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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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04THEHAGUE3328 | 200434 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY [...] ATTACHED IS THE HAGUE'S SUBMISSION OF PART II OF THE 200434 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT: MONEY LAUNDERING AND FINANCIAL CRIMES. POST'S RESPONSE IS ORGANIZED ACCORDING TO CHAPTERS PROVIDED IN THE INCSR QUESTIONNAIRE (REFTEL. A). THE DOLLAR/EURO EXCHANGE RATE ON DECEMBER 15J [...] | 2004-12-22 16:17:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN KCRM PTER SNAR ECON EFIN ETTC PREL PGOV NL |
04THEHAGUE3330 | NETHERLANDS/EU/CAMBODIA: DEMARCHE ON TRAFFICKING [...] (C) Poloffs discussed reftel points December 21 with Eric Verwaal, Head of MFA's Southeast Asia and Oceania Department, and Hein Copper, desk officer. Verwaal clarified that the Netherlands Embassy in Bangkok covers Cambodian issues since the Dutch have no Embassy in Phnom Penh. Verwaal was [...] | 2004-12-23 15:03:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | CB KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL NL |
04THEHAGUE3332 | NETHERLANDS/EU/BANGLADESH: BAN OF AHMADIYA [...] No summary [...] | 2004-12-23 15:03:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV PINS BG NL |
04THEHAGUE3333 | TURKEY ACCESSION/EU: THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF THE [...] SUMMARY: (C) According to Dutch diplomat Pieter de Gooijer, the intense Dutch-led negotiations leading to the EU Council's invitation to Turkey for accession talks were one for the history books. In a recent conversation with DCM and Poloff, he provided the inside story of the last hours of th [...] | 2004-12-23 15:15:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NL TU CY EUN INRB |
04THEHAGUE3338 | NETHERLANDS/IAEA: THIRD TERM FOR ELBARADEI REMAINS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Dutch contacts say the EU will likely not coordinate on the issue of supporting another term for ElBaradei, letting individual EU member states on the BOG develop their own positions. The Dutch have not yet staked out a position on the issue, and claim to have little informati [...] | 2004-12-23 16:03:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC PARM NL IAEA |
04THEHAGUE3350 | NETHERLANDS/EU PRESIDENCY: ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND [...] (C) Summary: The December 17 European Council decision to offer Turkey a starting date for accession negotiations let the Dutch end their presidency on a high note. The Dutch recorded several important accomplishments, of which the successful Turkish negotiations were the most notable, whil [...] | 2004-12-29 12:38:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NL EUN |
04THEHAGUE343 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC) - DG PFIRTER'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: OPCW Director General Pfirter was very pleased with the outcome of his February 5 discussions in Libya, which included a meeting with the Foreign Minister. Pfirter utilized the visit to emphasize the OPCW's desire to work with Tripoli to meet the requirements of the CW Conventi [...] | 2004-02-10 15:02:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL LY CWC |
04THEHAGUE347 | ICTY: KRAJISNIK TRIAL OPENS SMOOTHLY [...] (SBU) Summary. The trial of Momcilo Krajisnik before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) opened smoothly for the prosecution on Feb. 3. Krajisnik, who is being tried on eight counts including charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, held many prominen [...] | 2004-02-10 16:38:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BK HR KAWC NL PHUM PREL SR ICTY |
04THEHAGUE348 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP OF [...] (U) The decision regarding Schedule 2/3 Captive Use remains on a political track, with the Indian delegation indicating they support the Schedule 2/3 Captive Use decision, as written, but noting their interagency review process has not yet completed. Privately, the Indians informed Del that [...] | 2004-02-11 09:07:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL CWC |
04THEHAGUE349 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC) - OCPF SITE [...] (U) The U.S. hosted a technical experts workshop on February 5 to facilitate understanding of the Swiss/U.S. Other Chemical Production Facility (OCPF) site selection methodology proposal. The morning session focused on the rationale and mechanics of the proposal. In the past, acceptance of [...] | 2004-02-11 09:43:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL CWC |
04THEHAGUE351 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC) - WRAP-UP FOR [...] (U) Nilkanthsing Jagarnath (External Relations Division) advised Del on February 6 that Chad is about to ratify the CWC. He was also optimistic that Libya's accession would soon bring on board Sierra Leone and Djibouti -- saying that Tripoli has bought a measure of influence with them. Nil [...] | 2004-02-11 12:15:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
04THEHAGUE381 | DUTCH ON PRTS [...] (S) PM Balkenende's Foreign Policy Advisor Rob Swartbol informed Amb. Sobel on February 12 that, following FM Bot's trip to Washington, the Dutch government was actively considering participating in a PRT in Afghanistan. The options under consideration include possibly joining the Germans, Sc [...] | 2004-02-13 14:48:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | MOPS MARR PREL PTER AF NL |
04THEHAGUE382 | OPERATION BALKAN VICE III: THE NETHERLANDS [...] (S) EmbOffs delivered reftel demarche to Dutch Ministries of Finance and Foreign Affairs respectively on February 9 and 10. Dutch MFA Western Balkans Chief Klaas van der Tempel expressed support for the action, noting the GONL had been active last year in arguing for EU visa restrictions on [...] | 2004-02-13 15:24:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | PREL MOPS EFIN ETTC KAWC BK MK HR GM CY HU SL SZ YI NL ICTY NK |
04THEHAGUE384 | FUND CITE FOR TRAVEL OF CAA DIGITAL COPIER REPAIR [...] Per reftel A, post provides the following fund cite to cover costs for services to be provided by the digital copier repair technician: 19-4-0113-0000-4256-42564IRM02-5458-2589 2. Amount charged to this fund cite is not to exceed $2502.54 Sobel [...] | 2004-02-13 15:41:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | ACOA ASEC ABUD AMTC AMGT KRIM |
04THEHAGUE39 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): OPCW REQUESTS [...] (C) Summary: Brian Hawtin, acting Director General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, made a strong pitch for close cooperation with the U.S. and UK in ongoing discussions to address Libya's CW program. He concurred on the need to keep the focus on the larger goal [...] | 2004-01-08 13:16:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL LY CWC |
04THEHAGUE4 | 2003 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT [...] The Netherlands continues to be a significant transit point for drugs entering Europe (especially cocaine),an important producer and exporter of synthetic drugs (particularly Ecstasy and amphetamines),and an important consumer of most illicit drugs. U.S. law enforcement information indicates [...] | 2004-01-02 14:34:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PREL PGOV KCRM NL |
04THEHAGUE406 | SCHIPHOL INTERDICTION - MINISTRY OF JUSTICE CLAIMS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Seeing positive results from its efforts to cut off the flow of cocaine from the Caribbean through Schiphol, the Justice Ministry is expanding its interdiction efforts to cover couriers of "small" amounts of drugs and to flights from Suriname. The Ministry is exploring ways to sh [...] | 2004-02-18 14:05:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM NS NL |
04THEHAGUE421 | CODEL WEXLER FEB 22 - 24 [...] Country Clearance is granted and AmEmbassy the Hague warmly welcomes Rep. Robert Wexler, Rep. Steve Chabot and Jonathan Katz to The Netherlands February 22-24,2004. 2. Kami Witmer will be the Control Officer. She can be reached at the following numbers/addresses: Tel: (W) 31-70-310-9339 [...] | 2004-02-19 11:13:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | NL OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN |
04THEHAGUE424 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR [...] (U) Del rep met on February 11 with Ralf Trapp, Special Assistant to DDG Brian Hawtin, who reported that only nine countries responded to the TS Note Verbale requesting States Party respond with their requests for or offers of assistance by February 1; one responded on February 2. Of the ten [...] | 2004-02-19 14:52:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL CWC |
04THEHAGUE44 | IRAQ/NL: ARREST OF DUTCH MARINE STIRS POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: The arrest of a Dutch marine serving in Iraq following the alleged fatal shooting of an Iraqi civilian during a December 27 looting incident has stirred up a front page political controversy in the Netherlands with leading parliamentarians, the Chief Attorney General and Justice [...] | 2004-01-08 15:41:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MARR PREL IZ NL |
04THEHAGUE448 | ENCOURAGING EU STATES TO SUPPORT AN ADEQUACY [...] No summary [...] | 2004-02-20 15:43:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR PTER NL |
04THEHAGUE449 | ICJ: FENCE PROCEEDINGS EXPECTED TO SPARK [...] (SBU) Summary. On February 23-25, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) will hold hearings on the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) request for an Advisory Opinion on the legality of the so-called "Israeli fence" - the controversial structure being built by Israel to serve as a securi [...] | 2004-02-23 05:37:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | AFIN AORC ICJ |
04THEHAGUE462 | IRAQ: UPDATE ON DUTCH MADRID PLEDGES AND ABU [...] (SBU) The Dutch have not yet delivered their EUR 10 million Madrid pledges but are in the process of doing so. They expect to release EUR 5 million to the UN/World Bank Trust fund in April 2004. The other EUR 5 million, which was pledged for humanitarian assistance, is expected to be disp [...] | 2004-02-23 15:22:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN IZ |
04THEHAGUE467 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR [...] (U) Dr. Tom Inch (UK),Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB),participated in the Western European Group (WEOG) meeting on Feb 17 to field questions from WEOG delegations on SAB priorities as well as scientific and technological developments. Inch noted that the SAB, as the technic [...] | 2004-02-24 09:22:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
04THEHAGUE469 | DUTCH RESPONSE TO UNRWA EMERGENCY APPEAL [...] The Netherlands does not plan to contribute to the 2004 Emergency Appeal for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA). Ms. Marwiencke Tillema of the MFA's UN Directorate (Political and Judicial Division) said the Dutch decision is based on two factors. First, the Du [...] | 2004-02-24 14:42:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KPAL NL PREF UNRWA |
04THEHAGUE47 | DUTCH WILL SUPPORT BOYD FOR CERD [...] No summary [...] | 2004-01-09 10:33:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL NL UN |
04THEHAGUE477 | PRTS: DUTCH TO DISPATCH RECCE TEAM SOON [...] (S) Ambassador Sobel met with Defense Minister Kamp on February 19. Kamp confirmed he was engaged in informal contacts with his European counterparts to discuss options for cooperation on PRTs. Following a February 20 meeting between Kamp and FM Bot, the GONL decided to dispatch a reconnaiss [...] | 2004-02-25 07:36:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | MOPS MARR PREL PTER AF NL |
04THEHAGUE478 | CHEMCIAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): [...] (SBU) The following is the text of a February 23 note provided by OPCW Director General Pfirter to Ambassador Petr Kubernat (Czech Republic),the Chairman of the OPCW Executive Council, regarding an agreement with Libya on destruction of Category 3 munitions (unfilled bombs),which will comme [...] | 2004-02-25 08:41:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL LY CWC |
04THEHAGUE485 | Terrorist Finance: Country Clearance Request for [...] Country clearance is requested for Economic Officer Todd Kushner to attend 2/28 terrorist finance consultations hosted by the Dutch government at the Netherlands Embassy in Paris. Mr. Kushner plans to arrive in Paris 2/27 and depart 2/29. He has a top secret security clearance. 2. Mr. K [...] | 2004-02-25 12:38:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA ETTC PTER NL EUN |
04THEHAGUE490 | ICTY: OTP REQUEST 298 DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (S) Summary: Ambassador Sobel, joined by Deputy Legal Counselor, delivered reftel letter and points February 25 to Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY),Carla Del Ponte. While arguing that her actions did not amount to a "breach" of the USG's [...] | 2004-02-26 09:32:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | PREL PHUM BK HR SR NL ICTY |
04THEHAGUE494 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): REPORT ON OPCW [...] (C) Horst Reeps, head of the Verification Division of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW),provided a February 25 read-out to the U.S. and U.K. delegations on the Technical Secretariat (TS) visit to Libya on February 16-23. Reeps said the objectives were to assist [...] | 2004-02-26 15:03:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL LY CWC |
04THEHAGUE498 | ICTY: MILOSEVIC PROSECUTION LIMPS TO CLOSE ITS CASE [...] (C) Summary. The Milosevic Prosecution team of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) closed its case in the anti-climactic form of a motion to Trial Chamber III on February 25. The recent melodrama of the Milosevic prosecution -- the rancorous internal debates [...] | 2004-02-26 17:16:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | BK HR KAWC NL PHUM PREL SR ICTY |
04THEHAGUE504 | ICJ FENCE PROCEEDINGS WRAP-UP [...] No summary [...] | 2004-02-27 12:32:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | AFIN AORC ICJ |
04THEHAGUE507 | ISRAEL/WEOG: DUTCH ANTICIPATE STATUS QUO [...] (C) The GoNL favors renewing Israel's WEOG membership in New York; however, it is unlikely to agree to enhancing Israeli participation in other UN fora. PolOff met with Pieter Ramaer, head of the MFA's UN Political and Judicial Office, on February 27. Ramaer stated that neither the GoNL nor [...] | 2004-02-27 14:43:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AORC IS EU NL UN |
04THEHAGUE51 | ARMED FLYING DUTCHMEN: DEBATE OVER SKY MARSHALS IN [...] (C) Summary. After a promising start, Dutch carriers, under pressure from pilots, are at this stage not ready to allow sky marshals on their flights and would likely choose instead to ground flights. However, carriers are working with the pilots' unions and the Ministry of Justice to dev [...] | 2004-01-09 14:04:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR NL PTER |
04THEHAGUE521 | ANNUAL REPORT ON ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS - THE [...] Part one summarizes progress achieved during the year (Reftel B) and Part two is the fourth annual report on anti- trafficking in persons (TIP) for the Netherlands. The report follows the format outlined in reftel. Preparation time is about 200 hours (FSN - 110; FS-02 - 80; FS-02 - 10 hours) [...] | 2004-03-02 06:20:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF NL |
04THEHAGUE537 | DUTCH WILL NOT MAKE FURTHER CONTRIBUTIONS TO [...] (C) Embassy legal officer delivered reftel demarches to Pieter Ramaer, Head of the Political and Judicial Division within the MFA's UN and IFI Department. Ramaer stated the Dutch were one of the top donors of the Special Court for Sierra Leone and that they were not considering making any addi [...] | 2004-03-03 12:16:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM MARR PINS KWCI UNSC |
04THEHAGUE543 | NETHERLANDS: PSI AND AMENDMENT OF THE SUA [...] No summary [...] | 2004-03-03 15:06:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL NL |
04THEHAGUE544 | DUTCH/EU THOUGHTS: 60TH SESSION OF UN CHR [...] (C) PolOff met with Hans Docter, MFA Commission on Human Rights (CHR) action officer, to discuss reftel. The Dutch are fully engaged with their EU partners in advance of the GoNL return to the CHR this spring. In addition to resolutions noted reftel, the EU will sponsor resolutions on Russia [...] | 2004-03-03 15:22:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL CH NL UNHRC |
04THEHAGUE55 | NATO ENLARGEMENT: DUTCH PARLIAMENT COMPLETES [...] No summary [...] | 2004-01-09 14:28:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM MARR PREL NL NATO |
04THEHAGUE552 | CONSULTATIONS WITH EU ON BURMA: DUTCH RESPONSE [...] (C) The EU has not reached a common position to impose sanctions against the Burmese government. MFA Burma Desk Officer Mariko Peters stated that the EU discussion on Burma in on-going, and will be on the agenda for the next COASI. While there is no disagreement on the need for the government [...] | 2004-03-04 13:48:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BM NL EUN |
04THEHAGUE553 | (C/NF) TERRORIST FINANCE: USG BRAINSTORMING [...] (C) Copenhagen, London, and Madrid are exempt from noforn marking to allow discussion with appropriate contacts. 2. (C/NF) Summary: A U.S.-EU declaration on terrorist financing (TF) would reinforce EU political commitment to fighting TF and provide political support for making European T [...] | 2004-03-04 13:55:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ETTC PTER NL EUN |
04THEHAGUE554 | DELIVERY OF NONPAPER TO DUTCH ON PSI INFORMATION [...] No summary [...] | 2004-03-04 14:41:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MNUC PARM PREL PHSA NL |
04THEHAGUE555 | WTO ROUND: ECONOMICS MINISTER BRINKHORST OPTIMISTIC [...] Summary: Dutch Economics Minister Brinkhorst has returned from a trip to India, China, and Japan optimistic over the prospects of reinvigorating Doha Round talks and setting forth the elements of a negotiating agenda that he believes will set the stage for positive results. This agenda call [...] | 2004-03-04 14:42:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD IN NL WTRO EUN |
04THEHAGUE556 | LIBYA/IAEA: DUTCH RESPONSE ON DRAFT RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2004-03-04 14:42:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PREL PARM LY NL IAEA |
04THEHAGUE562 | AFGHANISTAN: DUTCH PLANS FOR BERLIN CONFERENCE [...] (U) EconOff delivered ref A demarche to Martin Koper, Director of the MFA's Peacebuilding and Good Governance Division, and Wouter Biesterbos, Afghan Desk Officer. 2. (SBU) At this time, the Dutch have no plans to announce new pledges for Afghanistan at the March 31 donors conferenc [...] | 2004-03-08 07:55:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AF EAID NL PGOV PREL |
04THEHAGUE578 | NATO-AFGHANISTAN: THE NETHERLANDS ON ISAF [...] (C) PolMilOff made ref A demarche to Dutch MFA Security Policy Bureau Operations Director Rob Gabrielse on March 8. DATT addressed these points with MOD International Policy Director BG Ton van Osch on March 9. Amb. Sobel also raised this issue as part of a March 9 discussion with FM Bot pre [...] | 2004-03-09 13:15:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR AF NL NATO |
04THEHAGUE584 | DUTCH VIEWS ON PM'S MARCH 16 MEETING WITH PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: On March 9, Ambassador Sobel met separately with FM Bot and the PM's diplomatic advisor, Rob Swartbol, to preview the March 16 meeting between the President and PM Balkenende. PM Balkenede will bring the message that the Dutch EU presidency will advance the transatlantic agenda i [...] | 2004-03-10 10:23:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ NL PREL TU |
04THEHAGUE585 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC) - SCENESETTER [...] (SBU) The accession of Libya to the OPCW undoubtedly will be the highlight of the March 23-26 Executive Council session. The presence of the Libyan Ambassador also provides an opportunity to emphasize the importance of the OPCW tackling new challenges, and having the financial and administr [...] | 2004-03-10 11:24:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
04THEHAGUE586 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): FOURTH SECURITY [...] The fourth Security Audit Team (SAT-IV) found that the OPCW Technical Secretariat (TS) had done little to further secure its IT infrastructure since the 2001 security audit. The team noted that significant personnel resources have been directed toward documenting processes and procedures, but f [...] | 2004-03-10 11:34:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL CWC |
04THEHAGUE587 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WEEKLY WRAP-UP [...] (U) Simply put, the RBB Workshop was a success. There were no objections to implementing RBB in the 2005 budget document, and the objectives of the workshop were accomplished. As summarized by the Mark Mathews (U.K.),the workshop demonstrated that 1) the OPCW has been living in "the middl [...] | 2004-03-10 12:30:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
04THEHAGUE596 | HAITI HUMANITARIAN AID: DUTCH CONSIDERING APPEALS [...] No summary [...] | 2004-03-10 15:27:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID HA NL PHUM PREF PREL |
04THEHAGUE598 | CHORNOBYL SHELTER FUND - DUTCH DOUBTFUL [...] No summary [...] | 2004-03-10 16:23:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP KSCA ENRG OTRA TRGY NL |
04THEHAGUE600 | REQUEST FOR WAIVER FOR LEASE OVER DOLS 25,000 [...] AS DIRECTED BY REF (A),POST REQUESTS AUTHORIZATION TO ENTER INTO A RESIDENTIAL LEASE. THE INFORMATION BELOW IS KEYED TO THE FORMAT OF REF (B.) (1) POST: THE HAGUE. (2) WAIVER FOR (A) LEASE OVER U.S. DOLS YES. 25,000? (B) DOES LEASE EXCEED SPACE STANDA [...] | 2004-03-11 11:19:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | ABLD AMGT ASEC |
04THEHAGUE604 | UNCTAD XI: NETHERLANDS POSITION [...] (SBU) The Ministry of Economic Affairs responded to demarche requested ref a by noting that the Netherlands attaches considerable importance to UNCTAD XI and hopes that It will exert a positive influence on the Doha Round negotiations. Although the Dutch do not want UNCTAD XI to interfere in [...] | 2004-03-11 16:24:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD NL UNCTAD WTRO EUN |
04THEHAGUE606 | OECD: DUTCH RESPONSE TO USG REFORM PROPOSAL [...] No summary [...] | 2004-03-12 10:25:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON NL OECD |
04THEHAGUE609 | NSG TRILATERAL UNDERSTANDING ON OSCILLOSCOPES: [...] No summary [...] | 2004-03-12 12:11:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | KNNP ETTC TRGY PARM PREL ENRG ETRD AFSI IN NL |
04THEHAGUE610 | IRAN/IAEA: DUTCH VIEWS ON RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2004-03-12 12:11:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM PREL MNUC IR NL IAEA |
04THEHAGUE615 | HAITI HUMANITARIAN AID: DUTCH WILL SUPPORT ICRC [...] No summary [...] | 2004-03-12 13:03:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID HA NL PHUM PREF PREL |
04THEHAGUE639 | TERRORIST FINANCE: DUTCH TO PUSH FOR ECOFIN [...] No summary [...] | 2004-03-12 13:28:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PTER EFIN NL EUN |
04THEHAGUE645 | ACTION REQUEST ON CRISIS IN GLOBAL AGREEMENT TO [...] In response to reftel, Embassy forwarded non-paper and talking points, as well as EPA press release, to contacts in the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Environment and Agriculture. In addition, Ambassador Sobel left non-paper with Foreign Minister Bot after a meeting on March 9. 2. We fol [...] | 2004-03-12 15:23:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC EAGR ETRD PREL SENV NL |
04THEHAGUE65 | Dutch Support Early FATF Review of Guatemala [...] No summary [...] | 2004-01-12 15:06:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KCRM EFIN PTER SNAR GT |
04THEHAGUE677 | DUTCH PARTICIPATION AT THE CHAD CONFERENCE ON [...] No summary [...] | 2004-03-17 08:50:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINS PREL PHUM NO SU CD NL |
04THEHAGUE680 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WEEKLY WRAP-UP [...] (SBU) On March 8, the Geneva Group discussed U.S. proposals for reform of the Office of Internal Oversight. There was general consensus on the need to strengthen the ability of the OIO to perform its oversight functions properly, but a concern about undoing the "political" agreement that out [...] | 2004-03-17 14:11:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
04THEHAGUE685 | DEMARCHE RE ROAD SAFETY [...] PER (REFTEL) REQUEST, DEMARCHE AND SUPPORTING TALKING POINTS REGARDING RETAINING THE ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE (ECE) AS THE FOCAL POINT FOR UN ROAD SAFETY ACTIVITIES HAVE BEEN DELIVERED TO DUTCH MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT (MOT) WITH A COPY TO MFA MARCH 17. IN AN INITIAL REACTION OUR MOT INT [...] | 2004-03-17 15:35:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC NL UN ELNT WHO |
04THEHAGUE686 | DUTCH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON POSSIBLE 2009 KAZAKH [...] No summary [...] | 2004-03-17 15:44:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KZ NL OSCE |
04THEHAGUE687 | DUTCH REACTION TO DEMARCHE ON IAEA NUCLEAR [...] No summary [...] | 2004-03-17 16:02:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC ABUD ENRG KNNP PTER NL IAEA |
04THEHAGUE690 | DUTCH PM BALKENENDE'S WASHINGTON VISIT BOLSTERS [...] (C) Summary: The main Dutch opposition politician Wouter Bos has inflamed the debate over extending the Dutch troop deployment in Iraq by publicly opposing its renewal after July. However, spokespersons for the three governing coalition parties stated they were inclined to support renewal a [...] | 2004-03-18 09:24:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS MARR IZ NL |
04THEHAGUE699 | ICAO CAIRO MEETING: DUTCH DELEGATION AND [...] No summary [...] | 2004-03-18 13:53:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON NL |
04THEHAGUE719 | DUTCH PRESS ON PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT TO THE US [...] Summary. The visit of Prime Minister Balkenende to the US received broad attention in the Dutch media. The fallout from the Madrid terrorist attacks and discussion of the opposition Labor Party's desire not to renew the Dutch military deployment in Iraq overshadowed his March 15 [...] | 2004-03-18 15:52:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO NL PREL |
04THEHAGUE725 | THE NETHERLANDS: NUCLEAR SUPPLIERS GROUP PROPOSALS [...] No summary [...] | 2004-03-19 09:52:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP ENRG ETTC MNUC PARM PREL TRGY NL IAEA |
04THEHAGUE727 | FALL 2004 INTERN PROGRAM [...] Post requests four interns for fall 2004. The following responses are keyed para 3 of reftel: A. Number of Interns: Four B. Language requirement: None for Legal. Dutch is preferred but not required for others. C. Selection criteria: All interns should have excellent writing and [...] | 2004-03-19 13:23:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | APER AMGT ASEC |
04THEHAGUE730 | DEMARCHE ON POULTRY IMPORT BANS [...] Embassy/The Hague delivered the demarche talking points in reftel to the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality (LNV) and the Ministry of Economic Affairs. Henk Leemans, Department of Food and Veterinary Affairs, LNV, said the EU decision to close its market to most U.S. poultry an [...] | 2004-03-19 13:35:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD NL |
04THEHAGUE733 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP CABLE - [...] (U) As a result of the March industry cluster meetings, the March Executive Council will have several industry issues for States Parties to consider. Two decisions, one on Captive Use and the other on Clarification Requests, appear ripe for adoption by the Executive Council. In addition, th [...] | 2004-03-19 14:01:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL EIND CWC |
04THEHAGUE744 | OFFICIAL-INFORMAL [...] No summary [...] | 2004-03-22 12:26:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | OI |
04THEHAGUE746 | IRAQI ASSETS: TRANSFERING ASSETS FROZEN IN THE [...] (SBU) Dutch authorities are preparing a Ministerial decree that will allow them to confiscate Iraqi assets frozen in the Netherlands. This decree should be promulgated within the next 90 days and will apply to assets of the former regime that are already frozen and any that have not yet been [...] | 2004-03-22 13:45:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC EFIN IZ NL |
04THEHAGUE762 | DEMARCHE TO DUTCH ON POSSIBLE SHIRBRIG DEPLOYMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2004-03-23 15:05:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO MARR MOPS PREL HA NL UNSC |
04THEHAGUE765 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WEEKLY WRAP-UP [...] (U) The facilitator for consultations on improving the funding mechanism for Article IV and V verification costs, Johan Verboom (Netherlands),told us on March 18 that he hoped to reach consensus on a decision document for consideration at Executive Council Session 36 the following week. Ins [...] | 2004-03-24 08:37:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL CWC |
04THEHAGUE766 | READOUT OF DUTCH PRT RECCE TEAM TRIP TO AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Summary: Acting PolCouns obtained a readout on March 23 on the recent GONL PRT recce team visit to Afghanistan from Joost Flamand (protect),the MFA team rep. The team visited Herat, Mazar-e-Sharif and Konduz, and had meetings with Task Force Victory in Bagram and with ISAF and UN offici [...] | 2004-03-24 09:37:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS AF NL NATO |
04THEHAGUE768 | DELIVERY OF NPT PREPCOM III NONPAPER TO THE DUTCH [...] No summary [...] | 2004-03-24 09:44:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP NL NPT IAEA |
04THEHAGUE769 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): SUPPORTING THE [...] (U) This is CWC-40-04. 2. (U) The guidance cable from the Department for the current OPCW Executive Council session instructs me to support the efforts by the Technical Secretariat to implement measures to assist staff members affected by the tenure policy. As Washington wisely notes, [...] | 2004-03-24 10:24:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL CWC |
04THEHAGUE771 | TERRORIST FINANCE: AL-HARAMAIN ACTIVITIES IN THE [...] (S/NF) Summary: Al Haramain does operate in the Netherlands under the name "Stichting Al Haramain Humanitarian Aid," located at Jan Hanzenstraat 114, 1053SV Amsterdam, telephone number 020-618-2645. Embassy/ROAL have no substantive information indicating that the Dutch Al-Haramain chapter sup [...] | 2004-03-24 12:31:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET//NOFORN | ETTC PTER SA NL |
04THEHAGUE774 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): - U.S./U.K. [...] (C) AC DAS Don Mahley and Patrick Lamb, Deputy head of the Counterproliferation Department of the U.K.'s FCO, met with senior OPCW officials and delegations from the Western Group on March 19 to discuss Libya. There was substantial interest in what procedure the U.S./U.K. supported to addres [...] | 2004-03-25 06:44:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL CWC |
04THEHAGUE781 | ENCOURGING CHR MEMBERS TO SUPPORT THE RESOLUTION [...] Country Clearance is granted for xxx for travel to The Netherlands XXX. 2. Embassy understands that no assistance is requested. POST ACCESS: 3. Visitors who need unescorted access into secure areas of the Mission must provide proof of at least a secret clearance. If level of cleara [...] | 2004-03-25 14:36:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM |
04THEHAGUE783 | ICTY: MILOSEVIC REFUSES TO GIVE CONSENT TO [...] (SBU) Summary: The President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY),Judge Theodor Meron, convened a special hearing on March 25 in order to determine whether Slobodan Milosevic would consent to the continuation of the trial with a new judge, an as-yet appointe [...] | 2004-03-25 15:27:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | BK HR KAWC NL PHUM PREL SR ICTY |
04THEHAGUE787 | AMBASSADOR'S MARCH 24 MEETING WITH DUTCH POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Sobel met with Dutch MFA Political Director Hugo Siblesz on March 24. They discussed Iraq, Afghanistan, the Greater Middle East, the March 22-23 EU GAERC meetings and China human rights issues. Siblesz said a new UNSCR would help the government secure broad support [...] | 2004-03-26 05:04:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PARM PHUM IZ AF IR CH NL |
04THEHAGUE791 | REACH: Latest Dutch Views [...] (U) Summary: The Dutch are pushing for EU REACH proposals so that registration and evaluation requirements are targeted to substances posing the most significant potential risks. They are concerned with the potential impact of existing proposals on SME's and are interested in further informa [...] | 2004-03-26 15:45:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD SENV NL EUN |
04THEHAGUE792 | BIO INFORMATION ON NEW EU CT COORDINATOR [...] (U) On March 25, Dutchman Gijs de Vries was officially appointed by European government leaders as EU counter- terrorism coordinator. Below follows his biographic information. 2. (C) COMMENT: De Vries is known to Embassy officers as a quiet and serious man who has been active in trans-Atla [...] | 2004-03-26 16:09:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL NL BIO |
04THEHAGUE798 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR [...] (U) The 36th Executive Council session of the OPCW was a solid success for the U.S. across the entire range of substantive and administrative issues. The presence of the Libyan delegation was sufficient to ensure that EC-36 would be memorable, and a report on the various discussions involvi [...] | 2004-03-29 13:25:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL CWC |
04THEHAGUE799 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): VIS ENHANCEMENT [...] (U) Del reps met with OPCW Chief of Administration Herb Schulz, Chief of the Information Support Branch (ISB) Greg Linden, and Chief of the Office of Confidentiality and Security (OCS) Rob Simpson to discuss issues related to Technical Secretariat (TS) work on the Verification Information Sy [...] | 2004-03-29 13:33:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL CWC |
04THEHAGUE804 | REQUEST FOR EXCEPTION TO THE MANDATORY RETIREMENT [...] Summary. Post requests advice and approval from HR/OE for an exception to the mandatory retirement age provision, so as to allow a foreign national employee to continue work past his 65th birthday, for another 12 months. Post mandatory retirement age is 65. End Summary. 2. Background on [...] | 2004-03-29 14:36:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | APER |
04THEHAGUE812 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC) - DELIVERY OF [...] (S) On the margins of the March 23-26 Executive Council session of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the U.S. delegation delivered to the Iranian delegation the cover letter (signed by Ambassador Javits) contained in paragraph 8 of reftel and the list of questions in [...] | 2004-03-30 10:25:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM AORC IR OPCW CWC CBW |
04THEHAGUE813 | ICTY: OTP PAPER SAYS BELGRADE FAILING TO COOPERATE [...] (SBU) Summary: In a paper circulated among key diplomatic representatives in The Hague and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) late on March 26, the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) asserts that Belgrade's cooperation with [...] | 2004-03-30 10:52:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | BK HR KAWC NL PHUM PREL SR ICTY |
04THEHAGUE814 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): LIBYA AT EC-36 [...] (C) Summary: In addition to many formal welcomes during the 36th Executive Council (EC) session of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) U.S., U.K. and Libyan representatives had several opportunities to interact. Each meeting was cordial and held in a mutually coop [...] | 2004-03-30 10:54:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL LY CWC |
04THEHAGUE82 | DUTCH RESPONSE TO USTR ZOELLICK LETTER ON DOHA [...] Ministry of Economic Affairs officials confirm that Minister Brinkhorst received Ambassador Zoellick's letter and report that the Minister is "very pleased" with this "unexpected initiative." The ideas put forward in the letter correspond fairly closely with Brinkhorst's own views and reinfor [...] | 2004-01-13 15:27:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD NL WTRO |
04THEHAGUE825 | ICJ - PRESERVATION OF NUREMBURG TRIAL ARCHIVES [...] (U) Summary. The Archives of the Nuremburg International Military Tribunal (NIMT) in the custody of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) are facing two preservation threats. First, the obsolete nature of the equipment on which the proceedings were recorded risks this material becoming ina [...] | 2004-03-31 12:14:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | KAWC PREL AORC ICJ USUN |
04THEHAGUE83 | (C) SUBJECT: MKO FUNDRAISING ATTEMPT IN THE HAGUE [...] (S/NF) The Dutch government successfully intervened with municipal authorities in The Hague on January 10 to prevent the Association of Iranian Students (Vereniging Iraanse Academici in Nederland or VIAN) from launching a fundraising campaign touted as support for Bam earthquake victims but in [...] | 2004-01-13 15:33:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET//NOFORN | ETTC PTER ASEC IZ NL |
04THEHAGUE834 | TERRORIST FINANCE: DUTCH HARAMAIN VETTING [...] (S/NF) We delivered demarche requested ref a to the MFA official acting as chairman of the Dutch interagency committee on designations. This official responded that the Netherlands not only would support the U.S. designation but plan a simultaneous designation under the Dutch national sanctio [...] | 2004-04-01 07:29:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET//NOFORN | ETTC PTER NL EUN |
04THEHAGUE835 | SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: ADVANCING U.S.-DUTCH [...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 7. 2. Summary. The Dutch have been strong and consistent allies in global discussions on sustainable development. Post has a strong interest in advancing U.S.-Dutch cooperation in this area. Recent meetings between Ambassador Sobel and senio [...] | 2004-04-01 07:53:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID SENV NL |
04THEHAGUE856 | PCA: REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE FOR ADMINISTRATIVE [...] (U) Summary: The Administrative Council of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) will be holding its Spring Meeting on Monday, April 19. Embassy legal officer will represent the USG at the Council meeting and seeks guidance from the Department with respect to a proposal of the PCA Secretary [...] | 2004-04-02 10:15:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | ABUD AFIN AORC IBPCA |
04THEHAGUE867 | DUTCH TO CONTINUE POLICE TRAINING IN SOUTHERN IRAQ [...] (C) Summary: The Dutch government is not/not able to contribute any trainers for CPA Iraqi police development programs in Iraq and Jordan (ref a). However, the Dutch remain actively involved in training Iraqi police in the province of Al-Muthanna. The Dutch have also seconded a military pol [...] | 2004-04-02 13:51:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM KJUS MOPS PREL NL |
04THEHAGUE868 | DEMARCHE TO DUTCH MFA ON EU CHINA ARMS EMBARGO [...] (S) PolMilOff reviewed ref A demarche with Dutch MFA Director for Arms Export Policy Paul van den IJssel on April 2. Van den IJssel stressed that the Dutch were not among the leaders of the initiative to lift the EU embargo. Nevertheless, he saw merit in the PRC argument that China differs fr [...] | 2004-04-02 16:39:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | PARM PREL CH NL EUN |
04THEHAGUE876 | DUTCH OPPOSE NO-ACTION MOTIONS AT CHR [...] No summary [...] | 2004-04-05 13:11:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL |
04THEHAGUE878 | FUND CITE FOR TRAVEL OF CAA DIGITAL COPIER REPAIR [...] Per reftel A, post provides the following fund cite to cover costs for services to be provided by the digital copier repair technician: 19-401130000-4256-42564IRM03-5458-2589 2. Amount charged to this fund cite is not to exceed $2941.74 Sobel [...] | 2004-04-05 13:44:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | ACOA ASEC ABUD AMTC AMGT KRIM |
04THEHAGUE879 | NETHERLANDS: RISING BUDGET DEFICIT RESULTS IN NEW [...] The Dutch government is reacting with outward calm to the news that the EU Commission will launch an "excessive deficit" procedure against the Netherlands for running a budget deficit in 2003 of 3.2 percent - 0.2 percent greater than allowed by EU Growth and Stability Pact (GSP) rules. Financ [...] | 2004-04-05 13:45:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN PGOV NL |
04THEHAGUE90 | (SBU) TERRORIST FINANCE: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON [...] No summary [...] | 2004-01-14 16:03:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC PTER ASEC EUN NL |
04THEHAGUE905 | CYPRUS: DUTCH RESPONSE ON DONORS' CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2004-04-07 13:21:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CY NL EUN |
04THEHAGUE916 | NETHERLANDS - CTRY CLR, DOE/EE: DANIEL LAIRD, [...] Country Clearance is granted for Daniel Laird for travel to The Netherlands April 17-22, 2004. 2. Embassy point of contact is Economic officer Todd Kushner (tel:31-70-310-9273; email kushnerta2@state.gov post understands that no travel assistance is requested. POST ACCESS: 3. Visit [...] | 2004-04-08 09:38:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG KSCA TRGY OTRA NL |
