indirect elections and subsequent senatorial elections, post has determined through consultations in Haiti that the indirect elections will not produce a Permanent Electoral Council (CEP) in time for that bod [...]	2007-07-17 16:31:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM EAID HA
07PORTAUPRINCE1294	PARLIAMENT/EXECUTIVE REACH AGREEMENT ON JUSTICE [...] (C) Summary: Parliament and the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) have resolved an impasse over justice reform legislation that parliament has been deliberating since May. Parliament's judicial committees capitulated on the most controversial issue: the structure of a judicial council. The president [...]	2007-07-31 12:50:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM KJUS PINR HA
07PORTAUPRINCE1329	(C) PREVAL FEELS ATTACKED BY VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE [...] (C) Summary: The Chamber of Deputies passed a vote of no confidence against Minister of Culture and Communication Daniel Elie on July 31. The deputies alleged that the minister had committed malfeasance in his distribution of funds for Haiti's annual Carnival celebration in February. Presid [...]	2007-08-06 13:09:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCOR KDEM HA
07PORTAUPRINCE1344	HAITIAN ELECTIONS GOING NOWHERE FAST [...] (C) Summary: While the Core Group ambassadors are generally supportive of pressuring the GoH to move forward with indirect and senatorial elections, we have not yet presented a united message, in writing, to President Preval. In conversations with Core Group ambassadors, Preval has shown no [...]	2007-08-08 17:36:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM HA
07PORTAUPRINCE136	HAITIAN-DOMINICAN RELATIONS: MORE THAN TALK [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified -- protect accordingly. 2. (U) Summary: The Dominican Republic's Ambassador to Haiti Jose Serulle Ramia told Poloff January 20 that Haitian-Dominican relations are stronger than ever, following President Rene Preval's inauguration June 2006. Ha [...]	2007-01-25 19:40:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KDEM HA DR
07PORTAUPRINCE1407	MINISTER OF CULTURE SUBMITS RESIGNATION [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified -- please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Minister of Culture Daniel Elie submitted his resignation to President Preval on August 9 following a vote of no confidence against the Minister in the Chamber of Deputies on July 31 (reftel). [...]	2007-08-22 18:08:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KCOR KDEM HA
07PORTAUPRINCE1442	HAITIAN SENATE BALKS AT CORRUPTION INVESTIGATIONS [...] (C) Summary. The latest of a string of controversial investigations by Haiti's zealous anti-corruption chief prosecutor, Claudy Gassant, produced a thus far empty threat from the Senate August 22 to take a no-confidence vote in the Alexis government. After Gassant summoned prominent business [...]	2007-08-28 16:36:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	HA KDEM PGOV PREL UNSC
07PORTAUPRINCE146	LAMBERT ON JEAN-JACQUES' VICTORY [...] (C) Summary: Chamber of Deputies President Pierre Eric Jean-Jacques (Lespwa - Delmas, West) took advantage of the disorganization among the larger political parties and grouped together the smaller political parties to win his second term, according to Senate President Joseph Lambert. Despite [...]	2007-01-26 13:34:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM HA
07PORTAUPRINCE1533	HAITIAN ELECTIONS AWAITING PREVAL [...] (SBU) Summary: The Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) and the office of the Prime Minister are awaiting the order from President Preval to put in motion the elections for renewal of one-third of the Senate, as well as the indirect elections that will complete the decentralization process and [...]	2007-09-19 17:28:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM HA
07PORTAUPRINCE1546	PRESIDENT, SENATE PROPOSE ELECTIONS "PAUSE" [...] (C) Summary: President Preval and Senate President Joseph Lambert are seeking support from Haitian political parties and institutions and the international community for a plan to put off elections for two years and to rework the Haitian constitution. Preval and Lambert, citing the cumbersome [...]	2007-09-21 20:01:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM HA
07PORTAUPRINCE1572	NEW MINISTER OF CULTURE NAMED AS FORMER IS [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified -- please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: The GOH installed a new Minister of Culture, Eddy Lubin, on September 25, just days after two government oversight bodies cleared impeached Minister of Culture Daniel Elie of charges of corrup [...]	2007-09-26 16:46:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KCOR KDEM HA
