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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05KUWAIT4546 |
FINANCE MINISTRY ON TAX REFORM AND THE REJUVENATED [...] (U) Summary. In an October 22 meeting with Econ Counselor, the Acting Undersecretary at the Ministry of Finance confirmed the resumption of the Offset Program and the GOK's efforts, spearheaded by the Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA), to establish a private company tasked with administering [...] |
2005-10-23 07:45:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KU KFIN |
| 05KUWAIT4552 |
KUWAIT'S STOCK EXCHANGE EYES REGIONAL ROLE, FEMALE [...] (U) Summary. In an October 19 meeting with Econoff, the Director of Public Relations at the Kuwaiti Stock Exchange (KSE) applauded the increased number of Kuwaiti female investors, expressed confidence in the continued rise of the Kuwaiti stock market, and underscored the importance of ensuri [...] |
2005-10-24 09:24:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KFIN PINR KU |
| 05PARIS5130 |
FRENCH WILL RAISE OBJECTIONS TO CHINESE REJECTION [...] No summary [...] |
2005-07-25 13:19:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ETTC PREL FR KFIN UNSC |
| 05PRETORIA2948 |
MBEKI CONFIRMS SOUTH AFRICA CONSIDERING BAILOUT [...] (U) Summary. Following a three-day cabinet retreat, President Mbeki confirmed publicly that South Africa was considering lending Zimbabwe funds to pay its IMF arrears. Mbeki said that intense discussions with the Government of Zimbabwe on a bailout had not been concluded, and that some condit [...] |
2005-07-26 04:55:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM ECON ZI SF KFIN |
| 05PRETORIA2952 |
SOUTH AFRICA: CHINESE OBJECTIONS TO UN RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] |
2005-07-26 10:22:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ETTC PREL KTFN SF CH KFIN UNSC |
| 06AMMAN2738 |
INDEPENDENT INQUIRY DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] |
2006-04-17 12:36:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KFIN IZ JO |
| 06BUCHAREST559 |
INDEPENDENT INQUIRY COMMITTEE FOLLOW-UP: ROMANIAN [...] (SBU) Econoff met with the spokesman for the Romanian Prosecutor General's Office (PGO), Robert Cazanciuc, as well as Ciprian Nastasiu, the lead prosecutor on an open case with links to the UN Oil-for-Food Program (OFF). According to Nastasiu, the PGO has been investigating connections to Iraq [...] |
2006-03-31 16:54:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KFIN PGOV KCRM IZ RO |
| 06COPENHAGEN450 |
DENMARK: INDEPENDENT INQUIRY COMMITTEE FOLLOW-UP [...] (U) 22 Danish firms were named in the final report of the Independent Inquiry Committee (IIC) on the Oil-for-Food Program (OFF) as having been involved in illicit OFF-program payments. Ref A describes the initial Danish response to the report. 2. (SBU) In response to Ref B, post followed u [...] |
2006-04-06 09:06:00 | Embassy Copenhagen | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KFIN PGOV IZ DA |
| 06DUBLIN349 |
IRELAND: INDEPENDENT INQUIRY COMMITTEE FOLLOW-UP [...] On March 22, emboff approached Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) UN/Terrorism and Illicit Drugs section First Secretary Brian Cahalane regarding the Independent Inquiry SIPDIS Committee's (IIC) investigation of three Irish companies implicated in the UN's Oil-for-Food (OFF) program scanda [...] |
2006-04-03 13:41:00 | Embassy Dublin | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KFIN PGOV IZ EI |
| 06HANOI875 |
VIETNAM: INDEPENDENT INQUIRY COMMITTEE [...] (U) Post received a note dated April 7 from the Ministry of Trade formally conveying their response to Post's inquiry regarding the Independent Inquiry Committee investigation. 2. (SBU) Begin text of note: Ministry of Trade Socialist Republic of Vietnam Hanoi, April 7, 2006 The Min [...] |
2006-04-18 08:50:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KFIN PGOV IZ VM |
| 06ISLAMABAD8391 |
TERROR FINANCE: JI-4 AND JUD DOMESTIC DESIGNATION [...] (C) On April 28, 2005, poloff presented to MFA (UN) Deputy Director Shazia Ashraf Qazi non-papers containing the notice of the UN 1267 Committee designation of four members of Jemaah Islamiya (Ref A) and notice of the U.S. domestic designation of Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JUD) (Ref B). On May 4, polo [...] |
2006-05-09 16:04:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PK PREL PTER KFIN ECON UN |
| 06KUWAIT1347 |
DEMARCHE DELIVERED: COMMERCIAL BANK OF SYRIA AND [...] No summary [...] |
2006-04-18 12:53:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM KFIN KJUS KTFN KNNP MNUC EU KU |
| 06MINSK413 |
Oil-for-Food: GOB Not Investigating Self [...] The GOB has taken and almost certainly will not take any actions as a result of the Independent Inquiry Committee (IIC) looking into Iraqi Oil-for-Food violations (ref A). Post asked the MFA if there was any domestic investigation. The MFA replied that this is a complicated situation, and tha [...] |
