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SECSTATE SECTOR SECURITY SEMAAN GABY EID SEN SENC SENG SENS SENU SENV SENVQGR SENVSPL SENVSXE SEP SERBIA SERZH SETTLEMENTS SEVN SEXP SF SFNV SG SGNV SGWI SH SHANNON SHI SHUM SI SILVASANDE SIMS SIPDI SIPDIS SIPR SIPRNET SIPRS SIUK SK SKCA SKEP SKI SKSAF SL SLM SLOVAK SM SMAR SMI SMIG SMIL SMIT SMITH SMRT SN SNA SNAP SNAR SNUC SO SOC SOCI SOCIA SOCIETY SOCIO SOCIS SOCISZX SOCR SOCY SOE SOFA SOI SOIC SOLI SOLIC SOM SOMALIA SOPN SORT SOSI SOVIET SOWGC SP SPAS SPC SPCE SPCVIS SPECI SPECIALIST SPILL SPP SPSTATE SR SREF SRIT SRS SRYI SSA SSH ST STAG START STATE STC STEINBERG STEPHEN HADLEY STET STP STR STUDENT SU SUCCESSION SUFFRAGE SULLIVAN SUMMIT SUR SUSAN SV SW SWHO SWMN SX SXG SY SYAI SYMBOL SYR SYRIA SYSI SYTH SZ TA TAGS TALAL TAUSCHER TAX TB TBI TBID TBIO TBIOZK TBKIO TBO TC TCOR TCSENV TD TDA TE TECH TECHNOLOGY TER TERAA TERFIN TERR TERROR TERRORISM TF TFIN TG TGRY TH THANH THE THERESE THIRDTERM THKSJA THOMAS THOMAS THOMMA THPY TI TIA TIBO TIFA TINT TIO TIP TITI TIUZ TJ TK TL TM TN 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KUIR KUM KUNA KUNC KUNH KUNP KUNR KUS KUWAIT KV KVBL KVIP KVIR KVIS KVPR KVRC KVRP KW KWAC KWAK KWAWC KWBC KWBG KWBW KWCI KWCR KWGB KWHG KWIC KWIM KWIR KWKN KWM KWMJN KWMM KWMN KWN KWNM KWNN KWOMN KWPA KWPB KWPG KWPR KWRC KWRF KWRG KWUN KWWT KWWW KX KY KZ LA LAB LABOR LANSANA LANTERN LARREA LARS LAS LAURA LAVIN LAW LB LBAR LBY LE LEAGUE LEB LEBIK LEGAT LEGATT LEIS LEON LEVINE LEW LG LGAT LH LI LIB LICC LIMA LINE LK LMS LN LO LOG LOPEZ LORAN LOTT LOVE LR LS LT LTG LTTE LU LV LVPR LY LZ MA MAAR MACEDONIA MACP MANUEL MANUEL SERGIO GONZALEZ MAP MAPP MAPS MAR MARAD MARANTIS MARIA MARIE MARINO MARITIME MARK MARQUEZ MARR MARS MARTIN MARV MAS MASC MASS MATT MAYA MB MBM MC MCA MCAP MCAPARR MCAPN MCAPP MCAPS MCAT MCC MCCAIN MCCONNELL MCCP MCGRAW MCRM MCTRE MD MDA MDC MDO ME MEA MED MEDIA MEETINGS MENDIETA MEP MEPI MEPN MEPP MERCOSUR MESUR MEX MF MFA MFO MG MGL MGMT MGOV MGT MGTA MH MHUC MI MIAH MIC MICHAEL MICHEL MIGUEL FELIPE CANAHUATI YACAMAN MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MIK MIKE MIL MILI MILITANTS MILITARY MILLENNIUM MINURSO MINUSTAH MITCHELL MJ MK ML MLS MMAR MMED MN MNLF MNNC MNNUC MNU MNUC MNUCH MNUCWA MNUM MNUN MNUR MNUS MNVC MO MOHAMAD MOHAMED HESHAM ELDIN YOUSSEF MOHAMMAD MOLINA MONTENEGRO MONUC MONY MOOPS MOP MOPP MOPPS MOPS MORALES MORG MOROCCO MORS MOS MOTO MOTT MP MPOL MPOS MPP MPS MQADHAFI MR MRCRE MRRR MRS MRSEC MS MSG MSIG MT MTAA MTAG MTCAE MTCR MTCRA MTCRE MTRCE MTRE MTRRE MTS MU MUC MUCN MUKASEY MULLEN MUNC MURAD MURRAY MV MW MX MY MZ NA NAC NACB NADIA NAFTA NAM NAMSA NANCY NAR NARC NARCOTICS NARR NAS NASA NAT NATEU NATGAS NATIONAL NATO NATOAFGHAN NATOBALKANS NATOIRAQ NATOOPS NATOPOLICY NATSIOS NAVO NB NBTS NBU NC NCCC NCD NCT NCTC NDI NDP NE NEA NEC NEGROPONTE NEI NELSON NEPAD NERG NET NEW NFATC NFMS NFSO NG NGO NGUYEN NH NI NICHOLAS NICOLE NIH NIPP NK NKWG NL NLD NLIAEA NLO NMFS NMNUC NMUC NNPT NO NOAA NOI NOK NON NONE NORAD NOTAG NOVO NP NPA NPG NPT NR NRC NRG NRR NRRC NS NSC NSF NSFO NSG NSSP NT NTDB NTSB NTTC NU NUC NUIN NV NW NZ NZUS OA OAO OARC OAS OASC 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07KATHMANDU728 | SECOND PHASE OF MAOIST COMBATANT REGISTRATION [...] (C) A Nepali journalist told the Ambassador April 5 that, on a recent tour of one of the Maoist cantonments, he had observed military training of new People's Liberation Army (PLA) recruits. He claimed that many of the PLA's most skilled combatants remained outside the UN-monitored camps; mos [...] | 2007-04-09 12:15:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER MARR UN NP |
07KATHMANDU753 | UNMIN CHIEF PREDICTS ELECTIONS WILL BE POSTPONED [...] (C) Ian Martin, the head of the United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN),told the Ambassador April 10 that he expected Chief Election Commissioner Bhoj Raj Pokharel to state publicly soon that the Constituent Assembly election would have to be postponed until the fall. Martin said Communist P [...] | 2007-04-12 10:44:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER MARR UN NP |
07KATHMANDU76 | NEPAL: POLITICAL PARTIES IN THE WEST AGREE MAOISTS [...] (C) Leaders of the main political parties from 12 districts in western Nepal told Emboff during a driving tour from December 14-25 that the Maoists were effectively in control of their districts. The only difference between the Maoists before the April 2006 cease-fire and after the cease-fire [...] | 2007-01-12 09:02:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER UN NP |
07KATHMANDU762 | ELECTION COMMISSION CALLS FOR ELECTION DELAY; [...] (C) IFES Country Representative Peter Erben told the Ambassador April 13 that Chief Election Commissioner Bhoj Raj Pokhrel had given a letter to Prime Minister Koirala stating that a Constituent Assembly election could not be held by June 20. Pokhrel and his fellow commissioners were asking f [...] | 2007-04-13 12:44:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER UN NP |
07KATHMANDU826 | NEPAL: TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE MODEL IS UNDER DEBATE [...] (C) Retief Olivier, a USAID-contracted peace facilitator, told the Ambassador April 20 about a 10-person official delegation headed by Deputy Speaker Chitra Lekha Yadav that he was taking to the United Nations in New York as well as Peru April 22 - May 1 to look at transitional justice issues. [...] | 2007-04-23 13:15:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM EAID PTER CVIS UN SF NP |
07KATHMANDU856 | BRITISH AND INDIAN AMBASSADORS AGREE: NEED TO NAG [...] (C) Indian Ambassador Shiv Shankar Mukherjee, British Ambassador Dr. Andrew Hall, and the Ambassador April 26 agreed that the Government of Nepal (GON) should set a date for a Constituent Assembly election and enforce law and order. The Maoists needed to be made aware that serious abuses in t [...] | 2007-04-27 11:08:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KDEM PHUM UN IN NP |
07KATHMANDU916 | UNMIN: HURRY UP AND WAIT ON PHASE II OF ARMS [...] (C) UN Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) Political Advisor John Norris told the Charge May 7 that UNMIN was in "hurry up and wait" mode regarding the start of Phase II of the arms management process. UNMIN Chief Ian Martin had declared publicly May 1 that UNMIN was ready to begin verification of Peo [...] | 2007-05-09 08:04:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MARR UN NP |
07KATHMANDU92 | PM KOIRALA ASKS FOR U.S. ADVICE ON COMMUNISTS AND [...] (C/NF) Prime Minister GP Koirala told the Ambassador January 17 that he planned to tell Maoist Supremo Prachanda later the same day in plain terms that, with the Maoists in the interim parliament, the time had come for them to end their violence and extortion and dissolve their "people's gover [...] | 2007-01-17 11:51:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER PREF MARR UN NP |
07KATHMANDU973 | PEACE MINISTER'S DIALOGUE WITH MADHESIS STALLED [...] (C) Minister of Peace and Reconstruction Ram Chandra Poudel told the Ambassador May 15 that Madhesi insistence on the immediate formation of a high-level Commission of Inquiry into events in the Terai had delayed his scheduled dialogue with the Madhesi People's Rights Forum (MPRF). However, P [...] | 2007-05-16 12:27:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MARR UN NP |
07KATHMANDU974 | NEPAL'S HOME MINISTER ACKNOWLEDGES PROBLEMS, BUT [...] (C) Home Minister Krishna Prasad Sitaula suggested to the Ambassador May 15 that the security situation had improved. Nepal Police had taken action against the Maoist Young Communist League (YCL) in three districts, but police were ill-equipped to effectively implement law and order. The Amba [...] | 2007-05-16 12:32:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF PREL PTER PHUM MARR UN NP |
07KATHMANDU988 | NEPAL: PRIME MINISTER KOIRALA FEISTY, FRUSTRATED [...] (C) On May 17, Prime Minister Koirala expressed his frustration to the Ambassador with the Maoist failure to change their behavior since joining the Interim Government. Koirala said he was determined to enforce law and order and to crack down on the criminal activities of the Maoist Young Comm [...] | 2007-05-17 11:36:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KDEM MARR UN CH IN NP |
07KHARTOUM1006 | DARFUR PEACE PROCESS: UN/AU UPDATE ON THE EVE OF [...] (SBU) On the eve of the June 25 ministerial summit in Paris, United Nations and African Union representatives in Khartoum provided detailed updates on the Darfur political process. They said that the immediate focus should be on repairing the rift between the Darfur rebels' political and mili [...] | 2007-06-25 08:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AU UN SU ER CD |
07KHARTOUM1018 | DARFUR - HUNGER SEASON BRINGS CHRONIC BUT STABLE NUTRITION [...] (U) Available indicators on malnutrition, including new admissions to feeding centers, food security levels, and sentinel site data, indicate a generally stable nutrition situation in Darfur as compared to the same time last year. Exceptions include areas in South Darfur currently receiving new [...] | 2007-06-26 14:34:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1028 | SUDAN - THE BLUES OF BLUE NILE STATE [...] (U) Blue Nile State, which lies in the fertile woodland savannah belt of eastern Sudan, has a strong potential for agricultural production. However, several challenges exist for this special administrative area as defined in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement. War destroyed most basic infrastr [...] | 2007-06-28 10:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1036 | DARFUR SAGE EXPOUNDS ON SOME UNCOMFORTABLE GROUND [...] (C) CDA caught up with Al-Fasher University Professor Abdulajabbar Abdullah Fadul, probably the single most knowledgeable Darfuri academic alive today, on June 28 right before his departure for London to participate in a panel on social science research methods on Darfur. ------------------- [...] | 2007-06-29 10:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SOCI KPKO UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1037 | IRC PRESIDENT SEES TANGIBLE IMPROVEMENT IN GOS [...] (SBU) CDA met with International Rescue Committee President George Rupp and his visiting delegation (and IRC Country Representative Nicky Smith) to get a sense of their week-long stay in Sudan and interaction with the GOS. The delegation was generally quite pleased with their meetings with GO [...] | 2007-07-01 09:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PGOV PHUM PREL UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1040 | PRESIDENT BASHIR ON HYBRID FORCE, CHAPTER SEVEN UN COMMAND [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 30 at a press forum conducted by the official Sudan News Agency (SUNA),President Al-Bashir was reported to have "renewed Sudan's rejection to international forces in Darfur," while at the same time stating that Sudan had accepted the hybrid force. Al-Bashir remained vagu [...] | 2007-07-01 13:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1043 | DARFUR: MAINTAINING FOCUS IN THE POLITICAL PROCESS [...] (C) A recent African Union-sponsored conference on the Abuja talks and the current Darfur peace process provided insights into the direction of the UN/AU strategy. In the lead up to a July meeting of special envoys in Tripoli, Libya, the U.S. can exert leverage with the UN, AU, and key govern [...] | 2007-07-02 07:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AU UN SU ER LY |
07KHARTOUM1044 | AFTER KHALIFA: WHO WILL BE THE GOS POINT MAN ON [...] (C) Summary: The death in a traffic accident of Presidential Advisor (and Darfur Peace Agreement negotiator) Dr. Magzoub al-Khalifa on June 27 has focused speculation that "the Darfur file" in the GOS is up for grabs. Confirmation of this came in the form of press reports in the local Arabic l [...] | 2007-07-02 08:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1047 | DARFUR POLITICAL PROCESS: UN/AU PLANS STILL LACK [...] (C) In advance of the Darfur summit meeting scheduled for Tripoli July 15-16, the United Nations (UN) and African Union (AU) are assessing the viability of two parallel efforts to energize the Darfur political process: a conference for Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) non-signatories hosted by the [...] | 2007-07-02 13:46:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AU UN SU ER |
07KHARTOUM1051 | BETWEEN DEFIANCE AND COMPLIANCE - THE KHARTOUM [...] (C) Summary: Discussions with a wide range of local players and observers reveal a Sudanese regime that is aggressively honing its survival strategy in the wake of its apparently real but very reluctant acceptance of the UN/AU Hybrid Force. Seeking to navigate a "middle path" between outrig [...] | 2007-07-03 11:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1053 | SLA/M REP ALLEGES IMPENDING ATTACKS [...] (S) Mahboub Idris Abdulrasool, chairman for the North Darfur Security Arrangements Committee and a member of the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM)/Minawi, informed S/CRS Poloff on June 24 that National Congress Party (NCP) functionary Ismail Abdalla Barghouth had convened a recent meeting at his [...] | 2007-07-03 14:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET | PGOV PREL KPKO AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1060 | DARFUR: IMPROVING AMIS UNDER AGWAI [...] (SBU) With the arrival of the new AMIS force commander, the international community has the opportunity to strengthen the security provisions of the DPA to increase stability on the ground. U.S. leadership could lead to substantive improvements in the operation of the Cease-fire Commission an [...] | 2007-07-05 09:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV KPKO AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1066 | UN ENVOY ELIASSON BRIEFING ON AU/UN ROADMAP [...] (SBU) In a July 6 briefing for chiefs of mission in advance of the upcoming Tripoli meetings (July 15-16),UN Secretary -General Special Envoy for Darfur Mr. Jan Eliasson discussed recent efforts made in support of the three-phased AU/UN roadmap. He described the "convergence" phase of the road [...] | 2007-07-08 11:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AU SU UN |
07KHARTOUM1080 | DARFUR - NEW IDPS OVERWHELM AL SALAM CAMP [...] Begin summary: Since early May, an influx of newly displaced persons arriving in Al Salam camp near Nyala, South Darfur, has created a localized humanitarian emergency. New arrivals are often in poor health, and relief agencies are providing much-needed humanitarian aid. USAID field staff r [...] | 2007-07-11 08:30:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1083 | FACILITATING SPLM DARFUR INITIATIVE: GAME PLAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Confusion over the UN/AU roadmap and SPLM initiative persists despite face-to-face meetings between SPLM and UN/AU officials. Both the UN/AU and the SPLM have not communicated their plans clearly enough to each other to eliminate misunderstandings. As a result, the SPLM plans t [...] | 2007-07-11 14:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1085 | S/E NATSIOS MEETS WITH SOUTH DARFURIANS [...] SUMMARY: (SBU) During a July 9 visit to Nyala, Presidential Special Envoy to Sudan, Andrew Natsios, and US Embassy Charg Alberto Fernandez conducted a series of meetings with IDP camp representatives, the Magdoum of the Fur and civil society activists, as well as an impromptu meeting with the d [...] | 2007-07-12 14:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1086 | SUDAN - FLOOD RESPONSE IN NORTHERN SUDAN [...] Summary: In July, unseasonably heavy rains and subsequent flooding have affected more than 28,000 households in Khartoum, Northern Kordofan, White Nile, Kassala, and Blue Nile states in northern Sudan, according to Sudanese government officials and humanitarian organizations. Government agen [...] | 2007-07-12 15:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1090 | SUDAN OFFICIALS DIFFER ON DARFUR PKO, POLITICAL [...] (C) On July 12, Special Envoy Natsios met separately with Foreign Minister Lam Akol, Presidential Advisor Nafie Ali Nafie, and Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs (and UN/AU hybrid negotiator) Mutriff Siddiq to discuss deployment of the hybrid peace-keeping force and bolster UN/AU efforts to ach [...] | 2007-07-13 10:27:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO UN AU SU US ER CD LY |
07KHARTOUM1092 | DARFUR: SE NATSIOS DISCUSSES POLITICAL PROCESS [...] (C) Summary: SE Natsios met with UN Envoy Jan Eliasson and EU Envoy Torben Brylle in Khartoum on July 12 to discuss the Darfur political process. Eliasson planned to use the upcoming Tripoli summit to declare an end to the first, "convergence" phase of the UN/AU roadmap and to launch the seco [...] | 2007-07-13 10:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN AU SU ER |
07KHARTOUM1094 | S/E NATSIOS VISIT TO NORTH DARFUR (CORRECTED COPY OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a July 9-10 visit to El Fasher, North Darfur, Special Envoy to Sudan Andrew Natsios, accompanied by CDA Alberto Fernandez and others, met with representatives from the AU and UN, IDP camps, civil society groups and the local branch of the Umma Party. He learned of the challen [...] | 2007-07-13 15:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU AU |
07KHARTOUM1095 | S/E NATSIOS MEETING WITH ACTING UNMIS HEAD [...] (C) Summary: In a July 13 meeting with Special Envoy Natsios, CDA Fernandez and others, UNMIS Acting Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) Taye-Brooke Zerihoun stressed the need to focus on supporting the CPA, which was still vulnerable despite significant progress in some are [...] | 2007-07-15 09:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO UN AU SU US ER CD LY |
07KHARTOUM1097 | MINAWI PROPOSES U.S.-NCP DIALOGUE, DISCUSSES [...] (S/NF) Reporting on recent conversations with two senior National Congress Party (NCP) figures, Senior Assistant to the President and Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) leader Minni Minawi has renewed a previous proposal to facilitate a regular dialogue between the CDA and the NCP on the Darfur c [...] | 2007-07-15 12:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL SU UN AU |
07KHARTOUM1100 | MINAWI TO S/E NATSIOS: IDP CAMPS POLITICIZED FROM [...] (C) During a meeting with Senior Assistant to the President and Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) leader Minni Minawi, Special Envoy Natsios solicited insights on the UN/AU political process, rival SLM leader Abdulwahid al-Nur, and widespread reports of the resettlement of Chadian Arab groups in [...] | 2007-07-15 13:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1102 | DARFUR: S/E NATSIOS DISCUSSES POLITICAL PROCESS [...] (SBU) In a July 13 meeting in Khartoum with ambassadors representing the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, Special Envoy Natsios provided a concise analysis of the challenges facing the Darfur political process and exchanged views on the role of the African Union (AU),civil s [...] | 2007-07-15 13:58:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UN AU SU UK FR CH |
07KHARTOUM1109 | NCP OFFICIAL IMPLICATES U.S. IN ALLEGED COUP [...] (SBU) Influential regime hard-liner Nafie Ali Nafie has implicated the USG in a coup plot that the Sudanese Government claims to have disrupted on July 14. Speaking on Al Jazeera, the Presidential Assistant and former director of the security services accused the U.S. of supporting an attempt [...] | 2007-07-16 11:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR PHUM UN AU SU US |
07KHARTOUM1116 | MFA U/S, CDA DISCUSS NCP VISIT TO U.S., NAFIE [...] (C) In a July 18 meeting with Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs Mutriff Siddiq, CDA Fernandez said that the U.S. would welcome the visit of Sudanese officials to Washington in the near future to discuss a "range of issues." This question had been raised by the Government with S/E Natsios duri [...] | 2007-07-18 13:46:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1119 | SUDAN - S/E NATSIOS MEETS WITH NGOS [...] Summary: On July 12, Special Envoy Andrew Natsios, accompanied by Charge d'Affaires Alberto Fernandez and others, met with the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Steering Committee in Khartoum to discuss issues facing the humanitarian community in Sudan. The NGOs noted that the Joint Communiq [...] | 2007-07-18 13:50:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI KPKO UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1124 | SUDAN - DISASTER DECLARATION FOR FLOODING IN SUDAN [...] Summary: This cable declares a disaster due to flooding in Sudan and requests U.S. Government (USG) emergency assistance for those in need. Unseasonably heavy rainfall and subsequent flooding since late June have affected hundreds of thousands people in Khartoum, Northern Kordofan, White Nile [...] | 2007-07-19 16:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1129 | DARFUR: UN/AU PLANS FOR POLITICAL PROCESS SHOW [...] (C) A July 19 briefing by UN Envoy Jan Eliasson in Khartoum and subsequent conversations with two UN staffers shed light on the UN/AU's plans for the August 3-5 meeting in Arusha, the role of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM),and internal deliberations on the format for negotiatio [...] | 2007-07-20 12:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1130 | SPLM DARFUR INITIATIVE CONTINUES, DIALOGUE NEEDED WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: The Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) intends to continue its regional consultations over the next few weeks with the Darfurians with the goal of still holding a conference in Southern Sudan in early August, as originally outlined by its Darfur Task Force (Task Force). [...] | 2007-07-22 06:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AU EAID UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1132 | ARAB TRIBAL RESETTLEMENT IN DARFUR ISSUE MORE [...] (SBU) The much-anticipated report by the UN High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) on the influx of Arabs from Chad into Darfur will determine their legal status rather than assess whether the Sudanese Government has launched a program to resettle Chadian Arabs in the region, according to UNHCR D [...] | 2007-07-22 15:20:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREF PHUM EAID SU CD UN |
07KHARTOUM1133 | DARFUR: MINAWI DESCRIBES SAUDI TRIP, PREVIEWS TRIP [...] (S) Buoyant after his recent trip to Saudi Arabia, Senior Assistant to the President and Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) leader Minni Minawi described his visit to Jeddah--which had included a rare 40-minute private meeting with King Abdullah and promises of financial support for the SLM--as " [...] | 2007-07-22 15:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET | PREL PGOV EAID PTER PINR SU SA UN AU |
07KHARTOUM1141 | SPLA DEPLOYS NEW TACTICS IN REDEPLOYMENT QUAGMIRE [...] (C) Summary: The SPLM and NCP are renegotiating a redeployment deadline of 9 November 2007 for southern-deployed Sudanese Armed Forces. In contrast, the SPLA has commenced redeployment of SPLA forces north of the 1956 line in advance of standing CPA deadlines, despite significant hardship, in [...] | 2007-07-23 10:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PREL MARR MOPS SU UN |
07KHARTOUM1143 | SUDAN DENOUNCES UNMIS SPOKESWOMAN [...] (SBU) Sudan denounced United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) spokeswoman Radhia Achouri for stating that the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) had not completed the withdrawal of its troops from Southern Sudan, in violation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). In a July 21 statement, SAF spokes [...] | 2007-07-23 12:06:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO KPAO MARR MOPS UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1144 | EGYPT VERIFIES COUP PLOT, "OBJECTS" TO UNSCR, [...] (C) Meeting with Poloff on July 22, Egyptian Deputy Chief of Mission Osama Shaltout (strictly protect) asserted that the alleged coup by Umma Reform and Renewal Party leader Mubarak Al Fadil and a group of retired military officers was a true attempt to destabilize the Sudanese Government (re [...] | 2007-07-23 12:11:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR KPKO UN AU SU EG LY |
07KHARTOUM1150 | BASHIR IN DARFUR: UNITY, STABILITY, DEVELOPMENT, [...] (C) President Bashir and members of the Sudanese cabinet made an unprecedented trip to Darfur July 21-23 in an attempt to portray the region as stable, emphasize the unity of the Sudanese people, underscore the need for development, and call for the return of the internally displaced to their [...] | 2007-07-24 14:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON KPKO UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1157 | DENG ALOR: NCP-SPLM AT LOGGERHEADS ON ABYEI, SAF [...] (U) This cable has an action request (see para. 11). 2. (C) The SPLM and the NCP have reached an impasse on the status of Abyei and the redeployment of the Sudanese Armed Forces from Southern Sudan, Minister of Cabinet Affairs Deng Alor told CDA Fernandez. Following senior-level internal c [...] | 2007-07-25 13:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN SU |
07KHARTOUM116 | DARFUR: COMMANDERS CONF INCHES FORWARD, THREAT [...] (C) The conference of Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) non-signatory commanders in North Darfur is inching forward. In a meeting on January 25 with S/CRS Poloff, North Darfur Wali Yousef Kibir said that a Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) general from Khartoum met with local military commanders and poli [...] | 2007-01-26 09:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AU SU UN |
07KHARTOUM1167 | DARFUR - USAID AGRICULTURE PROGRAMS [...] Summary: Current USAID emergency agriculture interventions in Darfur have successfully improved the livelihoods and food security of small farming and agro-pastoralist households in many rural areas. However, ongoing conflict and insecurity make sustained agriculture and livestock interventi [...] | 2007-07-26 11:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1172 | DARFUR - ENGAGING CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE PEACE PROCESS [...] (SBU) Summary: Between July 12 and 19, USAID staff met with key civil society representatives in South and West Darfur to follow up on issues raised during the U.S. Special Envoy's visit to Nyala, gauge the views of civil society representatives in El Geneina, and assess possible areas of USG [...] | 2007-07-29 07:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1174 | MEDIA REACTION: DEFENSE MINISTER CLAIMS 24 JEWISH GROUPS [...] (U) SUMMARY: On July 26 the Arabic pro-government "Al-Rai' Al-Aam" reprinted an interview with Sudanese Minister of Defense Abdelrahim Hussein in which he claims that 24 Jewish organizations are provoking the conflict in Darfur. In the article, reprinted from an earlier interview from the i [...] | 2007-07-29 11:01:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UN KPAO SU |
07KHARTOUM118 | U.S./SUDANESE RELATIONS: IN A LONG WAR, NO QUICK [...] (C) Summary: U.S. policy toward Sudan confronts a fundamental contradiction: although legally Sudan is organized as a nation-state, in reality Khartoum is an Arab capital struggling to rule a vast African hinterland. Ethnic conflict, economic change, and the declining legitimacy of Khartoum' [...] | 2007-01-26 10:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON KDEM SCUL AU UN SU US |
07KHARTOUM1197 | MEDIA REACTION: UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION [...] (U) SUMMARY. Most papers prominently featured news of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1769, but focused mainly on its details, and the reaction of the Sudanese Ambassador to the UN who stated that the resolution has "many positive aspects." On August 1, there were a limited numbe [...] | 2007-08-01 12:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UN KPAO SU |
07KHARTOUM120 | SUDAN'S PRESIDENT BASHIR WILL NOT CONTEND AU [...] (C) On January 27, Presidential Adviser Mustafa Osman Ismail told CDA Hume that President Bashir had decided not to contend the African Union (AU) chairmanship. Ismail said he would fly with Bashir later in the day to Addis Ababa for the AU summit. On behalf of President Bashir, he would enga [...] | 2007-01-27 10:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AU UN SU US |
07KHARTOUM1203 | MEDIA REACTION CONTINUED: UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL [...] (U) SUMMARY. On August 2, Sudanese media focused on Foreign Minister Lam Akol's press conference "welcoming" UN Security Council Resolution 1769. Meanwhile, on Al-Jazeera broadcasts and in the Sudanese morning newspapers, the Justice and Equality Movement's (JEM) spokesperson called the res [...] | 2007-08-02 11:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UN KPAO SU |
07KHARTOUM1210 | SUDAN FLOODING UPDATE [...] Summary. The Government of National Unity (GNU),Government of South Sudan (GOSS),and humanitarian community continue to respond to flooding that has affected hundreds of thousands of people throughout Sudan in July. The GNU Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC) estimates that flooding has dama [...] | 2007-08-05 12:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1213 | DARFUR - EL GENEINA'S NORTHERN CORRIDOR AT RISK [...] (SBU) Summary: During a recent USAID visit to El Geneina, West Darfur, U.N. staff alerted USAID to serious security problems and human rights abuses in the northern corridor of West Darfur. Arab nomadic groups and armed militia are terrorizing the residents of Abu Sorug, Sirba, Silea, and Bir [...] | 2007-08-05 14:10:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1222 | MEDIA REACTION: CDA PRAISED FOR EFFORTS BY PRO-REGIME [...] (U) SUMMARY. On August 2, the managing editor-in-chief of the pro-government "Akhbar Al-Youm," praised the U.S. Charge d'Affaires, the U.S. embassy's press release upon his arrival, and the anticipated return of the American scholarship program in 2008. In particular, the editor-in-chief, A [...] | 2007-08-06 11:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UN KPAO SU |
07KHARTOUM1236 | SUDAN - USAID AIRLIFTS PLASTIC SHEETING FOR FLOOD-AFFECTED [...] On August 8, Charge d'Affaires (CDA) Fernandez and Undersecretary for the Government of National Unity's (GNU) Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs Charles Manyang welcomed the arrival of a USAID Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) airlift carrying plastic sheeting for flood-af [...] | 2007-08-09 06:07:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1261 | EMBASSY CONTINUES OUTREACH IN THE NORTH [...] (SBU) Summary: In an August 9-10 visit to the northern town of Shendi in River Nile State, and also birthplace of Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir, CDA Fernandez met with the newly-appointed commissioner, presented books to the vice chancellor of Shendi University, and toured area farms and te [...] | 2007-08-13 06:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AU EAID UN US SU |
07KHARTOUM1262 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S. FLOOD RELIEF PRESS CONFERENCE [...] (U) SUMMARY. On August 8, the AmEmbassy held a press conference highlighting the U.S. contribution to Sudanese flood relief. The USG airlifted 1300 rolls of plastic sheeting valued at over one-half million U.S. dollars that will help provide shelter to 78,000 individuals in flood-affected a [...] | 2007-08-13 07:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UN KPAO SU |
07KHARTOUM1271 | SUDAN - USAID FLOOD AND RETURNEE ASSESSMENT IN UNITY STATE [...] Summary. From August 7 to 9, a USAID staff member traveled to Unity State to assess the flood emergency. Three counties in Unity State are seriously flooded, and between 6,000 and 13,000 families displaced statewide. Aid agencies and local officials are concerned because flooding began in J [...] | 2007-08-14 12:25:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1289 | INAUSPICIOUS RESUMPTION OF AMIS CEASEFIRE COMMISSION [...] (SBU) After a nearly three week hiatus of Ceasefire Commission (CFC) meetings, proceedings in the First Chamber were dominated by continued SLA-Minawi protests regarding cuts in Monthly Subsistence Allowance (MSA). The rebel reps walked out of the CFC before its conclusion. There was no discu [...] | 2007-08-17 10:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPKO SOCI AU UN US SU |
07KHARTOUM1296 | SUDAN - USAID FLOOD ASSESSMENT IN KASSALA STATE [...] Summary. From August 6 to 9, USAID/SUDAN staff traveled to Kassala State to assess the effects of recent flooding, following unseasonably heavy rainfall in early July. Flooding has affected an estimated 40,000 people, destroyed more than 2,600 homes, and resulted in 10 deaths and extensive d [...] | 2007-08-19 14:06:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1297 | DARFUR - MALNUTITION UPDATE [...] Summary: The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reports that recent Darfur nutrition survey results indicate the first significant increase in malnutrition in the region since 2004. According to USAID partner the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF),six localized nutrition [...] | 2007-08-19 14:07:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1337 | DARFUR: USG CAN SET THE STAGE FOR SUCCESSFUL UN/AU [...] (SBU) The United Nations and African Union have developed a timetable for the Darfur political process that culminates in negotiations between the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) non-signatories and the Sudanese Government in early October. However, unrealistic expectations of the outcome of thes [...] | 2007-08-23 13:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UN AU SU LY ER CD CH |
07KHARTOUM1359 | AU ENVOY: CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES, COMPENSATION [...] (C) At the tail-end of his recent visit to Sudan, AU Envoy Salim Ahmed Salim told the international community in Khartoum that agreement on a cessation of hostilities and compensation between Sudan and Darfur's rebels were "doable" outcomes for the UN/AU-led negotiations scheduled to begin in [...] | 2007-08-29 15:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1366 | SUDAN - STATUS OF IDP RETURNS TO SOUTHERN SUDAN [...] Summary. In a recent meeting with USAID, the U.N. Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) reported that 1.24 million former internally displaced persons (IDPs) have returned to the Three Areas and Southern Sudan since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in January 2005. Based on IDP surv [...] | 2007-08-30 13:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1368 | AMIS CEASEFIRE COMMISSION STILL HAMPERED BY SLA/MM [...] (SBU) Although the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA)/Minawi representatives attended the Ceasefire Commission (CFC) meetings at the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) headquarters in El Fasher, the majority of their representatives in the sectors stayed off the job, despite instructions to return [...] | 2007-08-30 14:32:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPKO AU UN US SU |
07KHARTOUM1369 | SLM/MINAWI COMMANDER VENTS ON AMIS AND DISCOUNTS [...] (SBU) S/CRS Field Officers met with Sudan Liberation Army (SLA)-Minawi General Commander Jumah Hagar and three of his staff to discuss security in areas of Darfur under his control, alleged SLA-Minawi involvement in carjackings, strained relations between the rebel group and AMIS, and prospect [...] | 2007-08-30 14:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1372 | CODEL JACKSON-LEE'S MEETING WITH SUDANESE FOREIGN [...] (SBU) Summary: During an August 28 courtesy call, Codel Jackson-Lee briefed Sudanese Foreign Minister Lam Akol on their visit to Darfur. The delegation also urged the expeditious implementation of UNSCR 1769, full implementation of the CPA, unfettered access for humanitarian NGOs, expedited [...] | 2007-08-30 15:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1373 | ON THE ROAD AHEAD, MINAWI SEES ALL DEAD ENDS [...] (S/NF) Characterizing the DPA as "dead, except to the U.S.," predicting that the UN/AU political process will fail, doubting that NCP policies toward Darfur can be changed through the 2009 elections and yet convinced that a return to war is useless, SLM leader Minni Minawi is seeking to chart a [...] | 2007-08-31 12:11:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV KPKO UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1384 | ON EVE OF UNSYG VISIT, UN CHIEF DISCUSSES NCP, [...] (C) Noting that the relationship between Sudan and the UN had improved in the last year, the UN Acting Special Representative of the Secretary General told CDA Fernandez that UNSYG Ban Ki Moon's September 4-8 visit comes at an ideal time to sustain momentum on the Darfur peace process, pave th [...] | 2007-09-04 06:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO UN AU SU ER |
07KHARTOUM1385 | SUDAN - FLOOD RESPONSE IN SOUTHERN SUDAN [...] Summary. Since June, flooding has affected more than 91,000 people in Lakes, Warrab, Unity, Upper Nile, Northern Bahr el Ghazal, and Jonglei states in Southern Sudan, according to the U.N. It is unclear whether the floods are worse than in previous years; however, non-governmental organizati [...] | 2007-09-04 08:41:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1386 | MINAWI: "WE WILL NOT BE VICTIMIZED" [...] (U) See para. 10 for recommendation. 2. (S/NF) In a recent meeting with CDA Fernandez, SLM leader Minni Minawi lamented the loss of international support for the DPA and warned that "we will not be victimized." While supportive of enhancing the agreement in the context of upcoming negotiat [...] | 2007-09-04 09:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PTER UN AU SU SA |
07KHARTOUM1387 | MEDIA REACTION: AL-WASILA VISIT TO WASHINGTON [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Sudanese press closely reported on the August 27-30 visit to Washington by Sudan's State Minister at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Samani Al-Wasila. Claiming that this visit was the first of its kind in over a decade, most papers included a daily update of every stage of [...] | 2007-09-04 10:58:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO OIIP UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1389 | JEM/SLA-UNITY LAUNCH BRAZEN ATTACK AHEAD OF PEACE [...] (SBU) An estimated 250 rebel fighters allied with the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA)/Unity struck a police installation in North Kordofan on August 29, resulting in the death of nearly 50 policemen, according to a variety of credible Embassy sources. I [...] | 2007-09-04 13:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV MOPS AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1390 | DARFUR - HIGH-LEVEL COMMITTEE MEETING ON THE [...] Summary: On September 1, the high-level committee that oversees the implementation of the Joint Communique on the facilitation of humanitarian activities in Darfur met in Khartoum. In the capacity of donor observer, U.S. Charge d'Affaires Alberto M. Fernandez, accompanied by a USAID represen [...] | 2007-09-04 13:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1401 | SUDAN MOVES CLOSER TO RELEASE OF SULEIMAN JAMOUS [...] (SBU) Both the Arabic and the English press on September 5 reported widely President Omar Al bahshir's remarks following his meeting with visiting UNSYG Ban Ki Moon on September 3, reiterating the Sudanese Government's intention to allow the release of former Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) hu [...] | 2007-09-05 15:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KPAO UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1411 | UN/AU, SPLM IRONICALLY OUT OF STEP ON DARFUR [...] (C) The UN/AU and the SPLM are proceeding along two parallel tracks in their political initiatives for Darfur. While the SPLM hopes to hold a meeting in Southern Sudan in the next two weeks to bring unity to the SLM and prepare the movement for negotiations, the UN/AU have positioned themselve [...] | 2007-09-06 12:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1416 | AMIS FORCE COMMANDER ADAMANT ON HAVING CFC US AND [...] (C) Several days before the visit of the UN Secretary General to Darfur, the GoS announced on short notice that it was sending out a delegation to discuss the Janjaweed/Armed Militia Disarmament Plan in El Fasher with AMIS. Force Commander GEN Agwai met with the Ceasefire Commission (CFC),in [...] | 2007-09-09 12:58:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV KPKO AU UN US SU |
07KHARTOUM1417 | NO CFC FORMAL MEETINGS, BUT FOUR STOLEN LABADO VEHICLES [...] (SBU) Formal CFC meetings were cancelled this week due to a meeting with a Sudanese Government delegation to discuss the Janjaweed Disarmament Plan (septel) and the visit of the UN Secretary General. However, some progress was made on a key CFC SIPDIS case when some of the vehicles stolen f [...] | 2007-09-09 16:07:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPKO SOCI AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1427 | AU, UN, PARTNERS PLAN ACTION ON SECURITY [...] (SBU) The African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) called a long-awaited working group meeting in Khartoum on September 4 to invigorate discussion of the ailing security provisions of the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA). With the arrival of Joint Special Representative Rudolphe Adada and Force Comma [...] | 2007-09-11 09:00:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1432 | AL-SAMANI: SUDAN READY FOR THE HYBRID [...] (C) Summary: Reiterating Sudan's committment to the hybrid force in a September 11 meeting with CDA Fernandez, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Wasila al-Samani said the ball was now squarely in the UN's court. Appealing to the perceived close relationship between the US and the south, al-Sa [...] | 2007-09-11 15:00:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1436 | TRACK TO LIBYA TALKS FRAUGHT WITH HURDLES [...] (S) While the announcement of UN/AU-brokered negotiations between Sudan and Darfur's rebels is a very positive step toward ending the conflict, five hurdles obstruct the track to talks in Libya at the end of October: disunity within the rebel factions; ongoing hostilities on the ground; the Fur [...] | 2007-09-11 16:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET | PREL PGOV KPKO UN AU SU US LY |
07KHARTOUM1439 | VIOLENCE IN HASKANITA LINKED TO ATTACK IN KORDOFAN [...] (C) A Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) attack near Haskanita, South Darfur on September 9, which had included aerial bombardment, was in direct response to the August 30 rebel incursion into Kordofan led by the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA)-Unity (reftel). [...] | 2007-09-12 09:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MOPS KPKO UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1446 | SUDAN - USAID FLOOD ASSESSMENT RENK COUNTY, UPPER NILE [...] Summary. From August 28 to 30, USAID/OFDA staff visited Renk County in northern Upper Nile State, Southern Sudan, to assess the effects of recent flooding. Flooding caused severe damage to homes and livestock and affected an estimated 10,000 households, or approximately 50,000 people. Non-g [...] | 2007-09-13 15:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1453 | HAROUN SPEAKS OUT ON THE ICC AND DARFUR [...] (SBU) In a interview which appeared in the September 15 edition of independent Sudanese daily Al-Rai Al-Aam's special political supplement, war crimes suspect and State Minister for Humanitarian Affairs Ahmad Haroun lashed out at the International Criminal Court, calling his indictment a cynica [...] | 2007-09-16 14:06:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREC KPKO AU PHUM UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1461 | UN/AU UPDATE ON DARFUR PEACE PROCESS IN LEAD-UP TO [...] (SBU) One week before the September 21 meeting on Darfur in New York, the UN/AU provided an update on the peace process for representatives in Khartoum. With the exception of a proposed meeting of Darfur rebel leaders in N'djamena from September 16-17, the UN/AU provided few details on its pl [...] | 2007-09-17 12:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UN AU CD LY SU |
07KHARTOUM1469 | DEVELOPING PEACE DIVIDENDS IN DARFUR [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 16, the Darfur Donors Coordination Group convened for the first time in several months to discuss criteria for resuming the DJAM and possible activities taking place in Darfur outside the DJAM framework. In addition to core donor representatives, non-traditional dono [...] | 2007-09-18 11:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREC PHUM EAID UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1470 | FORCE COMMANDER CHAIRS HIS FIRST CFC MEETINGS, MAKES [...] (SBU) Force Commander General Martin Luther Agwai took over Cease-fire Commission (CFC) meetings and is making positive changes (including some that we recommended). However, the inability to investigate the Haskanita violence highlights how weak the CFC will remain, despite internal reforms. [...] | 2007-09-18 11:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPKO AU UN US SU |
07KHARTOUM1472 | FM AKOL DISCUSSES UNGA, U.S.-SUDAN RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary. Meeting with Foreign Minister Lam Akol, CDA Fernandez previewed two critical issues that would be raised during Akol's visit to New York on September 21: Sudan's cooperation on facilitating the deployment of the UN-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) and the hold put on the r [...] | 2007-09-18 14:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO UN AU SU US |
07KHARTOUM1476 | SPLA FORCES ENCOUNTER SAF FORCES IN EL-MUGLAD; [...] (SBU) On Sept 18, media reported that on September 17, elements of the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) encountered Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) troops in El-Muglad for the second time in a month. The UN told embassy that SPLA Commander Hassan Hamed along with ten soldiers attempted to enter [...] | 2007-09-19 13:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO MARR AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1477 | NEW--AND GROWING--CALLS FOR INDEPENDENT DARFUR [...] (SBU) Calls for an independent Darfur--infrequent in the past--have now taken a more prominent place in the region's political discourse. In a recent television interview, Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) leader Khalil Ibrahim warned that the failure of negotiations with the Sudanese Gover [...] | 2007-09-19 13:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UN AU US SU |
07KHARTOUM1480 | TO GO OR NOT TO GO: DARFUR REBELS DEBATE LIBYA [...] (C) Many Darfur rebel groups are ambivalent about attending the UN/AU-sponsored negotiations scheduled to begin in Libya on October 27. This ambivalence is a consequence of three factors, which have influenced each of the rebel factions in different ways: 1) Disunity within the Sudan Liberati [...] | 2007-09-20 12:45:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN AU SU ER LY |
07KHARTOUM1488 | WHAT'S IN A NAME? FOR MINAWI, EVERYTHING [...] (C) While flexible on many elements of the DPA--including a willingness to renounce his position as Senior Assistant to the President--SLM leader Minni Minawi will reject a change in the agreement's name or any result from the UN/AU negotiations that ignores the "courage" his movement showed i [...] | 2007-09-21 13:34:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO UN AU SU US |
07KHARTOUM1492 | UNAMID DEPLOYMENT STEADY BUT BIGGER TESTS STILL TO COME [...] (SBU) While obstacles to the deployment of the UN-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) exist--primarily at the local level--deployment of the force has been steady, and there are no indications that Sudan is blocking UNAMID as a matter of official policy. However, as CDA Fernandez explaine [...] | 2007-09-23 13:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1497 | U/S SIDDIQ: TRIPOLI IS THE LAST CHANCE [...] (SBU) Summary: In a September 23 meeting with CDA Fernandez, Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs and the Sudanese government's UNSCR 1769 implementation coordinator Dr. Mutrif Siddiq called Sudanese support for the resolution "unanimous." Any delays or question regarding UNAMID deployment were [...] | 2007-09-24 08:32:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KREL AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1509 | SPLM TO PROCEED WITH DARFUR INITIATIVE [...] (SBU) Despite the failure of recent overtures to Darfur rebel leader Abdulwahid al Nur, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) intends to proceed with an initiative in the next 10 days to prepare Darfur's rebel groups for negotiations scheduled to begin in Libya at the end of October, a [...] | 2007-09-26 12:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1510 | CEASE-FIRE COMMISSION: FRUSTRATION WITH HASKANITA WHILE [...] (SBU) Force Commander Martin Luther Agwai chaired meetings of both chambers and pushed to reduce each chamber to one formal meeting per week. No report on the Kalma IDP incursion has yet been received from the sector, nor have any AMIS officials been able to investigate the Haskanita fighting. [...] | 2007-09-26 13:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPKO SOCI AU UN US SU |
07KHARTOUM1511 | HUMANITARIAN AGENCIES WATCH SECURITY SITUATION [...] (SBU) On September 20, a convoy of two humanitarian vehicles were ambushed by unknown assailants in South Darfur on the main road between Nyala and Kass. Eight members of the NGO World Vision International (WVI),a USAID funded NGO, were in the convoy. The vehicles, clearly marked as humani [...] | 2007-09-26 13:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO MARR AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1523 | DARFUR - HIGH-LEVEL COMMITTEE MEETING ON THE [...] Summary: On September 24, the high-level committee that oversees the implementation of the Joint Communique on the facilitation of humanitarian activities in Darfur met in Khartoum. In the capacity of donor observer, U.S. Charge d'Affaires Alberto M. Fernandez, accompanied by a USAID represen [...] | 2007-09-30 12:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1526 | AMIS CAMP IN HASKANITA ATTACKED [...] (SBU) On the evening of September 29 the AMIS Military Group Site (MGS) in Haskanita came under brazen attack by an unidentified force using small arms fire, machine gun fire, and rocket-propelled grenades, but the attack was repulsed. In the early hours of September 30, the MGS was attacked [...] | 2007-09-30 14:31:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPKO SOCI AU UN US SU |
07KHARTOUM1532 | HAC: MORE DEVELOPMENT, LESS FOOD AID [...] (SBU) Summary: In a lengthy September 26 meeting with CDA Fernandez, deputy head of the Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC) Hassabo Abdelrahman praised the U.S. role in humanitarian relief operations in Sudan, but maintained that the focus should shift to early recovery and development. There was [...] | 2007-10-01 13:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPKO PHUM AU EAID UN US SU |