07PORTAUPRINCE1586	HAITIAN MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO ATTEND [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-28 19:03:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL UNGA
07PORTAUPRINCE1649	CONSENSUS NEAR ON RE-FORMING ELECTION COUNCIL; [...] (C) Summary: Following a meeting of President Preval with political party leaders October 9, a senior government official announced October 10 that the Provisional Election Commission (CEP) has been dissolved. However, some party leaders say there is agreement with the President only that a [...]	2007-10-10 18:46:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM HA
07PORTAUPRINCE1678	LESPWA STILL FAR FROM TRANSFORMING INTO A [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified -- please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Lespwa's efforts to transform itself into a viable political party have yet to show tangible results. Lespwa remains a coalition of two regional political parties and two rural organizations. Th [...]	2007-10-16 12:07:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM HA
07PORTAUPRINCE1682	MAJOR POLITICAL PARTIES DIVIDED ON ELECTIONS, [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified -- please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Opposition to President Preval's plan to reconstitute the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) is emerging. Political parties and civil society groups are also commenting on the President's pro [...]	2007-10-17 17:49:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM HA
07PORTAUPRINCE1683	ELECTORAL COUNCIL MEMBERS DEFEND THEIR [...] (C) Summary: The Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) continues in office despite public announcements that President Preval is seeking to form a new provisional council. Six of the CEP's nine counselors claim to be willing and capable of managing both the indirect elections - part of their [...]	2007-10-17 18:00:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM HA
07PORTAUPRINCE1880	AMBASSADOR VISITS LES CAYES [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador traveled November 14 and 15 to the South Department's capital city, Les Cayes, accompanied by DepDir USAID and Emboffs. Haiti's ''southern claw'' is still recovering from flooding caused by Tropical Storm Noel and its aftermath. Les Cayes thus far has been spared si [...]	2007-11-29 19:47:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM MOPS EAID ECON SNAR SOCI HA
07PORTAUPRINCE1898	LAVALAS MIFFED AT PREVAL OVER ELECTORAL COUNCIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: The pro-Aristide party Lavalas is angry that President Preval has not consulted them bilaterally in the process to form a new Provisional Electoral Council (CEP). Influential Lavalas Deputy Jonas Coffy believes Preval is trying to politically marginalize Lavalas to help pave the w [...]	2007-12-03 20:27:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KDEM PGOV PREL HA
07PORTAUPRINCE1899	POSTCARD FROM LES CAYES: POOR BUT PEACEFUL [...] (SBU) Summary: The southern city of Les Cayes does not face the major security concerns common to Port-au-Prince, but social problems stemming from widespread poverty do arise on occasion. Local Haitian National Police grapple with drug trafficking, poor prison conditions and a faulty justic [...]	2007-12-04 13:57:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM ECON SNAR SOCI HA
07PORTAUPRINCE1955	JUSTICE REFORM PASSES PARLIAMENT AFTER MONTHS OF [...] (SBU) Summary: The second and third of a package of three laws governing judicial reform passed the Chamber of Deputies in late November. The three laws require establishment of a judicial council to oversee the judiciary, set down required qualifications and obligations of "magistrates" (in [...]	2007-12-13 18:14:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM KJUS HA
07PORTAUPRINCE1959	NEW PROVISIONAL ELECTORAL COUNCIL SWORN IN [...] (C) Summary: President Preval and the Cabinet of Ministers signed a decree December 11 naming new members of the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP). The new councilors were sworn in and assumed office December 12. Preval has yet to officially announce his choice for Director General, Jacqu [...]	2007-12-14 14:24:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM HA
