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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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05VIENNA3745 | AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT PLANS TO CHARGE FIRM WITH [...] (S/NF) During a November 25 discussion with Economic Unit Chief, Helmut Krehlik, Head of the Ministry of Economy's Import and Export Division, said that the GoA would almost certainly charge the Daniel Frosch Export (DFE) Industrial Spare Parts company with violating Austria's Foreign Trade A [...] | 2005-11-28 14:40:00 | Embassy Vienna | SECRET | PARM PREL MNUC ETTC AU MTCRE |
05VIENNA3746 | AUSTRIA: REVIEW OF LIBERTAD ACT SUSPENSION [...] (C) Andreas Melan, the MFA's Latin America DAS-equivalent, told us November 23 that Austria continues to promote human rights and democracy issues bilaterally and in international fora. He stressed that the GoA based its Cuba policy on the EU's two points of focus: intensifying contacts with [...] | 2005-11-28 14:41:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ETTC CU AU |
05VIENNA3762 | EUR A/S FRIED'S MEETINGS WITH AUSTRIAN OFFICIALS [...] (C) Summary: In discussions with Austrian interlocutors, EUR Assistant Secretary Daniel Fried outlined the strategic agenda for U.S. engagement with the Austrian EU Presidency. Most of our work concerns areas outside the EU. One key is the "frontiers of freedom" in Europe in an area analag [...] | 2005-11-29 14:11:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AU |
05VIENNA3766 | UPDATED CONTACT INFORMATION FOR POST TERRORISM [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-29 14:40:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC EFIN KCRM PTER AU |
05VIENNA3774 | SHIELD S13A-05: AUSTRIAN FIRM'S ACTIVITY MAY [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-30 15:37:00 | Embassy Vienna | SECRET | PARM PREL ETTC IR AU CBW |
05VIENNA3775 | CAPE TOWN CONVENTION: MORE FROM AUSTRIA [...] (SBU) On November 25, the Austrian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) followed-up ref A demarche with a letter, explaining that the EU and its members have decided to ratify the convention jointly, because of shared competencies. According to the MoJ, Spain is currently blocking joint ratification be [...] | 2005-12-01 08:21:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP EFIN EAIR EIND ETRD KTIA AU |
05VIENNA3785 | SCENESETTER FOR THE PRESIDENT'S MEETING WITH [...] (SBU) For Chancellor Schuessel, Austria's EU presidency during the first half of 2006 is important internationally -- to strengthen his status among EU leaders -- and domestically -- to shore up his political standing before Federal elections in Fall 2006. Schuessel will want to show he work [...] | 2005-12-01 13:27:00 | Embassy Vienna | SECRET | PREL PGOV AU |
05VIENNA3786 | DEFENSE MINISTER REJECTS ALLEGATIONS OF CIA [...] At the request of the opposition Social Democrats (SPO) and Greens, the Austrian National Security Council met November 30 regarding allegations that a U.S. overflight of Austria on January 21, 2003 may have been a CIA flight to transport prisoners. Afterwards, Austrian Defense Minister Plat [...] | 2005-12-01 13:43:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MARR EAIR KPAO AU EUN |
05VIENNA3787 | VISIT TO VIENNA OF U/S R. NICHOLAS BURNS AND [...] Post warmly welcomes visit of Under Secretary for Political Affairs R. Nicholas Burns, Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Daniel Fried, and Special Assistant to the Under Secretary David Bame to Vienna, Austria December 7, 2005. 2. U/S Burns and party will be met at t [...] | 2005-12-01 13:47:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OVIP OTRA ASEC AU |
05VIENNA3793 | DEMARCHE ON RUSSIAN DRAFT NGO LAW: AUSTRIA SHARES [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-01 16:21:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL RS AU EUN |
05VIENNA3818 | AUSTRIAN ECONOMIC CHAMBER OPENS SECOND OFFICE IN [...] The Austrian Economic Chamber (WKO) opened a second office in Iraq on December 1 to promote trade and investment opportunities for Austrian companies in northern Iraq. The office is in the Kurdish town of Erbil, which the WKO believes is the center of the most promising commercial potential [...] | 2005-12-06 10:19:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD PREL AU IQ |
05VIENNA3823 | VISAS VIPER NOVEMBER 2005 MONTHLY ACTIVITY [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-06 14:58:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KVPR PTER CVIS CMGT ASEC PINR PREL AU |
05VIENNA3824 | AUSTRIAN REACTION TO THE SECRETARY'S STATEMENT ON [...] (SBU) Charge and visiting EUR/AGS Director Weygandt discussed the Secretary's December 5 statement and related letter to Foreign Secretary Straw (refs A and B) with Chancellery Diplomatic Advisor Hans-Peter Manz in the context of Chancellor Schuessel's December 8 meeting with the President. [...] | 2005-12-06 17:53:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL OPDC AU EUN |
05VIENNA3832 | AUSTRIAN MFA ON DECEMBER EU FOREIGN MINISTERS' [...] (C) Pol Unit chief delivered reftel demarche to Austrian MFA Coordinator for EU Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) Andreas Riecken on December 2. We provided (per reftel) documents on the Dayton anniversary and the President's Iraq policy speech. In particular, we underlined the impo [...] | 2005-12-07 17:09:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON YI BK AF AU EUN |
05VIENNA3833 | DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA ON QUESTIONABLE TRANSACTIONS [...] (SBU) On December 7, Charge was able to reach Chancellery Diplomatic Advisor Hans-Peter Manz by telephone as Manz was about to leave with the Chancellor for Washington. Charge presented the unclassified portions of reftel demarche, and undertook to arrange for the classified portions to reach Manz [...] | 2005-12-07 17:16:00 | Embassy Vienna | SECRET | PARM PREL MNUC KCRM KTFN KNNP EU AU |
05VIENNA3834 | MDA: AUSTRIA CONFIRMS YES VOTE ON THIRD ADDITIONAL [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-07 20:01:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC PHUM PREF PREL IS SZ AU ICRC |
05VIENNA3840 | WTO TRADE TALKS: AUSTRIA UNITED AGAINST FURTHER [...] (SBU) Austria's Agriculture and Economics Ministers have announced that the GoA is "totally united" behind the current EU position on agricultural market access. The Minister of Agriculture, Josef Proell, and the influential Austrian farm lobby have engaged in an intensive public relations ca [...] | 2005-12-09 13:16:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR PREL AU WTRO |
05VIENNA3841 | AUSTRIA: POSSIBLE NORTH KOREAN ILLICIT FINANCIAL [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-09 13:20:00 | Embassy Vienna | SECRET | EFIN KJUS KNNP KTFN KN AU |
05VIENNA3842 | AUSTRIAN RESPONSE: FINCEN 314(A) NOTICE ON SYRIA [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-09 13:22:00 | Embassy Vienna | SECRET | KTFN PTER LE SY AU |
05VIENNA3852 | GSF Payments to Begin; Reconciliation Fund [...] (U) At a December 9 press conference, Parliamentary President Andreas Khol (and chairman of the General Settlement Fund, or GSF) and GSF Secretary General Hannah Lessing announced that, as a result of the dismissal of the Whiteman case by the U.S. federal court for the southern district of New [...] | 2005-12-12 15:17:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNAR PHUM PGOV AU |
05VIENNA3862 | General Settlement Fund: GOA Announces Legal [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-13 14:20:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNAR PHUM PGOV AU |
05VIENNA3865 | REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON AVIAN AND PANDEMIC [...] Enclosed, are Post's responses to the questions in reftel. A) PREPAREDNESS/COMMUNICATION Q: Does the government have a preparedness plan/strategy for preventing avian flu from becoming a pandemic and containing a pandemic once it occurs? If the country has a strategy, how capable is it [...] | 2005-12-14 08:51:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID PREL CASC AU WHO |
05VIENNA3868 | DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA: CONDEMNING THE ASSASSINATION [...] (C) On December 13, EconPolCouns delivered the texts of the President's and the Secretary's statements on the assassination of Gebran Tueni to Ralph Scheide, the Austrian Foreign Ministry's assistant secretary-level Director for Middle East and African affairs. Scheide immediately had his st [...] | 2005-12-14 09:29:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER LE SY AU |
05VIENNA3876 | REACH DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-14 14:47:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON SENV AU BEXP |
05VIENNA3877 | TERRORISM FINANCE: ASG INDIVIDUALS (LIST 73) [...] (SBU) Per ref A instructions, post advised Birgit Ertl from the Ministry of Finance's Financial Markets Division that the UN 1267 Committee approved December 5 the addition of three Abu Sayaf Group leaders to the list of individuals/entities subject to UNSC-mandated sanctions, including asset [...] | 2005-12-14 15:02:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTFN PTER PREL ETTC AU |
05VIENNA3878 | AUSTRIAN RESPONSE: E.O. 13382: DESIGNATION OF [...] (C) Econ Unit Chief delivered ref A talking points and nonpaper one December 12 to Johann Froehlich, Head of the MFA's Justice and Home Affairs Division and to Birgit Ertl in the Ministry of Finance's Financial Markets Division. Froehlich reiterated points from ref B discussion, in which he n [...] | 2005-12-14 15:47:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | EWWT MNUC PARM PREL AU |
05VIENNA3879 | MERCURY PARTNERSHIPS WITH AUSTRIA: NOT NOW, MAYBE [...] Post discussed reftel talking points December 9 with Raimund Quint, Deputy Head in the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment's Chemicals Policy Department. Quint said the GoA welcomed the idea of partnerships in principle. However, he noted that financial and budgetary restraints currently [...] | 2005-12-14 15:54:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EMIN AU UNEP |
05VIENNA3880 | DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA: SEEKING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR [...] Ambassador raised our desire for a strong national statement of support for the December 15 Iraqi elections with Austrian Foreign Ministry Secretary General Johannes Kyrle on December 13. Separately, EconPolCouns discussed the issue with Ralph Scheide, the MFA's assistant secretary-level Dir [...] | 2005-12-15 08:20:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KDEM IZ AU |
05VIENNA3883 | AUSTRIA NAMES CHARGE IN BAGHDAD FOR THE DURATION [...] (SBU) On December 13, the Austrian government announced that journalist and Middle East expert Gudrun Harrer will head Austria's diplomatic mission in Baghdad during the Austrian EU presidency, from January through June 2006. The Foreign Ministry's assistant secretary-level Director for Midd [...] | 2005-12-15 12:39:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL IZ AU EUN |
05VIENNA3888 | AUSTRIA: 2005 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-16 09:09:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER AU |
05VIENNA3889 | EU PRESIDENCY TORCHPASSING: JANUARY 9-10, 2006 [...] This is an action request - please see paragraph 4. 2. Embassy Vienna is pleased to host the EU Presidency torch-passing from the United Kingdom to Austria for USG officers on January 9-10, 2006. Post welcomes participants from the State Department, USEU, and Embassies London and Helsink [...] | 2005-12-16 09:52:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ECON CVIS AU EUN |
05VIENNA389 | VISAS VIPER MONTHLY REPORT: VIENNA [...] No summary [...] | 2005-02-10 07:20:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KVPR PTER CVIS ASEC PINR AU |
05VIENNA3891 | 2006 HAGUE COMPLIANCE REPORT PREPARATION - [...] POST HAS REVIEWED REFTEL AND DOES NOT RECOMMEND THAT AUSTRIA'S CITATION AS "NON-COMPLIANT" BE CHANGED FROM PREVIOUS YEARS. 2. REFTEL ALSO INVITES SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER ACTIONS. POST SUGGESTS THAT BECAUSE OF THE CHANGE OF PERSONNEL IN THE AUSTRIAN CENTRAL AUTHORITY (ACA) THE TIME IS RIGH [...] | 2005-12-16 10:43:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KOCI CASC AU |
05VIENNA3898 | 2005-2006 International Narcotics Control [...] Following is the 2005-2006 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INSCR) Part II: Money Laundering and Financial Crimes for Austria. Austria ------- Austria is not an important financial center, offshore tax haven, or banking center, but Austrian banking groups control signif [...] | 2005-12-16 14:49:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KCRM KTFN PTER KSEP SNAR AU |
05VIENNA39 | DEMARCHES TO AUSTRIA: USG CALL FOR DONOR SUPPORT [...] (U) The Ambassador presented refs (a) and (b) demarches on January 7 to Foreign Ministry Secretary General (Deputy Secretary equivalent) Johannes Kyrle. Kyrle broke out of a SIPDIS tsunami strategy meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, SIPDIS Interior and Defense in order to see [...] | 2005-01-07 14:26:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AEMR EAID PGOV XO AU |
05VIENNA3911 | GOA Diplomatic Note Announcing Legal Peace [...] Embassy Vienna received the following note verbale from MFA on December 16 notifying the USG of the GOA's declaration of legal peace, and of the promulgation of the amendment to the General Settlement Fund Law. 2. Begin text: Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Note Verbale: The Fe [...] | 2005-12-19 14:49:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KNAR PHUM PGOV AU |
05VIENNA3912 | IRAN NONPROLIFERATION ACT OF 2000: DEMARCHE ON [...] (S) On December 19, Econ Unit Chief delivered ref A talking points to Helmut Krehlik, Head of the Ministry of Economy's Export Control Division, notifying the GoA of impending sanctions against Steyr-Mannlicher under the Iran Nonproliferation Act of 2000. Krehlik thanked the USG for advance [...] | 2005-12-19 15:49:00 | Embassy Vienna | SECRET | PARM PREL MNUC ETTC AU MTCRE |
05VIENNA3920 | SHIELD S13A-05: FOLLOW-UP INFORMATION ON [...] (S) On January 19, Econ Unit Chief met with Helmut Krehlik, Head of the Ministry of Economy's Export Control Division to discuss the Austrian firm Vogelbusch's possible sale of technology and equipment for a citric acid production line to the Iranian firm Kimia Gharb Gostar Industries. Krehli [...] | 2005-12-20 11:29:00 | Embassy Vienna | SECRET | PARM PREL ETTC IR AU CBW |
05VIENNA3923 | Austria: 2005 Country Report on Terrorism [...] Austria has been a constructive ally in the fight against terrorism. Austria has shown leadership in regional anti-terrorism initiatives and in ongoing efforts to tighten controls on suspected terrorism financing. 2. Austria is forthcoming and diligent in implementing asset freeze decis [...] | 2005-12-20 12:05:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC KCRM KHLS EFIN KPAO AU |
05VIENNA3926 | AUSTRIAN FORMIN PLASSNIK HAILS IRAQ ELECTIONS [...] Austrian Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik issued a statement December 17 welcoming the Iraq elections. Plassnik stressed that the turnout was "an encouraging sign for Iraq's still-young democracy." She also detailed elements of the EU's Iraq policy during Austria's EU presidency in the first [...] | 2005-12-20 12:34:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV IZ AU EUN |
05VIENNA3937 | AUSTRIA ALSO CONCERNED ABOUT BASHIR'S POSSIBLE AU [...] (C) On December 21, Econ Unit Chief met with Caroline Gudenus, Head of the MFA's Sub-Saharan Africa Division, to discuss USG concerns regarding Sudanese President Bashir's possible candidacy to be Chairman of the African Union (AU). Gudenus said Austria, which assumes the EU Presidency January [...] | 2005-12-22 09:01:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AU SU |
05VIENNA3938 | AUSTRIA: NO END-OF-THE-YEAR FUNDS FOR POLIO [...] Embassy conveyed ref A demarche December 21 to senior officials in the Ministry of Health and the MFA, urging the GoA to contribute additional funds for the polio eradication initiative (PEI). Jean-Paul Klein, the MoH's expert on infectious epidemiology, told us that, unfortunately, the GoA [...] | 2005-12-22 09:07:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA AU |
05VIENNA3944 | NEW AUSTRIAN EMERGENCY PASSPORTS - AUSTRIANS [...] THIS IS AN ACTION CABLE. SEE PARA 7. 2. SUMMARY: THE GOA HAS NOW PROVIDED POST WITH THE POINT OF CONTACT REQUESTED REFTEL A, RESPONSIBLE FOR COORDINATING THE SHARING OF LOST AND STOLEN PASSPORT INFORMATION. IN ADDITION, POST IS FORWARDING A REQUEST FOR COMMENT FROM THE INTERIOR MINISTRY [...] | 2005-12-22 15:43:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS PREL AU |
05VIENNA3956 | DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA ON AFGHANISTAN COMPACT IN [...] Post delivered reftel demarche to Lydia Saadat, the DAS-level Director for Asia, Middle East and Latin America in the Austrian Foreign Ministry's Development Assistance Division. Saadat said she expected Austria to make a decision after January 9 regarding the level of its commitment at the [...] | 2005-12-27 13:28:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL PGOV AF AU |
05VIENNA3963 | FOLLOW-UP ON SUN MYUNG MOON CASE IN AUSTRIA [...] (SBU) Per ref (a),on December 28, EconPolCouns and EconPolOff met with Eva Neumann, head of the Passport and Visa Issues Unit in the Ministry of Interior (MOI),to discuss the Ministry's October 2005 denial of a request by Sun Myung Moon and his wife, Hak Ja Han, to enter Austria. Moon and H [...] | 2005-12-28 13:56:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIRF PHUM AU |
05VIENNA3973 | IRAN NONPROLIFERATION ACT OF 2000: AUSTRIAN [...] (SBU) The public announcement of sanctions against Austrian arms manufacturer Steyr-Mannlicher on December 27 gave rise to headlines in the Austrian media. Most reporting identified the sale and shipment of 800 high-powered, 50-caliber sniper rifles to Iran as the reason for the U.S. action. [...] | 2005-12-30 14:17:00 | Embassy Vienna | SECRET | PARM PREL MNUC ETTC AU MTCRE |
05VIENNA3974 | RUSSIA-UKRAINE GAS NEGOTIATIONS: AUSTRIAN RESPONSE [...] (C) Embassy Vienna delivered reftel demarche to Austrian MFA Acting A/S-equivalent for Economic Relations with Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe Elisabeth Kornfeind and Director for Energy Policy Gisela Polte on December 29. Kornfeind and Polte confirmed that the GoA was following deve [...] | 2005-12-30 14:51:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON UP RS AU EUN |
05VIENNA3975 | DON'T INVEST IN SYRIA: AUSTRIAN RESPONSE [...] (C) Embassy conveyed reftel demarche to Austrian MFA Acting A/S-equivalent for Bi- and Multilateral Economic Relations and International Financial Institutions Hans Kogler on December 23. We followed up with Kogler on December 29. Kogler told us he had only recently assumed his duties as Di [...] | 2005-12-30 15:04:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EFIN PREL PGOV SY AU EUN |
05VIENNA3978 | TERRORISM FINANCE: AMENDED DESIGNATION OF [...] (S) On December 23, Embassy Vienna delivered the prenotification regarding the amended designation of Lashkar e-Tayyiba to include Jamaat-ul-Dawa (and its variants) on the UN 1267 Sanctions Committee list. We spoke to Finance Ministry official Angelika Schloegel, money laundering and terrori [...] | 2005-12-30 15:54:00 | Embassy Vienna | SECRET | EFIN ETTC KTFN PK PREL PTER AU |
05VIENNA402 | AUSTRIAN REACTION TO MERCURY DEMARCHE [...] Post delivered reftel talking points and background to Thomas Jakl, the head of the Chemicals Department in the Ministry for Agriculture and Environment, and to the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Environment and Sustainable Development bureau on February 4. EmbOff followed up with J [...] | 2005-02-10 15:21:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV AORC ETRD PREL AU |
05VIENNA406 | AUSTRIA: NO APPROVAL TO EXPORT MORE SNIPER RIFLES [...] (S) Summary: Diplomatic Advisor to the Chancellor Hans Peter Manz assured the Ambassador on February 10 that the Austrian government would not/not authorize Steyr-Mannlicher to export any further sniper rifles to Iran. He also noted that the government would not permit the export of handguns [...] | 2005-02-10 16:18:00 | Embassy Vienna | SECRET | PARM PREL ETTC AU |
05VIENNA437 | DESIGNATION OF HIZBALLAH AS A TERRORIST [...] No summary [...] | 2005-02-14 14:59:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETTC PTER IS LE AU EUN |
05VIENNA444 | Austrian Financial Markets - Reforms to Meet [...] SUMMARY: The GoA recently implemented important legal changes to upgrade Austrian financial markets, enhance financial market stability, and create a level playing field for foreign investment funds. An amendment to the Austrian Income Tax Act provides for equal tax treatment of income deri [...] | 2005-02-15 13:55:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PREL PGOV AU |
05VIENNA45 | AUSTRIA'S 2005/06 GROWTH OUTLOOK ?EAN [...] Austria's GDP grew 2.0% in 2004, driven by booming exports in response to strong world economic growth, according to two leading Austrian economic institutes. The institutes now forecast real GDP growth of 2.2-2.3% in 2005 and 2.2-2.4% in 2006. The strong Euro, high oil prices and the U.S. tw [...] | 2005-01-07 15:49:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ELAB AU EUN |
05VIENNA455 | Ambassador asks Justice Minister's Attention to [...] The Ambassador took the opportunity of his first meeting with Justice Minister Karin Miklautsch - a brief visit February 14 that focused on a time-sensitive legal issue - to raise the Sylvester child abduction case. The Ambassador outlined the history of the case for the Minister, stressing [...] | 2005-02-16 12:26:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC KOCI AU |
05VIENNA462 | TERRORISM FINANCE: FADHLI DESIGNATION - DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) Per reftel instructions, Post submitted Muhsin Fadhli designation (List 67) demarche on opening of business February 16 to Alfred Lejsek, Head of the Financial Markets Directorate in the Federal Ministry of Finance (MOF). Post also sent a copy to the Foreign Ministry's International Sec [...] | 2005-02-16 14:45:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTFN ETTC EFIN PTER KSEP CVIS KVPR AU EUN |
05VIENNA473 | APPROACHING EU IN ADVANCE OF FOREIGN MINISTERS [...] (SBU) Economic-Political Counselor and Pol Unit Chief conveyed reftel demarche to MFA Director/Coordinator for EU Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) Werner Almhofer on February 11 and followed up with him on February 16. Almhofer's likely successor, Andreas Riecken, also attended. 2 [...] | 2005-02-17 15:35:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL IR UP MD SU CG SR BK AU EUN |
05VIENNA474 | TERRORISM FINANCE: IDENTIFYING DESIGNATION [...] Below are the answers to reftel questions regarding Austria's designation mechanisms and authorities. National Authority to Implement Sanctions ----------------------------------------- 2. UN Security Council resolutions are generally reflected in EU Council regulations, which in Austr [...] | 2005-02-17 15:48:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KTFN PGOV PTER AU EUN |
05VIENNA493 | AUSTRIAN COURTS ORDER AGAINST HAGUE RETURN TO [...] SUMMARY: In July 2004 Austrian courts ordered against the return of a child to her father in Hungary. According to Supreme Court documents, the mother wrongfully retained the child in Austria when she failed to return the child after a scheduled summer visitation in 2003. In conversations w [...] | 2005-02-22 07:32:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC KOCI AU |
05VIENNA494 | AUSTRIAN RESPONSE: VWP - UPDATE ON 10/26/05 [...] THE ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS POSED IN REFTEL A, PARA 7, HAVE BEEN PROVIDED BY THE AUSTRIAN INTERIOR MINISTRY'S LEGAL DEPARMTENT. (FYI, THEIR PASSPORT OFFICE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL LEGAL AND TECHNICAL ISSUES RELATING TO THE DECENTRALIZED NATIONAL PASSPORT PRODUCTION.) -- NAME OF THE PROJECT MANA [...] | 2005-02-22 07:33:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | CMGT PREL AU |
05VIENNA534 | WTO NON-AGRICULTURAL MARKET ACCESS SECTORS (NAMA): [...] All non-agricultural Austrian manufacturers and industries are mandatory members of the Austrian Economic Chamber (WKO). The WKO is in the best position to comment on which sectors are interested in sectoral tariff liberalization negotiations. WKO WTO Specialist Susanne Schrott to [...] | 2005-02-24 11:58:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD AU WTO |
05VIENNA535 | AUSTRIA: SPECIAL 301 RECOMMENDATION [...] This message provides post's response to ref a request for input to the annual Special 301 review of host country IPR protection practices. According to ref b, the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) has requested that the USG place Austria, as well as eight other EU member st [...] | 2005-02-24 11:59:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KIPR ECON ETRD AU |
05VIENNA546 | EU COMMISSION GMO CO-EXISTENCE SYMPOSIUM IN [...] Summary: The EU Commission hosted a Symposium on Co- Existence of GMO Seeds and Agricultural Production at the ParkHotel in Vienna, Austria, February 22-23, 2005. More than 100 EU biotech experts and policymakers attended the symposium. Participants said that most Member States h [...] | 2005-02-25 12:12:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD TBIO AU |
05VIENNA550 | DEMARCHE ON CSW WOMEN'S ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT: [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. 2. (U) Embassy Vienna conveyed reftel points and the draft resolution to the Austrian MFA Human Rights Bureau on February 23. EconPolOff followed up on February 25 with Eva Koegler, MFA Director for International Women's Issues, who will re [...] | 2005-02-25 15:56:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWMN EAID AU CSW UN |
05VIENNA568 | DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA: SOLICITING DONATIONS FOR [...] (U) EconPolCouns and Pol Unit Chief delivered reftel demarche on February 28 to Thomas Hajnoczi, the MFA's assistant secretary-equivalent Director for Political Military Affairs, and Robert Zischg, MFA Deputy Director for Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation. 2. (U) Hajnoczi an [...] | 2005-02-28 16:14:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC MARR MOPS PREL UP AU NATO |
05VIENNA572 | SYRIAN PRESIDENT ASSAD TO VISIT VIENNA MARCH 15 [...] (C) EconPol Counselor and Pol Unit Chief met Austrian MFA A/S-equivalent for the Middle East and Africa Ralph Scheide on February 28. In the course of a general discussion on Middle East issues, we made reftel points and raised concerns about President Bashir al-Assad's planned visit to Austr [...] | 2005-03-01 08:49:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV SY LE IS AU EUN |
05VIENNA602 | AUSTRIA: FIFTH ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] Entire cable is sensitive but unclassified, please treat accordingly. 2. Below please find Embassy Vienna's submission for the annual TIP Report. Responses are keyed to reftel. BEGIN TEXT: 18. OVERVIEW ------------ A. Austria as a Country of Transit and Destination Police, M [...] | 2005-03-01 20:09:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB AU |
05VIENNA607 | AUSTRIA CONTINUES TO SUPPORT HIZBALLAH DESIGNATION [...] (S) On March 1, Econ Unit Chief met with Johann Froehlich, Head of the MFA's Justice and Home Affairs Division, to deliver ref A talking points. Froehlich reiterated that Austria continues to support Clearinghouse designation of Lebanese Hizballah. "Austria," in Froehlich's words, "was not [...] | 2005-03-02 08:34:00 | Embassy Vienna | SECRET | ETTC PTER EFIN AU EUN |
05VIENNA611 | BLUE LANTERN END-USE CHECKS: LICENSES 05-91445, [...] EconPolCouns and DATT met on March 2 with Hans G. Schiebel, President and CEO of the Schiebel Group and Schiebel Elektronische Geraete GmbH, and Evelyne Pallanich, a Marketing Assistant, at Schiebel's headquarters at Margaretenstrasse 112, A-1050 Vienna. During the meeting, James Rolig, Schi [...] | 2005-03-02 13:08:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC AU TC |
05VIENNA614 | GOA PRESENTS 2006 BUDGET TO PARLIAMENT [...] On March 2, Austrian Finance Minister Karl-Heinz Grasser presented the 2006 budget bill to parliament. For 2006, the GoA forecasts federal budget revenues of Euro 60.4 billion (USD 78.5 billion at the current exchange rate of USD 1.30 for Euro 1.00),expenditures of Euro 66.2 billion (USD 86. [...] | 2005-03-02 13:49:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON EFIN AU |
05VIENNA654 | ASSAD VISIT TO VIENNA POSTPONED INDEFINITELY [...] (C) Markus Lutterotti, Diplomatic Advisor to President Fischer, told the Ambassador March 3 that Bashar al-Assad,s trip has been postponed indefinitely. Lutterotti said that Assad had called Fischer March 2 to postpone the trip (originally planned for March 15) &in view of the present situat [...] | 2005-03-03 11:28:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | OPDC PREL AU FR SY |
05VIENNA655 | DEMARCHE ON UNGA DECLARATION ON HUMAN CLONING: [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. 2. (SBU) Embassy Vienna conveyed reftel points to the Austrian MFA Human Rights Bureau on March 1. EconPolOff followed up on March 2 with Dr. Ingrid Pech, a director in the bureau whose portfolio covers human cloning. Dr. Pech said that th [...] | 2005-03-03 11:48:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO AU UNGA KSCI EUN |
05VIENNA676 | 2006-2007 ILO BUDGET: AUSTRIAN RESPONSE [...] On March 3, Emboffs met with Peter Guschelbauer from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' section responsible for ILO issues, to deliver reftel points. According to Guschelbauer, Austria shares the USG view and will not advocate for such a "substantial increase" in the 2006-07 ILO budget. Austri [...] | 2005-03-04 10:24:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ELAB AU ILO |
05VIENNA697 | ISRAEL'S MEMBERSHIP IN GROUPS AT WIPO, ILO, UNEP, [...] (SBU) EconPolOff delivered ref a demarche on March 4 to Dr. Helmut Boeck, new deputy head of the Austrian MFA's International Organizations Bureau. He observed that some of these issues have been pending since his last stint in the UN Affairs Bureau seven years ago. Boeck told us that, to th [...] | 2005-03-04 16:19:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC ELAB KIPR IS AU WIPO ILO |
05VIENNA7 | LACK OF COMPETITION IN AUSTRIA'S ELECTRICITY MARKET [...] (U) According to a recent report from Austria's Federal Competition Authority, the anticipated benefits from the liberalization of the electricity market in 2001 have not materialized because incumbent providers have successfully cooperated to maintain a de-facto oligopoly. The incumbents ha [...] | 2005-01-04 08:39:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EINV AU EUN |
05VIENNA707 | ATTENDING AUSTRIA'S 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS [...] (SBU) The following message is for the Secretary from Ambassador Brown. 2. (S) Begin text: Dear Madam Secretary: Foreign Minister Plassnik has invited you and your Russian, British, and French counterparts to Vienna for the May 15 commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Austrian [...] | 2005-03-07 13:18:00 | Embassy Vienna | SECRET | PREL OVIP AU |
05VIENNA719 | AUSTRIANS POSITIVE ON NEED FOR SYRIAN WITHDRAWAL [...] (C) Ambassador presented reftel demarche on March 7 to MFA Secretary General (deputy minister equivalent) Johannes Kyrle. Ambassador stressed that what Syrian President Bashar al-Asad had said in his March 5 was not enough: compliance with UNSCR 1559 means a full and immediate withdrawal. T [...] | 2005-03-07 16:05:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SY LE AU |
05VIENNA72 | TFXO01: AUSTRIAN AID TO TOTAL 67 MILLION DOLLARS [...] Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel announced on January 9 that Austrian assistance to the region of the Asian tsunami would total 50 million Euros (USD 67 million at current exchange rates) for 12 assistance projects. Speaking after a meeting with representatives of federal, state and local govern [...] | 2005-01-10 15:05:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR EAID PGOV MOPS CASC XO AU |
05VIENNA725 | Disaster Preparedness in the Austrian Alps [...] Summary: On March 2 and 3, 2005, ConGen and RSO visited the Tyrolean capital of Innsbruck for briefings on disaster preparedness by state government officials. A tour of the State Fire Fighting Institute specifically included, at our request, tunnel fire rescues. We then visited the Avalanch [...] | 2005-03-08 08:43:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC ASEC AEMR AU |
05VIENNA728 | VISAS VIPER MONTHLY REPORT: VIENNA [...] No summary [...] | 2005-03-08 10:51:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KVPR PTER CVIS ASEC PINR AU |
05VIENNA735 | AUSTRALIA GROUP 2005 PLENARY: DEMARCHES DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2005-03-08 16:23:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC PARM PREL AU |
05VIENNA738 | FPO SACKS RIGHT WINGERS AFTER ELECTION LOSSES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Freedom Party (FPO) executive board decided on March 7 to strip prominent right-wingers of party offices. In a reaction to severe losses last weekend in local elections in the state of Lower Austria, the leadership also tasked a six-person reform committee with "renewing" [...] | 2005-03-09 07:11:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR AU |
05VIENNA739 | NEW STRAINS IN FEDERAL COALITION - BOTH SIDES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Friction between Chancellor Schuessel's People's Party (OVP) and the junior coalition partner, the Freedom Party (FPO),is generating a new wave of media speculation about the stability of the federal coalition. Carinthian governor Joerg Haider, in an apparent attempt to distra [...] | 2005-03-09 07:11:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR AU |
05VIENNA74 | WTO SERVICES NEGOTIATIONS: PRIORITIES FOR U.S. [...] Per reftel request, following is a ranking of service sectors in terms of market access priorities (1 is top priority) for U.S. service providers in Austria, as well as post's assessment of the current level of market openness for each sector (high, medium, low): Sectors with rank of 1 --- [...] | 2005-01-10 15:39:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD AU WTO |
05VIENNA764 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: MARCH 09, 2005 [...] The current struggles within the government coalition party FPOe continue, all Austrian media report. Carinthian Governor Joerg Haider insists the Freedom Party is to be "re- launched" in the wake of a continuing decline in voter support. It is not clear what changes are being planned, but Hai [...] | 2005-03-10 07:11:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AU OPRC |
05VIENNA792 | DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA ON MARCH 16 EU FOREIGN [...] (SBU) On March 10, EconPolCouns and Pol Unit Chief presented ref (a) points to Andreas Riecken, the Austrian Foreign Ministry's new EU Affairs director. 2. (C) Riecken made the following substantive comments: -- On the EU's China arms embargo, Riecken said the issue was not supposed to [...] | 2005-03-10 16:33:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETTC PTER HR CH LE KPAL SU RS GG AU EUN |
05VIENNA796 | AUSTRIAN ASSISTANCE TO ANDEAN REGION [...] The GOA focuses its public development assistance (ODA) projects on certain "priority and cooperation countries." None of the Andean states are in this category. Consequently, bilateral projects in the Andean region only accounted for a tiny fraction (0.4%) of Austria's total ODA, which amoun [...] | 2005-03-11 07:47:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PREL CO EC PE BL VE AU EUN |
05VIENNA8 | VISAS VIPER MONTHLY REPORT: VIENNA [...] No summary [...] | 2005-01-04 11:57:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KVPR PTER CVIS ASEC PINR AU |
05VIENNA810 | STATUS OF AUSTRIAN RECONSTRUCTION DISBURSEMENTS IN [...] On March 10, Econ/Pol Counselor and Econ Unit Chief met with Michael Linhart, Managing Director of the Austrian Development Agency, to encourage expeditious disbursement of GoA assistance to Iraq. Linhart confirmed data that post had recently obtained from Lydia Saadat, the MFA's Assistance [...] | 2005-03-11 13:11:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EFIN IZ AU |
05VIENNA840 | AUSTRIAN RESPONSE TO UNHCR 61 DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: EconPolOff delivered ref a demarche on March 11 to Engelbert Theuermann, head of the Austrian MFA's Human Rights Bureau (with responsibility for the CHR). Theuermann reported that he had attended an EU Human Rights working group meeting the previous day which had discussed comm [...] | 2005-03-14 16:05:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL AU UNHRC EUN |
05VIENNA846 | EU CHINA ARMS EMBARGO AND CHINESE FM VISIT: [...] (SBU) EconPolCouns and Pol Unit Chief delivered reftel demarche on March 14 to Thomas Hajnoczi, Austrian MFA A/S-equivalent for Political-Military Affairs and EU Common Foreign and Security Policy. 2. (C) Hajnoczi, who had returned earlier that day from a trip to Washington, recounted tha [...] | 2005-03-15 10:52:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL CM AU EUN |
05VIENNA847 | GEORGIA BORDER MONITORING: AUSTRIAN RESPONSE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-03-15 10:55:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ZJ RS GG PBTS AU EUN OSCE |
05VIENNA850 | HIZBALLAH DESIGNATION NON-PAPER: AUSTRIAN RESPONSE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-03-15 12:02:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PTER EFIN AU EUN |
05VIENNA851 | DISSUADING IRAN FROM INTERFERING IN IRAQ: AUSTRIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2005-03-15 12:20:00 | Embassy Vienna | SECRET | PREL ASEC IZ IR AU |
05VIENNA854 | CHILD MARRIAGE: AUSTRIAN RESPONSE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-03-15 14:05:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB PHUM PGOV SCUL SOCI KWMN AU |
05VIENNA855 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: MARCH 15, 2005 [...] reads the front-page headline in mass-circulation provincial daily "Kleine Zeitung." After Sunday's district council elections in Styria, the SPOe is allegedly speculating that the OeVP-FPOe coalition government will fall apart, the daily says. For SPOe floor leader Josef Cap, whose party all [...] | 2005-03-15 14:16:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AU OPRC |
05VIENNA875 | AUSTRALIA GROUP INFO EXCHANGE AND EXPERTS [...] (SBU) Pol Unit Chief delivered ref (a) points on March 10 to Dorothea Auer, Office Director for Biological and Chemical Weapons in MFA's Bureau for Nonproliferation and Arms Control. Auer said that Austrian representatives (including herself) would certainly attend these meetings. Austria p [...] | 2005-03-16 15:45:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC PARM PREL AU |
05VIENNA907 | SOMALIA - IGAD DEPLOYMENT: AUSTRIAN RESPONSE [...] (SBU) Pol Unit Chief discussed reftel points with Austrian MFA DAS-equivalent for Sub-Saharan Africa Caroline Gudenus on March 18. Gudenus related that an EU fact-finding mission to Somalia in mid-February had found some positive developments. While acceptance of a possible African Union-sp [...] | 2005-03-18 16:26:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SO AF AU UNSC EUN |
05VIENNA945 | FREEDOM PARTY CRISIS HEADING FOR APRIL SHOWDOWN [...] (SBU) The Freedom Party's leadership crisis continues unabated. On March 9, in an apparent damage-containment exercise, the party leadership announced a move to "re- brand" the Freedom Party (FPO) at a special convention on April 23. Meanwhile, Carinthian Governor Joerg Haider has alternatel [...] | 2005-03-22 13:36:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR AU |
05VIENNA963 | UN FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION (FAO) [...] Post conveyed reftel demarche on the independent external evaluation of the FAO to Walter Lichem, Head of the international organizations office in the FMA and to Hedwig Woegerbauer, GoA official responsible for FAO issues in the Ministry of Agriculture. 2. In a follow-up, Lichem told us [...] | 2005-03-23 14:35:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR KUNR AORC AU FAO |
05VIENNA975 | AUSTRIAN RESPONSE TO UK REQUEST FOR AFGHAN [...] (SBU) After coordinating with our British colleagues, EconPolCouns presented reftel points on March 23 to Johannes Froehlich, Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Justice and Home Affairs Division, and Wolfgang Spadinger, Head of the Foreign Ministry's Office for International Cooperation [...] | 2005-03-24 13:38:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SNAR AF UK AU EUN |
05VIENNA981 | TERRORISM FINANCE: LET PRENOTIFICATION [...] (C) On March 24, Econ Unit Chief and Canadian DCM Sheila Coutts jointly met with Birgit Ertl from the Financial Market Division in the Ministry of Finance to discuss the USG and GoC intention to request that the UN 1267 Sanctions Committee list Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LET). Ertl promised to distri [...] | 2005-03-25 08:23:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | KTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL AU |
05VIENNA983 | AUSTRIAN EU PRESIDENCY, FIRST HALF OF 2006 - [...] (SBU) This message provides an informal, first outline of the GoA's planned work program and a calendar of events for Austria's EU Presidency in the first half of 2006. We developed this information from public sources and personal contacts. This outline reflects a preliminary phase of plan [...] | 2005-03-25 09:01:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECIN EFIN ETRD AU EUN |
05VILNIUS1002 | APPLICABILITY OF AGREEMENT TO PROTECT CULTURAL [...] This is a request for guidance. Please see paragraph 12. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) International and American Jewish groups have expressed concerns regarding two construction projects on or near a large Jewish cemetery not far from the center of Vilnius. One is a multi-use buildin [...] | 2005-09-22 08:17:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KTIA LH |
05VILNIUS1004 | EXTRADITION REQUEST FOR DARIUS RAMANAUSKAS [...] This cable addresses reftel request for information regarding the extradition of Lithuanian citizen Darius Ramanauskas on narcotics charges. Post assesses the likelihood that Lithuanian authorities might use torture to extract testimony from Ramanauskas as highly doubtful, especially given th [...] | 2005-09-22 09:55:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | CJAN KCRM SNAR LH |
05VILNIUS1007 | ADAMKUS UPSET ABOUT CONOCOPHILLIPS-LUKOIL BID ON [...] (S) SUMMARY: ConocoPhillips (CP) and Lukoil's plan to submit a joint bid to buy a controlling share of Mazeikiu Nafta (MN) has met with strong expressions of concern from some elements of the GOL, including President Adamkus. Representatives of the two firms visited Vilnius September 19 to pi [...] | 2005-09-23 10:04:00 | Embassy Vilnius | SECRET | EINV ECON PREL PGOV ENRG LH |
05VILNIUS101 | AMBASSADOR PROMOTES U.S.-LITHUANIA RELATIONS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Mull traveled to the provincial city of Mazeikiai, home to the Mazeikiu Nafta oil refinery, January 19-20 to convey a message of close U.S.-Lithuanian ties. He also focused on efforts to combat corruption, intolerance, HIV/AIDS, and trafficking-in-persons. Mazeikiu Na [...] | 2005-01-28 13:59:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG OVIP ELAB PGOV LH |
05VILNIUS1012 | SU-27 CRASH: LITHUANIA TAKING DECISIONS ON BLACK [...] (C) Summary. The GOL accepted Ukraine's offer of assistance in analyzing data on the black boxes recovered from the Russian Su-27. The Government softened its rhetoric against Russia today, stating that there is no evidence to prove the Russian aircraft willfully violated Lithuanian airspace [...] | 2005-09-23 16:28:00 | Embassy Vilnius | SECRET | MOPS PGOV PINS PREL LH RS UP |
05VILNIUS1013 | SECURITY ENVIRONMENT PROFILE QUESTIONNAIRE (SEPQ) [...] DEMONSTRATIONS A. ARE THERE ANY ETHNIC OR RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES IN COUNTRY CAPABLE OF CARRYING OUT SIGNIFICANT ANTI-AMERICAN DEMONSTRATIONS? No B. HAVE THERE BEEN ANTI-AMERICAN DEMONSTRATIONS IN THE COUNTRY WITHIN THE LAST 12 MONTHS? No C. HAVE DEMONSTRATIONS TAKEN PLACE NEAR OR IN [...] | 2005-09-23 16:28:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC LH PTER |
05VILNIUS1017 | UPDATE ON SU-27 CRASH INVESTIGATION [...] (C) The GOL's leadership continued to take a softer line on September 26 on the crash of a Russian Su-27 in Lithuania on September 15 (ref A). A senior briefer stated today that the GOL has "no evidence" that Russia intentionally violated Lithuanian airspace. Work on decoding the black boxes [...] | 2005-09-26 15:18:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV PINS PREL RS UP LH |
05VILNIUS1022 | LITHUANIA'S DRUG CONTROL STRATEGY [...] (SBU) Overall drug use and addiction rates in Lithuania are low, and policymakers are debating how to keep them that way. To encourage that discussion, Embassy Vilnius hosted a half-day conference on USG policy regarding drug prevention and treatment for over 60 influential decision-makers fro [...] | 2005-09-27 13:19:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV SNAR LH |
05VILNIUS1023 | CHINA,S RELATIONSHIP WITH LITHUANIA: FORM OVER [...] (C) China's diplomatic and economic profile in Lithuania is growing. There are more visits by official Chinese, an expanding diplomatic presence, and a burgeoning commercial relationship. GOL officials have told us that they see clear signs of greater Chinese interest in Lithuania. Increas [...] | 2005-09-27 13:19:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CH LH |
05VILNIUS1029 | LITHUANIA: EXTREMISM IS CONTAINED, BUT INTOLERANCE [...] SUMMARY. (U) Manifestations of extremism in Lithuania are infrequent, mostly localized, and rarely virulent. Extremists exist, but their political clout here is minute. Expressions of intolerance, including anti-Semitism, are more common than acts of violence or vandalism, although infrequent [...] | 2005-09-28 13:59:00 | Embassy Vilnius | SECRET | PREL KDEM KPAO EAID PHUM KMPI LH |
05VILNIUS103 | PRT ROADMAP: FROM LITHUANIA TO AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Summary. In order to build upon our diplomatic success securing Lithuanian leadership of a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Afghanistan, the USG should now move quickly to formalize plans to provide tangible deliverables to the GOL. Lithuania is urgently seeking Washington commitm [...] | 2005-01-28 14:32:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MCAP PGOV PREL LH |
05VILNIUS104 | LITHUANIA: FOREIGN MINISTER HINTS AT RUSSIAN HAND [...] (C) Foreign Minister Valionis told Ambassador Mull January 27 he suspects Russian special services are behind recent public charges that he and State Security Department (VSD) chief Pocius had obscured past KGB links. Valionis, citing reports of Russian unhappiness over his recent role in th [...] | 2005-01-28 14:38:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL RS LH |
05VILNIUS1046 | SU-27 UPDATE: INVESTIGATION PROCEEDS, PILOT REMAINS [...] (C) Summary: GOL defense leadership told the Ambassador September 30 that the black box data supports the conclusion that the September 15 intrusion of a Russian Su-27 into Lithuanian airspace and subsequent crash was accidental. GOL leaders publicly and privately express frustration at the [...] | 2005-09-30 15:03:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV PINS PREL RS UP LH |
05VILNIUS1049 | TERRORIST FINANCING: LITHUANIA ACCEPTS EU COURT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Acting Head of the MFA's Threat Analysis Division told us on September 28 that Lithuania continues to support dialogue to ensure effective sanctions against terrorist financing. Stonys said that the GOL is pleased that the European Court of First Instance (ECI) decided the [...] | 2005-10-03 14:45:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTFN KPAO PREL PGOV PTER LH |
05VILNIUS1050 | GOL WILL PRESS UKRAINE ON NATO MUNITIONS PROJECT [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-03 14:59:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL MASS UP LH |
05VILNIUS1057 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL KOLBE [...] Congressman Kolbe, thanks to you and your colleagues for traveling to Lithuania. Your visit here will provide an opportunity to show gratitude to Lithuania for its staunch and unwavering support in the U.S.-led Global War on Terror, including its decision to establish and lead a Provincial Re [...] | 2005-10-04 07:04:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL OVIP BO LH |
05VILNIUS1062 | GOL SUPPORTS DESIGNATING LTTE AS TERRORIST GROUP [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-05 05:20:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KTFN PREL PTER CO LH |
05VILNIUS1070 | SU-27 CRASH INVESTIGATION ENDS, PILOT SET TO [...] (SBU) Lithuania's Prosecutor General on October 6 closed the investigation of Russian pilot Valery Troyanov's involvement in the September 15 crash of a Russian Su-27 in Lithuania (ref A) and lifted his house arrest. Press reports indicate that Troyanov and his wife plan to depart Lithuania [...] | 2005-10-06 16:22:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV PINS PREL RS LH |
05VILNIUS1075 | TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICER FOR [...] (SBU) The Terrorism Finance Coordinating Officer (TFCO) for Embassy Vilnius is DCM Tom Kelly, tel: 370-5-266-5535, e-mail: kellytp@state.gov. The TFCO Deputy is Scott Woodard, Economic Officer, tel: 370-5-266-5500, e-mail: woodards@state.gov. 2. (U) We believe it would be useful and conv [...] | 2005-10-07 15:01:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KTFN KVPR EFIN ETTC PREL LH |
05VILNIUS1076 | LITHUANIA TRIES TO EXPLAIN AWAY [...] (C) Summary: Lithuanian Foreign Minister Valionis accepted U.S. and EU Presidency criticism of recent Lithuanian machinations regarding Belarus October 7. His top policy deputy acknowledged that Lithuania was "damaged" by the meeting earlier this week between the Lithuanian and Belarusian [...] | 2005-10-07 15:20:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PREL PGOV BO LH |
05VILNIUS1093 | CODEL KOLBE AND BELARUSIAN OPPOSITION DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary: The congressional delegation led by Congressman Jim Kolbe expressed unwavering commitment to a diverse group of Belarusian opposition leaders and pledged its continued support for democratic change in Belarus. Two U.S. NGOs, the International Republican Institute and the Nation [...] | 2005-10-12 14:14:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR BO LH |
05VILNIUS1100 | LITHUANIA'S NEWEST IMMIGRANTS [...] SUMMARY: Immigration to Lithuania is increasing, with foreign workers filling gaps in the local economy as Lithuanians continue to emigrate in large numbers. Countries of the former Soviet Union, notably Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine, are the primary source of Lithuania's immigrants. With some [...] | 2005-10-14 11:27:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SMIG ELAB ECON PGOV LH |
05VILNIUS1103 | CODEL KOLBE DISCUSSES GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR AND [...] (SBU) Summary. Representative Jim Kolbe led a six-Member congressional delegation to Vilnius October 10-12. The delegation discussed democracy-building initiatives in the region, reviewed U.S. bilateral and multilateral foreign assistance programs, and Lithuania's relationship with Russia wi [...] | 2005-10-14 14:19:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ENRG LH |
05VILNIUS1121 | YOUR VISIT TO LITHUANIA [...] (C) Mr. Secretary, you will arrive in Lithuania this weekend with our relations with this small but steadfast ally at their best level yet. Lithuania supports and participates in every major U.S. foreign policy initiative. Its Provincial Reconstruction Team in Chagcharan, Afghanistan -- whi [...] | 2005-10-19 14:46:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV LH |