07KHARTOUM1535 | HASKANITA ATTACK PART OF INCREASED VIOLENCE IN [...] (SBU) One day after the September 29 attack on the its camp near Haskanita, South Darfur, AMIS evacuated 10 dead and 14 wounded peacekeepers with the help of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF). Reports abound on the number and identity of the assailants, ranging from two Darfur rebel factions to [...] | 2007-10-01 14:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO MOPS UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1539 | S/E NATSIOS MEETS WITH GOVERNOR OF SOUTH DARFUR [...] (SBU) Meeting with S/E Natsios in Nyala on September 30, South Darfur Governor Ali Mahmoud explained that the current conflict had exacerbated tribal divisions. He criticized the peace process for re-inforcing these divisions and warned that if the parties to the conflict participated in nego [...] | 2007-10-03 06:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1540 | MEETING WITH S/E NATSIOS, FUR LEADERS ENDORSE [...] (SBU) From the Fur stronghold in West Darfur, influential Fur leaders told S/E Natsios that Abdulwahid Al Nur remains their sole legitimate representative and that six maximalist conditions affecting security, compensation, and land must be met before they can participate in peace negotiations [...] | 2007-10-03 08:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV KPKO UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1541 | CFC WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 24: NO MEETINGS BUT WORKING GROUP [...] (SBU) Neither the First nor Second Chamber of the Cease-fire Commission (CFC) met the week of September 24 because Force Commander Agwai had left for Nigeria and Deputy Force Commander Karake was traveling the area of operation. The working group, however, addressed the two general topics of i [...] | 2007-10-03 10:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPKO SOCI AU UN US SU |
07KHARTOUM1548 | S/E NATSIOS MEETS WITH SOUTH DARFUR'S WARRING ARAB [...] (SBU) In a visit to South Darfur, S/E Natsios met with representatives of two warring Arab tribes, the Turjum and the Rizeigat, to explore the antecedents to their internal-tribal conflict, discuss the prospects of reconciliation, and encourage a cessation of hostilities and support for the de [...] | 2007-10-04 13:23:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM155 | DARFUR: COMMANDERS CONFERENCE IN FLUX [...] (C) The African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) again postponed the conference of Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) non-signatory commanders in North Darfur to February 5 due to logistical problems in transporting the commanders to the event site, having already moved 24 commanders to North Darfur on [...] | 2007-02-01 16:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS AU SU CD UN |
07KHARTOUM1554 | SPLM TELLS S/E NATSIOS NCP IMMUNE TO PRESSURE, IN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-06 13:07:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1556 | FUR SHURA COUNCIL TO S/E NATSIOS: WE NEED GUARANTEES BEFORE [...] (SBU) Summary: In an October 4 meeting with Special Envoy Natsios, members of the Fur Shura Council in Khartoum claimed that Darfur rebel leader Abdul Wahid Nur would attend negotiations in Libya if he had 'guarantees' that Fur rights, such as compensation, security and return, would be satisfa [...] | 2007-10-08 06:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AU SU UN |
07KHARTOUM1563 | S/E NATSIOS MEETS WITH UN ENVOY ON EVE OF STRATEGY [...] (SBU) On the eve of a UN and AU retreat in Addis Ababa to strategize on the Darfur political process, UN Envoy Jan Eliasson told S/E Natsios that the first order of business for the Darfur peace negotiations will be achieving a cessation of hostilities. It is important to "stay the course" de [...] | 2007-10-08 10:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UN AU SU LY |
07KHARTOUM1564 | SLM SEEKS TO BE PART OF SOLUTION TO DARFUR, MINAWI [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-08 10:20:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1565 | DARFUR - BRAZEN CARJACKINGS BRING NGOS TO TIPPING POINT [...] (U) Recent attacks on non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working throughout Darfur, including USAID partners CARE and World Vision, have impacted the delivery of humanitarian services. Brazen daytime carjackings in Nyala town, the capital of South Darfur, have prompted the UN to impose a 14 [...] | 2007-10-08 11:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1567 | RIZEIGAT: WE CAN EITHER BE WITH YOU...OR AGAINST YOU [...] (SBU) Summary: In an October 8 meeting with CDA Fernandez, Abd al-Raheem Hamdan Dagalo, a son of the notorious and influential Rizeigat umda Juma Dagalo, described the marginalization of the Arab tribes in Darfur as worse than that of those in IDP camps. The Arab tribes were an integral part of [...] | 2007-10-08 13:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO AU SU UN |
07KHARTOUM1569 | S/E NATSIOS, MEETING WITH PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR [...] (C) S/E Natsios and Presidential Advisor Dr. Nafie Ali Nafie agreed that they have low expectations for the initial Darfur peace talks in Tripoli, but hope that it may start a process that will eventually bear fruit. Nafie responded defensively to S/E Natsios, proposal for a package of confi [...] | 2007-10-08 13:50:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM158 | CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM: UPDATE ON UN SUPPORT FOR AMIS [...] (SBU) Summary: 37 out of 105 military staff, 29 out of 33 civilian police, and four out of 48 civilian staff have deployed to El Fasher and Khartoum as part of the UN light assistance package to the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS). UN officers hope to have the entire contingent in place [...] | 2007-02-05 03:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV MOPS PREL AU SU UN |
07KHARTOUM1581 | UNMIS HEAD TO S/E NATSIOS: SPLM MUST EMPOWER ITSELF [...] (SBU) The SPLM must develop strategies that empower the party within the Government of National Unity over the next three years or risk irrelevance, UNMIS head Taye Brooke-Zerihoun told S/E Natsios. Support for the SPLM is "wide and deep" in Northern Sudan and the movement must "flex its musc [...] | 2007-10-09 09:01:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1585 | DEMARCHE REQUEST: ARAB DONORS CONFERENCE ON DARFUR [...] (SBU) Note: This cable contains an action request. Please see para 4. End note. The Arab League, the government of Sudan and other regional entities are planning an Arab donors conference on Darfur to be held October 30-31 in Khartoum. Foreign Minister Lam Akol and presidential advisor Mustafa [...] | 2007-10-09 12:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO AU SU UN |
07KHARTOUM1588 | GENERAL AGWAI: MONTHLY SUBSISTENCE ALLOWANCES A [...] (C) On October 9, CDA met with African Union (AU) force commander Lt. General Martin Agwai Also present were DATT and poloff (notetaker). Agwai said that problems with the MSA could spark future unrest amongst rebel forces, that he believed that the Haskanita attack may have been the result [...] | 2007-10-09 14:27:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO MARR AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1589 | `S/E NATSIOS MEETING WITH PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR [...] (C) In an October 6 meeting with S/E Natsios, Presidential Advisor Mustafa Osman Ismail charged that a hostile United States has poisoned the atmosphere, and that the U.S. must prove itself a neutral partner before Sudan can accept its proposals to reduce tensions between North and South. S/ [...] | 2007-10-09 14:58:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1596 | SUDAN, AU IMPLICATED IN SOUTH DARFUR ATTACK [...] (U) Please see para. 10 for an action request. 2. (C) A Sudanese Government representative, the UN, and the SLM have reported that AMIS requested SAF intervention in Muhajeria, South Darfur, precipitating an attack that has left at least 30 civilians dead and an equal number missing. SLM of [...] | 2007-10-10 16:00:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS KPKO UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1599 | SUDAN'S UNSCR 1769 COORDINATOR SIDDIQ: AMIS ASKED [...] (C) Summary. In an October 9 meeting with CDA Fernandez, Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs Mutriff Siddiq said that AMIS asked the GoS to intervene militarily in the wake of the attack on the Haskanita MGS. On other topics, Siddiq said he would consult with the GoS on the U.S. offer to speed [...] | 2007-10-11 06:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO MARR AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1600 | SUDAN - DISASTER REDECLARATION [...] The humanitarian situation in Sudan continues to warrant U.S. Government (USG) assistance to meet the emergency requirements of conflict-affected civilian populations throughout the country. USG humanitarian assistance in Sudan saves lives, mitigates the economic impact of conflict on livelih [...] | 2007-10-11 06:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1602 | SUDAN - UNHCR FUNDING SITUATION AND PLANS FOR DARFUR [...] On October 2, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees' (UNHCR) Deputy Representative for Sudan Craig Sanders briefed international donors, including USAID, on UNHCR's funding situation for the remainder of 2007. In addition, UNHCR discussed progress in expanding Darfur operations a [...] | 2007-10-11 07:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1608 | HEAVY SUPPORT PACKAGE UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary. In an October 4 report, the Chief of Plans for UNAMID Transition, Colonel Johnstone, in El Fasher, North Darfur, described current UNAMID deployment status. He termed GOS cooperation to date as "reasonable," noted the complexity of the transition, provided a rundown of troop con [...] | 2007-10-15 05:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1609 | HEAVY SUPPORT PACKAGE UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary. In an October 4 report, the Chief of Plans for UNAMID Transition, Colonel Johnstone, in El Fasher, North Darfur, described current UNAMID deployment status. He termed GOS cooperation to date as "reasonable," noted the complexity of the transition, provided a rundown of troop con [...] | 2007-10-15 05:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1610 | UN ENVOY, AU BRIEF ON DARFUR VIOLENCE, POLITICAL PROCESS [...] (U) Please see action request para. 13. 2. (SBU) Briefing the "Tripoli Format" on October 12, UN Envoy Jan Eliasson and AU officials called for "maximum restraint" among the belligerents and international condemnation as violence escalates in Darfur in advance of peace talks, with one diplom [...] | 2007-10-15 05:20:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AU UN KPKO SU |
07KHARTOUM1619 | U/S MUTRIFF SIDDIQ: GOS RECEPTIVE TO C-17; WANTS [...] (SBU) On October 16, CDA Powers and DLO representative met Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs Mutriff Siddiq to inquire about GoS flight clearances for USAF C-17s that the U.S. proposed to airlift the scheduled deployment of Rwanda troops to Darfur. CDA Powers noted that since CDA Fernandez ha [...] | 2007-10-16 14:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO MARR AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1639 | AFTER CONVINCING CFC REPS, AGWAI PRESENTS MSA PLAN TO [...] (SBU) AMIS Force Commander Martin Luther Agwai and Joint Special Representative Rudolphe Adada have requested donor assistance to pay CFC representatives four months of arrears of the monthly subsistence allowance (MSA) and then suspend the CFC. While the CFC representatives expressed no oppos [...] | 2007-10-22 15:32:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1646 | SLM ADOPTS LEGALISTIC APPROACH TO LIBYA TALKS, [...] (SBU) Despite UN and African Union efforts to invite the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM)/Minawi to the upcoming Darfur peace negotiations in Libya as a member of the Government of National Unity (GNU),the SLM characterizes this formulation as "political suicide," three senior SLM leaders told [...] | 2007-10-22 16:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1648 | UN/AU CONFRONT CHALLENGES TO PARTICIPATION IN [...] (SBU) The UN/AU are confronting myriad challenges in securing inclusive participation in the upcoming Darfur peace negotiations, the UN/AU told the Khartoum diplomatic corps on October 21. The majority of rebel factions have since announced that they will either abstain from the talks or atte [...] | 2007-10-23 11:34:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KPKO UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1659 | SUDAN - UN/DONOR PRINCIPALS MEETING RESUMES [...] On October 21, the UN reinstated the UN high-level donor coordination meeting in Khartoum. The UN Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General in Sudan (D/SRSG) and the UN Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator (RC/HC) in Sudan, Ameerah Haq, chaired the meeting. At this f [...] | 2007-10-25 11:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1660 | SPLM STRATEGY FOCUSED ON NON-IMPLEMENTATION OF THE [...] (C) Summary. October 25, CDA Fernandez and poloff (notetaker) met with GOSS President Affairs Minister Luka Biong Deng, SPLM Deputy Secretary General Yasir Arman, and SPLM Deputy Chairman Malik Agar. Luka expressed satisfaction that the SPLM successfully raised the alarm about the non-implemen [...] | 2007-10-25 13:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO MARR AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1661 | MUTRIFF DENIES GOS INVOLVEMENT IN KALMA CAMP [...] (C) Summary. October 25, CDA Fernandez met with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Mutriff Siddiq. Siddiq categorically denied that the GOS has a policy of forced relocation at the Kalma IDP camp and suggested measures to improve international community confidence in the GOS role at [...] | 2007-10-25 14:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO MARR AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1669 | DARFUR - HAC PROPOSES TO DIVIDE IDP CAMPS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-29 07:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1673 | FORMER DARFUR GOVERNOR SUGGESTS POSSIBLE NCP PEACE [...] (C) Summary: Charge d'Affaires and Pol/Econ Chief met October 27 with the Governor of Khartoum State Dr. Abdel Halim Mutaafi. The Governor provided insights on the Darfur conflict and made suggestions on how it might be resolved. Mutaafi is the former Governor of Darfur State and is married t [...] | 2007-10-29 14:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO MARR AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM168 | AMIS FORCE COMMANDER REACHES OUT TO DPA NON-SIGNATORIES IN [...] (SBU) African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) Force Commander Luke Aprezi, accompanied by United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) Regional Head of Office, Ceasefire Commission (CFC) participants, S/CRS Poloffs, and other members of the international community, met February 4 in West Darfur with r [...] | 2007-02-05 13:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPKO SOCI AU UN US SU |
07KHARTOUM1680 | UNREST AND TURMOIL IN CAMPS CREATE SUSPICIONS OF GOS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-30 11:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1684 | AMIS INVESTIGATION REPORT ON HASKANITA ATTACK [...] (SBU) Summary: An informal Ceasefire Commission (CFC) report on the Haskanita attack blames SLA/Unity and JEM for the unprovoked assault. Rebel superior firepower and AMIS poor readiness and communications capability contributed to the worst battlefield loss since the deployment of AMIS. End s [...] | 2007-10-31 07:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PMIL KPKO AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1689 | SUDAN - RIFT VALLEY FEVER [...] On October 28, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) reported that Rift Valley fever (RVF) has been confirmed in three states in northern Sudan. RVF is a viral zoonosis that primarily affects animals but also can infect humans. WHO reported that out of 70 known human cases 40 deaths had occu [...] | 2007-10-31 09:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1690 | ACTING FM KARTI ON GUANTANAMO, DARFUR, AND CPA [...] (C) Summary: Charge Fernandez and Pol Chief met October 27 with acting Foreign Minister Ali Karti. Regarding the Sudanese detainees in Guantanamo, the Charge encouraged the Minister to accept the text of the certification in order to expedite their return to Sudan as soon as possible. On Dar [...] | 2007-10-31 10:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO MARR AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM171 | CHINA: LITTLE REVEALED ON DARFUR DISCUSSIONS [...] (U) The February 2-3 visit to Khartoum of Chinese president Hu Jintao involved substantial pageantry, a variety of aid and trade agreements (septel),and a series of high-level meetings, but little new information on efforts to address a transition to UN peacekeeping in Darfur. The visit, the [...] | 2007-02-05 15:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO PGOV UN CH SU |
07KHARTOUM172 | DARFUR: UNDP ISSUES STATEMENT ON NYALA ASSAULTS [...] (C) Summary: Reftels detail the January 19 incident wherein 20 UN, NGO, and African Mission in Sudan (AMIS) personnel were arrested following the violent breakup of a social event, which resulted in serious injuries to several of the humanitarian personnel. On January 30, UN Deputy Special R [...] | 2007-02-05 15:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV EAID PREF SOCI AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1721 | S/E NATSIOS MEETING WITH VICE PRESIDENT ALI OSMAN [...] (C) Summary: S/E Andrew Natsios met November 3 with GOS Vice President Ali Osman Taha. Taha, the chief NCP negotiators of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA),said that there is "no time to waste" on implementation of the CPA. He said all of the decisions taken the previous night by [...] | 2007-11-05 07:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1727 | THREE POLICE OFFICERS KILLED BY SPLA/JIU SOLDIERS [...] According to several sources including UNMIS Police reports, a group of six Joint Integrated Unit (JIU) soldiers shot and killed three police officers in Yambio, the capital of Western Equatoria State in Southern Sudan. Initial reports indicate that three SSPS (Southern Sudan police) senior o [...] | 2007-11-06 05:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1735 | UNAMID: CHINESE ENGINEERING COMPANY BEGINS [...] (SBU) Chinese Embassy Defense Attache Colonel Dong Jian Dong told poloff November 6 that, starting November 7, the first of eleven flights using IL-76 aircraft will begin to arrive in Nyala. Over a period of ten days, the flights will transport equipment and supplies for the construction of th [...] | 2007-11-07 06:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO MARR AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1761 | NCP SEES SPLM AS INCREASINGLY HARDLINE [...] (C) Summary: NCP officials participating in negotiations with the SPLM on a way out of the current political crisis complained that the SPLM has reneged on past agreements during the negotiations, and that the SPLM has become more hardline in its tactics with each meeting. Based on Embassy me [...] | 2007-11-12 10:04:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1764 | ASSISTANT SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR PEACEKEEPING TO PRESS SUDAN [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 11, visiting UN Assistant Secretary-General (A/SYG) for Peacekeeping Operations Edmond Mulet SIPDIS briefed Ambassadors in Khartoum on UNAMID deployment issues. While in Sudan, Mulet will seek Sudanese commitment on outstanding issues including approved compositio [...] | 2007-11-13 05:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV DPKO UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1765 | FUR ELDER BRIEFS CDA AFTER MEETINGS WITH REBEL LEADERS [...] (SBU) Recently returned to Northern Sudan from visits to Paris, Juba, Kampala, and Nairobi to meet with Darfur rebel leaders, the legitimate Maqdoum (literally, "viceroy," one of the traditional Darfur tribal titles) of the Fur, Ahmed Abdelrahman Rijal, told CDA Fernandez on November 12 that he [...] | 2007-11-13 08:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1770 | ADADA CITES "PROGRESS" IN UNAMID DEPLOYMENT [...] (SBU) Encouraged by his meeting with MFA State Minister Al Wasila earlier in the day, Joint Special Representative Adada told Western governments on November 13 that UNAMID deployment is "progressing" and that Sudan has re-affirmed its commitment to facilitate the force's deployment through th [...] | 2007-11-14 15:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1771 | DARFUR - USAID NUTRITION UPDATE [...] Recent nutrition surveys in pockets of Darfur reveal that the nutrition status of children under five has deteriorated since May 2007 to levels approaching those recorded in 2004 -- the beginning of the Darfur humanitarian response when the nutritional situation was at its worst. From Septemb [...] | 2007-11-15 07:50:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1780 | SPLM OUTLINES RISKY STRATEGY OF BRINKSMANSHIP WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA met November 15 with SPLM Secretary General Pagan Amum. Amum said the SPLM could no longer afford to play the National Congress Party's (NCP) game, which is just to play for time in talks over implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in order to continue to [...] | 2007-11-15 15:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1787 | MINISTER AL-SAMANI ON UNAMID, BILATERAL COOPERATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Meeting with Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Wasila al-Samani on November 15, CDA Fernandez strongly cautioned the minister that while his visit to Washington in September and Foreign Minister Lam Akol's UNGA visit later that month had produced some positive results, the bi [...] | 2007-11-18 04:41:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPKO SOCI AU UN US SU |
07KHARTOUM1793 | MEDIA BATTLE ESCALATES WHILE NCP-SPLM NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) Summary: The media battle between the NCP and the SPLM has intensified, with President Bashir mobilizing the Popular Defense Forces (septel) and rallying the "mujahadeen" at a mass rally south of Khartoum November 17, seemingly in response to SPLM Secretary General Pagan Amum's widely publ [...] | 2007-11-18 14:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1795 | DARFUR - THE HAC AND WALI DISCUSS KALMA ISSUES AND THE [...] (U) On November 10, the Charge d'Affaires Fernandez, the USAID Mission Director, and the USAID Darfur Team Leader met with the Government of National Unity (GNU) Humanitarian Aid Commissioner and the Governor (Wali) of South Darfur to discuss the current state of affairs with Kalma internally d [...] | 2007-11-18 17:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1796 | PRESIDENT BASHIR ESCALATES WAR OF WORDS WITH SPLM [...] (U) President Al Bashir delivered his most bellicose speech in recent memory yesterday, warning the South that the North is ready for war, and branding western countries as greedy tyrants. He insisted the north would not compromise over oil-rich Abyei. The President was speaking at an annual [...] | 2007-11-18 17:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1798 | AS SLM FRAYS, MINAWI STANDS BY POSITION ON UN/AU [...] (C) Despite NCP demands to the contrary, SLM leader Minni Minawi insists that his movement will only participate in the UN/AU-led Darfur peace process as a signatory to the DPA and not as a member of the Government delegation. Secretary General Mustafa Tirab defied the SLM's official position [...] | 2007-11-19 08:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM18 | DARFUR: DSRSG DEFENSIVE ON LIGHT PACKAGE, CRITICAL [...] (C) Summary: During a January 5 meeting between Charge d'Affairs Hume and Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General (DSRSG) for the United Nations (UN) in SIPDIS Sudan Manuel Aranda d'Silva, the two discussed the CDA's recent visit to UN Light Package elements in El Fasher (ref [...] | 2007-01-05 11:23:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREF PHUM SOCI PGOV PREL SU UN |
07KHARTOUM1807 | GULF BETWEEN AFRICAN AND ARAB TRIBES IN DARFUR [...] (C) During his November 13-14 visit to El Fasher, Darfur, both African and Arab tribal representatives told CDA Fernandez that they have historical grievances that are not being addresses adequately by the UN/AU peace process. Both groups feel marginalized by the process and believe that neit [...] | 2007-11-19 14:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1810 | DARFUR PEACE PROCESS: SIX RECOMMENDATIONS FOR [...] (C) The next critical milestone in the Darfur peace process is UN Special Envoy Jan Eliasson's briefing for the UN Security Council scheduled for November 27. While admitting that the rebel factions were unprepared to engage in negotiations in Sirte in late October, the UN and AU have set a t [...] | 2007-11-19 15:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1813 | SHINING AN AMERICAN LIGHT ON ABYEI [...] (C) Summary: With the ongoing political crisis between the National Congress Party (NCP) and Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) in its second month, the conflict over the oil-rich Abyei region takes center stage once again as the key irreconcilable difference between the two parties, th [...] | 2007-11-20 10:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PGOV PHUM PREF PREL SOCI UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1819 | LAM AKOL CRITICIZES SPLM FOR NEGOTIATING IN BAD [...] (C) Summary: Erstwhile Minister of Foreign Affairs, potential Minister of Cabinet Affairs and SPLM renegade Lam Akol told CDA Fernandez November 13 that the SPLM is engaged in dangerous brinksmanship and is negotiating in bad faith with the NCP. He said that if the SPLM wants to make accusati [...] | 2007-11-21 10:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1821 | SOUTHERN SUDAN - LAINYA COUNTY UPDATE [...] From November 4 to 6, program officers from USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) traveled to Lainya County in Central Equatoria State, Southern Sudan, to review the status of the planned transition of USAID/OFDA-funded programs to the Government of Southern Sudan (GOS [...] | 2007-11-21 11:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1822 | CONCILIATORY AL-BASHIR ALL SWEETNESS AND LIGHT AT [...] (SBU) Less than five days after a warmongering speech to militia forces (reftel b),a more statesman-like President Al-Bashir called for peace, national unity and democracy in an address to party faithful at the National Congress Party (NCP) Annual General Assembly on November 21. A full house [...] | 2007-11-21 11:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SOCI UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1828 | AEC CHAIRS DISCUSS NEXT CHAIRMAN/POSSIBLE [...] (C) SUMMARY: At a November 20 urgent AEC working group chairperson meeting called by the UK Ambassador, Attendees (US, UK, Netherlands, Norway, Italy) discussed the draft UK paper on "Future Direction" of the AEC, a possible UK nominee for the AEC chairmanship, and the proposed Rome preparat [...] | 2007-11-21 15:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1832 | SOUTHERN SUDAN - HEALTH SECTOR TRANSITION UPDATE [...] Over the past three fiscal years, USAID has been able to steadily and responsibly decrease its non-food humanitarian budget from USD 88.3 million in Fiscal Year (FY) 2005 to USD 69.5 million in FY 2006 and USD 61.9 million in FY 2007 in anticipation of the eventual transition from relief to dev [...] | 2007-11-21 16:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1845 | TWO MAJOR DARFUR FACTIONS STEP TOWARD UNION WHILE [...] (SBU) JEM/Collective Leadership and SLA/Unity, two of the strongest rebel movements in Darfur, have taken steps toward a tentative alliance, and JEM/CL plans to conduct consultations with SLA/Unity leaders Abdullah Yehia, Suleiman Jamous, and Sharif Harir in Darfur over the next week to solidi [...] | 2007-11-26 05:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1847 | NCP EAGER TO NEGOTIATE WITH SPLM, OPEN TO [...] (C) Summary: NCP negotiator Dirdeiry Mohammad Ahmed told polchief November 25 that the NCP is eager to resume discussions with the SPLM. He claimed SPLM sources told him that First Vice President Kiir would be open to an invitation to meet with President Bashir by the end of the week, when th [...] | 2007-11-26 08:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1849 | ADADA MOVES TO DEFUSE TENSION OVER KALMA IDP CAMP [...] (C) Joint Special Representative Rudolphe Adada and the AU Mission in Sudan (AMIS) are trying to broker a solution to mounting tensions in the Kalma internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in South Darfur, the JSR's chief of staff, Abdulrahman Abubakr, told Poloff on November 26. Following a [...] | 2007-11-26 08:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS KPKO UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1853 | DARFUR - ADMINISTRATOR FORE SITE VISIT TO EL FASHER [...] (U) On November 22, the USAID Administrator and Director of Foreign Assistance Henrietta H. Fore, Charge d'Affaires Alberto M. Fernandez, Assistant Administrator for USAID's Africa Bureau (AA/AFR) Kate Almquist, and the Mission Director for USAID/Sudan traveled to El Fasher, North Darfur, to re [...] | 2007-11-27 06:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1854 | UN UPDATE: HUMANITARIAN AND POLITICAL PROCESSES IN DARFUR [...] (SBU) Summary: Briefing the donor community on November 25, UN DSRSG Ameera Haq introduced an agenda that included an update on the Darfur political process and humanitarian access situation, as well a preview of the launch of the UN's 2008 workplan (donors will be invited to a formal presentat [...] | 2007-11-27 08:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1856 | SUDAN - NGOS BRIEF AA/AFR ON CURRENT CHALLENGES [...] On November 21, representatives from the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Steering Committee and other USAID implementing partners briefed the Assistant Administrator for USAID's Africa Bureau (AA/AFR) Kate Almquist on the current operating environment in Sudan. The NGOs reported that their [...] | 2007-11-27 09:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1858 | SUDAN - SECRETARY TO CONVENE A MINISTERIAL ON THE [...] (C) Summary: The American invitation to the National Congress Party (NCP) to participate in a Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) Ministerial on December 5 in Ethiopia with Secretary Rice and regional countries has caused SIPDIS consternation for NCP officials who are unsure exactly how to [...] | 2007-11-27 12:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PGOV PHUM PREL UN AU IGAD SU |
07KHARTOUM1881 | AEC COORDINATORS REVISE STRATEGY [...] (C) Summary: Meeting in Khartoum November 29, AEC Working Group coordinators (UK, Netherlands, Norway, Italy Ambassador plus US CDA) decided to delay presentation of their proposal on strengthening the role of the AEC chair till after presenting and gaining confirmation of the proposed UK cand [...] | 2007-11-30 08:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1888 | OCHA: NO EASY SOLUTION TO COMPLEX KALMA CAMP ISSUE [...] (C) Summary: OCHA field officers see no real solution to the massive problems confronting the very large Darfur IDP camp of Kalma, a particular target of Sudanese Government ire. They recommend engagement with the GOS on the issue while cautioning that the Khartoum regime will certainly manipu [...] | 2007-11-30 12:58:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PGOV PHUM PREL UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1889 | JEM/CL CLAIMS ZAGHAWA UNIFYING, WARNS UN/AU LOSING [...] (SBU) Meeting with Poloff on November 29, cadres of the Justice and Equality Movement/Collective Leadership (JEM/CL) were optimistic that it will finalize its consolidation with the other major Zaghawa military elements in Darfur after upcoming field consultations and will be ready to resume ne [...] | 2007-11-30 13:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1892 | DARFUR: TENSION, MISTRUST CONTINUE TO AFFLICT AMIS-SLM [...] (SBU) AMIS Force Commander Agwai's proposal to restructure payment of the MSA and the rebel movements' representation in the Cease-fire Commission (CFC) has set off a wave of mutual recriminations between AMIS and the SLM. The incident is just the latest in an unfortunate history of tension an [...] | 2007-12-02 07:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1894 | NCP AND SPLM READY TO RESUME TALKS BUT DIFFERENCES [...] (C) Summary: President Bashir and First Vice President Kiir will meet again December 3 to try to clear the way for the NCP and SPLM to resume negotiations to end their political stalemate, representatives of both parties confirmed. The SPLM is still holding out for a negotiating agenda that i [...] | 2007-12-02 10:25:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1903 | USG HOLMES: GOVERNMENT WILL EXTEND HUMANITARIAN MORATORIUM [...] (SBU) On November 29, UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs Sir John Holmes briefed the donor community on his conversations with Sudanese government officials and previewed his upcoming trip to Darfur. He thanked the international community for its support, saying that the UN's h [...] | 2007-12-03 10:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AU UN PHUM KPKO SU |
07KHARTOUM1904 | MINAWI PUSHES FOR DPA IMPLEMENTATION, SUSPICIOUS [...] (C) Summary: Sole signatory to the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) Mini Minawi told CDA Fernandez he plans to work through regional partners and the international community to pressure the Government to implement the agreement. Despite sitting in a regal office on the grounds of the Presidential [...] | 2007-12-03 11:23:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1906 | FIRST TRANCHE OF CHINESE ENGINEERS WAITING FOR [...] (SBU) Chinese Defense Attache Dong Jian Dong told poloff December 3 that 140 Chinese engineers arrived at the Nyala Forward Operating Base (FOB) on November 24, but have not yet started construction of the initial part of the UN-African Union Mission In Darfur (UNAMID) supercamp. Dong said tha [...] | 2007-12-03 14:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO MARR AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1918 | FREE FROM KHALIL IBRAHIM, JEM/CL OPTIMISTIC ON PACT WITH [...] (SBU) Characterizing Khalil Ibrahim as a "dictator" unable and unwilling to lead his movement to productive peace negotiations, the Justice and Equality Movement/Collective Leadership (JEM/CL) claims that its strength increases daily as Ibrahim's supporters realize his course is a dead-end. Si [...] | 2007-12-05 06:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1927 | SOUTHERN SUDAN - ADMINISTRATOR FORE'S SITE VISIT TO JUBA [...] On November 23, the USAID Administrator and Director of Foreign Assistance Henrietta H. Fore, Charge d'Affaires Alberto M. Fernandez, Assistant Administrator for USAID's Africa Bureau (AA/AFR) Kate Almquist, and the USAID/Sudan Mission Director traveled to Juba, Southern Sudan, to review progre [...] | 2007-12-05 15:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1930 | VP TAHA: AMERICA CAN ACHIEVE ITS GOALS IN SUDAN [...] (C) Summary: VP Ali Osman Taha sees steady progress on the CPA, even on Abyei, entering a decisive phase next week. The Sudanese Government remains deeply suspicious of American intentions and believes that its "improved behavior" in recent months has not been appreciated by the United States [...] | 2007-12-06 11:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1950 | RIZEIGAT LEADER: PLANNING FOR A BAGGARA ALLIANCE [...] (SBU) On December 6 CDA met with Waleed Madibbo, head of a local governance NGO and nephew of Rizeigat Nazir Said Madibbo. Speaking of his uncle, who has struggled to keep his tribe relatively neutral and above the fray encapsulating Darfur, Madibbo said that he was "honest, influential, but wi [...] | 2007-12-09 13:34:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1964 | JEM DENIES RADICALISM, EXPLAINS UNAMID CONTROVERSY [...] (SBU) The NCP has falsely painted Khalil Ibrahim's JEM as an Islamist movement, two of the group's representatives told Poloff in a recent El Fasher meeting. Rather than pursuing a radical agenda, they asserted, JEM seeks to transform the country through "revolution," end the marginalization o [...] | 2007-12-11 11:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1965 | SLA/UNITY STRIVES FOR "GRAND ALLIANCE" [...] (SBU) SLA/Unity is striving to form a "grand alliance" with Khalil Ibrahim and Abdulwahid al Nur through mobilization of Fur and Zaghawa IDPs, according to several of its representatives in North Darfur. Frustrated with the inertia of the UN/AU-led political process and doubtful that the NCP w [...] | 2007-12-11 11:30:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UN AU SU LY |
07KHARTOUM1968 | JANJAWID WARLORD: WE WANT AMERICA AS OUR PATRON [...] Summary: Alleged Janjawid turncoat Juma Dagalo claims that his well-armed movement is sincerely opposed to Khartoum, despite sketchy evidence to the contrary, and has forged new ties with mostly African Darfur rebel groups. He seeks American moral and political support for a confrontation with [...] | 2007-12-12 09:00:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PGOV PHUM PREL UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1979 | REAL PROGRESS SEEN BUT SUDAN PREPARES ADADA FOR PROTRACTED [...] (SBU) During a December 11 meeting with Joint Special Representative Rudolphe Adada, mid-ranking Sudanese officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Defense agreed to negotiate the UN-AU Mission in Darfur (UNAMID)'s Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) based on the UN/AU dr [...] | 2007-12-12 13:32:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU LY |
07KHARTOUM1988 | DARFUR - WATER, SANITATION, AND HYGIENE UPDATE [...] From November 11 to 24, a water, sanitation, and hygiene specialist from USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) traveled to North and South Darfur to evaluate the effectiveness of ongoing USAID-funded programs and make recommendations for future interventions. The USAI [...] | 2007-12-13 06:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM1989 | MILITANT DARFUR IDP LEADERS: NO CHINESE, ARABS [...] (C) Summary: Leaders of Kalma IDP camp disavow having any weapons while at the same time admitting that they successfully drove out thousands of fellow IDPs in an October uprising. The Kalma sheikhs claimed AMIS was a failure and UNAMID would also fail if it consisted only of African, Arab an [...] | 2007-12-13 06:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KPKO PGOV PHUM PREF PREL UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1995 | CHIEF MEDIATOR RIEK MACHAR ON LORD'S RESISTANCE [...] (SBU) Senior Adviser to Assistant Secretary Frazer for Conflict Resolution Tim Shortley met briefly with GOSS Vice President and Chief Mediator Riek Machar before the opening of a Human Rights Day ceremony at the Juba National stadium on December 10. Machar opened the meeting by stating that [...] | 2007-12-13 10:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM1996 | DENG ALOR ON THE LORD'S RESISTANCE ARMY [...] (SBU) Summary: Senior Adviser to Assistant Secretary Frazer for Conflict Resolution Tim Shortley met with future GNU Foreign Affairs Minister Deng Alor to update him on the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA),recent developments in Garamba Park, and to ask for his assistance in ending the 21-year w [...] | 2007-12-13 10:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM2005 | NORTHERN SUDAN - USAID-FUNDED NATIONAL NGO CPA ADVOCATES [...] (SBU) The recall of Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) officials from the Government of National Unity (GNU) and the political crisis that followed has derailed implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) and CPA-related activities throughout Sudan. Since mid-October, hara [...] | 2007-12-14 11:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM201 | FPOTUS CARTER PROVIDES READOUT ON MEETING WITH [...] (C) Former President Jimmy Carter provided a read-out to Charge Hume following his February 10 meeting with President Bashir. Regarding the North-South situation, Carter reported that Bashir was in favor of further involvement by the Inter-governmental Authority on Development (IGAD),perhaps [...] | 2007-02-11 16:31:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EAID PREF AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM2019 | WISE WORDS FROM FREED OPPOSITION LEADER MUBARAK [...] (C) Summary: In a wide-ranging meeting with CDA Fernandez on December 17, Umma Renewal and Reform leader Mubarak al-Fadil al-Mahdi urged the US to encourage widening the CPA to include parties other than the NCP and SPLM. Al-Fadil described President Bashir as essentially a 'fall guy' for the [...] | 2007-12-17 14:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM202 | UPDATE ON AL-WATAN THREAT [...] (C) On February 7, an article in a local newspaper in Khartoum reported that a group of masked men visited Al-Watan, an independent Arabic daily newspaper, claiming that they were responsible for sending terrorist threats to both the UN and the U.S. diplomatic mission in Khartoum. One of the [...] | 2007-02-11 16:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET | PTER PGOV ASEC SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM2026 | PAGAN AMUM: ABYEI IN EXCHANGE FOR NCP/SPLM UNITY [...] (C) Summary: The NCP has made a strategic decision to meet all SPLM demands and ultimately will have to accept the ABC report on Abyei if it wants a partnership with the SPLM in the 2009 election, according to SPLM Secretary General Pagan Amum. Although SPLM Ministers will rejoin the Governmen [...] | 2007-12-18 12:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM203 | DARFUR: A REVIEW OF RECENT SECURITY TRENDS [...] (C) Summary: The Sudanese government has scaled back the execution of sustained military operations in Darfur since the beginning of Ramadan in the fall of 2006. From Ramadan to present, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) appears focused on troop rotation, garrison activities, and logistical st [...] | 2007-02-11 16:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV PHUM PREF AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM208 | REBELS' DESTINY IN THEIR HANDS [...] (C) On February 7, the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) completed the airlift of many Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) non-signatory commanders to attend the leadership conference in North Darfur. Some additional commanders may move to the conference site by ground in the coming days. Comman [...] | 2007-02-12 13:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AU SU CD UN US |
07KHARTOUM216 | Darfur Security Update, February 8 [...] (SBU) Summary: UNDSS characterizes the security situation in Darfur over the past week as "calm but unpredictable." The threat of carjackings persists, especially in areas with increased Arab militia activity, and there remains the possibility of military confrontation between Sudanese Armed [...] | 2007-02-14 03:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPKO ASEC SOCI AU UN US SU |
07KHARTOUM232 | GIVE "PLAN A" A CHANCE [...] (C) In the past six months Khartoum has grudgingly shifted toward acceptance of the UN/African Union (AU) three-phase peace-keeping plan. President Bashir knows that the plan of regime hard-liners for a military solution to the problems of Darfur has failed, and persistent efforts by the USG, [...] | 2007-02-15 11:20:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV AU UN SU US |
07KHARTOUM235 | ELIASSON, SALIM: POLITICAL PROCESS TAKING OFF [...] (C) The UN Secretary General's Special Envoy Jan Eliasson and the Africa Union's Special Envoy Salim Ahmed Salim briefed ambassadors near the conclusion of their February 12-17 visit to Sudan. Despite the deteriorating humanitarian situation, they underscored the renewed willingness of the Su [...] | 2007-02-16 13:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AU UN SU CD LI US |
07KHARTOUM239 | CDA MEETING WITH PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR GHAZI SALAH [...] (C) On February 18, CDA Hume met with Presidential Advisor Ghazi Salah ed-Dine to discuss the situation in Darfur, the threats to humanitarian operations, and peace-keeping. Hume said the USG was deeply concerned about trends in Darfur and about President Bashir's recent statements criticizing [...] | 2007-02-18 12:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM AU UN SU US |
07KHARTOUM256 | UNSYG REP DISCUSSES HUMANITARIAN, PEACEKEEPING AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a recent meeting with CDA Hume, the acting head of the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) described the Sudanese government's obstruction of UN operations, the deteriorating security environment confronting the humanitarian community, and the difficulties in implementation [...] | 2007-02-20 16:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO AU SU CD LY UN US |
07KHARTOUM272 | SUDAN: END OF TOUR REPORT [...] (C) Note: the following represents the end of tour report of departing Political/Economic Counselor Eric Whitaker, who served at Embassy Khartoum from August 2005 ) February 2007. The opinions expressed are his own reflections on his experiences over the course of his tour, as well as from hi [...] | 2007-02-22 12:45:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM SOCI AU UN US SU |
07KHARTOUM275 | STATE OF DARFUR: THE POLITICAL PROCESS [...] (C) Summary: CDA Hume traveled to Darfur from February 19-21 to gauge the status of the political process, monitor the conditions for humanitarian operations, and assess the status of the peace-keeping operation stipulated in the Addis Ababa and Abuja agreements of November 2006. In visits to [...] | 2007-02-22 16:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO AU UN SU US |
07KHARTOUM280 | STATE OF DARFUR: HUMANITARIAN OPERATIONS [...] (C) Summary: From February 19-21, CDA Hume visited Nyala, Zalingei, El Geneina, and El Fasher to meet with Sudanese government officials, UN agency heads, and representatives of international non-governmental organizations (INGOs). In North, South, and West Darfur, INGO and UN agencies' opera [...] | 2007-02-23 09:58:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO AU UN SU US EUN |
07KHARTOUM281 | STATE OF DARFUR: PEACE-KEEPING AND SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: From February 19-21, CDA Hume visited Nyala, Zalingei, El Geneina, and El Fasher to meet with Sudanese government officials, UN agency heads, and representatives of international non-governmental organizations (INGOs). This message--the last of three cables on these meetings--focu [...] | 2007-02-23 11:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO AU UN SU CD US |
07KHARTOUM287 | DARFUR: UN/AU TASK FORCE NEEDS USG SUPPORT [...] (SBU) This is an action request. Please see para. 4. 2. (C) On February 25, UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) Director for Political Affairs Abidoun Bashua briefed Poloff on the progress made in establishing the joint UN/African Union (AU) task force to engage with Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) n [...] | 2007-02-26 07:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AU KPAO UN SU |
07KHARTOUM303 | Darfur CFC: Stolen Vehicles Returned [...] Summary: The key issue in the Ceasefire Commission (CFC) the week of February 19 was funding for faction representatives' Mission Support Allowance (MSA),which is several months in arrears. Force Commander Luke Aprezi asked the representatives to consider six options for realigning the CFC, i [...] | 2007-02-28 11:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPKO SOCI AU UN US SU |
07KHARTOUM304 | DARFUR: CFC SECOND CHAMBER COLLAPSES [...] (SBU) In the February 12 Ceasefire Commission First (CFC) Chamber, African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) Force Commander (FC) Aprezi expressed his dissatisfaction with the CFC Secretariat's presentation of cases for the February 7 Joint Commission (JC) meeting. He reviewed his efforts to persu [...] | 2007-02-28 12:07:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREC KPKO AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM307 | DARFUR: ERITREAN MEDDLING, TENSIONS BETWEEN [...] (C) At the February 27 meeting of the Darfur Partners Group, two European political officers who had attended the recent summit in Tripoli said that Eritrea had pressed the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) non-signatory leaders to join a political process outside the joint UN and African Union (AU) [...] | 2007-02-28 15:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV KPKO AU UN SU ER CD LY EUN |
07KHARTOUM313 | DENG ALOR: NCP WILLING TO ENGAGE, SPLM TO ADVANCE [...] (C) In the wake of the announcements from the International Criminal Court (ICC),Minister for Cabinet Affairs Deng Alor told USAID Mission Director and Poloff on February 28 that the indictments might soften some of the hard-liners in the National Congress Party (NCP) and might "make them mor [...] | 2007-02-28 16:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AU UN SU CD ER LY |
07KHARTOUM324 | NORTH DARFUR HUMANITARIAN UPDATE: PERMITS, ACCESS [...] (C) In a follow-on meeting to their February 20-21 visit, CDA Hume and USAID Director Almquist met again on February 27 with North Darfur Governor Yousef Kibbir in his El Fasher headquarters. Accompanying Governor Kibbir were the State Minister for Information, the State Humanitarian Affairs C [...] | 2007-03-01 15:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM331 | ELUSIVE SLA COMMANDERS' CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) commanders conference in North Darfur remains indefinitely postponed as the various factions attempt to resolve internal differences and persuade additional key military leaders, such as former G-19 leader Adam Bakhit, to participate in the process [...] | 2007-03-02 11:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPKO AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM360 | SE NATSIOS MEETINGS WITH PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR [...] (C) Summary: In separate meetings with Presidential Advisor Nafie Ali Nafie and Director General of the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) Salah Ghosh, SE Natsios outlined the three goals of USG policy in Darfur: advancing the political process, ensuring the continuation of huma [...] | 2007-03-08 10:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO PINR AU UN SU CD LY ER |
07KHARTOUM361 | INGOS TO SE NATSIOS: DARFUR SITUATION DETERIORATING [...] (C) Summary: In a March 3 meeting in Khartoum, members of the INGO steering committee briefed Special Envoy Natsios on humanitarian operations in Darfur. The INGOs, including CARE, Oxfam, Mercy Corps, Goal and MedAir, reported that the situation on the ground had deteriorated since his last v [...] | 2007-03-08 10:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV KPKO AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM362 | NATSIOS-BASHIR MEETING, MARCH 7, 2007 [...] (C) Summary: SE Natsios met President Bashir at his residence for a two-hour frank exchange on Darfur, the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA),and the U.S.-Sudan bilateral relationship. Bashir said he agreed to see him despite doctor's orders that he rest. Foreign Minister Lam Akol was pres [...] | 2007-03-08 10:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO AU UN SU CD LY US |
07KHARTOUM363 | RESPONSE TO REQUEST: UK-PROPOSED INDIVIDUALS FOR [...] (C) Per reftel, post provides supplemental information background information: General Ali al-Sharif al-Tahir Ahmed, SAF Western Military Commander Major General Abdullah Khalif Bashir, Former SAF Western Military Commander Lt. General Mohammed Abdel Qadir, SAF Airforce Commander Mah [...] | 2007-03-08 11:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UN SU |
07KHARTOUM384 | SE NATSIOS MEETING WITH FM LAM AKOL [...] (C) Summary: In a March 7 meeting with Foreign Minister Lam Akol, SE Natsios described the USG's frustration at the delay in implementation of the November Addis Ababa and Abuja agreements, called on Sudan to provide an immediate response to the UNSYG's January 24 letter on the Heavy Support P [...] | 2007-03-13 08:25:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET//NOFORN | PREF PGOV KPKO PTER AU UN SU US CD LY |