07PORTAUPRINCE199	DEPUTIES SCRUTINIZE FORMER MFA SPENDING [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified -- protect accordingly 2. (SBU) The chamber of deputies' foreign affairs committee, led by Committee President Sorel Francois (Famni Lavalas),accused former foreign ministry employees, including the Haitian ambassador to the U.S., Raymond Joseph [...]	2007-01-31 17:57:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KDEM HA
07PORTAUPRINCE1992	LAVALAS: A CONFLICT OF LEADERSHIP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The pro-Aristide party, Fanmi Lavalas, is increasingly beset by infighting. A key divisive issue is that absentee party chairman and former president of Haiti Jean Bertrand Aristide continues to pull the strings and make leadership appointments from exile, while leading party f [...]	2007-12-20 20:11:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	HA KDEM PGOV PREL
07PORTAUPRINCE1996	JACQUES BERNARD APPOINTED ELECTORAL COUNCIL [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified -- please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: In an important step forward for Haitian elections, the GOH on December 14 issued a decree naming Jacques Bernard Director General of the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP). Prime Minister Al [...]	2007-12-21 12:47:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM HA
07PORTAUPRINCE246	ALEXIS: WE WILL NOT SUCCUMB TO PARLIAMENTARIAN [...] (U) Summary: The Superior Council of the National Police (CSPN),headed by Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis, appeared before the chamber of deputies on January 30 to discuss the dispute between the deputies and Jean Saint-Fleur, the administrative director of the Haitian National Police ( [...]	2007-02-05 19:10:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM HA
07PORTAUPRINCE288	LAVALASIAN OPS STRIVE TO STAY IN THE GANG [...] (U) Summary: Lavalasian "popular organizations" (OPs) such as PLANOP (National Platform of Progressive Popular Organizations) continue to make demands on the government in radio interviews and in street demonstrations, including asking for the return of Aristide and the departure of MINUSTAH [...]	2007-02-12 11:32:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM PINR HA
07PORTAUPRINCE303	SENATE PRESIDENT LAMBERT: I AM NOT A [...] (C) Summary. Senate President Joseph Lambert on February 6 calmly and methodically denied accusations that he had connections to drug traffickers in a two-hour conversation with Polcouns. Lambert acknowledged that suspicions arose as a result of his association with Jean Marie Fourel Celestin [...]	2007-02-13 17:23:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SNAR KDEM
07PORTAUPRINCE327	ELECTION RESULTS: TWO MONTHS LATER... [...] (SBU) Summary. Two months after the December 3 elections, the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) has not certified any local or municipal election results. The CEP has certified results of the re-run legislative races, and parliament has sworn in those lawmakers, leaving both houses short on [...]	2007-02-21 13:26:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM HA
07PORTAUPRINCE330	SCENSETTER FOR CODEL PRICE VISIT [...] This cable is sensitive but unclassified --- please protect accordingly. 2.(U) We very much look forward to your visit to Haiti next week and have worked hard to put together a program that will begin to build bridges between the Congress and the Parliament. Parliamentary leaders are eager [...]	2007-02-21 14:39:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM HA
07PORTAUPRINCE370	STATUS OF JUSTICE REFORM [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified -- please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: The justice sector in Haiti is in dire need of reform. Despite ongoing efforts by the international community, no single part of the apparatus functions properly, from arrest to trial. Havin [...]	2007-02-26 14:19:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KJUS KDEM KCRM SNAR HA
07PORTAUPRINCE42	PREVAL CALLS FOR UNITY, HITS U.S. ON DRUG [...] (C) Summary: President Preval used his constitutionally-mandated speech opening the new parliamentary session on January 8 to blame drug trafficking for instability in Haiti, which is a victim of the United States, "a drug-consuming country." Preval's speech followed a three-hour long di [...]	2007-01-11 21:33:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM HA
07PORTAUPRINCE450	CODEL PRICE VISIT TO HAITI [...] Congressman David Price (D-NC) led a bipartisan delegation of twelve, including two other representatives, on a three-day visit to Port-au-Prince on February 22 - 24. The purpose of the visit was to establish a cooperative exchange program under the auspices of the House Democracy Assistance [...]	2007-03-07 13:26:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM HA
