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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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05PARIS7532 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - President Bush to South [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-04 11:59:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
05PARIS7561 | SET BACK FOR FRANCE'S NUCLEAR COMPANY AREVA [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 27, Prime Minister de Villepin cancelled the planned partial privatization of French nuclear powerhouse AREVA, generating a flurry of journalistic commentary, mostly suggesting that the non-privatization will upset the company's planned expansion to take advantage of [...] | 2005-11-04 17:09:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG TSPL TPHY KSCA EINV PGOV FR |
05PARIS7573 | AVIAN FLU PREPAREDNESS: FRENCH EFFORTS [...] Summary. The GOF continues to hone preparations for a future avian flu pandemic. On October 27, Research Minister Goulard made symbolic visits to some of France's most prestigious biological research facilities that could prove critical in any response to an H5N1 viral outbreak. On November [...] | 2005-11-04 18:43:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO EAGR SOCI FR |
05PARIS7574 | USUNESCO: 33rd GENERAL CONFERENCE ADOPTS [...] SUMMARY: UNESCO's 33rd General Conference adopted by consensus the Convention Against Doping in Sport, designed to strengthen efforts to keep sport fair and drug-free. The convention places particular emphasis on the education of amateur athletes and the fight against doping in sport by athl [...] | 2005-11-07 09:40:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | SCUL FR UNESCO |
05PARIS7577 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Paris Riots President Bush to [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-07 11:12:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
05PARIS7595 | PARIS EMERGENCY ACTION COMMITTEE MEETING REGARDING [...] DCM convened the Paris CORE EAC this date to discuss the continuing spread of arson attacks throughout France. Attendees included; DCM, DCM UNESCO, RSO, CG, ACS, MGT, ORA, FBI, POL, PA, OSI, ICE, TSA, DATT, and ECON. 2. FOR BACKGROUND: RSO reiterated that over the last week there have bee [...] | 2005-11-07 16:52:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC FR |
05PARIS7597 | MFA ON IRAQ DEVELOPMENTS: MORE OF THE SAME [...] (C) Summary: During a November 4 discussion, MFA DAS-equivalent for Iraq/Iran Antoine Sivan affirmed that the GoF will view the next Iraqi government as fully sovereign, but gave no indication that the GoF will increase its assistance to Iraq after December elections. Sivan expressed satisfac [...] | 2005-11-07 17:41:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ IR FR |
05PARIS7598 | WTO DEMARCHE: FRENCH MAINTAIN VIEWS ON AG TRADE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Emboffs delivered ref A points to key French officials at the Elysee, the Trade Ministry and the Foreign Ministry, who continue to voice their objections to the Commission's revised proposal for the WTO Doha Round negotiations. The French approach seems to have changed very li [...] | 2005-11-07 17:46:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR PGOV FR |
05PARIS7599 | RAMPAGE IN FRANCE CONTINUES FOR 11TH DAY [...] (C) Summary: Notwithstanding massive deployments of police and President Jacques Chirac's assurances that "the absolute priority is to reestablish security and public order," violent unrest in France intensified through the weekend, with November 6 marking the eleventh night of arson and clas [...] | 2005-11-07 18:12:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KISL FR |
05PARIS7613 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Summit of the Americas [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-08 12:17:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
05PARIS7626 | FORMER PM JOSPIN DEFLECTS SPECULATION ABOUT [...] (C) Over lunch with Ambassador Stapleton on November 2, former prime minister Lionel Jospin said that desire for change, along with widespread disappointment with the record of President Chirac and the center-right, "puts things in place" for a center-left victory in 2007. However, he also cau [...] | 2005-11-08 13:35:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
05PARIS7630 | NEW FRENCH BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE PARISOT ON [...] SUMMARY. France's new business spokesman Laurence Parisot believes France is still "quite competitive" despite the French public's negative perception of the private sector. Parisot, who was elected as first woman president of the French employers association MEDEF in July 2005, told Ambass [...] | 2005-11-08 15:13:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB FR KBIO |
05PARIS7658 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - France - Suburban Violence [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-09 12:15:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
05PARIS7667 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UN THIRD COMMITTEE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-09 14:22:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM SU BM FR UNHRC |
05PARIS7675 | FRENCH MFA OFFICIAL ON IRAN: REMAIN FIRM, DON'T [...] (C) Summary and comment: MFA DAS-equivalent for Iran/Iraq Arabian Gulf Affairs Antoine Sivan assessed the Ahmadi-Nejad government as weakened by internal debate within Iran and lacking competence and experience, during a recent discussion with us. Sivan speculated that Ahmadi-Nejad's recent s [...] | 2005-11-09 16:06:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV IR FR |
05PARIS7682 | THE FRENCH INTEGRATION MODEL: GOING UP IN SMOKE? [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Continuing violent unrest in France -- only now diminishing after thirteen intense days -- has very publicly brought to light the ugly reality of France's persistent failure to integrate its immigrant population. Importantly, the violence has not taken on religious ove [...] | 2005-11-09 18:47:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KISL SOCI ELAB FR |
05PARIS7688 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iraq Social Unrest in France [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-10 12:53:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
05PARIS7691 | FRENCH INNOVATION EVENT: SEEKING U.S. PARTICIPATION [...] Summary: Eminent scientist and former French presidential scientific advisor Professor Jean Audouze called on Embassy recently to urge U.S. participation in the second European Research and Innovation Exhibition and associated conference to be held June 8-11, 2006 in Paris. The Embassy views t [...] | 2005-11-10 13:12:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | TSPL TPHY TNGD KPAO FR |
05PARIS77 | GOF WON'T BE JOINING INTERNATIONAL MISSION FOR [...] (C) Poloff reviewed reftel points urging French support for the International Mission for Iraq Elections (IMIE) with MFA Iraq desk officer Bernard Chappedelaine January 5, after delivering reftel points to the GoF December 29. Chappedelaine reported that the GoF did not plan to participate in [...] | 2005-01-05 17:31:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PROP PHUM IZ FR |
05PARIS7704 | FRANCE: ENERGY SECTOR UPDATE [...] (U) This is the fourth in a series of occasional updates on the French energy sector. Feedback is welcome to help us make this product as useful as possible for our inter-agency USG audience. Contents: -- Total executive notes decision-making void in Iran (para 2) -- Individuals flocking [...] | 2005-11-10 14:49:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET EIND EINV PREL PGOV FR |
05PARIS771 | FRANCE AND GERMANY COORDINATE COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE [...] SUMMARY. Using the semiannual Franco-German Economic and Finance Committee meeting as a springboard, French and German Finance Ministers jointly called for coordinated G7 action on the declining U.S. Dollar; reiterated their desire for reform of the European Stability and Growth Pact; and dis [...] | 2005-02-07 17:27:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV FR PBIO |
05PARIS7716 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Azerbaijan Terrorism - Amman [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-14 11:03:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
05PARIS7725 | NMFS CHIEF HOGARTH SEEKING ICCAT CHAIRMANSHIP: [...] (U) On November 8, ESTH Officer delivered talking points contained in REFTEL to Julien Turenne, Chief of the Bureau of Resources and International Affairs at the Ministry of Agriculture and Fish. Mr. Turenne understood the points delivered, and explained that GOF has no objection to Mr. Hog [...] | 2005-11-14 13:31:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIS PHSA SENV AORC FR ICCAT |
05PARIS7737 | PEP-MENA DONOR MEETING OCTOBER 20 2005 [...] (U) At the The annual PEP-MENA (Private Enterprise Partnership for the Middle East and North Africa) meeting was held in Paris October 20. , bBoard members outlined to donor countries the progress of the first year of the PEP- MENA program, and presented success stories from each of the pro [...] | 2005-11-14 16:46:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PREL HA FR |
05PARIS7742 | USUNESCO: DIRECTOR GENERAL BRIEFS ON UNESCO'S [...] Summary. On Tuesday 8 November, the Director- General convened an information meeting on UNESCO's participation in the Oil-for-Food Program (OFFP). The meeting, which was originally requested by the British Delegation during the 172nd Executive Board in September, was intended to review the [...] | 2005-11-14 17:10:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT EFIN IZ FR UNESCO |
05PARIS7745 | FRENCH-IRAQI RESEARCHER DESCRIBES RECENT RAMADAN [...] (C) Summary: A local French-Iraqi anthropologist, Hosham Dawod (protect),briefed us on a recent visit to Qom, Iran, reportedly at the invitation of supporters of Ayatollah Sistani. Dawod, who is a former IVLP participant and an expert on Iraqi tribes and Shi'ism, told us he spent 12 days in [...] | 2005-11-14 17:45:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PINR IR IZ FR |
05PARIS7749 | FRANCE: IPR ISSUES UPDATE [...] (U) This message contains a series of updates on French Intellectual Property (IPR) and cultural policy news. French Net pirates prefer U.S. films ------------------------------------ 2. (U) Almost 38 percent of French Internet users admit to illegally downloading movies, with a marked p [...] | 2005-11-15 10:36:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD KIPR FR |
05PARIS7752 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - President Bush to Asia [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-15 11:45:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
05PARIS7767 | USUNESCO: UNESCO - DIRECTOR OF HUMAN [...] This is an action request: see para. 6. 2. During a meeting on November 14, Dyane Dufresne- Klaus, Unesco's Director of Human Resources, told the Charge that she would like U.S. assistance in reforming the organization's human resource system. She indicated that the current system is ju [...] | 2005-11-15 13:29:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | AFIN APER FR UNESCO |
05PARIS7769 | UNESCO: DIRECTOR GENERAL PROMISES TO SPEAK OUT [...] (C) Summary. During a October 25 office call, UNESCO Director General Koichoro Matsuura promised Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations Kristen Silverberg that he would speak out publicly if any UNESCO Member State misused the Convention on the Protection and Promotion o [...] | 2005-11-15 14:33:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | SCUL ETRD CJAN FR UNESCO |
05PARIS7771 | FRENCH ECONOMY IMPROVING, BUT UNREST MAY LEAVE [...] (U) SUMMARY. While the recent unrest in France may have dominated the headlines, the GOF has attempted to counter the negative reports with good economic news. GDP growth increased 2.8% (annualized) in the third quarter, much more than expected. The unemployment rate decreased to 9.8%, and [...] | 2005-11-15 16:41:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV FR |
05PARIS7772 | USUNESCO: UNESCO SYMPOSIUM EXAMINES CULTURAL [...] SUMMARY and comment: UNESCO's Social and Human Sciences Sector held an international symposium on "Cultural Diversity and Transversal Values: East-West Dialogue on Spiritual-Secular Dynamics" on November 7- 9. The symposium concluded with a communiqu identifying new directions for dialogue [...] | 2005-11-15 18:41:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AORC SCUL JA FR UNESCO |
05PARIS7777 | ASSAULT OF FRENCH JOURNALIST IN TUNISIA PROMPTS MEDIA OUTCRY, DOMESTIC CRITICISM OF GOF HUMAN RIGHTS POLICY [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-16 09:53:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM TS FR |
05PARIS7779 | FRENCH CUBA POLICY: WAITING FOR A GESTURE [...] (C) In a November 15 meeting with Deputy Political Counselor and PolOff, MFA DAS-equivalent for Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean Pierre-Alain Coffinier clarified the French position on Cuba in the aftermath of FM Perez Roque's visit October 11 (reftel). Coffinier characterized the [...] | 2005-11-16 11:23:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM FR CU |
05PARIS7785 | ACTION REQUEST: GUIDANCE ON RESPONSE TO COE [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 3. 2. (U) Amb. Stapleton received by fax a letter (full text para 4) from Dick Marty, whom the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly has appointed to investigate the allegations of CIA secret detention centers in CoE member countries. The key [...] | 2005-11-16 12:31:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PINR PINS FR |
05PARIS7787 | MFA EUROPEAN DIRECTOR NOT OPTIMISTIC ON EU BUDGET [...] (C) Summary: MFA EU Affairs A/S-equivalent Briatta told us November 15 that he was not optimistic the EU would reach a budget deal by year's end, in part because of Blair's weakened domestic standing, and notwithstanding the UK's fears of increasing isolation within the EU and growing unhapp [...] | 2005-11-16 15:45:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD FR ECON PGOV EUN |
05PARIS7788 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Bush to China Bush Presidency [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-16 15:49:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
05PARIS7792 | FRANCE ON CHAD: DEBY'S THE MAIN MAN [...] (C) Summary: For Michael Deslaimes, the French MFA Chad and Togo Desk Officer, Idriss Deby's Presidency is "indispensable" to the tenuous stability of a hodgepodge country in continual tribal ferment. Deslaimes told Africa Watcher November 15 that Deby is the right choice -- the only option [...] | 2005-11-16 16:16:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV EFIN CD FR |
05PARIS7812 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - President Bush to China [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-17 13:27:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
05PARIS7813 | FRENCH RELUCTANT TO DEPLOY EU GENDARMERIE TO HAITI [...] (C) Summary and Comment: The French are reluctant to send the EU Gendarmerie to Haiti in support of upcoming elections for a number of reasons. The primary concern they cite is that the EU Gendarmerie is not yet ready to deploy, and won't be until sometime in 2006. Additionally, the GoF is w [...] | 2005-11-17 13:40:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL KPKO FR HA EUN |
05PARIS7814 | CNIL UNLOCKS SOX [...] SUMMARY: Bowing to pressure, CNIL Commissioners announced on November 15 that they would allow US-listed companies to enact whistleblower provisions in France, as required by Sarbanes Oxley Section 301. CNIL published an "orientation document" and promised to grant blanket approval to firms t [...] | 2005-11-17 13:49:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV FR |
05PARIS7831 | FRENCH LUKEWARM TO SUPPORTING PARAMILITARY [...] (C) Pol/MC and PolOff delivered reftel points November 16 to MFA A/S-equivalent for WHA Daniel Parfait, DAS-equivalent for South America Michel Pinard, and Venezuela desk officer Lionel Paradisi. Parfait stated that the French did not share our analysis of the success of the disarmament camp [...] | 2005-11-17 16:31:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PTER FR CO OAS |
05PARIS7835 | ANALYZING THE CIVIL UNREST -- THE ISLAMIC FACTOR [...] (SBU) Summary: The perpetrators of the urban rampaging (refs) in France are by and large of Arab-African and Black-African background. In most cases, they are also Muslims, raising the question as to what extent their religious affiliation helps explain the explosion in France's immigrant subu [...] | 2005-11-17 17:19:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
05PARIS7838 | AVIAN AND PANDEMIC INFLUENZA INFORMATION - FRANCE [...] (U) Detailed GOF reactions and responses to date to the possibility of an avian flu pandemic are contained in reftels (B) - (E). The following paragraphs respond to reftel A queries. -------------------------- Preparedness/Communication -------------------------- 2. (U) Following news t [...] | 2005-11-17 18:29:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID PREL FR |
05PARIS7844 | FRANCE: INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION - [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-18 10:36:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIA AORC EWWT PHSA FR |
05PARIS7850 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Alleged CIA Prisons and [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-18 12:30:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
05PARIS7871 | RECOMMENDATION OF WAIVER FOR FRANCE OF LIBERTAD [...] (C) Summary and comment: France adheres to the EU's Common Position on Cuba, and the GoF monitors the human rights situation in Cuba closely. MFA officials have consistently stressed that they share both the U.S. assessment of the human rights situation and the U.S. goal of supporting peacef [...] | 2005-11-18 14:38:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ETTC FR CU |
05PARIS7885 | FRENCH CONFLICTED ON ARMS SALES TO VENEZUELA, BUT [...] (S) Summary: Pol/MC and PolOff delivered reftel A points November 16 to MFA A/S-equivalent Daniel Parfait, DAS-equivalent for South America Michel Pinard, and Venezuela desk officer Lionel Paradisi, and PolOff separately shared points with Admiral de Monval, responsible for Latin American iss [...] | 2005-11-18 16:25:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | MARR MASS PARM FR VE |
05PARIS7896 | FRENCH ON NOVEMBER 21 GAERC - ISRAELI/PALESTINIAN, [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel points on November 16 to MFA CFSP deputy Pascal LeDeunff and European Affairs DAS-equivalent for EU External Relations Caroline Ferrari, and discussed them with LeDeunff November 18. Embassy Middle East watcher discussed points on November 16 with MFA DAS-equival [...] | 2005-11-18 17:03:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD IZ KPAL PREL SR SY UP YI FR EUN |
05PARIS7905 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - President Bush to Asia [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-21 12:00:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
05PARIS7915 | USUNESCO: UKRANIAN PRESIDENT AND FRENCH FM [...] Summary. In a ceremony at Unesco headquarters on November 16, Unesco marked its 60th anniversary. Featured speakers included Ukranian president Yushchenko, French Foreign Minister Douste-Blazy and former directors general Amdaou-Mahtar M'Bow and Federico Mayor. A recurring theme in all the [...] | 2005-11-21 15:56:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SCUL ETRD UP FR UNESCO |
05PARIS7920 | FRENCH THINK TANKER ON VISIT TO IRAN [...] (C) Summary: French think-tanker Francois Gere, who claims to have extensive ties to the local Iranian Embassy as well as the Quai and Israeli Embassy met with us November 18 to report on his recent trip to the Isfahan nuclear facility at the Iranian government's invitation. Gere -- who many [...] | 2005-11-21 16:06:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR MNUC IR PINR KNUP |
05PARIS7922 | GOF DECLINES TO MAKE PUBLIC APPEAL OR PRESSURE [...] (C) Summary: MFA contacts report the GoF is disinclined to make a public appeal or demarche the SARG on the arrest of Syrian democracy activist Kamal Labowani, citing questions about Labowani's character and describing the Mehlis investigation as a more pressing priority. Elysee contacts were [...] | 2005-11-21 16:38:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV SY LE FR |
05PARIS7935 | Unofficial translation of article from Le [...] Trade Minister Christine Lagarde has signed two recent op-ed pieces on the WTO round. The latest, published on November 21 in the Financial Times entitled "Big Cuts in Farm Tariffs are No Solution to Poverty" warns against "blindly slashing" agricultural tariffs, and proposes focusing on the [...] | 2005-11-21 18:34:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD FR WTRO EUN |
05PARIS794 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - SECRETARY OF STATE RICE TO [...] SECRETARY OF STATE RICE TO MIDDLE EAST - EUROPE 2. MIDDLE EAST SUMMIT B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: THE MIDDLE EAST SUMMIT IN SHARM EL-SHEIK, SECRETARY RICE'S VISIT TO THE REGION AND TO PARIS TODAY ARE PROMINENTLY FRONT- PAGED WITH ACCOMPANYING PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE WITH MAHMUD [...] | 2005-02-08 11:43:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
05PARIS7947 | CESR HOLDS HEARING ON MEDIATION OPTION [...] (U) SUMMARY: At a public hearing organized in Paris on November 21 by the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR),financial market participants aired differing opinions about how and whether CESR should institute a mediation procedure for national regulators. The idea is to not s [...] | 2005-11-22 11:09:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV FR |
05PARIS7948 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Bush to Mongolia Israel- [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-22 11:23:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
05PARIS7953 | FRENCH SUPPORT BRINGING BURMA BEFORE THE UNSC [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-22 14:12:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM BN BM FR UNSC |
05PARIS7954 | FRANCE SUPPORTIVE ON ADDITIONAL GENEVA PROTOCOL, [...] (C) Poloff met November 21 with MFA DAS-Equivalent Beatrice Le Fraper du Hellen to encourage more vocal French engagement on behalf of the draft Third Additional Protocol, particularly with Francophone African states. Le Fraper responded that France had been working closely with the Swiss in [...] | 2005-11-22 14:14:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM AORC PREF IS SZ FR ICRC |
05PARIS7955 | DOD DIRECT PARTICIPATION IN trade shows 2007 [...] IN ANTICIPATION OF Euronaval 2006 and the PARIS AIR SHOW 2007, the Ambassador and the U.S. Embassy Paris Country Team strongly support and encourage FULL AND DIRECT DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PARTICIPATION IN THese IMPORTANT INTERNATIONAL EVENTs. 2. Exposure and Outcomes. EURONAVAL, scheduled fo [...] | 2005-11-22 14:16:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD FR PINS MILI |
05PARIS7961 | MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME: 20 OCTOBER [...] (C) Summary: On 20 October 2005, ESTH/NP officer attended a meeting of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Points of Contacts (POCS) at the Spanish Embassy in Paris. This meeting focused on reviewing results of the September MTCR Plenary in Madrid and on briefing partners on the a [...] | 2005-11-22 15:22:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC FR KS KSCA MNUC PARM PREL TSPA MTCRE |
05PARIS7980 | PARIS CLUB - NOVEMBER 2005 TOUR D'HORIZON [...] (SBU) At the November 15 Paris Club meeting, the IMF reported that the Stand-By Arrangement (SBA) with Iraq that will be presented to the IMF Board on December 23 will probably be precautionary. The Secretariat and some creditors complained that a precautionary arrangement belied Iraq's claim [...] | 2005-11-23 11:14:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR |
05PARIS7986 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Angela Merkel to France [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-23 13:12:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
05PARIS8002 | TERRORIST FINANCE: ASG PRENOTIFICATION - FRENCH [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-23 16:07:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | EFIN KTFN PTER PREL ETTC RP FR |
05PARIS8016 | CLIMATE CHANGE: FRENCH PREPARE FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: In the run-up to the UNFCCC/Kyoto meetings in Montreal, Embassy officers visited French environment officials to learn what was on their minds. All expressed praise for USG climate science and climate technology work, something of a change from mostly negative comments toward [...] | 2005-11-23 18:42:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV TPHY TSPA TSPL KSCA FR |
05PARIS8022 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iraq Iran CIA - Alleged [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-25 11:52:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
05PARIS8029 | NATO - FRENCH STILL RETICENT ON USE OF NAC-R [...] (C) Summary: On November 21, MOD Strategic Affairs officer Colonel Creux provided a very positive readout of Strategic Affairs Director Jean Ponton d'Amecourt's October 31 meetings at the Pentagon, the NSC, and the Department. While outstanding issues remain with the Pentagon, most notably the [...] | 2005-11-25 14:54:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR FR NATO EUN |
05PARIS8032 | DEMARCHE: BASHAR'S OFFER TO MEHLIS - FRANCE IN [...] (S) France agrees fully with the substance of the position laid out in reftel. A/S Jean-Francois Thibault provided this reaction at close of business, Friday, November 25, after having reviewed the question with (unnamed) MFA and Presidency senior officials during the course of the day. Thib [...] | 2005-11-25 18:25:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PREL PGOV FR SY |
05PARIS8034 | OECD REPORTING: ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY COMMITTEE [...] As a member of the Task Force that drafted the new EPOC Strategic Vision, the U.S. is a strong proponent of the Vision and successfully negotiated further refinements. The purpose of the Vision is to guide environmental work of the Committee over the next 5-10 years; to promote the implementat [...] | 2005-11-28 08:17:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ETRD KSCA FR OECD |
05PARIS8049 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Europe: Allegation of GWOT [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-28 12:10:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
05PARIS8062 | FRANCE: HSPD-6 TERRORIST LOOKOUT SHARING PROSPECTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Agencies at post involved in our productive and extensive counterterrorism dialogue with the French have considered HSPD-6 requirements to explore obtaining terrorist watchlist information. We consider it highly unlikely the GOF would consent to unilateral sharing of its watchli [...] | 2005-11-28 15:22:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER CVIS CASC PGOV PREL PINR FR EUN |
05PARIS8063 | FRANCE: R/V CORWITH CRAMER RESEARCH CLEARANCE [...] (U) Embassy received research clearance for the subject vessel (Reftel A) from the MFA under cover of diplomatic note number 1441/AME dated 24 November 2005. The note states that the French authorities have no objection to the research campaign of the Corwith Cramer in the French waters of [...] | 2005-11-28 16:38:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | TPHY KRVC EWWT FR |
05PARIS8069 | SOCIALIST PARTY ENDS MONTH-LONG DECISON PROCESS [...] France's Socialist Party (PS) -- in a convoluted, fiercely contested, but genuinely democratic process throughout November -- agreed on a document setting out the party's policy direction and renewed the membership of its governing institutions. It also created a "Presidential Commission" to [...] | 2005-11-28 18:28:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
05PARIS8071 | NATO Tour for Young French Political Leaders - [...] INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY: The future shape of NATO as well as its ability to ensure collective security and co- exist with an independent European defense have been the subject of discussions in French political and media circles for some time. At an illustrative debate at the French Senate [...] | 2005-11-29 09:22:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | KIRC KPAO OIIP OTRA FR NATO EUN |
05PARIS8072 | DNSA ABRAMS' 11/22 MEETINGS WITH SENIOR FRENCH MFA [...] (C) Summary: November 22 discussions between Deputy National Security Advisor (DNSA) Elliott Abrams and senior French officials focused on Syria/Lebanon, Iran, and Israeli-Palestinian issues, with Morocco, Iraq, and BMENA discussed in passing. Presidency officials predicted Syrian non-coopera [...] | 2005-11-29 10:07:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR IR IS IZ KDEM KPAL LE MO PARM SY |
05PARIS8074 | FRANCE: NASA/DAO MISSION CLEARANCE APPROVAL: [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-29 11:10:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MOPS TSPA FR |
05PARIS8076 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Climate Change - Montreal [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-29 11:28:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
05PARIS808 | FURTHER GOF REACTION TO DEATH OF EYADEMA [...] MFA spokesman on February 7 addressed the issue of Togo President Eyadema and the naming of his son as his successor (reftel). Informal Embassy translation of MFA spokesman's statement and response to questions follows. 2. BEGIN TEXT: -- I recall to you the spokesman's declaration of [...] | 2005-02-08 15:46:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV TO FR |
05PARIS8088 | SARKOZY'S SECURITY ADVISOR DISCUSSES RECENT [...] (C) Summary: Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy's security advisor, a 20-year plus veteran of the French National Police, said the recent unrest had taken the security establishment by surprise, but that the massive yet moderate response of the police prevented a major crisis of public order. [...] | 2005-11-29 13:50:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER FR PGOV |
05PARIS81 | DONOR SUPPORT FOR TSUNAMI RELIEF: FRANCE [...] (SBU) Summary. Working level French officials dealing with the tsunami are very pleased with and thankful for the excellent cooperation with the USG. France will be represented "most likely at the ministerial level" at the 11 January Geneva donors' conference, however the GOF has not decide [...] | 2005-01-05 17:36:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | AEMR EAID EFIN PREL FR |
05PARIS8116 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Alleged CIA Secret Prisons [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-30 10:59:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
05PARIS8128 | Corrected Copy -- NATO Tour for Young French [...] INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY: The future shape of NATO as well as its ability to ensure collective security and co- exist with an independent European defense have been the subject of discussions in French political and media circles for some time. At an illustrative debate at the French Senate [...] | 2005-11-30 14:10:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | KIRC KPAO OIIP OTRA FR NATO EUN |
05PARIS8137 | FRENCH UNABLE TO SEND BOLIVIAN ELECTION MONITORS [...] Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Bolivia Desk Officer Philippe Letrillard on November 30. Letrillard underlined that the GoF fully supported efforts to ensure free, fair, and transparent elections in Bolivia. However, he noted that the EU was unable to send observers and expressed doubt t [...] | 2005-11-30 15:55:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL FR BO |
05PARIS8149 | WTO TRADE TALKS: FRENCH BUSINESS BEGINS TO [...] SUMMARY. In a first public breach of the French position on agricultural trade, French business leaders -- with French Ministers of Economy and of Trade present -- openly criticized the GOF's support for the interests of the agricultural sector and maintenance of the EU's Common Agricultural [...] | 2005-11-30 17:58:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR PREL FR |
05PARIS8153 | France: Telecom and Information Technology Update [...] This is another in a series of periodic updates on the French telecommunications and information technology sectors, including internet and e-commerce. Contents: -- Record fine for France Telecom (para 2); -- Hefty fines for French mobile phone operators (para 3); -- France Telecom fined fo [...] | 2005-12-01 15:09:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS ETRD FR |
05PARIS8162 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iraq Alleged CIA Prisons [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-01 15:43:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
05PARIS8171 | NOVEMBER 28-29 VISIT OF IRAQI FM ZEBARI [...] (C) Summary and comment: MFA contacts described the November 28-29 visit of Iraqi FM Zebari as a success, but did not suggest that the visit will herald an increase in modest French assistance levels to Iraq. FM Douste-Blazy reportedly stressed to Zebari GoF support for an inclusive political [...] | 2005-12-01 17:09:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID IZ SY IR FR |
05PARIS8172 | NAC COMMUNIQUE: DESPITE RESERVATIONS, FRANCE IS [...] (C) On December 1, we delivered ref A points to Arnaud Roux, MFA Counselor following the CFE/Istanbul discussions and who also will be present at the NAC on December 2. Roux confirmed that he was aware of the debate on the use of "either" versus "or" paragraph proposals. He expressed some su [...] | 2005-12-01 18:01:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KCFE FR NATO |
05PARIS8173 | MFA CABINET ADVISOR ON FRANCO-GERMAN RELATIONS AND [...] Summary: FM Douste-Blazy's advisor for Franco-German relations Heldt and German Ambassador Neubert, speaking about German Chancellor Merkel's November 23 inaugural visit to France, both predicted continuity in the Franco-German relationship while emphasizing more a marriage of reason than of [...] | 2005-12-01 18:29:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR GM PINR EUN |
05PARIS8186 | FRENCH CONTINUE TO BAN AL-MANAR, ALTHOUGH APPEAL [...] (S) We discussed reftel points on preventing Al Manar broadcasts with CSA (France's FCC-equivalent) and MFA contacts on December 2. We stressed the importance of France continuing its ban on Al Manar. 2. (S) Isabel Mariani, international affairs liaison at the CSA, confirmed that, as repor [...] | 2005-12-02 14:59:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | ASEC PREL PTER FR LE |
05PARIS8203 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Allegations of CIA Flights [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-02 16:24:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
05PARIS8207 | (C) FRENCH REACTION TO FINCEN 314(A) NOTICE ON [...] (S) We shared and discussed reftel points with the Asset-Freezing Directorate in the Ministry of Economy. Vincent Guitton, Head of the Services, Investment and IPR Division, noted that absent a designation on terrorism grounds, France normally lacks legal authority to block assets of individua [...] | 2005-12-02 16:59:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | KTFN PTER LE SY FR |
05PARIS8217 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Alleged CIA Secret Prisons [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-05 11:31:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
05PARIS8240 | FRENCH REMAIN UNDECIDED ON MACEDONIA'S EU CANDIDACY [...] (C) Poloff discussed reftel B points with MFA DAS-equivalent for External Community Relations Caroline Ferrari. Ferrari said that the GOF has not yet decided if it will support the granting of candidate status to Macedonia as recommended on November 9 by the Commission. Ferrari said that the [...] | 2005-12-05 16:27:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL GM FR MK DA EUN |
05PARIS8246 | FRENCH REACTION TO E.O. 13382 DESIGNATIONS [...] (C) We delivered ref points to the Asset-Freezing Directorate in the Ministry of Economy. We spoke with Vincent Guitton, Head of the Services, Investment and IPR Division in the Ministry of Economy, who took note of the information but expressed skepticism that France could do anything about [...] | 2005-12-05 17:18:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PARM KTFN FR |
05PARIS8248 | USUNESO - AMBASSADOR'S DECEMBER 2 LUNCH WITH [...] Ambassador Oliver attended a lunch December 2 hosted by the Austrian ambassador to UNESCO Harald Wiesner. The 11 guests were from other delegations and the UNESCO secretariat and included Monsignor Follo, the Holy See observer, the ambassadors of Lithuania, Russia, and Serbia-Montenegro, the [...] | 2005-12-05 17:48:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD FR EU AU YI UNESCO |
05PARIS8256 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Secretary Rice to Europe - [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-06 12:12:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
05PARIS8269 | FRANCE: BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-LICENSE END USE [...] Per reftel, Post Blue Lantern Action Officer contacted French company Ixsea Oceano and spoke with CEO Thierry Gaiffe as well as Quality Director Nicolas Faussot. Both were very cooperative. Faussot thoroughly answered all of our questions. 2. First, Faussot confirmed that Ixsea ordered fo [...] | 2005-12-06 16:10:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC FR |
05PARIS8292 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Secretary Rice to Europe - [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-07 13:05:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
05PARIS8300 | SUPPORT FOR PARTNERSHIPS TO REDUCE MERCURY [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-07 14:17:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV FR |
05PARIS831 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - SECRETARY RICE TO PARIS [...] SECRETARY RICE TO PARIS 2. MIDDLE EAST - SHARM EL-SHEIK SUMMIT B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: A LARGE MAJORITY OF TODAY'S FRONT PAGES AND EDITORIALS ARE DEVOTED TO SECRETARY RICE'S VISIT TO PARIS, HER MUCH AWAITED POLICY SPEECH AND HER CONSULTATIONS WITH PRESIDENT CHIRAC AND FM BARNIER. THE CHO [...] | 2005-02-09 13:12:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
05PARIS8311 | NEW FRENCH ANTI-TERRORISM MEASURES ON THE WAY, [...] (SBU) French Interior Minister Sarkozy's anti-terrorism bill, approved by France's National Assembly on November 29, has moved to the Senate for final approval with surprising speed. The Bill will authorize video surveillance of more public places and give the government increased powers to [...] | 2005-12-07 16:51:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD ECON KTFN FR |
05PARIS8313 | TEXT OF LETTER FROM PRESIDENT OF COUNCIL OF EUROPE [...] (U) Action request -- see para 5. 2. (U) Post received on December 6, 2005 faxed copy of a letter to the Secretary from the President of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly, Renee van der Linden. The transmittal sheet attached to the letter from van der Linden's Chief of Staf [...] | 2005-12-07 16:54:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EU PTER PINR PHUM FR |
05PARIS8318 | USUNESCO: COUNTRY CLEARANCE USGS DEVINE+1 [...] As requested in reftel, country clearance is granted for Senior Advisor for Science Applications James F. Devine and acting Director Patrick Leahy to travel to Paris (12/15-12/17) to meet with UNESCO Science Staff and U.S. Mission to UNESCO. 2. Control officer is Science Attach, Nancy Co [...] | 2005-12-08 10:01:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA TPHY OTRA ECON SENV TBIO AORC FR |
05PARIS8327 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Secretary Rice to Europe - [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-08 13:18:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
05PARIS8353 | UNESCO: FRENCH CANDIDATE REPORTEDLY HAS LEAD [...] (C) Classified by Andrew, C. Koss, Charge, U.S. Mission to Unesco in Paris, reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) Summary. Corridor rumors place Francoise Riviere, the French chief of staff to UNESCO Director General (DG) Matsuura, as the leading candidate among the 320 applicants to replace retiring A [...] | 2005-12-08 17:17:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | SCUL FR UNESCO |
05PARIS8357 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - SECRETARY RICE IN EUROPE - [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-09 12:35:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
05PARIS8373 | A CONVERSATION WITH CHIRAC'S AFRICA ADVISER [...] (C) Summary: Michel de Bonnecorse, head of the "Africa Cell" at the Elysee Palace that advises the French President, described the 12/2-12/4 Africa-France Summit in Bamako as a strategic, historic project, encouraged a high-level USG presence for the January meeting of the International Worki [...] | 2005-12-09 16:23:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ASEC EAID TO GH IV FR UNSC |
05PARIS8374 | FRANCE - BUSINESS UPDATE [...] (U) This message contains a series of updates on French trade and business news. U.S. Investment in France is Up ---------------------------------- Â [...] | 2005-12-09 16:25:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ETRD PREL FR EUN |
05PARIS8386 | WHITE HOUSE REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON HOST [...] France's leading NGO dedicated to the support of terrorist victims and their families is S.O.S Attentats - S.O.S. Terrorisme. It was founded in 1986 by Franoise Rudetzki, herself a victim of terrorist attack. Its aim is to seek monetary compensation, psychological and medical care and judic [...] | 2005-12-09 17:39:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KAWC SOCI FR |
05PARIS8390 | FRANCE: GOVERNMENT CONCERNED ABOUT LEGAL BASIS FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a December 7 meeting with a French official, Emboffs reviewed current arrangements for implementing the No-Fly system in France, and discussed GOF concerns about its legal basis in U.S. domestic law and ICAO conventions. Our contact also raised the potential applicability of [...] | 2005-12-12 10:24:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR FR PTER |
05PARIS8397 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - WTO Ministerial in Hong Kong [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-12 13:51:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
05PARIS8418 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Syria - Assassination of [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-13 12:02:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
05PARIS8426 | FRENCH APPEAR DISINCLINED TO RESETTLE UIGHERS [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-13 14:01:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KAWC PHUM PREF FR |
05PARIS8435 | GOF OFFICIALS CONDEMNS TUENI ASSASSINATION; [...] (C) Summary: The GoF immediately condemned at the highest levels the assassination of Gebran Tueni and issued strong public statements calling on the international community to redouble efforts to ensure full implementation of relevant UNSCR's, confirming GoF readiness to help the GOL, and payi [...] | 2005-12-13 18:36:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SY LE FR |
05PARIS8441 | FRENCH OFFICIALS STRESS THE POSITIVE TO IRAQ [...] (C) Summary and comment: Senior Presidency and MFA officials stressed GoF support for Iraq's political process and the Arab League reconciliation effort during December 5 meetings with visiting Deputy Senior Iraq Advisor Deutsch. French officials expressed willingness to help support Iraqi rec [...] | 2005-12-14 11:33:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID IZ FR |
05PARIS8442 | FRANCE: 2005 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] (U) Per reftel, enclosed is the 2005 country report on terrorism for France. Embassy point of contact is Poloff Peter Kujawinski, who can be reached on either the classified or unclassified e-mail systems. France - 2005 OVERVIEW In 2005, France continued to discover and dismantle terro [...] | 2005-12-14 13:34:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC KCRM EFIN FR |
05PARIS8445 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Syria-Lebanon Rice European [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-14 15:06:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
05PARIS8454 | FRANCE FAVORS LIBERIAN SANCTIONS RENEWAL [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-14 15:44:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAID PREL ETRD ETTC LI FR UNSC |
05PARIS8456 | UNESCO: Ambassador meets with DG to review US- [...] Summary: The Ambassador's December 6 meeting with UNESCO DG Matsuura focused primarily on three topics: U.S. engagement with UNESCO in the wake of UNESCO's adoption in October of the cultural diversity convention; the importance of increasing the number of U.S. staff at UNESCO and including an [...] | 2005-12-14 16:28:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC SCUL SKI UNESCO FR |
05PARIS8457 | FRANCE TO DELIVER DEMARCHE ON RUSSIAN NGO LAW [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-14 16:39:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM RS FR |
05PARIS8458 | USUNESCO: TEXT OF LETTER-UNESCO EXECUTIVE BOARD [...] The following letter on Executive Board rotation was received December 14 from the Finnish delegation, the current chairs of electoral Group I. Please advise. QTE To Members of Electoral Group I Re: Meeting between the President of the General Conference and chairs of the various ele [...] | 2005-12-14 16:45:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | UNESCO FR |
05PARIS8460 | FRENCH GUARDED ON RUMORS OF SUBMARINE SALES TO [...] (S) Summary: In response to information indicating French-Venezuelan contacts to discuss potential arms sales, in particular the Scorpene submarine, DCM followed up on December 13 with the SGDN Deputy head Edouard Scott de Martinville, POL/MC with MFA A/S-equivalent Daniel Parfait, U/S Joseph [...] | 2005-12-14 17:22:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | MARR MASS PARM FR VE |
05PARIS8461 | NON-COMMITTAL GOF RESPONSE ON WELCOMING IRAQI [...] (C) Summary and comment: The GoF and local Iraqi embassy have no public events planned in conjunction with Iraq's December 15 elections. GoF officials stress that the GoF will wait and see how the elections unfold, paying particular attention to voter participation levels, before pronouncing [...] | 2005-12-14 18:30:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID IZ FR |
05PARIS8462 | COUNCIL OF EUROPE ON ALLEGATIONS OF SECRET [...] (C) Summary: Council of Europe Secretary General Davis warned the Ambassador December 12, citing NATO "unresponsiveness" to repeated written queries, that he intended soon "to go public" with respect to the alleged use of KFOR-run detention centers in Kosovo for secret CIA secret prisons (this [...] | 2005-12-15 06:13:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR FR EUN |
05PARIS8471 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran - Ahmadinejad's [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-15 13:27:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
05PARIS8483 | GOF CONTINUES TO DECLINE COMMENT ON BOUTEFLIKA'S [...] (C) The GoF continues to stonewall on the health situation of Algerian President Bouteflika, who has been hospitalized in Paris since November 27 (reftels). During a December 13 discussion with poloff, MFA DAS-equivalent for the Maghreb Christian Testot reiterated he could provide no informatio [...] | 2005-12-16 07:03:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AG FR |
05PARIS8487 | UNESCO PRIZES-SOME GOOD, SOME BAD [...] This is an action request. See para. 5. 2. The UNESCO secretariat issued a press release on December 14 announcing that President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela will receive the 2005 International Jose Marti Prize in a ceremony in Havana on 28 January, 2006. According to the announcement, the [...] | 2005-12-16 09:23:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | VE FR UNESCO |
05PARIS8490 | BANKERS SHARE DISCONTENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Several senior French bankers have emphasized to the Ambassador their frustration at the slow pace of French structural reforms, albeit with grudging admiration for the efforts of Finance Minister Breton. They forecast continued weak GDP growth in 2006, and note the importance [...] | 2005-12-16 11:42:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV FR |