05VILNIUS1136 | GOL CONSIDERS ADDITIONAL AID TO PAKISTAN VIA NATO [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-21 15:58:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | AEMR ASEC EAID MASS PGOV PREF PREL LH |
05VILNIUS1153 | (S) MTAG 03-03: GOL CONFIRMS END-USE OF MACEDONIAN [...] (S) Donatas Ziugzda, Head of the MFA's Arms Control, Non-proliferation and Disarmament Division, informed us that the GOL's interagency import control board approved the application of the Kaunas-based British company Jurby Watertech to import a "MAW 20 MS3" filament winding machine (ref A). [...] | 2005-10-27 13:48:00 | Embassy Vilnius | SECRET | PARM PREL ETTC MK LH |
05VILNIUS1155 | LITHUANIA CONGRATULATES IRAQ FOR CONSTITUTION [...] The GOL, October 27, issued a press release congratulating the Iraqi people on the adoption of their new constitution. Text of statement follows. 2. Begin text. CONGRATULATIONS ON IRAQI CONSTITUTION ADOPTION BY REFERENDUM. Lithuania congratulates Iraqi people on adoption of the first C [...] | 2005-10-27 15:14:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV LH IZ |
05VILNIUS1156 | GOL CONDEMNS IRANIAN PRESIDENT'S REMARKS ABOUT [...] (U) The Baltic News Service agency reported October 27 that an MFA spokesperson made the following statement in response to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's comments regarding Israel. 2. (U) Begin text of statement. Lithuania condemns the exhortations by Iran's President Mahmoud [...] | 2005-10-27 15:26:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL IR IS LH |
05VILNIUS1161 | GOL SUPPORTS USG POLICY ON BELARUS [...] (C) Summary: The GOL is refocusing its efforts to promote democracy in Belarus after fielding criticism from the USG and EU for overstepping the bounds of the agreed non-engagement policy. GOL foreign policy decision-makers admit that the Prime Minister's October 4 meeting with Belarusian PM [...] | 2005-10-29 07:40:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PREL PHUM EAID PGOV BO UP LH |
05VILNIUS1166 | EAC FOR AVIAN INFLUENZA PLANNING [...] Vilnius EAC convened October 25 to discuss preparedness for Avian Flu contingencies and decided to take the following safety measures: A. Post will procure small amounts of Tamiflu for contingencies until Department orders of the same arrive at Post. B. Post will procure hand sanitiz [...] | 2005-11-02 05:39:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | AMED AMGT ASEC LH |
05VILNIUS1186 | CONOCOPHILLIPS SET TO REQUEST USG ADVOCACY ON BID [...] This cable contains confidential proprietary business information. Please handle accordingly. 2. (C) SUMMARY: ConocoPhillips Chairman and CEO James Mulva told the Ambassador October 27 that CP will likely bid with the Russian oil giant Lukoil on a controlling share of Lithuania's Mazeikiu [...] | 2005-11-04 05:36:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EINV PREL PGOV LH |
05VILNIUS1188 | GOL CONTRIBUTING TO NATO MISSION IN PAKISTAN [...] (U) Summary: The GOL is heeding NATO's call for contributions to its relief effort in Pakistan by sending water purifications specialists and equipment to the affected region under the Alliance's umbrella. This comes on top of the GOL's previous financial (104,000 USD) and material (tents an [...] | 2005-11-04 14:32:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PHUM PREL PK LH |
05VILNIUS1190 | LITHUANIA'S PM FACES CHALLENGE TO HIS INTEGRITY [...] (C) Allegations that Prime Minister Brazauskas's wife benefited from a sweetheart deal with Russian oil giant Lukoil are prompting new strains in Lithuania's ruling coalition. Coalition leaders reined in an anti-Brazauskas movement November 2, but confrontation is brewing with the opposition [...] | 2005-11-04 14:39:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL LH |
05VILNIUS1191 | LITHUANIA CONSIDERING PROPOSED MESSAGE ON BELARUS [...] (C) We delivered ref A points to Tomas Gulbinas, head of the MFA's Common Foreign and Security Policy Department, November 2. Gulbinas said that he did not have an immediate response to our proposal, but would pass our points to the GOL's EU mission and to the Belarus desk. He commented that [...] | 2005-11-04 14:47:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PREL PGOV BO LH |
05VILNIUS1198 | A SETBACK FOR LITHUANIA'S PM, A BOOST FOR USPASKICH [...] (C) The Parliament narrowly voted November 8 to begin investigation of Prime Minister Brazauskas and his family's business interests, despite ostensible ruling coalition support for defeating the measure. An opposition solidly united behind the Conservatives and the refusal of several coaliti [...] | 2005-11-09 16:13:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL LH |
05VILNIUS120 | LITHUANIA CONGRATULATES IRAQ ON SUCCESSFUL [...] (C) We delivered reftel A points regarding Iraq's elections to Kestutis Jankauskas, Director of the MFA's Security Policy Department on January 31. The GOL did not release any statements before the elections (reftel B),but Jankauskas was preparing a post-election declaration for Foreign Mini [...] | 2005-02-03 10:57:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS LH |
05VILNIUS1202 | VILNIUS UNATTENDED OPERATIONS WAIVER REQUEST [...] (S) Post requests a temporary waiver to begin 24-hour unattended operations for classified communications. Post needs to have all message traffic available at the beginning of the business day in order to operate efficiently in response to Washington taskings. We cannot do that now without i [...] | 2005-11-10 15:09:00 | Embassy Vilnius | SECRET | AADP ABLD AMGT ACOA ASEC KRIM LH |
05VILNIUS1203 | LITHUANIA WILL STICK CLOSE TO DENMARK IN IRAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-10 15:22:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PREL IZ DA LH |
05VILNIUS1222 | GOL AGREES TO JEWISH COMMUNAL PROPERTY RESTITUTION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOL's Ministry of Justice and representatives of the Jewish community, with our prodding, have agreed on the substance and text of an amended law authorizing communal property restitution. The law will establish a payment schedule for monetary restitution to the local Jewis [...] | 2005-11-18 15:16:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KNAR SOCI PHUM LH |
05VILNIUS1223 | LITHUANIAN DAILY ATTACKS OPEN SOCIETY FUND, CIVIL SOCIETY [...] (SBU) A weeklong, continuing series of articles in Lithuania's second leading daily "Respublika" has attacked several Western- oriented NGO leaders whose organizations have received funding from George Soros's Open Society Fund (OSF). The attacks impugn the intentions of the NGOs and tar weste [...] | 2005-11-18 15:30:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON KPAO KNAR LH |
05VILNIUS1224 | CONOCOPHILLIPS BACK IN TOWN TO PURSUE INTEREST IN [...] (SBU) ConocoPhillips (CP) President and CEO James Mulva, during a November 18 meeting with Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas, reiterated CP's interest in buying the Mazeikiu Nafta (MN) oil refinery in an equal partnership with the Russian oil firm Lukoil. A PM spokeswoman told us that Mulva [...] | 2005-11-18 15:46:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EINV PGOV PREL LH |
05VILNIUS1226 | CONSULAR PUBLIC OUTREACH ON VISA WAIVER AND ACS [...] SUMMARY: We take the Department's message about the relationship between active public diplomacy and good consular work (ref a) seriously in Vilnius. This post has an active consular public outreach program, with particular emphasis on public diplomacy aspects of Lithuania's Visa Waiver Roadm [...] | 2005-11-21 14:24:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | CMGT CVIS KPAO CASC LH |
05VILNIUS1228 | AIR POLICING DECISION CASTS LONG SHADOW IN [...] (C) Summary: Extending NATO's interim Baltic air policing program or making it permanent is one of the GOL's highest security policy objectives. The GOL will look for continuation of 24/7 Baltic coverage as the optimal outcome of NATO's review of its air policing policy, and for NATO to def [...] | 2005-11-21 14:51:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LH |
05VILNIUS1238 | PM BRAZAUSKAS RIDING OUT POLITICAL TURBULENCE [...] (SBU) Lithuania's Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas quashed a parliamentary inquiry and continues to hold the ruling coalition together amidst investigations into his wife's business dealings. While two law enforcement institutions have launched investigations at President Adamkus's request, [...] | 2005-11-23 11:46:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LH |
05VILNIUS1239 | LITHUANIA READY ON PAPER TO COUNTER AVIAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOL has plans in place to manage a possible outbreak of avian influenza or human pandemic influenza. An outbreak of extremely virulent human pandemic influenza would undoubtedly strain Lithuania's capabilities, but the GOL likely would report its situation truthfully and s [...] | 2005-11-23 14:17:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID PREL LT |
05VILNIUS1240 | GOL SEEKS TO PLAY THE RUSSIAN CARD WITH LUKASHENKO [...] (C) Summary: The GOL believes that a joint USG-EU mission to Belarus to deliver a strong message to the regime is doomed to fail if the Government of Russia does not also participate. The MFA argues that any trip to Minsk by a high-level USG official should include a stop in Moscow aimed at [...] | 2005-11-23 15:28:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BO RS LH |
05VILNIUS1242 | LITHUANIA'S VISA WAIVER ROADMAP: COOPERATION AND [...] This is an action request--see paragraphs 5 and 6. 2. Post has held more than a dozen informal meetings on Visa Waiver Roadmap (VWR) issues since the last two formal Consular Working Group meetings in July (refs C and D). Post and the MFA have also made significant progress on joint VWR pub [...] | 2005-11-25 13:40:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | CMGT CVIS KFRD CASC LH |
05VILNIUS1243 | LITHUANIA WILLING TO RAISE NGO LAW WITH RUSSIA [...] (C) We delivered reftel points regarding Russia's proposed new NGO law to Arunas Vinciunas, head of the MFA's Russia Division, on November 25. Vinciunas told us that the GOL shares our concerns regarding potential constraints on NGO activities. He noted that the GOL Ambassador in Moscow rece [...] | 2005-11-25 13:52:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL RS LH |
05VILNIUS1244 | DUTCH COURT FREES SHARES OF LITHUANIAN OIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: A Dutch court lifted restrictions November 24 on Yukos-owned shares of Lithuania's Mazeikiu Nafta oil refinery (MN). The decision appears to allow Yukos to proceed with the sale of its majority stake in MN. The larger legal battle over Yukos's holdings continues, however, and a [...] | 2005-11-25 14:30:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EINV PGOV PREL LH |
05VILNIUS1265 | ANTI-TIP INITIATIVES IN LITHUANIA [...] Lithuanian law enforcement recently broke up two cross-border trafficking groups and announced the creation of a new department to increase international cooperation. Partly as a result of such increasingly frequent busts, media attention to TIP issues is growing. GOL representatives, NGOs, [...] | 2005-12-01 15:38:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KCRM KWMN ELAB PREF LH |
05VILNIUS1266 | LITHUANIA INTERESTED IN USG-RUSSIA DIALOG [...] (C) We conveyed ref A points regarding the December 2 USG-GOR bilateral to Arunas Vinciunas, head of the MFA's Russia Division, December 1. Vinciunas agreed that additional dialogue and confidence-building would be useful. He was particularly interested in learning whether the USG expected to [...] | 2005-12-02 08:21:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS LH |
05VILNIUS1271 | LITHUANIAN PROSECUTOR AGAIN CHALLENGES EDITOR'S [...] (U) Lithuania's Prosecutor General has filed a final appeal of the court order to dismiss the case against the newspaper owner and editor Vitas Tomkus for distributing allegedly anti-Semitic and anti-homosexual articles two years ago. The new appeal argues that the court erred by considering [...] | 2005-12-02 15:43:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM SOCI LH |
05VILNIUS1272 | LITHUANIA'S WORK AND TRAVEL PROGRAM [...] Summary. Lithuania's Summer Work and Travel Program (SWT),one of the largest programs per capita in the world, sends 2,000 university students to more than 30 states each year. Concentrated primarily in service-oriented positions in tourist areas along the East Coast and Great Lakes, Lithu [...] | 2005-12-05 06:15:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS CMGT CPAS PGOV LH |
05VILNIUS1275 | PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM B1/B2 VISA VALIDATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: We have completed work on the first three months of a year-long, B1/B2 validation study. Two percent of our randomly selected applicants during this period did not return, while another one percent remain as suspected yet unconfirmed overstays. While this preliminary data does [...] | 2005-12-05 11:30:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS KFRD LH |
05VILNIUS1277 | GOL DEFENSE SPENDING ON THE RISE [...] (SBU) Summary: Lithuania is set to achieve a 15 percent increase in its defense budget in 2006 in absolute terms. The key benchmark of military spending as a percentage of GDP will rise from 1.27 in 2005 to 1.32. Defense officials and key members of parliament are aware that sustained increas [...] | 2005-12-05 14:56:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS LH |
05VILNIUS1278 | TWO U.S. AIRMEN FROM NATO MISSION DETAINED [...] (C) SUMMARY: Lithuanian police detained two U.S. servicemen following a dispute at a local Vilnius club on November 26. A Lithuanian and Somali citizen claim they were assaulted by the American parties, who deny the allegations and claim mistreatment themselves. The Lithuanian authorities ar [...] | 2005-12-05 15:28:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS LH |
05VILNIUS1284 | LITHUANIA HAS NO AI-RELATED IMPORT RESTRICTIONS ON [...] The Lithuanian State Food and Veterinary Service (SFVS) told us that Lithuania has no AI-related ban on the import of U.S. poultry products. Lithuania does, however, maintain a ban on imports of U.S. poultry due to an ongoing dispute between the United States and EU over anti-microbial treatm [...] | 2005-12-08 09:20:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EAGR LH |
05VILNIUS1287 | AMBASSADOR COUNTERS ATTACKS ON LITHUANIA'S NGO [...] (C) Respublika Group media outlets and Lithuanian politicians continue to attack legitimate non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in a seemingly coordinated campaign that began November 8 (reftel). Ambassador Mull, responding publicly to an inquiry from the Labor Party, defended USG support f [...] | 2005-12-08 13:53:00 | Embassy Vilnius | SECRET | PGOV ECON KPAO KNAR LH |
05VILNIUS1288 | LITHUANIA: 2005 INSCR NARCOTICS AND CHEMICAL [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-09 11:37:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PREL LH |
05VILNIUS1291 | LITHUANIA'S DEFENSE BUDGET FALLS SHORT OF [...] (U) Lithuania's parliament approved a defense budget for 2006 on December 8 that falls short of the Lithuanian armed forces' hopes -- and of the GOL's commitment to NATO. Despite an 11 percent increase in absolute terms over last year's appropriation, defense spending will remain at 1.27 perc [...] | 2005-12-09 16:19:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS LH |
05VILNIUS1292 | LITHUANIA: 2005 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] General assessment: No acts of international terrorism of major significance occurred in Lithuania during 2005. Lithuania is not designated as a state sponsor of terrorism, and has not otherwise been determined by the Secretary of State to be subject to the Country Reports on Terrorism. 2. [...] | 2005-12-12 06:31:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC LH PTER |
05VILNIUS13 | LITHUANIA REAFFIRMS INTEREST IN AFGHANISTAN PRT [...] (C) Summary. Lithuania is seriously considering leading a Provincial Reconstruction Team mission in Afghanistan. The MFA will brief the Foreign Minister and Defense Minister on the issue on January 6. Following the return of a GOL fact-finding team from Kabul and Mazar-i-Sharif on January 1 [...] | 2005-01-05 14:32:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MARR MCAP PGOV PREL LH |
05VILNIUS1304 | LITHUANIA TO DISCUSS FOREIGN DEPLOYMENTS [...] (C) Summary. Parliamentary Speaker Arturas Paulauskas called on Lithuania's National Defense Council December 12 to develop a long-term strategy for involvement in Iraq and other foreign military missions. Government officials recognize the unfortunate timing of Paulauskas's proposal, coming [...] | 2005-12-14 13:30:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL IZ LH |
05VILNIUS1305 | NGO CONCERNS -- NOT JUST IN RUSSIA [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel points regarding Russia's proposed new NGO law to Arunas Vinciunas, head of the MFA's Russia desk on December 13. He told us that the GOL continues to share our concerns regarding potential constraints on NGO activities. According to Vinciunas, however, the Nordic a [...] | 2005-12-14 15:58:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL RS LH |
05VILNIUS1312 | FIRST LITHUANIAN EXTRADITED TO THE UNITED STATES [...] On December 8, 2005, Anjei Iantsevitch became the first Lithuanian extradited to the United States. He was arrested in on November 8 2005 at his home in Vilnius. 2. Iantsevitch is the subject of a criminal indictment of the Northern District of New York on counterfeit securities charges. [...] | 2005-12-15 16:23:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC CJAN KCRM LH |
05VILNIUS1323 | LITHUANIA UNFAZED BY U.S. DRAWDOWN; PLANS TO SEND [...] (SBU) We delivered ref A and B points regarding the upcoming January Afghanistan Compact in London and the proposed troop drawdown in Afghanistan to Vytautas Leskevicius, head of the MFA's NATO division, on December 21. We also delivered ref B points December 20 to Alvydas Kunigelis, Acting D [...] | 2005-12-21 15:11:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MOPS PGOV EAID AF LH |
05VILNIUS1328 | LITHUANIA: REINVIGORATING PD CULTURAL AND SPORTS [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-22 15:03:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL LH |
05VILNIUS1341 | TERRORIST FINANCE: LITHUANIA RECEIVES LET [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-23 12:25:00 | Embassy Vilnius | SECRET | KTFN EFIN ETTC PK PREL PTER LH |
05VILNIUS1345 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL SENSENBRENNER [...] Post warmly welcomes CODEL Sensenbrenner and is pleased to grant country clearance for the period of January 10-12, 2006 for the purpose of high-level discussions regarding visa policy in Lithuania. 2. Ambassador Mull will greet the CODEL on its arrival at the airport. The Embassy's poin [...] | 2005-12-28 14:51:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AMGT OREP ASEC AFIN FR NL PL RS LH |
05VILNIUS1346 | GOL REQUESTS USG INPUT ON HELICOPTER TRAINING FOR [...] (U) This is a short-fuse action request; see para 6. We need input from Washington by OOB January 5. 2. (C) Summary: The GOL is currently considering approval of a contract for a Lithuanian firm to broker a deal for its Russian partner to provide training to Iranian helicopter pilots. T [...] | 2005-12-29 14:57:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL ETTC MCAP IR RS LH |
05VILNIUS1347 | Avian Influenza: Lithuania tripwires and contingency [...] Embassy Vilnius has reviewed the preparedness steps and tripwire guidance in ref A. As requested, we have developed our own readiness measures against avian influenza, including tripwires for possible drawdown requests and shelter-in-place plans. 2. Per paragraph 6 of ref A, Post has atte [...] | 2005-12-30 06:33:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT ASEC CASC AMED AEMR LH |
05VILNIUS1352 | NO SIGNS OF PROLIFERATION RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH [...] (S) SUMMARY: We discussed Achema's purchase of the fertilizer production equipment described in reftels with company representatives, and are reassured by what they told us. Achema plans to relocate 90-95 percent of the purchased equipment from Cyprus to its production facility in Lithuania [...] | 2005-12-30 14:03:00 | Embassy Vilnius | SECRET | ETTC LH MARR MCAP PREL LT IR CY |
05VILNIUS1354 | GOL READJUSTING IN IRAQ BASED ON SAME RATIONALE AS [...] (C) We delivered ref A points on USG troop readjustments in Iraq to Ministry of Defense Undersecretary Renatas Norkus on December 28 and Vytautas Leskevicius, of the MFA's Security Policy Department, on December 29. Both officials said that the GOL's decision not to replace the detachment of [...] | 2005-12-30 14:50:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PREL MARR MOPS IZ PL LH |
05VILNIUS138 | Minister of Environment Setting New Priorities in [...] (SBU) Ambassador Mull met with Minister of Environment Arunas Kundrotas on February 8 as part of his tour of the GoL's new cabinet (refs A and previous). The Ambassador recalled the extensive bilateral environmental protection cooperation that has taken place, noted ongoing cooperation in are [...] | 2005-02-10 11:40:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV PGOV ECON EPET TBIO TSPL LH RS |
05VILNIUS139 | A/S HARTY'S MEETING WITH GOL CONSULAR OFFICIALS [...] (U) Summary: Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs Maura Harty met with Lithuanian Vice Foreign Minister Zenonas Petrauskas and Consular Department Director Vaidotas Verba on February 2, 2005. The MFA demonstrated its plans for biometric identity documents and suggested a potential soluti [...] | 2005-02-10 11:48:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV CASC PREL CVIS CMGT ASEC LH |
05VILNIUS144 | LITHUANIA'S FINANCE MINISTER OUTLINES GOL ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) Summary. Finance Minister Algirdas Butkevicius, meeting with Ambassador Mull on February 9, delivered an optimistic prognosis for Lithuania's continued strong economic growth. While stressing that some politically difficult questions still lie ahead, Butkevicius discussed several areas [...] | 2005-02-11 14:17:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | AFIN ECON EFIN LH PGOV PREL |
05VILNIUS152 | LITHUANIA TO REITERATE CALL FOR NATO FLEXIBILITY [...] (C) Summary. Lithuania, probably through President Valdas Adamkus, will utilize the February 22 NATO-Ukraine Council Summit to reiterate its call for NATO to respond positively to the new political reality in Ukraine, to elevate the NATO-Ukraine partnership to a new level, and to urge the All [...] | 2005-02-15 16:17:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LH |
05VILNIUS153 | FRENCH FM IN VILNIUS: OPTIMISTIC FOR IMPROVED [...] (C) SUMMARY: French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier, in Vilnius for consultations with Lithuania's political leadership two days after his meeting in Paris with Secretary Rice, spoke warmly of the Secretary's visit to Europe and publicly expressed optimism about the future of transatlantic rel [...] | 2005-02-15 16:32:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV FR LH |
05VILNIUS155 | SPECIAL ENVOY FOR HOLOCAUST ISSUES VISITS [...] Summary. Ambassador Edward O'Donnell, Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues, discussed property restitution, Holocaust education, and anti-Semitism with GOL officials and Jewish community leaders during a January 31-February 2 visit to Vilnius. Ambassador O'Donnell commended the level of Holoca [...] | 2005-02-17 09:17:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KNAR SOCI PHUM OVIP LH |
05VILNIUS162 | VISA WAIVER PROGRAM: LITHUANIA PREFERS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 17, Charge discussed with MFA representatives Lithuania's progress in conforming to Visa Waiver Program (VWP) regulations as part of a "roadmap" initiative (ref A). He cautioned that accession to VWP would likely not occur in the immediate future. GOL representativ [...] | 2005-02-22 09:38:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS PREL LH |
05VILNIUS165 | LITHUANIA: YEAR 2005 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW [...] Lithuania is making progress against intellectual property rights (IPR),but it should remain on the Watch List for 2005 due to persistent weaknesses in its enforcement system. A local industry association estimates that the rate of piracy for recorded music, films, and games dropped to 40 p [...] | 2005-02-22 12:23:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KIPR ETRD LH |
05VILNIUS174 | LITHUANIA-RUSSIA COMMISSION DISCUSS TARIFFS, DEBT, [...] No summary [...] | 2005-02-23 14:55:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LH |
05VILNIUS175 | LITHUANIA TO HOST MARCH EU MEETING ON BELARUS [...] (U) Mindaugas Kacerauskas, head of MFA's Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova Division told us February 22 that Lithuania will host the March 17-18 EU Commission meeting on Belarus. The event sponsors, Lithuania's MFA and the EU Commission's Directorate of External Relations, plan to bring together g [...] | 2005-02-24 06:04:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LH |
05VILNIUS18 | LITHUANIA TO ATTEND UNOCHA TSUNAMI DONOR CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-01-07 08:43:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR EAID PGOV LH |
05VILNIUS182 | LITHUANIA 2005 ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) [...] (SBU) Summary: Lithuania is a country of origin, transit, and destination for international trafficking in women. Although the exact extent and magnitude of trafficking in persons (TIP) in Lithuania is unknown, Europol estimates that over 1,200 Lithuanian women are victims of human trafficki [...] | 2005-02-25 13:47:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KCRM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF LH |
05VILNIUS198 | LITHUANIA SOLICITING SUPPORT FOR CHAGCHARAN PRT [...] (C) Summary. Kestutis Jankauskas, Director of the MFA's Security Policy Department, on February 25 outlined the status of Lithuania's planning for the Lithuania-led provincial reconstruction team (PRT) in Chagcharan, Afghanistan, and GOL efforts to solicit support for the mission from NATO al [...] | 2005-03-01 12:57:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MCAP PREL PGOV LH |
05VILNIUS200 | LITHUANIAN MINISTER USPASKICH'S VISIT SCENESETTER [...] (C) Your meeting with the Baltic Ministers of Economy will provide an opportunity to underscore to Lithuania's Minister Victor Uspaskich the need to do more to attract U.S. direct investment. Uspaskich, who came to office in December 2004, has publicly recognized that increasing foreign invest [...] | 2005-03-01 13:52:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EFIN LH |
05VILNIUS240 | LITHUANIA WELCOMES U.S. OFFICER ASSIGNMENTS TO PRT [...] This cable contains an action request in para 3. 2. DCM informed MFA Undersecretary Dalius Cekuolis March 8, per reftel, of the USG plan to assign a State Department Officer (retired FSO Michael Metrinko) and a USAID officer to the Lithuanian-led Provincial Reconstruction Team in Chagcharan [...] | 2005-03-09 15:09:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MOPS AF LH |
05VILNIUS244 | STATUS OF COMPLIANCE - SECURITY OVERSIGHT [...] No summary [...] | 2005-03-10 11:07:00 | Embassy Vilnius | SECRET | ASEC ASIG |
05VILNIUS252 | SCENESETTER FOR MINISTER OF DEFENSE GEDIMINAS [...] (C) Mr. Secretary, Lithuanian Defense Minister Kirkilas comes to Washington March 14 eager to demonstrate that, despite inexperience in defense policy, he is a capable and committed friend to the U.S. His performance in less than three months on the job has been impressively favorable to our [...] | 2005-03-10 15:23:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PINR LH |
05VILNIUS253 | Lithuania Needs Night Vision Devices [...] I would like to appeal for your assistance in taking a look at a policy that is effectively denying one of our staunchest allies in Iraq and Afghanistan the ability to fully realize its potential in supporting our interests. Lithuania has been seeking for several months the transfer of Night [...] | 2005-03-10 15:52:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL LH |
05VILNIUS257 | LITHUANIA'S PRT IN CHAGCHARAN: FILLING THE RANKS [...] (C) This cable contains an action request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (C) Summary. Kestutis Jankauskas, Director of the MFA's Security Policy Department, said the GOL will ask Parliament to double the number of troops deployable to Afghanistan. Jankuaskas provided an update of pledges of [...] | 2005-03-15 07:33:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MCAP PREL PGOV LH AF |
05VILNIUS266 | LITHUANIA TO REVIEW DRAFT RESOLUTION ON BELARUS [...] No summary [...] | 2005-03-16 06:04:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | BO LH |
05VILNIUS276 | VISA WAIVER PROGRAM: LITHUANIA ACCEPTS ROADMAP, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOL, initially hesitant to pursue a formal agreement, is now anxious to accept the VWP roadmap following the model of other countries in the region. MFA officials remain very interested in arranging U.S. consultations, to examine both biometric security and "customer servic [...] | 2005-03-16 14:28:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS PREL LH |
05VILNIUS28 | LITHUANIA INCSR (INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL [...] Money laundering is not a significant problem in Lithuania. Strict legal and regulatory controls and the GOL's cooperation with international regulatory counterparts explain the government's success. The Lithuanian government increased controls to prevent financial crimes and money launderi [...] | 2005-01-10 14:39:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR EFIN KCRM PTER KTFN LH |
05VILNIUS283 | RABBI BAKER PRESSES FOR RESTITUTION RESULTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Lithuanian Government and political leaders reaffirmed their commitment to restitution of Jewish communal property during a series of meetings with visiting American Jewish Committee official Rabbi Andrew Baker March 7-8. Paving the way for Baker's visit, the local Jewish com [...] | 2005-03-17 13:50:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KNAR SOCI PHUM OVIP LH |
05VILNIUS289 | AMBASSADOR VISITS LITHUANIA'S REACTOR, DISCUSSES [...] Ambassador Mull made a day-long tour of northeastern Lithuania on March 16. During his visit, he heard concerns from local mayors about the lack of local employment opportunities to absorb the large (3,500) Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) reactor workforce once the only remaining functi [...] | 2005-03-18 14:31:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG PGOV PREL LH |
05VILNIUS3 | LITHUANIA 2005 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] To maintain its high rate of growth, Lithuania needs more foreign investment. The government affords foreign investors equal protection to domestic investors, and sets few limitations on their activities. Foreign investors have the right to repatriate or reinvest profits without restriction [...] | 2005-01-03 14:24:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV KIDE ECON KTDB LH |
05VILNIUS300 | LITHUANIA OIL STILL FLOWING, BUT MANY FINGERS [...] (C) Mazeikiu Nafta General Director Nelson English and Vice Minister of Economy Nerijus Eidukevicius told us they are optimistic that Russian crude will continue to flow through the Transneft pipeline to Lithuania's Mazeikiu Nafta refinery through the end of the year, despite press reports to [...] | 2005-03-22 12:28:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ENRG LH RS |
05VILNIUS306 | MINISTER OF SOCIAL SECURITY AND LABOR LAYS OUT VISION FOR [...] SUMMARY: On March 21, Ambassador Mull met with Vilija Blinkeviciute, the Minster of Social Security and Labor, as part of his ongoing series of discussions with cabinet members of the new GOL (ref a). Ms. Blinkeviciute, a member of the Social Liberal party who came in fourth in the first rou [...] | 2005-03-23 08:14:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELAB EINV PGOV PHUM LH |
05VILNIUS313 | Government of Lithuania request to purchase Dual [...] Summary: The GOL requested an amendment to an existing contract for the Stinger missile system on 23 March 2005 in order to enhance NATO interoperability and realize a long- term cost savings over the life of the modified contract. Lithuania is requesting the purchase of eight Dual Mounted [...] | 2005-03-23 14:31:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MCAP MASS LH |
05VILNIUS317 | LITHUANIAN STAKEHOLDERS TARGET STANDARDS AND [...] Lithuanians identified differing standards and regulations as the greatest impediments to transatlantic trade in two recent Embassy-sponsored stakeholders' roundtables. The Lithuanian Free Market Institute, reporting on the events, encouraged elimination of U.S.-EU tariff barriers and mutual [...] | 2005-03-24 14:53:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EINV PREL ECON BEXP KPAO LH |
05VILNIUS326 | RUSSIAN ENVOY'S SHARPE TONGUE AND THREATS TO CUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Russia's envoy to Lithuania has provoked high-level outrage and calls for his expulsion with sharp-tongued criticism of Lithuanians and thinly veiled threats to interrupt the country's energy supplies. Most local analysts believe the Russian's sudden high-profile gibes - after 1 [...] | 2005-03-25 16:03:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF LH RS |
05VILNIUS350 | LITHUANIA: NO ISAF CAVEATS, BUT WOULD CONSIDER ONE [...] (U) This cable contains a request for information. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) We delivered reftel points April 4 on ISAF caveats to Bartas Trakymas, Acting Head of the MOD's International Organizations Division, and to Gediminas Varvuolis, Head of the MFA NATO Division. Trakymas concu [...] | 2005-04-06 06:40:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR LH AF DA |
05VILNIUS358 | LITHUANIAN-LED PRT: TAKING SHAPE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Affairs and Defense Ministry officials told State POLAD designee to the Lithuania-led PRT Michael Metrinko March 30 - April 1 that Lithuania is moving forward with plans to lead a multinational provincial reconstruction team in Chaghcharan, Afghanistan. The Lithuanians, s [...] | 2005-04-06 14:28:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MCAP PREL PGOV LH AF |
05VILNIUS367 | LITHUANIA PROVIDES UPDATED REQUIREMENT LITH FOR [...] (U) SUMMARY: The GOL updated and augmented its needs assessment for the Lithuanian-led Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in the desolate Ghowr province of western Afghanistan. Following the March 30 return from Afghanistan of Lithuania's PRT reconnaissance team, the MFA advanced us a copy [...] | 2005-04-07 12:59:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MCAP MARR PREL PGOV LH AF |
05VILNIUS372 | GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM ASSESSMENT: LITHUANIA [...] (S) Lithuania has a low terrorism threat, and we are working hard with Lithuanian security agencies to keep it that way. There are no known terrorist operational cells, logistical cells, or support organizations in Lithuania. There are no known incidents of terrorism financing or terrorism-re [...] | 2005-04-08 14:19:00 | Embassy Vilnius | SECRET | PREL PTER ASEC LH |
05VILNIUS376 | U.S.-BALTIC SUMMIT: CALMING TROUBLED WATERS [...] (C) President Bush's meeting with the three Baltic presidents in Riga May 7 presents an extraordinary opportunity to tighten our alliance with America's best friends in Europe and patch their fraying unity in advancing U.S. interests. At the summit, we should aim to: --Acknowledge the thre [...] | 2005-04-11 10:54:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OVIP EN RS LG LH |
05VILNIUS380 | YUKOS LOSING ITS GRIP ON LITHUANIAN OIL REFINERY [...] (C) Russian oil giant Yukos is losing hold of its controlling interest in Lithuania's Mazeikiu Nafta oil refinery, as the company can no longer guarantee oil flows to Lithuania. The GOL has entered into negotiations with London-based Yukos management regarding control of the refinery. Russia [...] | 2005-04-11 14:36:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET ECON ENRG LH RS |
05VILNIUS395 | YOUR VILNIUS VISIT: REWARDING THE LOYAL AND [...] (C) Your bilateral program in Vilnius during the NATO Ministerial will score important advances in keeping this loyal ally in Iraq and Afghanistan, highlight our joint efforts for a democratic Belarus, and set the stage for a successful U.S.-Baltic summit in Riga next month. It will also hel [...] | 2005-04-13 14:49:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OVIP LH |
05VILNIUS410 | PROPOSED VISA WAIVER PROGRAM ROADMAP FOR [...] After consulting with Vaidotas Verba, Director of the MFA's Consular Department, we wish to propose the following draft visa waiver program roadmap, which is based on the roadmap the USG announced last February with Poland. We request urgent approval of this proposed roadmap so that it may b [...] | 2005-04-15 10:29:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS PGOV OVIP LH |
05VILNIUS417 | LITHUANIAN PRT FORCE DEVELOPMENT MEETING: WHERE [...] (C) Summary. Dainius Baublys, the MFA's designated POLAD for the Lithuanian-led Chaghcharan provincial reconstruction team, April 13 expressed dismay at the lack of partner commitments to support the PRT. Baublys said that only few made firm pledges of support and only Iceland's met the GOL's [...] | 2005-04-19 11:56:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MCAP MARR PREL PGOV LH AF |
05VILNIUS429 | Government of Lithuania request Requests for [...] Summary: The GOL recently provided us with a formal request requested that the USG provide Generation III Night Vision Devices (NVDs) for their its troops deploying in support of a Provincial Reconstruction Tteam in Afghanistan and SOF troops preparing to support NATO NATO Reaction Forces -5 [...] | 2005-04-25 09:42:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR PREL LH |
05VILNIUS447 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL KINGSTON [...] Your visit to Lithuania will provide an opportunity to thank Lithuania for its staunch and unwavering support in the U.S.-led Global War on Terror, including its recent decision to establish and lead a Provincial Reconstruction Team in Chaghcharan, Afghanistan, and to commend its leadership in [...] | 2005-04-29 05:20:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV OVIP LH |
05VILNIUS453 | LITHUANIA: ADVANCE NOTICE OF IPR WATCH LISTING [...] No summary [...] | 2005-05-02 13:21:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD LH |
05VILNIUS478 | LITHUANIA REJECTS UKRAINIAN MONEY LAUNDERING [...] The GOL dismissed recent allegations by Ukranian Minister of Interior Yuri Lutsenko that Lithuanian banks laundered USD 130 million to support the losing presidential campaign of Viktor Yanukovich. The Ukrainian Embassy confirmed that there is no evidence to support the charges. Lithuanian b [...] | 2005-05-09 10:54:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR EFIN KCRM PTER KTFN LH |
05VILNIUS490 | LITHUANIA SUPPORTS INCREASED VISIBILITY OVER PRT [...] (C) We delivered reftel points regarding the U.S. proposal to increase visibility over the civilian element of ISAF's Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) on May 6 to Gediminas Varvuolis, Head of the MFA's NATO Division, Alvydas Kunigelis, Acting Director of the MOD's Department of Internat [...] | 2005-05-11 09:34:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR AF LH |
05VILNIUS498 | LITHUANIAN RESPONSE TO NIGHT VISION DEVICES ROADMAP [...] No summary [...] | 2005-05-12 14:51:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MASS ETTC MARR PREL LH |
05VILNIUS5 | Lithuania's Acquisition of Night Vision Devices: [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 8. ------- Summary ------- 2. A U.S. vendor of advanced Night Vision Devices (NVDs) recently advised the Lithuanian government that its acquisition contravenes de facto USG policy. The apparent policy to deny new NATO members these devic [...] | 2005-01-04 06:52:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR PREL LH |
05VILNIUS500 | CODEL KINGSTON DISCUSSES TERRORISM, DEMOCRACY AND [...] Summary. A Congressional delegation led by Representative Jack Kingston visited Lithuania May 8-10 to thank President Adamkus and Parliamentary Speaker Paulauskas for Lithuania's support in the Global War on Terrorism and for its democratic initiatives in Ukraine and Belarus. Lithuanian inte [...] | 2005-05-13 13:17:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV OVIP LH |
05VILNIUS503 | LITHUANIA WANTS AND DESERVES FLEXIBLE COALITION [...] (C) Summary. As they gear up to lead a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Afghanistan, Lithuanian authorities were delighted by the recent approval in Washington of coalition solidarity funding. At the same time, in anticipation of receiving a share of these funds in recognition of thei [...] | 2005-05-13 14:12:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MCAP PREL PGOV LH |
05VILNIUS504 | ECONOMY MINISTER USPASKICH UNDER FIRE BY THE [...] (U) SUMMARY. Victor Uspaskich, Economy Minister and leader of the upstart Labor Party, landed in hot water this week. He stands accused of two ethics violations - for using an official trip to Moscow in March to advance his personal business interests, and for excess EU funds received by his b [...] | 2005-05-13 14:43:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL LH |
05VILNIUS514 | USNATO AND USEU 2005 TOUR FOR LITHUANIAN [...] Description of Activity: Four Lithuanian Parliamentarians from committees that play decision-making roles in Lithuania's foreign and security policy participated in a NATO and USEU tour. The group visited USNATO, SHAPE, and USEU headquarters in Brussels. Political officer Alexander Titolo a [...] | 2005-05-18 08:34:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL SCUL MARR MOPS |
05VILNIUS519 | Weapons Discovered Near Lithuanian Refugee Reception Center Housing Chechens [...] (U) Classified By RSO Brent A. Barker. Reason 1.5 (D). 2. (S) Summary. The Lithuanian Police recently disclosed to us that they discovered a significant cache of weapons last June near a Refugee Center outside of Kaunas. The weapons included Russian Flame Rocket Launchers, assault rifles [...] | 2005-05-18 13:29:00 | Embassy Vilnius | SECRET | LH NOTAG |
05VILNIUS52 | KGB SKELETONS HAUNT LITHUANIAN FM, SECURITY CHIEF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Lithuania's Foreign Minister and the Director of the State Security Department are under public scrutiny for their alleged Soviet-era service in the KGB reserves. Immediately after the media broke the story January 7, Foreign Minister Antanas Valionis acknowledged his enrollment [...] | 2005-01-18 10:47:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL LH |
05VILNIUS527 | LITHUANIAN DEFENSE COUNCIL APPROVES INCREASING [...] Foreign Minister Antanas Valionis told the Ambassador May 19 that he expects speedy passage through parliament of legislation increasing the number of troops the Lithuanian military may deploy to participate in international operations. The Lithuanian State Defense Council, an inter-ministeri [...] | 2005-05-19 15:12:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | MOPS MARR PREL PGOV LH AF |
05VILNIUS528 | LITHUANIA'S ECONOMY: WHY 2004 WAS SUCH A GOOD [...] Final 2004 figures confirm that Lithuania's economy remains on a roll. High growth, low inflation, and expanding foreign investment still characterize the economy. Surging domestic consumption fed Lithuania's growth, but also contributed to a growing current account deficit and upward pressur [...] | 2005-05-23 05:10:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ETRD LH |
05VILNIUS530 | LITHUANIA'S MFA WARY OF PROPOSED ARMS SALE TO NEPAL [...] This is a short-fuse action request; see para 6. We need input from Washington and Katmandu by OOB May 24. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Kestutis Jankauskas, Director of the MFA'a Security Policy Department, notified us on May 18 of an application of a Lithuanian company for a license to export ammuni [...] | 2005-05-23 09:24:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MCAP KSTC PARM PGOV PTER PINR LH NP |
05VILNIUS560 | LITHUANIA'S ESDP CONTRIBUTION NO THREAT TO NATO [...] GOL Defense Minister Gediminas Kirkilas and representatives of Germany, Latvia, Poland, and Slovakia on May 23 signed a declaration in Brussels to create a joint battle group to serve in the EU Rapid Reaction Force. Kirkilas announced that the joint force will assume its first rotation in 201 [...] | 2005-05-31 06:17:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MOPS MARR LH |
05VILNIUS562 | COURT FINES EDITOR FOR DISSEMINATING ANTISEMITIC [...] (U) A Vilnius administrative court fined Rimvydas Valentukevicius, editor of the Russian-language edition of the "Respublika" newspaper, 1,000 litas ($360) on May 25 for publishing a series of anti-Semitic editorials in 2004. The court held that, by publishing the editorials claiming that Jew [...] | 2005-05-31 13:10:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL SOCI LH |
05VILNIUS57 | EMBASSY VILNIUS WORK PLAN FOR NEW GOVERNMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: We are systematically engaging Lithuania's month-old government, including an Ambassadorial meeting with each Cabinet member, on issues of interest to the United States. Our work plan concentrates on the following critical policy goals: 1) GOL Activism in the Global War on Terr [...] | 2005-01-18 14:49:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS OFDP EINV AMGT LH |
05VILNIUS572 | LITHUANIA SEEKS TO USHER UKRAINE TO BRUSSELS [...] (U) Lithuania is mobilizing a full court press to promote Ukraine's integration into transatlantic and European institutions. Building upon the relationship that President Valdas Adamkus forged by mediating (with Poland's Kwasniewski) Ukraine's post-election crisis, Lithuania's Defense Minis [...] | 2005-06-03 07:57:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LH UP |
05VILNIUS58 | LITHUANIA'S JUSTICE MINISTER PLEDGES CONTINUITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Justice Minister Gintautas Buzinskas, meeting with Ambassador Mull on January 14, pledged continuity in his Ministry and U.S.-Lithuanian cooperation on legal issues. Both sides agreed on the need for additional efforts on anti-corruption and counter-terrorism. The Ambassador e [...] | 2005-01-18 15:59:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCOR KNAR PREL LH |
05VILNIUS59 | LITHUANIA SAYS YES TO PRT [...] (C) The GOL informed the Ambassador on the evening of January 18 that it will accept NATO's request for it to head a provincial reconstruction team (PRT) in western Afghanistan. The decision followed weeks of intensive Mission and USG efforts to get Lithuania on board, culminating in two sepa [...] | 2005-01-18 16:41:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MARR MCAP PREL PGOV LH |
05VILNIUS596 | GERMAN AND LITHUANIAN AUTHORITIES SCRUTINIZE MONEY [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY RSO BRENT A. BARKER. REASON 1.5 (D). 2. (C) Summary. The Lithuanian Financial Crime Investigative Service recently disclosed to us that in 2004 it received an informal request from a German government agency regarding a financial transaction used to "purchase equipment in [...] | 2005-06-10 05:04:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MCAP KSTC PARM PTER PINR EFIN KNNP ASEC IR LH |
05VILNIUS597 | STATUS OF COMPLIANCE - SECURITY OVERSIGHT [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-10 05:04:00 | Embassy Vilnius | SECRET | ASIG ASEC |
05VILNIUS599 | LITHUANIA TO MAKE MODEST TRAINING PLEDGE AT US-EU [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-10 08:01:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAID EIND ECON IZ LH |
05VILNIUS609 | LITHUANIA DEPLOYS PRT TO AFGHANISTAN; WILL NEED [...] (U) SUMMARY: Intensive U.S. airlift operations in support of the Lithuanian-led Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) headed to Chaghcharan, Afghanistan, began from Zokniai airfield June 6. This mission is the most ambitious military undertaking in modern Lithuania's existence, and it enjoys [...] | 2005-06-10 14:03:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MCAP MARR PREL PGOV LH AF |
05VILNIUS627 | LITHUANIA SEEKS USG ASSISTANCE ON TWO PRT ISSUES [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (U) SUMMARY: The GOL has requested USG assistance in concluding an agreement with the Government of Afghanistan to establish a Lithuanian Special Mission. This agreement is a necessary precondition for the deployment of civilians [...] | 2005-06-15 14:42:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | MOPS MCAP MARR PREF PGOV LH AF HR |
05VILNIUS628 | LITHUANIA: NO INVESTMENT DISPUTES OR [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-16 09:05:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC EFIN EINV KIDE PGOV LH |
05VILNIUS635 | EAC Convened to Discuss July 4 Event in Vilnius [...] (U) Post convened a meeting of the Emergency Action Committee on June 16, 2005, per reftel. 2. (C) The EAC knows of no specific threat information or concerns with regard to Fourth of July events in Lithuania. RSO is coordinating with the local police, who have promised to provide a suffici [...] | 2005-06-17 11:54:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PTER CASC LH |
05VILNIUS636 | ECONOMY MINISTER RESIGNS OVER ETHICS VIOLATIONS; [...] (C) Lithuania's Minister of Economy Viktor Uspaskich tendered his resignation June 16, following the announcement of a Government Ethics Commission finding that he had violated the laws regarding conflicts of interest. Uspaskich will reportedly relinquish his position in Government and his se [...] | 2005-06-17 13:48:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL LH |
05VILNIUS641 | LITHUANIAN LEADERSHIP ON EU CRISES [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Valdas Adamkus and Foreign Minister Antanas Valionis, who both witnessed the collapse of the EU summit last week, discussed recent events in the EU separately with the Ambassador on the margins of June 20 meetings on Iraq. Adamkus offered an insight into his dealing wi [...] | 2005-06-20 15:23:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAGR LH |
05VILNIUS647 | REQUEST FOR SPEAKER TO DISCUSS ETHICS, EDUCATION [...] PROGRAM OVERVIEW: The Embassy would like to invite Dr. Peter Greer to discuss short- and long-term strategies for the introduction and implementation of ethics education programs at the local and national levels. Dr. Greer would conduct a seminar on the importance of ethics integration into t [...] | 2005-06-21 11:41:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO LH |
05VILNIUS648 | LITHUANIAN MFA OPPOSES ARMS SALE TO NEPAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Lithuania's MFA will oppose the approval of a license for JSC Manubaltas to export ammunition manufacturing equipment to the Kingdom of Nepal at the GOL's next inter-agency meeting on this issue. The GOL had consulted with the USG on this sale, pursuant to its Wassenaar commitme [...] | 2005-06-21 12:43:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PARM LH NP |
05VILNIUS65 | LITHUANIA'S ECONOMY MINISTER SEEKS TO ATTRACT U.S. [...] (C) Summary. Economy Minister and Labor Party Chairman Viktor Uspaskich, meeting with Ambassador Mull on January 18, stressed his commitment to attracting U.S. investment, improve the competitiveness of Lithuanian companies, and to work with the EU to help Lithuania diversify its oil supply a [...] | 2005-01-20 06:47:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EINV ENRG ECIN LH |
05VILNIUS655 | (C) LITHUANIAN-RUSSIAN RELATIONS BOUNCE BACK, BUT [...] (C) Lithuania's complicated relations with Russia -- after five months of emotional tensions -- are improving again. The May visit of Russian FM Lavrov -- featuring his second meeting with Lithuanian Foreign Minister Valionis in a month -- produced a lengthy declaration promising enhanced coop [...] | 2005-06-22 09:47:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EPET ELTN RS LH |