07PORTAUPRINCE512	CAP HAITIEN'S UNSAVORY NEW LAVALAS MAYOR [...] (C) Summary: Fanmi Lavalas (FL) won the December 3 mayoral election in Cap Haitien, Haiti's second largest city. The three-person slate, consisting of mayor-elect Michel Saint Croix and two deputy mayors, has little experience in formal politics but campaigned heavily in Cap Haitien's urban [...]	2007-03-15 18:22:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR HA
07PORTAUPRINCE526	JUSTICE MINISTER ANTICIPATES REFORM [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified -- please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: On March 8, Justice Minister Rene Magloire told Ambassador that his priorities are to reduce pre-trial detention times and to create effective task forces for serious crimes. His endeavors are bei [...]	2007-03-19 14:32:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KJUS KDEM KCRM SNAR PINR HA
07PORTAUPRINCE55	PREVAL IN JAMAICA TO INCREASE COOPERATION [...] Summary: President Rene Preval visited Jamaica January 3-7 to meet with GoJ officials and discuss bilateral and regional integration. President Preval and Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller publicly discussed strategies for eliminating the trafficking of drugs and weapons. Whereas [...]	2007-01-12 20:02:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KDEM HA
07PORTAUPRINCE59	DEPUTIES TO ELECT NEW LEADERSHIP [...] (C) Summary: As a result of continuing political maneuvering and lobbying, the deputies in Haiti's lower house have delayed executive board elections originally scheduled for the first day of the new session on January 8. A coalition of the Fusion, Alyans, and OPL parties has reportedly agree [...]	2007-01-12 20:40:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR HA
07PORTAUPRINCE653	OAS PREPS FOR APRIL 29 ELECTIONS [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified -- please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Summary: The Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) has announced that all necessary local, municipal and legislative re-runs of the December 3, 2006 elections will be held on April 29. The CEP, MINUSTAH a [...]	2007-04-10 19:33:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM HA
07PORTAUPRINCE683	GASSANT RETURNS TO WORK [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified -- please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Port-au-Prince's chief public prosecutor, Claudy Gassant, returned to work on April 2 after an absence of almost three months. During his absence, Justice Minister Rene Magloire appointed a c [...]	2007-04-13 18:13:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KJUS KDEM KCRM HA
07PORTAUPRINCE723	LAVALAS SENATOR APPEALS FOR RECONCILIATION [...] (C) Summary: Senator Rudy Herivaux (Famni Lavalas (FL),West Department) laments that Lavalas partisans feel left out of the political process. The party has practically no links to the executive branch and plays a limited role in parliament. Herivaux criticized the Prime Minister for his u [...]	2007-04-19 12:17:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC PINR HA
07PORTAUPRINCE770	LAVALAS WANTS A MINISTER [...] (SBU) Famni Lavalas (FL) Deputy Sorel Francois told Poloff on April 20 that the refusal of Planning Minister Jean Max Bellerive to work with FL-elected officials is a government conspiracy headed by President Rene Preval and Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis to exclude Lavalas from nation [...]	2007-04-25 16:16:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KDEM ASEC PINR HA
07PORTAUPRINCE802	ELECTIONS: ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL [...] (U) Summary: Haitians went to the polls for yet another election on April 29. Electors cast votes for the one outstanding seat in the Chamber of Deputies in the commune of La Chapelle in the Artibonite department in a heated, though not exceedingly violent, atmosphere. Voting center workers [...]	2007-04-30 20:07:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM HA
07PORTAUPRINCE825	NEW MAYORS: HOMEGROWN POLITICIANS [...] (U) Summary: The newly-elected mayors of Port-au-Prince and Cite Soleil both hail from local, grassroots political parties with no apparent ties to national politics. Both exhibit energy and a vision for the future of their cities, but have limited means with which to work. In Port-au-Prin [...]	2007-05-04 18:56:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR HA