05PARIS8499 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iraq - Legislative elections [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-16 13:11:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
05PARIS8502 | UNESCO HIGH-LEVEL MEETING ON HUMAN SECURITY [...] A high-level working meeting on Human Security was held December 12 and 13 at UNESCO headquarters. The purpose of the meeting was to advise on a "major publication" on human security that is planned for 2007. 2. The high-level working meeting (note: "high-level working meeting" is not [...] | 2005-12-16 14:02:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | FR UNESCO |
05PARIS8505 | Despite Obstacles French Corn Growers [...] SUMMARY: Despite a recent judicial decision suspending jail sentences for 49 people found responsible for test plot destruction and the absence of a French law on coexistence of biotech and non-biotech crops, French corn growers are determined to continue planting biotech corn. They planted [...] | 2005-12-16 14:41:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD PGOV FR WTRO EUN |
05PARIS8509 | USUNECO: INTERNAL OVERSIGHT FINDS SERIOUS [...] After receiving a series of e-mails from the UNESCO Iraq office based in Amman alleging mismanagement and corruption, the DCM met December 13 with John Parsons (strictly protect),a UK national who heads UNESCO's office of internal oversight. (Note: Parsons spent a year in Washington on sec [...] | 2005-12-16 15:43:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | UNESCO FR BR PK SZ JO |
05PARIS8511 | ELYSEE TAKING GRIM VIEW ON CHAD [...] (C) Summary: The Elysee "Africa Cell" that advises President Chirac believes President Deby's Chad is undergoing a major crisis, with a near-term coup and territorial disintegration conceivable scenarios. Deby has lost Zarghawa confidence, according to Elysee adviser Labriolle, because he h [...] | 2005-12-16 17:17:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV EFIN EPET CD FR |
05PARIS8512 | FRANCE WELCOMES IRAQI ELECTIONS, BUT SUGGESTS IRAQ [...] (C) The following is an informal translation of the French MFA spokesman's December 16 statement on Iraq's elections: Begin text. France welcomes the important mobilization of all the components of Iraqi society during the December 15 election for the National Assembly and marks its satisf [...] | 2005-12-16 18:37:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ FR |
05PARIS8525 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - WTO and EU Agreements [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-19 13:43:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
05PARIS8544 | MFA CAUTIOUS ON UNSCR 1644, SYRIA/LEBANON NEXT [...] (C) Summary: MFA DAS-equivalent for Syria/Lebanon Herve Besancenot welcomed the UNSC's unanimous adoption of UNSCR 1644, but expressed concern that international efforts to pressure Syria are losing momentum while the SARG is increasingly emboldened that it can wait out the U.S. and France ove [...] | 2005-12-20 06:12:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER SY LE FR |
05PARIS8548 | FRENCH NAVAL COURTSHIP CREATES DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOF, Thales, and state-owned shipbuilder DCN, have confirmed that the French defense electronics group has agreed to buy a 25% stake in DCN. Their messages echoed the widespread expectation that the Thales-DCN tie-in would be applauded by its architects as a first step towa [...] | 2005-12-20 09:57:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EIND MARR MASS PARM ECON FR |
05PARIS856 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - SECRETARY RICE TO EUROPE [...] SECRETARY RICE TO EUROPE 2. IRAQ B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: DOMESTIC STORIES DOMINATE TODAY'S FRONT PAGES, EXCEPT FOR LE FIGARO WHICH DEVOTES ITS LEAD TO THE "THREAT FROM RADICALISM" IN THE MIDDLE EAST, AFTER THE SHARM EL-SHEIK CEASE-FIRE AGREEMENT. "PUTTING THE PEACE PROCESS BACK ON TRACK [...] | 2005-02-10 11:23:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
05PARIS8560 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iraq - President Bush [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-20 13:32:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
05PARIS8561 | AUSTRALIA GROUP: IRAN SEEKING GLASS-LINED [...] (S) On December 16, ESTH/NP Officers delivered talking points contained in REFTEL to Etienne Sur, who is responsible for chemical disarmament at the MFA. Mr. Sur understood the points delivered and conveyed his appreciation for the information and willingness to investigate the situation fu [...] | 2005-12-20 13:53:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PARM PREL ETTC FR IR CBW |
05PARIS8571 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iraq Iran Bolivia [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-21 11:07:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
05PARIS8573 | FRENCH GOVERNMENT PRIVATIZES TOLL-ROAD COMPANIES [...] SUMMARY. The government announced winning-bidders for its stake in toll-ways companies, ASF, APRR and SANEF December 14. The sell-off, which aroused widespread overseas bid interest, encountered political opposition in the National Assembly. Bidders were selected on their price offers, but a [...] | 2005-12-21 12:35:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV FR |
05PARIS8576 | FRENCH MEDIA REACTION: MONTREAL CLIMATE CONFERENCE [...] Summary. During the run-up to the eleventh Conference of the Parties under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Montreal November 28-December 9, the French press relentlessly criticized the U.S. and highlighted the "intransigent" attitude of the "world's largest polluter." Comment [...] | 2005-12-21 15:06:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SENV ENRG KPAO FR |
05PARIS8586 | PARIS CLUB - DECEMBER 2005 TOUR D'HORIZON [...] (SBU) At the December 13 Paris Club meeting, creditors agreed to implement a second 30 percent tranche of debt reduction for Iraq, provided a Stand-By Arrangement is approved by the IMF Executive Board before year-end. The first batch of bilateral agreements implementing the Paris Club debt d [...] | 2005-12-21 17:13:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR |
05PARIS86 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - IRAQ TSUNAMI - HUMANITARIAN [...] IRAQ 2. TSUNAMI - HUMANITARIAN AID AND POLITICS B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: POLITICS AND HUMANITARIAN AID ARE TWO KEY WORDS IN MANY OF TODAY'S COMMENTARIES, WHILE FRONT PAGES ARE MOSTLY DEVOTED TO DOMESTIC SOCIAL ISSUES. LEFT-OF-CENTER LIBERATION IS AN EXCEPTION WITH ITS LEAD STORY ON IRAQ A [...] | 2005-01-06 11:12:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
05PARIS8601 | UNESCO CONFERENCE EXAMINES MEANS OF ENHANCING [...] Summary and Introduction: An international conference on "The Introduction of History of Science in the Higher Education Level of the Muslim Countries" took place December 15-16, at UNESCO; the conference was organized by UNESCO's Culture Sector, with the participation of the Natural Science [...] | 2005-12-22 10:34:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | UNESCO KSCA SOCI SCUL KISL TSPL FR |
05PARIS8603 | FRANCE SIGNS 80 PERCENT DEBT REDUCTION AGREEMENT [...] (U) On December 21, the GoF signed a bilateral debt reduction agreement with Iraq, in accordance with Paris Club terms agreed to in November 2004. The agreement offers an 80 percent cancellation of Iraq's debt between 2005 and 2008, disbursed in three tranches linked to implementation of Iraq [...] | 2005-12-22 11:00:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EFIN EAID IZ FR |
05PARIS8605 | FRENCH HOPEFUL ON ALTERNATIVE TO SUDANESE AU [...] (C) MFA Sudan Desk Officer Jeremie Robert confirmed to Africa Watcher that France remains hopeful that a Congo-Brazzaville candidacy may avert the fiasco of a possible Sudanese African Union (AU) Presidency after the January 2006 summit in Khartoum. Chirac's Africa Adviser Michel de Bonnecorse [...] | 2005-12-22 11:28:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PHUM CF SU AU FR |
05PARIS8606 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH KEY SARKOZY ADVISOR FRANCOIS [...] (SBU) Summary: Sarkozy advisor and former Education Minister Francois Fillon told the Ambassador December 20 that Sarkozy had a chance to buck the French predisposition to vote against the ruling party in 2007 by focusing his presidential campaign on the electorate's deep-seated desire for re [...] | 2005-12-22 12:25:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR SOCI FR EUN |
05PARIS8608 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iraq Iran International [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-22 13:56:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
05PARIS8610 | UNESCO: Cultural Diversity Convention: [...] (SBU) The Cultural Diversity Convention's proponents continue to carry out a multi-faceted ratification strategy (Refs A and B). Kader Asmal, who advocated for the Convention from his position as Chair of the UNESCO negotiations, is reportedly to "consult" with developing countries and urge [...] | 2005-12-22 14:29:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNESCO SCUL ETRD CJAN TBIO FR SU AF |
05PARIS8613 | U.S. TROOP DRAWDOWN IN AFGHANISTAN NOT A SURPRISE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-22 14:45:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MOPS PGOV AF FR NATO |
05PARIS8619 | FRANCE'S LEADING FARMERS UNION [...] Summary: Even though France's President Jacques Chirac publicly expressed his satisfaction with the commitments made during the Doha negotiations in Hong Kong, the leading French farm organization, Federation Nationale Des Syndicats D'Exploitants Agricoles (FNSEA),issued a press release on [...] | 2005-12-22 15:42:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD PGOV FR WTRO EUN INR |
05PARIS8622 | FRANCE REVISES 2005 CENTRAL GOVERNMENT BUDGET [...] SUMMARY: The GOF revised its 2005 central government budget to include additional social expenditures and revised receipts including transfers to local authorities. The revised budget includes measures dear to President Chirac: a tax on airline tickets to help fund development aid, and tax cu [...] | 2005-12-22 16:42:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV FR |
05PARIS8623 | FRENCH LOWER HOUSE VOTES TO LEGALIZE PEER-TO-PEER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a vote that surprised the Government, France's lower house, empty on the eve of the holiday season, voted 29-28 late Dec 21 in favor of amendments that would legalize peer-to-peer downloading on the Internet. To the dismay of French and U.S. industry as well as mainstream l [...] | 2005-12-22 17:55:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR SCUL FR EUN |
05PARIS8626 | FRENCH LOWER HOUSE VOTES TO LEGALIZE PEER-TO-PEER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a vote that surprised the Government, France's lower house, empty on the eve of the holiday season, voted 29-28 late Dec 21 in favor of amendments that would legalize peer-to-peer downloading on the Internet. To the dismay of French and U.S. industry as well as mainstream l [...] | 2005-12-23 06:15:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR SCUL FR EUN |
05PARIS8627 | FRANCE'S LEADING FARMERS UNION DISSATISFIED WITH [...] Summary: Even though French President, Jacques Chirac publicly expressed his satisfaction with the commitments made during the Doha negotiations in Hong Kong, the leading French farm organization, Federation Nationale Des Syndicats D'Exploitants Agricoles (FNSEA),issued a press release on [...] | 2005-12-23 06:23:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD PGOV FR WTRO EUN |
05PARIS8631 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH FORMER EU COMMISSION [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with Ambassador Stapleton on December 21, former EU Commission president Jacques Delors underlined his feeling that Europe is currently in a deep crisis, in part because of the lack of visionary European leadership, but also because of Europeans' hostility to EU enlar [...] | 2005-12-23 10:35:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV FR EUN |
05PARIS8654 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iraq Galileo [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-27 13:26:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
05PARIS8659 | AIR FRANCE DISCUSSES ALTERNATIVE ARRANGEMENTS FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a meeting with Emboffs December 21, Air France officials expressed concern about the cost of processing visas for crewmembers. Air France estimates that it requires approximately 6000 visas per year at a cost in lost crew time and other expenses it claims could reach five [...] | 2005-12-27 15:11:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR CVIS PTER FR |
05PARIS8673 | SYRIA: FRANCE'S THOUGHTS ON EIB LOAN [...] (C) Summary. French officials tell us that the EIB loan to improve Syria's rural telephone network was approved unanimously on 13 December. While the Foreign Ministry was unaware and regretted the news that the loan had been approved, Finance Ministry officials said they see no scope for ov [...] | 2005-12-28 17:32:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EFIN PREL FR SY |
05PARIS8677 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Ukraine Bush Administration [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-29 11:49:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
05PARIS8683 | GOF RESPONDS NEGATIVELY TO UIGHER RESETTLEMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-29 14:47:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER FR KAWC PHUM PREF |
05PARIS8684 | FRANCE CONTENT TO OBSERVE RUSSIAN-UKRAINE GAS [...] (C) Summary. French officials agree that the Russia- Ukraine gas dispute bears watching, but do not believe that intervention by European officials recommending gradual market solutions is warranted at this time. They suspect that commenting now might even be counterproductive. Dismissing co [...] | 2005-12-29 15:45:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET ECON PREL UP RS FR |
05PARIS8689 | REINVIGORATING PUBLIC DIPLOMACY CULTURAL AND SPORTS [...] Mission France is pleased to have the opportunity to provide an overview of those cultural programs that best support our MPP goals and objectives. While France - and Paris in particular - is center to the cultural world, hosting thousands of these events each year without our involvement, th [...] | 2005-12-29 17:04:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL FR |
05PARIS878 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - NORTH KOREA [...] No summary [...] | 2005-02-11 11:15:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
05PARIS879 | REVIEW OF ISSUES RAISED IN SECSTATE MEETINGS WITH [...] (C) In a February 10 meeting with MFA Cabinet Director Vimont (protect),DCM discussed follow up to issues raised during Secretary's meetings in Paris February 8. Vimont said the French side had been pleased by the visit and the level of discussion with the Secretary. Review of specific issue [...] | 2005-02-11 12:03:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR IR IZ SY |
05PARIS888 | FRANCE SUPPORTIVE OF U.S. INITIATIVE TO STRENGTHEN [...] (C) On February 10, Hugues de Longevialle, MFA disarmament specialist responsible for IAEA issues, provided us with initial feedback on our initiative to strengthen the IAEA (reftel),which we had conveyed earlier in the week. Longevialle cautioned that a more formal French reaction was still [...] | 2005-02-11 17:00:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM TRGY AORC FR IAEA |
05PARIS89 | IAEA: FRANCE HAS NOT TAKEN A DECISION ON A THIRD [...] (C) In the absence of MFA DAS-equivalent director for disarmament issues Francois Richier, we presented reftel demarche December 21 to the desk officer covering the office during the holidays. On January 5, we met with Richier's deputy, Veronique Vouland-Aneini, who voiced skepticism that IAE [...] | 2005-01-06 11:36:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM AORC PREL FR IAEA |
05PARIS901 | FRENCH PRESIDENT CHIRAC PLEASED WITH U.S.- [...] (U) Summary: On February 9, 2005, the USEP Space Attache/NASA European Representative (NER) joined a European Space Agency (ESA) delegation to brief French President Jacques Chirac on the successful deployment of the European Huygens probe on the surface of the Saturn moon, Titan. Chirac wa [...] | 2005-02-14 10:41:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | TSPA PREL FR |
05PARIS904 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - IRAQ - ELECTION RESULTS [...] IRAQ - ELECTION RESULTS 2. MUNICH SUMMIT - NATO - IRAN 3. TOGO B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: A WIDE VARIETY OF STORIES ARE FEATURED IN TODAY'S EDITORIALS, INCLUDING DEVELOPMENTS IN TOGO (LE FIGARO),BUT THE IRAQI ELECTION RESULTS MAKE THE FRONT PAGE OF RIGHT-OF-CENTER LE FIGARO: "THE SHIITES [...] | 2005-02-14 10:55:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
05PARIS908 | PUBLIC AFFAIRS OVERVIEW OF SECSTATE VISIT TO PARIS [...] Summary: Three dominant views emerged in the French media from a plethora of reaction to the Secretary's visit to Europe. Coverage of the Secretary's visit to Paris was extensive, and its tenor was quite warm, especially when contrasted with the Iraq-inspired chill in American-French relati [...] | 2005-02-14 11:06:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OPRC OIIP FR |
05PARIS920 | IRAN-EU3: FRENCH RESPONSE TO U/S BOLTON'S LETTERS [...] (C) Late on 11 February, French MFA Political Director Stanislas de Laboulaye's office provided us with an advance copy of Laboulaye's response to U/S Bolton on the issue of Iranian violations of the November EU3 agreement with Iran. We were told a hard copy would follow under cover of diploma [...] | 2005-02-14 15:17:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM FR |
05PARIS938 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - LEBANON BOMBING ATTACK KYOTO [...] LEBANON BOMBING ATTACK 2. KYOTO PROTOCOL 3. IRAQ B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: QUESTIONS ABOUT WHO MIGHT BE BEHIND THE ASSASSINATION OF RAFIK HARIRI DOMINATE TODAY'S EDITORIALS AND FRONT PAGES. RADIO COMMENTATOR BERNARD GUETTA ECHOES MOST EDITORIALISTS WHEN HE TITLES HIS COMMENTARY: "SYRIA'S [...] | 2005-02-15 11:17:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
05PARIS952 | TOGO: FRENCH SUPPORTERS OF EYADEMA INVOLVED IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Reftel notes the current involvement of two French figures in the succession controversy following Togolese President Eyadema's death, Charles Debbasch and Michel Scarbonchi. Both are well-known longtime supporters and advisors of the former President, and both have had recent [...] | 2005-02-15 14:34:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PINR TO FR |
05PARIS953 | GOF CONDEMNS HARIRI ASSASSINATION, CALLS FOR [...] (C) Summary and comment: GoF officials reacted with shock and indignation to the assassination of former Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri February 14, with President Chirac calling for an international investigation to establish responsibility and punish the perpetrators. FM Barnier described the bo [...] | 2005-02-15 15:34:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LE SY FR |
05PARIS963 | BIE: NEW PITCH FOR U.S. TO REJOIN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Wu Jianmin, the President of the International Exhibitions Bureau (or BIE, the organization responsible for organizing World's Fairs and other global exhibitions) has requested that the USG reconsider its 2002 withdrawal from the organization. He said that within the past six [...] | 2005-02-15 17:35:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON BEXP AORC FR |
05PARIS964 | FRENCH DELAYING TACTICS ON EU DESIGNATION OF [...] (C) Summary and comment: Despite multiple appeals from the U.S. and Israel, the GoF appears likely to seek a delay in EU designation of Hizballah as a terrorist organization at the EU Clearinghouse meetings February 16. The chief GoF preoccupation appears to be the perceived complicating effe [...] | 2005-02-15 18:21:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER ETTC EFIN LE SY FR EUN |
05PARIS965 | FRENCH SUPPORT FOR HAITIAN ELECTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2005-02-15 18:21:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL HA XL FR UNSC |
05PARIS974 | FRENCH OFFICIAL DISCUSSES BORREL AFFAIR, WIDOW [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA DAS-equivalent for East Africa Jean-Christophe Belliard informed us on February 14 that Djibouti FM Farah's health was recovering following his stroke but that he would remain hospitalized for several weeks and would not be able to meet with FM Barnier on February 17 as ear [...] | 2005-02-16 10:38:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID MARR SCUL DJ FR |
05PARIS985 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - LEBANON: ASSASSINATION OF [...] LEBANON: ASSASSINATION OF HARIRI - SYRIA 2. KYOTO 3. U.S - EUROPEAN RELATIONS B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: EXECUTIVE LIFE IS TODAY'S TOP HEADLINE STORY, WITH LE FIGARO, LA TRIBUNE AND LES ECHOS REPORTING THAT FRANCE IS READY TO PAY THE CALIFORNIA INSURANCE COMMISSION BETWEEN 525 AND 600 MIL [...] | 2005-02-16 13:14:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
05PARIS993 | FRANCE ON U.S. VENEZUELAN CONCERNS [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Venezuelan Desk Officer Hedi Picquart on February 16. Picquart did not have an immediate formal response to U.S. concerns about Russian weapons sales to Venezuela, but indicated that he would pass our points to French embassies in Moscow, Caracas, and B [...] | 2005-02-16 15:25:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL FR VE CO |
05PRETORIA762 | SOUTH AFRICA: UPDATE ON PBMR [...] (C) Summary. PBMR, Ltd. executives told Econoff that their project would not be sidelined by a recent court decision requiring the Department of Environment and Tourism to enter into another round of stakeholder consultations on an environmental impact assessment concerning their pebble bed mo [...] | 2005-02-18 15:35:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG KNNP TRGY CH FR SF |
05RANGOON1235 | ENGAGE BURMA: EUROPEAN VIEWS [...] (C) Summary: Recent meetings with all European diplomatic missions represented in Rangoon (plus two accredited missions resident in Bangkok) revealed waning support for advancing democracy and human rights in Burma, and growing interest in expanding humanitarian assistance. The British join u [...] | 2005-11-02 05:40:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL EAID SW FR GM UK YI IT EZ BM |
05ROME1174 | DRIFTNETS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN: WORLD [...] (U) This is an action request: please see paragraphs 8 and 9. 2. (SBU) Embassy recently received a letter from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Mediterranean Programme Office in Rome that alleged illegal driftnet activity by Morocco, Algeria, France, Italy and Turkey in the Mediterranean hi [...] | 2005-04-06 19:14:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIS SENV KSCA ETRD AG FR IT MO TU ICCAT |
05ROME1465 | REQUEST FOR PRESIDENTIAL ADVOCACY ON GE PROPULSION OFFER FOR FRENCH-ITALIAN SHIP PROJECT [...] (C) Action Request: Embassy Rome seconds Embassy Paris' recommendation (reftel) that it would be helpful to have President Bush send an advocacy letter to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, in addition to French President Jacques Chirac, in support of General Electric's bid to provide t [...] | 2005-04-29 15:00:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD BEXP PREL IT FR BUY AMERICA |
05ROME3146 | ITALY: TOUR D'HORIZON ON EXPORT CONTROL ISSUES [...] (S) On September 14, 2005, A/ECMIN and Econoff called on Enrico Padula, MFA Non-proliferation Officer, to present demarches on India (refs A, B, and D),North Korea (ref E),and Iran, (ref C). INDIA ----- 2. (S) A/ECMIN reviewed ref B and D points on the U.S. intent to work toward ful [...] | 2005-09-21 10:16:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET//NOFORN | ENRG ETRD ETTC FR IN IR IT KNNP KSCA MNUC NL PARM PREL TRGY TSPA MTCR |
05ROME3196 | POSSIBLE ITALIAN AND SWISS MRE PROVIDERS [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-23 17:31:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID ETRD ECON AMGT SZ FR IT |
05TELAVIV4799 | SHARON AND CHIRAC'S PARIS HONEYMOON: DOWNPLAYING [...] (C) SUMMARY. In an August 2 meeting, French Charge d'Affaires Christophe Bigot told the DCM that Prime Minister Sharon and French President Jacques Chirac agreed in advance to downplay their differences on peace-process issues and instead focus on enhancing bilateral relations during Sharon' [...] | 2005-08-03 11:38:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MNUC FR IR IS GOI EXTERNAL |
05VIENNA2987 | VWP BIOMETRIC CERTIFICATION DEMARCHES [...] SUMMARY: IN RECENT DAYS POST HAS RAISED THE POINTS IN REF B AT VARIOUS LEVELS WITHIN THE AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT. OUR INTERLOCUTORS INFORM US THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR AUSTRIA TO MEET THE OCTOBER 26 DEADLINE. THE AUSTRIAN FOREIGN MINISTER BELIEVES THIS ISSUE WILL BECOME A MAJOR SOURCE OF TENSION [...] | 2005-09-08 07:40:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS CMGT PREL AU FR IT |
05VIENNA3064 | VISA WAIVER PROGRAM: AUSTRIA REQUESTS EXTENSION [...] (SBU) Secretary General Johannes Kyrle (the third- ranking MFA official) raised the issue of the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) as the first order of business in his meeting with visiting EUR PDAS Kurt Volker. In a follow- up to Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik's pointed comments to Amb [...] | 2005-09-14 14:44:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL CVIS CMGT PGOV FR IT AU EUN |
05VIENNA654 | ASSAD VISIT TO VIENNA POSTPONED INDEFINITELY [...] (C) Markus Lutterotti, Diplomatic Advisor to President Fischer, told the Ambassador March 3 that Bashar al-Assad,s trip has been postponed indefinitely. Lutterotti said that Assad had called Fischer March 2 to postpone the trip (originally planned for March 15) &in view of the present situat [...] | 2005-03-03 11:28:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | OPDC PREL AU FR SY |
05VILNIUS1345 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL SENSENBRENNER [...] Post warmly welcomes CODEL Sensenbrenner and is pleased to grant country clearance for the period of January 10-12, 2006 for the purpose of high-level discussions regarding visa policy in Lithuania. 2. Ambassador Mull will greet the CODEL on its arrival at the airport. The Embassy's poin [...] | 2005-12-28 14:51:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AMGT OREP ASEC AFIN FR NL PL RS LH |
05VILNIUS153 | FRENCH FM IN VILNIUS: OPTIMISTIC FOR IMPROVED [...] (C) SUMMARY: French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier, in Vilnius for consultations with Lithuania's political leadership two days after his meeting in Paris with Secretary Rice, spoke warmly of the Secretary's visit to Europe and publicly expressed optimism about the future of transatlantic rel [...] | 2005-02-15 16:32:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV FR LH |
06ACCRA255 | A FRENCH VIEW OF GHANA [...] (SBU) On January 26, Ambassador paid a courtesy call on French Ambassador to Ghana Pierre Jacquemot. Ghana's strengths, according to Jacquemot are its friendly people and its good management of the macroeconomy. The strong role of traditional chiefs plays a generally moderating role in soci [...] | 2006-01-31 08:14:00 | Embassy Accra | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON FR GH PGOV PREL |
06ADDISABABA3316 | DARFUR: NOV. 16 SPECIAL ENVOY NATSIOS BILATERAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Separate November 16 bilateral consultations with UK Secretary of State for International Development Hilary Benn, French MFA Africa Director Jean de Gliniasty and Special Envoy for the Peace Process in Sudan Henri Benoit de Coignac, and Chinese PermRep to the UN Guangya Wang hig [...] | 2006-12-18 16:18:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS KPKO SU AU UK CH FR |
06ALGIERS747 | EXCHANGE OF HARSH WORDS BETWEEN ALGERIA AND FRANCE [...] (C) Algerian Foreign Minister Bedjaoui's successful April 12-13 visit to Washington, on the heels of what has been widely viewed as the French Foreign Minister Douste-Blazy's disastrous April 9-10 visit to Algiers, has underscored the dynamic nature of Algeria's growing relationship with the [...] | 2006-04-24 09:06:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AG FR |
06ANKARA1152 | EUROPEAN DIPLOMATS IN ANKARA OPEN TO ENHANCED [...] (C) Summary: At a briefing by a visiting JAC analyst, French, British and German diplomats in Ankara were receptive to enhanced cooperation against PKK networks in their countries. Both the British and French DCM's believed their host government's attitude towards Kurdish issues was evolving, [...] | 2006-03-08 09:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PTER KTFN FR GM UK TU PKK |
06ANKARA1213 | TURKISH MFA READ-OUT OF IRANIAN PARLIAMENTARY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: MFA Deputy Director General (DDG) for Arms Control and Disarmament Bulent Meric briefed select missions about the March 3 visit of a delegation led by Iranian Parliamentary Foreign Policy, National Security and Defense Affairs Committee Chair Alaadin Boroujerdi to Ankara to disc [...] | 2006-03-09 12:38:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU FR UK AU GR CH IS |
06ANKARA2385 | TURKEY: EUR A/S FRIED AND NSC SENIOR DIRECTOR [...] (C) Senior MFA officials expressed concern to EUR A/S Daniel Fried and NSC Senior Director for Europe Judith Ansley that France may criminalize denial of the Armenian "genocide" and said France's position on Cyprus is unhelpful. The GOT has received an interim response from Yerevan on its Marc [...] | 2006-05-02 06:24:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IR IZ GG AJ AR FR TU |
06ANKARA2446 | TURKEY/ARMENIA: JOINT COMMISSIONS, ARMENIAN [...] (S) The Foreign Ministry continues to analyze the Armenian response to Turkey's March 10 proposal on joint commissions. We are encouraging a positive Turkish response and early re-engagement with Yerevan. The MFA is also considering how to respond to the Canadian Prime Minister's statement on [...] | 2006-05-03 14:39:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PHUM AM CA FR TU |
06ANKARA2800 | TURKEY/CANADA/FRANCE: TENSIONS OVER ARMENIAN [...] (C) Turkey has reacted to Canadian PM Harper's recognition of the Armenian genocide by pulling out of a joint military exercise and officials have hinted further measures may be taken against Ottawa. At the same time, French draft legislation that would penalize denial of the genocide has com [...] | 2006-05-17 09:44:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM CA AR FR TU |
06ANKARA3465 | TURKEY URGES CONSTRUCTIVE IRANIAN APPROACH TO [...] (C) MFA Deputy Director General for Arms Control and Disarmament Bulent Meric on June 9 briefed representatives of Germany and P-5 missions about FM Gul's June 8 phone call to Iranian NSC Secretary-General Larijani to counsel Iranian receptivity to the EU-3 package of incentives for halting its [...] | 2006-06-12 14:52:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENER KNNP PARM TU FR UK GM CH RS |
06ANKARA4450 | PKK IN EUROPE: SUSTAINING MOMENTUM [...] (C) Summary: Pushing for concrete law enforcement action aginst PKK criminal activity in Europe is a key next step, according to both European and Turkish reps during recent discussions in Ankara. To help achieve this goal, they identified three near-term action items: -- raise the priority [...] | 2006-08-02 15:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PTER KTFN TU GM FR UK |
06ANKARA528 | TURKISH MFA OFFICIAL ON PKK DEMARCHE TO FRANCE, [...] (C) Summary: We consulted with MFA Director General for Security Hayati Guven January 30 on the USG-proposed demarche to France regarding PKK. Guven promised a response in 10 to 14 days. Guven believes US diplomatic pressure on western European governments is having an impact, citing Belgium. [...] | 2006-02-07 15:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KTFN PREL TU FR |
06ANKARA562 | FRENCH FM DOUSTE-BLAZY IN ANKARA: PLAYING TO TWO [...] (C) Summary: During a February 1-2 trip to Ankara, French FM Douste-Blazy reminded GOT leaders that France had supported the opening of EU accession talks with Turkey, despite opposition from the French public. The French FM recommended that the French and Turkish governments work together to [...] | 2006-02-09 11:52:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON FR TU EU |
06ANKARA6446 | TURKEY SUSPENDS MILITARY RELATIONS WITH FRANCE [...] (C) Summary: Turkish Land Forces Commander General Ilker Basbug told journalists November 15 that Turkey has frozen military relations with France because of the French National Assembly's October 12 vote on the Armenian genocide issue. The announcement caused surprise at the French Embassy in [...] | 2006-11-17 16:01:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL FR TU |
06ANKARA6703 | TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP, November 2006 [...] The second annual meeting of Turkey's Supreme Military Council (YAS) convened under PM Tayyip Erdogan on November 30 to assess external threats, recent developments in the region, the ongoing fight against the PKK terrorist organization, military policies and modernization needs of the military [...] | 2006-12-20 13:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR PREL FR GR IS RS FI PL GG RO BU PK TU |
06ASHGABAT139 | UNITED WE STAND (SORT OF): ASHGABAT'S WESTERN [...] (SBU) On January 27, Consular officers from the U.S., German, British and French embassies met at the German Embassy in Asghabat to discuss shared consular trends and anti-fraud prevention measures pertinent to each embassy. Like the U.S. Embassy, EU embassies reported an increase in demand an [...] | 2006-01-27 12:04:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS FR GM KFRD PGOV TX UK |
06ASHGABAT549 | ICE SKATING IN THE DESERT AND OTHER CELEBRATIONS TO [...] (SBU) GOTX marked the May 18 holiday of Resurrection, Unity and Magtumguly Poetry with the expected pomp and wastefulness of a grand musical concert and the opening of Turkmenistan's first ice skating rink. At the concert, a Japanese delegation presented President Niyazov with a Japanese tra [...] | 2006-05-23 13:25:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI EPET JA FR TX |
06ASHGABAT652 | TURKMENISTAN IMPLICATES FRENCH EMBASSY, OSCE [...] (C) On June 19, Foreign Minister Rashit Meredov told Ambassador that French Charge Henri Tomasini was implicated in a scheme to foment political unrest in Turkmenistan. Meredov unveiled a complicated story involving a Turkmenistani dissident, foreign journalists, spy gear, &color8 revolutio [...] | 2006-06-20 12:56:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR TX FR UK |
06ATHENS1963 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL [...] (U) Per reftel Post delivered subject demarche to Ambassador Rallis, MFA D1 Directorate of the UN, International Organizations, and Disarmament. 2. (U) To date no response has been received but Post will report any GoG response. RIES [...] | 2006-07-27 14:13:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM MTCRE MNUC ETTC KSCA TSPA FR GR |
06ATHENS3229 | GREECE ASKS FOR U.S. SUPPORT ON DRAFT UNSC [...] (C) Ambassador Costas Halastanis, chief of staff to FM Bakoyannis, called Ambassador at 1615 hours, December 20 to ask that the Embassy convey a personal message from FM Bakoyannis to the Secretary concerning the Greek-French draft UNSCR on protection of journalists. The MFA, working with the [...] | 2006-12-20 15:06:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC PREL GR FR |
06BAGHDAD318 | FRENCH REQUEST TO INTERVIEW FOUR IRAQI DETAINEES [...] (C) SUMMARY: In response to Embassy Paris's query in Reftel: the Chief Investigative Judge of the Iraqi High Tribunal (IHT),Judge Ra'ad, has indicated that he is receptive to the GOF's request to interview four Iraqi detainees awaiting trial at the IHT, under certain conditions (which we dis [...] | 2006-02-04 16:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINS KJUS IZ FR |
06BAGHDAD3926 | PRESIDENT TALABANI REPORTS ON POSSIBLE CHANGES TO [...] (S) SUMMARY: In a meeting on October 16, President Talabani informed the Ambassador that the Presidency Council (PC) - Talabani, Sunni Arab Vice President Tarik al-Hashimi, and Shia Vice President Adil Abd al-Mahdi - had met that day and agreed to bring their respective parties together to w [...] | 2006-10-20 07:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV FR IR IZ |
06BAGHDAD4297 | IRAQI PRESIDENT GIVES READOUT ON TRIP TO FRANCE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 18, President Talabani gave Charge a readout of his state visit to Paris earlier this month. Talabani stated that he was received by President Jacques Chirac, who had listened attentively as Talabani requested more French aid in police training and economic and trade [...] | 2006-11-20 13:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV FR SY IZ |
06BAKU1565 | ZFR///CANCEL/// FRENCH LAW ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-30 07:05:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AJ AM FR |
06BAKU1579 | CORRECTED COPY: FRENCH LAW ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The French Parliament's draft law criminalizing denial of the Armenian "genocide" has triggered a heated reaction from the Azerbaijani public, including several atempted protests at the French Embassy. Azerbaijan's parliament criticized the draft law, stating that it cast doubt on [...] | 2006-10-30 13:27:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AJ AM FR |
06BEIJING19793 | BEIJING-BASED CHIEFS OF MISSION ON WEN JIABAO IN [...] (C) Premier Wen Jiabao told Prime Minister Blair China is gradually reforming its political and administrative structure. UK Ambassador Ehrman said that the two discussed Iran, Lebanon, North Korea, human rights, trade issues and China's economic growth during their London meeting. FM Li Zh [...] | 2006-09-18 09:42:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AMGT CASC FR GM JA UK EUN CH |
06BEIJING20987 | BEIJING-BASED CHIEFS OF MISSION ON POSSIBLE HU-ABE [...] (C) Hopes are high for a pre-APEC meeting between President Hu Jintao and newly-elected Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japanese DCM Shinyichi Nishimiya said. No specific agreements are in place. However, the Japanese viewed Hu's recent acknowledgement that both countries needed to improve relat [...] | 2006-09-29 14:05:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CH FR GM JA UK EUN |
06BEIRUT1849 | MGLE01: SAAD HARIRI ON IRAN, SINIORA, AOUN, [...] (S) In a 6/7 meeting with the Ambassador, MP Saad Hariri spent most of the time discussing his recent travels in Europe, which he claimed to have used to push for international consensus on Iran and Syria. The Russians, he claimed, were persuaded by his arguments not to abstain on any UNSCR [...] | 2006-06-08 15:30:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PREL PGOV KDEM PTER LE SY IR RS FR |
06BEIRUT1915 | MGLE01: INFORMATION ON SA'AD HARIRI [...] (C/NF) Reftel requested information on Member of Parliament Sa'ad Hariri. Embassy Beirut's answers are keyed to the questions as set forth in reftel. HARIRI'S PERSONALITY -------------------- 2. (C/NF) Hariri is open, engaged, generally warm and friendly, and easily accessible (when [...] | 2006-06-13 14:47:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PINR PGOV FR LE SA |
06BEIRUT2413 | TFLE01: INCENSED BY ISRAELI TARGETING OF LAF, [...] (S/NF) While acknowledging that there was something not quite right abotu the activities at the Jamhour military base, French Ambassador Emie described recent Israeli strikes on Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) facilities as "unbelievable." If the Israeli campaign was going to continue along these lines [...] | 2006-07-18 16:26:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL MOPS PTER ASEC CASC LE FR |
06BEIRUT3091 | LEBANON: FRENCH AMBASSADOR ON SECURITY, UNIFIL, [...] (C) Ambassador Feltman and econoff on 22 September met with French Ambassador to Lebanon Bernard Emie, who had mixed feelings on the security situation since the Israeli offensive, but was optimistic that French UNIFIL troops have been well received. He gave a readout of his recent meeting wi [...] | 2006-09-25 15:56:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM LE PREL PTER SY FR |
06BEIRUT3164 | SECURITY SECTOR COORDINATION: PROCEEDING WITH [...] (S) Summary: Prime Minister Siniora, Deputy Prime and Defense Minister Murr, and French Ambassador Emie all agree: despite rumors to the contrary, Emie was not the cause of Siniora's rejection of a UK-led security sector reform and coordination unit in his office. The three argue that the U [...] | 2006-10-02 07:14:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PREL MARR PARM MOPS PGOV LE UK FR |
06BEIRUT350 | LEBANON'S RESPONSE TO ICAO DEMARCHE FOR U.S. [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-07 15:18:00 | Embassy Beirut | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAIR ICAO AORC EG ET FR LE PK SA TS |
06BERLIN889 | SHUTTING DOWN THE PKK IN FRANCE AND GERMANY: [...] (S) Upon receipt of Ref A, DCM chaired a meeting of relevant members of the country team and post raised the issue of PKK support in Germany with the Turkish DCM and senior members of the German government. German officials state an awareness of the threats posed by the PKK and a readiness to [...] | 2006-03-31 14:56:00 | Embassy Berlin | SECRET | PTER EFIN KCRM PINR PREL FR GM |
06BOGOTA10337 | LIKELIHOOD OF GOC-FARC HUMANITARIAN EXCHANGE [...] (U) Prospects for GOC-FARC talks on a humanitarian exchange of FARC political hostages for imprisoned terrorists are bleak, but low-level efforts to resume contact continue. Speaking at the Iberoamerican Summit, President Uribe left open the door to talks, but only if the FARC stops terrorist [...] | 2006-11-07 20:55:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV PREL PTER CO FR SP SZ |
06BOGOTA10826 | GOC PEACE COMMISSIONER ON PARAMILITARY LINKS TO [...] (C) Summary: Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo said the GOC is committed to uncovering the truth about paramilitary links to Colombia's political, economic, and military elites, but warned that the process would produce substantial political and institutional costs. He is urging Presid [...] | 2006-11-29 22:29:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV PREL PTER CO CS CU FR NO SP SZ |
06BOGOTA7460 | GOC PEACE COMMISSIONER ON ELN, PARAMILITARIES AND [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-15 18:38:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV PREL PTER CO CS CU FR NO SP SZ |
06BOGOTA8946 | GOC SEEKING HUMANITARIAN EXCHANGE WITH THE FARC [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-27 22:18:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | CO FR MARR PGOV PREL PTER SP SZ |
06BOGOTA9277 | GOC AND FARC CONTINUE MEDIA EXCHANGE ON [...] (C) Summary: The GOC and FARC have exchanged media statements in recent days on the possibility of creating an "encounter zone" to discuss a humanitarian exchange of FARC-held hostages for FARC terrorists imprisoned by the GOC. President Uribe insists any such talks be a prelude to substanti [...] | 2006-10-06 21:56:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV PREL PTER CO FR SP SZ |
06BOGOTA9402 | GOC PEACE COMMISSIONER SKEPTICAL OF FARC AND ELN [...] (C) Summary: GOC Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo told the Ambassador October 9 he is skeptical the ELN will commit either publicly or privately to a specific cease-fire date at the October 20-25 negotiating round in Havana. If the ELN does not do so, the GOC may break off talks. He al [...] | 2006-10-12 22:49:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PGOV PINR PREL PTER CO CU FR NO SP SZ |
06BRIDGETOWN60 | DOMINICA'S ILLEGAL MIGRANT PROBLEM [...] (C) Summary: Dominica is struggling to cope with increasing numbers of illegal migrants from Haiti and the Dominican Republic, an unprecedented situation for this small-island state that is one of the poorest countries in the Caribbean. The migrants typically use Dominica as a transit point [...] | 2006-01-10 18:23:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | SMIG SOCI CVIS PHUM PGOV PREL KCRM DO DR FR |
06CAIRO6381 | EGYPT HOSTS SENIOR FRENCH, SPANISH, AND ITALIAN [...] (C) Italian and French Embassy officials offered separate readouts on October 16 of a gathering in Cairo of senior diplomats from Rome, Paris, and Madrid the day before to discuss the Middle East peace process and related topics. Italian Embassy First Secretary Lamberto Moruzzi and French Emba [...] | 2006-10-16 15:27:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MEPN UNSC KPAL EG IS FR SP IT |
06DAKAR154 | GUINEA-BISSAU: THE LIGHTS ARE BACK ON, BUT WHERE'S [...] (C) The Vieira/Aristides Gomes Government continues to develop its program, and neither the Popular National Assembly (ANP) nor the Supreme Court seems anxious to bring the Government down. The African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIGC) continues to argue for [...] | 2006-01-23 14:05:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PGOV PREL KDEM BR FR GV SG PU |
06DAKAR876 | THE "LIBYAN GUIDE" GIVES PLENTY OF GUIDANCE TO [...] (C) President Wade celebrated Senegal's 46th anniversary of independence surrounded by five other African heads of state, but the presence of Mouammar Qadhafi drew the most fanfare. Foreign Minister Gadio told the Ambassador during her introductory call that there was no discussion of Sudan [...] | 2006-04-11 16:43:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PGOV EINV FR LY SU SG |
06DJIBOUTI338 | DJIBOUTI AND FRANCE FORMALLY RENEW TIES [...] (C) SUMMARY. Djibouti and France have signed a bilateral agreement through 2010, which includes a 76 million Euro aid package for Djibouti. This agreement was signed during the recent visit of Djiboutian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf to Paris. Both sides have agreed to conduct more hig [...] | 2006-03-15 17:12:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID MARR MASS FR DJ |
06DJIBOUTI90 | DJIBOUTI TAKES FRANCE TO [...] (U) SUMMARY: On January 10 Djibouti formally requested mediation by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) between itself and France over the long-standing and thorny Judge Bernard Borrel Affair (see reftels). The Government of Djibouti (GoD) alleges that France violated its "internationa [...] | 2006-01-22 14:50:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PINS KGCN KJUS KLIG DJ FR |
06DUBLIN122 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO HHS/FDA MARIBETH [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance to Maribeth Grattan, Investigator, Office of Regulatory Affairs, FDA, HHS to travel to Dublin, Ireland, from March 3 to 10, 2006 and to Tullamore, Ireland, from March 10 to 17, 2006. Purpose of the visit is to Dublin is to conduct and inspection of H [...] | 2006-02-03 09:08:00 | Embassy Dublin | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA TPHY TBIO OTRA FR EI |
06DUBLIN383 | IRELAND REAFFIRMS SUPPORT FOR QUARTET AND ENDORSES [...] (C) On April 7th, reftel points were delivered by emboff to Department of Foreign Affairs Gulf and North Africa Section Deputy Regional Director Paul Gunning. Gunning reaffirmed that the Government of Ireland's (GOI) is not engaged with any communication with Hamas and will continue to suppo [...] | 2006-04-11 13:50:00 | Embassy Dublin | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAL PREL IS FR EI |
06DUBLIN798 | IRELAND: ISLAM IN EUROPE (C-DI5-01478) [...] (U) Summary. Embassy Dublin salutes the initiative of Washington analysts (ref A.) to look at the role of Islamic thinkers across Europe. In 2004, we launched a new outreach program to Muslims in Ireland, a group that has grown rapidly in recent years from a population of less than 4,000 ac [...] | 2006-07-07 16:45:00 | Embassy Dublin | SECRET | PINR PTER SCUL KTFN AU PINS KPAO BE FI FR |
06JAKARTA6200 | JAKARTA CT SEMINAR BUILDS ON PARIS PROGRAM, [...] (C) Sixty Indonesian counterterrorism officials participated in an intensive four-day U.S.-funded seminar in Jakarta on CT legislation, marking the next step in U.S-French-Indonesian CT cooperation. Co-hosted by the CT Desk at the Coordinating Ministry for Political, Legal, and Security Affai [...] | 2006-05-16 09:57:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV KJUS KISL ASEC AS FR ID |
