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05BOGOTA10890	DIAGNOSTIC RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL STOLEN FROM [...] Summary. Colombian state oil company Ecopetrol confirmed that a small container of diagnostic radioactive material was stolen from one of its facilities in early October. The material is used to measure flow rates through its oil pipelines and contains a very low concentration of Cesium-137 [...]	2005-11-22 15:06:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER ENRG EPET CO

05BOGOTA10891	ONDCP DIRECTOR WALTER'S NOVEMBER 8 MEETING WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY. During his visit to Colombia, Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Director John Walters met with the Director of Colombia's National Directorate on Dangerous Drugs (DNE),Juan Vives. Dr. Vives and his DNE colleagues briefed Director Walters on DNE activities, includi [...]	2005-11-22 15:33:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SNAR CO
05BOGOTA10892	ELECTORAL GUARANTEES DECISION BOLD BUT RISKY MOVE [...] (C) The Constitutional Court's ruling in favor of the Electoral Guarantees law was a bold but risky move that some say could call into question the court's legitimacy. The court essentially rewrote the law to avoid sending it back to the Congress for amendments. A Congressional rewrite would [...]	2005-11-22 15:38:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS PINR CO
05BOGOTA10893	GOC REQUESTS U.S. FUNDING OF ILO-SPONSORED [...] (U) The GOC has requested that the U.S. help finance the ILO's Special Program for Colombia, outlined in reftel. The Embassy supports the program and recommends funding at least three of the four projects because they assist in the demobilization and reinsertion process, address major concer [...]	2005-11-22 15:38:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PGOV PHUM CO ILO
05BOGOTA10895	GOC REOPENS PEACE NEGOTIATION OPTION WITH ELN [...] (U) On November 13, in response to a letter from the guarantors group of the "Peace House" initiative with the ELN, Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo issued a call to the National Liberation Army's (ELN) Central Command leaders to begin negotiations with the government under the auspices [...]	2005-11-22 16:34:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV CO
05BOGOTA10949	ARMED CONFRONTATION IN VICINITY OF SAN JOSE DE [...] (C) On November 17 the Embassy received reports from the NGO Fellowship of Reconciliation that there had been an attack by the military on residents of the Peace Community of Arenas Altas, in the municipality of Apartado, Antioquia Department. The Arenas Altas Peace Community is near the Peac [...]	2005-11-23 18:51:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREF CO
05BOGOTA10950	COLOMBIA,S AIR SAFETY CONCERNS [...] (C) Summary. Troubling developments in Colombia,s civil aviation sector have brought to post,s attention that Colombia,s last FAA safety assessment took place in 1999. Recent plane crashes and questions concerning the integrity of the CAA,s safety oversight function suggest, at the least, th [...]	2005-11-23 19:56:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR CO
05BOGOTA10952	COLOMBIA: 2005 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] (U) The following is Embassy Bogota's submission to the 2005 Country Reports on Terrorism. Responses are keyed to questions in reftel's paragraphs 7-10. Embassy POC is Poloff Liliana Gabriel, unclass email gabriell@state.gov 2. (SBU) GENERAL ASSESSMENT: SUPPORT FOR THE GLOBAL COALITION [...]	2005-11-23 20:36:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PGOV KJUS MARR CASC ASEC CO
05BOGOTA10953	NOVEMBER 24 IAEA BOARD MEETING; IRAN NUCLEAR [...] (C) Poloff delivered the points contained in Ref A to Coordinator for the United States and Canada Francisco Gonzalez, stressing the need to make clear the international community's serious concerns about Iran's nuclear ambitions. Gonzalez promised to pass them to Diana Aguilar, Director of M [...]	2005-11-23 22:55:00	Embassy Bogota	SECRET	IAEA PARM PREL AORC KNNP KISL IR CO
05BOGOTA10963	MILITARY JUSTICE: REFORMS ON TRACK, BUDGET FALLS [...] (C) On November 17, Brigadier General Luis Fernando Puentes, Director of Colombia's Military Penal Justice system, noted that reforms were moving forward but budget constraints were becoming problematic. He hopes the Colombian Senate approves the first wave of Congressional reforms, introduce [...]	2005-11-25 16:14:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR MOPS PHUM SNAR CO
05BOGOTA10967	AVIAN AND PANDEMIC INFLUENZA INFORMATION - COLOMBIA [...] (U) In response to reftel, Embassy provides the following responses regarding avian and pandemic influenza preparedness in Colombia. -------------------------- PREPAREDNESS/COMMUNICATION -------------------------- 2. (SBU) DOES THE GOVERNMENT HAVE A PREPAREDNESS PLAN/STRATEGY FOR PREV [...]	2005-11-25 16:30:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID PREL CO
05BOGOTA10990	NATIONAL RECONCILIATION AND REPARATIONS [...] (C) National Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (CNRR) President Eduardo Pizarro Leongomez briefed Ambassador on November 10 on the commission's positive progress to date. Pizarro was highly encouraged by the support CNNR has received from the international community and the Catholic a [...]	2005-11-28 15:38:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS PGOV PREL PTER CO
05BOGOTA10991	DEVELOPMENTS IN CONGRESS AND THE LEAD-UP TO MARCH [...] (C) Summary: With less than a month remaining in the current session, the only major item to pass Congress thus far is the 2006 budget. A law aimed at approving Colombia's compliance with the Hague Convention on child abduction is pending conference committee approval. Opposition to Uribe [...]	2005-11-28 15:42:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PINR CO
05BOGOTA10992	ELN WARMING TO NEGOTIATION OPTIONS, FARC NOT MOVING [...] (C) Summary: On November 21, ELN Spokesperson "Francisco Galan" announced that the ELN was ready to begin establishing peace talks with the Colombian government. Civil society guarantor Alejo Vargas reported optimism that the ELN could be successful in this negotiation effort. At the same tim [...]	2005-11-28 15:54:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV CO
05BOGOTA10993	CHINA'S LIMITED TIES TO COLOMBIA [...] Summary. Ties between China and Colombia are based on a modest economic relationship with minimal interaction on political issues. The level of Chinese investment in Colombia has been very small compared to other countries, but 2005 will show a slight increase from past levels. China views [...]	2005-11-28 16:04:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PREL ETRD ETTC EINV ENRG EAGR EFIN PGOV
05BOGOTA10999	COLOMBIA: OPPOSING ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-28 19:40:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNGA CO
05BOGOTA11030	CUBA: NSC-DIRECTED COUNTRY-BY-COUNTRY REVIEW [...] (C) Colombia has cut off and reestablished diplomatic relations with Cuba multiple times in the past, the bilateral relationship is currently stable, with Colombia generally exercising a "hands off" policy. 2. (C) Colombia has not been a member of the United Nations Commission on Human Ri [...]	2005-11-28 16:04:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ETTC PREL
05BOGOTA11044	ONDCP DIRECTOR WALTERS MEETS WITH PRESIDENT URIBE [...] (C) Summary. During a two-hour meeting with President Uribe on November 9, ONDCP Director John Walters praised GOC efforts to reduce the supply of cocaine and reviewed ONDCP statistics reflecting U.S. consumption, Colombian cultivation (vs spray levels) and potential production, and Andean po [...]	2005-11-28 16:04:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL SNAR CO
05BOGOTA11058	DRUG CZAR WALTERS DISCUSSES PEACE AND JUSTICE LAW [...] (SBU) Summary. On November 9, 2005, ONDCP Director John P. Walters met with Prosecutor General Mario Iguaran Arana and several members of his staff. During the hour-long meeting the two expressed their appreciation for the cooperation that both countries have shown each other in their mutu [...]	2005-11-29 19:34:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	DOJ OPDAT PGOV PHUM SNAR CO
05BOGOTA11084	DIALOGUE ON A FRAMEWORK FOR A STRATEGIC DEFENSE [...] (S) Per reftel, Polcouns and DATT initiated dialogue on a framework for a strategic defense relationship with VMOD Andres Penate and COLMIL's General Padilla on November 22, and with MFA Vice Minister Reyes on November 23. The three officials constitute the internal GOC working group on the m [...]	2005-11-30 15:56:00	Embassy Bogota	SECRET	MARR MCAP PARM PREL CO US PGOV
05BOGOTA11115	COLOMBIA WILL CONSIDER OBSERVERS FOR BOLIVIAN [...] Poloffs delivered reftel demarche to MFA Coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean Hector Arenas Neira and Bolivia desk officer Marcela Rodriguez on November 30, stressing the need for additional observers for Bolivia's December 18 general elections. Poloffs noted that the Government of [...]	2005-12-01 16:46:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL CO
05BOGOTA11123	HUMAN RIGHTS DAY ACTIVITIES IN COLOMBIA [...] (U) Per reftel, in honor of Human Rights Day Ambassador Wood will deliver remarks on December 16 at the graduation of 80 public officials from a USAID-sponsored certification course on human rights. 2. (U) Two other organizations will also host events in honor of Human Rights day. On Satu [...]	2005-12-01 20:57:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL ODIP PGOV APER KPAO CO
05BOGOTA11182	Colombia's efforts towards enhancing security of [...] The NNSA and the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) previously agreed to allocate USD 36,000 towards enhancing the radioactive material repository at the Colombian Institute of Geology and Mining (Ingeominas). The goal of the partnership is to improve Colombia's radioactive material security [...]	2005-12-02 18:06:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER ENRG CO
05BOGOTA11256	G/TIP REPORTS OFFICER REVIEWS COLOMBIA'S EFFORTS [...] On November 6-7 G/TIP Reports Officer Linda Brown and Poloff conducted meetings with the GOC, international organizations and NGOs regarding trafficking in persons from and through Colombia. Colombia continues to prevent trafficking through programs with heavy involvement of NGOs, internation [...]	2005-12-05 16:29:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ELAB CVIS CO
05BOGOTA11257	Colombia's Capital Control Regime - Ineffective and [...] SUMMARY: Colombia's Central Bank has used capital controls to provide macroeconomic stability both before and after the liberalization of the economy since 1967. The latest controls were enacted in late 2004 in hopes of stemming the flow of speculative capital as a response to exporter complai [...]	2005-12-05 17:29:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD EINV CO SIPDIS
05BOGOTA11290	MILITARY JUSTICE REFORM BUDGET TO INCREASE [...] (C) During a meeting with Vice Minister of Defense Jorge Eastman on December 1, DCM raised the need for an adequate budget for military justice reform. Eastman said he had been speaking with Military Penal Justice director Puentes on the matter. The GOC believed this was a high priority and t [...]	2005-12-05 22:19:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PGOV PHUM SNAR CO
05BOGOTA11357	PLAN PATRIOTA PHASE 2B: STATUS REPORT [...] (C) President Uribe relieved Joint Task Force Omega (JTF-O) Commander General Fracica, who was in charge of carrying out Plan Patriota's Phase 2B in Southeastern Colombia, because he had failed to produce concrete results against high value targets (HVTs),Uribe's top security objective. Frac [...]	2005-12-07 19:08:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS PGOV PREL PTER MOPS FARC CO
05BOGOTA11435	ELN-GOC TALKS HAVE SOME CHANCE OF SUCCESS [...] (C) Summary: The meeting between the GOC and the ELN in Cuba next week is the first formal encounter between them in almost four years and should be considered a breakthrough, but few are optimistic success will come easily. The talks will be exploratory with an open agenda, assisted by Norway [...]	2005-12-09 22:21:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER CO
05BOGOTA11459	GUARANTORS BRIEF AMBASSADOR ON GOC-ELN TALKS IN [...] (C) The five "Casa de Paz" initiative guarantors told the Ambassador December 9 they are moderately optimistic about the upcoming GOC-ELN talks in Cuba but have no false illusions. The ELN pushed for December talks when the guarantors would have preferred to wait until late January to prepar [...]	2005-12-12 17:23:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER CO ELN
05BOGOTA11460	URIBE'S CAMPAIGN TEAM PREPARES TO LEAVE [...] (C) President Uribe's comunications advisor Jaime Bermudez said December 7 that Uribe advisor Fabio Echeverri would run the president's reelection campaign. He would be joined by Bermudez, Uribe private secretary Alicia Arango, spokesperson Ricardo Galan (all of whom would have to leave thei [...]	2005-12-12 17:29:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV CO
05BOGOTA11461	GUARANTORS BRIEF AMBASSADOR ON GOC-ELN TALKS IN [...] (C) The five "Casa de Paz" initiative guarantors told the Ambassador December 9 they are moderately optimistic about the upcoming GOC-ELN talks in Cuba but have no false illusions. The ELN pushed for December talks when the guarantors would have preferred to wait until late January to prepar [...]	2005-12-12 17:49:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER CO ELN
05BOGOTA1159	AUC'S LA MOJANA BLOC DEMOBILIZES AND MANCUSO STEPS [...] (U) Summary: 110 members of the La Mojana Bloc of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) demobilized on February 2. They received Reincorporation Program IDs, took a demographic survey, and renounced AUC membership. Six members faced active arrest warrants. The bloc was active in [...]	2005-02-04 15:04:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PHUM KJUS CO OAS AUC