04THEHAGUE92 | LIBERIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (U) On January 13, EconOff delivered ref demarche regarding the Feb. 5-6 Liberia reconstruction conference to Roel van den Veen of the MFA's West Africa Division. Van den Veen will share the points with colleagues from the MFA Directorate of Peacebuilding/Human Rights (which oversees the D [...] | 2004-01-14 16:04:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC EAID ECON LI NL PREL |
04THEHAGUE943 | DUTCH ON SUDAN RESOLUTION AT UNCHR [...] No summary [...] | 2004-04-14 13:01:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL SU NL |
04THEHAGUE963 | USDOT Secretary Mineta's Visit to the Netherlands [...] Summary: In a meeting with Dutch Transport Minister Karla Peijs, Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta explained the U.S. negotiating position in the current civair talks with the European Commission and asked for Dutch support with other member states to conclude an agreement. He and [...] | 2004-04-16 14:19:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR OVIP EWWT NL |
04THEHAGUE966 | DUTCH PARLIAMENT DEBATES IRAQ [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 15, the Dutch parliament engaged debated Foreign Minister Bot and Defense Minister Kamp in a debate on the future of Iraq. Looming in the background is the government's upcoming decision whether to renew the deployment of Dutch troops currently in Iraq beyond July. wi [...] | 2004-04-16 16:14:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS MARR PREL PGOV IZ NL |
04THEHAGUE969 | DUTCH PARLIAMENT DEBATES IRAQ [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 15, the Dutch parliament debated Foreign Minister Bot and Defense Minister Kamp on the future of Iraq. Looming in the background is the government's upcoming decision whether to renew the deployment of Dutch troops currently in Iraq beyond July. Bot and Kamp parried o [...] | 2004-04-16 16:44:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS MARR PREL PGOV IZ NL |
04THEHAGUE973 | TIP: SHOWING OF LILYA 4-EVER IN THE HAGUE [...] No summary [...] | 2004-04-19 12:12:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO OPRC OIIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG NL |
04THEHAGUE975 | ICTY: DEL PONTE DEFENDS POSITIVE ASSESSMENT OF [...] (C) Summary. Carla Del Ponte, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY),vigorously defended her positive assessment to EU officials of Croatia,s cooperation with the Tribunal. She based her decision on Croatia,s cooperation in recent weeks wit [...] | 2004-04-19 15:47:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | BK HR KAWC NL PHUM PREL SR ICTY |
04THEHAGUE98 | IRAQ: EMBASSY RE-DELIVERED IFC DEMARCHE TO THE [...] (SBU) Post re-delivered talking points on the IFC Small Business Fund for Iraq to Netherlands Ministry of Finance Official Ammarens Bruggenkamp. Ms. Bruggenkamp said she still does not have a definite GONL position on IFC funding but would re-submit the request for consideration at the MO [...] | 2004-01-15 16:34:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN IZ NL |
04THEHAGUE980 | TIP: SHOWING OF LILYA 4-EVER IN THE HAGUE [...] No summary [...] | 2004-04-20 12:06:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO OPRC OIIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG NL |
04THEHAGUE985 | ICTY: SENIOR FORMER USG OFFICIALS ON MILOSEVIC [...] (C) Summary: Slobodan Milosevic -- in one of his first filings before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) -- submitted to the trial chamber on April 13 a confidential document describing the witnesses he may call during his upcoming defense case. While the list [...] | 2004-04-20 15:11:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | BK HR KAWC NL PHUM PREL SR ICTY |
04THEHAGUE986 | DUTCH ON DRAFT NONPROLIFERATION UNSCR [...] No summary [...] | 2004-04-20 15:22:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PREL NL UNSC |
04THEHAGUE988 | IRAQ: DUTCH MFA ON SECURITY PROCEDURES FOR [...] (U) This is an action request, see para 3. 2. (S) PolMilOff delivered ref A points to Dutch MFA Deputy Operations Director Joost Flamand on April 20. Flamand appreciated the information and asked about a specific point in CJCS Gen. Myers's April 15 letter to Dutch CHOD Adm Kroon (ref B) wh [...] | 2004-04-20 15:45:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | PREL OPDC MOPS MARR IZ NL |
04TRIPOLI27 | (C) BULGARIAN MEDICS UPDATE [...] (C) Status of Medics: The five Bulgarian medics sentenced to death for infecting over 400 Libyan children with HIV-tainted blood in a Benghazi hospital are being kept relatively secluded, the Bulgarian Embassy's Dimitar Dimitrov told us December 7. Dimitrov personally speculates this is becaus [...] | 2004-12-13 00:10:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL BU LY XA XF XI |
04TRIPOLI28 | (C) U.S. OIL COMPANIES PERSEVERE IN LIBYA [...] (C) Oasis/Oxy Update: The oil majors were in Tripoli the week of December 6 for yet another Libyan economic conference (reftel). The former Oasis partners (Marathon, Amerada Hess, ConocoPhillips) are continuing their negotiations with the NOC for re-entry into the Libyan oil market, as is Oc [...] | 2004-12-14 09:49:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ECON PREL LY |
04TRIPOLI31 | (C) CHIRAC VISIT TO LIBYA MODESTLY SUCCESSFUL, BUT NOT [...] (C) Summary: French Embassy DCM Maurice Dabdoush (please protect) December 15 confirmed rumors circulating around Tripoli that Jacques Chirac's November 24-25 visit to Libya was not a happy experience. While the French President accomplished his most important goal - that of simply showing up h [...] | 2004-12-16 10:36:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER FR LY VE |
04USUNNEWYORK2570 | 59TH UNGA: GENERAL ASSEMBLY PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE [...] Summary. On November 11, the United Nations General Assembly marked the passing of Yasser Arafat. Secretary-General (SYG) Kofi Annan and GA President Jean Ping both made statements of condolences as did the leaders of the various regional groups. Gambia, on behalf of the African States; In [...] | 2004-11-12 21:55:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNGA |
04USUNNEWYORK494 | UNSC: SECURITY COUNCIL CONDEMNS MADRID BOMB ATTACKS [...] CONDEMNS IN THE STRONGEST TERMS THE BOMB ATTACKS IN MADRID, SPAIN, PERPETRATED BY THE TERRORIST GROUP ETA ON 11 MARCH 2004, IN WHICH MANY LIVES WERE CLAIMED AND PEOPLE INJURED, ANDD REGARDS SUCH ACT, LIKE ANY ACT OF TERRORISM, AS A THREAT TO PEACE AND SECURITY; 2. EXPRESSES ITS DEEPEST SY [...] | 2004-03-11 23:17:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNSC PTER PREL SP |
04VATICAN101 | POPE'S VISION IN LINE WITH U.S. GOALS IN IRAQ, [...] No summary [...] | 2004-01-13 07:01:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM VT |
04VATICAN1164 | VATICAN OPEN TO TURKEY'S EU BID [...] (C) HOLY SEE COUNTRY DIRECTOR FOR TURKEY JAN PAWLOWSKI REAFFIRMED MARCH 5 THE VATICAN'S OPENNESS TO TURKISH EU MEMBERSHIP, DESPITE THE IMPRESSION OF OPPOSITION GENERATED BY THE HOLY SEE'S CONTINUED EFFORTS TO INTERJECT A REFERENCE TO EUROPE'S CHRISTIAN ROOTS IN THE EU CONSTITUTION. NEVERTHELES [...] | 2004-03-23 17:26:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | EU PHUM PREL SOCI TU VT |
04VATICAN1171 | HOLY SEE TAKING SMALL STEPS IN RELATIONS WITH [...] (C) Cardinal Walter Kasper, the Holy See official responsible for relations with the Orthodox Church, judged his February trip to Moscow to meet with Russian Orthodoxy's highest officials "not easy, but helpful." Kasper told the Ambassador that Patriarch Alexei II and Metropolitan Kirill, th [...] | 2004-03-24 08:58:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PHUM PREL RS SOCI VT |
04VATICAN1231 | OSCE BOSNIA HEAD PRESSES HOLY SEE AND FRANCISCANS [...] (U) This telegram contains a guidance request. Please see paragraph 9. ------- Summary ------- 2. (C) OSCE Bosnia Head of Mission Robert Beecroft emphasized the importance of inter-ethnic reconciliation in Mostar for Bosnia's future stability during March 23-24 meetings with the Hol [...] | 2004-03-26 18:35:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PREL SOCI VT BK BOSNIA AND HERCEGOVINA OSCE |
04VATICAN1299 | TOP JESUIT: RELIGIOUS FREEDOM UNDER PRESSURE IN [...] (SBU) DURING A MARCH 31 MEETING WITH THE AMBASSADOR, SOCIETY OF JESUS (JESUIT) SUPERIOR GENERAL HANS-PETER KOLVENBACH EXPRESSED HIS MOUNTING CONCERN ABOUT RELIGIOUS FREEDOM FOR CHRISTIANS IN INDIA. KOLVENBACH, WHO RECENTLY RETURNED FROM A TRIP TO INDIA, SAID THAT HINDU FUNDAMENTALISM SEE [...] | 2004-04-02 04:41:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IN KIRF PHUM PREL SOCI VT XD |
04VATICAN1300 | HOLY SEE RECEPTIVE TO U.S. CONCERNS ON CHINA AND [...] No summary [...] | 2004-04-02 04:45:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CH CU KIRF PHUM VT UNHRC |
04VATICAN1302 | RELATIONS WITH JEWS AND ANTI-SEMITISM HIGH ON [...] (SBU) The Holy See has placed its dialogue with Judaism and efforts to combat anti-Semitism high on its agenda, as reflected in recent Papal statements, high profile meetings, and an increasingly active inter-religious dialogue. Vatican relations with Judaism have been steadily improving sin [...] | 2004-04-02 07:57:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM SOCI IS VT |
04VATICAN1389 | HIV/AIDS: COUNTERING VATICAN MISCONCEPTIONS ON [...] No summary [...] | 2004-04-08 06:40:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SOCI TBIO VT |
04VATICAN140 | HOLY SEE TALKS TOUGH TO ISLAM [...] No summary [...] | 2004-01-14 14:28:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM VT |
04VATICAN1445 | HOLY SEE REQUESTS U.S. APPROACH ISRAEL ON VISAS [...] (C) Vatican Foreign Minister equivalent Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo told the Ambassador April 6 of the Holy See's mounting frustration with Israel's unwillingness to address visa and residency problems for religious workers in Israel and the Palestinian Territories. The obstacles faced by Cath [...] | 2004-04-13 15:34:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | IS PGOV PHUM PREL VT PLO |
04VATICAN1471 | OSCE ANTI-SEMITISM CONFERENCE: HOLY SEE WANTS [...] (c) Holy See Deputy Foreign Minister Monsignor Pietro Parolin told the DCM April 8 that the Holy See was committed to a successful OSCE Anti-Semitism Conference in Berlin, and agreed with the U.S. on the importance of achieving concrete results. To this end, the Holy See will be sending a hig [...] | 2004-04-14 15:39:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL SOCI VT OSCE |
04VATICAN1548 | VATICAN RAISES CONCERNS ON PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT, [...] (C) Holy See Country Director for Israel Franco Coppola told Poloff April 16 that the Holy See had concerns about both the Presidential statement issued April 14 and PM Sharon's Gaza withdrawal plan. Coppola said that the USG's consent for Israel to keep some parts of the West Bank it has oc [...] | 2004-04-21 05:31:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | IS KPAL KWBG PREL VT |
04VATICAN1968 | U/S BOLTON PREVIEWS SEA ISLAND NON-PROLIFERATION [...] (C) Under Secretary Bolton previewed Sea Island G-8 Summit non-proliferation initiatives for Holy See Foreign Minister Giovanni Lajolo May 17, emphasizing the President's desire to ensure that efforts to address WMD threats were a priority for G-8 nations. Bolton highlighted progress in imple [...] | 2004-05-20 14:43:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL IR LY IN PK IS VT |
04VATICAN1988 | VATICAN DELEGATION SEES PROGRESS IN VIETNAM [...] (SBU) Vatican representatives who visited Vietnam April 27 - May 2 were pleased by their surprisingly cordial reception by Vietnamese officials. Authorities allowed the delegation to visit the diocese of Xuan Loc for the first time, as well as Ban Me Thuot, where there were clashes in April [...] | 2004-05-21 12:44:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CH KIRF PHUM PINR PREL VT VM PGOV SOCI |
04VATICAN1989 | SERB AMBASSADOR CONCERNED ABOUT KOSOVO, ISLAM [...] (SBU) DARKO TANASKOVIC, SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO (SAM) AMBASSADOR TO THE HOLY SEE, PASSED THE AMBASSADOR MAY 19 SAM'S DISCUSSION PAPER ON KOSOVO (REF A) AND IMPRESSED UPON HIM HIS CONCERNS ABOUT THE SAFETY OF THE SERBIAN MINORITY IN THE PROVINCE. TANASKOVIC DESCRIBED A GROWING EXTREMISM AMONG [...] | 2004-05-21 13:11:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIRF MW PREL SOCI SR VT YI UNMIK |
04VATICAN2058 | DAS SATTERFIELD REVIEWS MIDDLE EAST AND IRAQ WITH [...] (C) NEA Deputy Assistant Secretary David Satterfield reviewed U.S. policy in regard to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Iraq, Middle East reform and Syria in a May 17 meeting with Holy See Deputy FM equivalent Monsignor Pietro Parolin. Satterfield described the Israeli-Palestinian dispute a [...] | 2004-05-26 09:26:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IS VT IZ |
04VATICAN239 | VATICAN SEES PROGRESS IN SUDAN, PRESSES FOR [...] (C) HOLY SEE COUNTRY DIRECTOR FOR SUDAN LUCIO SEMBRANO TOLD US JANUARY 15 THAT HE HAD RECENTLY SEEN PROGRESS IN "SMALL STEPS" IN SUDAN. HE NOTED THAT THE GOS HAD BEGUN TO ISSUE A FEW MORE VISAS TO CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES FROM ABROAD, AND HAD RECENTLY APPROVED PERMITS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF NE [...] | 2004-01-23 12:16:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PHUM PINR PREL SU VT |
04VATICAN2518 | TIP CONFERENCE ENERGIZES, EDUCATES ON FAITH-BASED [...] No summary [...] | 2004-06-30 04:38:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM SMIG SOCI VT |
04VATICAN252 | The Pope's Europe: Whole, Free and Faithful [...] (U) From the start of his Pontificate, Pope John Paul II has had a clear vision of Europe as a continent united, free, and faithful. As an inspirational symbol for the Polish nation and a formidable voice for freedom, the Pope played an essential role in overcoming Europe's political division [...] | 2004-01-23 16:33:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM EU VT |
04VATICAN2671 | POPE SEEKS TO SPEED UP UNITY WITH ORTHODOX [...] No summary [...] | 2004-07-09 04:45:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM VT |
04VATICAN2684 | VATICAN BOOKS STILL IN RED [...] No summary [...] | 2004-07-09 14:07:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON EFIN VT |
04VATICAN2712 | VATICAN SEES NO CAMPAIGN AGAINST NICARAGUAN CHURCH [...] (C) Vatican Country Director for Nicaragua Lucio Sembrano said July 8 that he did not regard current Church-State tensions (reftels) as a result of any government campaign against the Church. While not entirely excusing government offenses against Catholic hierarchy, Sembrano (protect throug [...] | 2004-07-13 04:40:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | NU PHUM PREL SOCI VT |
04VATICAN2725 | VATICAN SUPPORTIVE OF PSI [...] No summary [...] | 2004-07-13 15:35:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP PREL MNUC PARM VT |
04VATICAN2764 | VATICAN TO DISPATCH AID CHIEF TO DARFUR [...] (SBU) Holy See Country Director for Sudan Monsignor Lucio Sembrano told us July 8 that the Pope was sending the President of the Vatican's aid coordination agency to Darfur to assess the situation on the ground. Sembrano praised U.S. leadership on Sudan and took on ref (a) points with interes [...] | 2004-07-15 15:11:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM PREF SU VT |
04VATICAN2767 | HAITI: HOLY SEE AWAITS NEW NUNCIO [...] (SBU) Holy See Country Director for Haiti Monsignor Giorgio Lingua told us July 15 the Vatican was eager for new Papal Nuncio (Ambassador) Mario Giordano to take the reins in Port au Prince. Giordano was just ordained an archbishop and is due to begin work in Haiti "any day now." Lingua was [...] | 2004-07-16 04:38:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CU EAID EFIN ETRD EU HA PHUM PREL VT |
04VATICAN2817 | VATICAN TRAFFICKING DVC PRODUCES BIG RESULTS [...] A June 30 Trafficking in Persons Digital Video Conference (DVC) linked key Holy See contacts and media with G/TIP's Ambassador John Miller. In conjunction with Embassy Rome, Embassy Vatican brought together three key elements in the fight against human trafficking: Vatican officials and rel [...] | 2004-07-21 04:53:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM SMIG VT |
04VATICAN2890 | NORTH KOREA: CATHOLIC RELIEF AGENCY BUILDING [...] (C) The Holy See's North Korea Country Director told us July 9 that Caritas has reinforced its traditional emergency food aid programs with training programs for local North Korean officials. The Vatican is cautiously optimistic that this focus on relationship building will create a greater [...] | 2004-07-26 13:17:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM EAID PGOV KN VT KS KIRF |
04VATICAN2892 | SUDAN: SANT'EGIDIO OFFERS ROME MEDIATION VENUE [...] (C) SUMMARY and ACTION REQUEST: The Rome-based Sant'Egidio Community, which specializes in conflict mediation and has ties with both the Sudanese government and main rebel groups, conveyed its interest in hosting informal discussions at its Rome-based headquarters to establish a political dia [...] | 2004-07-26 13:56:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SU VT |
04VATICAN2949 | ISRAEL: VATICAN PESSIMISTIC ON SOURING RELATIONS [...] (C) Holy See Country Director for the Middle East Coppola elaborated on his foreign minister's frustrations with Vatican-Israel relations July 22, pointing to stalled negotiations on issues related to the 1994 Fundamental Agreement between the two governments as the main source of contention. [...] | 2004-07-29 15:30:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | IS KIRF KPAL PREL VT UNGA |
04VATICAN2989 | POPE CONDEMNS IRAQ CHURCH BOMBINGS; CHALDEAN [...] (U) The Pope reacted strongly to Sunday's Iraq church bombings in an August 2 message to Emmanuel III, Patriarch of Iraq's Chaldean Catholic Church. The Pope said that he "firmly deplored the unjust aggressions against those whose only aim is to collaborate for peace and reconciliation in t [...] | 2004-08-03 04:39:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ KIRF PHUM PREL SOCI VT |
04VATICAN3057 | DVC PROMOTES HIV/AIDS PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN USG AND [...] No summary [...] | 2004-08-06 15:56:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM SOCI TBIO VT |
04VATICAN3196 | VATICAN STILL OPEN TO TURKEY’S EU BID [...] (C) Acting Holy See Foreign Minister Parolin reaffirmed August 18 that the Holy See remained open to Turkish EU membership, notwithstanding recent critical comments by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. Parolin emphasized that the Holy See's position on Turkish membership in the EU had not changed from the [...] | 2004-08-18 16:27:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | EU PHUM PREL SOCI TU VT |
04VATICAN3197 | HOLY SEE CLARIFIES POSITION ON NAJAF MEDIATION [...] (C) Summary: The Holy See's Acting Foreign Minister Pietro Parolin told Charge August 18 that the Holy See would be willing to help mediate the standoff in Najaf if all parties to the conflict requested it, but had indicated this willingness only in response to a public request made by an al- [...] | 2004-08-18 16:27:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KIRF PHUM IZ VT |
04VATICAN3212 | VATICAN LOOKING FORWARD TO OSCE CONFERENCE [...] Charge delivered reftel points to acting Vatican Foreign Minister equivalent Monsignor Pietro Parolin August 18. Parolin had seen the composition of the U.S. delegation in previous communication from the OSCE, and noted with interest the participation of Cardinal Keeler of Baltimore. Parolin [...] | 2004-08-20 06:17:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL VT OSCE |
04VATICAN3213 | HOLY SEE BACKS U.S. UNGA PRIORITIES [...] (C) Holy See Acting Foreign Minister equivalent Parolin told Charge August 18 that the Holy See was on the same page with the U.S. on most UNGA initiatives. On cloning, Charge emphasized the Holy See's potential to influence Catholic countries to support a ban on human cloning. Parolin emphasized t [...] | 2004-08-20 06:19:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC ECON KDEM PHUM PREL VT UNGA |
04VATICAN3308 | POPE RETURNS ICON TO ORTHODOX, HOPING FOR THAW IN [...] (SBU) Pope John Paul II is returning a copy of an historic icon of the Virgin Mary to the Russian Orthodox Church, a gesture he hopes will help thaw relations between Rome and Moscow. The Pope had wanted to return the icon to Moscow in person, but continued coolness from Orthodox Patriarch Al [...] | 2004-08-30 04:33:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SOCI RS VT |
04VATICAN3318 | Vatican Conference Lends Support to Gordon Brown's [...] (U) A July 9 Vatican seminar on "Poverty and Globalization: Financing for Development gave an implicit Holy See blessing for UK Chancellor Gordon Brown's International Finance Facility (IFF). Brown sold the IFF as an innovative finance mechanism that could increase funding to meet the UN Mill [...] | 2004-08-30 09:35:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN VT UK |
04VATICAN337 | IRF: CARDINAL SEES OBSTACLES, PROGRESS IN VIETNAM [...] (C) AMERICAN CARDINAL BERNARD LAW REVIEWED WITH POLOFF JANUARY 28 HIS MID-DECEMBER TRIP TO VIETNAM AT THE INVITATION OF VIETNAM'S NEW CARDINAL, JEAN-BAPTISTE PHAM MINH MAN. LAW SAID HE SAW NO SIGNS THAT THE GVN WAS EVEN INCHING TOWARDS ALLOWING THE CATHOLIC CHURCH A ROLE IN CIVIL SOCIETY [...] | 2004-01-30 12:07:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | CH KIRF PHUM PINR PREL VT VM PGOV SOCI |
04VATICAN3376 | REPLY TO CPB COMMISSIONER BONNER [...] (U) This is Embassy Vatican's response to reftel concerning difficulties encoutered at U.S. ports of entry. The most egregious recent case that has come to our attention is that of Monsignor Philip Najim, a British citizen and the senior representative of the Chaldean Catholic Church to the Va [...] | 2004-09-02 14:47:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT PREL VT IZ |
04VATICAN3564 | CARITAS OPERATIONS TO CONTINUE IN IRAQ DESPITE [...] No summary [...] | 2004-09-16 12:34:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM EAID IZ VT |
04VATICAN3581 | Sant'Egidio Inter-Religious Conference Calls for [...] (U) The Sant'Egidio Community brought together over 7,000 religious and political leaders September 5-7 in Milan to promote inter-religious dialogue and understanding as a means to combat terrorism and build peace. The shadow of the Beslan massacre hung over the annual gathering, reinforcing [...] | 2004-09-17 13:31:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM SOCI KIRF VT |
04VATICAN3810 | MOVING THE VATICAN ON BIOTECHNOLOGY: EMBASSY [...] (U) To build support within the Holy See and overcome opposition within the Catholic Church, Embassy brought together scientists, ethicists, and developing nation farmers to address a one-day conference on the moral imperative of using biotechnology to feed the world's hungry. Scientists from [...] | 2004-10-01 15:20:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM TBIO EAGR EAID SOCI VT |
04VATICAN3970 | INVITATIONAL TRAVEL REQUEST [...] SUMMARY: Post requests approval of invitational travel for Ambassador Nicholson to speak at a Trafficking in Persons conference in Miami, and then to travel to Washington, DC to receive an award from the North American College. END SUMMARY. 2. Ambassador has been invited to speak at a Nove [...] | 2004-10-15 04:36:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT VT |
04VATICAN4205 | VATICAN, SANT'EGIDIO PROMOTE JEWISH-CHRISTIAN [...] (SBU) The Holy See and the Vatican-affiliated lay community Sant'Egidio are actively promoting Christian- Jewish dialogue and initiatives to combat anti-Semitism. In October, delegations from the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and the Holy See's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews met [...] | 2004-11-02 10:55:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM SOCI KIRF IS VT |
04VATICAN4242 | Message of Congratulations from Pope John Paul II [...] The Ambassador was asked by Holy See Secretary of State Cardinal Angelo Sodano to convey the following message from Pope John Paul II to President Bush. Mr. George W. Bush President The United States of America On the occasion of your re-election as President of the United States of Ame [...] | 2004-11-04 14:20:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL VT |
04VATICAN4441 | VATICAN URGES OSCE REP TO FOCUS ON CHRISTIAN [...] (U) This cable contains an action request. Please see paragraph 6. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) The Vatican Foreign Ministry,s director for the OSCE urged the U.S. November 18 to support the appointment of an OSCE Special Representative whose title would indicate a responsibilit [...] | 2004-11-19 16:21:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | NL PHUM PREL VT OSCE |
04VATICAN4517 | VATICAN HOLDS FIRM ON ADDING CHRISTIAN REFERENCE [...] (SBU) Holy See Deputy Foreign Minister Pietro Parolin told the Ambassador November 26 that the Vatican intended to continue pressing to add a reference to Christianity in the title of the proposed OSCE Special Representative on Tolerance and Combating Racism, Xenophobia, and Discrimination. [...] | 2004-11-29 14:34:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM SOCI KIRF IS NL VT OSCE VTPREL |
04VATICAN4572 | WORLD AIDS DAY: VATICAN CALLS FOR TOTAL CARE [...] The Vatican has called for total care and services for persons with HIV/AIDS in its 2004 message for World AIDS Day. The message, from the head of the Vatican's Council for Health Care issues, Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan, reports that the Catholic Church provides almost 27 percent of care [...] | 2004-12-02 08:44:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM SOCI TBIO VT |
04VATICAN4735 | IRAQI FM PROMISES RELIGIOUS FREEDOM FOR CHRISTIANS [...] No summary [...] | 2004-12-15 05:53:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM IZ VT |
04VATICAN4760 | A/S BURNS UPDATES VATICAN ON MEPP, IRAQ [...] (C) Holy See Foreign Minister Lajolo agreed with NEA A/S Burns December 9 that there were signs of "a better situation" in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and he emphasized that "both sides" now needed to move forward with the Road Map. On Iraq elections, Lajolo welcomed Burns' assurance th [...] | 2004-12-16 12:11:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | IS IZ KPAL PREL VT |
04VATICAN4778 | VATICAN REJECTS PACIFISM, BUT DEBATE SIMMERS [...] (U) Contrary to the popular perception of a pacifist Vatican generated by the Holy See's opposition to the Iraq war, senior Vatican officials have consistently acknowledged the legitimacy of war as a last resort and have recently gone out of their way to make clear that the Holy See is not pac [...] | 2004-12-17 10:21:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM VT |
04VATICAN4838 | EMBASSY CONFERENCE PROMOTES RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AS [...] No summary [...] | 2004-12-21 15:29:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KIRF VT |
04VATICAN4839 | NEW IRAQI AMBASSADOR CALLS FOR TIGHTER BORDERS, [...] (C) Iraqi Ambassador to the Holy See Edward Ismail Yelda called for tighter controls on his country's borders in a December 16 meeting with the Ambassador. He urged particular attention to the Jordanian border, which he cited as a source of foreign fighters and weapons. Yelda said the situat [...] | 2004-12-21 15:32:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KIRF PHUM PREL SOCI VT |
04VATICAN4878 | NAMES, TITLES AND CONTACT NUMBERS FOR VATICAN [...] No summary [...] | 2004-12-27 13:43:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL VT |
04VATICAN4882 | "OVERCOME EVIL WITH GOOD:" POPE URGES GLOBAL [...] No summary [...] | 2004-12-27 13:53:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM ECON EAID VT VTPREL |
04VATICAN4911 | Pope in Meeting with Anti-Defamation League Calls [...] No summary [...] | 2004-12-29 16:10:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM SOCI VT |
04VATICAN5 | POPE: MIGRATION ISSUES CRUCIAL TO CULTURE OF PEACE [...] No summary [...] | 2004-01-02 12:59:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM PREF SMIG VT |
04VATICAN564 | POPE CALLS FOR "FORGIVENESS, NOT REVENGE" IN [...] No summary [...] | 2004-02-13 16:45:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM WE IS VT |
04VATICAN594 | VATICAN: BISHOPS MUST BE MORE INVOLVED IN SUDAN [...] (SBU) In a meeting requested by the Holy See, Vatican Foreign Minister Giovanni Lajolo told the Ambassador the Sudanese Catholic bishops were in a position to play an important role in the North-South peace process. In fact, according to Lajolo, their participation in reconciliation efforts a [...] | 2004-02-18 06:43:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIRF PHUM PINR PREL SU VT |
04VATICAN733 | HUMAN TRAFFICKING PREVENTION TRAINING PROGRAM UP [...] No summary [...] | 2004-02-26 16:36:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM VT |
04VATICAN736 | FUNDING REQUEST FOR EMBASSY VATICAN BIOTECHNOLOGY [...] No summary [...] | 2004-02-27 05:45:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL TBIO VT |
04VATICAN737 | IRAQ: VATICAN SEES NO NEED TO RUSH ELECTIONS [...] (C) HOLY SEE COUNTRY DIRECTOR FOR IRAQ FRANCO COPPOLA TOLD US FEBRUARY 23 THAT THE VATICAN WAS FULLY SUPPORTIVE OF THE RECENTLY-ANNOUNCED DECISION THAT IRAQI ELECTIONS WOULD NOT BE HELD BY JUNE 30. HE SAID THE U.S. AND THE COALITION PROVISIONAL AUTHORITY (CPA) SHOULD "TAKE ALL THE TIME TH [...] | 2004-02-27 05:54:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PHUM PREL VT |
04VATICAN774 | SOMALIA: HOLY SEE URGES NGO PARTICIPATION IN [...] (SBU) The Holy See requested U.S. support in encouraging the Government of Italy and other interested parties to support the inclusion of the Italy-Somalia Forum for Peace and Reconstruction in the Somali peace negotiations. In a February 25 meeting with poloff, Vatican Country Director for [...] | 2004-03-01 06:42:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL SO VT |
04VATICAN788 | VATICAN BULLISH ON BISHOPS' PARTICIPATION IN SUDAN [...] (SBU) HOLY SEE COUNTRY DIRECTOR FOR SUDAN LUCIO SEMBRANO TOLD US FEBRUARY 25 THAT WIDER PARTICIPATION IN THE DARFUR TALKS WOULD BE A KEY TO THEIR LONG-TERM SUCCESS. HE DESCRIBED REPORTS OF ATROCITIES IN THE REGION, AND OUTLINED THE CATHOLIC CHURCH'S CAPACITY TO AID REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT. ON TH [...] | 2004-03-01 16:32:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIRF PHUM PREL SU VT |
04VATICAN882 | HOLY SEE COMMITTED TO STABILITY FOR HAITI [...] (SBU) FOLLOWING ARISTIDE'S RESIGNATION AND DEPARTURE FROM HAITI, THE HOLY SEE TOLD US THAT THE HAITIAN BISHOPS WERE READY TO WORK ACTIVELY WITH A PROVISIONAL ADMINISTRATION TO HELP ENSURE A PEACEFUL TRANSITION OF POWER. THE SECRETARIAT OF STATE IS IN CLOSE CONTACT WITH THE HAITIAN BISHOP [...] | 2004-03-05 15:49:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM HA VT |
04VATICAN886 | VATICAN OPPOSED TO BRAZILIAN SEXUAL ORIENTATION [...] No summary [...] | 2004-03-05 16:47:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM SOCI VT UN |
04VILNIUS1065 | AMERICAN RABBI CONTENDS LITHUANIAN PROPERTY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Escalating discord within Lithuania's Jewish community has surpassed the bounds of a religious dispute and threatens to become a fight over community property. At the center of the dispute is Rabbi Sholom Ber Krinsky, an American citizen, who publicly contends that Jewish commu [...] | 2004-09-02 14:19:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SOCI CASC LH |
04VILNIUS1117 | LITHUANIAN MINISTRIES WORKING ON EUROCONTROL FEE [...] (U) We have approached the MFA at various levels to seek an exemption of U.S. military and other U.S. state aircraft from air navigation, overflight, and terminal navigation fees. MFA Undersecretary Sarunas Adomavicius promised the Ambassador on August 31 to look into the matter, and others w [...] | 2004-09-14 14:46:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MOPS EAIR KREC LH |
04VILNIUS1190 | LITHUANIA FIRMLY OPPOSED TO LIFTING ARMS EMBARGO [...] (C) The Charge delivered ref A points concerning the European Union China arms embargo to Zygimantas Pavilionis, MFA Political Director and Director of the EU Department, on September 29. The Charge highlighted the key reasons for the maintaining the embargo and high level of concern for this [...] | 2004-09-30 12:20:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL ETTC PHUM CH LH |
04VILNIUS1194 | LITHUANIA SUPPORTS TURKEY'S EU MEMBERSHIP [...] (C) We delivered reftel points regarding support for Turkey's EU membership and provided non-paper on Turkey's progress on Copenhagen criteria to the MFA's Jurgita Apanaviciute on September 27. Apanaviciute, who is responsible for enlargement issues within the MFA's European Union Department, [...] | 2004-09-30 12:58:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN EU TU LH |
04VILNIUS1196 | LITHUANIAN PARLIAMENT PASSES REVISED INTERNATIONAL [...] (U) Summary. The Lithuanian parliament September 29 approved a bill raising the ceiling on the number of troops deployable in international operations and extending authorization of current missions through December 31, 2005. The bill mandates that Lithuania deploy an all-volunteer force and [...] | 2004-09-30 13:49:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MCAP MOPS PGOV PREL LH |
04VILNIUS1237 | THE VIEW FROM ALYTUS: THE BLOOM IS OFF THE LABOR [...] SUMMARY. Less than a week before Lithuania's parliamentary election, few in Alytus doubt that the Labor Party will taste electoral success. However, a growing number question the Labor Party's populist promises and will support Lithuania's more tested traditional parties. End Summary. Aly [...] | 2004-10-08 10:37:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV LH |
04VILNIUS1239 | LITHUANIAN CHEESE CAPITAL NODS LEFT, BUT WITH [...] SUMMARY: Rokiskis is a town of approximately 16,000 located in northeastern Lithuania and the capital of a productive agricultural region famous for the cheese brand that bears its name. The director of the cheese factory, sharing the spotlight with the visiting Prime Minister, was the local [...] | 2004-10-08 10:52:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SOCI LH |
04VILNIUS1243 | People in the Provincial Town will Vote for Change [...] Voters in the small town of Rietavas, in western Lithuania, see themselves as microcosm for the nation (if a bit more agricultural) and believe their vote in the upcoming election will mirror the country's vote as a whole. In Rietavas, it appears that the Labor Party will win big. End summar [...] | 2004-10-08 12:54:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV LH |
04VILNIUS1245 | LITHUANIAN PRE-ELECTION WATCH: A SMALL TOWN LEANS [...] Summary. An incumbent from the ruling Social Democrats is paradoxically running on an anti-establishment platform and is likely to win re-election in the town of Anyksciai, 62 miles west of Vilnius. Residents are concerned with job security, the lack of youth employment options, and rising h [...] | 2004-10-08 13:19:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV LH |
04VILNIUS1261 | LABOR PARTY WINS ROUND ONE OF LITHUANIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Lithuania's Labor Party took the greatest number of votes in the October 10 first round of parliamentary elections, but failed to win enough seats to form a government or even ensure their leadership when all the votes are in. The coalition of ruling parties finished second, in l [...] | 2004-10-12 14:50:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL LH |
04VILNIUS1292 | LITHUANIAN POLITICAL LEADERS AFFIRM SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Meetings we facilitated between American Jewish Committee official Andrew Baker and key Lithuanian political leaders October 13-17 resulted in a reaffirmed commitment to restitute communal Jewish property. On the eve of round two of parliamentary elections, President Valdas Adamk [...] | 2004-10-19 11:55:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KNAR PHUM LH |
04VILNIUS1309 | CORRECTED RESPONSE FOR VILNIUS PHASE III [...] Ref A reported that there were no primary or secondary schools that do not receive grants from the Department of State but which are attended by U.S. citizens abroad. That is incorrect. 2. Vilnius has two private schools with American Embassy dependents attending. The Vilnius Internation [...] | 2004-10-22 07:47:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | ABLD ABUD AFIN AMGT ASCH ASEC |
04VILNIUS1315 | LITHUANIAN GOVERNMENT SPLIT ON REACTOR CLOSURE [...] (SBU) Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas announced on October 21 that the GOL would ask the EU permission to postpone the decommissioning of the first of the two Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant units. Brazauskas said regional energy supply security justified the delay. President Valdas Adamkus, [...] | 2004-10-22 12:59:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG PREL LH |
04VILNIUS1323 | LABOR LEADS LITHUANIAN ELECTIONS; BRAZAUSKAS WILL [...] (C) Summary. Victor Uspaskich's Labor Party won a plurality in the final round of Lithuanian parliamentary elections, October 24, but failed to guarantee its place in a ruling coalition. Over the next few weeks, President Valdas Adamkus must invite the leader of the winning party or coalitio [...] | 2004-10-25 15:47:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL LH |
04VILNIUS1350 | LITHUANIA: RUSSIAN TEAM COMPLETES UNEVENTFUL VDOC [...] (C) Summary. A team from the Russian Federation conducted a Vienna Document inspection of Lithuanian military facilities on October 27-28. The inspection covered army and air force facilities in Kaunas, Panevezys, and Siauliai, including NATO's Baltic air policing assets at the Zokniai airfi [...] | 2004-10-29 10:41:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM MOPS LH |
04VILNIUS1352 | THE END OF THE RAINBOW: COALITION TALKS WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Conservative Party suspended formal talks with the Brazauskas-Paulauskas coalition on October 28, following major disagreement over the constitution of a so-called "rainbow coalition." Immediately following the collapse of talks, the Brazauskas-Paulauskas coalition formally a [...] | 2004-10-29 13:29:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL LH |
04VILNIUS1353 | LITHUANIA CONCERNED OVER RUSSIAN AIR INCURSIONS [...] (C) Summary. Lithuania's opposition to hosting a Baltic regional air safety conference under NATO-Russia Council (NRC) auspices (ref A) is rooted in its assessment that Russian policy aims to disrupt NATO relations with its newest members and raise pressure on the air policing mission. Though [...] | 2004-10-29 14:14:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MCAP MOPS PBTS PGOV PINS PREL LH |
04VILNIUS1369 | AMBASSADOR IN SIAULIAI STRESSES DEVELOPMENT AND [...] SUMMARY. Ambassador traveled to Lithuania's northern city of Siauliai October 20-21 to conveying a message of admiration for Lithuania's rapid democratic and economic growth and appreciation for its activist foreign policy and contributions to the NATO alliance. In a town often identified wi [...] | 2004-11-05 12:57:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV OVIP LH |
04VILNIUS1380 | LITHUANIA'S 2005 DRAFT BUDGET SHORTS MOD [...] (C) Summary. The draft 2005 GOL budget before the Parliament fulfills Lithuania's NATO commitment to allocate two percent of GDP to defense spending, but falls far short of providing that two percent to the military. The budget increases the share of defense money that will go to other Minis [...] | 2004-11-08 12:16:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL MCAP PINR PGOV LH |
04VILNIUS1401 | LITHUANIA RUSHES TO RATIFY EU CONSTITUTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Lithuania became the first member state to ratify the EU Constitution on November 11 when the government rushed through a vote on the treaty on one of the Parliament's last days in session. The GOL had previously decided not to hold a national referendum on the Constitution. Opp [...] | 2004-11-12 15:17:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LH |
04VILNIUS1402 | AMBASSADOR HOSTS IFTAAR FOR LITHUANIA'S MUSLIM [...] (U) SUMMARY: Ambassador Mull celebrated Ramadan on November 5 with 20 leading figures from Lithuania's Muslim community, hosting an Iftaar dinner. The Ambassador highlighted the importance of diversity and tolerance during the event, and Lithuania's chief Islamic religious figure praised the [...] | 2004-11-12 15:54:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | SCUL PHUM LH |
04VILNIUS1403 | LITHUANIAN POLICE SEIZE NINE MILLION COUNTERFEIT [...] Summary. The Lithuanian Police achieved a major victory in the fight against counterfeiting November 6, arresting thirteen people and seizing over nine million counterfeit Euros. The Police believe that the group has been printing Euros for several years. The Police also found printing plat [...] | 2004-11-15 05:22:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PREL EFIN LH |
04VILNIUS1411 | LITHUANIAN DEFMIN CRITICIZES NATO MEMBERS' [...] (U) Lithuanian Defense Minister Linas Linkevicius, in an interview with the Baltic News Service on November 15, criticized the decision by ten NATO allies not to send instructors to the armed forces training mission in Iraq. Linkevicius remarked that he did not believe this decision, although [...] | 2004-11-16 13:51:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MASS PGOV PREL LH |
