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06MOSCOW13092
2006-12-26 15:15:00
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Embassy Moscow
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NGO RE-REGISTRATION UPDATE: BACK TO WORK IN THE

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UNCLAS MOSCOW 013092 

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E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREF PHUM EAID KDEM PGOV RS
SUBJECT: NGO RE-REGISTRATION UPDATE: BACK TO WORK IN THE
NORTH CAUCASUS

REF: MOSCOW 12784 AND PREVIOUS

UNCLAS MOSCOW 013092

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SENSITIVE

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREF PHUM EAID KDEM PGOV RS
SUBJECT: NGO RE-REGISTRATION UPDATE: BACK TO WORK IN THE
NORTH CAUCASUS

REF: MOSCOW 12784 AND PREVIOUS


1. (SBU) The Federal Registration Service (FRS) has
re-registered 192 foreign NGOs as of December 22, including
all of those providing aid in the North Caucasus. According
to UN sources, the re-registration of International Rescue
Committee (IRC) and World Vision, along with the French NGO
Action Contre la Faim (ACF),completed the re-registration of
all those aid agencies working in the North Caucasus.
According to our contacts, Ella Pamfilova, chair of the
Presidential Commission on Human Rights and Development of
Civil Society Institutions, recently raised the status of
registrations for NGOs working in the North Caucasus with
FRS, asking that they be re-registered as soon as possible.


2. (SBU) Aid representatives told us that assistance
programs suspended while awaiting re-registration will resume
in full. World Vision Country Director Siobhan Kimmerle told
us that World Vision will resume its operations, which have
been suspended since October, by mid-January, following the
end of official Russian holidays. IRC and ACF will likely
resume work about the same time. (NOTE: The French NGO
Medicines du Monde is re-registered but is awaiting
clarification on the terms of its re-registration before
restarting its activities. END NOTE.)


3. (U) Of the 29 NGOs USAID has tracked, 25 have now been
re-registered. In addition to IRC and World Vision, Doctors
of the World and MiraMed were registered during the past
week, leaving ABA/CEELI, Johns Hopkins University, Foundation
for Russian-American Economic Cooperation, and Eurasian
Foundation awaiting re-registration.


4. (U) To our knowledge, no U.S.-based NGO has been refused
following the initial rejection of Doctors of the World,
which subsequently submitted a new application and was
quickly re-registered. Galina Fokina, the acting chief of
FRS' Department for Political Parties and Public, Religious,
and Other Organizations, said at a December 22 press
conference that FRS was considering applications from 12
other foreign NGOs, had returned 20 applications for
revision, and had refused 25 organizations. She did not name
those NGOs that have been refused, nor did she clarify
whether the refusals incuded any foreign adoption agencies,
but said that some of the refusals might be reconsidered.
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