05BOGOTA11611	PRESIDENT URIBE ACCEPTS "INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION" [...] (C) President Uribe announced late on December 13 that the GOC has accepted an "international commission" (representatives from France, Switzerland, and Spain) suggestion to establish a 65 square mile "security zone" in the Valle del Cauca to conduct hostage exchange talks with the FARC. The [...]	2005-12-14 19:44:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER CO FARC
05BOGOTA11615	COLOMBIA'S REACTION TO U.S.-PERU FTA [...] Summary: GOC policy makers are putting a positive public spin on Peru's decision to sign a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the U.S. on December 7. With the Peru agreement, Colombia now has a clear understanding of the way forward to completion of its own FTA. Critics are suggesting the GOC [...]	2005-12-14 21:00:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON CO FTA
05BOGOTA11620	TEXT OF PRESIDENT URIBE AND PEACE COMMISSIONER [...] (U) President Alvaro Uribe Velez and Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo made the following statements at a press conference at the Presidential Palace on December 13, 2005, regarding the decision by the GOC to accept the international commission's proposal to create a 65 square mile "secur [...]	2005-12-14 23:33:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PTER CO FARC
05BOGOTA11686	DIPLOMATIC NOTE REGARDING GOC RESPONSE TO ORLANDO [...] (C) On December 12, 2005, the Ministry of Foreign Relations sent a diplomatic note to the Embassy regarding a November 22 meeting between Ambassador Wood and Foreign Minister Carolina Barco on the subject of murdered Afro-Colombian leader Orlando Valencia (copy faxed to WHA/AND). As reported [...]	2005-12-16 12:07:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER CO
05BOGOTA11700	REGULATING MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 27, President Uribe announced his intention to run for reelection. Uribe's 90-minute radio interview on November 29 caused debate, as National Electoral Council (CNE) head Guillermo Mejia questioned equality of access for opposition candidates. A separate CNE magi [...]	2005-12-16 20:13:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KPAO CO
05BOGOTA11742	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES PARAMILITARY ISSUES WITH [...] (C) Summary: On December 15, Ambassador hosted a breakfast for Senator Rafael Pardo, Liberal Party presidential nomination candidate, and prominent critic of the GOC on paramilitary (AUC) demobilization and the Justice and Peace Law. Pardo criticized the law as weak on justice, reparations, [...]	2005-12-19 19:14:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS PTER SNAR CO
05BOGOTA11743	SFRC STAFFER MEACHAM DISCUSSES DRUGS, [...] (C) SFRC staffer Carl Meacham discussed GOC counternarcotics efforts, paramilitary demobilization, extradition, and Venezuela with senior GOC figures during his December 11-14 visit to Bogota. (Meacham's meeting with President Alvaro Uribe is reported reftel.) Inspector General Edgardo Maya [...]	2005-12-19 19:25:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER SNAR KCRM CO
05BOGOTA11783	ICRC REP ON INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION PROPOSAL FOR [...] (C) RefCoord met with International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Head of Delegation Juan Pedro Schaerer December 19. Schaerer (protect) expressed disappointment that the GoC immediately made public its acceptance of an international commission's plan on December 13 (see reftel) to conduc [...]	2005-12-20 15:08:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PINS CO FARC
05BOGOTA11786	COLOMBIAN CERD CANDIDATE PASTOR ELIAS MURILLO [...] Post provides the following additional information about Pastor Elias Murillo Martinez, Colombian candidate for the Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD). 2. The Embassy, particularly the Public Affairs Section (PAS),has collaborated with Pastor Murillo on several cultur [...]	2005-12-20 16:00:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC PREL PHUM CO
05BOGOTA118	COLOMBIA: 2004 ANNUAL TERRORISM REPORT [...] (U) Embassy Bogota's contribution to the 2004 Patterns of Global Terrorism report follows. Responses are keyed to questions in reftel's paragraph 15. Embassy POC is Poloff Dana Brown, (phone) 571-315-2129, unclass email browndml@state.gov. 2. (SBU) (A) SUPPORT FOR THE GLOBAL COALITION AGA [...]	2005-01-05 22:16:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER ASEC PBTS CO
05BOGOTA11814	DAS DIRECTOR PENATE MAY RESIGN OVER URIBE REPROACH [...] (C) On December 20, Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad (DAS) Director Andres Penate told polcouns that he was upset with President Uribe for excoriating him in public after he tried to correct the record regarding Venezuelan allegations that GOC military officials were working with forme [...]	2005-12-20 22:51:00	Embassy Bogota	SECRET	MOPS PINR PREL CO
05BOGOTA11816	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES PARAMILITARY INFLUENCE, [...] (C) On December 17, Minister of Interior and Justice Sabas Pretelt and Prosecutor General Mario Iguaran met with the Ambassador to discuss the Ambassador's December 16 speech in which he urged that Justice and Peace law benefits be withdrawn from paramilitaries who interfered with a free and f [...]	2005-12-21 15:12:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS PGOV PREL PTER CO
05BOGOTA11850	2006 HAGUE COMPLIANCE REVIEW -- COLOMBIA [...] Per reftel, paragraph 4, Bogota proposes the following text for use in compiling the next Hague Compliance Report on Colombia. The proposed language reflects significantly improved work on behalf of the Colombian executive and legislative branches on Hague issues, but continuing and serious [...]	2005-12-21 22:19:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	CASC KOCI CO
05BOGOTA11862	ICRC CHIEF REVEALS FARC AND ELN CONTACTS ON POLICE [...] (C) International Committee of the Red Cros (ICRC) Colombia Head of Delegation Juan Pedro Schaerer said December 21 the FARC and ELN had called him the previous day to make arrangements to transfer 29 police hostages to ICRC custody. The army located the hostages before the ICRC could finalize [...]	2005-12-22 16:59:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER SNAR CO
05BOGOTA11901	COLOMBIA: SECTION 1377 TELECOM TRADE AGREEMENTS [...] (SBU) Summary. Avantel, a U.S. affiliated telecommunications company in Colombia, continues to assert that Colombia has not been in compliance with its telecommunications trade agreements. According to Avantel, Colombia has not offered complete and fair access to and use of public telecommu [...]	2005-12-23 15:12:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ECPS ETRD CO
05BOGOTA11926	GOC-ELN TALKS: CIVIL SOCIETY GUARANTOR PROVIDES [...] (C) One of the five civil society guarantors for the GOC-ELN talks, Moritz Akerman, said December 26 the ELN wanted to end its insurgency and run candidates for mayoral offices in 2007. The ELN would like to participate in the 2006 Congressional and presidential polls but only by "consulting [...]	2005-12-27 19:00:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER CO ELN
05BOGOTA11952	DUTCH MANUAL ERADICATION AND ALTERNATIVE [...] (SBU) According to the Dutch Embassy in Bogota, the Kingdom of the Netherlands is increasing its support to manual eradication and alternative development projects in Colombia's National Parks. The two new programs listed below will be started in CY2006: A. "Forced Manual Eradication o [...]	2005-12-28 18:56:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR CO
05BOGOTA11959	MINI-DUBLIN GROUP MEETING HIGHLIGHTS [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 14, 2005, representatives from various European countries and the U.S. met to review the Group's annual report on Colombia and to solicit additional information from member countries. The report's main point is that eradication and interdiction numbers for Colombia [...]	2005-12-28 21:04:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR PREL CO EC
05BOGOTA11995	MULTILATERAL STRATEGY ON AERIAL ERADICATION NEAR [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 6. -------- Summary ------- 2. (C) The Government of Ecuador (GOE) has proposed a UN study on the alleged negative health effects associated with the Government of Colombia's (GOC) aerial spraying of glyphosate near Ecuador's northe [...]	2005-12-29 18:30:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR PREL CO EC OAS UN
05BOGOTA12022	FARC ATTACK KILLS 29; MILITARY CONCEDES ERRORS [...] (C) The FARC killed 29 Colombian soldiers from the counter-guerrilla 12th Mobile Brigade in a December 27 attack about 105 miles south of Bogota, one of the highest casualty figures in a single attack during President Uribe's term. Colombian intelligence officials suggest the 12th Mobile Brig [...]	2005-12-30 16:07:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER MARR CO
05BOGOTA12023	SPANISH CHARGE SAYS SPAIN OPPOSED TO MOVING ELN [...] (C) On December 29, Spain's Charge d'affaires in Bogota said it was not prepared to support moving GOC-ELN talks from Cuba to Europe and predicted the talks would have little substantive result before the May 2006 presidential elections. He said Norway and Switzerland, who are "accompanying [...]	2005-12-30 16:17:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV CO
05BOGOTA12024	SPANISH CHARGE SAYS SPAIN OPPOSED TO MOVING ELN [...] (C) On December 29, Spain's Charge d'affaires in Bogota said it was not prepared to support moving GOC-ELN talks from Cuba to Europe and predicted the talks would have little substantive result before the May 2006 presidential elections. He said Norway and Switzerland, who are "accompanying [...]	2005-12-30 16:34:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV CO
05BOGOTA12031	PEACE COMMISSIONER RECAPS YEAR-END STATUS WITH [...] (C) On December 28, the Ambassador reviewed all peace processes with Colombian Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo. Regarding the ELN, Restrepo told the Ambassador that he had successfully resisted ELN pressure -- abetted by the French and especially the Norwegian facilitators -- to move [...]	2005-12-30 19:11:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS PGOV PREL PTER CO
05BOGOTA1296	PRESIDENT URIBE MEETS WITH USAID ADMINISTRATOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Uribe expressed his gratitude for U.S. support of Colombia during his February 3 meeting with USAID Administrator Natsios, before the opening of the International Donors Conference on Colombia in Cartagena. In a wide ranging discussion, Uribe reviewed outstanding human [...]	2005-02-09 18:41:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PINR EAID CO
05BOGOTA1297	AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH UNODC DIRECTOR [...] (SBU) On February 3, Ambassador met with Antonio Maria Costa, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and local UNODC representative Ambassador Sandro Calvani on the margins of the international cooperation meeting in Cartagena. Ambassador expressed concern [...]	2005-02-09 19:02:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR PTER PREL PINR CO
05BOGOTA1306	URIBE OPENS CARTAGENA COORDINATION AND [...] Summary: On February 3 in Cartagena, President Uribe addressed representatives of 28 nations and multilateral organizations (still termed the G-24) at the day-long International Coordination and Cooperation Conference for Colombia. Uribe stated that Colombia is not in conflict, but rather a [...]	2005-02-09 21:53:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL EAID PTER KJUS CO
05BOGOTA1397	NAS Monthly Report January 2005: [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In January, Colombian National Police (CNP) sprayed 15,723 hectares of coca and finalized plans for a large manual poppy eradication campaign to start in February in Narino. A Colombian Army helicopter carrying sixteen Counter-Narcotics (CD) Brigade soldiers and four crewmembers [...]	2005-02-14 18:04:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR EFIN KCRM PTER CO
05BOGOTA1457	INPUT FOR S TESTIMONY ON COLOMBIAN DEMOBILIZATION [...] No summary [...]	2005-02-15 19:23:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV CO
05BOGOTA1604	PLAN COLOMBIA IMPLEMENTATION ROUND-UP, JANUARY, 2005 [...] (U) The following is an update of Plan Colombia-related activities reported during January, 2005. ---------- DOJ/ICITAP ---------- 2. (U) From January 25-28, the DOJ International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP) and U.S. Secret Service (USSS) presented a Fina [...]	2005-02-18 19:48:00	Embassy Bogota	SECRET	PREL PGOV SNAR MASS PREF EAID KJUS CO
05BOGOTA162	2004 COUNTER-TERRORISM WRAP-UP [...] (C) In spite of limited air mobility and ground support/fixed wing aircraft and the challenge of supporting some 17,000 troops of Plan Patriota operating in hostile jungle, the security forces made great advances in 2004, re-taking 11 FARC-run villages and destroying over 400 FARC camps. Else [...]	2005-01-06 20:25:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER SNAR PHUM ASEC CO
05BOGOTA164	CHEVRONTEXACO'S OUTLOOK ON COLOMBIA [...] (SBU) Summary. On December 22, Ambassador Wood met with ChevronTexaco's Chairman of the Board, David O'Reilly, and other ChevronTexaco executives to discuss oil and gas related issues in Colombia. O'Reilly was pleased with the relationship between Colombia and ChevronTexaco, and said his co [...]	2005-01-06 20:28:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ECON EINV CO
05BOGOTA1660	DEMOBILIZATION LAWS: COMPETING DRAFTS IN SPECIAL [...] (C) On February 9, the GOC formally presented to Congress its version of a law that would impose alternative sentences on members of illegal armed groups accused of serious crimes who demobilize and comply with specific conditions. A group of Colombian legislators led by Senator Rafael Pardo f [...]	2005-02-18 22:35:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS PHUM PTER PINR PGOV CO