04VILNIUS1437 | LITHUANIA CONDEMNS FRAUDULENT UKRAINIAN ELECTIONS; [...] (C) Summary. Lithuanian government and parliamentary officials strongly condemned reports of fraud in Ukraine's second round of presidential elections. Fully supporting the EU statement on the elections, they noted that Ukraine has apparently been deprived of an opportunity to demonstrate its [...] | 2004-11-24 13:15:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL XH LH |
04VILNIUS1442 | FORMER AMBASSADOR'S CSIS PAPER CAUSES A [...] (SBU) Top TV journalist Edmundas Jakilaitis resigned over an incident in which he reported that a "secret" U.S. document warned of the dangers of Russian influence over Lithuanian politicians such as Russian-born Labor Party Leader Viktor Uspaskich. The document turned out to be written by f [...] | 2004-11-26 09:49:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO PGOV PREL LH RS |
04VILNIUS1445 | LITHUANIAN PRIME MINISTER'S VISION FOR NEW TERM [...] (SBU) The Lithuanian parliament (Seimas) re-elected Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas November 25. In a speech to the Seimas November 24, Brazauskas outlined a broad vision for his new term. He promised to utilize EU funds to promote development in priority areas, such as the use, and expor [...] | 2004-11-26 14:01:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ECON PGOV LH |
04VILNIUS1447 | AIDS IN LITHUANIA [...] As it prepares to celebrate World AIDS Day, Lithuania's incidence of HIV/AIDS is the lowest in Central and Eastern Europe. The GOL is working to keep it that way, despite pressures of rapid social change. Lithuania has a National HIV/AIDS prevention strategy, but poorly monitors its implemen [...] | 2004-11-29 06:24:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KHIV PREL LH |
04VILNIUS1449 | ADAMKUS JOINS UKRAINE MEDIATION EFFORT [...] (U) Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus traveled to Kiev November 26 to join Polish President Kwasniewski's mediation efforts as domestic political pressure for Lithuanian engagement continued to mount. Though the scope and direction of Adamkus's involvement remain unclear, his strong democr [...] | 2004-11-29 07:01:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UK LH |
04VILNIUS1450 | LITHUANIA DECLARES SOLIDARITY WITH UKRAINE; TO [...] (U) The Lithuanian Parliament (Seimas) expressed its solidarity with the people of Ukraine and its support for their democratic objectives. In a vote of 123 to 1, with 3 abstentions, the 141-seat Seimas resolved to support the decision of Ukraine's Supreme Rada to evaluate the results of the [...] | 2004-11-29 16:10:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UP LH |
04VILNIUS1454 | UKRAINE: RUSSIANS REPORTEDLY BLAME U.S. FOR [...] (C) Adamkus expects to return to Ukraine with Kwasniewski and Solana before December 3 to continue mediation efforts, according to a senior adviser. Kwasniewski predicted privately to Adamkus November 30 that Ukraine would likely turn into "another Georgia" within a few days. A November 26 [...] | 2004-11-30 13:47:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UK LH |
04VILNIUS1455 | LITHUANIAN PM PRESENTS CABINET LIST TO A SKEPTICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Valdas Adamkus on November 29 appointed Algirdas Brazauskas the new Prime Minister of Lithuania. Brazauskas, in turn, presented the President with his list of ministerial candidates, which includes Labor Party boss Viktor Uspaskich and Peasant Party leader Kazimiera Pru [...] | 2004-11-30 14:18:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV LH |
04VILNIUS1477 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ACTING ASSISTANT SECRETARY [...] Post warmly welcomes Ambassador Michael Kozak and is pleased to grant country clearance for the period of December 3-6, 2004 to attend the "Advancing Europe Whole and Free: Challenges and Opportunities for Transatlantic Cooperation" conference. 2. Embassy point of contact for your visit is [...] | 2004-12-03 07:34:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AMGT PGOV PHUM KDEM LI LH |
04VILNIUS1488 | LITHUANIA SUPPORTS E-PINE PAPER ON BELARUS [...] No summary [...] | 2004-12-07 12:34:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNEI LH |
04VILNIUS1489 | ADAMKUS REPORTS INTERNATIONAL MEDIATION MISSION [...] (C) Adamkus is satisfied with the outcome of the contentious international mediation session in Kiev December 6-7. He predicts that December 26 elections will occur on schedule, but admits that key uncertainties remain. A return of the international mediators to Kiev appears unlikely for no [...] | 2004-12-07 13:26:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL XH LH |
04VILNIUS1492 | LITHUANIA: DEFMIN NOMINEE PLEDGES TO STAY COURSE [...] (C) Summary. President Valdas Adamkus on December 7 nominated Gediminas Kirkilas, a leader of the Social Democrat Party and former Chairman of parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, to become Minster of Defense in Lithuania's new government. Kirkilas, who will replace fellow Social Democrat [...] | 2004-12-08 11:23:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PREL MARR MCAP MOPS LH |
04VILNIUS1496 | LITHUANIAN PRESIDENT FORCES CABINET SHAKE-UP [...] (C) Summary: President Valdas Adamkus scored a major political victory on December 7, forcing the ruling coalition of PM Algirdas Brazauskas to replace two Cabinet candidates. Viktoras Muntianas and Rimantas Vaitkus are now out of the line-up, and, if cleared by investigative services, Labor P [...] | 2004-12-08 13:34:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL LH |
04VILNIUS1497 | SUCCESS STORY: AT&T AND LITHUANIAN TELECOM [...] Summary. AT&T and Lietuvos Telekomas, Lithuania's largest fixed-line telecommunications service provider, concluded a new mobile call termination agreement, settling a dispute over rates in Lithuania. Telekomas had threatened to block all AT&T incoming traffic if the two failed to arrive at [...] | 2004-12-08 13:48:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS ETRD BEXP LH |
04VILNIUS1499 | CSBM BILATERALS GIVE LITHUANIA ADDITIONAL TOOL TO [...] (C) Summary. Lithuania has developed bilateral Confidence and Security Building Measure (CSBM) agreements in accordance with the 1999 Vienna Document of OSCE and CFE requirements with Russia, Belarus and its Nordic neighbors. For Lithuania, the bilateral agreements enhance military transparenc [...] | 2004-12-09 09:51:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM MOPS LH |
04VILNIUS1505 | LITHUANIA TO PROCEED WITH REACTOR CLOSEOUT [...] (C) A GOL resolution on November 24 confirmed that one of two Chernobyl-type Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) reactors will close as expected on December 31. The resolution follows GOL-EU consultations in Brussels at which EU experts advised Lithuania to honor its EU accession commitments. [...] | 2004-12-09 14:33:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PREL LH |
04VILNIUS1512 | CODEL HASTINGS PRAISES LITHUANIAN EFFORTS IN [...] (C) Summary: Congressman Alcee Hastings, attending a GOL-sponsored conference on the promotion of democracy in Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, and the South Caucasus, met with President Adamkus and parliamentary (Seimas) and GOL foreign policy experts on December 3 to discuss the current Ukrainian [...] | 2004-12-13 04:54:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UK BO LH |
04VILNIUS1519 | LITHUANIA SUPPORTS EU ACTION PLAN ON [...] No summary [...] | 2004-12-16 12:15:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KNEI LH |
04VILNIUS1520 | LITHUANIA TO WORK THROUGH EU ON ANY IRAQ [...] (C) Acting AS for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Michael Kozak on December 3 discussed with Foreign Minister Antanas Valionis the possibility of Lithuania's participation in an Iraqi election observer mission. Ambassador Kozak, in Vilnius for a GOL-sponsored conference on supporting democr [...] | 2004-12-16 12:32:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LH |
04VILNIUS1521 | MAZEIKIU NAFTA MANAGER EXPRESSES CONCERNS OVER [...] (C) Mazeikiu Nafta (MN) General Manager Nelson English told the Ambassador that the Russian-owned Lukoil company is waiting in the wings to acquire the MN oil refinery in the aftermath of Yukos's "impending and almost certain collapse." According to Amcit English, Moscow is already trying to [...] | 2004-12-16 13:03:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ENRG LH RS |
04VILNIUS1522 | EU MEMBERSHIP SPURS LITHUANIAN LABOR FLIGHT [...] SUMMARY: Young Lithuanians have left their homeland en masse since the May 1 accession to the EU in search of employment abroad. The exact number leaving remains unclear, although as much as a quarter of the country's working-age population may leave by the end of the year. Some sectors have [...] | 2004-12-16 13:16:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON SMIG PGOV LH |
04VILNIUS1523 | LITHUANIA'S NEW GOVERNMENT TAKES OFFICE WITH BROAD [...] (C) SUMMARY: The 13th Government of Lithuania took power on December 14, when Parliament approved the Cabinet and program of Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas. Negotiations over two Ministerial posts proved difficult, with the President forcing substitute nominees and ultimately accepting as [...] | 2004-12-16 13:26:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL LH |
04VILNIUS1525 | UPDATE OF VILNIUS EAP [...] Post's EAP was approved on July 6, 2004 and is therefore up to date. Chapters or annexes that contain any changes to names of post personnel and contact lists will be forwarded to the Department. MULL [...] | 2004-12-17 12:00:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC |
04VILNIUS1526 | IMF'S RECOMMENDATIONS ON HOW TO PROLONG THE [...] An IMF delegation, concluding an Article IV Consultation mission to Lithuania December 10, praised Lithuania's impressive structural improvements and the country's complete transition to a market economy. The IMF delivered an overall positive assessment of the country's economic prospects fo [...] | 2004-12-17 13:37:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ECON LH |
04VILNIUS1532 | FY2004 CONSULAR PACKAGE NARRATIVE FOR VILNIUS [...] Post submits the following consular package narrative keyed to reftel. Management A) Consular Section Chief: Ruta D. Elvikis (Consul),ETD: July 2005, Direct Office Telephone Number: 370- 5-266-5591, E-mail: ElvikisRD@state.gov; Deputy Consular Section Chief: Gregory L. Bernsteen (Vic [...] | 2004-12-20 10:39:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | CMGT CVIS CASC CPAS KFRD ASIG AFSI LH |
04VILNIUS1546 | NEW LITHUANIAN DEFMIN COMMITS TO CONTINUED SUPPORT [...] (U) This cable contains two action requests. Please see paragraph 13. 2. (C) Summary. New Lithuanian Defense Minister Gediminas Kirkilas told the Ambassador that Lithuania would remain engaged in Afghanistan and Iraq during a December 21 tour d'horizon of our bilateral military-military re [...] | 2004-12-22 12:51:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR MOPS MASS LH |
04VILNIUS1548 | New Minister of Interior Furmanavicius Promises [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador Mull met with newly appointed Minister of Interior Ginteras Furmanavicius on December 21, 2004. Furmanavicius thanked the Ambassador for past U.S. efforts to train the Ministry's experts in border security and law enforcement. He stated his commitment to maintaining [...] | 2004-12-22 15:47:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL CMGT ASEC LH |
04VILNIUS1556 | BALTS REPORT RUSSIAN CHARM OFFENSIVE [...] (C) Summary. Russia has launched a "charm offensive" towards the Baltic states that features new movement on bilateral relations, according to Lithuanian officials and Baltic diplomats here. Lithuanian interlocutors point to recent Russian initiatives on long-stalled issues such as bilateral [...] | 2004-12-23 10:58:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS LH |
04VILNIUS1566 | LITHUANIA: 2004 ANNUAL TERRORISM REPORT [...] (U) Post submits the annual terrorism report for Lithuania. Embassy's update on Lithuania for the Department's 2004 Patterns of Global Terrorism report (reftel) is in paras 2-4. 2. (SBU) Lithuania has been fully supportive of the war against terrorism. Lithuania is implementing the Nation [...] | 2004-12-27 14:19:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC KCRM EFIN KHLS KPAO LH |
04VILNIUS1568 | COUNTER-TERRORISM ACTION GROUP DISCUSSES STATE OF [...] (SBU) Summary. Embassy Vilnius convened a meeting of the Counter-Terrorism Action Group (CTAG) in Lithuania on December 9. Representatives from the French, German, Canadian, Japanese, Spanish, Italian, British, and Russian Embassies, as well as EU and UN representatives, compared notes on co [...] | 2004-12-28 10:03:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC PREL LH |
04VILNIUS1577 | LITHUANIA SUPPORTS EU-IMIE COOPERATION ON IRAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2004-12-30 12:10:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PROP PREL PHUM IZ LH |
04VILNIUS1578 | 2004-2005 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY [...] In 2004, Lithuania strengthened its counter-narcotics efforts, rolling out a National Drug Addiction Prevention and Drug Control Strategy for 2004-2008. The use and sale of narcotics, however, continues to increase in Lithuania. Lithuania remains a transit route for heroin from Asia to West [...] | 2004-12-30 13:55:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR EFIN KSEP LH |
04VILNIUS395 | LITHUANIA EXPRESSES INTEREST IN THE CD INITIATIVE [...] (U) WE DELIVERED TO LAURYNAS JONUSAUKAS, FIRST SECRETARY OF MFA'S AMERICA'S DIVISION, ON APRIL 7, 2004, REFTEL POINTS AND A COPY OF CHILEAN AMBASSADOR BIANCHI'S LETTER ON THE COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACY'S INITIATIVE IN EAST TIMOR. JONUSAUKAS EXPRESSED INTEREST IN THE INITIATIVE, AND SAID THAT T [...] | 2004-04-09 06:06:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PREL PHUM LH |
04WELLINGTON1003 | NEW ZEALAND POLICIES AND ACTIONS TAKEN WITH REGARD [...] (C) The Government of New Zealand formalized diplomatic relations with Cuba in 2001, with its Ambassador resident in Mexico City accredited to Havana. The GoNZ uses meetings with Cuban officials to express its concern over the human rights situation in Cuba (ref B),according to Mike Shaw, Am [...] | 2004-12-02 03:48:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PREL NZ |
04WELLINGTON1010 | NEW ZEALAND AIDS CASES MINIMAL, BUT CONCERN [...] (U) While the number of people infected with HIV/AIDS in New Zealand remains relatively small, the numbers have risen sharply in the past two years, with homosexual cases (53%) outnumbering heterosexual (21%) modes of transmission. NZ Aids Foundation executive director Rachael Le Mesurier po [...] | 2004-12-06 04:18:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI TBIO PGOV EAID NZ |
04WELLINGTON1018 | PARLIAMENT "IN BALANCE": ACT PARTY SWEARS IN [...] (U) ACT Party MP Kenneth Wang was sworn into Parliament November 30, replacing former ACT MP Donna Awatere Huata. Huata was removed from Parliament November 19, after losing a year-long court battle to retain her seat, which culminated in a Supreme Court hearing. The Supreme Court, in its firs [...] | 2004-12-08 04:09:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV NZ PBIO |
04WELLINGTON1024 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR PAUL BEATTY, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Paul Beatty, Ph.D., NCHS, CDC, DHHS, to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from January 4-10, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to make a presentation at the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SMARMAC) Conference. [...] | 2004-12-09 22:40:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA NZ CDC |
04WELLINGTON1032 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NITA TALLENT- [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to EPA Official Nita Tallent-Halsell, Office of Research and Development, to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from February 1 - May 1, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to attend long-term training on the invasive species impact study, [...] | 2004-12-14 02:00:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA SENV KSCA TPHY NZ |
04WELLINGTON1035 | R/V NATHANIEL B. PALMER MARINE RESEARCH CLEARANCE [...] Embassy forwarded documents received December 14, 2004 and requested clearance for the R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer for the period January 1 - December 31, 2005, from the Americas Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) of the government of New Zealand. We will advise when MFA [...] | 2004-12-14 21:53:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KRVC TPHY EWWT NZ |
04WELLINGTON1036 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JERRY MULLINS, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to USGS Physical Scientist Jerry Mullins, to travel to Christchurch and Wellington, New Zealand from January 10- 28, 2005. The purpose of Mr. Mullins' visit is to transit Christchurch to and from McMurdo Station in Antarctica, where he will [...] | 2004-12-14 21:54:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TPHY KSCA SENV NZ |
04WELLINGTON1037 | NEW ZEALAND'S PHARMACEUTICAL MARKET: NO QUICK FIX [...] (SBU) Summary: After trying in vain for years to persuade the New Zealand government to change its restrictive pricing policies on pharmaceuticals, the drug industry is taking another tack: reaching out to patient groups with information designed to bolster their demands for cutting-edge drugs [...] | 2004-12-15 01:08:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON KIPR NZ |
04WELLINGTON1040 | NEW ZEALAND CABINET RESHUFFLE: FIRST UP, [...] (U) Summary: The Labour Government took its first steps in a long-heralded Cabinet reshuffle, with the December 14 nomination of current Attorney-General Margaret Wilson for the position of Speaker of the House. The Speaker is the third highest office in the country and, while the role is no [...] | 2004-12-15 03:53:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV NZ PBIO |
04WELLINGTON1044 | NEW ZEALAND ON REQUEST FOR SPECIAL OPERATIONS [...] (S) Ambassador discussed reftel request with New Zealand (NZ) Foreign Minister Phil Goff on December 13. Goff said that his government is reviewing what more New Zealand can do in Afghanistan. The Cabinet will reach its decision early in the new year, he said. Goff pledged to inform the Amba [...] | 2004-12-16 01:29:00 | Embassy Wellington | SECRET | MARR MOPS PREL AF NZ |
04WELLINGTON1053 | SENATOR BAUCUS AND AMBASSADOR GIVE STRAIGHT TALK [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting December 2 at the Auckland airport, Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) and the Ambassador warned New Zealand Minister for Trade Negotiations Jim Sutton that his government faces a tough time trying to persuade the U.S. government to start free-trade talks. While emphasizi [...] | 2004-12-17 01:51:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON OVIP NZ ETRC CODEL |
04WELLINGTON1054 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ROBERT KEY [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NASA Official Robert Key Dismukes, Ames Research Center, to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from January 2-12, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Annual Conference of Society on Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. [...] | 2004-12-17 01:51:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TSPA NZ |
04WELLINGTON1055 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MCKAY, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to the delegation from NASA's Ames Research Center and Jet Propulsion Laboratory to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from January 2 to March 1, 2005. Delegation members are: Christopher McKay, Rohit Bhartia, Robert Carlson, Pamela Conra [...] | 2004-12-17 01:52:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TSPA NZ |
04WELLINGTON1058 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DAS RANDALL G. [...] (SBU) Embassy warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Deputy Assistant Secretary Randall G. Schriver to travel to Christchurch and Wellington New Zealand from January 8-12, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to attend meetings with host government officials. 2. (U) Embassy has m [...] | 2004-12-17 04:19:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA AFIN AMGT AS CH NZ PNG HI |
04WELLINGTON1069 | NEW ZEALAND: 2004 ANNUAL TERRORISM REPORT [...] Post offers the following submission for this year's terrorism report: BEGIN TEXT OF SUBMISSION 2. New Zealand has implemented all 12 UN terrorism conventions. A Counter-terrorism bill passed in October 2003 increased the government's ability to prosecute terrorist activities and thre [...] | 2004-12-22 21:38:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC KCRM EFIN KHLS KPAO NZ |
04WELLINGTON1075 | 2005 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT: NEW ZEALAND [...] Following is post's input for the 2005 National Trade Estimate Report on New Zealand. We assume that Washington agencies will provide updated trade and investment data. 2. We also note that the section on "Biotechnology Food Approval" should be consistent with the NTE on Australia. 3. [...] | 2004-12-29 03:18:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON EFIN NZ |
04WELLINGTON173 | THE U.S.-NEW ZEALAND RELATIONSHIP: WHAT WE COULD [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Since New Zealand walked away from the ANZUS pact in 1986, we have had growing doubts about its willingness and ability to contribute to regional security. New Zealand remains a relatively friendly, like-minded partner in many policy areas. But the ad hoc nature of the its secu [...] | 2004-02-25 21:28:00 | Embassy Wellington | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL NZ |
04WELLINGTON539 | NEW ZEALAND OPPOSITION PARTY BACKS AWAY FROM [...] (C/NF) Summary: New Zealand Opposition National Party leader Don Brash has formally declared that his party would not propose making changes to NZ's anti-nuclear legislation - at least not until after 2005 Parliamentary election. Brash said a future National Government would not change NZ's [...] | 2004-06-24 05:32:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL MNUC PARM NZ |
04WELLINGTON555 | NEW ZEALAND POLICIES AND ACTIONS TAKEN WITH REGARD [...] (C) The Government of New Zealand formalized diplomatic relations with Cuba in 2001, with their Ambassador resident in Mexico City accredited to Havana. According to Mike Shaw, Americas Division, New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the GoNZ uses meetings with Cuban officials to [...] | 2004-06-29 07:23:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PREL NZ |
04WELLINGTON557 | JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE: LETTER ROGATORY IN THE MATTER [...] No summary [...] | 2004-06-30 02:48:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | CJAN NZ |
04WELLINGTON558 | INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT ON NEW ZEALAND [...] No summary [...] | 2004-06-30 05:11:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN KTDB PGOV NZ OPIC |
04WELLINGTON563 | NEW ZEALAND TIP REPORT: LESSONS LEARNED [...] (SBU/NF) Following the turbulent June 14 release of the 2004 TIP report, which named New Zealand for the first time (ref a),Embassy Wellington would like to add its strong support to the recommendations contained in Embassy Singapore's recent excellent cable (ref b). While the GNZ is hyperse [...] | 2004-07-02 05:41:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWMN PHUM PREL ELAB AMGT NZ TIP |
04WELLINGTON570 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NSF OFFICIAL DR. JAMALA [...] Embassy welcomes National Science Foundation official Dr. Jamala JONES to New Zealand from July 6th to July 17th, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Air New Zealand Engineering Services Program Management Review in Christchurch. 2. Embassy understands that no further assis [...] | 2004-07-06 18:34:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA TPHY NZ NSF |
04WELLINGTON578 | NEW ZEALAND: 2004 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE [...] Post delivered reftel points July 8 to Chris Anderson, Environment Division, New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. New Zealand's International Whaling Commission (IWC) Commissioner Sir Geoffery Palmer had already departed for Italy. Anderson offered to pass reftel points to Palme [...] | 2004-07-08 04:21:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIS SENV NZ |
04WELLINGTON579 | COOK ISLANDS RESPONSE ON CHEMICAL WEAPONS [...] Post delivered reftel demarche to Sonya Kamana, Deputy High Commissioner, Cook Islands High Commission. Kamana noted that the issue was a priority of the Cook Islands' Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which was working with Parliament to pass the appropriate legislation. However, with elections [...] | 2004-07-08 04:25:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM ABUD PREL NZ |
04WELLINGTON585 | JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE: LETTER ROGATORY IN THE MATTER [...] No summary [...] | 2004-07-09 03:10:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | CJAN NZ |
04WELLINGTON591 | NZ OPPOSITION NATIONAL PARTY CONFERENCE - WHAT A [...] (C) Summary: New Zealand's largest opposition party, National, held an up-beat, almost giddy, Annual Conference July 9-11. Polling slightly ahead of the ruling Labour government, conference delegates expressed confidence in winning the 2005 election. In contrast to the festive atmosphere, N [...] | 2004-07-12 05:19:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NZ |
04WELLINGTON596 | NEW ZEALAND-AUSTRALIA REGULATORY AGENCY TO RAISE [...] (C) Summary: U.S. makers of medical devices and dietary and nutritional supplements face the prospect of additional regulatory costs to enter the New Zealand market -- but perhaps not as high as the industry had feared. An Australian-New Zealand authority to regulate therapeutic products in [...] | 2004-07-13 04:34:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD NZ |
04WELLINGTON598 | NEW ZEALAND'S MOBILE TERMINATION RATES UNDER [...] (SBU) Summary: The New Zealand Commerce Commission has launched an investigation into whether a lack of competition has placed the country among nations with the highest rates for terminating mobile phone calls. The commission could recommend regulation of termination charges. Telecom, the f [...] | 2004-07-15 01:07:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS ECON ETRD NZ |
04WELLINGTON599 | NEW ZEALAND RESPONSE ON ICJ ADVISORY OPINION ON [...] (SBU/NF) Post delivered reftel demarche to Moira Turley, Middle East and Africa Division, New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT.) Despite strong support for the U.S. position, Turley stated that the GoNZ is deferring a final decision on its vote until it has seen the final te [...] | 2004-07-15 03:22:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NZ UNGA |
04WELLINGTON600 | NEW ZEALAND RESPONSE TO U.S. INITIATIVES FOR THE [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel demarche to Rachel Bennett, United Nations Division, New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT.) Bennett offered to circulate the information within MFAT for comment, but noted that the GoNZ is unlikely to provide additional proposals or a list or pri [...] | 2004-07-15 04:22:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PREL ECON PHUM AORC NZ UNGA |
04WELLINGTON601 | NEW ZEALAND'S NEWLY FORMED MAORI PARTY TAKES FIRST [...] (SBU) Maori activist Tariana Turia used her decisive win in a July 10 by-election to launch the Maori Party, with herself as its first MP. Turia easily regained her seat in Parliament after resigning her Labour Party Government seat in May protest over the government's stance on Maori claims [...] | 2004-07-15 04:30:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM NZ |
04WELLINGTON605 | NEW ZEALAND IMPOSES "STRICT CONSTRAINTS" ON [...] (U) In an escalating diplomatic row, two Israeli men were sentenced July 14 by the High Court of New Zealand to six months in jail on charges of trying to obtain a false New Zealand passport. The GoNZ has not pursued allegations that the men are agents of Israeli intelligence agency Mossad. W [...] | 2004-07-16 04:20:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR NZ |
04WELLINGTON611 | NEW ZEALAND PRAISED BY ISLAMIC RESISTANCE MOVEMENT [...] (U) According to media reports, the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas issued a press release July 17 thanking the GoNZ for Prime Minister Helen Clark's strong response to the conviction of two suspected Israeli intelligence agents (ref a). The press release urged other countries to foll [...] | 2004-07-19 06:17:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR NZ |
04WELLINGTON613 | NEW ZEALAND: WHAT NUCLEAR ISSUE? PM CLARK [...] (SBU) In comments about the US-New Zealand relationship, NZ Prime Minister Helen Clark told Australia's ABC radio July 8 "I must say that I personally have met George Bush a number of times and consider the personal relationship between us to be very good." Making a direct link between those m [...] | 2004-07-19 23:29:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PARM NZ |
04WELLINGTON632 | NEW ZEALAND PRIME MINISTER REITERATES VIEW THAT [...] (SBU/NF) Summary: New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark reiterated her position on NZ's anti-nuclear policy in comments to local media July 25: "I'm not looking for compromises. I'm perfectly satisfied with the policy. As far as I am concerned, (the US-NZ nuclear dispute) is finished busin [...] | 2004-07-26 05:57:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PARM MNUC PINR NZ |
04WELLINGTON638 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NOAA OFFICIALS E. MOORE AND [...] Embassy welcomes NOAA Officials Elizabeth A. Moore and Carol Bernthal to New Zealand from August 16 - 27, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to meet with New Zealand Department of Conservation officials regarding marine protected areas. 2. Embassy understands that no further assistance is [...] | 2004-07-27 22:11:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AS NZ |
04WELLINGTON640 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DHHS/CDC [...] CDC should note that no official USG travel to New Zealand can be undertaken without country clearance. Country clearance for New Zealand should never be assumed by CDC or any other USG agency. 2. Embassy grants DHHS/CDC officials Mary Serdula, Mary Kay Solera, and Kathy Cobb country clea [...] | 2004-07-28 05:21:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AS NZ |
04WELLINGTON641 | NEW ZEALAND PRIME MINISTER AND FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Post delivered reftel talking points and statement to the GNZ, but was careful to acknowledge the GNZ's clearly stated position that New Zealand is NOT/NOT a member of the Coalition. New Zealand has consistently indicated that the presence of 61 NZ military engineers in Basra is in fulfil [...] | 2004-07-28 22:16:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OPDC MOPS MARR IZ NZ |
04WELLINGTON643 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR T. RAMSEY AND E. [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Thomas Ramsey, Desk Officer for NZ and Samoa, and Ed Rindler, INL, to transit New Zealand as part of the delegation attending the U.S. Post-Pacific Islands Forum Dialogue in Apia, Samoa. Mr. Ramsey will be in Auckland on August 7th, and Mr. Rindler will be [...] | 2004-07-29 21:29:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA WS AS NZ |
04WELLINGTON645 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA GSFC [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to delegation from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand August 29 - September 12, 2004. Delegation members are: Michael King, Elaine Matthews, Anne Thompson, and Si-Chee Tsay. The purpose of this visi [...] | 2004-07-30 00:34:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA TSPA NZ |
04WELLINGTON647 | NEW ZEALAND MINISTER HOSTS MIKE MOORE'S [...] (SBU) Embassy Wellington learned July 30 that GNZ Cabinet Minister for the Environment Marian Hobbs was reportedly hosting a special screening of Michael Moore's controversial movie "Fahrenheit 9/11" as a local Labour Party fundraising event. DCM contacted the Prime Minister's office to ask [...] | 2004-07-30 05:53:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NZ |
04WELLINGTON652 | NEW ZEALAND POSITION ON RELEASING THE COALITION [...] No summary [...] | 2004-08-02 05:20:00 | Embassy Wellington | SECRET | PREL OPDC MOPS MARR NZ |
04WELLINGTON655 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DEPARTMENT OF [...] Embassy welcomes DOE Official David Streets to Christchurch, New Zealand from September 2 - 25, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to attend the 8th International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) conference, and present a paper on "Mercury Emissions in China." 2. Embassy understands t [...] | 2004-08-03 05:19:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA ENRG TRGY KSCA CH NZ |
04WELLINGTON656 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NOAA OFFICIALS [...] Embassy welcomes NOAA Officials David D. Parrish and Susan Solomon to Christchurch, New Zealand from September 1 - 10, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Eighth Conference of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Project. 2. Embassy understands that no further assi [...] | 2004-08-03 05:19:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA TPHY KSCA SENV NZ |
04WELLINGTON658 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL SHELBY, [...] Embassy warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to the delegation led by Senator Richard Shelby to visit Christchurch and Wellington, New Zealand August 7-9, 2004. Members of the CODEL are: Senator Richard Shelby, Dr. Annette Shelby and Representative Robert Cramer. Accompanying staff a [...] | 2004-08-04 00:55:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN NZ AS CODEL |
04WELLINGTON661 | NEW ZEALAND FOCUSES ON REFORM OF PACIFIC ISLAND [...] (U) On July 27, Poloff shared ref A points on the 2004 Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) with Paul Willis, Regional Deputy Director, Pacific Division, New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Willis indicated that Prime Minister Helen Clark would lead the New Zealand delegation to the PIF, [...] | 2004-08-04 05:01:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ECON EFIS SENV NZ |
04WELLINGTON662 | (U) NSDD-38 REQUEST FOR NEW POSITION IN WELLINGTON [...] (S) The National Security Agency (NSA) has requested a new, permanent position in Wellington attached to, but not residing at, the Embassy (reftel) - a Deputy Special U.S. Liaison Officer. Based on a thorough review of the policy and resource implications of this request, the Ambassador reco [...] | 2004-08-04 23:18:00 | Embassy Wellington | SECRET | APER AMGT NZ |
04WELLINGTON665 | NOTE ON CARGO-ONLY MALIAT ACCEPTANCE DELIVERED TO [...] No summary [...] | 2004-08-05 02:04:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR OTRA NZ |
04WELLINGTON668 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DEPARTMENT OF [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Mr. Howard Diamond, DOC Physical Scientist, to travel to New Zealand from September 3 - 11, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to present a paper at the 8th International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Conference in Christchurch, to participate [...] | 2004-08-05 03:58:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA TSPA KSCA NZ |
04WELLINGTON669 | AMBASSADOR PRESSES PM CLARK ON IRAN NUCLEAR ISSUE [...] (SBU) Ambassador Swindells met with New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark on August 3 to touch base on a number of issues. DCM accompanied as notetaker. The PM was backed by acting Senior Policy Advisor Brook Barrington and Americas Division Director (A/S equivalent) Roy Ferguson. 2. ( [...] | 2004-08-05 05:06:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NZ |
04WELLINGTON671 | NEW ZEALAND CONDEMNS TERRORISM, HOSTAGE TAKING IN [...] (U) The GoNZ issued a press statement August 5 in support of the Multinational Force Iraq Statement on Terrorism (ref a). Foreign Minister Phil Goff reiterated statements condemning hostage takers (ref b) and affirming the GoNZ's pledge not to negotiate with terrorists. 2. (U) Begin Text: [...] | 2004-08-05 20:45:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OPDC MOPS MARR IZ NZ |
04WELLINGTON678 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DEPARTMENT OF [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NOAA Senior Scientist, Akkihebball R. Ravishankara to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from September 2 - 9, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to speak at the 8th International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Conference. 2. Embassy unders [...] | 2004-08-09 02:09:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA TPHY KSCA SENV NZ |
04WELLINGTON684 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DEPARTMENT OF [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NOAA Physicist Graham Feingold to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from September 2 - 10, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to attend the 8th International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Conference. 2. Embassy understands that no further [...] | 2004-08-09 22:41:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA TPHY KSCA SENV NZ |
04WELLINGTON686 | NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT PROPOSES TO BOTH RELAX AND [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified - protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Proposed changes to the New Zealand government's review of foreign investments would reduce the scope of business deals requiring its review while tightening the screening of land purchases by foreigners. The government [...] | 2004-08-11 01:19:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECIN ECON ETRD NZ |
04WELLINGTON690 | NEW ZEALAND PARTICIPATION AT APEC HIGH LEVEL [...] Embassy's Agricultural Attach and Economic officer discussed the draft workplan for the APEC High Level Policy Dialogue on Agricultural Biotechnology (HLPDAB) and ongoing capacity building initiatives on agricultural biotechnology with David Walker and Richard Graves of the Ministry of Foreign [...] | 2004-08-11 04:37:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD TBIO SENV EAGR ECON NZ |
04WELLINGTON692 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR EPA OFFICIALS [...] Please see action request para 3. 2. Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to EPA Officials Phil Oshida and Eric Bissonette to Christchurch, New Zealand from August 31 to September 2, 2004. The purpose of this trip is to visit utilities and regulators in Christchurch as part of a [...] | 2004-08-12 00:57:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA SENV KSCA TPHY AS NZ |
04WELLINGTON693 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR TRANSPORTATION [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Mr. Scottie Laird, Transportation Security Administration Representative (TSAR),to travel to Auckland and Christchurch, New Zealand from September 23 - 27, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to assess airport security measures. 2. Embass [...] | 2004-08-12 01:04:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA ECON NZ |
04WELLINGTON697 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ICE REPRESENTATIVE DAVID [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to ICE Representative David Nguyen-Galante to travel to Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand, from on or about August 23 to on or about August 28, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to meet with New Zealand Customs Service and New Zealand Police. [...] | 2004-08-13 05:38:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ASEC AMGT NZ |
04WELLINGTON701 | NEW ZEALAND ATTENDANCE AT 59TH UNGA [...] (SBU) Post contacted Rachel Bennett, United Nations and Commonwealth (UNC) Division, New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT),who provided the following information in response to reftel request. Foreign Minister: -- Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade the Honorable Phi [...] | 2004-08-16 05:06:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL OVIP NZ |
04WELLINGTON704 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DEPARTMENT OF [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to DOI Bureau of Land Management Official Mr. Don Bruns to travel to Christchurch and Queenstown, New Zealand from August 22 - 25, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to speak at New Zealand's Recreation Association Annual Conference. 2. Embas [...] | 2004-08-17 03:41:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA KSCA TPHY SENV NZ |
04WELLINGTON714 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NOAA OFFICIALS [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NOAA Officials Timothy S. Bates and Patricia K. Quinn to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from August 29 - September 10, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to attend the International Global Atmosphere Chemistry Program Meeting. 2. Emb [...] | 2004-08-19 23:38:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA TPHY KSCA SENV NZ |