05VILNIUS657 | LITHUANIA ON BOARD FOR IRAQ IN 2006 [...] (S) SUMMARY: President Valdas Adamkus, Foreign Minister Antanas Valionis, and Defense Minister Gediminas Kirkilas told the Ambassador in separate meetings that they fully expect Lithuania to remain part of the Coalition in Iraq (MNF-I) and Lithuanian personnel to be on the ground in Iraq in 2 [...] | 2005-06-22 14:39:00 | Embassy Vilnius | SECRET | MARR MOPS PREL IZ LH |
05VILNIUS662 | LITHUANIA'S GOVERNING COALITION: "LET'S STAY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Lithuania's ruling coalition shows every indication of surviving the resignation of Minister of Economy Viktor Uspaskich, and Uspaskich's Labor Party shows signs it will emerge from this episode intact. The Prime Minister and President look likely to accept Labor's nominee to re [...] | 2005-06-23 14:09:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL LH |
05VILNIUS674 | SUBJECT: LITHUANIA'S NEW FINANCE MINISTER [...] (C) Summary. Lithuania's new Finance Minister Zigmantas Balcytis told the Ambassador that his principal challenge will be to keep the fiscal deficit and inflation in check so that Lithuania can enter the euro zone as planned in 2007. During the Ambassador's June 23 call on Balcytis, the FinMin [...] | 2005-06-28 13:43:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PGOV PREL PINR AFIN ECON MARR LH |
05VILNIUS676 | LITHUANIAN OVERSEAS TROOP DEPLOYMENTS AUTHORIZED [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-28 14:31:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MOPS PREL IZ AF LH |
05VILNIUS683 | LITHUANIA TIP UPDATE: JANUARY-JUNE 2005 [...] The Government of Lithuania advanced its campaign against trafficking in persons during the first six months of 2005. Joint Lithuanian and British law enforcement efforts resulted in the breakup of a cross-border human trafficking chain that had sent women and girls to the UK. The Government [...] | 2005-06-29 15:14:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KCRM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF LH |
05VILNIUS693 | LITHUANIA GRATEFUL FOR COALITION SOLIDARITY FUND [...] The Ambassador informed GOL officials on June 30 of the decision to allocate USD 8 million in Coalition Solidarity Funds to Lithuania. In separate conversations, the Ambassador spoke with Minister of Defense Gediminas Kirkilas, Director of the MFA's America, Africa, Asia and Oceania Departme [...] | 2005-07-01 12:47:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PARM LH |
05VILNIUS701 | PHOTO-SUBBED NEW LITHUANIAN PASSPORTS: A SPOT [...] Summary: The Consular Department of the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry recently informed us that its Embassy in London has been receiving large numbers of successfully photo-substituted new Lithuanian passports. According to the MFA, the photo-substitutions are extremely good and can only be de [...] | 2005-07-07 06:42:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | KFRD CVIS LH |
05VILNIUS704 | GOL PROVIDES COALITION SOLIDARITY FUND WISH LIST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOL provided us on July 5 an updated list of equipment it hopes to purchase with the USD $8 million in Coalition Solidarity Funds that Congress allocated to Lithuania. The GOL plans to use the money to bolster its force leading the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in A [...] | 2005-07-07 13:57:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS PREL PARM LH |
05VILNIUS706 | LITHUANIAN COURT FINES EDITOR FOR ANTI-SEMITIC [...] (U) Vilnius Administrative Judge Audrius Cininas fined Vitas Tomkus, editor-in-chief and sole owner of Lithuania's second largest daily, "Respublika," 3,000 LTL (US$1,035) on July 7 for inciting anti-Semitism in a series of editorials in 2004. The court held that, by publishing editorials cla [...] | 2005-07-07 14:14:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL SOCI LH |
05VILNIUS711 | LONDON BOMBINGS: VILNIUS EMERGENCY ACTION MEETING [...] CDA chaired a meeting of the core EAC at OOB July 8 to review the Mission's security posture in the wake of the terrorist attacks in London. RSO, DIA, ORA, MGT, CONS, POL, and PAS attended. The EAC noted that that a group claiming responsibility for the bombings had indicated its intent to t [...] | 2005-07-08 11:48:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT ASEC CASC PTER LH |
05VILNIUS714 | VISA WAIVER PROGRAM: INAUGURAL MEETING OF CONSULAR [...] SUMMARY: Embassy and MFA officials discussed next steps to accomplish the items listed in Lithuania's roadmap for the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) at the inaugural meeting of the Consular Working Group (CWG). We discussed Lithuanian progress on meeting the requirements for sharing lost/stolen pas [...] | 2005-07-08 14:37:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS PREL KPAO LH |
05VILNIUS718 | VISA WAIVER PROGRAM: INAUGURAL MEETING OF CONSULAR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy and MFA officials discussed next steps to accomplish the items listed in Lithuania's roadmap for the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) at the inaugural meeting of the Consular Working Group (CWG). We discussed Lithuanian progress on meeting the requirements for sharing lost/sto [...] | 2005-07-11 10:40:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS PREL KPAO LH |
05VILNIUS721 | QUARTERLY STATUS REPORT, JANUARY - MARCH 2005 [...] (U) SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT EVENTS A. (U) NARRATIVE OF ACTIVITIES DEA Regional Basic Narcotics Officers School (March 30 - April 8). This is a two-week Basic Narcotics Officers School with an emphasis on clandestine laboratory training conducted in Vilnius, Lithuania. Thirty-six students [...] | 2005-07-12 05:03:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC LH |
05VILNIUS731 | LITHUANIAN SCIENTISTS ADJUST TO A NEW, MARKET- [...] Summary: Lithuania's research institutes have significant research and development (R&D) capabilities, but generally fail to produce profitable and marketable innovations. While there are some exceptions -- notably in lasers, electronics, and biochemistry -- inadequate funding and a lack of [...] | 2005-07-13 10:28:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON TSPL KSCA PGOV LH |
05VILNIUS732 | GOL EAGER TO DEAL QUIETLY WITH DETAINED BELARUSIAN [...] (C) Summary: Senior GOL officials are focused on managing the detention by Lithuanian authorities of a Belarusian employee of a USAID contractor on charges of money smuggling. The courier was arrested as she attempted to leave Lithuania for Belarus with US$25,000, well over the limit set by Lithuan [...] | 2005-07-13 12:35:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID BO LH |
05VILNIUS733 | NO DESECRATION OF GRAVES SEEN BY LOCAL JEWISH [...] Summary: We met with Rabbi Chizkiva Kalmanowitz, an American citizen resident in Israel, on June 29 to discuss his concerns about construction work on the site of a known Jewish cemetery in central Vilnius. Rabbi Kalmanowitz was in Lithuania for 18 hours as part of a survey trip to Jewish he [...] | 2005-07-13 14:07:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL LH |
05VILNIUS751 | WHEELS GRIND IN DETAINED BELARUSIAN COURIER CASE [...] (C) The GOL is keen to resolve the case of a Belarusian courier detained while carrying undeclared cash for an NGO in a manner consistent with its laws, while not undermining its own support for democratic change in Belarus. The GOL is focused on two challenges: resolution of the case, and d [...] | 2005-07-20 11:00:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID BO LH |
05VILNIUS767 | WORK ON LITHUANIA'S ROADMAP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: We have begun taking concrete steps to implement Lithuania's Visa Waiver roadmap. Since the first meeting of our Consular Working Group (CWG) on June 29 (reftel),Consul discussed visa issues on a national radio program with an MFA rep as part of our joint Public Diplomacy camp [...] | 2005-07-25 07:11:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS PREL KPAO LH |
05VILNIUS771 | LABOR PARTY JOSTLING FOR EARLY POSITION AHEAD OF [...] (C) Lithuania's uneasy ruling coalition continues to function amid signs that some of the constituent parties are already beginning to look to the next election cycle. The dual triggers of Labor Party Chairman Viktor Uspaskich's forced resignation as Economy Minister and upcoming municipal el [...] | 2005-07-25 12:31:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL LH |
05VILNIUS778 | PHOTO-SUBSTITUTED LITHUANIAN PASSPORTS: PROOF IS [...] Summary: Good-quality photo-substituted new-generation Lithuanian passports, which have become increasingly popular with citizens of other FSU countries seeking to benefit from Lithuania's membership in the EU, are difficult to detect. Fraudulent documents are generally only distinguishable f [...] | 2005-07-27 13:42:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | KFRD CVIS LH |
05VILNIUS781 | WHO WILL WALK OFF WITH THE BALTICS' ONLY OIL REFINERY? [...] No summary [...] | 2005-07-28 11:14:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PREL PGOV EPET ENRG RS LH |
05VILNIUS8 | OUTPOURING OF LITHUANIAN SUPPORT FOR TSUNAMI [...] We delivered reftel points encouraging assistance for the victims of the December 26 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami to Diana Mickeviciene of MFA's Asia and Pacific SIPDIS Division on January 4. Mickeviciene said that the GOL will likely announce on January 5 plans to contribute 150,00 [...] | 2005-01-04 14:46:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR EAID PGOV LH |
05VILNIUS80 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR CHRISTIAN YARNELL [...] Embassy Vilnius requests country clearance for POL/ECON Officer Christian Yarnell to travel to Warsaw to attend the January 31-February 1 Warsaw Regional Consular Conference. Mr. Yarnell will arrive on January 29 at 15:15 onboard Flight LO 772, and depart February 1 at 19:55. He holds a Top S [...] | 2005-01-25 15:50:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA LH |
05VILNIUS837 | GOL: ISAF MANDATE ADEQUATE, AS IS; CONCERNS ABOUT [...] (C) We delivered Ref A points on ISAF's mandate to Vytautas Leskevicius, Head of the MFA's NATO Division, on August 10. Leskevicius said that the GOL agrees with the USG position that the current UN mandate is sufficiently broad to allow ISAF to support Afghan security forces in responding to [...] | 2005-08-11 08:00:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL AF LH |
05VILNIUS857 | GOL CONTINUES TO SUPPORT TURKEY'S EU BID [...] (C) Vidmantas Purlys, Head of the MFA's EU Sector Policies Coordination Division, told us August 18 that the GOL shares USG concerns about adding conditions to the negotiating framework ahead of the planned October 3 start of EU accession talks with Turkey. Purlys said that while the GOL is [...] | 2005-08-18 14:03:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EU TU LH |
05VILNIUS859 | NEW MINISTER OF ECONOMY EMPHASIZES FOREIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Economy Kestutis Dauksys, meeting with Ambassador on August 16, emphasized the need to attract foreign investment, to improve the capacity of Lithuanian companies, and to develop a sound energy policy that will guarantee fuel supplies and promote Lithuania's energy in [...] | 2005-08-18 14:36:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EINV ENRG ECIN PREL LH |
05VILNIUS87 | SCENE SETTER FOR A/S MAURA HARTY'S VILNIUS VISIT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: Maura, it is an honor and delight to welcome you back to Lithuania, where we continue to benefit from your outstanding work as one of this Mission's "founding mothers." Since your last visit, Lithuania has matured into an important partner for the U.S., with re [...] | 2005-01-26 14:16:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL CMGT CVIS CASC ASEC LH |
05VILNIUS88 | AG MINISTER PRUNSKIENE: MORE EU MEANS ROOM FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Agricultural Minister Kazimiera Prunskiene, meeting with Ambassador Mull on January 25, painted a picture of an EU branded agricultural policy for Lithuania and pledged to focus her efforts on rural development. She praised U.S.-Lithuanian cooperation on agricultural and rural de [...] | 2005-01-26 14:32:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR PGOV ETRD ENRG PHUM LH |
05VILNIUS884 | LITHUANIA MOSTLY AGREES WITH USG POSITIONS FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Lithuania basically concurs with U.S. positions on key agenda items for the September 1-2 Gymnich meeting, with some reservations on Turkey. Lina Peciulyte, acting head of the MFA's EU Common Foreign and Security Policy Division, said Lithuania continues to support beginning EU [...] | 2005-08-26 08:17:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAL PREL LH |
05VILNIUS888 | MINISTER OF TRANSPORTATION WILLING TO TAKE HARD [...] (C) Minister of Transportation and Communication Petras Cesna, meeting with the Ambassador on August 25, emphasized his eagerness to see increased US investment in Lithuania, thanked the Ambassador for the close cooperation between his Ministry and the USG, and showed a willingness to consider [...] | 2005-08-29 11:21:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LH BO |
05VILNIUS90 | Minister of Education and Science Pledges Support in Signin [...] No summary [...] | 2005-01-27 11:27:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SENV TSPL KPAO LH |
05VILNIUS911 | TFUS01: PRESIDENT ADAMKUS EXPRESSES CONDOLENCES, [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-02 16:13:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON AEMR ASEC CASC MARR AMGT US LH |
05VILNIUS912 | EU COMMISIONERS ENCOURAGE LITHUANIA TO IMPOSE VISA [...] Consul met September 1 with MFA consular division chief Vaidotas Verba, who described a new move by the EU to impose a visa requirement on Americans. Lithuanian EU parliamentarian Justas Paleckis received a letter from EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner and Justice, Free [...] | 2005-09-02 16:54:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS PREL XG LH |
05VILNIUS93 | Minister of Health Looks to U.S. for Continued [...] No summary [...] | 2005-01-27 15:05:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV TBIO SENV TSPL KPAO LH |
05VILNIUS930 | GOL DISINCLINED TO EMBED TROOPS IN IRAQI UNITS [...] (S) The GOL will likely not embed Lithuanian troops with Iraqi forces as part of the shift of MNF-I's emphasis to building Iraqi capacity (ref A). MOD Undersecretary Renatas Norkus told us that the GOL believes that its soldiers lack the necessary operational experience, language skills, and [...] | 2005-09-07 13:11:00 | Embassy Vilnius | SECRET | MARR MOPS PREL IZ LH |
05VILNIUS932 | GOL TO CONSIDER CONGRATULATING IRAQ; DISCUSSING [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-07 13:53:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL IZ LH |
05VILNIUS946 | LITHUANIA: INTERESTED IN COMBATING AVIAN [...] Summary. The Government of Lithuania is fully engaged on the Avian Influenza issue. The Ministry of Health is in the process of drafting the Government's national action plan, and Health Minister Zilvinas Padaiga told the Ambassador that the GOL would "be very supportive" of the USG's initiat [...] | 2005-09-09 10:06:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ECON PREL SOCI TBIO KSCA LH |
05VILNIUS947 | ORGANIZED CRIME IN LITHUANIA (C-CN5-00417) [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-09 12:59:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR SOCI LH |
05VILNIUS949 | VILNIUS COURT DECIDES TO EXTRADITE BANKER TO RUSSIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Vilnius District Court decided on September 8 to extradite to Russia Igor Babenko, the manager of the Stavropol branch of Yukos-owned Menatep Bank. Lithuanian authorities had arrested Babenko on July 1 in response to Russia's extradition request. Russian prosecutors accuse B [...] | 2005-09-09 15:38:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ENRG EFIN KCRM KJUS PHUM LH RS |
05VILNIUS950 | TFUS01: LITHUANIA: KATRINA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] Summary: Lithuanian print media is actively covering hurricane "Katrina", echoing official U.S. statements in news reports and reprinting information provided by both international and national news services in all Lithuanian daily newspapers. Recent attention has shifted to Lithuania's possi [...] | 2005-09-12 04:17:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PREL PGOV LH |
05VILNIUS959 | PRESIDENT ATTENDS 9/11 INTERFAITH COMMEMORATION [...] The Embassy helped to organize an interfaith commemoration for the victims of terrorism at a Lutheran church in Vilnius on September 11. The event represented the first large-scale interfaith service ever held in Lithuania, and was covered by all major national media. Leaders from five fait [...] | 2005-09-13 08:11:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PREL LH |
05VILNIUS962 | CONTINUING EMIGRATION BEGINNING TO AFFECT LABOR [...] SUMMARY: Lithuanians continue to emigrate since their country joined the EU last year. As Lithuania's skilled workers emigrate, the number of foreign laborers from Belarus and Ukraine has increased. The Government acknowledges the need for programs to manage emigration, encourage emigrants [...] | 2005-09-13 12:17:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON SMIG PGOV LH |
05VILNIUS972 | WHY DO SO MANY LITHUANIANS COMMIT SUICIDE? [...] (U) Lithuania, a dramatic success story in so many ways, is the suicide capital of Europe, with 40 suicides per 100,000 residents each year. Teens and middle-aged men are most at risk. The bustling economy and expanded social protections have failed to lower the suicide rate, which has been [...] | 2005-09-16 09:42:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PHUM PGOV KPAO LH |
05VILNIUS977 | RUSSIAN SU-27 CRASHES IN RURAL LITHUANIA; NO [...] (C) SUMMARY. A Russian fighter-bomber reportedly en route from St. Petersburg to Kaliningrad crashed in the Sokiai region of Lithuania shortly after 1500 local time on September 15. Lithuanian authorities have detained the pilot and are investigating the incident. The Russian Government has [...] | 2005-09-16 13:28:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS MOPS LH |
05VILNIUS986 | VILNIUS BEGINS YEAR-LONG B1/B2 VALIDATION STUDY [...] SUMMARY: We have begun a year-long validation study of Lithuanian B1/B2 visa applicants to determine the overstay rate for the period November 2004 to November 2005. We have consulted with CA/FPP to ensure that our study will be statistically valid and produce comprehensive information to hel [...] | 2005-09-19 12:58:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KFRD LH |
05VILNIUS989 | COORDINATING ASSISTANCE TO PROMOTE DEMOCRACY IN [...] The Ambassador delivered reftel points regarding coordination of assistance to promote democracy in Belarus to MFA Political Director Zygimantas Pavilionis and Renatas Juska of the MFA Political Planning Department, among others, at a gathering of high-level representative of Europe's donor co [...] | 2005-09-20 11:49:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM EAID PREL BO LH |
05VILNIUS993 | SU-27: THREE ACTION REQUESTS [...] (U) This is an action request for Washington agencies -- see paras 6, 8 and 12 -- and USNATO -- see para 12. 2. (S/NF) Summary: Several loose ends remain from last Friday's crash of a Russian Su-27 (ref a) in Lithuania. Senior Lithuanian officials believe that inconsistencies in Russian [...] | 2005-09-21 13:08:00 | Embassy Vilnius | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS MOPS LH NATO RU |
05VILNIUS994 | GOL PRESENTS ITS VERSION OF THE SU-27 CRASH [...] (SBU) The Lithuanian MFA delivered to the embassy a nonpaper describing the GOL's version of the events surrounding the crash of the Russian SU-27 in Lithuania (reftel). The account particularly highlights Russian authorities' alleged failure to provide accurate information about the plane, i [...] | 2005-09-21 13:38:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINS MOPS LH |
05VILNIUS996 | MARIJAMPOLE COUNTY: LITHUANIA'S GOOD COUNTRY [...] SUMMARY: Top officials in one of Lithuania's most sparsely populated counties told the Ambassador that the local economy in Marijampole is doing well. Unemployment is low and skilled labor talented, but a U.S. employer finds it hard to fill jobs. The students in this rural region study Engl [...] | 2005-09-22 05:23:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON PGOV LH |
05WARSAW1057 | Poland Still Lobbying EU on Open Pension Fund [...] (SBU) Summary: Poland is concerned that it will not be able to meet the 2007 target date agreed with the EU for meeting the Maastricht criteria on the road to adopting the Euro if the EU does not change the way it counts pension fund assets. In 2004, the EU's statistical agency, Eurostat, dec [...] | 2005-02-25 11:21:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL PL EUN |
05WARSAW1117 | Poland: 2005 Special 301 Submission - Gradual [...] (SBU) Poland's efforts to improve its IPR protection continued through the fourth quarter of 2004, with increased activities by customs and police authorities to curb IPR violations in the optical disc area. It is clear that copyright and trademark protection is significantly better than se [...] | 2005-03-02 08:37:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD KIPR PL |
05WARSAW1122 | Poland: 2005 Special 301 Submission - Gradual [...] (SBU) Poland's efforts to improve its IPR protection continued through the fourth quarter of 2004, with increased activities by customs and police authorities to curb IPR violations in the optical disc area. It is clear that copyright and trademark protection is significantly better than sev [...] | 2005-03-02 09:08:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD KIPR PL |
05WARSAW1126 | POLISH PREMIER WEIGHS JOINING NEW PARTY, PREDICTS [...] (SBU) In an interview published March 2, Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka signaled that he is considering an offer to join a new, centrist political party (the "Democratic Party," or PD) being formed by the liberal Freedom Union (UW),disaffected politicians from the governing SLD, and other [...] | 2005-03-02 12:40:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR PL |
05WARSAW1168 | POLAND: FIFTH ANNUAL (2005) TRAFFICKING IN [...] (SBU) Following are responses keyed to questions in paragraphs 18-21 of REFTEL A. Embassy point of contact is POLOFF Tom Yeager (telephone: 48-22-504-2676, fax 48- 22-504-2613, e-mail yeagerta@state.gov). POLOFF (FP- 04) spent 65 hours collecting data and compiling report; Two POLFSNs spent [...] | 2005-03-02 15:08:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF KWMN PL KRCM |
05WARSAW1201 | LOW-COST AIRLINES FACE CHALLENGES WITH POLISH [...] (SBU) Low-cost airlines continue to expand their operations in Poland. During this rapid growth, air carriers have encountered difficulties dealing with the Polish airport authority, PPL. SkyEurope, in particular, has publicly announced that it will not increase its Warsaw operations due to [...] | 2005-03-03 11:24:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON PREL PL |
05WARSAW1204 | POLISH PM PRESSES FOR JUNE ELECTIONS, DEFERS [...] (SBU) In a much-anticipated address March 3, Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka underscored his determination to seek the dissolution of parliament May 5, clearing the way for new elections June 19, but said that he would not decide on his own political future (i.e., whether to abandon the gover [...] | 2005-03-03 14:19:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR PL |
05WARSAW1205 | POLISH OPPOSITION LEADER LAYS OUT PROSPECTIVE [...] (C) Summary: Jan Rokita, the head of Poland's leading opposition party (PO - Platforma Obywatelska/Civic Platform),and the man expected to be the country's next Prime Minister outlined the key planks of his economic policy at a March 1 meeting of the American Chamber of Commerce. Rokita said [...] | 2005-03-03 14:19:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV PREL PL |
05WARSAW1225 | FOREIGN JEWISH NGOS PROTEST LACK OF CONSULTATIONS [...] (SBU) In Warsaw on February 16-17, a World Jewish Restitution Organization delegation discussed private property restitution with the Ambassador, SLD party leader Jozef Oleksy, opposition leader Jan Maria Rokita, Treasury Minister Jacek Socha and Sejm Speaker Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz. The dele [...] | 2005-03-04 14:09:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PHUM KNAR PL |
05WARSAW1267 | IRAQ TAKES STEPS TO BUILD ITS CIVIC RELATIONSHIP [...] (SBU) During a meeting on other issues, the Iraqi Ambassador to Poland, Hussein Shialtagh, commented that the Iraqi Embassy in Poland is trying to build closer military, commercial, and civic relations with Poland. He said that while the military relationship is already quite robust due to Po [...] | 2005-03-07 13:38:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PREL IZ PL |
05WARSAW1273 | POLISH FISHING INDUSTRY: THE HAPPY UNEMPLOYED [...] Per EU requirements, Poland is in the middle of restructuring its Baltic fishing fleet to meet EU requirements. Part of that process includes the reduction of the fleet by scrapping vessels and compensating the vessel owners and operators. The Restructuring Agency responsible for implementin [...] | 2005-03-07 14:21:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIS ECON PL EU |
05WARSAW1282 | POLISH PIPELINE COMPANY FINALIZING A BUSINESS PLAN [...] (C) As promised, PM Belka met with his Ukrainian counterpart PM Tymoshenko early in her tenure to discuss practical steps the two sides could take to deepen their bilateral ties. The two Prime Ministers agreed to form a bilateral committee to accelerate work on linking the Odessa-Brody oil pi [...] | 2005-03-08 11:17:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV PREL PL |
05WARSAW1283 | POLISH COMPANY FEARS IRAQ WILL CANCEL SIGNIFICANT [...] (C) In December 2004, Poland's defense holding company, Bumar, signed a number of contracts with the Iraqi Ministry of Defense to provide military supplies and equipment to Iraq (reftel). Prominent among these deals were two contracts to deliver several large Russian-built cargo/transport hel [...] | 2005-03-08 13:37:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON PREL PGOV IZ PL |
05WARSAW13 | Further Press Stories on Alleged Polish Bribery [...] (U) Summary: Polish papers continue to follow allegations that a shadowy Polish tycoon, Marek Dochnal, bribed a parliamentarian related to the privatization sale of a steel mill. There are also allegations that Dochnal was involved in the campaign by Russian companies to buy shares in Poland' [...] | 2005-01-03 14:48:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETRD PARM PREL PL |
05WARSAW1320 | Poland Cautiously Optimistic EcoFin Will Loosen [...] (U) Polish papers widely reported that EU Finance Ministers came to no final conclusions at their March 8 EcoFin meeting on loosening the Stability and Growth Pact procedures for calculating deficits. For Poland, this means that EcoFin has yet to make a final decision on how to classify the [...] | 2005-03-09 13:26:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL PL |
05WARSAW1358 | POLISH DEPUTY PM HAUSNER SUBMITS OFFERS TO RESIGN, [...] (U) Polish Deputy PM and Minister of Economy and Labor Jerzy Hausner submitted his resignation to Polish PM Marek Belka on March 9. It is now up to Belka to decide if he will accept Hausner's resignation, and if so, when it will be effective. 2. (C) Sources in the PM's Chancery were unsur [...] | 2005-03-09 15:05:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV |
05WARSAW1369 | LOT AIRLINES CEO DISCUSSES BOEING'S OFFER [...] (SBU) The CEO of LOT Airlines met with the Ambassador to discuss the LOT tender for wide-body aircraft. LOT still does not know when the final decision on which aircraft it will purchase will be made. The CEO expects, however, that if the decision is postponed past the middle of April the en [...] | 2005-03-10 14:06:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON PREL PL |
05WARSAW1371 | Poland: Debate on Film Act Heating Up [...] (SBU) Legislation being drafted by the Polish Parliament (Sejm) to impose a tax on foreign broadcasts into Poland is being hotly debated in the government. Sejm deputies want to use the collected revenue to subsidize the domestic film industry. Although the Ministry of Culture sees no prob [...] | 2005-03-11 10:58:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EFIN KIPR PL |
05WARSAW1395 | Polish Finance Minister Requests Formal Agreement [...] (SBU) On March 10, the Embassy received a letter from Finance Minister Gronicki (dated March 1) expressing appreciation for U.S. acceptance in principle of Poland's offer to repay its outstanding Paris Club debt early. Per the Paris Club Secretariat's instructions to Poland to seek formal agr [...] | 2005-03-14 07:54:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN PREL PL |
05WARSAW1396 | BRUSSELS CUTS TWO BILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF CO2 [...] (SBU) On March 8, the European Commission issued its much- delayed decision on national CO2 allotments under the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme. The EU conditionally accepted Poland's National Allocation Plan, but cut its proposed emissions by 16.5 percent (from 286 to 239 million tons). Altho [...] | 2005-03-14 08:30:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG ECON PREL PL EUN |
05WARSAW1469 | GEORGIA BORDER MONITORING ORGANIZATION AND THE EU: [...] (C) Pol-Mil Chief delivered Ref A demarche on the EU and Georgia Border Monitoring on March 14 to Mieczyslaw Kuzinski, Counselor in the Security Policy Department, who handles all security issues related to Georgia. Kuzinski responded on March 15, indicating that the GOP position on Border Mo [...] | 2005-03-16 11:08:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS GG RS ZJ PL EUN OSCE |
05WARSAW1520 | POLAND SUBMITS DETAILS OF IRAQ'S DEBT [...] (C) The Iraqi Embassy in Warsaw provided us with a copy of a letter Finance Minister Gronicki sent to his Iraqi counterpart, Adil Abdul Mahdi, detailing Iraq's outstanding debt to Poland. According to the Ministry of Finance (MOF),Iraq owes Poland USDOLS 786,225,209.93 (including USDOLS 30 [...] | 2005-03-17 13:44:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EAID PREL PL |
05WARSAW1521 | POLISH HELICOPTERS YET AGAIN [...] (C) Summary. The Polish state-owned holding company, Bumar, continues to work with the Iraqi Ministry of Defense on helicopter contracts. Bumar understands that the contracts were amended at the insistence of U.S. military advisors, who Bumar believes were pressured to do so by American and [...] | 2005-03-17 13:48:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS MCAP PARM ECON IZ PL |
05WARSAW1522 | POLISH PM BELKA AND HIS PARTY AT ODDS [...] (U) A March 16 meeting between PM Marek Belka and the leadership of the governing Democratic Left Alliance (SLD),ended with disagreement over Belka's plan to resign this spring and the leadership's announced desire for fall elections. Belka stuck to his position that he will resign on May 5, [...] | 2005-03-17 13:59:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PL |
05WARSAW1895 | Poland to Host Visegrad Meeting of Environment [...] (U) On April 7-8, the Polish Minister of Environment will host his counterparts from Hungary and the Czech and Slovak Republics in Krakow. MinEnvironment officials report that the primary focus of the agenda will be to coordinate their approaches to a variety of environmental issues within the [...] | 2005-04-05 13:46:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ECON ENRG ETRD PREL PL EUN |
05WARSAW206 | Poland Pleasantly Surprised at Upturn in [...] (SBU) Summary: Polish and Russian firms had feared that Poland's EU accession would disrupt trade, in part because the EU required Poland to abrogate its bilateral trade agreement with Russia. Despite problems in some sectors, trade has expanded significantly. Polish exports were up more [...] | 2005-01-11 13:32:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON ENRG EPET PREL PL |
05WARSAW2061 | PRIVATE PROPERTY COMPENSATION BILL ADVANCES TO [...] (U) Following a sharp debate April 15, the Polish Parliament voted by an overwhelming majority of 303 to 105 to send to committee a government bill that would provide cash compensation for property nationalized after the Second World War. Although in the debate, the opposition Civic Platform [...] | 2005-04-20 14:51:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN KNAR PGOV PHUM PL IS |
05WARSAW2164 | PROPOSED WARSAW CONFERENCE ON DISABILITIES IN IRAQ [...] (SBU) Summary. The Polish government sent a letter to USAID Administrator Natsios on April 6 stating that while it supports the idea of an international conference on Iraqi disabled issues in principle, it sees many obstacles to moving ahead with such a conference in Poland at this time due to [...] | 2005-05-04 14:51:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL ECON IZ PL |
05WARSAW2252 | Polish Finance Ministry Releases Annual Report on [...] (SBU) Summary and Introduction: The Polish Ministry of Finance's Financial Intelligence Unit (the General Inspectorate for Financial Information, or GIIF),released an annual report in April on its activities in 2004 to combat money laundering and terrorism finance. The Polish Government has [...] | 2005-05-13 13:22:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL PL |
05WARSAW2265 | HOLOCAUST ISSUES SPECIAL ENVOY EDWARD O'DONNELL IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During his May 4-7 visit to Poland Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues Ambassador Edward O'Donnell discussed with key Polish officials and leaders of the Jewish community Poland's ChairmRmQqMQnd plans for the Museum of the History of Polish Jews (MHPJ). ITC discussions centered o [...] | 2005-05-16 11:18:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KNAR PGOV PHUM PL BE BO EZ HU IS UP WJRO |
05WARSAW2467 | Polish Finance Ministry Hopes Higher Taxes Excise [...] (U) On June 1, the Polish Ministry of Finance announced that it would increase the excise tax on imported heating oil and liquefied gas used for cars (autogas) by mid-June. Under the proposal, the excise tax on heating oil would be raised from 233 Zloty ($68.70) per 1000 liters to 1028 Zloty ( [...] | 2005-06-06 15:14:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EFIN EPET ECON PREL PL |
05WARSAW2496 | Poland Continues to Chip Away at its Budget Deficit [...] (U) In early June, the Ministry of Finance released its initial assumptions for the 2006 budget, officially kicking off the six month budget drafting season. The Ministry of Finance purposely proposed conservative estimates for growth (4%) and inflation (1.5%). Finance also set the budget de [...] | 2005-06-09 08:58:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD PREL PL |
05WARSAW2598 | ENGAGING THE IRAQ COALITION: NO CHANGE IN POLISH [...] (C) SUMMARY. Poland plans to reduce its military contingent in Iraq by roughly 300 for its fifth rotation that will begin in mid-July 2005, leaving approximately 1,400 Polish troops in the Multinational Division Center South (MND-CS). These troops will increasingly focus on training missions [...] | 2005-06-17 13:21:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS PREL IZ PL |
05WARSAW26 | Polish Parliament Enacts 2005 Budget with Lower [...] (SBU) Summary: Just before Christmas, the Polish Government completed work on a 2005 budget which has a lower deficit for the first time in three years (forecast at 3.7% of GDP compared to 4.8% in 2004). In drafting the 2005 budget, the GOP built on its success in 2004 in revitalizing the pri [...] | 2005-01-05 06:21:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL PL |
05WARSAW2711 | DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE ON UN REFORM [...] (SBU) Ambassador spoke to Polish Foreign Minister Daniel Rotfeld on June 30 to urge him to support the U.S. agenda for reform of the UN. Drawing on Reftels A and B, Ambassador emphasized the importance the Secretary attaches to broad reform, and emphasized that this goes farther than UNSC re [...] | 2005-07-01 08:37:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KUNR PREL PGOV AORC PL UNSC |
05WARSAW2779 | LARGEST POLISH TEACHERS UNION BACKS [...] (U) In a surprise move, the Union of Polish Teachers (ZNP) announced on July 6 that it would support the Social Democracy of Poland (SdPl) in fall elections. ZNP followed the far-left Union of Labor (UP) and minuscule Greens 2004 Party, which had earlier signed election alliances with the SdP [...] | 2005-07-07 15:30:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PGOV PL |
05WARSAW2814 | G-4 RESOLUTION ON UN REFORM: POLAND CAN'T SAY "NO" [...] (C) The Polish government has decided to co-sponsor the Group of Four (G-4) framework resolution based on its long-standing commitment, dating back to the early 1990's, to support Germany's bid for a permanent seat on the Security Council. Reviewing the Polish position, MFA Deputy Director fo [...] | 2005-07-12 13:42:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PL UNSC |
05WARSAW2846 | POLAND: IRAQI DEBT FORGIVENESS AND PARTICIPATION [...] (C) Summary. The head of the Polish MFA's Iraq Task Team relayed that Poland's Embassy in Amman will most likely represent Poland at the upcoming Donors' Meeting at the Dead Sea, and that Poland is not planning on committing any funds to Iraq reconstruction in the immediate future, but is co [...] | 2005-07-14 14:16:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN PREL IZ JO PL |
05WARSAW2887 | EUR ASSISTANT SECRETARY FRIED LUNCH WITH LAW AND [...] (C) EUR A/S Dan Fried met July 11 for lunch with center-right Law and Justice (PiS) leader and presidential candidate, Lech Kaczynski. They reviewed the bidding in the upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections, with Kaczynski saying differences between PiS and expected coalition partn [...] | 2005-07-20 09:55:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PGOV ECON PL |
05WARSAW2889 | EUR ASSISTANT SECRETARY FRIED BREAKFAST WITH CIVIC [...] (C) EUR A/S Dan Fried held a breakfast meeting July 11 with Jan Rokita, the head of the centrist Civic Platform (PO). Rokita, who is likely to become Prime Minister should PO lead a coalition government after the September 2005 parliamentary elections, reviewed the political state of play in [...] | 2005-07-20 09:58:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR PL |
05WARSAW2912 | ELECTION SEASON IN FULL SWING WITH PARLIAMENTARY [...] (C) With just over two months until parliamentary elections and just under three months until the first round of presidential elections, the election season in Poland is in full swing. The presidential race is still fluid. Parliamentary speaker Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, who entered the race s [...] | 2005-07-22 14:38:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PL |
05WARSAW3010 | PRESS REPORTS WRONG: POLAND AND IRAQ HAVE NOT [...] (SBU) On the heels of Prime Minister Marek Belka's July visit to Baghdad, several Polish press outlets reported that Belka promised the Iraqi government forgiveness of 80 percent of Iraqi debt, in line with the Paris Club's agreement. However, Poland's Iraq Task Team at the Ministry of Foreign [...] | 2005-08-03 10:18:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PREL IZ PL |
05WARSAW3044 | IRAQ-POLAND: JONES-SMITH CONSULTATIONS WITH GOP [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador Richard Jones Senior Adviser to the Secretary and Coordinator for Iraq Policy (S/I) led an interagency delegation to Warsaw July 28-29 to consult with senior GOP officials and encourage continued substantial Polish participation in the Iraq Coalition and the Multi-Nati [...] | 2005-08-05 11:46:00 | Embassy Warsaw | SECRET | PREL MOPS MARR PL IZ |
05WARSAW3104 | RENEWAL OF ISAF'S U.N. MANDATE - POLAND NOT AN [...] (C) PolMil Chief shared Ref A views on the ISAF mandate with Jakub Urbanik, action officer for Afghanistan/Iraq operations in the MFA Department of Security Policy, who was familiar with the U.S. intentions for revising the NATO operational plan. After discussing the issue with the Polish NAT [...] | 2005-08-12 11:04:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR AF PL NATO UNSC |
05WARSAW3111 | NEW TENSIONS IN POLISH-RUSSIAN RELATIONS WITH [...] (U) The Polish government has expressed concern and Polish politicians and media outrage over the past week's beatings in Moscow of three members of the staff of the Polish Embassy (one Russian employee, one Polish technical staff member, and one Polish diplomat) and one journalist for the P [...] | 2005-08-12 14:30:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PL |
05WARSAW3151 | Economic Impact of EU Accession on Poland [...] (SUB) Sixteen months after Poland's EU accession, post surveyed a number of government officials and economic experts on the impact of accession. Despite some caveats, there appears to be consensus that Poland has adapted smoothly to the EU's common market. Dramatic export growth has fuele [...] | 2005-08-19 09:10:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN PL EUN |
05WARSAW3161 | RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON PRESIDENT BUSH'S DEMOCRACY [...] Polcouns delivered reftel demarche August 19 to Katarzyna Katsperczyk, who handles Community of Democracy issues in the MFA's Department of Policy Planning. Katsperczyk said that Poland, as a convener and strong supporter of the Community of Democracies and the UN Democracy Fund, will be makin [...] | 2005-08-22 10:20:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PL UNGA |
05WARSAW3178 | POLAND: U.S. PROVIDER SEEKS TO OFFER VOICE [...] (SBU) California TOK, a Delaware-registered firm, is making ambitious plans to enter the Polish telecoms market with inexpensive international voice services. Although the service will rely on an individual customer's existing broadband connection, the company eschews labeling its service v [...] | 2005-08-23 11:47:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD PL ECCP |
05WARSAW3194 | SUPPORTING TURKEY'S EU ACCESSION PROCESS: POLAND [...] (C) Post delivered reftel demarche to the Polish MFA's European department, underscoring our concern about possible attempts to impose additional pre-conditions for Turkish EU accession negotiations. Polish MFA desk officer for Turkey Patrycja Ozcan assured us that the Polish government fully [...] | 2005-08-24 11:52:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TU PL EUN |
05WARSAW3210 | MTCR POINTS DELIVERED TO POLISH MFA [...] No summary [...] | 2005-08-25 14:54:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL PL MTCRE |
05WARSAW3234 | POLISH APPROACH TO SEPTEMBER 1-2 EU GYMNICH [...] (C) Responding to reftel points, Polish MFA Director for CFSP Beata Kolecka confirmed that Poland will hold a firm line against any new conditions for the start of Turkish accession talks, resist efforts to soften ICTY conditionality for Croatia, and maintain positions complementary to the U.S. [...] | 2005-08-30 14:02:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM TU PL EUN |
05WARSAW3242 | POLISH STATEMENT WELCOMES IRAQI DRAFT CONSTITUTION [...] (SBU) Following our approach (Ref B),the Polish MFA late August 29 released a public statement in support of Iraq's draft constitution. Unofficial embassy translation of the original Polish-language text follows. 2. (U) Begin text of Polish MFA statement. "Poland welcomes the completion [...] | 2005-08-31 09:19:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM IZ PL |
05WARSAW3249 | Poland: Economic Relations with Ukraine [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Not for Internet Distribution. 2. (U) Ukraine is Poland's second largest CIS trade partner, after the Russian Federation (due mainly to energy imports). Improving trade statistics demonstrate the increasing significance of Ukraine to the Polish economy, with [...] | 2005-08-31 13:48:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD PREL EINV PL |
05WARSAW3250 | ISOLATING SYRIA AT THE UNGA: POLAND [...] (C) Polish MFA Deputy Director for the Middle East and Africa Wojciech Bozek assured us August 31 that neither Polish Foreign Minister Daniel Rotfeld nor President Aleksander Kwasniewski has any plans to meet with Al-Asad in New York, for both reasons of policy and scheduling. Bozek indicated [...] | 2005-08-31 13:54:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER SY PL UNGA |
05WARSAW3270 | Polish Economy not yet Hurt by Rising Oil Prices [...] (SBU) Rapidly increasing oil prices have had a limited effect on the rate of inflation in Poland to date. Over the past 12 months, the average zloty price of oil has increased 12 percent, while the consumer price index rose only 1.3 percent and producer prices remained unchanged. Nevertheless [...] | 2005-09-02 12:25:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL PL |
05WARSAW3277 | POLAND DEFERS DECISION ON IRAQI DEBT TO NEXT [...] (U) This cable contains an action request - see para 4. ------- Summary ------- 2. (C) Polish Finance Ministry Under Secretary Wieslaw Szczuka told us September 1 that, despite press reports, the Polish Government still has taken no decision regarding a write-off of Iraqi debt. At [...] | 2005-09-02 15:31:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PREL PL IZ |
05WARSAW3286 | POLAND: FRENCH WANT MORE TELECOMS STOCK [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-06 09:12:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EINV PL ECCP |
05WARSAW3287 | Poland's Monetary Policy Council Continues [...] (SBU) Poland's Monetary Policy Council (MPC) cut interest rates for the fifth time in 2005, reducing all by 25 basis points (bp) except for the rediscount rate, which dropped by 50bp. As of September 1, basic Central Bank rates are: lombard rate 6.0 percent, rediscount rate 4.75 percent, r [...] | 2005-09-06 13:41:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL PL |
05WARSAW3298 | CENTRIST CIVIC PLATFORM SURGES IN PRE-ELECTION [...] (SBU) Summary: The centrist Civic Platform (PO) has moved into a strong first-place position in the latest opinion surveys, with just a few weeks remaining before Polish parliamentary and presidential elections. PO's recent surge suggests that the party will dominate a coalition government fo [...] | 2005-09-07 13:39:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON PL |
05WARSAW3300 | POLAND: PROBLEMS WITH SAUDI WTO ACCESSION [...] (SBU) Econoff spoke with Sara Riley from the U.K. Embassy regarding the WTO accession of Saudi Arabia. Riley noted concerns with regard to certain EU member states, including Poland, stemming from dual fuel pricing regimes (one for domestic, one for export). According to Riley, the Poles are [...] | 2005-09-07 13:59:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PL SA WTO |
05WARSAW3305 | MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR) "SYRIA [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-08 10:40:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC PARM PREL PL MTCRE |
05WARSAW3360 | WHAT'S AT STAKE IN POLISH ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: With just a few weeks remaining in the Polish parliamentary and presidential election campaigns, all signs indicate that the new government and head of state will be ones committed to advancing long-standing principles of Polish foreign and economic policy. September 25 parliamen [...] | 2005-09-14 13:58:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON PL |
05WARSAW3361 | POLAND: Government Announces Antipiracy Strategy [...] (U) During the September 13, Council of Ministers meeting in Warsaw, the interagency group approved a strategy for combating intellectual property rights (IPR) piracy. The report focuses several strategic goals and emphasizes the importance of the "public-private sector partnership" to achiev [...] | 2005-09-14 15:36:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD KIPR PL |
05WARSAW3387 | POLAND WEIGHS UKRAINIAN ROLE IN ADDRESSING [...] (C) Polish officials confirmed to us September 16 that they are likely to respond positively to a Ukrainian proposal to host a meeting at the NSA-equivalent level between Poland and Belarus. Slawomir Kaminski, a deputy director in Polish National Security Adviser Jerzy Bahr's office, explained [...] | 2005-09-16 11:41:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV BO UP PL |
05WARSAW3393 | POLISH ELECTIONS UPDATE: PO, PIS MAINTAIN LEAD [...] (SBU) Summary: The centrist Civic Platform (PO) and center-right Law and Justice (PiS) continue to dominate the party preference polls with little more than a week before Polish parliamentary elections September 25. The latest surveys indicate that PO still far outpaces PiS, and that, togethe [...] | 2005-09-16 14:05:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PL |
05WARSAW3410 | POLISH RESPONSE REGARDING WEAPONS SALES TO [...] (S) SUMMARY. Embassy delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of Economy (MOE) and MFA officials responsible for export controls. Both ministries confirmed that there was an agreement with Indonesia for sale of the Kobra air defense system to Indonesia, but there were as yet no applications for [...] | 2005-09-19 13:03:00 | Embassy Warsaw | SECRET | PARM PREL ETTC MASS PL LY IN |
05WARSAW3422 | POLISH MINISTRY OF ECONOMY UNCONCERNED ABOUT [...] (C) Summary. Polish government officials responsible for energy security are unconcerned about the recent agreement between Germany and Russia to construct a gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea despite almost daily news articles about the proposed project. Our contacts concede that the proje [...] | 2005-09-20 13:35:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PREL PL GM RS |
05WARSAW3423 | POLISH NSA REQUESTS MEETING ON BELARUS [...] (C) Following up on reftel conversations concerning our interest in close coordination with Poland on Belarus, Polish National Security Advisor Jerzy Bahr has requested a meeting with the Ambassador in advance of a planned September 29 meeting in Kiev with Bahr's Belarusian counterpart. The A [...] | 2005-09-20 13:52:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV BO UP PL |
05WARSAW3427 | POLISH PARLIAMENTARY RACE TIGHTENS [...] (SBU) Summary: With just days to go before September 25 Polish parliamentary elections, latest opinion polls indicate a tightening race between the front-running Civic Platform (PO) and its likely coalition partner, the center-right Law and Justice (PiS). In contrast to the inconclusive elect [...] | 2005-09-21 08:57:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PL |
05WARSAW3429 | CHILDREN OF MARTIAL LAW AND YOUTHFUL POLITICS IN [...] (U) Summary: A survey of the youth wings of Poland's political parties and discussions with young voters give a picture of a generation raised in post-communist Poland fairly disengaged from the political process. While dedicated individuals in and out of the party structure try to reverse thi [...] | 2005-09-21 10:23:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON PL |
05WARSAW3447 | OSCE: HDIM OPENING FOCUSES ON OSCE REFORM [...] Summary: The opening session of the 2005 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting gave participants a chance to set out their views of the OSCE, against the backdrop of reform discussions ongoing in Vienna. Poland, the U.S., and Kyrgyzstan voiced strong support for OSCE's human rights work and [...] | 2005-09-23 09:45:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PL OSCE |
05WARSAW3456 | LIKELY COALITION PARTNERS NECK-AND-NECK ON EVE OF [...] (SBU) Summary: National opinion surveys on the last day of the Polish parliamentary election campaign show the centrist Civic Platform (PO) and center-right Law and Justice (PiS) running roughly even (albeit with a slight edge to PO),highlighting the fierce contest for first place between the [...] | 2005-09-23 14:41:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PL |