07KHARTOUM390 | SE NATSIOS MEETING WITH UN, AU, TROIKA PLUS [...] (C) Representatives from the UN, African Union (AU),UK, Norway, the Netherlands, the European Commission, and Germany (on behalf of the EU Presidency) met with SE Natsios on March 7 to discuss international coordination for the Darfur political process. AU head of Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) [...] | 2007-03-13 13:21:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO AU UN SU CD LB ER US |
07KHARTOUM392 | SUDAN REJECTS UN HEAVY SUPPORT PACKAGE [...] (C) President Bashir's March 6 letter to UNSYG Ban Ki-moon on assistance for the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) rejected the UN's Heavy Support Package. Bashir's response contradicted the Addis Ababa and Abuja agreements of November 2006 and the Presidential Statement in the UN Security [...] | 2007-03-13 16:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO AU SU UN US |
07KHARTOUM394 | DPA SIGNATORIES CLAIM HELP NEEDED NOW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ongoing frustration at the lack of Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) implementation boiled over in El Fasher as signatory factions forcibly entered the USG-funded Peace Secretariat to demand that their concerns be addressed. The factions claim that their soldiers are "starving" and [...] | 2007-03-13 16:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO AU UN US SU |
07KHARTOUM395 | CFC HIGHLIGHTS NEED FOR SUPPORT FOR SLM/MINAWI [...] (SBU) Summary: Cease-fire Commission (CFC) activities the week of February 26 highlighted the continued need for non-military logistical support to the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM)/Minawi. This support would divert his men away from the extortion and banditry that is an all too common line i [...] | 2007-03-13 16:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO AU UN US SU |
07KHARTOUM396 | SHOW ME THE MONEY: MAKING THE CEASEFIRE COMMISSION [...] (SBU) The African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) held a March 11 meeting to inform and seek input from the international community on the functioning of the Ceasefire Commission (CFC) and efforts to re-energize the Second Chamber for Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) non-signatories. There was conse [...] | 2007-03-14 08:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPKO AU UN US SU |
07KHARTOUM40 | JOINT PRESS STATEMENT OF GOV. RICHARDSON AND [...] New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and the Sudanese government issued a joint press statement at 1730 local time. 2. The text of the statement is as follows: (Begin text) H.E. Bill Richardson, Governor of New Mexico, accompanied by a delegation sponsored by and including members of the [...] | 2007-01-10 15:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KPKO AU SU UN US |
07KHARTOUM406 | SUDAN, ACCEPTING ISOLATION, TURNS TO IRAN, QATAR [...] (C) Egypt's influence on Sudan's leadership and its ability to persuade the government to engage in constructive dialogue with the international community has waned, Egyptian diplomat Hani Khedr (please protect) told Poloff on March 15. Sudan has accepted its growing isolation from the West, m [...] | 2007-03-15 15:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR UN SU EG IR CD QA |
07KHARTOUM407 | CFC Week of March 5 -- Fireworks Follow the Killing of Two [...] (SBU) Summary: The killing of two Nigerian soldiers by Sudan Liberation Army (SLA)/Minawi soldiers in Graida dominated the Cease-fire Commission (CFC) this week, with tensions rising between the faction and the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) in both the CFC and in the sectors. The CFC i [...] | 2007-03-16 13:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO AU UN US SU |
07KHARTOUM437 | STATEMENT OF THE ACTING SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE [...] (SBU) Following is the text of remarks given by Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan Mr. Taye Brooke-Zerihoun to the Sudan Consortium on March 20, 2007. Further consortium reporting will follow septel. (Begin Text) Mr. Chairman, Honourable Ministers and Delegate [...] | 2007-03-20 13:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO AU UN US SU EAID PINS MARR PHUM |
07KHARTOUM438 | CFC VISIT TO ABECHE: MGS CONSTRAINTS AND JEM INTRANSIGENCE [...] (SBU) Members of the AMIS Ceasefire Commission traveled to Abeche, Chad to receive an operations update from the local Military Observer Group Site (MGS) Commander and to engage the JEM leadership. The MGS faces severe logistical constraints, including transportation and communications, which [...] | 2007-03-20 14:01:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO AU UN US SU |
07KHARTOUM442 | UN PREVIEWS ELIASSON/SALIM VISIT TO KHARTOUM [...] (C) UN Director of Political Affairs Abidoun Bashua told Poloffs on March 20 that both the international community and the Darfur rebel movements have unrealistic expectations about the political process. UN Envoy Jan Eliasson and AU Envoy Salim Ahmed Salim, who are scheduled to arrive in Kha [...] | 2007-03-21 13:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO AU UN SU CD |
07KHARTOUM445 | CFC Week of March 12 - SLA/Minawi Takes Responsibility for [...] (SBU) Summary: The Force Commander announced that the next Joint Commission would not be held in El Fasher because of insecurity but did not suggest a date or an alternate venue. He discussed the new arrangements in the Ceasefire Commission (CFC) with a drop in MSA payments and a reduction in [...] | 2007-03-22 05:34:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO AU UN US SU |
07KHARTOUM451 | DENG ALOR: TWO ROADS FOR U.S. POLICY [...] (C) Minister for Cabinet Affairs Deng Alor told USAID Mission Director and Poloff on March 19 that the National Congress Party (NCP) has decided to confront the international community on Darfur. He admitted that his belief in productive engagement with Khartoum "was getting weaker and weaker [...] | 2007-03-22 13:10:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO AU UN AL SU EG SF NO US |
07KHARTOUM458 | UN/AU: USG SHOULD ATTEND TRIPOLI FORUM [...] (C) UN and African Union officials in Khartoum expressed strong support for U.S. representation at the proposed multilateral coordination meeting in Tripoli (reftel) scheduled for April 16. UN Director of Political Affairs Abidoun Bashua and the deputy head of the AU's Darfur Peace Implementa [...] | 2007-03-22 15:46:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV KPKO AU UN LY SU CD ER US |
07KHARTOUM459 | AMIS CEASEFIRE COMMISSION WEEK OF MARCH 19: SECOND CHAMBER [...] (SBU) SLA-Minawi raised objections to the African Union Mission in Sudan's (AMIS) potential restructuring of the CFC Second Chamber, contending that the proposals may violate the DPA. Carjackings remain a persistent threat, and AMIS is seeking input from all key stakeholders on means to mitiga [...] | 2007-03-22 15:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO AU UN US SU |
07KHARTOUM460 | US/SUDANESE RELATIONS AT THE DIVIDE [...] (C) Summary. U.S./Sudanese relations are poised to pass from one watershed into another. From the U.S. perspective, Sudan's rejection of UN peace-keeping in Darfur pushes relations toward direct confrontation, just as Sudanese see the U.S. imposition of additional sanctions as proof of enduri [...] | 2007-03-23 11:01:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO AU UN SU AL CH IN |
07KHARTOUM466 | MINAWI CONSIDERS RETURN TO DARFUR AFTER ATTACK ON [...] (C) A force of nearly 200 police and elements of the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) attacked a house inhabited by partisans of the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM)/Minawi and then raided the SLM party headquarters in the Omdurman section of Khartoum on March 24. Of the 29 SLM [...] | 2007-03-25 09:34:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AU ASEC UN SU |
07KHARTOUM478 | ELIASSON, SALIM CONSIDER UN/AU SUMMIT ON DARFUR [...] (C) Summary: During their March 22-27 visit to Sudan, UN Envoy Jan Eliasson and AU Envoy Salim Ahmed Salim told CDA Hume of the need to develop a credible political process for Darfur involving key stakeholders in Sudan and in the region. CDA Hume emphasized that the UN and AU had a limited ti [...] | 2007-03-27 11:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO AU UN SU US |
07KHARTOUM480 | SUDANESE GOVERNMENT: SET A FIXED TIMELINE FOR [...] Summary: CDA Hume met with presidential advisor Maghzoub al-Khalifa on March 26 to discuss Sudanese government plans on Darfur in light of the current visit of special envoys Eliasson and Salim. Al-Khalifa called for renewed international cooperation on DPA implementation, including assistance [...] | 2007-03-27 12:10:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KPKO SU UN AU |
07KHARTOUM484 | MINAWI CONTEMPLATES DARFUR RETURN [...] (C) In private, Minni Minawi continues to contemplate a return to Darfur in the wake of the March 24 attack on Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) facilities in Khartoum and the ambush of a prominent SLM commander near Nyala. Minawi is pressing the Sudanese government to account for the dead, wou [...] | 2007-03-27 16:28:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM485 | BASHIR ADVISOR: STRUCTURE DARFUR PROCESS [...] (C) Presidential Advisor Ghazi Salaheddin told CDA Hume on March 28 that Sudan and the U.S. government had an "intellectual duty" to address the urgent aspects of the Darfur crisis. He suggested that the two governments structure a process to lay the groundwork for resolution of these issues [...] | 2007-03-28 12:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO UN AU SU CD |
07KHARTOUM505 | DARFUR - DESPITE OBSTACLES USAID PARTNERS CONTINUE TO [...] (U) Despite significant bureaucratic impediments and security concerns, a recent USAID monitoring and assessment mission to Darfur confirmed that USAID partners are providing critical, quality, life-saving services to hundreds of thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the region. [...] | 2007-03-29 06:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM506 | DARFUR - INCREASINGLY PRECARIOUS HUMANITARIAN ENVIRONMENT [...] (U) U.N. and non-governmental organization (NGO) representatives again appealed to donors for support in addressing the deteriorating humanitarian environment in Darfur and growing obstacles in providing assistance. Painting a particularly bleak picture, U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator (HC) Man [...] | 2007-03-29 06:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM507 | SUDAN - IOM OVERVIEW OF IDP RETURNS [...] (U) The International Organization for Migration (IOM),the primary operational agency in the return of internally displaced persons (IDPs) to Southern Sudan, recently provided a breakdown of projected IDP returns and an overview of current operations. Although establishing the logistical infr [...] | 2007-03-29 06:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM510 | DARFUR: BREAKTHROUGH ON HUMANITARIAN OPERATIONS [...] (SBU) Six weeks of sustained negotiation between the international community and the Sudanese government culminated in a Joint Communique to alleviate the bureaucratic restrictions on humanitarian operations in Darfur, said the UNSYG's Deputy Special Representative for Humanitarian Affairs, Ma [...] | 2007-03-29 15:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID PHUM UN SU |
07KHARTOUM511 | MEETING WITH NISS DIRECTOR SALAH GHOSH [...] (C) CDA Hume met with Sudanese National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) Director General Salah Ghosh on March 29 to discuss the current impasse on the deployment of UN peace keepers in Darfur. CDA underscored that the UN Security Council, including China, viewed UN command and contro [...] | 2007-03-29 16:00:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM515 | AMIS CEASEFIRE COMMISSION WEEK OF MARCH 26: DYSFUNCTION [...] (SBU) With no specific cases to examine, Ceasefire Commission (CFC) discussions continued to revolve around AMIS' proposed restructuring of the body. SLA/Minawi, this week joined by the Sudanese government and other DPA signatories, railed against the proposed reduction in salary payments and [...] | 2007-04-01 04:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPKO AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM521 | STATUS OF UN/AU POLITICAL INITIATIVE [...] (C) The UN and AU plan to begin negotiations with the non-signatory rebels in late June. Many UN and AU contacts, however, question Special Envoys Eliasson and Salim's commitment to the process and ability to lay the groundwork for successful negotiations. Though Eliasson has secured a renun [...] | 2007-04-02 16:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM524 | SLM NEEDS USG HELP AFTER KHARTOUM ATTACK [...] (C) Most members of the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) arrested during a March 24 raid on SLM facilities in Khartoum have been released or taken to hospitals for medical treatment. Senior Assistant to the President and SLM leader Minni Minawi has maintained calm within the movement in the a [...] | 2007-04-03 14:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM529 | DARFUR - HAC RANKS LOCAL NGOS, USAID PARTNERS "DISMISSED" [...] (SBU) On March 20, the Government of National Unity (GNU) Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC) Office in Nyala, South Darfur, publicly posted the results of an evaluation report ranking local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) at the Nyala HAC office. According to U.N. Civil Affairs, a total o [...] | 2007-04-04 09:07:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM537 | DARFUR - BEIDA, WEST DARFUR - LIVING ON THE EDGE [...] (U) On March 14, the first USAID team to visit Beida, West Darfur, in more than 16 months traveled to the border town with representatives of the U.K. Department for International Development (DFID) to monitor humanitarian programs and assess current conditions. Travel to the area had not bee [...] | 2007-04-05 09:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM54 | UN ENVOY ELIASSON VISITS SUDAN [...] (SBU) In his first trip to Sudan as the UN Secretary General's (UNSYG) Special Envoy for Darfur, Jan Eliasson underscored the UN's commitment to advancing the political process in Darfur. He called for a visible reduction in violence between the Sudanese Government and Darfur rebel groups, whi [...] | 2007-01-13 11:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AU SU UN |
07KHARTOUM576 | DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH UNMIS FC LTG [...] (C) Summary: On April 14, Deputy Secretary Negroponte met with UNMIS Force Commander (FC) Lt. General Lidder and Head of Security for UN/OCHA in Darfur Michael McDonagh. Both emphasized that simply increasing the size of peace-keeping operations (PKO) would not stabilize Darfur. General Lidde [...] | 2007-04-15 03:06:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP NEGROPONTE JOHN PREL MOPS PINR KPKO UN |
07KHARTOUM577 | DEPUTY SECRETARY,S MEETING WITH AU AMB IBOK [...] (C) Summary: On April 13, Deputy Secretary Negroponte met with Ambassador Sam Ibok, African Union (AU) Head of the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) Implementation Team. Ibok explained that the rebel groups outside the DPA will remain divided but might accept a shared position if the international [...] | 2007-04-15 03:10:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP NEGROPONTE JOHN PREL MOPS PINR KPKO UN |
07KHARTOUM581 | DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH SENIOR ASSISTANT [...] (C) Summary: On April 15, Deputy Secretary Negroponte met with Senior Assistant to the President and Sudanese Libaration Movement (SLM) leader Minni Minawi. Minawi characterized the security situation in Darfur as "fragile" and urged the international community to push for a political solution [...] | 2007-04-16 05:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP NEGROPONTE JOHN PREL MOPS PINR KPKO UN |
07KHARTOUM582 | DEPUTY SECRETARY'S VISIT TO EL FASHER, NORTH DARFUR [...] (C) Summary: On April 14, Deputy Secretary Negroponte travelled to El Fasher, the capital of the state of North Darfur. During his day-long visit, the Deputy Secretary met with U.S. military observers, UN personnel, IDP camp representatives, an African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) Colonel, th [...] | 2007-04-16 05:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP NEGROPONTE JOHN PREL MOPS PINR KPKO UN |
07KHARTOUM589 | DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary: On April 15 Deputy Secretary Negroponte met with Nafie Ali Nafie, a trusted advisor to President Bashir and a key hard-liner in the National Congress Party (NCP). The Deputy Secretary told Nafie that the most pressing issue of his trip was the situation in Darfur in all its aspects [...] | 2007-04-16 09:07:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP NEGROPONTE JOHN PREL MOPS PINR KPKO UN |
07KHARTOUM596 | DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH SECURITY SERVICES [...] (C) Summary: On April 13, Deputy Secretary of State Negroponte met with Sudanese National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) Director General Salah Ghosh. The Deputy Secretary opened by thanking Ghosh for Sudan,s counter-terrorism cooperation. He then outlined U.S. expectations and ur [...] | 2007-04-17 06:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP NEGROPONTE JOHN PREL MOPS PINR KPKO UN |
07KHARTOUM599 | DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT BASHIR [...] (C) Summary: On April 15 Deputy Secretary Negroponte met with Sudanese President Omar El Bashir for over an hour. Negroponte emphasized USG concern over Darfur, including the fragility of the humanitarian situation, the need to transition to a UN/AU hybrid peace-keeping operation, and the chal [...] | 2007-04-17 14:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP NEGROPONTE JOHN PREL MOPS PINR KPKO UN |
07KHARTOUM621 | SUDAN - LOCAL AND NATIONAL NGO HARASSMENT [...] (C) While acts of violence and intimidation of international humanitarian organizations and staff are well documented, particularly in Darfur, the harassment of national and local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) has received comparatively limited attention. Activities funded by USAID an [...] | 2007-04-19 15:10:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM636 | SUDANESE ASK TO OPEN DIALOGUE [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting April 22, Sudanese officials asked to establish a bilateral dialogue with the U.S. on key issues surrounding Darfur. Embassy recommends that this opportunity be seized. The process for dialogue should be based on frequent meetings, held outside of Khartoum or Washingt [...] | 2007-04-23 08:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO SU AU UN |
07KHARTOUM644 | SENIOR UN OFFICIALS PROPOSE STRUCTURE FOR TRIPOLI [...] (C) The April 28 summit in Tripoli on the Darfur political process presents an opportunity to harmonize international efforts to overcome the political stalemate and establish a common set of principles for re-invigorating peace negotiations, according to senior UN officials in Khartoum. Agree [...] | 2007-04-24 16:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AU UN SU CD LY ER US |
07KHARTOUM657 | KHARTOUM: DARFUR PARTNERS DISCUSS OUTCOMES FOR [...] (C) Meeting on April 25 and 26, the UK convened a meeting of the U.S., EU, EC, Norway, France, and the Netherlands to discuss a set of potential outcomes for the upcoming Tripoli talks. The goal of the Darfur Partners' discussions was to promote a coordinated approach among the Western envoys [...] | 2007-04-26 13:04:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN AU EUN SU CD LY ER EG |
07KHARTOUM67 | Darfur: Update on UN Assistance to AMIS [...] (SBU) UN Director of Political Affairs Abiodun Bashua confirmed to Pol/Econ Counselor January 16 that an additional ten UN military staff officers had arrived in El Fasher, Darfur, to join the 17 military staff officers and 15 UN police advisors already there. He added that five additional UN [...] | 2007-01-16 16:04:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO PREF PHUM UN AU SU |
07KHARTOUM676 | DARFUR - MOVING FORWARD FROM TRIPOLI [...] (SBU) Following the conclusion of the April 28-29 Tripoli talks on Darfur, Poloff met with Khartoum-based representatives of the UN, AU, EU, Norway, and the Netherlands, as well as the Arab League Secretary General's point person on Africa, to discuss ways to SIPDIS sustain momentum on the D [...] | 2007-04-30 12:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM679 | SUDAN - HEALTH SECTOR RELIEF TO DEVELOPMENT TRANSITION [...] (U) Nearly two decades of civil war in Southern Sudan has resulted in a region with some of the worst health indicators in sub-Saharan Africa. As USAID prepares to transition its assistance in the region from relief assistance to development programming, USAID's health sector non-governmental [...] | 2007-05-01 10:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM68 | DARFUR: MOMENTUM ON COMMANDERS CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: The long-proposed conference of Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) non-signatory commanders is moving forward. Following a January 15 Sudanese government guarantee of security assurances, the AU may begin to transport rebel commanders to a conference site in North Darfur [...] | 2007-01-16 16:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AU SU UN EUN |
07KHARTOUM753 | DIALOGUE WITH SUDANESE [...] (C) On May 10, embassy officer met with Sayed El Khatib to discuss the work of the Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) and to review a matrix prepared by the Embassy on the status of CPA implementation two years into the interim period. El Khatib attends AEC plenary meetings as the NCP [...] | 2007-05-14 06:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PREL SU AU UN |
07KHARTOUM756 | HSP IN SIX MONTHS... CAN AMIS LAST? [...] (S/NF) Summary and comment: A senior UN military official in Khartoum estimated that the Heavy Support Package (HSP) will not deploy for at least six months due to the lack of agreement on chain of command and the rules of engagement between UN and AU headquarters. Other international officia [...] | 2007-05-14 16:00:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL KPKO UN AU SU MOPS |
07KHARTOUM763 | LACK OF POLITICAL LEADERSHIP CONTINUES TO WEAKEN [...] (C) Recent comments by the Force Commander of the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) underscore the disconnect between the political and military arms of the AU and the incoherent leadership that continues to weaken the mission. In an introductory meeting with S/CRS Poloff in El Fasher, Maj [...] | 2007-05-15 14:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET | PGOV PREL KPKO SU AU UN |
07KHARTOUM780 | AMIS READY FOR HONORABLE EXIT [...] (S) A senior African Union official told Poloff on May 17 that the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) needs a viable exit strategy to turn the peace-keeping mission in Darfur over to the United Nations. At a weekend "brainstorming retreat" in Port Sudan for AU staff a few days earlier, they [...] | 2007-05-18 14:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET | PREL KPKO AU UN SU EG |
07KHARTOUM793 | Darfur: UN/AU, SPLM Initiatives Lack Specifics [...] (SBU) The United Nations and African Union released their joint roadmap on the Darfur political process to Western donors in Khartoum, who expressed concern over the framework's lack of specificity. Though cleared by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and AU Chairman Alpha Omer Konare, the docum [...] | 2007-05-22 13:27:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM80 | DARFUR: MINAWI DISCUSSES DPA NON-SIGNATORIES: RETRANSMISSION [...] (C) Summary: In spite of his efforts to reserve government positions for Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) non-signatories as an incentive to support the agreement, Senior Assistant to the President and Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) leader Minni Minawi is frustrated with the Sudanese government' [...] | 2007-01-19 13:34:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AU SU CD UN |
07KHARTOUM802 | SUDAN - KASSALA STATE [...] (U) NGOs operating in Kassala State expressed the need to increase the population's self-reliance, as the situation in the state can no longer be considered a humanitarian crisis. NGOs also identified peacebuilding activities as a priority to address the disillusionment and marginalization of [...] | 2007-05-23 14:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM81 | DARFUR: GOV DIVIDED ON COMMANDERS CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) Two Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) fighter planes overflew El Fasher on January 15. Several Darfur Peace Agreement non-signatory commanders, who were planning to attend a commanders conference in North Darfur in the coming days, have characterized the flyover as an attempt by the Sudanese g [...] | 2007-01-19 13:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV MOPS PREL AU SU UN |
07KHARTOUM813 | SPLM DARFUR CONFERENCE: ABDELWAHID AND FINANCES [...] (C) Summary: The Sudanese People's Liberation Movement continues to move towards a June 11 commencement of "consolidation talks" between Darfur rebels interested in participating in a rejuvenated political process. Limited financial resources and a lack of clarity on future funding streams i [...] | 2007-05-24 12:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM814 | SOUTHERN LEADERS WELCOME U.S. SUPPORT FOR DARFUR [...] (C) The Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) has deployed teams to Darfur and Chad to try to gain support for a planned conference of Darfur rebel groups to be held somewhere in southern Sudan by mid-June. Senior SPLM officials welcomed a strong message of U.S. support for their initiati [...] | 2007-05-24 12:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM817 | DARFUR: EGYPT SEEKS STRATEGY FOR POLITICAL PROCESS [...] (C) Meeting with Poloff on May 21, Egyptian DCM Osama Shaltout underscored his government's desire for a clear UN and AU strategy for advancing the political process in Darfur. Shaltout said he had reiterated the points reported in reftel with Khartoum-based representatives of UN Envoy Jan El [...] | 2007-05-24 15:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AU UN SU EG |
07KHARTOUM832 | MINAWI OFFERS TO MEDIATE BETWEEN NCP AND WEST [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-29 10:34:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV UN SU CD LY |
07KHARTOUM840 | Darfur: Briefing for AU PSC Delegation [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 22, Western representatives briefed a fact-finding mission of the African Union Peace and Security Council (AU PSC) on the situation in Darfur. They highlighted the importance of an effective peace-keeping force and cease-fire mechanism, a specific UN/AU strategy for the [...] | 2007-05-29 15:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM849 | DARFUR: STATUS OF THE SPLM INITIATIVE [...] (C) Recent meetings with First Vice President Salva Kiir, SPLM insider Luka Biong Deng, and SPLM Darfur Task Force members have underscored the SPLM's intention to bring DPA non-signatories to Southern Sudan to prepare them for negotiations with the Sudanese Government. Though the SPLM views [...] | 2007-05-30 13:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN AU SU ER CD LY |
07KHARTOUM85 | PRESS STATEMENT IN SUPPORT OF COMMANDERS CONFERENCE [...] Post issued a press statement on January 21 supporting UN and African Union (AU) efforts to facilitate a conference of Darfur Peace Agreement non-signatory military commanders and to encourage the Sudanese Government to provide the security assurances necessary for the conference to proceed. [...] | 2007-01-21 14:25:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KPAO AU SU UN |
07KHARTOUM859 | DARFUR DONORS CONCERNED ON HAAVISTO APPOINTMENT, [...] (C) Meeting on May 30, the core group of Western donors in Khartoum expressed reservations over the appointment of former EU Special Envoy for Sudan Pekka Haavisto as UN Envoy Jan Eliasson's new representative for the Darfur political process. While Haavisto's terms of reference had not yet b [...] | 2007-05-31 16:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AU UN SU ER CH |
07KHARTOUM879 | SPLM LEADERSHIP TO DEFINE TASKFORCE, SUPPORT [...] (C) Discussions continue within the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) on the structure and focus of its role in the Darfur political process. Meeting with AID Mission Director and Poloff on June 3, SPLM Secretary General Pagan Amun said that the party recognized that resolution of the [...] | 2007-06-04 15:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AU UN SU ER |
07KHARTOUM897 | SUDAN - DEMARCHE ON UNHCR CLUSTER ROLE IN DARFUR DELIVERED [...] (SBU) In response to the points of the demarche, the Officer in Charge of UNHCR noted that the cluster approach has not yet been formally launched in Sudan, and that UNHCR and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) are still collaborating on camp coordination and prot [...] | 2007-06-07 06:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM900 | UN/AU PROCESS FLAILING [...] (SBU) Summary: The absence of a specific UN/AU plan for the Darfur political process has led to an increase in competing international initiatives. The UN and AU appear unable to exert the necessary leadership to shape these initiatives into a coherent strategy. They have wavered in their sup [...] | 2007-06-07 16:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AU UN SU ER CD |
07KHARTOUM904 | SPLM Appeals for Funds, Outlines Efforts for Darfur [...] (SBU) Summary: The Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) initiative to organize a conference of various Darfur factions faces significant logistical and financial obstacles but is moving forward. In several meetings in Juba, members of the SPLM's Task Force on Darfur (TFD) provided a detai [...] | 2007-06-08 14:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AU UN SU ER CD |
07KHARTOUM906 | DARFUR - A CARJACKING A DAY KEEPS NGOS AWAY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-10 05:50:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI ASEC UN SU |
07KHARTOUM91 | DARFUR: ASSAULTS AGAINST HUMANITARIAN AID WORKERS [...] (C) Summary: On January 19, Government of National Unity National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) officers arrested 20 staff members of the UN, non-governmental organizations (NGO),and African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) during a social event at the American Refugee Committee (ARC [...] | 2007-01-22 14:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM EAID PREF PREL SOCI SU AU UN |
07KHARTOUM922 | DARFUR - GEREIDA CALM BUT UNPREDICTABLE [...] (U) On May 22, a USAID assessment team traveled to the SLA/Minawi-held town of Gereida, South Darfur, in the first USG visit since a violent attack on humanitarian agencies led to their withdrawal in December 2006. In the absence of other relief organizations since the attack, the Internationa [...] | 2007-06-11 11:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI ASEC UN SU |
07KHARTOUM926 | SUDAN - NUBA MOUNTAINS USAID MONITORING TRIP [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-11 15:46:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM927 | SUDAN - NUBA MOUNTAINS USAID MONITORING TRIP [...] (U) Talodi locality in the eastern hills of the Nuba Mountains, Southern Kordofan State, has received a large number of returnees in comparison with other areas. From September 2006 to March 2007, approximately 2,594 returnees arrived in Talodi, according to Save the Children/US (SC/US). Acce [...] | 2007-06-12 03:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM929 | DARFUR: SPLM OUTLINES CONFERENCE STRUCTURE [...] (SBU) In a meeting with donor governments, regional representatives, and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) Taskforce on Darfur, Secretary General Pagan Amum emphasized that the SPLM would play a facilitation not a mediation role in the Darfur political process and outlined three-pha [...] | 2007-06-12 14:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AU UN SU US |
07KHARTOUM93 | DARFUR: MINAWI DISCUSSES CHADIAN CONNECTION [...] (C) In a January 20 meeting with Poloff and a January 21 meeting with AF/SPG Deputy Director Jason Small, Senior Assistant to the President and leader of the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) Minni Minawi described the Chadian connection to the Darfur crisis and to the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA [...] | 2007-01-22 15:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AU SU CD UN |
07KHARTOUM935 | SPLM/DARFUR: AMUM REITERATES FOCUS ON REBELS, SUPPORT FOR [...] (SBU) Meeting with Acting CG Juba and Poloff on June 13, Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) Secretary General Pagan Amum said that he shared U.S. concerns about the first phase of the SPLM's conference on Darfur. As outlined by the SPLM, phase one would bring together civil society grou [...] | 2007-06-13 12:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AU UN SU ER CD LY |
07KHARTOUM938 | DARFUR - STILL WATERS RUN DEEP IN MUKJAR [...] (U) Mukjar and the surrounding area in southern West Darfur is populated predominantly by the Fur ethnic group. The current population is approximately 15,000 people, including internally displaced persons (IDPs),300 refugees from Chad, and an estimated 400 of the original 5,000 residents. Mo [...] | 2007-06-14 06:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
07KHARTOUM943 | SCENESETTER FOR AMB KHALILZAD VISIT TO SUDAN [...] (C) In keeping with the last twenty years of the bilateral relationship, the USG continues to use three instruments to implement our policy in Sudan: sanctions, humanitarian and development assistance, and diplomacy. An end to the crisis in Darfur is being pursued along two policy tracks--pea [...] | 2007-06-14 12:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO AU UN SU US |
07KHARTOUM951 | MINAWI PREVIEWS TRIP OF ARAB CAPITALS [...] (C) Senior Assistant to the President and SLM leader Minni Minawi will travel to five Arab capitals next week to seek political and financial support for his movement in an effort to stabilize the situation in Darfur. He has asked for U.S. assistance in previewing his trip with these Arabs go [...] | 2007-06-15 10:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AU UN SU EG SA KU QA TC |
07KHARTOUM953 | SPLM SUGGESTS DELAY IN CONFERENCE WITH DPA [...] (C) The Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) will most likely postpone the second and third phases of their conference in Southern Sudan because key leaders of the Darfur rebel movements have not agreed to attend. The first phase of the conference--focused on civil society groups, tradit [...] | 2007-06-15 18:00:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM956 | BASHIR TO UNSC: "THE BALL IS ENTIRELY IN YOUR [...] (C) Summary: In a relatively cordial (compared to last year) meeting with UNSC PermReps, Sudanese President Al-Bashir underscored the GOS's full agreement on the Hybrid Force. He called for international pressure on recalcitrant Darfur rebel groups to become part of a viable peace process, a [...] | 2007-06-17 16:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SU AU UN |
07KHARTOUM957 | UN SECURITY COUNCIL MEETS WITH SUDANESE LEADERSHIP [...] (C) Meeting with the United Nations Security Council on June 17, Sudanese officials emphasized Sudan's commitment to the Addis Ababa agreement of November 2006 and the conclusions reached in Addis Ababa on June 11-12 to permit a UN/AU hybrid peace-keeping force. According to Foreign Minister [...] | 2007-06-17 16:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM959 | DARFUR: MUTRIFF REITERATES SUDAN'S SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) Sudan reiterated its acceptance of the UN/AU hybrid force during a June 18 briefing in Khartoum. Siddiq Mutriff, the Government's lead negotiator during the recent consultations in Addis Ababa, said that this acceptance included UN command and control, non-African personnel, and a full tr [...] | 2007-06-18 15:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM960 | SPLM DARFUR CONFERENCE POSTPONED [...] (SBU) The Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) conference on Darfur has been postponed. No date has been set for the conference to begin. SPLM Task Force on Darfur (TFD) chair Rev. Clement Janda stressed that the SPLM's efforts will continue. Janda told Acting CG Juba June 18 that he h [...] | 2007-06-19 09:25:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM962 | "BROKEN PROMISES:" RESENTMENT GROWS WITHIN THE SLM [...] (C) Resentment toward the lack of financial and political support from the U.S. is growing within the ranks of the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM),a mid-ranking cadre in Khartoum told Poloff on June 17. Emphasizing that he was "speaking frankly among friends," the SLM member said that after [...] | 2007-06-19 12:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM965 | CDA TO MFA: SUDAN MUST SHOW "NEW REALITY" [...] (x) In an introductory meeting with Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs Siddiq Mutriff on June 16, CDA Fernandez said that many in the U.S. doubt Sudan's sincere commitment to resolve the Darfur conflict and instead viewed the Sudanese Government as responding only to pressure. "Everything you d [...] | 2007-06-19 13:35:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM966 | SPLM DARFUR CONFERENCE POSTPONED [...] (SBU) The Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) conference on Darfur has been postponed. No date has been set for the conference to begin. SPLM Task Force on Darfur (TFD) chair Rev. Clement Janda stressed that the SPLM's efforts will continue. Janda told Acting CG Juba June 18 that he ha [...] | 2007-06-19 13:35:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM972 | CDA TO MFA: SUDAN MUST SHOW "NEW REALITY" (CORRECTED COPY [...] (SBU) In an introductory meeting with Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs Siddiq Mutriff on June 16, CDA Fernandez said that many in the U.S. doubt Sudan's sincere commitment to resolve the Darfur conflict and instead viewed the Sudanese Government as responding only to pressure. "Everything you [...] | 2007-06-20 08:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM974 | MINAWI WARNS OF NEW WAVE OF NRF ATTACKS [...] (C) Senior Assistant to the President and leader of the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) Minni Minawi warned Poloff on June 19 of a new infiltration of National Redemption Front (NRF) forces into South Darfur near Haskanita. UN reports of June 18 had indicated that a group of NRF fighters had m [...] | 2007-06-20 12:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM98 | DARFUR: UPDATE ON NYALA ASSAULT [...] (U) A January 22 press release from the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) and an UNMIS News Bulletin the same day attributed the January 20 physical assault on UN staff in Nyala to local police (reftel). According to the same statements, the raid on the compound of an international non- [...] | 2007-01-23 13:45:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM EAID PREF PREL SOCI SU AU UN |
07KHARTOUM980 | DARFUR IDP YOUTH ACTIVISTS WANT SECURITY AND A [...] (C) Summary: CDA Fernandez met with youth activists from two major IDP camps on the outskirts of Nyala, capital of South Darfur. The ninety minute dialogue in Arabic with five intense young men (and one woman) of Fur origin from the Otash and Kalma refugee camps focused on the hopes and aspi [...] | 2007-06-21 14:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL KPKO AU UN US SU ASEC |
07KHARTOUM984 | DENG ALOR SEES CHANGES IN NCP POSITIONS [...] (C) In an introductory meeting with CDA Fernandez, Minister of Cabinet Affairs Deng Alor characterized the National Congress Party (NCP) as split between those who acknowledged the "new reality" of Sudan--where the NCP could no longer make unilateral decisions and needed to engage in dialogue [...] | 2007-06-21 15:27:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO UN AU SU ER |
07KHARTOUM985 | SPLM Re-Assessing Darfur Initiative [...] (SBU) The SPLM is re-assessing its effort to bring together Darfurians after postponing its planned conference in Rumbek. Clement Janda, the SPLM's Task Force on Darfur (TFD) Chairman, was disappointed by the failure of key rebel factions to attend and the lack of support it received from the i [...] | 2007-06-22 03:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AU UN SU |
07KHARTOUM986 | Darfurians Worry About and Welcome the Hybrid [...] (SBU) Summary: In his inaugural trip to Nyala and El Fasher June 18-20, CDA Fernandez met with a wide range of Darfurian actors, including IDPs, tribal elders, INGOs and UN agencies and Sudanese government officials. While all welcomed the recent announcement that the Sudanese government would [...] | 2007-06-22 10:38:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO AU UN US SU |
07KHARTOUM987 | DARFUR A VICTIM OF POOR GOVERNANCE, THE BUSINESS OF WAR [...] SUMMARY: In a wide-ranging meeting with CDA Fernandez, two prominent Darfur civil society activists described war in Darfur as a business with many partners. Traditional leadership and negotiating mechanisms had been lost, they said, replaced by rebels with no real connection to Darfurians them [...] | 2007-06-22 13:23:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO AU UN US SU |
07KHARTOUM99 | (CORRECTED COPY MRN: KHARTOUM 00080): MINAWI [...] (C) Summary: In spite of his efforts to reserve government positions for Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) non-signatories as an incentive to support the agreement, Senior Assistant to the President and Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) leader Minni Minawi is frustrated with the Sudanese government' [...] | 2007-01-23 13:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AU SU CD UN |
07KIGALI968 | RWANDA LIKELY TO SUPPORT WALKER IAAC CANDIDACY [...] (U) On October 23 PolOff met with Ben Rutsinga, Director for International Organizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to deliver reftel demarche on candidacy of David M. Walker for the UN Independent Audit Advisory Committee (IAAC). Rutsinga said the Government of Rwanda would have to [...] | 2007-10-23 16:11:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AORC UN UNGA RW |
07KIGALI969 | RWANDA GENERALLY SUPPORTIVE OF U.S. PRIORITY UNGA [...] (U) On October 23 PolOff met with Ben Rutsinga, Director for International Organizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to deliver reftel demarche on UN General Assembly Third Committee resolutions. Rutsinga was receptive to U.S. request to take a stand against no-action motions and gene [...] | 2007-10-23 16:22:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UNGA UN KTIA RW |
07KINGSTON1515 | JAMAICA: DEMARCHE ON DRAFT RESOLUTION CONDEMNING RAPE AS [...] On October 2, PolOff conveyed reftel talking points to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Deputy Office Director for Multilateral Affairs Pamela Ingelton. 2. Ms. Ingelton said she would consult with the Permanent Secretary, and other government agencies on the draft resolution. SIPDIS Ms. [...] | 2007-10-09 20:52:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UN PHUM KWMN SOCI JM XL |
07KINGSTON1570 | JAMAICA: DEMARCHE ON UN THIRD COMMITTEE DELAYED [...] On October 23, PolOff had an appointment to meet with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Office Director of Multilateral Affairs Pamela Ingelton to deliver reftel demarche. 2. Unfortunately, Ms. Ingleton was diverted by urgent business and thus was unable to meet as schedule [...] | 2007-10-23 20:33:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KTIA UN JM XL |
07KINGSTON1602 | JAMAICA: DEMARCHE ON CUBA EMBARGO DELIVERED [...] On October 26, PolOff met with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Office's Director of Multilateral Affairs, Pamela Ingelton, to deliver reftel demarche. 2. Ms. Ingleton had no comment in response to the demarche. Poloff left talking points as a non-paper, and Ms Ingleton p [...] | 2007-10-29 17:28:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA ETRD PHUM UN CU JM XL |
07KINGSTON1603 | JAMAICA: DEMARCHE ON UN THIRD COMMITTEE DELIVERED [...] On October 26, PolOff met with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade's Director of Multilateral Affairs, Pamela Ingelton, to deliver reftel demarche. 2. Ms. Ingleton had no comments, but promised to pass the information on to the appropriate people in the Ministry. Post will [...] | 2007-10-29 17:28:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KTIA UN JM XL |
07KINGSTON1609 | JAMAICA: DEMARCHE CANDIDACY [...] On October 26, PolOff met with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade's Director of Multilateral Affairs, Pamela Ingelton, to deliver reftel demarche. 2. Ms. Ingleton promised to give the U.S. talking points to her superiors prior to the vote on Mr. Walker's candidacy. Post wil [...] | 2007-10-30 20:21:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC UN UNGA JM XL |
07KINSHASA1424 | Visit of UN High Commissioner for Refugees [...] UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres arrived in Kinshasa December 13 to assess the humanitarian situation in North Kivu, where 800,000 people have been displaced by ongoing armed conflicts. He traveled to North Kivu December 15-17, visiting IDP camps near Goma and Gasasa in Kiwa [...] | 2007-12-28 11:06:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI UN CG |
07KINSHASA956 | DEMARCHE ON MODIFYING THE ARMS EMBARGO UNDER UNSC [...] (U) The perception of a general arms embargo directed at the DRC, including armed forces operating under central government command authority, has become a major source of irritation to President Kabila and senior GDRC officials generally. These concerns have been expressed frequently and st [...] | 2007-08-09 12:49:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CG UN |
07KUALALUMPUR947 | MALAYSIA DEFENSIVE REGARDING SHARING OF FINANCIAL [...] (U) Summary. Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Stuart Levey visited Kuala Lumpur May 11 to meet with GOM officials and local financial institutions to discuss implementation of U.N. Security Council Resolutions (UNSCR) 1737 and 1747 and the risks of doing bus [...] | 2007-05-31 07:32:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EFIN ETTC PREL PTER KFTN UN IR MY |
07KUALALUMPUR984 | PM ABDULLAH URGES NEW APPROACH TO DARFUR, SEEKS [...] (C) Summary: Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi, in a June 4 meeting with visiting General Peter Pace, described his "new approach" to Darfur focused on returning IDPs to their homes with security guarantees from Khartoum. Abdullah has asked wealthy OIC countries to contribute to a new [...] | 2007-06-06 12:14:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PREF MARR KISL UN SU MY |
07KUWAIT1501 | KUWAIT LIKELY TO SUPPORT U.S. RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-10 14:41:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UN PHUM KWMN SOCI KU |
07KUWAIT1576 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-01 14:29:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KTIA UN KU |
07KUWAIT1578 | KUWAIT TO FOLLOW GCC LEAD IN LIKELY SUPPORT OF [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-01 14:31:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UN PHUM KWMN SOCI KU PREL UNGA |
07KUWAIT1579 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CUBA EMBARGO RESOLUTION AT THE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-01 14:31:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD PHUM UN CU KU |
07KUWAIT1605 | AMB. CROCKER'S MEETING WITH KUWAITI AMIR [...] (C) On October 29, U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker met with Kuwaiti Amir Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al Sabah to discuss developments in Iraq since the U.S. military surge began and United States policy following the September Crocker/Petraeus testimony. Crocker underlined the need for renew [...] | 2007-11-08 10:03:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KU PGOV PREL UN |
07KUWAIT1625 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: INDEPENDENT EXTERNAL [...] Post delivered reftel demarche and background paper to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs via diplomatic note on November 5. Post will report any substantive response septel. ********************************************* * For more reporting from Embassy Kuwait, visit: http://www.state.sgov. [...] | 2007-11-15 15:47:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | UN EAGR AORC KU |
07KYIV133 | UKRAINE: KOSOVO STATUS PROCESS TIMELINE: DEMARCHE [...] (C) Summary/comment: In view of Ukrainian officials' previous concerns about the impact of Kosovo independence on "frozen conflicts" in Moldova and elsewhere, acting DCM drew on ref A background to brief DFM Veselovsky January 18 on the Kosovo settlement process. While underscoring that Ukrain [...] | 2007-01-19 14:23:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS OPDC UNMIK UN YI MD RS UP |
07KYIV2714 | UKRAINE: Cuba Embargo Resolution at UNGA -- Demarche [...] (SBU) DCM delivered reftel points regarding the Cuba embargo resolution October 26 to MFA Second Territorial Department Director (A/S equivalent) Ihor Hrushko. Hrushko noted that Cuba continues to provide substantial assistance for the "Chornobyl children" (belonging to families affected by th [...] | 2007-10-26 12:44:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM ETRD UNGA UN CU US UP |
07KYIV2721 | UKRAINE: CANDIDACY OF DAVID WALKER FOR UN [...] DCM delivered reftel talking points and David Walker's biographic information October 26 to MFA Second Territorial Department Director Ihor Hrushko, after we had earlier conveyed the biographic information to MFA UN and Other International Organizations Counselor Petro Datsenko. Hrushko promis [...] | 2007-10-29 13:30:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC UNGA UN UP |
07KYIV2829 | UKRAINE: UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE RESOLUTIONS [...] (U) Ref A relayed information passed by Ukraine's UN mission that Ukraine will vote in favor of the four country-specific resolutions in the UNGA Third Committee and against any no-action motion. In ref C, we reported on delivery of U.S. points regarding the draft resolution "On Condemning th [...] | 2007-11-16 11:33:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KTIA KWMN AORC UN UP |
07LAPAZ2626 | BOLIVIA'S NEW "PEACEFUL" RELATIONS WITH IRAN/LIBYA [...] (C) Summary: With the visit of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and signing of $1.1 billion in cooperation agreements September 27, Bolivia and Iran have fundamentally deepened both their commercial and political relationship. In his signing ceremony speech, Morales emphasized Bolivia's r [...] | 2007-09-27 23:16:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PARM PGOV PREL KNNP MNUC IAEA UN IR BL |
07LAPAZ2648 | EVO TO UN: CHANGE OF ADDRESS REQUESTED [...] (U) Building on President Evo Morales' September 26 suggestion to move the UN Headquarters out of New York, the Bolivian Government September 30 launched a "global campaign" to persuade nations to move the UN. Presidential Minister Juan Quintana said the proposal was prompted by the poor and [...] | 2007-10-01 20:51:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UN BL |
07LAPAZ2686 | LA PAZ ON IRANIAN NUKES: SEE NO EVIL [...] (U) Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca defended Iran's nuclear program October 3, contrasting Iran's development of "peaceful" nuclear technology with countries like France, Russia, Israel, and the United States that use the technology to make "atomic bombs." He also lumped Iran in [...] | 2007-10-04 20:28:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PGOV PREL KNNP MNUC IAEA UN IR BL |
07LAPAZ2688 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON U.S. DRAFT RESOLUTION ON [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-04 20:36:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC UN PHUM KWMN SOCI BL |