05BOGOTA1696	SO FAR SO GOOD: BOGOTA MAYOR GARZON'S FIRST YEAR [...] (U) Bogota's left-of-center mayor, Luis Eduardo ("Lucho") Garzon, has avoided controversy and generally refrained from speaking out on national issues, particularly public security. Garzon has drawn relatively little criticism for his administration's management of the city, although his gove [...]	2005-02-23 11:58:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON CO
05BOGOTA1705	MILITARY JUSTICE TAKES FIRST STEPS TOWARDS REFORM [...] Summary: Director of Military Justice Brigadier General Puentes has proposed a two-phase reform strategy to present to Congress in March and July of this year. While the plan does not establish an independent body outside of the Ministry of Defense, it does attempt to overcome recurring compl [...]	2005-02-23 13:26:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KJUS PHUM MOPS CO
05BOGOTA1706	PEACE COMMISSIONER'S CONCERNS ABOUT DEMOBILIZATION [...] (C) Summary: On February 17, President Uribe rejected Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo's offer to resign and authorized him to suggest changes to the GOC's draft demobilization law. Restrepo explained to the Ambassador that he fears the current GOC draft law would discourage demobiliza [...]	2005-02-23 13:30:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PHUM KJUS PREL PGOV CO
05BOGOTA1728	U/S GROSSMAN MEETS WITH HUMAN RIGHTS NGOS [...] February 14, 2005, 4:00-5:00 p.m., Ambassador's residence, Bogota 2. Participants: ---- U.S. ---- Marc Grossman, U/S for Political Affairs Ambassador William B. Wood Jeffrey DeLaurentis, Political Counselor Baxter Hunt, P Special Assistant Kiersten Stiansen, notetaker Nohemy Katta [...]	2005-02-23 18:59:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL PTER PINR KJUS EAID CO
05BOGOTA1735	U/S GROSSMAN AND SENATOR PARDO DISCUSS LEGAL [...] (C) Summary: On February 14, visiting U/S Grossman and Ambassador discussed the status of draft demobilization legislation with Senator Rafael Pardo. U/S Grossman expressed the U.S. desire that any legislation be transparent, workable, and put the paramilitaries out of business. Pardo worr [...]	2005-02-23 19:53:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS PTER CO
05BOGOTA174	FACILITATING GOC MEETING WITH UN HIGH COMMISSIONER [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paras 7 and 8. 2. (C) Summary: Relations between the GOC and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Bogota, in particular with the approach of director Michael Fruhling, remain strained. Per ref a, the GOC views the OHCHR office he [...]	2005-01-06 21:31:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL CO UNSC
05BOGOTA1750	UNDER SECRETARY GROSSMAN MEETS FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY. Foreign Minister Carolina Barco told U/S Grossman on February 14 that the GOC was satisfied with the international donors conference in Cartagena, in particular with USAID Administrator's speech and the NGO declaration. The latter would be a solid foundation on which to deepen GOC [...]	2005-02-24 12:11:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CO
05BOGOTA1751	UNDER SECRETARY GROSSMAN MEETS PRESIDENT URIBE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 14, U/S Grossman and President Uribe discussed the demobilization law, Uribe's preparations for his meeting with President Chavez the following day, securing support from neighboring countries in the fight against narco-terrorism, human rights, and potential GOC counte [...]	2005-02-24 12:11:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL
05BOGOTA1768	PROCEDURAL ISSUES AND LEGAL QUESTIONS SURROUNDING [...] (SBU) Summary: Congress is gearing up to debate demobilization legislation in a special session convened by the GOC. In a meeting with U/S Grossman on February 14 (septel),President Uribe said the earliest possible resolution of the law would be mid-June. Our senior Congressional interloc [...]	2005-02-24 15:26:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KJUS PTER CO AUC
05BOGOTA1775	ELN PEACE TALK'S ADVANCES AND RETREATS [...] (C): Mexican facilitator for the peace process with the National Liberation Army (ELN) Andres Valencia met with the Ambassador on February 18 to report on progress this year. Although January saw positive commitments by both the ELN and GOC on negotiation pre-requisites (ref a),the process stalle [...]	2005-02-24 16:09:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PTER CO MX ELN
05BOGOTA1918	MASSACRE OF 13 PERSONS IN URABA AREA [...] (C) On February 24, Embassy received reports that eight persons, including three members of the peace community of Apartado, had been killed, dismembered, and buried in two separate graves in the Uraba region of Antioquia Department. The Government of Colombia immediately sent members of the F [...]	2005-03-01 17:45:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PTER CO
05BOGOTA1928	TAMPA AIRLINES REVISITED [...] (C) As stated previously in Reftel A, Post again has no objection to Ex-Im Bank's financing of a Boeing 767-300F cargo aircraft for Tampa Airlines based on currently available information. A noteworthy change in the last two months has been the involvement of Tampa Airlines' security offices [...]	2005-03-01 20:01:00	Embassy Bogota	SECRET	EAIR CO
05BOGOTA1929	GOC FIRES LEAD IPR NEGOTIATOR FOR THE FTA [...] (SBU) On February 24 Commerce Minister Botero and FTA chief negotiator Gomez announced that the GOC removed Colombia's lead intellectual property negotiator, Luis Angel Madrid. Javier Gamboa, Madrid's deputy, will now lead the Colombian IP team. Botero and Gomez fired Madrid after findin [...]	2005-03-01 20:07:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD KIPR CO FTA
05BOGOTA1999	PEACE COMMUNITY COMMISSION FINDS NO THIRD MASSACRE [...] (U) On March 1, local representatives from the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) told Embassy that no third massacre site had been found, as had been previously reported (reftel). Two separate commissions, each made up of members of the peace community, went to the towns of Las Nieves and La [...]	2005-03-02 20:51:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PTER CO
05BOGOTA2001	COLOMBIA: SECTION 1377 TELECOM TRADE AGREEMENTS [...] Per reftel, Econoff met with appropriate Colombian government authorities, including the GOC's Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (CRT),and provides the following responses to complaints about excessive mobile to mobile termination rates, excessive fixed to mobile termination rates, an [...]	2005-03-02 21:18:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON ECPS CO
05BOGOTA2011	FARC REPEATS EXCHANGE TERMS AND ATTACKS [...] (C) On February 25, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) released a communique reiterating its interest in a humanitarian exchange of prisoners with the GOC. Such an exchange, according to the FARC leadership, would have to include Simon Trinidad (extradited to the U.S. in Decem [...]	2005-03-03 13:46:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC PGOV PHUM CO
05BOGOTA2052	COMBINED COLOMBIAN POLICE AND ARMY AVIATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Colombian Army (COLAR) helicopters recently supported a Colombian National Police (CNP) airmobile assault on cocaine hydrochlide (HCL) processing laboratories. The eight-day operation was notable not only for its operational results - three laboratories were destroyed and nearl [...]	2005-03-03 19:16:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR MOPS MASS CO
05BOGOTA2121	CHILD MARRIAGE [...] Per the Colombian Civil Code, the legal age of marriage in Colombia for both boys and girls is 18. However, with parents' consent men of 14 and women of 12 can marry. 2. Underage marriage is not a problem in Colombia. 3. There are no U.S. funded intiatives in Colombia regarding child [...]	2005-03-04 16:32:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ELAB PHUM PGOV SCUL SOCI KWMN
05BOGOTA2156	REINSERTED GUERRILLA CLAIMS FARC RESPONSIBLE FOR [...] (S/NF) On March 2, Embassy officials met with reinserted FARC guerrilla member, Elkin Dario Tuberquia (strictly protect),and 17th Battalion Commander Lt. Colonel Nestor Duque Lopez. Tuberquia alleged that the FARC was responsible for the killings of the eight individuals as the three men, in [...]	2005-03-04 21:49:00	Embassy Bogota	SECRET//NOFORN	PHUM PTER CO
05BOGOTA221	COLOMBIA'S ECONOMY IN 2004 LOOKED STRONG, BUT... [...] (C) Summary: While the Colombian economy posted positive results in 2004, the sustainability of such performance is still in question. On the macroeconomic side, growth reached almost 4 percent; IMF targets for the budget deficit, inflation, and reserves were either met or exceeded; publi [...]	2005-01-07 21:29:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EINV EAGR PGOV CO
05BOGOTA2216	LIBERAL PARTY LEADER ON PLANS FOR 2006 ELECTORAL [...] (SBU) Senator Juan Fernando Cristo, the President of the Officialist Liberal Party (PLC),told us that his party's planning for the 2006 electoral season is still in the early stages. Cristo believed that a nationwide party primary would be the vehicle to select its presidential nominee. He [...]	2005-03-07 22:52:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV CO
05BOGOTA2217	TWO MAJOR LEFT PARTIES LIKELY TO FORM ELECTORAL [...] (C) In recent meetings with poloffs, Senators Samuel Moreno and Carlos Gaviria, heads of leftist parties Independent Democratic Pole (PDI) and Democratic Alternative (AD, Alternativa Democratica),respectively, confirmed the conclusion of negotiations to form an electoral alliance for 2006 Co [...]	2005-03-07 23:02:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV CO
05BOGOTA224	TELECOMMUNICATIONS, THE FTA, AND THE NEED FOR [...] (C) Summary. While the telecommunications chapter in the Andean Free Trade Agreement (FTA) should conclude at the next round, Colombia will be unable to fully enjoy the benefits of the chapter without either privatization or joint ventures as well as more autonomy for the Colombian Regulator [...]	2005-01-07 21:29:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ECPS CO FTA
05BOGOTA2266	COLOMBIA'S FIFTH ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN [...] (U) Embassy point of contact on trafficking in persons is human rights officer Kiersten Stiansen, phone number (571) 383-2122, fax number (571) 315-2163. Officer spent 55 hours preparing report. 2. (U) Responses are keyed to questions as noted in paragraphs 18-21 of reftel. --------- [...]	2005-03-09 13:27:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB CO
05BOGOTA2304	OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM: REDUCTION IN OIL EXPORTS DUE [...] (C) Summary: The Cano Limon pipeline has been hit eight times this year, generating losses of over USD 25 million (more than the losses in 2004). The area attacked has also changed, with half the attacks in the Catatumbo region of Norte de Santander Department, where repairs are more diffic [...]	2005-03-09 22:08:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET MCAP MOPS CO
05BOGOTA2306	GOC PRESENTS NEW DEMOBILIZATION LAW [...] (C) The GOC submitted to Congress on March 4, its revised Law for Justice and Peace, based on input from Peace Commissioner Restrepo, the Deputy Prosecutor General, "Uribista" congressmen, and others. Formal debate began in the Senate and House First Committees on March 8. The draft Law for [...]	2005-03-09 22:12:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PHUM KJUS PREL CO
05BOGOTA2348	PBI REPRESENTATIVES CONFIRM PEACE COMMUNITY WILL [...] (C) On March 4, Embassy officials met with local representatives of Peace Brigades International (PBI),who described their visit to the massacre site of eight civilians in the Uraba region of Antioquia Department and confirmed that the "peace community" to which the victims belong will not co [...]	2005-03-10 22:06:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PTER CO
05BOGOTA2367	COLOMBIAN TRADE MINISTER DISCUSSES NEXT STEPS IN [...] (C) Summary. During a March 9 meeting with the Ambassador, Trade Minister Botero and FTA chief negotiator Gomez emphasized the GOC's need to close FTA negotiations by June and the commitment of the Colombian negotiating team to do so. Botero and Gomez also expressed their desire to advance [...]	2005-03-11 19:07:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON EAGR ECPS EINV KIPR CO FTA
05BOGOTA2505	NAS MONTHLY REPORT FEBRUARY 2005 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The spray program eradicated 18,086 hectares of coca in February. Colombian Army (COLAR) and Colombian National Police Antinarcotics Directorate (DIRAN) units conducted joint interdiction operations (septel). Colombian Army Plan Colombia helicopters provided 1,993 hours of supp [...]	2005-03-15 21:26:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR EFIN KCRM PTER CO
05BOGOTA2526	A CLOSER LOOK AT DEMOBILIZED AUC DEATHS [...] (C) Thirty-two out of 3,784 demobilized paramilitaries have been killed since the United Self Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) began demobilizing in 2004. This figure does not include the nineteen members of the Cacique Nutibara Bloc (BCN) killed in Medellin, whose demobilization was not held [...]	2005-03-16 15:37:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PTER SNAR CO OAS
05BOGOTA2555	EMBASSY BRIEFS GOC ON USG EFFORTS ON TRAFFICKING [...] On March 11, Consul General, Fraud Unit Chief, and Political Officer briefed Government of Colombia (GOC) officials and representatives from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on U.S. efforts to combat trafficking in persons. This was the fourth briefing IOM has organized betw [...]	2005-03-17 17:43:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KWMN KJUS KFRD CO