06KHARTOUM1188 | RAISING THE STAKES IN WHITE NILE/TOTAL CONTROVERSY [...] (C) Summary. The White Nile Limited (WNL)/Total controversy has become increasingly ugly. There is speculation that Khartoum interests were behind a recent attack on a White Nile Ltd. (WNL) seismological team. At least one Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) official has accused Total of i [...] | 2006-05-21 15:01:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PREL ASEC PINS FR SU |
06KHARTOUM1974 | DARFUR: REBEL SURFACE-AIR MISSILE CAPACITY [...] (U) This is an action request ) see para 5. 2. (S) Summary: The sophistication of military operations in Darfur appears to have been raised another notch this summer with the potential introduction of surface to air missiles. Shortly after returning from an investigation of recent fighting [...] | 2006-08-19 15:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET | MCAP MOPS PREL PINS ASEC FR CH SU |
06KHARTOUM2697 | DESPITE OPTICS ON FM VISIT, NO NEW FRENCH [...] (C) Summary: Despite the positive coverage in both the Western and Sudanese press of French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy's recent trip to Khartoum and reports of a French initiative to resolve the Darfur crisis, French Political Counselor Francois Colas characterized the visit as an [...] | 2006-11-19 12:25:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO SU FR CD |
06KIEV3370 | UKRAINE: MTCR PROPOSALS WITH SUPPLEMENTAL [...] (C-Rel to MTCR) On August 31, we provided MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Counselor Serhiy Kucherenko with the texts contained reftels of U.S. proposals for the October 2-6 MTCR Plenary Meeting in Copenhagen. Kucherenko thanked us for the information but had no substantive [...] | 2006-08-31 14:26:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | MTCRE ETTC PARM MNUC KSCA TSPA FR UP |
06KIEV3672 | UKRAINE/MTCR: VENEZUELA ARMS SALES POLICY BRIEFED, [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 5. 2. (S) On September 22, we relayed ref A points on changes in USG policy regarding arms sales to Venezuela and MTCR papers in other reftels to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Counselors Igor Kyzym and Oles Belakoles [...] | 2006-09-22 13:54:00 | Embassy Kyiv | SECRET | PREL ETTC MTCRE PARM MNUC KSCA TSPA FR DA KN |
06KIGALI1142 | THE FRENCH LEAVE RWANDA [...] (U) Twenty-five French Embassy and other official personnel left Kigali on 27 November at 19:00 local time via a Rwandair Express flight to Entebbe. The atmosphere was somber in the airport VIP lounge, the French said final good-byes, took photos and shared chocolate. There was no press and [...] | 2006-11-28 16:01:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC KAWC PREL FR RW |
06KUWAIT2931 | KUWAIT GRANTS COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR STAFFDEL [...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes and hereby grants country clearance for STAFFDEL Grove to travel to post o/a 24 to 27 July, 2006. 2. This clearance is not/not valid for entry into Iraq; you must apply for Iraq clearance through Embassy Baghdad. 3. Hotel reservations have been made for 24 to 25 J [...] | 2006-07-23 04:41:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN KU IZ FR GM COUNTRY CLEARANCE |
06KUWAIT3596 | KUWAIT GRANTS COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL BURR (SEP 7-11) [...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes and hereby grants country clearance for CODEL Burr to travel to post o/a 8 to 10 September, 2006. 2. This clearance is not/not valid for entry into Iraq; you must apply for Iraq clearance through Embassy Baghdad. 3. Hotel reservations have been made for 8 Septembe [...] | 2006-09-06 12:00:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN KU FR IZ |
06KUWAIT4417 | KUWAIT GRANTS COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR STAFFDEL GARVEY (29 OCT [...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes and grants country clearance for STAFFDEL Garvey to travel to post o/a 9 November, 2006. 2. This clearance is not/not valid for entry into Iraq; you must apply for Iraq clearance through Embassy Baghdad. 3. Visit Officer: An Embassy visit officer and a driver/exped [...] | 2006-11-08 12:58:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN FR IZ KU JO |
06MADRID2322 | SPAIN: PRESS ON WESTERN SAHARA BUT KEEP MINURSO FOR [...] (S) Spanish MFA DG for Middle East/Africa Alvaro Iranzo welcomed enthusiastically new US engagement on Western Sahara and efforts to break the stalemate by pressing Morocco for a credible autonomy plan and talks with the Polisario, along with urging Algerian support and flexibility (reftel). [...] | 2006-09-15 15:00:00 | Embassy Madrid | SECRET | PREL PGOV MO WI AG FR SP |
06MUNICH437 | EADS/AIRBUS CRISIS -- THE VIEW FROM EADS' MUNICH [...] (SBU) Senior German EADS officials told the Consulate that Noel Forgeard's departure was necessary for EADS to move beyond its current mess, and the Forgeard affair was but one example of the challenges of dealing with spotlight- seeking French partners. As for BAE's divestiture of its EADS [...] | 2006-07-13 12:41:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAIR ETRD PGOV EINV PREL EUN FR GM |
06MUNICH558 | EADS' EUROCOPTER -- WHAT AIRBUS WOULD LIKE TO BE [...] (U) Eurocopter, enjoying rising market share, is particularly exuberant over the recent decision by the U.S. Army to purchase up to 352 UH-145 helicopters, the firm's first U.S. defense contract. Eurocopter officials said this would put greater pressure on colleagues at Eurocopter parent EADS [...] | 2006-08-23 16:31:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAIR ETRD PGOV EINV PREL EUN FR GM |
06MUNICH715 | EADS/AIRBUS CRISIS -- THE SAGA CONTINUES [...] (SBU) Amid a flood of bad news, a senior EADS official told the Consulate the A380 would, despite delays, be certified for flight. However, the A380's drain on resources was adversely impacting programs such as the A350 and the A400M, possibly resulting in a postponement of the A350 program. [...] | 2006-10-13 13:57:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAIR ETRD PGOV EINV PREL EUN FR GM |
06NDJAMENA521 | CHAD: FRENCH AMBASSADOR LOOKS AT POST-ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: French Ambassador Bercot, in conversation with Ambassador Wall April 7, confirmed that the March 30 battle went badly for the Chadian armed forces, but said that Deby was using oil tax payments to buy helicopters and was building up for an imminent riposte against the rebels led [...] | 2006-04-09 09:52:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM KDEM CD FR |
06NDJAMENA545 | DASH ACROSS CHAD: FRENCH VERSION [...] (SBU) Summary: The French, according to Ambassador Bercot and his Defense Attache, only became aware two days before the fight in Ndjamena on April 13 that the rebel force was aiming at the relatively undefended city. The city and government were saved, they say, because the rebels stalled [...] | 2006-04-16 06:51:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PGOV PREL SU FR CD |
06NDJAMENA586 | CHAD: FRENCH AMBASSADOR SEES DAS YAMAMOTO [...] (C) Summary: French Ambassador Bercot repeated his view April 20 that the only way forward was to get Deby, before the May 3 election, t announce publicly the naming of an opposition government. He saw DAS Yamamoto's visit April 24-25 as key step in moving this idea forward. He acknowledged [...] | 2006-04-21 20:45:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM CD FR SU |
06NDJAMENA587 | CHAD: FRENCH AMBASSADOR SEES DAS YAMAMOTO [...] (C) Summary: French Ambassador Bercot repeated his view April 20 that the only way forward was to get Deby, before the May 3 election, t announce publicly the naming of an opposition government. He saw DAS Yamamoto's visit April 24-25 as key step in moving this idea forward. He acknowledged [...] | 2006-04-21 20:45:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM CD FR SU |
06NDJAMENA599 | CHAD: DAS YAMAMOTO MEETING WITH FRENCH AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Summary: In meeting with French Ambassador Bercot April 25, DAS Yamamoto explained that he had urged President Deby to delay the May 3 election and begin a dialogue with the opposition. Bercot regretted this approach. He put little store in political dialogue. He preferred to ask Deby [...] | 2006-04-25 17:43:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM CD SU FR |
06NEWDELHI1321 | CHIRAC VISIT PUSHES US AGENDA ON CIVIL NUCLEAR [...] (C) Summary: President Chirac's February 19-21 trip to New Delhi, which focused on political, economic, defense and energy cooperation, served as a preview for President Bush's upcoming visit. In a program and agenda very similar to our President's, the GOF made progress on "soft power" issue [...] | 2006-02-22 14:35:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG TRGY MASS TSPA KNNP FR IN |
06NEWDELHI6568 | READOUT ON FRANCE-INDIA SECURITY TALKS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During visits to France in early September by Defense Minister Pranab Mukherjee and National Security Advisor Narayanan, Indian officials confided that they are concerned about the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan. On Middle East issues, France and India agreed that the GOI [...] | 2006-09-21 07:38:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | AF FR IN IR KNNP LE MNUC PA PARM PGOV PINR |
06NEWDELHI699 | INDIANS SEEK FRENCH CIVIL NUCLEAR DEAL, BUT THE [...] (C) Summary: As part of the preparations for Jacques Chirac's February 19-20 trip to India, Special Representative of the President Maurice Gourdault-Montagne visited New Delhi on January 27 for the fifteenth round of strategic dialogue focused on fleshing out the details of a France-India Civ [...] | 2006-01-31 13:04:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP MNUC ENRG MASS FR IN |
06PARIS1010 | MFA OFFERS ADDITIONAL DETAILS ON IRANIAN [...] (C) During a February 15 discussion with poloff, MFA DAS-equivalent for Iran/Iraq/Arabian Gulf Affairs Antoine Sivan offered additional details on Iranian government manipulation of the Mohammed cartoon controversy, which he said led to a violent protest last week which targeted the French em [...] | 2006-02-16 18:01:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IR KISL FR |
06PARIS1011 | FRANCE/C.A.R.: MFA ENCOURAGED BUT CONCERNS REMAIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: French MFA officials on February 15 stressed continuing GOF interest in the Central African Republic (C.A.R.),based on its strategic location, role in regional crises, and precarious status as an impoverished state that could become a failed state. The MFA officials claimed P [...] | 2006-02-16 18:03:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM CT FR |
06PARIS1031 | SEGOLENE ROYAL DISCUSSES STRATEGY FOR 2007, TRIP [...] (C) Summary: In a February 8 meeting with Ambassador, Socialist Party (PS) presidential hopeful, current media darling and president of the Poitou-Charentes region Segolene Royal left no doubt as to her determination to win election as president of France in 2007. She matter-of-factly assessed [...] | 2006-02-17 16:14:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
06PARIS1036 | DEBY BETTER OFF AFTER TRIPOLI. UN DROPPING THE [...] (C) Summary: The French Presidency is relieved at the outcome of the Tripoli summit, which has significantly defused tensions between Sudan and Chad. Elysee Africa Cell Deputy Labriolle reported that Libya was pleased to have demonstrated its diplomatic credibility and had laid the groundwo [...] | 2006-02-17 16:30:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM IV SU CD FR |
06PARIS104 | MFA, PRESIDENCY ADDRESS UPCOMING MORALES VISIT [...] (C) Summary: In a January 5 discussion of ref A demarche, an MFA official indicated that President Chirac would urge Bolivian president-elect Morales January 7 to govern responsibly and inclusively. Chirac will counsel prudence in moving forward with stated plans to nationalize the natural g [...] | 2006-01-06 18:31:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV FR BO CO |
06PARIS105 | MUBARAK VISIT LEAVES GOF REASSURED OF EGYPT'S [...] (C) Summary: In the wake of the January 4 Mubarak-Chirac meeting, GoF contacts described Chirac and Mubarak as on the "same line" on Syria/Lebanon, and concluded that Egypt remains firm in its commitment to press Syria to cooperate with UNIIIC. Mubarak and Chirac agreed that Bashar al-Asad mu [...] | 2006-01-06 18:55:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SY LE EG KPAL IS IR IZ FR |
06PARIS1068 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Transatlantic Relations - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-21 11:18:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS1103 | FRANCE REPORTS FIRST CASE OF AVIAN FLU IN [...] Summary: French authorities confirmed on February 18 the first case of avian flu in a wild duck on French territory. The government has extended the confinement of poultry to all departments of continental France. Vaccination of fowl is imminent in areas where confinement is difficult to en [...] | 2006-02-22 16:14:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU TBIO CASC AMGT FR |
06PARIS1113 | UDF LEADER FRANCOIS BAYROU REVIEWS HIS CENTRIST [...] (C) Summary: At a meeting with Ambassador Stapleton on February 16, Union for French Democracy (UDF) leader Francois Bayrou reaffirmed "that France needs a centrist alternative" (ref B). He admitted, however, that the French persist in thinking in terms of "right and left," making it unlikely [...] | 2006-02-23 12:23:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
06PARIS1118 | TOGO/FRANCE: EX-MINISTER BOKO UPSET AND AFRAID [...] (C) SUMMARY: Togo's ex-Interior Minister Francois Boko said on February 17 that he was very upset by apparent press leaks concerning his testimony about the November 6, 2004, bombing incident in Cote d'Ivoire. Boko had told a French judge investigating the incident that French authorities h [...] | 2006-02-23 14:47:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM MARR PINR TO IV FR |
06PARIS1129 | French Investment Flows Double in 2005 [...] SUMMARY. Based on preliminary data, direct investment flows both to/from France doubled in 2005. French companies continued to invest twice as much abroad than foreign companies invested in France. France plans to intensify economic relations with countries with high investment potential, n [...] | 2006-02-23 16:30:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV FR |
06PARIS1130 | GOF REAFFIRMS QUARTET CONDITIONS, NO-CONTACT WITH [...] (C) Summary: MFA and Elysee contacts continue to reiterate GoF attachment to the Quartet conditions and that the GoF has no intention of seeking contacts with Hamas. At the same time, GOF contacts remain reluctant to prejudge the consequences of Hamas refusal to meet Quartet conditions on EU [...] | 2006-02-23 17:07:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL IS PTER EUN FR |
06PARIS1137 | FRANCE: SPECIAL 301 REVIEW YEAR 2006 [...] (SBU) In 2005, the French government stepped up its efforts to combat counterfeiting and piracy. In particular, 2005 was marked by an increase in joint activities with French companies and cooperation between the government and the private sector. The GOF has also worked closely with the pr [...] | 2006-02-24 10:57:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON FR |
06PARIS1138 | FRANCE: ENERGY SECTOR UPDATE [...] This is another in a series of occasional updates on the French energy sector. Feedback is welcome to help us make this product as useful as possible for our inter-agency USG audience. Contents: -- EDF's appetite for takeovers grows as profits double (para 2) -- Italians again eyeing Ele [...] | 2006-02-24 10:58:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EPET EIND EINV PREL PGOV FR |
06PARIS1141 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Middle East - Iraq [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-24 11:18:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS1144 | FIRST APPARENT CASE OF AVIAN FLU IN FRENCH [...] (U) Summary: Early on February 24, France's Agriculture Minister confirmed that a flock of domestic turkeys contained highly pathogenic H5 virus. Laboratory results, expected shortly, have yet to confirm definitively the H5N1 strain. However, the flock of turkeys - since culled - was locat [...] | 2006-02-24 12:29:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU TBIO CASC AMGT FR |
06PARIS1169 | MTAG: FRENCH REACTION TO U.S. NONPAPER FOR MTCR [...] (S) SUMMARY: On 15 February 2006, ESTH/NP Officer met with French Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Point of Contact (POC) David Bertolotti, MFA Deputy Director of Disarmament and Nuclear Non-proliferation, and provided him reftel nonpaper. Although not named in the nonpaper, Bertol [...] | 2006-02-24 15:33:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL FR MTCR |
06PARIS1184 | CHIKUNGUNYA EPIDEMIC ON REUNION ISLAND - [...] (U) Summary: A chikungunya (`chik') mosquito-borne viral epidemic in the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion has become a serious political problem in Paris. Health Minister Bertrand in particular has been roundly criticized for "under-estimating" the epidemic. In an attempt to rein in th [...] | 2006-02-24 17:15:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO CASC FR |
06PARIS1186 | FRENCH ON FEBRUARY 27 GAERC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Pol Deputy delivered points to Pascal LeDeunff, deputy chief of the MFA's CFSP unit, on February 17; poloff followed up with LeDeunff on February 24. According to LeDeunff, the GAERC will issue strong conclusions on Iran, but none on Iraq or the Israeli-Palestinian situation. END [...] | 2006-02-24 17:26:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL YI MW SR BK BO IR IZ KPAL CG FR EUN |
06PARIS1187 | GOF CONDEMNS AL-ASKARIYA SHRINE BOMBING [...] (SBU) The GoF issued two statements, February 22 and 23, condemning the Al-Askariya Shrine bombing, and stressing the need for national reconciliation in Iraq (texts in paras 2 and 3). MFA DAS-equivalent for Iraq/Iran/Arabian Gulf Affairs Antoine Sivan told us the GoF statements were intended [...] | 2006-02-24 18:12:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM IZ FR |
06PARIS1199 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iraq GWOT - Guantanamo - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-27 12:13:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS121 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iraq: Liberation of French [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-09 13:53:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS1222 | FRANCE AGREES WITH USG POINTS ON ODIHR ELECTION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-27 16:24:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE PHUM PREL BE FR |
06PARIS1224 | MFA GENERALLY SUPPORTIVE OF U.S. POINTS ON [...] (C) Poloff reviewed reftel points on considerations for an international tribunal for UNIIIC suspects with MFA UN action officer for Middle East issues Selina Grenet February 23. Throughout the discussion, Grenet stressed GoF support for an international tribunal, while emphasizing the need [...] | 2006-02-27 19:11:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SY LE KJUS FR |
06PARIS1235 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iraq Islam - Democracy - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-28 11:38:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS1251 | FORMER PRIME MINISTER RAYMOND BARRE SHARES [...] (C) In a February 21 meeting with Ambassador Stapleton, former prime minister Raymond Barre cautioned against any overconfidence that right-wing, nativist and xenophobic sentiment in France might be something of the past. If anything, in Barre's view, popular reaction to urban unrest and other [...] | 2006-02-28 17:32:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
06PARIS1264 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - President Bush to India [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-01 11:11:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS128 | PRESIDENCY MIDDLE EAST ADVISOR ON SYRIA/LEBANON [...] (C) Summary: Presidential Middle East/Americas advisor Dominique Boche previewed the upcoming visit of Presidential Diplomatic Advisor Gourdault-Montagne to Washington, stressing the need to reassess U.S.-GoF efforts to pressure Damascus, without suggesting that such pressure be eased. Boche d [...] | 2006-01-09 17:16:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SY LE EG SA FR |
06PARIS1282 | SUDAN -- URGENT DEMARCHE IN ADVANCE OF ARAB LEAGUE [...] (C) Pol/MC discussed AMIS re-hatting (ref) with MFA Africa Bureau PDAS Elisabeth Barbier March 1. Barbier fully concurred with our analysis of the current situation, and undertook to review what the French might be able to do in support of the demarches we are making in Tripoli, Cairo and e [...] | 2006-03-01 13:10:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SU KPKO FR |
06PARIS1293 | SYRIA: FRANCE NOT INCLINED TO BLOCK EIB WATER LOAN [...] (C) Summary. French officials continue to suggest that France will not block the proposed EIB loan to support water projects in Syria. In our discussions with senior Elysee, MFA and Finance Ministry officials, they have been quick to note that Syria is not under EU sanctions, that the water [...] | 2006-03-01 17:40:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID EFIN SY LE FR |
06PARIS1296 | (C) MFA RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE TO EU-3 ON [...] (C) Summary: In a preliminary reaction to the U.S. white paper on Syria/Lebanon (ref A),MFA A/S-equivalent for NEA Thibault sought to emphasize the positive, while offering a variety of legalistic arguments on why EU sanctions on Syria were inadvisable or unachievable at this juncture. Thiba [...] | 2006-03-01 18:58:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SY LE FR |
06PARIS130 | FRENCH IMPRESSIONS OF MORALES VISIT [...] (C) Presidential diplomatic advisor for the Americas Dominique Boche characterized the 45 minute meeting January 7 between President Jacques Chirac and Bolivian President-elect Evo Morales as positive. Morales reassured Chirac that foreign investors would be provided a secure legal environme [...] | 2006-01-09 17:57:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV FR BO |
06PARIS1304 | PARIS CONFERENCE ON INNOVATIVE FINANCING FOR [...] (SBU) Summary. President Chirac can call his "Conference on Innovative Financing for Development" a success, at least by the standards the GOF had very likely set at the outset: during the Conference, eleven countries announced their intention to follow the French example and institute a tax [...] | 2006-03-02 10:23:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN EIND FR |
06PARIS1306 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - President Bush to India [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-02 11:08:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS131 | MFA OFFICIAL DOWNPLAYS U.S. CONCERNS REGARDING [...] (C) In a January 5 meeting with Deputy Political Counselor and PolOff (discussion of Bolivia and Colombia ref B),DAS-equivalent for Latin America Michel Pinard downplayed U.S. concerns about rumored discussions regarding the sale of Scorpene submarines to Venezuela. While acknowledging that [...] | 2006-01-09 18:02:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS PARM FR VE |
06PARIS1312 | VILLEPIN ECONOMIC ADVISOR ON FRENCH RELATIONS WITH [...] (C) Prime Minister de Villepin's cabinet economic advisor privately describes French-EU relations as being at "an all-time low" on economic issues and worries that the GOF has been unable to find much "traction" with the new German government of Angela Merkel. The advisor defended the openne [...] | 2006-03-02 12:11:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ETRD ECON PREL FR |
06PARIS1330 | CHIRAC VISIT TO INDIA: FOCUS ON BUSINESS, NUCLEAR [...] (C) SUMMARY. MFA India desk officer told us February 28 that Chirac's February 19-21 visit to India focused primarily on further improving business relations and exploring French-Indian nuclear cooperation; other issues included military and space cooperation. While the two countries deliv [...] | 2006-03-02 17:33:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG TRGY MASS TSPA KNNP IN IR FR |
06PARIS1331 | IRAN/IAEA: FRENCH SHARE U.S. ASSESSMENT OF LATEST [...] (C) On March 2, we delivered ref A points, minus the "if asked" section, on U.S. views of the latest IAEA report to Etienne de Gonneville, an MFA action officer handling non-proliferation issues in the Strategic Affairs directorate. De Gonneville skimmed the U.S. text and remarked that our as [...] | 2006-03-02 17:36:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM PREL IR FR IAEA |
06PARIS1335 | FRANCE CONTRIBUTION FOR 2006 TIP REPORT - PART I [...] Answers below are keyed to section and para numbers in reftel. Embassy Paris TIP point of contact is Kim Baker, bakerke@state.gov. Phone 33 1 43 12 23 93 (or IVG 8-498-2393),fax 33 1 43 12 26 63. Time spent on TIP report: FS-04 poloff: 80 hours. FS-1 Deputy Political Counselor: 4 hours [...] | 2006-03-03 11:26:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB FR BU RO AL SL CM NI |
06PARIS1338 | FRANCE CONTRIBUTION FOR 2006 TIP REPORT - PART II [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-03 11:28:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB FR BU RO AL SL CM NI |
06PARIS1339 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - President Bush to India [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-03 11:36:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS1347 | 2/27 STRAW - DOUSTE-BLAZY MEETING: MAINLY MIDDLE [...] (C/NF) Summary: UK embassy contacts described the February 27 Straw-Douste-Blazy working dinner as focused primarily on the two ministers' planned joint trip to Israel and the Palestinian territories, with no agreement on timing. Douste-Blazy wants the trip to take place before Israeli electio [...] | 2006-03-03 13:52:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL KPAL IS IR PARM ECON PINR UK AF FR |
06PARIS1368 | FRANCE ON UNDEF PRIORITIES [...] (SBU) Deputy Polcouns discussed reftel points March 3 with MFA IO DAS-equivalent for human rights and humanitarian and social affairs Beatrice le Fraper du Hellen. Le Fraper said France's position tracked well with that of the U.S., although there were a few minor differences of emphasis. He [...] | 2006-03-03 19:08:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL FR UNGA |
06PARIS1370 | NEA/MAG DIRECTOR JORDAN REVIEWS MAGHREB ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: NEA/MAG Director William Jordan's February 27 meetings with MFA counterparts addressed the Western Sahara conflict, Moroccan-Algerian relations, human rights issues in Tunisia, and Libya. On Western Sahara, MFA officials agreed with Jordan on the need for Morocco to be more forw [...] | 2006-03-03 19:17:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM AG MO TU WS FR |
06PARIS1387 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - GWOT - Moussaoui Trial - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-06 11:28:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS1388 | FRENCH DOWNPLAY SUMATE CONCERNS, OFFER NOTHING NEW [...] (C) Summary: French MFA DAS-equivalent for South America Pinard told us March 4 it would be improper for France to try to interfere in the Venezuelan government's case against Sumate, although it would maintain "vigilance," and encourage similar EU vigilance, in following the court proceeding [...] | 2006-03-06 12:22:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL FR VE MARR |
06PARIS1410 | FRANCE NOT KEEN ON NORWEGIAN PROPOSAL FOR SECURITY [...] (C) Per reftel, on March 6 we informed the MFA of Norway's interest in initiating a broad security dialog with Iran and U.S. reaction against the initiative at this time. Nicolas Roche, who works on Iran-EU3 negotiations in the MFA's Strategic Affairs bureau, said the Norwegians had also share [...] | 2006-03-06 17:57:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM PREL IR EU NO FR |
06PARIS1411 | FM LIVNI VISIT REINFORCES UPSWING IN [...] (C) Summary: Israel embassy contacts stressed positive atmospherics during FM Livni's March 1 meetings with French PM Villepin and FM Douste-Blazy. Israeli contacts were struck by the degree to which Livni found common ground with French officials, Villepin in particular, despite differences [...] | 2006-03-06 18:10:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IS KPAL IR FR |
06PARIS1428 | PARIS-BASED HARIRI ADVISOR ON LEBANON INTERNAL [...] (C) Summary: During a recent discussion, Basile Yared, a leading Paris-based advisor to Sa'ad Hariri, praised the Secretary for delivering the right message in Beirut on the SIPDIS need for a peaceful, constitutional presidential transition in Lebanon. Yared speculated that it would take t [...] | 2006-03-07 10:40:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SY LE EG SA FR |
06PARIS1430 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran GWOT - Moussaoui Trial - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-07 10:50:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS1431 | SUDAN/AMIS: FRENCH SHARE U.S. VIEW [...] (C) MFA Sudan deskoff Jerome Robert on March 7 confirmed that France shared the U.S. position on transforming the African Union's Mission in Sudan (AMIS) into a UN operation. "We agree with you 100 percent on the need to turn AMIS into a UN mission," Robert stated in response to reftel demarc [...] | 2006-03-07 11:52:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL SU KPKO FR |
06PARIS1455 | FRENCH VISIT OF POLISH PRESIDENT, FEBRUARY 24, 2006 [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Chirac and Prime Minister de Villepin received Polish President Lech Kaczynski on February 24 for his first visit to France since taking office. Chirac and Kaczynski discussed the future of the Weimar Triangle and the European constitutional treaty, and Chirac told Kaczy [...] | 2006-03-07 15:12:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV FR PO EUN |
06PARIS1465 | New Visa Regulation [...] This message contains an action request. See Paragraph 4. 2. During the course of their meeting January 31 in Paris, France's Trade Minister-delegate, Christine Lagarde asked Deputy Secretary Robert Zoellick about a pending visa regulation. In sum, the minister understands that the US [...] | 2006-03-07 17:30:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD CVIS FR |
06PARIS1468 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran UN Reform [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-08 11:30:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS147 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran Middle East - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-10 13:26:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS1486 | CHIRAC VISIT TO INDIA: FOCUS ON BUSINESS, NUCLEAR [...] (C) SUMMARY. MFA India desk officer told us February 28 that Chirac's February 19-21 visit to India focused primarily on further improving business relations and exploring French-Indian nuclear cooperation; other issues included military and space cooperation. While the two countries deliv [...] | 2006-03-08 17:14:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG TRGY MASS TSPA KNNP IN IR FR |
06PARIS1487 | SHUTTING DOWN THE PKK IN FRANCE AND GERMANY: [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-08 17:15:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PTER EFIN KCRM PINR PREL TU GM FR |
06PARIS1488 | SUPPORTING THE U.S.-INDIA CIVIL NUCLEAR [...] (C) SUMMARY. Reftel points were delivered to French officials at the MFA and CEA (Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique) who recommended to USG attention French President Chirac's immediate public statement in support of the U.S.-India agreement as well as his own visit to India a week prior to [...] | 2006-03-08 17:20:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | KSCA KNNP PREL ENRG PARM ETTC IN FR |
06PARIS1497 | FOREIGN FIGHTERS TO IRAQ ARE A MAJOR FRENCH CONCERN [...] (S/NF) Summary: Since 2004, French counterterrorism authorities have focused on the threat posed by foreign fighters going to Iraq. For those departing France for Iraq, the GOF fears that they will become hardened and experienced terrorists, and will eventually return to France to plan attack [...] | 2006-03-09 09:35:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | ASEC PTER PREL PGOV CG XA XF XG XI FR |
06PARIS1507 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iraq [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-09 11:22:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS1510 | SOME MOD THINKING ON NATO, DARFUR, AND ARM SALES [...] (S) Summary: In a March 8 meeting, senior MOD officials affirmed that the French Government has embargoed arms sales to Venezuela, although the decision may still not be final. On Darfur, France is not opposed to a NATO assistance role, but officials cautioned that the West, whether NATO or EU, [...] | 2006-03-09 13:12:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PREL MARR FR EUN NATO |
06PARIS1523 | French Response to Discovery of AI in a [...] Summary : Following the discovery of the H5N1 Avian Influenza (AI) virus in late February on a commercial poultry farm in the Ain district, 47 countries have placed partial or complete bans on French poultry imports, domestic poultry consumption has dropped more than 30 percent, poultry price [...] | 2006-03-10 06:27:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD EU KFLU TBIO FR |
06PARIS1526 | FRANCE AND THE THIRD MEETING OF THE [...] In response to reftel, Paris AGR, ECON and ESTH officials transmitted the talking points to the French Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Ecology, the Fraud Control Office of the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 2. Jean-Louis Maurer, F [...] | 2006-03-10 10:33:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD FR EUN |
06PARIS1529 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran Human Rights Report [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-10 11:25:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS1530 | GOF REAFFIRMS NO CONTACT POLICY WITH HAMAS, WHILE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-10 12:01:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL IS FR |
06PARIS1556 | GOF Reacts to EU Energy Green Paper [...] (SBU) Summary: In meeting with EB Energy Office Director Gallogly and EconOff, the GOF expressed "satisfaction" with the EU Energy Green paper even though they judged it to be "too cautious on some issues." The January 2006 episode involving gas transits through Ukraine woke up many EU membe [...] | 2006-03-10 17:42:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EIND EINV PREL PGOV FR EU |
06PARIS1568 | PARIS CLUB - MARCH 2006 TOUR D'HORIZON [...] (SBU) At the March 7 Paris Club meeting, creditors agreed on an approach for dealing with Angola's arrears to the Club, consistent with US objectives. The Secretariat will call on Angola to resume payments to Paris Club creditors in excess of scheduled debt service, such that arrears are redu [...] | 2006-03-13 10:16:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR |
06PARIS1573 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Milosevic Death - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-13 11:09:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS1588 | MARCH 4-6 CHIRAC VISIT TO SAUDI ARABIA: FOCUS ON [...] (C) Summary: Syria/Lebanon were the primary topics of President Chirac's March 4 and 5 meetings with Saudi King Abdullah, with Iran, Hamas/PA, and Iraq discussed to a lesser degree. Elysee contacts described the Saudi monarch as bitter over rejection of the Saudi initiative on Syria-Lebanon [...] | 2006-03-13 14:37:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SA LE SY IR IZ ECON FR |
06PARIS1605 | FRANCE ON GUATEMALA/VENEZUELA FOR UNSC SEAT [...] (C) Summary: MFA A/S-equivalent for IO affairs Sylvie Bermann indicated March 10 that the GOF had not yet formulated a position on the contest between Venezuela and Guatemala for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council. While the MFA favors Guatemala, Bermann made clear that the fin [...] | 2006-03-13 17:21:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR GT VE UNSC |
06PARIS1611 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - International Justice - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-14 10:53:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS1637 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Middle East - Israeli [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-15 11:13:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS1642 | FRANCE CREATES INDEPENDENT NUCLEAR SAFETY AGENCY [...] France's Council of Ministers approved on February 22 the creation of a new, "independent," body, the High Authority for Nuclear Safety (HANS),"responsible for the control of nuclear safety, radioprotection, and information." This new administrative body will substitute for the existing Aut [...] | 2006-03-15 14:30:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG TSPL TPHY KSCA FR KNUC |
06PARIS1656 | FRENCH MFA OFFICIAL DISCUSSES COTE D'IVOIRE, TOGO, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a March 13 meeting devoted to Liberia (septel),MFA DAS-equivalent for West Africa Bruno Foucher offered brief comments on Cote d'Ivoire (February clash between French and Ivoirian forces in western Cote d'Ivoire was deliberately instigated by the Ivoirian side),Togo (Faure [...] | 2006-03-16 08:05:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IV TO CT FR |
06PARIS166 | PRESIDENT CHIRAC'S ANNUAL ADDRESS TO THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a non-controversial January 10 address to the assembled diplomatic corps, President Chirac touched on the foreign policy challenges of combatting terrorism, preventing nuclear weapons proliferation, fostering progress in the Middle East and Africa, strengthening European defens [...] | 2006-01-10 16:38:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN FR |
06PARIS1670 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iraq Middle East - Israel - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-16 11:40:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS1680 | CHAD: FRENCH OFFER FEW COMMENTS ON UNSUCCESSFUL [...] (C) SUMMARY: French response to the thwarted coup attempt in Chad, both from the GOF and in the press, has been muted. Isabelle Guisnel (deputy to the DAS-equivalent for West Africa at the MFA) said that France remained vigilant but that the attempted coup had produced little visible disru [...] | 2006-03-16 15:20:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CD FR |
06PARIS1681 | SARKOZY ADVISOR ON FIRST EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT, END [...] (C) Summary: Former Industry Minister and close Sarkozy advisor Patrick Devedjian predicted March 15 that student and labor union opposition to the First Employment Contract (CPE) was spreading and might yet become a major test for the government. In any event, he believed that PM de Villepin [...] | 2006-03-16 15:31:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB PREL FR SOCI PINR EUN |
06PARIS169 | FRANCE: ENERGY SECTOR UPDATE [...] This is the fifth in a series of occasional updates on the French energy sector. Feedback is welcome to help us make this product as useful as possible for our inter-agency USG audience. Contents: -- France to develop fourth-generation nuclear reactor (See Para 2); -- Peugeot Citroen to [...] | 2006-01-11 10:14:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EPET EIND EINV PREL PGOV FR |
06PARIS1697 | Criticism Persists at Home and Abroad over French [...] (SBU) Summary: Criticism of the proposed merger of Gaz de France (GDF) with water and power utility Suez continues both at home and abroad. Domestically, unions and the left protest proposed GDF privatization. Abroad, Brussels, Italy and other EU member states denounce French "economic patr [...] | 2006-03-16 16:22:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EIND EINV ELAB PREL PGOV FR |
06PARIS1699 | FRENCH ON PM DE VILLEPIN'S MARCH 13 WORKING VISIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to the French MFA, counter-terrorism and energy policy were the two central topics of Prime Minister de Villepin's March 13 talks in Madrid with Spanish Prime Minister Zapateros. Prior to the ministerial, the French sent a strong message to the Spanish MFA on their dissatisfa [...] | 2006-03-16 17:19:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SP FR SY LE |
06PARIS1700 | FRENCH MFA AGREES ON NEED FOR GREATER EU [...] (C) Summary: MFA officials share U.S. concerns on the deteriorating human rights situation in Syria, and have recommended that the GoF seek an EU presidency statement and joint EU demarche in Damascus to address the issue. MFA officials did not see much prospect for addressing Syria human rig [...] | 2006-03-16 18:41:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM LE SY FR |
06PARIS1706 | LIBERIAN PRESIDENT ELLEN JOHNSON-SIRLEAF VISITS [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA DAS-equivalent for West Africa Bruno Foucher on March 13 described Liberia President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf's March 7-10 official visit to France as a success. France's primary interest in supporting Johnson-Sirleaf and stability in Liberia is to promote stability in neighb [...] | 2006-03-17 09:14:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LI FR |
06PARIS1711 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - U.S. National Security [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-17 10:53:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS1715 | FRANCE - BUSINESS UPDATE [...] (U) This message contains a series of updates on French trade and business news. France to ease restrictions on new EU workers --------------------------------------------- 2. (U) Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin announced on March 13 that France would "gradually" open up its labor [...] | 2006-03-17 14:49:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ETRD ELAB PREL FR EUN |
06PARIS1719 | (C) FRENCH MFA ON POLITICAL CONSULTATIONS WITH [...] (C) On the margins of a March 15 discussion on human rights in Syria (reftel),MFA DAS-equivalent for Egypt/Levant Herve Besancenot commented briefly on March 8-9 political consultations in Cairo between France and Egypt, for which the French delegation was led by MFA Political Director Stanis [...] | 2006-03-17 15:07:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LE SY EG KISL UNSC FR |
06PARIS1720 | FORMER DEFENSE MINISTER RICHARD: INSIGHTS ON EU [...] (C) In a meeting March 9, Ambassador Stapleton and former defense minister Alain Richard exchanged views on the roles of NATO and the ESDP, on the steady continuity in France's defense policies under Richard's successor (current Defense Minister Michele Aliot-Marie),and on French domestic pol [...] | 2006-03-17 15:51:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON MARR |
06PARIS1721 | SUDAN: FRANCE TO CONSIDER WAYS OF ENCOURAGING [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA AF PDAS Elisabeth Barbier said on March 17 that France would consider whether and how best to encourage other countries to support a rapid conversion of AMIS into a UN operation for Sudan. She agreed with us that the AU decision to transition AMIS to a UN mission was not c [...] | 2006-03-17 16:00:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO SOCI SU FR |
06PARIS1732 | FRANCE ON EXPANDING UN PARTICIPATION OF DEPENDENT [...] Deputy Polcouns discussed reftel points on rights of dependent territories March 16 and again March 17 with MFA IO Political Affairs DAS-equivalent Jean-Hughes Simon-Michel, whose office is also responsible for decolonization issues but does not deal directly with the UN Economic Commission f [...] | 2006-03-17 16:30:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL FR PGOV ECON XL UNO ECLAC |
06PARIS1734 | AVIAN INFLUENZA FRANCE UPDATE - [...] As of 3/17, French authorities report no new cases of the H5N1 in domestic poultry since the sole case confirmed on 2/25 in a farm at Versailleux in Ain `departement'. 11,000 turkeys were culled (refs A and B). Since initial detection in a wild duck on 2/18, H5N1 has been found [...] | 2006-03-17 17:21:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU TBIO CASC AMGT FR |
06PARIS1735 | FRENCH ON MARCH 20 GAERC [...] (C) SUMMARY: French MFA officials spent much of March 17 helping plan the EU response to the summons received by EU and US Ambassadors in Minsk late March 16; the Austrian presidency will issue a statement holding Lukashenko alone responsible for any violence surrounding this weekend's presid [...] | 2006-03-17 17:57:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ETRD YI MW SR BK BO IR IZ SU FR EUN |
06PARIS1750 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iraq - Third Anniversary of [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-20 11:15:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS1751 | (S) SHIELD S59-05 FRENCH REPONSE TO AUSTRALIA [...] (S) On March 16 Embassy received the GOF's reponse to ref demarche delivered to MFA in January. The non-paper - in French and classified at the DEFENSE CONFIDENTIAL level - confirms that the MFA followed-up the Iranian procurement of possible dual-use items from the French firm CILAS by the I [...] | 2006-03-20 11:47:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PARM PREL ETTC IR FR CBW |
06PARIS1776 | FRENCH AF DAS DISCUSSES SUDAN (AMIS/UN),DJIBOUTI [...] (C) SUMMARY: Helen Le Gal, MFA DAS-equivalent for East and Central Africa, on March 20 said that France would take a low-key approach to lobbying Africans on the AMIS/UN issue, to avoid exacerbating anti-Western phobias. She stressed the importance of progress in the Abuja talks. An offici [...] | 2006-03-20 16:07:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR EAID SU DJ CG FR |
06PARIS179 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran Bush Iraqi Policy [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-11 11:42:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS1799 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iraq Belarus Elections [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-21 15:49:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS1817 | Ambassador Harty learns France will produce e passport [...] Summary: Assistant Secretary Maura Harty, accompanied by Paris Deputy Chief of Mission Karl Hofmann and Consul General Donald E. Wells met on March 10 with Claude Gueant, the Cabinet Director at the Ministry of Interior (MoI) to discuss the French government's progress in developing an electro [...] | 2006-03-21 16:22:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | CMGT CVIS FR |
06PARIS1818 | U.S.-INDIA CIVIL NUCLEAR COOPERATION INITIATIVE: [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-21 16:22:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP ENRG PREL FR |
06PARIS1823 | FRANCE AND FOREIGN INVESTMENT: JOB PROTECTIONISM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Press reports claim that France has identified at least 20 firms, including ten blue chips, that merit GOF protection from foreign takeovers. Foreign takeovers have developed a strong political and social dimension, given the government goal of reducing unemployment before 200 [...] | 2006-03-22 07:59:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ELAB PGOV FR |
06PARIS1832 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iraq - President Bush's [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-22 11:04:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS1843 | MFA DAS DISCUSSES OFFENSIVE IN CHAD AND UPCOMING [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA DAS-equivalent for West Africa Bruno Foucher on March 21 discussed developments in Chad, notably the GOC's offensive against rebel forces that began early on March 21. Foucher said that, if successful, the offensive could solidify Deby's regime and reduce Sudan's ability to [...] | 2006-03-22 14:59:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS MOPS CD FR |
06PARIS1847 | FRANCE'S COPYRIGHT BILL PENALIZES ILLEGAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A final text for France's new digital copyright law was voted by France's National Assembly on March 21, following months of fierce debate over how best to balance consumer rights against copyright in the Internet age. The complex draft bill, designed to bring France into lin [...] | 2006-03-22 15:31:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD FR |