04WELLINGTON716 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR GAO OFFICIALS [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to GAO officials Dr. Gerald Dillingham, Mr. Steven Martin, Ms. Samantha Goodman, and Mr. Hiroshi Ishikawa to travel to New Zealand from September 28 to October 2, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to meet with transportation officials and discus [...] | 2004-08-23 21:13:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AGAO NZ |
04WELLINGTON717 | NEW ZEALAND COMMENTS ON EARTH OBSERVATIONS: DRAFT [...] Pip Wilson, Environment Division, New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, provided the GoNZ's response to reftel request for comments on the future governance mechanism for the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS,) and noted that Peter Stevens, from the New Zealand Cli [...] | 2004-08-24 04:12:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TSPL NZ |
04WELLINGTON720 | NEW ZEALAND OFFERS VIEWS ON FIRST COMMITTEE REFORM [...] Charlotte Elder, Disarmament Division, New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, provided a copy of the GoNZ's response to the request in Resolution 58/41 for suggestions on improving the effectiveness of the First (Disarmament) Committee. Elder did not provide any specific comments [...] | 2004-08-25 02:00:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC NZ UNGA |
04WELLINGTON722 | R/V KILO MOANA MARINE RESEARCH CLEARANCE, FILE NO. [...] No summary [...] | 2004-08-25 04:05:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KRVC TPHY EWWT NZ |
04WELLINGTON725 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ICE [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to ICE Representative Ronald Lee to travel to Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand from on or about September 6 to on or about September 10, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to follow up on two current investigations and meet with New Zealand C [...] | 2004-08-25 05:08:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA ETRD ASEC AMGT NZ |
04WELLINGTON726 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA DELEGATION [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NASA delegation Michael King, Elaine Matthews, Anne Thompson, and Si-Chee Tsay to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from August 29-September 12, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to attend and present papers at the 8th International Global [...] | 2004-08-25 18:18:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA TSPA NZ |
04WELLINGTON727 | NEW ZEALAND RESPONDS TO APEC PROPOSALS ON CUSTOMS [...] Post delivered ref talking points August 24 to Adele Bryant, deputy director in the economic division of New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. 2. On the proposal for permanently extending the customs duties moratorium on electronically transmitted products (ref B),Ms. Bryant [...] | 2004-08-25 21:55:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECIN ETTC EINV NZ APECO |
04WELLINGTON728 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NOAA OFFICIAL [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NOAA Official Kea Duckenfield to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from August 30-September 11, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to give invited talk at the 8th International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Conference. 2. Embassy understa [...] | 2004-08-25 21:56:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA TPHY KSCA SENV AS NZ |
04WELLINGTON729 | CODEL SHELBY TALKS TRADE AND SECURITY WITH NZ [...] (SBU) Summary: Codel Shelby met with New Zealand officials August 8-9. Discussions focused on lessons learned from New Zealand's successful effort to eliminate domestic agricultural subsidies, current state of the NZ economy, potential for a U.S.-New Zealand FTA and the need to promote for [...] | 2004-08-25 22:38:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP ETRD ENRG PREL AS NZ CODEL |
04WELLINGTON735 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE TO NIUE FOR DINT OFFICIAL ANNE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to DINT/Fish and Wild Life Service Official Anne Brooke to travel to Niue, September 2-15, 2004. The purpose of travel is to survey the flying fox population of Niue, in cooperation with the New Zealand Department of Conservation and the Niuean Department of [...] | 2004-08-27 04:56:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA SENV KSCA TBIO NE NZ |
04WELLINGTON737 | NEW ZEALAND TAKES FIRM LINE WITH IRAN FOREIGN [...] (U) Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi visited New Zealand August 23-24 to explain Iran's position in the IAEA. Kharrazi met with Prime Minister Helen Clark, Foreign Minister Phil Goff, Disarmament Minister Marian Hobbs, Communications Minister Paul Swain and Agriculture and Trade Ministe [...] | 2004-08-29 22:15:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | NZ |
04WELLINGTON739 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE OFFICIAL [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to DOE Official Gary Steigel to travel to New Zealand from September 26 - October 2, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to meet with several organizations in NZ to discuss coal gasification. 2. Embassy understands no assistance is required. [...] | 2004-08-30 01:35:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA ENRG TRGY KSCA AS NZ |
04WELLINGTON740 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MATTHEW KING AND [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to ICE Attache Matthew King and Deputy Assistant Director Foreign Operations Scott Davis to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from on or about September 16 to on or about September 18, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to meet with New Zealand [...] | 2004-08-30 01:49:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA ETRD ASEC AMGT NZ |
04WELLINGTON744 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NOAA OFFICIAL [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Department of Commerce NOAA Research Chemist Edward J. Dlugokencky to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from September 2-17, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to conduct a site visit with the national Institute of Water and Atmospheric Rese [...] | 2004-09-01 05:05:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA TPHY KSCA SENV NZ |
04WELLINGTON745 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USGS ROMEO [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to U.S. Geological Survey Research Geologist Romeo Flores to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from September 2-25, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to lecture at a seminar on coal bed natural gas and coal geology as the Erskine Fellow of the [...] | 2004-09-01 05:05:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA TPHY KSCA NZ |
04WELLINGTON747 | CITING DESIRE FOR FTA WITH CHINA, NEW ZEALAND [...] (C) Summary: Taiwan's economic affairs minister withdrew his application for a visa to attend a business conference in Wellington after the New Zealand government made it clear that it would not approve his visit. Although the minister, Lin Yi-fu, had traveled to Wellington two years ago to a [...] | 2004-09-02 04:58:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ETRD ECON PREL NZ |
04WELLINGTON749 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH OFFICIAL DR. [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Dr. Karen Babich, Director, Office of Global Mental Health, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, to travel to Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand from September 11-23, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the Third World [...] | 2004-09-03 01:54:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA TBIO NZ |
04WELLINGTON751 | R/V ROGER REVELLE MARINE RESEARCH CLEARANCE [...] No summary [...] | 2004-09-03 02:23:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KRVC TPHY EWWT NZ |
04WELLINGTON760 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE TO THE COOK ISLANDS FOR TSAR [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Transportation Security Administration Representative (TSAR) Scottie R. Laird to travel to Rarotonga, Cook Islands, September 17-23, 2004. The purpose of travel is to complete National Information for the Cook Islands. 2. Embassy understands no assist [...] | 2004-09-08 03:50:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA ECON NZ |
04WELLINGTON769 | NEW ZEALAND TO TABLE AMENDMENTS TO DRAFT [...] The New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade on August 31 unveiled changes to the draft declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples that it intends to propose to the UN Working Group in Geneva. The Ministry, which will table the amended text the week of September 13, said it aim [...] | 2004-09-09 01:37:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PHUM PREL NZ |
04WELLINGTON771 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NOAA OFFICIALS [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to DOC NOAA Scientists Robert W. Embley, Sharon L. Walker, and Edward T. Baker to travel to Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand from September 18 - October 22, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the research cruise aboard the N [...] | 2004-09-09 22:55:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA TPHY KSCA SENV NZ |
04WELLINGTON773 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST - JOY YAMAMOTO TO APIA [...] Embassy requests country clearance for Acting Political Economic Counselor Joy Yamamoto to travel to Apia, Samoa from September 16 through September 22, 2004. The purpose of Ms. Yamamoto's visit is to act as principal officer until the arrival of Charge. 2. Ms. Yamamoto will arrive at Fa [...] | 2004-09-10 00:52:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA NZ |
04WELLINGTON784 | NEW ZEALAND'S VIEWS ON UNESCO CULTURAL DIVERSITY [...] Seeking New Zealand's support for U.S. positions on a UNESCO convention on cultural diversity, post on September 10 delivered the reftel demarche to Jane Kominik of the Ministry of Culture and Heritage and to Charlotte Frater of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade's United Nations and C [...] | 2004-09-14 00:41:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | SCUL ETRD NZ UNESCO |
04WELLINGTON789 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: CHECK ON NEW ZEALAND COMPANY [...] Following instructions in reftel, post contacted the owner of Aviation Consultant Limited and learned that he has disbanded the company and taken it off the New Zealand government's registry of companies. 2. Aviation Consultant Limited, also known as Ivor MacKay Aviation Consultant Limited, [...] | 2004-09-15 00:46:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC NZ |
04WELLINGTON795 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USGS ROMEO [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to U.S. Geological Survey Research Geologist Romeo Flores to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from October 1-15, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to lecture at a seminar on coal bed natural gas and coal geology as the Erskine Fellow of the U [...] | 2004-09-16 03:22:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA TPHY KSCA NZ |
04WELLINGTON796 | CIVAIR: NEW ZEALAND'S VIEWS ON KEY U.S. ISSUES AT [...] Post on August 5 delivered reftel demarche to Nigel Mouat, principal adviser, access and services, New Zealand Ministry of Transport. The demarche outlined U.S. positions on a number of issues to be considered at the ICAO General Assembly in Montreal, September 28 to October 8. On September [...] | 2004-09-16 03:50:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR AORC NZ ICAO |
04WELLINGTON797 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USGS RUGGIERO, [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to the following U.S. Geological Survey Biologists: -- Michael RUGGIERO to travel to Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand from September 29 - October 9, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Species 2000 Management Meeting and the Gl [...] | 2004-09-16 03:51:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA TPHY KSCA NZ |
04WELLINGTON798 | NEW ZEALAND'S VIEWS ON WORLD HUNGER SUMMIT [...] Post on September 16 delivered reftel demarche regarding the World Leaders Meeting on Action Against Hunger and Poverty to Phillip Taula of the New Zealand Agency for International Development (NZAID). The demarche shared U.S. concerns about a draft declaration and a technical paper released [...] | 2004-09-16 04:21:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN ECON PREL NZ |
04WELLINGTON799 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE NSF MURDY [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NSF Official Dr. Edward Murdy, to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from October 4 - 9, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to lead the U.S. Delegation to the 8th Meeting of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2. Embassy understan [...] | 2004-09-16 23:35:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA TPHY AS NZ NSFO |
04WELLINGTON808 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ICE [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to ICE Representative Matthew King to travel to Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand from on or about September 22 to on or about September 24, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to meet the new Chief Executive of the New Zealand Customs Service. [...] | 2004-09-21 00:55:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA ETRD ASEC AMGT NZ |
04WELLINGTON818 | BLUE LANTERN POINT OF CONTACT IN NEW ZEALAND [...] Embassy Wellington's designated point of contact for the Blue Lantern Program is: Joy Yamamoto Economic Officer Tel: 64-4-462-6182 Fax: 64-4-472-3537 E-mail: yamamotoJO@state.gov Departure date: August 2006 2. Blue Lantern cases are coordinated with the Embassy's Defense Attache Off [...] | 2004-09-23 22:03:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KSEP NZ KMOC |
04WELLINGTON819 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR GIBBONS-FLY, [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to William Gibbons-Fly, Director, Office of Marine Conservation; Holly Koehler, Office of Marine Conservation; William Robinson, Regional Administrator, NOAA Fisheries; Charles Karnella, Pacific Island Area Office, NOAA Fisheries; and Raymond Clar [...] | 2004-09-24 00:08:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA EFIS SENV PHSA NZ |
04WELLINGTON824 | NEW ZEALAND TROOPS RETURN FROM IRAQ; NO FUTURE [...] (C) Summary: New Zealand's 12-month military deployment to Iraq ended September 25, with the homecoming of over 60 engineers and support staff. Prime Minister Helen Clark welcomed the troops, and issued a public statement confirming that no further deployments to Iraq are being considered. Wh [...] | 2004-09-27 02:39:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS NZ |
04WELLINGTON825 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR EPA'S NITA [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to EPA Official Nita Tallent-Haisell, to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from October 1 to December 3, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to attend the meeting of the Invasive Species Impacts Study. 2. Embassy understands no assistance is [...] | 2004-09-27 04:16:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA SENV KSCA TPHY NZ |
04WELLINGTON829 | NEW ZEALAND ENDORSES U.S. ICAO COUNCIL CANDIDACY [...] In response to ref B demarche, the New Zealand government has decided to support the United States' re-election as a Category 1 country to the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). 2. The New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) advised post of its [...] | 2004-09-28 04:28:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR AORC PREL NZ ICAO ICJ |
04WELLINGTON832 | NEW ZEALAND RESPONSE TO U.S. SEED ANNOUNCEMENT [...] Post delivered reftel announcement on U.S. participation in the Supporting Entrepreneurs for Environment and Development (SEED) partnership to the Environment and Americas Divisions of the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT.) MFAT will distribute the information to GoNZ ag [...] | 2004-09-30 02:20:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO SENV NZ |
04WELLINGTON833 | NEW ZEALAND: LUKEWARM RESPONSE TO CITES [...] (C) Summary: The GoNZ is unlikely to support the U.S. draft resolution that aims to clarify the term "Introduction from the Sea." New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) interlocutors expressed skepticism that the draft submission as written will address illegal, unregulated [...] | 2004-09-30 04:55:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV EFIS TBIO ETRD NZ |
04WELLINGTON840 | NEW ZEALAND ON IRAQ ASSISTANCE AND OCTOBER 13-14 [...] The New Zealand government is not yet able to report whether it has disbursed the remainder of the NZ $5.5 million (U.S. $3.3 million) that it had pledged for Iraq assistance at the Madrid Donors' Conference, according to Matt Dalzell of the New Zealand Agency for International Development (NZ [...] | 2004-10-05 03:43:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EFIN PREL IZ NZ |
04WELLINGTON844 | ASSISTANT SECRETARY JAMES A. KELLY'S AUGUST 8 [...] (U) Summary: Assistant Secretary Kelly, accompanied by Ambassador Swindells, Ed Rindler (INL) and notetaker, met August 8, 2004 with New Zealand Foreign Minister Phil Goff at the Pacific Islands Forum in Apia, Samoa. A/S Kelly and Goff discussed the deteriorating relationship between East Timo [...] | 2004-10-06 19:57:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EFIS SENV NZ |
04WELLINGTON846 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DR. GERALD [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NSF Official Dr. Gerald Guala, Program Director in the Division of Biological Infrastructure, to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from October 9 - 16, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the Taxonomic Databases Workin [...] | 2004-10-06 22:10:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TPHY NZ NSF |
04WELLINGTON847 | TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICER AT EMBASSY [...] No summary [...] | 2004-10-07 00:26:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER NZ KVRP |
04WELLINGTON848 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DR. SHIRA [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to OES/EGC Science Officer Dr. Shira Yoffe, to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from October 11 - 13, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to attend the International Workshop on Adaptation Strategies and Practices in Developed Countries. [...] | 2004-10-07 00:27:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA SENV NZ |
04WELLINGTON852 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR GLOVER, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to USGS Cartographer Robert Glover (November 4 through December 9),Geographer Daniel (November 6 through December 15, and Physical Scientist Larry Hothem (November 21 through January 7),to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand, enroute to an [...] | 2004-10-07 20:05:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TPHY KSCA SENV NZ |
04WELLINGTON857 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR PETER WRIGHT, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to USGS Hydrologist Peter Wright to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from October 24, 2004 to January 15, 2004 enroute to and from McMurdo Station in Antarctica. The purpose of the trip to Antarctica is to conduct research and data colle [...] | 2004-10-13 00:07:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TPHY KSCA SENV NZ |
04WELLINGTON858 | NIUE MARITIME BOUNDARY TREATY - U.S. [...] On October 8, POL/ECON Counselor presented Ref. A U.S. instrument of ratification to Hima I L Takelesi, the High Commissioner at the Niue High Commission in Wellington. The High Commissioner was extremely pleased to receive the document, and said he would ask some visiting Niuean government o [...] | 2004-10-13 04:11:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | PBTS PHSA KTIA US NE NZ XV |
04WELLINGTON860 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE TO NIUE FOR NOAA OFFICIAL [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Weather Service Official Richard K. Nygard to travel to Alofi, Niue, October 25 - 29, 2004. The purpose of travel is to re-establish and install Tsunami Tide System. 2. [...] | 2004-10-13 23:22:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA TPHY KSCA WS NE NZ |
04WELLINGTON861 | NEW ZEALAND POSITION UNCHANGED ON CUBA'S UN [...] Post delivered reftel demarche to Mike Shaw, Americas Division, New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT.) Shaw offered to circulate the information to relevant MFAT personnel, but stated that the GoNZ was unlikely to change its vote, or to abstain. Poloff urged Shaw to mainta [...] | 2004-10-14 00:00:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ETRD NZ UNGA |
04WELLINGTON862 | NEW ZEALAND RESPONSE ON POLIO ERADICATION REQUEST [...] Post delivered reftel demarche to the America's Division of the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade; Dr. Douglas Lush, Acting Director of the Communicable Diseases Unit in the Ministry of Health; and to Vicki Poole, Global Group Program Manager at the NZ Agency for International [...] | 2004-10-14 00:05:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA TBIO NZ OECD |
04WELLINGTON870 | NEW ZEALAND'S REACTION TO PROPOSED EXECUTIVE ORDER [...] (S-rel New Zealand) Post on September 14 delivered reftel talking points and text of the proposed executive order regarding insurgency finance in Iraq to New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. 2. (S-rel New Zealand) On October 14, Taha Mcpherson of the Ministry's Security Poli [...] | 2004-10-14 23:26:00 | Embassy Wellington | SECRET | PREL PTER KTFN IZ NZ |
04WELLINGTON871 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST - JOY YAMAMOTO TO HONG [...] Embassy requests country clearance for Economic Officer Joy Yamamoto to travel to Hong Kong from November 5-12, 2004. The purpose of Ms. Yamamoto's visit is to attend the Intellectual Property and Telecommunications Conference. 2. No assistance is requested. Burnett [...] | 2004-10-15 00:40:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA HK NZ |
04WELLINGTON876 | NEW ZEALAND: ICTY CANDIDATE MERON [...] No summary [...] | 2004-10-18 03:38:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KJUS KAWC PHUM NZ UNGA |
04WELLINGTON877 | R/V ROGER REVELLE MARINE RESEARCH CLEARANCE [...] No summary [...] | 2004-10-19 00:44:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KRVC TPHY EWWT NZ |
04WELLINGTON880 | WEOG ROTATION: NEW ZEALAND FM RESPONSE [...] (SBU) Post delivered the letter (reftels) on WEOG rotation in the UN Commission of Human Rights (CHR) from Secretary Powell to New Zealand Foreign Minister Phil Goff on August 16. On October 12 the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) provided the Ambassador a copy of Gof [...] | 2004-10-20 01:20:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OPDC PHUM PREL PGOV NZ |
04WELLINGTON881 | NEW ZEALAND REPRESENTATION AT ARF SECURITY POLICY [...] No summary [...] | 2004-10-20 01:34:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL NZ ARF |
04WELLINGTON882 | NEW ZEALAND WATCHDOG BACKS CURBS ON MOBILE PHONE [...] Summary: A draft decision issued October 18 by the New Zealand Commerce Commission put telecommunications companies on notice that the agency stood ready to intercede to cut the fees charged to complete mobile telephone calls. Fees now charged by the country's mobile-phone service providers t [...] | 2004-10-20 17:30:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS ECON ETRD NZ |
04WELLINGTON886 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MR. JEFFREY [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NESDIS Official, Mr. Jeffrey Key, to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from October 23-25, and on or about November 21, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to transit New Zealand on his way to Antarctica, where he will implement a syste [...] | 2004-10-21 22:00:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA KSCA TSPA NZ |
04WELLINGTON889 | NEW ZEALAND POLITICAL SCANDAL MAY LOSE THE [...] (C) Summary: Recent allegations concerning New Zealand Labour Government Minister John Tamihere's relationship to his former place of employment could result in a by-election, whose loss would end Labour's single-vote Parliamentary majority. This would force the Government to revise its polit [...] | 2004-10-22 02:27:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM NZ |
04WELLINGTON899 | NEW ZEALAND UNABLE TO CO-SPONSOR RESOLUTION ON [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel resolution to Val Meyer, Deputy Director of the Human Rights Division, New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT.) Meyer responded that, while there was no objection to the text as written, the GoNZ would not co-sponsor the resolution. Meyer cited re [...] | 2004-10-27 23:54:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM NZ |
04WELLINGTON900 | REVISED PATENT LAW WON'T HELP DRUG INDUSTRY IN [...] (U) Summary: A proposed revision of New Zealand's patent law will disappoint pharmaceutical companies by failing to extend the effective patent life of drugs -- stuck at seven years on average -- and prohibiting patents for methods of medical treatment. U.S. pharmaceutical firms especially want [...] | 2004-10-28 00:08:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON ETRD NZ |
04WELLINGTON902 | NEW ZEALAND URGES UN SECURITY COUNCIL REFORM, BUT [...] (SBU) The Government of New Zealand is strongly in favor of UN Security Council reform, but is averse to discussing its, proposed changes. The GoNZ has submitted a discussion paper on the topic to the SG's High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change. 2. (SBU) In his opening speech t [...] | 2004-10-28 23:57:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NZ |
04WELLINGTON905 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-LICENSE END USE CHECK ON [...] (SBU) Following reftel instructions, post on October 6 contacted New Zealand Police, who have confirmed the order of an F9811 Series (MX-10130) Gen 3 18mm image intensifier. The image intensifier will be installed in a Simrad KN203 FAB MGC -- a night-vision scope to be attached to a sniper ri [...] | 2004-10-29 03:52:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC NZ |
04WELLINGTON909 | NEW ZEALAND'S NEW MAORI PARTY GAINS TRACTION [...] (U) Summary: Approximately four months after its creation, the Maori Party has achieved more success than some observers may have initially expected, due largely to anger in Maori communities over the GoNZ's handling of proposed foreshore and seabed legislation. For now, Labour seems to ha [...] | 2004-11-01 02:41:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM NZ |
04WELLINGTON911 | CONVICTIONS IN NEW ZEALAND'S LARGEST PASSPORT [...] (U) In what media reports have called the largest passport forgery case of its kind in New Zealand, two refugees to New Zealand, Iraqi Fahad Jaber AJEIL (age 29) and Kuwaiti Riyad Hamied SULTAN (age 29),were found guilty October 21 of conspiring to commit forgery. The prosecution accused the [...] | 2004-11-01 02:43:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC SENV TSPL NZ |
04WELLINGTON912 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MARK J. [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Mark J. Christl, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from November 5-30, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to transit to McMurdo Station, Antarctica, to participate in the U.S. Antarctic Program. [...] | 2004-11-02 00:41:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TSPA NZ NSF |
04WELLINGTON915 | NEW ZEALAND AND THAILAND AIM TO CONCLUDE [...] (C) Begin summary: New Zealand and Thailand have begun the fourth and possibly final round in negotiations for a free-trade agreement, which New Zealand hopes to conclude by November 19, before the next APEC summit. The New Zealand government acknowledged that its effort has been hampered by [...] | 2004-11-02 23:14:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON PREL TH NZ |
04WELLINGTON916 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR KIMBERLY F. [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Social Security Administration Official Kimberly F. Irwin, Tribal Affairs Specialist, to travel to Hawke's Bay, New Zealand from November 10-17, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the International 6th Indigenous Women' [...] | 2004-11-02 23:52:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA PHUM CFED NZ |
04WELLINGTON917 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR KIMBERLY F. [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Social Security Administration Official Kimberly F. Irwin, Tribal Affairs Specialist, to travel to Aotearoa, New Zealand from November 10-17, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the International 6th Indigenous Women's H [...] | 2004-11-02 23:53:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA PHUM CFED NZ |
04WELLINGTON918 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR THEODORE [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to EAP/ANP Deputy Director Theodore Allegra, to travel to Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand from November 9-22, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to meet with USG officers and government officials as appropriate en route to and from Ne [...] | 2004-11-03 02:01:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA PREL NZ |
04WELLINGTON919 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JEAN KU, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Jean Ku, Senior Project Leader, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from November 5-13, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to organize the APEC Village Power Technical Workshop and represent the U [...] | 2004-11-03 02:48:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ENRG TRGY NZ |
04WELLINGTON920 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HARVEY MAJOR, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to DOE Official Harvey Major, to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from November 5-12, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to attend meetings on scientific, technical, project, or programmatic matters. 2. (U) Embassy understands that c [...] | 2004-11-03 03:38:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ENRG TRGY NZ |
04WELLINGTON922 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR GEOFFREY TOON, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NASA Official Geoffrey Toon, California Institute of Technology, to travel to Queenstown, New Zealand from November 6-19, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Network for Detection of Stratospheric Change (NDSC) Infrared Work [...] | 2004-11-03 22:44:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TSPA NZ |
04WELLINGTON923 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CURTIS [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NASA Official Curtis Rinsland, Langley Research Center, to travel to Queenstown, New Zealand from November 6-13, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to participate in a Network for the Detection of Stratospheric Change (NDSC) Infrared Wo [...] | 2004-11-03 22:44:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TSPA NZ |
04WELLINGTON924 | APEC: NEW ZEALAND PM SAYS NZ WILL DEMARCHE CHINA [...] (C) Ambassador Swindells met with Prime Minister Clark on November 2. He asked that New Zealand urge China to support inclusion of the remaining APEC security deliverables at the upcoming summit. He stressed that despite China's statements to the contrary, the deliverables belong in APEC. W [...] | 2004-11-03 23:08:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP KSTC PARM ECIN PTER ETTC EAID NZ |
04WELLINGTON926 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CHARLES [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to CDC Statistician Charles Croner to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from November 22-26, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to participate as keynote speaker in the 2nd GeoHealth Conference: Surveillance and Intervention. 2. (U) Em [...] | 2004-11-04 04:18:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA NZ CDC |
04WELLINGTON929 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR U.S. CUSTOMS [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officials listed below to travel to New Zealand from November 14-17, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to meet with the Customs Attache Singapore and New Zealand Customs Officials in order to pursue th [...] | 2004-11-05 16:59:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA NZ |
04WELLINGTON932 | TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICER AT [...] No summary [...] | 2004-11-09 02:33:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER NZ KVRP |
04WELLINGTON933 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ICE/MATTHEW [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Singapore ICE Attache Matthew H. King, to travel to Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand from on or about November 28 to on or about December 4, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to coordinate meetings for Keith Thomson, Assistant Commi [...] | 2004-11-09 02:36:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ASEC ETRD AMGT NZ |
04WELLINGTON939 | NEW ZEALAND WILL SUPPORT REPASCH CANDIDACY FOR [...] Post delivered reftel demarche to Wen Powles, Deputy Director, United Nations and Commonwealth Division, New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT.) Powles indicated that the GoNZ would support Mr. Repasch's candidacy for the UN Joint Staff Pension Committee. Swindells [...] | 2004-11-10 03:14:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC NZ UNGA |
04WELLINGTON949 | NEW ZEALAND LABOUR PARTY CAUTIOUSLY CONFIDENT ON [...] (C) Summary: New Zealand's governing Labour Party held its annual conference, November 12 ) 14 in Auckland. Foreign affairs and trade featured prominently, and Clark noted that priorities over a Third term would include the following: new trade and economic links, especially FTAs or arrangeme [...] | 2004-11-15 04:33:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MNUC NZ |
04WELLINGTON950 | UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE RESOLUTIONS: NEW ZEALAND [...] (C) On November 12, POL/ECON Couns discussed Reftel B resolutions with Val Meyer, Deputy Director of the Human Rights Division in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT). Meyer was joined by Tamsin Royson, MFAT's policy officer for Africa. 2. (C) Meyer said that New Zealand woul [...] | 2004-11-15 17:23:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM NZ UNGA |
04WELLINGTON951 | NEW ZEALAND ASSESSES VIABILITY OF NEW AIRCRAFT [...] (SBU) Summary: National Science Foundation (NSF),Raytheon, and Embassy representatives attended a logistics planning briefing hosted by the NZ Defence Force (NZDF) October 14 to assess the viability of allowing Royal NZ Air Force P-3K Orion and Boeing 757 aircraft to use the landing areas at [...] | 2004-11-16 00:58:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MOPS AY NZ |
04WELLINGTON957 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL BAUCUS, [...] (SBU) Embassy warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to the delegation led by Senator Max Baucus to visit Auckland, New Zealand from December 1-3, 2004. Members of the CODEL include: Senator Max Baucus, Mr. Bill Dauster, Mr. John Gilliland, Ms. Shara Aranoff, Mr. Tim Punke, and Mr. Jim [...] | 2004-11-17 21:39:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN AS NZ CODEL |
04WELLINGTON960 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DR. JOHN [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NSF Official Dr. John Brighton, Assistant Director in the Directorate for Engineering, to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from November 26 - December 5, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to participate in observations of the U.S. An [...] | 2004-11-18 03:19:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TPHY CH NZ NSF |
04WELLINGTON961 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DAVID W. [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NASA Official David W. Mittlefehldt, to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from December 27, 2004 - February 5, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to transit to McMurdo Station, Antarctica, to participate in collection, curation, and al [...] | 2004-11-18 03:20:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TSPA NZ |
04WELLINGTON964 | NEW ZEALAND RESPONSE TO REQUEST ON NEGOTIATIONS [...] (SBU) Post provided reftel points to Emma Kerslake, Environment Division, New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT.) MFAT noted that they would respond following consultations with the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF.) AgAttache spoke separately with MAF Biosecurity [...] | 2004-11-18 23:05:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV AORC EAGR ETRD PREL NZ |
04WELLINGTON969 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL [...] (SBU) Embassy warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to American Samoa Representative Eni Faleomavaega to visit Wellington, New Zealand from November 23-26, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to speak and attend the Pacific Research and Evaluation Conference and the Social Policy, Rese [...] | 2004-11-21 17:28:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN NZ |
04WELLINGTON973 | NEW ZEALAND: AMBASSADOR SWINDELLS TELLS IT LIKE IT [...] (U) On November 17, Prime Minister Helen Clark delivered an address at the American Chamber of Commerce Business Awards. She described the importance to New Zealand of its economic relationship with the United States: The U.S. is New Zealand's second-largest trading partner, with two-way tra [...] | 2004-11-22 03:26:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NZ |
04WELLINGTON980 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR STANLEY LOVE, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NASA Astronaut Stanley Love, to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from November 27, 2004 - January 29, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to transit to Lapaz, Antarctica, to participate in collection, curation, and allocation of Antarct [...] | 2004-11-23 03:22:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TSPA NZ |
04WELLINGTON983 | R/V KILO MOANA MARINE RESEARCH CLEARANCE, FILE NO. [...] No summary [...] | 2004-11-24 02:59:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KRVC TPHY EWWT NZ |
04WELLINGTON987 | NOAA KA'IMIMOANA MARINE RESEARCH CLEARANCE [...] No summary [...] | 2004-11-25 21:41:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KRVC TPHY EWWT NZ |
04WELLINGTON988 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR THOMSON AND [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to E. Keith Thomson, Assistant Commissioner, and Douglas J. Palmeri, Program Analyst, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, to travel to New Zealand from November 28 - December 5, 2004. The purpose of this visit is to meet with Customs Attac [...] | 2004-11-23 14:26:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA NZ |
04WELLINGTON997 | NEW ZEALAND SPY "SCANDAL" - SECURITY INTELLIGENCE [...] (S) Summary: Prime Minister Helen Clark has assented to a request by the Inspector-General of Security to conduct an investigation into allegations reported by the New Zealand media that New Zealand's Security Intelligence Service (SIS) has been spying on members of the newly formed Maori Party [...] | 2004-11-30 23:22:00 | Embassy Wellington | SECRET | PGOV PREL PHUM NZ |
04YEREVAN1002 | MFA PRESENTS FACT SHEET ON ARMENIA-NATO COOPERATION [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) The Head of the NATO Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hrachia Tashchian, presented us with the Ministry's "Fact Sheet on Cooperation of Armenia with NATO and its Participation in the Partnership for Peace Progr [...] | 2004-04-29 12:31:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM PGOV AM |
04YEREVAN1010 | PARLIAMENT ADOPTS LAW ON RALLIES [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The Armenian National Assembly passed the controversial "Law on the Procedure of Staging Meetings, Rallies, Marches and Demonstrations" (Law on Rallies) in its third and final reading April 2 [...] | 2004-04-30 10:22:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV AM |
04YEREVAN1066 | IMI (ARMENIA): U.S. COMPANIES IN ARMENIA [...] No summary [...] | 2004-05-04 06:41:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM |
04YEREVAN1088 | ARMENIAN OPPOSITION HALTS PROTESTS, AWAITS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The Armenian opposition announced a 10-day suspension in its protests against the presidency of Robert Kocharian to give the government time to comply with PACE Resolution 1374. Opposition le [...] | 2004-05-05 13:24:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV AM |