07PORTAUPRINCE88	DEPUTIES SELECT JEAN-JACQUES FOR A SECOND TERM [...] (U) The chamber of deputies, stunning outside observers, reelected Pierre Eric Jean-Jacques (Lespwa - Delmas, West) on January 18 to lead the lower house. Lespwa deputy Jean Delouis Felix, reportedly Prime Minister Alexis' preferred candidate, led by 34 votes to Jean-Jacques' 32 in the first [...]	2007-01-19 17:45:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM HA
07PORTOFSPAIN1100	TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO WILL NOT ATTEND CD MINISTERIAL [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-01 17:44:00	Embassy Port Of Spain	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PHUM PREL TD UNGA
07PRAGUE1087	CZECH REPUBLIC: ENGAGED ON COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES [...] (SBU) The Czech government continues to be very engaged on how to best advance the work of the Community of Democracies. They took note of the October 1, 2:30pm meeting to be hosted by Mali on the margins of the UNGA, which they currently are planning to attend at the FM level. Czechs Suppo [...]	2007-09-20 12:29:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EU EZ KDEM PGOV PREL UNGA
07PRAGUE1088	CZECHS HESITANT TO LEND NAME TO PARTNERSHIP FOR [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-20 12:36:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EAID KDEM EZ
07PRAGUE1156	IRANIAN DELEGATION VISIT: CZECH REPUBLIC SEEKS [...] (SBU) Summary: Iranian Parliamentarian Majlis Alaeddin Boroujedi of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee met with Czech Foreign Minister Schwarzenberg and several parliamentary groups during his visit to Prague October 15-17. Based on conversations with the Foreign Minister, M [...]	2007-10-18 14:07:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM IR PHUM EUN EZ
07PRAGUE195	KOSOVO: CZECH GOVERNMENT ON AHTISAARI PROPOSAL [...] (C) Summary. The Czech government continues its firm support for the Ahtisaari plan. The Czechs are concerned about EU unity on Kosovo, particularly if a new UNSC resolution fails. The opposition CSSD, whose leader has expressed skepticism about Contact Group efforts, is not making it easy f [...]	2007-02-28 12:15:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL KDEM YI ZL EZ
07PRAGUE351	CZECH MFA: CZECHS REMAIN COMMITTED TO CHANGE IN [...] (C/NF) MFA Director of the Department of Americas Jakub Skalnik invited Poloff to the MFA on March 16 to discuss Czech policy on Cuba. During the discussion, Skalnik took great pains to reiterate that only the style of Czech policy -- not the substance -- has changed (as previously reported re [...]	2007-04-02 14:22:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL KDEM CU EZ
07PRAGUE358	CZECH REPUBLIC: CUBA ROUND-UP [...] (U) The following is a summary of Czech MFA and NGO activities focused on promoting human rights and democracy in Cuba. --------------------------------------------- ICDC Conference on Cuba in Berlin April 24-26 --------------------------------------------- 2. (SBU) Czech Foreign Ministe [...]	2007-04-04 13:46:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KDEM CU EZ
07PRAGUE45	CZECHS WANT TO COOPERATE WITH THE U.S. "AS MUCH AS [...] (SBU) Summary. Czech efforts to promote human rights and democracy in Iran are limited primarily to support for Radio Farda, an annual scholarship, a few internships, and humanitarian relief following the Bam earthquake. However, the Deputy Director of the MFA Middle East Department emphasized [...]	2007-01-18 15:02:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KPAO IR EUN EZ
07PRAGUE508	CZECHS WILL LIKELY SUPPORT FULL PARTICIPANT STATUS [...] (U) The European Affairs Desk Officer for the MFA Transformation Cooperation Unit (TRANS) Olga Hejflerova told Poloff May 10 that the Czech government will likely support the proposal to invite Iraq to attend the Community of Democracies (CD) Ministerial in Bamako as a full participant (reftel [...]	2007-05-11 07:16:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM UNGA KDEM EZ
07PRAGUE531	CZECHS ARE THE LONE HOLD-OUT ON EU CUBA POLICY [...] (C/NF) Poloff met with Czech MFA Director of Americas Department Jakub Skalnik on May 4 to discuss the EU's diplomatic strategy on Cuba (reftel). Skalnik lamented that the Czechs find themselves in the unpleasant position of being the "spoiler" at the June review of the EU common policy on Cub [...]	2007-05-11 17:58:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL KDEM CU EZ