06PARIS1851 | FRANCE: DEMARCHE ON SUDAN/AMIS/UN MISSION [...] (C) Per ref A, we provided on March 22 ref A talking points on Sudan and the AMIS/UN issue to MFA DAS-equivalent for Central and East Africa Helene Le Gal. In a follow-up discussion the same day, Le Gal said she considered the approach the U.S. intended to take with Arab states at the Arab [...] | 2006-03-22 15:55:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ SU FR |
06PARIS1855 | FRENCH GOVERNMENT INTENDS DISTRIBUTION OF SECURE E- [...] SUMMARY. Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs Maura Harty and Paris Consul General Donald E. Wells met with the Director of French consular services, Francois Barry Martin Delongchamps at France's MFA on March 10. Ambassador Harty learned the GOF intends to begin distribution of its e-p [...] | 2006-03-22 17:34:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | CMGT ETRD CVIS FR |
06PARIS1863 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iraq - Bush Strategy [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-23 11:14:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS1891 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - ETA Cease-Fire [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-24 11:44:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS1893 | UPDATE ON "SHUTTING DOWN THE PKK IN FRANCE" [...] (S/NF) Per reftels, following is an update to actions taken by post regarding the presence of the PKK on French soil. 2. (S/NF) DCM met with Turkish DCM Suleyman Ozyildiz to review our approaches. Ozyildiz traced the history of French openness to Turkish exiles and tendency to view more l [...] | 2006-03-24 13:33:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER EFIN KCRM PINR PREL TU FR |
06PARIS1899 | FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR ON VENEZUELA AND THE [...] (C) Ambassador Stapleton met March 23 with President Chirac's diplomatic advisor, Maurice Gourdault-Montagne (MGM) March 23 to press for French support for Guatemala's candidacy for the Latin American UNSC seat opening in January 2007 (refs),emphasizing in particular the harm Venezuelan mem [...] | 2006-03-24 13:44:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR GT VE UNSC |
06PARIS1919 | MEETING WITH GILCHRIST OLYMPIO: "I'M READY TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Gilchrist Olympio, Paris-based UFC chief and opposition leader, told us March 23 that he was prepared to engage in national dialogue with the Faure regime but asserted that the regime was blocking the dialogue by not agreeing on the naming of a mediator/facilitator of the talks [...] | 2006-03-24 16:18:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PGOV PREF PINR TO FR |
06PARIS1920 | DONOR RESPONSE TO AVIAN INFLUENZA OUTBREAK IN [...] On March 21, ESTH Counselor and Science Affairs Specialist delivered reftel demarche to the French MFA Burma/Thailand desk officer Franck Vermeulen and Ambassador for Avian Influenza Preparedness Jean Garbe. Vermeulen stated that France has no bilateral assistance programs with Burma and it [...] | 2006-03-24 16:53:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU TBIO EAGR EAID FR MBM |
06PARIS1922 | FRANCE WILL SUPPORT BELARUS TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS [...] (C) On March 24, Poloff delivered reftel demarche on expanding a visa ban against Belarusian officials to Antoine Gosset, the MFA's Belarus desk officer. Gosset said the MFA was examining the legal implications of extending the visa ban to include Aleksandr Lukashenka, given the lack of prece [...] | 2006-03-24 17:06:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM CVIS BO FR EUN |
06PARIS1924 | CHIRAC'S DIPLOMATIC ADVISOR ON SYRIA/LEBANON, IRAN [...] (C) Amb Stapleton took the occasion of a meeting March 23 with President Chirac's Diplomatic Advisor Maurice Gourdault-Montagne (MGM) on another subject (septel),to discuss Middle East issues, focusing on Syria/Lebanon, Iran, and Iraq. Concerning Syria/Lebanon, MGM said the GOF continues t [...] | 2006-03-24 18:14:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR SY LE SP UNSC |
06PARIS1925 | MIXED, BUT MOSTLY DISCOURAGING FRENCH RESPONSE TO U.S. DESIGNATION OF AL-MANAR [...] (S/NF) Summary and comment: In a preliminary response to U.S. designation of Al-Manar, senior Elysee officials reaffirmed GoF resolve in banning Al-Manar broadcasts in France due to hate speech concerns, while reiterating the GoF´s desire for continued contact with, and opposition to EU designat [...] | 2006-03-24 18:15:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL LE SY PTER ASEC ETTC FR |
06PARIS1938 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Los Angeles Demonstrations - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-27 11:21:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS1948 | FOREIGN COMPANIES PLAY A SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN THE [...] SUMMARY. The paradox behind the rise of "economic patriotism" in France is the significant role of foreign companies in the French economy. The National Statistical Agency released a report documenting that foreign companies were responsible for 17% of value added, 30% of exports, and one em [...] | 2006-03-27 13:58:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV FR |
06PARIS1966 | FORMER PRESIDENT GISCARD D'ESTAING ON A TROUBLED [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a March 21 meeting with the Ambassador, Former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing characterized the current social upheaval in France over the First Employment Contract as the latest episode in France's deep-seated resistance to change ("in no way pre-revolutionary"). He argued [...] | 2006-03-27 16:28:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON ELAB FR EUN PINR |
06PARIS1967 | FRANCE BRACES FOR ANOTHER DAY OF PROTESTS, AS [...] (SBU) The weeks of protest (ref A) against the Villepin government's First Employment Contract (CPE) could well peak tomorrow, March 28. Leftist student associations, backed by the full organizational weight of France's major trade union federations and the center left Socialist Party (PS),h [...] | 2006-03-27 18:05:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
06PARIS1976 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Demonstrations Against French [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-28 11:22:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS200 | FRANCE TO WORK WITH GERMANS ON WTO INITIATIVE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. France intends to work with Germany to develop a trade proposal for the EU that would be focused on services and non-agricultural market access (NAMA) according to Trade minister-delegate Christine Lagarde's staff. Trade Minister Lagarde's advisor Eric Peters (protect) told E [...] | 2006-01-11 17:50:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR FR WTRO |
06PARIS2006 | MARCH 28 PROTESTS SIZABLE -- ORGANIZERS VOW [...] (U) As of 1900 hours Paris time on March 28, preliminary police reports cite a turn-out for today's (ref A) nationwide demonstrations of over a million, double that recorded during previous protests against the Villepin government,s First Employment Contract (CPE). Earlier in the day, Prime [...] | 2006-03-28 19:03:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC ECON ELAB EU FR PGOV PINR SOCI |
06PARIS2027 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Israeli Elections [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-29 13:13:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS2046 | FRANCE GDP FORECAST TO PICK UP in 2006 [...] SUMMARY. The National Statistical Agency forecast that French GDP would rebound in the first half of 2006, increasing 2.4% (annualized) in Q1 and 2.0% in Q2, mainly led by household consumption. GDP growth could run at a pace close to 2.0% (annualized) in the first half, and in full year 200 [...] | 2006-03-29 16:48:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV FR |
06PARIS2048 | AFTERMATH OF MARCH 28 PROTESTS: PRESSURE TO DEFUSE [...] (SBU) Following March 28's sizable demonstrations against the Villepin government's First Employment Contract (CPE) (refs A and B),there is a growing sense among both the French public and political class that leadership on both sides of the issue should find a way to defuse the burgeoning [...] | 2006-03-29 19:47:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV CASC EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
06PARIS2059 | U.S. CANDIDACY FOR ITU COUNCIL SEAT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-30 11:00:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS ETRD FR |
06PARIS2060 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Secretary Rice To Europe - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-30 11:03:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS2067 | DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Secretary Zoellick on March 10 discussed Sudan, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire, Benin, and the possible transfer of Charles Taylor from Nigeria to the Netherlands via Sierra Leone, with the French Presidency's Africa advisor, Michel de Bonnecorse. On Sudan, the two sides expressed [...] | 2006-03-30 13:13:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR SU CD IV BN LI NI FR |
06PARIS2069 | UPDATE/FAREWELL FROM TERRORISM INVESTIGATING JUDGE [...] (S) Summary: Jean-Francois Ricard, terrorism investigating judge for 12 years and deputy to renowned investigating judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere, is being promoted and transferred to the Ministry of Defense to work as chief magistrate for military penal affairs. Speculation abounds that Ricard is [...] | 2006-03-30 13:39:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PTER PREL PGOV FR IZ MO AG TS LY KISL |
06PARIS2081 | USUNESCO: GENERAL INFORMATION MEETING ON [...] SUMMARY: UNESCO DIRECTOR GENERAL MATSUURA ANTICIPATES THAT THE ANTI-DOPING CONVENTION WILL BE IN FORCE BY MAY 2006. UNESCO IS PREPARING A NEW COMMUNICATIONS AND EDUCATION PROGRAM AIMED AT WORLD YOUTH TO HIGHLIGHT THE DANGERS OF DRUG DOPING IN SPORT. MATSUURA BELIEVES THE CONVENTION WILL FOCU [...] | 2006-03-30 15:35:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | SCUL FR UNESCO |
06PARIS2083 | FRENCH MFA OBJECTS TO CURTAILING NIGERIAN UNOCI [...] (C) Africa Watcher shared current U.S. thinking on how to reinforce the UN presence in both Liberia and Cote d'Ivoire during a March 29 meeting with AF Acting DAS-Equivalent Isabel Guisnel. Guisnel objected strongly to recalling the Nigerian mechanized company on loan from UNMIL to UNOCI. SC [...] | 2006-03-30 16:04:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KPKO LI IV FR |
06PARIS2086 | SUBURBAN UNREST AND STUDENT DEMONSTRATIONS: HOW [...] (C) Summary: Unlike the anarchic violence of November, the current demonstrations by students and organized labor against the First Employment Contract (CPE) have largely proceeded peacefully despite violent acts by bands of underclass suburban youths directed against police and demonstrator [...] | 2006-03-30 16:52:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB ECON FR PINR CASC SOCI |
06PARIS2095 | CPE LAW DECLARED CONSTITUTIONAL -- CHIRAC TO [...] (U) At 2000 local time March 30 France's Constitutional Council announced that it had decided that the Equal Opportunity Law -- including its controversial First Employment Contract (CPE) article -- did not/not violate the constitution (refs A and B). According to initial press reports, the [...] | 2006-03-30 19:16:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC ECON ELAB EU FR PGOV PINR SOCI |
06PARIS2100 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - France Iran Middle East - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-31 12:24:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS212 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran GWOT - Guantanamo Israel [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-12 15:06:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS2127 | IMPROMPTU "SMS GRAPEVINE" DEMONSTRATIONS BY [...] (U) During the day of March 31, most university and high school students who have mobilized against the Villepin government's First Employment Contract (CPE) (ref A) took in the news of President's Chirac's likely promolugation of the controversial law (ref B). Some however, engaged in a rang [...] | 2006-03-31 17:00:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
06PARIS2136 | DOHA : FRANCE MAINTAINS HARD-LINE [...] (SBU) Summary : Both PM De Villepin and AgMin Bussereau stated publicly their belief that other countries now need to respond to EU "Concessions" on agriculture in the Doha Development Round negotiations. FAS Paris contacts echoed these remarks and said that offered U.S. reforms were not "suf [...] | 2006-03-31 17:11:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD EU FR |
06PARIS2137 | IIC FOLLOW-UP: FRENCH INVESTIGATION OF [...] (SBU) In the wake of the UN Independent Inquiry Committee (IIC) reports into Oil-for-Food Program (OFF) corruption, the GoF has launched investigations of a number of French nationals named in the IIC reports, though so far none have been charged with a crime. The GoF investigation is being l [...] | 2006-03-31 17:14:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KFIN PGOV PINR IZ FR |
06PARIS2152 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Secretary Rice to Europe - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-03 11:14:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS216 | FRENCH CONCERNED WITH DUVALIER PASSPORT ISSUANCE [...] (C) Deputy PolCouns delivered reftel demarche January 12 to DAS-equivalent for Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean Pierre-Alain Coffinier, who said that the French Embassy in Washington had also appraised him of the issue. He stated that the GoF understood and shared our "political" concern [...] | 2006-01-12 16:29:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM FR HA |
06PARIS2166 | FRENCH OFFICIALS OPTIMISTIC ABOUT GDP GROWTH AND [...] SUMMARY. Higher-than-expected GDP growth and a lower- than-expected 2005 budget deficit prompted optimistic messages on economic growth and employment for 2006. Finance Minister Breton forecast 2006 GDP would grow 2.0- 2.5%, and the unemployment rate would fall to 9% by the end of 2006, dropp [...] | 2006-04-03 14:46:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV FR |
06PARIS2177 | IIC FOLLOW-UP: FRENCH INVESTIGATIVE JUDGE VISITS [...] (C) On April 3, poloff spoke with financial investigating judge Philippe Courroye, who heads the independent judicial inquiry into potential French involvement in Oil-for-Food Program corruption. Courroye said the Le Figaro article in para 3 of reftel was "behind the times," since he had alrea [...] | 2006-04-03 15:53:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KFIN PGOV PINR IZ FR |
06PARIS2187 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Moussaoui Trial [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-04 11:32:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS2195 | THE FRENCH ARE STILL DELIBERATING ON ENGAGING [...] (C) Using reftel points, pol/mil officer sought on April 3 MFA support for NATO to begin Intensified Dialogue on Membership Questions with Georgia. MFA DAS-equivalent director for NATO/ESDP issues, Nicolas Niemtchinow, received our points, but declined any substantive comment, indicating that [...] | 2006-04-04 13:46:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL MARR GG FR NATO |
06PARIS2200 | COE CYBERCRIME [...] Summary. The first meeting of the Council of Europe's Cybercrime Convention Committee took place March 20-21, 2006. The United States (Betty Shave, U.S. Department of Justice) was selected as vice-chair of the meeting. The key achievement of the meeting was adoption of an interpretation o [...] | 2006-04-04 14:46:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KJUS KCRM ECON ETRD FR COE |
06PARIS2201 | CLARIFICATION OF ACTIVITIES AT THE U.S. NEVADA [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-04 14:49:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL FR KTBT |
06PARIS2217 | FRANCE: CURTAILING USE OF NORTH KOREAN FLAG OF [...] (S) Econoff delivered reftel points April 4 to MFA Office Director for Energy, Transportation and Infrastructure Nicole Taillefer, and MFA Office Director for East Asian Affairs Jean-Noel Poirier. Poirier asked how recent a development North Korean marketing of its flag was, and how many ships [...] | 2006-04-05 09:57:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PARM PREL MNUC EWWT KN FR |
06PARIS2221 | GOF STEPS UP ANTI-COUNTERFEITING PLAN [...] (U) The French Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry launched an anti-counterfeiting campaign on April 3 designed to persuade consumers not to buy counterfeit goods through public service announcements on television and on the Internet, as well as on a special website (www.non- merci.com [...] | 2006-04-05 11:06:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | KIPR ETRD ECON FR |
06PARIS2226 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Saddam Trial Moussaoui Trial [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-05 11:36:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS2242 | VISIT OF ATTORNEY GENERAL GONZALES FROM MARCH 1 TO [...] (U) SUMMARY: Attorney General Alberto Gonzales traveled to France from March 1 to 4, 2006. He met with Pierre de Bousquet de Florian, Director of the DST; Nicolas Sarkozy, Minister of the Interior; French Counter-terrorism Officials; Ron Noble, Secretary General of Interpol; Pascal Clement, M [...] | 2006-04-05 15:17:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KJUS FR PREL PGOV KCRM PTER |
06PARIS2252 | A/S FRIED DISCUSSES NATO AND FORMER SOVIET SPACE [...] (C) Summary: On March 31, A/S Fried met with French MFA officials to discuss NATO partnerships, Georgia, Ukraine, Nagorno-Karabakh, Belarus, Russia and Darfur. Fried pressed French officials to remain open to offering Georgia a NATO Membership Action Plan, and noted that French and U.S. analy [...] | 2006-04-06 10:15:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV FR RU BE MO |
06PARIS2253 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iraq - Saddam Hussein's Trial [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-06 10:18:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS2259 | FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL AFRICA ADVISOR OFFERS OVERVIEW [...] (C) SUMMARY: Presidential Advisor for Africa Jacques Champagne de Labriolle on April 3 provided a broad overview of French Africa policy during a meeting with AF/W Director Phillip Carter. He made the following observations: -- Chad and Cote d'Ivoire were France's main concerns at prese [...] | 2006-04-06 12:52:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL XA IV FR |
06PARIS2260 | FRANCE/WEST AFRICA: AF/W DIRECTOR CARTER'S MFA [...] (C) Summary: AF/W Director Carter clarified U.S. views on addressing security needs in Liberia and Cote d'Ivoire in an April 3 meeting with MFA Acting A/S-Equivalent for Africa Affairs Barbier and DAS-Equivalent Foucher. Carter explained the significance in Monrovia of the Nigerian UNMIL com [...] | 2006-04-06 13:25:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KFLU GV NI IV LI FR |
06PARIS2267 | MFA OUTLINES FRENCH POSITIONS IN LATIN AMERICA [...] (C) Summary: MFA A/S-equivalent for WHA Daniel Parfait provided visiting EUR/WE Director Kathy Allegrone with a candid assessment of French positions on Latin American issues April 5, touching on Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba, and Haiti. Parfait acknowledged the close relationship Hugo Chavez sha [...] | 2006-04-06 15:56:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV FR VE BO CU HA |
06PARIS2272 | HAMAS PARTICIPATION IN COE PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Stapleton received April 4 a letter from Congressman Wexler to COE Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) President van der Linden seeking to dissuade the parliamentary assembly from meeting with a Palestinian delegation of which one member belongs to Hamas. Embassy and CG St [...] | 2006-04-06 16:40:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR PHUM PTER KPAL IS EUN COE |
06PARIS2273 | FRANCE RESIGNED ON PENDING ADOPTION CASES IN [...] (C) Deputy PolCouns discussed reftel points March 28 with MFA European Affairs desk officer (filling in for an absent Romania desk officer) Virginie Bioteau March 28, who requested and received a copy of talking points for the purpose of coordinating an informed MFA response. She understood [...] | 2006-04-06 16:43:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR EUN CASC RO |
06PARIS228 | VISIT TO PARIS - DOE DEPUTY SECRETARY SELL; U/S [...] (U) This message is SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED; protect accordingly. Message sent NIACT Precedence to the Departments of State and Energy Ops Centers to assure OOB 01/13/06 delivery to offices of Deputy Secretary Sell and U/S Joseph (ATTN Timbie). 2. (SBU) The Embassy has confirmed/con [...] | 2006-01-13 10:16:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TRGY ENRG KNNP UK FR RS JA OVIP AORC IAEA |
06PARIS2304 | FRANCE ON WMD PROLIFERATOR FINANCING [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-07 15:10:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN PARM PGOV FR |
06PARIS2305 | FRANCE WRONGFOOTED ON LEVITZKY INCB CANDIDACY [...] (C) An abashed IO DAS-Equivalent Beatrice Le Fraper confided to poloff on 4/7 that France had already pledged to back Belgian and German candidates for the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) prior to her learning from the Embassy on 3/27 of the USG request to support ambassador Levi [...] | 2006-04-07 15:23:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR AORC PREL FR UN |
06PARIS2306 | POLISH EMBASSY ON FRANCO-POLISH AND FRANCO-GERMAN [...] (C) Summary: Polish Embassy PolCouns described for us April 6 an improving Franco-Polish relationship and growing French interest in the Weimar triangle grouping of France, Germany and Poland. She attributed growing French activism to attempts to offset its waning influence both vis-a-vis G [...] | 2006-04-07 15:29:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR EUN GE PL KPKO CG |
06PARIS2313 | FRENCH ON HAMAS/COE: GIVE US UNTIL THE 4/10 GAERC [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 7, post further discussed possible Hamas participation in upcoming Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) meetings with MFA DAS-equivalent for Strategic Affairs Nicolas Niemtchinow (responsible for CoE political affairs) and shared ref A points with DAS-eq [...] | 2006-04-07 16:07:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL IS FR KHUM KTER COE EUN |
06PARIS2314 | FRENCH MUSLIM LEADER DESCRIBES BLEAK OUTLOOK FOR [...] (C) Summary: National Federation of French Muslims (FNMF) president Mohammed Bechari provided a frank assessment of the current state of French Muslim communities and institutions to Poloffs March 31. Bechari described disaffected, suburban Muslim youth in the throes of an identity crisis, an [...] | 2006-04-07 16:40:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PTER PINR SOCI MO FR |
06PARIS2315 | FRENCH FULLY AGREE ON NEED TO PROTEST IRANIAN [...] (C) MFA DAS-equivalent for Iran/Iraq/Arabian Gulf Affairs Antoine Sivan confirmed the GoF's "full agreement" with reftel points on Iranian government mistreatment of religious minorities during an April 6 discussion with poloff. Sivan added that the GoF had recently sought insertion of langua [...] | 2006-04-07 16:43:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI IR FR |
06PARIS2317 | USDA Under Secretary for Food Safety [...] On April 7, 2006, USDA Under-Secretary for Food Safety Richard Raymond met with recently-appointed Executive Director of the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) Catherine Geslain-Laneelle in Paris. Ms. Geslain-Laneelle is currently Regional Director of Agriculture and Forestry for the French I [...] | 2006-04-07 16:44:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD EU KFLU TBIO FR |
06PARIS2318 | SEEKING FRENCH CONTRIBUTION FOR POLICE TRAINERS AT [...] (C) Summary and comment: We received mixed initial responses to our appeals to GoF officials to consider contributing police instructors to the Jordan International Police Training Center (JIPTC). GoF Inter-ministerial Coordinator for Iraq Reconstruction Jean-Pierre Guinhut, in a preliminary [...] | 2006-04-07 16:49:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRM KJUS MARR MCAP MOPS EAID EFIN IZ FR |
06PARIS232 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran Iraq Transatlantic [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-13 10:24:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS2324 | LUNAR AND MARTIAN SPECTRUM COORDINATION -- FIRST [...] Summary: The first technical preparatory meeting for intergovernmental coordination on a Spectrum Use Plan for Lunar and Martian Space Exploration was held March 20-23 in Paris. The meeting was hosted by the European Space Agency (ESA) and jointly chaired by ESA and NASA. All six of the spac [...] | 2006-04-10 09:18:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS TSPA FR |
06PARIS2343 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran Hamas Iraq [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-10 10:44:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS2348 | TOGO: APRIL 5 MEETING WITH EX-MINISTER BOKO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Togo's ex-Interior Minister Francois Boko said during an April 5 meeting that the regime in Togo feared active U.S. intervention in Togo's affairs and that the U.S. could readily influence events in Togo if it chose to do so, and even compel the leadership to step down, as in Ha [...] | 2006-04-10 14:29:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR PHUM TO FR |
06PARIS2358 | FRENCH MFA URGES CLOSE CONSULTATION ON HUMAN [...] Summary: (C) IO DAS-Equivalent Beatrice Le Fraper du Hellen on April 7 regretted that the Human Rights Council (HRC) would be a less credible institution without USG participation. However, she admitted that she herself had urged the MFA not to seek an HRC seat in 2006, but to wait until 2007 [...] | 2006-04-11 07:53:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | KUNR PREL PHUM UNGA FR |
06PARIS2362 | PARIS CLUB - APRIL 2006 TOUR D'HORIZON [...] (SBU) At the April 5 Paris Club meeting, creditors accepted in principle Algeria's offer to prepay at face value its previously rescheduled Paris Club debt. The US is the third largest creditor with $1.2 billion in claims, just over half of which are pre-payable without penalty. The US stre [...] | 2006-04-11 10:02:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR |
06PARIS2391 | MFA OFFICIALS DISCUSS C.A.R. AND CHAD WITH DRL/CAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA desk officers Charlotte Montel (C.A.R.) and Lt. Col. Marc Conruyt (Chad) briefed DRL/CAR desk officer Stuart Crampton on April 6. Regarding C.A.R., Montel noted limited but growing contact between French and C.A.R. parliamentarians and recent calls for increased government [...] | 2006-04-12 07:49:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR CT CD FR |
06PARIS2405 | FRANCE: AUSTRALIA GROUP MEMBERSHIP FOR RUSSIA [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-12 10:17:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL RS FR |
06PARIS2406 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iraq - Oil For Food Iran [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-12 11:12:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS2422 | FRENCH RESPOND WARMLY TO MCC CEO DANILOVICH'S [...] Summary. Senior French officials enthusiastically welcomed updates on Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) activities presented by MCC CEO Danilovich. They applauded MCC's focus on accountability, support for democratic institutions, and reducing poverty. The French officials urged Danilo [...] | 2006-04-12 14:33:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PGOV FR |
06PARIS2424 | POTENTIAL FOR MISUSE OF LIFE SCIENCES RESEARCH [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-12 16:14:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO PTER EAGR FR PARM CI PREL BCW CBW |
06PARIS2425 | CABINDA/ANGOLA: FLEC CONFUSED ABOUT USG INTENTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an April 11 meeting, FLEC (Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda) representative Antonio Nzita Bembe (Nzita) revealed divisions in the ranks of the Cabinda "resistance" movement caused by the apparent defection of former FLEC/Renovada head Antonio Bembe (Bent [...] | 2006-04-12 16:40:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PINS PHUM AO FR |
06PARIS2426 | COMMERCIAL ADVOCACY SUCCESS STORY -- GENERAL [...] (SBU) After two and a half years of advocacy by Embassy Paris, and considerable efforts on the part of Embassy Rome, General Electric (GE) has finally signed a contract to supply propulsion systems to the Franco-Italian Multi- Mission Frigate (FREMM) program. Letters from President Bush, Sec [...] | 2006-04-12 16:41:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP EIND EINV FR IT ETRA |
06PARIS2437 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran Afghanistan Italy [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-13 10:24:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS2439 | FRENCH SENATE VOTES BIOTECH BILL [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 21, 22 and 23, the French Senate debated and approved a Biotech Bill presented by the Minister of Research, Francois Goulard. Significant outcomes from the debate included: further definition of the new French Biotech Council charged with evaluating and authorizing [...] | 2006-04-13 10:26:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD FR EUN |
06PARIS2450 | FRENCH IN AGREEMENT ON BELARUS SANCTIONS [...] (C) Summary: DAS Kramer met April 11 with interlocutors from the MFA and Treasury to discuss next steps on Belarus. The French agreed on the utility and necessity of targeted financial sanctions against key members of the Belarusian regime and believed that the EU would come to consensus on th [...] | 2006-04-13 13:33:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV FR BO RU |
06PARIS2476 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran Hamas Chad [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-14 10:26:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS2491 | AVIAN INFLUENZA FRANCE UPDATE 4/14/06 [...] The twice-postponed French AI national exercise has been rescheduled for April 24- 25. This exercise is designed to test the GOF Avian Influenza National Plan. Along with the French Health, Foreign Affairs, and Interior Ministries, the WHO, FAO, the World Organization for Animal Health, and [...] | 2006-04-14 13:37:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU TBIO CASC AMGT FR |
06PARIS2499 | CHAD: FORMER PM ALINGUE PREDICTS "WAR" IF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Former Prime Minister of Chad Jean-Bawoyeu Alingue called on us April 12 to discuss events in Chad and report on his activities in Paris. Alingue said he had met last week with Presidential AF Advisor Michel de Bonnecorse and MFA AF A/S-equivalent Bruno Joubert in Paris, but cl [...] | 2006-04-14 13:47:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PINS CD FR |
06PARIS2522 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran China Israel Suicide [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-18 10:22:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS2553 | CONGO/BRAZZAVILLE: AMBASSADOR WEISBERG'S APRIL 14 [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an April 14 meeting with Ambassador Robert Weisberg, MFA DAS-equivalent Helene Le Gal said that Republic of Congo (ROC) President Sassou Nguesso told the French prior to the African Union's April 13 communique on Chad that the AU would not condemn Sudan. A small group of RO [...] | 2006-04-19 10:31:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL VZ SU CF FR |
06PARIS2578 | CACOPHONY IN FRANCE'S FOREIGN TELEVISION POLICY [...] (SBU) France's foreign television policy, which plays a major role in the dissemination of French language and culture throughout the world, is going through a rocky patch. After the shaky start of France's proposed international all-news television station CII (REFTEL),to broadcast mostly [...] | 2006-04-19 13:21:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR SCUL FR |
06PARIS2587 | SUDAN SANCTIONS DEMARCHE ELICITS MFA REMARKS ON [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points April 19 to IO DAS-Equivalent Jean-Hugues Simon-Michel. In response, Simon-Michel reiterated French support for levying sanctions on the individuals in question, noting French co-sponsorship for the original UK list of names proposed for designation. 2. [...] | 2006-04-19 15:23:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PGOV PREL SU FR UNSC |
06PARIS2592 | FRANCE ON NATO 'GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS' [...] (C) Ref A points were delivered to French MFA DAS-equivalent for Strategic Affairs, Nicolas Niemtchinow, on April 10. On April 17, Niemtchinow responded that France appreciated receiving the points, especially the detailed explanation of what global partnerships are and what they are not. H [...] | 2006-04-19 16:51:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR FR NATO |
06PARIS2593 | FRENCH CONDEMN TEL AVIV SUICIDE ATTACK, WITHOUT [...] (C) Summary: MFA officials offered a disappointing response to reftel points seeking GoF condemnation of the Hamas justification of the April 17 Tel Aviv suicide attack, stressing that the GoF had chosen to "regret" Hamas' reaction rather than condemn Hamas, whom they did not hold responsible [...] | 2006-04-19 17:47:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PGOV PREL KPAL IS PTER FR |
06PARIS2606 | SUDAN: FRANCE SUPPORTS U.S. POSITION ON [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-20 12:45:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL SU FR |
06PARIS2607 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT ran China Rising Oil Prices [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-20 12:47:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS2614 | FRENCH UNLIKELY TO CONTRIBUTE TOWARDS UN FINANCIAL [...] On April 12 reftel points were delivered to French MFA Afghanistan Desk Officer, Cyril Gerardon. Gerardon said that he was not optimistic that France would make a contribution to offset Afghanistan election cost shortfalls, noting that it would be more difficult now to generate enthusiasm for [...] | 2006-04-20 15:36:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PGOV PREL AF FR |
06PARIS2615 | PSI: URGING ASSISTANCE IN SEEKING ENDORSEMENTS [...] (C) Ref A points were delivered to French MFA action officer for PSI, Sebastien Jaunet, on April 12. Jaunet said that the French were preparing to make their own PSI demarche and noted that that the U.S. demarche did not include a number of countries that the French were considering approach [...] | 2006-04-20 15:39:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PHSA PREL FR |
06PARIS2654 | FRENCH DEMARCHE ON CHINA POUCH ISSUE [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. SEE PARAS 6 & 7. 2. (SBU) French A/S-equivalent for Asia Herve Ladsous called in U.S. and UK Embassy representatives April 19 to share French thinking on next steps in dealing with the Beijing pouch problems. Political and Tri-Mission Management M-Cs attend [...] | 2006-04-21 15:09:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AMGT KREC CVIS ADPM CH FR GM JA UK EUN |
06PARIS2660 | FRANCE ON PRODI/HAMAS CALL: "SHOCKED," BUT NO [...] (C) Summary: French MFA officials responsible for EU CFSP and the Middle East told us April 21 that they were "shocked" by Prodi's agreement to receive a phone call from a political-level Hamas member. However, citing the fact that Prodi was not yet a government official at the time of the [...] | 2006-04-21 16:34:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR EUN IT KPAL |
06PARIS2662 | TERRORIST/WMD FINANCING: A/S WAYNE DISCUSSES U.S. [...] (C) French officials are interested in continuing and deepening collaboration with the USG on terrorist financing and WMD financing issues and will consider further cooperative efforts. They are open to exploring use of financial tools against WMD procurement networks. They would appreciate [...] | 2006-04-24 09:37:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | KTFN EFIN PREL FR |
06PARIS2663 | A/S WAYNE DISCUSSES ENERGY SECURITY COOPERATION [...] (SBU) Summary: EB Assistant Secretary E. Anthony Wayne met with GOF energy policy officials to discuss potential areas for bilateral and transatlantic cooperation to improve energy security. GOF officials emphasized the need to maintain pressure on Russia to open its oil and gas markets and, [...] | 2006-04-24 10:04:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EIND EINV PREL PGOV FR EU |
06PARIS2665 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iraq - Jaafari Guantanamo [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-24 11:08:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS2683 | FRANCE UNDERSTANDS NEED TO EXTEND CWC DESTRUCTION [...] (C) Reftel points were delivered to French MFA Director for chemical and biological weapons disarmament issues, Arnaud Roux, and desk officer, Etienne Sur. In follow up discussions April 24, Sur said that the French were well aware of the issue. He said that the GoF appreciated U.S. efforts [...] | 2006-04-24 16:57:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL FR |
06PARIS2684 | FRANCE SUPPORTS WITH RESERVATIONS NATO'S MIDDLE [...] (C) Summary: On April 24, French MFA officials stated that France supported the establishment of NATO's Middle East Security Cooperation Center (SCC) in principle, although they have serious concerns that it not draw resources away from existing NATO operations/programs, and believe that the p [...] | 2006-04-24 17:31:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL FR NATO |
06PARIS2699 | FRANCE: INPUT FOR LIBERTAD ACT REVIEW [...] (C) Summary and comment: France maintains a variety of investments in Cuba and is Cuba's 12th ranked supplier, down from fifth in 2001. France does not have a modern bilateral trade agreement with Cuba, and exchanges between the two countries are limited. France adheres to EU positions on C [...] | 2006-04-25 11:11:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL FR CU |
06PARIS2717 | A/S WAYNE DISCUSSES FRENCH APPROACH TO "ECONOMIC [...] (C) A/S Wayne heard from a noted economic advisor to the French Government and the head of the local AmCham that one of the main reasons PM de Villepin's "economic patriotism" agenda has resonated with the French people was because most people were shocked to learn that so much of the French [...] | 2006-04-25 14:29:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL FR |
06PARIS2721 | FRANCE HAS A NARROWER PERSPECTIVE FOR GLOBAL [...] (C) On April 24, in advance of the Informal Ministerial in Sofia, polmiloff followed up on reftel discussion on Global Partnerships with Nicolas Niemtchinow, MFA DAS-equivalent Director for NATO issues. Niemtchinow said France thought it timely to re-examine NATO's Partnerships, in discussion [...] | 2006-04-25 15:45:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL NATO FR |
06PARIS2723 | MFA DEMARCHE ON BADGES FOR FRENCH EMBASSY STAFF IN [...] This message contains an action request for Washington in para 5. 2. (C) On April 25, MFA DAS-equivalent for Iraq/Iran/Arabian Gulf affairs Antoine Sivan called poloff to deliver an oral demarche on issue of DoD-issued badges for staff of the French embassy in Baghdad (reftels). Sivan exp [...] | 2006-04-25 17:45:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS IZ FR |
06PARIS2733 | FRANCE: ENERGY SECTOR UPDATE [...] (U) This is another in a series of occasional updates on the French energy sector. Feedback is welcome to help us make this product as useful as possible for our inter-agency USG audience. Contents: -- De Ladoucette named head of French Energy Regulatory Authority (para 2) -- GOF Supports [...] | 2006-04-26 11:03:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET EIND EINV PREL PGOV FR |
06PARIS2747 | FRANCE'S INDUSTRIAL POLICY: MORE MONEY FOR EUROPEAN [...] (SBU) On April 25, French President Jacques Chirac unveiled the first six industrial projects to receive public funding following their recent selection by the Agency for Industrial Innovation (AII) -- his weapon of choice for advancing his new industrial policy. Unsurprisingly, Chirac's pet [...] | 2006-04-26 15:16:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND ECPS TNGD TINT FR |
06PARIS2750 | MFA PERPLEXED AT CONTINUED SNAGS ON UNOCI [...] (SBU) Summary: French MFA officials reacted with consternation at the formal U.S. request to revisit the French draft resolution to authorize additional UNOCI reinforcements (reftel). IO DAS-Equivalent Simon-Michel and AF DAS-Equivalent Foucher both told poloff on April 25 that they hoped AF [...] | 2006-04-26 15:53:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM FR |
06PARIS2772 | EQUAL OPPORTUNITY MINISTER DESCRIBES CHALLENGES [...] (C) Summary: Junior Minister for Promotion of Equal Opportunities Azouz Begag provided the Ambassador April 19 with a candid assessment of the current situation of minorities in France. Begag blamed discrimination for unemployment levels as high as 40 and 50 percent in many of the ghetto-like [...] | 2006-04-27 10:52:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI SCUL KISL PINR KPAO FR |
06PARIS282 | FM DOUSTE-BLAZY VISIT TO LIBYA FOCUSES ON PLIGHT [...] (U) This message contains an action request for Washington in para 10. 2. (C) Summary: FM Douste-Blazy's January 5 visit to Libya focused on French assistance offers to HIV-infected children in Benghazi, in an effort to help facilitate the release of Bulgarian/Palestinian medics wrongly con [...] | 2006-01-17 06:28:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LY BG FR |
06PARIS2824 | FRANCE'S DIGITAL COPYRIGHT BILL: EMBASSY EXPRESSES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In response to our expressions of concern, the French government says it expects the Senate to improve some flawed elements of France's digital copyright legislation, but that it will probably not stiffen the decriminalized penalties for downloading and piracy. The bill, which [...] | 2006-04-28 15:20:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD PGOV FR |
06PARIS2834 | FRENCH NATIONAL AVIAN INFLUENZA EXERCISE - "THANK GOD IT [...] (SBU) Summary: At the request of French authorities, on April 24-25 Embassy participated in their National Avian Influenza Exercise, together with the Prime Minister's Office responsible for security coordination (SGDN),numerous ministries, international organizations (OIE, WHO, EU, FAO, and [...] | 2006-04-28 15:54:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU AMGT AEMR AMED ASEC CASC FR |
06PARIS2835 | HRC: FRANCE WILL NOT VOTE FOR IRAN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-28 16:07:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KUNR UNHRC FR |
06PARIS2836 | MDA: FRANCE LOOKING TO ENGAGE CONSTRUCTIVELY [...] (C) MFA IO DAS-Equivalent for Human Rights Beatrice Le Fraper told poloff on April 26 that the French MFA concurred with U.S. demarche points on the need for the June 19-21 International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement to amend its statutes to reflect the Third Additiona [...] | 2006-04-28 16:14:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM AORC ICRC SZ FR |
06PARIS2837 | AVIAN INFLUENZA FRANCE UPDATE - 4/28/06 [...] On April 24, Minister of Health Bertrand announced France's new public awareness campaign to minimize the impact of a potential avian influenza pandemic. The campaign called, "Adoptons les gestes qui nous protegent," translated as, "Taking the steps that will protect us," will debut in May. [...] | 2006-04-28 16:38:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU TBIO CASC AMGT FR |
06PARIS2843 | 4/28 ABBAS-CHIRAC MEETING: GOF PROPOSES TRUST FUND [...] (C) Summary: In a preliminary readout provided to poloff, Presidential Advisor for the Middle East Dominique Boche described the April 28 meeting between President Chirac and Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas as focused on two topics -- ways to increase international assistance [...] | 2006-04-28 17:27:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID KPAL IS PTER FR |
06PARIS2848 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - NATO Expansion [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-02 10:43:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS2868 | CHINA AND TAIWAN AT THE OECD: HARDBALL OVER SOFT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-02 16:28:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON SENV EU CH TW FR OECD |
06PARIS2883 | COTE D'IVOIRE: PROGRESS VITAL IF OCTOBER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Cote d'Ivoire must show progress soon on identification and disarmament if elections in October are to remain feasible, MFA Deskoff Olivier Richard stressed on April 28. The MFA was satisfied with the results of discussions A/S-equivalent Bruno Joubert had in Washington concer [...] | 2006-05-03 11:52:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM IV FR |
06PARIS2889 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran Middle East Bolivia - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-03 14:34:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS2923 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Middle East - U.S. Policy [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-04 12:08:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS2928 | FRENCH MFA ANTICIPATES DONATION TO OAS ELECTION [...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel demarche May 4 to MFA Guyana Desk Officer Eric Amblard, who indicated that the GoF was troubled by the growing violence, instability, and likely electoral delays in Guyana. According to Amblard, the precarious situation was a driving force in Guyanese immigration [...] | 2006-05-04 13:18:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OAS KDEM PGOV FR GY |
06PARIS296 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - New Chilean President - Iran [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-17 11:37:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS2979 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Moussaoui Trial NATO [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-05 12:30:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS3035 | C.A.R.: FRENCH WORRIED ABOUT POSSIBLE SUDANESE [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA C.A.R. Deskoff Charlotte Montel on May 5 expressed concern about a possible Sudanese presence in northeastern C.A.R., following the mysterious landing of a plane in the Tiringoulou area on April 25 (reftel). Locals reported that the 50-some soldiers who deplaned appeared to [...] | 2006-05-09 15:17:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PINR CT FR |
06PARIS3040 | SLM DEPUTY COMING TO PARIS [...] (C) Discussing the prospects for bringing further Darfur rebel factions aboard the Abuja peace agreement, MFA AF DAS-Equivalent Le Gal recommended in a May 9 conversation focusing on Abdulwahid Nur, the Sudan Liberation Moverment (SLM) leader who continued to reject the deal, given Abdulwahid [...] | 2006-05-09 16:11:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM EAID SU CD FR |
06PARIS3049 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran America's Darfur [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-10 09:51:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS31 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Russia-Ukraine Energy [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-04 11:28:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS3110 | FRANCE: RESPONSES TO USG POINTS ON NO-FLY AND DATA PRIVACY [...] (SBU) Summary: We have raised the issue of the proposed submission of airlines No-Fly screening to the French Data Privacy Authority (CNIL) (refS A and B) in meetings with officials from the General Secretariat for State Security (SGDN) April 11, April 27 and May 9, the Civil Aviation Authorit [...] | 2006-05-11 08:49:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR PTER PREL FR |
06PARIS3114 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Russia Versus the U.S. - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-11 12:00:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS3129 | MFA MEETS WITH JEM REJECTIONIST KHALIL IBRAHIM [...] (C) African Affairs DAS-Equivalent Helene Le Gal advised Africa Watcher on May 10 that JEM rejectionist Khalil Ibrahim had arrived in France and requested meetings. The MFA decided that Le Gal should receive him May 11, but he would not meet with A/S-Equivalent Bruno Joubert or the French Pr [...] | 2006-05-11 17:12:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM CD SU FR |