07LAPAZ3053 | BOLIVIA ON UN 3RD COMMITTEE HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) DCM contacted Bolivian Vice Foreign Minister Hugo Fernandez on November 19 regarding reftel. Fernandez mentioned that Bolivia would take different positions on each of the four human rights resolutions before the UN Third Commission. Only in the case of Burma is Bolivia prepared to fully [...] | 2007-11-20 12:02:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KTIA UN BL |
07LAPAZ3136 | BOLIVIA DEMARCHE REPLY: OPPOSING UNGA RESOLUTIONS [...] (U) PolOff delivered reftel demarche November 28 to MFA Director of Multilateral Affairs Rubin Viduarre. Viduarre said matters pertaining to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are typically discussed with Latin American counterparts at the United Nations (Grupo Latina America). Although Bolivi [...] | 2007-11-29 21:14:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA UN IS BL |
07LAPAZ3137 | BOLIVIA DEMARCHE REPLY: CERD ELECTION [...] (SBU) On November 23, EmbOffs met with Ruben Vidaurre, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director of International Organizations, and delivered reftel demarche with the caveat that a diplomatic note regarding reftel would be delivered shortly, following translation. Dip note 577/07 sent November 27 [...] | 2007-11-29 21:14:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UNGA UN BL |
07LIMA1052 | PERU: DEMARCHE ON KOSOVO PROPOSALS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-27 22:39:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNMIK UN YI EU PE |
07LISBON1800 | PORTUGAL: REACTION TO US VIEWS ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) Pol-econ officer delivered reftel points underscoring deep USG unhappiness with the results of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) 5th Session with MFA Deputy Director of Human Rights and International Affairs Susana Vaz Patto. Patto replied that the Portuguese were also quite unhappy with t [...] | 2007-07-10 14:57:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM UN EUN PO |
07LISBON1856 | PORTUGAL - MOVING TOWARDS EU CONSENSUS ON KOSOVO [...] (C) FM Luis Amado told A/S Daniel Fried on July 13 that the issue of Kosovo's independence was the most pressing near-term issue of Portugal's EU Presidency, aside from EU treaty reform. The two compared notes from their recent trips to the Balkans, confirming the challenges and next steps th [...] | 2007-07-18 16:16:00 | Embassy Lisbon | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN PO UN ZL |
07LISBON1858 | U.S.- EU POLITICAL DIRECTORS DISCUSSES KOSOVO, [...] (SBU) A/S Fried met July 13 in Lisbon with Political Directors (PolDirs) from the 27 EU member states and with the EU Troika political directors. The agenda included Kosovo, Russia, NATO coordination in Afghanistan, conflicts in Africa, institution building in the Palestinian Territories, and [...] | 2007-07-18 17:35:00 | Embassy Lisbon | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS MOPS PHUM PREL PO EUN UN XA AF ZL RS |
07LISBON2301 | US-EU PRESIDENCY CONSULTATIONS DISCUSS HUMAN [...] (SBU) Summary: US-Portugal consultations on human rights covered the U.S.-EU common human rights agenda and outlined plans for resolutions both in the UN's Third Committee and the UN's Human Rights Council. Portugal agreed to seek common language with us and to avoid controversial measures as [...] | 2007-09-07 12:58:00 | Embassy Lisbon | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN PO |
07LISBON2525 | PORTUGAL CIRCULATING DRAFT RESOLUTION ON [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-28 10:17:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED | UN KWMN AORC PHUM SOCI EUN PO |
07LISBON2621 | Portugal Confirms Support for Gaer, Requests US Backing for [...] (U) Following the informal notification on October 9, Portugal forwarded a diplomatic note, dated October 10 noting that it had voted in favor of the U.S. candidate for the UN Committee Against Torture. The note then goes on to solicit U.S. support for Portugal's candidacy for the UN Security [...] | 2007-10-15 11:07:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UN PO |
07LISBON2745 | PORTUGAL RESPONSE ON CUBA EMBARGO RESOLUTION AT [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel points, stressing that the embargo was a matter of bilateral policy and that the UN resolution was an attempt to deflect the international community's attention away from the ongoing human rights crisis in Cuba. MFA International Affairs Officer Miguel Maia do Vale [...] | 2007-10-29 17:21:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED | UN ETRD PHUM PO |
07LISBON2750 | US-EU-CANADA TRILATERAL MEETINGS ON IRAN AND US-EU [...] (C) SUMMARY: On Iran, all parties agreed on the need for concerted action in response to its nuclear program and pretensions for regional hegemony, as well as its deteriorating human rights situation. On the Middle East Peace Process (MEPP),the EU emphasized its support for the planned int [...] | 2007-10-30 16:01:00 | Embassy Lisbon | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL EUN UN XG XF AR IR |
07LISBON2765 | PORTUGAL YET TO DECIDE ON CANDIDACY OF DAVID [...] (U) Pol-econ officer delivered reftel demarche to MFA International Organizations Officer Pedro Pinto on October 22 and called to follow up on October 29. Pinto responded that Portugal recognizes our keen interest in seeing Mr. Walker elected to this committee but had not decided yet which ca [...] | 2007-10-31 15:31:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED | UN PREL AORC PO |
07LISBON3088 | Portugal Confirms Support for U.S. IMO Candidate: Again [...] (U) On December 3, Portugal forwarded a diplomatic note, dated November 28, noting its support for the U.S. election to the International Maritime Organization as a Class A country. As with the reftel dipnote, the MFA once again drew a connection between Portuguese support in international for [...] | 2007-12-05 13:36:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UN PO |
07LJUBLJANA208 | SLOVENIA STEADFAST IN SUPPORTING AHTISAARI [...] (C) Leon Marc, Head of the MFA's Division for South-Eastern Europe confirmed Slovenia's consistent support for UN Special Envoy Maarti Ahtisaari's Kosovo proposal in a March 28 meeting with PolEcon Chief. He said that the GOS would continue to be reserved in its public declarations in suppo [...] | 2007-04-02 09:59:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNMIK UN YI EUN SI |
07LJUBLJANA669 | SLOVENIA FOLLOWS EU STANCE ON UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE [...] (SBU) On October 22, Emboff met with Nina Lenardic Purkart from the Human Rights Division at the Slovenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to solicit the Government of Slovenia's support for U.S. resolutions as outlined in reftel. Purkart stated that Slovenia is in line with the EU on the U.S. pr [...] | 2007-10-24 15:27:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KTIA UN SI |
07LJUBLJANA672 | SLOVENIA ON CUBA EMBARGO RESOLUTION AT UNGA [...] (SBU) On October 25, EmbOff met with Smiljana Knez, head of the MFA's Human Rights Unit, to urge Slovenia to vote against, or, at a minimum, abstain on the annual UNGA resolution introduced by Cuba condemning the U.S. economic embargo against Cuba, per reftel. EmbOff also asked that the GOS [...] | 2007-10-25 14:06:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNGA ETRD PHUM UN CU SI |
07LJUBLJANA685 | SLOVENIA WILL VOTE FOR DAVID WALKER FOR UN [...] (C) On October 30, EmbOff met with Blazka Kepic, head of the United Nations System Section of the MFA's Division for International Organizations and Human Security, to urge Slovenia to instruct its delegation to the UN in New York to vote for Mr. Walker in the Independent Audit Advisory Commi [...] | 2007-10-30 14:54:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AORC UN UNGA SI |
07LONDON4126 | (C) UK INTERESTED IN CUBAN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Summary. Chris Wood, Head of the Foreign Office's Americas Directorate, told the Charge that the UK shares the goal of promoting democratic change in Cuba and is interested in several of the U.S. proposals for cooperation in Cuba (ref B),but it will take more U.S. lobbying in EU capitals [...] | 2007-11-02 12:32:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM UNGA ETRD UN CU EU AR UK |
07LUANDA746 | ANGOLA THANKS US FOR SUPPORT TO THE UN HUMAN [...] (SBU) Angola,s election to the UN Human Rights Council has proven to be a source of pride to the GRA as well as playing extensively in the Angolan press. More importantly it may provide some catalyst for Angola,s ratification of some core human rights conventions and has spurred the GRA to in [...] | 2007-07-19 11:38:00 | Embassy Luanda | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM UN 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 |
07LUXEMBOURG403 | LUXEMBOURG CONDEMNS BURMESE REGIME'S ACTIONS [...] (SBU) Pol/Econ officer delivered points contained reftel on 1 October to Yasuko Muller, MFA Director for Asian Affairs. Muller responded on 3 October by thanking us for our points and pointing out to us Luxembourg's interventions in the UNHRC on 2 October. She said that EU thinking about fut [...] | 2007-10-03 13:57:00 | Embassy Luxembourg | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL UN BM LU |
07LUXEMBOURG72 | DEMARCHE FOR MIDDLE RING SECURITY SUPPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-13 16:20:00 | Embassy Luxembourg | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UN IZ LU |
07LUXEMBOURG86 | LUXEMBOURG TO MAKE ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTION TO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-01 12:48:00 | Embassy Luxembourg | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UN IZ LU |
07MADRID1290 | SPAIN ON RESTRICTIONS ON EXPORT CREDITS/FINANCING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-02 17:27:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EFIN ETRD EXIM OECD UN SP IR ECON |
07MADRID1556 | SPAIN CONTINUES TO SUPPORT EU POSITION ON KOSOVO [...] (C) Ambassador Aguirre spoke with Foreign Minister Moratinos on August 7, reaching him while vacationing in the Aegean Sea. The Ambassador thanked Moratinos for clarifying Spain's position on Kosovo during his August 3 conversation with Secretary Rice. The Ambassador asked Moratinos to go fu [...] | 2007-08-14 10:06:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | KV YI UN PGOV EU PREL SP |
07MADRID1933 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UNGA RESOLUTION ON RAPE AS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-03 16:27:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UN PHUM KWMN SOCI |
07MADRID2195 | SUDAN - UNAMID DEMARCHE REQUEST TO FOREIGN [...] (C) On December 4 the Ambassador raised the issue of helicopters for UNAMID with FM Moratinos, emphasizing the urgent need given UNAMID's lack of air mobility assets and the enormous and rugged terrain in which UNAMID must operate. He underscored that UNAMID's effectiveness was critical to th [...] | 2007-12-04 18:54:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO UN SU SP |
07MADRID2214 | UNCITRAL DEMARCHE DELIVERED IN SPAIN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-07 16:11:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UNCITRAL UN SP |
07MADRID2295 | SPAIN WOULD WELCOME MEPI PROJECT UNDER AOC AUSPICES [...] SUMMARY; Polcouns met December 19 with Spanish Deputy Political Director Felix Costales to discuss the possible association of MEPI's Civic Education Partnership Initiative (CEPI) with the Alliance of Civilizations (AoC) as a means to fulfill the Secretary's commitment to contribute to the Ao [...] | 2007-12-21 16:19:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SOCI KMPI UN SP |
07MADRID598 | SPAIN/KOSOVO: UN RESOLUTION KEY TO SPANISH TROOP [...] (C) The DCM met with Spanish MFA Director General for Europe and North America Jose Maria PONS Irazazabal on March 29 to discuss Spain's support for the Ahtisaari Plan's proposals for Kosovo. Pons told DCM that Spain is committed to supporting the EU common position and strongly supports the [...] | 2007-04-02 15:42:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNMIK UN YI EU 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 |
07MANAGUA2399 | IAAC/WALKER: NICARAGUA NON-COMMITAL; 63RD [...] (U) On October 25, poloff delivered reftel A demarche to Mario Barquero, the new Director of International Organizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, soliciting Nicaragua's support for David Walker's candidacy for the IAAC. Barquero offered no comment on Walker's candidacy, but took a [...] | 2007-10-30 19:08:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AORC UN UNGA NU |
07MANAMA217 | BAHRAIN RESPONSE TO IRAQ NEIGHBORS CONFERENCE [...] (C) DCM delivered reftel points March 7 to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Assistant Undersecretary for Coordination and Follow-up Shaikh Abdul-Aziz bin Mubarak Al Khalifa. Shaikh Abdul-Aziz stated that the meeting is important, pledged Bahrain's support for a successful outcome, and agreed that [...] | 2007-03-07 12:26:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OIC ARAB LEAGUE UN IZ BA REGION |
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 |
07MANAMA963 | CANDIDACY OF DAVID WALKER FOR UN INDEPENDENT AUDIT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-23 13:34:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC UN UNGA BA |
07MANAMA985 | BAHRAIN UNLIKELY TO VOTE AGAINST CUBAN EMBARGO RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-30 14:22:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | UNGA ETRD PHUM UN CU BA |
07MANILA197 | NEW PHILIPPINE PERMREP TO UN [...] (U) President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on January 14 swore in retired Supreme Court Chief Justice Hilario "Jun" G. Davide, Jr. as the new Philippine permanent representative to the United Nations in New York., replacing Ambassador Baja. He follows in the footsteps of Supreme Court Chief Justic [...] | 2007-01-17 09:41:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PREL UN RP |
07MANILA2760 | AIDE MEMOIRE AND DIPLOMATIC NOTE ON PHILIPPINE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-15 01:24:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ICJ UN RP |
07MANILA2909 | DIPLOMATIC NOTE ON PHILIPPINE CANDIDATE FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-27 08:17:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PHUM PREL RP UN |
07MANILA3545 | PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT EXPECTS TO SUPPORT U.S. [...] (SBU) Leah Ruiz, Director for the Department of Foreign Affairs' Office of United Nations and International Organizations, told poloff that the Philippine Mission to the United Nations would likely support the candidacy of David Walker for the UN Independent Audit Advisory Committee (IAAC). [...] | 2007-10-26 09:03:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AORC UN UNGA RP |
07MANILA3546 | PHILIPPINES WILL CONTINUE ITS SUPPORT FOR UN [...] (SBU) Leah Ruiz, Director for the Department of Foreign Affairs' Office of United Nations and International Organizations, told poloff that the Philippine Mission to the United Nations will likely vote in favor of the annual resolution that calls for an end to the U.S. trade embargo against [...] | 2007-10-26 09:04:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNGA ETRD PHUM UN CU |
07MANILA3710 | UNGA HUMAN RIGHTS RESOLUTIONS: PHILIPPINES WILL [...] (SBU) As requested reftel, Pol/C urged Evan Garcia, A/Sec for the Office of United Nations and Other International Organizations of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA),to support votes in favor of four UN Third Committee resolutions (reftel). Pol/C underscored the high priority that the [...] | 2007-11-19 22:42:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNGA PHUM UN PREL |
07MANILA3771 | PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT TO SUPPORT U.S. CANDIDATE [...] (SBU) Leah Ruiz, Executive Director for the Department of Foreign Affairs' Office of United Nations and International Organizations, told poloff that the Philippine Mission to the United Nations intends to support the candidacy of Mr. Pierre-Richard Prosper for the UN Committee on the Elimina [...] | 2007-11-27 04:12:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM UNGA UN RP |
07MANILA3875 | DEMARCHE: PHILIPPINES TO CONSIDER A STRONGER STAND [...] (SBU) As requested in reftels A and B, polcouns met on December 5 with Department of Foreign Affairs Acting A/S Grace Princesa to urge the Philippines to support four UN resolutions condemning human rights situations in Burma, Iran, Belarus, and the DPRK. Polcouns noted that the UNGA Plenary [...] | 2007-12-07 09:23:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNGA PHUM UN RP PREL PGOV UG |
07MASERU210 | LESOTHO: U.S. POSITION ON KOSOVO'S STATUS [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche concerning the introduction of a U.S. resolution granting Kosovo independence to Lesotho's newly-appointed Foreign Minister Kenneth Tsekoa on April 4. She provided the key points, notably the fact that Kosovo has experienced eight years of United Natio [...] | 2007-04-04 14:41:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PINR UN LT |
07MASERU213 | LESOTHO: U.S. POSITION ON KOSOVO'S STATUS [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche concerning the introduction of a U.S. resolution granting Kosovo independence to Lesotho's newly-appointed Foreign Minister Kenneth Tsekoa on April 4. She provided the key points, notably the fact that Kosovo has experienced eight years of United Natio [...] | 2007-04-05 09:01:00 | Embassy Maseru | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR UN LT |
07MASERU491 | LESOTHO: UN FLASH APPEAL FOR FOOD SHORTAGE [...] SUMMARY: On August 2, the United Nations invited donors and representatives of the Government of Lesotho to the official launch of a flash appeal for food aid, stating that the need in Lesotho was nearly $19 million. GOL representatives explained that the need was beyond its capacity to addre [...] | 2007-08-15 14:08:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR ECON PGOV PREL UN LT |
07MASERU506 | LESOTHO: 2007 UNFPA COUNTRY PROGRAM DOCUMENT COMMENTS [...] In response to REF A, Embassy Maseru submits the following comments regarding the 2007 UNFPA Draft Country Programme Document for Lesotho. 2. UNFPA's five-year proposal (2008-2012) properly focuses on appropriate objectives: preventing HIV/AIDS; improving reproductive health; promoting su [...] | 2007-08-29 10:09:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF SOCI UN LT |
07MASERU507 | LESOTHO: 2007 UNICEF COUNTRY PROGRAM DOCUMENT COMMENTS [...] In response to reftel, Embassy Maseru submits the following comments regarding the 2007 UNICEF Draft Country Programme Document for Lesotho. 2. UNICEF is a visible and active UN agency in Lesotho, cooperating effectively with the GOL, donors, and partners. The five-year program proposal [...] | 2007-08-29 10:53:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF SOCI UN LT |
07MASERU561 | LESOTHO INTERESTED IN WIREC, VAGUELY SUPPORTIVE ON UN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 2, Poloff met Lesotho's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Europe and Americas Director P.P. Makoaholo to discuss the upcoming WIREC conference and various UN issues. Makoaholo expressed interest in recruiting a high-level delegation for the WIREC conference and was vague bu [...] | 2007-10-10 14:02:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ENEG SENV TRGY UN PHUM KWMN SOCI PTER UNSC |
07MASERU586 | LESOTHO SUPPORTS RAPE RESOLUTION, AMBIVALENT ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 26, Poloff delivered reftel demarches on UN resolutions concerning rape, the Cuba embargo, and the human rights situation in Iran, Burma, Belarus, and North Korea to Lesotho's Deputy Principal Secretary of Foreign Affairs Thabang Lekhela. Mr. Lekhela was strongly supp [...] | 2007-10-26 12:32:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KTIA UN UNGA ETRD IR LT |
07MEXICO5345 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.S. DRAFT RESOLUTION ON [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-05 20:48:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC KWMN PHUM SOCI UN |
07MEXICO5651 | MEXICO: CANDIDACY OF DAVID WALKER FOR IAAC [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-30 20:26:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AORC UN UNGA MX |
07MINSK851 | DEMARCHE ON U.S. DRAFT RESOLUTION DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-09 06:12:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UN PHUM KWMN SOCI BO |
07MINSK884 | BELARUS TIP STRATEGY PROPOSAL DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-18 12:48:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PREL KCRM UN AU BO |
07MINSK892 | WALKER CANDIDACY DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO BELARUS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-23 15:20:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AORC UN UNGA BO |
07MINSK995 | UNCITRAL DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO BELARUS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-05 15:43:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC UNCITRAL UN |
07MONTEVIDEO121 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: URUGUAY SUPPORTIVE OF ONE-YEAR [...] (C) On February 8, DCM met with the MFA's Director General for Political Affairs Alvaro Gallardo regarding reftel demarche aimed at impressing on China the need to support a one-year renewal for MINUSTAH at current authorized force levels, with the intention of further renewals. The demarche w [...] | 2007-02-08 16:22:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AORC MASS UN HA UY |
07MONTEVIDEO890 | URUGUAY "LIKELY" WILL URGE BEIJING'S SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) On October 9, A/DCM discussed reftel demarche with the MFA's Acting Director General for the Secretariat Daniel Castillo. Castillo was familiar with outcome of the Haiti Key Players Group meeting on September 26, 2007, in New York, but was unaware of the October 4 meeting of UN Security exp [...] | 2007-10-09 19:29:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PREL PGOV UN HA UY |
07MOSCOW4998 | U.S. DRAFT RESOLUTION ON CONDEMNING THE USE OF [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-15 08:44:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UN PHUM KWMN SOCI RS |
07MOSCOW5145 | CANDIDACY OF DAVID WALKER FOR UN INDEPENDENT AUDIT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-25 10:58:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC UN UNGA RS |
07MOSCOW5146 | ALDIP ON UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE RESOLUTIONS [...] We delivered reftel demarche on October 24 to MFA Department for Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights First Secretary Aleksey Goltyayev. Goltyaev said that the GOR would oppose on principle country-specific resolutions condemning the human rights records of Iran, Burma, the DPRK and Bela [...] | 2007-10-25 11:00:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KTIA UN RS |
07MOSCOW5181 | DEMARCHE ON CUBA EMBARGO RESOLUTION AT UNGA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-29 08:33:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA ETRD PHUM UN CU RS |
07MOSCOW5190 | URGENT DARFUR DEMARCHE FOR AVIATION SUPPORT AND [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche on October 26 to MFA Middle East and North Africa Director Sergey Vershinin. Vershinin told us that the GOR had not made a decision on the supply of transportation assets to the UN-AU hybrid peacekeeping operation in Darfur, but emphasized the GOR's ongoing con [...] | 2007-10-29 14:55:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO UN SU RS |
07MOSCOW5349 | RUSSIAN DFM SALTANOV ON DARFUR AVIATION AND [...] (C) In a November 9 meeting, the Ambassador reiterated to Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Saltanov the importance of Russian support for the UN-AU hybrid peacekeeping operation in Darfur (ref a) and urged the GOR to provide heavy lift assets for the operation. Acknowledging the MFA's cons [...] | 2007-11-09 13:41:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO UN SU RS |
07NAIROBI3059 | SUDAN, DARFUR: UN ADVISOR PEKKA HAVISTO BRIEFS SE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Pekka Haavisto, senior UN Advisor on Darfur, briefed the U.S. President's Special Envoy for Sudan Andrew Natsios on UN/AU efforts to organize effective peace talks for Darfur. Haavisto discussed the upcoming Tripoli and Mombasa (Center for Humanitarian Dialogue, CHD) meetings i [...] | 2007-07-26 09:09:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN AU SU ER ET LY CD |
07NASSAU1238 | BAHAMAS REACTS FAVORABLY TO DRAFT RESOLUTION [...] (U) On October 3, 2007, PolOff conveyed reftel talking points to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under Secretary Marilyn Zonicle. Post provided the text of the draft resolution in advance by fax. Ms. Zonicle said she had already consulted with the Permanent Secretary, Ms. Sheila Carey, and other g [...] | 2007-10-04 14:30:00 | Embassy Nassau | UNCLASSIFIED | BF AORC UN PHUM KWMN |
07NASSAU1259 | BAHAMAS WILL SUPPORT DRAFT RESOLUTION CONDEMNING [...] (U) On October 8, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under Secretary Marilyn Zonicle informed Post that The Bahamas will SIPDIS support the U.S. draft resolution condemning the use of rape as an instrument of state policy in the U.N. General Assembly, and instruct the Bahamian Permanent Mission to [...] | 2007-10-11 22:06:00 | Embassy Nassau | UNCLASSIFIED | BF AORC UN PHUM KWMN |
07NASSAU1386 | BAHAMAS WILL SUPPORT U.S-BACKED COUNTRY-SPECIFIC [...] (SBU) On October 19, then Charge delivered reftel demarche points urging a principled stand against all no-action motions in the U.N. General Assembly's Third Committee and seeking Bahamian support for U.S. priority, country-specific resolutions to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign [...] | 2007-11-14 21:12:00 | Embassy Nassau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KTIA UN BF |
07NEWDELHI4804 | UNGA RAPE RESOLUTION DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO GOI [...] Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MEA Director (United Nations Economic and Social) Dinesh Patnaik on October 29. Patnaik confirmed to Poloff October 30 that he had passed the request onto the Permanent Mission of India (PMI) to the UN, which will take the lead on deciding the final GOI posi [...] | 2007-10-31 10:59:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM KTIA UN 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 |
07NEWDELHI4946 | INDIAN GOVERNMENT RELUCTANT TO REVEAL ITS POSITION [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MEA Director (United Nations Economic and Social) Dinesh Patnaik on November 13, noting the tight deadline for a decision, with the vote only two days away. Patnaik replied that the GOI is still deliberating on its position, stating "we'll do whatever [...] | 2007-11-13 13:03:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KTIA UN IN |
07NEWDELHI5219 | UNCITRAL DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO GOI [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MEA Director (United Nations Economic and Social) Dinesh Patnaik and Director Khalid Bin Jamal, Ministry of Commerce and Industry on December 5, urging the GOI to help oppose any revisions to UNCITRAL's current rules. Patnaik confirmed that he had pass [...] | 2007-12-06 11:51:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC UNCITRAL UN IN |
07NEWDELHI5410 | RETAINING UNMIS FORCE COMMANDER LIDDER [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-28 07:38:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PKO UN MARR IN SU |
07NICOSIA506 | MISSING PERSONS COMMITTEE'S FIRST REMAINS HANDOVER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Genetics testing and anthropological investigations have positively identified the remains of 29 Cypriots who went missing between 1963 and 1974, according to UN Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) International Member Christophe Girod. CMP staff will notify families beginning [...] | 2007-06-12 14:06:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV UN CY TU |
07NICOSIA702 | CYPRUS REQUESTS USG SUPPORT FOR CANDIDATE TO UN [...] (U) This telegram contains an action request in Paragraph 3. 2. (U) The Embassy received a diplomatic note from the GOC requesting USG support for the candidacy of Mrs. Myrna Y. Kleopas, Ambassador, to the UN Committee Against Torture (CAT),at the elections in Geneva on October 8, 2007. [...] | 2007-08-28 13:35:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC PHUM UN CY |
07OSLO1053 | NORWAY RESPONDS TO THIRD COMMITTEE POINTS, SEEKS [...] (C) On October 22 we delivered reftel points to MFA Human Rights and Democracy Issue Deputy Director General Tormod Endresen. Endresen pledged that Norway will oppose no action motions and strongly supported the full debate of human rights issues raised in the Third Committee. Although Nor [...] | 2007-10-23 05:48:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PHUM PREL KTIA UN NO |
07OSLO1084 | NORWAY WON'T SUPPORT WALKER CANDIDACY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-06 15:37:00 | Embassy Oslo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AORC UN UNGA |
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 |
07OSLO400 | UNSCR 1747/OECD: NORWAY SUPPORTS RESTRICTING [...] (SBU) Deputy Pol/Econ Counselor delivered ref A points on April 19 to Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry Senior Advisor Hege Gabrielsen. Gabrielsen was already informed about the U.S. initiative to institute a common OECD line to restrict new export credits to Iran and said Norway can [...] | 2007-04-19 13:20:00 | Embassy Oslo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EFIN ETRD OECD EXIM UN IR NO |
07OSLO642 | NORWAY CONTINUES TO SUPPORT IRANIAN EXPORT CREDIT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-14 14:41:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EFIN ETRD EXIM OECD UN IR NO |
07OTTAWA1845 | CANADIAN VIEWS REGARDING U.S. DRAFT RESOLUTION ON [...] (C) In a meeting with PolMinCouns on October 2, Acting Director General of Foreign Affairs for Human Security and Human Rights Gwyneth Kutz expressed Canada's support for the overall objective of reftel draft resolution and its hopes for eventual adoption in some form. However, she noted a l [...] | 2007-10-02 19:06:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KWMN AORC SOCI UN CA |
07PANAMA1625 | PANAMA: INTERESTED IN SUPPORTING UNGA RESOLUTION [...] (SBU) "Panama would probably like to co-sponsor the proposed U.S. resolution" condemning the use of rape as an instrument of state policy, MFA DG for International Political Affairs Javier Bonagas told POLCOUNS on October 2. Bonagas said that he would ask Panama's Mission to the UN to engage [...] | 2007-10-03 18:37:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PHUM KWMN AORC SOCI UN UNGA PM |
07PANAMA1708 | PANAMA: DEMARCHE ON UNGA CUBA EMBARGO RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-26 16:44:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | UNGA ETRD PHUM UN CU PM |
07PANAMA1739 | SOMOLIA PIRACY: PANAMA "PREPARED TO ASSUME CASE" [...] (U) This is an action request; see para 5. ------- Summary ------- 2. (C) "Panama is prepared to assume the case" to prosecute the alleged pirates who have seized the GOLDEN NORI off the coast of Somalia, Public Ministry Secretary for International Affairs Greta Marchovsky told POLC [...] | 2007-11-04 22:25:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM KCSY PHSA PBTS PGOV PREL EWWT UN UNSC |
07PANAMA300 | PANAMA: KOSOVO DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-01 20:37:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC UN UNMIK PGOV YI EU OPDC PM |
07PANAMA461 | PANAMA: KOSOVO DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (C) Supportive of UN Special Envoy for Kosovo Ahtisaari's recommendations, Panama was engaging Russia to avoid a Russian veto and secure adoption of a UN Security Council Resolution that supported Ahtisaari's recommendations, including his proposal for Kosovo's supervised independence, Panama [...] | 2007-03-27 21:57:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNMIK UNSC UN YI EU PM |
07PANAMA557 | PANAMA SUPPORTIVE BUT WARY ON KOSOVO [...] (C) "Rest assured, we're on the same page" on Kosovo future status, First VP and FM Samuel Lewis told Ambassador Eaton and POLOFF when he delivered reftel demarche on April 12. Lewis expressed Panamanian support of the UNMIK Administrator's recommendations -- including independence -- but a [...] | 2007-04-12 22:53:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNMIC PGOV YL PM |
07PARAMARIBO549 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.S. DRAFT RESOLUTION ON [...] (U) Per reftel, post delivered demarche to Chantal Elsenhout, Deputy Head of International Organizations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Suriname, on Monday, October 15. Elsenhout said she would contact members of Suriname's UN mission about the matter. Elsenhout did not have any immediat [...] | 2007-10-16 17:04:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UN PHUM KWMN SOCI NS |
07PARAMARIBO559 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CANDIDACY OF DAVID WALKER FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-25 18:36:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC UN UNGA NS |
07PARAMARIBO561 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-25 18:36:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KTIA UN NS |
07PARAMARIBO599 | SURINAME MAY ABSTAIN ON UNGA 3RD COMMITTEE [...] (U) SUMMARY: On November 19 Post delivered the message per reftel to Government of Suriname (GOS) Ambassador to the United Nations Henry McDonald, GOS Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Permanent Secretary Jane Aarland-Nanhu, and GOS MFA Acting Head of International Organizations Rosita Hubar [...] | 2007-11-19 19:56:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UN NS |
07PARAMARIBO603 | SURINAME TO SUPPORT UNGA BURMA RESOLUTION, [...] (U) Government of Suriname (GOS) Ministry of Foreign Affairs official Ambassador Robby D. Ramlakhan, the point-man for this year's UNGA 3rd Committee slate, told Ambassador Lisa Bobbie Schreiber Hughes on November 21 that Suriname will break precedent and support the human rights resolution [...] | 2007-11-21 19:47:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UN BM NS BO IR KN |
07PARIS1193 | FRANCE ON GLOBAL FORUM V ON FIGHTING CORRUPTION [...] (U) Econ Counselor raised reftel points on the Global Forum on Fighting Corruption with DAS-equivalent Cyrille Pierre and desk officer Francois Legue on March 23 and 26. Legue said the French delegation to Johannesburg would be led by Ambassador-at-Large for the Fight Against Organized Crime, [...] | 2007-03-26 16:45:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON AORC ASEC KCRM KCOR KJUS PREL IO UN FR |
07PARIS1530 | FRENCH HEDGE ON COMPACT SIGNING EVENT [...] (C) Poloff delivered Reftel points to MFA Senior Iraq Desk Officer Bernard Chappedelaine on April 16. Chappedelaine noted that it might be difficult to secure French ministerial representation at the Compact signing event due to the French presidential elections; he predicted that the French w [...] | 2007-04-17 12:19:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR EAID EFIN EG IC PGOV PREL UN GCC EU |
07PARIS2663 | UNSCR 1747/OECD: FRENCH VIEWS ON IRAN EXPORT CREDITS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-21 08:03:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EFIN ETRD EXIM OECD UN IR FR |
07PARIS4201 | FRANCE: DAS ANDERSON BILATS ON UN REFORM, WIPO, ICAO, UNEP, [...] (SBU) On October 3, DAS Gerald Anderson met with MFA PDAS-equivalents Marc Giacomini of the Directorate for UN and International organizations, and Jean-Hughes Simon-Michel of the Directorate for Strategic Affairs, Security and Disarmament. Anderson presented an overview of the U.S. transparenc [...] | 2007-10-05 17:01:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON UN ETRD EAIR FR |
07PARIS4270 | U.S. DRAFT RESOLUTION ON "CONDEMNING THE USE OF [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Raphael Trapp, MFA desk officer covering the Rights of Women and Children on October 16. Trapp said the French support the resolution in principle, but national preferences aside, they are obligated to join the EU consensus. 2. (SBU) Without d [...] | 2007-10-16 14:13:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UN PHUM KWMN SOCI FR |
07PARIS4420 | DAS BARKS-RUGGLES' MEETINGS WITH FRENCH [...] (C) Summary. On October 24-25 in Paris, DRL DAS Erica Barks-Ruggles and Embassy staff advanced U.S. positions regarding thematic and country-specific resolutions proposed for the upcoming UN Third Committee with DAS-equivalent for Human Rights, Humanitarian and Social Affairs Jacques Pellet, [...] | 2007-11-06 08:03:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KTIA UN FR |
07PARIS541 | MINUSTAH MANDATE RENEWAL DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel A demarche on February 9. We thanked GOF for its participation in the Haiti Contact Group meeting on February 1 and requested that the GOF urge China to support a one-year MINUSTAH mandate renewal. We delivered demarche to MFA DAS-equivalent for Mexico, Central Amer [...] | 2007-02-09 16:14:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OVIP PREL EAID PGOV EFIN UN HA EUN SF ID PE |
07PARIS923 | SIGIR STUART BOWEN RAISES AWARENESS OF IRAQ [...] (C) Post took advantage of the presence of Special Inspector for Iraq Reconstruction, Stuart Bowen, to inform a broad array of GOF officials and press outlets of the points in reftel. Bowen, en route to Washington from Iraq, had scheduled, in a public diplomacy effort, a series of meetings wi [...] | 2007-03-09 17:20:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OIC ARAB LEAGUE UN IZ FR |
07PORTAUPRINCE126 | HAITIAN FM LIKELY TO ATTEND HAITI MEETING [...] (SBU) Per reftel, post delvered a diplomatic note containing the invitationto the January 19 Haiti Key Players meeting on Fbruary 1 in Washington DC. Foreign Minister Jea Renald Clerisme's chief of staff, Anthony Dessoures, told Polcouns on January 13 that Clerisme's chedule was clear and th [...] | 2007-01-24 19:55:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL EAID PGOV EFIN UN HA EUN |
07PORTAUPRINCE1644 | HAITI RESPONDS POSITIVELY TO U.S. DRAFT RESOLUTION [...] (U) Poloff presented text of the draft resolution to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Political Director Wiener Jean-Baptiste October 1, and explained the U.S. position per talking points in reftel. On October 9, Jean-Baptiste said he shared the content of the draft resolution with Minister of For [...] | 2007-10-10 12:43:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UN PHUM KWMN SOCI HA |
07PORTOFSPAIN1009 | Demarche on U.S. Draft Resolution on Condemning Rape as an [...] (SBU) PolCouns met October 2 with Delia Chatoor of the MFA's Multilateral Affairs Division and presented reftel demarche. Without committing to the specific resolution, Ms. Chatoor noted the GOTT supported the intention of the draft. She added that she would forward the text to the Attorney Ge [...] | 2007-10-05 19:57:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC UN PHUM KWMN SOCI TD |
07PRAGUE1116 | CZECHS LEAN TOWARD SUPPORTING RESOLUTION ON [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-01 11:48:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC UN PHUM KWMN SOCI EU EZ |
07PRAGUE1165 | CZECHS SUPPORTIVE OF US AND EU PRIORITIES FOR UNGA [...] (SBU) Summary: Czech Director of Human Rights and Transition Policy, Gabriela Dlouha, who will travel to New York November 12 to assume the lead of the Czech delegation negotiations on UNGA Third Committee issues, welcomed the US perspective on these resolutions and indicated that the GOCR wil [...] | 2007-10-22 15:00:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EZ KTIA PHUM PREL UN UNHCR |
07PRAGUE1172 | CUBA EMBARGO RESOLUTION - NO CHANGE EXPECTED IN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-25 15:14:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA ETRD PHUM UN CU EZ XG |
07PRAGUE1185 | CZECHS: NO COMMENT ON WALKER FOR UN INDEPENDENT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-31 08:25:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC PREL UN UNGA EZ EU |
07PRAGUE1190 | CZECHS COMMIT TO WALKER FOR UN INDEPENDENT AUDIT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-01 08:45:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC PREL UN UNGA EZ EU XG |
07PRAGUE145 | CZECHS DO NOT PLAN TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE DISTINCT [...] (SBU) Czech MFA Director of the UN Department Jan Kara informed Poloff on February 14 that the Czechs do not/not plan to donate to the Distinct Entity Trust Fund. Kara explained that the Czechs have heard nothing from the UN Secretariat since they donated to the Fund in 2004 or 2005, SIPDIS [...] | 2007-02-14 13:15:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UN IZ EZ |
07PRAGUE322 | CZECHS SUPPORT UN KOSOVO PROPOSALS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-26 15:19:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNMIK UN YI EUN EZ |
07PRAGUE427 | UNSCR 1747/OECD: CZECH REPUBLIC DOES NOT TRADE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-20 15:42:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EFIN ETRD EXIM OECD UN EZ |
07PRAGUE466 | CZECH REPUBLIC REQUESTS SUPPORT FOR ITS CANDIDACY [...] (U) The Czech Republic has formally requested USG support for its candidacy for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council for the period 2008-09. 2. (U) The unofficial translation of the April 17 diplomatic note is as follows: "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic [...] | 2007-04-30 14:36:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UN EZ |
07PRAGUE861 | CZECH REPUBLIC ON JULY 23 GAERC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Czechs expect Kosovo to dominate GAERC discussions and noted continue divide within the EU on final Kosovo status. Czechs believe forcing a vote now in the UNSC would result in a Russian veto that would leave a future EU mission without a legal mandate. On Ukraine, the focus wil [...] | 2007-07-20 17:25:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN UN EZ |
07PRAGUE929 | CZECHS SUPPORT U.S. POSITION ON KOSOVO [...] (C) Summary: The Czech position on Kosovo remains strongly supportive of U.S. and Contact Group thinking. The Czech MFA supports the upcoming round of talks between Belgrade and Pristina, but remains skeptical a mutual agreement will be reached. The MFA predicts the Czechs would recognize a [...] | 2007-08-09 14:57:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KV EUN UN EZ |
07PRETORIA2041 | SUDAN: ADDITIONAL SANCTIONS OVER LACK OF PROGRESS [...] (SBU) PolCouns delivered reftel demarche to SAG DFA Chief Director, Africa Multilateral, Rubushe on 05 June, emphasizing USG commitment to the UN/AU effort to achieve stability and deployment of the Hybrid peacekeeping mission in Darfur with a robust Charter VII mandate. In response to Rubush [...] | 2007-06-06 13:20:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PREL AU UN SC SF |
07PRETORIA3765 | AMBASSADOR DELIVERS DEMARCHE ON AVIATION ASSETS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-25 15:10:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO UN SU SF |
07QUITO1068 | ECUADOR'S VIEWS ON UPCOMING HRC VOTE [...] (C) Acting PolChief delivered demarche May 11 to Lourdes Puma Puma, MFA Director General for Multilateral Affairs. Puma said that the GOE understood USG concerns regarding Belarus' inclusion in the Human Rights Council and agreed that it would compromise the council's future credibility. Pum [...] | 2007-05-11 17:32:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PHUM PREL UN BO EC |
07QUITO1164 | GOE AMBIVALENT ON IRAN-VENEZUELA RELATIONS [...] (C) PolOff conveyed RefTel points on May 15 to MFA Director General for Multilateral Affairs, Lourdes Puma. After listening to our views, Puma asserted that "it is not Ecuador's way to insert itself into the affairs of other sovereign nations and tell them with whom they should be friends." [...] | 2007-05-18 20:51:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN BO EC |
07QUITO1361 | ECUADOR SKEPTICAL OF US TRANSPARENCY INITIATIVE [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on June 13 to Lourdes Puma Puma, MFA Director General for Multilateral Affairs. Puma expressed GOE's skepticism regarding the various proposals contained in the initiative, noting that in the past, such practices were designed to link political preferenc [...] | 2007-06-14 14:27:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UN EC |
07QUITO2531 | ECUADOR DEMARCHE RESPONSE: UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered relevant points on U.S. UNGA Third Committee country specific resolutions to MFA's Multilateral Affairs Directorate on November 16, 2007. We received a response on November 20 from Lourdes Puma, MFA Director General of Multilateral Affairs. 2. (C) Puma first stated [...] | 2007-11-21 18:54:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KTIA UN EC |
07QUITO575 | GOE REACTION TO HRC OBJECTIVES [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered reftel points on March 9 to Lourdes Puma Puma, MFA Director General for multilateral affairs. Puma confirmed that Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Maria Fernanda Espinoza will attend the opening sessions of the Human Rights Council, as well as the disarmament commission. [...] | 2007-03-12 21:29:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL AORC SNAR UN CO EC |
07QUITO632 | GOE SHARES CONCERN OVER ZIMBABWE VIOLENCE [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel points on March 16 to Lourdes Puma Puma, MFA Director General for Multilateral Affairs. Puma expressed GOE's concern over the March 13 violence in Zimbabwe, noting that Ecuador has always spoken out against such violence. Puma described the attacks of peaceful [...] | 2007-03-16 20:12:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UN BO EC |
07QUITO644 | UN INTERNAL ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered the points in reftel on UN reform and the internal administration of justice to MFA Director General for Multilateral Affairs Lourdes Puma on March 15. Puma noted she was preparing instructions for New York and thanked us for the information. She agreed that it appeared [...] | 2007-03-20 12:04:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | APER ACABQ AORC EC PREL UNGA UN |
07QUITO905 | GOE FOREIGN MINISTER WILL NOT ATTEND ICI [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-20 16:06:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN EG IAEA PGOV UN GCC EC |
07QUITO985 | GOE WOULD NOT LIKELY SUPPORT IRAQ COALITION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-30 22:07:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PHUM PREL UN BO EC MARR MOPS PTER IZ |
07RABAT1586 | MOROCCAN REBUTTAL OF ALGERIAN DRAFT 4TH COMMITTEE [...] (C) MFA Secretary General Omar Hilale convoked Ambassador and counterparts from the Americas again on October 9, to discuss UNGA Fourth Committee consideration of the Western Sahara issue. Hilale called this follow-up to his briefing of October 5 (ref. A),to explain the Moroccan response to [...] | 2007-10-09 17:04:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN AG MO |
07RANGOON1089 | DEMARCHES ON PIRACY DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-05 10:54:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KCSY PHSA PBTS PGOV PREL EWWT UN UNSC |
07REYKJAVIK334 | KOSOVO: ICELAND AGREES AHTISAARI PLAN ONLY REAL OPTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-13 17:35:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL UNMIK NATO UN YI IC |
07REYKJAVIK80 | ICELAND APPROVES OF AHTISAARI'S WORK ON KOSOVO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-26 17:25:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNMIK UN YI IC |
07REYKJAVIK93 | ICELAND STRONGLY SUPPORTS AHTISAARI'S PROPOSAL ON KOSOVO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-02 10:05:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNMIK UN YI IC |
07RIGA227 | LATVIA SUPPORTS UN KOSOVO PROPOSALS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-27 14:58:00 | Embassy Riga | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNMIK UN YI EU LG |
07RIGA409 | LATVIA WILL NOT PROVIDE UNAMI MIDDLE RING SECURITY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-29 15:16:00 | Embassy Riga | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MARR KPKO UN IZ LG |
07RIGA738 | LATVIA SUPPORTIVE OF US POINTS ON BURMA [...] (C) PolEconOff delivered reftel points on Burma October 2 to Signe Jansone, the A/S level official that covers Asia at the MFA. Jansone agreed broadly with the points raised. Specifically, she stated that the GOL supports stronger sanctions against the Burmese regime and further efforts to en [...] | 2007-10-02 14:36:00 | Embassy Riga | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UN BM LG |
07RIGA939 | Latvia to decide in January on Committee for Elimination of [...] We reported ref B that Latvia would make a decision on whom to support for the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination closer to the Jan. 17 date of the election. We followed up with the MFA, who confirmed that Latvia will make its decision the week of January 7, following the ho [...] | 2007-12-28 09:17:00 | Embassy Riga | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM UN LG |
07RIYADH1641 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO SAUDI MFA: U.S. CANDIDATE [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche and talking points to Saudi MFA on August 5. Mr. Abdulrahman Al-Rassi, First Secretary in the International Organizations Department, SIPDIS noted Ms. Gaer's impressive qualifications and said he would submit the talking points and Ms. Gaer's curriculum [...] | 2007-08-06 12:16:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UN PHUM SA |
07RIYADH1649 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO SAUDI MFA: U.S. CANDIDATE [...] Poloff delivered reftel demarche and talking points to Saudi MFA on August 5. Mr. Abdulrahman Al-Rassi, First Secretary in the International Organizations Department, SIPDIS noted Ms. Gaer's impressive qualifications and said he would submit the talking points and Ms. Gaer's curriculum vita [...] | 2007-08-07 10:44:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UN PHUM SA |
07RIYADH2059 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO SAUDI MFA: U.S. CANDIDATE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-07 14:31:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UN PHUM SA |
07RIYADH2138 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED REGARDING UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE [...] (U) Post delivered reftel demarche on October 23, 2007 to the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). There is no response from the SAG to date regardign a meeting request. Post will follow-up with a meeting with an appropriate official from the MFA and provide results via separate cable. F [...] | 2007-10-24 11:50:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KTIA UN |
07RIYADH2243 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO SAUDI MFA: UN GENERAL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-12 14:06:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UN PHUM SA |
07RIYADH2304 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED REGARDING UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-19 12:14:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UN PHUM SA |
07RIYADH2447 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED UNGA PLENARY VOTES ON [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-10 10:14:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UN PHUM SA |