05WARSAW3465 | POLISH RIGHT VICTORIOUS IN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION [...] (SBU) Summary. Preliminary results and exit polling from Poland's September 25 parliamentary elections indicate a convincing victory for the center-right Law and Justice (PiS) and Civic Platform (PO),who are expected to begin formal coalition negotiations as early as September 27. PiS's nar [...] | 2005-09-26 10:13:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PL |
05WARSAW3469 | POLAND: COMBATING EXTREMISM [...] (U) Summary: Muslim extremism is not perceived to be an issue of concern in Poland; the Muslim community is very small and the population is 96 percent Roman Catholic. However, the Embassy and ConGen Krakow closely monitor the media for any indications of rising extremist threats. Given the co [...] | 2005-09-27 09:47:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM KPAO EAID PHUM KMPI PL |
05WARSAW3473 | OSCE: HDIM ELECTION ISSUES [...] (U) Summary. Election issues were the focus of three early events at this year's Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM)in Warsaw. During the first HDIM Working Session, the clear fault line that separates most NGOs and participating States, including the United States, from Russia and [...] | 2005-09-27 12:26:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PL OSCE |
05WARSAW3477 | FINAL ELECTION RESULTS ANNOUNCED IN POLAND [...] (SBU) Summary: The final results of Polish parliamentary elections confirmed a narrow first-place finish for the center-right Law and Justice (PiS),followed by its anticipated coalition partner, the Civic Platform (PO). The latest forecasts for parliamentary seat distribution indicate that P [...] | 2005-09-27 14:04:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PL |
05WARSAW3494 | JAROSLAW KACZYNSKI UNEXPECTEDLY WITHDRAWS AS PM [...] (SBU) Summary: In a surprise move September 27, Law and Justice (PiS) party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski named Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz as the party's candidate to be Prime Minister. Kaczynski's decision to remove himself from the running is widely interpreted as a bid to improve his twin brothe [...] | 2005-09-28 15:00:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PL KJRE |
05WARSAW3545 | TIME TO THINK SOFA FOR POLAND [...] (U) This is an action message. Please see para 10. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Embassy Warsaw recommends that the USG begin negotiations for a bilateral Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with Poland as soon as possible. In the context of both NATO obligations and bilateral programs, U.S. military per [...] | 2005-10-05 07:31:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | KTIA MARR PREL MASS PL NATO |
05WARSAW3557 | TUSK STILL LEADS IN TIGHTENING PRESIDENTIAL RACE [...] (U) Summary: Civic Platform (PO) candidate Donald Tusk remains the odds-on favorite to replace Aleksander Kwasniewski as Poland's next President, although the race with his principal rival, Law and Justice (PiS) candidate Lech Kaczynski is tightening in the final days before the October 9 el [...] | 2005-10-05 14:17:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PL |
05WARSAW3575 | PRESIDENTIAL PRE-ELECTION SNAPSHOT [...] Summary: Civic Platform's (PO's) Donald Tusk remains in the lead for the October 9 first round of the Polish presidential race, with today's final pre-election polls showing his edge over Law and Justice (PiS) challenger, Lech Kaczynski varying from just one to eight points. Other candidate [...] | 2005-10-07 13:32:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PL |
05WARSAW3578 | TUSK EDGES OUT KACZYNSKI IN FIRST PRESIDENTIAL [...] (SBU) Summary: As predicted, Civic Platform's (PO's) Donald Tusk prevailed in the first-round of Poland's presidential election on October 9, and will face Lech Kaczynski in a second round of balloting on October 23. Despite only a three point margin over his rival, Tusk has bounced in post- [...] | 2005-10-11 13:56:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PL |
05WARSAW3608 | SURROGATE MUD-SLINGING BACKFIRES ON KACZYNSKI [...] (C) The presidential campaign of Law and Justice (PiS) candidate Lech Kaczynski seems to have suffered a blow when a surrogate's false attack on Civic Platform (PO) rival Donald Tusk backfired. PiS's self-described "bull terrier," Jacek Kurski charged publicly that Tusk's grandfather voluntee [...] | 2005-10-14 14:30:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PL |
05WARSAW3613 | POLAND: U.S. POLICY TOWARD BELARUS [...] (C) We shared reftel (A) demarche points with Polish MFA officials October 12 and 13, highlighting the results of our policy review and our determination to coordinate closely with partners in support of Belarusian democracy. Polish officials indicated that Poland shares the broad outlines of [...] | 2005-10-17 14:08:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM BO PL |
05WARSAW3615 | POLISH PRIME MINISTER CANDIDATE EMPHASIZES DESIRE [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met for about 30 minutes October 14 with Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, Law and Justice's (PiS) candidate for prime minister. Marcinkiewicz emphasized the importance PiS and its coalition partner Civic Platform (PO) attached to the U.S. relationship, raised offsets and mili [...] | 2005-10-17 15:40:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MASS MARR PL |
05WARSAW3625 | POLISH MFA REQUESTS U.S. SUPPORT FOR CANDIDATE FOR [...] (C) Pol-Mil Chief was called in to MFA October 17 by Deputy Director for Security Policy Tadeusz Chomicki to discuss the upcoming selection of a new chairman for the Zangger Committee. Chomicki explained that the Polish delegation had provided to the British Mission in Vienna, which acts as s [...] | 2005-10-18 14:41:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM ETTC KNNP PL EUN |
05WARSAW3627 | POLISH MFA STATEMENT ON IRAQ REFERENDUM [...] In response to reftel demarche, the Polish MFA released October 18 the following public statement in support of the Iraqi constitutional referendum. 2. Begin text of embassy translation of statement. "Poland has welcomed a nationwide referendum on the new constitution that was conducted o [...] | 2005-10-18 15:18:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KDEM IZ PL |
05WARSAW3632 | POLAND RESPONDS TO AVIAN FLU OUTBREAKS [...] Summary. In response to the confirmed outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza in Romania and Turkey, the GOP has taken several steps to prepare for a potential outbreak on Polish soil. An emergency anti-epidemic committee has been formed that cuts across key ministries and agencies, including Heal [...] | 2005-10-19 12:21:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO ECON PREL PL KSTH WHO |
05WARSAW3642 | POLAND/CUBA: MFA SENIOR OFFICIAL MEETS ONLY WITH [...] (C) This is an action request for WHA/CCA and USINT Havana. See paragraph 8. 2. (C) Summary: MFA Director for the Americas Henryk Szlajfer gave PolCouns a read-out on his recent visit to Cuba, where he met only with opposition figures, and was completely boycotted by the government. H [...] | 2005-10-20 08:47:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KPAO OIIP PL CU |
05WARSAW3650 | POTENTIAL ASYLUM REQUEST FROM IRAQI DIPLOMAT IN [...] CONOFF was visited on October 19, 2005 by Mohammed N. Muthanna, Third Secretary and Consul for the Iraqi Embassy in Warsaw, in connection with a potential asylum request by Mr. Muthanna. Muthanna told CONOFF that he believes that he has been targeted for assasination by either "Baathists" or " [...] | 2005-10-20 15:24:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS PHUM PINR PL PREL IZ |
05WARSAW3661 | LECH KACZYNSKI ELECTED PRESIDENT OF POLAND [...] Summary: Lech Kaczynski snatched victory in Poland's presidential election on October 23, in a surprising come from behind win against Donald Tusk. Elections results will be announced officially this afternoon, but with well over 90 percent of the votes tallied, Kaczynski secured his election [...] | 2005-10-24 10:45:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL MARR ECON PL |
05WARSAW3694 | DEFMIN CANDIDATES TELL EUR DAS PEKALA NEW GOP WILL [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a brief October 20 visit to Warsaw, EUR DAS Mark Pekala met separately with the three leading candidates for Defense Minister in the expected coalition government of Law and Justice (PiS) and Civic Platform (PO). Although perspectives and tones differed, Bronislaw Komorowski ( [...] | 2005-10-26 13:06:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MARR PL |
05WARSAW3700 | POLISH GOVERNMENT COALITION TALKS BREAK DOWN [...] (C) Summary: Coalition negotiations between Law and Justice (PiS) and Civic Platform (PO) collapsed October 26 following PiS's decision to put forward its own candidate for parliamentary speaker, who was quickly elected with the support of radical opposition parties. PiS and PO leaders were u [...] | 2005-10-26 15:13:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PL |
05WARSAW3732 | POLAND CONDEMNS IRANIAN PRESIDENT'S INCREASING [...] (U) Poland reacted very quickly and strongly to Iranian President Ahmadi-Nejad's October 25 statement that Israel should be "wiped off the map" (reftel). The Polish MFA spokesman issued on October 27 a strong condemnation of Ahmadi-Nejad's remarks. Text follows in para 3 below. 2. (C) Pol [...] | 2005-10-31 13:07:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PHUM IR PL |
05WARSAW3734 | MARCINKIEWICZ NAMES POLISH GOVERNMENT [...] Summary: Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz named his new cabinet on October 31, with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs going to career diplomat Stefan Meller and Defense to Radek Sikorski. Reaching out to moderates like Zbigniew Religa as Minister of Health and Teresa Lubinska at Finance suggests that de [...] | 2005-10-31 14:07:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PL |
05WARSAW3762 | POLISH RESPONSE ON BELARUS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION [...] (C) Acting Polcouns delivered reftel demarche to Beata Kolecka, Deputy Director of the EU Department of the Polish MFA. Kolecka welcomed the U.S. perspectives, which she said very closely paralleled Poland's own policy on Belarus. She noted the ongoing excellent bilateral and regional cooper [...] | 2005-11-04 14:49:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PGOV BO EUN |
05WARSAW3794 | NEW POLISH DEFMIN SIKORSKI HOPES TO VISIT [...] (C) SUMMARY. In his introductory meeting with Ambassador Ashe, new Defense Minister Radek Sikorski expressed his desire to visit Washington during the week of November 28 for official meetings with Secretary Rumsfeld and other senior officials. In a focused half-hour discussion, Sikorski also [...] | 2005-11-09 15:44:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MASS PL |
05WARSAW3795 | NEW POLISH FOREIGN MINISTER EMPHASIZES IMPORTANCE [...] (C) During Ambassador's initial call, Poland's newly named Foreign Minister Stefan Meller said he would travel back to Moscow (where he served as Ambassador until his October 31 appointment) on November 13 to arrange his move back to Warsaw, but also to meet with Foreign Minister Lavrov and, h [...] | 2005-11-09 15:48:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR PL |
05WARSAW3806 | POLISH PM MARCINKIEWICZ SET TO WIN CONFIDENCE VOTE [...] (SBU) Summary: Polish Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz presented his government's program to parliament November 10, confident of prevailing in a vote of confidence later that day. Both the populist Self-Defense (SO) and the right-wing League of Polish Families (LPR) parties have given [...] | 2005-11-10 14:29:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PL |
05WARSAW3825 | POLISH MILITARY PREPARES TO REMAIN IN IRAQ, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY. During the November 8-9 Force Generation Conference in Warsaw for the sixth rotation of the Multinational Division Center-South (MND-CS) in Iraq, the Chief of Strategic Planning for the Polish General Staff outlined plans for a continued, albeit reduced Polish presence in Iraq. [...] | 2005-11-14 15:38:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MASS PL |
05WARSAW3826 | NEW POLISH GOVERNMENT LISTS MISSILE DEFENSE IN [...] (U) In a published addendum to his November 10 expose to the Sejm (Parliament) in advance of the first vote of confidence in his newly formed government (reftel),PM Marcinkiewicz included a specific statement on missile defense cooperation with the United States. The statement listed as one [...] | 2005-11-14 16:22:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL PGOV PARM PL |
05WARSAW3872 | POLISH APPROACH TO NOVEMBER 21 EU GAERC [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel demarche upon receipt and reviewed with Polish MFA Director CFSP Beata Kolecka November 18. Kolecka provided the following outline of the Polish government's approach to the November 21 GAERC. 2. (C) Defense Issues: Poland is in full accord with our position an [...] | 2005-11-18 14:22:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON PGOV PL EUN |
05WARSAW3903 | POLAND: UPDATED INFORMATION ON AVIAN AND PANDEMIC [...] Summary. Post has reported extensively on our positive relationship with the GOP in its effort to prepare for a potential avian influenza outbreak (see refs b - e). Polish officials are actively preparing for the appearance of the disease, which they expect will occur in the Spring. Rather [...] | 2005-11-23 14:50:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID PREL PL |
05WARSAW3909 | POLISH RESOLVE REINFORCED ON CUBA POLICY [...] (C) Summary: The transition to a center-right government in Poland and the Polish MFA Latin America director's recent visit to Havana appear to have strengthened Polish determination to promote democratic reform in Cuba, both through the European Union and bilaterally. We view this developmen [...] | 2005-11-25 10:06:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV CU PL EUN |
05WARSAW3914 | DEPUTY PM STRESSES LAW, VISAS IN MEETING WITH [...] (U) SUMMARY: In Ambassador Ashe's November 23 introductory call on Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister, Ludwik Dorn, discussion focused on law and order issues but also included visas as well as next-generation national leadership. The Ambassador underscored his desire to host a lunch [...] | 2005-11-25 16:06:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KCRM CVIS PL |
05WARSAW3954 | NAC COMMUNIQUE: POLAND SUPPORTS STRONG LANGUAGE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-01 16:45:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KCFE PL NATO |
05WARSAW4009 | POLISH VIEWS ON DECEMBER 12 GAERC [...] (C) Post delivered ref (A) demarche upon receipt and reviewed with Polish MFA Director for CFSP Beata Kolecka December 8. Points on Balkans issues were delivered separately and Polish views were reported in Ref (B). 2. (C) The December 12 GAERC and the subsequent European Council meetings [...] | 2005-12-08 14:56:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON PL EUN |
05WARSAW4020 | LAW AND JUSTICE IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT [...] (C) Summary: Governing Law and Justice (PiS) officials are pursuing a strategy of dividing and conquering right-wing and nationalist Polish parties, and pondering whether to call early elections -- perhaps as soon as early 2006 -- to strengthen their position. The main opposition, PiS's woul [...] | 2005-12-09 15:49:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PL |
05WARSAW4025 | POLAND'S 2005-2006 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-12 15:07:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PL EUN |
05WARSAW4030 | POLISH FOREIGN MINISTER MELLER'S VISIT TO [...] (C) Summary: Polish Foreign Minister Stefan Meller travels to Washington next week as the representative of a new center-right government that pledges continuity in foreign policy and sustained engagement in support of democracy throughout the world. Meller is expected to bring a positive mes [...] | 2005-12-13 10:17:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS ECON PL |
05WARSAW4037 | IRAQ: POLES SIGNAL READINESS TO STAY, BUT PRESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Polish officials and parliamentarians who met with Robert Deutsch, Deputy Senior Advisor for Iraq, on December 8 in Warsaw suggested that Poland will likely remain in Iraq past January 2006, but in reduced numbers, and with an eye to withdrawing by the end of 2006. Because Polish [...] | 2005-12-13 16:15:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL MOPS MARR IZ PL |
05WARSAW4045 | POLAND'S CIVIC PLATFORM -- THE JILTED BRIDE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Poland's leading opposition party, the Civic Platform (PO),hopes to cast itself as the only viable political alternative to the ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS),although its sudden metamorphosis from would-be coalition leader to outspoken critic has led some Poles, including [...] | 2005-12-14 12:52:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PL |
05WARSAW4050 | Lepper undergoes a transformation on economics [...] (SBU) In a recent interview for business daily "Puls Biznesu" Andrzej Lepper, the leader of Samoobrona (Self Defense) the third largest party in the Polish Parliament, presents himself as a social-liberal as opposed to his portrayal as a dedicated socialist during the election period. His vie [...] | 2005-12-15 09:46:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL PGOV PL |
05WARSAW4058 | 2006 HAGUE COMPLIANCE REPORT PREPARATION -- POLAND [...] (SBU) We welcome the opportunity to provide comments related to Poland's compliance with The Hague Convention provisions. Although we generally agree with the negative portrayal of Poland's compliance efforts, we believe that Poland has made some small progress in its handling of Hague cases [...] | 2005-12-15 17:07:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC KOCI PL |
05WARSAW4065 | POLAND: AMBASSADOR'S COURTESY CALL ON NEW [...] (U) Ambassador called on new Minister of Transport and Construction, Jerzy Polaczek, on December 9 to discuss the new government's plans for speeding up infrastructure development. Minister Polaczek commenting that his first priority was to ensure that he spent the government's resources wi [...] | 2005-12-16 15:31:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EAIR ECPS ELTN PREL PL |
05WARSAW4067 | POLAND 2005-2006 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL [...] Poland's geographic location places it directly along one of the main routes between the former Soviet Union republics and Western Europe used by narcotics-traffickers and organized crime groups. According to Polish government estimates, narcotics-trafficking, organized crime activity, auto th [...] | 2005-12-16 16:18:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KTFN PL |
05WARSAW4075 | POLAND: THE IRAQI AIR FORCE MEETS WITH BUMAR, BOTH [...] (S) On 14 December 2005 Econoff and ODC Warsaw personnel met with Iraqi Air Force generals and then observed a meeting hosted by Bumar and attended by five Iraqi Air Force generals. The participants discussed, sometimes heatedly, the 36 helicopters covered in Bumar's multifacted contract to [...] | 2005-12-20 12:38:00 | Embassy Warsaw | SECRET | EAID ECON MARR PGOV PREL IZ PL |
05WARSAW4079 | PIS MAKES PLAY FOR PUBLIC MEDIA [...] (U) On December 16th Law and Justice (PIS) moved to change the National Broadcasting law and effectively seize political and, consequently, editorial control of Polish Public Television (TVP) and Radio (PR). The amendment was fast-tracked through Parliament (same day reading and voting with n [...] | 2005-12-20 14:50:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS KPAO PGOV PREL PL |
05WARSAW4113 | Update on GOP's Anti-Trafficking Policies [...] Our discussions with Polish government officials, NGOs, and academic institutions reveal that the GOP has taken significant steps to combat trafficking in persons (TIP) in Poland. For the first time ever, the GOP has allocated funds from the state budget for the implementation of the Nationa [...] | 2005-12-23 08:28:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREF KCRM KJUS PL |
05WARSAW4124 | DRAFT POLISH DEFENSE BUDGET, MORE FOR [...] SUMMARY: Poland's Parliamentary Defense Committee offered a glimpse of future defense spending when it approved the $5.6 billion draft defense budget for 2006 on December 15. This represents a 3.3% increase (adjusted for inflation) over 2005. Significant elements of the draft include $1 billi [...] | 2005-12-28 15:53:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON PREL PTER PARM PL |
05WARSAW58 | Markets Show Increasing Appreciation for the [...] (SBU) Summary: The Zloty appreciated the most of any convertible currency against the Dollar, growing 20% in 2004. Most observers attribute this rise to a mix of factors, including greater political stability under the current technocratic government, Poland's entry into the EU in May, and t [...] | 2005-01-06 06:27:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL PL |
05WARSAW742 | Polish Government Appreciates USG Acceptance of [...] (U) On January 28, Econ Counselor delivered the news that the USG creditor agencies would participate in Poland's offer to prepay its Paris Club debt to Finance U/S Szczuka. Econoff subsequently followed up with MOF technical experts. During these conversations, we took the opportunity to expl [...] | 2005-02-08 15:02:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN PREL PL |
05WARSAW794 | SECURITY PROBLEMS AT WARSAW'S AIRPORT HIT THE PRESS [...] (SBU) Summary. In late January 2005, the European Union conducted an airport security assessment at Warsaw's Okecie airport. The EU assessors identified a number of deficiencies at the airport, including two important security problems related to passenger/baggage screening and maintaining th [...] | 2005-02-11 05:15:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON PREL PL |
05WARSAW924 | Polish Government Declares Half a Loaf on Public [...] (U) On February 1, the Council of Ministers issued a communiqu claiming that provisions implemented to date of the government's fiscal reform plan (the "Hausner plan," named after its chief architect, Economy Minister Jerzy Hausner) would save 25.4 billion Zloty ($8.2 billion) between 2004-7. [...] | 2005-02-18 07:49:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL PL |
05WARSAW959 | Defeat of Health Care Bill Prompts Health Minister [...] (SBU) Summary: On 17 February, the Sejm rejected a long awaited bill on restructuring of public health care units. The bill, prepared as part of the government's public finance reform package, was designed to write off up to $3 billion in local hospital debts in exchange for reforms, including [...] | 2005-02-22 05:09:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ELAB PREL PL |
05WARSAW966 | Polish Ministry of Finance Reorganizes Debt [...] (U) At the end of January, the Ministry of Finance reorganized its debt department, creating a unified department from two formerly separate units, one for foreign debt and one for domestic debt. Pawel Kowalewski, the new head of the unified department, explained to Econoffs that this unifica [...] | 2005-02-22 11:24:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL PL |
05WARSAW985 | BOEING CEO MEETS WITH POLISH MINISTER OF TREASURY [...] (SBU) Boeing CEO, Harry Stonecipher, met with the Polish Minister of State Treasury, Jacek Socha, on February 18, to discuss Boeing's activities in Poland. The meeting centered on LOT's tender for long-haul aircraft and also touched on Boeing's plans to cooperate with Polish companies for tool [...] | 2005-02-24 13:17:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ETRD EFIN PREL PL |
05WELLINGTON10 | INDUSTRY MAY FOOT BILL FOR COST OF BOOSTING NEW [...] (SBU) Summary: Oil companies are facing the prospect of shouldering the costly burden of bringing New Zealand's oil stocks up to an international standard. With the country's reserves well below the 90-day supply recommended by the International Energy Agency (IEA),New Zealand's Cabinet has [...] | 2005-01-07 04:51:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON NZ ENGR |
05WELLINGTON1000 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL [...] (SBU) Embassy warmly welcomes the Congressional delegation led by Representative Sherwood Boehlert to Christchurch, New Zealand from January 4 - 12, 2006. New Zealand country clearance is granted to the following delegation members as listed in reftel: Rep. Sherwood Boehlert and Spouse, Rep [...] | 2005-12-28 23:02:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN AS NZ |
05WELLINGTON1002 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DAVID HUNTER, [...] (SBU) Embassy warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Mr. David Hunter, Staff Member, S-HSGAC, as part of the Congressional delegation led by Senator John McCain to Christchurch, New Zealand from January 4 - 11, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to inspect ongoing oceanographic and [...] | 2005-12-29 22:06:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN AS NZ |
05WELLINGTON1009 | NEW ZEALAND AND CLIMATE CHANGE [...] (SBU) Faced with unfavorable greenhouse gas emission projections and criticisms over its current climate change policies, the Labour Government is poised to alter its course. In the future, it will de-emphasize price-based measures and place greater emphasis on purchasing Kyoto compliant cred [...] | 2005-12-30 03:49:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG NZ |
05WELLINGTON102 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR KEVIN HENNESSY [...] No summary [...] | 2005-02-03 18:13:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA TBIO NZ |
05WELLINGTON115 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR LARRY FRICKS, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Larry Fricks, Director, ADCA, CMHS, SAMHSA, DHHS to travel to Wellington and Auckland, New Zealand from February 25 to March 9, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to present at the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership Ex [...] | 2005-02-08 02:13:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TBIO NZ |
05WELLINGTON118 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HODGEN, MURPHY, STEWART, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to the U.S. Government Delegation of Donald Hodgen, DOC; James Murphy, USTR; Susan Stewart, Treasury; Gail Davis, Treasury, and Robert Tobiassen, Treasury, to travel to Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand from February 27 - March 8, 2005. [...] | 2005-02-10 17:55:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA BEXP ETRD NZ |
05WELLINGTON119 | NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA DELAY STARTUP OF JOINT [...] (SBU) Summary: New Zealand and Australia have agreed to delay the startup of a joint agency to regulate therapeutic products in both countries, after encountering difficulty in lining up political backing for legislation necessary to set up the agency. In New Zealand's case, that difficulty pa [...] | 2005-02-10 23:49:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD NZ |
05WELLINGTON125 | NEW ZEALAND RESPONSE ON MERCURY ISSUE AT UNEP [...] Poloff provided reftel demarche points to Lesley Woudberg, Environment Division, NZ Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT.) Woudberg stated that the GONZ would support the partnership concept advocated in the US draft resolution. She noted that the GONZ advocates a bilateral or national [...] | 2005-02-14 01:23:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV AORC ETRD PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON126 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST - DOROTHY ROGERS TO APIA [...] Embassy requests country clearance for Political Officer Dorothy Rogers to travel to Apia, Samoa from February 26 - March 14, 2005. The purpose of Ms. Rogers' visit is to act as principal officer during the absence of Charge Tim Harley. 2. Ms. Rogers will arrive at Faleolo Airport in Api [...] | 2005-02-14 01:49:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA NZ |
05WELLINGTON128 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR A/S MAURA [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Assistant Secretary Maura Harty and Special Assistant Debra Heien to travel to Queenstown and Wellington, New Zealand from February 23-27, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Five-Nation Consular Colloque in Queenstown Febru [...] | 2005-02-14 17:53:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA CMGT NZ |
05WELLINGTON129 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR RONALD J. [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Ronald J. Nagel, DDS Director, AK Dental Support Center, to travel to Dunedin, New Zealand from February 16 to on or about March 31, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to evaluate the progress of the current students, develop the communi [...] | 2005-02-14 20:40:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TBIO NZ |
05WELLINGTON130 | NEW ZEALAND UPDATE ON E-PASSPORT AND VWP QUESTIONS [...] (U) Post passed information contained reftel to David Philp, Manager, Passports, New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (DIA.) Philp reported that while he is the Project Sponsor, the e-Passport Project Manager is Brian Greenough, DIA. He added that the project steering committee is in pl [...] | 2005-02-15 02:34:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | CMGT PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON133 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ELLSWORTH AND [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to FAA Aviation Inspectors Gene H. Ellsworth and David A. Johnson, to travel to New Zealand from March 11-30, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to inspect U.S. certified repair stations. 2. (U) Embassy understands that country clearance [...] | 2005-02-13 16:10:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA EAIR NZ |
05WELLINGTON134 | HISTORICAL LABOUR-MAORI CHURCH ALLIANCE THREATENED [...] (SBU) Summary: The nascent Maori Party's impact on New Zealand politics (reftel) continues to be felt -- to the increasing discomfort of the ruling Labour party, and has raised doubts about Labour's historical alliance with an influential Maori organization, the Ratana Church. Some Ratana [...] | 2005-02-15 22:29:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM NZ |
05WELLINGTON135 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE TO THE COOK ISLANDS FOR IRS [...] Embassy grants country clearance to IRS Officials Jay Van Kirk, Reginald Brown, Monte J. Myers, and Tonya Martin to travel to The Cook Islands, February 24 - March 12, 2005. The purpose of travel is to provide a 2-week Financial Investigative Techniques (FIT) class to Cook Island Law Enforcem [...] | 2005-02-15 23:23:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA ECON ASEC HK NZ IRS |
05WELLINGTON154 | YEAR 2005 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW -- NEW ZEALAND [...] (SBU) Although both the pharmaceutical and music-recording industries urge that New Zealand be placed on the Special 301 List, the Embassy recommends that New Zealand not be listed. The country's overall record is well above that of countries typically on the 301 list. As in past years, the Em [...] | 2005-02-22 05:00:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON155 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MS. BERT [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Ms. Bert Williams, Manila TSA Attache, to travel to Queenstown, New Zealand from March 1 - 5, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the 5th APEC- EGAS (Expert Group for Aviation Security) Meeting. 2. (U) Embassy unders [...] | 2005-02-22 18:03:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA NZ |
05WELLINGTON156 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR SYBIL GOLDMAN, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Sybil Goldman, Senior Advisor, OA, SAMHSA, DHHS to travel to Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand from February 26 - March 4, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to meet with the Director of International Initiative for Mental Health Lead [...] | 2005-02-22 18:04:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TBIO NZ |
05WELLINGTON157 | REQUEST FROM AMBASSADOR SWINDELLS FOR INTERAGENCY [...] (S/NOFORN) After the horrific earthquake and tsunami in our region, there are far weightier U.S. foreign policy issues to manage in Asia than our relationship with New Zealand. But I am writing to request that U.S. Government agencies nevertheless conduct a quick review of our policies here, [...] | 2005-02-22 20:30:00 | Embassy Wellington | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV NZ |
05WELLINGTON160 | NEW ZEALAND AIMS TO STRENGTHEN ITS TERRORIST [...] (U) Summary: The New Zealand government continues to tighten provisions of an anti-terrorism law it enacted more than a year after September 11, 2001, and that it amended in 2003. The government recently introduced legislation that will delay the expiration date for New Zealand's designations [...] | 2005-02-23 04:43:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | KTFN EFIN PTER PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON161 | SECTION 1377 TELECOM REVIEW -- NEW ZEALAND [...] (U) Is there a ratio between rates charged for termination of fixed networks and rates charged for termination on mobile networks that reflects the disparate costs of the different networks? The New Zealand government is unable to provide such a ratio. While fixed network termination rates [...] | 2005-02-23 04:55:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ECON ETRD PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON163 | NEW ZEALAND CLEARANCE FOR R/V KAIMIKAI-O-KANALOA [...] Embassy is in receipt of a letter from the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) with copies of clearances for the research vessel Kaimikai-o-Kanaloa from the NZ Ministry of Fisheries, NZ Ministry of Research, Science, and Technology, Land Information New Zealand, NZ Minist [...] | 2005-02-23 17:54:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KRVC TPHY EWWT NZ |
05WELLINGTON168 | NEW ZEALAND VIEWS ON THE FUTURE OF UNMISET [...] According to an official at New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT),New Zealand agrees that the time has come to wrap up peacekeeping operations in East Timor. New Zealand believes UNMISET should be replaced by a scaled-down, time-bound political mission under UN auspices, [...] | 2005-02-24 02:13:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KPKO PREL TL NZ UNSC |
05WELLINGTON171 | NEW ZEALAND OPPOSITION LEADER POSITIONS HIMSELF [...] Summary. Opposition National Party leader Don Brash is entering the 2005 election season with a sense of a cautious optimism about his party's chances of regaining power. While concerned about recent setbacks that have seen him labeled "anti-women" and "anti-Maori," Brash regards the Labour G [...] | 2005-02-25 02:40:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MNUC NZ |
05WELLINGTON183 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HARRIS AND [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to TSA employees Francis E. Harris and Lisa A. Williams to SIPDIS travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from March 28 - April 2, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to conduct inspections of the air carriers subject to U.S. regulations. [...] | 2005-03-03 23:16:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA EAIR NZ |
05WELLINGTON193 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DAVID G. [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Bureau of Census staff member David G. Waddington to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from April 13 - April 19, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the International Association for Official Statistics satellite meeting [...] | 2005-03-08 02:08:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA SOCI NZ |
05WELLINGTON197 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MARVIN RAINES [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to U.S. Census Bureau staff members Marvin Raines and Brian Monaghan to travel to New Zealand from April 21-22, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to meet with the Director of Maori Population Statistics at Statistics, New Zealand. 2. (U [...] | 2005-03-09 02:36:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA SOCI AS NZ |
05WELLINGTON199 | FISCAL RESTRAINT ON ILO PROPOSED BUDGET [...] No summary [...] | 2005-03-09 17:46:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ELAB NZ ILO |
05WELLINGTON20 | SENTENCING IN NEW ZEALAND'S LARGEST PASSPORT FRAUD [...] (U) Following their conviction for conspiring to commit forgery in October (reftel),refugees to New Zealand Iraqi Fahad Jaber AJEIL and his brother-in-law, Kuwaiti Riyad Hamied SULTAN, were sentenced December 20 in the Auckland District Court. Ajeil, who had been found guilty on 14 forgery-r [...] | 2005-01-11 01:56:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PGOV PINS TSPL NZ |
05WELLINGTON213 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JOSEPH E. [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to IRS Official Joseph E. Slavinskas to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from April 8 - 18, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to discuss cases with New Zealand tax officials. 2. (U) Embassy understands that country clearance is the on [...] | 2005-03-15 02:19:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ECON ASEC HK NZ IRS |
05WELLINGTON221 | TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS - NEW ZEALAND 3/2005 [...] (SBU) Following are responses to the Trafficking in Persons report for New Zealand, keyed to reftel: Begin responses: 18. Overview: New Zealand fully complies with international standards to eliminate trafficking. New Zealand problems with internationally trafficked persons are qui [...] | 2005-03-16 02:43:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB NZ |
05WELLINGTON222 | NEW ZEALAND ON CHR AND THE CHR RESOLUTION ON CUBA [...] (C) Acting Political-Economic Counselor provided Refs A and B demarches concerning the 61st Session of the UN Commission of Human Rights (CHR) and the importance of the U.S.-sponsored CHR Cuba resolution to Val Meyer, Deputy Director of the Human Rights Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs a [...] | 2005-03-16 04:00:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM CU PREL NZ CHR UNHRC |
05WELLINGTON223 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR LUPTON AND [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NOAA Scientists John E. Lupton and Robert W. Embley to travel to Tauranga, New Zealand from April 23-May 11, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the ocean exploration seagoing expedition research cruise aboard the resea [...] | 2005-03-16 21:45:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TPHY KSCA SENV AS NZ |
05WELLINGTON224 | NIUE COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR EDWARD H. YOUNG, JR. [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NOAA National Weather Service officials Edward H. Young, Jr. and James C. Weyman to travel to Niue, April 11-18, 2005. The purpose of travel is to attend the Pacific Islands Global Climate Observing System meeting and the Regional Meteorological Services [...] | 2005-03-17 01:50:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA TPHY KSCA WS NE NZ |
05WELLINGTON225 | NEW ZEALAND: RESPONSE ON CHILD MARRIAGE FOR NZ, [...] The following are responses to the request for information on child marriage in New Zealand, the Cook Islands, Niue and Tokelau, keyed to the questions in paragraph 7 of reftel. A. The legal age of marriage in New Zealand is 16. Children (both male and female) can marry at age 16 if they ha [...] | 2005-03-17 02:11:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN ECON ELAB PHUM PGOV SCUL SOCI NZ |
05WELLINGTON226 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HOWARD [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Associate Director for Global Health, NCCDPHP, CDC, DHHS Howard Goldberg to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from April 11 - 17, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to attend and present a paper on "Measurement Issues Associated with the [...] | 2005-03-17 02:55:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA NZ |
05WELLINGTON227 | NOAA KA'IMIMOANA MARINE RESEARCH CLEARANCE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-03-17 17:55:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KRVC TPHY EWWT NZ |
05WELLINGTON233 | NPT: AMBASSADOR SANDERS DISCUSSES REVCON 2005 WITH [...] (C) Summary: Special Representative of President for the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Ambassador Jackie Sanders, told New Zealand officials that the May 2005 Review Conference on the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons must focus on the greatest threats to global secur [...] | 2005-03-21 02:52:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NZ NPT |
05WELLINGTON237 | NEW ZEALAND LABOUR PARTY STAKES ITS CLAIM FOR 2005 [...] (C) Summary. New Zealand's governing Labour party released its list of Members of Parliament, which outlines the rank by which MPs will enter Parliament after the 2005 election. The list reveals Labour's confidence in the face of an upcoming election, with almost all sitting MPs receiving high [...] | 2005-03-22 00:41:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON240 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE TO NIUE AND NEW ZEALAND FOR [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NOAA Scientist Howard J. Diamond to travel to Auckland, New Zealand April 7-8, 2005 and to Niue April 8-19, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to meet with officials from the New Zealand National Institute for Water and Atmosphere while i [...] | 2005-03-22 18:44:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA KSCA TSPA NZ |
05WELLINGTON241 | NIUE COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR AKAPO K. AKAPO, APRIL [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NOAA National Weather Service official Akapo K. Akapo to travel to Niue, April 11-18, 2005. The purpose of travel is to attend the Pacific Islands Global Climate Observing System Meeting and the Regional Meteorological Services Directors Meeting. 2. E [...] | 2005-03-22 18:44:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA TPHY KSCA WS NE NZ |
05WELLINGTON243 | NEW ZEALAND: INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION AND [...] In response to reftel, following are details and a few observations on how post handles maritime security issues in New Zealand. 2. Post and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) attach, based in Singapore, work closely to coordinate our approaches to the New Zealand government [...] | 2005-03-23 04:07:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EWWT ASEC ECON ETRD KSTC PARM PHSA PREL PTER NZ ADM |
05WELLINGTON244 | NEW ZEALAND: TERRORISM FINANCE - 2005 UPDATE NO. 2 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-03-23 04:07:00 | Embassy Wellington | SECRET | KTFN CVIS KVPR EFIN PTER ETTC PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON248 | NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT CHOOSES OIL-STOCKPILE OPTION [...] (SBU) The New Zealand government announced March 23 that it would hold a tender for additional oil storage in an effort to meet an international standard to maintain 90 days of reserves. The decision pleased oil companies, which had feared that the government would significantly raise their c [...] | 2005-03-24 03:45:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON NZ ENGR |
05WELLINGTON259 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR TIMOTHY D. [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to IRS Supervisory Competent Authority Analyst Timothy D. Dehan to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from April 8 - 13, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to discuss advance pricing arrangement tax cases with New Zealand tax officials. [...] | 2005-03-30 00:40:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ECON ASEC HK NZ IRS |
05WELLINGTON261 | RESPONSE TO CONGRESSIONAL REQUEST FOR STATE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-03-30 01:43:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON KPAO NZ |
05WELLINGTON263 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR LAWRENCE COX, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Lawrence Cox, Ph.D., Associate Director, Office of Research and Methodology, NCHS, CDC, DHHS to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from April 13-17, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to present a paper on Data Confidentiality at the ISI [...] | 2005-03-30 19:19:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA AS NZ CDC |
05WELLINGTON270 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ANTHONY WHITE, [...] (S) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to National Counter Terrorism Center (NCTC) representatives Lt. Col. Anthony J. White, Sandrea Hwang, and Lori Lewis to travel to Wellington, New Zealand April 9-12, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to meet with New Zealand counterparts at [...] | 2005-03-31 04:37:00 | Embassy Wellington | SECRET | OTRA PINR PTER NZ |
05WELLINGTON271 | HIGHLIGHTING JAPAN-U.S. ALLIANCE, JAPANESE SCHOLAR [...] (C) At a seminar in Wellington, a respected Japanese scholar extolled the strength and benefits of the Japanese-U.S. alliance -- a strength that exists despite Japan's steadfast anti-nuclear and anti-war policies. Implicit in her speech was a contrast with New Zealand, whose vociferously state [...] | 2005-03-31 23:15:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL JA NZ PMIL |
05WELLINGTON274 | THE TWO WORLDS OF MIDDLE EARTH: NEW ZEALAND'S [...] (S/NF ) Summary: Foreign and defense policies in New Zealand are the product of an internal debate between two worlds. The first world -- most military, intelligence, foreign affairs and business professionals, and a handful of politicians -- values its relationship with the United States a [...] | 2005-04-01 04:09:00 | Embassy Wellington | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV NZ |
05WELLINGTON275 | MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR) -- NEW [...] (C) Summary: New Zealand officials are considering whether the country should serve as the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Chair for 2006-7, as suggested by current Chair South Korea and quietly endorsed by the United States and Australia. The officials will be unable to make a deci [...] | 2005-04-01 05:58:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | KSCA PARM PREL MNUC ETTC TSPA |
05WELLINGTON279 | NIUE COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR EDWARD CORMIER, APRIL [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NOAA National Weather Service official Edward Cormier to travel to Niue, April 8-18, 2005. The purpose of travel is to attend the Regional Meteorological Services Directors Meeting. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance is the only assistance r [...] | 2005-04-04 02:42:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA TPHY KSCA NE NZ |
05WELLINGTON28 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HARRIS AND WILLIAMS, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Transportation Security Administration Officials Francis E. Harris and Lisa A. Williams, to travel to Rarotonga, Cook Islands from January 29 - February 5, 2005, and Auckland, New Zealand from February 5 - 12, 2005. The purpose of this [...] | 2005-01-12 18:19:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA EAIR CW NZ |
05WELLINGTON280 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MERIDA, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Federal Highway Administration Representatives Dennis Merida, Donald Tuggle, Robert Ritter, and David Geiger to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from April 9 - 12, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the Transportation A [...] | 2005-04-04 02:43:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA NZ |
05WELLINGTON284 | NEW ZEALAND ELECTION DATE 2005: NOT NOW, I'M [...] (U) Summary: New Zealand's Labour Government is nearing the end of its three-year term and speculation is rife among the media and policymakers over the yet-to-be-determined election date. Many pundits believe Labour will call elections early, both in order to throw off the opposition's abili [...] | 2005-04-06 04:49:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON292 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MICHELE ADLER, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Social Security Administration Official Michele Adler to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from April 11-17, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to present a paper at the International Association for Official Statistics Conference. 2. [...] | 2005-04-07 22:01:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA CFED NZ |
05WELLINGTON293 | NEW ZEALAND SUPPORTS THE EXISTING DRAFT SHIP [...] (C) Summary: New Zealand is likely to oppose efforts to reopen the draft SUA 8bis text, and hopes the United States will support the Canadian text for Article 2bis. New Zealand strongly supports the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI),and feels the proof of the exercise's effectiveness [...] | 2005-04-08 02:29:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP KTIA MNUC PARM PREL PHSA EWWT PGOV NZ |
05WELLINGTON294 | NEW ZEALAND GEARING UP FOR AUSTRALIA GROUP PLENARY [...] (C) Summary: New Zealand officials from the Prime Minister's External Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Customs Service will attend the April 18-22 Australia Group (AG) Plenary in Sydney. The group does not plan to present any papers or introduce any new initiatives [...] | 2005-04-08 03:43:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PARM PREL NZ CBE |
05WELLINGTON299 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ELLSWORTH AND [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to FAA Aviation Inspectors Gene H. Ellsworth and David A. Johnson, to travel to New Zealand from May 2-19, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to inspect U.S. certified foreign repair stations in New Zealand. 2. (U) Embassy understands th [...] | 2005-04-08 15:35:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA EAIR ASEC NZ |
05WELLINGTON301 | NPT REVCON: EMBASSY FOLLOW-UP WITH NZ OFFICIALS [...] (C) Summary: Minister for Disarmament Marion Hobbs has expressed regret at causing offense during her February meeting on Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) issues with Ambassador Sanders (Ref B),claiming she had only been trying to say that all parts of the NPT are equally important and should [...] | 2005-04-12 04:14:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NZ NPT |
05WELLINGTON308 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CHRISTIAN [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to State Department INR official Christian Westermann to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from April 23-29. The purpose of this visit is to participate in technical meetings with New Zealand External Assessments Bureau. Embassy understands [...] | 2005-04-14 00:17:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA NZ |
05WELLINGTON309 | NEW ZEALAND AND THE UN: NEW PERMREP BANKS LOOKS [...] (C) Summary: New Zealand's new UN Permrep, Rosemary Banks, says that New Zealand will maintain its traditional opposition to permanent members' vetos in an expanded UN Security Council (UNSC). Foreign Minister Goff supports the idea of Japan becoming a permanent UNSC member, and also backs [...] | 2005-04-14 01:48:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NZ UN |