06PARIS3135 | STATE-OWNED AIRPORTS AUTHORITY TO PARTIALLY PRIVATIZE [...] SUMMARY. The Paris Airports operator ("Aeroports de Paris" or ADP),the second largest European operator, is to launch an initial public offering of shares to raise 1.0-1.5 million euros, including 500-600 million euros by an increase in capital and a similar amount by a sale of government sha [...] | 2006-05-12 08:46:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON EAIR PGOV FR |
06PARIS3152 | LAURENT FABIUS ON EUROPE AND THE SOCIALIST PARTY'S [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-12 12:50:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV FR PINR EUN |
06PARIS3153 | FRANCE'S DIGITAL COPYRIGHT BILL: SENATE VOTES TO SOFTEN [...] This is an action request. See paragraph 13 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. The French Senate approved in the early hours of May 11 the GOF draft law on digital copyright, in a format which leaves unchanged the National Assembly's decriminalized penalty regime, the principle (if not the requirement) of [...] | 2006-05-12 13:15:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD PGOV FR |
06PARIS3167 | SCENESETTER FOR UNDERSECRETARY SHINER'S VISIT TO [...] (SBU) Embassy Paris and the U.S. Mission to the OECD welcome Undersecretary Shiner's visit to Paris. The largest component of her visit will be with the head of Agence Francaise de Developpement, AFD, Jean-Michel Severino to discuss UN reform in the areas of development policy and humanitari [...] | 2006-05-12 15:36:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PREL FR |
06PARIS3178 | CHIRAC/VILLEPIN/SARKOZY AND THE CLEARSTREAM SCANDAL [...] (C) Summary. As ref A Paris Points document, the "Clearstream" scandal has become a classic French "affaire d'etat," a scandal which threatens the life of the government and the careers of many leading political, judicial, and even military figures. Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin continu [...] | 2006-05-12 16:15:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV FR EUN PINR |
06PARIS3179 | MFA NEA-PDAS EQUIVALENT LIKELY TO REPRESENT FRANCE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-12 16:22:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KDEM KMPI FR |
06PARIS318 | FRANCE: R/V ROGER REVELLE RESEARCH CLEARANCE [...] (U) This message confirms earlier e-mail correspondence. Embassy received research clearance for the subject vessel (Reftel A) from the MFA under cover of diplomatic note number 48/AME dated 12 January 2006. The note states that the French authorities have no objection to the research camp [...] | 2006-01-18 08:50:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | TPHY KRVC EWWT FR |
06PARIS3182 | MAY 11 MFA MEETINGS WITH JEM KHALIL IBRAHIM AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: JEM leader Khalil Ibrahim seemed determined to oppose the Abuja accords on Darfur despite GOF advice that he sign them, MFA AF DAS-equivalent Helene Le Gal reported on May 12, following her meeting with him the previous day. Khalil Ibrahim did not seemed fazed by the possible [...] | 2006-05-12 16:43:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CVIS PINS SOCI SU FR |
06PARIS3208 | OECD REPORTING: ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY [...] Chairman Mats Olsson opened the meeting, the agenda was approved, and noted that the Strategic Vision was approved and declassified on 1/30/2006. In his opening remarks Deputy Secretary-General Kiyo Akasaka noted that 2006 was the year for environment at OECD that included the successful launc [...] | 2006-05-15 14:01:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ETRD KSCA FR OECD |
06PARIS321 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iraq - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-18 12:20:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS3226 | MFA OPEN TO FURTHER INTERVENTIONS ON SYRIA HUMAN [...] (C) Poloff discussed reftel points on the deteriorating human rights situation in Syria with MFA DAS-equivalent for Egypt/Levant affairs Herve Besancenot May 15, urging a more forceful GoF public stance. While agreeing that SARG repression had increased, Besancenot conceded that the French em [...] | 2006-05-16 10:49:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM SY FR |
06PARIS3234 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iraq U.S. Issues - NSA [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-16 12:19:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS3247 | PARIS CLUB - MAY 2006 TOUR D'HORIZON AND DEBT NEGOTIATIONS [...] (U) At the May 10-12 meeting of the Paris Club, Afghanistan's three creditors, Russia, Germany and the United States, took the first step toward fulfilling their pledges to cancel 100% of Afghanistan's debt by providing assurances of debt relief during the period of Afghanistan's new IMF progra [...] | 2006-05-16 15:27:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR |
06PARIS3269 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Bush Immigration Policy [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-17 13:45:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS328 | GOF AMENDS ITS DIGITAL COPYRIGHT DRAFT BILL [...] (U) SUMMARY. Following a legislative misstep last month, the GOF has now decided to revise its copyright bill, which would transpose a 2001 European Union Directive on copyright into French law. The new texts, ordered by Prime Minister Villepin should address concerns expressed by consumer an [...] | 2006-01-18 15:24:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | KIPR ETRD FR |
06PARIS3282 | S23B-04 IRANIAN RESEARCHER SEEKING DUAL USE [...] (S/NF) ESTH officer received non-paper from MFA in response to request contained in REFTEL. Regarding concerns about an Iranian scientist seeking dual-use research assistance from AG countries on AG-controlled toxins, the GOF paper provides five points (roughly translated): --First, the s [...] | 2006-05-17 15:22:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM PREL ETTC FR CBW |
06PARIS3283 | WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY: SMALLPOX DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-17 15:46:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AORC TBIO FR WHO |
06PARIS3315 | FRENCH FIRMLY SUPPORT U.S. POSITION ON DARFUR [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOF supports completely the U.S. position set forth in ref A, MFA Sudan deskoff Jeremie Robert said on May 17. France will encourage non-signatories to the Darfur Peace Agreement to sign it, and believes that Abdulwahid Al-Nur can be persuaded to sign the agreement, If no [...] | 2006-05-18 08:48:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SOCI EAID SU FR |
06PARIS332 | FRANCE 2006 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] Investment Climate Statement Contents A. French Investment Regime A1. Openness to Foreign Investment A2. Conversion and Transfer Policies A3. Expropriation and Compensation A4. Dispute Settlement A5. Performance Requirements and Incentives A6. Right to Private Ownership and Establis [...] | 2006-01-18 17:12:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ELAB PGOV KTDB FR OPIC USTR |
06PARIS335 | PROLIFERATION SECURITY INITIATIVE: BRIEFING THE [...] (S) As requested by the Government of France (GOF) at the 16 January inter-agency meeting with U.S. delegation, on 18 January ESTH/NP officer briefed French MFA Actidyn PSI matter point-of-contact, Sebastien Jaunet, on the U.S. delegation visit to Actidyn Systemes on 17 January. ESTH/NP off [...] | 2006-01-18 17:36:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | KNNP PARM MNUC ETTC FR CH |
06PARIS336 | FRENCH MFA WELCOMES USG ENGAGEMENT ON UN REFORM, [...] (SBU) Political Minister-Counselor discussed demarche points on January 18 with French IO A/S-Equivalent Sylvie Bermann (Ref A). Joining Bermann were desk officers Donatienne Hissard and Nicolas Kassianides, who respectively handle human rights issues and Security Council reform. Bermann and [...] | 2006-01-18 18:02:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | KUNR PREL PHUM PARM KNNP IR FR UNSC UNGA EUN |
06PARIS3360 | DOMINIQUE STRAUSS-KAHN ON CLEARSTREAM, HIS [...] (C) Summary: In a remarkably wide-ranging tour de force equally remarkable for its candor, former finance minister and leading Socialist party presidential candidate Dominique Strauss-Kahn shared with Ambassador Stapleton May 16 his views that: the Clearstream scandal is far from over; the Soc [...] | 2006-05-19 07:37:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON FR PINR EUN |
06PARIS3366 | GOF INCLINED TO SUPPORT UN DECLARATION ON THE [...] (C) Responding to a May 13 demarche by Australian, U.S., and New Zealand emboffs on the draft UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (DRIP),MFA PDAS-equivalent for IO/UN Affairs Jean-Pierre La Croix described the GoF as inclined towards supporting the draft text, despite reservati [...] | 2006-05-19 08:57:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM AORC UN FR |
06PARIS3368 | GOF INCLINED TO SUPPORT UN DECLARATION ON THE [...] (C) Responding to a May 18 demarche by Australian, U.S., and New Zealand emboffs on the draft UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (DRIP),MFA PDAS-equivalent for IO/UN Affairs Jean-Pierre La Croix described the GoF as inclined towards supporting the draft text, despite reservati [...] | 2006-05-19 10:33:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM AORC UN FR |
06PARIS3382 | FRENCH COMMENT ON U.S. PROPOSAL REGARDING THE 1267 [...] (C) Summary: Poloff met May 19 with officials from the MFA to discuss proposals on UN sanctions issues, especially the U.S. proposal on procedural protections and fairness in the 1267 Committee. French officials had two primary concerns about the U.S. proposal: 1) a call for national governmen [...] | 2006-05-19 13:01:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | KTFN PGOV PREL FR UNSC |
06PARIS3426 | CLEARSTREAM SCANDAL: GETTING EVER CLOSER TO [...] (C) Summary: Still no smoking gun in the "Clearstream" affair aimed at smearing Interior Minister Sarkozy, but the circle of suspicion continues to tighten around Prime Minister de Villepin. A key player and Villepin confidant has now admitted to having furnished the documents that implicat [...] | 2006-05-22 11:39:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON FR PREL PINR |
06PARIS3447 | EURONEXT: WHAT'S BEHIND THE CONSOLIDATION OF EUROPEAN [...] SUMMARY. EURONEXT, the Paris-based pan-European stock market that is poised to accept a merger offer from the NYSE, has been jockeying for a major merger operation for some time. EURONEXT's shareholders, the Paris financial community, and the French government all have an interest in maintain [...] | 2006-05-22 16:12:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV FR |
06PARIS3448 | GOF WELCOMES FORMATION OF IRAQI GOVERNMENT [...] (U) The following is an informal embassy translation of the French MFA statement issued May 22, welcoming formation of the new Iraqi government: Begin text: France welcomes the formation of a government in Iraq, the result of the December 15 elections and which should aim to ensure a balanc [...] | 2006-05-22 16:29:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER IZ FR |
06PARIS3453 | FRENCH SHARE USG CONCERNS ON RUSSIAN ACTIVITIES IN [...] (C) On May 22, poloff delivered reftel demarche on Russian activities in South Ossetia to Aurelia Bouchez, the MFA's DAS-equivalent for Russia and the former Soviet space, and Marie Dumoulin, Georgia desk officer. Dumoulin said on May 23 that France shares our "preoccupation" with Russian int [...] | 2006-05-23 10:44:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PREL RU GG OSCE PGOV FR |
06PARIS3455 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Montenegro Olmert to Washington [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-23 11:59:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS3464 | FRENCH GDP GROWTH ON A 2 PERCENT TREND [...] SUMMARY. Annualized French GDP growth of 2.0% in Q-1 shows stable but hardly dynamic improvement. The government is sticking to its GDP forecast range of 2.0-2.5% in 2006, accompanied by a decrease in the unemployment rate to 9% by the end of 2006. However, preliminary employment data showed [...] | 2006-05-23 12:38:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV FR |
06PARIS3471 | U.S.-FRENCH CONSULTATIONS ON UN ISSUES: UN REFORM, [...] (C) Summary: IO PDAS Jim Warlick's May 19 meeting with MFA IO A/S-equivalent Sylvie Bermann focused primarily on UN reform issues -- namely the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC),Human Rights Council (HRC),and management reform -- with SYG elections, Darfur, Cote d'Ivoire, and UNSC elections dis [...] | 2006-05-23 13:11:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA UNSC AORC SU IV FR |
06PARIS3479 | NSG PLENARY DISCUSSION OF IRAN - FRENCH COMMENTS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-23 13:58:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP FR |
06PARIS3482 | (C) UK EMBASSY UPDATE ON KHADDAM TRAVEL TO UK, [...] (C/NF) UK Embassy First Secretary Tom Fletcher (protect throughout) updated poloff May 19 on the planned travel of former Syrian Vice-President Abdel Halim Khaddam to the UK, which has now been postponed to the last week of May/first week of June. Fletcher reported that Khaddam had delayed his [...] | 2006-05-23 14:35:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PINR UK SY FR |
06PARIS3487 | FRANCE SYMPATHETIC TO DEMARCHE ON MANAS AIRFIELD [...] (C) On May 22, we delivered reftel demarche to Xavier Chatel, MFA official working on NATO, noting that U.S. negotiations with the Kyrgyzs were ongoing. Chatel observed that our request that France make a demarche to Kyrgyzstan likely would be considered favorably by the GoF and promised to g [...] | 2006-05-23 16:20:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL NATO KG FR |
06PARIS3501 | FRANCE PLANS LIMITED REACTION TO AHMADI-NEJAD'S [...] (C) On May 23, poloffs delivered to MFA officials reftel demarche on the implications of Iranian President Ahmadi-Nejad's attendance at the June SCO summit in Shanghai. Aurelia Bouchez, the MFA's DAS-equivalent for Russia and the former Soviet space, told poloff that France did not plan on de [...] | 2006-05-24 15:34:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL FR |
06PARIS3502 | MONACO DIPLOMATIC NOTE TO ESTABLISH WASHINGTON [...] (SBU) Monegasque Embassy Secretary Frederic Labarrere delivered to Acting PolCouns May 23 a diplomatic note (informal translation para 2) and curriculum vitae with the following main points: - Monaco intends to establish an Embassy in Washington, D.C. to strengthen its relations with the Un [...] | 2006-05-24 15:46:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT KREC PREL FR MN |
06PARIS351 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Ivory Coast - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-19 11:31:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS3540 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - NATO - Parliamentary Assembly - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-26 11:35:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS3555 | EPA ADMINISTRATOR BROADENS FOOTPRINT OF ENVIRONMENTAL [...] Summary: Environmental Protection Administrator Johnson engaged in public outreach and bilateral talks in Paris, May 16-17, in addition to OECD meetings (septel). In these events, the Administrator presented the range of U.S. environmental efforts, including innovative practices and new meas [...] | 2006-05-26 14:47:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TRGY PREL KPAO FR |
06PARIS357 | " ECONOMIC PATRIOTISM " TAKES SHAPE IN FRANCE [...] (C) As reported reftels, the GOF continues to enact elements of Parliamentarian Bernard Carayon,s &economic intelligence8 recommendations, as outlined in his 2003 report. The GOF issued a decree on December 31, 2005, to define which sectors merit protection from foreign control for &national [...] | 2006-01-19 15:56:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ETRD ECON EUN PREL FR |
06PARIS3571 | MIXED FRENCH MFA RESPONSE TO U.S. POINTS ON [...] (C) Poloff discussed reftel points on U.S. views on Palestinian assistance and a proposed temporary international funding mechanism with MFA DAS-equivalent for Egypt/Levant Herve Besancenot May 30. Besancenot offered a mixed response to U.S. views. He agreed that the PA government bore prima [...] | 2006-05-30 13:23:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID KPAL FR |
06PARIS3584 | FRANCE: HOLD IN 1267 SANCTION COMMITTEE TO REFUSE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-30 14:47:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | FR KVPR PREL CVIS EFIN ETTC PTER |
06PARIS3594 | FRENCH ECONOMIC ADVISOR ON IPR AND ECONOMIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOF,s economic advisor assured U/S Shiner on May 18 that the GOF would take US views into consideration as it shepherds its digital copyright bill through Parliament. He defended the GOF,s &economic patriotism8 policy shielding French firms from foreign investment, but invit [...] | 2006-05-30 15:57:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KIPR ETRD ECPS PGOV FR |
06PARIS3611 | FRENCH URGE FURTHER GROUNDWORK ON BURMA DRAFT [...] (C) Summary: Embassy reviewed the draft resolution and talking points with French MFA, which confirmed its backing for the USG initiative to raise Burma within the Security Council (Ref A). IO DAS-Equivalent Jean-Hugues Simon-Michel observed May 26 that it was imperative to capitalize on the [...] | 2006-05-31 10:56:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC BM FR |
06PARIS3613 | France: Telecom and Information Technology Update [...] This is another in a series of periodic updates on the French telecommunications and information technology sectors, including internet and e-commerce. Contents: -- France Telecom is Europe's largest single broadband provider (para 2); -- FT seeking revision of E.U. regulations (para 3); - [...] | 2006-05-31 14:03:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS ETRD FR |
06PARIS3619 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iraq - Alleged Massacre in Haditha [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-31 15:39:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS3631 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-01 11:53:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS3667 | FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER REACTION TO U.S. STATEMENT [...] Late on May 31, in response to the Secretary's statement, which we had previously delivered, the MFA issued a supportive statement by French Foreign Minister Douste-Blazy praising the U.S. decision to join the EU3's negotiations with Iran (see informal translation para 2). On June 1, the MFA [...] | 2006-06-01 16:11:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM IZ FR |
06PARIS3668 | NO INCREASE IN FRANCE'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE NTM-I [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-01 16:36:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS IZ FR NATO |
06PARIS3677 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-02 10:16:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS3689 | U.S. AMBASSADOR TO ISRAEL DISCUSSES OLMERT VISIT, [...] (C) Summary: Visiting U.S. Ambassador to Israel Richard Jones briefed French MFA A/S-equivalent for NEA Jean-Francois Thibault May 26 on the PM Olmert visit to Washington; he also stressed the need to maintain consensus on Palestinian assistance, while reiterating U.S. opposition to payment of [...] | 2006-06-02 12:54:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IS KPAL FR |
06PARIS3716 | (C) MFA EXPRESSES PRIVATE CONCERN ON EMBASSY [...] (C) MFA Advisor for Religious Affairs Laurent Stefanini summoned Acting Pol M/C and poloff to his office June 1 to express concern about embassy Muslim outreach efforts, in generally polite but largely elliptical terms. Stefanini, who was accompanied by Deputy MFA Religious Affairs Advisor De [...] | 2006-06-05 08:36:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KISL PGOV PINR FR |
06PARIS3721 | USNATO AMBASSADOR NULAND'S MEETING WITH SOCIALIST [...] (C) Summary and comment: Pierre Moscovici, the Socialist Party's National Secretary for International Relations, met May 29 with visiting Ambassador to NATO Nuland to discuss transatlantic relations in the context of France's 2007 presidential elections. Moscovici insisted that a PS Administra [...] | 2006-06-05 10:15:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR NATO EUN |
06PARIS3722 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Middle East - Palestine - Hamas - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-05 11:00:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS3776 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Hamas Iraq Elections in Peru [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-06 11:44:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS3782 | AVIAN INFLUENZA FRANCE UPDATE - 06/06/06 [...] French pharmaceutical firm Sanofi-Pasteur recently announced the preliminary, but encouraging, results of its Phase 1 trials for a pre-pandemic H5N1 vaccine. The clinical study, involving 300 people, tested two formulations of the vaccine, one with and one without an adjuvant. The tests reve [...] | 2006-06-06 12:28:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU TBIO CASC AMGT FR |
06PARIS3783 | (C) MUSLIM LEADERS IN LYON STRESS UNITY AT [...] (C) Summary: Leaders of the regional Muslim Council (CRCM) in Rhone-Alpes stressed a message of unity and moderation during a joint meeting with poloff in Lyon May 31. The CRCM leaders, who represent three rival factions within the national French Council for the Muslim Faith (CFCM),stresse [...] | 2006-06-06 12:30:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KISL PINR SOCI MO AG TU FR |
06PARIS379 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iranian President in Syria - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-20 11:10:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS3791 | FRENCH ATTENDANCE AT PSI HIGH-LEVEL POLITICAL [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-06 14:41:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP MNUC PARM FR |
06PARIS3843 | FRENCH MFA CFSP CHIEFS ON EU DYNAMICS [...] (C) Summary: In a June 6 meeting, the MFA's CFSP chiefs lamented a certain absence of political will in the EU, but argued that the EU had largely succeeded, through an increase in ESDP operations, in recapturing some momentum following rejection of the EU constitutional treaty. They indicat [...] | 2006-06-07 12:56:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR EUN COE KPAL CY TU |
06PARIS3844 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iraq - Guantanamo - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-07 13:36:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS3870 | FRENCH COMPLAIN ABOUT RUSSIAN ACTIONS IN OSCE, [...] (C) Summary: MFA officials told visiting EUR/RPM Director Gary Robbins that France saw a "largely negative" context for the OSCE, primarily due to Russian intransigence. Generally speaking, the West had a radically different vision of the OSCE than Russia, and it was important, they said, that [...] | 2006-06-08 09:33:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE PREL FR CFE |
06PARIS3872 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran CIA Renditions [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-08 11:04:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS3875 | ADDRESSING IRAN AT THE JUNE IAEA BOG - FRANCE IS [...] (C) On June 8, we discussed upcoming IAEA BOG meeting with Nicolas Roche, MFA counselor working on Iran nonproliferation, and shared non-paper with U.S. suggestions for inclusion in National Statements at the BOG. 2. (C) Roche expressed appreciation for our reftel suggestions and noted that [...] | 2006-06-08 12:35:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM KNNP IAEA IR FR |
06PARIS3876 | PRO-SEPARATIST CORSICAN LAWYER SAYS MOVEMENT IS [...] (C) Summary: Prominent Corsican lawyer Pascal Garbarini, who represents the majority of Corsicans imprisoned on terrorism-related charges, told poloff that the long-running separatist movement is ideologically impoverished, splintered into competing factions, evolving towards common criminality [...] | 2006-06-08 13:14:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV FR PTER |
06PARIS3891 | France Nomination for FY-06 Benjamin Franklin [...] SUMMARY: Post greatly appreciates the opportunity to nominate a student for the FY06 Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellows Summer Institute. We believe this type of project complements and enhances post's efforts to reach out to younger audiences, particularly those from more diverse backgro [...] | 2006-06-09 07:31:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL FR |
06PARIS390 | USUNESCO: COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR WILLIAM BRENNAN, [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance for William Brennan, Thomas Laughlin, and Jennifer Winston from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration(NOAA)and attend the Third Global Conference on oceans, coasts, and islands - January 21-29, 2006. 2. Control officer for the visit [...] | 2006-01-20 14:33:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA SENV FR |
06PARIS3901 | SARKOZY ALLY ON CHIRAC'S ISOLATION AND SARKOZY'S [...] (C) Over lunch on June 1 with Ambassador Stapleton, center-right candidate for mayor of Paris and Sarkozy ally Francoise de Panafieu gave a somber portrait of President Chirac's growing isolation. She conveyed Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) legislators' growing apprehension that the publ [...] | 2006-06-09 10:23:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
06PARIS3902 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Death of Zarqawi Iran [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-09 12:15:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS3916 | FRANCE AND THE FISSILE MATERIAL CUTOFF TREATY [...] (C) On June 7 poloff delivered reftel demarche points to French MFA Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty (FMCT) action officer Etienne le Harivel de Gonneville. In a follow-up conversation on June 9, Gonneville explained that the GoF, like many other countries, is in favor of the FMCT. He added t [...] | 2006-06-09 15:24:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL FR |
06PARIS3919 | FRANCE: CHARLES DE GAULLE AND WASHINGTON-DULLES AIRPORTS [...] (SBU) Post wishes to highlight an innovative proposed "sister-airport" link between Paris' Charles de Gaulle (CDG) airport and Washington-Dulles airport. The idea -- for a limited information and "best practices" exchange -- was originally formulated in November 2005 by Dulles security offici [...] | 2006-06-09 15:44:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR PTER FR |
06PARIS3921 | SECRETARY RICE'S PARTICIPATION IN A DOCUMENTARY FOR FRENCH [...] Summary: Embassy Paris was approached by one of our best press contacts to seek Secretary Rice's participation in an hour-long biographical documentary series. The Embassy strongly endorses this request, and requests favorable consideration. We are ready to provide additional information should [...] | 2006-06-09 15:59:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PREL FR |
06PARIS3922 | FRANCE ON JUNE 12 GAERC - RECOGNITION OF MONTENEGRO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Douste-Blazy will announce at the June 12-13 GAERC that France recognizes Montenegro, according to MFA CFSP deputy chief Pascal LeDeunff. He listed as the most important topics at the GAERC preparation of the June 20-21 U.S.-EU summit, Montenegro, Cuba, Iran, I [...] | 2006-06-09 16:18:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN EUN YI MW SR BO IR IZ CU KPAL FR |
06PARIS3939 | WEDGEWOOD DEMARCHE PROMPTS MFA REQUEST TO BACK [...] (SBU) Embassy delivered diplomatic note June 5 to MFA IO A/S-Equivalent Sylvie Berman seeking support for Professor Wedgewood's reelection to the Human Rights Committee and followed up June 6 with IO Human Rights DAS-Equivalent Beatrice Le Fraper, who in turn sought U.S. backing for the reele [...] | 2006-06-12 10:44:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNGA US FR |
06PARIS3940 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Guantanamo Suicides Middle East - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-12 11:35:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS3978 | CONSTRUCTIVE FRENCH MFA LINE ON MID-YEAR [...] (C) Poloff discussed reftel points on the June 15 UNSC review of the Multinational Force Iraq (MNF-1) mandate and current DFI/IAMB arrangements with MFA Iraq desk officer Jean-Marie Safa and MFA UN Action Officer for Iraq Nicolas Kassianides June 12. Both Safa and Kassianides expected that th [...] | 2006-06-13 13:06:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC IZ FR |
06PARIS3979 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Guantanamo Iraq - Camp David Talks [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-13 13:10:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS40 | MFA ON JANUARY 4 CHIRAC-MUBARAK DISCUSSIONS ON [...] (C) Summary: MFA DAS-equivalent for Egypt/Levant Herve Besancenot previewed the January 4 Mubarak-Chirac working lunch, expected to focus on Syria/Lebanon. Mubarak will brief Chirac on his January 3 discussions in Riyadh, during which the Egyptian president was expected to press King Abdallah [...] | 2006-01-04 16:27:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SY LE EG SA FR |
06PARIS4010 | FRANCE WANTS TO JOIN SOMALIA CONTACT GROUP [...] (C) MFA AF DAS-Equivalent Helene Le Gal demarched Africa Watcher on June 13 to convey displeasure at France's exclusion from the newly formed Somalia Contact Group. France is among the few nations in the European Union, including the UK, Sweden and Italy, which are actively engaged on Somalia [...] | 2006-06-13 17:44:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV SO FR |
06PARIS4011 | HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE: FRENCH OFFER VOTE PACT [...] (U) THIS IS A GUIDANCE REQUEST. SEE PARA 3. 2. (SBU) The French MFA has formally proposed, by diplomatic note, a pact to exchange votes on behalf of U.S. and French candidates to the Human Rights Committee. Ref A related that MFA IO DAS-Equivalent Le Fraper sought U.S. backing for the c [...] | 2006-06-13 17:46:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM UNGA US FR |
06PARIS4017 | FRANCE: ENERGY SECTOR UPDATE [...] (U) This another in a series of occasional updates on the French energy sector. Feedback is welcome to help us make this product as useful as possible for our inter-agency USG audience. Contents: -- France's energy review recommends greater use of biofuels (para 2); -- .... and greater [...] | 2006-06-14 08:42:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET EIND EINV PREL PGOV FR |
06PARIS402 | FRANCE SUPPORTS DEMARCHE ON YEMENI 1267 VIOLATION, [...] (C) Following January 11 delivery of reftel demarche, Poloff received an update on the GOF response on January 20 from Julien Deruffe, the MFA's senior desk officer for counterterrorism. Deruffe said France wholeheartedly supported the USG's demarche, and called the Yemeni government's violat [...] | 2006-01-20 16:16:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER AORC EFIN ETTC FR YM |
06PARIS4033 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iraq Middle East - Olmert to Europe [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-14 12:21:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS4046 | NATO RESPONSE FORCE: NO FURTHER FRENCH [...] (C) Using ref A talking points, we spoke June 8 and 14, with MFA expert on the NRF, Florian Escudie, to suggest France consider increasing its contributions or that it lobby its Eurocorps partners to make up existing gaps in the NRF-7 rotation. USNATO Ambassador Nuland and EUR/RPM Director Gar [...] | 2006-06-14 17:17:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL NATO FR |
06PARIS4053 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - U.S. Foreign Policy - Iraq - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-15 11:37:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS406 | CHIRAC UPDATES FRENCH NUCLEAR DEFENSE DOCTRINE TO [...] (C) Summary and comment: In a January 19 speech before an audience of MPs and military personnel at the L'ile Longue submarine base in Brittany, French President Chirac expanded on France's nuclear defense doctrine, last enunciated in 2001, suggesting the possibility of a nuclear response to t [...] | 2006-01-20 17:57:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MNUC PARM PTER FR |
06PARIS4080 | NUDGING DEBY ON DIALOGUE. MFA REMARKS ON CHAD, [...] (C) Summary: French Minister of Cooperation Girardin will deliver a clear message to President Deby in Chad this week on the necessity for national dialogue, according to MFA AF DAS-Equivalent Foucher. The unusual presence of French Presidential Africa Adviser Bonnecorse on Girardin's trip [...] | 2006-06-15 14:56:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PINR IV CT TO CD FR |
06PARIS4094 | U.S. CANDIDATE FOR NATO SCR IN AFGHANISTAN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-15 16:49:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL NATO FR |
06PARIS4096 | UNESCO CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS CONVENTION: FRANCE TAKES [...] (U) On June 8, in a unanimous vote across all party lines, the French National Assembly approved the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (also known as the cultural diversity convention, which was adopted by vote at UNESCO in October, 2005 [...] | 2006-06-15 16:54:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | UNESCO FR ECON ETRD EU |
06PARIS4117 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Guantanamo Afghan Violence [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-16 10:28:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS4128 | FRANCE WANTS HRC ACTION ON ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES [...] (C) Summary: MFA IO DAS-Equivalent for Human Rights Beatrice Le Fraper du Hellen concurred with the U.S. view that the first session of the Human Rights Council should avoid country-specific resolutions. However, she said the MFA was puzzled by the U.S. call for the HRC to avoid "action on [...] | 2006-06-16 11:38:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNGA FR |
06PARIS413 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - GWOT - Bin Laden Video [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-23 11:03:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS4173 | (C) CHIRAC AND OLMERT DISCUSS RESUMPTION OF [...] (S) Summary: Elysee contacts described the June 14 Chirac-Olmert meeting as friendly and said the French president was favorably impressed by his first encounter with the Israeli PM. Presidential Middle East advisor Dominique Boche stressed that Chirac urged Olmert to resume negotiations with [...] | 2006-06-16 16:47:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PREL IS KPAL IR LE FR |
06PARIS4174 | FRANCE AND WORKING GROUPS SUPPORTING THE SRI [...] (C) Deputy Political Counselor and poloff discussed reftel points June 13 with French MFA A/S equivalent for Asia, Herve Ladsous. Ladsous said that the GoF had no objections in principle to forming the two working groups, though, he added, France would probably not insert itself into a leade [...] | 2006-06-16 16:58:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MARR PINS FR |
06PARIS4175 | (C) HARIRI ADVISOR ON RISING IRANIAN INFLUENCE IN [...] (C) Summary: During a June 13 discussion, longtime Hariri family advisor Basile Yared put a positive spin on the recent Brammertz report, which he viewed as compounding pressure on Syria. Yared viewed the SARG as seeking to destabilize the GoL, via arms and money transfers to Palestinian mili [...] | 2006-06-16 17:33:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LE SY IR PINR PTER EAID FR |
06PARIS4176 | FRENCH TV TF-1 REQUEST TO INTERVIEW POTUS [...] SUMMARY. France's leading private television station has contacted the Ambassador to request an interview with President Bush in advance of the G-8 meetings. We strongly endorse this request and ask (para 6) Department concurrence and support in securing White House approval. END SUMMARY. [...] | 2006-06-19 07:34:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PREL FR |
06PARIS4183 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - U.S. Diplomacy - Iran [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-19 12:42:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS4214 | FRANCE AND NATO ID FOR GEORGIA - IT'S ABOUT RUSSIA [...] (C) 1. Summary: A French decision on Georgia's candidacy for NATO Intensified Dialogue is under review, according to Presidency and MFA officials, and President Chirac will have the final say. Based on conversations with an Elysee contact, France continues to view Georgia's future through the [...] | 2006-06-19 16:36:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR FR NATO RU |
06PARIS4215 | FRANCE PRAISES U.S. TRANSPERENCY IN DRAFT DECISION [...] (U) Poloff delivered talking points June 16 to Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) action officer, Etienne Sur. In a follow-up conversation June 19, Sur said that the GoF was pleased with the language in the U.S. Request for establishment of a revised date for the final deadline for destructio [...] | 2006-06-19 16:53:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL CWC CBW OPCW FR |
06PARIS4218 | AUSTRALIA GROUP: 2006 INFORMATION EXCHANGE (IE) [...] (C) The following describes highlights of the Information Exchange (IE) portion of the annual meeting of the Australia Group (AG),which met in Paris, June 12-15, 2006 (Report on AG Plenary provided septel). The IE included 48 presentations by 13 AG member states, and 2 presentations were pr [...] | 2006-06-20 08:43:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PREL PARM ETTC AS FR CBW |
06PARIS4219 | AUSTRALIA GROUP 2006 PLENARY MEETING, PARIS, JUNE [...] (SBU) The Australia Group (AG) plenary continued strengthening the Regime,s nonproliferation and export control tools. Highlights included: -- Agreement to the U.S. proposal to add three biological agents to the control list; -- Agreement to add chemical processing equipment made from [...] | 2006-06-20 08:48:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL ETTC AS FR CBW |
06PARIS4221 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - U.S. - EU Summit Saddam Trial North [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-20 09:39:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS4225 | (C) PESSIMISTIC ELYSEE LINE ON LEBANON/SYRIA [...] (C) Summary: Chirac's Middle East advisor Dominique Boche recently shared a pessimistic assessment of Lebanon/Syria developments, criticizing UNSYG Annan's passivity on the issue, and citing the potential for the Lebanese government to collapse, amid internal divisions and active undermining [...] | 2006-06-20 10:40:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LE SY IR PTER FR |
06PARIS4243 | MISSION FRANCE'S EXPERIENCE WITH THE AMERICAN PRESENCE [...] (SBU) American Presence Posts (APP),active in France since 1999, play a key role in this mission's transformational diplomacy efforts. The concept is replicable in other countries, but Missions need to remain flexible as they adapt the APP concept to local conditions. Key factors to consi [...] | 2006-06-20 16:15:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ADIP AMGT ASEC BEXP CASC SCUL FR |
06PARIS4247 | SOCIALIST PARTY LEADER ON HOW PS-LED FRANCE WOULD [...] (C) Socialist Party (PS) First Secretary Francois Hollande and PS National Secretary for International Affairs Pierre Moscovici briefed the Ambassador June 8 on the turbulent race for the presidential nomination within the PS and the hurdles facing the party as it looks to next year's presiden [...] | 2006-06-21 08:13:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
06PARIS4248 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iraq - Afghanistan [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-21 09:00:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS4253 | PARIS CLUB - JUNE 2006 TOUR D'HORIZON, 50 YEAR ANNIVERSARY, [...] (SBU) At the June 13-16 meeting of the Paris Club, creditors reached a tentative agreement on a deal that will allow Russia to repay its remaining USD 22 billion in previously rescheduled Paris Club debt in August. The deal is still subject to approval by Moscow. Cameroon received a completi [...] | 2006-06-21 09:51:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR |
06PARIS4256 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iraq - Afghanistan U.S. - EU Summit [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-21 11:38:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS4277 | STORMY DAYS AT EADS AND AIRBUS [...] (SBU) The furor surrounding EADS, recent plunge in the stock market, following revelations last week of further delays in Airbus A380 deliveries (see Paris Points of June 14, 15, 16),has plunged Airbus and its mother company EADS into one of the deepest crises in their history. Revelations [...] | 2006-06-21 12:52:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ETRD ECON PREL FR |
06PARIS4279 | FY-2006 Voluntary Visitor Program: Pia IMBS (BOYLE). [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-21 14:02:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OEXC SCUL FR |
06PARIS4295 | DEMARCHE TO FRENCH GOVERNMENT ON 2006 TRAFFICKING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The director of France's Anti-Trafficking Office, Jean-Michel Colombani, discussed with us on June 13 the 2006 TIP report and vigorously defended France's commitment to combat trafficking in persons. It was evident that Colombani found the report's narrative on France quite cri [...] | 2006-06-21 16:36:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG FR |
06PARIS4298 | DEAUVILLE WOMEN'S FORUM - AN OPPORTUNITY WE SHOULDN'T [...] Deauville France will host the second annual Women's Forum for the Economy and Society, October 5-7, 2006. The United States was underrepresented at this event last year, and I ask your help to take full advantage of this opportunity this year. 2. The Forum (www.womens-forum.com) is a ma [...] | 2006-06-22 09:09:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN KDEM PHUM KPAO FR |
06PARIS4305 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - U.S. - EU Summit [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-22 11:15:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS4342 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Transatlantic Relationship - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-23 11:12:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS4360 | (C) MFA OFFICIAL ASSAILS EU LACK OF SOLIDARITY ON [...] (C) Summary and comment: MFA DAS-equivalent for Egypt/Levant Herve Besancenot (protect throughout),during a June 22 farewell chat with poloff, criticized other EU members -- Spain and Austria in particular -- for going soft on Syria, and offered similar criticism of the Elysee for its more a [...] | 2006-06-23 14:41:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SY IS PGOV FR |
06PARIS4381 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - CIA - Terrorist Finance Tracking [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-26 11:00:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS4386 | DEPARTING MFA NEA A/S-EQUIVALENT JEAN-FRANCOIS [...] (U) Post offers the following biographic report on Jean-Francois Thibault, newly named French Ambassador to Rabat, who leaves his current position as MFA A/S-equivalent for North Africa/Middle East on June 27, 2006 and is expected to arrive in Rabat shortly thereafter. His MFA successor has n [...] | 2006-06-26 13:43:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR XF MO FR |
06PARIS4406 | FRANCE WILL LIKELY SEND A/S-EQUIVALENT TO RUSSIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-26 15:00:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL RS PGOV PHUM SOCI FR |
06PARIS4411 | FORMER PRIME MINISTER RAFFARIN: CHIRAC SHOULD REIN [...] (C) Former Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin confided to Ambassador Stapleton during a June 15 lunch that he was worried by President Chirac's waning authority. Raffarin said he had advised the president on the importance of restoring the respective roles of the presidency, prime minister an [...] | 2006-06-26 16:40:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
06PARIS4415 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Situation in Occupied Territories [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-27 10:43:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS4417 | FRENCH GDP GROWTH AROUND 2 PERCENT IN 2006 [...] SUMMARY. In its June overview of the French economy, the National Statistics Agency estimated 2006 GDP will increase 2 percent in 2006, the low end of the original government forecast range of 2.0-2.5 percent on which the 2006 budget was based. Any improvement in GDP growth above 2.0 percent [...] | 2006-06-27 10:44:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV FR |
06PARIS4441 | U/S JOSPEH, U/S LEVEY JUNE 20 MEET WITH FRENCH MFA [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a June 20 meeting between U/S Joseph and Treasury U/S Levey and French Political Director Stanislas de Laboulaye, a range of proliferation-related topics were covered, including the US-French-UK-German-Italian meeting later that day aimed at preliminary consultations regarding [...] | 2006-06-27 15:12:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP PARM ETTC IR KN IN FR |
06PARIS4443 | FRENCH CONFERENCE ON WMD PROLIFERATION FINANCING [...] (C/REL France, UK, Germany, Italy) SUMMARY: At a cordial, exploratory conference hosted by France on June 20, French, German, Italian, UK, and US participants committed to work together to implement the G8 Gleaneagles Statement to identify, track and freeze WMD proliferation-related assets and [...] | 2006-06-27 15:51:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | EFIN PREL KNNP ETTC PARM FR |
06PARIS4448 | FRANCE/CHAD: LOOKING FOR AFRICAN OPTIONS ON CAMP [...] (C) Summary: MFA AF A/S-equivalent Bruno Joubert told visiting DASD Theresa Whelan on January 26 that France is exploring the use of 200-250 African gendarmes for refugee protection at 12 camps in eastern Chad. He said French troops would not be able to provide protection but would coordina [...] | 2006-06-28 07:56:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KPKO CD SU FR |
06PARIS4449 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Middle East - Hamas - Kidnapped [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-28 10:46:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS4458 | FRANCE'S DIGITAL COPYRIGHT COMPROMISE GUARANTEES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Following the June 22 conciliation meeting of French Parliamentarians, a compromise draft of the copyright law has emerged to be approved by vote on June 30. The compromise text legitimizes the use of DRM (Digital Rights Management) technologies to protect authors' rights, but [...] | 2006-06-28 11:00:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD PGOV FR |
06PARIS4477 | FRANCE/UN: DRAFT REFORM RESOLUTION USEFUL; TIME TO [...] (SBU) Embassy delivered reftel demarche points at opening of business on June 27 to MFA IO PDAS-equivalent Jean-Pierre Lacroix, DAS-equivalent Jean-Hugues Simon-Michel, and IO desk officer Nicholas Kassianides. Lacroix offered feedback on June 28 in which he emphasized French concurrence on [...] | 2006-06-28 15:53:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT AORC EU EUN PREL UNGA FR |
06PARIS4482 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Middle East - Surge of Violence in [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-29 10:16:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS452 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Rice Transformational [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-24 11:54:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS4521 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Middle East - Hamas - Israeli [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-30 11:15:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS4525 | FRANCE TO ATTEND THE AFGHANISTAN PROVINCIAL [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-30 11:24:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC MARR PREL NATO AF FR |