07PRAGUE609	CZECHS AGREE THAT UPCOMING SYRIAN ELECTION WILL [...] (SBU) Czech MFA Syria desk officer Jaromir Marek told Poloff on May 25 that the Czech Republic agrees that the upcoming presidential election in Syria will not be free and fair. He chuckled at the very idea of using the word "election" in connection with the event, observing that it is really [...]	2007-05-25 15:04:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KDEM PHUM SY EUN EZ
07PRAGUE701	CZECH DEP FM TO VISIT TEHRAN JUNE 18-19; AGENDA TO [...] (C) Poloff met with Czech MFA Iran Desk Officer Eva Jelinkova on June 14 to deliver ref A points on American detainees in Iran and to discuss the planned trip of Deputy Foreign Minister Helena Bambasova to Tehran. Jelinkova said Bambasova will travel to Iran at the invitation of the Iranian go [...]	2007-06-14 15:43:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM IR PHUM EUN EZ
07PRAGUE788	TEHRAN SPRING? CZECHS SEE POSSIBLE THAW IN [...] (C) Summary. In a June 18-19 visit to Tehran, Czech Deputy Foreign Minister Helena Bambasova had surprisingly friendly meetings with key Iranian government officials to explore the possibility of improving relations between the estranged countries. While the focus of the trip was squarely on n [...]	2007-06-29 15:22:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM IR PHUM EUN EZ
07PRAGUE860	CZECH REPUBLIC SUPPORTS USG PRIORITIES AT [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-20 14:28:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PREL PHUM UNGA EZ
07PRAGUE874	CZECH REPUBLIC SHARES USG CONCERNS IN AZERBAIJAN [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-25 14:52:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV OSCE KDEM EUN AJ EZ
07PRAGUE930	CZECHS SUPPORT PARTNERSHIP FOR DEMOCRATIC [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-10 11:22:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM EAID EZ
07PRETORIA1447	PROSPECTS FOR MBEKI FACILITATION IN ZIMBABWE [...] (C) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION. As recently-appointed SADC "facilitator" for Zimbabwe, President Mbeki is off to the races but may not make it to the finish line. Mbeki has taken on Mugabe in the past and failed, and we should not underestimate Mugabe's ability to outfox him again. Nevertheles [...]	2007-04-24 14:50:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM ZI SF
07PRETORIA1465	SOUTH AFRICA TO ASSIST BOLIVIA ON CONSTITUTION, [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 10. 2. (C) SUMMARY. During the Bolivian Vice President Garcia Linera April 10-12 visit to Pretoria, South Africa agreed to provide advice to Bolivia on the ongoing constitution drafting process. Bolivia will send a delegation to South Africa May 14 [...]	2007-04-26 08:57:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PINR BL SF
07PRETORIA1495	(C) ZIMBABWE: SENIOR SAG OFFICIALS OUTLINE VIEWS [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a series of meeting with IDASA analyst Sydney Masamvu on April 24-25, senior South African officials questioned Masamvu in detail about the situation in Zimbabwe. DepForMin Pahad made clear he held MDC leader Tsvangirai in low regard, but had a much higher opinion of MDC Secr [...]	2007-04-30 14:12:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM ZI SF
07PRETORIA1535	SOUTH AFRICA TO PROVIDE LIMITED AID FOR COMOROS [...] (C) The Government of South Africa (SAG) will provide assistance for the upcoming Union of the Comoros Presidential election. Acting under an AU mandate, the SAG will deploy a small number of troops and/or police to train Comoran security personnel, an election observation team, and limited a [...]	2007-05-03 08:58:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS KDEM SF CN
07PRETORIA1554	MDC WRITTEN SUBMISSION TO MBEKI DETAILS OBSTACLES [...] (C) The Zimbabwe opposition party Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) presented its concerns about upcoming elections in a formal, 10-page written submission to South African President Mbeki, dated 11 April 2007. Mbeki is serving as the "facilitator" in Zimbabwe on behalf of the Southern Afr [...]	2007-05-03 14:29:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM ZI SF
07PRETORIA2209	ZIMBABWE TALKS FINALLY BEGIN IN PRETORIA [...] (C) SUMMARY. The long-awaited talks between ZANU-PF and the MDC kicked off in Pretoria June 17-18 with the two sides agreeing on a five point agenda for future negotiations: constitution, electoral laws, security legislation, communications, and political climate. On the constitution, the Z [...]	2007-06-20 04:28:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM SF ZI