2006-04-14 13:17:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KFIN PGOV IZ BO |
| 06MOSCOW3389 |
GOR PLANS TO TAKE NO ACTION AS A RESULT OF [...] (C) The Russian Government does not intend to take any steps as a result of the findings of the Independent Inquiry Committee (IIC) which investigated the UN's Oil-for-Food (OFF) Program. Despite the IIC's findings that the GOR itself and Russian business firms, political parties and politi [...] |
2006-03-31 13:52:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KFIN IZ RS |
| 06NEWDELHI2138 |
INDIAN ACTIONS IN RESPONSE TO INDEPENDENT INQUIRY [...] Summary: The Volcker Committee probing allegations of illegalities in the oil-for-food program had identified Indian entities including former Foreign Minister Natwar Singh and the Congress Party among the non-contractual beneficiaries of illegal oil allotments. In India, a special inquiry a [...] |
2006-03-29 12:12:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KFIN PGOV IN IZ |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 06RABAT789 |
MOROCCO ON INDEPENDENT INQUIRY COMMITTEE FOLLOW-UP [...] (SBU) Poloff discussed reftel impact of the Independent Inquiry Committee (IIC) charged with investiging the UN's Oil-for Food program on April 27 with MFA Director for International Organizations and UN Affairs Nasser Bourita. According to Bourita, the issue needs to be viewed "globally," and [...] |
2006-04-27 12:37:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KFIN PGOV IZ MO |
| 06SOFIA465 |
BULGARIA'S RESPONSE TO THE INDEPENDENT INQUIRY [...] (U) Per reftel, we are submitting information on the actions of the Bulgarian government as a result of the information discovered by the Independent Inquiry Committee (IIC). 2. (U) In response to the release of the USG's "Duelfer Report," the 39th Parliamentary Assembly of Bulgaria (2001- [...] |
2006-03-30 11:11:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KFIN PGOV IZ BU |
| 06TBILISI2698 |
GOG OFFICIALS INTERESTED IN ESTONIAN MODEL FOR [...] The USAID Georgia Business Climate Reform Project (GBCR) sponsored and participated in a very successful visit of key GoG officials to Latvia and Estonia September 4-14 as part of its technical assistance in the establishment of a new revenue service. The new GoG revenue service will unite the [...] |
2006-10-11 07:17:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ECON ETRD PGOV KFIN GG |
| 06TBILISI2938 |
GORKONI FRUIT PROCESSING COMPANY: AFTER STALIN, [...] Summary. The city of Gori in the Shida Kartli region of central Georgia prides itself on many things: the birthplace of Josef Stalin, the home town of current Georgian Defense Minister Irakli Okruashvili, and host to the country's top fruit processing factory. Econoff visited the Gorkoni frui [...] |
2006-11-03 04:31:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ECON ETRD PGOV KFIN GG |
| 06VIENNA864 |
IIC: GOA HAS INITIATED PRE-TRIAL INVESTIGATIONS [...] Stefan Benner from the Ministry of Justice's Department for Criminal Matters told us March 21 that the Viennese Public Prosecutor's Office had initiated pre-trial investigations against Austrian companies, which Independent Inquiry Committee (IIC) reports mentioned as possible suspects of fra [...] |
2006-03-22 15:31:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV IZ AU KFIN |
| 06WELLINGTON218 |
NEW ZEALAND'S RESPONSE TO IIC FINDINGS [...] The New Zealand government has investigated two companies named in the Independent Inquiry Committee's interim report released October 27, 2005, on allegations of illegal fund transfers to Iraq. The government investigation found no evidence of such transfers by the two companies. In addition, [...] |
2006-03-21 04:19:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KFIN PGOV NZ |
| 07BERN1096 |
ZURCHER KANTONALBANK REPORTS IT IS 98% OUT OF THE [...] (C) Summary: Emboff met November 19 with Juerg Reichen, Head of International Banking for Zurcher Kantonalbank (ZKB), who traveled to Bern for the meeting, to discuss the bank's Iranian relationships. Reichen explained that ZKB had reduced its Iran portfolio by about 98% since its management [...] |
2007-11-20 16:01:00 | Embassy Bern | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KFIN KFTN IR SZ |
| 07KABUL459 |
SECURITY NEEDS AND GOVERNORS' DISCRETIONARY FUND [...] (SBU) Summary: Governors in a number of provinces slated to receive payments out of the Governors, Discretionary Fund have recently begun complaining that suspension of the Fund for the fourth quarter of the Afghan fiscal year has negatively impacted their ability to counter the security thre [...] |