07RIYADH2505 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ELECTION FOR THE COMMITTEE ON [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel demarche and talking points to Saudi MFA, November 18. Post received the following response from the MFA on December 16. Begin Translated Text: With reference to the Embassy's note number 07-1648 dated November 18, 2007 regarding the request of the United States [...] | 2007-12-16 11:52:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UN PHUM SA |
07ROME1233 | ITALIANS HESITANT ON TOUGHER SUDAN SANCTIONS [...] (C) Poloff met June 1 with Fabrizio Pignatelli, MFA Horn of Africa Office Director, to discuss ref A points and press the GOI to support, within the UNSC, a strong sanctions resolution against Sudan. (Note: Ref A points were also delivered to MFA UN Office Director Leonardo Bencini, who of [...] | 2007-06-05 16:53:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ETTC UN SU EU IT |
07ROME1281 | BANK OF ITALY PUTS BANK SEPAH ROME UNDER "SPECIAL [...] (S/NF) The Bank of Italy (BOI) regulator overseeing BOI administration of Bank Sepah Rome since passage of UNSCR 1747 informed Econoff June 8 that BOI "special administration" of the branch is now in place. The Ministry of Finance approved BOI's request to move to a special administration of [...] | 2007-06-11 16:31:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET//NOFORN | KNNP PARM PREL EFIN KTFN ETTC ECON UN IR IT |
07ROME1310 | UNSCR 1747/OECD: ITALY WOULD LIKELY SUPPORT UNSCR [...] (C) Econoff met June 14 with Filippo Giansante, Ministry of Finance Chief of the Paris Club Division, to discuss options to restrict export credit flows to Iran through the OECD (refs A and B). (Note: Giansante is also an advisor to Ignazio Angeloni, President of Italy's export credit agenc [...] | 2007-06-14 11:45:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EFIN ETRD EXIM OECD UN EU IR IT |
07ROME1388 | ITALY AGREES HYBRID AU/UN FORCE IN DARFUR A [...] (C) Summary: During June 21 meetings with Italian officials, IO/PSC Office Director Douglas Wake discussed Sudan, Lebanon, Chad, and peacekeeping operations. On Darfur, Wake stressed the need to move forward quickly with the hybrid force while remaining willing to consider sanctions if Khart [...] | 2007-06-25 13:57:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PREL LE XF SU CD UN IT |
07ROME1400 | ITALY: ADDITIONAL DESIGNATIONS OF IRANIAN ENTITIES [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-27 11:09:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KNNP KN PARM IR UN IT |
07ROME1469 | ITALY - REQUEST FOR INDENTIFIER AND BACKGROUND [...] (SBU) Econoff delivered July 3 reftel non-paper requesting additional background information on individuals and entities listed in UNSCRs 1737 and 1747 to the MFA's Office for International Cooperation on Counterterrorism and the Ministry of Finance's Office for the Prevention of Financial C [...] | 2007-07-05 15:37:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KNNP PARM PREL UN IR IT |
07ROME1730 | ITALY: NO TO UNIFIL MANDATE CHANGE; SEEKS EARLY [...] (C) Summary. MFA Near East Office Director Luciano Pezzotti said August 7 that Italy did not want changes to the UNIFIL mandate. He asked for early inclusion in UNSC talks on mandate renewal. PM diplomatic adviser Marco Carnelos echoed this. Both GOI officials stressed to poloff the GOI's [...] | 2007-08-10 12:21:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UN XF LE IT |
07ROME1949 | D'ALEMA/IRAN: OPEN TO FURTHER UNSC SANCTIONS, [...] (C) The Ambassador engaged FM Massimo D'Alema on Iran and Syria in a meeting on September 12, shortly after the minister returned from trips to the EU GYMNICH, Cairo, Jerusalem, and Ramallah. The conversation also followed recent visits to Italy of Syrian VP al-Shara, Iranian DFM Jalili, Isr [...] | 2007-09-12 16:25:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IR AF LE XF UN KNNP IT |
07ROME2236 | ITALY: NO DECISION YET ON UN IAAC ELECTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-24 09:38:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AORC UN UNGA IT |
07ROME2241 | UN THIRD COMMITTEE: ITALY SUPPORTIVE OF USG [...] (C) Poloff met October 22 with MFA Office Director for Human Rights Laura Carpini to discuss USG priorities in the UN Third Committee as outlined reftel. 2. (C) Carpini said the EU position on "no-action" motions remained unchanged, and Italy supported open debate in the UN as a matter of p [...] | 2007-10-24 17:18:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNGA UN KTIA IT |
07ROME2249 | CUBA: ITALY SUPPORTS EMBARGO RESOLUTION, [...] (C) Poloff delivered Ref A and B demarches to MFA Office Director for Central America and the Caribbean Michele Pala and Office Director for Human Rights Laura Carpini on October 26. Poloff urged Italy to vote against, or at least abstain on, the UNGA Cuba embargo resolution, and sought agree [...] | 2007-10-26 13:17:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | UNGA ETRD PHUM UN CU IT |
07ROME2282 | ITALY TO VOTE FOR SPANISH CANDIDATE IN IAAC [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-31 16:59:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AORC UN UNGA IT |
07ROME393 | ITALY SUGGESTS IDEA OF LEBANON CONTACT GROUP WITH [...] (C) During February 22 and 23 meetings with senior Italian MFA officials, NEA DAS Robert Danin discussed the idea of an informal contact group on Lebanon to discuss implementation of UNSCR 1701's arms embargo. Danin suggested the informal group's members could include France, Germany, Italy, [...] | 2007-02-28 11:10:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV XF UN LE IT |
07ROME400 | ITALIAN MOD SAY LEBANESE ARMY STILL HAS A LONG WAY [...] (C) NEA DAS Danin met with senior Italian MFA and MOD officials to discuss developments in the Middle East Peace Process (MEPP) and Lebanon during February 22 and 23 meetings in Rome. The Italians were receptive to the idea of establishing an informal working group (see reftel),but suggeste [...] | 2007-03-01 09:36:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV XF UN LE IT |
07ROME472 | ITALIANS PROBE IRAQ, IRAN ON BAGHDAD CONFERENCE [...] (C) PolMinCouns delivered reftel points to MFA Director General for Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Affairs Cesare Ragaglini on March 7. Ragaglini said Italy believed the conferences were a step in the right direction and would support the outcome whether or not Italy received an invitation. [...] | 2007-03-08 15:32:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OIC UN IZ |
07ROME651 | FUNDING DECREE FOR ITALIAN MILITARY MISSIONS [...] March 27, the Italian Senate approved a government decree authorizing calendar year expenditures for "Italian Participation in Humanitarian and International Missions," all of Italy's military missions abroad The full Italian language text of the decree and a detailed English summary are avai [...] | 2007-03-30 11:43:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MCAP MOPS EAID PTER NATO UN AF AL LN SU SO |
07ROME820 | ICI: ITALIAN PARTICIPATION NOT YET SET FOR FORMAL [...] (SBU) EcMin met April 20 with MFA Iraq Task Force Director Gian Ludovico De Martino to discuss reftel points. De Martino reported that the MFA had not yet decided who would attend the ICI signing ceremony on May 3. De Martino's aide, Giovanni Scopa, noted that if FM D'Alema could not attend [...] | 2007-04-20 12:29:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN PGOV PREL UN EU IZ IT |
07ROME821 | UNSCR 1747/OECD: ITALIAN VIEWS ON COMMON LINE [...] (C) EcMin met April 20 with Giulio Terzi, MFA Director General for Multilateral Political Affairs and Human Rights, and staff to discuss ref A points. EcMin began by explaining that we decided to approach the MFA, since previous meetings with the Ministry of Finance (MOF) and SACE (Italy's e [...] | 2007-04-20 12:31:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL EFIN ETRD EXIM OECD UN IR IT |
07SANJOSE1905 | ALDIP ON UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE RESOLUTIONS [...] (U) On October 24, PolOff discussed reftel third committee issues with Montserrat Vargas Solorzano, Director of the Candidacies and United Nations Specialized Organizations Section of the MFA; Deyanira Ramirez Salas, Director of the International Organizations Section; and Viviana Tinoco, Dire [...] | 2007-10-25 16:00:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KTIA UN CS |
07SANJOSE1906 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CANDIDACY OF DAVID WALKER FOR [...] On October 24, PolOff met with Montserrat Vargas Solorzano, Director of the Candidacies and United Nations Specialized Organizations Section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) to request GOCR support of Mr. Walker's candidacy and to deliver his biographical data. 2. Vargas indicated [...] | 2007-10-25 16:01:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC UN UNGA CS |
07SANJOSE1927 | COSTA RICA TO VOTE AGAINST CUBA EMBARGO RESOLUTION [...] On October 25, we delivered reftel demarche to Montserrat Vargas Solorzano, Director of the Candidacies and the United Nations Specialized Organizations Sections of the MFA. 2. On October 30, we followed up with Christian Guillermet-Fernandez, Director General of the Foreign Policy Office [...] | 2007-10-31 14:28:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA ETRD PHUM UN CU CS |
07SANSALVADOR1999 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON DRAFT RESOLUTION "CONDEMNING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-04 22:41:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UN PHUM KWMN SOCI ES |
07SANSALVADOR2149 | EL SALVADOR DEMARCHE RESPONSE TO CANDIDACY OF [...] (U) On October 22, PolOff delivered reftel demarche and provided David Walker's biographic information to Gustavo Argueta, MFA Specialist in Charge of the United Nations. Argueta said that El Salvador recognized the need for effective oversight at the UN and said the MFA would review the info [...] | 2007-10-24 22:51:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC UNGA UN ES |
07SANSALVADOR2150 | EL SALVADOR: DEMARCHE RESPONSE ON UNGA THIRD [...] (U) Summary: On October 22, PolOff delivered reftel demarche to solicit support for U.S. priority resolutions in the UN General Assembly,s Third Committee to Gustavo Argueta, MFA Specialist in Charge of the United Nations. Argueta said El Salvador will review the country specific resolutions [...] | 2007-10-24 22:51:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KTIA UN |
07SANSALVADOR2174 | EL SALVADOR: CUBA EMBARGO RESOLUTION DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-29 18:21:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA ETRD PHUM UN CU ES |
07SANSALVADOR717 | EL SALVADOR: DEMARCHE ON ICI [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-17 21:07:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN EG EU PGOV PREL UN GCC ES |
07SANTIAGO238 | CHILE: SUPPORT FOR ONE-YEAR MINUSTAH MANDATE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-12 20:03:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EFIN HA PGOV PREL UN CI |
07SANTODOMINGO2227 | DEMARCHE ON RESOLUTION ON CONDEMNING THE USE OF [...] POLOFF delivered Reftel talking points on "Condemning the Use of Rape as an Instrument of State Policy" to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ambassador Pedro Blandino, Assistant Secretary for International Organizations Affairs, took our SIPDIS views on board but had no immediate reply. We [...] | 2007-10-01 18:22:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC UN PHUM KWMN SOCI DR |
07SANTODOMINGO2424 | UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE RESOLUTIONS: DEMARCHE [...] POLOFF delivered Reftel talking points, which solicit support for U.S. priority resolutions in the UN General Assembly's Third Committee, to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Deputy Foreign Minister Alejandra Liriano took our views on board but had no immediate reply. We will report any subse [...] | 2007-10-26 15:05:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KTIA UN DR |
07SANTODOMINGO2453 | DEMARCHE ON CUBA EMBARGO RESOLUTION DELIVERED [...] POLOFF delivered Reftel talking points on the annual UN General Assembly resolution introduced by Cuba condemning the U.S. economic embargo to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Deputy Foreign Minister Alejandra Liriano made no substantive response, but rather pledged to immediately inform Foreig [...] | 2007-10-30 17:00:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNGA UN CU DR |
07SANTODOMINGO2494 | CANDIDACY OF DAVID WALKER FOR UN IAAC: DEMARCHE [...] POLOFF delivered Reftel talking points on the nomination of Mr. David Walker for election to the UN Independent Audit Advisory Committee to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ambassador Pedro Blandino, Assistant Secretary for International Organizations, took our views on board but had no immedi [...] | 2007-11-02 17:31:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC UN UNGA DR |
07SARAJEVO1211 | BOSNIA - SILAJDZIC SUGGESTS RAISING SREBRENICA AT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Srebrenica Initiative Board announced plans to hold a public demonstration in front of parliament on June 11 in support if its demand for secession from Republika Srpska. Spokesmen for all three major Bosniak parties endorsed the demonstration. Earlier in the week, the Party [...] | 2007-06-01 15:16:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PGOV KAWC KJUS UN BK |
07SARAJEVO1987 | BOSNIA - LAJCAK DELIVERS POLICE REFORM STRATEGY TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: High Representative Miroslav Lajcak presented to Quint Ambassadors on September 18 his strategy for securing a deal on police reform. OHR will continue with technical talks on police reform while maintaining political pressure on party leaders to compromise. After a two-hour mee [...] | 2007-09-19 08:29:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCRM PINR EUN UN RS BK |
07SARAJEVO2425 | BOSNIA - HIGHREP'S NOVEMBER 15 REPORT TO THE UN [...] (U) This is an action message. See paragraph six. 2. (C) SUMMARY: High Representative Miroslav Lajcak will make his semi-annual report to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) against the backdrop Bosnia's most serious political crisis since Dayton. Bosnian Serb Chairman of the Counci [...] | 2007-11-13 16:54:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR EU UN BK |
07SARAJEVO526 | BOSNIA - HIGHREP BALKS AT ANNULLING CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (U) This is an action message. See paragraph six below. 2. (C) High Representative Christian Schwarz-Schilling convened a special session of the Steering Board Ambassadors (SBA) on March 7 to discuss the recently released decision by the Bosnian Constitutional Court calling on the Bosnian [...] | 2007-03-07 16:36:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KAWC BK UN |
07SARAJEVO752 | BOSNIA - OHR URGES SPEEDY RESOLUTION TO [...] (SBU) On April 5, the Office of the High Representative (OHR) convened a meeting of representatives from the U.S. and current European members of the Security Council and urged them to support a UK proposal that would end the current standoff between the Bosnian government and the UN over the [...] | 2007-04-05 16:35:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR UN BK |
07SARAJEVO937 | BOSNIA - TAKING ON RADICAL BOSNIAK MUSLIM POLITICS [...] (C) SUMMARY: We stepped up our efforts during the week of April 23 to undercut efforts, particularly of Bosniak member of the Tri-Presidency Haris Silajdzic, to further radicalize the political situation in Bosnia. We met with the Bosniak Party for Democratic Action (SDA) leadership to deliver [...] | 2007-04-30 05:35:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PGOV PINR PREL UN KJWC BK PK |
07SEOUL3266 | ROK WILLING TO PROSECUTE PIRATES, SEEKS [...] (C) In response to reftel demarche and non-paper, Park In-kook, Deputy Foreign Minister for International Organizations and Global Issues, agreed on the need for stronger multilateral enforcement mechanisms against piracy. In a November 6 meeting with the DCM, Park asked in particular about th [...] | 2007-11-06 06:26:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM KCSY PHSA PTER PREL EWWT UN UNSC IMO PM |
07SINGAPORE2081 | SINGAPORE NOT LOOKING TO UNDERMINE UN PROCUREMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-20 06:03:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AORC UN UNGA SN |
07SKOPJE866 | MACEDONIA WILL SUPPORT CANDIDACY OF DAVID WALKER [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-30 14:57:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC UN UNGA MK |
07SKOPJE913 | MACEDONIA SUPPORTS UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE RESOLUTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-21 14:55:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | KITA PHUM PREL UN MK |
07SOFIA1180 | BULGARIA LIKELY TO SUPPORT U.S. RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-02 11:45:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC UN PHUM KWUN SOCI EU BG |
07SOFIA1257 | BULGARIA TO CONSIDER CANDIDACY OF DAVID WALKER FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-24 11:05:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AORC UN UNGA |
07SOFIA1258 | UN THIRD COMMITTEE: BULGARIA LIKELY TO SUPPORT [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered reftel demarche to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Head of the Department for UN and Global Issues, Kamen Velichkov on October 22. He said he could not confirm final positions, but anticipated that the GOB would support the Belarus resolution, the elections resolution, [...] | 2007-10-24 11:05:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KTIA UN |
07SOFIA1275 | BULGARIA TO SUPPORT WALKER CANDIDACY, IF US SUPPORTS BULGARIAN CANDIDACY FOR INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-30 15:54:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC UN UNGA |
07SOFIA1348 | BULGARIA TO CONSIDER U.S. VIEWS ON UNCITRAL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-05 15:00:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UNCITRAL UN |
07SOFIA1382 | AMBASSADOR WISNER'S MEETINGS IN SOFIA ON KOSOVO [...] (C) Summary: On December 6 Special Representative to the Kosovo Status Talks Frank Wisner briefed Foreign Minister Kalfin and, in a separate meeting, members of parliament on the outcome of the Troika negotiations and next steps on Kosovo. Wisner told the Bulgarians that although the Troik [...] | 2007-12-18 05:11:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KV UN EU RU BU |
07SOFIA172 | BULGARIA READY TO HELP AHTISAARI [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ahtisaari deputy Albert Rohan asked Bulgarian Foreign Minister Kalfin February 7 to try to convince Bucharest to be more supportive of Ahtisaari's plan. In a subsequent conversation, Prime Minister Stanishev's Foreign Policy Advisor flagged for us the issue of the Kosovo-Macedoni [...] | 2007-02-09 14:48:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN UNMIK YI BG |
07SOFIA954 | BULGARIA SUPPORTIVE ON KOSOVO [...] Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel demarche August 7 to the MFA's Department Head for the Western Balkans Vania Andreeva and Western Balkan desk officer Angel Angelov. Andreeva agreed that a final solution following the Ahtisaari proposal, supported by a UNSCR, is the best solution. If an UNSCR [...] | 2007-08-08 06:55:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED | KV YI UN PGOV EU PREL BU |
07STATE138346 | (U) ASSISTANT SECRETARY WELCH'S SEPTEMBER 28, [...] (U) September 28, 2007, 3:00 p.m., New York. 2. (U) Participants: United States A/S David Welch, NEA Randall Kaailau, NEA/MAG (note taker) Morocco FM Mohamed Benaissa Amb. El Mustafa Sahel, Ambassador to the United Nations Amb. Youssef Amrani, DG of Bilateral Relations Mr. Nasser [...] | 2007-10-01 20:07:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINS KPKO XI UN |
07STATE144973 | GUIDANCE FOR UN SECURITY COUNCIL DEBATE ON THE UN [...] PURPOSE: This is an action request. The Department asks USUN to draw upon the themes and talking points stated in paragraph 2 for the UN Security Council debate on the UN Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) Annual Report on 17 October 2007. 2. THEMES AND TALKING POINTS: The United States [...] | 2007-10-16 22:54:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRS EUN UNGA UNSC ECOSOC UN |
07STATE145222 | UNGA WORKING GROUP ON ASSISTANCE TO VICTIMS OF [...] (U) The General Assembly Ad Hoc Working Group on Assistance and Support to Victims of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) (by UN staff or related personnel) will meet December 3-7, 2007 to discuss a draft statement of policy and draft strategy (A/60/877). The Chairman of the Working Group (W [...] | 2007-10-17 15:14:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPKO UN |
07STATE145598 | USG COMMENTS ON UNDPKO "CAPSTONE DOCTRINE" [...] (U) As part of its "peace operations 2010" reforms, the UN's Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO),with the help of more than 250 international experts meeting in workshops around the world, has developed a document that sets out for practitioners the guiding principles and core tasks [...] | 2007-10-17 22:13:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPKO UN MARR |
07STATE147491 | URGENT DARFUR DEMARCHE FOR AVIATION SUPPORT AND [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-23 14:20:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KPKO UN SU |
07STATE147667 | URGENT DARFUR DEMARCHE FOR AVIATION SUPPORT AND [...] Purpose and Objective: This is an action request. All Embassies on the action line are requested to make a high-level demarche by the Ambassador or the DCM requesting the host country to provide the support listed below for the UN-AU hybrid peacekeeping operation in Darfur, Sudan (UNAMID). [...] | 2007-10-23 17:32:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KPKO UN SU |
07STATE149147 | U.S. DELEGATION POSITION GUIDANCE FOR THE IRFFI [...] (SBU) This is an action cable for the U.S. delegates to the Meeting of the Donors Committee (DC) of the International Fund Facility for Iraq (IRFFI) in Bari, Italy on October 28-29. See reftel country clearance requests for the composition of the delegation. 2. (SBU) The agenda for the I [...] | 2007-10-25 21:12:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECIN ECON EUN UN IT IZ |
07STATE150043 | VOTING INSTRUCTION ON CUBA EMBARGO RESOLUTION [...] This is an action request. USUN is instructed to vote against the resolution on the Necessity of Ending the Economic, Commercial and Financial Embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba, to be considered by the UN General Assembly on October 30, drawing on the points in para [...] | 2007-10-29 18:45:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD PHUM UN CU |
07STATE152302 | INSTRUCTIONS (PART ONE) FOR THE RESOLUTION ON [...] This is an Action request. USUN is instructed to join in co-sponsoring and vote in favor of the resolution on The Situation in Afghanistan, begun in para 2, to be debated in the UN General Assembly on Monday, November 5. Because of the length of the resolution text, the Department is sending [...] | 2007-11-03 02:15:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM MOPS AF UN |
07STATE152304 | INSTRUCTIONS (PART TWO) FOR THE RESOLUTION ON [...] This is an action request. Below continues the resolution text of the resolution "The Situation in Afghanistan" from PART ONE of this instruction sent by separate cable. USUN is also instructed to use the points in para 3 in making our Explanation of Vote. 2. Continue resolution text: [...] | 2007-11-03 02:16:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM MOPPS UN AF |
07STATE152819 | UNGA: VOTING INSTRUCTIONS FOR ECOSOC MEMBERSHIP [...] On November 8, the UN General Assembly will vote on the members to be elected to ECOSOC for the term 2008-2011. This year there are no contested elections (there are as many states presenting themselves for election as there are seats to be elected). The Department is not opposed to any of t [...] | 2007-11-05 23:04:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON AORC UN |
07STATE15302 | REAPPOINTMENT OF SCSL REGISTRAR [...] (U) This is an action request - see paragraph 3. 2. (C) Department shares concerns about Lovemore Munlo's performance to date as SCSL Registrar. Allegations by the SCSL's own representative on the UN Management Committee and an AmCit employed by the Registry in Freetown (protect sources) [...] | 2007-02-07 14:38:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS KAWC UN SL |
07STATE159143 | INSTRUCTIONS -- G-77 AND CHINA RESOLUTION "ON THE [...] (U) As of November 20, negotiations on this draft resolution were not completed. The EU, OIC, and Israel are still discussing wording involving foreign occupation put forth by the OIC (OP 14). To balance the foreign occupation wording, Israel had proposed including wording containing the con [...] | 2007-11-21 17:05:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UN UNGA SOCI |
07STATE159204 | INSTRUCTIONS -- G-77 AND CHINA RESOLUTION "ON THE [...] (U) As of November 20, negotiations on this draft resolution were not completed. The EU, OIC, and Israel are still discussing wording involving foreign occupation put forth by the OIC (OP 14). To balance the foreign occupation wording, Israel had proposed including wording containing the con [...] | 2007-11-21 18:20:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UN UNGA SOCI |
07STATE159362 | SUDAN - SECRETARY TO CONVENE A MINISTERIAL ON THE [...] This is an action request, please see paras. 6-9. Responses are appreciated by Tuesday, November 27 at the latest. 2. (SBU) The United States is deeply concerned that the deadlock between the ruling-National Congress Party (NCP) and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) over thor [...] | 2007-11-21 21:57:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO UN SU PREL PHUM PGOV IGAD IT |
07STATE160488 | REVISED INSTRUCTIONS -- UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE [...] This instruction cable replaces State 158405. After sending State 158405, USDEL learned that the Beijing follow-up text is not a resolution, but a Chair's text. Unlike resolutions, Chair's texts cannot be voted. But a member state that disagrees with part or all of the text does have the op [...] | 2007-11-27 15:43:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UN UNGA KWMN SOCI |
07STATE160491 | REVISED INSTRUCTIONS -- WSSD RESOLUTION. [...] State 159204 was an instruction cable, sent on November 21, on the G-77/China resolution "On the Implementation of the Outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the Twenty-Fourth Special Session of the General Assembly." This cable supplements those instructions. 2. Paragr [...] | 2007-11-27 15:50:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UN UNGA SOCI |
07STATE161170 | UNGA: INSTRUCTIONS TO CALL FOR VOTE ON PARAGRAPH [...] USUN is instructed to call for a vote and vote "no" on operational paragraph 11 of agenda item 56 (d) - Sustainable development: protection of global climate for present and future generations of mankind and to deliver the EOV contained in paragraph 2 prior to the vote on this paragraph. 2 [...] | 2007-11-28 19:19:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | UN KGHG SENV ECON |
07STATE161819 | UNGA: INSTRUCTIONS TO JOIN CONSENSUS ON [...] Mission is instructed to join consensus on the following UNGA resolutions: Agenda Item 54 (g): Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) on its Twenty-fourth Session; Agenda Item 54 (a): Implementation of Agenda 21, the program for further implement [...] | 2007-11-30 00:09:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | UN KGHG SENV ECON |
07STATE161824 | SUDAN - UNAMID DEMARCHE REQUEST TO FOREIGN [...] Purpose and Objective: This is an action request. Embassy Madrid is requested to make a high-level demarche by the Ambassador to Foreign Minister Moratinos requesting Spain to provide helicopter (number 1 priority) or transport support for the United Nation-African Union Mission in Darfur ( [...] | 2007-11-30 00:37:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KPKO UN SU |
07STATE162747 | NON-PAPER ON EU/EC PARTICIPATION IN THE UN [...] (SBU) PURPOSE: This is an action request. Post is requested to deliver the following text on the United States' (US) position on European Union/European Community participation in the UN Peacebuilding Commission in a non-paper to an appropriate host counter-part. The text of the non-paper [...] | 2007-12-03 20:32:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRS EUN UNGA UNSC ECOSOC UN PO |
07STATE163387 | UNGA: INSTRUCTIONS TO CALL FOR VOTE ON PARAGRAPH [...] Mission is instructed to call for a vote and vote "no" on operational paragraph 17 of agenda item 54(e) Sustainable Development: Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Af [...] | 2007-12-04 22:11:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | UN SENV ECON |
07STATE164390 | INSTRUCTIONS -- UNGA SECOND COMMITTEE RESOLUTION [...] Action on "Women in Development" is expected either on Thursday, December 6 or Friday, December 7. 2. Paragraphs of concern. -- PP 2 reaffirms the outcomes of the Beijing Conference on Women and its five-year follow-up sessions. -- PP 5 contains the term "sexual and reproductive hea [...] | 2007-12-06 22:45:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UN UNGA KWMN SOCI |
07STATE164427 | UNGA:2-C INSTRUCTIONS TO JOIN CONSENSUS ON DEBT [...] This is an action request. 2. USUN is instructed to join consensus on the following draft resolution: "External debt and development: Towards a durable solution to the debt problems of developing countries." The Department congratulates USUN negotiators for their successful efforts to bri [...] | 2007-12-07 00:06:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EAID AORC UN |
07STATE164428 | UNGA:2-C INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTE NO ON RESOLUTION ON [...] This is an action request. 2. USUN is instructed to call for a vote and vote "no" on the draft resolution "International Trade and Development." In addition to our disagreement with many parts of the resolution text, we were particularly disappointed with the G77's refusal to engage in di [...] | 2007-12-07 00:07:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD AORC UN |
07STATE166776 | GUIDANCE FOR 13 DECEMBER 2007 SECURITY COUNCIL [...] PURPOSE. This is an action request. The Department asks USUN to draw upon the following three themes for the United Nations (UN) Security Council consultations on the UN-AU Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) on 13 December 2007: A) Welcome the progress between the UN and Government of Sudan (GOS [...] | 2007-12-13 19:58:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPKO UN SU |
07STATE166909 | DEMARCHE INSTRUCTION ON KOSOVO FINAL STATUS [...] (SBU) This is an action request. The Department requests that Embassies in current and new (2008) non-European members of the UN Security Council Countries (except Beijing) deliver the following demarche on Kosovo at the highest appropriate level before December 17. This message is info onl [...] | 2007-12-14 01:53:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI EU |
07STATE167108 | INSTRUCTIONS FOR STATEMENT ON THE OPEN-ENDED [...] The Department authorizes USUN to deliver the following statement during the session of the Open-Ended Working Group on Security Council reform, to be held December 14. 2. Mr. President, -- Thank you for convening this meeting of the Open-Ended Working Group. This group made significant [...] | 2007-12-14 16:50:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | UNSC PREL UN |
07STATE167208 | INSTRUCTIONS -- UNGA SECOND COMMITTEE RESOLUTION [...] Mission is instructed to co-sponsor the resolution on emergency humanitarian assistance. RICE [...] | 2007-12-14 19:02:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UN UNGA |
07STATE167215 | INSTRUCTIONS -- UNGA SECOND COMMITTEE RESOLUTION [...] Mission is instructed to join consensus on this resolution. No statement is needed at the time of action. RICE [...] | 2007-12-14 19:08:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UN UNGA |
07STATE167257 | INSTRUCTIONS -- UNGA SECOND COMMITTEE RESOLUTION [...] Mission is instructed to join consensus on the tsunami resolution. No statement is needed at the time of action. RICE [...] | 2007-12-14 20:05:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UN UNGA |
07STATE167258 | INSTRUCTIONS -- UNGA SECOND COMMITTEE RESOLUTION, [...] Mission is instructed to co-sponsor the Relief to Development resolution. RICE [...] | 2007-12-14 20:06:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UN UNGA |
07STATE167353 | UNGA: INSTRUCTIONS ON "NEW GLOBAL HUMAN ORDER" [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paras. 2 and 3. 2. (U) The Department instructs USUN to delay consideration of the resolution under UN General Assembly (UNGA) agenda item 50, "New Global Human Order," entitled "The role of the UN in promoting a new global human order" (A/62/L.35),[...] | 2007-12-15 00:22:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN AORC UN |
07STATE170092 | SUDAN - DEMARCHE ON RETAINING UNMIS FORCE [...] This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 6 and 7. 2. (SBU) Background: The tour of UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) Force Commander Lt. General Jasbir Singh Lidder is set to end in January 2008. We understand that Lidder would like to extend his tour of duty with UNMIS and that [...] | 2007-12-26 19:27:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | SU PREL PKO UN MARR PEACEKEEPINGFORCES |
07STATE171224 | RESPONSE TO FM MORATINOS' INVITATION FOR THE SECRETARY'S ATTENDANCE AT THE ALLIANCE OF CIVILIZATIONS [...] Please deliver the following message from Assistant Secretary Fried to the Foreign Minister of Spain, SIPDIS Miguel Moratinos, at the earliest opportunity. The Department does not intend to release this letter but has no objections if the Government of Spain wishes to do so. There will b [...] | 2007-12-31 18:23:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UN OPDC AOIC SCUL SP TU |
07STATE17978 | KOSOVO CLASSIFIED WEBSITE LAUNCHED [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-13 14:46:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PREL SI UN |
07STATE17981 | KOSOVO CLASSIFIED WEBSITE LAUNCHED [...] (U) On February 2, 2007, EUR and S/CRS launched a new Kosovo website on the SIPRNET. This new site may be accessed at: http://www.state.sgov.gov/s/crs/. The new SIPRNET site serves as a gateway to USG resources on the Kosovo status process, including: -- recent cables -- intelligence commu [...] | 2007-02-13 14:56:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL SI UN |
07STATE18053 | GEORGIA/ABKHAZIA: BERLIN FRIENDS MTG - JAN 22 [...] (C) SUMMARY. DAS Matthew Bryza attended a January 22 meeting in Berlin of the UN Friends of the Secretary General for Georgia (FSG or Friends) hosted by the German MFA. The Friends finalized a list of substantive confidence-building measures to be discussed with the sides at Geneva on Febru [...] | 2007-02-13 15:47:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN GG |
07STATE37360 | INSTRUCTIONS ON RESOLUTION REQUESTING OBSERVER [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 4. 2. (S) Per reftel, USUN was instructed on March 16 to join consensus on the resolution granting UNGA observer status to the Islamic Development Bank Group (IDB). Following receipt of reftel, USUN was approached by the Israeli Mission to the [...] | 2007-03-23 17:08:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | OFDP PTER UN |
07STATE73693 | SUDAN: Additional Sanctions Over Lack of Progress [...] (U) This is an action request. Posts are requested to draw from the following and demarche host governments at the highest level appropriate. --------------------------------------------- ------- OBJECTIVES: Notification of Additional Sanctions and Request to Follow Suit ----------------- [...] | 2007-05-30 02:21:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ETTC UN SU EUN |
07STATE73696 | SUDAN: Additional Sanctions Over Lack of Progress [...] (U) This is an action request. Posts are requested to draw from the following and demarche host governments at the highest level appropriate. Info addressees may use the objectives and background materials at their discretion. --------------------------------------------- -------- Objec [...] | 2007-05-30 02:24:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD AU UN SU |
07STATE84918 | SUDAN: Response to Egypt's Proposal on the AU/UN [...] Egyptian FM Aboul Gheit sent a verbal message to Secretary Rice on May 10 proposing ideas on how to SIPDIS reinvigorate the Darfur peace process. Please deliver the following letter from Secretary Rice. No signed original will follow. 2. BEGIN TEXT: Dear Mr. Minister: Please accept [...] | 2007-06-18 20:23:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPKO AU UN SU EG OPDC |
07STOCKHOLM69 | SWEDEN: DEMARCHE ON KOSOVO TIMELINE [...] (c) Polcouns made reftel demarche urging support for Ahtisaari's proposed timeline 1/19 to MFA Deputy Director General and Head of Department for Eastern Europe and Central Asia Ambassador Mats Staffansson, who was joined by Western Balkans Head Lars Wahlund. Polcouns also raised the issue w [...] | 2007-01-19 15:20:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI EU OPDC SW |
07SUVA502 | FIJI MILITARY SENDING MURDER SUSPECTS TO UNAMI [...] (C) We have received information that o/a Oct. 27 the Republic of Fiji Military Forces (RFMF) will deploy to UNAMI in Iraq ten soldiers who allegedly participated in the beating deaths of two civilians early this year, the only confirmed killings related to the military "clean up" campaign aft [...] | 2007-10-25 18:25:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL PHUM KPKO FJ UN IZ |
07SUVA509 | UN KEY ROLE IN STOPPING FIJI SUSPECTS DEPLOYMENT [...] (C) According to a well-placed embassy source in Fiji Immigration, a UN intervention is what kept the Republic of Fiji Military Forces (RFMF) headquarters from deploying 7 soldiers and one policeman, all charged with murder (see reftels),to UNAMI last Saturday. Reportedly a letter from the U [...] | 2007-10-29 18:31:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL PHUM KPKO FJ UN IZ |
07SUVA53 | FIJI UPDATE 1/23/17: BAINIMARAMA LOOKING NORTH; [...] (C) In reaction to aid and visa restrictions imposed by Western governments, particularly Australia and New Zealand, Commodore Bainimarama announced plans to send a delegation of ministers, senior officials and businessmen to China, India, Malaysia, and Indonesia in order to diversify sources [...] | 2007-01-22 21:53:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PHUM PINR ASEC UN EU CH IN MY ID |
07TALLINN116 | ESTONIA UNCERTAIN ON SUPPORT FOR UN MIDDLE RING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-22 15:21:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UN IZ EN |
07TALLINN202 | ESTONIA SUPPORTS UN KOSOVO PROPOSALS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-26 14:18:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNMIK UN YI EU EN |
07TALLINN321 | KOSOVO: ESTONIA SUPPORTS DRAFT UNSC RESOLUTION [...] (C) On May 16, Poloff delivered reftel (Ref A) points to Raul Toomas, MFA Kosovo Desk Officer, and confirmed the Government of Estonia's (GOE) support for the Ahtisaari Plan for Kosovo. Estonia's Mission to the UN in New York had already sent the MFA a summary of the draft UN Security Council [...] | 2007-05-17 13:31:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL YI UN EN |
07TALLINN376 | ESTONIA: ADDITIONAL SUDAN SANCTIONS [...] (SBU) On May 31, we delivered reftel points to Marin Mottus, MFA Director for the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America, and Keiu Saral, MFA Africa Desk Officer. On June 6, Saral informed us that since Estonia has no diplomatic relations with Sudan, it will support the EU's common position th [...] | 2007-06-08 05:06:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ETRD ETTC UN SU EUN EN |
07TALLINN40 | DEMARCHE ON KOSOVO STATUS PROCESS TIMELINE [...] (C) On January 20, Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel points on Kosovo to Kristina Meius, European Correspondent and Raul Toomas, Attache in the Central and Northern European Division of the MFA. Toomas and Meius said the GOE agrees the process for determining Kosovo's status must move forward. [...] | 2007-01-22 13:24:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNMIK EUN OPDC EN PGOV |
07TALLINN518 | ESTONIA'S VIEW ON KOSOVO NEXT STEPS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-10 08:54:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EU KV YI UN EN |
07TASHKENT1729 | UZBEKISTAN: U.S. DRAFT RESOLUTION ON "CONDEMNING [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel information to MFA U.S. Affairs Chief Ismat Fayzullaev on October 4. Fayzullaev agreed that the draft resolution dealt with a serious issue and that he would refer the information to their appropriate officials at the MFA and the UN. He promised to inform post i [...] | 2007-10-04 09:57:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC UN PHUM KWMN SOCI UZ |
07TBILISI2485 | GEORGIA: U.S. DRAFT RESOLUTION ON "CONDEMNING THE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-05 03:03:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PHUM KWMN SOCI UN GG |
07TBILISI2661 | GEORGIAN RESPONSE TO DAVID WALKER CANDIDACY FOR UN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-26 11:43:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC UNGA UN GG |
07TBILISI2675 | GEORGIA WILL SUPPORT DAVID WALKER FOR UN IAAC [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-29 11:53:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC UNGA UN GG |
07TBILISI2842 | GEORGIA: U.S. DRAFT RESOLUTION ON "CONDEMNING THE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-16 09:50:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PHUM KWMN SOCI UN GG |
07TBILISI711 | EUR DAS MATT BRYZA'S MARCH 29 MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary: In a March 29 meeting with Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Noghaideli, EUR DAS Matt Bryza discussed the recent attack on Georgian government buildings in Kodori and rising tensions in the Gali region, and their relationship to the debate over the next UNOMIG mandate renewal in the U [...] | 2007-04-02 10:21:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG GG AR RU TX UN |
07TBILISI725 | EUR DAS MATT BRYZA'S MARCH 29 MEETING WITH [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-02 11:35:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG GG AR RU TX UN |
07TELAVIV2425 | UNTSO: GOLAN UNDER CONTROL, SOUTHERN LEBANON [...] (U) The commander of United Nations Treaty Supervision Organization (UNTSO),Major General Ian Gordon (Australia),called on the Ambassador on August 8 to discuss the situation on the ground in his areas of operation, particularly the Lebanese-Israeli border and the Golan Heights. UNTSO is an [...] | 2007-08-10 06:05:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO MOPS UN SY LE IS |
07TELAVIV763 | UNSYG IN JERUSALEM MARCH 24-26 [...] (SBU) AS REPORTED REFTELS, UNSYG BAN KI-MOON WILL TRAVEL TO JERUSALEM AT THE END OF MARCH FOR MEETINGS WITH UN STAFF, AS WELL AS ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN LEADERS. ACCORDING TO THE UN OFFICER PLANNING THE TRIP, THE UNSYG IS SCHEDULED TO ARRIVE AT BEN GURION AIRPORT LATE ON MARCH 24. UN OFFICIAL [...] | 2007-03-13 15:34:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UN IS |
07THEHAGE742 | UNSCR 1747/OECD: DUTCH SAY COMMON LINE ON [...] (SBU) OECD Export Credit Group Chair Nicole Bolen says adopting a common line to eliminate new edium and long-term export credits to Iran's government may be a challenge. Bollen was non-committal on whether the Dutch would support U.S. proposals for the common line during the April 23 semi-ann [...] | 2007-04-20 13:22:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UN PREL EFIN ETRD OECD EXIM NL |
07THEHAGUE1035 | NETHERLANDS/SUDAN: SUPPORTING MORE SANCTIONS [...] (C) Summary: The Netherlands strongly supports a UNSC resolution on Sudan sanctions and is interested in assisting. The Dutch will send a senior representative next week to South Africa, to discuss Sudan. Should a UNSC resolution fail, the Dutch are prepared to work within the EU for a stron [...] | 2007-06-01 13:00:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN ETRD ETTC UN SU NL |
07THEHAGUE1252 | UNSCR 1747/OECD: DUTCH WILL NOT REPLY TO U.S. [...] (U) Econoff delivered ref (a) and (b) points June 18 to Ministry of Finance Officials Evert Houtman, Coordinator International Financing Issues, Export Credit Insurance and Investment Guarantees Division, and Nicole Bollen, Coordinator Debt Issues and also OECD Export Credit Group Chair. [...] | 2007-06-28 14:03:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | UN PREL EFIN ETRD OECD EXIM NL |
07THEHAGUE1627 | NETHERLANDS: HUMAN RIGHTS RESOLUTIONS [...] (U) SUMMARY: On August 31, 2007, poloff delivered reftel points to Birgitta Tazelaar, Deputy Head of the MFA's Human Rights Division, and Joris Geeven, policy officer within at the MFA's Human Rights and Peacebuilding Department. The Dutch oppose sending the Human Rights Council (HRC) report t [...] | 2007-09-05 09:13:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM NL UN |
07THEHAGUE1809 | NETHERLANDS/UNGA: CAUTION ABOUT DRAFT RESOLUTION [...] (SBU) On September 27, POLOFF delivered reftel points to Suzanne de Groot, policy officer at the Human Rights and Peacebuildng Department of the Dutch MFA. De Groot expressed appreciation for the advanced consultation on the resolution, as well for U.S. efforts to address this specific human [...] | 2007-09-28 10:08:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UN KWMN AORC PHUM SOCI NL |
07THEHAGUE1937 | NETHERLANDS/UN: NON-COMMITTAL ON WALKER IAAC [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-24 14:37:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | UN PREL AORC UNGA NL |
07THEHAGUE1939 | NETHERLANDS/UNGA: DUTCH SUPPORTIVE ON MOST THIRD [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 24, 2007, POLOFF delivered reftel A points to Dutch MFA Director for Human Rights, Ms. Maryem van den Heuvel, and Reneko Elema, Senior Policy Officer. Van den Heuvel welcomed the consultation, noting Dutch agreement on all country resolutions. While inclined to support [...] | 2007-10-25 05:04:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | UN KTIA PHUM PREL NL |
07THEHAGUE1956 | NETHERLANDS/UN: DUTCH SUPPORT WALKER IAAC CANDIDACY [...] (C) Following up on reftels, Charge D'Affaires discussed the Walker candidacy with Jos Schellars, Deputy Director of the Western Hemisphere Department at the MFA, on November 1. POLOFF separately reiterated reftel points to Vincent Roza at the Coordination and Institutional Affairs Division wit [...] | 2007-11-01 14:11:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | UN PREL AORC UNGA NL |
07THEHAGUE1984 | NETHERLANDS/IRAN: CONSULAR CASE PROMPTS DUTCH TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 7, Dutch MFA Director General Pieter de Gooijer told the Ambassador that he will firmly assert the EU Iran nuclear policy during his upcoming visit to Iran while he urges consular access in the Al Mansouri case. END SUMMARY. NUCLEAR FILE ------------ 2. (C) As [...] | 2007-11-13 07:41:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | NL UN IR IAEA EU PHUM KNNP |
07THEHAGUE1985 | NETHERLANDS/IRAN: CONSULAR CASE PROMPTS DUTCH TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 7, Dutch MFA Director General Pieter de Gooijer told the Ambassador that he will firmly assert the EU Iran nuclear policy during his upcoming visit to Iran while he urges consular access in the Al Mansouri case. END SUMMARY. NUCLEAR FILE ------------ 2. (C) As [...] | 2007-11-13 09:24:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | NL UN IR IAEA EU PHUM KNNP |
07THEHAGUE1986 | NETHERLANDS/DPRK: DUTCH WILLING TO CONSIDER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 5, 2007, Deputy Special Envoy for Human Rights in North Korea, Christian Whiton, briefed Dutch MFA officials on U.S. plans to promote human rights in North Korea, particularly through funding for independent radio broadcasting. The Dutch agreed to consider funding fo [...] | 2007-11-13 12:41:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PHUM PREL NL UN KN |
07THEHAGUE2060 | NETHERLANDS/KOSOVO: LEGAL ADVISER BELLINGER SWAYS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 10, 2007, Legal Advisor John Bellinger and Ambassador Roland Arnall met with Dutch MFA Deputy Director General Wim Geerts. Geerts and Bellinger focused on Kosovo, with Geerts indicating that a statement by UNSYG Ban in favor of an international presence there could ad [...] | 2007-12-14 07:24:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KV EU UN |
07THEHAGUE2079 | NETHERLANDS/UN: DUTCH SUPPORT UN BUDGET 2008-2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-21 10:20:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC UN NL |
07THEHAGUE260 | NETHERLANDS/IRAQ/UN: ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTION TO UN [...] (SBU) The GONL will contribute an additional USD 500,000 toward the Iraq Distinct Entity Trust Fund as continued support for the "middle ring" security mission protecting personnel serving under the UN Assistance Mission in Iraq UNAMI). MFA Policy Advisor Albert van Pabst from the Conflict Pr [...] | 2007-02-12 11:12:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UN IZ NL |
07THEHAGUE529 | GLOBAL FORUM V: DUTCH WILL NOT SEND FORMAL [...] (SBU) The Dutch will not send a formal delegation to the April 2-5 Fifth Global Forum on Fighting Corruption and Safeguarding Integrity (GF V) in Johannesburg, South Africa. Hans van Bodegraven, Director of Customs and Consumer Finance at the Dutch Ministry of Finance, told Econoff March 21 the [...] | 2007-03-23 14:55:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KCOR KJUS AORC ASEC OTRA OVIP PREL UN |
07THEHAGUE551 | NETHERLANDS: UN KOSOVO PROPOSAL SUPPORT [...] (C) Polmiloff delivered reftel points to MFA Head of the Western Balkans Division Cees Roels on March 26; Charge has requested senior appointments. To date, the GONL has been supportive of the Ahtisaari status process for Kosovo, but remains concerned with Russian opposition and the possibilit [...] | 2007-03-26 15:57:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNMIK UN YI EU NL |
07THEHAGUE742 | UNSCR 1747/OECD: DUTCH SAY COMMON LINE ON [...] (SBU) OECD Export Credit Group Chair Nicole Bollen says adopting a common line to eliminate new medium and long-term export credits to Iran's government may be a challenge. Bollen was non-committal on whether the Dutch would support U.S. proposals for the common line during the April 23 semi-a [...] | 2007-04-20 13:22:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UN PREL EFIN ETRD OECD EXIM NL |
07THEHAGUE744 | ICI SIGNING: DUTCH LIKELY TO ATTEND BUT OFFER NO [...] (SBU) Summary. The Dutch are committed to supporting Iraqi reform, economic development, and reconstruction, but do not plan a pledge at the International Compact with Iraq (ICI) signing, Dutch officials say. End Summary. 2. (SBU) Econoff delivered on April 16 ref A demarche regarding s [...] | 2007-04-20 14:13:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UN EAID EFIN PGOV PREL NL |
07TOKYO1027 | JAPAN INVITED TO IRAQ NEIGHBORS CONFERENCE [...] (C) Japan has received an invitation to attend the opening session of the March 10 Iraq Neighbors conference, according to Iraqi Ambassador to Japan Ghanim Al-Jumaily. Al-Jumaily told Embassy Tokyo Political Officer that he had lobbied hard with his Ministry and also convinced Vice President T [...] | 2007-03-09 08:30:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OIC UN IZ JA |
07TOKYO1766 | UNSCR 1747/OECD DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON EXPORT [...] (C) Embassy delivered reftel demarche to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA),Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI),and Ministry of Finance (MOF) on the U.S. desire for the OECD to adopt a "common line" on restricting medium- to long-term export credits to Iran. While the Japan [...] | 2007-04-20 09:35:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EFIN ETRD EXIM OECD UN JA |