06PARIS4539 | UNEMPLOYMENT DECREASED MAINLY DUE TO GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS [...] SUMMARY. Job creation in the private and public sectors was boosted by an increase in government-subsidized contracts, and special government incentives. At least 700,000 jobs were created with the government's support in Q-1, which can explain the decrease in the unemployment rate to 9.1 per [...] | 2006-06-30 15:05:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV FR ELAB |
06PARIS4546 | FRENCH UNEMPLOYMENT: THE NEVERENDING STORY [...] Summary: The drop in the French unemployment rate to 9.1 percent could be due to GOF policies, as the GOF claims. It also might be due to an aging workforce beating an early retreat to retirement. And it might be due to statistical corrections. But the fact remains that the youth unemployment [...] | 2006-06-30 15:14:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV FR ELAB |
06PARIS4549 | THE SPIRALING PUBLIC DEBT, Part I [...] SUMMARY. A government-commissioned report has warned that the current financial situation could spiral out of control unless a freeze is put on government spending over the next five years. The report recommendations are likely to become an issue leading up to the 2007 presidential elections. [...] | 2006-06-30 16:05:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV FR |
06PARIS4557 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Middle East - Afghanistan PARIS - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-03 10:42:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS456 | PARIS CLUB - JANUARY 2006 TOUR D'HORIZON [...] (SBU) At the January 18 Paris Club meeting, creditors agreed to raise Jordan's debt swap ceiling from 30% to 40%. The US and UK were the most vocal advocates, arguing that Jordan was an important ally facing serious economic vulnerabilities despite progress implementing key economic reforms. [...] | 2006-01-24 15:05:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR |
06PARIS4586 | FRENCH ADOPT NUCLEAR WASTE LAW -- DECISIVE STEP TOWARDS [...] Summary: In June, on time and non-confrontationally, the French Parliament adopted a key law to regulate nuclear materials and waste well into the future. The legislation confirms reversible, deep geological disposal as the reference solution for high-level, long-lived waste (HLLLW),with 201 [...] | 2006-07-05 07:29:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG TSPL TPHY KSCA FR KNUC |
06PARIS4596 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Guantanamo - Trial in Paris [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-05 10:32:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS4610 | IRAQI VP ABDEL-MEHDI MEETS WITH FM DOUSTE-BLAZY [...] (C) Summary and comment: While in France for personal reasons, Iraqi Vice-President Abdel Abdel-Mehdi met on June 26 with FM Douste-Blazy and President Chirac's diplomatic advisor, Maurice Gourdault-Montagne. Abdel-Medhi also gave numerous press interviews during which he described the situat [...] | 2006-07-05 15:27:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV FR IZ |
06PARIS4628 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - North Korea Missile Tests [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-06 11:14:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS4650 | CAUTIOUS FRENCH INTEREST IN PARNERSHIP FOR BETTER [...] (SBU) Summary: Policy Planning (S/P) Director Dr. Stephen Krasner met with French officials and MFA consultants June 23-24 to discuss the nascent initiative for a "Partnership for Better Governance Group" (PBGG). Krasner explained the PBGG would be a multilateral effort with interested deve [...] | 2006-07-07 09:27:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM EAID UNGA FR |
06PARIS4651 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - North Korea Missile Tests [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-07 09:32:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS4652 | THE SPIRALING PUBLIC DEBT: PART II [...] SUMMARY. The government's intention to decrease the public deficit in 2006 and 2007 appears to be the first step towards the ultimate goal of reducing the national debt to 60% of GDP by 2010, as outlined in the Pebereau report, but thus far the proposed changes to the national budget remain sh [...] | 2006-07-07 09:33:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV FR |
06PARIS466 | ALGERIAN AMBASSADOR ON FRANCO-ALGERIAN TREATY, [...] (C) During a January 19 introductory meeting with the Ambassador, Algerian Ambassador to France Missoum Sbih confirmed that the long-sought Franco-Algerian friendship treaty remains stalled over differences over historical issues, namely how to address French colonization of Algeria. Original [...] | 2006-01-24 17:10:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AG MO FR |
06PARIS4663 | GOF CLOSELY FOLLOWING IDF HOSTAGE CRISIS; WORRIED [...] (C) Summary and comment: An MFA contact told poloff July 6 that the GOF is closely following the Israeli/Palestinian crisis that began with the late June kidnapping of IDF soldier (and French/Israeli dual national) Gilad Shalit. Although the GOF has been rumored to be involved in negotiations [...] | 2006-07-07 12:34:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IS KPAL FR SY |
06PARIS4666 | FRENCH RESPONSE TO UPCOMING PRESIDENTIAL [...] (SBU) Ambassador Stapleton, accompanied by Russian Ambassador Alexander Avdeev, delivered reftel demarche to French Foreign Minister Douste-Blazy. The Minister gave a private preliminary statement of support in principle, noting France's own concerns about nuclear terrorism. France, Douste-B [...] | 2006-07-07 14:39:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MCAP PINS PTER KNNP AS CA CH FR GM IT JA |
06PARIS4693 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Middle East - Operation Summer Rain [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-10 11:10:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS4714 | FRANCE: BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK ON [...] Per reftel, Post Blue Lantern Action Officer contacted French Guiana firm Amazonie Loisirs as well as French authorities to verify the bona fides of the end-user. 2. Although we were not able to conduct the requested site visit, company owner Pierre Mendez responded to our list of questions [...] | 2006-07-10 14:53:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC FR |
06PARIS4724 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - GWOT - Death of Chechen Rebellion [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-11 10:13:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS4745 | DPRK MISSILE LAUNCHES: FRANCE LOOKING TO AVOID PRC [...] (C) Acting DCM spoke on July 11 with MFA Director for IO and UN Sylvie Bermann, briefing her on U.S. views per ref A. Bermann underlined that France shares the U.S. viewpoint on the gravity of the North Korean missile launches. Bermann, however, underscored the GoF concern about the importance [...] | 2006-07-11 16:33:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PARM KNNP KN FR UNSC |
06PARIS4760 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Terrorist Attacks in Bombay - Iraq [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-12 11:19:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS4765 | WTO DOHA ROUND : AFTER GENEVA, FRENCH AGRICULTURAL OFFICERS [...] (SBU) In recent meetings with Agricultural Minister-Counselor, French Ministry of Agriculture officials stressed that they still expect a positive outcome of the Doha round of trade negotiations, despite the recent meeting in Geneva. In fact, they acknowledged that they are now more optimistic [...] | 2006-07-12 13:17:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD EU FR |
06PARIS4786 | HAITIAN PRESIDENT'S JUNE 29-30 VISIT TO FRANCE [...] (C) Summary: Recently inaugurated Haitian President Rene Preval visited France June 29-30 and met with President Chirac, PM Villepin, and Defense Minister Alliot-Marie. According to an MFA contact, Preval underscored a consistent message in all his meetings: Haiti would focus on agriculture an [...] | 2006-07-12 17:40:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR HA |
06PARIS4793 | FRANCE: BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK ON [...] In addition to checking with the French Prefect for French Guiana and with French Customs (ref B) regarding the bona fides of end-user Amazonie Loisirs for license application 05-999048, Post Blue Lantern Action Officer also contacted the French Foreign Ministry, which in turn requested an int [...] | 2006-07-13 09:53:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC FR |
06PARIS4795 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - P5 + 1 Meeting in Paris [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-13 10:21:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS4812 | FRENCH ATTENDANCE AT MTCR SMALL GROUP [...] (C) On July 10, we delivered to the MFA ref A invitation (and conference information) to attend the MTCR Small Group Consultations on the UAV/Cruise Missile proposal. On July 13, the MFA officer covering MTCR issues, David Bertolotti, provided the following list of French participants -- Da [...] | 2006-07-13 14:55:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM MTCR MNUC ETTC FR |
06PARIS4817 | FRANCE: SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF DEPUTY [...] (C) The visit of Deputy Secretary Kimmitt, Counselor Zelikow and the Iraq Compact delegation offers the best opportunity thus far to move the French toward significant involvement in Iraq's reconstruction. The GOF has been publicly supportive of the new Iraqi government. However, its respons [...] | 2006-07-17 05:14:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAID IZ FR |
06PARIS4825 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Middle East - G8 Summit [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-17 10:35:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS4843 | Transformation Diplomacy Project: Elected Afghan Women in [...] SUMMARY: EUR/PPD funding helped Embassy Paris partner with French NGOs and French local and national government sponsors to bring 30 Afghan women parliamentarians to Paris June 12-16, 2006, most of them outside their country for the first time. The parliamentarians addressed high-level and publ [...] | 2006-07-17 14:22:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO KWMN PGOV PHUM FR |
06PARIS4850 | FRENCH REACTIONS TO ESCALATING SITUATION IN THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Chirac, speaking from St. Petersburg on Sunday, supported a G8 call for an end to Hezbollah and Israeli military actions and the immediate disarmament of Hezbollah. Chirac and French public officials at all levels continue to call Israel's reactions disproportionate, b [...] | 2006-07-17 15:50:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AEMR MARR CASC LE KHLS FR |
06PARIS4854 | PAKISTANI FM KASURI'S JULY 5 MEETING WITH FRENCH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Pakistani Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri discussed a range of issues with French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy in meetings in Paris on July 5. According to the MFA's Pakistan desk officer, Kasuri appeared stunned when Douste-Blazy requested a list of the sensitive techn [...] | 2006-07-17 15:52:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR IO PK PREL |
06PARIS4855 | FRENCH PARTICIPATION AT IRAQ COMPACT MEETING IN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-17 15:58:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EINV IZ FR |
06PARIS4864 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Middle East - Iran -G8 Summit [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-18 10:47:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS4889 | TFLE01: FRENCH PRIME MINISTER DE VILLEPIN'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and Foreign Minister Douste-Blazy traveled to Lebanon on July 17 to meet with Lebanese Prime Minister Siniora and the local French community. In the absence of the PM's Diplomatic Counselor, Political Minister Counselor called on the PM' [...] | 2006-07-18 18:10:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AEMR MARR CASC LE KHLS FR |
06PARIS4913 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Israeli-Lebanese Conflict - French [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-19 11:13:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS4939 | TFLE01 CHIRAC ANNOUNCES EMERGENCY AID TO LEBANON; [...] SUMMARY: After meeting with the Cabinet on July 19, President Chirac announced France would be sending emergency aid to Lebanon and calls for "humanitarian corridors" to be opened. Chirac said that the GoF was cooperating closely with Lebanese officials on their needs. He also took the opport [...] | 2006-07-19 16:58:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AEMR MARR CASC LE KHLS FR |
06PARIS4944 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-20 10:23:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS4951 | FRANCE: DEMARCHE ON JULY 20 BAGHDAD COMPACT [...] (SBU) Embassy provided reftel points to the offices of Foreign Ministry Political Director Stansilas de Laboulaye and Ministry of Finance Director General of the Treasury and Economic Policy Xavier Musca to update them after their recent meetings with Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Robert Ki [...] | 2006-07-20 14:13:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL FR IZ ECIN OTRA |
06PARIS4955 | UNDER SECRETARY BURNS' JULY 13 MEETING WITH INDIAN [...] (U) July 13, 2006; 10:30AM - 2:45PM; Paris, FRANCE 2. (U) Participants: U.S. U/S Nicolas Burns Anja Manuel, P Staff Political Officer Greg D'Elia, U.S. Embassy, Paris Political Officer Leslie Ordeman, U.S. Embassy, Paris (notetaker) India: Foreign Minister Saran S. Jaishankar, H [...] | 2006-07-20 16:45:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL BM NP CE IR IZ VE GT CU FR |
06PARIS4960 | FRANCE: ENERGY SECTOR UPDATE [...] (U) This is another in a series of occasional updates on the French energy sector. Feedback is welcome to help us make this product as useful as possible for our inter-agency USG audience. Contents: -- Finance Minister pushes privatization of Gaz de France (para 2) -- France is feeling th [...] | 2006-07-21 07:58:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET EIND EINV PREL PGOV FR |
06PARIS4966 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-21 11:10:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS4979 | FRENCH VIEWS ON IRAQ COMPACT [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Robert Kimmitt and Counselor Zelikow briefed French MFA Political Director Stanislas de Laboulaye on planning for the Iraq Compact on July 18. Laboulaye welcomed the initiative for an Iraq Compact as "encouraging", calling it a good [...] | 2006-07-21 15:33:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM IZ FR |
06PARIS4980 | IRAQ COMPACT: FRENCH FINANCE MINISTRY OPEN TO [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Secretary Kimmitt and Counselor Philip Zelikow met July 17 with Xavier Musca, Director General of the Treasury and Economic Policy in the French Ministry of Finance to discuss the Iraq Compact. Musca expressed support for the goals of the Compact, but expressed concerns abou [...] | 2006-07-21 15:35:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL FR IZ |
06PARIS4982 | TFLE01: DOUSTE-BLAZY TESTS "MODERATE ARAB" STATES' [...] (S) SUMMARY: Poloff met on July 21 with Douste-Blazy's acting Cabinet Advisor for the Middle East, Francois Thoizy, in order to get additional details on the FM's travel to Lebanon and other countries in the region. He said the FM would be visiting Cyprus, Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan, and Israel, [...] | 2006-07-24 07:29:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PREL AEMR MARR CASC LE KHLS FR |
06PARIS4986 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-24 11:07:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS4988 | FRIDAY SERMONS AT PARIS GRAND MOSQUE: IN MIDST OF [...] (C) Days after the Grand Mosque of Paris issued a statement of sympathy to the Lebanese people in the wake of Israeli airstrikes against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, Poloff attended the weekly Friday sermon on July 21 at the mosque. Dalil Boubakeur, rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris, annou [...] | 2006-07-24 11:18:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PTER SCUL FR |
06PARIS5000 | MEMBER OF PROMINENT FRANCO-ALGERIAN FAMILY [...] (C) SUMMARY. Mehdi Zerhouni, a member of a prominent Franco-Algerian family and a relative of Algerian Interior Minister Yazid Zerhouni, told us July 22 that discrimination in France against young men of Arab extraction remains "a big problem" for the country. While acknowledging that Interio [...] | 2006-07-24 13:39:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV PINR FR |
06PARIS5014 | TFLE01: FRENCH FM RETURNS FROM MIDDLE EAST: LOOKS [...] (S) SUMMARY: Political Minister Counselor met on July 24 with FM Douste-Blazy's Middle East Cabinet Advisor, Christophe Guilhou. Guilhou had returned earlier in the morning with the FM after visiting Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan, and Israel. Discussions with leaders in the region, Guilhou said, had focus [...] | 2006-07-24 18:20:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PREL AEMR MARR CASC LE KHLS FR |
06PARIS5020 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-25 11:33:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS5024 | PARIS CLUB - JULY 2006 TOUR D'HORIZON AND AFGHAN DEBT [...] (SBU) At the July 18-19 meeting of the Paris Club, creditors agreed on exceptionally generous debt relief for Afghanistan, which achieved three main objectives: (1) 92% of Afghanistan's debt stock will be canceled immediately; (2) all interest falling due between now and the end of the IMF pr [...] | 2006-07-25 12:38:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR |
06PARIS5051 | BEATING THE HEAT: GOF ON ALERT [...] Soaring temperatures in France since mid-July are considered responsible for the death of at least 30 people. Anxious to avoid a repeat of the 2003 heat wave catastrophe (15,000 deaths, reftel),the GOF recently implemented an updated heat wave plan (Plan National contre la Canicule, or PNC). [...] | 2006-07-25 15:11:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TPHY TSPA TSPL KSCA FR |
06PARIS5053 | FINANCE MINISTER DOWN ON DOHA, IRAN; BULLISH ON [...] (C) French Finance Minister Breton told the Ambassador on July 24 that turmoil in the Mideast resulting from Iran,s nuclear program and the war in Lebanon are of great concern to the world economy. Breton said negotiations in the Doha trade round are not working because the EU can go no fart [...] | 2006-07-25 15:43:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | ECON ETRD EFIN PREL FR |
06PARIS5057 | (S) NIAG 6104: PAKISTANI NUCLEAR-RELATED PROCUREMENT IN FRANCE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-25 16:19:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | ETTC FR KNNP MNUC PARM PK PREL |
06PARIS5067 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-26 10:57:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS5073 | CONSUMPTION KEEPS FEEDING THE FRENCH ECONOMY [...] SUMMARY. The unexpected rise in French consumption of manufactured products in June confirms solid economic growth in the second quarter. The French Finance Minister said the data supports his 2006 GDP growth forecast of 2.0 to 2.5 percent. However, recovery of consumer spending in Germany a [...] | 2006-07-26 14:34:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV FR |
06PARIS5078 | FRENCH RESPONSE TO INTERNATIONAL TRACING SERVICE [...] Poloff delivered reftel demarche on July 26 to Natalie Morro in the MFA Archives Office and Claude Chavance in MFA Legal Affairs. Both interlocutors confirmed that the GoF did not anticipate any major obstacles to the ratification of the amendments. They noted the ratification of the text by [...] | 2006-07-26 17:11:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KNAR FR |
06PARIS5080 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-27 10:50:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS5106 | CHAD: FORMER FM SALEH KEBZABO CRITICIZES DEBY AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Former Chad FM Saleh Kebzabo (1996-1997) called on Africa Watcher July 6 to discuss current developments in Chad and the region. Kebzabo,s distaste for Deby and his government was easily discernible. Kebzabo saw little hope that Deby would engage with opposition figures. Kebza [...] | 2006-07-27 15:08:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PINS CD FR |
06PARIS5108 | FRANCE CONCERNED AT FATE OF KEY SC PRESIDENCY [...] (C) Poloff relayed reftel demarche points on July 27 to MFA IO DAS-Equivalent Jean-Hugues Simon Michel, who expressed dissatisfaction that USG objections to the draft resolution would block a key deliverable for the French Security Council Presidency in July. He stressed that the initiative e [...] | 2006-07-27 17:14:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC CG FR |
06PARIS5110 | THE OECD BUDGET: GETTING TO ZERO [...] (SBU) Summary: The ambitious budget proposals by the new OECD Secretary General for the 2007-2008 biennium exceed the guidelines SIPDIS of the United States and other major contributors, resulting in a proposed increase in member contributions of 4.35 percent for 2007 that is simply unreali [...] | 2006-07-28 06:52:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT EFIN AORC OECD FR |
06PARIS5116 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-28 10:38:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS5139 | WTO DOHA ROUND : GOF BLAMES U.S. FOR COLLAPSE; FARMERS WANT [...] (SBU) French Minister for Trade Christine Lagarde expressed regrets over the collapse of the Doha trade round in Geneva, stating that she does not expect further results. She explicitly blamed the United States' "hard line" stance on domestic agricultural support for the failure of the recent [...] | 2006-07-28 13:39:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD EU FR |
06PARIS5146 | THE OECD BUDGET: PUSHING RUSSIA TO REFORM [...] (SBU) Summary: The role played by the OECD at the G8 summit is only one of many OECD activities aimed at strengthening the market economy and democratic governance in Russia. A comprehensive economic survey, scheduled for completion in September, will focus on innovation and reform of public [...] | 2006-07-28 16:25:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV AORC OECD FR |
06PARIS5147 | FRANCE ON NEW YORK FORCE GENERATION MEETING FOR [...] (SBU) Deputy PolCouns discussed reftel demarche July 29 with MFA duty officer Gilles-Henri Garrault, and subsequently faxed over a copy of reftel points. Deputy PolCouns also informed Garrault of an earlier call he had received from the Operations Center indicating that it would be placing a [...] | 2006-07-29 11:57:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR KPKO LE |
06PARIS5148 | FRANCE ON NEW YORK FORCE GENERATION MEETING FOR [...] (SBU) Deputy PolCouns discussed reftel demarche July 29 with MFA duty officer Gilles-Henri Garrault, and subsequently faxed over a copy of reftel points. Deputy PolCouns also informed Garrault of an earlier call he had received from the Operations Center indicating that it would be placing a [...] | 2006-07-29 11:57:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR KPKO LE |
06PARIS5154 | JUDICIAL DECISIONS FAVORABLE TO BIOTECH CULTIVATION [...] Summary: Two recent judicial decisions have been supportive of biotech cultivation in France. The first overturned a lower court ruling exonerating test plot destroyers. The second required Greenpeace to remove from its website names and locations of biotech corn growers. Both decisions wil [...] | 2006-07-31 07:59:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD EUN FR |
06PARIS5157 | 61ST UNGA: FRANCE UNDECIDED ON HIGH-LEVEL [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-31 09:15:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA FR |
06PARIS5163 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Lebanon - Israeli Attack on Cana - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-31 10:46:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS5166 | MICHEL ROCARD: DON'T RULE OUT A SURPRISE IN 2007 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Amb. Stapleton met with Michel Rocard on July 19 (see reftel for report on previous meeting). Rocard, who supports Dominique Strauss-Kahn for the Socialist Party (PS) presidential nomination, appeared resigned to a Royal victory in the party primary. He regretted that neither she [...] | 2006-07-31 13:44:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL FR |
06PARIS5176 | FRENCH ON LEBANON FOR AUGUST 1 GAERC [...] (C) In response to reftel points, MFA CFSP deputy Pascal LeDeunff told us July 31 that the Finnish Presidency had not/not submitted language for a draft conclusion. Given French need for language calling for an immmediate cease-fire, and British opposition to the same, LeDeunff said, the Frenc [...] | 2006-07-31 16:58:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR |
06PARIS5182 | TOGO: MEETING WITH GILCHRIST OLYMPIO: UPBEAT BUT [...] (U) This is an action message: See para 12. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Togolese opposition leader and UFC chief Gilchrist Olympio told us on July 27 that he agreed to the naming of Burkina Faso President Campaore as facilitator for political dialogue between the GOT and opposition political grou [...] | 2006-08-01 09:32:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM TO FR |
06PARIS5184 | FRENCH APPROACH TO FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT [...] (SBU) Ministry of Economy Diplomatic Counselor Gilles Mentre told Econoff July 28 that France has taken steps to respond to criticism that its aid programs unjustly inflate aid figures with debt cancellation numbers. France has devised a scheme that ties debt cancellation more directly to po [...] | 2006-08-01 09:47:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN EIND FR |
06PARIS5185 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Israel-Hezbollah Conflict - Iran's [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-01 10:53:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS520 | UPDATED FRENCH AVIAN FLU PLAN [...] Summary. In its updated strategic plan to combat avian flu, the French government recognizes the six alert phases defined by WHO and details the roles and responsibilities of government agencies that would be involved in the event of a pandemic. The plan also underscores the importance of [...] | 2006-01-26 11:48:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO CASC AMGT FR KFLU |
06PARIS5205 | MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR): U.S. [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-01 16:22:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | FR KSCA PARM MNUC ETTC TSPA |
06PARIS5216 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Lebanese Crisis - Iran and [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-02 10:54:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS5238 | FRENCH MFA OFFICIAL DISCUSSES COTE D'IVOIRE AND [...] (C) In an August 2 meeting on Chad and Sudan (septel),MFA DAS-equivalent for West Africa Bruno Foucher offered brief comments on Cote d'Ivoire and Togo. 2. (C) On Cote d'Ivoire, Foucher expressed strong dismay at the lack of progress in the identification, disarmament, demobilization, [...] | 2006-08-02 16:09:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM CI TO FR |
06PARIS5239 | FRANCE: ENDING CHAD'S SUPPORT TO DARFUR MILITIAS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In response to ref A demarche, MFA DAS-equivalent Foucher said on August 2 that France shared the USG's concerns about Chadian support for militias in Darfur but believed that President Deby was not responsible for this support, which was being provided by other Chadians over w [...] | 2006-08-02 16:10:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PINR CD SU FR |
06PARIS5242 | COURT UPHOLDS FRENCH COPYRIGHT LAW [...] (SBU) The French Constitutional Court in a July 27 decision upheld the new copyright law, throwing out four provisions as unconstitutional. Specifically, the court ruled that collaborative file-sharing, contravention of protected works online, and bypassing of technical protective measures sho [...] | 2006-08-02 16:18:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD PGOV FR |
06PARIS5248 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Israeli- Lebanese Crisis - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-03 10:53:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS526 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Palestinian Elections [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-26 14:28:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS5262 | FRENCH AGRICULTURE MINISTRY FIRMLY CONDEMNS BIOTECH CROP [...] On July 30, anti-biotech activists struck again in southwestern France destroying a Pioneer biotech test plot and, for the first time, commercial fields of biotech corn. Although activists are continuing to express their anti-biotech stance in this manner (reftel),we have noted that a growin [...] | 2006-08-03 14:03:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD EUN FR |
06PARIS5289 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Israel - Hezbollah Combat [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-04 12:48:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS5305 | TFLE01: FRENCH PRESIDENCY VIEW: ABSOLUTE [...] (S) SUMMARY: Presidential Middle East Advisor Dominique Boche offered a measured and candid take on where we are on Lebanon late August 4. Stressing that Franco-American cooperation on the UNSCR was excellent, Boche said he nevertheless feared that some key differences -- deriving from the op [...] | 2006-08-05 12:55:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PREL AEMR MARR CASC LE KHLS FR IS SY IR |
06PARIS5309 | PKK IN EUROPE: GOF ON SUSTAINING MOMENTUM [...] (S) Poloff followed up informally August 4 with MFA Turkey Desk Officer Pascal Schuster to discuss potential French interest in a trilateral working group concept as brainstormed in REF A. 2. (S) Schuster explained that, to his knowledge, the French embassy in Ankara had not yet reported [...] | 2006-08-07 10:26:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PTER KFTN TU GM FR UK |
06PARIS5311 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Israeli - Lebanese Conflict: [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-07 11:06:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS5320 | FRANCE: STATUS UPDATE ON HSPD-6 TERRORIST [...] (SBU) Since we last reported on HSPD-6 in October 2005 (ref B),the GOF has continued to express reservations about it based on its experience with No-Fly watchlisting, pending issues regarding data privacy and doubts about the potential benefits of data exchange. It has been careful however [...] | 2006-08-07 12:51:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS PTER PINR PGOV PREL FR |
06PARIS535 | PALESTINIAN ELECTIONS: FRANCE CONCERNED, WILL SEEK [...] (U) In a first official GOF reaction to Palestinian elections, Prime Minister Villepin said on January 26 that "we are in a situation that leads me to express my concern." He added that in order to work with the Palestinian government, certain conditions had to be met, including renunciation o [...] | 2006-01-26 17:23:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR FR KPAL |
06PARIS5360 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Lebanon Cuba [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-08 11:34:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS5386 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Middle East - U.S. Policy - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-09 10:27:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS5400 | FRANCE NOT INCLINED TO FIGHT HRC SPECIAL SESSION [...] (C) Deputy PolCouns presented reftel points August 9 with MFA DAS-equivalent for IO Human Rights Affairs Beatrice Le Fraper du Hellen, stressing the U.S. political concern that Human Rights Council (HRC) discussions of Lebanon could have a negative impact on discussions in New York on a Lebano [...] | 2006-08-09 16:50:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PHUM PREL PTER FR IS LE |
06PARIS5409 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Lebanon - Paris and Washington at [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-10 10:17:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS541 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Palestinian Election Results [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-27 10:51:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS5414 | PRESIDENT CHIRAC'S AUGUST 9 REMARKS ON LEBANON [...] President Chirac chaired an extraordinary meeting of concerned Ministers on Lebanon August 9 in Toulon, France (near which Chirac is vacationing). Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, Minister of Foreign Affairs Philippe Douste-Blazy, and Minister of Defense Michle Alliot-Marie were all pres [...] | 2006-08-10 13:42:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AEMR MARR CASC LE KHLS FR |
06PARIS5423 | EUR DAS BRYZA'S PARIS CONSULTATIONS ON GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary: Visiting DAS Matt Bryza met August 2 with French Deputy PolDir Baleine du Laurens to discuss developments in Georgia and Abkhazia. On Georgian reforms, Bryza countered a suggestion by Laurens that Georgia was regressing by pointing to continued improvements in press freedom, tr [...] | 2006-08-10 16:09:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR EUN GG NATO KDEM |
06PARIS5424 | NATIXIS: A NEW FRENCH FINANCE NATIONAL CHAMPION [...] SUMMARY. The GOF has given the green light to a new joint subsidiary between the French Caisses d'Epargne and the Banque Populaire banking groups, creating NatIxis. With 500 billion euros (USD 640 billion) in assets managed, NatIxis has the potential to become a significant player in the fina [...] | 2006-08-10 16:13:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV FR |
06PARIS5429 | FOLLOW-UP DEMARCHE ON HCR SPECIAL SESSION ON [...] (C) Deputy Polcouns shared ref A points August 10 with MFA DAS-equivalent for IO Human Rights Affairs Beatrice Le Fraper du Hellen. Ref B reports the results of his initial, August 9 discussions with Le Fraper in accordance with ref C. Deputy PolCouns asked Le Fraper to bring to the attentio [...] | 2006-08-10 16:20:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KPAO UNHCR LE FR |
06PARIS5440 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Foiled London Attack [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-11 11:27:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS5480 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - UN Resolution 1701 - Cease-Fire - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-14 11:06:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS5495 | FRENCH GDP GROWTH SURGED IN Q-2 [...] SUMMARY. GDP increased 4.5-4.9 percent in Q-2, mostly due to strong growth in domestic consumption and exports. The GOF indicated that GDP growth was running at a 3 percent pace at the end of the first semester, but officials are unlikely to revise upwards their 2006 GDP growth forecast beyo [...] | 2006-08-16 05:23:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV FR |
06PARIS5512 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Middle East - Lebanon - Hezbollah - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-16 11:09:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS552 | FRENCH "OIL FOR FOOD" INVESTIGATING JUDGE SEEKS [...] (C) Summary: Investigating judge Philippe Courroye met with Poloffs January 24 to request USG assistance regarding his planned trip to Baghdad to question four Iraqi nationals (including Tariq Aziz and Saddam Hussein) in his investigation into the UN's "oil for food" corruption scandal. Courr [...] | 2006-01-27 15:03:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KJUS FR IZ |
06PARIS553 | LONG ARM OF FRENCH LAW: INVESTIGATIONS IN AFRICA [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-27 15:18:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM TO DJ CI RW FR |
06PARIS554 | FRANCE AGREES WITH FOCUSING INTERNATIONAL MEDIA [...] (C) On January 27, Poloff met with Antoine Gosset, the MFA's desk officer for Belarus, to discuss reftel demarche encouraging international media attention on the March 19 Belarus presidential election. Gosset said the MFA agreed with the demarche points and furthermore, the MFA would be ramp [...] | 2006-01-27 16:05:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PREL BO FR |
06PARIS5544 | TOGO: EX-MINISTER BOKO DISCUSSES POLITICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Togo's ex-Interior Minister Francois Boko said on August 16 that he hoped the political dialogue in Ouagadougou between the Togolese government and opposition would be productive, but he believed the process would result only in cosmetic changes designed to improve the internat [...] | 2006-08-17 09:05:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV TO FR |
06PARIS5546 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR AMBASSADOR PATRICIA MOLLER [...] Embassy Paris warmly welcomes and provides country clearance for Ambassador Patricia N. Moller to travel to Paris, France, from August 22-25, 2006, to attend meetings with Embassy personnel and GOF officials. 2. Embassy point of contact for the visit is Political Assistant Robert Kaneda, [...] | 2006-08-17 13:55:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT APER OTRA KE BY FR |
06PARIS5555 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Lebanon - U.S. Stance - GWOT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-18 08:04:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS5574 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Lebanon - International Force - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-18 11:55:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS5595 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Lebanon - Cease-Fire Violation - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-21 10:11:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS560 | FRENCH ON JANUARY 30 GAERC: HAMAS, IRAN, IRAQ, [...] (U) Poloff delivered ref (A) points on January 24th to MFA's deputy of CFSP unit, Pascal LeDeunff, and discussed the points with him on January 27th. 2. (C) Hamas Victory: LeDeunff referenced the January 27th Quartet statement and, echoing Prime Minister de Villepin's statement of January 2 [...] | 2006-01-27 17:31:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN KPAL IS HIZ FR |
06PARIS5608 | UNIFIL: HELPING FRANCE MEET ITS RESPONSIBILITIES [...] (C) Summary: French-U.S. cooperation has been significant to the restoration of sovereignty and the progress of democracy in Lebanon over the past two years. We have an interest in preserving that partnership, even in the face of disappointment over France's modest contribution thus far to [...] | 2006-08-21 16:48:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR FR LE KPKO UNSC |
06PARIS5609 | FRANCE: 61ST UNGA: HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE AND [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-22 08:16:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA FR |
06PARIS5611 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Lebanon - France in UNIFIL - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-22 10:20:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS5622 | FUZZY MATH COMPLICATES FIRST SEMESTER FRENCH BUDGET [...] SUMMARY: The central government budget deficit declined nearly 25 percent at the end of the first semester compared with the same period last year. However, the decrease was largely artificial, owing more to recent cosmetic reforms to the French finance law than to cuts in spending. Strong t [...] | 2006-08-22 16:45:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV FR |
06PARIS5625 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran Lebanon - UNIFIL - EU-25 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-23 10:06:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS563 | TAORMINA INFORMAL DEFENSE MINISTERIAL -- MOD [...] (C) On January 26, during the course of a previously scheduled meeting to discuss NATO issues, pol/miloff raised the recent unsuccessful debate at NATO on securing a NAC-PSC meeting on CT. In response, Camille Grand, Deputy Diplomatic Advisor in the MOD Cabinet, said that the minister was also [...] | 2006-01-27 18:35:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL FR NATO |
06PARIS5639 | UNSC RESOLUTION 1695: FRANCE IS SUPPORTIVE AND [...] (C) SUMMARY and Action Request: In response to Embassy demarche (reftel),the MFA reiterated France's commitment to the implementation of the UNSC Resolution on North Korea, adding that the adoption of UNSC 1695 has accelerated internal French discussions between the Ministry of Finance and th [...] | 2006-08-23 15:04:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KNNP MNUC WMD PTER FR |
06PARIS5655 | POSSIBLE CHINA IPR CASE: DEMARCHE TO FRANCE [...] (U) Economic Minister-Counselor met August 22 with Philippe Pegorier, technical advisor in the cabinet of Trade Minister Lagarde, and Bertrand Walckenaer, Finance Ministry desk officer for China, to deliver reftel demarche. 2. (SBU) The GOF is very focused on intellectual property (IP) en [...] | 2006-08-24 06:43:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD AORC KIPR EURM WTRO CH FR |
06PARIS5657 | FRENCH SUPPORT FOR IRAQ COMPACT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Treasury Deputy Secretary Kimmitt led a delegation to France August 16-17 to discuss the Iraq Compact. French officials remained positive about the Compact's goals and were visibly engaged on the issue. Officials welcomed the briefing on USG discussions with Gulf countries, espe [...] | 2006-08-24 07:50:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EIND EAID PREL IZ FR |
06PARIS5666 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran Lebanon - UNIFIL - Israel - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-24 11:05:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS5667 | FRENCH UPDATE ON CENTRAL ASIAN NUCLEAR-WEAPON-FREE [...] (C) On August 24, we delivered reftel demarche to Arnaud Mentre, MFA nonproliferation officer responsible for the Central Asian Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone (CANWFZ) issue. Mentre responded that France was involved in three demarches, either underway or planned, on CANWFZ: -- Today, on August 24 [...] | 2006-08-24 12:30:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM KNNP MARR PREL UN FR |
06PARIS5668 | LEBANON/UNFIL: CHIRAC TO MAKE ANNOUNCEMENT ON [...] (U) President Chirac will go on national television at 8:00 p.m. tonight, August 24, to announce the decision taken earlier today, in his meeting with concerned cabinet ministers (PM, MFA, MOD),regarding France's participation in UNIFIL-plus. 2. (C) In an August 24 meeting of CDA with in [...] | 2006-08-24 12:32:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS MARR EUN LE KPKO UNSC FR |
06PARIS568 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Hamas Elections Aftermath [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-30 11:08:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS5697 | FRENCH SHARE CONCERNS ON HRC; NOTE NOMINATION FOR [...] (C) Acting Polcouns shared ref A points August 21 with newly arrived MFA DAS-equivalent for UN Human Rights Affairs Jacques Pellet and discussed ref A demarche with him August 24, highlighting growing U.S. concerns with the Council's lack of balance and objectivity, particularly as demonstrate [...] | 2006-08-24 17:23:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNHRC FR |
06PARIS5698 | LEBANON/UNIFIL: CHIRAC ANNOUNCES 1600 ADDITIONAL [...] (U) Summary: Speaking on national television late August 24 reftel President Chirac pledged to contribute two more battalions at 800 soldiers each to UNIFIL, bringing the total French participation to 2,000 total. France will retain command on the ground and review the situation in six month [...] | 2006-08-24 18:46:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MOPS MARR EUN LE KPKO UNSC FR |
06PARIS5713 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Lebanon - France's Commitment [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-25 12:38:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS5732 | TERRORISM FINANCE: NOMINATION PROCEDURES FOR [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 5. 2. (S/NF) TFCO held a meeting among relevant agencies at post on August 22 to reach agreement on internal procedures for nominating additional candidates for the second phase of the radical ideologue initiative (reftel). No names were sugge [...] | 2006-08-25 15:46:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET//NOFORN | KTFN EFIN PTER PREL ETTC FR |
06PARIS5733 | CHINA IN AFRICA: FRENCH ARE WATCHING CLOSELY AND [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: French observers believe China's growing presence in Africa reflects a strategic decision by the PRC to exploit a resource-rich continent susceptible to an aggressive Chinese approach. French contacts express apprehension at Chinese inroads into areas of Africa onc [...] | 2006-08-25 15:52:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ECON EAID ETRD CH XA FR |
06PARIS5734 | GOF ON KAZAKHSTAN'S OSCE 2009 CHAIRMANSHIP BID [...] (C) A/Political Counselor delivered reftel demarche August 25 to MFA DAS Equivalent for Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, Aurelia Bouchez, who was eager to discuss the U.S. position on Kazakhstan's candidacy for the 2009 OSCE Chairmanship. Drawing on reftel points, A/Polcouns highlighte [...] | 2006-08-25 17:16:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KZ KDEM PGOV PHUM OSCE FR |
06PARIS5737 | FM LIVNI'S AUGUST 22-23 VISIT TO PARIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In separate read-outs of FM Livni's August 22-23 visit to France, French Middle East A/S Equivalent Jean Felix-Paganon and Israeli CDA Rafael Barak both emphasized that Livni was adamant on the need for full implementation of UNSCR 1701, given the explosive regional context. She [...] | 2006-08-28 12:39:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS MARR EUN LE KPKO UNSC FR |
06PARIS5744 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran Lebanon - UNIFIL - Israel's [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-28 16:01:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS5761 | FRANCE: DONOR ASSISTANCE TO LEBANON [...] (U) Econoff delivered reftel demarche August 25 to MFA Office Director for Humanitarian Intervention and Evaluation Christian Bernard. Points were also provided to MFA Development Office of Conflict Prevention and Reconstruction head Emmanuel Delloye. Christian confirmed that French assistan [...] | 2006-08-28 16:05:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL FR LE |
06PARIS5763 | LEBANON/UNIFIL UPDATE: FRANCE SORTING OUT DETAILS [...] (C) Summary: French planners at the MOD and the MFA are meeting to assess how best to proceed with the deployment of French troops to Lebanon, as announced by President Chirac on August 24. With no specifics yet available on the composition of the deployment, as announced, the plan is to send [...] | 2006-08-28 16:58:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS MARR KPKO UNSC LE FR |
06PARIS5769 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Lebanon, Islam and the West [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-29 11:06:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS5772 | PRINCIPLES OF THE GLOBAL NUCLEAR ENERGY [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-29 11:06:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP ENRG IAEA FR |
06PARIS5811 | FRANCE'S PRESIDENT CHIRAC OUTLINES KEY FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: President Chirac's annual foreign policy speech to France's ambassadors August 29 focused in particular on Middle East issues and crises, including Lebanon. He warned of clashes of civilizations (including between rich and poor),and stressed the importance of political processes [...] | 2006-08-29 15:45:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN UNSC NATO FR XF |
06PARIS5815 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran Lebanon [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-30 10:55:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS5824 | CHIRAC/MERKEL FOCUS ON LEBANON, MIDDLE EAST; [...] (C) Summary: The August 25 informal Blaesheim meeting between President Chirac and German chancellor Merkel and their foreign ministers focused on Lebanon and the situation in the Middle East. Merkel publicly supported France's position on lifting the Israeli air/sea blockade of Lebanon, wi [...] | 2006-08-30 12:07:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR EUN GE MARR MOPS PHUM XF |