07PRETORIA2210	ZIMBABWE TALKS FINALLY BEGIN IN PRETORIA [...] (C) SUMMARY. The long-awaited talks between ZANU-PF and the MDC kicked off in Pretoria June 17-18 with the two sides agreeing on a five point agenda for future negotiations: constitution, electoral laws, security legislation, communications, and political climate. On the constitution, the ZA [...]	2007-06-20 04:28:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM SF ZI
07PRETORIA2247	FORMIN DLAMINI-ZUMA TO LEAD AU MISSION TO COMOROS [...] (C) ForMin Nkozasana Dlamini-Zuma will lead an African Union delegation to the Comoros June 23-24, 2007, according to Department of Foreign Affairs Director Graham Maitland (protect). The Dlamini-Zuma trip follows the AU Ministerial Committee of the Countries of the Region on the Comoros, held [...]	2007-06-21 14:59:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM CN SF
07PRETORIA2402	SOUTH AFRICA TO HOST COMOROS TALKS [...] (C) South Africa will host AU-sponsored talks on the political crisis in Comoros July 7-9 in Pretoria, according to Department of Foreign Affairs Director Graham Maitland (protect). (NOTE: South African ForMin Dlamini-Zuma is Chair of the "African Union Ministerial Committee of Countries of t [...]	2007-07-06 15:45:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM CN SF
07PRETORIA2443	(C) U.K. BUSINESSMAN BRANSON FUNDING "ELDER" [...] (C/NF) U.K. businessman Richard Branson is bankrolling an African "Elders" initiative to convince Zimbabwean President Mugabe to step down. The "Elders" plan to meet secretly in Johannesburg July 17-18 with Branson to discuss their initiative. Former Presidents Nelson Mandela (South Africa),[...]	2007-07-11 15:27:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PHUM KDEM ZI SF
07PRETORIA2470	AU WAITING FOR COMORAN RESPONSE TO PEACE PLAN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Anjouan "President" Bacar is unlikely to accept the AU proposal to resolve the political crisis in Comoros, speculated DFA official Graham Maitland (protect). The AU plan, presented at the July 8-9 Pretoria talks, calls for new elections on Anjouan by mid-August, AU security for [...]	2007-07-16 10:42:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM CN SF
07PRETORIA2533	ANALYST OLOJEDE SAYS MBEKI REMAINS IN DRIVING SEAT [...] (C) SUMMARY. South African President Thabo Mbeki will control the ANC succession race, with either himself or his hand-picked successor elected president at the December conference, claimed Pulitizer-Prize winning journalist and political analyst Dele Olojede. Mbeki is holding his cards clos [...]	2007-07-20 04:31:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM SF
07PRETORIA2727	VAN ECK SAYS FNL PEACE PROCESS "CRASHING" [...] (C) The Burundi FNL peace process is "crashing," according to Institute for Security Studies analyst Jan van Eck. Van Eck told PolOff August 1 that trust between the National Force for Liberation (FNL) and the Government of Burundi (GOB) is at an all time low, following the departure of the F [...]	2007-08-03 09:41:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM BY SF
07PRETORIA2818	MBEKI TO PUT POSITIVE SPIN ON ZIMBABWE MEDIATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite limited progress on the core political issues, President Mbeki will likely paint an upbeat picture for SADC Heads of State on his Zimbabwe political facilitation at the upcoming summit in Lusaka. Mbeki believes the positive spin will help keep the GOZ negotiators at the [...]	2007-08-13 05:15:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM ZI SF
07PRETORIA2872	PAN-AFRICAN PARLIAMENT FACT-FINDING MISSION TO [...] (C) The planned Pan-African Parliament (PAP) fact-finding mission to Zimbabwe is bogged down in political and administrative bickering, according to PAP Member of Parliament (MP) Suzanne Vos (protect). Vos, who also serves as an MP in the South African Parliament for the Inkatha Freedom Party [...]	2007-08-16 06:32:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM AORC KDEM ZI SF
07PRETORIA2886	SOUTH AFRICA'S EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT TO CUBA [...] (C) SUMMARY. South Africa's relationship with Cuba remains close, based largely on Cuba's support for the ruling African National Congress during the anti-apartheid struggle. Despite South Africa's rhetorical support for principles of democracy and human rights, the SAG is highly unlikely to [...]	2007-08-16 13:15:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM CU SF
07PRETORIA3075	TREVOR NCUBE FLOATS "THIRD WAY" [...] (C) SUMMARY. South African-based publisher and Mugabe opponent Trevor Ncube believes that Zimbabwe needs a "third way" political force to take the country forward. Ncube is thoroughly disgusted with both the ruling ZANU-PF and the MDC opposition. Strive Masiyiwa, Nkosana Moyo, or Simba Makon [...]	2007-08-31 15:01:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM SF ZI