04YEREVAN1089 | NO PROGRESS IN INVESTIGATION OF HIGH-PROFILE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified, protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) At his May 4 press conference Procurator General (PG) Aghvan Hovsepian admitted that they had as yet made no significant progress in the investigation of several high-profile cases of violence against [...] | 2004-05-05 13:24:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
04YEREVAN1107 | POLICE AND EDUCATORS JOIN FORCES IN ARMENIAN [...] SUMMARY. Project Harmony implemented an INL funded legal socialization project that has helped to build bridges between Armenian students, educators and law enforcement officials. The "ZANG" project brought together secondary teachers and policemen to create off- line and on-line curricula o [...] | 2004-05-07 12:23:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PHUM EAID AM |
04YEREVAN1109 | REACTION FROM YEREVAN, ARMENIA: ARMENIAN MEDIA [...] SUMMARY: Armenian mass media widely covered the recent developments in Ajaria and Georgia and paid special attention to the resignation of Ajaria's leader, Aslan Abashidze. The press outlined the importance of the recent political developments for their possible impact on Armenia and on the [...] | 2004-05-07 13:01:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC PGOV PREL KPAO AM |
04YEREVAN1115 | DEMARCHES DELIVERED: SOLICITING ASSISTANCE FOR IRAQ [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) On May 7, 2004 we discussed talking points in refs A and B with America's desk officer Lilit Toutkhalian. She replied that she would look into whether Armenia had any appropriate people to send to the workshops, and indi [...] | 2004-05-10 07:29:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KSCA SENV TSPL IZ AM |
04YEREVAN1119 | "CELEBRATION" OF WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY IN [...] SUMMARY: Competing media organizations sponsored several events on Monday, May 3, in observance of World Press Freedom Day. Generally critical of the government of Armenia, the events also revealed a certain amount of intramural hard feelings in the world of Armenian journalism. The U.S. Em [...] | 2004-05-10 09:26:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC PGOV PREL KPAO AM |
04YEREVAN1125 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ESTABLISHING US MISSION BAGHDAD [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) On May 8, 2004 we discussed talking points in refs A and B with America's desk officer Lilit Toutkhalian. She noted that Armenia currently had no plans to have diplomatic representation in Iraq. ORDWAY [...] | 2004-05-11 07:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AMGT MOPS IZ AM |
04YEREVAN1147 | DIALOGUE CONTINUES BETWEEN OPPOSITION AND [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified, protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Negotiations between Armenia's governing coalition and its political opponents have brought a temporary lull to their month-long political confrontation. Talks between leaders of the three pro- Kocha [...] | 2004-05-14 12:04:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
04YEREVAN1148 | TWO MEN DETAINED ON CHARGES OF ATTACKING [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified, protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The Office of the Procurator General (PG) announced May 12 that they had identified and officially charged two men for attacking journalists during an opposition rally on April 5. An assaulted journa [...] | 2004-05-14 12:05:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL AM |
04YEREVAN1178 | NOMINATION FOR HRDF: CIVIC ACCOUNTABILITY [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Post nominates the program "Police and Regional Prison Monitoring" for the Human Rights and Democracy Fund, FY04. This program capitalizes on a stated GOAM willingness to allow monitoring of [...] | 2004-05-20 01:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KDEM AM |
04YEREVAN1179 | SPRING 2004 DIASPORA ROUNDTABLE FOCUSES ON [...] The May 5-7 meetings of the Ambassador's Diaspora Roundtable held in Yerevan focused on encouraging private investment in Armenia and increasing partnership between Diaspora-based groups and the USG with ongoing assistance projects. Thirty-seven prominent Armenian-Americans representing the e [...] | 2004-05-20 02:24:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAID AM |
04YEREVAN1190 | PREVENTIVE DETENTIONS A MAJOR SETBACK ON THE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified, protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Armenian police rounded up and questioned more than 25 opposition activists around the country on the eve of the planned May 21 opposition rally in Yerevan. According to opposition sources and media re [...] | 2004-05-21 10:47:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL AM |
04YEREVAN1192 | ARMENIAN GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE TO U.S. [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------------------ DEMARCHE DELIVERED ------------------ 2. (SBU) On May 4, we presented talking points per reftel regarding the U.S. Senate approval of the US-IAEA Additional protocol. Ashot Martirosyan, Head of the Armenian [...] | 2004-05-21 10:47:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TRGY KNNP AM IAEA |
04YEREVAN1194 | MCA: THE VIEW FROM YEREVAN [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------------------------ PROGRESS IN RECENT YEARS ------------------------ 2. (SBU) Over the past 12 years since independence Armenia has moved from a state of open conflict with one of its neighbors to a stable, if occasionally [...] | 2004-05-21 12:13:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID PGOV PHUM AM |
04YEREVAN1207 | MAY 21 OPPOSITION RALLY CALM, NO NEW [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. --------------------- LARGE RALLY, BUT CALM --------------------- 2. (SBU) Despite concerns raised by the May 20 preventive detentions (reftel),the May 21 opposition rally attracted roughly 12,000-15,000 participants, proceede [...] | 2004-05-25 06:10:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM AM |
04YEREVAN1208 | REVIEW OF UNICEF IN ARMENIA [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Post applauds UNICEF's efforts in partnering with many agencies in Armenia to improve the capacity of government agencies working with socially disadvantaged children, and to advocate on behal [...] | 2004-05-25 06:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON AM AID |
04YEREVAN1238 | KOCHARIAN DISCUSSES REFORMS, ARMENIA'S ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) EUR/ACE Ambassador Carlos Pascual, accompanied by the Ambassador, met with President Robert Kocharian May 18 following the meetings of the U.S.-Armenia Task Force on Economic Cooperation (USATF). The meeting focused on the potential role for Armenia as an example of progress and freedom [...] | 2004-05-27 10:50:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID |
04YEREVAN1239 | REVIEW OF UNDP PROGRAM IN ARMENIA [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) UNDP provides a valuable service to Armenia and supports U.S. goals. UNDP's current country program and goal statements are based on realistic assessments of Armenia's needs and reflect a kno [...] | 2004-05-27 12:12:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON AORC AM UNDP |
04YEREVAN1240 | IRAN-ARMENIA PIPELINE: DEAL SIGNED ON FUTURE SWAP [...] This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) On May 19, 2004, Garnik Badalian, Head of the Iran desk at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, briefed us about a recent agreement on the Iran - Armenia pipeline. Badalian said that o [...] | 2004-05-27 12:19:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET AM |
04YEREVAN1254 | RIVAL POLITICAL CAMPS UNITE OVER CHESSBOARD [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (U) The current National Assembly (NA) marked its first anniversary May 26 with a chess tournament featuring international grandmaster Smbat Lputyan who played against 14 MPs and NA staffers. Each [...] | 2004-06-01 12:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
04YEREVAN1255 | DECIPHERING THE ARMENIAN-AMERICAN DIASPORA [...] (SBU) The Armenian-American Diaspora continues to wield considerable influence upon the foreign and domestic policies of the Government of Armenia. This influence ranges from the obvious connection of U.S.-born and/or trained GOAM officials, the influence of private and public U.S. assistance [...] | 2004-06-01 12:07:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AM |
04YEREVAN1268 | ARMENIA'S ALTERNATIVE MILITARY SERVICE LAW: [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The GOAM has not drafted implementating regulations for its alternative military service legislation, which went into effect June 1. The GOAM delayed creating the regulations because the law [...] | 2004-06-03 12:01:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV AM |
04YEREVAN1287 | BUSINESS AS NOT-SO-USUAL IN ARMENIA'S PARLIAMENT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly . ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) More than one year into the legislative season, a boycotting opposition, spotty attendance by pro-government deputies, continued political saber-rattling between parties and even occasional f [...] | 2004-06-04 12:21:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV AM |
04YEREVAN1290 | ARMENIA WELCOMES ESTABLISHMENT OF THE [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. 2. (SBU) We delivered reftel demarche June 2. In comments later that same day, Armenian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Gamlet Gasparyan noted: " We welcome the formation of Iraq's interim government, which will undertake its responsi [...] | 2004-06-07 09:19:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL IZ AM |
04YEREVAN1293 | KOCHARIAN ESTABLISHES MCA BOARD, DISCUSSES COMPACT [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The GOAM has formed a Board of Trustees under the authority of the Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan with Chief Economic Adviser of the President of the Republic of Armenia Vahram Nercissiantz a [...] | 2004-06-07 12:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAID AM |
04YEREVAN1298 | AMBASSADOR INAUGURATES FIRST COMMUNITY SELF-HELP [...] (U) Ambassador Ordway, accompanied by regional GOAM representatives and local press, inaugurated the newly completed Noyemberyan Sport School facility June 2 in Armenia's northeastern Tavush region. The ceremony marked the completion of the first project sponsored by the USG's "Community Self [...] | 2004-06-08 11:23:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON AM |
04YEREVAN1336 | FRACTURED OPPOSITION ADMITS FAILURE TO GARNER [...] (SBU) Faced with dismal rally attendance, Armenian opposition leaders made announcements June 5 acknowledging their failure to receive sufficient popular support for "decisive actions" aimed at ousting President Kocharian. Instead of launching a promised "permanent" protest action, the June 4 [...] | 2004-06-14 11:22:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
04YEREVAN1337 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES CITIZEN CONCERNS IN ARMENIA'S [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador Ordway discussed USG assistance programs and current events with Armenians living in the southern province of Syunik during a town hall meeting June 8 in the provincial capital of Kapan. The meeting was part of a broader schedule of USG assistance site visits and poli [...] | 2004-06-14 12:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAID AM |
04YEREVAN1339 | MFA INITIAL RESPONSE TO 2004 TIP REPORT [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. 2. (SBU) We delivered TIP report language and accompanying fact sheet and press release information to Special Advisor Salpi Ghazarian and Human Rights Desk Officer Karine Soudjian June 14 per reftel instructions. Both reported th [...] | 2004-06-14 12:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID AM |
04YEREVAN1341 | FURTHER DELAYS FOR AMENDMENTS TO ALTERNATIVE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) This message updates reftel. A National Assembly committee expert who worked on Armenia's alternative military service law previously informed Post that amendments to the law on alternative military service would be com [...] | 2004-06-15 11:35:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV AM |
04YEREVAN1342 | REPUBLICAN-BACKED PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATE RUNS [...] (SBU) Vahe Hakobian, parliamentary candidate endorsed by Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan's Republican Party, ran unopposed during parliamentary by- elections in the southern province of Syunik on June 13. According to preliminary figures announced by the Territorial Election Commission, Ha [...] | 2004-06-15 11:38:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
04YEREVAN1343 | ARMENIA MCA BI-WEEKLY REPORT -- JUNE 15, 2004 [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. --------------------------------------------- ------- GOAM MCA BOARD CONVENES FIRST "CONSULTATIVE" MEETING --------------------------------------------- ------- 2. (U) Minister of Finance and Economy Vardan Khachatryan hosted th [...] | 2004-06-15 12:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID AM |
04YEREVAN1344 | ARMENIA: 2004 - 2005 ANTI-TRAFFICKING STRATEGY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. While the formation of the Government's Interagency Commission to Address Issues related to Human Trafficking was encouraging, lack of a Commission Head for several months last year significantly slowed down the Government's response to TIP. As reported reftel, the Commission [...] | 2004-06-15 12:17:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KCRM ELAB KWMN SMIG PGOV PREL UZ AM |
04YEREVAN1345 | Armenian-Azeri border clash [...] (C) Following receipt of reftel, DAO assistant spoke with the CHOD, Gen-Lt. Haratunyan, and Ambassador spoke to Ambassador Kasprzyk and Acting Foreign Minister Shugarian. The CHOD claimed that the Azeri side had initiated the outbreak of hostile action a week ago, and then on the night of Ju [...] | 2004-06-15 12:32:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS MOPS AM AJ |
04YEREVAN1352 | RELATIONS WITH TURKEY BACK IN THE SPOTLIGHT [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The last-minute decision by the Turkish delegation not to attend a conference on regional archaeological and tourism issues, a report in the Armenian press regarding visa regimes and a widely ci [...] | 2004-06-17 12:21:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAID AM |
04YEREVAN1359 | OPPOSITION ANNOUNCES END TO "HOT SPRING" [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified -- Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Leaders of the Armenian opposition Justice bloc and National Accord Party officially announced June 16 the end of the much-touted "hot spring" anti- Kocharian campaign. While some opposition [...] | 2004-06-18 11:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
04YEREVAN1369 | REACTION FROM YEREVAN, ARMENIA: PRESS [...] SUMMARY: All mass media widely covered Ambassador John Ordway's press conference held on June 17. Almost all TV and newspaper reports were accurate and factual. The majority of the newspapers quoted the Ambassador without any comments. All the newspapers noted that there will be the final p [...] | 2004-06-21 08:24:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC PGOV PREL KPAO AM |
04YEREVAN1379 | CIVAIR: ARMENIA WILL SUPPORT U.S. IN ICAO [...] Per reftel we delivered talking points to Karen Zadoyan, Director of International Relations, Civil Aviation department on June 21, 2004. Zadoyan said that he was confident that Armenia would support the United States for the ICAO Part I elections. He added that he had received requests fro [...] | 2004-06-22 06:01:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON AM |
04YEREVAN1411 | PRESIDENTIAL DECREE PUTS GOAM ON THE HUNT FOR [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) President Kocharian signed a decree June 1, stating the GOAM's intent to free five million dollars from the GOAM budget over the next two years for refugee housing assistance and authorizing t [...] | 2004-06-24 09:07:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM EAID AM PMR |
04YEREVAN143 | ARMENIA CONFIRMS STRONG SUPPORT FOR AUSTRALIA'S [...] No summary [...] | 2004-01-16 07:16:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL AM |
04YEREVAN1439 | YEREVAN REACTION TO KOCHARIAN'S JUNE 24 COUNCIL OF [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Local media reaction was mostly positive in Yerevan following President Robert Kocharian's June 24 address to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). The address, which was c [...] | 2004-06-25 12:59:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID AM |
04YEREVAN1453 | ARMENIA RELUCTANT TO DISSOLVE ARMENERGO: RIGHTFULLY [...] (SBU) An IMF conditionality and commitments to other donors, including the United States (as part of the USATF action plan),oblige the Government of Armenia to eliminate by July 31 ArmEnergo, a state-owned enterprise that is the single buyer of midstream electricity. Once ArmEnergo is elimin [...] | 2004-06-29 10:18:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG AM |
04YEREVAN1456 | ARMENIA SEEKS TO END ARMENTEL MONOPOLY [...] (SBU) In eleventh-hour negotiations to reach an agreement in the Armentel dispute, Minister of Justice David Harutiunian agreed to put off the June 30 deadline for reaching a settlement until September 28, 2004. Despite the extension, the government's threat still stands: If the sides do not [...] | 2004-06-29 11:47:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS KPRV EINV EFIN BEXP AM |
04YEREVAN1473 | ARMENIA: SURPRISINGLY LITTLE TRADE WITH IRAN [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. Please protect accordingly -------- SUMMARY -------- 2. (SBU) Despite Armenia's geographic isolation and closed borders, trade with its southern neighbor Iran remains surprisingly small. While the April 12-13 meeting between Armenian Foreign Minister V [...] | 2004-06-30 12:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EAIR ETRD AM |
04YEREVAN1490 | INVITATION TO THE G8 GLOBAL PARTNERS WORKING [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Post delivered reftel invitation to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vartan Oskanian on July 1, 2004. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will confirm attendance with Post and supply the requested passport information, and [...] | 2004-07-01 10:18:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MNUC PARM PREL AM KACP |
04YEREVAN1507 | ARMENIA MCA BI-WEEKLY REPORT -- JULY 2, 2004 [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. -------------------------------- GOAM MCA BOARD MEETINGS CONTINUE -------------------------------- 2. (SBU) GOAM sources tell us that the GOAM MCA Board has met a total of seven times to date. This number, however, includes fi [...] | 2004-07-02 12:45:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID AM |
04YEREVAN1516 | ARMENIAN TENTATIVE ACCEPTANCE OF INVITATION [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) The GOAM Foreign Ministry has tentatively accepted the invitation to the G8 Global Partners Working Group to be held in Paris on July 12 (reftel),and supplied the participant's information as requested. 3. (SBU) The [...] | 2004-07-07 12:28:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MNUC PARM PREL AM KACP |
04YEREVAN1520 | CONGRATULATORY LETTER FROM PRESIDENT [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. 2. (SBU) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs transmitted a letter from President Robert Kocharian to President Bush congratulating him on the occasion of the 228th anniversary of the independence of the United States. 3. (SBU) The [...] | 2004-07-07 12:30:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AM |
04YEREVAN1523 | PRESIDENT OF IRAN TO VISIT ARMENIA [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Armenian President Robert Kocharian announced June 24 that Iranian President (Ali) Mohammad Khatami-Ardakani would visit Armenia this September. According to the announcement, Khatami will be the first Iranian head of s [...] | 2004-07-07 12:32:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV IR AM |
04YEREVAN1531 | ARMENIA COMMITTED TO RATIFY ARTICLE 98 IN FALL [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche to Foreign Minister Oskanian July 8. Oskanian assured the Ambassador that Article 98 ratification would be on the National Assembly's agenda when it returned from recess this fall. O [...] | 2004-07-09 10:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AM KICC |
04YEREVAN1532 | AMBASSADOR DELIVERS CFE POINTS [...] No summary [...] | 2004-07-09 10:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET | PARM KCFE PREL AM |
04YEREVAN1537 | AMBASSADOR BRIEFS FOREIGN MINISTER ON GLOBAL [...] No summary [...] | 2004-07-09 13:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET | MARR PREL KPAO AM NATO |
04YEREVAN1556 | GOAM'S MCA MANAGEMENT AND CONSULTATIVE PROCESS IN [...] (U) Ministry of Finance and Economy officials tell us that the consultative process in advance of the GOAM's upcoming MCA compact proposal submission has moved to the country's regions and is on schedule. The GOAM has begun compiling a matrix of all concept papers and/or comments received fro [...] | 2004-07-13 10:55:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID AM |
04YEREVAN158 | GOAM UNVEILS ANTI-CORRUPTION STRATEGY WITH [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Armenian Prime Minister Andranik Markarian unveiled the GOAM's first anti-corruption strategy Jaunary 16 during a public hearing that included an impressive array of ministers, legislators and [...] | 2004-01-16 12:58:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM EAID AM |
04YEREVAN1589 | ARMENIA: ACTION REQUEST ON CUBA TERRORISM [...] No summary [...] | 2004-07-16 10:56:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL CU AM UNGA |
04YEREVAN1624 | KOCHARIAN AND MINISTERS PLAN FIRST STATE VISIT TO [...] (SBU) MFA sources confirmed July 20 that Armenian President Robert Kocharian would travel to China September 26-30. The GOAM had not yet made this information public but will likely announce it to the press July 21 or 22. Several GOAM Foreign Ministers have traveled to China in the past as pa [...] | 2004-07-21 12:25:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV CH AM |
04YEREVAN1628 | GOAM INDICATES IT MAY VOTE NO ON CUBA RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2004-07-22 11:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CU AM UNGA |
04YEREVAN1639 | 59TH UNGA -- ARMENIA'S MOSTLY FAVORABLE RESPONSE [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. -------- SUMMARY -------- 2. (SBU) We delivered reftel demarche on USG initiatives at the 59th UNGA to MFA International Organizations Acting Division Chief Artak Apitonian July 20. Apitonian predicted that the GOAM would supp [...] | 2004-07-23 12:45:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON PHUM KDEM AORC UNGA UN |
04YEREVAN1641 | MCA BI-WEEKLY REPORT -- JULY 26, 2004 [...] (U) The GOAM has indicated that it may be ready to present its MCA compact proposal to the GOAM's MCA Board by September 1, and to follow this with a consultative process that we understand will include the donor community here. A recent consultative session in Armenia's Syunik region was a f [...] | 2004-07-26 09:56:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID AM |
04YEREVAN1648 | PUBLIC DEBATE MARKS FIRST YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Both supporters and critics of the ruling parliamentary coalition in Armenia's National Assembly took advantage of its one-year anniversary to stage public debates on its effectiveness and pro [...] | 2004-07-26 12:13:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AM |
04YEREVAN165 | MFA ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT ISTANBUL-YEREVAN [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) MFA officials told us recently that they consider the weekly Yerevan-Istanbul flights an important part of efforts to improve relations between the two countries. MFA Turkey Desk Officer Anahi [...] | 2004-01-20 12:52:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM TU AM |
04YEREVAN1651 | CENTRAL BANK, MINISTRIES SCRAMBLE TO KEEP THE [...] (SBU) As the Central Bank of Armenia's (CBA) Chairman Tigran Sargsyan left for his summer holiday July 19, a sharp and unexpected appreciation of the Armenian Dram (AMD) against the dollar and euro caused uncertainty and suspicion in Armenia's currency markets. With rare volatility, the dram [...] | 2004-07-26 12:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN AM RU |
04YEREVAN1662 | ARMENIA TRIES TO SQUEEZE VALUE FROM DIAMONDS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (U) While constituting only 5 percent of GDP, Armenia's rapidly expanding diamond cutting industry attracts both strong domestic attention and significant foreign investment. Precious and simple to [...] | 2004-07-28 12:27:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV EIND AM RU |
04YEREVAN1665 | LETTER FROM THE MINISTER OF JUSTICE TO [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ----------------------- TEXT OF LETTER FROM MOJ ----------------------- 2. (SBU) The Minister of Justice Davit Harytyunyan's staff transmitted the following letter to the Embassy July 28, noting that it had also been sent to th [...] | 2004-07-29 12:22:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM AM |
04YEREVAN1678 | PARTY PRIMER: TOP ARMENIAN POLITICAL [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) With 64 registered political parties (as of July 30, 2004) voters in Armenia suffer no lack of choice. The following parties are represented within the National Assembly (NA): the Republican [...] | 2004-07-30 08:32:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AM |
04YEREVAN1707 | TERRORIST FINANCE: YEREVAN: PKK/KADEK [...] No summary [...] | 2004-08-02 12:27:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER EFIN ETTC TU AM |
04YEREVAN171 | TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS TO ARMENIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Government of Armenia, local NGOs and international organizations working in Armenia largely acknowledge that Armenia has a problem with trafficking in persons. To date, Armenia has been discussed primarily as a country of origin and transit for trafficking victims. A re [...] | 2004-01-21 04:59:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | AM KCRM SNAR UZ |
04YEREVAN1745 | ARMENIA'S BANKING SECTOR: IT NEEDS MORE THAN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. Not for internet distribution. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Armenia's Central Bank (CBA) has outlined a new reform program to strengthen the banking sector. But bank officials caution that legal and regulatory reforms al [...] | 2004-08-05 13:30:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID AM |
04YEREVAN1746 | LOS ANGELES BANK FRAUD COMES HOME TO ARMENIA [...] (SBU) The U.S. Secret Service provided information on a large transfer of fraudulently obtained funds from a U.S. bank to bank accounts in Russia and Armenia. We sought GOAM assistance in freezing the account in Armenia and recovering the money already disbursed. Based on our intervention, A [...] | 2004-08-05 13:46:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS ASEC ECON EFIN AM |
04YEREVAN1749 | ARMENIA SIGNS ON TO DEFENSE ASSESSMENT: [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. --------------------------------------------- -- MINISTER OF DEFENSE REQUESTS DEFENSE ASSESSMENT --------------------------------------------- -- 2. (SBU) Armenia formally requested a Defense Assessment in the following letter fr [...] | 2004-08-09 01:04:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PARM AM |
04YEREVAN1771 | MCA BI-WEEKLY REPORT -- AUGUST 9, 2004 [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Various ministries, state agencies, NGOs, educational institutions, and individuals submitted a number of new MCA proposals as a result of the consultative process initiated by the Government [...] | 2004-08-09 12:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID AM |
04YEREVAN1773 | TERRORIST FINANCE: YEREVAN: PKK/KADEK [...] No summary [...] | 2004-08-09 13:04:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER EFIN ETTC TU AM |
04YEREVAN1781 | ARMENIAN INFLATION: CENTRAL BANK IN A CORNER [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary. A rising tide of dollars in the economy is forcing Armenia's Central Bank to choose between an appreciated local currency or increased inflation. Although it is choosing to let the Dram rise, inflation neverth [...] | 2004-08-11 12:20:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN AM |
04YEREVAN1789 | CHARGE BRIEFS DFM ON GLOBAL DEFENSE POSTURE REVIEW [...] No summary [...] | 2004-08-13 10:25:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KPAO AM NATO |
04YEREVAN1792 | CIVIL MONITORING BOARD BEGINS PRISON VISITS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) In 2002, Armenia's National Assembly passed legislation creating a civilian board to monitor prison and police detention facilities and to subsequently issue a public report annually. The Civ [...] | 2004-08-13 10:29:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV AM |
04YEREVAN1800 | GOAM RESPONSE ON PROPOSED GLOBAL THREAT REDUCTION [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------------------ ARMENIANS ON BOARD ------------------ 2. (SBU) We presented ref A talking points regarding the Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI) to Armen Israelian, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Head of the Depar [...] | 2004-08-13 11:44:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TRGY KNNP AORC AM IAEA |
04YEREVAN1801 | CIVAIR: ICAO 35TH SESSION DEMARCHE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Armenia's Civil Aviation Department confirmed to us that Armenia would support the U.S. in the ICAO part I elections (refs A and B). Karen Zadoyan, Head of International Relations, GOAM Civil Aviation Department, alread [...] | 2004-08-13 11:44:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC EAIR ECON AM ICAO |
04YEREVAN1813 | ARMENIA'S TEST FOR NATO AND PFP: WILL THEY BE [...] (C) GOAM senior policy makers are looking to the upcoming Cooperation Best Effort 2004 (CBE04) Partnership for Peace (PfP) mid-September exercise in Azerbaijan as a test case for whether NATO, PfP members and the U.S. genuinely want to work with Armenia. Until the five Armenian military office [...] | 2004-08-16 11:06:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PM PGOV AM AJ |
04YEREVAN1815 | COURT HALTS RATIFICATION OF ROME STATUTE -- [...] (C) Armenia still hopes to ratify the Article 98 Agreement when the National Assembly returns from recess in September. We pressed FM Oskanian to keep to this timetable, but he said that the Constitutional Court is now reviewing the agreement and may decide that it would be unlawful to ratif [...] | 2004-08-17 01:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PARM PREL AM |
04YEREVAN1822 | MINIKES IN YEREVAN: ENGAGE WITH THE OSCE [...] (SBU) In a series of intense meetings with nearly all of Armenia's top-level leaders, USOSCE Ambassador Stephan M. Minikes called for Armenia to engage with the OSCE to make sure the organization suits the country's needs, and not to carp from the sidelines, eroding OSCE basic principles. Mini [...] | 2004-08-18 08:48:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AM |
04YEREVAN1837 | LETTER FROM THE MFA ON ARMENIA'S CANDIDACY [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ----------------------- TEXT OF LETTER FROM MFA ----------------------- 2. (SBU) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs transmitted the following letter to the Embassy. The English- language text of the letter follows. Begin Text: [...] | 2004-08-18 13:46:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM AM UN |
04YEREVAN1838 | ARMENIA CHILD LABOR REPORT: EXPLOITIVE CHILD [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Armenia's constitution prohibits child labor, and the use of children in the workforce is very rare. The high demand for jobs, especially for unskilled workers, and the cultural premium on fa [...] | 2004-08-18 13:46:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SOCI ECON ELAB AM |
04YEREVAN1854 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION [...] No summary [...] | 2004-08-20 12:59:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PREL AM |
04YEREVAN1862 | AMBASSADOR EVANS PRESENTS COPIES OF HIS LETTERS OF [...] (SBU) Ambassador Evans presented copies of his letters of credence to Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian August 23. The Ambassador highlighted the strong U.S.-Armenia bilateral relationship, outlined U.S. policy objectives, and noted that new opportunities may exist in the South Caucas [...] | 2004-08-23 11:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AM |
04YEREVAN1878 | INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST ALLEGEDLY ATTACKED [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ----------------------------- JOURNALIST ALLEGEDLY ATTACKED ----------------------------- 2. (SBU) On August 24, two investigative journalists alleged that they had been threatened and one of them roughed up by unidentified me [...] | 2004-08-25 12:17:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL AM |
04YEREVAN1885 | MODIFIED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS PACKAGE MOVES [...] (C) The three parties of the pro-government ruling coalition forwarded a package of proposed constitutional amendments to Armenia's National Assembly (NA) in mid-August for discussion and approval during the upcoming legislative session. This step was the latest in the continuing saga of Coun [...] | 2004-08-27 07:35:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AM |
04YEREVAN1892 | ARMENIA MCA BI-WEEKLY UPDATE -- AUGUST 27, 2004 [...] (SBU) GOAM Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) Secretariat Coordinator Hovik Azizyan confirmed to us during SIPDIS an informal meeting August 25 that the GOAM had pushed back its planned proposal submission schedule. Azizyan said the change was necessary due to the large number of propo [...] | 2004-08-27 12:01:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KMCA EAID AM |
04YEREVAN1893 | NEW PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEERS SWORN IN BY NEW [...] SUMMARY: On August 23, the Ambassador swore in 51 new Peace Corps Volunteers for service in Armenia, the largest group since the program was established in 1992. Foreign Minister Oskanian, who attended the ceremony, spoke passionately about the high value of the program for Armenia and U.S [...] | 2004-08-27 12:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KPAO OPRC PREL AM KMRD |
04YEREVAN1899 | ARMENIA'S OLIGARCHS: STAYING RICH ON FOOD, GAS, AND [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Trade in the most basic goods in the Armenian economy is controlled by a small number of oligarchs with strong ties to government. While it is considered common knowledge that oligarchs use p [...] | 2004-08-30 12:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EIND ETRD PGOV KCOR AM |
04YEREVAN1925 | PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR JOINS JOURNALIST TO MAKE [...] (SBU) Summary. The GOAM took the high road in response to a physical attack on an investigative journalist on August 24 (reftel). The alleged attacker was arrested while Armenia's Prosecutor General pressed charges. A senior advisor to President Kocharian joined journalists in a "protest" o [...] | 2004-08-31 12:30:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL AM |
04YEREVAN1936 | ARMENIA CONCERNED OVER US CUSTOMS ACTIONS [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 8. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Six containers of clothing shipped from Armenia are being held by U.S. Customs (ref A). The containers hold clothing purportedly produced by two of Armenia's largest textile plants. U.S. Customs suspects [...] | 2004-09-01 12:32:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID ETRD AM |
04YEREVAN1938 | LOCAL RESULTS NULLIFIED IN ELECTORAL DEJA VU [...] (SBU) Territorial Election Commission (TEC) officials declared the results from an August 29 parliamentary by-election invalid August 31 following widespread reports of violations and an unreliably thin margin of only 32 votes between the two candidates. Analysts viewed the election as an impo [...] | 2004-09-02 06:16:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM AM |
04YEREVAN1940 | ARMENIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED -- BATTLING GLOBAL [...] No summary [...] | 2004-09-02 10:47:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER AM |
04YEREVAN1972 | AMBASSADOR PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO PRESIDENT [...] (C) On September 4, 2004, Ambassador Evans presented his letters of credence to President Robert Kocharian. The Ambassador conveyed warm best wishes from President Bush, and explained how U.S. goals for the South Caucasus -- enhancing security and stability, strengthening democratic institutio [...] | 2004-09-08 10:22:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID KMCA ECON AM |
04YEREVAN2018 | PRESIDENT SIGNS ON TO ARMENIAN-POLISH JOINT [...] (SBU) On September 6, Armenian President Robert Kocharian signed a security cooperation agreement with Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski which will lay the groundwork for the deployment to Iraq of 50 Armenian non-combat troops with Polish forces. George Kocharian, Head of the Military-P [...] | 2004-09-10 12:52:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR MOPS IZ AM |
04YEREVAN2019 | IRAN-ARMENIA PIPELINE: IRAN TO FINANCE PIPELINE [...] (SBU) During Iranian President Mohammad Khatami's visit to Yerevan September 8-9, the Armenian and Iranian governments signed a deal to finance the Armenia-Iran gas pipeline as far as Kajaran, 41 kilometers into Armenia. In May the governments had signed an agreement providing for the constru [...] | 2004-09-10 13:27:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET AM IR |
04YEREVAN2026 | LETTER ROM THE MINISTER OF TRADE TO CUSTOMS [...] The Ministry of Foreign Affairs transmitted the following letter to the Embassy September 13, 2004. The original English language text follows. BEGIN TEXT: 03/09/2004 Mr. Robert C. Bonner Commissioner, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Department of Homeland Security Government of [...] | 2004-09-14 09:34:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID ETRD AM |
04YEREVAN2054 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: NEW IRAQ EXECUTIVE ORDER [...] No summary [...] | 2004-09-17 12:18:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET | KTFN PREL PTER AM |
04YEREVAN2061 | OFFICIAL VISIT OF PRESIDENT KHATAMI TO ARMENIA [...] (C) During Iranian President's Mohammad Khatami's visit to Yerevan, September 8-9, the Armenian and Iranian governments signed seven agreements including the agreements concerning the partial financing and construction of an Armenian-Iranian gas pipeline. The local press and the Armenian Minis [...] | 2004-09-17 13:51:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET AM IR |
04YEREVAN2062 | ARMENIA: BIOLOGICAL WARFARE AND PROLIFERATION [...] (S/NF) Armenia does not have an active biological warfare program nor does it have an interest, desire or capability to start one (reftel). The Armenian government has denied ever having a biological warfare program and currently Armenian biological institutes and private companies are struggl [...] | 2004-09-17 13:51:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET | PINR ECON PTER TBIO PARM AM KPRP |
04YEREVAN2071 | IMF TEAM LEAVES ARMENIA UNIMPRESSED WITH PROGRESS [...] (SBU) The IMF team conducting the Sixth review of Armenia's Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) program has left Armenia concerned about Armenia's progress in key areas of reform. The Resident Representative, James McHugh, told us that he anticipated problems completing the sixth rev [...] | 2004-09-20 12:44:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID ETRD KCOR AM |
04YEREVAN2092 | ARMENIA'S MOD SUPPORTS BROADER, DEEPER DEFENSE [...] (C) In his first meeting with the Ambassador on September 20, Armenia's Defense Minister Serzh Sargsyan stated that Armenia highly valued its developing defense relationship with the U.S., stood ready to cooperate on an upcoming Defense Assessment and was preparing troops for deployment to Ir [...] | 2004-09-22 12:41:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PARM AM |
04YEREVAN2093 | LETTER TO PRESIDENT BUSH FROM KAREKIN II, [...] On September 11, His Holiness Karekin II, Catholicos of Armenia, sent a letter to President Bush to mark the third anniversary of the terrorist attacks. The letter was received at the Embassy on September 14. The original was forwarded by pouch to EUR/CACEN; the text of the letter is paragr [...] | 2004-09-22 12:45:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC AM |
04YEREVAN2113 | FM TAPS SPECIAL ADVISOR AS NEXT AMBASSADOR TO IRAN [...] No summary [...] | 2004-09-24 10:56:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET | PREL PGOV IR AM |
04YEREVAN2114 | PARLIAMENTARY BY-ELECTION: POWERPLAY TUG-OF-WAR, [...] (C) The National Assembly Speaker-backed candidate won a controversial parliamentary by-election September 19 in a Yerevan suburb after the only remaining candidate (backed by Armenia's Procurator General) withdrew from the race only a few days earlier. Analysts viewed the election, which had [...] | 2004-09-24 11:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AM |