05BOGOTA2561	REGIONAL COLOMBIAN LIQUOR MONOPOLIES TARGET EACH [...] Summary. Emboffs made a recent visit to one of Colombia's regional "licoreras" to learn how these publicly held monopolies manufacture and distribute Colombia's favorite hard liquors, aguardiente (cane liquor) and rum. Emboffs also held a follow on meeting with the Executive Director of the N [...]	2005-03-17 19:22:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD KIPR CO
05BOGOTA2563	Colombia's First Oral Trial [...] On March 11, the first trial under the new Criminal Procedure Code took place at "Paloquemao", the main local judicial district and courthouse in Bogota. A standing-room only crowd of about 60 people watched this historic event, including television and print media and the Deputy Prosecutor G [...]	2005-03-17 19:24:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	KJUS KCRM SNAR PREL CO
05BOGOTA2564	UNHCHR RELEASES ITS 2004 HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT [...] (C) On March 11, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights released its 2004 human rights report on Colombia. The report once again characterized the human rights situation in Colombia as "critical," and noted an increased number of reports of State-sponsored extrajudicial killing [...]	2005-03-17 19:25:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PINR PREL PGOV CO
05BOGOTA2566	AUC REJECTS LAW FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE [...] (C) The AUC publicly rejected the GOC's draft Law for Justice and Peace on March 15. They complained it did not provide genuine reinsertion benefits, generated too much legal uncertainty, should be a statutory law, and imposed unfair prison sentences. In response, the House and Senate first [...]	2005-03-17 19:41:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KJUS PHUM CO AUC

05BOGOTA2577	COLOMBIA'S CANDIDACY FOR UN SECURITY COUNCIL [...] No summary [...]	2005-03-17 20:59:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL OPDC CO UNSC UNGA
05BOGOTA2582	LIVELY DEBATE UNDERWAY ON DEMOBILIZATION [...] (C) Summary: The week of March 8 saw heated public debate over important aspects of demobilization legislation. The three principal issues that captured attention were: (A) whether the GOC's bill could complicate the extradition of paramilitaries on drug trafficking charges; (B) the desirabil [...]	2005-03-17 21:24:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS PTER CO
05BOGOTA2619	AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH PEACE COMMUNITY ABOUT URABA [...] (C) On March 16, Ambassador met with representatives of the peace community of San Jose de Apartado, who reiterated their statements that the February 21-22 massacre of eight civilians in the area was the work of the Army's 17th Brigade. Ambassador expressed condolences to the community and r [...]	2005-03-18 20:14:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PTER CO
05BOGOTA2634	UPDATED INPUT FOR ICRAS PROCESS [...] Summary: The 2005 ICRAS draft contains out of date information on the political, economic, and security situation in Colombia. Below, post provides an accurate update for input to the ICRAS process. End Summary. 2. Expected Payments Performance Overview: In 2003, the economy grew at 3. [...]	2005-03-22 12:05:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ECON EFIN CO
05BOGOTA2649	CONGRESS PASSES 29 ARTICLES IN DEMOBILIZATION LAW [...] (C) Before pausing for holy week, Congress passed 29 out of 67 articles in the draft Law for Justice and Peace. Disagreement over controversial issues, including confession, alleged extradition loopholes, and reduction of jail sentences for all prisoners remain unresolved. The GOC will propos [...]	2005-03-22 18:31:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KJUS PINR PREL PHUM CO
05BOGOTA2650	UNHCHR FRUHLING DISCUSSES HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT WITH [...] (C) On March 18, Michael Fruhling, Director of the Colombia Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) briefed the diplomatic community on his recently released report on the human rights situation in Colombia. Fruhling gave a brief overview of the report and rec [...]	2005-03-22 18:35:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PINR PREL CO
05BOGOTA2674	GOC OFFICIALS DISCUSS URABA MASSACRE CASE [...] (C) During her March 6-9 visit to Bogota, WHA/AND Director Lisa Bobbie Schreiber Hughes (LBSH) met with Vice-President Francisco Santos and Elba Beatriz Silva, Director of the Fiscalia's Human Rights Unit, to discuss the need to show progress in resolving outstanding human rights cases, as well [...]	2005-03-22 21:19:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PTER CO
05BOGOTA2728	COLOMBIA: COCA CULTIVATION ESTIMATES [...] (SBU) Summary: The geographic expanse of Colombia, adverse meteorological conditions, relocation of cultivation to non-traditional growing areas, and the lag between the capture of overhead imagery and analysis combine to frustrate the estimation of coca cultivation in Colombia. Estimates prov [...]	2005-03-23 21:44:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR KCRM PTER CO
05BOGOTA2773	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR DEMINING PAV [...] Country clearance is granted for Allan Schnabel, John Jordan, Stephen Meyer, and Harry McCloy to travel to Bogota April 4-8 2005. Purpose of the visit is to assess the humanitarian demining situation in Colombia. Travelers are requested to advise control officer ASAP if visit is canceled or [...]	2005-03-29 14:35:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT ASEC OTRA CO
05BOGOTA2853	INITIAL IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NEW ACCUSATORY [...] ON JANUARY 1, COLOMBIA INTRODUCED ITS NEW CRIMINAL PROCEDURE CODE IN THE JUDICIAL DISTRICTS OF BOGOTA, ARMENIA, MANIZALES, AND PEREIRA. OTHER JUDICIAL DISTRICTS WILL MAKE THE TRANSITION TO THE NEW SYSTEM OVER THE NEXT THREE YEARS. THE NEW CODE IMPLEMENTS AN ACCUSATORIAL JUSTICE SYSTEM SIMILAR [...]	2005-03-30 18:10:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	KJUS KCRM PGOV CO
05BOGOTA2854	DUTCH-FUNDED COLOMBIAN ANTI-IMPUNITY PROJECT [...] (U) For the past six years, the Government of the Netherlands (GON) has supported GOC efforts to investigate and prosecute high-profile human rights cases. In June 2003, the GON agreed to donate 340,000 USD to finance a two-year Anti-Impunity Project focused on resolving prominent cases and d [...]	2005-03-30 18:38:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KJUS CO
05BOGOTA3040	GOC "READY" TO SPRAY IN PARKS [...] (SBU) GOC Minister of Defense Jorge Alberto Uribe Echavarria informed the Ambassador on March 29 that the Government of Colombia is ready to initiate aerial eradication operations in Colombia's national parks and natural reserves. Spraying in the parks has been a particularly contentious coun [...]	2005-04-04 17:53:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR KCRM PTER CO
05BOGOTA3041	AIR BRIDGE DENIAL: FEBRUARY 2005 PROGRAM UPDATE [...] (U) Summary: Following is the February 2005 Air Bridge Denial (ABD) activity report required by ref A. There were 5167 tracks noted, of which 16 were declared Unidentified, Assumed Suspect (UAS) Tracks, with one Phase III event/Law Enforcement End Game where an aircraft was destroyed and 600 [...]	2005-04-04 20:10:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR PREL MOPS MASS PGOV CO
05BOGOTA3052	THE VOLUNTARY PRINCIPLES PROCESS IN COLOMBIA [...] Summary. On March 29, Vice President Santos hosted a meeting on the Voluntary Principles (VPs) process in Colombia. Present at the meeting were the Ambassador, members of the National Committee on Voluntary Principles, and representatives from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Presidenci [...]	2005-04-04 20:47:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG ETRD PHUM PREL CO
05BOGOTA3076	COLOMBIA: CIVAIR'S RESPONSE TO TECHNICAL [...] Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Summary. Per ref A, post delivered talking points to Colonel Montealegre, acting director for Aeronautica Civil (CAA),and Carlos Salazar, CAA's Chief of Air Transport. The meeting focused on Avianca's waiver request to the [...]	2005-04-05 17:39:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR CO
05BOGOTA3217	SCENESETTER FOR CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHIEFS OF [...] (C) With USG assistance, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has made great strides in fighting drug trafficking and terrorism. A nation-wide, multi-phased offensive by the security forces has re-taken key territory from the FARC. The peace process with the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia [...]	2005-04-07 17:21:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SNAR PTER KJUS PHUM CO
05BOGOTA3223	DEMOBILIZATION LAW: THREE CONTROVERSIAL ARTICLES [...] (U) Summary: The Senate and House First Committees have voted on 63 out 67 articles (reftel). Several contentious articles -- to block drug traffickers from benefiting; to call for, but not require, an open statement on crimes and illicit assets by each beneficiary; to allow individual desert [...]	2005-04-07 18:06:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KJUS PINR PGOV PHUM CO
05BOGOTA3224	COLOMBIA OFFICE OF UNHCHR RELEASES HELPFUL [...] (U) On March 22, 2005, the Colombia office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) issued a constructive statement on its website regarding the February 21 massacre of eight civilians in the Uraba region of Antioquia Department, including three members of the peace co [...]	2005-04-07 19:21:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PTER CO
05BOGOTA3233	FARC ATTACKS LOCALIZED TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY [...] (U) This cable replaces Bogota 3073 which was transmitted in error. Please destroy all prior copies. 2. (S/NF) Summary. FARC violence in the first quarter of 2005, although tactically aggressive, remained localized and below 2004 levels in all categories: attacks against military and [...]	2005-04-07 19:45:00	Embassy Bogota	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER PINS MOPS PHUM FARC
05BOGOTA3235	MILITARY JUSTICE REFORM MOVES FORWARD [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 8. 2. (C) Summary: Director of Military Penal Justice (MPJ) Brigadier General Luis Fernando Puentes told Emboff on March 16 that the "shock" reform package (reftel) would be submitted to Congress this week. In preparation for the rollout, Puentes an [...]	2005-04-07 20:00:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KJUS MOPS PHUM CO
05BOGOTA3248	AMBASSADOR COMMENTS ON DEMOBILIZATION LAW [...] (U) On April 7, the Ambassador was quoted in Colombia's leading daily newspaper El Tiempo about the Law for Justice and Peace. He said, "the Law for Peace and Justice is a matter for the Colombian Congress to decide. As we have said in the past, it is crucial that the Congress adopt a law qu [...]	2005-04-07 20:52:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER SNAR KJUS PREL CO
05BOGOTA3286	PLAN COLOMBIA IMPLEMENTATION ROUND-UP, MARCH, 2005 [...] (U) The following is an update of Plan Colombia activities reported during March, 2005. ------- DOJ/DEA ------- 2. (SBU) To date US $11.3 million has been invested in the purchase of hardware, software, monitoring suites, the vetting process and maintenance for Operation Esperanza, Col [...]	2005-04-08 19:30:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SNAR MASS PREF EAID KJUS CO
05BOGOTA335	PLAN COLOMBIA/COLOMBIAN ARMY BLACKHAWK GOES DOWN IN [...] AT APPROXIMATELY 0020 ON JANUARY 13, A PLAN COLOMBIA/COLOMBIAN ARMY UH-60 BLACKHAWK HELICOPTER WITH 20 TROOPS CRASHED DUE TO BAD WEATHER APPROXIMATELY 36 MILES NORTHEAST OF TUMACO IN THE DEPARTMENT OF NARINO, ON COLOMBIA'S PACIFIC COAST. THERE WERE NO SURVIVORS. 2. THE HELICOPTER WAS CARRYI [...]	2005-01-13 20:14:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR PTER MOPS CO
05BOGOTA3361	INTERNATIONAL DELEGATION VISITS SAN JOSE DE [...] No summary [...]	2005-04-12 13:10:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PTER CO
05BOGOTA3390	VOA Delegation Strengthens Relations in Colombia [...] (U) SUMMARY: In a visit to Colombia March 15-16, Broadcast Board Governor (BBG) Blanquita Cullum, Voice of America (VOA) Director David Jackson, and VOA Director for Latin America Richard Araujo met with leading Colombian broadcast journalists and news directors to discuss VOA programming and [...]	2005-04-12 17:41:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO OPRC PREL SNAR PGOV CO
05BOGOTA3422	ZAPATERO VISIT AFFIRMS SUPPORT FOR URIBE [...] (SBU) Summary: Spanish President Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's March 31 visit to Bogota, as well as his participation in a March 29 four-party summit in Venezuela, produced positive results diplomatically for the GOC. Zapatero pledged support on the critical issues of terrorism and trade and [...]	2005-04-13 14:23:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PTER PREL PGOV PINR CO
05BOGOTA3438	AUC CRITICIZES DEMOBILIZATION LAW AGAIN [...] (C) Several paramilitary commanders gave a press conference on April 10 to say they did not approve of the draft Law for Justice and Peace because it did not provide enough legal guarantees. They said they would break off talks if forced to do so. They did not directly threaten to end negoti [...]	2005-04-13 20:07:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS PTER SNAR PHUM CO
05BOGOTA3523	EUROPEAN EMBASSIES UNHAPPY WITH CHR CHAIR [...] (C) Dutch Ambassador Frans B.A.M. van Haren told Ambassador on April 13 that he and other European chiefs of mission in Bogota were unhappy with the chair statement on Colombia, currently being negotiated between Luxembourg and Colombia at the CHR. van Haren, who serves as EU president here i [...]	2005-04-14 17:31:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM CO
05BOGOTA3528	AVIANCA WANTS TO LOWER TRAVEL AGENT COMMISSION [...] Sensitive but unclassified. Business proprietary information--please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Summary. On April 5, econcouns and econoff met with Avianca's president, Fabio Villegas. According to Villegas, Avianca's new management supports efforts to lower travel agent commission ra [...]	2005-04-14 19:20:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR CO