07PRETORIA3122	EASTERN CAPE DIVIDED OVER ANC NOMINATIONS [...] (C) The Eastern Cape Province, which took a resolution endorsing President Mbeki for a third term in December 2006, now appears divided on who it will officially nominate as ANC President. Though the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) on 31 August quoted ANC Provincial Secretary Si [...]	2007-09-05 14:08:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM SF
07PRETORIA3213	SAG OFFICIAL SAYS PUBLIC CRITICISM OF MUGABE [...] (C) SUMMARY. The South African Government is "making progress" in the facilitation talks between ZANU-PF and MDC, but recognizes that the process will not be easy, according to DFA Chief Director (DAS-level) Tselane Mokuena. Mokuena acknowledged that political and economic reforms in Zimbabwe [...]	2007-09-12 09:24:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM ZI SF
07PRETORIA3277	MEYER OPTIMISTIC ON HELSINKI IRAQ PROCESS [...] (C) SUMMARY. The August 31 - September 3 meeting of Sunni and Shia Iraqi politicians, hosted by the Crisis Management Initiative (CMI) in Helsinki, went "better than expected," according to South African conflict resolution consultant and former SAG minister Roelf Meyer. Meyer was impressed t [...]	2007-09-14 14:56:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM IZ EI FI SF
07PRETORIA3425	SAG APPLAUDS ZIMBABWE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS; [...] (C) SUMMARY. The South African Cabinet praised the ZANU-PF-MDC agreement on Constitutional Amendment 18 (ref A),calling it a "breakthrough" and "a major step forward." DepForMin Pahad suggested that the accord paves the way for a "political solution that all Zimbabweans will hail." The agree [...]	2007-09-28 09:14:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM SF ZI
07PRETORIA3448	ZUMA ALLY UPBEAT ON ANC ELECTION [...] (C) SUMMARY. Jacob Zuma will likely win the ANC presidency at the upcoming December party conference, claimed informal Zuma advisor Mo Shaik. An optimistic Shaik suggested that the tide has shifted toward Zuma, that Mbeki is increasingly isolated, and that neither Tokyo Sexwale nor Cyril Ram [...]	2007-10-01 14:06:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM SF
07PRETORIA3486	MDC TREASURER BENNETT "CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC" ON [...] (C) SUMMARY. The pressure is now on SADC facilitator Mbeki and ZANU-PF to deliver on reforms for the 2008 elections in Zimbabwe, argued MDC Treasurer Roy Bennett. Bennett, who said he was initially skeptical of the MDC-ZANU-PF agreement on Constitutional Amendment 18, stressed that the MDC re [...]	2007-10-03 10:06:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM SF ZI
07PRETORIA3721	MASIYIWA SKEPTICAL ON MBEKI ZIMBABWE MEDIATION, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mugabe is not serious about the SADC/Mbeki facilitation, according to exiled Zimbabwean businessman Strive Masiyiwa. Masiyiwa dismissed reports of a MDC-ZANU-PF agreement on a new constitution (refs A & B),noting that the two sides reached a similar deal in 2004 that went nowher [...]	2007-10-23 09:40:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM ZI SF
07PRETORIA3783	POLL SHOWS ZUMA EMERGING AS TOP PRESIDENTIAL [...] (U) ANC Deputy President Jacob Zuma came in first place when 2,000 adults were asked, "Who do you think will succeed President Mbeki in 2009?", according to a poll released by TNS Surveys on 25 October. Zuma came out heads above the others, receiving 27 percent of the vote. Deputy President [...]	2007-10-26 15:57:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM SF
07PRETORIA3829	ZUMA ADVISOR SHAIK OUTLINES CAMPAIGN STRATEGY [...] (C) SUMMARY: ANC Deputy President Jacob Zuma hopes to defeat current ANC President Thabo Mbeki during the ANC nomination process, before the December 16-20 national conference even begins, according to Zuma informal advisor Mo Shaik. Zuma is confident and has public support, but even Shaik ad [...]	2007-11-01 07:23:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM SF

07PRETORIA3875	MDC'S BENNETT UPBEAT ON PARTY, ZIMBABWE ELECTIONS [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. Despite harsh criticisms in the media, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) President Morgan Tsvangirai is doing the right thing by cleaning out the party SIPDIS leadership, according to MDC Treasurer Roy Bennett. Bennett hinted that recently-deposed women's leader Lucia Ma [...]	2007-11-06 14:44:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL KDEM ZI SF

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