Identifier
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07TASHKENT1366
2007-07-24 11:18:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Tashkent
Cable title:  

UPDATE TO 2007 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND EXPROPRIATION CASES

Tags:  CASC PGOV KIDE UZ EINV 
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DE RUEHNT #1366 2051118
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 241118Z JUL 07
FM AMEMBASSY TASHKENT
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 8200
INFO RUEATRS/DEPT OF TREASURY WASHDC
RUCPDOC/DEPT OF COMMERCE WASHDC
UNCLAS TASHKENT 001366 

SIPDIS

SENSITIVE
SIPDIS

STATE FOR EB/IFD/OIA (HEATHER GOETHERT),L/CID (SAM
MCDONALD),AND SCA/CEN (COSTA NICOLAIDIS)

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: CASC PGOV IEINV KIDE UZ
SUBJECT: UPDATE TO 2007 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND
EXPROPRIATION CASES

REF: A. STATE 55422


B. TASHKENT 1139

Sensitive but unclassified. Contains proprietary
information. Not for release on the Internet.

UNCLAS TASHKENT 001366

SIPDIS

SENSITIVE
SIPDIS

STATE FOR EB/IFD/OIA (HEATHER GOETHERT),L/CID (SAM
MCDONALD),AND SCA/CEN (COSTA NICOLAIDIS)

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: CASC PGOV IEINV KIDE UZ
SUBJECT: UPDATE TO 2007 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND
EXPROPRIATION CASES

REF: A. STATE 55422


B. TASHKENT 1139

Sensitive but unclassified. Contains proprietary
information. Not for release on the Internet.


1. (U) Per Ref A instructions, Post provides the following
update to its submission for the 2007 Report on Investment
Disputes and Expropriation Cases. Post requests Department
update ref B as indicated below.


2. (SBU) a. Claimant S (resolved)

c. In late June, Claimant S informed Post that it had reached
an agreement with the Government of Uzbekistan resolving the
dispute. In a subsequent filing to the Security and Exchange
Commission, Claimant S reported that under the terms of the
agreement, the Government of Uzbekistan agreed to pay the
company $80 million and also agreed to pay outstanding
obligations to Claimant S's suppliers and creditors. On July
18, Claimant S informed the Department of State that the
final agreement had been signed, that it had already received
an initial payment of $20 million, and that it was confident
it would received the remaining $60 million by letter of
credit by the end of August.


3. (U) a. Claimant T

c. On July 16, TeliaSonera AB, a leading telecommunications
company in the Nordic and Baltic region, announced that it
had closed a deal to acquire 100 percent of the shares in
Claimant T's U.S. parent company.
HANSON