04YEREVAN212 | PM APPOINTS ETHNIC MINORITIES AND RELIGIOUS [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Prime Minister Andranik Margarian appointed Hranush Kharatian as Head of the Department on Ethnic Minorities and Religious Issues within the Cabinet. Kharatian will supervise GOAM programs tar [...] | 2004-01-23 11:12:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM TU AM |
04YEREVAN2135 | (IMI) BRIEF OVERVIEW OF ARMENIA'S FRUIT JUICE [...] This cable provides a brief overview of Armenia's juice industry for those interested in trade and investment opportunities in Armenia. It also includes a list of key contacts in this sector. For more information contact the BISNIS representative or the Economic and Commercial Officer at th [...] | 2004-09-28 10:42:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM |
04YEREVAN2140 | CASE AGAINST URANIUM SMUGGLER IN DANGER OF [...] (S/NF) Garik Dadayan was detained on the Georgia - Armenia border while attempting to smuggle Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) in June 2003. Dadayan has been in pre-trial detention in Armenia, but his case is now moving to trial. Prosecutors and the judge presiding in the case are concerned tha [...] | 2004-09-29 09:01:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET//NOFORN | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL AM GG |
04YEREVAN2154 | FOLLOW UP ON G8 GLOBAL PARTNERS WORKING GROUP [...] No summary [...] | 2004-09-30 13:06:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MNUC PARM PREL AM KACP |
04YEREVAN2156 | REACTION FROM YEREVAN, ARMENIA: PRESS [...] SUMMARY: All mass media widely covered the first press conference of Ambassador John Evans held on September 15. Virtually all TV stations commented on the unique format of the press conference (the heads of all the sections of the U.S. mission in Armenia were present). All TV stations show [...] | 2004-09-30 13:07:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC PGOV PREL KPAO AM |
04YEREVAN2165 | GOAM TAKING ACTION TO FIGHT TRAFFICKING [...] (U) Although much work remains to be done, the Armenian government has made considerable efforts over the past three years and, despite being a country of origin for trafficking, has graduated from Tier 3 to Tier 2 (Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report 2004). Government actions have had the fol [...] | 2004-10-01 06:29:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCRM KWMN PHUM AM KTIP |
04YEREVAN2166 | GOAM SUPPORT FOR IRAQ MISSION UNLIKELY TO [...] (SBU) GOAM commitment to deploying troops in Iraq remains strong despite recent media statements and public opinion against the mission. Opposition groups have not strongly attacked plans for deployment, and Ministry of Defense and Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials continue to make consis [...] | 2004-10-01 10:30:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR MOPS IZ AM |
04YEREVAN2194 | OSKANIAN CALLS FOR ARMENIAN "RE- [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------------------------------- OSKANIAN STUNS DIPLOMATIC CROWD ------------------------------- 2. (SBU) Taking advantage of the official reception October 2 on the occasion of the "Day of German Unity," Foreign Minister Varta [...] | 2004-10-04 12:31:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AJ AM |
04YEREVAN2210 | IPR: PIRACY DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. -------- SUMMARY -------- 2. (SBU) Per reftel we delivered talking points on piracy of intellectual property to Deputy Minister of Trade Tigran Davtyan, October 6. Davtyan expressed interest in the Strategy Targeting Organi [...] | 2004-10-06 11:52:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR KPAO AM WTRO |
04YEREVAN2216 | RUSSIAN-GEORGIAN BORDER CLOSING "NOT [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. -------- SUMMARY -------- 2. (SBU) As a result of the Russian-Georgian border closure roughly one thousand trucks bound for Armenia are stuck at the Verkhniy Lars border crossing point between Russia and Georgia. According t [...] | 2004-10-06 12:47:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL PGOV AM |
04YEREVAN2222 | POLICE DETAIN TWO ON SUSPICION OF TRAFFICKING [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------------------------------------ POLICE ARRESTING ALLEGED TRAFFICKERS ------------------------------------ 2. (SBU) Police detained Tigran Rushanyan (nickname - Tigran the Great) on suspicion of trafficking October 4, 2004 [...] | 2004-10-07 03:20:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCRM AM KTIP |
04YEREVAN2224 | ARMENIAN GOVERNMENT GIVES ENERGY SECTOR A HALF-FIX [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) On October 1, Armenia' Public Service Regulatory Commission (PRSC) ended ArmEnergo's reign as the state-owned single buyer of midstream electricity, responding to demands of the [...] | 2004-10-07 03:20:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG AM |
04YEREVAN2242 | ARMENIAN RESPONSE TO CUBA'S UN RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2004-10-08 12:35:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD CU AM UNGA |
04YEREVAN2256 | GOAM PREPARED TO SIGN REVISED "ARTICLE 98" [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Foreign Minister Oskanian's senior advisor told us October 12 that the GOAM is prepared to sign a revised "Article 98" agreement "within next ten days." President Kocharian is currently deciding who to authorize to sign [...] | 2004-10-12 12:18:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM PGOV AM |
04YEREVAN2257 | GOAM REGISTERS JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES [...] (SBU) The Armenian Ministry of Justice registered the Jehovah's Witnesses as a legal entity on October 8. Registration confers the right for religious groups to rent meeting space, broadcast on radio and television, publish magazines and newspapers, and it gives members of the Jehovah's Witnes [...] | 2004-10-12 12:19:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL AM |
04YEREVAN226 | REACTION FROM YEREVAN, ARMENIA: PRESIDENT [...] SUMMARY: President George W. Bush's State of the Union Address was widely covered in Armenian media, both print and broadcast. Coverage by broadcast media was mostly factual, using CNN, EuroNews or Russian sources. Print media used the Russian Washington File provided by the U.S. Embassy Pu [...] | 2004-01-23 12:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC PGOV PREL KPAO AM |
04YEREVAN2281 | FM DISCUSSES TURKISH-EU ACCESSION: KOCHARIAN [...] (C) In her October 14 meeting with Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian, Deputy Assistant Secretary Laura Kennedy emphasized the positive benefits for Armenia of a Turkey anchored in the EU. She strongly urged the GOAM avoid trying to derail or complicate the process. Oskanian's recent [...] | 2004-10-14 08:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU AM |
04YEREVAN2319 | (IMI) OVERVIEW OF ARMENIA'S WINE SECTOR [...] This cable provides a brief overview of Armenia's wine sector for those considering trade and investment opportunities in Armenia. It also includes a list of key contacts. For more information contact the BISNIS representative or the Economic and Commercial Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Ye [...] | 2004-10-19 10:11:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM |
04YEREVAN2320 | (IMI) OVERVIEW OF ARMENIA'S DIAMOND-CUTTING [...] This cable reviews the diamond-cutting industry in Armenia as of October 2004. It includes an overview and contact information for major diamond-cutting enterprises and a discussion of the possible advantages in Armenia for foreign investment. End summary. 2. Diamond processing has been [...] | 2004-10-19 10:13:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM |
04YEREVAN2323 | INVITATION TO ATTEND NOVEMBER 17 G8 GLOBAL [...] No summary [...] | 2004-10-19 12:10:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MNUC PARM PREL AM KACP |
04YEREVAN2324 | LOCAL STATION DROPS RFE/RL NEWS SHOW [...] (SBU) An independent TV news broadcast produced by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty was cancelled on October 13 after airing a single episode. The director of the station denied government pressure. We believe, however, that this incident was an act of self- censorship to avoid conflict with [...] | 2004-10-19 12:10:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM AM |
04YEREVAN2325 | COURT CONVICTS, SENTENCES JOURNALIST'S [...] No summary [...] | 2004-10-19 12:11:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL AM |
04YEREVAN2326 | GENDER AND SALARY DISCRIMINATION IN YEREVAN [...] (SBU) According to a new survey, equally qualified men and women in Yerevan receive wildly disparate salaries: on average, women in Yerevan receive 40 percent less than men. While the survey was too small to be entirely reliable, the trends it demonstrated are strongly supported by anecdotal [...] | 2004-10-19 12:13:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM AM |
04YEREVAN2331 | ARMENIA: RADIOACTIVE SUBSTANCE CESIUM-137 DETAINED [...] (C) On 19 October, the Armenian press reported that an Armenian citizen, Gagik Tovmasyan, was arrested on Oct 19 while transporting Cesium-137. National Security Service officials confirmed this during an Oct 19 meeting. Ashot Martirosyan, Head of the Armenian Nuclear Regulatory Agency, verif [...] | 2004-10-20 08:38:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR ECON PTER PARM AM KPRP |
04YEREVAN2337 | DIASPORA ORGANIZATION INCREASES SUPPORT FOR N-K [...] (C) The Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) is increasing its efforts to support ongoing Armenian government-sponsored repopulation programs in Nagrono-Karabakh (N-K) through its "Centennial Project." The AGBU, the Armenian Diaspora NGO with the largest membership worldwide, has reported [...] | 2004-10-20 11:13:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AM |
04YEREVAN2348 | EUR DAS KENNEDY'S OCTOBER 14 - 17 VISIT TO ARMENIA [...] (C) Armenia plans to follow through with its commitment to deploy non-combat troops to Iraq. The issue is a political hot potato, however, and the GOAM hopes the USG will help keep the issue out of public view while it works to obtain the parliamentary approval required for deployment. This [...] | 2004-10-22 07:19:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MARR AM |
04YEREVAN2349 | GOAM REFUGEE HOUSING PLAN FAILS TO ATTRACT [...] (SBU) The GOAM hopes to announce a solution to its refugee housing problem next year, but current plans depend on international donations that are unlikely to materialize. Local implementers have concluded the government plan is unlikely to be financed because it does not address the housing [...] | 2004-10-22 09:19:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM EAID AM PRM |
04YEREVAN2367 | RUSSIA OPENS BORDERS TO CAUCASUS [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ----------------- BORDER OPEN AGAIN ----------------- 2. (SBU) On Friday October 22, the Russian government reopened the border checkpoint Verkhniy Lars that had been closed September 15, following the Beslan Sch [...] | 2004-10-25 08:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PREL RS AM |
04YEREVAN2374 | OPPOSITION RALLY DRAWS ONLY LUKEWARM [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. -------------------------- SMALL RALLY, NO EXCITEMENT -------------------------- 2. (SBU) Roughly 1500 opposition supporters gathered October 26 in Opera Square for an authorized rally timed to coincide with commemorative even [...] | 2004-10-27 09:42:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM ASEC AM |
04YEREVAN2387 | GOAM DENIES SETTLEMENTS IN THE OCCUPIED [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) In a strongly-worded diplomatic note addressed to the Embassy October 28, the Government of Armenia denied any illegal activity in the occupied territories and requested that the United States [...] | 2004-10-28 12:20:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AM UNGA |
04YEREVAN2388 | ARBITRATION PRODUCES TELECOM DEAL; ARMENTEL TO [...] (C) Minister of Justice David Harutunyan told the Ambassador on October 27 that the GOAM expected to make an announcement regarding a pending agreement with Armentel to bring a second mobile operator to Armenia and liberalize internet services within the next 10 days following months of intern [...] | 2004-10-28 12:21:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AM KTRD |
04YEREVAN2401 | ENTRY INTO FORCE OF ACQUISITION AND CROSS- [...] No summary [...] | 2004-10-29 11:54:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MARR AM |
04YEREVAN2406 | POWER STRUGGLE: ARMENIA SELLS GEORGIA CHEAP [...] This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Sources in Armenia's energy sector claim that, following the October 10 sabotage of transmission lines from Russia (Ref A),the Georgian government forced Armenia to sell electricit [...] | 2004-11-01 13:32:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG ETRD EAID AM |
04YEREVAN2407 | ARMENIA'S STEADY GROWTH, STABLE ECONOMY: [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Armenia's 2004 economic performance should lend confidence to investors and development economists alike. Armenia's oft-cited problems maintaining a transparent and fair business [...] | 2004-11-01 13:35:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EFIN EAID AM |
04YEREVAN2417 | ARMENIA: SMALL KURDISH DEMONSTRATION FOR ABDULAH [...] (SBU) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) On 29 October, approximately 25 Armenian-Kurds staged a 30-minute demonstration outside of the Yerevan office of the European Commission. The demonstration was peaceful and covered by the local press. Knayz Hasanov, [...] | 2004-11-02 13:25:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PHUM AM |
04YEREVAN2446 | CORRUPTION HINDERS ARMENIA'S ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Armenia faces severe and continuing deforestation. Although the law prohibits commercial cutting, corruption and inefficacy in Hayantar, the state forestry agency, result in the continued illeg [...] | 2004-11-08 06:06:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID ETRD AM |
04YEREVAN2447 | KOCHARIAN SACKS INTEL SERVICE CHIEF [...] (C) President Robert Kocharian fired his Minister of the National Security Service (NSS) Karlos Petrossian November 5. Although there have been frequent rumors about Petrossian's departure, the immediate cause for his fall from grace appears to be the most recent report of Petrossian's corrup [...] | 2004-11-08 07:40:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET | PREL PGOV AM |
04YEREVAN2449 | ARMENIAN FLIGHTS HAMPERED BY FUEL SHORTAGES [...] This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) A shortage of aviation fuel is forcing Armenia's outbound flights to make intermediate landings to refuel before continuing on their scheduled itinerary. Although government and av [...] | 2004-11-08 09:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET ENRG ETRD EAID GG AJ AM |
04YEREVAN245 | DEMARCHE PRESENTED ON ARMENIA'S CHR [...] No summary [...] | 2004-01-29 09:41:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM UN |
04YEREVAN2450 | ARMENIA: UPDATE ON CESIUM-137 CONFISCATED FROM [...] (C) As reported in ref A, Ashot Martirosyan, Head of the Armenian Nuclear Regulatory Agency (ANRA),verified on October 19 that approximately two curies of radioactive cesium-137 was seized from an Armenian citizen Gagik Tovmasyan on October 15. 2. (C) On November 5, we met again with Marti [...] | 2004-11-08 09:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR KNNP MNUC PARM KCRM PTER ASEC AM KPRP |
04YEREVAN2456 | ARMENIAN RESPONSE TO DEMARCHES ON HUMAN [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel demarches to Artak Apitonian, Head of the UN Division at the Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. ------- BELARUS ------- 2. (SBU) Regarding Belarus, Apitonian stated that Armenia is wavering between abstaining and voting against the resolution. Armenia woul [...] | 2004-11-09 02:55:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM AM UNGA |
04YEREVAN2457 | ARMENIAN RESPONSE TO EXTERNAL EVALUATION OF [...] No summary [...] | 2004-11-09 07:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC AM FAO |
04YEREVAN2458 | ARMENIA WILL SUPPORT MERON FOR ICTY JUDGE [...] No summary [...] | 2004-11-09 07:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KJUS KAWC PHUM AM UNGA |
04YEREVAN2461 | NATO SECRETARY GENERAL VISITS YEREVAN [...] (SBU) Summary: During a brief visit to Yerevan on November 5, the NATO Secretary General encouraged Armenia to continue to develop its cooperation with the Alliance, introduced NATO's new special representative to the region and explained that NATO is not in competition with any other organi [...] | 2004-11-09 09:14:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL AM NATO |
04YEREVAN2470 | GOAM RESCUES N-K TELECOM OPERATOR IN BACK-ROOM DEAL TO END ARMENTEL MONOPOLY [...] (C) During the week of November 15 the GOAM is due to seal the deal it has made with Armentel, Armenia's incumbent monopoly telecommunications service provider. The Government of Armenia will end its protracted dispute with Armentel and license a second mobile telephone provider to compete wit [...] | 2004-11-12 09:48:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV KPRV PREL AM BEXPPLM BEXP |
04YEREVAN2485 | (IMI) ARMENIA: REPORT ON TAVUSH PROVINCE [...] In October 2004, Embassy's BISNIS representative visited the Tavush province of Armenia to explore investment and trade opportunities for U.S. companies and to expand U.S. - Armenian commercial ties. He met with the province's business leaders and government officials. This is another in a [...] | 2004-11-17 09:24:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM |
04YEREVAN2493 | GOAM MOVING TO RATIFY REVISED "ARTICLE 98" [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Foreign Minister Oskanian's senior advisor told us November 17 that the GOAM is moving to ratify the revised "Article 98" agreement. The interagency review process is complete and the signed agreement is with President [...] | 2004-11-17 13:27:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM PGOV AM |
04YEREVAN2494 | RECENT STATEMENTS SUGGEST COOLER LOCAL TEMPERATURE [...] (C) Recent statements by high-level policymakers and opinion pieces in the local media suggest that there may be growing opposition to the pending deployment of Armenian peacekeeping support to Iraq. Reports of a car bomb explosion November 9 near an Armenian church in Iraq re-ignited a flurr [...] | 2004-11-18 09:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS IZ AM |
04YEREVAN2505 | GOAM TELECOM DEAL SUBSIDIZES N-K PHONE NETWORK [...] (C) On November 19 the Armenian Government published the details of a second mobile license that it granted to Karabakh-Telecom during a six hour tender process during the night of November 4 (Reftel). The government granted the license rights very cheaply, with no investment commitment insi [...] | 2004-11-19 11:46:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV KPRV BEXP PREL AM |
04YEREVAN2510 | THE GOAM'S CREATIVE ACCOUNTING: CREATING AN [...] (C) During the summer and fall of 2004 the GOAM transferred two valuable state assets into the control of the Ministry of Defense or organizations it controls, keeping the revenues and their subsequent expenditure off the books. In June the GOAM transferred 25 aircraft from the defunct Armeni [...] | 2004-11-22 07:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM ECON EFIN AM |
04YEREVAN2517 | ARMENIAN DEFMIN SOLID ON IRAQ CONTINGENT [...] No summary [...] | 2004-11-22 13:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET | AM IZ MARR MOPS PREL |
04YEREVAN2525 | Armenian Iraq Contingent: Speaker of [...] (C ) Over lunch November 23, Armenian National Assembly speaker Artur Baghdasarian shared with Ambassador the likely time-line for parliamentary consideration of the deployment of Armenia's non- combatant contingent to the Iraq Coalition and asked our assistance in mustering arguments to be de [...] | 2004-11-23 13:48:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS AM IZ |
04YEREVAN2526 | UPDATE ON CESIUM-137 CONFISCATED FROM ARMENIAN [...] (C) We met November 18 with Ashot Martirosyan, head of the Armenian Nuclear Regulatory Agency (ANRA) and underscored the USG's continued interest in this cesium-137 seizure case (refs A and B). Martirosyan stated that he had still not received any substantive information from the Armenian Nat [...] | 2004-11-24 08:18:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR KNNP MNUC PARM KCRM PTER ASEC AM KPRP |
04YEREVAN2533 | OSKANIAN SAYS "AZERBAIJAN IS MAKING A [...] During a joint press conference with visiting Italian Deputy Foreign Minister Margherita Boniver November 23, Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian commented that "Azerbaijan is making a mistake by initiating the discussion of the situation in the occupied territories issue at the UN, and after a [...] | 2004-11-24 13:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV AJ AM UNGA |
04YEREVAN2537 | OPPOSITION EDITOR'S CAR TORCHED, BLAMES [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) November 22 at 20:40 (local time) the car of Nikol Pashinyan, Editor-in-Chief of the opposition newspaper Haykakan Zhamanak, burst into flame in front of his office. Pashinyan is convinced th [...] | 2004-11-24 14:06:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KPAO AM |
04YEREVAN2540 | EX-VICTIM OF TRAFFICKING ARRESTED FOR [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- Â [...] | 2004-11-26 03:13:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCRM AM KTIP |
04YEREVAN2542 | AMBASSADOR SCORES ARMENIANS FOR NO-SHOW AT NATO [...] (C) The decision not to send a delegation to NATO's Rose-Roth seminar in Baku was "difficult to understand" and "a mistake" for Armenia." That was the message the Ambassador delivered to Tigran Torosian, Deputy Speaker of Armenia's National Assembly (NA) during a November 26 office call. To [...] | 2004-11-26 12:29:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AM NATO AZ |
04YEREVAN2545 | ARMENIA COMPLETES LAW ON ALTERNATIVES TO [...] (SBU) On November 23, Armenia's National Assembly amended legislation that provides draftees with a mechanism to apply for an alternative to military service. These amendments clear the way for full implementation of the alternative military service law that was passed in November 2003 as par [...] | 2004-11-26 13:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV AM |
04YEREVAN2546 | ARMENIAN HIGH COURT APPROVES OPTIONAL [...] No summary [...] | 2004-11-26 13:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KOCI AM |
04YEREVAN2550 | ARMENIA: COPERATING ON LAW ENFORCEMENT, ONE CASE [...] (SBU) Despite the absence of formal legal instruments regulating law enforcement cooperation between the U.S. and Armenia, cooperation with the GOAM on specific cases has produced positive results. From working on child pornography cases to tracking down, arresting and transferring fugitive m [...] | 2004-11-29 12:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KJUS KCRM AM |
04YEREVAN2565 | CIVAV: ARMENIA REGISTERS AIRLINES OPERATING [...] (C) The November 26, 2004 sentencing of six Armenians (a pilot and crew) in Equatorial Guinea for aiding the overthrow of President Obiang's government (reftel) is a reminder about the business-end of Armenia's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on airline registration. Armenia's Directorate of C [...] | 2004-11-30 10:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON PREL AM EK |
04YEREVAN2579 | IFI'S CONCERNED ABOUT TRANSPARENCY [...] (C) Lack of transparency in recent GOAM financial actions is an increasing concern for the representatives of the IMF and World Bank in Yerevan. Because Armenia continues to record steady economic growth and will likely continue to meet criteria set by both the Fund and the Bank, these conce [...] | 2004-12-01 07:45:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN AM |
04YEREVAN2588 | ARMENIA, TRANSPARENCY OF BUDGETS/MILITARY SPENDING [...] (U) Following is Yerevan's response to ref A request for information. Section A: Overview of Military Expenditure Audits --------------------------------------------- ------ 2. (U) The primary responsibility for auditing the GOAM's military spending lies with the Ministry of Defense's [...] | 2004-12-02 13:28:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EAID AM |
04YEREVAN2591 | (IMI) LIST OF GOVERNMENT CONTACTS AND [...] This cable provides list of Armenia's government contacts and business associations ----------------------- PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE ----------------------- 1st Government Building Republic Square Yerevan 375010 Mr. Arthur Manaseryan, External Relations Department Chief Tel: (374-1) 5 [...] | 2004-12-02 13:40:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM |
04YEREVAN2597 | ARMENIA'S CHOD TALKS ABOUT IRAQ, AZERBAIJAN AND [...] (C) In his first meeting with the Ambassador, General-Colonel Mikhael Harutiunyan expressed Armenia's readiness to send its military contingent to Iraq once the government had completed the necessary review and approval. He commented on the budgetary challenges facing the MOD and the attempt [...] | 2004-12-03 11:11:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MARR MOPS AM |
04YEREVAN260 | ARMENIAN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION: NO WAY TO GO [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The public transportation system in Armenia has gradually deteriorated during the last few years due to both a lack of funds for the operation and maintenance of the fleet and the [...] | 2004-01-30 11:58:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ATRN AM |
04YEREVAN2604 | NEW ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING LAW MOVING FORWARD [...] (SBU) On November 24, 2004 the Armenian parliament adopted the first reading of the Law Against Money Laundering and Terrorist Finance, which is intended to implement recommendations that MoneyVal (the Council of Europe's committee on anti-money laundering) made during its review of Armenia e [...] | 2004-12-06 02:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KCRM KSEP PTER SNAR AM |
04YEREVAN2609 | FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE UNIT DEVELOPMENT [...] On November 24 the National Assembly of Armenia adopted the Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Bill in the first reading (ref). The adoption of the bill sanctions the Central Bank of Armenia to proceed with the establishment of the Financial Intelligence Unit as proposed in the law [...] | 2004-12-06 08:58:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM SNAR EAID EFIN AM |
04YEREVAN2635 | GOAM GETS QUOTAS FROM QATAR FOR LABOR [...] The Department on Migration and Refugees (DMR) has finished work with the Government of Qatar to create a legal framework for Armenians working in Qatar. In the agreement (scheduled to be signed in the near future) the Government of Qatar has provided quotas for the workers in the following [...] | 2004-12-09 06:10:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ELAB QA AM KTIP |
04YEREVAN2647 | JANUARY-NOVEMBER 2004 DATA ON TIP PROSECUTION [...] (SBU) According to data on Trafficking in Persons (TIP) provided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) for the period between January 1, 2004 and November 1, 2004, there have been 15 cases of trafficking in Armenia involving 26 defendants. While most of those people were sentenced to priso [...] | 2004-12-09 13:47:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCRM KWMN PHUM AM KTIP |
04YEREVAN2648 | IRAQ DEPLOYMENT GETS CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OK [...] (SBU) Armenia's Constitutional Court ruled December 8 that the agreement signed between Poland and Armenia regarding the dispatch of Armenian non-combat troops to Iraq does not run counter to the Armenian Constitution. The court's decision paves the way for a parliamentary hearing and vote on [...] | 2004-12-09 13:47:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PREL PARM PGOV IZ AM |
04YEREVAN2656 | RAIL BLOCKADE: TIGHTENING THE NOOSE AROUND ARMENIA [...] (C) For more than twelve years, the blockade of Armenia by Turkey and Azerbaijan has disrupted regional transit corridors. All political considerations aside, regional economic development has been stymied. Recent steps by Azerbaijan to improve the effectiveness of its blockade have tighten [...] | 2004-12-10 11:34:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD AM AZ |
04YEREVAN2662 | ARMENIAN IRAQ DEPLOYMENT ON TRACK [...] (C) Minister of Defense Serzh Sargsian requested a one-on-one meeting with Ambassador Evans in order to discuss the next steps as the GOAM prepares to deploy a non-combat unit to Iraq. After the Ambassador emphasized the importance of approving the deployment without delay, the Minister assur [...] | 2004-12-10 13:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM MARR IZ AM |
04YEREVAN2663 | IMPROVEMENTS NEEDED IN ARMENIA'S HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) A recent report sponsored by the UN Development Program confirms that Armenia's Human Rights Ombudsman's office suffers from internal disorganization and an externally perceived lack of independence. During its first year of operation, the ombudsman's office has sent mixed messages and [...] | 2004-12-10 13:38:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV AM |
04YEREVAN2685 | (IMI) ARMENIA: THE IMPORTED BUILDING [...] This cable reviews the market for imported building materials in Armenia as of December 2004. The report describes the market size and U.S. market share in Armenia, and lists major market suppliers and best sales prospects for U.S. companies. It also includes a list of major importers and ke [...] | 2004-12-14 06:52:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM |
04YEREVAN2686 | RUSSIAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS: TIME TO SOLVE N-K [...] (C) NEITHER OF THE TWO FINE MOSCOW CABLES UNDER REFERENCE MENTIONS NAGORNO-KARABAKH AS AN ISSUE IN THE CIS THAT MOSCOW AND WASHINGTON (AND PARIS) MIGHT RECOMMIT THEMSELVES TO SOLVING IN THE DISTURBING WAKE OF THE CRISIS IN RELATIONS OVER UKRAINE. IN A CHAT EARLIER TODAY, THE RUSSIAN AMBASSADO [...] | 2004-12-14 12:33:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AM IZ RS |
04YEREVAN2693 | UN HUMAN RIGHTS RESOLUTION DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2004-12-14 14:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL AM |
04YEREVAN2769 | RUSSIAN POWER GIANT MOVES TO CONSOLIDATE CONTROL [...] (C) Russian energy giant RAO-UES is moving to take over Armenia's sole electricity distributor, Electricity Networks of Armenia (ElNetArm),which would consolidate its hold on Armenia's energy infrastructure. The director of ElNetArm and officials in the Government of Armenia have acknowledged [...] | 2004-12-22 10:45:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG AM RS |
04YEREVAN2776 | GOAM MOVING FORWARD ON REMAINING CT CONVENTIONS [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Armenia's Constitutional Court has ruled that the remaining three Counterterrorism Conventions to which Armenia has not yet acceded are constitutional, and the National Assembly is due to ratify them in Spring 2005, acco [...] | 2004-12-23 11:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC PREL AM |
04YEREVAN2786 | BOYCOTT OVER? OPPOSITION PARTICIPATES IN [...] (SBU) Armenian parliamentary opposition members participated in the December 24 National Assembly debates over the dispatch of non-combat troops to Iraq, ending their months-long boycott of the sessions of the parliament. Opposition parties, however, were divided on the decision: while the J [...] | 2004-12-27 13:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
04YEREVAN2787 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY APPROVES GOAM NON-COMBAT [...] (SBU) On December 24, the Armenian National Assembly voted to authorize sending a non-combat contingent to Iraq. This clears the way for deployment of the approximately 50-man GOAM contingent of drivers, sappers, and medics to Iraq in early to mid-January. The resolution ratifies an agreement [...] | 2004-12-27 13:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR MOPS IZ AM |
04YEREVAN2792 | GOAM STILL LOOKING TO EXCHANGE SOLDIERS [...] No summary [...] | 2004-12-28 11:50:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MARR PBTS AJ AM OSCE |
04YEREVAN2793 | NEW DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER THE FIRST IN A [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Armenian President Robert Kocharian named Armen Bayburdian Deputy Foreign Minister (DFM) December 24. Bayburdian joins current Deputy Foreign Ministers Tatul Margarian (expected to be named Am [...] | 2004-12-28 11:52:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AM |
04YEREVAN2796 | GOAM MOVING TO RATIFY REVISED "ARTICLE 98" [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) National Assembly senior staff told us that the GOAM is pushing to ratify the revised "Article 98" agreement, but that it will not come up for a vote before the Spring session (i.e., at the earliest in late February). Wi [...] | 2004-12-28 12:45:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM PGOV AM |
04YEREVAN2798 | NA ADOPTS NEW ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING LAW [...] No summary [...] | 2004-12-28 12:45:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AM EFIN KCRM KSEP PTER SNAR |
04YEREVAN2802 | (IMI) ARMENIA, COMMERCIAL NEWS SUMMARY: [...] This cable summarizes press reporting on commercial developments in Armenia for December 2004. Major headlines include: -- Armenia sells Zangezur Copper Molybdenum Plant for USD 132 million; -- EBRD buys shares in Armenian commercial bank; -- IMF approves USD 13.7 million for Armenia; [...] | 2004-12-29 10:28:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM |
04YEREVAN2804 | ARMENIAN PRESIDENT SIGNS ALTERNATIVE MILITARY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) President Robert Kocharian signed legislation December 28 that establishes a system of alternatives to military service in Armenia. The National Assembly began work on this legislation at the end of 2003 at the urging o [...] | 2004-12-29 13:24:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV AM |
04YEREVAN282 | ARMENIAN POLITICIANS POSTURE AFTER "WIDER [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Recent statements by EU officials in Tblisi suggesting a more concrete role for the South Caucasus countries in the "Wider Europe" initiative incited an unusual surge of Euro-friendly political [...] | 2004-02-03 13:35:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM ZJ TU AM EUN |
04YEREVAN284 | CTAG MEETING HELD IN ARMENIA [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified, please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Post convened a coordination meeting of the Counter-Terrorism Action Group (CTAG) in Armenia February 2 in advance of the capital-level CTAG meeting to be held February 20 per reftel. Represen [...] | 2004-02-03 13:35:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PREL PTER |
04YEREVAN313 | ARMENIA'S NEW HUMAN RIGHTS OMBUDSMAN: [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Larisa Alaverdian, Human Rights Ombudsman- designee, told us that she plans to create a lasting and strong institution that will have a respected place within the Armenian state structure. A [...] | 2004-02-06 12:33:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL AM |
04YEREVAN314 | MEETING WITH ARMENIAN DEPUTY FONMIN ON TIP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. DCM met with Deputy Foreign Minister Tatoul Margarian, who oversees the GOAM Interagency Commission to Address Issues Related to Human Trafficking (TIP Commission),to discuss concerns that the GOAM has been slow to take visible, concrete steps to combat trafficking in persons [...] | 2004-02-06 12:34:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KCRM ELAB KWMN SMIG PGOV PREL UZ AM |
04YEREVAN315 | INTERNATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS DEMARCHE [...] (U) We delivered demarche on WHO International Health Regulations to MFA Americas Desk Officer Lilit Toutkhalian and MFA International Organizations Desk Officer Artak Apitonian February 5 per reftel instructions. Toutkhalian expressed confidence that this issue would receive "more serious a [...] | 2004-02-06 12:34:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PREL WHO |
04YEREVAN33 | GOAM PROPOSED TEXT FOR AN "ARTICLE 98" AGREEMENT [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Not for Internet Distribution. 2. (SBU) The GOAM presented us with a diplomatic note January 8 containing their proposed text for an "Article 98" agreement. We have faxed the full text (including a line by line GOAM explanation of the proposed changes) to t [...] | 2004-01-08 13:05:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM PGOV AM |
04YEREVAN347 | TOUGH DASHNAK TALK ON N-K, TURKEY AT PARTY [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Dashnak Party Chairman Hrand Margarayan's February 6 comments on relations with Turkey, N-K, and Georgia's Armenian population sparked renewed controversy among Armenia's political elite. Marga [...] | 2004-02-12 10:20:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM TU AJ AM |
04YEREVAN349 | ARMENIA: DOUBLE DIGIT GROWTH [...] Armenia's 2003 economic performance exceeded all predictions; despite the rounds of elections and political tremors during the year, the real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 13.9 percent, a record high since 1991 independence. Construction (mostly donor financed) and industry contribute [...] | 2004-02-12 13:50:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG EFIN EAID EAIR AM RU |
04YEREVAN350 | ARMENIA: INCREASING (BUT STILL MODEST) TRADE [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. Please protect accordingly -------- SUMMARY -------- 2. (SBU) The Armenian press noted that trade turnover for the first nine months of 2003 between Armenia and Russia increased 84 percent over 2002 levels of the same period and was distributed almost e [...] | 2004-02-12 13:52:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EAIR ETRD AM |
04YEREVAN353 | KOCHARIAN'S INNER CIRCLE: ACCESS BUT LIMITED [...] (c) President Kocharian has a small inner circle with direct access to him and the potential to influence his thinking on foreign policy matters. Within this inner circle are Foreign Minister Oskanian, Minister of Defense Sargsian, Head of State TV Harutyunian, Presidential Chief of Staff Tum [...] | 2004-02-12 14:10:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AM |
04YEREVAN366 | CRACKS IN THE COALITION: DASHNAKS ATTACK THE [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. Protect Accordingly. -------- SUMMARY -------- 2. (SBU) Armenia's governing coalition, an alliance of the Republican Party, Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF, or Dashnaks),and Orinats Yerkir (Country of Law),that holds the majority of seats in th [...] | 2004-02-13 08:54:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON AM |
04YEREVAN382 | ARMENIA WON'T COMMIT TO SHUTDOWN DATE FOR NUCLEAR [...] (U) SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. PROTECT ACCORDINGLY. NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. -------- SUMMARY -------- 2. (SBU) During the February 10 EU-Armenia working group on Armenia Nuclear Power Plant (ANPP),Armenia would not commit to a new closure date for the ANPP and the EU side refu [...] | 2004-02-17 11:01:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG AM |
04YEREVAN391 | BUREAUCRATS DISAPPOINTED WITH WORKING-LEVEL [...] (C) MFA Turkey Desk Officer Anahit Harutunyan told us February 13 that the MFA returned from the latest GOAM-GOT technical meeting having accomplished less than it had hoped for, specifically regarding a potential border opening or scheduling regular encounters between FMs Oskanian and Gul. Ha [...] | 2004-02-18 08:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU AM |
04YEREVAN398 | SEEING EYE TO EYE WITH THE GOAM ON UNCHR, UNGA [...] (C) We discussed UNCHR issues and ways to more effectively pursue continuing USG policy priorities at the UN with MFA UN Division Chief Artak Apitonian February 11 (reftel). Apitonian credited the apparent decline in USG-GOAM voting coincidence during the 58th UNGA as a reaction to "more aggre [...] | 2004-02-18 13:23:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AM UNGA |
04YEREVAN399 | CORRUPTION LEVIES HEAVY TOLL ON ARMENIAN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Widespread corruption in the Armenian university system has severely tarnished the reputation of once prestigious institutions and degraded the quality of education provided to Armenian studen [...] | 2004-02-18 13:24:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM AM |
04YEREVAN444 | "A POLITICAL MURDER": ARMENIAN MEDIA REACTION [...] SUMMARY: Armenian mass media widely covered the murder of Lieutenant Gurgen Markarian who was attending a NATO training course in Hungary. Echoing the official press statements made by the Ministries of Defense and Foreign Affairs, almost all local media outlets connected this crime to the g [...] | 2004-02-23 12:43:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC PGOV PREL KPAO AM |
04YEREVAN449 | RARE PRESIDENTIAL INTERVIEW SPARKS [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) President Robert Kocharian's February 18 extended press conference sparked speculation about his political posturing vis-a-vis an increasingly vocal opposition. During the rare two-hour TV int [...] | 2004-02-24 03:04:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV TU AJ AM |