07TOKYO2853 | JAPAN RESPONSE TO UNSCR 1747/OECD ON RESTRICTING [...] (C) Emboff met with Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau, Trade Insurance Division Director Michihiro Kishimoto, on June 21, to solicit Japan's response to USOECD's May 22 Iran and Export Credits survey. Emboff provided U.S. answers to the survey as d [...] | 2007-06-25 02:34:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EFIN ETRD EXIM OECD UN IR |
07TOKYO2905 | UNSCR 1747/OECD DEMARCHE ON RESTRICTING EXPORT [...] (C) Econoff delivered Ref A demarche to MOFA OECD Division Director Naohiro Tsutsumi on June 26, following up on earlier Embassy discussions on the same issue with Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and MOF officials (Refs C and D.) Tsutsumi confirmed that he had already consulte [...] | 2007-06-27 08:07:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EFIN ETRD EXIM OECD UN IR JA |
07TOKYO3509 | JAPAN WILL CONSIDER REQUEST FOR DEMARCHE TO UNSYG [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-01 07:50:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN JA |
07TOKYO3541 | JAPAN TO APPROACH USUN IN NEW YORK ABOUT PARALLEL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-02 08:47:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN JA |
07TOKYO4283 | JAPANESE REQUEST FOR LANGUAGE IN COMMUNIQUE OF THE [...] (C) Following up on Foreign Minister Machimura's message to the Ambassador that Japan seeks to strengthen the international reasons to continue to provide Maritime Self Defense Forces support to Operation Enduring Freedom (Ref A),MOFA National Security Division Principal Deputy Director Shing [...] | 2007-09-13 08:03:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MOPS UN AF JA |
07TOKYO4696 | JAPAN CONSIDERING RESOLUTION CONDEMNING RAPE, WARY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-05 06:56:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC UN PHUM KWMN SOCI JA |
07TOKYO4968 | JAPAN WILL DECIDE UNIAAC VOTE AT THE LAST MINUTE [...] This message contains an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. Embassy Tokyo Political Officer delivered reftel demarche October 22 to MOFA UN Planning and Administration Division Principal Deputy Director Kenichi Matsuda. Matsuda said that Japan would "carefully consider" Mr Walke [...] | 2007-10-24 08:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC UN UNGA JA |
07TOKYO4970 | JAPAN'S STRATEGY FOR THE THRID COMMITTEE [...] (U) This cable contains an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (C) Embassy Tokyo Political Officer delivered reftel demarche October 21 and followed up October 22 with MOFA Human Rights Division Pricipal Deputy Director Takako Ito. Ito gave the following outline of Japan's strateg [...] | 2007-10-24 08:10:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN KTIA JA |
07TOKYO5535 | JAPAN SURPRISED BY U.S. DEMARCHE ON UN BUDGET [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-12 09:48:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AORC ABUD UN JA |
07TOKYO658 | JAPAN: NO ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FOR UN MIDDLE RING [...] (SBU) Japan is not in a position at this time to make additional contributions to the Distinct Entity Trust Fund for UN middle ring security, MOFA Deputy Director for Second Middle East Division Masaki Yasumatsu told Embassy Tokyo Political Officer February 14. According to Yasumatsu, Japan g [...] | 2007-02-15 08:16:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UN IZ JA |
07TOKYO659 | A/S SILVERBERG'S JANUARY 25 MEETING WITH MIDDLE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Japan views positively recent steps taken by the United States to reinvigorate the Middle East Peace Process and is hopeful that progress will be made, MOFA Director General for Middle Eastern and African Affairs Norihiro Okuda told visiting Assistant Secretary for International [...] | 2007-02-15 08:42:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN KPAL IS IR LE SU JA |
07TRIPOLI1026 | ABDALLAH YEHIA IS "UNQUESTIONED LEADER" OF SLA/UNITY [...] (SBU) Summary. Three SLA/Unity representatives visiting Tripoli said December 9 that Abdallah Yehia is the unquestioned leader of the Sudanese Liberation Army (SLA)/Unity branch and that SLA/Unity is open to an agreement with the newly-formed United Revolutionary Front (URF),though serious [...] | 2007-12-10 14:47:00 | Embassy Tripoli | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
07TRIPOLI929 | DARFUR TALKS STRUGGLE WITH POOR REBEL ATTENDANCE [...] (C) Summary: UN/AU-led Darfur mediation talks began as announced on October 27 in Sirte, Libya, even in the absence of major political and military leaders from the Darfur rebel movements. The UN/AU leadership is slowly proceeding with a plan to dispatch teams to Juba and Darfur to encourag [...] | 2007-11-04 12:33:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO UN AU SU LY |
07TRIPOLI930 | (C) LIBYA EXTRACTS SUDANESE, ERITREAN PROMISES TO SUPPORT [...] (C) SUMMARY. In an October 30 meeting with S/E Andrew Natsios, Secretary-General of the Community of Sahal-Saharan States, Mohammad al-Madani, briefed S/E Natsios on Libyan efforts in support of the UN/AU Darfur political process, including extracting an agreement from Sudanese President Ad [...] | 2007-11-04 12:33:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO UN AU SU LY |
07TUNIS1355 | BEN ALI REPORTEDLY APPROVES DISCUSSIONS ON GOOD [...] (C) According to the Dutch Ambassador in Tunis, President Ben Ali has approved quiet discussions with the UNDP and Dutch Embassy on possible steps to increase political freedom and improve governance in Tunisia. The Dutch Ambassador, Rita Dulci Rahman, briefed Ambassador Godec and French Amba [...] | 2007-10-05 17:52:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM NL UN TS |
07TUNIS1419 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CANDIDACY OF AVID WALKER FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-25 14:51:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC UN UNGA TS |
07USEUBRUSSELS3473 | RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE EU/EC PARTICPATION IN THE UN [...] (C) PolOff presented points (reftel) December 7 to Morten Knudsen of the European Council's UN and International Law Unit. Knudsen emphasized that the Council and the Commission are in no way looking to expand their influence within the PBC, that they are not seeking either voting privilege [...] | 2007-12-07 16:53:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRS UNGA UNSC ECOSOC EUN PO UN |
07USNATO150 | AU PSC COMMISSIONER DJINNIT ADDRESSES THE NORTH [...] (SBU) Summary: In a disappointing March 2 address to the NAC, African Union Peace and Security Council Commissioner Said Djinnit said the AU "highly appreciated" support received from NATO, including assistance with airlift, capacity building, and "important" lessons learned training, and wel [...] | 2007-03-07 17:23:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS NATO PREL AU SU UN |
07USNATO45 | UNSYG BAN KI-MOON PLEDGES CLOSE COOPERATION WITH [...] (C) Overturning staff objections, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon sent a strong signal of his personal commitment to strhengthen UN-NATO relations in an address to the NAC just three weeks after taking office. Both privately and with the press afterward, Ban praised the Alliance's contributio [...] | 2007-01-25 17:33:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO UN MARR PREL |
07USNATO486 | UNODC CHIEF COSTA BRIEFS THE NAC ON AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Antonio Costa, Head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC),briefed NATO on September 5 on UNODC's 2007 report on Afghanistan poppy production. In addition to NATO PermReps, 24 other interested nations and organizations were on hand as Costa reviewed the key findings and r [...] | 2007-09-06 15:11:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SNAR MARR ECON PGOV UN AF NATO |
07USUNNEWYORK1023 | UNICEF ACKNOWLEDGES RECEIPT OF U.S. CONTRIBUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-15 16:56:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK1027 | UPDATE ON DARFUR PEACEKEEPING DEPLOYMENT NOVEMBER [...] (C) SUMMARY. Key Points: --US DPKO Under Secretary General Guehenno met with Sudanese Major General Maghzoub on November 11th in Addis Ababa in an effort to find a way forward with UNAMID deployments. Guehenno briefed the Security Council on November 14 on the details of his meetings. -- [...] | 2007-11-15 21:55:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | AF PGOV PREL SU UNC UN KPKO |
07USUNNEWYORK1051 | TANZANIAN MISSION REFUSES WAIVER [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified - please protect accordingly. 2. Action request: By diplomatic note dated November 19, 2007, the Permanent Mission of Tanzania has declined to waive the criminal immunity of the two sons of Mission Minister Counselor Isaack Katanda as requested [...] | 2007-11-20 20:59:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | OFDP PREL TZ UN |
07USUNNEWYORK1077 | UN REQUESTS PAYMENT OF U.S. ASSESSMENTS FOR TWO [...] USUN has emailed to Department (IO/PSC-Tammy Pomerleau and EUR-IO/EX/FM-Alice Green) a copy of a note and three related annexes from the SYG dated November 20, 2007 concerning the financing of two peacekeeping operations. Annex One contains current amounts payable by the U.S. Government as fo [...] | 2007-11-28 14:21:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK1078 | UN ACKNOWLEDGES RECEIPT OF U.S. CONTRIBUTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-28 14:21:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK108 | UN ASKS USG TO RECONSIDER ITS REQUIREMENT THAT [...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request: Representatives from the UN's Office of Legal Affairs (OLA),the UN Travel and Transportation Service, and UNDP met with representatives of USUN's Host Country and Legal sections on January 30 to express the UN's serious concerns regarding the USG determinati [...] | 2007-02-08 19:28:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS OFDP UN AF |
07USUNNEWYORK1083 | UN REITERATES PLEA FOR U.S. HELP TO RELEASE [...] BEGIN SUMMARY: (C) On November 21, UN lawyers pressed USUN legal officers to respond to the UN's 2005 request for the United States to secure the release of funds the Japanese government donated to the UN in 2005 for humanitarian projects in the West Bank and Gaza Strip (refs). The Bank of [...] | 2007-11-28 20:33:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | OFDP UN WE JA |
07USUNNEWYORK1088 | CUBAN MISSION REGISTERS CONCERN OVER REMOVAL OF [...] Unclassified - entire text. 2. Following a November 26 meeting between Diplomatic Security agents from the New York Field Office (DS/NYFO) and the security officer of the Cuban Mission to the UN to discuss further the NYPD's plan to remove the Mission's fixed post protection, DS/NYFO indic [...] | 2007-11-29 16:33:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | OFDP CU UN |
07USUNNEWYORK1089 | GERMAN MISSION RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR WAIVER OF DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-29 19:05:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | GM OFDP UN THOMAS THOMMA |
07USUNNEWYORK1092 | UPDATE ON DARFUR PEACEKEEPING DEPLOYMENT FOR 29 [...] (C) SUMMARY. Key Points: --Deployment Update: China has deployed the 135 engineers first elements of its engineer company that is part of the Heavy Support Package (HSP). DPKO Force Generation Services (FGS) expects that with the exception of the Bangladeshi Formed Police Unit (FPU),this wi [...] | 2007-11-29 22:24:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | AF PGOV PREL SU UNC UN KPKO |
07USUNNEWYORK1094 | KUWAITI COMPLAINS RE DIPLOMATIC PARKING PROGRAM, [...] On November 27, 2007, USUN received a diplomatic note from the Kuwait Mission to the UN (text in paragraph 2 below) objecting to the New York City Parking Program for Diplomatic Vehicles because its application does not correspond to Kuwait's treatment of American Embassy vehicles in Kuwait. T [...] | 2007-11-30 13:59:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | OFDP UN KU |
07USUNNEWYORK1124 | BHUTAN PERM REP COMPLAINT RE TREATMENT DURING [...] USUN received on December 3, 2007, a complaint (text in paragraph 3 below) from the Bhutan Mission to the UN protesting the treatment received by its Ambassador/Permanent Representative at Newark International Airport upon departure by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) personnel and [...] | 2007-12-05 19:17:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | OFDP BH UN |
07USUNNEWYORK1145 | UN ACKNOWLEDGES RECEIPT OF U.S. CONTRIBUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-10 14:21:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK1160 | USE OF RECIPROCITY IN THE UN CONTEXT [...] (C) The Permanent Mission of Eritrea to the United Nations has been seeking to sell its current office space in New York and use the proceeds of sale to purchase alternate, smaller office premises along with a new official residence. The Department denied Eritrea's requests of February 2003, [...] | 2007-12-13 13:51:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | OFDP UN ER |
07USUNNEWYORK1169 | UN AND WORLD BANK STRENGTHEN POST-CONFLICT [...] SUMMARY: UN and World Bank officials have jointly briefed New York missions on measures to improve field coordination and standardize operating procedures, improving consistency and reaction time to post-conflict emergencies. Initiatives include standardizing fiduciary arrangements and fund t [...] | 2007-12-14 18:16:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KPKO UN |
07USUNNEWYORK1173 | UN SETS PREPARATORY PROCESS FOR MONTERREY [...] (SBU) Summary. The United Nation General Assembly's Second Committee passed by consensus a resolution on December 7 setting out the modalities for a review in 2008 of the 2002 Monterrey Consensus on Financing for Development (FfD). The review process will conclude with a November 29 - Decembe [...] | 2007-12-14 21:04:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN ETRD ECIN SENV UN |
07USUNNEWYORK130 | PEACEBUILDING COMMISSION COUNTRY GROUPS APPROVE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Following criticism of the slow pace of Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) work expressed in separate Security Council and General Assembly debates this month, the country-specific component of the PBC has approved ambitious schedules for finalizing peacebuilding "strategies" in Sie [...] | 2007-02-13 22:13:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPKO SOCI UNGA UN EFIN |
07USUNNEWYORK132 | SECURITY COUNCIL AND GENERAL ASSEMBLY DISCUSS [...] SUMMARY: The Security Council and the General Assembly held separate sessions on January 30 and February 6, 2007 respectively to discuss post-conflict peacebuilding. In both venues, speakers urged the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) to focus on work in its country-specific format where it is [...] | 2007-02-15 14:15:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | KPKO SOCI UNGA EFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK14 | UN REQUESTS PAYMENT OF 2007 ASSESSMENT FOR CAPITAL [...] USUN has faxed to Department (IO/MPR-David Leis and EUR-IO/EX/FM-Alice Green) a copy of a note from the Secretary-General, dated January 5, 2007 requesting payment SIPDIS of the U.S. assessed contribution to the UN Capital Master Plan (CMP) for 2007. The note outlines two payment options, [...] | 2007-01-11 20:38:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UN CMP AORC AFIN |
07USUNNEWYORK154 | UN COMMISSION ON SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT 2007 SESSION [...] (U) Summary: The Commission on Social Development held its 45th session from February 7 to 16, 2007. Deputy Permanent Representative of Iran, Mehdi Danesh-Yazdi chaired the session, whose main theme was "Full Employment and Decent Work for All." Discussions and panels included macroeconomic [...] | 2007-02-27 14:43:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELAB TBIO SOCI UN |
07USUNNEWYORK164 | UN ACKNOWLEDGES RECEIPT OF U.S. CONTRIBUTIONS [...] USUN has received official receipts from the United Nations dated January 31, 2007 acknowledging receipt of U.S. contributions for the following: ICTR $ 5,934,685 ICTY 6,707,532 MINURSO 1,852,500 UNOMIG 1,813,904 MONUC 71,158,313 UNMEE 11,389,8 [...] | 2007-03-01 20:15:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK178 | UN REQUESTS PAYMENT OF U.S. ASSESSMENTS FOR FOUR [...] USUN has faxed to Department (IO/PSC-Dennis Hankins and EUR-IO/EX/FM-Alice Green) a copy of a note and three related annexes from the SYG dated March 2, 2007 concerning the financing of four peacekeeping operations. Annex One contains current amounts payable by the U.S. Government as follows [...] | 2007-03-06 15:32:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK20 | UN REQUESTS PAYMENT OF 2007 REGULAR BUDGET [...] USUN has faxed to Department (IO/MPR-David Leis, IO/PSC-Charles Casper and EUR-IO/EX/FM-Alice Green) a copy of a note dated December 28, 2006 from the Secretary General requesting payment of the U.S. assessed contribution to the UN regular budget for 2007 in the amount of $496,481,769. The no [...] | 2007-01-12 22:45:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ABUD UN AFIN |
07USUNNEWYORK209 | PARKING ISSUES, IRS SETTLEMENT INITIATIVE, ALLEGED [...] Summary: The UN Committee on Relations with the Host Country (Host Country Committee-HCC) discussed the results of the HCC's survey of the New York Diplomatic Parking Programme (the Program) at its 232nd meeting on March 5, 2007. Missions which oppose the Program as implemented or on principl [...] | 2007-03-15 12:32:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | OFDP UN CVIS |
07USUNNEWYORK228 | UN COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN 2007 SESSION [...] (U) Summary: The UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) held its 51st session from February 26 to March 9, 2007. Permanent Representative of El Salvador, Carmen Maria Gallardo Hernandez, chaired the session, whose main theme was "The Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination and Violenc [...] | 2007-03-21 14:08:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI KWMN UN CSW |
07USUNNEWYORK237 | UNODC BRIEFING IN NY - UPCOMING EVENTS, BUDGET [...] (U) Summary: Executive Director Costa of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) briefed interested delegations in New York on March 20 regarding UNODC's Global Initiative against Trafficking in Persons, including a ministerial-level meeting in November 2007 in Vienna. He described the fou [...] | 2007-03-23 19:34:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KWMN KCRM UN |
07USUNNEWYORK327 | UN REQUESTS PAYMENT OF U.S. ASSESSMENTS FOR FIVE [...] USUN has emailed to Department (IO/PSC-Dennis Hankins) and EUR-IO/EX/FM-Alice Green) a copy of a note and three related annexes from the SYG dated April 27, 2007 concerning the financing of five peacekeeping operations. Annex One contains current amounts payable by the U.S. Government as fol [...] | 2007-04-27 22:13:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK367 | UN ACKNOWLEDGES RECEIPT OF U.S. CONTRIBUTIONS FOR [...] USUN has received official receipts from the United Nations dated March 30, 2007 acknowledging receipt of U.S. contributions for the following: UNIFIL $24,228,000 UNMIL $25,819,733 MINUSTAH $15,950,000 ICTY $19,055,000 ICTR $16,860,000 2. Copy of receipts ha [...] | 2007-05-11 22:00:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK371 | CUBA FORMALLY COMPLAINS RE NGO REP'S VISA REFUSAL [...] Action request - see paragraph 3. 2. Cuba's UN Mission Permrep, Amb. Rodrigo Malmierca, has sent a Note Verbale (text in paragraph 5 below) to USUN Host Country Affairs expressing concern for the USG's decision to deny a visa to Mrs. Fabiola Mora (DPOB 31Jan1953, Cuba),a representative of [...] | 2007-05-14 19:54:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | OFDP CVIS UN CU |
07USUNNEWYORK42 | UN ACKNOWLEDGES RECEIPT OF U.S. CONTRIBUTIONS [...] USUN has received official receipts from the United Nations acknowledging receipt of U.S. contributions dated November 30 and December 28, 2006 for the following: UN Regular Budget $235,000,000 UN Capital Master Plan 19,546,837 MONUC 27,000,000 UNOCI [...] | 2007-01-23 15:08:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK429 | INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA [...] (C) Summary: In a conversation with the UN Legal Counsel, Amb Wolff again urged that the Secretary General delay filling the soon to be vacant ICTY Prosecutor's job in order to allow time to identify another suitable UN position for the UN International Independent Investigation Commission (U [...] | 2007-05-31 23:51:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | KAWC KJUS UN XT ZL XF |
07USUNNEWYORK43 | UN REQUESTS PAYMENT OF U.S. ASSESSMENTS FOR THE [...] This is an action cable please see paragraph 5. 2. USUN has faxed to Department (IO/MPR-David Leis and EUR-IO/EX/FM-Alice Green) two notes from the SYG dated January 19, 2007 concerning the financing of the International Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the Territory of Rwan [...] | 2007-01-23 15:09:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AFIN AORC UN |
07USUNNEWYORK44 | UN SEEKS CONCURRENCE FROM U.S. TO TRANSFER PART OF [...] This is an action request. See para. 4. 2. USUN has faxed to Department (IO/PSC) a note from Assistant Secretary General/Controller for Management Warren Sach, addressed to Ambassador Wolff, dated January 15, 2007 notifying us that the United Nations Trust Fund in support of the delimita [...] | 2007-01-23 22:06:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK451 | UN REQUESTS PAYMENT OF U.S. ASSESSMENTS FOR THREE [...] USUN has emailed to Department (EUR-IO/EX/FM-Alice Green) a copy of a note and three related annexes from the SYG dated May 31, 2007 concerning the financing of three peacekeeping operations. Annex One contains current amounts payable by the U.S. Government as follows: Operation [...] | 2007-06-06 16:32:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK468 | UN SEEKS INSTRUCTIONS TO DEPOSIT BALANCE OF FUNDS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-11 20:23:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UN AFIN AORC KUNR |
07USUNNEWYORK47 | SIERRA LEONE SPECIAL COURT CONFIRMS RECEIPT OF [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-23 22:06:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK473 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR S/WCI AMBASSADOR [...] In response to reference (a),country clearance is granted for Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues J. Clint Williamson and Special Assistants Matthew Lavine and Brendan Doherty to meet with tribunal officials on June 18, 2007 and to observe the June 18 UNSC tribunal session. The June 1 [...] | 2007-06-12 21:46:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ABUD BK KAWC OTRA UN |
07USUNNEWYORK516 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR OPEN ENDED INFORMAL [...] In response to reference A, USUN grants country clearance for all members of the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations Open Ended Informal Consultative Process for Oceans and Law of the Sea in New York from June 25-29, 2007. 2. Unescorted access within USUN is granted only to State Depart [...] | 2007-06-25 18:47:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ASEC UN |
07USUNNEWYORK553 | MISSION CLEARANCE FOR 1540 ASSISTANCE PROVIDER [...] In response to REFTEL, mission clearance is granted for ISN officers Pieter Ott, Yvette Wong, Thomas Wuchte and DoE officer Todd Perry to attend the July 11-12 meeting of the 1540 Assistance Provider Meeting. 2. Control officer will be USUN Mark Groombridge who will join delegates at the [...] | 2007-07-06 15:54:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC KCFE OTRA PARM PREL SC UN WMD |
07USUNNEWYORK576 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR DR. LISA ROTZ AND [...] Country clearance is granted for Dr. Lisa Rotz and Dr. Carol Linden, both of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to participate as an expert and an observer in an informal technical consultative group in preparation for the development of a single comprehensive database on biolog [...] | 2007-07-13 21:31:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO UN PTER OTRA |
07USUNNEWYORK582 | MEETING OF THE COMMITTEE ON RELATIONS WITH THE [...] Summary. On July 9, 2007 the Committee on Relations with the Host Country convened its 233rd meeting to address, inter alia, Host Country travel regulations, acceleration of immigration and customs procedures, and entry visas issued by the Host Country. Briefly mentioned were New York,s con [...] | 2007-07-17 11:48:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | OFDP UN CVIS SY |
07USUNNEWYORK602 | UN ACKNOWLEDGES RECEIPT OF U.S. CONTRIBUTIONS FOR [...] USUN has received official receipts from the United Nations dated May 31, 2007 acknowledging receipt of U.S. contributions for the following: UNDOF $ 5,198,550 UNIFIL 52,304,550 MINURSO 3,705,000 UNOMIG 2,539,466 UNFICYP 3,177,856 ICTY 2,680,06 [...] | 2007-07-24 20:12:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN ABUD UN |
07USUNNEWYORK644 | UN REQUESTS PAYMENT OF U.S. ASSESSMENTS FOR TWELVE [...] USUN has emailed to Department (IO/PSC-Douglas Wake and EUR-IO/EX/FM-Alice Green) a copy of a note and four related annexes from the SYG dated July 31, 2007 concerning the financing of 15 peacekeeping operations. Annex One contains current amounts payable by the U.S. Government for 12 operat [...] | 2007-08-06 21:42:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK650 | MISSION CLEARANCE FOR LIBERIA SSR TEAM [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-08 21:18:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRS UN YI PREL |
07USUNNEWYORK655 | UN REQUEST PAYMENT OF U.S. ASSESSMENT FOR UNMEE [...] USUN has emailed to Department EUR-IO/EX/FM-Alice Green a copy of a note dated August 9, 2007 from the UN Secretary-General requesting payment of the U.S. assessed SIPDIS contribution to the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) for the period from July 1, 2007 to January [...] | 2007-08-09 20:32:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK662 | UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY WORKING GROUP TO CONSIDER [...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. Summary: On Friday, August 3, 2007, Ambassador Wallace delivered a strong statement at the meeting of the GA Ad Hoc Working Group on Assistance and Support to Victims of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) (by UN staff or related pers [...] | 2007-08-10 22:32:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ASIG KTIA KUNR PGOV PREL UNSC UN |
07USUNNEWYORK678 | UN ACKNOWLEDGES RECEIPT OF U.S. CONTRIBUTIONS FOR [...] USUN has received official receipts from the United Nations dated June 29, 2007 confirming receipt of U.S. contributions for the following: Receipt No. Mission Amount($) ----------- ------- ---------- B072563 MINURSO 1,852,500 B072564 UN [...] | 2007-08-15 23:05:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK708 | BRZAK/LUBBERS SEXUAL HARASSMENT CASE [...] (C) Ambassador Khalilizad met on August 24 with the UN Secretary General to discuss the Brzak case, making points SIPDIS contained reftel. The Secretary General said he would meet with his UN Legal team to discuss the options for dealing with this case. Subsequently, the UN Office of Legal [...] | 2007-08-27 22:22:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN |
07USUNNEWYORK715 | MEETING WITH THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO [...] 4 (b) and (d). Â [...] | 2007-08-29 23:02:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | OFDP CG UN |
07USUNNEWYORK727 | INSTRAW VOLUNTARY FUNDING REQUEST [...] (U) Summary: Mission received the following note dated August 23, 2007, from the Permanent Representative of Honduras to the United Nations addressed to Amb. Khalizad, raising the need for voluntary funding for the United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancemen [...] | 2007-09-06 19:48:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI EAID KWMN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK74 | SYG BAN PROPOSES RESTRUCTURING OF DPKO [...] (U) Secretary-General Ban has proposed restructuring the Secretariat to downgrade the Department of Disarmament SIPDIS Affairs (DDA) and split the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) into two distinct departments. Ban has asked the GA to give its blessing to the proposals, which he [...] | 2007-01-30 22:22:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AORC KUNR KPKO UN UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK740 | UN REQUESTS PAYMENT OF U.S. ASSESSMENTS FOR UN [...] USUN has faxed to Department (IO/PSC-David Leis and EUR-IO/EX/FM-Alice Green) a copy of a note and attachment dated August 31, 2007 from the Secretary-General requesting payment of U.S. assessed contributions to the UN Regular Budget and the Capital Master Plan which remain outstanding in the [...] | 2007-09-11 21:47:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK771 | PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES FOR THE AFRICAN UNION [...] Unclassified - entire text. 2. Ambassador Khalilzad has received a September 18 letter from AU Permanent Observer Ratsifandrihamanana requesting reinstatement of certain diplomatic privileges and immunities that the African Union (then the Organization of African Unity) lost in 1996. [...] | 2007-09-20 14:02:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | OFDP UN |
07USUNNEWYORK788 | UN REQUESTS PAYMENT OF U.S. ASSESSMENT FOR UNIFIL [...] USUN has emailed to Department (IO/PSC-Tammy Pomerleau and EUR-IO/EX/FM-Alice Green a copy of a note dated September 11, 2007 from the UN Secretary-General requesting payment of the U.S. assessed SIPDIS contribution to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) for the period Sep [...] | 2007-09-24 19:09:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK79 | UN REQUESTS PAYMENT OF U.S. ASSESSMENTS FOR 14 [...] USUN has faxed to Department (IO/MPR-David Leis and EUR-IO/EX/FM-Alice Green) a copy of a note and three related annexes from the SYG dated January 31, 2007 concerning the financing of 14 peacekeeping operations. Annex One contains current amounts payable by the U.S. Government as follows: [...] | 2007-01-31 23:49:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK80 | UN REQUESTS USG VIEWS ON PROPOSED CONVENTIONAL [...] USUN has received the following diplomatic note dated 16 January 2007 from the United Nations Department of Disarmament Affairs (DDA) requesting Member State input on a "comprehensive, legally binding instrument establishing common international standards for the import, export, and transfer [...] | 2007-01-31 23:49:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM KTIA UN |
07USUNNEWYORK844 | UNICEF ACKNOWLEDGES RECEIPT OF U.S. CONTRIBUTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-10 18:09:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK845 | UN ACKNOWLEDGES RECEIPT OF U.S. CONTRIBUTION TO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-10 18:09:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK85 | UN REQUESTS PAYMENT OF U.S. ASSESSMENTS FOR 14 [...] USUN has faxed to Department (IO/MPR-David Leis and EUR-IO/EX/FM-Alice Green) a copy of a note and three related annexes from the SYG dated January 31, 2007 concerning the financing of 14 peacekeeping operations. Annex One contains current amounts payable by the U.S. Government as follows: [...] | 2007-01-31 23:49:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK86 | UN REQUESTS USG VIEWS ON PROPOSED CONVENTIONAL [...] USUN has received the following diplomatic note dated 16 January 2007 from the United Nations Department of Disarmament Affairs (DDA) requesting Member State input on a "comprehensive, legally binding instrument establishing common international standards for the import, export, and transfer [...] | 2007-01-31 23:49:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM KTIA UN |
07USUNNEWYORK896 | U.S. RAPE RESOLUTION: STATE OF PLAY AS OF OCT. 19 [...] (U) Summary: The United States tabled its anti-rape resolution in the UNGA Third Committee on Wednesday. The resolution has attracted considerable opposition from certain African, Middle Eastern, and other delegations who correctly perceive it as targeting, inter alia, the Government of Suda [...] | 2007-10-20 01:06:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC UN UNGA KWMN SOCI |
07USUNNEWYORK905 | UN: PROPOSED LETTER FROM KEY GENEVA GROUP MEMBERS [...] Following the conclusion of the Geneva Group CLM on October 2, 2007, Stephen Pattison (Director, International Security, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, United Kingdom) and Ambassador Mark Wallace consulted, in their capacity as co-chairs as to what deliverable could be produced from the day' [...] | 2007-10-23 20:13:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UN UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK912 | LIBYAN MISSION QUESTIONS SECONDARY SCREENING FOR [...] Unclassified - entire text. 2. The Libyan Mission to the UN has sent USUN an October 18 diplomatic note protesting what it characterizes as an instruction from the Department of Homeland Security that nationals of certain countries - including Libya - be subjected to secondary inspection [...] | 2007-10-24 17:11:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | OFDP LY UN |
07USUNNEWYORK935 | 62ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS CUBA EMBARGO [...] (U) On October 30, 2007, the General Assembly (GA) adopted the Cuban-sponsored resolution on the U.S. embargo by a vote of 184-4, with one abstention. The U.S. was joined by Israel, Palau, and the Marshall Islands in voting against it. Micronesia abstained. Albania, El Salvador, and Iraq we [...] | 2007-10-31 17:47:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD PHUM UN CU |
07USUNNEWYORK937 | MEETING WITH RWANDA TRIBUNAL (ICTR) PRESIDENT SIR [...] On Wednesday, October 17, 2007, Ambassador Wallace and USUN Legal Adviser met with Judge Dennis Byron who was in New York to address the General Assembly. Byron was accompanied by Spokesperson of the Tribunal, Roland Kouassi G. Amoussouga. Recognizing the serious violations of humanitarian law [...] | 2007-10-31 19:05:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UN UNGA KJUS KAWC ICTR |
07USUNNEWYORK939 | FOREIGN AID DOMINATES UN FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT [...] (U) Summary. Debate over the alleged failure of developed countries to meet their Official Development Assistance (ODA) commitments took center stage at the third biennial UN High-Level Dialogue on Financing for Development (FFD),held October 23-24. Speaking on behalf of the G-77 and China, P [...] | 2007-10-31 20:10:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN ETRD ECIN SENV UN |
07USUNNEWYORK947 | KOREAN PENINSULA RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY CONSENSUS [...] (U) Summary. On October 31, 2007, the General Assembly adopted by consensus a resolution on "Peace, Security, and Reunification in the Korean Peninsula," co-sponsored by the Republic of Korea (ROK) and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). Ambassador Khalilzad delivered the U.S. [...] | 2007-11-01 20:11:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM KN KS UN |
07USUNNEWYORK950 | WAIVER OF IMMUNITY REQUESTED RE TANZANIA MISSION [...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request: NYC asks that USUN request the TanzaniaMUN (GOTanzania) to waive the immunity of Adolf Katanda, age 19, and Julius Ktanda, age 16, two sons of TanzaniaMUN Minister Counselor Isaack Katanda so that NYC can prosecute Adolf for a Class A misdemeanor (posssession [...] | 2007-11-01 23:11:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OFDP UN PREL TZ |
07USUNNEWYORK951 | UPDATE ON DARFUR PEACEKEEPING DEPLOYMENT NOVEMBER [...] (C) Summary: Darfur deployment update: --AMIS Force Commander has yet to request in writing that contracted US military advisors continue in their current positions; --The first of the High Ranking Operational & Technical Advisory Team (HROTAT) visits began this week with UN personnel trav [...] | 2007-11-01 23:12:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AF SU UNC KPKO UN |
07USUNNEWYORK958 | SPECIAL COURT FOR SIERRA LEONE ACKNOWLEDGES [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-06 19:50:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK960 | UN ACKNOWLEDGES RECEIPT OF U.S. CONTRIBUTION TO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-06 19:51:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK961 | UN REQUESTS PAYMENT OF U.S. ASSESSMENTS FOR THREE [...] USUN has faxed to Department (IO/PSC-Tammy Pomerleau and EUR-IO/EX/FM-Alice Green) a copy of a note and three related annexes from the SYG dated October 31, 2007 concerning the financing of three peacekeeping operations. Annex One contains current amounts payable by the U.S. Government as fo [...] | 2007-11-06 19:52:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK975 | UN HOST COUNTRY COMMITTEE MEETING OCTOBER 31, 2007 [...] Summary: At its 235th meeting on October 31, 2007, the 19-member UN Committee on Relations with the Host Country adopted the annual draft Report of the Committee summarizing Committee meetings during the previous year and including recommendations and conclusions. USUN Minister-Counselor for H [...] | 2007-11-08 21:34:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | OFDP UN |
07USUNNEWYORK980 | UPDATE ON DARFUR PEACEKEEPING DEPLOYMENT NOVEMBER 8 [...] (C) SUMMARY: AMB Wolcott met with DPKO U/SYG Guehenno November 8 to discuss UNAMID deployment. Guehenno reported that Sudanese Major General had backpedaled on his promise to meet in Addis Ababa after the UN communicated that the meeting would be primarily technical and not an opportunity to [...] | 2007-11-08 23:25:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | AF PGOV PREL SU UNC UN KPKO |
07USUNNEWYORK996 | PALESTINIAN COMPLAINT - REMOVAL OF POLICE POST [...] Ambassador Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of Palestine, called Ambassador Wolff on November 9 to register his concern with the New York Police Department's decision to reduce and then eliminate police coverage in the security booth located in front of the PLO Mission to the UN. Mansour sa [...] | 2007-11-09 19:37:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | OFDP ASEC PLO UN |
07VATICAN144 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO HOLY SEE ON DRAFT RESOLUTION AGAINST [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-05 08:44:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UN PHUM KWMN SOCI VT |
07VIENNA1649 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO AUSTRIA: ADDITIONAL U.S. [...] (C) Acting EconPol Counselor met on June 14 with Caroline Gudenus, Head of the MFA's Sub-Saharan Africa Division (DAS-level),to discuss recent USG sanctions and press for Austrian support for targeted bilateral and/or EU sanctions on Sudan. Gudenus expressed skepticism as to the efficacy of [...] | 2007-06-20 16:53:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ETTC UN SU AU |
07VIENNA167 | KOSOVO STATUS PROCESS TIMELINE -- AUSTRIA IN [...] (SBU) Charge delivered reftel demarche on January 24 to Austrian MFA Political Director Thomas Mayr-Harting. Embassy had previewed the message to the MFA's EU affairs office on January 19. 2. (C) Charge stressed that it was crucial that the EU and U.S. maintain unity in backing UN Specia [...] | 2007-01-24 16:07:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI EU AU |
07VIENNA2413 | AUSTRIAN NUCLEAR DIPLOMACY [...] (C) Summary. Austria will propose a multilateral system for managing the nuclear fuel cycle at next week's opening of the IAEA General Conference (GC); sees no need (and little realistic chance) for a third UNSCR on Iran's nuclear program and was uncomfortable with the EU Presidency's Septembe [...] | 2007-09-14 12:36:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP ENRG MNUC PREL UN AU |
07VIENNA2539 | AUSTRIA TO PARTICIPATE IN UN CHAD MISSION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-01 12:16:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UN CD AU |
07VIENNA2563 | AUSTRIA FAVORS RESOLUTION CONDEMNING RAPE AS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-04 13:55:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UN PHUM KWMN SOCI AU |
07VIENNA2693 | AUSTRIA: DEMARCHING EU STATES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-29 07:56:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM UN CU AU |
07VIENNA2737 | AUSTRIA: CANDIDACY OF DAVID WALKER [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-02 11:34:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC UN UNGA AU |
07VIENNA2906 | AUSTRIA SUPPORTS USG POSITION ON UNCITRAL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-06 14:25:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UNCITRAL UN AU |
07VIENNA412 | AUSTRIA ON UN MIDDLE RING SECURITY IN IRAQ [...] EconPolCouns delivered reftel demarche on February 15 to Peter Huber, the Austrian MFA's deputy Director for International Organizations Affairs, and Ralph Scheide, the MFA's Middle East and Africa Director. 2. Huber said Austria considered the UN role in Iraq to be an important one. Hub [...] | 2007-02-15 14:37:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UN IZ AU |
07VIENNA857 | AUSTRIA FULLY SUPPORTS UN KOSOVO PROPOSALS [...] (SBU) Charge delivered ref (a) demarche on March 28 to Johannes Kyrle, the Austrian MFA's Secretary General. EconPolCouns also discussed the issue with MFA European Correspondent Andreas Riecken on March 29. 2. (C) Kyrle agreed that EU unity in support of Martti Ahtisaari's report is esse [...] | 2007-03-30 14:03:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNMIK UN YI EU AU |
07VILNIUS275 | LITHUANIA ON ICI: GOL'S AMB TO EGYPT WILL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-18 14:26:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN PGOV PREL UN IZ LH |
07VILNIUS284 | LITHUANIA ON ICI: UPDATED ATTENDANCE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-24 14:29:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN PGOV PREL UN IZ LH |
07VILNIUS573 | LITHUANIA PREPARES TO RECOGNIZE KOSOVO WITHOUT [...] (C) We delivered reftel points to Giedre Gelezeviciene of the MFA's European Union Enlargement Division. Gelezeviciene said that Lithuanian FM Petras Vaitiekunas had said that one country could not hold the process hostage as Kosovo moves towards independence. She said that the GOL would foll [...] | 2007-08-10 10:30:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KV YI UN PGOV EU LH |
07VILNIUS715 | LITHUANIA WELCOMES USG'S DRAFT ON CONDEMNING RAPE; [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-04 12:44:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM UN KWMN AORC SOCI LH |
07WARSAW163 | KOSOVO STATUS TIMELINE: POLAND FULLY ON BOARD [...] (C) Pol External Chief delivered reftel demarche on the Kosovo status timeline on January 18 to Piotr Siebeneichen, Chief of the Balkans Division in the MFA Europe Department. Siebeneichen said the Polish and U.S. positions were nearly identical; Poland strongly supported Un Special Envy Ahtis [...] | 2007-01-26 10:26:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNMIK PGOV EU PL |
07WARSAW1764 | DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE ON KOSOVO'S NEXT STEPS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-16 12:49:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | KV YI UN PGOV EU PREL PL |
07WARSAW2148 | POLAND'S VIEWS ON THE UPCOMING UNGA THIRD COMMITEE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 22, PolOff met with Mariusz Lewicki, Head of the Human Rights Section in the MFA,s UN Department, to discuss reftel issues to be tabled at the UN Third Committee next month. Lewicki reaffirmed that Poland will continue to support country specific resolutions, which [...] | 2007-10-24 14:21:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UNHCR UN PL |
07WARSAW748 | POLAND SUPPORTS AHTISAARI'S PLAN, BUT EXPRESSES [...] (C) DCM met March 27 with Krzysztof Szczerski, Under Secretary of State for Europe at Polish MFA, to deliver SIPDIS reftel Demarche on Kosovo. (Note: Neither Minister nor Deputy Minister were available.) Szczerski stated "Poland is for the Ahtisaari plan," but then went on to outline "a f [...] | 2007-03-27 14:33:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNMIK UN YI EU PL |
07WELLINGTON290 | NEW ZEALAND ON IRAQ COMPACT SIGNING [...] (SBU) As requested reftel, Embassy conveyed information about the May Iraq Compact signing to New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) Officials Darryl Dunn, Director of the Middle East and Africa Division, and Carl Worker, Director of the Americas Division. 2. (C) Dunn to [...] | 2007-04-11 19:24:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EFIN PREL PGOV UN NZ |
07WELLINGTON325 | UNSCR 1747/OECD: DEMARCHE TO PROMOTE A COMMON LINE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-22 19:35:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EFIN ETRD OECD UN NZ |
07WELLINGTON342 | NZ UPDATES ON IRAQ COMPACT SIGNING AND REFUGEE [...] (U) Ref A reported that Embassy Wellington had asked NZ officials whether New Zealand would participate in the signing of the Iraq Compact. On May 1, Darryl Dunn, Director of the Mideast Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, told Pol-Econ Couns that PM Clark has approved New [...] | 2007-05-01 05:23:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN PREL PGOV UN IZ NZ |
07WELLINGTON367 | NZ UPDATES ON IRAQ COMPACT SIGNING AND REFUGEE [...] (U) Ref A reported that Embassy Wellington had asked NZ officials whether New Zealand would participate in the signing of the Iraq Compact. On May 1, Darryl Dunn, Director of the Mideast Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, told Pol-Econ Couns that PM Clark has approved New [...] | 2007-05-09 05:49:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN PREL PGOV UN IZ NZ |
07WELLINGTON560 | NEW ZEALAND REACTION - CORRECTING UN REFERENCES TO [...] (C) Acting PolEcon Counselor Tom Walsh delivered demarche points (reftel) to Jo McLeod, Policy Officer in the North Asia Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, on August 2. 2. (C) The MFAT officials said that they have taken our recommendation under advisement but that they [...] | 2007-08-05 20:03:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CH TW AS NZ UN |
07YEREVAN1363 | UN 3RD COMMITTEE: ARMENIA WITH US ON N.KOREA, [...] (C) Polchief spoke with MFA International Organizations director Dziunik Agahjanian, conveying demarche points (reftels). Aghajanian affirmed that Armenia remains committed to voting just as it did on these issues last year. Specifically, Armenia will vote for a "no action" resolution on Ir [...] | 2007-11-19 12:09:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNGA UN AM |
07YEREVAN273 | IRAQ NEIGHBORS CONFERENCES [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-09 13:49:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OIC UN IZ AM |
07ZAGREB51 | ADVISOR TO PRESIDENT MESIC TO VISIT KOSOVO AND [...] (C) President Mesic's Special Advisor for International Relations Budimir Loncar told the Ambassador January 17 that he will travel to Kosovo next week to have discussions with Albanian and Serb leaders. This trip, according to Loncar, resulted from a visit to Zagreb by a group of Serb mayors [...] | 2007-01-18 13:18:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI EU OPDC HR |
07ZAGREB752 | KOSOVO NEXT STEPS -- CROATIAN REACTION [...] (U) DCM delivered reftel points to MFA Asst Minister for International Organizations and Security Pjer Simunovic in August 8 introductory call. Simunovic stressed GoC support for the strategy, pointing out that the GoC's overriding interests related to Kosovo's future are stability and the fu [...] | 2007-08-09 12:57:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KV PREL YI UN EU HR REGIONAL ISSUES |
07ZAGREB759 | CROATIA PITCHES UNSC CANDIDACY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: During an August 7 introductory call, MFA Assistant Minister for International Organizations and Security Pjer Simunovic briefed the DCM on Croatia's bid for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council. Simunovic said Croatia's unique political and cultural exper [...] | 2007-08-14 11:08:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UN HR |
07ZAGREB918 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.S. DRAFT RESOLUTION ON [...] Ref demarche was delivered to Andrej Dogan at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration - Department of the United Nations on 02 October 2007. Dogan told PolOff that the GOC had no issues with the text of the resolution as presented. While the GOC is considering supporting the [...] | 2007-10-05 12:16:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UN PHUM KWMN SOCI |
07ZAGREB987 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON IAAC CANDIDACY OF DAVID [...] Ref points were delivered to Andrej Dogan at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration - Department of the United Nations on 26 October 2007. Dogan provided no substantive comments on Mr. Walker's candidacy. Post is attempting to follow-up with the GOC and will report any furt [...] | 2007-11-05 07:37:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC UN UNGA |
07ZAGREB988 | CROATIA TO FOLLOW EU ON THIRD COMMITTEE RESOLUTIONS [...] Ref points were delivered to Andrej Dogan at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration - Department of the United Nations on 26 October 2007. The GOC expects to follow the EU's position on resolutions appearing before the UN's Third Committee over the coming months. 2. Dog [...] | 2007-11-05 07:37:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KTIA UN UNGA |
08ABIDJAN336 | PRESIDENT KICKS OFF 2000 SESSION OF NATIONAL [...] (SBU) President Gbagbo presided over the April 30 opening ceremony of the first session of the 2008 National Assembly, held in the political capital of Yamoussoukro. Two hundred parliamentarians attended the ceremony. National Assembly president and ruling Ivoirian Popular Front party (Front [...] | 2008-05-28 08:54:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL UN IV |
08ABIDJAN396 | THE NEW BLE GOUDE [...] (C) Summary. Charles Ble Goude, leader of COJEP (PanAfrican Congress of Young Patriots),is one of three Ivorians under United Nations (UN) Security Council sanctions. However, an offensive seems to be underway, bolstered by the presidential camp, to re-shape Ble Goude's public image and portr [...] | 2008-06-18 16:29:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR SOCI UN IV |
08ABIDJAN614 | 2008 HUMAN RIGHTS PRIORITIES [...] (C) Ambassador delivered demarche in reftel on September 8 to Cote d'Ivoire's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Alcide Djedje, who was in Abidjan. 2. (C) Poloff delivered demarche in reftel on September 9 to Etienne Kindia, Deputy Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dep [...] | 2008-09-09 17:30:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN IV |
08ABIDJAN90 | G/TIP AMBASSADOR LAGON VISIT TO COTE D'IVOIRE [...] (U) Summary: G/TIP Ambassador Mark Lagon met with government officials, NGO leaders, and UN officials during his January 23-24 visit to Abidjan. Ambassador Lagon told his interlocutors that the USG comes in partnership to address trafficking in persons and stands ready to consult on legal and [...] | 2008-02-06 18:24:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM SMIG UN IV |
08ABUDHABI1149 | ABU DHABI: TARGETING NO-VOTES ON KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-13 04:54:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UN UNGA KV AE |
08ABUDHABI171 | UAE VIEWS ON KOSOVO'S STATUS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-07 14:08:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNMIK UN YI EU AE |