05WELLINGTON310 | NEW ZEALAND RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) Pol-Econ Counselor on April 13 passed talking points (Ref A) to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Legal Division's Deputy Director Caroline Bilkey and new Legal Advisor Gerard Van Bohemen. Van Bohemen will formally start his position in June and will lead the New Zealand delegation t [...] | 2005-04-14 02:53:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL PHSA EWWT PGOV NZ |
05WELLINGTON318 | COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES: NEW ZEALAND ATTENDANCE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-04-19 00:07:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON325 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR EDWARD T. [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NOAA Official Edward T. Baker to travel to Tauranga and Auckland, New Zealand from April 25 to May 13, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the vents/ocean exploration cruise aboard the research vessel Kaimikai-o- Kanaloa [...] | 2005-04-21 02:57:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TPHY KSCA SENV NZ |
05WELLINGTON327 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR THOMAS YEAGER, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NASA Official Thomas Yeager to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from April 29 - May 12, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to attend the International Surface Friction Roads and Runways Conference. 2. (U) Embassy understands that [...] | 2005-04-21 03:43:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TSPA NZ |
05WELLINGTON328 | NEW ZEALAND ON WHO INTERNATIONAL HEALTH [...] Post delivered reftel points April 21 to New Zealand's Ministry of Health. On April 22, Andrew Forsyth, team leader of the Ministry's Public Health Legislation Review, reported that he was still working with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to formulate New Zealand's positions for th [...] | 2005-04-21 22:52:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO PREL PTER NZ WHO |
05WELLINGTON329 | INDONESIAN AND MALAYSIAN LEADERS IN NEW ZEALAND: [...] (U) Summary. The April 6-7 visit to New Zealand by Indonesian Prime Minister Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) and the March 30-April 1 visit by Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmed Badawi (Abdullah) were largely symbolic, but provided the GoNZ an opportunity to highlight its efforts to streng [...] | 2005-04-22 03:34:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON332 | COOK ISLANDS COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR VAN KIRK, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to IRS Officials Jay Van Kirk, Reginald Brown, Monte Myers, and Tonya Martin, to travel to the Cook Islands from May 19 - June 4, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to provide a two-week Financial Investigative Techniques (FIT) class to Coo [...] | 2005-04-22 04:06:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ECON ASEC HK CW NZ IRS |
05WELLINGTON333 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR VAN KIRK, MAY [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Hong Kong IRS Attache Jay Van Kirk to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from May 17 - 20, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to make a presentation on terrorist financing at the New Zealand Police Financial Crime and Money Laundering sem [...] | 2005-04-26 01:22:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ECON ASEC HK NZ IRS |
05WELLINGTON334 | NEW ZEALAND: PROPOSAL FOR 2005 IPR TRAINING [...] No summary [...] | 2005-04-26 03:55:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KIPR ECON EFIN ETRD PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON340 | NEW ZEALAND: FUNDING AFGHANISTAN'S [...] No summary [...] | 2005-04-28 00:30:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID AF NZ UNSC |
05WELLINGTON342 | IN SEVERAL WAYS, LABOUR GOVERNMENT BETRAYS REFORMS [...] (SBU) Begin summary: Never entirely content with the market-opening reforms that New Zealand's Labour government spearheaded in the mid-1980s, the leaders of today's Labour government have rolled back several of those reforms. Over the last four years, the government has intervened in the ene [...] | 2005-04-29 03:19:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON343 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR PALMERI, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officials Douglas Palmeri, Adam Wysocki, James Jeffers, Christopher Johnston, Cynthia Stewart, and Carl Jaigobind to travel to New Zealand from May 6 - 13, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to meet wit [...] | 2005-04-28 01:18:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA NZ |
05WELLINGTON344 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR BONNIE HAMES, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Department of Energy Senior Chemist Bonnie Hames to travel to Rotorua and Auckland, New Zealand from May 11 - 21, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the 13th International Symposium on Wood, Fibre and Pulping Chemistry [...] | 2005-04-29 03:21:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ENRG TRGY NZ |
05WELLINGTON356 | NOAA KA'IMIMOANA MARINE RESEARCH CLEARANCE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-05-04 04:40:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KRVC TPHY EWWT NZ |
05WELLINGTON363 | IS NEW ZEALAND AWASH IN BAATHISTS? [...] (C) Summary: An opposition politician threatened early this week to reveal the identity of a member of Saddam's regime who is reportedly seeking residence in New Zealand. The Government responded by revoking the visitor's permit... of the wrong Iraqi. The Government's action was taken again [...] | 2005-05-05 03:05:00 | Embassy Wellington | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PTER SMIG NZ |
05WELLINGTON372 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FAA EMPLOYEE [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to FAA Program Director Paul A. Krois to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from May 22-27, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to witness the New Zealand field trial associated with the International Civil Aviation Organization normal oper [...] | 2005-05-03 16:20:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ASEC EAIR NZ |
05WELLINGTON375 | NEW ZEALAND: REVISED OFFER FOR WTO SERVICES [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel demarche May 4 to the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT). On May 9, Brian Wilson, senior negotiator for services and deputy director in MFAT's Trade Negotiations Division, reported to us that a proposed revised offer for the WTO services negot [...] | 2005-05-10 04:27:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD NZ WTO |
05WELLINGTON384 | SUBMISSION OF EMPLOYEE EVALUATION REPORTS - NEW [...] No summary [...] | 2005-05-13 04:12:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | APER NZ |
05WELLINGTON385 | NEW ZEALAND SUPPORTS U.S. APEC RADIOACTIVE SOURCES [...] (U) This message contains an action suggestion, at para 5. 2. (U) Post shared reftel demarche with the Disarmament Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT). The Division takes the lead at MFAT on all bilateral and multilateral disarmament-related issues. 3. (U) [...] | 2005-05-13 04:57:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM ETTC KSTC EAID ETRD ECIN NZ APECO |
05WELLINGTON386 | CHANGE IN EMBASSY WELLINGTON ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, [...] No summary [...] | 2005-05-16 23:33:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA EFIS TBIO SENV TSPA TSPL |
05WELLINGTON387 | NEW ZEALAND'S UNIONS FLEXING THEIR MUSCLES [...] (U) Summary: After a decade of quiet on the labor front, New Zealand's unions are again walking the picket line against a spectrum of industries. Emboldened by union- friendly legislation enacted in 2000 and 2004 and anxious to grab a bigger slice of the country's recent prosperity, organized [...] | 2005-05-17 03:24:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON PHUM NZ |
05WELLINGTON393 | ICJ ELECTIONS DEMARCHE: NEW ZEALAND RESPONSE [...] (SBU) Post provided reftel dipnote and background information on Judge Buergenthal's International Court of Justice (ICJ) nomination to the UN & Commonwealth Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT). On May 18, an officer in the Division told Pol-Econ Counselor that MFAT [...] | 2005-05-18 04:38:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | NZ UNGA UNSC |
05WELLINGTON396 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR GREGORY BOUSIE [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to FAA Safety Inspectors Gregory Bousie and Morris Pittman to travel to Wellington and Auckland, New Zealand from June 20-27, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to meet with New Zealand aviation authorities for BASA MIP process. 2. (U) [...] | 2005-05-16 17:22:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA EAIR NZ |
05WELLINGTON397 | NEW ZEALAND RESPONSE ON NEGOTIATIONS AT UNESCO [...] Poloff provided reftel demarche points to James Hartley, Legal Advisor, NZ Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT),who, along with Jane Kominik from the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, will attend the negotiations in Paris on the UNESCO convention on cultural diversity. In Hartley's [...] | 2005-05-19 03:31:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD SCUL NZ UNESCO |
05WELLINGTON400 | MESSAGE FROM AMBASSADOR SWINDELLS: NZ FOREIGN [...] (C/NOFORN) New Zealand's Foreign Minister Phil Goff will have three main objectives for his State Department, NSC, Congressional, and other meetings next week: to assure Washington officials that New Zealand values its relations with the United States, to reinforce New Zealand's interest in c [...] | 2005-05-20 02:43:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV NZ PMIL |
05WELLINGTON401 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR URI TEN BRINK, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to USGS Research Geophysicist Uri Ten Brink to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from June 17 - July 2, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to participate in workshops on the results of a state-of-the-art study of the alpine fault and plan [...] | 2005-05-20 04:38:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TPHY KSCA SENV ECON NZ |
05WELLINGTON404 | NEW ZEALAND'S RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR MIGRANT [...] No summary [...] | 2005-05-23 02:56:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PREL SMIG NZ |
05WELLINGTON409 | MINISTER SUTTON'S INVITATION TO USDA SECRETARY [...] (SBU/NF) Aides to New Zealand Agriculture Minister Sutton have reiterated to us their hope that Secretary Johanns will visit New Zealand, noting that a potential August/September visit, timed to a Quint Ministerial in Australia, would be viewed as "supportive." Minister Sutton would welcome t [...] | 2005-05-24 01:21:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD TBIO EAGR ECON NZ |
05WELLINGTON411 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE TO THE COOK ISLANDS FOR IRS [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Lane Timm, Director of IRS-CID National Criminal Investigation Training Academy, to travel to the Cook Islands, May 30 - June 4, 2005. The purpose of travel is to attend the Financial Investigative Techniques (FIT) class and participate in the graduation c [...] | 2005-05-24 02:11:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA ECON ASEC HK NZ IRS |
05WELLINGTON418 | WTO: NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT PLAYS DOWN CRISIS OVER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Although New Zealand's WTO Ambassador Tim Groser has resigned to run as an opposition party candidate in general elections later this year, the Government will finance his stay in Geneva as WTO Agriculture Committee Chair until the summer break. This will allow Groser to partic [...] | 2005-05-27 05:09:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ETRD PGOV PREL NZ USTR |
05WELLINGTON42 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NANCY GORDON, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Nancy Gordon, Bucen Staff Member, to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from April 13 - 18, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to attend the IAOS Satellite Meeting. 2. (U) Embassy understands that country clearance is the only assista [...] | 2005-01-13 23:54:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA AS NZ |
05WELLINGTON420 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MICHAEL [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Michael Stafford to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from June 8-10, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to consult with New Zealand government officials on international participation in the Elimination of Weapons Grade Plutonium Produc [...] | 2005-05-31 05:05:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ENRG KNNP PARM NZ |
05WELLINGTON427 | 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. Cuba's Ambassador to New Zealand is resident in Jakarta and cross-accredited to Wellington. According to Mike Shaw, Policy Officer, Americas [...] | 2005-06-01 02:21:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL NZ CU |
05WELLINGTON428 | INVITATION TO THE US-EU INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE [...] On May 27, Ambassador Swindells presented reftel background information about the U.S.-EU Iraq conference to Simon Murdoch, Chief Executive at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Minister Goff is on official travel in North America.) The Ambassador made the presentation together with Dutch Amba [...] | 2005-06-01 02:45:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PREL |
05WELLINGTON435 | LUIS POSADA CARRILES - MESSAGE PASSED TO NEW [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-02 02:33:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR IT KJUS PHUM PREL PTER CU US VE NZ EUN |
05WELLINGTON441 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED FOR UNESCO CULTURAL DIVERSITY [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-03 05:09:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | SCUL ETRD NZ UNESCO |
05WELLINGTON445 | R/V ROGER REVELLE, FILE NO. 2004-097 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-07 04:18:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KRVC TPHY EWWT NZ |
05WELLINGTON448 | UN DEMOCRACY FUND: NEW ZEALAND'S RESPONSE [...] Poloff on June 2 delivered ref B demarche points, proposed letter and UN terms of reference to Valerie Meyer, Deputy Director of New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade's United Nations, Human Rights and Commonwealth Division. Meyer responded on June 3, noting three key areas of co [...] | 2005-06-08 03:00:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM NZ |
05WELLINGTON45 | NEW ZEALAND: INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2005 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-01-14 04:22:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV NZ OPIC USTR |
05WELLINGTON450 | NEW ZEALAND: RECONSTRUCTION ASSISTANCE TO IRAQ [...] Post on March 15 delivered reftel demarche to the New Zealand Agency for International Development (NZAID). Jane Coster of NZAID on June 9 reported that the New Zealand government has allocated NZ $2 million (US $1.4 million, NZD 1.00 = USD .7145) for Iraqi reconstruction for the fiscal year [...] | 2005-06-09 05:11:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN PREL IZ NZ |
05WELLINGTON452 | WITH NEW ZEALAND PM, AMBASSADOR RAISES POSSIBILITY [...] (C) Begin summary: In a meeting that included discussion of China's growing power and the need for a U.S. presence in the Pacific, the Ambassador told New Zealand Prime Minister Clark that the time was ripe for a frank and comprehensive dialogue between our governments on issues that hinder our [...] | 2005-06-10 00:59:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON454 | NEW ZEALAND: US-EU INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IRAQ [...] (U) Post on June 8 delivered ref B demarche. Post learned June 9 that the New Zealand government has decided to allocate NZ $2 million (US $1.4 million) for Iraqi reconstruction for the fiscal year 2005-6 (ref A). The government has not yet decided which programs will be funded by that alloc [...] | 2005-06-10 03:20:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID EIND ECON IZ NZ EUN |
05WELLINGTON461 | NEW ZEALAND MOVES CLOSER TO CUTTING MOBILE [...] Summary: New Zealand's two mobile-phone service providers are a step closer to being ordered to lower the fees they charge to complete calls into the country on their networks -- fees that are among the highest of OECD nations. The Commerce Commission on June 9 issued its final report on its [...] | 2005-06-12 18:59:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS ECON ETRD NZ |
05WELLINGTON47 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HENNESSY AND [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Kevin Hennessy and H. Stephen Leff, DHHS/SAMHSA, to travel to Auckland, Rotorua, and Wellington, New Zealand from February 25 - March 5, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to provide 2-day workshops in each location on the promotion of e [...] | 2005-01-18 01:15:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TBIO NZ |
05WELLINGTON472 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED FOR MDA: CONFERENCE FOR THIRD [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-16 03:52:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PHUM PREF PREL IS SZ NZ ICRC |
05WELLINGTON473 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNESCO BIOETHICS DECLARATION [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-16 04:16:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO NZ UNESCO KSCI |
05WELLINGTON475 | NZ FOREIGN MINISTER PUTS POSITIVE SPIN ON TOUGHER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Swindells recently met with NZ Foreign Minister Phil Goff to discuss the latter's visit to Washington. Goff painted an upbeat message about his recent U.S. visit, but obviously had heard Washington's tougher message regarding the negative effect of New Zealand's poli [...] | 2005-06-17 05:14:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NZ |
05WELLINGTON480 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE TO THE COOK ISLANDS FOR NOAA [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service Official Kevin Painter to travel to The Cook Islands, June 19 - July 2, 2005. The purpose of travel is to teach a fisheries prosecution workshop to a [...] | 2005-06-20 02:39:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA TPHY KSCA EFIS CW NZ |
05WELLINGTON489 | NEW ZEALAND POSITION AT CODEX COMMISSION MEETING [...] New Zealand will participate in the 28TH session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) in Rome, July 4- 9. The New Zealand delegation will be headed by Andrew Mckenzie,Executive Director of the New Zealand Food Safety Authority(NZFSA). The delegation will also include Steve Hathaway, D [...] | 2005-06-22 04:50:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD TBIO EAGR ECON NZ |
05WELLINGTON491 | NEW ZEALAND - RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR LICENSING [...] (SBU) Wellington Charge spoke about reftel questions to Kester Gordon, Senior Advisor, Telecommunications and Postal Policy Group for the New Zealand Ministry of Economic Development. We received the following responses on June 22, 2005: 2. (U) With regards to the first question on fee as [...] | 2005-06-23 00:42:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ETRD EU NZ |
05WELLINGTON496 | NEW ZEALAND RESPONSE ON UN REFORM [...] (SBU) On June 21, Charge delivered ref A, B and C demarche points to Wen Chin Powles and Valerie Meyer, both Deputy Directors at the United Nations, Human Rights and Commonwealth Division (UNHC) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT). Powles and Meyer said that the GoNZ's positi [...] | 2005-06-27 04:48:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV KUNR AORC NZ UNSC UNCHR |
05WELLINGTON5 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL KOLBE (JAN [...] (SBU) Embassy warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Codel Kolbe, to travel to New Zealand from January 7 - 15, 2005. 2. (SBU) Embassy Control Officer is Political-Economic Counselor Katherine Hadda. Contact details are as follows: Office: 644-462-6063 Fax: 644-472-3537 [...] | 2005-01-05 04:38:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN NZ |
05WELLINGTON502 | NEW ZEALAND CONTRIBUTES TO POLIO ERADICATION [...] Post delivered ref B demarche points to to Vicki Poole, Global Group Program Manager at the NZ Agency for International Development (NZAID); Dr. Mark Jacobs, Director of Public Health in the Ministry of Health; and the Americas Division of the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. [...] | 2005-06-29 02:16:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA TBIO NZ WHO |
05WELLINGTON504 | NEW ZEALAND TIGHTENS TERRORISM FINANCE LAW [...] New Zealand's Parliament has passed legislation strengthening the country's terrorism finance law. The legislation extends until 2007 the country's UN Security Council-related designations of terrorist organizations. It also makes illegal the intentional financing of non- designated organiza [...] | 2005-06-29 03:30:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN EFIN PTER PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON513 | NEW ZEALAND RESPONDS TO SECRETARY'S MESSAGE ON [...] (SBU) Embassy passed reftel message and talking points to New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) Disarmament Division on April 26, 2005. Dell Higgie, Director of MFAT's Security Policy Division and Ambassador for Counter-Terrorism responded in a letter that the embassy recei [...] | 2005-07-05 03:36:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MNUC PARM PGOV PHSA PREL KNNP GG KPAO OIIP NZ |
05WELLINGTON527 | WMD PROLIFERATORS' E.O. [...] (C) Pol/Econ Couns shared reftel information with Deborah Panckhurst, Deputy Director of the Disarmament Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, stressing our desire that New Zealand adopt a similar policy. Panckhurst promised to review the E.O. closely and said that she would [...] | 2005-07-07 05:01:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL PGOV MNUC EFIN ETTC |
05WELLINGTON531 | EAC MEETING WELLINGTON [...] (S) The Emergency Action Committee convened 1400 hrs local time on July 8, 2005 to discuss security profile in light of the London explosions. Embassies Wellington and Apia were notified of the London explosions by the RSO in Canberra via RMAS. 2. (U) Embassy Wellington has put the Local G [...] | 2005-07-08 03:49:00 | Embassy Wellington | SECRET | ASEC PTER CASC AMGT |
05WELLINGTON535 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HARRY PONTING [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Alex Yates and Harry Ponting to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from August 7 - 10, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to assist post in implementing the classified web publishing initiative known as Net-Centric Diplomacy (NCD). 2. [...] | 2005-07-11 02:08:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA AINF PINR NZ |
05WELLINGTON538 | LAWSUIT MAY DELAY DECISION ON MOBILE TERMINATION [...] New Zealand's two mobile-phone service providers have gone to court to challenge the Commerce Commission's recommendation that the government begin regulating land-to- mobile phone charges. The court case throws into uncertainty what had been an expected decision by the Minister of Communica [...] | 2005-07-12 01:48:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS ECON ETRD NZ |
05WELLINGTON548 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR U.S. DELEGATION [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to U.S. Government representatives Howard Diamond (NOAA),Bill Hohenstein (USDA),Toral Patel-Weynand (USGS),Chuck Rice (Kansas State University),Harlan Watson (OES),Robert Wright (DOE) ,and Shira Yoffe (OES/EGC) to travel to Wellington a [...] | 2005-07-14 22:26:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA SENV NZ |
05WELLINGTON549 | NEW ZEALAND NOMINATION FOR FSN POLITICAL [...] Embassy Wellington submits the following nomination for the FSN Staff Political Training Course to be held in Washington from September 26 - October 7, 2005. 2. Name: Craig Brian Greaves Grade: 9 Step 2. Length of Service: Start date - May 16, 2005. English language ability: level 4 (n [...] | 2005-07-14 22:28:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | AFSI AFSN PGOV PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON551 | NEW ZEALAND WILL NOT ATTEND DEAD SEA DONORS' [...] (SBU) Post shared reftel information regarding the Dead Sea Donor's meeting with Darryl Dunn, Director and Ruth Nuttall, Deputy Director, of the Middle East and Africa Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT). On July 14, Nuttall informed Pol-Econ Couns that unfortunately [...] | 2005-07-15 01:52:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON552 | NEW ZEALAND ON U.S.-SINGAPORE STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK [...] (C) On July 11, DATT AND Pol-Econ Couns shared reftel information with Air Commander Graham Lintott, Office of the Assistant Chief of Strategic Commitments and Intelligence, and Paul Sinclair, Head of International Defence Relations, NZ Defence Force. Both officials expressed gratitude at be [...] | 2005-07-15 03:22:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON553 | COMPREHENSIVE CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) On July 15, Pol-Econ Couns discussed the Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism (CCIT) with Taha Macpherson, Senior Policy Advisor at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade's (MFAT) Security Policy Division. PolEcon Couns noted the importance of the Convention, and expres [...] | 2005-07-15 04:15:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER NZ UNGA |
05WELLINGTON555 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR KYLE OLSEN, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to FAA Official Kyle L. Olsen to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from July 19-23, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to attend flight safety foundation aviation safety workshop. 2. (U) Embassy understands that country clearance is t [...] | 2005-07-12 10:57:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ASEC EAIR NZ |
05WELLINGTON560 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR STEPHEN J. [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to National Nuclear Security Administration Official Stephen J. Bauer to travel to Auckland and Taupo, New Zealand from August 14-24, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to discuss his research and potential applications to the New Zealand [...] | 2005-07-20 03:04:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ENRG TRGY KSCA NZ |
05WELLINGTON566 | THE SLEAZE HITS THE FAN: AN INCREASINGLY WORRIED [...] (C) Summary: Facing rapid losses in the polls, the ruling Labour Party has apparently decided to play the anti-American card, telling New Zealanders that a vote for the National Party means a vote against New Zealand's independent foreign policy. Embassy Wellington is in general keeping a low [...] | 2005-07-22 06:23:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAGR NZ |
05WELLINGTON569 | WITH LOSS OF CHINESE STUDENTS, NEW ZEALAND'S [...] (U) Summary: A sharp drop in the number of English-language students from China -- partly orchestrated by the Chinese government -- has reduced overall foreign student enrollments in New Zealand schools. To revive the international education industry, the New Zealand government is refocusing [...] | 2005-07-25 05:07:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL NZ CH |
05WELLINGTON572 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DORN CARLSON, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Department of Commerce NOAA Official Dorn Carlson to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from August 13 - September 8, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to attend and participate in the 4th Biennial Conference on Marine Bioinvasions at Vi [...] | 2005-07-26 21:25:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TPHY SENV NZ |
05WELLINGTON577 | NEW ZEALAND AIMING TO STEM SALE OF PRESCRIPTION [...] (SBU) Summary: With selected medicines much cheaper in New Zealand than in the United States, efforts are under way to impede the ability of Americans to purchase prescription drugs from New Zealand. The New Zealand Ministry of Health is tightening the law to prevent doctors from prescribing m [...] | 2005-07-29 01:50:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON KIPR NZ |
05WELLINGTON58 | MP TAMIHERE CLEARED IN FIRST OF TWO [...] (U) Summary. Beleaguered Labour MP John Tamihere has begun his political rehabilitation, offering a "state of the nation" speech January 19 that attacked the "separatist" Maori party, defended Labour's economic policies, and eschewed the left-right division of unions and business leaders in f [...] | 2005-01-24 17:48:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM NZ |
05WELLINGTON585 | NEW ZEALAND ON U.S.-INDIA CIVIL NUCLEAR [...] (C) Pol-Econ Couns delivered reftel information to Deborah Pankhurst, Deputy Director of the Disarmament Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT). Pankhurst said that MFAT had already received a fair amount of information about the initiative from the New Zealand Embassy [...] | 2005-08-02 05:15:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP ENRG ETTC PARM PREL |
05WELLINGTON590 | UNSC REFORM: NEW ZEALAND WILL ABSTAIN FROM G-4 VOTE [...] (C) This message contains an action request, at paras 2 and 8. 2. (C) Summary: New Zealand is likely to abstain if a G-4 reform vote is brought before the General Assembly. GNZ officials have offered to encourage undecided Pacific Island governments to vote down or abstain from the resol [...] | 2005-08-03 02:18:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | KUNR PREL PGOV UNGA |
05WELLINGTON594 | LABOUR AGAIN WAVES ANTI-AMERICAN CARD IN ITS [...] (C) Summary: During Parliament's last "Question Time" before election recess, Foreign Minister Phil Goff again highlighted tidbits of Codel Nickles' January 2004 meeting with National Party leadership to claim National has a hidden agenda to lift the country's nuclear ban. No doubt in respo [...] | 2005-08-03 05:17:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NZ |
05WELLINGTON596 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MARGOT BEAN [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Department of Health and Human Services Officials Margot Bean and Daryl Wusk to travel to Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand from August 7-13, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Child Support Enforcement Heads of Agencies [...] | 2005-08-03 21:04:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA CASC KOCI NZ |
05WELLINGTON597 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MICHAEL HOFF, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NOAA Official Michael Hoff to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from August 20-September 3, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to participate in a meeting for the Ballast Water Program. 2. (U) Embassy understands that country clearan [...] | 2005-08-03 21:07:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TPHY SENV NZ |
05WELLINGTON601 | NEW ZEALAND PARTICIPATION IN EXERCISE CYBER [...] Pol-Econ Counselor delivered reftel invitation to participate in the U.S. National Cyber Exercise CYBER STORM to New Zealand official Chris Roberts at the Center for Critical Infrastructure Protection (CCIP) in Wellington. Invitation was sent on April 11, 2005. 2. The following response [...] | 2005-08-04 22:18:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KCIP NZ |
05WELLINGTON603 | NEW ZEALAND EXPECTS TO MISS KYOTO PROTOCOL TARGET [...] (SBU) Summary: The GoNZ has revised its assessment of the Kyoto Protocol's impact on New Zealand, saying that it now expects to exceed its emissions allocation target and will have to buy carbon credits from other parties to the treaty. Previously, the government had claimed that participation [...] | 2005-08-05 02:53:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG NZ |
05WELLINGTON613 | USDA COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR U.S. SECRETARY OF [...] Embassy grants country clearance for U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Michael O. Johanns; Press Secretary Edgar Loyd; Under Secretary J.B. Penn; Foreign Agricultural Service Administrator A. Ellen Terpstra; FFAS Special Assistant Jennifer Ehn, OIG Special Agent James Holst; and OIG Special Agent [...] | 2005-08-12 01:42:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
05WELLINGTON616 | NEW ZEALAND WATCHDOG TOLD TO RECONSIDER CURBS ON [...] (U) New Zealand's communications minister wants a review of a Commerce Commission recommendation that would reduce the high fees that mobile phone companies charge to terminate calls on their networks. 2. (U) Communications Minister Cunliffe on August 9 asked that the commission reconsider [...] | 2005-08-12 05:54:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ECON ETRD NZ |
05WELLINGTON618 | NEW ZEALAND POSITION AT CODEX AD HOC TASK FORCE [...] Summary: New Zealand will participate in the fifth Session of the Codex Ad-Hoc Intergovernmental Task Force on Foods Derived from Biotechnology (Task Force) in Chiba, Japan September 19-23, 2005. New Zealand will be generally supportive of U.S. positions. New Zealand agrees with the United S [...] | 2005-08-15 03:27:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD TBIO EAGR ECON NZ |
05WELLINGTON619 | TERRORISM FINANCE: UNSCR 1617 IMPLEMENTATION [...] Summary: The New Zealand government announced August 12 that a FATF evaluation confirmed the need for more regulation of the country's financial sector to safeguard against money laundering and terrorist financing. Post issued a news release welcoming that announcement, as part of our action [...] | 2005-08-15 03:42:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN ETTC EFIN PTER KSEP CVIS KVPR KPAO OIIP NZ |
05WELLINGTON624 | THE DEATH OF DAVID LANGE [...] (C) Summary: Former NZ Prime Minister David Lange died on August 13, following a long illness. In the run-up to elections, Prime Minister Clark may be hoping to capitalize on Labour's identity as the heir apparent to Lange and the anti-nuclear policy his Government implemented. Most observ [...] | 2005-08-15 04:41:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON63 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR AMBASSADOR [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Ambassador Jackie W. Sanders, Special Assistant Renick H. Smith, and NP/MNA Foreign Affairs Officer Elizabeth A. Murphy, to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from February 10-12, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to meet with New Zealan [...] | 2005-01-26 03:10:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ABUD AMGT ASEC OVIP NZ NPT |
05WELLINGTON635 | AMBASSADOR SWINDELLS' FINAL CALL ON FM GOFF [...] (C) Summary: During his final meeting with Foreign Minister Goff on August 18, Ambassador Swindells reiterated his call for both countries to engage in a comprehensive dialogue on the bilateral relationship. He and Goff agreed that Embassy Wellington should begin quiet work with NZ counterp [...] | 2005-08-19 03:08:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NZ |
05WELLINGTON637 | New Zealand on U.S. APEC Radioactive Sources [...] No summary [...] | 2005-08-22 01:24:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP PARM ETTC KSTC EAID ETRD ECIN APEC IAEA |
05WELLINGTON642 | NATIONAL SHAPING UP AS GENUINE CHALLENGER TO [...] (SBU) This is the first in a series of cables about where New Zealand's political parties stand in the run-up to September 17 general elections. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) Badly battered in the 2002 campaign, New Zealand's main opposition party, the National Party, has reclaimed [...] | 2005-08-23 02:57:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON643 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR GREGORY [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to FAA Aviation Safety Inspector Gregory Bousie to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from September 19-22, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to meet with New Zealand national aviation authorities for BASA MIP Process. 2. (U) Embassy un [...] | 2005-08-23 03:31:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA EAIR NZ |
05WELLINGTON646 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR THOMAS A. [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Official Thomas A. Munroe to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from September 18-25, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to study Flatfishes at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa. 2. (U) Embassy u [...] | 2005-08-23 21:41:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TPHY KSCA EFIS CW NZ |
05WELLINGTON647 | NEW ZEALAND ON UNESCO CULTURAL DIVERSITY CONVENTION [...] No summary [...] | 2005-08-23 23:19:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD NZ UNESCO WTO |
05WELLINGTON65 | R/V KAIMIKAI-O-KANALOA CLEARANCE REQUEST [...] Embassy forwarded documents received January 20, 2005 to the Americas Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) of the Government of New Zealand and requested clearance for the R/V Kaimikai-o-Kanaloa for the following cruise dates: April 7 - 23, 2005 (Embley - File No. 20 [...] | 2005-01-26 17:57:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KRVC TPHY EWWT NZ |
05WELLINGTON650 | NEW ZEALAND'S LABOUR PARTY: SEEKING VICTORY IN THE [...] (C) Summary: Locked in a tougher than expected battle for votes, a once-confident Labour Party has forsaken its reputation for fiscal restraint to dish out promises of pork for students and low- and middle-income families. In the run-up to New Zealand's September 17 election, Labour also has [...] | 2005-08-25 05:06:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NZ |
05WELLINGTON658 | NEW ZEALAND FIRST: A PARTY OF THE OLD STILL MAY [...] (C) Summary: As New Zealand gears up for September 17 general elections, neither Labour nor National are likely to get enough votes to win a majority outright. Of all New Zealand's small parties, only two, the New Zealand First party and the Green Party, have enough current support to win mo [...] | 2005-08-29 03:28:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV NZ |
05WELLINGTON659 | BOLSTAD-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to USDA official, Dr. Gary Bolstad, Senior Program Auditor, USDA/FSIS/OPEER/Omaha to visit New Zealand from September 03-19, 2005 to conduct a routine inspection system equivalence audit of New Zealand's meat inspection system. 2. Embassy will assist with [...] | 2005-08-29 04:00:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
05WELLINGTON660 | STERN-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to USDA official, Norman Stern, Microbiologist, USDA/ARS/SAA to visit Auckland, New Zealand from September 11-16, 2005 to attend seminar at New Zealand World Poultry Science Association on campylobacter problem. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance [...] | 2005-08-29 04:01:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
05WELLINGTON661 | MAORI PARTY PROSPECTS DIMINISH IN SEPTEMBER [...] (C) Summary: Although the Maori Party has made impressive gains in membership and general support in its one year of existence, despite early projections it is unlikley to capture all seven Maori constituency seats in the September 17 election. It's probable 3-5 constituency seats would s [...] | 2005-08-29 22:08:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON662 | ARMSTRONG-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to USDA official, John Armstrong, Research Entomologist, USDA/ARS/PWA, Hilo, Hawaii to visit New Zealand from September 25 to October 09, 2005 to attend and present a paper at the Australasian Postharvest Horticulture Conference in Rotorua and visit scientists [...] | 2005-08-30 00:35:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
05WELLINGTON663 | MAORI PARTY PROSPECTS DIMINISH IN SEPTEMBER [...] (C) Summary: Although the Maori Party has made impressive gains in membership and general support in its one year of existence, it is unlikely to capture all seven Maori constituency seats in the September 17 election. Its probable 3-5 constituency seats would still make the Maori Party a [...] | 2005-08-30 04:48:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON664 | NZ ELECTIONS: A MINOR ROLE FOR ACT, UNITED FUTURE, [...] (SBU) Summary: Recent polling suggests that the September 17 general election will likely be a head-to-head contest between the two major parties, Labour and National. Such a result would diminish the role of the minor parties in the next Parliament. Since introduction in 1996, New Zealand,s m [...] | 2005-08-30 05:14:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV NZ |
05WELLINGTON665 | AUSTRALIA GROUP: BIOLOGICAL AGENTS WORKING GROUP [...] No summary [...] | 2005-08-30 05:31:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL ETTC NZ |
05WELLINGTON666 | REQUEST FOR RESETTLEMENT ASSISTANCE OF CERTAIN [...] (C) Summary: New Zealand is willing to consider taking in Uigher refugees from Guantanamo, but would at a minimum need a request from the UNHCR to start the process. Both Minister of Foreign Affairs Goff and Immigration Minister Swain will make the final decision of whether to admit the Uighe [...] | 2005-08-31 04:52:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | KAWC MOPS PREL PTER PHUM PREF PINR NZ |
05WELLINGTON667 | VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND OF USDA SECRETARY JOHANNS [...] Summary: During his visit to New Zealand, Secretary of Agriculture Johanns emphasized the U.S. commitment to an ambitious outcome to the WTO, including the reduction of global trade distortions in agriculture. The Secretary told Prime Minister Clark, Agriculture Minister Sutton, and others th [...] | 2005-08-31 08:22:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD TBIO EAGR ECON NZ |
05WELLINGTON668 | HURRICANE KATRINA: NZ CONDOLENCES, OFFERS OF [...] Roy Ferguson, Americas Desk Director at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT),called post today to convey GNZ condolences at the loss of life and devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. He said GNZ stands ready to help in any way as needed, noting that in the past NZ firefighters [...] | 2005-09-01 00:11:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAID NZ |
05WELLINGTON670 | UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE AND [...] (U) Poloff requested reftel information from Valerie Meyer, Deputy Director, United Nations, Human Rights and Commonwealth Division (UNHC),Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT). 2. (SBU) Because New Zealand will hold general elections on September 17, New Zealand will not send a hig [...] | 2005-09-01 04:46:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP NZ UNGA |
05WELLINGTON671 | AMENDED NOMINATION REQUEST FOR VOLUNTARY VISITOR [...] POST AMENDS ORIGINAL CABLE AND NOW REQUESTS AN EIGHT-DAY VOLUNTARY VISITOR PROGRAM FOR DEBORAH MCCORMICK (DIRECTOR) AND A SIX-DAY PROGRAM FOR ADRIENNE STEWART (TRUSTEE) OF THE ART AND INDUSTRY BIENNIAL TRUST. 2. POST REQUESTS FUNDING FOR ACCOMMODATIONS AND DAILY PER DIEM AND DOMESTIC TRAVEL [...] | 2005-09-01 06:19:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OEXC SCUL KPAO NZ |
05WELLINGTON674 | NEW ZEALAND: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON ZIMBABWE VOTE [...] (U) This is an action request -- please see Paragraph 3. 2. (U) Post on August 29 delivered reftel demarche to the New Zealand Agency for International Development, which handles issues related to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). 3. (C) On September 2, a representative of New Zealan [...] | 2005-09-02 04:27:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PREL ZI NZ IMF |
05WELLINGTON675 | TFUS01: NEW ZEALAND OFFERS ASSISTANCE [...] The Government of New Zealand has made a general offer of assistance to the United States in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In addition, the government has approved specific areas of assistance, and the New Zealand Embassy has been instructed to convey those offers to USG officials on Se [...] | 2005-09-02 05:58:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON AEMR ASEC CASC MARR AMGT US NZ |
05WELLINGTON679 | TFUS01: NEW ZEALAND TO CONTRIBUTE CASH FOR [...] New Zealand Prime Minister Clark announced September 6 that her government would contribute NZ $2 million (US $1.4 million) through the Red Cross for hurricane relief. The contribution is in addition to the government's previously announced offers of a search and rescue team, disaster victim [...] | 2005-09-06 20:02:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR EAID PREL US NZ |
05WELLINGTON682 | AS NATIONAL'S SUPPORT SURGES, NZ ELECTIONS TOO [...] (C) Summary: Just 10 days out from New Zealand's general elections, the race is too close to call. Recent polling puts the opposition National Party ahead of the Labour Government, with one poll showing the spread as much as 8 percentage points in National's favor. National seems to have s [...] | 2005-09-07 05:50:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON683 | TFUS01: ADDITIONAL DETAILS ON NEW ZEALAND'S OFFER [...] In response to ref B, post provided in ref A the names and contact information for the New Zealand disaster assistance teams that the New Zealand government has offered for assisting in the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. 2. In further response to ref B, following are additional details on [...] | 2005-09-07 20:14:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR EAID PREL US NZ |
05WELLINGTON684 | SECURITY ENVIRONMENT PROFILE QUESTIONNAIRE (SEPQ) [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-08 03:02:00 | Embassy Wellington | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER ASEC NZ |
05WELLINGTON688 | TFUS01: MORE DETAILS ON NEW ZEALAND'S OFFER OF [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-08 19:48:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR EAID PREL US NZ |
05WELLINGTON69 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR THOMAS [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to DOE/NNSA Official Thomas P. Guilderson, to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from February 18 - April 1, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to visit the Rafter Radiocarbon Laboratory in Wellington, and to participate in the research cruis [...] | 2005-01-26 21:58:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ENRG TRGY KSCA NZ |
05WELLINGTON692 | THOUGH ON THE FRINGE, NEW ZEALAND'S GREENS MAY [...] (C) Strongly identified with environmental protectionism, New Zealand's Green Party also represents a number of other small constituencies, ranging from those who favor legalizing marijuana to those concerned with improving nutrition in school lunches. Typically favored by younger New Zealand [...] | 2005-09-09 03:04:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON695 | THE KIWI VOTER: TRAPPED BETWEEN BOREDOM AND [...] (C) Going in to the final week of New Zealand's general election campaign, polls are fluctuating wildly: one had National in a seven-point lead, while another had Labour leading by nine points just two days later. The latest put the major parties in a dead heat, with support for Labour at 40. [...] | 2005-09-09 04:50:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON696 | NZ'S "PRESIDENTIAL RACE:" FOCUS ON PM CLARK AND [...] (C) Summary: As reftel notes, in this undecided campaign, the personality of the major parties' leaders may really influence voters' decisions. The following are two brief snapshots of what's on offer. End Summary. -------------------------- Prime Minister Helen Clark ------------------- [...] | 2005-09-11 19:56:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON698 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JOHN TAKEKAWA, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to USGS Research Wildlife Biologist John Takekawa to travel to Dunedin, New Zealand from October 7-9, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to participate on a thesis committee for a student career employment program with the University of Ota [...] | 2005-09-12 02:21:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TPHY KSCA SENV ECON NZ |
05WELLINGTON7 | NEW ZEALAND SUPPORT TO TSUNAMI RELIEF VICTIMS [...] (U) NZAid has confirmed to post the break down of the NZD 10 million (about USD 7.2 million) that the New Zealand Government has committed so far to the relief effort: -- Up to NZD 5 million will be given in dollar-for-dollar matching funds for private charitable donations (FYI: The Red Cr [...] | 2005-01-06 04:45:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR EAID PGOV NZ |
05WELLINGTON70 | THE NEW ZEALAND ELECTIONS 2005: NEW ZEALAND'S [...] (SBU) This is the first in a series of reporting that Embassy New Zealand and ConGen Auckland will provide in the run-up to this year's Parliamentary elections. Although no date has been set, the elections must occur before September 2005. 2. (SBU) Summary: The current Labour Government i [...] | 2005-01-26 21:59:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON700 | NEW ZEALAND AVIATION AND MARITIME OFFICER [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-12 21:18:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON NZ |
05WELLINGTON702 | NZ ELECTIONS: WHAT'S IN IT FOR US? [...] (C) Summary: No matter who wins New Zealand's general elections this Saturday, the stage is set for a comprehensive U.S.-New Zealand dialogue should Washington desire one. Well before the election, Labour officials indicated they would welcome such an exchange, and even in coalition with the [...] | 2005-09-13 00:33:00 | Embassy Wellington | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON704 | NEW ZEALAND CONCERNED ABOUT AVIAN INFLUENZA THREAT [...] (C) Summary: New Zealand is taking very seriously the threat of avian influenza, and an inter-ministerial group meets biweekly to discuss preparations. There are also numerous subgroups of officials who are strategizing on how the country would address the public health, economic, social, an [...] | 2005-09-13 05:10:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | TBIO ECON PREL SOCI NZ |
05WELLINGTON705 | NEW ZEALAND TO JOIN INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP ON [...] Charge shared reftel information with Simon Murdoch, CEO of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT). Murdoch is the most senior career official at the Ministry. Murdoch agreed to review the information and forward it to appropriate ministry officials. 2. On September 12, Rosemar [...] | 2005-09-13 05:40:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA EAGR EAID ECON PREL SOCI TBIO NZ |
05WELLINGTON707 | NEW ZEALAND WILL NOT ATTEND ARF CBM SEMINAR ON [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-14 02:13:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM MARR XB NZ |
05WELLINGTON71 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JOSEPH [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to DINT/Fish and Wildlife Service Official Joseph Charles Starinchak, Division Chief - Environmental Quality, to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from February 2 - 13, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to meet with New Zealand Department [...] | 2005-01-26 22:00:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA SENV KSCA TBIO NZ |