04YEREVAN456 | ARMENIAN NUCLEAR REGULATION IN FLUX [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. Not for internet distribution. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) On February 18, 2004, we met with Ashot Martirosyan, the head of the Armenian Nuclear Regulatory Agency (ANRA) to encourage Armenia to commit to the IAEA Code o [...] | 2004-02-24 11:49:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KNNP ECON AM |
04YEREVAN457 | PIPE DREAMS: IRAN-ARMENIA GAS PIPELINE DOESN'T [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Armenian officials have again proposed a gas pipeline from Iran to Armenia as a way to alleviate Armenia's concerns about the future diversity of energy sources. According to the [...] | 2004-02-24 11:49:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET AM |
04YEREVAN462 | "POLITICAL MURDER" ROCKS THE ARMENIAN BODY POLITIC [...] (SBU) The GOAM, parliamentarians, and NGOs agree across the board in calling the February 19 murder of Armenian Lieutenant Gurgen Margarian by an Azerbaijani officer at NATO Partnership for Peace (PfP) English training program in Budapest a "political murder," and have been widely quoted in th [...] | 2004-02-25 03:17:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AJ AM |
04YEREVAN469 | GOAM CONSIDERS PRESIDENT'S SPEECH ON WMD [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) We presented talking points and fact sheet per reftels to Arman Israelyan, Head of the Global Security Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Israelyan promised to share the fact sheet with his colleagues in other g [...] | 2004-02-25 11:28:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM AM OPREC |
04YEREVAN470 | ARMENIA SPECIAL 301 COMMENTS [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Post recommends that Armenia remain off the Special 301 Watch List for 2004. Music and video piracy does exist in Armenia, but industry losses in the Armenian market are probably small and th [...] | 2004-02-25 11:28:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON KIPR AM |
04YEREVAN489 | STUDENT PROTEST OVER NEW DRAFT LAW ENTERS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Nearly one thousand university students in Yerevan continued to boycott their classes in protest of the proposed "Law on Military Service" currently before the National Assembly. The controve [...] | 2004-02-26 12:34:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL OEXC AM |
04YEREVAN505 | GOAM CALLS ON USG TO RECONSIDER FY 2005 FMF [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. Protect Accordingly. 2. (SBU) Deputy Foreign Minister Ruben Shugarian demarched DCM February 26 regarding expected differences in FY 2005 military assistance levels for Azerbaijan and Armenia. Shugarian delivered an eleven- point non-paper that called on t [...] | 2004-02-27 12:12:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MARR PARM AJ AM |
04YEREVAN507 | GOVERNMENT WITHDRAWS CONTROVERSIAL LAW; [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Prime Minister Andranik Margarian announced February 26 that the government would formally withdraw from parliament the controversial "Law on Military Service." Margarian blamed other ministe [...] | 2004-02-27 13:40:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL OEXC AM |
04YEREVAN516 | REACTION FROM YEREVAN, ARMENIA: PRESS [...] SUMMARY: All mass media widely covered Ambassador John Ordway's press conference held on February 27. TV reports were mainly accurate and factual. The printed press, however, carried some comments on the Ambassador's answers regarding the murder of the Armenian officer in Budapest and the Ka [...] | 2004-03-02 03:07:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC PGOV PREL KPAO AM |
04YEREVAN522 | GOAM ON PRESIDENT'S EMERGENCY PLAN FOR AIDS [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. 2. (SBU) We delivered demarche and talking points regarding President Bush's Emegency Plan for AIDS Relief to MFA America's Department Chief Lilit Toutkhalian February 23 per reftel instructions. Toutkhalian said the GOAM was in ov [...] | 2004-03-02 10:42:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KHIV PREL SOCI EAID ECON AM |
04YEREVAN532 | EMOTIONS STILL STRONG IN ARMENIA OVER OFFICER'S [...] (C) The axe-murder of Lieutenant Gurgen Markarian two weeks ago in Budapest continues to elicit strong emotions from Armenians. The government held a state funeral for Margarian February 28, coinciding with the anniversary of the 1988 Sumgait killings in Azerbaijan. A Sumgait remembrance ce [...] | 2004-03-04 09:05:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PGOV AM AJ |
04YEREVAN543 | ARMENIA RATIFIES THREE ADDITIONAL [...] No summary [...] | 2004-03-04 13:49:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER AM |
04YEREVAN550 | ANOTHER LOOK AT HIV/AIDS IN ARMENIA [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Summary: Armenia's proximity to countries hit hard by the HIV/AIDS epidemic (Russia, Georgia and Ukraine) raises concerns about its vulnerability and the actions the GOAM is taking to address t [...] | 2004-03-05 13:20:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KHIV SOCI EAID ECON AM |
04YEREVAN562 | TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS IN ARMENIA: THE VIEW FROM [...] (C) Through an Advisor to the Minister of Justice, we have obtained a copy of a report on trafficking in perons (TIP) in Armenia prepared by the Office of the Procurator General. The detail and scope of the report's findings, along with recent Embassy demarches on Armenia's shaky Tier II sta [...] | 2004-03-09 09:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | AM KCRM PHUM PINR SMIG SNAR |
04YEREVAN586 | ARMENIA TO CONSIDER REQUEST FOR ISAF CONTRIBUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2004-03-11 03:18:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR AM NATO |
04YEREVAN587 | KURDISH ACTIVITIES IN ARMENIA [...] (S) There is an Armenian-Kurdish friendship society in downtown Yerevan with a sign posted on the door identifying it as such. The "Friendship Society's" main goals in Armenia appear to be to promote Kurdish culture, organize holidays, demonstrations, and campaigns for better treatment of and/ [...] | 2004-03-11 03:27:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET | PTER PREL PGOV PINR AM TU |
04YEREVAN592 | USATF MID-TERM REVIEW FOCUSES ON CUSTOMS, [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. 2. (SBU) The March 1 meeting of the U.S.-Armenia Task Force on Economic Cooperation (USATF) mid-term review focused on issues related to corruption, U.S. technical assistance in the private sector, improving customs procedures, tra [...] | 2004-03-11 09:04:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AM |
04YEREVAN615 | ARMENIAN DEP DEFENSE MINISTER OFFERS COMPROMISE ON [...] (C) Summary. Armenian Deputy Defense Minister Artur Aghabekian informed DAO March 11 that Armenia is planning to send three officers to Baku in September 2004 to participate in NATO Partnership for Peace (PfP) exercise Cooperative Best Effort 04 (CBE 04). Aghabekian ruled out the possibility [...] | 2004-03-12 14:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR PARM AM AJ NATO |
04YEREVAN62 | ARMENIA CONFIRMS SUPPORT FOR US CANDIDATE FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2004-01-12 09:20:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM AM UNUS |
04YEREVAN632 | ARMENIA: POST GIVES DOING BUSINESS IN IRAQ [...] In response to numerous inquiries about Iraqi contracts and business opportunities Post invited construction companies and the Union of Manufacturers and Entrepreneurs to a presentation of opportunities in Iraq on March 16. Drawing on Department of Commerce and Coalition Provision Authority w [...] | 2004-03-17 06:53:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ECON AM |
04YEREVAN633 | DELEGATIONS ENCOURAGE INCREASED ARMENIAN [...] (C) An interagency delegation met with the Deputy Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defense March 11 to outline a United States proposal to shift the focus of NATO Partnership for Peace (PfP) activities to the Caucasus and Central Asia. The delegation also discussed the necessity to reach a co [...] | 2004-03-17 09:28:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV AM AJ NATO |
04YEREVAN641 | SAAKASHVILI MAKES FIRST STATE VISIT TO [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili paid his first state visit to Armenia March 11-12, praising the country and its president as an "ideal partner." Saakashvili and Armenian President Rober [...] | 2004-03-17 13:32:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM GG |
04YEREVAN656 | PRESIDENT SACKS PROCURATOR GENERAL; APPOINTS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified, protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (U) On March 17 Kocharian unexpectedly sacked Procurator General Tamazian, replacing him with his most influential deputy, Aghvan Hovsepian. A strong supporter of Kocharian, Hovsepian already held this pos [...] | 2004-03-18 14:05:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL AM |
04YEREVAN657 | ARMENIA PUSHING HARD ON JACKSON-VANIK [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Deputy Minister of Trade Tigran Davtyan called for a meeting with us March 17, 2004 to protest the failure of the United States to graduate Armenia from the restrictions of the Jackson-Vanik Amendment. Davt [...] | 2004-03-18 14:05:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON AM |
04YEREVAN659 | ARMENIA: SEIZURES AND INVESTIGATIONS OF RADIOLOGICAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOAM has, for the first time, shared information with EXBS Advisor about ongoing export violation investigations and radiological seizures. This is the result of ongoing efforts to obtain statistical data from Armenian National Security Service to measure the effectiveness [...] | 2004-03-18 14:05:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KSTC ETTC MNUC PARM PREL AM |
04YEREVAN660 | ARMENIAN RESPONSE TO USG PRIORITIES FOR UNCHR-60 [...] (C) Ambassador raised USG priorities for UNCHR-60 with FM Oskanian March 15 per instructions in reftel A. Oskanian was generally non-committal, but promised to review the USG proposals on China and Cuba with Armenia's missions in Geneva, New York and Washington. Oskanian hinted that Armenia' [...] | 2004-03-18 14:07:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AORC PHUM AM UN |
04YEREVAN68 | ARMENIAN PARTICIPATION IN NATO INITIAL [...] (SBU) After a week of to-and-fro discussions over Armenian participation in the Initial Planning Conference for NATO Partnership for Peace exercise Cooperative Best Effort 2004 in Baku, Azerbaijan agreed to grant plane-side visas to two Armenian military officers to allow participation in th [...] | 2004-01-12 13:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM PGOV AM AJ |
04YEREVAN680 | REACTION FROM YEREVAN, ARMENIA: PRESIDENT [...] SUMMARY: Armenian media widely covered the terrorist bombing in Madrid. The reports on TV and in the press were mainly factual. The only article with commentaries was published in "Hayots Ashkhar" newspaper. The following is the summary of the article. END SUMMARY WHO DOES AZNAR SUPPORT [...] | 2004-03-22 10:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC PGOV PREL KPAO AM |
04YEREVAN684 | MOD BACKTRACKS ON PROPOSED CBE COMPROMISE [...] (C) Summary. The Ministry of Defense (MOD) informed DAO March 22 that Armenia intends to send 12 participants to the NATO PfP exercise Cooperative Best Effort 04 (CBE 04) in Baku. The decision comes after a previous MOD pledge to send only 3 officers to the exercise in a compromise to the CBE [...] | 2004-03-23 03:01:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PARM PGOV PREL AM AJ |
04YEREVAN687 | REACTION FROM YEREVAN, ARMENIA: TRAIN BOMBINGS [...] SUMMARY: Armenian media widely covered the terrorist bombing in Madrid. The reports on TV and in the press were mainly factual. The only article with commentaries was published in "Hayots Ashkhar" newspaper. The following is the summary of the article. END SUMMARY WHO DOES AZNAR SUPPORT [...] | 2004-03-23 10:09:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC PGOV PREL KPAO AM |
04YEREVAN698 | PROPOSED IRAN-ARMENIA PIPELINE: STILL NO MONEY [...] (SBU) Despite recent media reports about an Iran- Armenia gas pipeline deal, our meeting March 22, 2004 with Deputy Minister of Energy Areg Galstyan confirms that any such deal is still more a vague, albeit strong, desire than a real plan. Both the Deputy Minister and resident European Delega [...] | 2004-03-24 12:56:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET AM |
04YEREVAN699 | GOAM ON CHR 60 CUBA AND CHINA RESOLUTIONS [...] (C) We delivered demarche and talking points to the MFA Chief of International Organizations Department Valery Mkrtumian March 22 and Head of Americas Department Lilit Toutkhalian March 23 per instructions in reftel A. Both Mkrtumian and Toutkhalian reiterated comments made by FM Oskanian dur [...] | 2004-03-25 03:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM CH CU AM UNHCR |
04YEREVAN72 | ARMENIA REQUESTS U.S. SUPPORT FOR COMMISSION [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent us a diplomatic note dated January 8 requesting U.S. support for Armenia's candidacy for the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. 3. (SBU) Begin text of MFA diplomatic note: The [...] | 2004-01-13 08:08:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM AM UNUS |
04YEREVAN722 | REACTION FROM YEREVAN, ARMENIA: SHEIKH AHMED [...] SUMMARY: The assassination of the founder and spiritual leader of the Palestinian Hamas movement, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, was reported on all Armenian TV channels, the reports being mainly factual. However, some local papers published commentaries. The following is the summary of the articles. [...] | 2004-03-26 02:32:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC PGOV PREL KPAO AM |
04YEREVAN739 | REACTION FROM YEREVAN, ARMENIA: PRESS [...] SUMMARY: All mass media widely covered the March 26 press conference held by Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage at the Presidential Palace in Yerevan after his meeting with President Kocharian. Among forty invited representatives of mass media, ten represented foreign media outlets. [...] | 2004-03-29 01:27:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC PGOV PREL KPAO AM |
04YEREVAN757 | SUNDAY SCUFFLE AT OPPOSITION RALLY: EARLY [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Heckling, a fistfight and the subsequent arrest of four opposition supporters overshadowed the start of a Justice Bloc-sponsored political rally in the northern city of Gyumri on March 28 (ref). [...] | 2004-03-29 12:27:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KHIV PREL SOCI EAID ECON AM |
04YEREVAN765 | MARCH 30 BEATING OF HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. 2. (SBU) Well-known human rights activist Mikael Danielyan contacted the Embassy March 30 after reportedly being beaten by four unidentified men near the entrance of his home in central Yerevan. Danielyan said the men attacked him [...] | 2004-03-30 12:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AM |
04YEREVAN769 | GOVERNMENT RESHUFFLE PUTS KOCHARIAN LOYALISTS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The government shuffled a number of key high- and mid-level executive and judicial appointments in late March, placing Kocharian loyalists in the majority of the spots. Some of the most impor [...] | 2004-03-31 11:11:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
04YEREVAN771 | MAINTAINING DEMINING OPERATIONS IN ARMENIA [...] (U) Post is concerned about the future of USG- supported demining operations in Armenia. Funding is running out, and we run the risk of losing this high value, high impact program. We ask for the Department's cooperation in finding a way to maintain the demining program in Armenia. 2. (S [...] | 2004-03-31 12:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KHDP PREL AM |
04YEREVAN772 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY RATIFIES NATO PFP SOFA [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) The Armenian National Assembly ratified the NATO Partnership for Peace (PfP) Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) March 31. The GOAM signed the agreement on October 28, 2003. Under Armenian law, the agreement goes into ef [...] | 2004-03-31 12:16:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PGOV PREL AM |
04YEREVAN774 | REACTION FROM YEREVAN, ARMENIA: AFTER THE [...] SUMMARY: After the visit of Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage to Armenia all mass media widely covered his meetings and press conference held in Yerevan. Following his visit to Azerbaijan, some Armenian newspapers published editorials discussing the Armitage visit to the region and [...] | 2004-04-01 02:56:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC PGOV PREL KPAO AM |
04YEREVAN777 | HUMMERS, NUMBERS, AND OLIGARCHS: WHO'S WHO ON [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) SOMETIMES FOR PURE VANITY, SOMETIMES AS A CHARM AGAINST TRAFFIC POLICE, ARMENIA'S RESIDENTS ARE PICKING THEIR OWN LICENSE PLATE NUMBERS AND PAYING HANDSOMELY FOR THEM. FLASHY NU [...] | 2004-04-01 06:50:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL AM |
04YEREVAN784 | "To enter the 21st century or not?" - PAS [...] SUMMARY: On March 21, the PAS Yerevan organized a highly successful forum in honor of International Women's Month, featuring prominent women working in the fields of international affairs, politics, business, media and law. The event drew capacity crowds and was covered by three television s [...] | 2004-04-01 11:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO KWMN PREL OEXC SCUL AM |
04YEREVAN786 | REACTION FROM YEREVAN, ARMENIA: PRESS [...] SUMMARY: Major General Jeffery Kohler, the Director of Plans and Policy for the U.S. European Command, paid a two-day visit to Armenia on March 30-31. Immediately before departure he gave a press conference, with more than twenty media outlets participating. The TV reports were mainly factu [...] | 2004-04-02 01:31:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC PGOV PREL KPAO AM |
04YEREVAN790 | COUNTERTERRORISM ACTION GROUP (CTAG): IN-COUNTRY [...] (SBU) Per Ref A, and in the effort to promote counterterrorism cooperation (Ref B),Post hosted a follow-up meeting of the in-country Counterterrorism Action Group, April 1, 2004, comprising representatives from the French, German, Italian, British and Russian Embassies. Post invited Deputy M [...] | 2004-04-02 11:08:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC EFIN PREL AM |
04YEREVAN794 | ARMENIAN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY [...] (S) Emboff visited the Armenian Institute of Applied Chemistry (ARIAC) for an update on its activities. The chemical institute is going strong, boasting about USD 270,000 in export sales and USD 50,000 in domestic sales of chemical compounds in 2003. ARIAC's client base includes companies fr [...] | 2004-04-02 12:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET | PTER PREL PGOV AM |
04YEREVAN809 | DESPITE "HOT SPRING IN ARMENIA," REVOLUTION [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Plans by opposition leaders for a "hot political spring" appeared to gain momentum in late March as politicians from both sides raised the level of rhetoric and hundreds of supporters gathered f [...] | 2004-04-05 09:59:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV GG AM |
04YEREVAN811 | NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN: ARMENIAN [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) With few new ideas to present, Armenian government and opposition figures stuck to their standard positions during a recent series of meetings with EUR/CACEN Office Director John Fox. Our inter [...] | 2004-04-05 10:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AM |
04YEREVAN812 | ARMENIA'S MAIN AIR CARRIER SCOTCHES PLANS [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Completely reversing its previous investment policy, Armenia's main flag carrier, Armavia Airlines, is halting its plans to expand towards Europe and move to European standards a [...] | 2004-04-05 10:01:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON RS AM |
04YEREVAN813 | INL PROGRAM SUCCESSES [...] Several recently implemented INL-funded programs are already reaping benefits. This cable details highlights of program progress. ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS PROGRAMS +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++ OSCE Anti-TIP Legislative Strengthening Program +++++++++++++++++++++++ [...] | 2004-04-05 12:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KSEP KCRM PHUM AM |
04YEREVAN816 | FORTHCOMING AGREEMENT ON ARMENIA-IRAN PIPELINE [...] (SBU) Post skepticism about the viability of the Iran-Armenia pipeline project notwithstanding, two points should be clear. One, the pipeline is the number one priority for the Ministry of Energy. Two, the Iranian Minister will come to Armenia in April and will sign something: most probably [...] | 2004-04-06 06:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET PREL RS AM |
04YEREVAN830 | REAFFIRMING TIES WITH ARMENIA: DEPUTY SECRETARY [...] (SBU) Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage's visit to Armenia galvanized U.S.-Armenia relations as he met with Armenian Foreign Minister Oskanian and President Kocharian in back-to-back meetings March 26. The meeting with Oskanian clearly set the agenda for the subsequent discussion with [...] | 2004-04-07 09:36:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PARM TU AJ AM OVIP RICHARD ARMITAGE |
04YEREVAN842 | HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST LEAVES HOSPITAL; ALLEGES [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Prominent human rights activist Mikhail Danielyan discharged himself from the hospital April 4, and remains at home recovering from the March 30 beating by unknown assailants. Danielyan offer [...] | 2004-04-08 12:13:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV AM |
04YEREVAN844 | A NOT-SO-HOT SPRING? WHAT IF WE'RE WRONG... [...] (SBU) We continue to believe that the current round of opposition protests across Armenia is unlikely to develop into a revolution, rose, velvet or otherwise (reftel). The Ambassador has urged restraint in the strongest possible terms during meetings this week with both senior government offi [...] | 2004-04-08 12:51:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM AM |
04YEREVAN847 | ARMENIA TO PROVIDE ANSWER ON PSI SOP "SOON" [...] (C) We presented reftel talking points April 9 to Lilit Tutkhalian, Head of the America's Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She told us that she would immediately raise the PSI Statement of Interdiction Principles (SOP) with Deputy Minister Tatul Margarian. Tutkhalian said that [...] | 2004-04-09 09:08:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL AM |
04YEREVAN848 | NAGORNO-KARABAKH: AMBASSADOR DELIVERS READOUT OF [...] No summary [...] | 2004-04-09 10:16:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PREL PGOV AJ AM |
04YEREVAN860 | APRIL 9 DEMONSTRATIONS PEACEFUL, EVEN [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Roughly ten thousand opposition demonstrators rallied peacefully April 9 in Yerevan on Opera Square. In a meeting plagued by technical difficulties they called for Kocharian's resignation, and [...] | 2004-04-10 08:04:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AM |
04YEREVAN867 | LOA AMENDMENT NO.2 AUTHORIZATION REQUEST [...] This is an Action Request for INL/AAE. 2. Post presents the final version of Amendment No. 2 to the Letter of Agreement on Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement Assistance between the Government of the United States and the Government of the Republic of Armenia in para 3 and requests the [...] | 2004-04-12 13:06:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR AFIN KJUS KCRM AM |
04YEREVAN869 | APRIL 12 DEMONSTRATIONS, MARCH TO THE [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Between five and ten thousand opposition demonstrators rallied peacefully April 12 in Yerevan on Opera Square before moving roughly half a mile down a major street toward the Presidential Palace [...] | 2004-04-12 16:22:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AM |
04YEREVAN879 | KOCHARIAN LOOKING FOR A WAY FORWARD, OPPOSITION [...] (C) Following the forceful break-up of the opposition demonstration at roughly 2:00 a.m. April 13 (septel) and the subsequent detentions, Kocharian convoked the Ambassador, saying, "I invited you in order to consult with you on the internal political situation." Although Kocharian did not app [...] | 2004-04-13 14:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM AM |
04YEREVAN880 | RIOT POLICE BREAK UP DEMONSTRATION IN EARLY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) At approximately 2:00 a.m. April 13, Armenian riot police dispersed a crowd of about one thousand opposition supporters that had remained in front of the National Assembly since 6:00 p.m. the [...] | 2004-04-13 14:08:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV AM |
04YEREVAN884 | UNCHR 60: ARMENIA TO ABSTAIN ON CHINA, VOTE 'YES' [...] (C) Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian told the Ambassador April 14 that Armenia would abstain on both the vote to take 'no action' on the China resolution and on the resolution itself. He said that Armenia would vote to approve the Cuba resolution, as requested by the United States. Oskanian [...] | 2004-04-14 13:12:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL AM |
04YEREVAN885 | DEFENSE MINISTER ON DOMESTIC SITUATION [...] (C) Defense Minister Serzh Sargsian joined the Ambassador in opening a EUCOM-funded hospital renovation on April 14. During the course of the event, the Ambassador had a 30-minute one-on-one conversation with him. On the issue of the dispersal of the anti-Kocharian demonstration on April 1 [...] | 2004-04-14 13:35:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM AM |
04YEREVAN890 | DEMARCHE PRESENTED ON ARMENIA AND ILSA [...] No summary [...] | 2004-04-15 10:09:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC ENRG EPET EINV PREL AM IR |
04YEREVAN891 | AMBASSADOR RAISES CFE COMPLIANCE CONCERNS [...] (S) Ambassador presented points per reftel to Minister of Defense Serge Sargsyan April 12. Sargsyan first responded by agreeing that "it was strange" that Armenia had not declared the MT-LBs, and it was an incident that would not be repeated. (Note: The Armenian side freely acknowledge that [...] | 2004-04-15 11:16:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET | PARM PREL KCFE AM |
04YEREVAN893 | PARLIAMENTARIANS, MANY OTHER DETAINEES [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Armenian opposition leaders Stepan Demirchian and Artashes Geghamian brushed off calls for dialogue with the government, instead calling for a new rally against President Kocharian in central [...] | 2004-04-15 13:13:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV AM |
04YEREVAN901 | APP SPOKESWOMAN DESCRIBES RAID ON PARTY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) We met with Ruzanna Khachatryan, Spokeswoman for the opposition Armenian People's Party (APP) to discuss the April 13 police raid on APP Headquarters and her 36-hour police detention. Khachat [...] | 2004-04-16 12:24:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV AM |
04YEREVAN917 | ARMENIA WITH U.S. ON GUANTANAMO CHR RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2004-04-20 06:07:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL CU AM |
04YEREVAN934 | FM OSKANIAN DISCUSSES VISIT TO IRAN; GOI POSITIONS [...] (C) Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian discussed his April 11-12 visit to Iran with Ambassador April 13, providing details on his meetings with Iranian Foreign Minister Kharrazi. According to Oskanian, Kharrazi said that Iran is not supporting Shia insurgents in Iraq and feels the current situa [...] | 2004-04-21 08:43:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AM IR |
04YEREVAN94 | GOAM REVISED PROPOSED TEXT FOR AN "ARTICLE 98" [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Not for Internet Distribution. 2. (SBU) The GOAM presented us with a diplomatic note January 13 containing their new proposed text for an "Article 98" agreement. We have faxed the full text to the Department for consideration. 3. (SBU) Begin text of the [...] | 2004-01-14 09:22:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM PGOV AM |
04YEREVAN945 | NO LEGAL GROUNDS FOR OPPOSITION REFERENDUM [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Opposition leaders have made a national referendum of confidence on President Kocharian one of their key demands during their anti-government demonstrations of the past month. The Constitutio [...] | 2004-04-22 10:06:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV AM |
04YEREVAN947 | WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? THE ARMENIAN [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Now that the dust has settled, the government has released most opposition activists, and subsequent rallies have proceeded without incident, the lack of genuine opposition unity or a realistic [...] | 2004-04-22 11:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM AM |
04YEREVAN960 | WESTERN OBSERVER CONFIRMS GOVERNMENT ACCOUNT OF [...] (SBU) Vram Galstyan, serving a life sentence for his role in the October 1999 National Assembly killings, committed suicide in a Yerevan prison April 16. The Justice Ministry announced that Galstyan hanged himself shortly after prison guards granted his request to be transferred to solitary c [...] | 2004-04-23 07:54:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM AM |
04YEREVAN966 | IRAN-ARMENIA PIPELINE: WHAT IF THEY HAVE THE MONEY? [...] This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Post has consistently discredited recent media reports about the ten-year-old proposal to build a pipeline from Iran to Armenia on the grounds that there has been no indication of a [...] | 2004-04-26 01:35:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET AM |
04YEREVAN970 | REACTION FROM YEREVAN, ARMENIA: PRESS [...] SUMMARY: All mass media widely covered Ambassador John Ordway's press conference held on April 22. TV reports were mainly accurate and factual. The press carried fewer commentaries this time than it has in the past. The majority of the newspapers quoted the Ambassador without any comments. [...] | 2004-04-26 10:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC PGOV PREL KPAO AM |
04YEREVAN973 | GOAM WARNING THE OPPOSITION: OSKANIAN [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) On April 26, Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian convoked the diplomatic corps ahead of planned opposition rallies for April 27. Reading from a non paper (text below) Oskanian indicated that if t [...] | 2004-04-26 11:30:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM AM |
04YEREVAN975 | OPPOSITION OPENS A SMALL WINDOW FOR [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Against the backdrop of the opposition call for "the last stand" on April 27, National Assembly Speaker Artur Baghdasaryan has called a meeting with the opposition to discuss the current politic [...] | 2004-04-26 13:56:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM AM |
04YEREVAN984 | UNGA: ARMENIANS "NOT READY TO COMMIT" ON [...] No summary [...] | 2004-04-28 05:06:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPAL IS AM UNGA |
04YEREVAN997 | LACKLUSTER OPPOSITION RALLY AND A [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Following two days of meetings between the opposition and the governing coalition, the opposition's April 27 rally of about 5000 participants went off without incident but with 15 people taken [...] | 2004-04-28 12:49:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM AM |
04ZAGREB1022 | ADRIATIC CHARTER LEADERS SEEK PRESIDENT BUSH'S [...] (C) AT A JUNE 4 MEETING WITH THE DCM, PRESIDENT MESIC'S CHIEF OF STAFF DAVOR BOZINOVIC INFORMED US THAT MESIC PLANS TO ATTEND A MEETING OF LEADERS OF THE ADRIATIC CHARTER ON THE MARGINS OF NATO'S ISTANBUL SUMMIT. BOZINOVIC SAID THAT THE "ADRIATIC THREE" LEADERS HAVE ASKED IF IT WOULD BE POSSI [...] | 2004-06-04 16:18:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL HR NATO |
04ZAGREB1024 | CROATIA TO PROVIDE MEDICAL TREATMENT TO IRAQI [...] FM ZUZUL AND SCIENCE MINISTER PRIMORAC DISCUSSED WITH THE AMBASSADOR ON JUNE 2 GOC PLANS TO PROVIDE MEDICAL TREATMENT FOR IRAQI YOUTH. PRIMORAC HAS BEEN IN DIRECT CONTACT WITH THE CPA ABOUT THE EFFORT. THE CROATIAN PRESS HAS REPORTED ON THE INITIATIVE. SOME 10 CHILDREN WITH VARIOUS AILMENTS [...] | 2004-06-04 16:49:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | HR IZ PREL |
04ZAGREB1025 | DEL PONTE SAYS CROATIA FULLY COOPERATING WITH ICTY [...] (C) ICTY Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte briefed the diplomatic community on June 4 on her day and a half visit to Zagreb. Del Ponte said that although Croatia's cooperation with the tribunal was the best of any country, she had warned the GoC leadership that she could change her assessment a [...] | 2004-06-04 17:30:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | KAWC KJUS PREL HR |
04ZAGREB1033 | URGENT NEED FOR VIDEO CONFERENCING EQUIPMENT FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2004-06-07 16:55:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | KAWC KJUS EAID PREL PGOV HR |
04ZAGREB1034 | U.S. SANCTIONS NOT MAJOR OBSTACLE TO CROATIAN GAS [...] (SBU) On June 1 we visited INA, the majority state-owned oil and gas company, to inquire about its overseas activities in general, and its exploration activities in Syria in particular. Zeljko Belosic, Member of the Board and executive director for Oil and Gas Exploration and Production note [...] | 2004-06-07 17:01:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON ETTC EPET HR SY IZ |
04ZAGREB1037 | POLITICS AND PORK OVERTAKE SCIENCE IN CROATIA'S [...] (C) After initial tests in February first raised the prospect of unlabeled GMOs in the Croatian food market (reftel A),the GoC has thoroughly politicized the GMO debate and shown an eagerness to cash in on populist anti-GMO sentiment to drum up support. A move in GMO policy away from scienc [...] | 2004-06-08 08:25:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON ETRD SENV TBIO TSPL PGOV HR |
04ZAGREB1228 | OPERATION BALKAN VICE IV: CROATIAN RESPONSE [...] (C) ON JUNE 30, WE PRESENTED REFTEL DEMARCHE TO ANDREA BEKIC, HEAD OF THE AMERICA'S DEPARTMENT AT THE FOREIGN MINISTRY. BEKIC WELCOMED THE NEWS OF THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE HIGH REPRESENTATIVE, AND USG ACTION TO TARGET THE SUPPORT NETWORK OF PIFWCS. BEKIC SAID SHE WOULD IMMEDIATELY FORWARD THE [...] | 2004-07-01 17:10:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS EFIN ETTC KAWC BK HR |
04ZAGREB1277 | DAS STEPHENS REVIEWS RELATIONSHIP, URGES CROATIA'S [...] (C) During her June 28-30 visit to Zagreb, EUR DAS Kathleen Stephens reviewed developments in our bilateral relationship. Satisfaction with the NATO Istanbul Summit was an important theme. Government interlocutors agreed that progress on refugee returns and the search for Gotovina must cont [...] | 2004-07-13 05:49:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EFIN MASS KAWC HR NATO |
04ZAGREB1297 | CROATIAN PROGRESS ON PRIVATIZATION [...] Since assuming office in December 2003, the new government of Croatia (GoC) has, on several occasions, publicly repeated its commitment to rapid and transparent privatization by 2006 of virtually all of the approximately 1,100 companies in which the GoC holds equity. This divestiture will con [...] | 2004-07-15 09:58:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON EFIN ETRD EAID PGOV HR |
04ZAGREB1299 | CROATIA LIKELY TO ABSTAIN ON ISRAELI SECURITY [...] (C) Embassy delivered reftel demarche on July 13 to Ranko Vilovic, Head of the United Nations Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Vilovic responded that there has been no change in the GoC position on the barrier since it abstained from the resolution referring the issue to the ICJ. Vilo [...] | 2004-07-15 12:00:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IS HR UNGA ICJ |
04ZAGREB1335 | CROATIA HALTS VAT EXEMPTIONS FOR MOST NGOS [...] (SBU) A recent change to taxation law means Croatian NGOs will again be required to pay VAT on purchases financed with foreign donations. Though some NGOs have raised alarms over alleged unfairness and lack of transparency, GoC efforts to clean up its tax policy are welcome steps. Although the [...] | 2004-07-22 07:18:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID SOCI PHUM EFIN PREL HR |
04ZAGREB1339 | UNLICENSED GMO CORN RETURNS BIOTECH TO HEADLINES [...] (U) On July 9, Minister of Agriculture Petar Cobankovic announced that a hybrid corn seed imported by US-based Pioneer Seeds tested positive for GMO content. Cobankovic estimates that 2,000 hectares of farmland have been planted with the GMO-contaminated seed. Destruction of contaminated cropl [...] | 2004-07-22 13:51:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD SENV TBIO TSPL PGOV HR |
04ZAGREB1351 | CROATIA TAKES SMALL STEP TOWARDS INCREASED MEDIA [...] (U) In a marathon session on July 15, Croatia's Parliament approved amendments to the Penal Code concerning media slander. The burden of proving the intent to slander and the actual offense now falls on the prosecution, not the defendant, and responsibility can no longer be transferred from a [...] | 2004-07-23 14:43:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM HR |
04ZAGREB1365 | CROATIA EAGER TO BRAINSTORM NEXT STEPS ON REGIONAL [...] (U) This is an action message. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) On June 15 we met with Drazen Hrastic, Head of Office for Cooperative Security, Ministry of Foreign Affairs in advance of the Dayton Article IV Review Conference (REF C). The essence of this conversation was passed to Department R [...] | 2004-07-27 11:25:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM MARR PREL HR NATO |
04ZAGREB1367 | CROATIA EAGER FOR MORE ACTIVE ROLE IN PSI [...] (C) The GoC solidly supports the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI). In two recent meetings, key foreign ministry interlocuteurs have requested US views on modalities for intelligence sharing under PSI as well as US advice in organizing the GoC's own National PSI Coordinator Office. The [...] | 2004-07-27 13:49:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PARM KNNP MNUC HR NATO |
04ZAGREB1483 | COURT REJECTS NOTORIOUS LORA PRISON ACQUITTAL, [...] Overturning a 2002 acquittal, the Croatian Supreme Court has called for a retrial of eight Croatian military police accused of the torture and murder of ethnic Serb civilians and soldiers at Lora Prison. The international community praised the ruling as Croatian recognition of the original t [...] | 2004-08-20 14:59:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | KAWC PREL KJUS HR |
04ZAGREB149 | CROATIAN JUSTICE MINISTER AFFIRMS JUDICIAL [...] (C) In an introductory call on new Minister of Justice Vesna Skare-Ozbolt, Ambassador Frank welcomed the Minister's positive statements on cooperation with the ICTY and urged quick resolution of the Gotovina case. The Ambassador praised achievements in reforming the State Prosecutor's office [...] | 2004-01-26 15:54:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS PREF PREL KAWC HR |
04ZAGREB1515 | CROATIA TREATS IRAQI CHILDREN [...] (U) Seven seriously ill Iraqi children arrived in Zagreb on August 26 for medical treatment unavailable in Iraq. The Government of Croatia will cover transportation costs as well as all expenses for the children and their accompanying escorts while in Croatia. Responding to press queries, De [...] | 2004-08-27 14:12:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID IZ HR |
04ZAGREB1527 | CROATIA: UPDATE ON CHILD LABOR [...] This cable responds to reftel questions on Croatia's efforts to prevent the worst forms of child labor. 2. Croatia has taken solid steps to counter the worst forms of child labor, enacting legislation proscribing the problem and ensuring the implementation and enforcement of existing legisl [...] | 2004-08-27 15:05:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | EIND ELAB ETRD PHUM SOCI HR |
04ZAGREB1529 | CROATIA'S NATO STRATEGY: READY TO OPEN MEMBERSHIP [...] (C) In a wide-ranging meeting on August 25, Croatia's National NATO Coordinator Pjer Simunovic told us that the soon-to-be finished Strategic Defense Review will drive a new long term vision for the Croatian armed forces based on the premise that Croatia should be prepared for NATO membership, [...] | 2004-08-27 15:54:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR HR NATO |
04ZAGREB1571 | PUMPING UP -- OPPOSITION REVIVING COALITIONS FOR LOCAL [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Croatia's current opposition parties learned the hard way when they lost power in the 2003 parliamentary elections - coalitions are the key to electoral victory against the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ). With that lesson in mind, opposition leaders see local elec [...] | 2004-09-06 13:25:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM HR |
04ZAGREB1576 | BRITISH GOVERNMENT TO PRESS CROATIAN GOVERNMENT ON [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Ralph Frank per reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (S) The British government will send a senior diplomat to Zagreb in the near future with four key requests for the Croatian government related to fugitive PIFWC Ante Gotovina and other intelligence and police matt [...] | 2004-09-07 12:32:00 | Embassy Zagreb | SECRET | PINR KAWC PREL UK HR |