06PARIS5827 | FRANCE: ACCEDING TO THE REGIONAL COOPERATION [...] Econoff discussed reftel with MFA Legal Affairs Law of the Sea officer Frederic Lepez August 29, following earlier inquiry with MOT Maritime Affairs International Affairs Office Director Daniel Silvestre. Neither was aware of any GOF position on accession to ReCAAP, but said they would make f [...] | 2006-08-30 13:22:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KTIA EWWT PBTS PHSA PREL FR |
06PARIS5829 | SRI LANKA CONTACT GROUP: FRANCE LOOKING TO ATTEND [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-30 15:22:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PINS PTER FR |
06PARIS5837 | FM DOUSTE-BLAZY'S SPEECH TO FRENCH AMBASSADORS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Foreign Minister Douste-Blazy addressed the annual conference of French ambassadors on August 29, echoing many of the same themes outlined by President Chirac in his address to the ambassadors the day before (reftel). Douste-Blazy stressed the exceptional role France still plays [...] | 2006-08-30 15:48:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EUN UNSC TU PTER NATO FR |
06PARIS584 | IAEA DONOR CONFERENCE ON DECOMISSIONING OF IRAQ'S [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-30 14:28:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP AORC FR IZ IAEA |
06PARIS5848 | FRANCE/BURUNDI: AMBASSADOR MOLLER'S AUGUST 22 [...] (C) SUMMARY: French MFA and MOD officials expressed views on Burundi and the Great Lakes region similar to those of the U.S. during August 22 discussions with visiting U.S. Ambassador to Burundi Patricia Moller. MFA officials expressed concern about the recent arrests in Burundi in connect [...] | 2006-08-31 10:25:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM BY FR |
06PARIS5851 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran Iraq Lebanon and the Middle [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-31 12:54:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS5861 | FRANCE WILL CO-SPONSOR DARFUR RESOLUTION [...] (C) MFA IO DAS-Equivalent Jean-Hugues Simon-Michel confirmed that France will co-sponsor the draft resolution to extend UNMIS deployment to Darfur. France will also approach Congo-Brazzaville to request their co-sponsorship. 2. (C) Simon-Michel described the French decision as painful. [...] | 2006-08-31 13:47:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC KPKO SU FR |
06PARIS5862 | REQUEST FOR STATEMENTS OF SUPPORT FOR INDIA CIVIL [...] (SBU) On 28 August, Embassy ESTH/NP Counselor and ESTH/NP officer jointly presented arguments and papers to French MFA Deputy Director for Nonproliferation and Disarmament Hugues De Longevialle concerning French support for the India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Initiative at the October 2006 N [...] | 2006-08-31 13:51:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP ENRG ETTC MNUC PARM PREL TRGY FR |
06PARIS5865 | FRENCH DISAFFECTION WITH THE EU [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: France's President, Foreign Minister and Minister-Delegate for European Affairs used their late-August remarks to France's conclave of ambassadors, each in his/her own way, to express their continuing concerns about the EU's perceived weaknesses. Chirac complained a [...] | 2006-08-31 15:10:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR EU MARR PGOV |
06PARIS5872 | FRANCE: DEMARCHE ON AVIATION SECURITY, THE DIPLOMATIC POUCH [...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftels' points August 10 to Luc Lapene, head of the International Coordination Office at the French Civil Aviation Authority (DGAC). Lapene indicated that France would attend the Montreal ICAO AVSEC panel meeting, and would be represented by one of DGAC's technical e [...] | 2006-08-31 16:05:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC ADPM EAIR AORC ICAO FR |
06PARIS5873 | EU GYMNICH/IRAN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO FRENCH, BUT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-31 17:27:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EU FR IR KNNP PARM PGOV UN |
06PARIS5877 | GUINEA-BISSAU: FRENCH MFA PROVIDES OVERVIEW [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA deskoff Damien Syed on August 29 described Guinea-Bissau's political problems, primarily the opposition's refusal to accept the 2005 election results, and their negative effect on national unity and donor confidence. France is nonetheless crafting a Partnership Framework a [...] | 2006-09-01 08:49:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON SNAR PU FR |
06PARIS5885 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran Iraq, Elections and 9/11 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-01 10:50:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS5895 | AIR FRANCE DISCUSSION WITH ISRAEL ON RESUMPTION OF [...] (C/NF) A senior Air France executive (please protect) told Economic Minister-Counselor August 31 that Air France will receive two Israeli security officials this weekend to discuss the possibility of a resumption of Air France service to Beirut via Amman, Jordan. To date, Air France has flown [...] | 2006-09-01 13:15:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV EAIR ECON FR LE IS JO |
06PARIS59 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Russia-Ukraine Energy War [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-05 11:57:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS5926 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Lebanon - Turkey in UNIFIL [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-05 10:20:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS5944 | FRANCE OFFERS UNEQUIVOCAL SUPPORT FOR PUTTING [...] (C) We delivered reftel point on September 5 to Jeremie Petit, the Burma desk officer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In response, he reiterated France's staunch support for putting Burma on the U.N. Security Council's agenda. Petit said France is very concerned about Burma's ongoing conte [...] | 2006-09-05 16:09:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC BM FR |
06PARIS5958 | AIR FRANCE ON PNR, NO-FLY AND CNIL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Air France is confident that it will be able to transmit PNR data to the USG on October 1 with or without a new US-EU PNR agreement. The airline at present has no plans to file with the France Data Privacy Commission (CNIL) for approval of its current No Fly procedures, cont [...] | 2006-09-06 08:09:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON PTER ASEC FR |
06PARIS596 | CHIRAC MEETING WITH QATARI AMIR FOCUSES ON IRAN, [...] (C) Summary: Elysee contacts reported that President Chirac's January 27 discussion with the visiting Qatari Amir focused largely on Iran, with the Qatari leader stressing concern over Iran's nuclear program and its negative regional role. On Syria/Lebanon, Elysee contacts stressed that Chirac [...] | 2006-01-30 16:02:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL QA IR SY LE KPAL FR |
06PARIS5964 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Mexico - Aftermath of Elections [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-06 11:53:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS5974 | FRENCH ELECTION 2007: NICOLAS SARKOZY -- THE [...] (C) Eight months before France's 2007 Presidential election, Interior Minister Nicholas Sarkozy remains the best positioned of the many contenders for France's presidency. He is a markedly different presidential heavyweight, pro-American and committed to free-market principles. Notwithstanding [...] | 2006-09-06 15:39:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
06PARIS5975 | INTERIOR MINISTER SARKOZY ON EVE OF HIS TRIP TO [...] (C) Summary: Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy told Ambassador September 5 he was "proud and honored" to be meeting with President Bush on September 12. President Chirac had pressured him "not to go to the U.S.," Sarkozy said, but this would not stop him from "affirming my loyal friendship" for the [...] | 2006-09-06 15:39:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
06PARIS599 | FORMER FM VEDRINE ON MIDDLE EAST, IRAN, EUROPE, [...] (C) Summary: In a January 26 breakfast meeting with the Ambassador, former FM Hubert Vedrine provided a tour d'horizon on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (it all depends on Israel and, specifically, the eclipse of the Likud),Iran (the difficulties of preventing it from acquiring a nuclear [...] | 2006-01-30 17:17:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR EUN KNNP KPAL |
06PARIS5990 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - President Bush on Secret Prisons [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-07 10:29:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS6007 | MPAA CEO GLICKMAN "OK" ON FRENCH COPYRIGHT LAW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Movie Picture Association of America (MPAA) CEO Dan Glickman informed Ambassador Stapleton September 7 that the U.S. film industry is in a better position on the French Copyright law, following the toughening up of penalties for copyright infringements by the French Constitution [...] | 2006-09-07 15:27:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD FR |
06PARIS601 | ECOLOGY MINISTER RAISES SUITE OF ENVIRONMENT ISSUES [...] (U) This is an action message. Please see para 10. 2. (SBU) Summary. On January 25, Ambassador and Minister for Ecology and Sustainable Development Nelly Olin engaged on climate change-related issues, the Global Environmental Facility replenishment talks, the `World Environmental Organi [...] | 2006-01-30 17:44:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV TSPL EAID PREL FR |
06PARIS602 | UNESCO: MORE ON COMPETITION FOR ADG CULTURE [...] (U) Classified by Andrew Koss, Deputy Chief of Mission, reason 1.4. (D) 2. (C) The competition for the position of ADG Culture is getting more intense. Rumors stating that Francoise Riviere has been or soon will be chosen continue to gain strength, thereby causing increased concern by t [...] | 2006-01-30 17:56:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD SCUL CA FR UNESCO |
06PARIS6020 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - President Bush on CIA Secret [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-08 10:22:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS6040 | GM RICE FOUND IN FRANCE BY GOF AUTHORITIES [...] (SBU) Summary: The French Government is testing for the presence of GM rice in U.S. long grain products already on the French market, an action which goes beyond the EU Commission's decision to have Member States test rice imports for the presence of GM material. Tests revealed several lots th [...] | 2006-09-08 14:43:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD EU FR |
06PARIS6041 | TWO PKK MEMBERS INDICTED IN FRANCE [...] (S/NF) According to French Ministry of Interior officials, police arrested two men on July 24, 2006 with connections to the Kongra-Gel: Esref Yolcu (born May 1, 1971 in Varto) and Cemal Aslan (born January 2, 1965 in Varto). The two men were detained and questioned as they were attempting to [...] | 2006-09-08 15:15:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER ASEC KCRM EFIN FR |
06PARIS6042 | FRENCH AGREE WITH U.S. ON SERBIA'S NEED TO [...] (C) French MFA officers responsible for the Balkans confirmed on September 7 that the GOF was "completely in line" with U.S. thinking on Serbia's need to demonstrate effective cooperation with the ICTY. France, he said, had been skeptical about the EU "Action Plan" from the start and was now [...] | 2006-09-08 15:15:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ICTY SR YI FR |
06PARIS6044 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: MAINTAINING THE MOMENTUM ON [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-08 15:23:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | FR IS LE PREL |
06PARIS6046 | SECRETARY'S ORAL MESSAGE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-11 08:12:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR IZ PREL |
06PARIS6047 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR EUR DAS MATT BRYZA AND [...] Embassy Paris warmly welcomes and provides country clearance for EUR DAS Matt Bryza, and EUR/CARC Director Elizabeth Rood to travel to Paris, France from September 11-13, 2006, to attend OSCE Minsk Group meetings. Post is aware that the exact dates and overnight stays are still to be confirm [...] | 2006-09-11 08:12:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA FR KGIC |
06PARIS6048 | BIRMA/UNSC AGENDA: FRANCE CONFIRMS SUPPORT [...] In response to reftel demarche, MFA IO DAS-equivalent for political affairs Jean-Hughues Simon-Michel indicated to Deputy PolCouns September 8 that France continues to support inscribing Burma formally onto the UNSC agenda. He was gratified to learn that the U.S. now believes it has ten vote [...] | 2006-09-11 08:12:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM UNSC BM FR |
06PARIS6056 | FRENCH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATE ON UNIFIL [...] (U) Summary: On Sept. 7, the French National Assembly debated France's participation in a reinforced UNIFIL. Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin hailed the lifting of the Israeli blocade of Lebanon, noted the despatch of a French interministerial team to assess reconstruction efforts, and c [...] | 2006-09-11 08:12:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL LE SY IS FR |
06PARIS6061 | FRENCH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATE ON UNIFIL [...] (U) Summary: On Sept. 7, the French National Assembly debated France's participation in a reinforced UNIFIL. Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin hailed the lifting of the Israeli blocade of Lebanon, noted the despatch of a French interministerial team to assess reconstruction efforts, and ca [...] | 2006-09-11 08:43:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL LE SY IS FR |
06PARIS6063 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR EUR DAS MATT BRYZA AND [...] Embassy Paris warmly welcomes and provides country clearance for EUR DAS Matt Bryza, and EUR/CARC Director Elizabeth Rood to travel to Paris, France from September 11-13, 2006, to attend OSCE Minsk Group meetings. Post is aware that the exact dates and overnight stays are still to be confirm [...] | 2006-09-11 09:27:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA FR KGIC |
06PARIS6068 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Global War on Terror - Fifth [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-11 11:59:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS6073 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: INFORMING FRANCE OF OUR [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-11 14:37:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PREL AG FR MO PGOV WI |
06PARIS6075 | TSA & FRENCH CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY ON AVIATION [...] (SBU). In a detailed September 5 discussion, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Assistant Secretary for Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Kip Hawley and France DGAC Director General Michel Wachenheim discussed aircraft security in the wake of the recent foiled plot in the UK. [...] | 2006-09-11 15:31:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON PTER ASEC FR |
06PARIS6082 | EMPLOYERS UNION BOSS SAYS FRANCE AT AN INFLEXION POINT [...] (U) Summary: In a September 6 off-the-record breakfast MEDEF (French employers union) President Laurence Parisot told a group of business leaders and opinion makers that France was at a turning point. In a session that ranged from the Doha trade round, to relations with labor unions, to France [...] | 2006-09-11 16:04:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND EINV ETRD ELAB PGOV FR |
06PARIS6095 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - President Bush - 9/11 - Iraq Middle [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-12 11:00:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS6125 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - GWOT - 9/11 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-13 10:59:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS6145 | DEMARCHE ON SYRIA DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-13 13:15:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR LE PREL SY |
06PARIS6153 | FRENCH PARTICIPATION IN TRANSATLANTIC LUNCH, UNGA [...] (SBU) FM Douste-Blazy cabinet advisor Francois-Xavier Carrel-Billiard told us September 13 that FM Douste-Blazy at this time planned to attend the September 22 informal transatlantic lunch hosted by the Secretary, and would also attend the U.S.-EU ministerial meeting following. New Political [...] | 2006-09-13 15:40:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | NATO PREL OPDC FR UNO UNGA |
06PARIS6159 | COMMERCIAL GM DESTRUCTIONS CONDEMNED; FARMERS STAND THEIR [...] Summary: In the past several months, anti-Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) groups have destroyed several commercial biotech corn plantings. The latest incidents occurred on July 30 (see reftel),and September 2. The French Ministry of Agriculture reacted strongly and quickly to condemn [...] | 2006-09-14 05:29:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD EU FR |
06PARIS6166 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - GWOT - Latest Al-Qaida Video - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-14 10:39:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS617 | UNESCO: WESTERN EUROPE AND OTHERS GROUP [...] Summary and comment: on January 16, the French chair convened a meeting of Electoral Group I(Western Europe and others) to explore the issue of the rotation of Executive Board membership in the context of an October 2005 resolution calling on the GC president to hold consultations on this is [...] | 2006-01-31 12:42:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC FR UNESCO |
06PARIS6172 | FRENCH COMMEMORATIONS OF 9/11 5TH ANNIVERSARY [...] On the occasion of the 5th anniversary of September 11th, Post engaged a number of French institutions and government representatives to help commemorate this significant date. Below is a listing of the events in Paris and the provinces. Ceremonies included: a religious service at the Ameri [...] | 2006-09-14 11:01:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO FR |
06PARIS6176 | EU/GAERC DEMARCHE: FRENCH TAKE ON BOARD, NO [...] (U) Post shared refs A and B points September 13 with new MFA Deputy Chief for CFSP Emmanuel Cohet, Lebanon points with desk officer for Lebanon Remy Bouallegue, Israel-Palestinian points with DAS-equivalent Herve Besancenot, Iraq points with desk officer for Iraq Bernard Chappedelaine, and [...] | 2006-09-14 13:09:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL FR PGOV UNBRO EU YI SR BO JK SU CG IS |
06PARIS6177 | FRANCE/DJIBOUTI: AMBASSADOR SYMINGTON'S PARIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: GOF officials at the MFA, President's office, and MOD were uniformly supportive of close and cooperative U.S.-France policies on Djibouti during their September 7-8 meetings with U.S. Ambassador to Djibouti W. Stuart Symington. They welcomed U.S. engagement in Djibouti, despit [...] | 2006-09-14 13:32:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAID MARR PINS ER ET SO DJ FR |
06PARIS6178 | MFA COMMENTS ON COTE D'IVOIRE, TOGO AND CHAD [...] Summary: MFA AF DAS-Equivalent Bruno Foucher on September 12 said President Chirac would call attention to the financial cost of French support for Operation Licorne in Cote d'Ivoire in upcoming UN meetings and indicate the possibility of an adjustment to French force deployment if the peac [...] | 2006-09-14 14:07:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC CD TO IV FR |
06PARIS6179 | EUR DAS BRYZA MEETS FRENCH POLITICAL DIRECTOR ON [...] (C) Summary: In a September 12 meeting with EUR/DAS Matt Bryza and EUR/CARC Director Rood, French Political Director Laboulaye expressed relief over U.S. efforts to persuade Georgian President Saakashvili to avoid being overly provocative toward Russia at the UNGA. To give Saakashvili an add [...] | 2006-09-14 14:52:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR GG NATO EUN KDEM |
06PARIS618 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Hamas Afghanistan - London [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-31 12:43:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS6189 | FRANCE WANTS MORE CONCRETE MEASURES TO GIVE TEETH [...] (C) Summary: MFA nonproliferation office, while reiterating France's steadfast support for international efforts to constrain North Korea's weapons program and enforce UNSCR 1695, expressed some concern about a perceived lack of concrete mechanisms -- whether in the Proliferation Security Init [...] | 2006-09-14 16:08:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KNNP MNUC WMD CT PTER KN KS FR |
06PARIS6194 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran NATO - Ukraine Backs Off Islam [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-15 09:46:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS6195 | UNGA: FRENCH PARTICIPATION IN HAITI KEY PLAYERS [...] In response to reftel invitation, MFA Americas Bureau PDAS-equivalent Jean-Marc Laforet told us September 14 that France would be keenly interested in attending such a meeting. 2. On September 15, Laforet's office indicated that France would be represented by IO Assistant Secretary equival [...] | 2006-09-15 10:34:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC UNGA HA FR |
06PARIS6199 | FRENCH OFFICIALS WARN OF INCREASED TERRORIST THREAT [...] (C) SUMMARY: With the anniversary of September 11 as a backdrop, the threat of terrorism is once again on the minds of the French public. Though not the leading story in most print or television media, a dramatic front page article on September 14 in the widely circulated French daily, Le Fig [...] | 2006-09-15 11:53:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER FR ASEC |
06PARIS6211 | IRAN AND LIBYA SANCTIONS ACT (ILSA): FRANCE ON [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-15 13:59:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC EINV EPET FR IR |
06PARIS6230 | FY 2007-INTERNATIONAL VISITOR LEADERSHIP PROGRAM [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-18 09:08:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OEXC SCUL FR |
06PARIS6234 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Islam and the West - Pope Benedict [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-18 10:21:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS6244 | FRANCE/DARFUR: MFA CURBS MOVEMENT OF DARFUR [...] (C) JEM leader and Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) rejectionist Khalil Ibrahim is effectively grounded on European territory (Schengen Zone),after the French MFA intervened in August with national civil authorities to block renewal of his laissez-passer, AF DAS-Equivlalent Helen Le Gal informed [...] | 2006-09-18 14:55:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ETTC CD SU FR |
06PARIS6246 | FRANCE/COTE D'IVOIRE: NO EASY SOLUTION TO IMPASSE [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA Cote d'Ivoire desk officer Charlotte Montel on September 15 expressed frustration with the stalled peace process and said there was no easy solution. Concerned countries had to continue efforts to move the process forward, however, in order to maintain some semblance of mo [...] | 2006-09-18 14:59:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR PINR IV FR |
06PARIS6274 | TURKISH FM GUL IN FRANCE: GOOD ATMOSPHERICS, NO [...] (C) Summary: According to the Turkish Embassy, Turkish FM Gul's September 13-14 meetings with President Chirac, FM Douste-Blazy and Minister-delegate Colonna produced nothing new in substance from the French side. The Turks nonetheless profess to have discerned some softening in French attit [...] | 2006-09-19 16:28:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR EUN TU CY MARR |
06PARIS6275 | MFA OFFICIAL SAYS FRANCE WANTS A SYMBOLIC QUARTET [...] (C) Summary: In a June 18 meeting, MFA DAS-equivalent Herve Besancenot (protect throughout) said that President Chirac's repeated calls for a Quartet meeting on the margins of the UNGA were meant to provide an alternative to the UNSC ministerial meeting on the Middle East proposed by the Arab [...] | 2006-09-19 17:18:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LE SY IS FR |
06PARIS6292 | MFA SURPRISED BY CHIRAC CALL FOR MIDDLE EAST [...] (C) Summary: When President Chirac announced Sept. 18 that he planned to call for an international conference on the Middle East, he caught the senior ranks of the MFA by surprise. For at least 24 hours, there was considerable confusion over what the French President meant. One MFA interlocu [...] | 2006-09-20 11:14:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LE SY IS FR |
06PARIS630 | France: Telecom and Information Technology Update [...] This is another in a series of periodic updates on the French telecommunications and information technology sectors, including internet and e-commerce. Contents: -- France Telecom preparing for difficult 2006 (para 2) -- Bad results followed by management shake-up (para 3) -- ARCEP raps Fra [...] | 2006-01-31 16:55:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS ETRD FR |
06PARIS6323 | PARIS CLUB - SEPTEMBER 2006 TOUR D'HORIZON [...] (SBU) At the September 13 meeting of the Paris Club, Xavier Musca, the Chairman of the Paris Club, reported that Angolan Finance Minister de Morais had told him the previous week that Angola is still considering a precautionary Stand-By Arrangement with the IMF, with the understanding that th [...] | 2006-09-20 15:01:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR |
06PARIS6326 | IRAN AND LIBYA SANCTIONS ACT (ILSA): TOTAL ON ITS [...] (C) Summary. Total has not yet made irrevocable decisions to invest in the Azadegan Project. Until the UN Security Council agrees on international sanctions, however, Total would consider geographical, technical, and political risks in evaluating investment possibilities in Iran, a senior To [...] | 2006-09-20 15:32:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC EINV EPET FR IR |
06PARIS6360 | FRANCE HOLDS EU DISADVANTAGED BY UN SCALE OF [...] (SBU) In response to reftel points, MFA IO Acting A/S-Equivalent Marc Giacomini expounded on the disadvantages for the EU of the current UN scale of assessments in a September 19 meeting with poloff. Giacomini observed that the present 22 percent ceiling on the USG assessment of the UN budge [...] | 2006-09-22 09:02:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC FR KUNR UNGA UNSC |
06PARIS6376 | AVIAN INFLUENZA FRANCE UPDATE - 09/22/06 [...] (U) Summary. France continues robust preparations for an avian influenza (AI) pandemic: The GOF recently updated its national plan, including with procedures to minimize economic disruption. After focusing on technical matters such as stockpiling of medicine and equipment, the GOF now acknowl [...] | 2006-09-22 16:42:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU TPHY TSPA TSPL KSCA FR |
06PARIS6390 | GOF TAKE ON IRAN SANCTIONS [...] (C) Daniel Parfait, A/S-equivalent for the Americas Bureau at the MFA, assured a visiting California State Senate delegation on September 21 that France and the USG are in complete agreement on the way forward with Iran. He said President Chirac,s determination to prevent Iran from acquiring [...] | 2006-09-25 15:13:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL EFIN ETTC KTFN KNNP IR FR |
06PARIS6394 | FRANCE TO REVIEW SHAREHOLDER LAW, STOCK-OPTIONS ABUSE [...] Summary: The National Assembly plans to review the law on employee shareholding in October. The government is anxious to address the issue before the June 2007 presidential elections, since it wants to promote investment as well as address the abuse of stock options by company executives, whi [...] | 2006-09-25 16:11:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV FR |
06PARIS6436 | FRANCE AGREES WITH U.S. ON CUBA/HUMAN RIGHTS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-26 15:50:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL CU FR UNHRC |
06PARIS6442 | FRENCH MUSLIM LEADER: YES TO FRANCE, BUT NO TO [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. A week after he was replaced on September 17 as a vice president of the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM),the body created with the support of Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy in 2003 as a vehicle to represent French Muslims, National Federation of Muslims in [...] | 2006-09-26 16:46:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | SCUL PTER PGOV KISL FR |
06PARIS645 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran Hamas [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-01 12:43:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS6498 | FRANCE OPPOSES VENEZUELA UNSC SEAT BUT RELUCTANT [...] (C) In a September 27 meeting with poloff on other issues (prior to reception of ref A),MFA IO PDAS-Equivalent Marc Giacomini commented that Venezuela would do great harm to Security Council credibility, if elected. That said, Giacomini thought it significant that Venezuela had come up shor [...] | 2006-09-28 13:15:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL VE UNSC FR MARR MASS |
06PARIS6511 | FRENCH MFA PLEADS FOR USG TO SEEK HRC SEAT [...] (C) MFA IO PDAS-Equivalent Marc Giacomini welcomed reftel demarche with affirmations of broad agreement between French and U.S. positions on the Human Rights Council (HRC) during a 9/27 meeting with poloff (ref A). Giacomini concurred on the necessity of maintaining country-specific mandate a [...] | 2006-09-28 15:45:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNHRC PINR CU FR |
06PARIS6512 | MFA DENIES RUMORS OF RENEWED FRENCH OFFER TO TRAIN [...] (C) Summary: The Iraqi ambassador to France has picked up intimations that France may, during a visit in early November by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, renew its offer to train members of the Iraqi security forces -- this time perhaps in Jordan -- a rumor strenuously denied by the MFA. End [...] | 2006-09-28 15:51:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ FR |
06PARIS6536 | INITIAL FRENCH REACTION TO DEMARCHE ON 2007 UN [...] (C) On September 28, we delivered reftel demarche to MFA counselor for missile defense and disarmament issues David Bertolotti, who stated he would discuss our message with French panel member Francois Richier. As an aside, Bertolotti cautioned that Richier had just assumed a new position at [...] | 2006-10-02 07:37:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL UNGA CDG FR |
06PARIS6537 | FRANCE/GUINEA: HOW WILL THE SUCCESSION PLAY OUT? [...] (C) SUMMARY: The succession question in Guinea remains a focus of French concerns, according to MFA desk officer Damien Syed. President Conte, in ill health, has not done much to prepare for it, and the GOF is concerned that the military, led by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colone [...] | 2006-10-02 07:37:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR EAID GV FR |
06PARIS6542 | HEAD OF AFGHAN PARLIAMENT USES VISIT TO FRANCE TO [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with Prime Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy during his first visit to France as speaker of the Afghan Parliament, Yunus Qanooni offered a pessimistic assessment of security, poppy cultivation and Afghan-Pakistan relations. Although Qanooni reportedly offered nothing new [...] | 2006-10-02 10:20:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AF FR |
06PARIS6554 | FRANCE - TRADE AGREEMENT COMPLIANCE AND MONITORING [...] (SBU) In response to reftel request, post has created an interagency team on trade-related issues. The team includes representatives from the Economic Section, Foreign Commercial Services/U.S. Department of Commerce, and Agriculture. It will work closely with officers posted in France's two [...] | 2006-10-02 16:02:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ETRD ELAB PREL EUN FR |
06PARIS6557 | FRANCE: BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-LICENSE END [...] Per reftel, Post Blue Lantern Action Officer contacted the French company ACAL's Product Line Manager Philippe Bluteau and the end-user company SAGEM Defense and Security Transmission Drone (TACTDRONE) Activity Chief Pascal Paqueron. 2. ACAL's Bluteau confirmed that ACAL ordered SIRENZA it [...] | 2006-10-02 16:36:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC FR |
06PARIS6558 | FRANCE: ENERGY SECTOR UPDATE [...] (U) This is another in a series of occasional updates on the French energy sector. Feedback is welcome to help us make this product as useful as possible for our inter-agency USG audience. Contents: -- French PM calls for EU Energy Summit and EU Energy Chief (para 2) -- EU energy supplie [...] | 2006-10-02 16:51:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ELAB EPET EIND EINV PREL PGOV FR |
06PARIS6576 | FRENCH FARMERS AND RESEARCHERS DEMONSTRATE IN FAVOR OF [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-03 14:52:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD EU FR |
06PARIS6594 | TREASURY U/S LEVEY MEETS WITH FRENCH GOVERNMENT ON [...] (S/NF) On September 12-13, Treasury U/S for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Stuart Levey led a Treasury-State delegation to Paris to meet with French officials and senior executives from France-based international banks to raise awareness of deceptive means employed by Iran-related banks, [...] | 2006-10-04 10:29:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET//NOFORN | ETTC EFIN PTER PREL KTFN KNNP IR FR |
06PARIS6611 | NIGER/FRANCE: ENCOURAGING DEMOCRACY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Encouraging the development of Niger's budding democracy is France's principal concern for that country, according to MFA desk officer Michael Deslaimes. France shares the U.S.'s general approach to Niger. In the GOF view, Niger enjoys relative stability when compared with its [...] | 2006-10-04 14:07:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PINR PHUM KDEM NG FR |
06PARIS6618 | LYON ISLAMIC SCHOOL CONTROVERSY: ATTEMPTS TO OPEN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Following weeks of controversy surrounding the decision by the Lyon school district to deny permission to the "al-Kindi" Islamic association to open France's second, and largest, Muslim high school, Muslim leaders in Lyon told APP Lyon Chief and visiting Poloff during October 3 m [...] | 2006-10-04 16:46:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL SCUL PREL PTER FR |
06PARIS6619 | POSSIBLE NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR TEST [...] (C) Post shared ref A points October 4 with MFA A/S equivalent for Strategic Affairs Philippe Carre, Political Director staffer Gael Veyssiere, and IO DAS-equivalent for Political Affairs Jean-Hugues Simon-Michel. Pending a more complete reaction, Ref B reports the MFA press spokesman's sta [...] | 2006-10-05 05:20:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KN PARM KNNP FR |
06PARIS6641 | FRENCH PRESS REACTION TO THE WTO BIOTECH RULING [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-05 16:20:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD EU FR |
06PARIS6642 | FRENCH MFA ON HIZBALLAH, ISRAELI OVERFLIGHTS, [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-05 17:06:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR IS LE PREL |
06PARIS6655 | FRANCE/DJIBOUTI: MFA COMMENTS ON DEVELOPMENTS IN [...] (C) MFA Djibouti Desk Officer Francois Gautier on October 6 commented on the Borrel case and investigative judge Sophie Clement's recent decision to issue warrants against four Djiboutians for their alleged knowledge of or involvement in the death of French magistrate Bernard Borrel in Djibo [...] | 2006-10-06 13:15:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR ICJ DJ FR |
06PARIS6668 | THE GOF INTRODUCES ITS 2007 BUDGET [...] SUMMARY: French Finance Minister Breton unveiled the proposed budget for 2007, which includes tax cuts and measures to boost consumption (and please voters in a presidential election year). Spending priorities remain essentially unchanged from 2006: education, defense, safety, justice, employm [...] | 2006-10-06 16:14:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV FR |
06PARIS6669 | FRANCE ON NATIONAL STRATEGY TO INTERNATIONAL EFFORTS [...] (U) Embassy raised reftel points on the National Strategy to Internationalize Efforts Against Kleptocracy with senior MFA officials, and is sharing points with Ministries of Finance and Justice. MFA DAS-equivalent for International Financial Affairs Cyrille Pierre told us the French stance on [...] | 2006-10-06 16:14:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCOR ECON EAID EINV KCRM FR |
06PARIS6678 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY APPROVES NEW ENERGY BILL [...] (SBU) On October 3, the National Assembly approved an energy bill to: 1) open up the French gas and electricity markets to full competition by the EU deadline of July 1 2007, and 2) authorize the further privatization of the national gas utility, GDF. If supported by the Senate as expected, [...] | 2006-10-10 09:17:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET EIND EINV ELAB PREL PGOV FR |
06PARIS6679 | MEDIA WRAP-UP: IRAN/DPRK NUCLEAR GAMBIT; THE WEST AND [...] (SBU) In lieu of daily media reaction reporting, Embassy Paris offers this report of the week's major international stories. Two major stories emerged in the first week in October: the nuclear gambit of North Korea and Iran and questions linked to criticisms of Islam. Media coverage of Islam [...] | 2006-10-10 09:54:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPAO OPRC FR |
06PARIS6696 | FRENCH SEEK STRONG UNSC RESPONSE TO NORTH KOREAN [...] (C) On October 6 we provided ref A elements for UNSC action to the MFA, meeting separately with the Koreas desk officer Clea Le Cardeur and IO-equivalent action officer Benoit Guidee. Guidee told us on October 10, following receipt of ref C points, that the MFA position was one of "total soli [...] | 2006-10-10 16:32:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KNNP UNSC KN FR |
06PARIS6701 | FRANCE/THAILAND: NO SUCCOR FOR COUP LEADERSHIP [...] (C) During October 6 and October 11 discussions, MFA Southeast Asia DAS-Equivalent Fabrice Mauries and Thai Desk Officer Jeremie Petit explained that France was taking care to avoid any signals of encouragement to the coup leadership, while remaining pragmatic and vigilant with regard to the [...] | 2006-10-11 14:01:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EAID TH FR |
06PARIS6709 | RESPONSE TO NORTH KOREA: FRANCE ON BOARD WITH USG [...] (U) In an October 10 interview on French radio, FM Douste-Blazy termed the situation with North Korea as "extremely serious," and emphasized the need for action by the UN Security Council. Toward that end, Douste-Blazy referred to the U.S.-proposed draft resolution, stating that France "wishe [...] | 2006-10-11 14:23:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KNNP UNSC KN FR |
06PARIS6721 | FRANCE: R/V CORWITH CRAMER RESEARCH CLEARANCE REQUEST: [...] (U) Embassy received research clearance for the subject vessel (Reftel A) from the MFA under cover of diplomatic note number 1202/AME dated 11 October 2006. The note states that the French authorities have no objection to the research campaign of the Corwith Cramer in the French waters of th [...] | 2006-10-12 10:06:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | TPHY KRVC EWWT FR |
06PARIS6736 | FRANCE/DPRK: READY TO CO-SPONSOR DPRK RESOLUTION, [...] (C) France plans to co-sponsor the DPRK nuclear test resolution, but worries that the rush to a vote may jeopardize the degree of PRC buy-in, MFA IO Asian Affairs Desk Officer Benoit Guidee confirmed to poloff on October 12. Guidee, following up on an earlier October 12 conversation by polof [...] | 2006-10-12 12:55:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP MNUC UNSC KN FR |
06PARIS6740 | EGYPTIANS PRESS FRENCH FOR DETAILS ON [...] (C) Summary: Egyptian officials have been pressing their French counterparts to follow up on President Chirac's call for an international conference on the Middle East by spelling out what he hopes to achieve. The Egyptians believe the French may be backing away from the idea of an internatio [...] | 2006-10-12 14:35:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EG FR IS SY |
06PARIS6742 | FRENCH MFA DIRECTOR GENERAL ON CLIMATE CHANGE, [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-12 16:16:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN SENV EAID EAIR ETRD FR |
06PARIS6743 | US-FRANCE CONSULTATIONS ON NUCLEAR TRANSPORTATION [...] (C) Summary: In an October 9-12 consultation, a U.S. team led by DOE Deputy U/S for Counterterrorism Aoki met with French officials responsible for oversight and implementation of security for civil nuclear materials and facilities, focusing on security for nuclear materials being transported [...] | 2006-10-13 05:04:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | KNNP MNUC PTER FR |
06PARIS6752 | BERNARD KOUCHNER'S CANDIDACY FOR DIRECTOR GENERAL [...] (SBU) Bernard Kouchner met with the Ambassador October 12 to lobby for his candidacy as Director General of the World Health Organization. His purpose was not to seek outright U.S. support for his candidacy, but rather support for including him on the short list of final candidates. Kouchner [...] | 2006-10-13 11:00:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | FR PGOV WHO |
06PARIS6753 | FRANCE/COTE D'IVOIRE: ECOWAS MEETING FAILS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA Cote d'Ivoire desk officer Montel on October 10 expressed frustration that the October 6 ECOWAS summit accomplished little in moving the peace process forward, although she identified a number of points made by ECOWAS that were helpful (condemnation of Afi N'guessan, affirm [...] | 2006-10-13 11:22:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR KDEM UNSC IV SF FR |
06PARIS6781 | ELECTION 2007 TIMELINE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The first round of France's next presidential election will take place on Sunday, April 22, 2007. Between now and then, the nomination of their candidates by the two major parties, the composition of the (long) list of participants in the first round of the election, and the [...] | 2006-10-13 14:40:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
06PARIS6785 | MEDIA WRAP-UP: DPRK'S NUCLEAR TEST, UNEASE WITH RUSSIA AND [...] (SBU) Three major stories emerged this week: North Korea's nuclear test, fallout and international reactions to the slaying of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya and western criticism of Putin's regime, and commentary on Al Gore's documentary film on climate change. French media unequivoca [...] | 2006-10-13 16:05:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPAO OPRC SENV FR |
06PARIS6786 | FRANCE: VISIT OF VENEZUELA COORDINATOR DEBORAH [...] (C) Summary: In October 6 meetings with WHA Venezuela Coordinator Deborah McCarthy, French MFA officials reiterated French opposition to a Venezuelan seat on the UN Security Council but judged it remained a distinct possibility. DAS-equivalent Michel Pinard argued that overall the Chavez Admin [...] | 2006-10-13 16:05:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CO CU BL VE PGOV SNAR UNSC SP FR |
06PARIS6787 | FRENCH CONCERNS OVER ISRAELI OVERFLIGHTS [...] (C) French military and civilian contacts have recently expressed serious concern to us over Israeli overflights over French UNIFIL forces, most notably the "buzzing" of French navy vessels off the coast of Lebanon on or about 25 September and on a few occasions since. According to DATT and M [...] | 2006-10-13 16:44:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS UN LE FR |
06PARIS6788 | PRE-GAERC DEMARCHE TO FRANCE: POINTS DELIVERED [...] (SBU) We shared all ref A points October 11 with MFA DAS-equivalent for CFSP Emmanuel Cohet, Balkans points with DAS-equivalent for the Balkans Edouard Beslay, and Middle East points with DAS-equivalent for Lebanon/MEPP Herve Besancenot and DAS-equivalent for Iran Franck Gellet. 2. (C) Ba [...] | 2006-10-13 17:03:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR EU PGOV KPAL UNAUS YI SR BO MK SU |
06PARIS6789 | US-FRANCE WMD COUNTERTERRORISM COOPERATION: [...] (C) DOE Deputy Undersecretary for Counterterrorism Steven Aoki paid a courtesy call October 13 on Prefet Bernard Boube, Director, Protection and Security of the State, at the General Secretariat for National Defense (SGDN). Discussion focused on follow-up actions from the April visit to Washin [...] | 2006-10-16 05:35:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | KNNP MNUC PTER KFLU FR |
06PARIS680 | IRAN/IAEA: FRANCE REMAINS FIRM ON REFERRAL OF IRAN [...] (C) On Feb 2, post delivered reftel demarche to Nicolas Roche, deputy to Francois Richier in the MFA's Strategic affairs and Disarmament office, as well as to the Political Director's special assistant. Embassy Polmiloff conveyed U.S. rejection of a proposed Egyptian amendment to the resolut [...] | 2006-02-02 11:53:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM PREL AORC EUN IR FR |
06PARIS6811 | FRENCH MOVING FORWARD ON NEW COPYRIGHT REGULATORY [...] (SBU) Embassy officers have completed a series of meetings with Ministry of Trade, Ministry of Commerce and Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials regarding France,s Copyright law (ref A). French officials reiterated that they welcomed U.S. government and industry input regarding the implemen [...] | 2006-10-16 13:30:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR PGOV PREL WTO FR |
06PARIS6816 | 2006 FRENCH GDP GROWTH REVISED UPWARD [...] SUMMARY: The National Statistical Agency revised upward from 2.0 percent to 2.3 percent its GDP growth forecast for 2006, after taking into account the jump in second quarter growth. INSEE's forecast is in line with the government forecast for 2006. END SUMMARY. GDP Increases 2.3 Percent [...] | 2006-10-16 14:30:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV FR |
06PARIS6820 | PRESERVING LEBANESE PM SINIORA'S GOVERNMENT: [...] (C) Poloff shared reftel points 10/16 with Martin Guillard, the MFA's Office Director equivalent for the Levant (NEA/ELA). Guillard said the French are "absolutely in agreement" on the need to support PM Siniora and to pass a sobering message to Damascus. (He did not indicate whether the Fre [...] | 2006-10-16 16:28:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR KDEM PGOV PREL SY |
06PARIS6828 | French agricultural official clashes with EU commission [...] (SBU) Summary : Debate between a GOF agriculture official and a representative of the European Commission at an October 10 seminar on agricultural risk management highlighted continuing differences over: - the date of the next round of CAP reform (2008 vs. 2013); - whether the EU needed to [...] | 2006-10-16 16:35:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD EU FR |
06PARIS6836 | POLISH AMBASSADOR ON RUSSIA AND FRENCH/EU TIMIDITY [...] (C) Summary: In an October 13 meeting with the Ambassador, Polish Ambassador to France Jan Tombinski expressed concern about the increasing concentration of power in the Kremlin and criticized President Chirac for French reluctance to confront the Russians over their increasingly negative p [...] | 2006-10-17 11:58:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR RU EU GG MD |
06PARIS6842 | MFA DISCUSSES COUNTER-TERRORISM COOPERATION [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 7. 2. (S) Summary: In a meeting on October 16, MFA DAS-equivalent for Security in the Bureau of Strategic Affairs, Pierre Thenard, outlined generally positive French views on the Terrorist Inciters/Facilitators Initiative. Thenard inquired about [...] | 2006-10-17 13:35:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PTER PGOV PREL FR |
06PARIS6843 | FRENCH PONDER NEXT STEPS ON LEBANON [...] (C) Summary: While the French MFA's NEA and IO equivalents are convinced of the need to support PM Siniora, implement UNSCR 1701, and ensure UNIFIL's credibility, they have not yet ironed out differences in their thinking on potential next steps -- and may be seriously overestimating the poten [...] | 2006-10-17 13:35:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | FR KDEM PGOV PREL SY |
06PARIS6844 | FRANCE: BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-17 13:37:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC FR |