08ABUDHABI188 | LOBBYING FOR KOSOVO RECOGNITION [...] (C) On February 10, the Charge met with UAE Minster of State for Foreign Affairs Mohammed Hussain al-Sha'ali to discuss, among other issues (septel),the need for as many nations as possible to recognize an independent Kosovo soon after independence is announced. Al-Sha'ali acknowledged our a [...] | 2008-02-11 13:49:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI EU AE |
08ABUDHABI978 | UAE MFA ON KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION AT UNGA [...] (C) On August 27, the Charge engaged Assistant Under Secretary for Political Affairs Tariq al-Haidan on the question of Kosovo, stressing ref A points that Kosovo's independence was not a legal issue that the ICJ might usefully resolve. Stating (as Under Secretary al-Aryani had on August 5, r [...] | 2008-08-28 10:57:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNGA KV AE |
08ABUJA1839 | NIGERIA: UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (U) SUMMARY: During the course of a September 8 meeting with Foreign Minister Ojo Maduekwe, Assistant Secretary David Kramer delivered reftel demarche. The FonMin seemed amenable to coordination with the USG on both country specific and thematic resolutions, and provided responses on the issue [...] | 2008-09-10 16:40:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KIRF KNNP AF UN IR ZI NI |
08ABUJA437 | NIGERIA: SOMALIA AND PIRACY DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-04 16:02:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PGOV PBTS PREL UN UNSC IMO XA XW SO NI |
08ABUJA874 | NIGERIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON INTEROPERABILITY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-13 15:11:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | MOPS PARM PREL NATO UN NI |
08ACCRA1168 | GHANA'S RESPONSE ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Ghana is unlikely to take a leadership position on Zimbabwe at the UNGA Third Committee, according to Paul Essel, director of International Organizations at Ghana's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. POLOFF demarched Essel September 10, specifically raising the matter of a resolution on Zimbab [...] | 2008-09-11 10:17:00 | Embassy Accra | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN GH ZI IR |
08ACCRA1311 | KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION AT UNGA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-08 11:45:00 | Embassy Accra | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNGA KVIR GH |
08ACCRA849 | KOSOVO RECOGNITION: GOVERNMENT OF GHANA RESPONSE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-03 15:30:00 | Embassy Accra | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI EU KPKO KV GH |
08ACCRA87 | GHANA: DEMARCHE ON RESOLVING KOSOVO'S STATUS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-15 17:39:00 | Embassy Accra | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNMIK PGOV UN YI EU GH |
08ADDISABABA1754 | Ethiopia Supports United Nations Military Observer Mission [...] (SBU) Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin called together the Ambassadors representing the Permanent Five (P5) UN Security Council (UNSC) countries to highlight Ethiopia's concerns regarding the current draft UNSC resolution on the Eritrea-Ethiopia border. Seyoum cautioned that, if changes [...] | 2008-06-27 08:18:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPKO PREL UN ET |
08ADDISABABA1856 | ETHIOPIA EXPRESSES CHANGE OF HEART ON POST-UNMEE [...] (C) Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin called in Ambassador July 7 to seek United States' views and to inform the United States Government (USG) in advance that Ethiopia is now not/not in favor of a follow-on United Nations (UN) military observer mission upon the conclusion of United Nations Missi [...] | 2008-07-08 12:00:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO MOPS UN ER ET |
08ADDISABABA2471 | (C) ETHIOPIA WILL NOT SUPPORT ZIMBABWE HUMAN [...] (C) PolOffs raised reftel points with Abebaw Feleke, Acting Director of UN Main Organs, and Tesfaye Yilma, Director General for Europe and the Americas, in the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry on September 4. Neither official disclosed the Ethiopian Government's (GoE) likely response on the questio [...] | 2008-09-08 06:20:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN ET ZI |
08ADDISABABA3450 | USAU: AU PSC MINISTERIAL TAKES STRONG STAND [...] (U) This message contains an action request in paragraph 6. 2. (U) Summary: At an African Union Peace and Security Council Ministerial meeting on December 22, the AU agreed to take concrete measures against the coup leaders who overthrew the legitimate government of Mauritania. Specific [...] | 2008-12-24 16:09:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN MR AU |
08ADDISABABA3474 | ETHIOPIANS "SLOWING" WITHDRAWAL UNTIL AMISOM [...] (SBU) This cable contains an ACTION REQUEST in paragraph 7. SUMMARY ------- 2. (S/NF) Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told Ambassador on December 31 that Ethiopia is "slowing" its troops' withdrawal from Mogadishu and Somalia until Ugandan and Burundian reinforcements arrive for the African [...] | 2008-12-31 15:41:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV KPKO MOPS UN SO ET |
08ADDISABABA382 | ETHIOPIA COOL TO KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE [...] (SBU) Ambassador spoke with State Minister Tekeda Alemu February 12, 2008 on the anticipated independence of Kosovo. Tekeda replied that Ethiopia has not given great thought to this issue, but would be hesitant to make any statement for or against this pronouncement. Tekeda opined that the Ser [...] | 2008-02-14 08:59:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI EU ET |
08ALGIERS1092 | GOA ON KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION AT UNGA [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche on October 6 to Ahmed Saadi, Acting Deputy Director of Multilateral Affairs at the MFA. Saadi was covering the Kosovo portfolio for a colleague who is currently in New York at the UNGA meetings, thus he said he was not able to respond substantively to our reque [...] | 2008-10-07 16:20:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNGA KV AG |
08ALGIERS169 | ALGERIA RESERVED ON KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: We received a noncommittal response from Algerian government interlocutors when the Ambassador raised the issue of recognizing an independent Kosovo. The Algerian government prefers a "go slow" approach, even though a top MFA official readily agreed Kosovo could never be reinteg [...] | 2008-02-17 06:26:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNMIK PGOV AG |
08ALGIERS187 | OSLO PROCESS AND BANNING CLUSTER MUNITIONS [...] (S) We delivered reftel demarche February 13, highlighting U.S. humanitarian concerns with the use of cluster munitions, and expressing U.S. support for the ongoing negotiations on ths issue within the Convention on Conventional Weapons. We urged Algeria not to adopt any language that would i [...] | 2008-02-19 16:37:00 | Embassy Algiers | SECRET | MOPS PARM PREL NATO UN AG |
08ALGIERS762 | ALGERIA REMAINS DISTANT ON KOSOVO RECOGNITION [...] (C) In a July 2 meeting with MFA's Director General for European Affairs (A/S equivalent) Mouloud Hamai and Deputy Director for Central Europe and the Balkans Abdelmadjid Amalou, Charge asked whether Algeria's thinking on Kosovo had evolved and urged the Algerians to participate in the July 11 [...] | 2008-07-07 07:41:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN UNMIK YI EU KPKO KV AG |
08ALGIERS77 | ALGERIAN SECURITY ROW WITH UN GETS PUBLIC AND NASTY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The dispute between the Algerian government and the UN over the investigation of the December 11 bombings has become public and bitter. The Algerians, in public and in private, claim they have been transparent and shared the results of their own investigation, while the senior UN [...] | 2008-01-22 18:04:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC PTER PGOV UN AG |
08ALGIERS990 | ALGERIA NONCOMMITTAL ON KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION [...] (C) We delivered ref A demarche to MFA Deputy Director for Central European Affairs Abdelmadjid Amalou on September 13 and outlined U.S. concerns about Serbia's proposal to seek an opinion from the ICJ on the legality of Kosovo's declaration of independence. Amalou reiterated the GoA's positio [...] | 2008-09-14 14:39:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA KV UN AG |
08AMMAN1924 | KOSOVO RECOGNITION, DONORS CONFERENCE, IMF AND [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-30 14:01:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET | PREL PGOV KPKO UN EU KV JO |
08AMMAN2576 | UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO JORDAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-04 12:42:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN |
08AMMAN2578 | KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION: JORDAN NEITHER ENCOURAGES [...] (C) PolCouns delivered Ref A demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director of International Organizations Ayman Al-Aamiry on September 2. Aamiry did not offer a substantive response but noted that the GOJ would not "publicly encourage" the resolution, although "it would like to see the ma [...] | 2008-09-04 12:55:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET | PREL UNGA KV UN |
08AMMAN455 | JORDANIANS WILL CONSIDER U.S. CONCERNS ON OSLO [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-12 15:43:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PARM PREL NATO UN JO |
08AMMAN456 | KOSOVO: JORDAN WAITING ON OIC, AL SUMMITS TO [...] (C) On February 12 Ambassador delivered ref A demarche to Foreign Minister Salah Al-Bashir, and DCM separately delivered the same points to Chief of the Royal Court Bassem Awadallah. Both took note of the USG position and were cognizant of USG and EU intentions, but asserted that Jordan neede [...] | 2008-02-12 15:47:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI JO |
08AMMAN473 | KOSOVO: FURTHER CLARIFICATION ON JORDAN'S POSITION [...] (C) Ambassador had a second conversation with Foreign Minister Salah al-Bashir on February 12, regarding Jordan's position on recognizing Kosovo independence. Bashir indicated that Jordan understood the logic of the U.S./EU stand, but would be unable to act prior to the OIC and Arab League s [...] | 2008-02-13 16:48:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI JO |
08AMMAN479 | CORRECTED COPY OF AMMAN 456: KOSOVO: JORDAN [...] (C) On February 12 Ambassador delivered ref A demarche to Foreign Minister Salah Al-Bashir, and DCM separately delivered the same points to Chief of the Royal Court Bassem Awadallah. Both took note of the USG position and were cognizant of USG and EU intentions, but asserted that Jordan neede [...] | 2008-02-14 11:38:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI JO |
08AMMAN527 | U.S. DECISION TO RECOGNIZE KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE - [...] (C) In the absence from the country of Foreign Minister Bashir, Charge delivered ref A demarche to Acting Foreign Minister (and regularly, Minister of State for Media and Communication Affairs) Nasser Joudeh February 19. Joudeh said he would consult with others in the GOJ and convey any feedb [...] | 2008-02-19 13:20:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNMIK YI KV JO |
08AMMAN606 | KOSOVO: FOREIGN MINISTER REITERATES INCLINATION TO [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-26 11:37:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN KV UNMIK YI JO |
08AMMAN663 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON POSSIBLE UNSC RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-02 12:14:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | PBTS PREL KCRM UN UNSC IMO XA XW SO JO |
08ANKARA1472 | TFGG01: GOT URGED TO DEMAND RUSSIAN WITHDRAWAL [...] (C) CDA delivered reftel points August 14 to MFA Deputy U/S for Americas Berk and DDG for Maritime and Aviation Affairs Ozturk. Berk agreed that Russia should fulfill the commitments it made in the agreement with President Sarkozy and that OSCE observers should have immediate access to areas curren [...] | 2008-08-14 16:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS NATO OSCE PHUM PREL GG RS TU UN |
08ANKARA1636 | TURKEY: UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE 2008 HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) On September 4 we solicited from MFA Acting Head of Department for Council of Europe and Human Rights Yonca Sunel GOT support for U.S. priority country-specific and thematic resolutions that will be offered, urged Turkey to vote against the Defamation of Religions resolution, and sought [...] | 2008-09-11 14:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN TU |
08ANKARA382 | SOMALIA AND PIRACY: TURKEY INTERESTED IN POSSIBLY [...] (SBU) We discussed reftel with MFA Department Head for Maritime Affairs, Mehmet Poroy, on February 27. Poroy provided us with some background on Turkey's previous engagement on this issue. Because of Turkey's involvement in the International Maritime Organization (IMO),the IMO Secretary Gen [...] | 2008-02-27 14:35:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PBTS PREL UNSC EWWT TU SO UN |
08ANKARA907 | TURKEY SHARES USG'S OSLO PROCESS CONCERNS [...] (C) We delivered reftel points to MFA Department Head for Disarmament and Nonproliferation Elif Ulgen on May 8. Ulgen said the GOT shared USG concerns about Article 1 (b) and (c) of the Oslo Process draft text, and agreed with the U.S. position that the workarounds developed for the Ottawa Co [...] | 2008-05-12 09:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PARM PREL NATO UN TU |
08ASHGABAT1151 | DEMARCHE ON KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION AT UNGA DELIVERED TO THE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-03 11:58:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UN UNGA KV TX |
08ASHGABAT1182 | DEMARCHE ON THE UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE SESSION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-08 07:23:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UN TX |
08ASHGABAT1218 | TURKMENISTAN: HEAD OF UN PREVENTIVE DIPLOMACY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Assistant Secretary George Krol met September 4 with United Nations Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy Head of Office Miroslav Jenca to discuss regional issues, including water, energy, and Afghanistan. Jenca described Turkmenistan's proposed UN resolution on energy [...] | 2008-09-15 08:52:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PBIO PREL ECON ENRG EPET UN TX |
08ASHGABAT1230 | TURKMENISTAN: HEAD OF UN PREVENTIVE DIPLOMACY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Assistant Secretary George Krol met September 4 with United Nations Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy Head of Office Miroslav Jenca to discuss regional issues, including water, energy, and Afghanistan. Jenca described Turkmenistan's proposed UN resolution on energy s [...] | 2008-09-15 13:02:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PBIO PREL ECON ENRG EPET UN TX |
08ASHGABAT1231 | TURKMENISTAN: HEAD OF UN PREVENTIVE DIPLOMACY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Assistant Secretary George Krol met September 4 with United Nations Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy Head of Office Miroslav Jenca to discuss regional issues, including water, energy, and Afghanistan. Jenca described Turkmenistan's proposed UN resolution on energy s [...] | 2008-09-15 13:03:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PBIO PREL ECON ENRG EPET UN TX |
08ASHGABAT1250 | TURKMENISTAN: UN PREVENTIVE DIPLOMACY CENTER [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The September 12-13 shootout has captured the attention of UN representatives and staff at the UN Center for Preventive Diplomacy, as the Center continues to seek to define its role and activities in the region. [...] | 2008-09-19 05:33:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KIRF TX UN |
08ASHGABAT1348 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-10 10:35:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UN UNGA KV TX |
08ASHGABAT1374 | TURKMENISTAN: UN PREVENTIVE DIPLOMACY CENTER [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The UN's Preventive Diplomacy Center in Ashgabat hosted the Central Asian deputy foreign ministers in a one-day forum to discuss regional challenges that include water, energy and Afghanistan, and to negotiate the e [...] | 2008-10-17 14:39:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER SNAR UN TX |
08ASHGABAT1379 | TURKMENISTAN: WITH NO INVITATION, UN PONDERS ROLE [...] (C) SUMMARY: UN representatives are pondering their options in regard to the organization's potential role during the December parliamentary elections. They believe that Turkmen government officials are expecting them to participate in some way, although UN offices here have not received a [...] | 2008-10-20 14:01:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM UN TX |
08ASHGABAT1422 | TURKMENISTAN: GEORGIAN AMBASSADOR SAYS RUSSIA IS [...] (C) Georgian Ambassador to Turkmenistan Alexi Petriashvili (please protect) told econoff on October 29 that he is running for a position on the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ),and that he is leaving for New York to campaign for the position on November [...] | 2008-10-30 15:13:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL GG UN AORC RS TX |
08ASHGABAT1434 | TURKMENISTAN: UNICEF SEEKING BROADER MANDATE FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to the acting representative for UNICEF in Turkmenistan, the organization's current and future program plans focus largely on health and education. The organization has ambitious plans to expand its activities. A good relationship with the government is helping to ma [...] | 2008-11-04 07:20:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI UN TX |
08ASHGABAT1489 | GEORGIAN AMBASSADOR TO TURKMENISTAN LOSES BID FOR [...] (C) Georgian Ambassador to Turkmenistan Alexi Petriashvili (please protect) told econoff on November 11 that his bid for a position on the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ) (reftel) was unsuccessful: the Russian candidate won. He said that most countrie [...] | 2008-11-13 14:14:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN AORC TX |
08ASHGABAT212 | PRIORITY LOBBYING FOR KOSOVO'S INDEPENDENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-11 13:47:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UN UNMIK TX |
08ASHGABAT29 | TALKING POINTS REGARDING RESOLUTION OF KOSOVO'S STATUS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-08 07:49:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UN PGOV YI TX |
08ASHGABAT456 | TURKMENISTAN: UNDP PULLS PLUG ON TURKMEN TRIP TO [...] (C) UNDP Deputy Resident Representative Inita Paulovica told EmbOff April 10 that UNDP had canceled a planned trip to Geneva for two Turkmen officials to observe the first Universal Periodic Review (reftel). The two had intended to use the trip to help Turkmenistan prepare its own document [...] | 2008-04-11 12:24:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL EAID UN TX |
08ASHGABAT743 | TURKMENISTAN: MIROSLAV JENCA ARRIVES TO HEAD UN [...] (C) SUMMARY: UN Secretary General's Special Representative Ambassador Miroslav Jenca arrived June 9 in Ashgabat to head the UN Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia. He describes his role as "diplomat" rather than "project officer." In their initial meeting, Foreign Min [...] | 2008-06-11 08:31:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN TX |
08ASHGABAT880 | TURKMENISTAN: UN CENTER FOR PREVENTIVE DIPLOMACY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The UN Center for Preventive Diplomacy, which opened in fall 2007, has started its work. Center officials have traveled to Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, meeting with high-level officials and getting thei [...] | 2008-07-14 11:00:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM MARR UN TX |
08ASMARA440 | ERITREA UNDECIDED ON KOSOVO [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-05 07:25:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNGA KV ER |
08ASTANA1726 | KAZAKHSTAN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UNGA THIRD [...] (C) We delivered ref A/ref B points on UNGA Third Committee human rights priorities to Zhanar Kulzhanova, Counselor in the MFA's International Organizations Department, on September 10. Kulzhanova agreed that the growing use of "no action motions" in the Third Committee was an issue. She m [...] | 2008-09-11 08:50:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN KZ |
08ATHENS1261 | GREEKS UNCERTAIN ON KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION AT UNGA [...] (C) A/Political Counselor raised reftel points on a possible UNGA resolution requesting an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Kosovo's declaration of independence with Ambassador Eleftherios Angelopoulos, Director of the MFA A3 Directorate for Southeastern Europ [...] | 2008-09-05 13:28:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA UN KV SR GR |
08ATHENS1290 | GREECE/CYPRUS: GOG SUPPORTS UN PROCESS BUT WORRIED [...] (C) PM Karamanlis and FM Bakoyannis are pleased with the momentum on Cyprus, sending positive signals about the September 3 start of UN-brokered talks. Cyprus has been center stage in Athens with visits from UN Special Envoy Downer and Cypriot Foreign Minister Kyprianou. PM Karamanlis and F [...] | 2008-09-10 14:50:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GR CY UN |
08ATHENS1405 | GREECE/KOSOVO: SEEKING EU CONSENSUS TO ABSTAIN ON [...] (C) On October 6, Ambassador Speckhard raised with Ambassador Constantinos Halistanis, FM Bakoyannis' Chief of Staff, reftel points on the Kosovo ICJ resolution at the UNGA. The Ambassador highlighted the potentially harmful effects of referring Kosovo's independence to the ICJ, as it could [...] | 2008-10-07 15:22:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA UN KV SR GR |
08ATHENS224 | MGKV01: GREECE/KOSOVO: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON U.S. [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-19 15:31:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI EU KVIR GR |
08ATHENS231 | GREECE/MACEDONIA: FM BAKOYANNIS WELCOMING [...] (U) In comments to the press on the margins of the 2/19 talks in Athens under UN Special Envoy Nimetz on Macedonia's name, FM Bakoyannis made a welcoming and (for a Greek official, uncommonly positive) statement to Skopje, calling for Athens and Skopje to work together to put the past behind t [...] | 2008-02-20 16:44:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UN NATO MK GR |
08ATHENS55 | ESDP DEPLOYMENT TO CHAD AND C.A.R.: GREEKS [...] (C) A/Political Counselor delivered reftel points to Greek MFA EU/ESDP Department Head Sofia Grammata on January 14. Grammata responded that Greece is committed to the establishment of an ESDP PKO Mission to Chad and CAR and has already pledged military support for the mission; Greece has p [...] | 2008-01-15 14:44:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CD MOPS GR UN |
08ATHENS647 | GREECE SHARES NATO INTEROPERABILITY CONCERNS ON [...] Poloff delivered reftel A points to Andreas Kintis from the D2 Directorate for NATO and the Western European Union (WEU). Kintis expressed appreciation for the background and Washington's acknowledgment of Greece's position to refrain from the Oslo Process based on concerns stemming from clus [...] | 2008-05-13 12:39:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PARM PREL NATO UN GR PGOV |
08ATHENS818 | UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL: GREECE ALSO DISSATISFIED [...] (C) A/Political Counselor met June 10 with Ambassador Mercurios Karafotias, the new Director of the MFA's D1 Directorate for UN and International Organizations and Conferences to deliver reftel points expressing U.S. concerns with the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Karafotias responded tha [...] | 2008-06-10 13:33:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UN GR |
08ATHENS952 | KOSOVO: GREEKS NOT READY TO RECOGNIZE BUT [...] (C) Ambassador Speckhard spoke with FM Bakoyannis July 3 to urge that Greece recognize Kosovo independence, emphasizing the need to take steps that foster regional stability, and noting that it is time for Greece to join the other 20 EU states that have recognized Kosovo. Bakoyannis said Gre [...] | 2008-07-03 11:59:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNMIK PGOV KPKO UN YI EU KV GR |
08ATHENS965 | GREECE: HUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION DEMARCHE [...] (U) On 3, July PolOff and PolAssistant delivered reftel demarche on the Human Rights Foundation to George Panagiotidis, Embassy Attache of the MFA D1 Directorate for the International Organizations. Panagiotidis thanked us for the information and said it would be reviewed by the MFA Director [...] | 2008-07-07 13:29:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC GR PHUM UN |
08BAGHDAD1202 | ANTI-CORRUPTION UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary and introduction: Following on the heels of a flurry of anti-corruption activity by the Government of Iraq (GOI) over the past three months - the GOI,s first conference on Anti-Corruption (AC) in January, and a second conference in mid-March hosted jointly by UNDP and the World [...] | 2008-04-17 15:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON IQ KCOR PGOV UN |
08BAGHDAD1463 | ENGAGEMENT WITH UNAMI ON HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy and MNF-I officials briefed Hania Mufti, head of the UNAMI Human Rights Office, on April 18 regarding issues discussed in UNAMI's recent Human Rights report. Topics of discussion centered on UNAMI's recommendations to MNF-I in the July-December 2007 report. Officials [...] | 2008-05-11 08:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KJUS IZ PINS UN |
08BAGHDAD1489 | DE MISTURA PLANS MAY 22 DIB ANNOUNCEMENT [...] SUMMARY: In a May 10 meeting, Special Representative Staffan de Mistura told Ambassador Crocker and Senior Advisor Krajeski that he planned to announce UNAMI recommendations regarding the first four internal disputed boundary (DIB) districts (Makhmour, al Hamdaniyah, Amre and Mandali) as soon [...] | 2008-05-13 13:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN IZ |
08BAGHDAD1641 | PRT ANBAR: UNAMI VISITS ANBAR TO DISCUSS [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: A small UNAMI delegation visited Ramadi on May 27 with a dual purpose: to hold talks with provincial officials on economic development in advance of the expected establishment of a permanent UNAMI presence in the province and to m [...] | 2008-05-29 13:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR KDEM SOCI ECON EAID UN IZ |
08BAGHDAD203 | SRSG'S STRATEGY ON IRAQI PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS AND [...] (C) Summary: On January 18, Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) for Iraq Staffan de Mistura met with the Ambassador to discuss the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq's (UNAMI) plan of action to fulfill its expanded mandate under Resolution 1770. Topics included i [...] | 2008-01-25 13:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UN IZ |
08BAGHDAD2083 | SIV ELIGIBILITY OF IRAQIS WORKING UNDER [...] Section 1244 of Public Law 110-181, the Defense Authorization Act of 2008 (the Refugee Crisis in Iraq Act),greatly expanded the eligibility criteria for special immigration status for Iraqi nationals employed by or on behalf of the United States Government in Iraq on or after March 2003, for [...] | 2008-07-06 12:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS IZ PHUM PREF PGOV SMIG SOCI UN |
08BAGHDAD2215 | UNAMI HR CHIEF EAGER TO HELP WITH MEK TRANSFER [...] (S) SUMMARY: UNAMI Human Rights Chief Hania Mufti said on July 14 that UNAMI would be willing to help with the transfer of responsibility for the Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK) from the USG to the GOI. Specifically, Hania said UNAMI could press the GOI to accept non-refoulement obligations, provid [...] | 2008-07-16 14:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PHUM PINS PGOV PREL PTER UN IZ |
08BAGHDAD2304 | MEK SECURITY TRANSITION: INFORMAL MULTI-PARTY [...] (S) SUMMARY: Informal discussions on July 20 among the GOI, USG, ICRC, UNAMI, and Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK)leaders from Ashraf helped to clarify the positions and roles that each party would play in the transfer of responsibility for the MEK from the USG to the GOI, and the ensuing questions of [...] | 2008-07-24 13:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PHUM KJUS PINS PTER PREL UN IZ |
08BAGHDAD2362 | ZEBARI PROMISES UNAMI RENEWAL LETTER [...] (C) PolMinCouns July 27 conveyed to FM Zebari reftel suggested text for the necessary GOI letter requesting renewal of UNAMI's mandate. Zebari noted that Iraq's UN Mission in New York had already informed the MFA on the need to transmit a letter to the UN prior to Security Council action on t [...] | 2008-07-28 17:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UK UN IZ |
08BAGHDAD3070 | UNAMI CONTEMPLATING GREATER ROLE IN FACILITATING [...] (C) Summary: In the face of some skepticism from UN Headquarters, SRSG de Mistura believes the UN should be more proactive in ameliorating tensions between Baghdad and Erbil. He is worried by rising Arab-Kurd tensions, concerned by news of a reported Turkish-Iranian agreement to stifle Kurdi [...] | 2008-09-24 08:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UN IZ |
08BAGHDAD3194 | UNAMI WANTS TO DECONFLICT ARTICLE 140 REPORTS FROM [...] (C) Summary: The UN will finish its Article 140 reports on the Disputed Internal Boundaries (DIBs) issues by early November, but UNAMI Deputy Gilmour told S/A Krajeski October 2 that they want to avoid disturbing the political atmosphere prior to conclusion of U.S.-Iraq SFA negotiations. He h [...] | 2008-10-03 13:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UN IZ |
08BAGHDAD3445 | UPDATE ON MEK TRANSFER [...] (S) Summary: In preparation for the transfer of security authority from the USG to the GOI for the Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK) at Camp Ashraf, the USG is encouraging MEK leaders to begin planning for the transition and pressing the GOI to formulate a plan for when it takes over responsibility. [...] | 2008-10-28 18:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PHUM PTER KJUS PINS PREL UN IZ |
08BAGHDAD3465 | PM PROMISES TO PROVIDE A "SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT" TO [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-31 13:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ UN |
08BAGHDAD3487 | UNAMI INTERESTED IN "GRAND BARGAIN" FOR KIRKUK, [...] (C) Summary: In a November 2 meeting with S/A Krajeski, UNAMI's Andrew Gilmour said UNAMI will finish its second round of reports on the disputed internal boundaries (DIBs) areas by mid-December, but delay issuing them until after the provincial elections because of the currently tense politic [...] | 2008-11-03 10:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM UN IZ |
08BAGHDAD3566 | IRAQ PRESSES FOR OIL FOR FOOD MEETING [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 7. 2. (C) EMIN met November 10 with Ambassador Srood Najib, Director of the Iraqi MFA Americas Department, to discuss the Oil-for-Food (OFF) program. This was EMIN's first meeting and Najib, who has covered this issue for years, spent much of his t [...] | 2008-11-12 07:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EFIN UNSC UN IZ |
08BAGHDAD3948 | MOHR HOSTS FOUR-DAY HUMAN RIGHTS EVENTS [...] Summary: The Ministry of Human Rights (MoHR) hosted four days of events throughout the country to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the declaration of human rights. The highlight of the events was the first annual human rights conference in Baghdad on December 3. The conference focused on [...] | 2008-12-17 13:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV UN IZ |
08BAGHDAD481 | IRAQ: UN LAUNCHES 2008 HUMANITARIAN APPEAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: On 12 February, the United Nations (UN) launched a humanitarian appeal for Iraq in Baghdad and requested $265 million for humanitarian activities for vulnerable Iraqis. The UN faces challenges related to its security stance to increasing its presence in Iraq, but may modify the [...] | 2008-02-20 05:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM PREF PGOV UN IZ |
08BAGHDAD509 | NEIGHBORS PROCESS: UNAMI ROLLS UP ITS SLEEVES [...] (C) SUMMARY: At his February 20 introductory call at Embassy Baghdad, Ambassador Gerard Sambrana, Special Political Advisor to SRSG de Mistura, exchanged views on the Neighbors Process with PolMil M/C and PolCouns. Sambrana communicated de Mistura,s commitment to try to improve the "process" [...] | 2008-02-22 09:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EG IR IZ KU TU UN SY |
08BAKU160 | KOSOVO DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO AZERBAIJANI DEPUTY [...] (C) The Ambassador delivered reftel demarche to Deputy Foreign Minister Azimov on February 20 (FM Mammadyarov was out of the country). Despite Azerbaijan's opposition to Kosovo's independence, Azimov said, he had instructed the MFA to be "measured" in its public statements, making only two [...] | 2008-02-21 15:28:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS UN AZ |
08BAKU187 | DFM AZIMOV REQUESTS USG SUPPORT ON [...] (C) Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov requested a meeting with Ambassador Derse on February 29 to discuss Azerbaijan's pending UNGA resolution "on the situation in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan" (other topics septel). European embassies were similarly summoned to a gr [...] | 2008-03-04 13:55:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS UN AZ |
08BAKU651 | DEMARCHE ON KOSOVO RECOGNITION DELIVERED, [...] (C) The Embassy delivered the points in reftel on the importance of recognizing Kosovo via a letter from the Ambassador to Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov. Given the GOAJ's foreign policy focus on the conflict over the status of Nagorno-Karabakh and its concerns about Kosovo b [...] | 2008-07-08 08:24:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI EU KPKO KV AJ |
08BAKU831 | UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE DELIVERED TO AZERBAIJAN [...] (SBU) Embassy officers delivered reftel to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Security Affairs Department Chief Galib Israfilov on September 5. Israfilov said the GOAJ generally is against "no-motion" actions, with selective exceptions. For example, the GOAJ has supported "no-motion" actions on Ira [...] | 2008-09-05 11:45:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN |
08BAKU837 | DEMARCHE ON KOSOVO ICJ UNGA RESOLUTION DELIVERED [...] (C) Embassy officers delivered reftel demarche on Serbia's proposal to seek an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice regarding Kosovo to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Security Affairs Department Chief Galib Israfilov on September 5. Israfilov said the GOAJ's position is "not [...] | 2008-09-08 11:03:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNGA KV AJ |
08BAMAKO634 | DEMARCHE ON PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-07 16:15:00 | Embassy Bamako | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM EUN PREL UN KDEM ML |
08BAMAKO786 | MALI ON UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE ISSUES [...] (C) Charge discussed issues in reftel with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secretary General Ambassador Keita on September 5. The Ambassador had in previous meetings looked forward to active consultation with the U.S. on UNGA positions, and so welcomed in particular the consultative nature of sev [...] | 2008-09-11 15:45:00 | Embassy Bamako | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN ML |
08BANGKOK125 | THAILAND TO STUDY KOSOVO'S STATUS [...] (C) DCM met with MFA Director General for European Affairs Ambassador Suthee Na Lumpang on January 11 to deliver reftel points on the resolution of Kosovo's status and emphasized that the USG intends to recognize Kosovo once independence is declared. The USG hopes Thailand will do the same. A [...] | 2008-01-14 00:15:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI TH |
08BANGKOK1425 | U.S. Wins Concessions on UNESCAP 64th Commission Session [...] (SBU) Summary. The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) held its 64th annual commission session in Bangkok April 22-30. This year's theme was "Energy Security and Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific." After several days (and nights) of n [...] | 2008-05-09 09:33:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ENRG UN IR CH IN KS JA PK RS AS XB |
08BANGKOK2028 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: THAIS REMAIN RELUCTANT TO [...] (C) Acting DCM on July 2 delivered ref A points to MFA Director General for European Affairs Ambassador Suthee Na Lumpang. Suthee said the RTG position remained as it was when the Ambassador earlier engaged on Kosovo (ref B and C) -- the RTG was reluctant to recognize Kosovo's independence. S [...] | 2008-07-03 07:52:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI EU KPKO KV TH |
08BANGKOK2644 | THAIS STILL FORMULATING STANCE ON KOSOVO ICJ [...] (C) We discussed ref A points on Serbia's proposal for an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) regarding Kosovo's declaration of independence with MFA First Secretary for Central and Eastern Europe Nabhasporn Bhuttarichval on September 4. Nabhasporn told us that Thail [...] | 2008-09-05 00:08:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNGA KV TH |
08BANGKOK2764 | THAILAND YET TO ADDRESS UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE ISSUES [...] (C) We delivered reftel points on UNGA Third Committee issues to MFA Director General of International Organizations Vipawan Nipatakusol on September 11. Vipawan responded that Thailand would maintain its past voting record, but acknowledged she and her division were distracted by Thailand's [...] | 2008-09-11 11:30:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN TH |
08BANGKOK3034 | THAILAND LIKELY TO ABSTAIN OR VOTE AGAINST KOSOVO [...] (C) Ambassador raised ref A points on the Serbia's UNGA resolution on Kosovo and the International Court of Justice (ICJ) with MFA PermSec Virasakdi Futrakul October 7, underscoring the U.S. interest in like-minded votes. Virasakdi said that Thai policy on Kosovo recognition remained unchanged [...] | 2008-10-08 02:14:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNGA KV TH |
08BANGKOK455 | THAILAND UNLIKELY TO RECOGNIZE KOSOVO QUICKLY [...] (C) Summary: Thailand is concerned that Kosovo independence could set a bad precedent, given Thailand's own issues with separatist insurgents in the Malay-muslim majority deep southern provinces. The MFA permanent secretary told Ambassador on February 12 that Thailand SIPDIS "almost certai [...] | 2008-02-12 23:50:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNMIK PROV YI EU TH |
08BANGKOK627 | AMBASSADOR PRESSES FOREIGN MINISTER TO RECOGNIZE [...] (C) In the Ambassador's February 26 call on recently-inaugurated Foreign Minister Noppadon Pattama (more detail septel),the Ambassador drew on background in ref B and urged that Thailand recognize the independence of Kosovo. The Ambassador explained how Kosovo's independence would help stabi [...] | 2008-02-27 09:38:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNMIK PROV YI EU TH |
08BANGKOK715 | A/S HILL AND PRIME MINISTER SAMAK DISCUSS BURMA, [...] (C) Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej told visiting A/S Hill on February 29 that he favored "soft pressure" on Burma, and he was willing to host multilateral talks with Burma and others in the region. A/S Hill stressed the concern of President Bush about the human rights situation in Burma. A/S [...] | 2008-03-07 04:48:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM UN UNMIK PROV YI EU TH BM |
08BANGKOK780 | SOMALIA AND PIRACY: REQUEST FOR FURTHER INFORMATION [...] (SBU) Please see paragraph two for questions from Thai MFA Africa Director Tomwit Jarnson regarding reftel request. 2. (SBU) Poloff on March 11 conveyed reftel points eliciting Thai assistance in addressing piracy off the Somali coast and views on a United Nations Security Council resolution [...] | 2008-03-12 09:21:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PBTS PREL UN UNSC IMO SO TH |
08BARCELONA18 | ANDORRA: KOSOVO RECOGNITION [...] (C) CG raised reftel points with FM Mateu February 21. Mateu told CG the Government of Andorra "welcomed" Kosovo's declaration of independence, but would not formally recognize Kosovo until there was a "clearer consensus" with the EU. Mateu said Andorra was placed in a difficult position betw [...] | 2008-02-29 09:33:00 | Consulate Barcelona | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EU UN KV UNMIK SP AN |
08BEIJING2048 | UNSC DISCUSSION ON WOMEN PEACE AND SECURITY [...] (C) PolOff on May 28 delivered to MFA reftel invitation from Secretary Rice to Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi inviting FM Yang to participate in a minister-level public thematic debate on Women, Peace and Security in the UN Security Council on Thursday, June 19. MFA International Organizations [...] | 2008-05-28 08:39:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC UN KWMN SOCI PHUM |
08BEIJING2103 | THE U.S.-CHINA HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE, MORNING [...] (U) May 26, 2008; 9:30 a.m.; Beijing, Diaoyutai State Guesthouse 2. (U) Participants: U.S. --- David J. Kramer, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Rights, and Labor (DRL) John V. Hanford, Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom Dan Piccuta, Charge d'Affaires, [...] | 2008-05-30 09:49:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KOLY CH UN |
08BEIJING2127 | UNSC THEMATIC DEBATE AND RESOLUTION ON SEXUAL [...] (SBU) PolOff on June 3 delivered to MFA reftel points urging Chinese support for a U.S.-drafted UNSC resolution on sexual violence in situations of armed conflict. MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division Deputy Director Shen Yinyin said China in the past has sup [...] | 2008-06-03 02:57:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC UN UNSC PREL KWMN PHUM CH |
08BEIJING2247 | JUNE 10 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: DIAOYU ISLANDS COLLISION, [...] Key points at the June 10 MFA press briefing were: -- China is gravely concerned and "strongly dissatisfied" by the Japanese Coast Guard's "illegal" activities near the Diaoyu Islands. -- China hopes the talks between the DPRK and Japan "promote the normalization of bilateral relations." [...] | 2008-06-10 22:48:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KOLY PTER PHUM KS KN JP SU FR UN |
08BEIJING2304 | JUNE 12 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: Iran, Arms Sales to Taiwan, [...] Key points at the June 12 MFA press briefing are: -- AFM Liu Jieyi will join EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana and representatives from Russia, France, Germany and the UK on June 14 in delivering a "talk resumption plan" to Iran. -- China requests that the United States honor the commi [...] | 2008-06-12 10:38:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KOLY ENVR PHUM KS KN JP FR UN RS XU XV |
08BEIJING2386 | UNSC THEMATIC DEBATE ON SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN ARMED [...] (SBU) PolOff on June 18 delivered to MFA ref b points urging Chinese support for consensus adoption of a U.S.-drafted UNSC resolution on sexual violence in situations of armed conflict and China's agreement to withdraw from suggested amendments that would weaken key elements of that resolution [...] | 2008-06-18 08:55:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC UN UNSC PREL KWMN PHUM CH |
08BEIJING2484 | HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE: HRD DELEGATION'S MAY 27 [...] (U) May 27, 2008; 9:00 a.m.; Beijing, United Front Work Department. 2. (U) Participants: United States ------------- David J. Kramer, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor John V. Hanford, Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom Thomas C [...] | 2008-06-24 08:09:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KOLY CH UN |
08BEIJING2610 | China Unchanged on Kosovo: No Recognition, No [...] (C) PolOff conveyed reftel points urging China to recognize the independence of Kosovo to MFA European Affairs Department Balkans Division Deputy Director Hua Yafang on July 1. Hua thanked PolOff, but responded that the information provided "does not affect China's position" and that China wi [...] | 2008-07-02 10:08:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI EU KPKO KV CH |
08BEIJING2827 | THE U.S.)CHINA HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE, AFTERNOON [...] (U) May 26, 2008; 3:00 p.m.; Beijing, Diaoyutai State Guesthouse. 2. (U) Participants: U.S. David J. Kramer, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor John V. Hanford, Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom Thomas Christensen, Deputy Assistant [...] | 2008-07-21 09:13:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KIRF KOLY CH UN |
08BEIJING2927 | PRC MULLING OVER INTERNATIONAL SPACE FOR TAIWAN [...] (C) Mainland policy makers are devoting considerable study and discussion to the question of Taiwan's international space, recognizing that the issue will have to be addressed in September if/when Taiwan makes its annual bid to rejoin the UN. State Council Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) Director [...] | 2008-07-29 09:37:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM UN CH TW |
08BEIJING2941 | CHINESE COUNTERTERRORISM OFFICIALS SEEK COOPERATION [...] (C) In a July 22 meeting with EmbOffs, MFA External Security Affairs Department Division Director Xia Jingge asked if the United States could provide additional training for the Chinese air marshal program. Xia also sought an update on China's request for access to the FBI's terrorism databas [...] | 2008-07-30 07:40:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV KOLY UN PHUM CH PK SYTH |
08BEIJING3461 | CHINA ON UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE ISSUES [...] (C) PolOff on September 5 delivered to MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department Human Rights Division Deputy Director Xu Jing reftel points urging China not to support "no action" motions on country-specific resolutions in the UN General Assembly; to support planned resolutio [...] | 2008-09-05 08:24:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN CH |
08BEIJING3551 | VFM ZHANG YESUI STRESSES TAIWAN ARMS SALES WILL [...] (C) In a September 11 meeting called by the Chinese side, Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Yesui stressed to the Ambassador that if the United States goes forward with a rumored USD eleven billion arms sale to Taiwan, then China will react strongly. Such a sale would jeopardize the progress in bil [...] | 2008-09-11 13:14:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MASS MARR MOPS CH TW UN |
08BEIJING3801 | CHINA ON KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION AT UNGA [...] (C) PolOff on October 6 conveyed to MFA reftel points urging China to oppose a Serbian resolution to refer the question of the legality of Kosovo's declaration of independence to the International Court of Justice (ICJ). MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division De [...] | 2008-10-06 07:47:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNGA KV CH |
08BEIJING3907 | CHINA ON UPCOMING UNSCR 1267 LISTING REQUEST OF [...] (S) PolOff on October 10 conveyed to MFA ref A's updated Statements of the Case (SOCs) on one Chinese and three Pakistani individuals that the United States plans to propose to add to the UN Security Council Resolution 1267 Sanctions Committee list of individuals and entities associated with U [...] | 2008-10-14 08:28:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PREL PTER EFIN KTFN PINR UN CH |
08BEIJING4281 | PRC-EGYPT STRATEGIC DIALOGUE COVERS IRAN, SUDAN, [...] (C) In the first China-Egypt Strategic Dialogue, led by Foreign Ministers Yang Jiechi and Aboul Gheit, Egypt pressed China to take a more "comprehensive" approach in its Middle East policy and to avoid viewing topics like the Middle East Peace Process and the Iranian nuclear issue as isolated [...] | 2008-11-21 01:39:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAID PTER AORC UN CH EG SU IR |
08BEIJING4301 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED--FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT - [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel demarche to the International Department, Ministry of Finance (MOF),the Department of Aid to Foreign Countries, Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM),and the International Organizations Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). 2. (SBU) The Ministry of Forei [...] | 2008-11-24 09:26:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN ECON PREL UN CH |
08BEIJING4489 | CHINESE MFA URGED TO RELEASE 1267 HOLDS BY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-10 09:01:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER EFIN AORC UN PK CH |
08BEIJING4572 | IN A/S HOOK'S PRC MEETINGS, UNSC REFORM, 1267, [...] (C) State International Organizations A/S Brian Hook heard China's concerns about the direction of intergovernmental negotiations on UN Security Council reform during a cordial and productive visit December 4-8. Chinese MFA IO Director General Wu Hailong pressed the United States to support the [...] | 2008-12-17 09:53:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MNUC IR AORC SU SO KCRM UN CH |
08BEIJING498 | CHINESE RESPONSE ON KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE [...] (C) PolOff conveyed reftel points on Kosovo's impending declaration of independence to MFA European Affairs Department Balkans Division Deputy Director Hua Yafang on February 13. Hua said she is aware Kosovo will soon declare independence and promised to convey U.S. views to her superiors. S [...] | 2008-02-13 09:56:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CH YI UN UNMIK |
08BEIJING575 | CHINESE POSITION ON KOSOVO UNCHANGED: NO PRC [...] (C) Summary: China's position on Kosovo has not changed, and no PRC recognition of Kosovo independence is on the horizon, MFA officials said in meetings at both the working and senior levels February 18 and 19. MFA officials state that China's concerns center on the possibility of Taiwan's u [...] | 2008-02-19 09:24:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CH YI UN KV UNMIK |
08BEIRUT1300 | LEBANON: MFA PROVIDES LITLE COMMENT TO UNGA, ARAB [...] C) Poloff delivered points on Kosovo, the Arab League Ministerial, and the UN Third Committee on Human Rights to Oussama Khachab, Head of the Americas Desk at the Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs on September 4. Khachab said he would relay the points to other offices within the Foreign Mi [...] | 2008-09-04 15:11:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR PHUM UNGA UN LE SY IS IZ KV |
08BELGRADE1036 | SERBIA: FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-03 14:58:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EFIN PREL UN SR |
08BELGRADE1167 | SERBIA TRADES ICJ REFERRAL FOR IRAN NAM VOTE [...] (SBU) During a November 7 meeting, MFA Assistant Minister Feodor Starcevic, Director General for Multilateral Relations, confirmed to us that Serbia will abstain from the upcoming UN General Assembly Third Committee vote on the Iran no-action motion (NAM)(reftel). Starcevic stated bluntly that [...] | 2008-11-13 14:45:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UN SR |