04ZAGREB1592 | CROATIA'S UNGA PRIORITIES [...] (C): We followed up on reftel A with Ranko Vilovic, Director of the Office for UN Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Vilovic said that Prime Minister Ivo Sanader would lead the Croatian delegation to UNGA, although the final composition had not been approved. He said Croatia would f [...] | 2004-09-09 06:43:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON PHUM KDEM AORC HR NATO |
04ZAGREB1595 | PROSECUTOR,S COOPERATION PLAN DRAWS ICTY SUPPORT [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Patrick Lopez-Terres, Chief of Investigations in the ICTY Office of the Prosecutor, has expressed enthusiastic support for Croatian Chief State Prosecutor Mladen Bajic,s initiative to pursue bilateral cooperation agreements between the state prosecutors of the countrie [...] | 2004-09-09 15:17:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | KAWC PREL KJUS PHUM HR |
04ZAGREB1601 | MESIC RE-ELECTION ALL BUT CERTAIN, HDZ IN [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: As the most popular Croatian politician by a double-digit margin with no realistic opponent, President Stjepan Mesic is almost assured of coasting to re-election at year's end. Mesic has opposed key U.S. initiatives (troops to Iraq and Article 98),and is not expected [...] | 2004-09-10 10:43:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL HR |
04ZAGREB1624 | ICTY Indictees' Children Supported on Humanitarian [...] (SBU) State Secretary Tomislav Ivic of the Ministry of Veterans and Family told Embassy officers on September 13 that the Government's May 12 decision to give school allowances to the children of Croats indicted by The Hague-based War Crime Tribunal (ICTY) was based on "humanitarian considerat [...] | 2004-09-14 10:19:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM HR |
04ZAGREB1627 | ENVIRONMENT COULD BE STICKING POINT IN CROATIA'S [...] (SBU) Environmental protection issues seem certain to be a major sticking point in Croatia's EU membership negotiations. With the European Commission playing an ever-smaller role in environmental policy priority setting, the chaotic distribution of environmental responsibility among Croatian [...] | 2004-09-14 14:01:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAID PREL PGOV HR |
04ZAGREB1646 | EMBASSY COMMENTS ON ICRAS RATING REVEIW FOR CROATIA [...] (SBU) Embassy Zagreb supports proposal to maintain Croatia's ICRAS rating on sovereign debt at the current C minus, and to increase the non-sovereign risk rating to C minus. 2. (SBU) While the fiscal and current account deficits warrant close monitoring, and the failure of Croatia to com [...] | 2004-09-15 15:54:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON HR |
04ZAGREB1661 | ARMY TO DROP ICTY FUGITIVE'S WIFE FROM PAYROLL [...] (C) Clearly surprised and embarrassed by press revelations that fugitive war crimes indictee Ante Gotovina's wife had been granted a new position within the Croatian Armed Forces Joint Staff, Foreign Minister Miomir Zuzul told the Ambassador on September 16 that the Ministry of Defense will "s [...] | 2004-09-17 13:09:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | KAWC PREL KJUS PHUM HR |
04ZAGREB1665 | CROATIA CONTINUES ACTIVE INVOLVEMENT IN [...] CROATIA HAS ENGAGED ACTIVELY IN A NUMBER OF NATO-RELATED ACTIVITIES DURING ITS CHAIRMANSHIP OF THE ADRIATIC PARTNERSHIP COMMISSION (JULY-DECEMBER 2004) AND HAS A FULL CALENDAR PLANNED FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE YEAR (SEE PARA 2 BELOW). THE GOC KICKED OFF ITS CHAIRMANSHIP WITH AN INFORMAL PAR [...] | 2004-09-20 08:45:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR HR NATO |
04ZAGREB1675 | ICTY: SURPRISE OVER CERMAK/MARKAC, NO FANFARE FOR [...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Croatian government officials and political leaders expressed surprise and disappointment at the ICTY trial chamber's September 14 decision against provisional release of Generals Mladen Markac and Ivan Cermak, particularly in the wake of their voluntary surrender to t [...] | 2004-09-20 16:00:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | KAWC PREL KJUS PHUM HR |
04ZAGREB1678 | CROATIAN POLITICAL SPECTRUM UNITED AGAINST TROOPS [...] (SBU) President Bush's widely publicized written reply to Ambassador Neven Jurica on Jurica's presentation of credentials has united and solidified Croatia's diverse political parties in opposition to sending troops to Iraq or signing an Article 98 agreement with us. Although some commentator [...] | 2004-09-21 11:47:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MOPS KAWC HR NATO |
04ZAGREB1717 | CROATIA,S INTEL SERVICE SHAKE UP EXPECTED TO [...] (S) With the confirmation of Veselko Grubisic as new Director of the Croatian Intelligence Agency (OA),the GoC is asserting positive control over the intel services. Along with new chief of Counterintelligence Agency (POA) Josko Podbevsek, (named earlier this year),Grubisic should be more w [...] | 2004-09-28 21:55:00 | Embassy Zagreb | SECRET | PINR PREL KAWC HR |
04ZAGREB1718 | CROATIA ORGANIZING FOR PSI PARTICIPATION [...] (C) Poloff met with MFA Head of Cooperative Security Section Drazen Hrastic on September 13 to discuss ref B guidance on how Croatia could enhance its participation in the Proliferation Security Initiative. The GoC hopes to have its PSI interagency process and points of contact settled by the [...] | 2004-09-28 21:55:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL PHSA KTIA HR NATO |
04ZAGREB172 | CROATIA REQUEST UNDER AMBASSADORS' FUND FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2004-01-29 10:17:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF HR |
04ZAGREB1737 | CROATIA FEARS POLITICKING OVER CROATIA-SLOVENIA [...] (SBU) As rhetoric on border questions between Slovenia and Croatia escalates before the October 3 Slovenian parliamentary election, Croatia calls for arbitration and rejects as blackmail recent Slovenian threats to use the EU card. The potential for violence is small, but each side will contin [...] | 2004-10-01 14:08:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PBTS PREL EFIS PHSA PGOV SENV SI HR |
04ZAGREB1741 | CROATIA STRUGGLES TO DECOUPLE FISHING ZONE AND [...] (SBU) Croatia,s Fishing and Environmental Protection Zone (FEPZ) will enter into force in the Adriatic Sea on October 3. It will not apply to EU member states, thanks to a political concession Croatia made in the run-up to a decision on its EU candidate status in June (ref A). Despite GoC ef [...] | 2004-10-04 10:17:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHSA PBTS PREL SENV HR SI |
04ZAGREB1749 | GOTOVINA SEARCH SEPTEMBER UPDATE [...] (U) The ongoing GoC search for ICTY fugitive Ante Gotovina hit the Croatian news last week with the arrest of four persons suspected of being part of Gotovina's support network and the retirement of Gotovina's wife, Dunja Gotovina, from the Croatian Armed Forces. Minister of Justice Vesna Ska [...] | 2004-10-05 10:34:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | KAWC PREL HR |
04ZAGREB1759 | HUNGARY TAKES OVER AS CROATIA'S NATO CONTACT [...] No summary [...] | 2004-10-06 14:40:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL HR NATO |
04ZAGREB178 | AMBASSADOR'S DISCUSSION WITH NEW DEPUTY PRIME [...] (SBU) In his introductory meeting with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health Andrija Hebrang, the Ambassador emphasized USG desire to help Croatia in the area of HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, our appreciation for the support of the new government to ratify the Intellectual Propert [...] | 2004-01-29 14:37:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TBIO KIPR EAID KHIV HR NATO |
04ZAGREB179 | FASCISM FALLS OUT OF FASHION IN CROATIA [...] (SBU) Until relatively recently, expressions of extreme nationalism were considered acceptable in Croatia's political and social dialogue. That seems to be changing. Croatians have gotten the message that extreme nationalism is incompatible with their ambitions of accession to Euro-Atlantic [...] | 2004-01-29 15:35:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV HR |
04ZAGREB1801 | GOC COMMITTED TO CLOSING REFUGEE PORTFOLIO; RECENT [...] (U) During his 29 SEP ) 2 OCT trip to Croatia, Assistant Secretary for PRM Arthur Dewey visited several refugee return SIPDIS sites - both trouble spots and successes - and heard that the barriers to additional returns include a lack of economic opportunity in the war-affected areas, bureauc [...] | 2004-10-15 06:10:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREF |
04ZAGREB1803 | CROATIA STILL OPEN TO NEGOTIATED SETTLEMENT ON [...] (SBU) Croatia remains open to a negotiated bilateral settlement on the Croatia-Slovenia maritime boundary despite press reports to the contrary. A much-hyped Slovenian proposal to avoid fishing incidents in the Adriatic has not yet been presented to the GoC. Two weeks after Slovenian parliamen [...] | 2004-10-15 14:46:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PBTS PHSA SENV PREL HR SI |
04ZAGREB181 | FM ZUZUL COMMITS TO FULL ICTY COOPERATION, [...] (C) FULL COOPERATION WITH ICTY: ON JANUARY 28, FOREIGN MINISTER ZUZUL GAVE AMBASSADOR FRANK A READ OUT OF HIS CONVERSATION IN STOCKHOLM EARLIER IN THE WEEK WITH AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE FOR WAR CRIMES ISSUES PIERRE PROSPER. ZUZUL SAID THAT HE HAD COMMITTED THAT THE GOC WOULD "COMPLETELY COOPERATE O [...] | 2004-01-30 10:27:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | KAWC PREL KJUS HR |
04ZAGREB1824 | CROATIA ARMS CONTROL AND RACVIAC POINTS DELIVERED [...] (U) Poloff delivered refs A & B messages to Drazen Hrastic, MFA Head of Cooperative Security Section on Sept. 21. Poloff also informed RACVIAC directly of the U.S. decision (ref B) to accept observer status on Oct. 11. Hrastic welcomed the RACVIAC decision and noted that the Dayton Arms Cont [...] | 2004-10-19 11:20:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PINR HR OSCE |
04ZAGREB1836 | IMPLEMENTATION OF IP MOU STALLS: EC NOT THE [...] (SBU) The GOC has not yet taken action on legislative changes need to implement and bring into force the Intellectual Property MOU, finally ratified in March, despite Ministerial-level reassurances in September. European Commission officials have raised open-ended questions about the MOU in m [...] | 2004-10-21 10:15:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | KIPR ETRD EU HR |
04ZAGREB1841 | HDZ PICKS KOSOR, "DIGNIFIED" CAMPAIGN AHEAD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) announced on 17 October its nomination of Jadranka Kosor, Deputy PM and Minister of Family, Generational Solidarity and Veterans' Affairs (bio follows) as candidate for the presidential elections (ref A) currently planned fo [...] | 2004-10-22 07:32:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL HR |
04ZAGREB1842 | CROATIA SUPPORTS MERON RE-ELECTION TO ICTY [...] (U) The GOC has announced that it will support the re-election of Theodor Meron to the post of permanent judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). When Poloff delivered reftel points October 14, MFA's director of UN affairs Ranko Vilovic highlighted the GO [...] | 2004-10-22 07:33:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KJUS KAWC PHUM HR |
04ZAGREB1846 | BLUE LANTERN UPDATE FOR CROATIA [...] Embassy Zagreb's principal Blue Lantern contact is Pol-Mil Officer Justin Friedman, tel 385-1-661-2341, fax 385-1-661-2178, email: friedmanj@state.gov. Friedman is expected to depart post in July 2006. 2. Embassy Zagreb uses a team approach for its Blue Lantern checks. Oversight of the [...] | 2004-10-22 07:33:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC HR NATO |
04ZAGREB185 | COURT ORDERS TRANSFER OF IRAQ NATION BANK FUNDS TO [...] (U) THE COUNTY COURT OF ZAGREB SENT THE EMBASSY A COPY OF ITS DECISION, DATED JANUARY 27, ORDERING THE TRANSFER OF FUNDS FROM THE ACCOUNT OF THE CENTRAL BANK OF IRAQ IN PRIVREDNA BANKA ZAGREB TO THE DEVELOPMENT FUND FOR IRAQ. ACCORDING TO THE RESOLUTION, THE FUNDS ARE TO BE TRANSFERRED VIA FE [...] | 2004-01-30 14:02:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN PREL IZ HR |
04ZAGREB1893 | CROATIAN REACTION TO DEMARCHE ON TRADE IN [...] Econoff discussed reftel demarche with Predraga Boic- Ljubic, Assistant Minister for International Trade, on October 22. We emphasized the U.S. desire to work cooperatively with the GOC to fight a common scourge, and noting that the USG has provided assistance to Croatian Customs through the [...] | 2004-10-29 12:32:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD KIPR HR |
04ZAGREB1895 | CROATIA APPROVES DISTRIBUTION OF FORMER SFRY FMS [...] On October 28, the Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs provided us with the diplomatic note (text para 2) approving of reftel proposed distribution of former SFRY FMS funds. We have faxed a copy of the note to EUR/SCE. 2. Begin Dipnote Text: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republ [...] | 2004-10-29 12:38:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS KTFN HR |
04ZAGREB1936 | BUSINESS AS "ZUZUL" - FM FACES CORRUPTION SCANDAL [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Opposition parliamentarians today filed a motion for a vote of no-confidence in Foreign Minister Miomir Zuzul after a week of swirling corruption accusations. Zuzul has denied all wrongdoing in the business deal at the center of the controversy, but the chief state pr [...] | 2004-11-08 16:26:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL HR |
04ZAGREB1976 | OPPOSITION SUPPORTS IMPROVED BILATERAL TIES, [...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: As she did in her meetings with President Stjepan Mesic and PM Ivo Sanader (septel),A/S Beth Jones stressed the importance of Croatia's role in NATO integration and stability in the region when she met November 11 with Social Democratic Party (SDP) president Ivica Raca [...] | 2004-11-16 10:43:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL HR NATO |
04ZAGREB1988 | CROATIA'S EU MEMBERSHIP NEGOTIATION PREPARATIONS [...] (SBU) Despite public statements that Croatia is ready to start and conclude EU membership negotiations, a lack of coordination has characterized the beginning of the process. The GoC has delayed naming its negotiating team until it receives a date to open negotiations. Though including NGOs [...] | 2004-11-17 10:40:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ELAB PREL ECON HR |
04ZAGREB2001 | A/S JONES WELCOMES CROATIAN CONSTRUCTIVENESS IN [...] (SBU) During their November 11 meeting, A/S Beth Jones and Prime Minister Sanader discussed steps to improve regional relations, current and possibly additional Croatian contributions to resolve international crises, and the possibility of signing an Article 98 Agreement. PM Sanader stressed [...] | 2004-11-17 15:27:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR KAWC HR NATO |
04ZAGREB2002 | PRESIDENT MESIC KICKS UP DUST ON EUCOM MEMORANDUM [...] (C) President Mesic has kicked up some political dust over the EUCOM Memorandum of Understanding (signed in July) on using Croatian facilities and airspace for bilateral military exercises. Without objecting to the substance of the MoU, Mesic's office has asserted publicly that it was not in [...] | 2004-11-17 15:46:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR KTIA PINR HR NATO |
04ZAGREB2004 | EU INTEGRATION MINISTER HELPS AVERT [...] No summary [...] | 2004-11-18 10:59:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR EU HR |
04ZAGREB2013 | SANADER'S BELGRADE VISIT HAILED AS HISTORIC, [...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Politicians and analysts from across nearly the entire political spectrum have praised PM Ivo Sanader's November 15 visit to Belgrade and his meetings with SAM President Svetozar Marovic and PM Vojislav Kostunica as a key step forward in post-war reconciliation. Accord [...] | 2004-11-18 15:22:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SR HR |
04ZAGREB2041 | CROATIA: TRANSPARENCY OF BUDGETS/MILITARY SPENDING [...] In response to reftel, post provides the following, keyed to reftel questions: A. General Overview of Auditing Procedures: (1) - According to the MOD, military expenditures are audited in various ways. Commanders, heads of units and the Financial Section of the MOD are responsible for [...] | 2004-11-24 13:47:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EAID MARR HR NATO |
04ZAGREB2044 | INTELLIGENCE SERVICE UNDER FIRE FOR INTIMIDATION [...] (C) In recent weeks, the Counterintelligence Agency (POA) has been the focus of both media and parliamentary scrutiny because of its alleged intimidation of a journalist. Helen Puljiz alleges that the POA tried to blackmail her in an attempt to persuade her to collaborate with them and provide [...] | 2004-11-26 15:03:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR HR |
04ZAGREB2059 | AMBASSADOR AND CROATIAN PRESIDENT MESIC DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador asked Croatian President Stjepan Mesic to tone down the anti-U.S. rhetoric that has been a major element of his reelection strategy thus far. Mesic and the Ambassador also discussed the impact of Croatia's NATO accession on presidential authority over the armed fo [...] | 2004-12-01 16:32:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MARR KTIA HR |
04ZAGREB2060 | (S) PM SANADER ASKS AMBASSADOR TO INTERVENE WITH [...] (S) Summary: PM Sanader and FM Zuzul asked Ambassador Frank and UK Ambassador Ramsden December 1 for assistance in persuading President Mesic to suspend seeking the dismissal of head of the Croatian Counter-Intelligence Agency Podbevsek, stating that his work was critical to the hunt for PIF [...] | 2004-12-01 17:08:00 | Embassy Zagreb | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINR KAWC HR |
04ZAGREB208 | CROATIA HEARS US ON TRAFFICKING [...] (SBU) On January 30, the Ambassador reviewed with Jadranka Kosor, Deputy Prime Minister, Croatia's record on trafficking in persons (TIP). Kosor acknowledged that Croatia will need to address the issue better, but otherwise offered little in substance other than to declare that she will be our [...] | 2004-02-04 08:12:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV HR |
04ZAGREB2083 | Minority Agreement Formalizes Protections [...] (SBU) During his historic visit to Belgrade on 15 November (Refs),PM Sanader and SAM PM Tadic signed an agreement on the protection of minorities in the two countries. Focused on the ethnic Croat and ethnic Serb minorities in each country, the agreement does not set out new protections, but [...] | 2004-12-08 14:34:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL HR |
04ZAGREB2109 | CROATIA REQUESTS US SUPPORT FOR LENIENCY ON KYOTO [...] On December 7, the Croatian MFA submitted a request by diplomatic note for U.S. support for a GoC application for leniency in carbon dioxide emissions ahead of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) conference currently ongoing in Buenos Aires. The GoC believes fulfilling its K [...] | 2004-12-09 15:09:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ECON PGOV HR |
04ZAGREB2113 | CROATIA FINALLY PROVIDES DATA EXCLUSIVITY; [...] (U) On December 3, the Croatian parliament passed an amendment to the Drug Law which provides data exclusivity (protection against other companies using clinical trial data provided to the government as a condition of marketing authorization). The protection lasts for six years after the dru [...] | 2004-12-10 14:37:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD PREL HR |
04ZAGREB2140 | NEW CROATIAN INTEL CHIEF WANTS GOOD COOPERATION [...] (C) The scandal (reftels) surrounding the Counter Intelligence Agency (POA) has peaked with President Mesic and Prime Minister Sanader agreeing to fire POA Chief Josko Podbevsek and nominate Tomislav Karamarko as his replacement. Prior to his successful confirmation hearings and official ins [...] | 2004-12-16 09:23:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR KAWC HR |
04ZAGREB2153 | FM VISIT BOOSTS RUSSIA-CROATIA RELATIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: In an effort to shore up Moscow's influence in this Brussels-leaning capital, Russian FM Sergei Lavrov met with President Stjepan Mesic, PM Ivo Sanader, Speaker of Parliament Vladimir Seks, and FM Miomir Zuzul on his December 10 visit to Zagreb. Significant developm [...] | 2004-12-20 12:04:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV RS HR |
04ZAGREB2171 | HIV/AIDS IN CROATIA: LOW PREVALENCE AND LOW [...] Croatia's few registered cases of HIV/AIDS and low knowledge about the disease and how it spreads translate into an HIV/AIDS strategy focused on prevention and education. Stigmatization continues be an obstacle, as alarmist press accounts beat out a small cadre of dedicated health professiona [...] | 2004-12-22 07:19:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | KHIV PHUM PGOV HR |
04ZAGREB2196 | 2004 GMO AND BIOSAFETY DEVELOPMENTS IN CROATIA [...] Reftel requested an update on biosafety issues in preparation for the next meeting of the parties to the Cartagena Protocol. As an EU candidate country, Croatia will almost certainly follow the EC lead on any biosafety or GMO issue. Following is an overview of recent developments on these issu [...] | 2004-12-29 09:09:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ETRD EAGR EAID TBIO HR |
04ZAGREB2210 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION - MESIC IN FIRST ROUND? [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: President Stjepan Mesic appears poised to win a second five-year mandate in the upcoming presidential election; the only question that remains is whether he will get the necessary 50 percent one vote in the first round on January 2 or face a second round against his near [...] | 2004-12-30 16:00:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL HR |
04ZAGREB265 | CROATIA CANDIDATE FOR UN SECURITY COUNCIL [...] CROATIA PLANS TO RUN FOR A SEAT ON THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL FOR THE PERIOD 2008-2009. ON FEBRUARY 5, ACTING HEAD OF THE MFA'S AMERICAS DEPARTMENT, ANDREA BEKIC, HANDED US A DIPLOMATIC NOTE ANNOUNCING THE GOC'S INTENTIONS. BEKIC SAID CROATIA WOULD APPRECIATE U.S. SUPPORT. WE TOLD HER WE W [...] | 2004-02-12 12:05:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL HR USUN |
04ZAGREB279 | AMBASSADOR MEETS MARITIME, TOURISM,TRANSPORT AND DEVELOPMENT MINISTER [...] Bozidar Kalmeta, Croatia's Minister of Maritime, Tourism, Transport and Development, said in his February 9 introductory meeting with the Ambassador that reconstruction of returning Serbs' homes and road building would be his two top priorities. The government would consider giving Bechtel a [...] | 2004-02-13 13:23:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON HR |
04ZAGREB280 | NEW FINANCE MINISTER TALKS FISCAL DISCIPLINE [...] (SBU) The Ambassador met new Finance Minister Ivan Suker February 10. Suker declared the government's intention to negotiate a new Standby Arrangement with the IMF -- apparently EU pressure caused the government to overcome earlier misgivings about another SBA. Such an agreement would mean [...] | 2004-02-13 14:44:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL HR |
04ZAGREB288 | RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 301 REVIEW: INTELLECTUAL [...] (SBU) WE DO NOT CONCUR WITH THE PHRMA REQUEST TO MOVE CROATIA TO THE PRIORITY WATCH LIST SINCE THE NEW GOVERNMENT'S RECENT ACTIONS TO SECURE RATIFICATION OF THE 1998 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS MOU DEMONSTRATE A SERIOUS NEW COMMITMENT TO ADDRESS THE ISSUES HIGHLIGHTED BY PHRMA. 2. (U) O [...] | 2004-02-18 13:46:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR PREL HR |
04ZAGREB300 | CROATIA TRYING TO CONVINCE UK IT IS COOPERATING [...] (C) THE UK MAY BE EASING THE CRITERIA BY WHICH IT WILL MEASURE CROATIA'S COOPERATION WITH THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA (ICTY). IN ADVANCE OF A FEBRUARY 11 VISIT BY FM ZUZUL TO LONDON, A BRITISH EMBASSY OFFICER INFORMED US THAT IF PM SANADER MAKES A CLEAR PUBLI [...] | 2004-02-20 13:41:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KAWC HR UK |
04ZAGREB331 | CROATIA KEEPS PUSHING ON LIBYA SHIP REFIT [...] (C) AS A FOLLOW ON THE PRESIDENT MESIC RAISING POTENTIAL LIBYAN SHIP REFIT CONTRACTS WITH SECRETARY RUMSFELD (REF A),PRESIDENTIAL FOREIGN POLICY ADVISOR MASTRUKO PROVIDED US ADDITIONAL DETAILS OF THE PROPOSED SCOPE OF THIS $120 MILLION PROJECT (REF B). THE $120 MILLION CONTRACT INCLUDES $7.5 [...] | 2004-02-12 16:48:00 | Embassy Zagreb | SECRET | PREL MARR LY HR |
04ZAGREB363 | CROATIA'S POLITICAL OPPOSITION WOULD BLOCK TROOPS [...] (C) Ambassador Frank discussed a range of issues February 24 with former Prime Minister, SDP President and now opposition leader Ivica Racan, and thanked him for his efforts as Prime Minister to prepare Croatia for future NATO membership. Racan welcomed the thanks but cautioned that his now-o [...] | 2004-03-03 10:09:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR HR NATO |
04ZAGREB366 | CROATIA SUPPORTS U.S. POSITION ON UNDC [...] POLOFF DELIVERED REFTEL TO DRAZEN HRASTIC, HEAD OF THE COOPERATIVE SECURITY AND ARMS CONTROL AT THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, ON FEBRUARY 25. ON FEBRUARY 27, HRASTIC PROVIDED US WITH THE NON-PAPER RESPONSE IN PARA 2 SUPPORTING THE U.S. POSITION. HRASTIC SAID THAT THE CROATIAN MISSION TO [...] | 2004-03-03 11:23:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PARM PREL HR UNDC CDG |
04ZAGREB380 | CROATIAN PRESS REPORTS NEW ICTY INDICTMENTS [...] (SBU) THE CROATIAN PRESS IS WIDELY REPORTING THAT THE GOVERNMENT OF CROATIA HAS RECEIVED NEW SEALED ICTY INDICTMENTS FROM THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL. THE GOVERNMENT IS REFUSING TO COMMENT, BUT THE PRESS CITES THAT SANADER AND OTHER HDZ LEADERS ARE WORKING HARD TO MANAGE POLITICAL FALLOUT BEFORE [...] | 2004-03-05 12:23:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KAWC |
04ZAGREB382 | AGREEMENT ON SUCCESSION ISSUES RATIFIED [...] (U) SUMMARY: LATE ON MARCH 3, THE CROATIAN PARLIAMENT RATIFIED THE AGREEMENT ON SUCCESSION ISSUES AND ADOPTED A CONCLUSION COMMITTING THE GOVERNMENT TO CONTINUE THE INVESTIGATION INTO $589 MILLION WHICH ARE "MISSING" FROM JOINT VENTURE BANK ACCOUNTS. CROATIA IS THE LAST COUNTRY OF THE F [...] | 2004-03-05 13:23:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON EFIN HR |
04ZAGREB387 | SANADER GOVERNMENT DELIVERS: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY [...] (U) Late on March 3, the Croatian parliament approved the Memorandum of Understanding on Intellectual Property Rights, which the GOC had signed in May 1998 but had never ratified. While the MOU does not go into effect until implementing regulations and laws are in force and diplomatic notes [...] | 2004-03-05 15:36:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR PREL HR |
04ZAGREB409 | UNDERSECRETARY DOBRIANSKY VISIT TO CROATIA [...] (C) On March 2 Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky visited Croatia and met with President Stjepan Mesic, Prime Minister Ivo Sanader, and Foreign Minister Miomir Zuzul. The Under Secretary discussed Croatia's participation in the Community of Democracies, the UN Commis [...] | 2004-03-10 13:48:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV PREF KDEM HR NATO |
04ZAGREB410 | SURVEY ON REFUGEE RETURN TO CROATIA [...] (C) Results of an extensive survey, financed jointly by USAID and the OSCE, show that only five percent of ethnic Serb refugees -- approximately 10,500 out of the estimated 210,000 ethnic Serbs from Croatia who are now in Serbia or Bosnia -- plan to return to Croatia in the next five years, an [...] | 2004-03-11 05:27:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL HR |
04ZAGREB425 | CROATIA'S NEW ICTY PIFWCS DEPART VOLUNTARILY FOR [...] (SBU) ON MARCH 11, AS EXPECTED, RETIRED CROATIAN GENERALS MLADEN MARKAC AND IVAN CERMAK DEPARTED VOLUNTARILY FOR THE HAGUE TO FACE WAR CRIMES INDICTMENTS. PRESS REPORTS INDICATE THAT MARKAC AND CERMAK WERE TAKEN INTO CUSTODY UPON ARRIVAL IN AMSTERDAM. ICTY ISSUED A STATEMENT WELCOMING CROATI [...] | 2004-03-12 05:12:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KAWC HR |
04ZAGREB436 | CROATIA'S UNCHR PRIORITIES [...] On February 25, we delivered reftel non-paper to Dubravka Simonovic, MFA Head of Department for Human Rights. In return, Simonovic provided us on March 12 with Croatia's priorities for the 60th session of the UN Commission on Human Rights (full text follows in para 3). She offered no specifi [...] | 2004-03-12 14:47:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL HR UNHCR |
04ZAGREB454 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES PRESIDENT MESIC'S PLANS TO [...] (C) THE AMBASSADOR MET WITH PRESIDENT MESIC MARCH 12 TO DISCUSS THE PRESIDENT'S UPCOMING MIDDLE EAST TRIP AND DELIVER POINTS CONCERNING U.S. POLICY TOWARD SYRIA (REF A). MESIC DESCRIBED HIS THREE-COUNTRY TRIP, BEGINNING LATER THIS MONTH, INCLUDING STOPS IN QATAR, JORDAN, AND SYRIA. MESIC HA [...] | 2004-03-17 14:37:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL HR SY |
04ZAGREB456 | ZAGREB AWAITS NEW ICTY INDICTMENTS FOR BOSNIAN [...] (C) Croatia is expecting the imminent arrival of new indictments from ICTY against a series of Bosnian Croats for their actions in BiH in 1993-94. According to the press, Justice Minister Vesna Skare Ozbolt met with likely indictees Milivoj Petkovic and Slobodan Praljak during the evening of [...] | 2004-03-17 15:47:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KAWC HR BK |
04ZAGREB488 | ICTY INDICTMENTS OF BOSNIAN CROATS [...] (C) Foreign Minister Zuzul told the Ambassador on March 22 that the GoC would do everything it could to ensure Croatian citizens indicted by ICTY for crimes in Bosnia were transferred to The Hague, but could not guarantee that the process would go as smoothly as in the cases of Cermak and Mar [...] | 2004-03-22 14:29:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | KAWC PREL PGOV BK HR |
04ZAGREB516 | CHR-60: CROATIA ON CUBA AND CHINA RESOLUTIONS [...] (C) ON MARCH 23, THE AMBASSADOR DELIVERED TALKING POINTS WITH BACKGROUND ON THE CHINA AND CUBA RESOLUTIONS (REFS A,C) AT THE CHR TO MFA STATE SECRETARY (DEPUTY MINISTER EQUIVALENT) BISCEVIC. AMBASSADOR STRESSED THE GREAT IMPORTANCE THE U.S. PLACES IN BOTH RESOLUTIONS AND SOUGHT CROATIAN SUPPO [...] | 2004-03-25 12:32:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL CH CU HR UNCHR |
04ZAGREB533 | AMBASSADOR MEETS PRESIDENT MESIC CONCERNING REFIT [...] (C) ON MARCH 27, THE AMBASSADOR PASSED TO PRESIDENT MESIC REFTEL A POINTS CONCERNING REFIT OF THE LIBYAN VESSEL, "AL-MUNIJED," AND DCM FOLLOWED UP WITH MFA OFFICIALS ON MARCH 29. THE AMBASSADOR TOLD MESIC THAT THE U.S. HAD DECIDED NOT TO OBJECT TO THE REFIT OF THE "AL-MUNIJED" PROVIDED [...] | 2004-03-29 14:04:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL PGOV OPDC ETTC KSTC HR LY |
04ZAGREB543 | NEW HDZ AMBASSADOR TO WASHINGTON [...] (SBU) CROATIA'S NEXT AMBASSADOR TO THE U.S. WILL LIKELY BE NEVEN JURICA, CURRENTLY CHAIRMAN OF THE PARLIAMENT'S FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE. NEWS OF JURICA'S LIKELY APPOINTMENT WAS LEAKED TO THE PRESS ON MARCH 28, AFTER HIS CANDIDACY HAD BEEN APPROVED BY WHAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A CONFIDENT [...] | 2004-03-31 04:23:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PGOV PREL HR |
04ZAGREB552 | MESIC PLEASED WITH MIDDLE EAST VISIT [...] (C) In a meeting on March 27 with the Ambassador arranged to discuss a Croatian proposal to refit a Libyan military vessel (ref),Croatian President Stipe Mesic spent most of his time discussing his recent visit to the Middle East. He said he had a very full schedule of meetings in Damascus [...] | 2004-04-01 08:57:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD HR QA IS SY |
04ZAGREB554 | SERBS PLAYING POLITICAL HARDBALL ON RETURN ISSUES [...] (C) Disappointed with GOC implementation of promises to address refugee return issues, Serb politicians threatened on March 23 to withdraw their informal support for PM Sanader's government. Sanader responded immediately and met with Milorad Pupovac, one of three MPs representing the Serb min [...] | 2004-04-01 09:51:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREF PGOV PREL HR |
04ZAGREB562 | CROATIA: "EXPECT PROGRESS SOON" ON BILAT [...] (SBU) AS INSTRUCTED BY REFTEL, ON MARCH 31 AND APRIL 1, WE AGAIN PRESSED RELEVANT MFA AND MOD OFFICIALS FOR A RESPONSE TO OUR REQUEST TO NEGOTIATE A BILATERAL SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENT TO THE PFP SOFA. 2. (SBU) ASSISTANT FOREIGN MINISTER PJER SIMUNOVIC ASSERTED THAT THE SANADER GOVERNMENT HA [...] | 2004-04-01 12:41:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PREL KTIA HR NATO |
04ZAGREB578 | BAD TEST RESULTS FORCE GMO ISSUE [...] (U) THE RECENT SCANDAL AROUND THE ALLEGED PRESENCE OF NON-APPROVED GMOS IN 14 FOOD SAMPLES HAS SPED THE ADOPTION OF REGULATIONS ON LABELING AND APPROVAL OF GMOS AND STIRRED PUBLIC DEBATE, EVEN THOUGH SUBSEQUENT TESTS FOUND THAT ONLY ONE OF THE SAMPLES HAD MORE THAN ONE PERCENT GMO CONTENT. TH [...] | 2004-04-05 05:48:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ETRD SENV TBIO TSPL HR |
04ZAGREB584 | ZUZUL: NEW GOVERNMENT PUSHING AHEAD AS FAST AS IT [...] (C) The new Croatian government is doing everything it can to keep its EU and NATO bids on track and forge better ties with the U.S. Foreign Minister Miomir Zuzul conveyed confidence in a dinner on April 1 with the Ambassador and EUR/SCE Director Chuck English. He said the Prime Minister's [...] | 2004-04-05 15:21:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV HR NATO |
04ZAGREB598 | CROATIA SENDS SIX TO ICTY [...] (C) On April 5, the Government of Croatia put six new Bosnian-Croat ICTY indictees onto a regularly scheduled commercial flight to Amsterdam. Notwithstanding a minor misunderstanding regarding the late notice given the GoC regarding one of the six, ICTY Head of Office Thomas Osorio describes [...] | 2004-04-07 04:34:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | KAWC PREL KJUS HR |
04ZAGREB627 | THE ECONOMY -- SANADER GOVERNMENT'S ACHILLES HEEL? [...] (C) While the Sanader government has scored points on the foreign policy and political fronts, it is faltering on the economic front. The government inherited certain economic weaknesses, further handicapped itself with slavish campaign promises, then shot itself in the foot with weak appoint [...] | 2004-04-09 05:55:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL HR |
04ZAGREB678 | CROATIA PROPOSES CONTRIBUTIONS FOR IRAQ, SEEKS [...] SEE ACTION REQUESTS IN PARAS 2 AND 3. 2. (SBU) ON APRIL 16, MFA NATO COORDINATOR PJER SIMUNOVIC TOLD DCM THAT THE GOC HAD DEVELOPED A PROPOSAL TO RESPOND TO SECRETARY RUMSFELD,S REQUEST THAT CROATIA MAKE A SIPDIS CONTRIBUTION TO COALITION EFFORTS IN IRAQ. SIMUNOVIC SAID THE GOC PR [...] | 2004-04-19 13:21:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL KNNP MNUC IZ HR NATO |
04ZAGREB71 | CROATIAN PRESIDENT MESIC: OK ON IRAQ TROOP [...] (S) In the Ambassador's January 13 call on President Mesic to seek movement on key bilateral issues, Mesic offered to go slow for the time being on any contract to refit a Libyan naval vessel while restating his desire to develop commercial relations with Libya. Mesic committed not to get in t [...] | 2004-01-14 11:35:00 | Embassy Zagreb | SECRET | PREL MARR KAWC ETTC IZ SY HR NATO |
04ZAGREB737 | IMF MISSION DIRECTOR OPTIMISTIC; GOC PLANNING [...] (C) The recent visit of IMF Mission Director to Zagreb showed that there is political will (for the moment) to conclude a Standby Agreement, but considerable political blood will have to be spilled along the way. While the government is figuring out how to backtrack on promises to the pensio [...] | 2004-04-24 22:13:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON SOCI HR |
04ZAGREB766 | THE SANADER GOVERNMENT'S FIRST SEMESTER -- OFF TO [...] (C) PM Ivo Sanader's furious, almost frantic, pace for his first 100 days in office has produced positive results. Most of his government's energy has been focused on foreign policy, where Sanader and his closest associates had to work quickly to convince the skeptics of the "new HDZ" who are [...] | 2004-04-28 14:45:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV HR |
04ZAGREB781 | CROATIAN FM DOWNPLAYS SECRETARY'S MESSAGE ON [...] (U) THE SECRETARY'S BRIEF MEETING WITH FOREIGN MINISTER ZUZUL ON THE MARGINS OF THE BERLIN CONFERENCE ON ANTI-SEMITISM RECEIVED VERY LITTLE COVERAGE IN THE CROATIAN PRESS. ACCORDING TO VECERNJI LIST, CROATIA'S TOP-CIRCULATION MASS-MARKET DAILY, SECRETARY POWELL TOLD THE FOREIGN MINISTER THAT [...] | 2004-04-30 13:37:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KAWC KPAO HR NATO |
04ZAGREB817 | FM ZUZUL SEEKS UNDERSTANDING ON GOTOVINA [...] (C) FOREIGN MINISTER MIOMIR ZUZUL SOUGHT A MEETING WITH AMBASSADOR FRANK TO EXPRESS HIS DISAPPOINTMENT AT THE U.S. POSITION CONDITIONING SUPPORT FOR CROATIA'S NATO ENTRY ON THE ARREST OF ICTY FUGITIVE ANTE GOTOVINA (REFTELS). AMBASSADOR FRANK RESPONDED THAT THIS SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN A SURP [...] | 2004-05-07 14:25:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KAWC HR |
04ZAGREB834 | CROATIAN OFFICIALS REACT TO NATO REVIEW [...] (C) GoC officials were both encouraged and disappointed with their second annual review by NATO's North Atlantic Council of Croatia's progress towards membership. They were encouraged by new optimism about Croatia expressed by many allies, citing that the International Staff's report noted p [...] | 2004-05-10 16:00:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL HR NATO |
04ZAGREB842 | CROATIA HESITANT, BUT WILLING TO EXPAND ATTENDANCE [...] (SBU) CROATIA REMAINS HESITANT TO INCLUDE SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO AND BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA AS FULL PARTICIPANTS IN THE MAY 19 - 20 ADRIATIC CHARTER PARTNERSHIP COMMISSION MEETING. WE DELIVERED REFTEL TALKING POINTS TO PJER SIMUNOVIC, CROATIA'S POLITICAL DIRECTOR FOR NATO ISSUES. SIMUNOVIC SA [...] | 2004-05-12 16:23:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL HR NATO |
04ZAGREB847 | PERMANENT SAVA COMMISSION HAS CROATIAN SUPPORT BUT [...] (U) THE FOLLOWING RESPONDS TO REFTEL QUESTIONS ON THE STATUS OF THE SAVA RIVER BASIN INITIATIVE AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A PERMANENT COMMISSION IN ZAGREB. SUMMARY ------- 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF A PERMANENT SAVA RIVER BASIN COMMISSION WITH A SECRETARIAT IN ZAGREB HAS BROAD SUPPORT AT THE [...] | 2004-05-13 09:32:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAID ECIN EWWT PREL HR |
04ZAGREB85 | PROPOSALS FOR BIOTECH EDUCATION ACTIVITIES [...] In response to ref A, Mission proposes the following biotech outreach activities: -- placement of biotech articles targeted for Central European market, especially those by European authors. -- funding to help promote local pro-biotech organizations. -- organize trips for regulators to [...] | 2004-01-16 06:18:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD SENV TBIO TSPL HR |
04ZAGREB923 | CROATIAN PARLIAMENTARIAN NATO TOUR TO BRATISLAVA [...] I WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU AND YOUR TEAM FOR THE OUTSTANDING SUPPORT PROVIDED DURING THE MAY 4 - 5 VISIT OF FOUR CROATIAN PARLIAMENTARIANS TO BRATISLAVA. THIS TRIP MADE AN IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION TO THE UNDERSTANDING BY THESE LAWMAKERS OF HOW TO HELP MOVE CROATIA FORWARD TOWARD NATO MEMBER [...] | 2004-05-19 14:49:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL HR NATO |
04ZAGREB932 | CROATIA: ON THE ROAD TO EU MEMBERSHIP [...] (C) Croatia is clearly headed toward being named a candidate for EU membership at the June 17-18 EU Summit. However, we expect that the EU leaders will postpone a decision on setting a date to begin accession negotiations for a range of reasons, not all related to Croatia. Italy, Slovenia and [...] | 2004-05-21 06:35:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV HR |
04ZAGREB964 | ICTY INDICTS NORAC: CROATIA PREPARING FOR CASE [...] (C) SUMMARY and COMMENT: On May 25, the ICTY announced the issuance of an indictment against Croatian retired General Mirko Norac for his role in the Medak Pocket case. ICTY Head of Office Thomas Osorio (protect) told us that the Tribunal intends to transfer this case to Croatia for prosecutio [...] | 2004-05-25 15:38:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | KAWC PREL KJUS HR |
04ZAGREB968 | PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR OPTIMISTIC ABOUT MESIC'S [...] (C) In what was mostly an inside baseball discussion about Croatian politics, President Mesic's top Domestic Policy Advisor, Igor Dekanic, told us on May 26 that he was optimistic about Mesic's reelection prospects -- although an official announcement of his candidacy was still months away. [...] | 2004-05-26 17:05:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL HR |
04ZAGREB969 | FY-04 U.S. SPEAKER EVALUATION-CRS ANALYST PAUL [...] DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTIVITY: IN 11 PROGRAMS OVER FOUR DAYS (APRIL 28-30 AND MAY 3, 2004),U.S. SPEAKER AND NATO EXPERT PAUL GALLIS OF THE CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE EXPLAINED U.S. CONGRESSIONAL VIEWS ON NATO AND NATO EXPANSION, ENCOURAGED THE CONTINUATION OF CROATIAN DEFENSE REFORMS, A [...] | 2004-05-27 07:07:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OIIP HR NATO |
04ZAGREB978 | NATO SECRETARY GENERAL VISITS CROATIA [...] (C) In a brief visit to Zagreb on May 26, NATO Secretary General (SYG) Jaap de Hoop Scheffer "left a message of encouragement" for Croatia to move forward toward qualifying for an invitation to join the Alliance by making concrete progress in NATO's Membership Action Plan. In an outbrief to [...] | 2004-05-27 16:30:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL HR NATO |