06PARIS6845 | CHIRAC'S AFRICA ADVISER ON UNSC ELECTIONS, DARFUR [...] (C) Summary: DCM met with Presidential African Affairs Counselor Michel de Bonnecorse on October 12 to follow up on French advocacy with Francophone sub-Saharan Africans to bolster the Security Council candidacy of Guatemala. Bonnecorse confirmed his intervention with the AU President and wi [...] | 2006-10-17 14:12:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC SU IV FR |
06PARIS685 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - State of the Union [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-02 12:05:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS686 | FRANCE - BUSINESS UPDATE [...] (U) This message contains a series of updates on French trade and business news. France's foreign trade deficit widened in 2005 --------------------------------------------- - 2. (U) France's trade deficit widened last November, leading many experts to conclude that France is heading for [...] | 2006-02-02 12:06:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ETRD ELAB PREL EUN FR |
06PARIS6896 | FRENCH DEFENSE BUDGET STABLE AMID WIDESPREAD [...] (C) Summary: The Ministry of Defense's 2007 budget would increase defense spending a modest 2.2 percent to 47.7 billion euros, according to the draft budget presented by Finance Minister Thierry Breton on September 27. The draft budget dispels earlier rumors that defense spending could diminis [...] | 2006-10-19 14:59:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MCAP EFIN PINS KCFE FR |
06PARIS6906 | FRENCH CAUTION GOI AGAINST LAUNCHING BROADER GAZA [...] (S) Herve Besancenot, the MFA's DAS-equivalent for the Levant, told us Oct. 19 that the Quai is alarmed by "multiple indications" that Israel intends to launch a broad Gaza offensive immediately after the Eid al-Fitr holiday (approximately October 26). The Quai fears that Prime Minister Olmer [...] | 2006-10-19 16:46:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | FR IS PGOV PREL |
06PARIS6907 | TALABANI VISIT ON TRACK [...] (C) On Oct. 19, PolMC briefed Iraqi Ambassador Mouaffak Abboud on the results (reported Ref B) of our latest demarche to the French on supporting the Iraq Compact. PolMC noted that the UK Embassy delivered a similar demarche to the French in mid-September and urged Abboud to also raise the po [...] | 2006-10-19 17:01:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN ETRD FR IZ PGOV PREL |
06PARIS6908 | FRANCE/UNSC VOTE: NO BENEFIT TO PRESSURE ON ITALY, [...] (C) Poloff contacted MFA IO PDAS-Equivalent Marc Giacomini in absence of IO A/S-Equivalent Sylvie Berman, who had earlier discussed the Italian abstention with Political Minister-Counselor (ref B). Giacomini relayed that the Italian delegation in New York, in response to a French approach, h [...] | 2006-10-19 17:56:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC IT FR |
06PARIS6938 | FRENCH PRAGMATIC ON LEBANON, PEACE PROCESS [...] (C) Summary: An authoritative contact at the French MFA advocated a gradual elimination of Israeli overflights of Lebanon, evinced interest in promoting Nabih Berri as an alternative to Hizballah, and provided an update on French thinking about an international conference on the Middle East -- [...] | 2006-10-20 16:44:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR PGOV PREL SY |
06PARIS6943 | MEDIA WRAP-UP: DPRK SANCTIONS, IRAQ AND FRENCH-TURKISH [...] (SBU) This week's commentary led with items on potential sanctions following North Korea's nuclear test and the difficulty of finding a balance between a firm stance and China's concerns over the "disintegration" of North Korea (DPRK),with a number of media linking the DPRK and Iran. Iraq sta [...] | 2006-10-20 16:51:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPAO OPRC FR |
06PARIS6945 | FRENCH PRAGMATIC ON LEBANON, PEACE PROCESS [...] (C) Summary: An authoritative contact at the French MFA advocated a gradual elimination of Israeli overflights of Lebanon, evinced interest in promoting Nabih Berri as an alternative to Hizballah, and provided an update on French thinking about an international conference on the Middle East -- [...] | 2006-10-20 17:01:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR PGOV PREL SY |
06PARIS6946 | MFA A/S-EQUIVALENT PESSIMISTIC ON TURKEY-EU TRAIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA A/S-equivalent for European Union affairs Gilles Briatta told us October 20 that Turkey understood that the French National Assembly's passage of legislation criminalizing denial of the Armenian "genocide" was only a first parliamentary step, and that Turkey had managed the [...] | 2006-10-23 06:06:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR EU TU CY PGOV RS ENRG ETRD |
06PARIS6968 | FRANCE SEEKS TO REDUCE GHG EMISSIONS BY A 'FACTOR [...] On October 9, Ecology and Industry Ministers, Nelly Olin and Francois Loos, jointly presented at a 'Factor 4' Conference the final report of the Working Group on 'Achieving a four-fold reduction in GHG emissions in France by 2050.' Written under the supervision of the French Council of Econo [...] | 2006-10-23 15:12:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV FR |
06PARIS6969 | FRANCE SEEKS TO REDUCE GHG EMISSIONS BY A 'FACTOR [...] On October 9, Ecology and Industry Ministers, Nelly Olin and Francois Loos, jointly presented at a 'Factor 4' Conference the final report of the Working Group on 'Achieving a four-fold reduction in GHG emissions in France by 2050.' Written under the supervision of the French Council of Econo [...] | 2006-10-23 15:17:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV FR |
06PARIS6993 | PARIS CLUB - OCTOBER 2006 TOUR D'HORIZON AND MALAWI DEBT [...] (U) At the October 18-19 meeting of the Paris Club, creditors canceled 354 million of Malawi's 363 million dollars of Paris Club debt as its completion point treatment under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative. The US was not a creditor. The Club provided financing assuranc [...] | 2006-10-24 14:06:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR |
06PARIS6995 | YOUNG FRENCH MUSLIM LEADER HIGHLIGHTS GENERATIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ahmed Gouffi, a young French-born Muslim civic leader, criticized the leaders of France's main Muslim organizations as out of touch with young Muslims born in France. His comments echo those of other young French Muslim contacts, and highlight a generational divide between Frenc [...] | 2006-10-24 14:45:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL INR PTER SCUL FR |
06PARIS7013 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNGA RESOLUTIONS ON THE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-25 10:59:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR IS LE PHUM PREL PTER UNGA |
06PARIS7023 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ISRAEL AT UNGA [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-25 17:01:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR IS PREL UNGA |
06PARIS7024 | SCENESETTER FOR NSA HADLEY'S NOVEMBER 3-4 VISIT TO [...] (C) When you meet him, Maurice Gourdault-Montagne's focus will be on some of the same subjects that are currently preoccupying us: Iran, Syria/Lebanon and NATO (global partnerships, Afghanistan.) We would expect MGM to be in his usual cooperative, problem-solving mode on the first two, wher [...] | 2006-10-25 17:34:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PREL FR NATO KNNP IR IZ LE SY IS RS GG |
06PARIS7025 | FRANCE/CHAD: STORM HAS BLOWN OVER [...] (C) Bruno Foucher, MFA AF DAS-Equivalent assured Africa Watcher late October 25 that the rebel attacks near Mongo had petered out and the rebels were dispersing -- some headed toward the southern border with the Central African Republic, others toward the north. Foucher, who leaves in Novemb [...] | 2006-10-25 17:51:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM CD FR |
06PARIS7056 | FRENCH MFA ON IRAQ COMPACT PG MEETING, TALABANI [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Franck Gellet, MFA DAS-equivalent for Iraq, and Bernard Chappedelaine, Iraq desk officer, on October 26. Chappedelaine said France would be represented at the 10/31 Preparatory Group meeting by Ambassador Jean-Pierre Guinhut, Inter-Ministerial Coordinato [...] | 2006-10-26 16:55:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EFIN FR IZ PGOV PREL |
06PARIS7057 | EUR DAS BRYZA DISCUSSES NEXT STEPS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Visiting EUR DAS Bryza and EUR/CARC Conflicts Advisor Crosby met with newly arrived MFA Deputy Political Director and A/S-equivalent for non-EU Europe October 24 to exchange views -- in advance of Georgian FM Bezhuashvili's November 7 visit to Paris -- on next steps on Russia-Ge [...] | 2006-10-27 08:26:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR GG RS NATO EU KDEM MARR |
06PARIS706 | SCENESETTER FOR PARIS VISIT HHS DEPUTY SECRETARY [...] (SBU) I warmly welcome you to Paris to meet with Health Minister Bertrand and sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the President of Institut Pasteur, Professor Alice Dautry. The Embassy works closely with the Ministry of Health on a range of matters, including avian flu, AIDS and the Global [...] | 2006-02-02 14:45:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO PREL ECON SOCI FR |
06PARIS7076 | NOTE FROM U/S JOSEPH ON STRATEGIC SECURITY [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-27 14:10:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM KNNP RS UK FR |
06PARIS7084 | THE FUSE AND THE POWDER KEG: FRANCE ONE YEAR AFTER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: One year after violent unrest lit up France's underclass suburbs for three weeks, the country's poor suburban neighborhoods remain troubled. Religious identity in these largely Muslim areas was not a significant causal factor then, nor has it become one now. Instead, failure [...] | 2006-10-27 15:41:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM SOCI ELAB FR PGOV |
06PARIS7086 | SERBIA PUSHING FRANCE TO REOPEN SAA NEGOTIATIONS [...] SUMMARY: (S) Serbian Senior Presidential Advisor Vuk Jeremic held talks in Paris at the MFA and French Presidency on October 25-26 to push for a reopening of EU Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) negotiations with Serbia, lay out President Tadic,s vision for elections, and plead for [...] | 2006-10-27 16:07:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PREL PGOV UNMIK YI FR |
06PARIS7090 | MEDIA WRAP-UP: SUBURBAN UNREST; IRAN'S REACH INTO SHIITE [...] (SBU) A number of media outlets commented on recent vandalism and violence in the Paris suburbs in conjunction with the anniversary of last year's suburban unrest and discussed the undercurrents of lingering tensions. Commentators analyzed the situation in the light of a confidential intellige [...] | 2006-10-27 16:17:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPAO OPRC FR |
06PARIS7096 | G/TIP: FRANCE MAKES CASE FOR PROGRESS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY. Jean-Michel Colombani, Chief of the Interior Ministry's Central Office for the Prevention of Trafficking in Persons, made the case during an October 25 meeting that France has a strong record in preventing and addressing the trafficking of persons and continues to make significant [...] | 2006-10-27 16:51:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM KWMN FR |
06PARIS7101 | FRANCE CONFIRMS TO S/CRS HERBST THAT IT HAS NO [...] (C) Summary: October 19, visiting S/CRS Ambassador John Herbst met with both working and senior-level French counterparts to share the USG experience in establishing a central coordinating office for reconstruction and stabilization activities and to encourage creation of a similar structure [...] | 2006-10-30 09:08:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS FR |
06PARIS7102 | DAS BRYZA AND MOI DIPLOMATIC ADVISOR DISCUSS [...] (S) SUMMARY: In an October 24 meeting with EUR DAS Matt Bryza, Minister of Interior Sarkozy's Diplomatic Advisor, David Martinon, expressed interest in U.S. thinking on Muslim integration in Europe and highlighted the various ways in which the GOF has approached the problem in recent years. Sa [...] | 2006-10-30 09:12:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER FR TU PINS XT |
06PARIS7104 | AFGHANISTAN, FRANCE AND NATO: EVOLVING FRENCH [...] (C) In a follow up to the widely-rumored, but not yet publicly announced, French decision to withdraw its Special Forces (SOF) contribution to OEF in Afghanistan, we inquired of MOD and MFA contacts as to France's commitment to ISAF and OEF. MFA Strategic Affairs Advisor in the Cabinet Francoi [...] | 2006-10-30 11:09:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL NATO AF FR |
06PARIS7108 | MFA SEES LITTLE CHANCE OF TALKS BETWEEN POLISARIO [...] (C) Summary: The MFA DAS-equivalent for the Maghreb, Christian Testo, assessed there was little likelihood either Morocco or Algeria would agree to direct Moroccan-Polisario talks in the near future. In Testo's analysis, both Algeria and Tunisia were obsessed with their respective presidential [...] | 2006-10-30 11:57:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AG FR MO PGOV |
06PARIS7109 | FRANCE: WHA DAS MADISON DISCUSSES CUBA [...] (C) Summary: In October 18-19 meetings with WHA DAS Kirsten Madison, MFA A/S-equivalent for WHA affairs Parfait agreed that Cuba was likely entering a period of transition and needed international support in evolving toward democratic governance, while cautioning against interference in Cuban [...] | 2006-10-30 13:10:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV CU FR NU VE EAID ETTC PHUM PREL |
06PARIS7118 | ISRAELI DIPLOMAT THINKS WORST IS OVER ON [...] (S) Summary: The Israeli PolCouns told us 10/26 that "the worst is over" in terms of the public spat between France and Israel regarding overflights of Lebanon. The Israeli MFA has advised the Israeli Air Force to "cool it," and the French have assured the GoI that UNIFIL's commander will soon [...] | 2006-10-30 15:52:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR IS LE PGOV PREL SY |
06PARIS7119 | FRENCH TELECOM DEVELOPMENTS FROM ENTERPRISE DIRECTORATE [...] (SBU) Summary: GOF Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry Information and Communications Technologies Director Emmanuel Gabla told us on October 19 that he was discussing with EU counterparts whether to regulate next generation fiber networks used for broadband and cable TV. Gabla admitted [...] | 2006-10-30 17:18:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ECON FR |
06PARIS7135 | 2007 INCSR REPORT FOR FRANCE [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED -- NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) BELOW FOLLOWS THE 2007 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT (INCSR) FOR THE FRENCH CARIBBEAN: I. SUMMARY French Guiana, Martinique, Guadeloupe, the French side of St. Martin, and St. Barthe [...] | 2006-10-31 12:45:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR FR |
06PARIS7139 | MINISTER CONVOKES AMBASSADOR OVER COTE D'IVOIRE [...] (C) Summary: Cabinet Minister Girardin convoked the Ambassador October 31 to urge U.S. support for the French draft Security Council resolution on Cote d'Ivoire, pleading that France was in a very difficult situation. After taking into account core U.S. objections, the draft now represented [...] | 2006-10-31 14:20:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC IV FR KPKO |
06PARIS715 | EMBASSY PARIS SUBMISSION TO THE 2005/2006 REPORT TO CONGRESS ON ALLIED CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE COMMON DEFENSE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-03 07:04:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | FR MARR MCAP PREL |
06PARIS7151 | FRANCE SUPPORTS STRONG ENFORCEMENT OF UNSCR 1718 [...] (C) Poloff delivered Under Secretary's letter (reftel) October 30 to Benoit Guidee, IO office director-equivalent at the MFA. Guidee reiterated France's "total solidarity" with the U.S. and agreed that the U.N. Security Council must maintain a firm stance on the North Korean nuclear tests. The [...] | 2006-10-31 17:03:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM PREL PHSA EWWT EAIR PBTS FR KN |
06PARIS7153 | TOGO: GILCHRIST OLYMPIO'S OCTOBER 23 MEETING [...] (C) SUMMARY: UFC leader Gilchrist Olympio on October 23 told visiting U.S. Ambassador to Togo David Dunn that the UFC would be willing to participate in Togo's government of national unity under certain conditions, such as naming a UFC member to head a notional new ministry charged with over [...] | 2006-11-02 07:35:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR TO FR |
06PARIS7177 | FRANCE SEES POST-DEBY CHAD APPROACHING [...] (C) Summary: President Chirac's African Affairs Counselor Michel de Bonnecorse admitted to visiting U.S. Ambassador to Chad Marc Wall in an October 20 meeting that Deby's Presidency could be nearing its close, with assassination a growing possibility. The manner and place of Deby's demise - [...] | 2006-11-02 14:56:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PINR KPKO SU CD FR |
06PARIS7178 | FRANCE PROMISES VIGILANCE TOWARD KOMID AND OTHER [...] (C) This is an action message; see paragraph 3. Poloff called November 2 upon Arnaud Mentre, desk officer for non-proliferation in the MFA's bureau of strategic affairs, to deliver demarche (reftel A). Mentre said France is aware of the Korea Mining Development Trading Corporation (KOMID) and [...] | 2006-11-02 15:22:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM FR MNUC KNNP KN |
06PARIS718 | EMBASSY PARIS SUBMISSION TO THE 2005/2006 REPORT [...] (U) Summary: This telegram constitutes Embassy Paris's country submission for the 2005/2006 Report to Congress on Allied Contributions to the Common Defense (requested Ref A). We report on developments that took place during calendar years 2004 and 2005 and offer cost sharing information fo [...] | 2006-02-03 10:20:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR MCAP FR |
06PARIS7182 | TOGO: FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR'S OCTOBER 26 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Presidential Africa Advisor Michel de Bonnecorse on October 26 said that the recently announced Togolese government was a "reasonable formula," in a meeting with transiting Ambassador David Dunn. He characterized Gilchrist Olympio, his UFC associates, and other non-participant [...] | 2006-11-03 07:21:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR TO FR |
06PARIS719 | EMBASSY PARIS SUBMISSION TO THE 2005/2006 REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-03 10:20:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR MCAP FR |
06PARIS7199 | France: Telecom and Information Technology Update [...] This is another in a series of periodic updates on the French telecommunications and information technology sectors, including internet and e-commerce. Contents: -- SFR takes over Tele2 and becomes the second fully integrated operator after France Telecom (FT)(para 2) -- Neuf Cegetel acquir [...] | 2006-11-03 13:37:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ETRD FR |
06PARIS720 | EMBASSY PARIS SUBMISSION TO THE 2005/2006 REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-03 10:20:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR MCAP FR |
06PARIS7200 | TOGO/FRENCH MFA: AMBASSADOR DUNN'S OCTOBER 24 [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an October 24 meeting with U.S. Ambassador to Togo David Dunn, MFA DAS-equivalent Bruno Foucher said that Togo was evolving well. He complained that German caution was impeding the unblocking of EU funding for Togo; resuming economic assistance rapidly would help prevent To [...] | 2006-11-03 13:42:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR TO FR |
06PARIS7201 | PRESIDENT CHIRAC'S VISIT TO CHINA-STRENGTHENING THE [...] (SBU) French President Jacques Chirac's most recent four-day visit to China on October 25th through the 28th was notable due to the signing of trade deals worth approximately 5 billion euro and for his personal efforts to improve Franco-Chinese political ties. 2. (U) "Never have we been s [...] | 2006-11-03 13:45:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET EIND EINV ELAB PREL PGOV FR CH |
06PARIS7202 | TOGO/FRENCH MOD: AMBASSADOR DUNN'S OCTOBER 24 [...] (C) SUMMARY: U.S. Ambassador to Togo David Dunn met with French Ministry of Defense officials on August 24. The discussion focused on Togo's military and how to decrease its involvement in internal security affairs, which should be handled by the police and gendarmerie. However, defining a [...] | 2006-11-03 13:47:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MARR TO FR |
06PARIS7208 | FRENCH FOCUS ON THE ENVIRONMENT [...] Summary: A number of environmental developments have occurred in France recently: - The release of State of the Environment IFEN Report 2006; - President Chirac's announcement of an international conference to be held in Paris in early 2007 to press for a UN Environment Organization; - [...] | 2006-11-03 16:04:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV PGOV FR |
06PARIS7209 | CESR CHANGES OPERATIONAL TASKS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) has amended its charter in response to a report issued by the EU Council of Ministers earlier this year. The move is part of a broader effort to promote regulatory convergence and improve supervision of the financial markets [...] | 2006-11-03 16:04:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV FR |
06PARIS7211 | "WE'RE STUCK": FRENCH GLUM ON LEBANON, [...] (S) Summary: In an Oct. 31 meeting with NEA DAS Scott Carpenter, MFA A/S-equivalent for the Middle East and North Africa Jean Felix-Pagagnon said FM Douste-Blazy was unlikely to attend the November 30 session of the Forum For the Future in Jordan. Felix-Pagagnon went on to offer a remarkably [...] | 2006-11-03 16:22:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | FR KDEM PGOV PREL SY |
06PARIS7212 | U/S LAVIN RAISES COPYRIGHT LEGISLATION CONCERNS WITH GOF [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-03 16:36:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EFIN KIPR FR |
06PARIS7213 | MEDIA WRAP-UP: IRAQ AND U.S. MID-TERM ELECTIONS, NATO'S [...] (SBU) Speculation about the upcoming U.S. mid-term elections and the impact of the war in Iraq elicited widespread conjecture about the prospects for a new U.S. strategy for Iraq. President Talabani's visit to Paris prompted additional discussion of the need for international support for his c [...] | 2006-11-03 16:37:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPAO OPRC FR |
06PARIS7228 | CHINA AND CHINESE TAIPEI AT THE OECD: RAISING THE BAR? [...] (SBU) Summary and action request: China and Taiwan (Chinese Taipei) continue to spar over Taiwan's participation, as a non-member, in the work of the OECD -- work for which statehood is not a requirement. In recent developments, Chinese Taipei has applied to participate in the activities of t [...] | 2006-11-06 13:48:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL SENV EU CH TW OECD FR |
06PARIS7242 | MFA POLICY PLANNER SEES YEARS OF VIOLENCE AHEAD IN [...] (C) Christian Nakhle, head of the Middle East and North Africa cell at the Centre d'Analyse et de Prevision (i.e., the "CAP," the Quai's S/P-equivalent),shared his views of Lebanon and Iraq with NEA Watcher on 11/3. Nakhle, whose analyses are distributed within the MFA but do not constitute [...] | 2006-11-06 16:18:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR KDEM PGOV PREL SY |
06PARIS7243 | UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE COUNTRY SPECIFIC HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) In a November 3 meeting, Aurelia Bouchez, MFA DAS equivalent for Russia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus, expressed general support for the U.S.-led UNGA resolution on the human rights situation in Uzbekistan. Bouchez expressed surprise, however, that the U.S. had already sent a demarche t [...] | 2006-11-06 16:23:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KTIA UN FR |
06PARIS7251 | DAILY NEWSPAPERS: FIRST IN A SERIES ON THE FRENCH MEDIA [...] (SBU) Embassy Paris has been reviewing and recalibrating its media strategy for the 2006-2007 to determine the appropriate attention to keep on traditional print media while pivoting to expand our efforts with radio and TV media, as well as with the new Internet media. This analysis of French [...] | 2006-11-06 16:40:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPAO OPRC FR |
06PARIS7266 | DEMARCHE ON DISRUPTION OF CHISINAU-MOSCOW RAIL [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel November 3 to Aurelia Bouchez, MFA DAS-equivalent for Russia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus. Bouchez commented that the suspension of the Chisinau rail link came as a surprise to France, which had expected Russia to avoid provocations on Transnistria in order to d [...] | 2006-11-07 14:01:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ELTN RS MD UP FR |
06PARIS7269 | (S/NF) G7 CONFERENCE ON WMD PROLIFERATION FINANCING [...] SUMMARY: (C/REL France, UK, Germany, Italy, Japan, Canada) France hosted an experts-level meeting on October 25 with G7 partners and the EU to discus how to implement the G8 Gleneagles commitment to develop financial measures to combat WMD proliferation. Participants exchanged information on [...] | 2006-11-07 14:47:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | EFIN PARM PGOV FR |
06PARIS7278 | FRANCE: BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END USE [...] (SBU) Per reftel, Post Blue Lantern Action Officer contacted the French company CEO Jean-Marc Gardin regarding export license DA1023-06, involving the export of components for flight simulators to Canadian firm CAE. According to Garden, the distribution agreement between Thales Electronics, BE [...] | 2006-11-07 16:28:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC FR CA |
06PARIS728 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Islam and Democracy - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-03 12:51:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS7290 | HAL - FRANCE'S PORTAL FOR SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS [...] All major French research organizations, the conference of university presidents (CPU),the conference of 'Grandes Ecoles' (France's elite universities),and the Pasteur Institute recently signed a Joint Draft Agreement defining a coordinated approach, at the national level, for open-access [...] | 2006-11-08 13:16:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | TINT TNGD FR |
06PARIS7302 | FRANCE UNLIKELY TO GRANT FURTHER DEBT RELIEF TO IRAQ [...] (SBU) Embassy raised reftel points on Iraqi debt forgiveness with the head of France's Inter-ministerial Mission for Iraq Reconstruction, Ambassador Jean-Pierre Guinhut, on November 6. Guinhut said there would be considerable resistance to going beyond the 80% forgiveness France had committed t [...] | 2006-11-08 15:37:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EZ FR |
06PARIS7318 | INTERNATIONAL UNION'S LUNG CONFERENCE - PUNCHING ABOVE ITS [...] SUMMARY: The International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease convened the 37th Union World Conference on Lung Health from October 31 to November 4, 2006 in Paris, France. The Union's annual conference is the world's premier meeting of tuberculosis and public health experts dedicate [...] | 2006-11-09 10:50:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KHIV KFLU FR |
06PARIS7321 | EGYPTIAN EMBASSY OFFICIAL: NABIH BERRI IS A JOKE, [...] (C) Summary: Embassy Paris NEA Watcher met 11/7 with his Egyptian counterpart, Yahya Oda, and 11/8 with Lebanese Charge d'Affaires Ghady al-Khoury (protect),to discuss political developments in Lebanon. While Oda predicted the current dialogue between the March 14 Group and Hizballah/Aounist [...] | 2006-11-09 11:27:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR KDEM LE PGOV PREL SY |
06PARIS7322 | FRENCH PRESIDENCY VIEWS ON IRAQ, LEBANON, AND [...] (C) Summary: A/DCM met 11/8 with Dominique Boche, President Chirac's foreign policy advisor for the Middle East and North Africa and received a short readout of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's visit to France November 1-2. Boche noted that Talabani did not raise France's long-standing offer t [...] | 2006-11-09 11:28:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR IZ KDEM PGOV PREL SY |
06PARIS7325 | U.S. Organics Program Presented to French Audiences [...] Summary: On October 26, Katherine DiMatteo, representing the U.S. Organic Trade Association (OTA),met with two French agricultural journalists and participated in a round table with 20 people from the French organic industry and regulatory services. In these events, organized by FAS and PAO [...] | 2006-11-09 13:02:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD EU FR |
06PARIS7327 | VIOLENCE ESCALATES AROUND BIOTECH CORN [...] Summary: On November 4, anti biotech activists, including Jose Bove, damaged 2,000 MT of GM corn worth at least 365,000 Euros at a farm near Bordeaux. The concerned farmer reacted by firing shots in the air and using his vehicle to damage demonstrators' vehicles. While the police briefly det [...] | 2006-11-09 13:42:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD EU FR |
06PARIS7328 | MEDIA WRAP-UP: IRAQ AND U.S. MID-TERM ELECTIONS, VERDICT [...] (SBU) Debate over the impact of the war in Iraq continued to fuel widespread speculation prior to November 7 about a "lame duck presidency," while most commentary on the results concluded that the vote had "punished" President Bush's Iraq policy. Journalists analyzed the verdict in the Saddam [...] | 2006-11-09 13:42:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPAO OPRC FR |
06PARIS7329 | FRANCE 2007 INCSR Report, Part II [...] (SBU) Below is the proposed 2006-2007 INCSR Report for France, Part II, Financial crimes and money laundering. 2. (SBU) France France remains an attractive venue for money laundering because of its sizable economy, political stability, and sophisticated financial system. Common methods [...] | 2006-11-09 15:09:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KCRM KTFN FR |
06PARIS7335 | TOGO: MEETING WITH ERIC AMERDING (UFC) [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Senior UFC member Eric Amerding on November 8 said that he had discussed Togo with EU Commission members on November 7, in response to an EU request for UFC views on developments in Togo. Amerding told the EU representatives that the Faure regime was not acting in [...] | 2006-11-09 16:08:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR TO FR |
06PARIS7337 | FRANCE/GAERC: GOF MAD ON LEBANON; SKEPTICAL ON [...] (U) We shared reftel points November 7 with MFA DAS-equivalent for the Middle East Herve Besancenot, DAS-equivalent for Iran Franck Gellet, DAS-equivalent for Nonproliferation (Iran) Philippe Errera and Deputy David Bertolotti, and DAS-equivalent for CFSP Emmanuel Cohet. Separately, we raised [...] | 2006-11-09 16:22:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR EUN PGOV PHUM UNAUS YI SR BK CG IS |
06PARIS7340 | FRENCH AGREE ON IMPORTANCE OF SUPPORTING REFORM [...] (C) French DAS-equivalent for Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, Aurelia Bouchez, confirmed on November 3 that France would continue strongly to support reform efforts in the Ukraine, particularly in the defense field. Bouchez noted that although France in theory was in favor of a NATO m [...] | 2006-11-09 16:54:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL MOPS UP FR |
06PARIS7345 | France Ponders 2007 Social Security Budget [...] SUMMARY: As part of efforts to reduce the overall budget deficit to 2.5 percent of GDP in 2007, Health Minister Xavier Bertrand unveiled a 2007 social security budget with a cap on health spending, reducing the social security deficit to 8.0 billion euros (12.2 billion dollars). The social se [...] | 2006-11-13 08:41:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV FR |
06PARIS7358 | CSTD PARIS PANEL MEETING ON WSIS OUTCOME PRODUCES GUIDANCE [...] (U) Summary: The November 6-8, 2006 Paris Panel Meeting of the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) Panel Meeting on WSIS outcome "Promoting the building of people-centered, development-oriented, and inclusive information society, with a view to enhancing digital oppo [...] | 2006-11-13 16:27:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS TINT KWWW PREL FR |
06PARIS7363 | CHAIRMAN,S SUMMARY ON WMD PROLIFERATION FINANCING [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-14 09:44:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | EFIN PARM PGOV FR |
06PARIS7364 | FRANCE/SUDAN SANCTIONS: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION [...] (C) MFA AF DAS-Equivalent Helene Le Gal provided the following biographical information to Africa Watcher on Khalil Ibrahim, the leader of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) (Ref A). Le Gal confirmed on November 7 that Ibrahim remains in France, where he has been unable to renew his tr [...] | 2006-11-14 10:21:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PINR PTER PINS CD SU FR |
06PARIS738 | S/CRS DELEGATION FINDS FRENCH IN LISTENING MODE [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: French interlocutors were in active listening mode during 24-25 January briefings by Acting Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization (S/CRS) Marcia Wong and NSC Director for Stabilization Clint Williamson. Wong and Williamson invited feedback on the non-pa [...] | 2006-02-03 14:41:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL UNGA CT FR |
06PARIS7393 | COTE D'IVOIRE/FRANCE: INVESTIGATION OF NOVEMBER [...] (C) SUMMARY: France's judicial investigation of the November 6, 2004, bombing of French forces in Cote d'Ivoire by the Ivoirian Air Force may be drawing to a close, according to recent developments reported by the press. Nine French military personnel and an Amcit civilian were killed in t [...] | 2006-11-15 15:18:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MOPS IV TO BO RS UP FR |
06PARIS7394 | ARMS TRADE TREATY: FRANCE VIEWS IT AS A GOOD [...] (C) Summary: In an informal discussion, an MFA DAS-equivalent contact expressed qualified support for the international Arms Trade Treaty (ATT),even though France believes such a treaty, to be acceptable to all, would be initially weaker than the strong export control regimes already in place [...] | 2006-11-15 15:26:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL EIND ETTC KTIA FR |
06PARIS741 | TOGO: EX-MINISTER BOKO DISCUSSES RECENT EVENTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Togo's former Interior Minister Francois Boko on January 31 discussed Togo-Cote d'Ivoire arms trafficking (planes piloted by Belarusian mercenaries were involved in the November 2004 bombings in Cote d'Ivoire and had transited Togo, but France did not pursue information Boko says [...] | 2006-02-03 15:36:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM MARR PINR TO FR |
06PARIS7417 | FRENCH HOPEFUL ON NABIH BERRI, CAUTIOUS ON [...] (C) On November 15, Damien Loras, Foreign Minister Douste-Blazy's cabinet advisor on the Middle East, said the Quai d'Orsay was encouraged by Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri's role in trying to bridge the gap between Hizballah and the March 14 forces. Loras conceded that the resignati [...] | 2006-11-16 16:35:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | FR KDEM LE PGOV PREL SY |
06PARIS7419 | FRENCH RESPONSES TO SUPPORT REQUESTS FOR COUNTRY [...] (C) On November 9 Poloff delivered demarches seeking French support for defeating any procedural moves that could prevent voting on the substance of any resolution before the Third Committee, and defeating retaliatory resolutions brought by Iran and Belarus against Canada and the United State [...] | 2006-11-17 05:05:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHRC CA FR IR BM KN BO UZ |
06PARIS7422 | FRENCH ENERGY BILL PRIVATIZES GDF, FREEZES ELECTRICITY AND [...] (SBU) On November 14, the European Commission announced that the French energy conglomerate Suez and the 70 percent GOF-owned Gaz de France (GDF) had satisfied concerns about the proposed merger's impact on competition after the two firms promised to sell off some prime assets in Belgium. GDF [...] | 2006-11-17 11:53:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET EIND EINV ELAB PREL PGOV FR |
06PARIS7424 | SEGOLENE ROYAL'S VICTORY MOVES HER CLOSER TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Segolene Royal's overwhelming first-round victory in the November 16 Socialist Party (PS) presidential primary makes it official -- she will be the candidate of the center-left in next year's presidential election, likely in a tight race against the center-right's Nicolas Sarkozy. [...] | 2006-11-17 14:34:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
06PARIS7425 | FRANCE: PARIS AIRPORT SECURITY UNDER INCREASING [...] (U) Airport security has come in for increasing public scrutiny with the airing by the Euronews network November 15 of a September videotape purporting to show holes in security arrangements at Paris' Charles De Gaulle airport (CDG). The footage demonstrated how cleared airport baggage handle [...] | 2006-11-17 14:45:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR PTER PREL KHLS FR |
06PARIS7435 | MFA ADVISOR WORRIED ABOUT BULGARIAN NURSES, ASKS [...] (C) Francois Touazi, FM Douste-Blazy's Advisor for the Persian Gulf and North Africa, told NEA Watcher November 16 that he was seriously concerned about the outcome of the re-trial of the Bulgarian nurses and Palestinian doctor accused of deliberately infecting Libyan children with HIV (some t [...] | 2006-11-17 16:03:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR LY PGOV PREL |
06PARIS7436 | FRENCH MOD COORDINATOR FOR MILITARY ASSISTANCE TO [...] (C) Summary: Vice-Admiral Jean-Marie Van Huffel, France's Coordinator for Military Assistance to Lebanon, told Emboffs November 17 that he looks forward to cooperating with the USG on meeting the equipment needs of the Lebanese Armed Forces. He spoke highly of his Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) c [...] | 2006-11-17 16:06:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR KDEM LE MARR PGOV PREL SY |
06PARIS7437 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: NOVEMBER 17 EMERGENCY SPECIAL [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA action officers for Middle East UN issues Nicolas Kassianides and Selena Grenet on November 17. Grenet noted that -- due to the opposition of the UK and Germany -- the EU had been unable to come to a common position with respect to the text referred [...] | 2006-11-17 16:32:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR IS PREL UNGA |
06PARIS7439 | MEDIA WRAP-UP: U.S. MID-TERM ELECTIONS/ MIDDLE EAST [...] (SBU) The U.S. mid-term election results fueled speculation about a possible shift in U.S. Middle East policy beyond Iraq. Commentators used the occasion of the Israeli Prime Minister's visit to Washington and the Beit Hanoun incident to discuss Washington's support to Israel in the context of [...] | 2006-11-17 16:38:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPAO OPRC FR |
06PARIS744 | ISRAELI IO A/S OUTLINES MULTILATERAL PRIORITIES, [...] (C) Summary: Israeli MFA IO A/S-Equivalent Aharon Leshno Yaar briefed Political Minister-Counselor January 26 on his meetings with French counterparts, stressing his warning to the GoF against new initiatives on Shebaa farms. Yaar confided Israel was also interested in organizing a new coor [...] | 2006-02-03 16:28:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM IZ FR |
06PARIS7444 | IRAN'S PROPOSED IAEA TECHNICAL COOPERATION [...] (C) David Bertolloti, office director in the MFA's Bureau of Disarmament and Non-proliferation, said the GoF "completely subscribes" to the U.S. approach toward Iran's proposed IAEA technical cooperation proposals (ref A). He said that the MFA also regards the Arak heavy water research reacto [...] | 2006-11-17 16:46:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM MNUC FR |
06PARIS7445 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: DRAFT IRAQ UNSCR TEXT [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on November 17 to Nicolas Kassianides, MFA action officer for UN Middle East issues. Kassianides said that France wanted to be helpful, and that the MFA agreed "almost fully" with the draft text. He noted that the French Mission to the UN had already sugge [...] | 2006-11-17 16:53:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR IZ PARM PREL |
06PARIS7477 | FRENCH GDP STAGNATES IN THIRD QUARTER [...] SUMMARY: Based on a French National Statistical Agency preliminary estimate (which may be subject to revisions),GDP growth stagnated in Q-3. The results disappointed the government, which was counting on growth to reduce unemployment ahead of the April 2007 presidential elections. However, [...] | 2006-11-21 13:17:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV FR |
06PARIS7478 | DEMARCHE TO RESETTLE PROTECTED MIGRANTS FROM [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel points November 14 to MFA Office Director-equivalent for Asylum and Immigration Pierre Brethes, MFA Desk officer-equivalent for the United States Sameh Safty, and MFA Desk officer-equivalent for Cuba Othman El Kashtoul, urging the French government to consider re [...] | 2006-11-21 13:41:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF FR SMIG SZ |
06PARIS7481 | REQUEST FOR PERMISSION TO MEET WITH PLO REP HIND [...] (U) This is an action request; see para 3. 2. (S) During a November 20 conversation with Ambassador Stapleton, French Senator Aymeri de Montesquiou offered to host a lunch for the Ambassador and Ms. Hind Al-Khoury, the PLO General Representative to Paris. Montesquiou argued forcefully that [...] | 2006-11-21 14:11:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | FR KPAL PREL |
06PARIS7482 | FRANCE: DEMARCHE IN ADVANCE OF INTERNATIONAL [...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel demarche November 16 to Eric Berder, Ministry of Transportation Deputy Director for Maritime Safety. Berder noted that the EU had developed a common position on the issue, to which France adhered. They viewed the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and th [...] | 2006-11-21 14:22:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIA EWWT ANET AORC PREL ECPS FR |
06PARIS7483 | URBAN VIOLENCE TAKES A DOWNTURN; POLICE [...] (C) Summary: Violence in France's suburban ghettos, perpetrated primarily by marginalized and underprivileged youth (often but not exclusively of Muslim origin),continues to simmer despite the current calm. A recent downturn in violence appears attributable to widespread shock and horror fol [...] | 2006-11-21 14:30:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER FR |
06PARIS7484 | TRANSNISTRIA: GOF AGREES IN SUBSTANCE ON PCE, BUT [...] (C) Summary: Aurelia Bouchez, DAS-equivalent for Russia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus, explained on November 17 that France did not disagree in substance about the need for a multilateral peacekeeping mission in Transnistria, but was doubtful that the Russians would easily be convinced. She [...] | 2006-11-21 14:30:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE EUN PREL MD RS UP FR |
06PARIS7485 | URBAN VIOLENCE TAKES A DOWNTURN; POLICE [...] (C) Summary: Violence in France's suburban ghettos, perpetrated primarily by marginalized and underprivileged youth (often but not exclusively of Muslim origin),continues to simmer despite the current calm. A recent downturn in violence appears attributable to widespread shock and horror fol [...] | 2006-11-21 14:51:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER FR |
06PARIS7486 | TRANSNISTRIA: GOF AGREES IN SUBSTANCE ON PCE, BUT [...] (C) Summary: Aurelia Bouchez, DAS-equivalent for Russia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus, explained on November 17 that France did not disagree in substance about the need for a multilateral peacekeeping mission in Transnistria, but was doubtful that the Russians would easily be convinced. She [...] | 2006-11-21 15:10:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE EUN PREL MD RS UP FR |
06PARIS7490 | FRANCE: DEMARCHE IN ADVANCE OF INTERNATIONAL [...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel demarche November 16 to Eric Berder, Ministry of Transportation Deputy Director for Maritime Safety. Berder noted that the EU had developed a common position on the issue, to which France adhered. They viewed the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and th [...] | 2006-11-21 15:11:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIA EWWT ANET AORC PREL ECPS FR |
06PARIS7491 | PARIS CLUB - NOVEMBER 2006 TOUR D'HORIZON [...] (U) At the November 15 meeting of the Paris Club, creditors decided on an initial response to Argentine Finance Secretary MacLaughlin's letter to the Club expressing the GOA's desire to restart a dialogue and normalize relations as soon as possible. Creditors agreed that Paris Club Chairman Mu [...] | 2006-11-21 15:14:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR |
06PARIS7493 | FORMER SUDANESE FM ISMAIL ASSURES SUDAN ENVOY THAT [...] (C) Summary: Special Envoy for Sudan Andrew Natsios met with Bashir presidential advisor and former Sudanese FM Mustafa Osman Ismail in Paris on November 18. Natsios, who arrived from the Addis Ababa consultations on Darfur, sought an unambiguous public statement of GoS support for the Addis [...] | 2006-11-21 16:55:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KPKO FR SU |
06PARIS7504 | FRANCE: BLUE LANTERN 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK [...] (SBU) Per reftel, Post Blue Lantern Action Officer contacted Rockwell Collins France regarding export license 05-1001634 involving the delivery of helicopter parts and communication system components. The Department was concerned about the excessive number of intermediate consignees. Rockwell [...] | 2006-11-22 08:46:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC FR |
06PARIS7507 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: MEETING ON SPAIN'S MIDDLE EAST [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on November 22 to Herve Besancenot, MFA DAS equivalent for the Levant. In response, Besancenot made the following three points: First, the isolation of the Hamas-led PA government is radicalizing the Palestinian population; second, a continuation of the st [...] | 2006-11-22 13:40:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR IS LE PGOV PREL SP SY |
06PARIS7508 | APPROACHING FRANCE ON TURKEY-EU [...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION RECOMMENDATION: Widespread public opposition to Turkish EU membership in the run-up to France's presidential elections severely limits the GOF's flexibility in dealing with the Turkey-Cyprus issue, notwithstanding Chirac's foreign policy prerogatives and his long-standi [...] | 2006-11-22 13:49:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR EUN NATO TU CY UNO |
06PARIS7511 | TELECOM ATTORNEY ON FRANCE'S ICT STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES [...] (SBU) Summary. On November 16, Hogan and Hartson Attorney (and long-time observer of the French telecoms sector) Winston Maxwell told us that poor consumer protection and nonpublic frequency management were the two areas detracting from France's otherwise robust implementation of EU directives [...] | 2006-11-22 15:16:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ECON FR |
06PARIS7523 | ASMARA FACILITATION IS A NON-STARTER, SLM LEADER [...] (C) Summary: Special Envoy Andrew Natsios met SLM Abdulwahid El-Nur on October 18. Nur said he and the SLM felt shunted aside by the U.S. and appealed for a strategic alliance to end the genocide in Darfur. SE Natsios emphasized the need to unify Darfur rebel factions and bring DPA non-sig [...] | 2006-11-24 11:23:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PINR ER SU FR |
06PARIS7533 | POSSIBLE RE-TRANSFER OF USML FROM FRANCE TO FRENCH [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-24 15:09:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC FR |
06PARIS7534 | MEDIA WRAP-UP: SYRIA AND IRAN IN MIDDLE-EAST POWER PLAY, [...] (SBU) The media speculated at great length about Syria's role in the assassination of Lebanese Pierre Gemayel and on its broader agenda in the Middle East. By November 24, right-of-center Le Figaro warned that "Washington would pay dearly for Iraq when it turned to Tehran and Damascus to help [...] | 2006-11-24 15:41:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPAO OPRC FR |
06PARIS754 | CONTROVERSY OVER MUHAMMAD CARICATURES CONTINUES IN [...] (C) Summary: France has joined Denmark, but to a lesser degree, as a target of ire in Muslim countries following a French daily's February 1 publication of Danish-origin Muhammad caricatures (ref A),which have since appeared in other French media. Palestinian militants threw a grenade at the [...] | 2006-02-06 13:27:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KISL KPAL XF FR |