05WELLINGTON715 | NZ ELECTIONS: EMBASSY CONFIDENTLY PREDICTS [...] (C) Summary: New Zealand's election race remains the closest in years. We believe it likely the National Party will get more votes than the Labour Government, but the real question will be whether this would be enough to ensure a National government. Mixed Member Proportional voting (MMP),[...] | 2005-09-16 05:51:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON716 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ANTHONY [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Social Security Administration Official Anthony Dinoto to travel to Wellington and Queenstown, New Zealand from September 23 - October 1, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Six Nations Benefit Fraud Conference. 2. (U) E [...] | 2005-09-18 20:52:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA CFED NZ |
05WELLINGTON717 | NOMINATION REQUEST FOR VOLUNTARY VISITOR PROGRAM [...] POST REQUESTS A SEVEN-DAY VOLUNTARY VISITOR PROGRAM TO ASSIST VICE CHANCELLOR STUART MCCUTCHEON OF AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY (PLUS A FOUR-MEMBER DELEGATION) FOR MEETINGS WITH LEADING UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS AND POLICY AND FUNDING AGENCIES. 2. POST REQUESTS A PROGRAM OF MEETINGS AND ADVIC [...] | 2005-09-18 23:50:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OEXC SCUL KPAO NZ |
05WELLINGTON718 | NEW ZEALAND OFFERS INFORMATION ON PASSENGER- [...] This is an action request; please see Paragraph 3. 2. In response to the Department of Homeland Security's intent to expand the Advanced Passenger Information System (APIS),the New Zealand government has offered to provide the U.S. government with information and a demonstration on the Aus [...] | 2005-09-19 03:24:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR PTER NZ |
05WELLINGTON719 | NZ ELECTIONS: TWO-WEEK WAIT TO SEE WHO'S WON THE [...] (C) As predicted, New Zealand's September 17 General Elections were the closest in years. Despite starting the evening well ahead, the opposition National Party ended up one Parliamentary Seat behind the Labour Government. But the Nats refuse to concede defeat and Labour has not declared vi [...] | 2005-09-19 05:04:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON721 | REQUEST FOR TOP SECRET PROCESSING AND STORAGE [...] (C) Embassy Wellington requests authorization to process and store classified materials at the top secret level. 2. (C) Wellington CIWG met 15 September 2005 and agreed that it was in Post's best interest to be able to increase our processing and storage levels. Embassy Wellington currently [...] | 2005-09-19 19:43:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC KSEO NZ |
05WELLINGTON722 | HOLLINGSWORTH-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to USDA official, Robert Hollingsworth, USDA/ARS/PWA/HAWAII to visit Auckland and Rotorua, New Zealand from September 22 to October 10, 2005 to attend and present a paper at the Australasian Postharvest Horticulture Conference in Rotorua and attend a pre-confer [...] | 2005-09-19 21:49:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
05WELLINGTON724 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CHRISTINA LIN [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Supply Chain Security Specialists Christina Lin and Jay Im to travel to Auckland, New Zealand from on or about the 17th of October 2005 to on or about the 21st of October 2005. The purpose of this visit is to conduct Customs Trade Partn [...] | 2005-09-20 01:50:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ASEC ETRD AMGT NZ |
05WELLINGTON728 | NZ ELECTIONS: THE NUMBERS BEHIND THE NUMBERS [...] (SBU) New Zealand's September 17 election results remain in limbo, as 10% of absentee ballots ("special votes") remain to be counted and Labour and National vie for coalition partners. But even though most pundits pick Labour as the party most likely to form a Government, Labour has taken a h [...] | 2005-09-21 00:32:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON729 | EMBASSY WELLINGTON EAC MEETING SEPTEMBER 2005 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-21 03:40:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC NZ |
05WELLINGTON731 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HOTHEM AND [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to USGS Physical Scientists Larry Hothem and Michael Starbuck to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from October 19 - December 2, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to transit to McMurdo Station, Antarctica, to conduct geodesy and geospati [...] | 2005-09-21 04:49:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TPHY KSCA SENV NZ |
05WELLINGTON732 | EMBASSY WELLINGTON EAC MEETING SEPTEMBER 2005 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-21 19:22:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC NZ |
05WELLINGTON735 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR WITHYCOMBE, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to FAA Personnel William Withycombe, Barry Brayer, John Clancy, Robert Rabideau, and Lloyd Golden to travel to Auckland, New Zealand from September 26-28, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to transit to Apia, Samoa, where they will arrange [...] | 2005-09-22 01:49:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA EAIR NZ |
05WELLINGTON736 | NEW ZEALAND UNABLE TO RESPOND TO UNESCO CONVENTION [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-22 05:24:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | SCUL ETRD NZ UNESCO |
05WELLINGTON738 | SUGGESTED STRATEGY FOR ALIEN (BUI) REQUEST TO GNZ [...] (SBU) This message contains an action request, at paragraph 6. 2. (C) Post believes that reftel demarche would be a very hard sell to GNZ officials. New Zealand prides itself as a strong player in supporting human rights. The Government has also been strongly criticized in the recent pa [...] | 2005-09-23 02:32:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PHUM PREL PGOV NZ |
05WELLINGTON739 | NZ FOLLOW-UP: HSPD-6 TERRORIST LOOKOUT INFORMATION [...] (S) Post IWG agencies met to discuss Ref A and B. We also discussed the possibility of the terrorist lookout information sharing pilot with Conoff in Auckland. Agencies all agree that GNZ would be a good candidate for the proposed pilot project, and would likely be receptive should we make [...] | 2005-09-23 03:24:00 | Embassy Wellington | SECRET | CVIS PTER PINR PGOV PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON740 | NEW ZEALAND: COMMERCIAL SOURCES OF MRES [...] Per reftel, following is information on three companies in New Zealand that supply ration packs or "retort meals." The packs are similar to MREs, but do not include a heating source. The pouched meals can be eaten cold, but normally would be heated in boiling water or opened and heated over a [...] | 2005-09-23 03:44:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AMGT EAID ECON ETRD NZ |
05WELLINGTON741 | NEW ZEALAND WILL TRY TO ATTEND ARF ISG IN [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-23 04:24:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MARR NZ |
05WELLINGTON748 | NEW ZEALAND: CONFIRMING SUA DEMARCHE DELIVERY [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-28 02:26:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP KTIA MNUC PARM PREL PGOV EWWT PHSA NZ |
05WELLINGTON751 | LEWANDROWSKI-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to USDA official Jan Lewandrowski, Senior Economist, Office of Chief Economist, USDA to visit Auckland New Zealand from October 15-23, 2005 to participate in informal dialogue on the role of land use, land use exchange, and forestry in the climate change respo [...] | 2005-09-29 00:50:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
05WELLINGTON752 | ANDREWS, SHARKEY AND REAVES-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY [...] Embassy grants country clearance to USDA officials Patricia Andrews, Brian Sharkey and Jimmy Reaves USDA/Forest Service to visit Auckland New Zealand from October 03-18, 2005 to attend Autralasian Fire Authority Conference-2005 Innovative Technology Meeting. 2. Embassy understands that cou [...] | 2005-09-29 00:51:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
05WELLINGTON753 | COLE-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to USDA official, Ronald Cole, National Wool Reporter, Livestock and Grain Market News, Livestock and Marketing Program, Agriculture Marketing Service/USDA to visit New Zealand from October 28 to November 4, 2005 to visit wool testing facilities, wool auctions [...] | 2005-09-29 00:52:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
05WELLINGTON757 | NEW ZEALAND: TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICER [...] (U) The following information is in response to reftel. 2. (SBU) Embassy Wellington's Terrorism Finance Coordination Officer (TFCO) is: David R. Burnett Charge d'Affaires Tel: 64-4-462-6101 e-mail: burnettDR@state.gov 2. (SBU) Post's deputy TFCO is: Joy Yamamoto Economic Officer [...] | 2005-09-29 23:31:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC KTFN KVPR PREL PTER NZ |
05WELLINGTON758 | NEW ZEALAND ASKS ABOUT ACCESS TO TSA'S NO FLY LIST [...] (S) Summary: New Zealand Immigration is interested in possible access to the Transportation Security Administration's "no fly" list as a way to improve the country's border security. New Zealand law enforcement agencies already work closely with U.S. counterparts, and New Zealand Immigration [...] | 2005-09-30 02:50:00 | Embassy Wellington | SECRET | PTER ASEC CVIS PGOV PINR PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON759 | NEW ZEALAND ENDORSES JOINT STATEMENT BY [...] The New Zealand government supports the International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza and would welcome being included in the Joint Statement to be issued by the partnership (ref B). 2. Post on September 26 delivered ref A talking points and Joint Statement to the New Zealand Mi [...] | 2005-09-30 03:50:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO EAGR ECON KSCA PREL SOCI NZ WHO |
05WELLINGTON761 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DECOLA AND [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NASA delegation members Philip Decola and Patricia Dunnington to travel to Christchurch and Wellington, New Zealand from October 10-31, 2005. The purpose of this visit by Decola to Christchurch is to attend the Antarctica Science Review [...] | 2005-10-03 00:16:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TSPA NZ |
05WELLINGTON764 | NZ ELECTIONS: LABOUR VICTORY CONFIRMED [...] (U) New Zealand's official election results, released October 1, confirm a Labour victory with 50 seats in Parliament and a slightly easier challenge in forming the next government. The notable change from preliminary counts on election night September 17 is the reduction of the overall size [...] | 2005-10-03 03:21:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON765 | NEW ZEALAND PRIORITIES AT PACIFIC ISLANDS FORUM [...] (C) New Zealand,s principal priority for the leaders' meeting of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) is finalizing the Pacific Plan, in which New Zealand is seeking support of a process of regional integration and cooperation and movement away from patron-client relationships between developed and [...] | 2005-10-03 03:22:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ETRD EFIS SENV NZ |
05WELLINGTON767 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR THOMAS [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to FDA official Thomas Letonja to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from October 16-20, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to attend the 20th International Conference for the World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitolog [...] | 2005-10-04 23:56:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA KSCA TBIO NZ |
05WELLINGTON768 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR PENNY J. [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Transportation Security Administration Representative Penny J. Anderson to travel to Wellington and Christchurch, New Zealand from October 11-14, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to conduct meetings and follow-up on security assessment [...] | 2005-10-05 00:01:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ECON NZ |
05WELLINGTON772 | NOMINATION: FY-06 STUDY OF THE UNITED STATES [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-06 04:11:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL |
05WELLINGTON78 | NATIONAL GOES TO BAT [...] (U) Summary. After a week of press leaks and innuendo, the 2005 election season swung into full gear with Opposition National Party leader Don Brash's much-anticipated speech at Orewa Rotary Club on January 25, unveiling National's long-promised position on welfare reform. Expectations for t [...] | 2005-01-27 03:33:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM NZ |
05WELLINGTON780 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DAVID RIND, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NASA Official David Rind to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from December 8-15, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to attend and participate as lead author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group I (WGI) [...] | 2005-10-11 04:15:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TSPA NZ |
05WELLINGTON781 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR KEITH [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NASA Delegation members Keith Chamberlin and Stephen Smith to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from November 5 - 19, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to transit to McMurdo Station, Antarctica, where they will support McMurdo Ground [...] | 2005-10-11 04:16:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TSPA NZ |
05WELLINGTON782 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ALAN HAYNIE, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Marine Fisheries Service Official Alan Haynie to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from October 19-21, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to meet with govern [...] | 2005-10-11 04:18:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA NZ |
05WELLINGTON784 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR SAMUEL J. [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration physicist Samuel J. Oltmans to travel to Christchurch and Lauder, New Zealand from October 28 - November 18, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to calibrate ozone monitors in Lauder and to [...] | 2005-10-12 20:51:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TPHY KSCA SENV NZ |
05WELLINGTON785 | FARLEY-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to USDA official Christopher Farley, Biological Scientist, USDA/Forest Service to visit Rotorua, New Zealand from October 14-25, 2005 to participate in informal dialogue on the role of land use, land use exchange, and forestry in the climate change response. [...] | 2005-10-12 22:30:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
05WELLINGTON786 | GUERRO/PRUETT-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to USDA official, Felix Guerrero, Physiologist and John Pruett, Microbiologist to visit Christchurch, New Zealand from October 13-21, 2005 to attend World Association for Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology 20th International Meeting. 2. Embassy underst [...] | 2005-10-12 22:42:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
05WELLINGTON787 | ANDERSON-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to USDA official, Dean Anderson, Animal Scientist, USDA/ARS/SPA to visit Hamilton, New Zealand from October 10-15, 2005 to visit Gallagher Animal Management Systems to discuss commercialized cirtual fencing and present seminar. 2. Embassy understands that c [...] | 2005-10-12 22:44:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
05WELLINGTON788 | HOFFMAN-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to USDA official, Wesley Hoffman, USDA/ARS/SPA, Texas to visit Rotorua and Invercargill, New Zealand from October 10-14, 2005 to attend seminars on Forest Bio-Security & Protection Facility and New Zealand Aerial Application Association Meeting and present pro [...] | 2005-10-12 22:45:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
05WELLINGTON79 | EAST ASIAN SUMMIT: NEW ZEALAND'S VIEWS [...] (C) Summary: New Zealand officials have been watching with interest the proposal to hold an East Asian Summit, but they remain unclear as to either the form or function of the meeting. New Zealand would welcome the chance to participate in the Summit, but is unlikely to push for an invitation [...] | 2005-01-27 05:06:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECIN NZ ASEAN APECO |
05WELLINGTON790 | DVC Request - "The New Regionalism" [...] Program Description: In Support of MPP Goal 07-04 Economic Growth and Development, Post requests a video conference with Dr. Jing Huang, Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution, who is an expert in Chinese policy and Asian security issues. 2. Justification and O [...] | 2005-10-13 00:44:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP SCUL |
05WELLINGTON791 | HERRICK-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to USDA official Jeffrey Herrick, Soil Scientist, USDA/ARS/SPA/NM to visit Christchurch, New Zealand from November 11- December 02, 2005 to attend the Dahlem Desertification Protocol workshop to serve as co-organizer to discuss soil degradation. 2. Embassy [...] | 2005-10-13 00:59:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
05WELLINGTON792 | 60TH UNFC: NEW ZEALAND RESPONDS TO DEMARCHE ON [...] (C) Largely because of frustration over the lack of progress in the Geneva Conference on Disarmament, the New Zealand government supports the draft resolution in the UN First Committee that would establish Ad Hoc Committees under the UN General Assembly. However, New Zealand does not want the [...] | 2005-10-13 02:13:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC PARM PREL MNUC CA MX NZ |
05WELLINGTON793 | Proposal for U.S. Speaker at 2006 Otago [...] Post requests U.S. speaker Professor Susan Brownell, Chair, Dept. of Anthropology at St. Louis University, Missouri, in support of MPP Goal 07-03, Mutual Understanding. We would ideally like this visit to be for seven program days, Wednesday, June 21 - Tuesday, June [...] | 2005-10-13 02:17:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP OEXC SCUL |
05WELLINGTON794 | IN DC VISIT, NEW ZEALAND OFFICIAL TO SEEK USG [...] (C) Summary: New Zealand Deputy Secretary for Asia and Americas John McKinnon will visit Washington from October 17 to 20. He will seek U.S. views on evolving regional security architecture and the potential for improving the U.S.-New Zealand relationship. McKinnon will acknowledge that all [...] | 2005-10-13 05:08:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NZ |
05WELLINGTON807 | NZ LABOUR FORMS GOVERNMENT: COALITION OF THE [...] (U) New Zealand Labour Prime Minister Helen Clark announced October 17 the formation of a new government, involving a Labour coalition with the one-seat Progressive Party and confidence-and-supply arrangements with New Zealand First and United Future. Jim Anderton of the Progressive Party wil [...] | 2005-10-17 18:48:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON809 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR BRAXTON, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officials Sherri Braxton, Douglas Palmeri, and Matthew Wolf to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from October 28 - November 3, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Customs Asia Pacific Enfo [...] | 2005-10-18 00:50:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ASEC ETRD AMGT NZ |
05WELLINGTON810 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR WEISSMAN AND [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to ICE officials Kimberly Weissman and Matthew Coughlin to travel to Auckland, New Zealand from on or about November 3 to on or about November 9, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to staff the U.S. visit booth at the ACI Conference Trade S [...] | 2005-10-18 18:37:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ASEC ETRD AMGT NZ |
05WELLINGTON811 | MEDIA PLAY: NEW NZ FOREIGN MINISTER PLACES HIGH [...] SUMMARY: For the second day in a row newly-appointed Foreign Minister Winston Peters has publicly indicated that he places high priority on "rebuilding New Zealand's relationships with the United States." END SUMMARY 2. On the second day of the new Foreign Minister's term, the front-page o [...] | 2005-10-18 22:13:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO NZ |
05WELLINGTON812 | DVC Request with Gail Blanke [...] PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: Post requests a DVC with Gail Blanke, President and CEO of Lifedesigns, LLC, in New York. 2. Preferred Activity Date, Fiscal Year, and Quarter: This is an FY06 program, which is requested for week starting December 6; first quarter. 3. JUSTIFICATION OF PROGRAM: Pos [...] | 2005-10-19 02:25:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP SCUL |
05WELLINGTON813 | NEW ZEALAND PRIME MINISTER ANNOUNCES NEW CABINET [...] (C) New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark on October 19 unveiled a new Cabinet dominated by familiar faces, with veteran members of Parliament named to the top seven positions. None of the Cabinet assignments is particularly controversial. However, the one controversial choice -- the appoin [...] | 2005-10-19 06:27:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON816 | NEW ZEALAND SUPPORTS U.S. POSITION ON GEOGRAPHIC [...] Summary: New Zealand shares the concern of the United States that the EU and others may attempt to hold up negotiations at the WTO Hong Kong Ministerial unless their demands on geographical indications (GIs) are met. New Zealand will work closely with the United States to prevent this from oc [...] | 2005-10-20 02:00:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EAGR ECON NU KIPR NZ WTRO |
05WELLINGTON82 | U.S. NONPROLIFERATION AMENDMENTS TO THE SUA [...] (C) Acting DCM conveyed reftel points on the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Maritime Navigation (SUA) to Caroline McDonald, Director of the Disarmament Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) and Scott Sheeran, an MFAT Legal Advisor. A/DCM said she was [...] | 2005-01-28 04:51:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP KTIA MNUC PARM PREL PHSA EWWT NZ |
05WELLINGTON821 | EXPLAINING NEW ZEALAND'S PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNANCE [...] New Zealand,s new government, announced October 17, was formed through an awkward arrangement that includes a coalition between the leading Labour Party and the Progressive Party and the &confidence and supply8 support of New Zealand First and United Future. In addition, the Green Party has a [...] | 2005-10-20 06:51:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON826 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST - TOD DURAN TO APIA [...] Embassy requests country clearance for Political Officer Tod Duran to travel to Apia, Samoa from October 24 - November 7, 2005. The purpose of Mr. Duran's visit is to act as principal officer during the absence of Charge Tim Harley. 2. Mr. Duran will arrive at Faleolo Airport in Apia on [...] | 2005-10-21 00:43:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA NZ |
05WELLINGTON827 | FY2006 U.S. Speaker Request -- Ambassador [...] Program Description: In Support of MPP Goal 06-01, Active Anti-Terrorist Coalitions and Security, Post requests a U.S. speaker visit by Ambassador Charles Salmon (ret.),Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii. We have received a request from one of New Zealand's leading un [...] | 2005-10-21 04:10:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP SCUL |
05WELLINGTON83 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JOHN MENTZ, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Mr. John Mentz, Office of Nonproliferation Policy, to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from February 10-12, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to meet with New Zealand Government officials in preparation for the 2005 Review Conference [...] | 2005-01-31 02:26:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ABUD AMGT ASEC OVIP NZ NPT |
05WELLINGTON833 | BLUE LANTERN CASE AG-1003-97: CHECK ON BOEING A-4 [...] Safe Air Limited of Marlborough, New Zealand, reported October 26 that it has no record of being informed by Boeing/McDonnell-Douglas that it should cease servicing Indonesian Air Force A-4s in 1999. However, the company says it was well aware of the arms embargo against Indonesia and complie [...] | 2005-10-25 21:53:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC NZ ID US |
05WELLINGTON836 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MATTHES AND [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to ICE Officials Justin Matthes and Louritha Green to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from on or about October 30 to on or about November 2, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Regional Movement Alert List meeting. 2. (U) [...] | 2005-10-26 04:30:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ASEC ETRD AMGT NZ |
05WELLINGTON837 | FORMER NEW ZEALAND IV TO LEAD US - NZ BUSINESS [...] Former participant on the IVLP program Mr. Stephen Jacobi (grantee from June 2003) has been appointed Executive Director of the New Zealand United States Council. The Council is an influential lobby group that enjoys the ear of NZ officals. Within days of his appointment, Jacobi wrote a news [...] | 2005-10-26 18:34:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OEXC SCUL KPAO NZ |
05WELLINGTON838 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ICE LEFFLER [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to ICE Officials Jason Leffler and Jeremy Luczkowski to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from on or about November 20-23, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to conduct customs trade partnership against terrorism C-TPAT validations for APJ [...] | 2005-10-26 22:54:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ASEC ETRD AMGT NZ |
05WELLINGTON839 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ICE KNOPP AND [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to ICE Officials Raymond Knopp and Arlene Villalba to travel to Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand from on or about November 19 - 23, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to conduct customs trade partnership against terrorism C-TPAT validat [...] | 2005-10-26 23:00:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ASEC ETRD AMGT NZ |
05WELLINGTON84 | NEW ZEALAND FOREIGN MINISTER SUPPORTS IRAQ [...] The following text is a statement from Foreign Minister Goff's office, released January 31, 2005. 2. Begin text: ELECTION RESULT REPRESENTS PROGRESS TOWARDS DEMOCRATIC AND PEACEFUL IRAQ Foreign Minister Phil Goff has welcomed the holding of the election in Iraq, and says that the lev [...] | 2005-01-31 03:02:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV NZ |
05WELLINGTON840 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ICE STAJCAR [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to ICE Officials Daniel Stajcar and Anthony Orosz to travel to Auckland, New Zealand from on or about November 18-23, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to conduct customs trade partnership against terrorism C-TPAT validations for Sampco, [...] | 2005-10-26 23:01:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ASEC ETRD AMGT NZ |
05WELLINGTON841 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USCG LCDR [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to U.S. Coast Guard LCDR Bruce Tweed to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from November 8 - 13, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to conduct a follow-up visit with Maritime New Zealand (MNZ) to review the status of the ISPS code implementa [...] | 2005-10-18 06:48:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA NZ |
05WELLINGTON848 | NEW ZEALAND'S RESPONSE TO APPEAL FOR PAKISTAN [...] (U) Post on October 25 delivered the ref A demarche -- seeking New Zealand's contribution to earthquake relief and rehabilitation in Pakistan -- to the New Zealand Agency for International Development (NZAID). Jane Coster of NZAID reported October 28 that New Zealand had contributed NZ $1.5 m [...] | 2005-10-28 02:23:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID AEMR ASEC MASS PGOV PREF PREL PK NZ NATO |
05WELLINGTON849 | NEW ZEALAND'S ECONOMY FACES BUMPY ROAD AHEAD [...] (SBU) After enjoying five years of strong economic growth, New Zealanders are awakening to the sober reality that the party may be over. The sign posts for a rough patch ahead have multiplied in recent weeks. Yawning deficits have appeared in the country's trade balance and current account. [...] | 2005-10-28 02:28:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON851 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MARK CHRISTL, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NASA employee Mark Christl to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand, and McMurdo Station, Antarctica, from November 1 to 24, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to conduct an advanced thin ionization calorimeter high altitude balloon experi [...] | 2005-10-31 23:00:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TSPA NZ |
05WELLINGTON852 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA (LARC) [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to James Crawford and Glenn Diskin, members of a delegation from NASA's Langley Research Center (LARC),to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand, and McMurdo Station, Antarctica, from November 9 to December 28, 2005. The purpose of this visit [...] | 2005-11-01 00:15:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TSPA NZ |
05WELLINGTON853 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JONI MAE [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Joni Mae L. Makuakane-Jarrell, training specialist, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, to travel to Hamilton, New Zealand, from November 26 to December 6. The purpose of this visit is to represent the National Park Service at the World Indi [...] | 2005-11-01 00:31:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA KSCA TPHY SCUL SENV NZ |
05WELLINGTON855 | NEW ZEALAND SAYS G-4 AMBASSADORS DECLINE TO [...] (SBU) On October 28, Acting DCM conveyed Ref A points to Chris Anderson, Deputy Director of the South-South East Asia Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. She urged that the G-4 Ambassadors visit with returned refugees during their upcoming trip to the Central Highlands, and [...] | 2005-11-02 03:57:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREF PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON858 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ASHLEY DAVIEW, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Ashley Davies, an employee of the California Institute of Technology working at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to travel to Mount Erebus, Antarctica, by way of Christchurch, New Zealand, from November 25 to December 21, 2005. The purp [...] | 2005-11-02 19:31:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TSPA NZ |
05WELLINGTON859 | IN DECISIONS ON ENERGY, NEW ZEALAND IS AT A [...] (SBU) With the days of abundant and cheap electric power over, New Zealand faces critical decisions on how to ensure its energy supplies keep pace with future demand. The task is complicated by years of under-investment, regulatory uncertainties and uneven government policies. New Zealand's [...] | 2005-11-03 04:52:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PREL NZ ENGR ETRC |
05WELLINGTON86 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR LEAKSMY NORIN, FEBRUARY 20- [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Ms. Leaksmy Norin, G/TIP Reports Officer, to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from February 20-22. The purpose of this visit is to meet with Embassy officials to discuss monitoring, assessing and reporting on trafficking in persons. [...] | 2005-01-31 21:03:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA KCRM KWMN PHUM SMIG NZ |
05WELLINGTON860 | NEW ZEALAND'S POSITION ON INFANT FORMULA STANDARDS [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-03 22:48:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD NZ FDA |
05WELLINGTON861 | NEW ZEALAND TRADE MINISTER TOUTS FTA TO AMERICAN [...] Summary: In a meeting with visiting American Farm Bureau Federation representatives, New Zealand Minister of Trade Phil Goff pitched his country's case for free-trade negotiations with the United States. Goff asserted that a free-trade agreement would benefit both countries and that U.S. agri [...] | 2005-11-04 03:56:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EAGR ECON NZ |
05WELLINGTON863 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR THORSTEN [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Thorsten Markus, from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, to travel to Dunedin, New Zealand, from December 1-18, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to attend the International Glaciological Society International Symposium. 2. (U) E [...] | 2005-11-06 20:49:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TSPA NZ |
05WELLINGTON864 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MICHAEL [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Michael Comberiate, Adan Rodriguez, Shannon Rodriguez and Kurt Rush, members of a delegation from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand, and McMurdo Station, Antarctica, from December 5 to 19, 2005. T [...] | 2005-11-06 21:16:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TSPA NZ |
05WELLINGTON868 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DAWN HOPE AND [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Dawn Hope, assistant director, and Hugh Paquette, analyst, from GAO's Homeland Security and Justice Team to travel to Wellington and Auckland, New Zealand from December 1 to 6, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to review pre- screening [...] | 2005-11-07 03:04:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA AGAO CVIS AS JA NZ |
05WELLINGTON870 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JASON LEFFLER [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials Jason Leffler, supply chain specialist, and Jeremy Luczkowski, program officer, to travel to Auckland, New Zealand, from on or about November 15 to on or about November 26, 2005. The pur [...] | 2005-11-07 22:05:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ASEC ETRD AMGT NZ |
05WELLINGTON875 | NEW ZEALAND ON UN THIRD COMMITTEE RESOLUTIONS, US [...] (C) Pol-Econ Counselor discussed reftel points with Val Meyer, Deputy Director of the UN, Human Rights, and Commonwealth Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. P-E Couns said that she hoped New Zealand would support all the resolutions, especially those involving countries wi [...] | 2005-11-09 23:08:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON876 | NEW ZEALAND'S POSITION ON OECD SEC GEN SELECTION [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-09 23:11:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON EFIN NZ OECD |
05WELLINGTON880 | NEW ZEALAND WANTS TO MOVE AHEAD ON HSPD-6 [...] (C) Summary: The New Zealand government remains eager to move quickly toward bilateral sharing of terrorist lookout information. To move forward, however, the government needs to know more about how the information it supplies to the United States would be used, details on how such an informa [...] | 2005-11-10 03:40:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC CASC CVIS PGOV PREL PINR NZ |
05WELLINGTON883 | NEW ZEALAND'S POSITION ON U.S. CANDIDACY FOR IMO [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-14 03:10:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIA AORC EWWT PHSA US NZ IMO |
05WELLINGTON884 | NEW ZEALAND'S RESPONSE TO MESSAGE ON NATO SUPPORT [...] (C) Post's defense attache on October 28 delivered the ref C demarche -- encouraging New Zealand's contribution to the NATO relief effort in Pakistan -- to Air Vice-Marshal David Bamfield, vice chief of the New Zealand Defense Force (ref A). In a letter dated November 2, Air Marshal Bruce Fer [...] | 2005-11-14 03:24:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID AEMR ASEC MASS PGOV PREF PREL PK NZ NATO |
05WELLINGTON885 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR LOIS ROSSI AND [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Lois Rossi, division director, and George Herndon, associate director, EPA Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances, to travel to Wellington, New Zealand, from November 21 to December 5. The purpose of this visit is to parti [...] | 2005-11-14 21:18:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA KSCA SENV TPHY NZ EPA |
05WELLINGTON891 | UNINTENTIONALLY, NEW ZEALAND LAW IMPEDES SOME [...] (SBU) Summary: New Zealand legislation intended to tighten the rules on foreign ownership of land is having the unintended effect of restricting sales of businesses and properties. U.S. sellers of two large investments in New Zealand -- a poultry-farm company and a stake in a forestry busines [...] | 2005-11-16 00:51:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ECIN ECON NZ ETRC |
05WELLINGTON893 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JOSEFINO COMISO [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Josefino Comiso and Per Gloersen, members of a delegation from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC),to travel to Dunedin, New Zealand, from December 4 to 27, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to attend and present a paper at the I [...] | 2005-11-18 02:20:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TSPA OTRA NZ |
05WELLINGTON894 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR BUDY, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Phaedra Budy, U.S. Geological Survey biologist, to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand, from December 12, 2005 to January, 5, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to collaborate on research on ecological assemblage and discuss the potential [...] | 2005-11-18 02:21:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KSCA OTRA TPHY NZ |
05WELLINGTON895 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MILLER AND [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Kirk Miller and Raymond Woodruff, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand and McMurdo Station, Antarctica, from December 4, 2005 to January 13, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to support the operations o [...] | 2005-11-18 02:21:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KSCA OTRA TPHY NZ |
05WELLINGTON896 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ELLENBERGER, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Jay Ellenberger, Susan Lewis and Jane Hopkins, members of a delegation from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),to travel to Wellington, New Zealand, from November 25 to December 5, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to make a pre [...] | 2005-11-18 02:21:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KSCA SENV OTRA TPHY NZ |
05WELLINGTON897 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR STOUFFER,SOLOMON [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Ronald Stouffer, Susan Solomon and David Fahey, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand, from December 8, 2005 to January 2, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Intergov [...] | 2005-11-18 02:25:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KSCA TPHY OTRA SENV NZ |
05WELLINGTON898 | PSI: NEW ZEALAND WILL ATTEND HAMBURG REGIONAL [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-18 02:42:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON899 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR BRUCE ROMANO [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Bruce Romano, associate chief, Office of Engineering and Technology, Federal Communications Commission, to travel to Rotorua, New Zealand, from November 19-25, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to attend and participate in the Spectrum [...] | 2005-11-20 23:16:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ECPS ETRD NZ |
05WELLINGTON900 | NEW ZEALAND RESPONSE ON DPRK FLAG OF CONVENIENCE [...] (S/REL NZ) Summary: The New Zealand government does not consider Maritime Mutual Insurance Association NZ (MMIA) to be an insurance company. Although MMIA is incorporated in New Zealand, the government says that it has advised the Japanese government that the company does not meet New Zealand [...] | 2005-11-21 03:16:00 | Embassy Wellington | SECRET | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL EWWT PHSA KN NZ |
05WELLINGTON902 | WHAT HONEYMOON? PM CLARK'S NEW COALITION SHOWS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Less than two months into her new Government, the local press has quoted PM Clark's coalition officials as contradicting each other over foreign policy, notably whether or not New Zealand needs to repair its relations with the United States. (Foreign Minister Peters says yes, Cl [...] | 2005-11-22 21:25:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON904 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR RONALD [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Ronald J. Stouffer, Susan Solomon and David W. Fahey of the Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand, from December 8-18, 2005. Country clearance also is granted to M [...] | 2005-11-23 04:27:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA KSCA SENV TPHY NZ |
05WELLINGTON905 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR PABLO CLEMENTE- [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Pablo Clemente-Colon, National Ice Center chief scientist, Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service, to travel to Christchurch and Dunedin, New [...] | 2005-11-24 18:56:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA KSCA TSPA NZ |
05WELLINGTON907 | CO-LEADER'S DEATH LIKELY TO STEER NZ'S GREEN PARTY [...] (C) New Zealand's Green Party is likely to move further left following the unexpected death of its relatively pragmatic co-leader Rod Donald. The Greens, who garnered about 5% of the party vote in September's general election, are in a confidence and supply agreement with the Labour coalition [...] | 2005-11-25 03:19:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON908 | NEW ZEALAND'S AVIAN AND PANDEMIC INFLUENZA [...] (C) Summary: Since launching a government-wide effort in June, the GNZ has vigorously planned for the possibility of avian and pandemic influenza entering New Zealand. Under the coordination of the Ministry of Health (MOH),the Inter-sectoral Pandemic Group (IPG) of thirteen ministries and de [...] | 2005-11-25 03:34:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | TBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON913 | NEW ZEALAND TERRORISM REPORTING OFFICER [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-28 22:47:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC EFIN KCRM NZ |
05WELLINGTON916 | R/V ROGER REVELLE MARINE RESEARCH CLEARANCE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-30 04:55:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KRVC TPHY EWWT CW NZ |
05WELLINGTON917 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR SYDNEY [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Sydney Levitus, Director, Ocean Climate Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from December 9-17 [...] | 2005-12-01 02:16:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA KSCA TSPA NZ |
05WELLINGTON918 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ISAAC M. HELD, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NOAA Official Isaac M. Held to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from December 8-16, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). 2. (U) Embassy understands that country clearance [...] | 2005-12-01 02:17:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TPHY KSCA SENV NZ |
05WELLINGTON92 | NEW ZEALAND SENDS "ONE-OFF" MILITARY LIAISON [...] (U) The GoNZ announced January 31 that it will station one military liaison officer in Baghdad to work in the UN Assistance Mission. The soldier's work will include liaising with the MNF and the interim Iraqi Government's security forces, and the one-year deployment will be served in two six- [...] | 2005-02-01 04:00:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS NZ |
05WELLINGTON922 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR BRIAN [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Brian Hutchins, International Postal Affairs Specialist, U.S. Postal Service to travel to Napier, New Zealand from January 29 - February 3, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to attend a meeting of a subgroup responsible for networks and [...] | 2005-12-02 03:00:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA AORC NZ USPS |
05WELLINGTON931 | EMBASSY WELLINGTON EAC MEETING NOVEMBER 2005 [...] (U) Embassy Wellington's Emergency Action Committee met November 28, 2005 to approve releasing a warden message on the Avian Bird Flu. 2. (U) Message summary: "The Department of State has decided to preposition Tamiflu at its Embassies and Consulates for eligible U.S. Government Employees a [...] | 2005-12-05 23:01:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC NZ |
05WELLINGTON932 | R/V KA'IMIMOANA MARINE RESEARCH CLEARANCE REQUEST, [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-06 02:29:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KRVC TPHY EWWT BP FM KR NR RM TL TV NZ |
05WELLINGTON943 | NEW ZEALAND'S POSITION ON TRIPS-CBD ISSUE [...] (U) New Zealand will support the U.S. government's position in Hong Kong to block any attempt to include a negotiating mandate on the relationship between the TRIPS Agreement and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in the ministerial declaration. 2. (U) Post delivered reftel talkin [...] | 2005-12-08 03:18:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON KIPR NZ WTO |
05WELLINGTON944 | NEW ZEALAND ON MDA VOTE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-08 04:05:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC PHUM PREF PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON945 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR PETERSON, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Thomas Peterson, David Easterling, and Thomas Karl, members of a delegation from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS),to travel to Christchur [...] | 2005-12-09 00:59:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KSCA TSPA OTRA NZ |
05WELLINGTON950 | 2005-2006 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY [...] Below is post's input on New Zealand for the money laundering section of the 2005-2006 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR). This input also will be sent via unclassified e-mail to Ed Rindler, INL/C/CP. 2. Begin submission: New Zealand is not a major regional or offsh [...] | 2005-12-12 01:41:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KCRM KTFN PTER SNAR NZ |
05WELLINGTON952 | SEYBOLD-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Cathy Seybold, Soil Scientist to visit Willington from December 30, 2005 to January 15, 2006, to collect data from maintenance on soil climate stations in New Zealand. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance is the only assistance required. 3. [...] | 2005-12-12 01:59:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
05WELLINGTON954 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR LISA T. [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service officials Lisa T. Ballance and Robert L. Pitman to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from on or about January 12 to on or about F [...] | 2005-12-12 04:17:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TPHY KSCA EFIS CW NZ |
05WELLINGTON955 | R/V NATHANIEL B. PALMER, FILE NO. 2004-044 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-12 04:20:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KRVC TPHY EWWT NZ |
05WELLINGTON957 | NEW ZEALAND: COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] The following is Embassy Wellington's submission for the 2005 Country Terrorism Report on New Zealand: New Zealand New Zealand has a strong capacity to develop and implement counter-terrorism policies, and further strengthened its role in the global war on terror in 2005 through domestic [...] | 2005-12-13 00:16:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC KCRM EFIN KHLS KPAO NZ |
05WELLINGTON96 | NEW ZEALAND PRIME MINISTER CLARK IN STATE OF THE [...] (C) Summary: In her opening speech of the year, PM Helen Clark launched the opening salvo of her election campaign. She indirectly countered Opposition leader Don Brash,s welfare policy speech (reftel) by outlining childcare and other policies she defined as the best way to encourage women to [...] | 2005-02-02 03:58:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON962 | NEW ZEALAND POC FOR MULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-14 04:00:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EAID ECON EINV PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON963 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ROBERT E. [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NASA Official Robert E. Spearing to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from January 9-18, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to review scientific research activities sponsored by the U.S. Antarctic Program. 2. (U) Embassy understand [...] | 2005-12-15 01:16:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TSPA NZ |
05WELLINGTON964 | R/V ROGER REVELLE MARINE RESEARCH CLEARANCE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-15 01:16:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KRVC TPHY EWWT CW NZ |
05WELLINGTON966 | R/V NATHANIEL B. PALMER, FILE NO. 2004-139 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-15 02:58:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KRVC TPHY EWWT NZ |
05WELLINGTON967 | NEW ZEALAND RESPONSE FOR SUPPORT OF PARTNERSHIPS [...] Poloff on December 6 provided reftel demarche points to Lesley Woudberg, Senior Advisor, Environment Division, NZ Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT). On December 13, Woudberg responded that GNZ is following the UN Environment Program (UNEP) 2005 decision on mercury closely and is i [...] | 2005-12-15 03:58:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EMIN UNEP NZ |
05WELLINGTON970 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NEWCOMB, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Department of Energy Officials Charles R. Newcomb, Dave A. Corbus, Peter F. McNutt (alternate traveler),and Christopher E. Pink (alternate traveler) to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from December 29, 2005 through January 15, 2006. [...] | 2005-12-16 00:19:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ENRG TRGY NZ |
05WELLINGTON977 | NEW ZEALAND RESPONSE TO UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE THANK [...] (SBU) Poloff on December 16 delivered reftel demarche points to Val Meyer, Deputy Director of the UN, Human Rights, and Commonwealth Division at the NZ Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. On December 19, Meyer responded that GNZ continues to support the U.S. position on all Third Committee [...] | 2005-12-19 03:37:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM UNGA UNHRC NZ |
05WELLINGTON983 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR LEAHY, JANUARY [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to U.S. Geological Survey Acting Director P. Patrick Leahy to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from January 9 - 19, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to receive briefings from the International Antarctic Center in Christchurch before t [...] | 2005-12-20 22:38:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TPHY KSCA SENV NZ |