08BELGRADE1186 | SERBIA: FOREIGN MINISTER CONFIRMS IT WILL ABSTAIN ON IRAN [...] (SBU) During a November 17 meeting in Belgrade, Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic confirmed to visiting EUR/SCE Deputy Assistant Secretary Stuart Jones that Serbia would abstain from the upcoming UN General Assembly Third Committee vote on the Iran no-action motion (NAM)(reftels). Jeremic [...] | 2008-11-18 14:17:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UN SR |
08BELGRADE960 | SERBIA STILL DEFINING THIRD COMMITTEE POSITIONS [...] (SBU) During a September 12 meeting, Acting Head of the MFA Directorate for Human Rights Valentina Kravljanac told us that her government has yet to elaborate its stance on the issues that will be discussed at the upcoming UN General Assembly Third Committee session (reftel). Kravljanac said t [...] | 2008-09-12 15:41:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UN SR |
08BELMOPAN400 | BELIZE RESPONSE UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Ayesha Borland, Desk Officer of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Poloff expressed the U.S. commitment to protect human rights and urged the GOB to take a stand against all no-action motions. Ms. Borland responded that Belize has in the past supported a [...] | 2008-09-12 21:01:00 | Embassy Belmopan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN BH |
08BERLIN1130 | TFGG01: MERKEL "WILL TALK TOUGH" IN SOCHI; [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-15 11:06:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL PHUM OSCE UN GG RS |
08BERLIN1155 | GERMANY TO DOUBLE GEORGIAN HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE [...] (C) The German Foreign Office announced August 19 that Germany would increase its humanitarian assistance to Georgia from 1 million to 2 million euros. POLOFF spoke on August 20 with Georgia Desk Officer Gosse at the MFA for more detail on the additional one million euros. Gosse confirmed tha [...] | 2008-08-21 05:30:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS OSCE PHUM PREL UN GG RS GM |
08BERLIN1173 | GERMANY: HUMANITARIAN AID LIMITED BY RUSSIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: POLOFF met August 21 with Deputy Head of the Task Force for Humanitarian Aid and Mine Action Oliver Owcza and Desk Officer Miriam Lenz to discuss the findings of the delegation to Georgia August 20 and 21 (Ref A). Owcza and Lenz charged that the Russians had interfered with the d [...] | 2008-08-22 13:10:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS OSCE PHUM PREL UN GG RS GM |
08BERLIN1176 | GERMANY CAREFULLY WATCHING RUSSIAN WITHDRAWAL [...] (C) Summary: PolOff met with MFA Division Head for Russia and Ukraine Ernst Reichel to discuss the Russian troop withdrawal from Georgia on August 22. Reichel emphasized that Russia's actions over the next day are vital for mitigating damage to its relations and reputation. Although confusi [...] | 2008-08-22 16:38:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS OSCE PHUM PREL UN GG RS GM EU |
08BERLIN1187 | GERMANY REACTS STRONGLY TO RUSSIAN RECOGNITION OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: German officials reacted strongly to Russia's recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia August 26. See para 7 for the full text of a German government statement on the matter. During a visit to Estonia today, Chancellor Merkel said the recognition was "absolutely unacceptable" [...] | 2008-08-26 16:16:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS OSCE PHUM PREL UN GG RS GM EU |
08BERLIN1227 | GERMANY SUPPORTIVE OF U.S. POSITIONS ON UNGA THIRD [...] (C) Poloff met with MFA Deputy Head of the Human Rights Department Martin Huth September 4 and spoke with Chancellery Advisor on Global Issues, the United Nations and Human Rights Edgar Gansen on September 5 on reftel points. Both expressed strong support for the U.S. positions on no-action mo [...] | 2008-09-05 14:27:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN GM |
08BERLIN1261 | GERMANY/GEORGIA: STATUS OF EU OBSERVER MISSION AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: The German government is using numerous bilateral and multilateral tools to assist Georgia in its recovery from the recent war with Russia. Germany strongly supports the EU observer mission in Georgia and seems determined to meet the October 1 deployment deadline. Chancellor Merk [...] | 2008-09-12 15:54:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS OSCE PHUM PREL UN GG RS GM EU |
08BERLIN1286 | GERMANY: MOVING FORWARD WITH EU OBSERVER MISSION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Germany plans to have 18 of the 40 observers it has pledged for the EU observer mission on the ground in Georgia early next week, with the additional 22 on standby should the EU need them. Contacts at MFA and the German Government Center for International Peace Operations (Zentru [...] | 2008-09-18 15:06:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS OSCE PHUM PREL UN GG RS GM EUN |
08BERLIN1407 | GERMANY: UNCERTAIN ABOUT AID PACKAGE AND MIXED ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff delivered reftel points to MFA Deputy Office Director for South Caucasus and Central Asia Maria Gosse on October 14, who stressed that Germany plans on delivering an aid package for Georgia and the region, but is unlikely to provide direct budget support. Gosse also shared [...] | 2008-10-17 13:16:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS OSCE PHUM PREL UN GG RS GM |
08BERLIN1436 | GERMANY: OPEN TO GREATER COOPERATION WITH THE U.S. [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Officials at the German Center for International Peace Operations (ZIF) told visiting S/CRS Deputy Coordinator Larry Sampler October 16 that they would welcome greater cooperation with S/CRS and invited the U.S. to send one or more representatives to a December 11-12 internatio [...] | 2008-10-23 07:33:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAID PHUM PREF UNDP UN |
08BERLIN1554 | GERMANY: EXPECTATIONS LOW FOR NOVEMBER 19 GENEVA [...] (C)SUMMARY. Contacts at the MFA and the Chancellery remain hopeful that the Geneva Talks will succeed in bringing all parties--especially Abkhazia and South Ossetia--to the table on November 19. Poloffs met with Chancellery Desk Officer for South Caucasus and Central Asia Agapi Nehring, who [...] | 2008-11-18 09:47:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS OSCE PHUM PREL UN GG RS GM NATO EUN |
08BERLIN1567 | GERMANY SUPPORTS EU'S DOUBLE-EDGED APPROACH TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. Germany appears satisfied with how the EU-Russia Summit unfolded in Nice on November 14, according to contacts in the Chancellery and MFA. Germany was eager to restart Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) negotiations, but supports launching an Eastern Partnership with c [...] | 2008-11-21 09:06:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN GG RS GM NATO EUN |
08BERN238 | OSLO PROCESS: PM/WRA CONSULTATIONS WITH [...] (C) Summary: Schraner emphasized that, as Friend of the Chair at the Dublin conference, she will seek to take a "realistic, balanced approach that can reach consensus." She said that it is her strong conviction that the convention will not be successful if the major military powers involved [...] | 2008-05-20 14:24:00 | Embassy Bern | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PARM PREL NATO UN SZ |
08BERN467 | UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE: SWISS RESPONSE TO USG'S [...] (C) Summary: Switzerland agrees with the USG's view on no-action motions, and is likely to support country-specific resolutions on Iran, Burma, and the DPRK. Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) contacts expressed some surprise at the USG's approach on Belarus, and said they would seek i [...] | 2008-09-16 11:22:00 | Embassy Bern | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN SZ |
08BERN528 | IMPLEMENTING UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS ON [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered the message in reftel on October 2 to Roland Vock, Head of the Export Controls Sanctions Policy Division of the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO). Vock commented that UNSCR 1835 reaffirmed the requirements of the previous sanctions UNSCRs on Iran, but did no [...] | 2008-10-10 15:09:00 | Embassy Bern | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM MNUC KNNP UN IR SZ |
08BISHKEK154 | KOSOVO DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO KYRGYZ MFA [...] (C) On February 11, A/DCM delivered Ref A points to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Western Countries Director Kanat Tursunkulov. Tursunkulov said he would pass on our points to officials in the Ministry, and would inform us of any substantive reaction or change in position. In January, Foreign [...] | 2008-02-12 12:33:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNMIK PGOV KG |
08BISHKEK176 | KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO KYRGYZ [...] (C) On February 20, A/DCM delivered Ref A points on the United States' recognition of Kosovo independence to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Western Countries Counselor Askhat Ryskulov. Ryskulov thanked him for the points, and he added that the government would consider our points as it developed [...] | 2008-02-20 12:16:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNMIK PGOV KG |
08BISHKEK931 | KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION: DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO [...] (C) Poloff conveyed reftel points to Askhat Ryskulov, Counselor in the MFA's Western Countries Department on September 12. Ryskulov listened carefully, and agreed to consult with his colleagues and convey his government's views to us next week. GFOELLER [...] | 2008-09-12 11:02:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UN UNGA KV KG |
08BISHKEK932 | UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE POINTS DELIVERED TO KYRGYZSTAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-12 11:07:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM UN KG |
08BOGOTA601 | COLOMBIA LIKELY TO RECOGNIZE KOSOVO [...] The Ambassador spoke with Foreign Minister Fernando Araujo on February 14, and delivered all points in reftel A. Araujo said the GOC was considering the U.S. request, and indicated the GOC would "likely" respond favorably. Vice-Foreign Minister Camilo Reyes subsequently confirmed that the For [...] | 2008-02-15 18:53:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNGA UNMIK YI UN CO |
08BRASILIA1225 | BRAZIL: UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY THIRD COMMITTEE 2008 [...] (C) Summary. Brazil will continue to prefer addressing human rights issues in the UN Human Rights Council, continues to oppose country-specific resolutions, will support the EU's Religious Tolerance resolution in lieu of a Defamation of Religion resolution, and did not give a response on no [...] | 2008-09-12 20:27:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN |
08BRASILIA1261 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNODC SELF-ASSESSMENT [...] (SBU) On September 16, PolCouns delivered reftel demarche to the director of the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations (Itamaraty) Office of Transnational Crimes, Virginia Toniatti. Asked if Brazil would complete the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) self-assessment checklist, which Bra [...] | 2008-09-22 20:10:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SNAR KCRM KJUS UN PG BR |
08BRASILIA1398 | Ambassador Schulte Visit to Brasilia - Nuclear Issues [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During an October 13 visit to Brasilia, Ambassador Gregory Schulte discussed Iran, Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) issues and Brazil's nuclear program. Brazil wants to play a constructive role with the UN on nuclear issues, particularly with Iran. Completing an Additional Pro [...] | 2008-10-24 16:05:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ENRG MNUC PARM UN BR |
08BRASILIA216 | BRAZIL TO WAIT AND SEE ON KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE [...] (C) In the Ambassador's absence from the capital, Political Counselor followed up Ambassador's initial demarche on Kosovo independence (ref B),delivering Ref A points to Brazil's Ministry of External Relations (MRE) Eastern European Acting Director Rodrigo Mendes Carlos de Almeida. De Almeida [...] | 2008-02-14 10:04:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN UNMIK YI BR |
08BRASILIA244 | DEMARCHE ON KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE [...] DCM delivered reftel demarche to Brazilian State Secretary for Political Affairs Everton Vargas on Feb. 20. SIPDIS Vargas received the points, and commented "We are aware of your position, but ours has not changed" (see ref b). SOBEL [...] | 2008-02-22 14:38:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | UN PREL PGOV |
08BRASILIA526 | IRANIAN DIPLOMACY MOVES INTO HIGH GEAR, PART 2 [...] (S) Summary: Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Reza Sheikh-Attar visited Brasilia in mid-March to press Brazil to join an anti-American bloc in South America composed of Ecuador, Bolivia, and Venezuela, and Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadi-Nejad continues to try to arrange an official visit t [...] | 2008-04-18 18:31:00 | Embassy Brasilia | SECRET | PREL PTER EFIN BR VE EC CO BL IR XR CH UN |
08BRASILIA913 | DEMARCHE RESPONSE: BRAZIL'S POSITION ON KOSOVO [...] (C) In a July 3 meeting, the Ambassador raised with Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim our interest in seeing Brazil recognize Kosovo's independence. Amorim said that Brazil's position had not changed with regard to the need to respect UNSC Resolution 1244 (ref b). However, Brazil's posi [...] | 2008-07-07 10:29:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | UN KPKO PREL PGOV BR |
08BRATISLAVA239 | USING SLOVAKIA'S ELECTION TO THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Slovakia's election on May 21 to the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) is seen here as a significant step in the country's effort to carve out a bigger space for itself in the international arena. Following its successful tenure on the UN Security Council (2006-7),the HRC bid was the logical [...] | 2008-05-22 15:05:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN PHUM LO |
08BRATISLAVA382 | TFGG01: SLOVAKIA WILL URGE RUSSIAN WITHDRAWAL BUT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-14 13:43:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL PHUM OSCE UN GG RS LO |
08BRATISLAVA384 | TFGG01: FM KUBIS: SLOVAK GOVERNMENT NOW UNITED ON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-15 15:50:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL PHUM OSCE UN GG RS LO |
08BRATISLAVA462 | SLOVAKIA WILL SUPPORT ICJ REFERRAL ON KOSOVO IN [...] (C) DCM delivered reftel demarche to Eva Ponomarenkova, Director of the MFA's Balkan Section, on October 6. Ponomarenkova said that the Slovaks would join an EU-wide approach in the unlikely event one emerged, but in the absence of consensus would vote to support an ICJ referral on Kosovo. [...] | 2008-10-08 16:07:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KV UN LO |
08BRAZZAVILLE239 | CONGO-BRAZZAVILLE RESPONSE TO UNGA HUMAN RIGHTS PRIORITIES [...] Embassy Brazzaville is an unclassified post. 2. Charge met with Ambassador Giselle Ngondo, Ambassadeur Itinerant, special adviser to the Republic of Congo (RoC) Minister of Foreign Affairs Basile Ikouebe for the UNGA delegation. Charge emphasized the U.S. commitment to promote human rights [...] | 2008-09-05 13:40:00 | Embassy Brazzaville | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UN |
08BRUSSELS1343 | SERBIA'S KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION AT UNGA: BELGIUM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Belgium as directed its UN Mission in New York either to vote against the Serbian UNGA resolution to refer the issue of Kosovo's independence to the ICJ or to abstain. Belgium will make its choice based on supporting EU and western unity on the issue. This is despite the Belgi [...] | 2008-08-29 14:16:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNGA KV BE PINR |
08BRUSSELS1412 | UNGA 3RD COMMITTEE 2008 HUMAN RIGHTS PRIORITIES -- [...] (C) SUMMARY: Speaking both as the Human Rights person at the Belgian MFA and as a participant in the EU Working Group on Human Rights meeting of September 4-5, Francine Chainye told Poloff Judith Heimann: --There were no surprises in our demarche talking points (reftel) except for Belarus (see [...] | 2008-09-11 15:26:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN EU BE |
08BUCHAREST120 | CLUSTER MUNITIONS: ROMANIA NOT ATTENDING OSLO [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-15 10:44:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PARM PREL NATO UN RO |
08BUCHAREST141 | ROMANIA: KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (C) EMBOFF delivered ref. a demarche on February 20 to MFA State Secretary for Europe Raduta Matache; FM Cioroianu was traveling in Israel at the time. Matache noted that Romania was not going to recognize Kosovo's independence, referring to public comments and commitments made by President Ba [...] | 2008-02-21 15:08:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI EU KV RO |
08BUDAPEST821 | TFGG01: DEMARCHE DELIVERED: RUSSI... [...] (U) This is an action request. See Paragraph 6. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Ref points were delivered on 14 August to GoH Ministry of Foreign Affairs State Secretaries Dr. Jeno Faller and Vilmos Hamikus. Charge also delivered ref points to Ambassador Karoly Banai, Chief Foreign and Security Policy Advisor to t [...] | 2008-08-14 16:47:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL PHUM OSCE UN GG RS HU |
08BUDAPEST837 | TFGG01 HUNGARY - WHERE THEY STAND ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite similarities to the 1956 Soviet invasion, the Hungarian Government has been reluctant to go further in its criticism of Russia than the EU-NATO consensus statements supporting Georgia. With the Prime Minister notably silent on the issue, President Solyom finally stepped f [...] | 2008-08-22 14:29:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL PHUM OSCE UN GG RS HU |
08BUDAPEST858 | HUNGARY ON UPCOMING EU COUNCIL MEETING RE [...] (C) The Foreign Minister's Chief of Staff briefed Ambassador Foley on the positions Hungary intends to forward at the upcoming EU Council meeting. Hungary will praise the French presidency for its activism, support the EU statement condemning the recognition of the disputed regions, demand fu [...] | 2008-08-29 16:48:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV OSCE UN GG RS HU |
08BUDAPEST881 | HUNGARY TO FOLLOW EU LEAD ON KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION [...] (C) Reftel talking points were discussed on September 2 with Rita Silek of the GoH Ministry of Foreign Affairs Legal Department, which is responsible for all ICJ issues. Silek agreed with many of the points made in reftel, namely the uncertainty and instability that the continued discussion of [...] | 2008-09-05 13:53:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA UN KV HU |
08BUDAPEST888 | HUNGARIAN COMMENTS ON UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY THIRD [...] (C) MFA UN International Organization Department Desk Officer Krisztina Kovacs discussed Reftel with PolOff on September 4. Kovacs expressed Hungary's general support for the U.S. agenda and said that Hungary expects to be more actively engaged during the 2008 session. This increased involve [...] | 2008-09-08 09:56:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN HU |
08BUDAPEST983 | DELIVERY OF FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) On October 2, Econoff met with Ministry of Economy Bilateral (Non-EU) Relations Director Katalin Csorba and delivered reftel points. Csorba agreed that the Financing for Development (FfD) Outcome Document should be balanced and should be an accurate reflection of countries' economic pol [...] | 2008-10-06 15:40:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN PREL UN HU |
08BUENOSAIRES1249 | ARGENTINA WELCOMES DIALOGUE ON PRIORITIES FOR UNGA [...] (SBU) Poloff raised ref A points with Minister Silvia Fernandez, Director for the Argentine MFA's Office of Human Rights on September 5. No-action motions ----------------- Poloff thanked the GOA for voting against all no-action motions and voting for country-specific resolutions against [...] | 2008-09-05 21:14:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UN AR |
08BUENOSAIRES266 | ARGENTINA: USG PRIORITIES FOR MARCH 10-14 MEETING [...] On February 29, Poloff, per Reftel, discussed USG priorities for the March 10-14 CND meetings in Vienna with the Argentine MFA's Director for International Drug Affairs, Minister Ricardo Roselli. Roselli stated that technical offices were studying the proposed U.S. resolutions on Screening an [...] | 2008-03-03 15:34:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR AORC UN AR |
08BUENOSAIRES636 | FOLLOWING UP WITH ARGENTINA ON U.S.-EU DECLARATION [...] (SBU) The Ambassador spoke May 9 and May 13 with Argentine MFA U/S for Multilateral Policy Raul Ricardes to urge Argentine co-sponsorship of the U.S.-EU declaration on prisoners of conscience. Ricardes asked who else was sponsoring. Per ref (A),the Ambassador noted there were 44 co-sponsors [...] | 2008-05-13 19:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UN EU AR |
08BUENOSAIRES664 | ARGENTINA ON THE OSLO PROCESS [...] (C) Summary: The Argentine Foreign Ministry theoretically supports a total ban on cluster munitions but, in fact, expects and is counting on a decision of partial prohibition. Nor does the MFA anticipate a finalized draft to come out of the Dublin meeting, anticipating it will take until the [...] | 2008-05-16 23:08:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PARM PREL NATO UN AR |
08BUENOSAIRES666 | ARGENTINA ON THE OSLO PROCESS [...] (C) Summary: The Argentine Foreign Ministry theoretically supports a total ban on cluster munitions but, in fact, expects and is counting on a decision of partial prohibition. Nor does the MFA anticipate a finalized draft to come out of the Dublin meeting, anticipating it will take until the [...] | 2008-05-19 12:25:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PARM PREL NATO UN AR |
08BUJUMBURA585 | UNGA IRAN RESOLUTION: BURUNDI AGAINST NO-ACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-20 15:02:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UN IR BY |
08CAIRO1129 | EGYPTIAN COURT UPHOLDS HIV SENTENCES [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-04 12:41:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KHIV UN EG |
08CAIRO1931 | EGYPT HAS NO POSITION ON KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered reftel points to the Office of Eastern and Southern European Affairs at the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on September 1. We stressed USG concerns over Serbia's request for a UNGA resolution seeking an International Court of Justice (ICJ) advisory opinion on Koso [...] | 2008-09-01 14:26:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UN UNGA KV EG |
08CAIRO2037 | EGYPT ON UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY THIRD COMMITTEE 2008 [...] (C) We met on September 14 with Deputy Assistant Foreign Minister for Human Rights Wael Aboulmagd to urge the Egyptians to support U.S. human rights priorities at the upcoming meeting of the United Nations General Assembly (reftel). While Aboulmagd did not address the substance of the countr [...] | 2008-09-16 12:53:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KIRF KISL UN OIC EG |
08CAIRO2475 | EGYPT UNHAPPY WITH ITS ROLE IN RESOLVING SUDAN [...] (C) Summary: The Egyptian MFA's cabinet advisor for African Affairs, Ahmed Abu Zeid, told us the Government of Egypt (GOE) sent a letter to UN SYG Ban expressing its dissatisfaction with the work of UN Special Envoy for Darfur Yipene Bassole. Egypt is unhappy that Bassole and the Qatari Govern [...] | 2008-12-04 14:04:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN SU EG |
08CAIRO997 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: INTEROPERABILITY CONCERNS IN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-15 13:00:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PARM PREL NATO UN EG |
08CANBERRA150 | AUSTRALIA RECOGNIZES KOSOVO [...] (SBU) The GOA Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade announced at mid-day on February 19 that it formally recognized the Republic of Kosovo as an Independent State. The announcement noted that both the United States and the U.K. had issued their recognitions (earlier in the day a DFAT offic [...] | 2008-02-19 03:56:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AS PREL YI UN |
08CANBERRA299 | AUSTRALIA COMMITTED TO RESULTS ORIENTED PIF [...] (SBU) A representative from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Pacific Regional Section confirmed Australia is hopeful of a results-oriented outcome to the March 26 Pacific Island Forum Ministerial on Fiji. A meeting of Australian and New Zealand Foreign Ministers preceded the FFAM [...] | 2008-03-27 05:16:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL FJ UN AS |
08CHISINAU211 | RECALL OF MOLDOVAN AMBASSADOR TO UN REFLECTS POLITICAL [...] (U) On February 27, the Cabinet recalled Ambassador Alexei Tulbure, Moldova's Permanent Representative to the United Nations. Though the ambassador was appointed only 18 months ago, Deputy Foreign Minister Kistruga, who attended the Cabinet meeting, told the press it was just a regular rotation [...] | 2008-02-29 12:26:00 | Embassy Chisinau | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UN MD |
08CHISINAU707 | MOLDOVA RECEIVES DEMARCHE ON HUMAN RIGHTS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-03 08:43:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC UN NGO PHUM MD |
08CHISINAU752 | MOLDOVA RECEIVES DEMARCHE ON KOSOVO [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-15 11:07:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI EU KPKO KV MD |
08CHISINAU881 | MOLDOVA GENERALLY SUPPORTS USG IN THIRD [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-04 12:33:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UN MD |
08CHISINAU882 | Moldova Agrees that ICJ is Wrong Place to Discuss Kosovo's [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-04 14:15:00 | Embassy Chisinau | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNGA KV MD |
08CHISINAU931 | MOLDOVA RECEIVES COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-16 13:11:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UN MD |
08COLOMBO156 | SRI LANKA: DEMARCHE ON GSL REPRESENTATIVE'S [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-12 09:46:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM MNUC UN CE |
08COLOMBO157 | SRI LANKA UNDECIDED ON KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche to Sri Lankan Minister of Foreign Affairs Rohitha Bogollagama on February 11, urging the Government of Sri Lanka to recognize Kosovo's independence if Kosovo issues such a declaration. Ambassador noted that the U.S. does not consider Kosovo independence [...] | 2008-02-12 09:50:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UN UNMIK YI CE |
08COLOMBO172 | MGKV01: SRI LANKA REJECTS RECOGNITION OF KOSOVO [...] (U) On February 17, Sri Lanka rejected Kosovo's declaration of independence, citing its potential to set an "unmanageable" precedent, and claiming that it violates the UN Charter and UN Security Council Resolution 1244. 2. (U) In a statement issued on February 17, the Foreign Ministry state [...] | 2008-02-20 02:01:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UN UNMIK YI EU KV CE |
08CONAKRY83 | UN BRINGS IN FORMER HAITIAN PM AS DIALOGUE [...] (S) SUMMARY. Gerard Latortue, a former prime minister of Haiti, has been in Conakry for three weeks on an official United Nations Mission to encourage dialogue. Despite a professed close friendship with the Guinean PM, Latortue believes that Kouyate has failed to do his job, and is quickly [...] | 2008-04-09 14:18:00 | Embassy Conakry | SECRET | PREL PGOV ASEC UN GV |
08COPENHAGEN436 | TFGG01: DENMARK FIRM ON RUSSIA, CONCERNED ABOUT [...] (U) Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller warned publicly August 13 that Denmark will have to "reconsider" its relationship with Russia if Russian forces are in violation of the agreed cease-fire. Moeller, speaking after the GAERC EU foreign ministers meeting that day, acknowledged that Ge [...] | 2008-08-14 14:14:00 | Embassy Copenhagen | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL MOPS PHUM OSCE UN GG RS DA |
08COTONOU294 | BENIN FEEDBACK ON UNICEF PROGRAMS [...] Summary: Post welcomes the opportunity to provide comments on UNICEF, a valued partner in development. The UNICEF program in Benin is effective and coordinates closely with the USG, the Government of Benin (GOB),and international donors. 2. UNICEF Program in Benin: Overall, the UNICEF [...] | 2008-05-20 04:33:00 | Embassy Cotonou | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID UNICEF UN BN |
08COTONOU551 | Benin: UNGA Third Committee 2008 [...] (C) On September 4, 2008, the DCM delivered ref demarche to the MFA Director of International Organizations, Thomas Adoumasse. Adoumasse summarized the GOB position on the continued promotion of the concept of "defamation of religions," saying that one of the cornerstones of Beninese democracy [...] | 2008-09-05 14:18:00 | Embassy Cotonou | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN BN |
08DAKAR1036 | UNGA DEMARCHE: SENEGALESE FOREIGN MINISTER OPEN TO [...] (U) This is an action message. Please see para 6. 2. (C) Summary: Ambassador delivered reftel demarche to Foreign Minister Cheikh Tidiane Gadio on August 4. He responded enthusiastically that the United States and Senegal could work together to find points of commonality to yield mutual [...] | 2008-09-09 10:40:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UN SG |
08DAKAR1067 | FARBA SENGHOR-PRESIDENT WADE,S FALL GUY [...] 1. (C) SUMMARY: On August 28, Farba Senghor, Minister of Air Transportation and, more importantly, public relations officer for the ruling Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS) was forced to resign his ministerial post because of his alleged role in recent attacks on the newsrooms of "L'As" and "24 [...] | 2008-09-15 17:11:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UN SG |
08DAKAR647 | SENEGAL: WADE WAGES FOOD FIGHT AGAINST FAO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade continued his campaign against the FAO during the World Food Summit, calling for the UN agency to be disbanded. Many believe his attacks on the organization have more to do with domestic politics than international food aid policy. President Wa [...] | 2008-06-05 12:11:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAID EAGR PREL ECON UN FAO SG |
08DAMASCUS841 | UNSCO SERRY: SARG VIEWS ON SYRIAN AND PALESTINIAN [...] (C) Summary: UN Special Coordinator Robert Serry concluded a two-day visit to Damascus by briefing diplomats on his discussions with FM Muallim and VFM Miqdad. According to Serry, Muallim signaled continuing SARG interest in the Syrian-Israeli track but conditioned the holding of a fifth ro [...] | 2008-11-25 14:34:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG PBTS TU IS UN SY |
08DARESSALAAM117 | KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE: TANZANIA VOICES NO MAJOR [...] (C) As reported Ref A, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Bernard Membe, forwarded the U.S. request for the Government of Tanzania (GOT) to recognize the independence of Kosovo to President Jakaya Kikwete in advance of the POTUS' (February 16 to 19) visit to Tanzania [...] | 2008-02-21 10:28:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI EU KV TZ |
08DHAKA1040 | WOMEN,S DEVELOPMENT POLICY BEING IMPLEMENTED [...] (C) The Government of Bangladesh (GOB) plans to implement its Women's Development Policy quietly, according to the Adviser for the Ministries of Primary and Mass Education, Women and Children Affairs, and Cultural Affairs. Adviser Rasheda K. Chowdhury told the Ambassador on September 30 that [...] | 2008-10-06 09:53:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KWMN SOCI KPAO EAID UN BG |
08DHAKA1146 | INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC RELIEF ORGANIZATION (IIRO) [...] (C) Recent press accounts suggested that Islami Bank of Bangladesh had recently released money frozen for two years belonging to the International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO). Sister organizations of the IIRO have ties to al- Qaida and have been listed as terrorist-affiliated by the Un [...] | 2008-11-03 11:06:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PINR PREL PTER KTFN BG UN |
08DHAKA719 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES KOSOVO, ELECTIONS AND CYCLONE [...] (C) Ambassador Moriarty urged Bangladesh to recognize the independence of Kosovo in a July 1 meeting with Foreign Affairs Adviser Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury. Chowdhury expressed support for recognition but cited regional concerns preventing Bangladesh from taking a bold stance on its own, sugges [...] | 2008-07-02 10:04:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNMIK PGOV KPKO KV EU BG |
08DHAKA918 | KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION AT UNGA [...] (SBU) Deputy Pol/Econ Chief August 28 delivered reftel demarche to Masudur Rahman, Director of the Americas Wing at Bangladesh's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Rahman pledged to relay our concerns regarding the resolution and urged the USG to contact directly Bangladesh's Permanent Repre [...] | 2008-09-01 03:03:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UN UNGA KV BG |
08DHAKA961 | BANGLADESH NON-COMMITTAL ON 2008 UNGA HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Pol/Econ Officer September 8 delivered reftel demarche to Masudur Rahman, Director of the Americas Wing at Bangladesh's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Rahman stated his government prefers to address human rights issues in other countries bilaterally rather than in a multilateral forum, part [...] | 2008-09-11 01:56:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN BG |
08DILI172 | NO CHANGE IN TIMOR-LESTE POSITION ON KOSOVO [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-02 09:51:00 | Embassy Dili | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN PGOV YI KV TT |
08DILI208 | TIMOR-LESTE: BORDER CHALLENGES REMAIN IN OECUSSI [...] From August 11 - 13, Poloff traveled to the enclave district of Oecussi, located within the boundaries of Indonesia's West Timor province, to attend a cultural festival and to assess border conditions in Timor-Leste's westernmost district. Travel to Oecussi is hampered by requirements for Indo [...] | 2008-08-20 12:30:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ASEC UN ID TT |
08DILI256 | TIMOR-LESTE RESPONSE ON KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION [...] Per reftel, DCM met with Roberto Soares, Director for External Affairs at Timor-Leste's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to explain our position on the upcoming UNGA vote on referring the question of Kosovo's independence to the International Court of Justice. 2. Soares thanked us, saying tha [...] | 2008-10-08 03:57:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNGA UN TT KV |
08DILI48 | TIMOR-LESTE INCLINED TO SUPPORT KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE [...] (U) Per reftels A - C, DCM met February 13 with Vicky Tchong, Secretary General of Timor Leste's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, SIPDIS to urge that Timor-Leste promptly recognize an independent Kosovo following its secession from Serbia. Tchong expressed broad agreement with our position, but [...] | 2008-02-14 10:04:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UN UMIK EU YI TT |
08DILI60 | PRESSING FAVORABLY INCLINED STATES FOR EARLY RECOGNITION OF [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-25 06:21:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UN UNMIK YI EU KV TT |
08DILI75 | TIMOR-LESTE RECOGNIZES KOSOVO; PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT TO [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-06 09:33:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UN UNMIK YI EU KV TT |
08DJIBOUTI424 | DJIBOUTI SEEKS MULTILATERAL SUPPORT ON ERITREAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Djibouti's Foreign Minister called in Ambassadors today to say that the GODJ is now seeking an international fact-finding mission to visit the Djibouti-Eritrean border at Ras Doumeira (adjacent to the strategic Bab-al-Mandeb strait),assess the situation, and assist Eritrea and Dj [...] | 2008-04-30 12:49:00 | Embassy Djibouti | SECRET | PREL MOPS PBTS PHSA UN DJ ER AU |
08DJIBOUTI432 | DJIBOUTI FOREIGN MINISTER REITERATES CALL FOR [...] (S/REL FR/RS/UK) SUMMARY: Ambassador met with the Djiboutian Foreign Minister, and French, Belgian, Norwegian, Russian and British Ambassadors May 4 to discuss the Djibouti-Eritrean border issue at Ras Doumeira (reftels). Following Djibouti's public call on April 30 (refs A, C) for internation [...] | 2008-05-05 16:32:00 | Embassy Djibouti | SECRET | PREL MOPS PBTS PHSA DJ ER AU UN |
08DJIBOUTI449 | DJIBOUTI-ERITREA: FRANCE CAUTIOUS ABOUT U.N. ACTION [...] (C) SUMMARY. Bound by mutual defense treaties to defend Djibouti, and with over 3,000 troops stationed in the country, France seeks to deQe rising tensions between Djibouti and Eritrea through diplomatic means, including the possible dispatch of a special envoy. According to France's Ambassa [...] | 2008-05-12 17:45:00 | Embassy Djibouti | SECRET | PREL MOPS PBTS PHSA DJ ER SO UN |
08DJIBOUTI472 | DJIBOUTI REPORTS ERITREAN "ULTIMATUM" TO REMOVE [...] (S) SUMMARY. Djibouti's Foreign Minister Mahamoud Ali Youssouf reports that Eritrean military officials have given Djibouti an "ultimatum" demanding the withdrawal of Djiboutian troops from Doumeira Island, claimed by Djibouti. Djibouti recently deployed troops on the island following Eritrea [...] | 2008-05-20 17:01:00 | Embassy Djibouti | SECRET | PREL MOPS PBTS PHSA DJ ER UN SO FR |
08DJIBOUTI576 | DJIBOUTI REQUESTS EXPULSION OF WFP REPRESENTATIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Following months of growing tensions (refs A-B),Djibouti's acting foreign minister has formally requested the replacement of the current World Food Program Resident Representative (WFP ResRep),who is asked to depart "as soon as possible" due to "absence of cooperation" with aut [...] | 2008-07-03 17:57:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID EAGR DJ UN |
08DJIBOUTI582 | DJIBOUTI: INTERIOR MINISTER DISCUSSES DECISION TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. On July 5, Minister of Interior Yacin Elmi Bouh summoned Charge to explain the GODJ's July 3 decision to expel World Food Program (WFP) Resident Representative Benoit Thiry (REF A). Minister Bouh shared a June 29 letter he sent to Thiry, which protested Thiry's decision to cancel [...] | 2008-07-08 17:12:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS EAID EAGR DJ UN |
08DJIBOUTI731 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ARAB LEAGUE AND UNGA THIRD [...] (U) PolOff delivered reftel points on the UNGA Third Committee (ref A) and Arab League Ministerial (ref B) to GODJ Ministry of Foreign Affairs Deputy Director for International Organizations Mohamed Idriss Farah on September 7. 2. (C) On Arab League issues, Farah said that Djibouti remained [...] | 2008-09-07 13:19:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UN DJ |
08DOHA146 | QATAR ANNOUNCES ESTABLISHMENT OF "SILATECH" GLOBAL [...] (U) Sheikha Mozah bin Nasser Al-Misnad, the wife of the Qatari Amir, announced January 15 the establishment of the "Silatech" ("your connection" in Arabic) Global Youth Employment Initiative. The announcement was made at the First Forum of the Alliance of Civilizations held in Madrid. In maki [...] | 2008-02-20 10:46:00 | Embassy Doha | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM ELAB UN QA |
08DOHA356 | ARAB NATIONS CREATE REGIONAL NETWORK TO FACILITATE [...] (U) SUMMARY: At a high-level conference of judicial and prosecutorial authorities from 22 Arab states, held in Doha on April 27 and 28, participants agreed to create a new liaison organization to help facilitate mutual legal assistance and extradition among their countries. The Government of [...] | 2008-05-04 11:25:00 | Embassy Doha | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM SNAR AU FR XE MA DJ SU MR UN |
08DUBLIN523 | IRELAND'S VIEWS ON UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY THIRD [...] (C) On September 12, PolOff spoke with James McIntyre, Director of Human Rights at the Department of Foreign Affairs. Ireland largely shares the same priorities as the U.S. for the Third Committee. However, Ireland believes that this year will be more difficult than ever to get support for a [...] | 2008-09-15 10:58:00 | Embassy Dublin | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN EI |
08DUSHANBE1127 | TAJIKISTAN - NO KOSOVO ICJ POSITION YET [...] (C) On September 5 Acting DCM spoke with Muzafar Khuseynov, Chief of the Department of International Organizations, concerning reftel. Khuseynov said that Tajikistan had not yet formulated a position on whether to support referral of Kosovo's declaration of independence to the International C [...] | 2008-09-05 11:38:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL UN UNGA KV TI |
08DUSHANBE1151 | TAJIKISTAN - UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY THIRD COMMITTEE [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Shermahmad Radjabovich Niyasov, Second Secretary at the State Protocol Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Niyasov handles issues regarding the United Nations General Assembly and will be present in New York for the UNGA this September. Conte [...] | 2008-09-15 03:39:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN |
08DUSHANBE222 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO TAJIKS ON KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE [...] (C) PolOff delivered the demarche on Kosovo independence as instructed to Husrab Noziri, the newly appointed Head of American and European Affairs at the Tajik Foreign Ministry. Noziri said he would discuss the issue with his superiors, but he would not comment on Tajikistan,s position on Kosov [...] | 2008-02-11 14:32:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN UNMIK YI EU |
08DUSHANBE888 | KOSOVO DEMARCHE DELIVERED; TAJIKISTAN NOT LIKELY [...] (C) Per reftel, PolOff delivered a demarche on Kosovo to Khusrav Noziri, the Head of American and European Affairs at the Tajik Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Noziri gave his standard response ) he will pass the information we provided to his superiors. 2. (C) PolOff prompted Noziri by obser [...] | 2008-07-03 11:18:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI TI KV |
08GENEVA1033 | WMO Commission for Hydrology, USDEL Readout [...] SUMMARY: At the WMO Commission on Hydrology (CHy) November 4-13, the U.S. delegation achieved USG objectives of becoming a member of the Advisory Working Group (WWG),getting technical experts on the working teams, and advancing the coordination with UNESCO/IHP on climate issues. END SUMMARY [...] | 2008-11-24 13:04:00 | US Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EFIN WMO UN ECOSOC |
08GENEVA926 | WMO Audit Committee Read Out [...] Summary. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Audit Committee (AC) met at WMO headquarters October 20 - 21, 2008 to report on the status of implementation of audit recommendations generated by the Internal Oversight Office (IOO) and the UN Joint Inspection Unit. A representative from NO [...] | 2008-11-05 13:50:00 | US Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EFIN WMO UN ECOSOC |
08GENEVA927 | UNECE Forum for the Environment Hanging in the Balance [...] Summary. The UN Economic Commission for Europe's (UNECE) Committee on Environmental Policy (CEP) met Oct 13-15, to seek agreement on a reform to the Environment for Europe Ministerial Conference (EfE). While progress was made, there was no negotiated outcome. The major sticking points continu [...] | 2008-11-05 13:51:00 | US Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG SENV EIND UN ECE ECOSOC |
08GENEVA981 | Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) Meetings and [...] (U) Summary. A U.S. delegation participated in the fifth round of negotiations on the issue of cluster munitions within the framework of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons ("CCW"),held November 3-7 in Geneva. The delegation also participated in the meetings of States Parties to [...] | 2008-11-18 15:49:00 | US Mission Geneva | CONFIDENTIAL | MCAP MOPS PARM PGOV PREL UN |
08GENEVA986 | UNCTAD TIPTOES TOWARDS SMALLER CARBON FOOTPRINT [...] SUMMARY: The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has answered the call for a carbon-neutral UN by setting for itself a carbon emissions reduction target of 20 percent by 2020. A Swiss firm, the Gaia Group, conducted a carbon emissions inventory for UNCTAD, and is advi [...] | 2008-11-20 07:04:00 | US Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EFIN UN ECOSOC |
08GEORGETOWN538 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE PRIORITIES [...] (SBU) On September 10, Poloff delivered reftel demarche points to Lesley Dowridge-Collins, Director of Multilateral Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Per reftel instructions, Poloff also highlighted the GoG's voting pattern on similar resolutions in previous years, noting that Guyana [...] | 2008-09-18 12:41:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UN GY |
08GRENADA125 | GRENADA WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT AUGUST 31 - SEPTEMBER 6, [...] (U) Embassy Grenada's weekly report (GWAR) provides a little detail about events of interest that do not merit longer reporting at this time. 2. (U) Begin GWAR text: A. Major Shake-up within RGPF The new Commissioner of Police (COP) announced a major shake-up in the Royal Grenada Police [...] | 2008-09-12 13:51:00 | Embassy Grenada | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OFDP KCRM UN OAS GJ |
08GRENADA126 | GRENADA WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT AUGUST 31 - SEPTEMBER 6, [...] (U) Embassy Grenada's weekly report (GWAR) provides a little detail about events of interest that do not merit longer reporting at this time. 2. (U) Begin GWAR text: A. Major Shake-up within RGPF The new Commissioner of Police (COP) announced a major shake-up in the Royal Grenada Police [...] | 2008-09-12 13:51:00 | Embassy Grenada | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OFDP KCRM UN OAS GJ |
08GUATEMALA1124 | GUATEMALAN FOREIGN MINISTRY CREATES HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICE [...] The Foreign Ministry created an office to coordinate Guatemala's human rights agenda with national institutions, multilateral organizations, and embassies. The "Directorate of Human Rights, Rights of the Indigenous Peoples, Environment, Culture, and International Humanitarian Rights" is headed [...] | 2008-09-04 22:40:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV KDEM KJUS SOCI UN GT |
08GUATEMALA1162 | GUATEMALA: DEMARCHE ON UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE HUMAN [...] (U) Poloff delivered ref A talking points on the upcoming United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Third Committee session to Luis Carranza, Director for Multilateral Policy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and solicited GOG support for U.S. priority resolutions. 2. (C) According to Carran [...] | 2008-09-16 17:26:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN GT |
08GUATEMALA1429 | GUATEMALA: DEMARCHE ON RESOLUTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) Per ref A, the Ambassador met with FM Rodas November 11 to urge GOG support for U.S. priority resolutions on Iran, Burma, and the DPRK. Rodas stated that he would review the issues relating to these country resolutions and inform the Ambassador of a decision. Embassy also delivered ref [...] | 2008-11-14 13:09:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL UN GT |
08GUATEMALA1478 | UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR COMPARES DHS TO GESTAPO [...] In a November 7 speech in Guatemala City, Jorge Bustamante, UN Special Rapporteur for the Human Rights of Immigrants (and a Mexican national),compared the actions of U.S. officials to deport illegal aliens from the United States with the Gestapo's repressive actions against Jews in Nazi Germa [...] | 2008-12-02 10:50:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM UN KHLS PREF PREL GT |
08GUATEMALA160 | GUATEMALAN RESPONSE TO OSLO PROCESS DEMARCHE [...] (C) On February 15, Poloff delivered reftel A demarche to Leila Villatoro, Deputy Director of Multilateral Policy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, regarding the upcoming Oslo Process meeting on cluster munitions. Poloff left the military utility and interoperability papers provided in reft [...] | 2008-02-15 17:36:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PARM PREL NATO UN GT |
08GUATEMALA373 | GUATEMALA STILL CONSIDERING KOSOVO RECOGNITION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-26 22:21:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI EU GT |
08GUATEMALA607 | GUATEMALA NOT PREPARED TO RECOGNIZE KOSOVO AT THIS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-13 22:27:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | OPDC PREL UN UNMIK PGOV EU YI GT |
08GUATEMALA962 | GUATEMALA RATIFIES PROTOCOL ON UN CONVENTION AGAINST [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-28 22:26:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV UN GT |
08HANOI1013 | VIETNAM LIKELY NOT TO &OBSTRUCT8 REQUEST FOR ICJ [...] (C) On September 3, Deputy PolCouns met with MFA IO Section Chief Do Hung Viet to convey U.S. concerns about the prospect of a Serbian-sponsored UNGA resolution requesting an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice on the lawfulness of Kosovo's declaration of independence. P [...] | 2008-09-04 03:21:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNGA KV VM |
08HANOI1021 | UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE 2008 HUMAN RIGHTS PRIORITIES: VIETNAM [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-05 08:38:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UN VM |
08HANOI1138 | DEMARCHE TO VIETNAM ON KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION [...] (SBU) On October 3, Pol Counselor delivered reftel demarche to MFA Department of International Organizations Deputy Director General Pham Vinh Quang. Quang had just returned from the UN and said he had heard the Serbian representative's speech on this issue. Serbia has refrained from using fo [...] | 2008-10-03 08:45:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UN UNGA KV VM |
08HANOI655 | MFA NOTIFIED ABOUT DRAFT RESOLUTION ON "SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-04 08:55:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UN UNSC KWMN PHUM VM |
08HANOI732 | VIETNAM: DEMARCHE ON UNSCR ON SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN CONFLICT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-19 09:50:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC UN KWMN PHUM VM |
08HANOI784 | VIETNAM: DEMARCHE URGING RECOGNITION OF KOSOVO DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-07 04:25:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UN UNMIK PGOV KV VM |
08HELSINKI270 | AMBASSADOR BARRETT MEETS WITH FORMER FINNISH [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-24 05:25:00 | Embassy Helsinki | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL OECD UN FI |
08HELSINKI457 | FINLAND COMMENTS: KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION AT UNGA [...] (C) PolOff and Finland Desk Officer met with Finnish MFA Counselor Tony Paso, Unit for EU Enlargement and West Balkans on October 7. Regarding the Serbian resolution, Paso said that the Government of Finland (GoF) will abstain regardless of the EU position, coinciding with the public position [...] | 2008-10-09 07:41:00 | Embassy Helsinki | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNGA ICJ KV FI |