05BOGOTA3555	DEMOBILIZATION LAW APPROVED IN COMMITTEE [...] (C) On April 12, the Senate and House First Committees finished voting on the Law for Justice and Peace, including on the three most controversial articles (reftel). The changes made to the text provide added safeguards for our ability to extradite drug traffickers. Article 2 on the scope of [...]	2005-04-14 22:57:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PTER KJUS PINR PGOV PHUM CO
05BOGOTA3636	APIAY DRUG SMUGGLING INCIDENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 28 cocaine was discovered on a military aircraft arriving at Fort Bliss, Texas from Colombia. After initial investigation three soldiers were detained and returned to the US. Investigation is ongoing. End Summary. 2. (C) On March 28, 2005 law enforcement authoriti [...]	2005-04-18 14:28:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL SNAR CO
05BOGOTA3691	COUNTER DRUG BRIGADE SUCCESSES IN NARINO [...] (U) Summary: Counter Drug (CD) Brigade operations in Narino Department from January to March destroyed 13 HCL labs, captured over 1500 kgs of cocaine HCL and over 5000 kgs of explosives. The 1st and 2nd battalions of the Plan Colombia-supported CD Brigade have been conducting ongoing operatio [...]	2005-04-19 18:04:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR PTER MOPS CO
05BOGOTA3695	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL BURTON'S VISIT TO COLOMBIA [...] (SBU) Post welcomes CODEL Burton's visit to Colombia. With USG assistance, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has made great strides in fighting drug trafficking and terrorism. A nation-wide, multi-phased offensive by the security forces has re-taken key territory from the FARC. The peace proce [...]	2005-04-19 18:50:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CO CODEL
05BOGOTA3698	CONTROLLED DELIVERY OF TWO KILOGRAMS OF HEROIN [...] (SBU) PRIOR TO APRIL, 2005, SAULO SALINAS-OSPINA HAD APPROACHED CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE 00-099625 (CS) WITH THE PROSPECT OF THE CS TRANSPORTING HEROIN FROM CALI, COLOMBIA TO CHICAGO, IL. 2. (SBU) ON APRIL 6, 2005, THE CS TELEPHONED SALINAS. SALINAS TOLD THE CS HE WANTED THE CS TO COME TO CALI [...]	2005-04-19 18:58:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	NONE
05BOGOTA37	COLOMBIA'S REACTION TO SINGLE MEMBER VETO AND ITU [...] Post delivered reftel demarche on December 21, 2004. On January 3, MFA Coordinator for U.S., Canada, and the Summit for Americas, Francisco Gonzalez, agreed with the Ministry of Communications' official reaction to reftel demarche. The Ministry of Communications' official reply states that [...]	2005-01-04 16:34:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC ECPS ECON CO
05BOGOTA371	PRESIDENT URIBE OFFERS REWARD FOR HOSTAGES AND [...] (U) President Uribe addressed the nation from Serrania del Chiribiquete, Guaviare Department, on New Year's Eve highlighting his plans for 2005, including initiating a bounty hunter price against two FARC leaders, and a reward for the release of 63 hostages. Uribe recognized the efforts of th [...]	2005-01-14 16:43:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	CASC PREL CO FARC
05BOGOTA3719	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES [...] No summary [...]	2005-04-19 20:17:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KDEM CO
05BOGOTA3726	PEACE PROCESS WITH ELN STALLS [...] (C) On April 15, the Ambassador met with Mexican facilitator for the peace process with the National Liberation Army (ELN) Andres Valencia and Mexican Ambassador Chacon. Valencia said the peace process remained stalled due to the ELN's unwillingness to renounce kidnapping during talks. Neverthele [...]	2005-04-19 20:39:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL CO MX ELN
05BOGOTA3747	SCENESETTER FOR THE SECRETARY'S VISIT TO COLOMBIA [...] (C) President Uribe and the embassy welcome the visit of Secretary of State Rice with enthusiasm. Current hot topics SIPDIS include: --U.S. support in out years --Demobilization and reinsertion of almost 5,000 paramilitary terrorists and several thousand more expected --Extradition [...]	2005-04-19 21:38:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CO
05BOGOTA382	COLOMBIA: OVERVIEW OF MAJOR POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS [...] (C) Summary: Although the Uribe Administration can boast important victories in 2004, including Congressional approval of presidential reelection legislation and the introduction of an accusatory criminal justice system, President Uribe's popularity -- which never fell below 65 percent all year [...]	2005-01-14 19:13:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM CO
05BOGOTA3827	AMBASSADOR'S COMMENTS TO THE AMERICAN BUSINESS [...] (U) On April 14, the Ambassador gave the following informal comment to the American Business Council of Colombia. 2. (SBU) Text: I asked Jaime for an opportunity to speak to you today because I believe something important is happening right now that affects all of Colombia, including the [...]	2005-04-21 20:25:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PHUM KJUS ECON ETRD CO
05BOGOTA3842	DECLINING OFFICIALIST LIBERAL PARTY LIKELY TO PIN [...] (C) Summary: The Officialist Liberal Party (PLC),Colombia's largest and oldest, has been declining nationally. Several dozen Congressional "dissident" Liberals are set to leave the party and formalize a new political movement, likely to be called Apertura Liberal (Liberal Opening),which p [...]	2005-04-21 21:30:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR CO
05BOGOTA3843	FISCALIA CONTINUES ITS INVESTIGATION INTO URABA [...] (C) On April 18, Poloffs met with Fiscalia Human Rights Unit prosecutor Nelson Casas, who is leading the investigation into the February 21 massacre in Uraba of eight individuals, including three members of the peace community of San Jose de Apartado. Casas told Poloffs that investigators hav [...]	2005-04-21 22:11:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PTER CO
05BOGOTA3863	COLOMBIA COPES WITH CHAVEZ [...] (S) This cable responds to Ref A taskings regarding Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's activities and Colombian responses. 2. (S) Summary: Border incidents, Venezuela's harboring of the FARC and ELN FTOs, and a potential arms race have done much to mobilize opinion leaders against Chavez. [...]	2005-04-22 15:47:00	Embassy Bogota	SECRET	PREL PTER MARR MASS VE CO PGOV
05BOGOTA3914	SWIFT RESPONSE REPELS FARC ATTACK ON TORIBIO, CAUCA [...] Summary: GOC forces repelled an attack by 300-400 members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) on the town of Toribio, Cauca Department. The early morning attack on April 14 was repelled initially by the 82-man Municipal Police detachment that had been armed and equipped with [...]	2005-04-25 18:01:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR PTER MOPS CO FARC
05BOGOTA3925	MILITARY JUSTICE EXONERATES SOLDIERS INVOLVED IN [...] (U) On April 16, the Supreme Military Tribunal, an appellate court for all service-related crimes, exonerated members of the Army involved in an operation the night of March 19, 2004, near the village of Guaitarilla, Narino Department. The operation resulted in a friendly-fire incident that l [...]	2005-04-25 21:12:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM MARR CO
05BOGOTA3926	MININSTER PRETELT DISCUSSES ASSET FORFEITURE, [...] (C) On April 20, Minister of Interior and Justice Sabas Pretelt requested a meeting with the Ambassador to discuss: (1) GOC frustration with U.S. delays in responding to a request for a percentage of assets seized from Colombian drug traffickers by the U.S; (2) paramilitary commanders' complai [...]	2005-04-25 21:12:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KJUS PREL PINR PGOV CO
05BOGOTA3927	UPDATE ON DEMOBILIZATION/REINSERTION PROCESS [...] (C) Since 2003, almost 5,000 members of the United Self Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) have demobilized. The last demobilization was the La Mojana Bloc on February 2, 2005. The GOC has begun to remedy the deficiencies in the reinsertion process. Almost 90 percent of demobilized paramilitar [...]	2005-04-25 21:12:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PHUM ECON SNAR CO OAS
05BOGOTA3928	GENERAL MYERS MEETS WITH MOD AND HIGH COMMAND [...] (U) April 10, 2005, Ambassador's residence, Bogota. 2. (U) Participants: U.S. ---- Ambassador William B. Wood Gen Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) Mr. Milton K. Drucker (DCM) COL William G. Graves (Defense Attach) COL Simeon Trombitas (Military Assistance [...]	2005-04-25 21:12:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC MOPS PREL CO
05BOGOTA3929	SENATE HEARING ON VENEZUELAN ARMS PURCHASES: [...] (U) Summary: On April 19, the Senate Second Committee (Defense, Foreign Relations, Trade, and Borders) conducted a public hearing on Venezuelan arms purchases (reftel details the purchases). Foreign Minister Barco and Minister of Defense Uribe were called to testify. Committee Chair Ramiro [...]	2005-04-25 21:12:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER MASS VE CO PBTS
05BOGOTA3937	GENERAL MYERS MEETS WITH GENERAL OSPINA [...] (U) April 10, 2005, National Administrative Center (CAN),Bogota 2. (U) Participants: U.S. ---- General Richard B. Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) Ambassador William B. Wood US Defense Attach, Colonel William Graves Military Group Commander, Colonel Sim [...]	2005-04-25 22:03:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PTER MOPS PREL CO
05BOGOTA4050	SCENESETTER FOR UNDER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE FOR [...] (C) The GOC and embassy welcome Under Secretary Feith's visit with enthusiasm. The Bilateral Working Group (BWG) will hold defense policy discussions on policy, modernization, and narcoterrorism. Colombia faces a four front war -- narcos, FARC, ELN, paramilitaries -- and a growing concern ab [...]	2005-04-28 21:34:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS ASEC PTER PHUM ECON CO
05BOGOTA41	PLAN COLOMBIA IMPLEMENTATION ROUND-UP, DECEMBER, [...] (U) The following is an update of Plan Colombia-related activities reported during December, 2004. ---------- DOJ/ICITAP ---------- 2. (U) On December 21, 2004, twenty-one judicial police investigators and forensic experts graduated from the 240-hour Forensic Linguistic Course taken at [...]	2005-01-04 17:41:00	Embassy Bogota	SECRET	PREL PGOV SNAR MASS PREF EAID KJUS CO
05BOGOTA4101	FUMIGATION IS WORKING: COM'S RESPONSE IN POLITICAL [...] (U) The Chief of Mission responded to press articles challenging the success of eradication efforts in Colombia, and calling for a change in policy in an article published by leading political weekly Cambio on its April 11-18 issue. 2. (U) BEGIN ARTICLE: "There has been a lot of discussi [...]	2005-04-29 15:41:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO OPRC PREL SNAR PGOV PTER SENV CO
05BOGOTA4131	MOD MEMO ON VENEZUELAN ARMS PURCHASE [...] (C) A week after the Senate Second Committee conducted a public hearing on Venezuelan arms purchases (reftel),an undated memo from the Colombian Defense Ministry responding to congressional inquiries on Venezuelan arms purchases was leaked to the press. The secret memorandum was addressed to [...]	2005-04-29 22:11:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PTER MOPS PREL CO
05BOGOTA4141	CODEL BURTON MEETS WITH DEFENSE MINISTER AND NAVY [...] (C) CODEL Burton was briefed by Defense Minister Jorge Uribe and Naval Operations Commander Vice Admiral Guillermo Barrera on April 23. Uribe said President Uribe's Democratic Security Strategy was designed to combat drug trafficking and terrorism and provided statistics on growing amounts of [...]	2005-05-02 15:27:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL SNAR PHUM CO OVIP
05BOGOTA4146	CODEL BURTON MEETING WITH PRESIDENT URIBE [...] (C) Summary: During a working lunch with CODEL Burton, President Uribe discussed the successes his government has achieved in security, economics, and the fight against narco-terrorists. He outlined broad, short-term goals in support of his current policies related to demobilization, drug e [...]	2005-05-02 17:11:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SNAR ETRD CO
05BOGOTA4167	MEDELLIN'S REINSERTION PROGRAM [...] (C) In December 2003, 874 members of the Cacique Nutibara Bloc (BCN) demobilized in Medellin. Since that time, the Mayor of Medellin's office has been implementing a reinsertion program that has provided education and unpaid employment for almost the entire bloc. Community outreach and psych [...]	2005-05-02 21:45:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PHUM SNAR KJUS CO AUC
05BOGOTA4204	GOC URGES SECRETARY RICE TO LIFT TRAVEL ADVISORY [...] (U) On April 27, Commerce Minister Jorge Humberto Botero gave Secretary Rice a document explaining why the USG should lift the travel advisory for parts of Colombia (faxed to WHA/AND). The paper asserted that the travel advisory does not take into account decreases in murder and kidnapping and [...]	2005-05-03 16:29:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PREL PINS ASEC CO
05BOGOTA4232	CONTROLLED DELIVERY OF TWO KILOGRAMS OF HEROIN [...] (SBU) PRIOR TO APRIL, 2005, SAULO SALINAS-OSPINA HAD APPROACHED CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE 00-099625 (CS) WITH THE PROSPECT OF THE CS TRANSPORTING HEROIN FROM CALI, COLOMBIA TO CHICAGO, IL. 2. (SBU) ON APRIL 6, 2005, THE CS TELEPHONED SALINAS. SALINAS TOLD THE CS HE WANTED THE CS TO COME TO CALI [...]	2005-05-03 21:38:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR CO
05BOGOTA4301	ILEA LATIN AMERICA FOR TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] No summary [...]	2005-05-05 18:06:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR ASEC ELAB KCRM KWMN EC CO