2007-02-10 11:14:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ASEC KFIN SNAR PTER AF |
| 07KINGSTON588 |
JAMAICA: MINISTER OF NATIONAL SECURITY CONCERNED [...] (C) Summary: On Friday, April 20, Charge and NAS Director, along with the British and Canadian COMs, met with Peter Phillips, Minister of National Security at his request. In this session, one of an ongoing series of conversations with his international partners, (Reftels A and B) Phillips o [...] |
2007-04-24 12:58:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR KCRM PREL KFIN JM |
| 07KINGSTON589 |
JAMAICA: MINISTER OF NATIONAL SECURITY CONCERNED [...] (C) Summary: On Friday, April 20, Charge and NAS Director, along with the British and Canadian COMs, met with Peter Phillips, Minister of National Security at his request. In this session, one of an ongoing series of conversations with his international partners, (Reftels A and B) Phillips o [...] |
2007-04-24 12:58:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR KCRM PREL KFIN JM |
| 07OSLO1152 |
TERRORISM FINANCE: SYRIA/LEBANON DESIGNATIONS [...] No summary [...] |
2007-12-10 14:27:00 | Embassy Oslo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL PTER KFIN NO |
| 07ROME2515 |
ITALY REQUESTS INFORMATION ON 1267 TERROR FINANCE [...] (U) This is an action request, please see para 11. 2. (C) Summary: On December 21, Stefania Fancello at the MFA's Office of International Cooperation Against Terrorism conveyed to Econoff a request for more information on the 1267 (al-Qaida/Taliban Sanctions) delisting cases of Nasreddin, N [...] |
2007-12-28 17:03:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KFIN ECON IT |
| 07ROME2520 |
ITALY: CENTRAL BANK EXPANDS OVERSIGHT OVER [...] (C) Summary: On January 1, the Central Bank of Italy will expand its oversight over financial transactions by creating a formal Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) and abolishing the out-dated Foreign Exchange Office, which had, until now, served as Italy's FIU. A new law, based on EU regulation [...] |
2007-12-28 17:04:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KFIN IT |
| 08LONDON2778 |
IRANIAN IMPORTERS/EXPORTERS: HAVING MORE PROBLEMS [...] (S/NF) Summary: Iranian importers and exporters are encountering ever-greater problems, in all regions including China, in obtaining trade financing due to USG-led international financial measures, according to statements by an Iran banking contact to Embassy London Iran Watcher (poloff). End su [...] |
2008-11-03 15:59:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | CJAN ECON EFIN PINS PREL PTER KFIN IR UK |
| 08ROME711 |
ITALY/TERROR FINANCE: A NEW PROCEDURE ON 1267 [...] (C) Summary: The Italian Government has determined that it cannot continue to support the 1267 (al-Qaida/Taliban) listing of its nationals if they have been cleared of criminal charges. Italy will support delisting requests from persons cleared of charges, but it will forward delisting reque [...] |
2008-06-04 15:28:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KFIN IT |
| 09ABUJA2019 |
2009-2010 NIGERIA INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL [...] (U) Nigeria remains attractive to drug traffickers. Heroin and cocaine transit Nigeria on their way to markets in Europe, and the heroin transiting Nigeria has a significant impact on the United States. During the past year, authorities have arrested increased numbers of drug couriers at Lagos [...] |
2009-11-05 06:39:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SNAR KCRM KCOR KFIN EAID ASEC NI |
| 09SANAA1632 |
AQAP LIFTS $500K IN ADEN HEIST? [...] (C) SUMMARY: An armed robbery rocked Aden on August 17, in part due to the large amount stolen (100 million Yemeni riyals) and in part due to the belief of government and non-government sources that al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) operatives are the culprits. The tactics utilized in the [...] |
2009-09-02 13:39:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV KFIN YM |
| 09WARSAW218 |
POLAND ON THE G-20 PROCESS [...] (C) Summary. The Poles are concerned about the evolving composition of the G-20. While they like the G-20 as a forum for coordinating, they are worried that the current composition does not reflect the variety of perspectives needed to comprehensively meet the challenge. They have also not [...] |
2009-02-27 16:05:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | KFIN ECON PL |
| 09YEREVAN664 |
AMBASSADOR RAISES REMAINING MARCH 1, 2008 [...] (U) The Ambassador joined Prosecutor General Agvan Hovsepian August 16 at the signing ceremony for amendments to the USG-GOAM Letter of Agreement on justice sector assistance. These amendments serve as an agreement on the projects to be implemented under the current year's budget for INL ass [...] |
2009-09-23 13:49:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KFIN SNAR AM |