05WELLINGTON984 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HAMEL, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Dr. Ernest Hamel, Biologist, National Cancer Institute, NIH, to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from February 13 - 26, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to serve as keynote speaker at a conference on Bioactives and Drug Development an [...] | 2005-12-20 23:18:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA KSCA TBIO NZ |
05WELLINGTON985 | NEW ZEALAND: INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2006 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-21 02:05:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB OPIC PGOV USTR NZ |
05WELLINGTON986 | CLOSURE OF EMBASSY WELLINGTON AND [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-21 03:48:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT |
05WELLINGTON987 | 2006 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT: NEW ZEALAND [...] Following is post's input for the 2006 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 [...] | 2005-12-21 04:22:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON EFIN NZ |
05WELLINGTON988 | STAUB-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Jack Staub, Horticulturist, UDA/ARS/MWA/Madison to visit Christchurch from January 18 to July 31, 2006 to visit Lincoln University to acquire education in area of bio-chemical genetics of carotenoids and aroma; assist with student research on aromatic volat [...] | 2005-12-21 21:10:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
05WELLINGTON991 | NEW ZEALAND SCRAPS PLANS FOR CARBON TAX [...] (U) The New Zealand government has scrapped its plan to levy a tax on the carbon content of petrol and diesel fuel, which it had hoped would help New Zealand meet its emission targets under the Kyoto Protocol. However, the government still will consider a carbon tax on fuel-burning power stat [...] | 2005-12-22 03:55:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG NZ |
05WELLINGTON992 | NEW ZEALAND ON ADDITIONAL FUNDING FOR POLIO [...] Post delivered ref A demarche points on December 20 to Vicki Poole, Global Group Program Manager at the New Zealand Agency for International Development (NZAID); Dr. Mark Jacobs, Director of Public Health in the Ministry of Health; and Rebecca Lineham, Americas Division of the New Zealand Mini [...] | 2005-12-22 22:31:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA TBIO NZ |
05WELLINGTON996 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR STAFFDEL [...] (SBU) Embassy warmly welcomes the delegation led by Mr. Mike Ringler, Professional Staff Member (PSM) House Appropriations Committee (HAC) to visit Christchurch, New Zealand from January 10 - 18, 2006. New Zealand country clearance is granted to the following delegation members: Mr. Mike Rin [...] | 2005-12-28 04:10:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN NZ |
05WELLINGTON997 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL MCCAIN, [...] (SBU) Embassy warmly welcomes the delegation led by Senator John McCain to Christchurch, New Zealand from January 4 - 11, 2006. New Zealand country clearance is granted to the following delegation members as listed in ref A: Senator John McCain, Senator Joe Lieberman, Senator Susan Collins, [...] | 2005-12-28 04:43:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN AS NZ |
05YEREVAN1007 | ARMENIA'S STEADY GROWTH, STABLE ECONOMY CONTINUES [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Armenia's steady economic performance continues during 2005. First quarter data supports the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) forecast of 8 percent GDP growth in 2005, and th [...] | 2005-06-08 10:52:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID AM |
05YEREVAN1018 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: MDA AND CONFERENCE ON THIRD [...] (C) Post delivered demarche talking points regarding the Israeli National Society (MDA) and International Committee of the Red Cross/Red Crescent movement to MFA International Organizations Department Chief Valery Mkrtumyan June 9 per reftel instructions. Mrkrtumyan said the GOAM did not have [...] | 2005-06-10 02:23:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC PHUM PREL IS SZ AM ICRC |
05YEREVAN1020 | SENATOR HAGEL'S VISIT TO YEREVAN [...] (SBU) In a brief stop as part of a larger trip to the region, Senator Chuck Hagel, along with EUCOM Deputy Commander Charles Wald and other DOD personnel, visited Yerevan June 2-3. During his visit the Senator discussed regional stability, military cooperation as well as progress on economic [...] | 2005-06-10 03:29:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM AM AJ GG RU |
05YEREVAN1028 | VENICE COMMISSION'S HARSH WORDS ON CONSTITUTION [...] (C) Venice Commission Secretary Gianni Buquicchio ended his early June visit to Armenia with the strongest calls to date for deeper reforms in the constitutional amendments package currently being discussed by the National Assembly. Buquicchio reiterated a May 27 release from the Council of Eu [...] | 2005-06-13 13:26:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AM |
05YEREVAN1036 | ARMENIAN OMBUDSMAN UNDER FIRE [...] (C) On May 26, Armenian National Security Service (NSS) investigators arrested Serob Antinyan, an assistant to the Armenian Ombudsman Larissa Alaverdyan. Antinyan later confessed to accepting a bribe. Alaverdyan privately acknowledges Antinyan's guilt but claims the heavy-handed investigatio [...] | 2005-06-15 08:56:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN1039 | ARMENIA'S ENERGY FUTURE: STAYING NUCLEAR? [...] (C) In preparation for a June 22, 2005 donor conference on the Armenia Nuclear Power Plant (ANPP) decommissioning and replacement alternatives, Ministry of Energy officials outlined for us Armenia's long-term energy strategy. They made three main points: -- There is no economic alternative [...] | 2005-06-15 13:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EAID AM IR RU |
05YEREVAN1044 | REMITTANCES DRIVE UP ARMENIAN CURRENCY, HAMPER [...] (SBU) A recent upward trend in remittances and capital inflows into Armenia has led to significant real appreciation of the national currency, the Armenian dram, since July 2003. These cash inflows enable Armenians to finance higher consumption and investment, but the nominal appreciation of [...] | 2005-06-16 08:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID AM |
05YEREVAN1053 | NAGORNO KARABAKH'S UPCOMING "PARLIAMENTARY [...] (SBU) On June 19 Nagorno Karabakh (N-K) will hold its fourth "parliamentary elections." Eight parties (two of which united in a bloc) and independent candidates will contest the 22 majoritarian and 11 party list seats of the "parliament." The parties with the most active election campaigns a [...] | 2005-06-16 12:46:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
05YEREVAN1054 | DASHNAKS MANEUVERING FOR POSITION [...] (C) The Armenian Revolutionary Faction (ARF) Dashnak party, as one of the central members of Armenia's governing coalition and allied with Minister of Defense Sargsian and President Kocharian, has been flexing its not inconsiderable muscle on the political landscape and pushing its message and [...] | 2005-06-16 12:46:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN1055 | IRANIAN-ARMENIAN CROSS BORDER TRADE AND ECONOMIC [...] (C) In a lead up to the Iranian presidential elections, the government of Iran (GOI) has made some efforts to increase trade with Armenia. This included hosting 60 owners of small- to medium-sized Armenian businesses for a conference in Tabriz, agreeing to open an Armenian consulate in Tabriz [...] | 2005-06-16 12:47:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EPET AM IR RU |
05YEREVAN1058 | RUSSIAN ARMS TRANSFER FROM GEORGIA TO ARMENIA [...] (C) Armenian officials have confirmed news reports that the transfer of materiel from Russian military bases in Georgia to a Russian military base in Armenia is already underway. According to Russian DCM Igor Gromyko, the transfer will not violate the conditions of the Conventional Forces in [...] | 2005-06-17 02:12:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PGOV PREL PBTS AM GG RU |
05YEREVAN1066 | CIVIC ACTION MAY RE-ROUTE CONTROVERSIAL TRANS- [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Treat Accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The Ministry of Transport and Communication announced plans earlier this spring to construct a highway that some NGOs claim would destroy one of the last remaining forest reserves in Armenia. An organ [...] | 2005-06-17 13:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SENV AM |
05YEREVAN1067 | ARMENIA WILL CONVEY MESSAGE ON BIOETHICS [...] (SBU) We delivered demarche and talking points to MFA Chief of International Organizations Department Valery Mkrtumyan and MFA Americas Department Chief Lilit Toutkhalian June 15 per reftel instructions. While our MFA contacts were generally receptive to USG positions and promised to raise our [...] | 2005-06-17 13:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO AM UNESCO KSCI |
05YEREVAN1074 | U.S. INVESTORS WIN IMPORTANT VICTORY AGAINST GOAM [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) On June 16, Armenia's court of appeals ruled in favor of a group of American investors who have been trying, for over two years, to collect USD 2 million in taxes that they had overpaid to the [...] | 2005-06-20 12:41:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID ETRD AM |
05YEREVAN108 | SIX CASES OF TRAFFICKING PROSECUTED AS [...] (SBU) The Prosecutor General's (PG) Office provided detailed information on six criminal cases prosecuted in 2004 under Article 262 of the Armenian Criminal Code on the Organization of Prostitution (i.e., pimping). The defendants of all the cases were either recruiters, mediators, or pimps who [...] | 2005-01-21 12:38:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCRM AM KTIP |
05YEREVAN1083 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH ARMENIAN OMBUDSMAN [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-21 12:33:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN1084 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: REFORMING THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Post delivered reftel talking points to MFA International Organizations Department Chief Valery Mkrtumyan on June 21. Mkrtumyan said that the GOAM supports the idea of a standing, solutions-oriented council. He warned, however, that most of our points would require additional "deliberati [...] | 2005-06-21 12:33:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KUNR AM |
05YEREVAN109 | RUMORS TOUT ABRAHAMIAN TO LEAD NEW "SUPER- [...] (SBU) Galust Sahakian, Head of the National Assembly Republican Faction and close ally of Minister of Territorial Administration Hovik Abrahamian, revealed January 19 that Abrahamian will likely take over a new "super-ministry" taking shape within the GOAM. This new appointment would make Abr [...] | 2005-01-21 12:40:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
05YEREVAN1091 | ARMENIA: MEDIA REACTION TO DVC WITH AMBASSADOR [...] SUMMARY: On June 17, 2005 U.S. Embassy Yerevan held a digital video conference (DVC) on the 2005 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report with Ambassador John Miller, director of the State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. Media coverage of the conference was widespr [...] | 2005-06-23 02:07:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC KPAO AM KTIP |
05YEREVAN1095 | ARMENIA CHOOSING BETWEEN IRANIAN AND RUSSIAN ROLE [...] (C) As work begins on the first 42 km segment of the Iran-Armenia gas pipeline, Armenia is engaged in shuttle negotiations with both the Russian and Iranian governments about financing and, ultimately, control of the onward portions of the gas pipeline through Armenian territory. Deputy Minist [...] | 2005-06-23 12:27:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET AM IR RU |
05YEREVAN1096 | GOAM WON'T COMMIT TO SHUTDOWN DATE FOR NUCLEAR [...] (C) During a June 22 conference on Armenia Nuclear Power Plant (ANPP) Decommissioning, delegates from the European Commission reiterated their call for Armenia to close its nuclear power plant "reasonably early" due to safety concerns, and renewed an offer of 100 million euro in assistance to [...] | 2005-06-23 12:27:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EAID AM |
05YEREVAN1097 | YEREVAN DASHNAKS DOWNPLAY DISAPPOINTMENT IN N-K [...] (C) Local representatives of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF - "Dashnaksutyun") have been downplaying the results of the June 19 balloting in Nagorno-Karabakh in which their ARF/Movement 88 alliance (who many predicted would fare best in the election - reftel) won only three seats in [...] | 2005-06-23 12:28:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN110 | J-1 SUMMER WORK AND TRAVEL CALLBACK [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified; please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Action request. Please see paragraph 10. ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (SBU) Post's Fraud Prevention Unit (FPU) performed a callback survey of all summer 2004 J-1 work and travel program participan [...] | 2005-01-21 12:42:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFRD CMGT CVIS AM |
05YEREVAN1105 | ENGAGING ARMENIA IN ADVANCE OF THE IRAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-24 12:34:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL PGOV IZ AM |
05YEREVAN111 | NEW REGIONAL ANTI-TIP NGO NETWORK [...] The United Nations Development Program (UNDP),which implements a project on combating Trafficking in Persons (TIP) in partnership with the GOAM, has launched a local and regional (Caucasus) NGO network on fighting organized crime, particularly TIP and illegal migration. Members of the netwo [...] | 2005-01-21 13:35:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KWMN SMIG KCRM AM KTIP |
05YEREVAN1142 | GOAM ENDORSEMENT OF COE RECOMMENDATIONS MAY TEMPT [...] (C) Armenia's delegation to the Council of Europe (CoE) announced June 24 that it would accept almost all CoE Venice Commission recommendations as part of the country's constitutional reform process. High-level endorsement of the move is the most encouraging sign to date that the GOAM is taki [...] | 2005-06-29 12:18:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN1169 | ARMENIAN IMPORTER SPELLS OUT THE CASE AGAINST [...] (SBU) In a rare kiss-and-tell affront to Armenia's powerful Customs Service, a major Armenian coffee importer has gone to press and publicly described corruption in the service, alleging that Customs is trying to push them out of business because they refuse to continue paying bribes to govern [...] | 2005-07-01 11:45:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EAID AM |
05YEREVAN1180 | GOAM CONFIRMS NEW ROUTE FOR IRAN-ARMENIA ROAD [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Treat Accordingly. 2. (SBU) Following the public outcry by local and international organizations (reftel),the GOAM confirmed June 30 that President Robert Kocharian has approved the alternative route for a new road which will connect Armenia's southernmost [...] | 2005-07-06 08:19:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SENV AM |
05YEREVAN1203 | UN REFORM: PROMOTING OUR PRIORITIES - [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Treat Accordingly. 2. (SBU) We delivered demarche and talking points regarding USG reform priorities at the United Nations on June 21 to MFA International Organizations Department Chief Valery Mkrtumyan per reftel instructions. We followed up with Mkrtumyan [...] | 2005-07-07 05:05:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KUNR PREL PGOV AORC AM UNSC |
05YEREVAN1229 | COMPETITION COMES TO ARMENIA'S TELECOM SECTOR [...] (SBU) In the culmination of Armenia's years-long struggle to end Armentel's monopoly on telecommunications in Armenia, a second mobile telephone operator entered the market on July 1. Backed by Karabakh Telecom, the monopoly operator in Nagorno-Karabakh, VivaCell immediately undercut Armentel's [...] | 2005-07-12 02:47:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | BTIO ECON EINV AM |
05YEREVAN1234 | RUSSIAN ENERGY GIANT RAO-UES BUYS ARMENIAN [...] (C) Russian energy giant RAO-UES has reportedly taken over Armenia's electricity distribution company, Electricity Networks of Armenia (ElNetArm),without formally seeking approval, as required by law, from Armenia's Public Services Regulatory Commission (PSRC) or Ministry of Energy. Despite [...] | 2005-07-12 11:45:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON AM GG RU |
05YEREVAN1254 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: COMPREHENSIVE CONVENTION ON [...] No summary [...] | 2005-07-14 12:32:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER AM UNGA |
05YEREVAN1261 | MONITORING BOARD CALLS ARMENIAN PRISON CONDITIONS [...] (SBU) Conditions in Armenian prisons remain "unsatisfactory" despite some improvements, according to a report by Armenia's Civil Society Monitoring Board (CSMB). On June 30, CSMB members hosted a roundtable discussion where they announced the results of inspections they conducted from June thr [...] | 2005-07-15 06:25:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN1263 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: GOAM FAVORS UNSC EXPANSION [...] (SBU) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche points regarding UNSC expansion to GOAM Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian on July 13. Oskanian confirmed initial reports that the GOAM has already committed to support the G-4 resolution but would also support efforts to delay an early vote. Accordin [...] | 2005-07-15 09:10:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AM UNSC |
05YEREVAN1264 | ARMENIAN OMBUDSMAN REPORTS HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS [...] (SBU) On July 7, Armenian Ombudsman Larisa Alaverdyan unveiled the GOAM's first Human Rights website and released a statistical report on human rights complaints against the GOAM. The event coincided with fresh allegations that the Armenian National Security Service (NSS) continues to harass [...] | 2005-07-15 09:10:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN127 | (IMI) ARMENIA, COMMERCIAL NEWS SUMMARY: [...] This cable summarizes press reporting on commercial developments in Armenia for January 2005. Major headlines include: -- EBRD invests in private Armenian construction company; -- French company takes over Armenia's water supply system under the World Bank credit program; -- Kazakh b [...] | 2005-01-26 09:28:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM |
05YEREVAN1277 | ARMENIA FIRMLY SUPPORTS G-4 FRAMEWORK RESOLUTION [...] (C) CDA delivered ref a points on July 18 to Deputy Foreign Minister Armen Baiburtian. Baiburtian acknowledged the strength of the arguments presented, but said that Armenia's position to support the G-4 proposal (as reported in ref b) was firm. Armenia shared the U.S. view that reform shoul [...] | 2005-07-18 11:58:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AM UNGA |
05YEREVAN1282 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: NAJARIAN INVESTMENT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Per reftel we delivered points to Deputy Minister of Trade and Economic Development Tigran Davtyan, who is responsible for monitoring Armenia's international obligations under Bilateral Investment Treaties. Davtyan told [...] | 2005-07-18 12:38:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV KIDE AM |
05YEREVAN1290 | ARMENIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS: ON THE RIGHT [...] (C) On July 7, the GOAM submitted a revised package of constitutional amendments to the Council of Europe (CoE) Venice Commission. Though the proposed GOAM revisions appear to track Venice Commission recommendations, they are unlikely to build public consensus. Opposition groups, still trying [...] | 2005-07-19 12:53:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN1298 | ARMENIA DRAGS ITS FEET ON PROLIFERATION SECURITY [...] No summary [...] | 2005-07-20 10:58:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC PARM PGOV PHSA PREL KNNP AM |
05YEREVAN1307 | GOAM VETS NEW COPYRIGHT LAW [...] (SBU) The Head of Armenia's Intellectual Property Agency, Armen Azizyan, has presented a proposed new copyright law to give the public and the international community a chance to comment before he submits the law to the National Assembly during the 2005 fall session. Azizyan noted (correctl [...] | 2005-07-21 11:47:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON KIPR AM |
05YEREVAN131 | CESIUM 137 CONFISCATED ON THE TURKISH BORDER [...] (C) At a January 23 meeting, Ashot Martirosyan, head of the Armenian Nuclear Regulatory Agency (ANRA) told us that on 16 December, a source of Cesium 137 was seized by Turkish Authorities at the Turkish-Georgian border. Martirosyan stated that he received a fax from the Turkish Atomic Energy [...] | 2005-01-26 11:51:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR MNUC PARM KCRM PTER ASEC AM KPRP |
05YEREVAN1320 | COURT SUSPENDS SENTENCE, TRAFFICKER WALKS [...] (SBU) A court in Yerevan sentenced Lusine Hakobyan, the Armenian organizer of a Yerevan-Dubai prostitution/trafficking network, to two years imprisonment. The judge, however, suspended the sentence and Hakobyan will instead serve one year of supervised probation. Armenian Association of Inves [...] | 2005-07-22 06:17:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PGOV PREL AM KTIP |
05YEREVAN1322 | LETTER OF REQUEST (LOR) FOR PEACEKEEPING UNIT [...] On July 18, the Armenian MoD delivered a letter of request for equipment to be funded by FMF. This request, which is for deployable medical support equipment, has the support of the country team. It is part of Armenia's overall effort to establish a deployable peacekeeping brigade, in suppo [...] | 2005-07-22 12:43:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | MCAP AM |
05YEREVAN133 | LEADER OF ARYAN UNION PARTY ARRESTED FOR [...] (SBU) On January 24 Armenian authorities arrested Armen Avetisyan on charges of "inciting national, racial or religious hatred publicly and through mass media means" in what authorities called a "preemptive" measure. Avetisyan is the leader of the small, marginal extremist Armenian Aryan Unio [...] | 2005-01-26 13:12:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KCRM AM |
05YEREVAN1342 | (IMI) ARMENIA, COMMERCIAL NEWS SUMMARY: [...] This cable summarizes press reporting on commercial developments in Armenia for July 2005. Major headlines include: -- World Bank to provide USD 20 million agricultural loan to the Armenian government; -- World Bank supports an Urban Heating Project for Armenia; -- The Lincy Foundati [...] | 2005-07-26 12:31:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM |
05YEREVAN1352 | ARMENIA: A STEP FORWARD ON CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM: [...] (C) On July 21, the Council of Europe's Venice Commission issued a generally positive assessment of the GOAM's revised draft constitutional amendments. While this brings Armenia an important step closer to a November referendum, much remains to be done. The Venice Commission hailed proposals [...] | 2005-07-28 13:07:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN1353 | TIME FOR PRAGMATISM: ARMENIA PLANS TO KEEP [...] (C) Despite U.S. and European pressure on Armenia to close the Armenia Nuclear Power Plant (ANPP),the Government of Armenia does not believe it has an alternative to continuing the plant's operation until 2016 and beyond (reftels). Armenia also believes that, thanks to the assistance of forei [...] | 2005-07-29 02:52:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EAID AM |
05YEREVAN136 | NEW "PRO-WESTERN" OPPOSITION BLOC A POTENTIAL [...] (SBU) Armenian political elites continue to speculate on the implications of the recently announced union of opposition figures Aram Sargsyan, Raffi Hovannisian, and Hovhannes Hovhannisian. The new alliance, painting itself as "the most western-leaning" in Armenia, has stated that its princip [...] | 2005-01-26 13:18:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AM |
05YEREVAN1387 | ARMENIA: ANTI-TIP ACTION PLAN PRESENTED [...] (SBU) On August 1, CDA delivered reftel points to Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakossian, underscoring the USG's judgment that Armenia has not shown increasing efforts to combat trafficking. We presented the proposed action plan, urging concrete steps forward, noting that the Department of [...] | 2005-08-03 06:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL AM KTIP |
05YEREVAN139 | ARMENIA'S 2005 BUDGET: MORE BUTTER, STILL PLENTY [...] (C) The GOAM has billed the 2005 budget as having a social focus. Both tax receipts and social spending are set to rise ambitiously in line with the GOAM's Poverty Reduction Strategy. After much debate, official defense spending is set to rise too, although spending on education will exceed [...] | 2005-01-27 11:33:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID EFIN AM |
05YEREVAN1394 | PUSHING THE WRONG BUTTONS, OR HOW NOT TO [...] (SBU) Opposition leader Aram Sargsian and his Republic Party have been among the most vocal opponents of the current government in Armenia and have recently announced an August revolution in the press, along with claims that the USG will support Sargsian's presidential and revolutionary ambiti [...] | 2005-08-03 12:30:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN1407 | ARMENIA: GOOD PROGRESS ON DEFENSE ASSESSMENT [...] (C) Although it took nearly two years to get Armenia to agree to a defense assessment, now that it has begun, good progress is being made. The second visit of U.S. experts took place July 26-28. After consultations with Armenia's general staff, the current draft accurately describes Armenia' [...] | 2005-08-04 13:20:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PGOV PREL MARR AM |
05YEREVAN142 | MCA COMPACT PROPOSAL NEARS COMPLETION - [...] (SBU) During a January 25 meeting with Embassy and USAID representatives, GOAM Deputy Minister of Finance and Economy Tigran Khachatryan said that the GOAM's consultants were nearing completion on the MCA compact proposal and expected to present a copy to the GOAM MCA Board by February 10. Af [...] | 2005-01-27 13:35:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KMCA PGOV PREL AM |
05YEREVAN1420 | "CENSORSHIP" AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER [...] (SBU) In a short editorial comment on August 3 titled "Either Together, or Not on the Air," opposition newspaper Aravot alleged that the Kocharian Administration "ordered" Armenian television companies to provide air time to Ombudsman Larisa Alaverdyan only if she appeared in programs with "Au [...] | 2005-08-05 12:17:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN1452 | IPR POLICE UNIT (FINALLY) PUT IN ACTION [...] (SBU) In its first major action since its creation in January 2005, Armenia's IPR police unit July 20 cracked down on three companies which together control roughly 70 percent of the pirated CDs, DVDs and tapes market. The police confiscated more than 50,000 illegal CDs, tapes and videotape [...] | 2005-08-12 10:09:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN KIPR AM |
05YEREVAN1453 | ARMENIA TAX REVENUES CONTINUE TO RISE [...] (SBU) One of the GOAM's main stated goals remains to increase tax revenues in order to support social spending while making the business environment fairer and more inviting. During the first half of 2005, tax revenues grew by 21.1 percent compared to the same period of previous year and comp [...] | 2005-08-12 10:12:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID AM |
05YEREVAN1479 | TURKISH SCHOLAR: GUILTY BUT FREE TO GO [...] (C) On August 16, a local-level Yerevan court convicted Yektan Turkyilmaz, a Turkish citizen and Duke University doctoral candidate arrested June 17 at Yerevan's Zvartnots Airport, for attempting to smuggle eighty-eight "historically and culturally important" books and manuscripts out of Armen [...] | 2005-08-16 13:33:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV AM TU |
05YEREVAN149 | PUBLIC BANTER ON KARS AGREEMENT PUTS OSKANIAN ON [...] (C) An exchange in the press between Armenian Foreign Minister Oskanian and Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan has captured what we believe is the most public acknowledgment by the GOAM's MFA (under the administration of President Robert Kocharian) of the validity Soviet-era border agreements. Res [...] | 2005-01-31 11:31:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU AM |
05YEREVAN1492 | LINES OF CONTACT--NEW GOAM TEAM TACKLING TURKEY [...] (C) Beyond the attention-grabbing meetings between GOAM Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakossian and Turkish MFA Deputy Undersecretary Ahmet Uzumcu (septel),the Armenians point to a series of government-to-government channels that provide opportunities for exchange with their estranged neigh [...] | 2005-08-17 12:28:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU AM |
05YEREVAN1494 | LATEST MEETING WITH TURKISH COUNTERPART [...] (C) On August 16, Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakossian told the Ambassador that his recent meeting in Vienna with Turkish Deputy Undersecretary Ahmet Uzumcu was less productive than the GOAM had hoped. According to Kirakossian, the two sides still cannot agree on the structure or scope o [...] | 2005-08-18 12:22:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU AM |
05YEREVAN1529 | ARMENIAN MFA PROPOSES A2 VISA FOR NKR REP [...] SUMMARY: The issue of travel documents and visas for representatives of the "Nagorno Karabakh Republic" (NKR) to travel to the United States remains controversial. While it has been USG policy that it is useful for the NKR to have a voice in Washington, any recognition of the independence of [...] | 2005-08-24 09:59:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS PREL AM |
05YEREVAN1531 | RAILROAD ISOLATION AN URGENT GOAM CONCERN [...] (C) Top Armenian government officials continue to voice their deep concern about plans to build a railroad which would further isolate Armenia and exclude it from the process of regional economic integration. This concern has been echoed by the Armenian-American community and has found reson [...] | 2005-08-24 12:47:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ETRD TU GA AM AJ |
05YEREVAN154 | UPDATE ON CESIUM 137 CONFISCATED ON THE TURKISH [...] (C) On January 31, we met with Armen Israelian, head of the MFA's Department for Arms Control and International Security to follow up on the reported (ref) seizure on the Georgia-Turkey border of cesium-137 reportedly originating in Armenia. Israelian said that the Armenian National Security [...] | 2005-01-31 13:10:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR MNUC PARM KCRM PTER ASEC TU AM |
05YEREVAN1550 | ARMENIA: EXPLOITIVE CHILD LABOR REMAINS RARE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) In March 2005, the Armenian National Assembly adopted and President Robert Kocharian signed legislation that established the State Labor Inspectorate, a new government agency responsible for [...] | 2005-08-25 12:28:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI AM USAID GTIP ILO |
05YEREVAN1562 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: GOAM ADDRESSING THE THREAT OF [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) On August 23, Ambassador delivered reftel points to Haik Melik Darbinyan, First Deputy Minister of Health, Prof. Vladimir Davidiants, Chief of Public Health and Sanitation, and Liana Torosyan, Ministry of Health Coordinat [...] | 2005-08-26 12:33:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO ECON PREL SOCI GA AM KSTH WHO RU AZ |
05YEREVAN1566 | ARMENIA: PARLIAMENTARY SESSION ON CONSTITUTION [...] (C) On August 29, the Armenian National Assembly opened a highly-anticipated extraordinary session to debate the GOAM's proposed package of constitutional amendments (reftels). The debate lacked the substantive discussion we (and European observers) hoped would prevail. At times, the discussi [...] | 2005-08-29 13:14:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN1573 | ARMENIAN SPEAKER OF PARLIAMENT VISITING WASHINGTON [...] (SBU) Artur Baghdasarian, the young, energetic and charismatic Speaker of the Armenian National Assembly, is flying to Washington today for a ten-day visit including a seven-day Voluntary Visitor program that has been a joint effort by the Office of International Visitors, Embassy Yerevan, the [...] | 2005-08-30 11:08:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AM |
05YEREVAN1576 | KOCHARIAN-SAAKASHVILI "UNOFFICIAL MEETINGS" [...] (SBU) On August 21, Armenian President Robert Kocharian hosted Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili at his summer residence on Lake Sevan for what Armenian press characterized as an "informal" visit. Armenian Defense Minister Serzh Sarkisian and his Georgian counterpart Irakly Okruashvili a [...] | 2005-08-30 12:35:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON GG AM RU |
05YEREVAN1589 | ARMENIA WILL NOT PARTICIPATE TO THE CODEX AD [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-01 08:21:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO EAGR AM |
05YEREVAN1593 | ARMENIA: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PASSES CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (C) The Armenian National Assembly passed the proposed package of constitutional amendments on September 1, triggering a series of procedural steps that include a final, pro forma vote tentatively scheduled for mid- to late-September, and a referendum in November. Opposition leaders suspended [...] | 2005-09-01 12:27:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN1596 | TFUS01: ARMENIAN OFFER OF ASSISTANCE [...] (U) The Republic of Armenia has offered to send as many as thirty trained rescue workers to the U.S. at its own expense to assist in search and rescue operations in New Orleans. End Summary. 2. (SBU) President Kocharian's Chief of Staff called Ambassador the afternoon of September 2 to make [...] | 2005-09-02 12:18:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON AEMR ASEC AMGT AM |
05YEREVAN1604 | TFUS01: ARMENIAN OFFER OF MONETARY AND OTHER [...] (SBU) In a telephone conversation with Ambassador Evans this morning, Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakossian, on behalf of the Armenian Government, offered USD 100,000 in cash to support Hurricane Katrina disaster relief efforts. This follows the September 2 offer of as many as thirty trai [...] | 2005-09-06 12:12:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AEMR AMGT ASEC ECON PREL AM |
05YEREVAN1625 | HOLD THE PRESSES: TURKISH SCHOLAR RETURNS TO U.S. [...] (C) Yektan Turkyilmaz, the Turkish citizen and Duke University doctoral student arrested for attempting to smuggle controlled books and manuscripts out of Armenia (reftel),departed Yerevan for his home in Durham, North Carolina on September 2. Despite claims in court to the contrary, Turkyil [...] | 2005-09-08 10:44:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV TU GG AM |
05YEREVAN1627 | CENTRAL BANK CLARIFIES NEW CURRENCY LAW, INVESTORS [...] (SBU) On July 26, the Central Bank of Armenia (CBA) published clarifications of the new currency law (reftel). The clarifications state that the law is not retroactive and detail certain exceptions to the law's requirement that prices be quoted in Armenian drams. Edith Khachatourian, local at [...] | 2005-09-08 11:46:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EFIN EAID KTDB AM |
05YEREVAN1628 | FORMER NKR REP NOW APPLYING FOR A2 VISA AS [...] Post has received two diplomatic notes from the Government of Armenia in as many days requesting that two-year validity A2 visas be issued to former "Nagorno Karabakh Republic"(NKR) Representative Vardan Barseghyan and his wife. In the second note Barseghyan is described as an Armenian MFA em [...] | 2005-09-08 11:47:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS PREL AM |
05YEREVAN1641 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ARMENIA LIKELY TO JOIN THE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-09 11:51:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EAID KSCA PREL SOCI TBIO AM UNGA |
05YEREVAN1644 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN SUMMIT OUTCOME DOCUMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-09 13:28:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM UNGA |
05YEREVAN1657 | SEVEN OPPOSITION MPS END THEIR BOYCOTT OF [...] (C) The seven MPs of the opposition National Unity Party officially ended their 19-month boycott of parliament on September 12. Their return comes as the National Assembly continues discussion of a draft constitutional amendments package (ref) and local media and observers devote more attenti [...] | 2005-09-12 12:41:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AM |
05YEREVAN1665 | A2 VISA REQUEST AND ACCOMPANYING DIP NOTE [...] (SBU) The Government of the Republic of Armenia is withdrawing any and all requests for an A2 visa for Vardan Barseghyan, representative of the "Nagorno Karabakh Republic." Instead Barseghyan and his wife will apply in person for B1/B2 visas on Monday September 19. 2. (SBU) In withdrawing [...] | 2005-09-13 10:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS PREL AM |
05YEREVAN1678 | ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTERY STATEMENT SUPPORTS IRAQI [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-15 04:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL IZ AM |
05YEREVAN168 | YEREVAN UNABLE TO RECOMMEND AN OSCE EXTRA- [...] (SBU) The OSCE's program of criminal justice reform in Armenia has had several positive effects, including support and training for a fledgling prison monitoring board and minor improvement of living conditions at several prisons. Post cannot recommend additional funding for the project at th [...] | 2005-02-01 10:13:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ABUD AFIN KCRM KJUS PHUM AM OSCE |
05YEREVAN1686 | AMBASSADOR PRESSES KOCHARIAN TO SUPPORT USG [...] (S) On 15 September, the Ambassador met with President Kocharian for just over an hour, at our request, primarily to discuss the USG's upcoming push for free and fair elections in Armenia in 2007 (parliamentary) and 2008 (presidential). The Ambassador opened the meeting by thanking Kocharian f [...] | 2005-09-16 09:31:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET | PGOV PREL EAID PHUM AM |
05YEREVAN1690 | RADICAL OPPOSITION PARTY SPLITS OVER [...] (SBU) On August 30 Armenia's radical opposition Republic party split, ending a year of increasingly vocal disagreements between pro-Western party leader Aram Z. Sargsian and pro-Russian Albert Bazeyan (former party chairman and former Yerevan mayor). Despite the split (both Sargsian and Bazey [...] | 2005-09-19 11:55:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
05YEREVAN1692 | MORE THAN 750,000 VOTES NEEDED TO PASS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. -------------------------------------- NOVEMBER 20 LIKELY DATE FOR REFERENDUM -------------------------------------- 2. (SBU) President Robert Kocharian and the members of the ruling Coalition parties have preliminarily set No [...] | 2005-09-19 11:56:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
05YEREVAN1703 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: GOAM SUPPORTS UNESCO CULTURAL [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-20 08:29:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | SCUL ETRD AM UNESCO |
05YEREVAN1705 | MACROECONOMIC NEWS: ARMENIA'S DOUBLE-DIGIT GROWTH [...] (SBU) Based on raw data provided by the National Statistical Service, Armenia's economy grew by 10.2 percent in the first six months of 2005 (compared to the same period in 2004). The inflation rate during the same period was 2.3 percent. Budget revenues and expenditures increased by 25.4 an [...] | 2005-09-20 09:18:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID AM |
05YEREVAN1707 | PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER TUMANYAN TO FORM A [...] (SBU) As local politicians begin to gear up for the 2007-2008 elections in Armenia, the rumor that President Robert Kocharian's Chief of Staff, Artashes Tumanyan, may enter national politics with his own party, is still big news. Tumanyan has been in politics since 1990 and has been promoted [...] | 2005-09-20 13:16:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
05YEREVAN1711 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: RESPONDING TO ENERGY SUPPLY [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-22 12:06:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG AM |
05YEREVAN1717 | DETAILS OF SHOOTING INCIDENT ON LINE OF CONTACT [...] (C) The September 20 shooting incident on the line of contact seemed clearly directed to disrupt N-K negotiations and will certainly be raised at the OSCE Permanent Council. While there is no way to determine which side fired, the round -- which impacted about 20 meters from an international [...] | 2005-09-23 11:35:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MASS AJ AM OSCE |
05YEREVAN1722 | ARMENIA: NOT MUCH EXTREMISM HERE [...] (S) With 98 percent of the population ethnically Armenian and at least nominally Christian, extremism, and particularly Islamic extremism, is not perceived to be a serious problem in Armenia. The vast majority of Armenians belong to the Apostolic Church, an Eastern Christian denomination which [...] | 2005-09-26 12:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET | PREL KDEM KPAO EAID PHUM KMPI AM |
05YEREVAN1725 | GOAM FORMALLY ACCEPTS SALE OF NATIONAL ELECTRICAL [...] (C) On September 23, Armenian Minister of Energy Armen Movsisian announced that the GOAM has consented to the formal sale of the national power grid Electricity Networks of Armenia (ENA) to Interenergo B.V., a subsidiary of Russian energy giant RAO-UES. According to news reports, the GOAM con [...] | 2005-09-26 12:51:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON GG AM RU |
05YEREVAN1729 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: 11TH ANNUAL CENTRAL AND [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-27 11:55:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP BMGT EAIR AM |
05YEREVAN173 | ARMENIA CONFIRMS RELEASE OF POWS BY AZERBAIJAN [...] No summary [...] | 2005-02-01 12:52:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS AM AJ OSCE |
05YEREVAN1730 | ARMENIA JOINS INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP ON AVIAN [...] (U) On September 27, CDA Godfrey met with Armenian Minister of Health Norayr Davidian to discuss the International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza, invite Armenia to participate in the Senior Officials Meeting and pass reftel A points. Prof. Vladimir Davidyants, the GOAM point of [...] | 2005-09-27 12:09:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA EAGR ECON PREL SOCI AM WHO |
05YEREVAN1731 | ARMENIA: LOCAL ELECTIONS SERIOUSLY FLAWED [...] (C) Local election monitors, news media, and our own employees are among the growing chorus of critics of "widespread violations" in local Armenian elections, currently being held across the country on a rolling schedule from September 18 through October 23. Local elections have spurred accus [...] | 2005-09-27 13:23:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL AM |
05YEREVAN1747 | STRONG INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATION AT ARMENIAN [...] (U) More than 180 businesses participated in the 5th annual Armenian Expo in Yerevan on September 14-17. The conference organizer, LOGOS EXPO, designed the event to identify new markets for Armenian products, encourage foreign investment in Armenia, demonstrate the strength of the Armenian ec [...] | 2005-09-29 11:07:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN KTDB BBSR BEXP AM |
05YEREVAN1748 | TIP: UZBEK TRAFFICKING CONVICTION LEAVES CONCERNS [...] (C) On September 22, a local-level court in Yerevan sentenced Uzbek citizen Natella Saghatelyan to five years imprisonment for trafficking and forgery. The Armenian National Security Service (NSS) arrested Saghatelyan in March 2005 for trafficking Uzbek women, and a minor girl, through Armeni [...] | 2005-09-29 12:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV AM KTIP |
05YEREVAN1749 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PASSES CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS [...] (C) On September 28, the Armenian National Assembly passed in third and final reading a package of revised constitutional reforms that will be put to national referendum in November (reftels). Despite the legal requirement that only technical changes are permitted between the second and third [...] | 2005-09-29 12:17:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN1758 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNFC RESOLUTION ON COMPLIANCE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-30 11:18:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL AM CDG UNGA |
05YEREVAN1759 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ICJ ELECTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-30 11:26:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | AM UNSC UNGA |
05YEREVAN1764 | PRESIDENT KOCHARYAN TAKES OWNERSHIP OF NEW [...] On September 30, at a conference to mark the 10th Anniversary of the Adoption of the Armenian Constitution and the Formation of the Constitutional Court, President Kocharian emphasized the importance of upcoming Constitutional Reforms to the establishment of rule of law in Armenia. In his re [...] | 2005-09-30 12:38:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM AM |
05YEREVAN1790 | CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM SET FOR NOVEMBER 27 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-04 12:14:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN1795 | ARMENIA: PARLIAMENT RATIFIES INTERNATIONAL LABOR [...] Per reftels, Post provides the following update regarding exploitive child labor: -- On October 3, the Armenian National Assembly ratified International Labor Organization (ILO) Minimum Age Convention 138. Armenpress News Agency quoted Labor and Social Affairs Minister Aghvan Vardanyan, w [...] | 2005-10-05 08:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI AM USAID GTIP ILO |
05YEREVAN1797 | KERKORIAN'S LINCY FOUNDATION ROLLS OUT LATEST (60 [...] (C) Representatives of Amcit philanthropist and corporate mogul Kirk Kerkorian's Lincy Foundation told us September 25 that their latest set of programs in Armenia would begin no later than mid-October. The USD 60 million, two-year package of projects will include renovation of a major highway [...] | 2005-10-05 09:31:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN1806 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: WTO/DOHA TALKING POINTS [...] (SBU) On October 4 we delivered reftel points to Deputy Minister of Trade and Economic Development Tigran Davtyan. Davtyan said free trade is a GOAM priority and that the average tariff rate in Armenia is three percent. This average reflects the total amount collected under a streamlined tari [...] | 2005-10-06 15:53:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV PREL AM WTRO |
05YEREVAN1807 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: WOOD PACKAGING MATERIAL [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-07 02:47:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD AM |
05YEREVAN1811 | ARMENIA: MORE PROGRESS ON DEFENSE COOPERATION [...] (C) During September 28-29 Bilateral Defense Consultations (BDC) in Yerevan, the Armenian military's senior leadership indicated an encouraging commitment to openness and transparency, engaging in straightforward discussions centered on Armenia's current threat environment. According to Minis [...] | 2005-10-07 10:24:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PGOV PREL MARR AM |
05YEREVAN1818 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNESCO CULTURAL DIVERSITY [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-11 05:59:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD OPDC PREL SCUL UNESCO BHUM |
05YEREVAN1829 | ARMENIA'S JUDGES STEP FORWARD [...] (U) SUMMARY: At their autumn general meeting, Armenia's judges collectively stole a march on the country's ruling political parties and came out strongly and forthrightly in favor of the Council-of-Europe-approved Constitutional amendments, while also approving a Code of Ethics that USAID-sup [...] | 2005-10-13 06:32:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR AM |
05YEREVAN1835 | HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE: ARMENIANS LINK [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-14 04:51:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IS AM UNGA |
05YEREVAN1842 | MURDER SUSPECT RE-ELECTED AS TOWN MAYOR [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. --------------------------------------- MURDER CHARGES DON'T DISSUADE VOTERS... --------------------------------------- 2. (SBU) The campaign for mayor of the town of Nor Hajn (about 20 minutes outside of Yerevan in the Kotayk [...] | 2005-10-14 11:39:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
05YEREVAN1844 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SECRETARY GUTIERREZ LETTER AND [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-14 11:45:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PREL SCUL AM UNESCO |
05YEREVAN1845 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: OPPOSING ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-14 12:08:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IS AM UNGA |
05YEREVAN1856 | UNCONFIRMED REPORT OF MASS BIRD DEATHS IN ARMENIA [...] (SBU) In a recent news article, Ornithologist Martin Adamyan reported that mass bird deaths had been observed in the Lake Sevan and Arpi regions of Armenia. He speculated that bird migration patterns made it particularly likely that avian flu will be found in Armenia in the near future. Deput [...] | 2005-10-18 09:25:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KSCA ECON PREL SOCI AM WHO EAGR |
05YEREVAN1881 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNESCO CULTURAL DIVERSITY VOTE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-20 12:24:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ETRD SCUL AM UNESCO |
05YEREVAN1885 | ARMENIA: NONCOMMITTAL ON SUPPORT FOR NATO [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-21 12:07:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | AEMR ASEC EAID MASS PGOV PREF PREL PK AM NATO |
05YEREVAN1886 | ARMENIA: MEDIA REACTION TO A/S FRIED'S VISIT [...] SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Daniel Fried, accompanied by U.S. Special Negotiator for Nagorno-Karabakh and Eurasian Conflicts Steven Mann, visited Armenia on October 18. The visit, which included a short press availability, highlighted A/S Fried's st [...] | 2005-10-24 03:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC KPAO AM |
05YEREVAN189 | IMI (ARMENIA): HOW TO ESTABLISH AN OFFICE IN [...] This cable explains the process of opening a business in Armenia. It describes the varieties of corporate structures under Armenian law, the process of establishing and registering companies with foreign participation, and the practical aspects of renting office space, hiring personnel, and [...] | 2005-02-02 12:58:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM |
05YEREVAN1890 | GOAM TO SUPPORT BUERGENTHAL FOR INTERNATIONAL [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-24 12:28:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | AM UNSC UNGA |
05YEREVAN1892 | ARMENIA'S SUPPORT FOR UNESCO CONVENTION ON [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-25 10:52:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM SCUL AM ETD UNESCO |
05YEREVAN1899 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: IMPLEMENTING THE WORLD CUSTOMS [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-25 12:27:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON ETRD AM |