05BOGOTA4303	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: OAS WORKING GROUP ON RACISM [...] No summary [...]	2005-05-05 20:29:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM AORC CO USOAS
05BOGOTA431	FISCALIA CLOSES CHENGUE MASSACRE CASE AGAINST [...] (C) The Fiscalia announced it has closed its criminal case against retired Rear Admiral Rodrigo Quinonez for his alleged complicity in the January 2001 paramilitary massacre at Chengue. The head of the Fiscalia's Human Rights Unit told Embassy officials that Quinonez's case was handled by a s [...]	2005-01-18 18:51:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PTER KJUS PINR CO
05BOGOTA4339	GOC DELEGATION TO OAS GENERAL ASSEMBLY [...] FM Carolina Barco will lead the GOC delegation to the OAS General Assembly in Ft. Lauderdale. Other senior members will include Deputy FM Camilo Reyes and OAS Ambassador Alvaro Tirado. 2. Embassy Bogota lead POC is poloff Tom Keene (alternate: Brian Walch). WOOD [...]	2005-05-06 20:42:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL AORC CO OAS
05BOGOTA4342	FY 2007 COUNTER NARCOTICS AND ANTICRIME ASSISTANCE BUDGET - (REVISED COPY - SEE USAID SECTION - PROMOTE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC PROGRESS) [...] No summary [...]	2005-05-06 21:32:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	ABUD CO PREL SNAR MASS
05BOGOTA4360	UNDER SECRETARY FEITH MEETS WITH PRESIDENT URIBE [...] (C) On May 3, 2005 Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith discussed Colombia's democratic security strategy and concerns about Venezuela with President Alvaro Uribe. Uribe described U.S. assistance as critical to counterterror and counterdrug successes. Feith assured Uribe that [...]	2005-05-10 14:59:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PHUM PREL MOPS ASEC SNAR CO
05BOGOTA4397	AMBASSADOR TELLS TRADE MINISTER COLOMBIA NEEDS TO [...] No summary [...]	2005-05-11 18:13:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON EAGR KIPR CO
05BOGOTA4466	COLOMBIA: PEACE COMMISSIONER DISCUSSES PROCESS [...] (C) In a May 10 conversation with the Ambassador, Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo was pessimistic about re-starting a peace process with the ELN. He expressed concern that Cuba and the other "group of friends" countries continued to communicate with the ELN without GOC authorization, [...]	2005-05-12 22:43:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL KJUS CO PHUH ELN
05BOGOTA4467	OVERVIEW OF COLOMBIAN FEDERAL ELECTORAL ISSUES [...] (U) Summary: This is the first in a series of cables on elections for Congress and President that will take place in March and May, 2006, respectively. The President is elected by nationwide vote. Much like the U.S., House seats are allocated to each department based on population, but the [...]	2005-05-12 22:47:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KJUS CO
05BOGOTA4482	OHCHR DELEGATION VISITS SARAVENA, ARAUCA [...] (U) On April 20, 2005, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) based in Colombia led an international delegation to Saravena in Arauca Department to meet with government officials, NGOs, the military, and religious groups on human rights issues. Local NGOs [...]	2005-05-13 16:19:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PHUM PTER CO
05BOGOTA4534	U.S. SOLDIERS DETAINED IN MELGAR [...] (SBU) This is a summary account of events related to the discovery of U.S. manufacture munitions in a private apartment in Carmen de Apicala, Tolima Department. Although Post has attempted to make this cable accurate, there are still many facts surrounding this incident not yet known. Therefo [...]	2005-05-13 21:32:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PTER MOPS PREL CO
05BOGOTA4541	PEACE COMMISSIONER DISCUSSES AUC DEMOBILIZATION [...] (C) On May 10, Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo discussed with the Ambassador his plans to adopt a divide and conquer strategy to demobilize the rest of the AUC. He explained that the GOC would push for two key points in the Justice and Peace law being considered in Congress: (1) that [...]	2005-05-13 21:58:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KJUS PHUM PREL SNAR CO AUC
05BOGOTA4563	COLOMBIAN IMPUNITY PROJECT SUCCESSES [...] (U) The following is a response to ref A requesting additional information on the Dutch-funded Anti-Impunity Project. The Project continues to achieve notable successes, including bringing high-profile human rights cases to conclusion. The Project strengthens Government efforts to tackle co [...]	2005-05-16 16:48:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KJUS CO
05BOGOTA4569	PROPOSED REMINGTON SALE TO INDUMIL INTENDS [...] (U) Post closely examined the proposed sale of Remington munitions components to Industrias Militar (INDUMIL)(reftel). The components would be used for the production of 0.38 spl and 7.65 mm caliber ammunition. INDUMIL officials confirmed that this grade of ammunition is used only for self-de [...]	2005-05-16 18:16:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC PTER MOPS PREL CO ETRD
05BOGOTA4570	GENERAL CRADDOCK MEETS WITH PRESIDENT URIBE [...] (C) On May 11, President Alvaro Uribe discussed counterdrug strategy, guerrilla attacks in southern Colombia, the AUC peace process, and recent arrests of U.S. military personnel with SOUTHCOM Commander General Bantz Craddock. Uribe expressed concern that if the GOC did not significantly reduc [...]	2005-05-16 18:25:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC PHUM KJUS SNAR CO
05BOGOTA4571	SERPA ON LIBERAL PARTY DYNAMICS AND UPCOMING [...] (C) Summary: Poloff met with two-time presidential candidate Horacio Serpa on May 11. Serpa is resisting the move by former President Cesar Gaviria to take over the Liberal Party (PLC),believing the party would need to form a center-left alliance to effectively challenge President Uribe in [...]	2005-05-16 18:55:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR CO
05BOGOTA4628	BILATERAL WORKING GROUP JOINT STATEMENT [...] (U) On May 4 to 5, a U.S. delegation led by Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith held a SIPDIS Bilateral Working Group with Colombian military and government officials in Cartagena. During the conference, U/S Feith and Defense Minister Jorge Alberto Uribe signed a joint stat [...]	2005-05-17 14:57:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC PREL PTER MOPS CO
05BOGOTA4640	CONVICTION RATES AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM [...] Impunity is generally considered one of Colombia's most serious human rights problems. Defining and quantifying "impunity," however, is challenging. Several GOC entities have attempted to characterize impunity in ways that dismiss its severity. However, a careful analysis of the path a case [...]	2005-05-17 17:45:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM KJUS CO
05BOGOTA4649	COM'S RESPONSE TO EDITORIAL CHALLENGING AERIAL COCA [...] (U) In response to national leading daily El Tiempo's editorial May 16, "Not in the Parks," (Reftel) affirming that aerial eradication in national parks would lead to irreparable environmental and human damages, COM provided the following response published as a letter to the editor in the sa [...]	2005-05-17 19:09:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO OPRC PREL SNAR PGOV CO
05BOGOTA4806	NAS Monthly Report April 2005: Aerial Eradication [...] (SBU) Summary: In April, the Colombian National Police (CNP) spray program eradicated 16,153 hectares of coca. The CNP destroyed 10 cocaine HCL labs and seized 10.5 metric tons of cocaine and coca base, and 94 kilos of heroin. U.S. and Plan Colombia assets assisted the police in heavy fighti [...]	2005-05-19 22:54:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR SENV KCRM PTER CO
05BOGOTA4808	NGO ESTIMATES 10 PERCENT INCREASE IN NEW INTERNAL [...] (C) Summary. A respected Colombian NGO, the Consultancy for Human Rights and Displacement (CODHES) estimated that there were 61,996 new internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the first quarter of 2005, a 10 percent increase over the same period in 2004. CODHES attributed the rise to an incre [...]	2005-05-20 12:57:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SNAR CO
05BOGOTA4931	MILITARY GRANT ASSISTANCE: LEGAL REQUIREMENTS [...] (U) Post delivered reftel amendment request to the Colombian government last year proposing to amend bilateral military grant assistance agreements. On April 20, the Colombian Foreign Ministry responded, accepting U.S. terms outlined in reftel. Acceptance brings US-Colombian grant assistance [...]	2005-05-24 14:59:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MASS MARR PGOV KTIA CO
05BOGOTA4959	INDIVIDUAL DESERTION PROGRAM CREATING CONCERN [...] (C) Over 7,000 deserters from the illegal armed groups have entered the GOC's reinsertion program since Uribe took office. The Ministry of Defense controls the first phase of reinsertion when deserters are debriefed for intelligence purposes and given basic humanitarian assistance. Intelligen [...]	2005-05-24 20:12:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PTER SNAR KJUS PINR CO
05BOGOTA4960	COLOMBIAN ARMED FORCES CONTINUE TO PRESSURE [...] (C) According to government statistics, operations against self-defense groups have increased by 300 percent, and 9,804 paramilitaries have been captured and 1,125 killed during Uribe's term. In the first four months of 2005 alone, 4,231 have been captured and 1,060 killed. Press reports from [...]	2005-05-24 20:20:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PTER MOPS PREL CO
05BOGOTA4961	IDPS REPORT COLOMBIAN NGO COLLABORATING WITH THE [...] (C) On May 12-13, Human Rights Officer, Assistant Army Attache and British Embassy representative traveled to the highly conflictive Uraba region of northwestern Colombia. Internally displaced persons (IDPs) and business leaders reported that Justicia y Paz, a Colombian NGO working with commun [...]	2005-05-24 20:22:00	Embassy Bogota	SECRET	PHUM PTER CO FARC
05BOGOTA4962	COLOMBIA: UN HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Summary: Louise Arbour, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, visited Colombia May 12-14 and briefed the diplomatic community mid-way through her trip, following meetings with senior GOC officials. Arbour and the GOC agreed to set a timetable by the end of June for the GOC to complete i [...]	2005-05-24 20:32:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL CO UN
05BOGOTA4973	PEACE COMMUNITY CONTINUES PUBLIC RELATIONS OUTREACH [...] (U) Summary. NGO Redepaz organized a trip on May 5 for the international community to Apartado for meetings with the peace community, other NGOs and peace communities from other parts of the country. This was the second such visit to highlight peace community concerns over the February 21 ma [...]	2005-05-24 21:32:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PTER CO
05BOGOTA4998	CONGRESS PREPARES TO DEBATE DEMOBILIZATION LAW [...] (U) Summary: Debate and article-by-article voting on the demobilization law is likely to begin the week of May 23 in the plenaries of both houses of Congress. The GOC sponsors have submitted a draft to Congress proposing several changes to what was passed in committee. Senator Rafael Pardo [...]	2005-05-24 22:36:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KJUS PTER PGOV PHUM CO
05BOGOTA5006	MEDIA REACTION: ERADICATION [...] Op-ed in national daily El Tiempo (5/24) by environmentalist and priest Andres Hurtado entitled: "Colombia Needs to be Washed with Dirty Glypho-dirty," argues: "Besides poisoning the soil, glyphosate proves that the truth is modifiable and responds to power... Let us not lie to ourselves: g [...]	2005-05-24 23:20:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO OPRC PREL SNAR PGOV CO
05BOGOTA5017	Details of Pension Reform Legislation [...] Background: Approximately 6.1 million Colombians receive some sort of public pension assistance. In 2003 COP 5.6 trillion (USD 2.4 billion) went towards the public pension system. In 2004 the number increased to COP 6.7 trillion (USD 2.9 billion). However, while GOC is forced to allocate m [...]	2005-05-25 18:04:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV EFIN CO
05BOGOTA5060	PLAN COLOMBIA IMPLEMENTATION ROUND-UP, APRIL, 2005 [...] (U) The following is an update of Plan Colombia activities reported during April, 2005. -------- DOJ/JSRP -------- 2. (U) DOJ continued to provide training and technical assistance through the Justice Sector Reform Program (JSRP),in particular to develop the criminal justice sector dur [...]	2005-05-25 22:32:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV SNAR MASS PREF EAID KJUS CO
05BOGOTA5083	COUNTER DRUG BRIGADE OPERATION AGAINST DANIEL [...] (SBU) The 1st Battalion of the Plan Colombia supported Counter Drug Brigade (CD BDE) conducted operations in the department of Narino from January to May. On the last day of their deployment, May 5, the unit conducted an operation against the Colombian Revolutionary Front (FARC) Daniel Aldana [...]	2005-05-26 17:58:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR PTER MOPS CO
05BOGOTA5098	COLOMBIAN DELEGATION FOR THE CARTAGENA PROTOCOL ON [...] No summary [...]	2005-05-27 12:01:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ETRD SENV TBIO
05BOGOTA5105	COLOMBIAN INTER-FAITH MEETING FOR PEACE [...] (U) On May 19, heads of local religious groups met to launch a collective interfaith effort to help end the conflict in Colombia. The effort will include all major religious groups in the country. Part of the Interfaith Meeting for Peace, launched by His Holiness Pope John Paul II, has also [...]	2005-05-27 12:02:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM CO PREL
05BOGOTA5142	FATHER ECHEVERRI DISCUSSES PEACE PROCESSES [...] (C) On May 26, poloffs met with Father Dario Echeverri (strictly protect),Secretary General of the National Conciliation Commission (CCN),which is authorized by the GOC to reach out to the illegal armed groups with the aim of starting peace talks. The CCN had met with the AUC negotiating te [...]	2005-05-27 21:36:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PHUM PREL CO AUC