05YEREVAN19 | ARMENIA: INCONSISTENT CLAIMS OF RELIGIOUS [...] (SBU) On January 6, Forum 18, a Norwegian NGO, reported that Armen Grigoryan, an Armenian citizen eligible for mandatory military service, had been refused status as a conscientious objector, hazed and forced to serve in Nagorno- Karabakh against his will. Post is investigating the claims mad [...] | 2005-01-07 12:53:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN1900 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SUMMARY REPORT OF THE FIRST [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-25 12:34:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KSCA SENV ECON PREL AM WHO FAO EAGR |
05YEREVAN1905 | MASS BIRD DEATHS REPORTED IN NORTHERN IRAN [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-26 11:54:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KSCA ECON PREL SOCI IR AM WHO EAGR |
05YEREVAN1906 | LATEST OPPOSITION PARTY RALLY -- SAME RHETORIC, [...] (U) Aram Sargsyan's opposition Republic Party held a party meeting and rally October 25 in Yerevan's Matenadaran (Manuscript Museum) Square. The rally was peaceful and a modest police force of four officers was stationed at the sidelines of the meeting to assist with traffic flow and help ped [...] | 2005-10-26 12:24:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ASEC AM |
05YEREVAN1907 | GOAM REQUESTS USG ASSISTANCE TO IDENTIFY ABANDONED [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) This is an action request. In a dipnote dated October 21 and received October 26, Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakossian officially requested USG assistance -- both financial and technical [...] | 2005-10-26 12:24:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EAID ENRG KNNP PGOV PHUM PREL AM |
05YEREVAN1911 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ARMENIAN SUPPORT FOR PAK [...] (C) We delivered reftel points regarding Pakistan's MI-17 helicopter operations to Deputy Minister of Defense General-Lieutenant Artur Aghabekyan. Aghabekyan contacted Chief Military Inspector General-Lieutenant Alik Mirzabekyan, who said that Armenia does not/not have MI-17 helicopters in it [...] | 2005-10-27 12:09:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | AEMR ASEC EAID IN PGOV PK PREF MASS AM NATO |
05YEREVAN1920 | GOAM TO SUPPORT BUERGENTHAL FOR ICJ [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-31 07:24:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | AM UNGA UNSC |
05YEREVAN1921 | NO GOAM POSITION YET: WORLD SUMMIT ON THE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-31 09:52:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ETRD ECON EINT ETTC AM |
05YEREVAN1927 | LOCAL ELECTIONS END WITH ALLEGATIONS OF CONTINUED [...] (C) Armenian local elections -- held September 18 through October 23 -- met international standards, Central Electoral Commission Head Garegin Azaryan told reporters during an October 28 press conference. Local election monitors, however, disputed Azaryan's claim and alleged "widespread viola [...] | 2005-11-01 11:27:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM AM |
05YEREVAN1930 | GOAM AGREES: IRANIAN PRESIDENT'S RHETORIC [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-01 13:18:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PHUM IR AM |
05YEREVAN1931 | IN LETTER TO SECRETARY RICE, PRESIDENT KOCHARIAN [...] (S) SUMMARY: Armenian President Kocharian summoned the Ambassador to complain, as he has done before, about activities of the National Democratic Institute, in particular those of its current director, who is scheduled to depart next week. This time he put his complaint into a letter to Secr [...] | 2005-11-01 13:19:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET | PGOV PHUM EAID PINR AM |
05YEREVAN1932 | ADOLESCENT GROWING PAINS: ARMENIA'S PARLIAMENT [...] (C) Armenia's National Assembly marked its fifteenth anniversary November 1 with an international symposium that included legislators from around the globe and familiar political posturing by political figures from around the country. National Assembly Speaker Artur Baghdasaryan used the conf [...] | 2005-11-01 13:21:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AM |
05YEREVAN1934 | A/S FRIED'S MEETING WITH NA SPEAKER BAGHDASARIAN [...] (C) During his October 18 meeting with National Assembly Speaker Artur Baghdasarian, Assistant Secretary Fried discussed democratic reform in the South Causasus, Armenia's relationship with Russia and regional security. A/S Fried urged Armenia to accelerate democratic reforms and closer relat [...] | 2005-11-02 11:28:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN1935 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ARMENIA TO SUPPORT UNSCR ON [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-02 11:33:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL IZ AM UNSC |
05YEREVAN1938 | CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS: EUR A/S FRIED'S [...] (C) Summary: During an October 18 lunch meeting with Armenian government officials, opposition parliamentarians, and academics, A/S Fried heard competing arguments about the package of constitutional amendments (reftels) slated for referendum on November 27. Supporters maintained the amendme [...] | 2005-11-02 13:07:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV OTRA AM |
05YEREVAN1939 | ARMENIA: MEDIA REACTION TO PRESS CONFERENCE ON [...] SUMMARY: On October 27, Ambassador Evans and USAID Mission Director Robin Phillips held a press conference on U.S. democracy assistance programs. The press conference focused on planned U.S. assistance to help Armenia hold free and fair parliamentary elections in 2007 and presidential electio [...] | 2005-11-02 13:33:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC KPAO AM |
05YEREVAN1940 | A/S FRIED'S MEETING WITH DEFENSE MINISTER SARGSIAN [...] (C) Assistant Secretary Fried described for Defense Minister Sargsian a sense in Washington that history in Armenia's neighborhood is accelerating, for better or worse. U.S.-Armenian relations, he said, have "unrealized potential." The United States wants to work with all its friends in the r [...] | 2005-11-02 13:40:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM AM |
05YEREVAN1956 | ARMENIA: PRESIDENT APPROVES AMENDMENTS TO LAW ON [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) On October 31, President Robert Kocharian approved legislation amending the Armenian Law on Conducting Meetings, Assemblies, Rallies and Demonstrations. The amendments include "most recommend [...] | 2005-11-04 11:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN1958 | CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTIONS: JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES [...] (C) On November 4, a local-level court in Sevan convicted (and sentenced to three years imprisonment) four Jehovah's Witnesses (Armenian citizens) on charges of "absence without leave from a military unit or place of service." The court initially charged the Jehovah's Witnesses with "desertion [...] | 2005-11-04 12:58:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN1960 | REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES UP IN DRAFT 2006 BUDGET [...] (SBU) The GOAM draft budget for 2006, currently under debate in the National Assembly, envisages significant increases in health and social security expenditures paid for by increased tax revenue and deficit spending. The budget is based on an exchange rate of AMD 420 to the dollar, a dram ap [...] | 2005-11-04 13:04:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID AM |
05YEREVAN1961 | GOAM HAS NO MANDATE TO RESOLVE N-K, ARMENIAN CIVIL [...] (C) During an October 18 breakfast with EUR A/S Fried and Ambassadors Mann and Evans, representatives of Armenian civil society were extremely skeptical about the implementation of a Nagorno-Karabakh (N-K) peace agreement. While there was some divergence of opinion, the majority of the repres [...] | 2005-11-04 13:41:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AJ AM RU |
05YEREVAN1968 | ARMENIA COMMERCIAL NEWS SUMMARY: [...] This cable summarizes press reporting on commercial developments in Armenia for October 2005. Major headlines include: -- Synopsys Inc. signs agreement to acquire HPL Technologies Inc.; -- Vanadzor Chemical Factory reopens; -- Armenia becomes 64th member of the Asian Development Bank; [...] | 2005-11-07 13:01:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM |
05YEREVAN1969 | FOREIGN MINISTER'S PUBLIC STATEMENT ON IRANIAN [...] (U) On November 5, Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian told students and reporters at Yerevan State University that Iranian President Ahmadi-Nejad's recent statement regarding Israel "will have no impact on Armenian-Iranian relations." Oskanian told the audience that "Israeli issues hav [...] | 2005-11-07 13:46:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PHUM IR AM |
05YEREVAN1986 | MONOPOLY CONTROL OF JET FUEL IMPORTS UNDERMINING [...] (SBU) Armenia is currently suffering from a severe jet fuel shortage which is undermining the profitability of the aviation sector and may have a long-term negative impact on Armenia's competitiveness. According to Executive Director of Armenia International Airports (AIA) Juan Pablo Gechijyan [...] | 2005-11-09 12:46:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON ETRD AM |
05YEREVAN1991 | ARMENIA STILL UNDECIDED ON THIRD COMMITTEE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-10 13:09:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PINR AM UNHRC |
05YEREVAN1992 | ARMENIANS WILL NOT JEOPARDIZE ECONOMIC TIES FOR [...] (C) In a November 8 conversation with the Ambassador, Presidential chief of staff and co-chair of the Armenia-Iran Joint Economic Commission (JEC) Artashes Tumanian said he would have no choice but to meet with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad in Tehran on November 11 (reftels),but that [...] | 2005-11-10 13:23:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PHUM IR AM |
05YEREVAN1993 | PUBLICITY AND CASH PUSH FOR A "YES" VOTE IN [...] (C) While politicians on both sides of the issue are busy trading political capital over the issue of proposed constitutional amendments, pro-government forces are spending hefty amounts of hard cash in a nationwide publicity campaign aimed to get out the "yes" vote. Post views the "Yes" media [...] | 2005-11-10 13:36:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AM |
05YEREVAN1994 | CONGRESSMAN HASTINGS URGES ARMENIA TO INVITE OSCE [...] (SBU) During a November 7-9 visit to Armenia, Rep. Alcee Hastings, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, made a strong case to top Armenian officials to reconsider their decision not to invite OSCE observers to monitor the constitutional referendum scheduled for November 27. In a seri [...] | 2005-11-11 05:06:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL AM |
05YEREVAN2001 | EUR/TIP: INTERIM ASSESSMENT FOR ARMENIA [...] (SBU) Since January 2005, the GOAM has made progress on fighting trafficking in persons, especially in promoting the National Action Plan and increasing prosecutions under the anti-trafficking statute, but still has a significant way to go on some crucial areas. The following responses are g [...] | 2005-11-15 05:42:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG AM |
05YEREVAN2006 | ARMENIA UNLIKELY TO CHANGE ITS POSITION ON IRAN [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-15 13:10:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PINR AM IR UNHRC |
05YEREVAN2007 | AND THEN THERE WERE TWO...DWINDLING NUMBER OF [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. -------------------------------------- DEPMIN'S DISMISSAL: FROM BAD TO WORSE -------------------------------------- 2. (SBU) On November 8 the GOAM announced the removal of Lilit Asatryan as Deputy Minister of Culture and You [...] | 2005-11-15 13:31:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
05YEREVAN2008 | CONGRESSMAN HASTINGS'S VISIT TO ARMENIA [...] (SBU) Congressman Alcee Hastings (President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly) visited Armenia November 7-9 as the country was preparing for a constitutional referendum on November 27 and already looking ahead to parliamentary elections in 2007 and presidential elections in 2008. During meeti [...] | 2005-11-16 05:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM AJ AM |
05YEREVAN2009 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ARMENIAN SUPPORT FOR OAS [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-16 07:14:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PTER CO AM OAS |
05YEREVAN2018 | 2006 BUDGET INCREASES SOCIAL SPENDING [...] (U) On November 11, the National Assembly approved the 2006 budget which includes a 22 percent increase in public spending funded by continued economic growth, improved tax collection and international donor support. The 2006 budget calls for AMD 482.2 billion (USD 1.15 billion at the project [...] | 2005-11-17 11:59:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EAID PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN2022 | ARMENIA: LACK OF SUPPORT FOR PAKISTAN RELIEF [...] (C) On multiple occasions since October 21, Armenian Defense and Foreign Affairs officials have not responded to our calls for military and other assistance -- which we think they are capable of rendering -- to the Pakistan relief effort. Early promises to answer requests for assistance (reft [...] | 2005-11-17 13:35:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | AEMR ASEC EAID PGOV PREF MASS AM IN PK NATO |
05YEREVAN2023 | FM BRAINSTORMS WITH DONORS, DIASPORA ON HIS NEW [...] (C) Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian has hosted discussions with international donors over the past two weeks to brainstorm on a new Ministry of Foreign Affairs initiative aimed at galvinizing diaspora resources to alleviate poverty in rural Armenia. Oskanian's initial plans suggest the plan [...] | 2005-11-18 04:30:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN2028 | RED CROSS/RED CRESCENT: ARMENIA "LIKELY TO [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-18 10:51:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREF PREL AORC IS SZ AM ICRC |
05YEREVAN2030 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION: ARMENIA MISSES [...] (C) Following what appeared to be good progress toward implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC),Armenian MFA Global Security and Non-Conventional Issues Acting Division Head Karen Matirossian told us during a recent meeting that, as he had predicted in March (ref B),the GOAM w [...] | 2005-11-18 11:49:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM ABUD AM AROC CWC CBW OPCW |
05YEREVAN2031 | ARMENIA'S REFERENDUM NOT QUITE ON THE RIGHT TRACK? [...] (C) While Armenia's leaders state they are committed to running a clean referendum on November 27, some recent actions call this into question. The GOAM has decided to permit no international observers except those from the Council of Europe and it is pulling out all the stops to promote a "y [...] | 2005-11-18 12:07:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN2033 | LETTER FROM PRIME MINISTER ANDRANIK [...] (SBU) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia transmitted, via diplomatic note No. 8/13455 dated November 17, 2005, a letter from Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan to John Hewko, Vice President of the Country Programs of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC),expressing [...] | 2005-11-18 13:08:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN2039 | ARMENIA WILL SUPPORT US ON UZBEKISTAN RESOLUTION [...] (C) We delivered demarche and talking points regarding UN Third Committee country resolutions to MFA International Organizations Department Chief Valery Mkrtumyan November 21 per reftel instructions. Mkrtumyan said Armenia would not support a no-action motion on Turkmenistan and pledged Armen [...] | 2005-11-21 12:14:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL AM |
05YEREVAN2045 | ARMENIA: TRANSFER OF CUSTODY OF L.A. MURDER [...] (SBU) On November 21, Armenian authorities transferred fugitive suspect Akop Akopyan to U.S. custody. Akopyan, a U.S. Permanent Resident but still an Armenian citizen, was the prime suspect in a September 2000 gangland murder in Los Angeles. The location, apprehension and eventual transfer of [...] | 2005-11-22 10:51:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM ASEC CFED CPAS SOCI GG AM FBI |
05YEREVAN2051 | ARMENIA AS A DESTINATION COUNTRY--GOAM [...] (SBU) Tracking an alarm received from the "Hope and Help" NGO, the National Security Service (NSS),on November 16, discovered four trafficking victims from Ukraine in one of Yerevan's night-clubs. This is the first clear case of trafficking in which Armenia was the destination country and th [...] | 2005-11-22 12:12:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCRM PHUM AM KTIP UA |
05YEREVAN2053 | ARMENIA: RESPONSE TO AVIAN AND PANDEMIC INFLUENZA [...] (SBU) Armenia is ill-prepared to respond to an avian influenza (AI) outbreak in either the animal or the human population. There is no active surveillance system in place and the GOAM currently lacks basic diagnostic capacity to evaluate any potential AI outbreak. There is, however, some sci [...] | 2005-11-23 07:19:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | TBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID PREL AMED AM WHO |
05YEREVAN2061 | RALLIES AND RHETORIC AS ARMENIA RAMPS-UP FOR THE [...] (C) The November 27 referendum on proposed constitutional amendments continues to dominate local news as political forces make their last-ditch efforts to garner popular support. Opposition leaders have announced a series of rallies on November 24-27 to protest what they are already calling [...] | 2005-11-23 13:12:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AM |
05YEREVAN2062 | ARMENIA: DEMOCRACY PROMOTION STRATEGY, 2005-2008 [...] (SBU) Armenia is at a crossroads in its democratic development. While the political landscape has remained relatively consistent since the last elections, the next two years will test the government's commitment to its reform agenda. As Assistant Secretary Fried said during his October visit [...] | 2005-11-23 13:12:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KDEM PHUM PREL AM |
05YEREVAN2065 | COE DELEGATION TO OBSERVE IN LESS THAN 5 PERCENT [...] (C) Supporters and opponents of Armenia's November 27 referendum have shifted their focus to the capital in the final days before the ballot. Competing rallies have drawn lower-than-expected attendance and there have been few reports of confrontation. While most political observers expect i [...] | 2005-11-25 14:07:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AM |
05YEREVAN2074 | ARMENIA'S REFERENDUM: INFLATED TURNOUT, OBSERVERS [...] (C) Official results for voter turnout contrast sharply with those reported by opposition and some independent local observers for Armenia's November 27 referendum on constitutional amendments. The 14-member group of observers from the Council of Europe -- the only international observers ac [...] | 2005-11-28 14:05:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM AM |
05YEREVAN2075 | OPPOSITION RALLY DRAWS LACKLUSTER RESPONSE [...] (C) Opposition leaders came together November 28 in a larger group than they have in the past, but still only managed to draw about 2500 people to an afternoon rally on a perfect fall day in Yerevan. One day after the constitutional referendum that Council of Europe (CoE) observers characteri [...] | 2005-11-28 14:50:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ASEC AM |
05YEREVAN2079 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED--PLANNED U.S.-RUSSION [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-29 11:08:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AM RS |
05YEREVAN2081 | LOCAL OBSERVERS CITE MAJOR INFRACTIONS, STOP SHORT [...] (C) It's Your Choice (IYC),Armenia's largest election observation NGO (funded in part by the USG),announced during a November 29 press conference that there were major infractions during the recent referendum on constitutional amendments that had "serious impacts on the results." They stopp [...] | 2005-11-30 06:21:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM AM |
05YEREVAN2082 | ARMENIA'S LIMITED CAPACITY REGARDING FINCEN 314 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-30 10:52:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | KTFN PTER LE SY AM |
05YEREVAN2083 | USG NEXT STEPS FOLLOWING A "MARRED" CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (C) Despite what Council of Europe (CoE) observers are calling a "marred" referendum and considerable NGO and opposition concern about alleged voting irregularities (ref A),we expect that the CoE will simply move forward and quietly embrace the new constitution that it helped draft. World Ban [...] | 2005-11-30 11:29:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM AM |
05YEREVAN2094 | ARMENIA: MEDIA REACTION TO U.S. RESPONSE TO [...] U.S. Embassy Yerevan posted a response to Armenia's November 27 constitutional referendum on its website based upon cleared press guidance from the Department. The response received extensive coverage in the Armenian press. Reports varied, with some outlets presenting the response as question [...] | 2005-12-01 09:07:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC KPAO AM |
05YEREVAN2095 | ARMENIA COMMERCIAL NEWS SUMMARY: [...] This cable summarizes press reporting on commercial developments in Armenia for November 2005. Major headlines include: -- Alcatel agrees to support the Armenian Enterprise Incubator Foundation; -- EBRD to expand financing program for Armenian banks; -- IMF approves USD 4.7 mln disbur [...] | 2005-12-01 10:19:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM |
05YEREVAN2104 | ARMENIA LIKELY TO SUPPORT UNGA/60TH RESOLUTION ON [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-05 11:16:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL MNUC AM UNGA |
05YEREVAN2105 | GOAM DETAINING, HARASSING OPPOSITION IN [...] (SBU) In the wake of a marred constitutional referendum and modest opposition rallies protesting the electoral fraud (reftels),over the past week the GOAM has opted to detain at least 50 opposition supporters for several hours at a time, with a number of the detainees credibly alleging that th [...] | 2005-12-05 13:09:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM AM |
05YEREVAN2109 | RFE/RL BROADCASTS DISRUPTED IN ARMENIA [...] (SBU) Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) broadcasts were periodically inaudible for three days in Armenia beginning on November 27, the day of the country's constitutional referendum. Armenia's state-run Public Radio claimed in a statement that the disruptions were due to technical prob [...] | 2005-12-06 04:13:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN2113 | ARMENIAN DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL ADOPTIONS: [...] "It is better for a child to die in Armenia than to be adopted abroad." While international adoptions are legal in Armenia, this pervasive negative attitude makes legislators and government officials nervous, giving rise to a lack of transparency in the process which in turn creates an enviro [...] | 2005-12-06 09:43:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KOCI OIIP SCUL KPAO AM PHUM |
05YEREVAN2118 | IRANIAN ENERGY MINISTER'S VISIT TO ARMENIA - [...] (C) Iranian Energy Minister Parviz Pattah is currently visiting Armenia to inaugurate the country's first wind power plant and to tour the Fifth Unit of the Hrazdan Thermal Power Station. In September, the Iranian Government (GOI) agreed to provide USD 150 million to complete construction of t [...] | 2005-12-07 14:43:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG ETRD IR AM |
05YEREVAN2121 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY EXTENDS GOAM NON-COMBAT [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-08 11:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR MOPS IZ AM |
05YEREVAN2125 | AMMENDMENTS TO ARMENIAN CONSTITUTION CAME [...] (SBU) Armenia formally adopted its amended constitution December 8, following the closure of the seven-day window for filing legal challenges to the November 27 constitutional referendum. According to Armenian law, only the President or one-third of the Parliament have standing to challenge t [...] | 2005-12-08 13:32:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
05YEREVAN2129 | ARMENIA HOPES FOR A DEAL ON GAZPROM'S THREATENED [...] (C) Despite Gazprom's recent announcement that, as of January 1, 2006, it plans to double the price of natural gas exports to Armenia, the GOAM appears to be holding out hope that it will be able to negotiate a deal to minimize the impact of and/or delay the price increase. According to press [...] | 2005-12-08 15:16:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG AM RU |
05YEREVAN2157 | SQUEEZING THE ARMENIANS ON DEMOCRACY ISSUES [...] (C) SUMMARY. Post has been talking to various Armenians in and out of government in an effort to advance our democracy agenda despite the tactical set-back represented by the flawed November 27 referendum on the constitutional amendments. While it is too early to say whether the Armenians "ge [...] | 2005-12-13 13:47:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | AM PGOV PHUM AID |
05YEREVAN2158 | RUSSIA CONTINUES TO PLAY A WINNING HAND [...] (SBU) Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov visited Yerevan December 2-3 to commemorate the end of the Year of Russia in Armenia announced by President Putin during his visit in March 2005 (ref A). While the Year of Russia in Armenia was mostly show, marked by a steady stream of high-level v [...] | 2005-12-13 13:48:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL ETRD RS AM |
05YEREVAN216 | ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTER CONGRATULATES [...] On February 2, the embassy received text of a congratulatory letter for Secretary Rice from Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian. The original was forwarded via pouch to EUR/CACEN. 2. Begin text: January 31, 2005 Dear Dr. Rice, Allow me to extend my warmest congratulations on your a [...] | 2005-02-07 12:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC AM |
05YEREVAN2166 | ARMENIA'S NEXT HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER? [...] (SBU) The term of office for Armenian Human Rights Defender (Ombudsman) Larisa Alaverdyan will expire on January 5, paving the way for Parliament (under provisions of the country's recently amended constitution) to appoint a successor or re-appoint Alaverdyan. Alaverdyan has frequently downpl [...] | 2005-12-14 12:55:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM AM |
05YEREVAN2174 | ARMENIAN OPPOSITION: RUNNING IN DIFFERENT [...] (SBU) Disagreements among Armenia's three main opposition parties have become more evident in the aftermath of the November 27 constitutional referendum and subsequent opposition rallies. Radical Republic Party Chairman Aram Sargsian insists that opposition leaders band together to establish [...] | 2005-12-15 13:27:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN2182 | CURIOUS TIMING OF GOAM PRESS RELEASE ON [...] (C) The GOAM distributed a press release on December 15 denouncing what it called "barbarous" vandalism of Armenian cultural monuments by Azeri soldiers in the Nakhichevan region along the Azerbaijan-Armenia border. The statement, citing reports by Armenian priests, claimed that 100 Azerbaija [...] | 2005-12-16 12:49:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM AM AJ |
05YEREVAN2183 | ARMENIAN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF SUCCESSFUL IRAQI [...] (C) We delivered reftel points to Armenian MFA Americas' Desk Head Lilit Toutkhalian who told us she was not aware of GOAM plans to issue a statement commending Iraqi success on the December 15 Council of Representatives elections. Toutkhalian speculated that, because Foreign Minister Vartan O [...] | 2005-12-16 13:12:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM KPAO PREL PGOV IZ AM |
05YEREVAN2192 | ARMENIAN MFA: IRAQ ENTERS NEW PHASE FOLLOWING [...] (SBU) Despite early indications that the GOAM may avoid public statements congratulating Iraqi authorities on successful Council of Representatives elections (ref B),MFA Spokesman Hamlet Gasparyan released a December 17 press statement commending the elections as "an important step in buildin [...] | 2005-12-20 13:34:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM KPAO PREL PGOV IZ AM |
05YEREVAN2193 | FM OSKANIAN DISCUSSES A "CONSTRUCTIVE" RESPONSE TO [...] (C) During a December 20 meeting with Charge d'Affaires Godfrey, Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian said he had discussed the recent Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) announcement and accompanying letter with President Robert Kocharian and said that the GOAM was not rushing to respond, but [...] | 2005-12-20 13:52:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN2197 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: EMBASSY YEREVAN TRIPWIRES [...] (SBU) Post's Avian Influenza (AI) Taskforce meets on a regular basis and met on December 8 to discuss tripwires and response actions. Post has completed all but three of the preparedness steps outlined in ref A and is in the process of completing the outstanding tasks. Information about reso [...] | 2005-12-21 12:27:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMED AMGT ASEC CASC CMGT AM |
05YEREVAN2200 | GOVERNING COALITION BEGINS DISCUSSING [...] (SBU) Following their stoic congratulatory remarks immediately after the vote, pro-government officials are starting to talk publicly about fraud during the November 27 constitutional referendum. National Assembly Speaker Artur Baghdasarian launched a wave of discussion with allegations of fr [...] | 2005-12-21 13:41:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
05YEREVAN2201 | ARMENIA: MEDIA REACTION TO MCC ANNOUNCEMENT [...] On December 19, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Board announced that it had approved a five-year, USD 235.65 million compact with Armenia. Media coverage of the announcement was extensive, with all major television stations and newspapers reporting on it. Some outlets focused on t [...] | 2005-12-21 14:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC KPAO AM |
05YEREVAN2207 | ARMENIA NOT POSITIONED TO INFLUENCE RUSSIA ON NGO [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-22 12:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM RS AM PGOV |
05YEREVAN2209 | TOUCHING BASE ON A TOUGH 2005 FOR ARMENIA-TURKEY [...] (C) MFA Middle East Department Chief Artem Aznaurian and MFA Turkey Desk Officer Sahak Sargsyan told us December 22 that 2005 had not produced much progress in the Armenia-Turkey rapprochement process, but said the GOAM would continue to engage in working-level meetings with Turkish diplomats [...] | 2005-12-22 12:29:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU RS AM |
05YEREVAN2214 | IRAQ FORCE ADJUSTMENT DOESN'T CHANGE ARMENIAN [...] (S) The Charge d'Affaires delivered reftel points regarding U.S. force level reductions in Iraq during December 22 meetings with Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Arman Kirakossian and Deputy Minister of Defense General-Lieutenant Artur Aghabekyan. Aghabekyan and Kirakossian both noted the A [...] | 2005-12-22 13:54:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET | PGOV PINS PREL MARR MOPS IZ AM |
05YEREVAN2215 | ARMENIA TO CRIMINALIZE EVASION OF ALTERNATIVE [...] (U) During an extraordinary session on December 16, the Armenian National Assembly unanimously adopted amendments to the Criminal Code that, for the first time in Armenian law, would criminalize evasion of alternative service. President Robert Kocharian has until January 6, 2006 to sign the a [...] | 2005-12-23 02:40:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KCRM AM |
05YEREVAN2217 | ARMENIA COMMERCIAL NEWS SUMMARY: [...] This cable summarizes press reporting on commercial developments in Armenia for December 2005. Major headlines include: -- Japanese Bank for International Cooperation approves extension of loan for electrical transmission station upgrade; -- Russian Prime Minister Fradkov inaugurates th [...] | 2005-12-23 08:28:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM |
05YEREVAN2225 | IRAQ FORCE ADJUSTMENT: ARMENIA COMMITTED TO [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-27 13:38:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PREL MARR MOPS IZ AM |
05YEREVAN2226 | NEW AMBASSADORIAL APPOINTMENTS FOR THE NEW [...] (SBU) President Kocharian recently announced two new ambassadorial appointments, naming Ashot Hovakimian Ambassador to Austria (replacing Jivan Tabibian) and Ashot Galoyan as Ambassador to Poland (replacing Ashot Hovakimian). (Note: While the presidential proclamation does not explicitly ide [...] | 2005-12-28 04:07:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR AM |
05YEREVAN2232 | TRAFFICKING: DOING BETTER ON PROSECUTION AND [...] (SBU) A strictly pro-governmental newspaper reflected a positive shift in the approach towards the issue of trafficking that has occurred in the Prosecutor's office in recent months. In November the Prosecutor's office registered the first case of domestic trafficking in Armenia. Also in Nov [...] | 2005-12-28 12:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCRM AM KTIP |
05YEREVAN2238 | 2005: ACTION HOT ON LINE OF CONTACT [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-29 13:53:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PREL PGOV AJ AM |
05YEREVAN2240 | GOAM AGAIN DENIES CASES OF AVIAN FLU IN RESPONSE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-30 10:14:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN235 | ARMENIA'S INFLATIONARY START TO 2005 [...] Armenia's Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 5.4 percent in the month of January, exceeding in one month the government's target for the entire year. Press reports cite a senior National Statistics Service official who claims that the rise in the CPI is due to an 8.4 percent rise in the prices [...] | 2005-02-09 13:08:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN AM |
05YEREVAN242 | CHINA'S EXPANDING POLITICAL RELATIONS WITH ARMENIA [...] (C) Government of China (GOC) representatives in Yerevan and Armenian government officials recently reported their view that relations between the GOC and the Government of Armenia (GOAM) are expanding. They qualified these statements, however, with a more realistic picture of potential econo [...] | 2005-02-10 10:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET CH AM |
05YEREVAN244 | ARMENIA: PARLIAMENTARY ABSENTEEISM STALLS ARTICLE [...] Sensitive but Unclassified. Please Treat Accordingly. 2. (SBU) Despite GOAM assurances that ratification by the National Assembly was "locked in," the Armenian parliament failed on February 9 to ratify its bilateral Article 98 agreement with the USG. Member absenteeism and the oppositio [...] | 2005-02-10 12:30:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM AM |
05YEREVAN257 | TIP: CONCERNS ABOUT PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT [...] (SBU) Balancing Armenia's considerable progress over the past year in successfully prosecuting trafficking in persons (TIP) cases are serious, persistent allegations that senior members of the Prosecutor General's office are susceptible to outside influence. We have raised our concerns about [...] | 2005-02-14 11:05:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCRM AM KTIP |
05YEREVAN258 | DAMAGE TO HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL: CAUSE UNKNOWN [...] (SBU) The local chairman of the Jewish Community of Armenia, Rimma Varzhapetyan, told us that community members found a stone memorial to the Holocaust lying flat in a park in Central Yerevan on February 11. The rectangular slab showed no signs of being struck, and the official police report [...] | 2005-02-14 13:38:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM AM |
05YEREVAN267 | ARMENIA: KURDS DEMONSTRATE FOR OCALAN [...] (SBU) Marking the sixth anniversary of the capture of Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan, about 250 ethnic Kurds came to Yerevan in buses February 15 to stage a peaceful march across downtown Yerevan and demonstrate in front of Armenian Government buildings and the United Nations Development Progr [...] | 2005-02-15 14:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PTER ASEC PHUM AM |
05YEREVAN270 | A1-PLUS LOSES BID FOR RADIO LICENSE [...] (SBU) Mesrop Movsesian, the owner of the now-defunct A1-Plus television station, told Post that he lost a recent bid for a radio frequency license to two other competitors, and he alleged that his loss was politically motivated. On February 14, the Armenian National Commission on Television [...] | 2005-02-16 09:20:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN279 | ARMENIA FRETS IN PRESS OVER POSSIBLE U.S. [...] Armed conflict between Iran and the U.S. is seen as a very real possibility in Armenia, Iran's northern neighbor. While GOAM officials cite Secretary Rice's statements and are not claiming that a military strike is imminent, they have been publicly voicing concern about what would happen if [...] | 2005-02-17 12:11:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KPAO IR AM |
05YEREVAN281 | ARMENIA: URANIUM SMUGGLER CONVICTED, THEN RELEASED [...] (S/NF) On 15 December 2004, Garik Dadayan, an Armenian citizen, was convicted of attempting to smuggle radioactive material across state borders. Samvel Mnatsakanian, the lead prosecutor in the case, said that because of the weakness of evidence and poor cooperation between law enforcement a [...] | 2005-02-17 12:32:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET//NOFORN | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL AM GG |
05YEREVAN287 | RUSSIAN FM LAVROV: ARMENIA'S PLACE IS BY RUSSIA'S [...] (C) Armenia and Russia are "old friends, reliable allies and strategic partners" declared Russian FM Sergey Lavrov on February 17. The GOAM and Russia broke no new ground during the FM's high-profile visit to Yerevan February 16-17, but used the occasion to cement their existing strong relati [...] | 2005-02-18 10:29:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG AJ AM RU |
05YEREVAN300 | ARMENIANS AUTHORIZE USGS MOU EXTENSION [...] The GOAM has authorized the extension of the USGS MOU for five years from November 2, 2003. The text of the authorizing diplomatic note number 16/01878, dated February 21, 2005, follows. 2. Begin text: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia presents its compliments [...] | 2005-02-22 12:53:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL TPHY TSPL AM |
05YEREVAN301 | ARMENIAN RESPONSE TO CSW WOMEN'S ECONOMIC [...] No summary [...] | 2005-02-22 13:27:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWMN EAID AM UN CSW |
05YEREVAN309 | MALFEASANCE IN THE GOAM AUDIT OFFICE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Armenian authorities arrested Levon Shahinian, the head of the Financial Control Department of the Ministry of Finance and Economy (the department charged with auditing GOAM budget expenditures) February 23. He had alrea [...] | 2005-02-23 13:30:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN AM |
05YEREVAN312 | LITTLE PROGRESS ON INVESTIGATING SEIZURE OF [...] (C) Armenia asserts that it has still not received formal notification that from either the IAEA or from the Turkish authorities that Cesium-137 seized on the Georgia-Turkey border in December 2004 originated in Armenia. Armenian MFA experts tell us they will insist on a formal investigation [...] | 2005-02-24 09:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC PARM KCRM PTER ASEC AM TU KPRP |
05YEREVAN329 | (IMI) ARMENIA, COMMERCIAL NEWS SUMMARY: [...] This cable summarizes press reporting on commercial developments in Armenia for February 2005. Major headlines include: -- Austrian bank to finance Armenian metals company; -- Armenia to start negotiations on new IMF program; -- Central Bank of Armenia licenses new foreign bank; -- [...] | 2005-02-25 13:28:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM |
05YEREVAN337 | ARMENIA RATIFIES ARTICLE 98 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-02-28 11:58:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM AM |
05YEREVAN34 | EMBASSY YEREVAN SUPPORTS U.S. JOINING BLACK SEA [...] (C) Summary. Post strongly supports the United State's joining the Black Sea Economic Council (BSEC) as an observer, per ref A. There could be multiple benefits for the U.S.: we focus here on those that intersect with our regional goals in the South Caucasus. Due to Armenia's political isola [...] | 2005-01-11 13:32:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ETTC KFPC PARM AM |
05YEREVAN348 | ARMENIA PRESS REACTION: VISIT OF RUSSIAN [...] Although Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov's 22-hour visit to Yerevan February 16-17 was standard fare, it generated intense press interest. Oppositionist media used the FM's presence to decry Armenia's dependence on Russia, while official and pro-government press praised Armenia's close ties w [...] | 2005-03-01 09:44:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AM KMDR OPRC PREL RU |
05YEREVAN35 | ARMENIA: UPDATE ON CLAIMS OF RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION [...] (C) We reported reftel our initial investigation of an allegation of religious persecution in Armenia's armed forces. On January 11, we spoke with Levon Margaryan, Deputy Board Member of the Jehovah's Witnesses in Armenia, about the recent media claims that Armen Grigoryan was abused while se [...] | 2005-01-11 13:32:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN358 | TWO SEPARATE GROUPS PROTEST AT EMBASSY [...] (SBU) Two small groups, for a total of fewer than 100 people, protested in front of the U. S. Embassy on Monday, February 28. The groups sought to commemorate attacks on ethnic Armenians in Sumgait in 1988. Both protests seem to have been intended to counterbalance reports of efforts to com [...] | 2005-03-01 13:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM ASEC AM |
05YEREVAN361 | RESULTS OF CONVERSATIONS WITH U.S. [...] (SBU) Ambassador Evans began his recent tour of Armenian- American diaspora centers on February 11, only three days prior to the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Hariri, which so drastically changed the political landscape in Lebanon. Conversations with Lebanese- origin Armeni [...] | 2005-03-02 07:11:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL LE AM |
05YEREVAN367 | CORRECTION TO PREVIOUS OMBUDSMAN CABLE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-03-03 02:52:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN370 | ARMENIAN RESPONSE TO CLONING DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-03-03 10:29:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO AM UNGA KSCI |
05YEREVAN371 | ARMENIAN RESPONSE TO CWC ARTICLE VII DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-03-03 10:29:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM ABUD AM AROC CWC CBW OPCW |
05YEREVAN391 | ARMENIA LOOKING TO IRAN TO REDUCE DEPENDENCE ON [...] (C) In a February 25 meeting, Armenia's Minister of Energy, Armen Movsesian, told us that Armenia's energy market was too dependent on Russia, especially for the supply of gas, and that Gazprom has proved an unreliable source in the past. Armenia's number one energy priority is to complete [...] | 2005-03-04 04:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET AM IR RU |
05YEREVAN409 | COMPACT PROPOSAL MOVES ALONG -- FROM LOCAL [...] (SBU) The GOAM has informed Post that AVAG Solutions, the local consulting firm hired to compile Armenia's MCA compact proposal, completed its work and presented a draft version of the proposal to the GOAM MCA Board of Trustees on March 2. The Board reportedly discussed and approved the docu [...] | 2005-03-07 13:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID KMCA AM |
05YEREVAN420 | ARMENIA PRESS REACTION: RELEASE OF HUMAN [...] Public reaction to the release of the 2004 Human Rights Report was muted. According to most Armenian press, the report was "as expected," which explains the limited editorial response. Oppositionist press anticipated a Human Rights Report that would let the GOAM off easy, and characterized t [...] | 2005-03-09 11:44:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AM KMDR OPRC PREL |
05YEREVAN434 | ARMENIA'S PLANS FOR APRIL 24 COMMEMORATION, STATUS [...] (SBU) Armenian Foreign Minister Oskanian convoked chiefs of mission resident in Yerevan March 10 to preview events planned in April to mark "Genocide Memorial Day." The two main events will be an academic conference, April 21-22, featuring several American scholars, and the April 24 formal co [...] | 2005-03-11 07:35:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PBTS AM TU UNHRC |
05YEREVAN435 | ARMENIA'S TENTATIVE STEPS TOWARDS NATO [...] (C) Armenia is making steady progress in preparing its NATO Individual Partnership Action Plan (IPAP) and plans to have a document ready for presentation to the Alliance on April 7. Armenia's plans for its developing relationship with NATO do not include membership, but it is exploring ways [...] | 2005-03-11 07:36:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AM NATO |
05YEREVAN439 | ARMENIA REFUSES TO SEND "GENOCIDE" BACK TO THE [...] (C) In a March 10 interview, Armenian FM Vartan Oskanian said that the question of the 1915 "genocide" is no longer an issue for historians and now must be decided in the political sphere. This statement was in response to Turkish PM Erdogan's proposal for a new joint historical study of the [...] | 2005-03-11 13:08:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM AM TU |
05YEREVAN44 | ARMENIA SEEKS USG PERMISSION TO SELL WEAPONS TO [...] (U) This telegram contains an action request. Please see para 7. Summary ------- 2. (S/NF) On January 11, Armenian Defense Minister Serzh Sargsian asked the Ambassador what the U.S. view would be on a potential weapons sale to Iran. Sargsian said that the GOAM is under increasing pr [...] | 2005-01-12 12:42:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM PREL AM IR |
05YEREVAN449 | CHR-61: ARMENIANS WITH US ON CUBA, SHAKY ON [...] (C) We delivered demarche and talking points regarding the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) upcoming annual session to MFA International Organizations Department Chief Valery Mkrtumyan March 11 per reftel instructions. Mkrtumyan predicted that the GOAM would vote with the USG on the expected [...] | 2005-03-14 09:26:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL CU AM CHR |
05YEREVAN45 | AMBASSADOR DELIVERS WARNING ON ARMS CONTROL [...] (S/NF) In deploying troops to the coalition in Iraq and agreeing to a defense assessment, Armenia has taken important steps in building a broader, deeper defense relationship; lack of full compliance with conventional arms control regimes would negate that progress. That was the message the A [...] | 2005-01-12 12:42:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM PREL MARR KCFE AM OSCE |
05YEREVAN451 | SPIKE IN N-K CEASE-FIRE VIOLATIONS "SEASONAL" [...] (C) The number of cease-fire violations along the line of contact between ethnic Armenian and Azerbaijan forces in the Nagorno-Karabakh region has increased dramatically since the beginning of March. Although accusations of responsibility and casualty figures vary according to the source of th [...] | 2005-03-14 11:17:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PBTS PREL AJ AM |
05YEREVAN469 | CHILD MARRIAGE - ARMENIA [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) There are no reported incidents of child marriage in Armenia, except in small Yezidi and Kurdish national minority groups where experts believe the issue is a problem. No data exist, however, [...] | 2005-03-16 11:59:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB PHUM PGOV SCUL SOCI KWMN AM |
05YEREVAN476 | DESPITE IRAN PIPELINE HEADLINES, ARMENIA-GEORGIA [...] (C) Despite headlines suggesting that the March 11-12 visit of Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Noghaideli focused on energy issues including the announced Iran-Armenia gas pipeline project, sources tell us that this was only casually mentioned during one of the sessions and that the quick series [...] | 2005-03-16 13:40:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GG IR AM |
05YEREVAN477 | JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES WANT TO DO "MAN'S WORK" [...] (SBU) In January, Armenia completed implementation of its Law on Alternatives to Military Service, and 22 members of the Jehovah's Witnesses began work in various civilian institutions around the country. Two of the organization's leaders told us, however, that many of their members are unhap [...] | 2005-03-17 09:29:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN483 | (IMI) BRIEF OVERVIEW OF ARMENIA'S ENERGY [...] This cable gives an overview of Armenia's energy sector. It describes recent industry developments as well as provides key contacts. End Summary. 2. Armenia has no natural fossil fuel energy resources, although some small foreign firms have exploration licenses. Nevertheless, Armenia h [...] | 2005-03-17 12:43:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM |
05YEREVAN500 | PUTIN'S UPCOMING VISIT TO ARMENIA: CEMENTING TIES [...] (C) Russian president Vladimir Putin will visit Yerevan March 24 to 25 on what the Russian Embassy describes as a "working visit." He will make only a few stops during his roughly 24-hour visit, and Russian diplomats told us to expect "no surprises." While the visit may be routine from Mosco [...] | 2005-03-21 13:41:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ENRG AM RU |
05YEREVAN506 | ARMENIA PROSECUTES A CASE OF HATE SPEECH [...] (SBU) On January 24 authorities arrested the leader of the Armenian Aryan Union, Armen Avetisian, for "inciting national hatred," and after a two-day trial he received a suspended sentence on March 18. Avetisian told a newspaper in January that "the future of any nation that has a Jewish commu [...] | 2005-03-22 12:52:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN517 | ARMENIAN DEFMIN ON POW'S, CEASE-FIRE VIOLATIONS [...] (C) Armenian Defense Minister Serzh Sargsian told the Ambassador that Azerbaijan was to blame for the recent increase in cease-fire violations on the line of contact with Azerbaijan. If the International Community was now concerned about the effect of violations on the negotiation process, t [...] | 2005-03-23 12:11:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MARR AM AJ |
05YEREVAN52 | PRESIDENT KOCHARIAN: 2005 TO BE THE YEAR OF TAX AND [...] SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY. NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Armenia's President Robert Kocharian has publicly said that 2005 will be a year of reform for the customs and tax services in Armenia. Besides increasing tax revenu [...] | 2005-01-13 12:24:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KNNP ECON AM |
05YEREVAN520 | (IMI) ARMENIA, COMMERCIAL NEWS SUMMARY: [...] This cable summarizes press reporting on commercial developments in Armenia for March 2005. Major headlines include: -- Germany's Commerzbank to support SME lending program in Armenia; -- Armentel reports earnings up 70 percent in 2004; -- German development bank KFW continues financi [...] | 2005-03-24 08:59:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM |
05YEREVAN521 | CHR-61: FM OSKANIAN SUGGESTS "LIMITED OPTIONS" ON [...] (C) Per instructions in ref A, Ambassador Evans met with FM Vartan Oskanian March 24 to ask the GOAM to rethink its position on a no-action motion on Belarus at the UN Commission on Human Rights. Oskanian said the GOAM would give "serious consideration" to our request given the emphasis the U [...] | 2005-03-24 11:17:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL CU AM CHR |
05YEREVAN524 | EXPLOSIVE DEVICE DESTROYS VEHICLE OF TOP GOAM [...] (U) Local press reported March 24 that an explosive device went off in front of the Armenian State Customs committee building at 10:00 a.m. local time, damaging the official vehicle of the Committee Chairman Armen Avetisyan. Avetisyan had already left the car and had entered the building by th [...] | 2005-03-24 13:36:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ASEC AM |