05BOGOTA5143	KIDNAPPED EU EMPLOYEE NOW FREE [...] (C) Summary: European Union (EU) Delegation employee Carlos Ayala reportedly escaped from captivity on May 23, crossed the border into Venezuela, and made contact with officials there. The next day, EU Delegation Chief in Bogota, Adrianus Koetsenruijter, fielded questions from local and inter [...]	2005-05-27 21:43:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PTER CO VE EU
05BOGOTA5167	POST WELCOMES AUTHORIZATION TO SUPPORT [...] Post welcomes reftel and will use it as authorization to give support to specific aspects of the GOC's demobilization/reintegration program for former AUC members, including: (1) monitoring and evaluation, (2) Reference and Orientation Centers (CROs),and (3) judicial and inter-institutional [...]	2005-05-31 15:15:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PTER PGOV PREL CO
05BOGOTA5203	DEPT OF ENERGY DEPUTY SECRETARY CLAY SELL [...] (C) Summary. The U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy, Clay Sell, met with President Uribe on May 20 during the Colombian Oil and Gas Investment Conference in Cartagena. President Uribe thanked the Deputy Secretary for U.S. support in fighting narcotrafficking and terrorism and asked him to rela [...]	2005-05-31 19:23:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR ENRG PREL OVIP CO
05BOGOTA5207	PLAN PATRIOTA PHASE 2B UPDATE [...] (C) General Fracica took control of the Joint Task Force Omega (JTF-O),responsible for carrying out Plan Patriota's Phase 2B in Southeastern Colombia, in December 2004. Progress in the area of operations was slow in early 2005; changes by Fracica prompted some limited advancements but progres [...]	2005-05-31 20:52:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER MOPS PREL CO FARC
05BOGOTA5217	THE FTA AGRICULTURAL NEGOTIATIONS AT THE CROSSROADS [...] (SBU) Summary. The GOC is now facing increasing opposition from the agricultural sector for the FTA as it becomes clearer that the agreement will negatively affect the interests of some groups. While these groups, interests are being challenged, potential winners are still not clearly iden [...]	2005-05-31 21:28:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EAGR CO FTA

05BOGOTA5218	LANDMINE CONCERT RAISES AWARENESS AND MONEY [...] (U) On May 23, the Vice President's office of Landmine Coordination (Observatorio de Minas) and the United Nations Fund for Children (UNICEF) co-sponsored a fund-raising concert to benefit the University Hospital Rehabilitation Center in Bucaramanga, Santander Department. The performance was [...]	2005-05-31 21:49:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL KHDP CO
05BOGOTA5222	AGRICULTURE IN THE FTA RAPIDLY REACHING THE [...] (C) Unwillingness to provide a date for agricultural bilats and to exchange informal agricultural offers have brought the FTA negotiations to a crisis point here. The GOC is seriously considering dropping out of the upcoming Guayaquil FTA round (see septel). I recognize that we may not be [...]	2005-05-31 22:25:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EAGR CO FTA
05BOGOTA5223	MEDIA REACTION: FREE TRADE [...] Leading editorial in Medellin-based daily El Colombiano (5/31) entitled: "FTA Is A Priority," notes: "The negotiations on a free trade agreement with the U.S. are entering their final phase. We are starting to hear a few voices expressing a lack of enthusiasm due to an unhurried process, as [...]	2005-05-31 22:35:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO OPRC PREL SNAR PGOV CO FTA
05BOGOTA5272	AMB WOOD MEETING WITH DUTCH HUMAN RIGHTS AMB PIET [...] (U) On May 13, the Ambassador discussed drug eradication efforts, demobilization and human rights with Dutch Ambassador At Large For Human Rights Piet de Klerk. AMB de Klerk acknowledged the need for international assistance to battle drugs, but asked if USG policies were making sufficient i [...]	2005-06-01 21:05:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM CO
05BOGOTA5276	COLOMBIA WANTS TO JOIN IATTC - BUT WITH CONDITIONS [...] Summary: The GOC has decided to ratify the Convention on the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC),and will apply to join the Commission at the upcoming IATTC meeting in June. Colombia will ask the IATTC to grant certain conditions to "facilitate" Colombia's ratification of the [...]	2005-06-01 21:22:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIS SENV ETRD CO
05BOGOTA5287	COLOMBIA: GROUP OF FRIENDS FOR ELN PEACE PROCESS [...] (C) Summary. Norwegian charge Sigurd Endresen provided further details to polcouns about the December 2004 reactivation of the Group of Friends for the ELN peace process and deactivation four months later, as well as about Cuban efforts, via the group, to replace Mexico as facilitator. Endre [...]	2005-06-01 21:54:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER CO ELN
05BOGOTA5289	COLOMBIA WILL SUPPORT PAOLO CAROZZA FOR THE [...] No summary [...]	2005-06-02 13:24:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM XM CO OAS
05BOGOTA5301	CY-2004 END USE MONITORING REPORT [...] (U) Summary: This End-Use Monitoring (EUM) Report summarizes support provided to the Colombian National Police (CNP),Colombian military (COLMIL) and other Government of Colombia agencies by the Narcotics Affairs Section (NAS) of Embassy Bogota during CY-2004. This support was provided unde [...]	2005-06-02 21:44:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR CO
05BOGOTA5305	DEMOBILIZATION LAW: ARTICLE 61 AND 64 PASS [...] (SBU) On June 1, the Senate Second Committee and the House Third Committee approved re-inserting articles 61 and 64 into the text of the Justice and Peace Law, which could be debated in the full Congress as early as June 9. Article 61 allows all prisoners to be eligible to reduce their sentenc [...]	2005-06-02 21:53:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER KJUS PHUM SNAR CO
05BOGOTA5307	AMBASSADOR VISITS OFFICE OF COLECTIVO DE ABOGADOS [...] On June 1, Ambassador visited the offices of local non-governmental organization, Lawyer's Collective ("Colectivo de Abogados"),to express USG support for the work of the Colectivo and of human rights defenders in Colombia. The Colectivo de Abogados "Jose Alvear Restrepo" is a NGO committed [...]	2005-06-02 21:53:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PTER CO
05BOGOTA5310	DON BERNA TURNS HIMSELF IN [...] (C) Summary: Senior AUC commander Diego Murillo ("Don Berna") turned himself into authorities on May 27 and agreed to demobilize his several thousand paramilitaries. He is being held in a police-controlled confinement area in Cordoba Department, where he will be investigated and tried for the [...]	2005-06-02 21:53:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER SNAR PHUM PREL KJUS CO AUC
05BOGOTA5312	ILO VOTE DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...]	2005-06-02 21:53:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB AORC CO PGOV
05BOGOTA5395	COLOMBIA: SA/LW NEGOTIATIONS ON MARKING AND TRACING [...] (C) Post delivered reftel demarche to MFA Disarmament Coordinator Diana Aguilar June 1. She said Colombia wants uniform standards for marking of weapons and ammunition, but would be flexible regarding a legally binding document. 2. (C) Trafficking in small arms and light weapons is a cruci [...]	2005-06-03 22:09:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER CO MOPS
05BOGOTA5497	PRESIDENT URIBE AND COLOMBIA FACE UNCHARTERED [...] (C) For the first time in Colombian history, the sitting President is a potential candidate for re-election. The political landscape is new for the President, the Congress and the public. The script is being written as they go and the disquiet has been evident everywhere. Over the last few [...]	2005-06-08 20:46:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CO
05BOGOTA5501	SCENESETTER FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL ALBERTO R. [...] (U) Embassy warmly welcomes the visit of Attorney General Gonzales. The Colombian government is on our side on fighting terrorism, narcotics trafficking, and money laundering. The visit comes at an important time for our law enforcement and judicial efforts in Colombia. Embassy Bogota has t [...]	2005-06-08 21:37:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON KCRM KJUS OVIP SNAR CO
05BOGOTA5509	PDI SELECTS ANTONIO NAVARRO AS PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 2, the leftist Polo Democratico (PDI) selected former M-19 guerrilla and current Senator Antonio Navarro Wolff as its Presidential nominee at the party's national convention. Despite much-rumored tacit support of Bogota Mayor "Lucho" Garzon for second-place finisher S [...]	2005-06-09 15:07:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR CO
05BOGOTA5510	FARC PROOF OF LIFE: MILITARY ATTACKS YIELD [...] (S/NF) Violence orchestrated by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) continues at increased levels in 2005 and aims to chip away at public support for President Uribe's tough stand against the guerrillas. The FARC's activities have not affected the COLMIL's military campaigns aga [...]	2005-06-09 15:19:00	Embassy Bogota	SECRET//NOFORN	MOPS PGOV PHUM PTER CO FARC
05BOGOTA5564	CUBA: NSC-DIRECTED REVIEW REGARDING SUSPENSION OF [...] (C) Concern over potential Cuban support for armed guerrilla groups affects Colombia's cautious Cuba policy. Cuban influence is assumed in the recently failed Mexican-brokered peace talks between the GOC and the National Liberation Army (ELN). Rumors of Cuban-sponsored campaign financing for [...]	2005-06-10 13:17:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ETTC PREL CO UN
05BOGOTA5565	CARTAGENA ENERGY CONFERENCE HUGE SUCCESS [...] Summary. Department of Energy Deputy Secretary Clay Sell and Assistant Secretary for International Policy Karen Harbert led a delegation to Cartagena May 19-22 to attend an oil and gas investment conference to promote foreign investment and participation in Colombia's energy sector, primaril [...]	2005-06-10 13:27:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR ENRG PREL OVIP CO EINV
05BOGOTA5566	CODEL DAVIS: TERRORISM, DRUGS, FTA IN COLOMBIA [...] (U) Summary. Representative Tom Davis (R-VA),Chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, led a Congressional delegation to Colombia June 1 to June 3. Other Government Reform Committee members included Rep. Candice Miller (R-MI),Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD),and Rep. Carolyn Mal [...]	2005-06-10 13:58:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ETRD OREP SNAR CO
05BOGOTA5567	DON BERNA'S BLOCS BEGIN DEMOBILIZING [...] (C) Summary: Following senior AUC commanders "Don Berna," Vicente Castano, and "Javier Montanez" agreement to demobilize at least six blocs, the GOC has been preparing by streamlining the concentration and demobilization process and reaching out to local officials in areas where the blocs domi [...]	2005-06-10 15:38:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PHUM KJUS PGOV CO AUC
05BOGOTA5569	SUMMARY OF MAY 24-25 MEETING WITH COLOMBIA'S CIVIL [...] Summary. On May 24-25, officials from the Departments of State and Transportation (DOT) met with representatives from Colombia's Civil Aeronautics Special Administrative Unit and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bogota. The U.S. team raised travel agent commissions, internet fares, safety [...]	2005-06-10 17:02:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR CO
05BOGOTA5605	EMERGENCY ACTION COMMITTEE (EAC) MEETING, BOGOTA; [...] No summary [...]	2005-06-10 22:06:00	Embassy Bogota	SECRET	ASEC CASC PTER
05BOGOTA5616	ELN'S HEROES OF ANORI BLOC DEMOBILIZES [...] (U) Summary: Twenty-nine members of the National Liberation Army (ELN) in Antioquia surrendered to the Colombian Army's Fourth Brigade on June 1 and agreed to demobilize. The ""Heroes and Martyrs of Anori"" became the first ELN members to demobilize in a mass ceremony. Although the desertions wil [...]	2005-06-13 15:12:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL MOPS MX CO ELN
05BOGOTA5619	OBSERVATIONS REGARDING PARAMILITARY INFLUENCE OVER [...] (C) Summary: During the week of June 6, the press focused on the long-standing rumor that 30-35 percent of Congress is beholden to the paramilitaries. Our best and, in our estimation, "cleanest" Congressional interlocutors believe that figure is roughly on the mark. Overt support for the A [...]	2005-06-13 16:53:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS PHUM CO AUC
05BOGOTA5657	NAS Monthly Report May 2005: Aerial Eradication [...] (SBU) Summary: In May, the spray program eradicated 11,305 hectares of coca and 45 hectares of poppy. The Colombian National Police (CNP) and Colombian Navy accomplished the largest cocaine HCL fast boat seizure ever- over 15 metric tons. During May, the CNP seized over 18 metric tons of coc [...]	2005-06-14 11:46:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR SENV KCRM PTER CO
05BOGOTA5671	LIBERALS SELECT GAVIRIA AS PARTY CHIEF; [...] (C) Summary: On June 11, the Liberal Party (PLC) national convention selected former President and OAS SyG Cesar Gaviria as its national party head. Gaviria denounced President Uribe for abandoning and attacking the PLC, wrongheaded policies (most notably an alleged failure to control the p [...]	2005-06-14 18:41:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PINR CO
05BOGOTA5735	AMERICAN MUSIC ABROAD [...] In response to Ref A, Bogota enthusiastically wishes to participate in the 2005 American Music Abroad program. In particular, we hope to receive a hip-hop group. We request four programming days at any time during the week other than Sunday. We would plan to take the group to two cities with [...]	2005-06-15 20:26:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	OEXC SCUL KPAO CO
05BOGOTA5752	COLOMBIA: CODEL DAVIS MEETS WITH PRESIDENT URIBE [...] (C) Summary. CODEL Davis met with President Uribe on June 2 during a brief visit to Bogota (septel). CODEL Renzi, on a separate trip, also attended. Uribe thanked the group for U.S. support, outlined the improved security situation, and briefly described Venezuela's approach to the FARC. Uri [...]	2005-06-16 16:07:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CO PBTS CODEL
05BOGOTA5753	EMBASSY DELIVERS STERN MESSAGE TO GOC ON DON BERNA [...] (C) Summary. Charge delivered message to President Uribe on June 13 and Uribe advisers on June 14 that AUC commander Diego Murillo ("Don Berba") should not be released into the concentration zone for demobilized AUC leaders (as press reports were suggesting),should no longer participate in th [...]	2005-06-16 16:07:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PTER CO KJUS AUC
05BOGOTA5762	ATPDEA-RELATED INVESTMENT ACTIVITY DURING 2004 [...] (U) Below is Post's response to the U.S. International Trade Commission's request for information regarding Andean Trade Preferences and Drug Eradication Act (ATPDEA)-related investment in Colombia during 2004. 2. Over the past decade, ATPA/APTDEA has provided significant economic benefit [...]	2005-06-16 18:10:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD OTRA ASEC CO
05BOGOTA5794	CIUDAD BOLIVAR VIOLENCE DECLINING [...] (SBU) Summary: "Ciudad Bolivar," a sector of underprivileged neighborhoods located in southeastern Bogota, has long been notorious for violence and disorder. In May, staffers from Mayor Garzon's office told Poloffs that the United Self Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) had infiltrated the area [...]	2005-06-17 13:40:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC PTER CO
05BOGOTA5795	PLAN COLOMBIA IMPLEMENTATION ROUND-UP, MAY, 2005 [...] (U) The following is an update of Plan Colombia activities reported during May, 2005. -------- DOJ/JSRP -------- 2. (U) DOJ continued to provide training and technical assistance through the Justice Sector Reform Program (JSRP). DOJ sponsored a three-week visit to the U.S. for 13 eviden [...]	2005-06-17 13:56:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SNAR MASS PREF EAID KJUS CO
05BOGOTA5797	"Don Berna" Stays in Detention: Extradition [...] (U) Summary. On Monday, June 13 the Office of the Attorney General (Fiscalia) determined that Diego Fernando Murillo Bejarano (a.k.a. "Don Berna") will remain in detention on the farm in Valencia (Cordoba Department). Don Berna will neither be moved to a civilian jail, nor served with any Col [...]	2005-06-17 13:58:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PGOV PHUM PREL SNAR CO AUC
05BOGOTA5802	CLIPPED WINGS: COLOMBIA'S AIR ASSET LIMITS [...] (S) Colombia's size and terrain make military air operations vital to the nation's security. However, the Colombian Air Force (COLAF) accounts for less than 8 percent of the 2005 defense budget. The COLAF's primary offensive aircraft are based in Cundinamarca and Atlantico Departments, which [...]	2005-06-17 18:02:00	Embassy Bogota	SECRET//NOFORN	MARR MOPS PHUM SNAR CO ETRD
05BOGOTA5880	AIR BRIDGE DENIAL: MAY 2005 PROGRAM UPDATE [...] (U) This is the May, 2005, Air Bridge Denial (ABD) activity report required by reftel. There were no Phase I/II/III events during this period. 2. (SBU) In May, 2005, 3,011 tracks were noted over Colombia, of which 37 were declared Unknown, Assumed Suspect (UAS) aircraft. Five were eventua [...]	2005-06-21 14:03:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR PREL MOPS MASS PGOV CO
05BOGOTA5888	DRAFT AMENDMENT TO 2004 ANNEX: ACTION REQUEST [...] (U) As discussed Ref emails, following is the draft Amendment 1 to the 2004 Annex. This document, when signed, will obligate FY2005 INL funding for Colombia. Draft follows the model approved by the Department to obligate FY2003 funds. FY2004 funds were obligated by the 2004 Annex. Post w [...]	2005-06-21 14:36:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR CO
05BOGOTA5979	DRUMMOND LTD. SITE VISIT - LA LOMA COAL MINING [...] Summary. In a recent visit related to the Cartagena Energy Conference (reported reftel),Department of Energy Deputy Secretary Clay Sell and the DCM conducted a site tour of one of the world,s largest surface coal mining operations in Cesar Department, northern Colombia. Mike Tracy, Preside [...]	2005-06-23 14:35:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG EMIN CO
05BOGOTA5980	AUC'S HEROES OF TOLOVA DEMOBILIZE [...] (U) Summary: Over 450 members of the "Heroes of Tolova Bloc of the United Self Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) demobilized on June 15. Both government and paramilitary speakers welcomed the move and encouraged demobilizing forces to return to a peaceful, civilian life. Diego Murillo ("Don B [...]	2005-06-23 18:20:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PHUM KJUS CO OAS AUC
05BOGOTA6013	GOC LAYS GROUNDWORK FOR FURTHER DELAYS IN THE FTA [...] (C) Summary: Colombian Trade Minister Botero is preparing the domestic audience for further delays in the FTA. In public comments, Botero stated that the negotiations were at their darkest and later reversed the GOC,s long-standing public line by stating that he could not guarantee that th [...]	2005-06-23 22:06:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EAGR CO FTA
05BOGOTA6056	JUSTICE AND PEACE BECOMES LAW [...] (U) Summary: More than a year after the government introduced its first draft and after six months of intensive debate, the demobilization legislation commonly known as the "Justice and Peace" law was passed by the Senate and House plenaries on June 20 and 21, respectively, and the conference [...]	2005-06-24 22:04:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KJUS PHUM SNAR PTER CO
05BOGOTA6057	FOMER PRESIDENT CLINTON'S COMMENTS ON THE PEACE [...] (U) During former President Clinton's June 22 visit to Colombia, a reporter for national television network Caracol asked him if he supported the peace processes with the paramilitaries and the guerrilla groups. Clinton stated: "Of course, so long as they understand there will be zero toler [...]	2005-06-24 22:05:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO OPRC PREL SNAR PGOV CO
05BOGOTA6060	CONGRESS PASSES PENSION REFORM [...] Summary: On June 20, the Colombian Congress sent pension reform legislation to President Uribe for his signature. The reform, which required a constitutional amendment, will save the GOC over USD 17 billion over the next 50 years. The Uribe administration originally proposed a reform packa [...]	2005-06-24 22:10:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV EFIN CO
05BOGOTA6089	"COLOMBIA IS ON THE RIGHT PATH," FORMER PRESIDENT [...] (U) During a half-day visit to Colombia June 22, President Clinton expressed unequivocal support for President Uribe and his policies, as well as for the Colombian people. Speaking to a business and leadership forum (Expogestion) with an audience of over 2,000 people - including President Uri [...]	2005-06-27 17:55:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO OPRC PREL SNAR PGOV CO
05BOGOTA6141	Proposed FY 2007 Demobilization Assistance [...] (U) Post has requested that a total of $476.753 million in FY2007 Andean Counterdrug Initiative funds be allocated for all Counter Narcotics and Anticrime Assistance programs (Ref A.) In view of the prospect that the GOC will negotiate the demobilization of large numbers of internal combatant [...]	2005-06-28 19:36:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	ABUD PREL EAID SNAR CO
05BOGOTA6143	HIGHLIGHTS OF CONGRESSIONAL SESSION [...] (C) Summary: Despite a slow start, Congress completed work on several major pieces of legislation, including the Justice and Peace Law (demobilization),pension reform, implementing legislation for presidential reelection and associated level-playing field guarantees, enhanced legal protecti [...]	2005-06-28 20:56:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON KJUS CO
05BOGOTA6208	MASS GRAVE EXHUMATION UNCOVERS GROSS HUMAN RIGHTS [...] On June 22, the United Nations Human Rights Commissioner hosted an international delegation visit to Sucre Department. The group visited mass gravesites in San Onofre, met with victims' families and NGOs in Sincelejo, and spoke with local government and military officials about human rights c [...]	2005-06-29 23:49:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PHUM PTER PGOV SNAR CO AUC
05BOGOTA6222	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH ARCHBISHOP OF CALI [...] (C) Summary. During a trip to Cali on June 23-24, the Archbishop told the Ambassador that the Mayor's office was struggling with corruption limiting its ability to act, and that the USG should find ways to help support the municipal police. He credited the increase in violence in Cali last y [...]	2005-06-30 21:43:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF PHUM PINR CO
05BOGOTA6223	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH GOVERNOR OF VALLE DE [...] (C) Summary. On June 24 the Ambassador met with the Governor of the Department of Valle de Cauca. The Governor endorsed Uribe's Democratic Security policy and the use of a legal framework like the newly adopted Justice and Peace law to demobilize the AUC and the FARC. He said the FARC may be [...]	2005-06-30 21:45:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF PHUM PINR CO
05BOGOTA6237	FARC PUTUMAYO ATTACK KILLS 21 SOLDIERS [...] (C) Summary: On June 25, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) carried out their deadliest one-day attack since President Uribe took office. The twelve simultaneous strikes killed 21 and wounded 11 soldiers in southeastern Putumayo Department. President Uribe, disturbed by the hi [...]	2005-06-30 22:35:00	Embassy Bogota	SECRET	PTER PGOV MOPS EC CO FARC
05BOGOTA6296	COLOMBIA TO KEEP OPTIONS OPEN ON HUMAN RIGHTS [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-01 22:45:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL CO UN
05BOGOTA6340	2005 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] This is post,s response to reftel request for the 2005 report on U.S. citizen expropriation claims and other investment disputes involving the Government of Colombia. It is worth noting that the two cases in the 2005 report are being decided through normal judicial action or in transparent n [...]	2005-07-05 22:56:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	KIDE EINV EFIN PGOV CASC CO
05BOGOTA6382	Colombian FM Defends Immunity [...] (U) Summary. On June 27, Colombian Foreign Minister Carolina Barco responded to Inspector General (Procurador) Edgardo Maya's written request to submit for congressional approval the 1974 "Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Colombia and the Government of the United States rela [...]	2005-07-06 19:45:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	KJUS PREL PGOV CO
05BOGOTA6448	MINING SECTOR OVERVIEW [...] Summary. Colombia,s success in reforming regulation of the mining industry has enhanced the sector,s international competitiveness, created a more attractive investment climate, and in conjunction with similar reforms in the oil and gas sector (see reftel A) made the extractive sector the pr [...]	2005-07-08 15:52:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG EMIN CO
05BOGOTA6450	PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNING AND NEW LOW INCOME [...] (SBU) Summary. The national banking association,s (Asobancaria) annual conference served as an opportunity for presidential hopefuls to showcase their social agendas. The highlight of the conference was the announcement that banks would make over USD 430 million available in GOC-guaranteed [...]	2005-07-08 17:23:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON CO
05BOGOTA6495	EX-GUERRILLA AND PARAMILITARY DESCRIBE THEIR LIVES [...] (U) Colombia's Ministry of Defense (MOD),the agency in charge of the first phase of the individual desertion program for guerrillas and paramilitaries, began recording deserter testimonies on June 24 and invited Emboffs to observe. The MOD interviewed a former paramilitary and former ELN bloc [...]	2005-07-11 18:42:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER MOPS CO ELN AUC
05BOGOTA6508	NEW MOD CAMILO OSPINA DISCUSSES BILATERAL [...] (C) On July 9, the newly-appointed Minister of Defense Camilo Ospina visited the Ambassador to discuss bilateral military cooperation. They discussed a range of issues including human rights, high value targets, funding for military assistance, and the Justice and Peace Law. Ospina stated th [...]	2005-07-12 11:22:00	Embassy Bogota	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV MARR MOPS PHUM PINR CO
05BOGOTA6521	CODEL THOMAS DELIVERS HARD MESSAGE TO COLOMBIANS [...] (SBU) Summary. During his meetings in Bogota, Chairman Thomas delivered a clear message that ATPDEA will not be renewed and that the window for successfully negotiating a U.S.-Andean-FTA was closing rapidly. President Uribe, Agricultural Minister Arias and Trade Minister Botero all argued th [...]	2005-07-12 17:53:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EAGR FTA
05BOGOTA6563	NAS Monthly Report June 2005 [...] (SBU) Summary: In June 2005, the Colombian National Police (CNP) spray program eradicated 9,884 hectares of coca and 41 hectares of poppy. Anti-Narcotics Police (DIRAN) destroyed four cocaine HCL laboratories and captured nine metric tons of cocaine, one ton of cocaine base, and 70 kilos of h [...]	2005-07-13 11:21:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR KCRM PTER CO
05BOGOTA6598	Four Dead, Two Helicopters Lost in Colombian [...] (SBU) Summary: Colombian Military forces lost four dead and two helicopters within a span of 48 hours. On July 8, a Plan Colombia-provided UH1-HII (Huey II) operated by the Colombian Army crashed as a result of hostile fire, resulting in four fatalities, including one Colombian national emplo [...]	2005-07-13 21:47:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR MOPS MASS CO
05BOGOTA6622	COLOMBIA: MAJORS LIST CERTIFICATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Though Colombia remains a major illicit drug producing and trafficking country, the GOC is an unwavering ally in the fight against narcotics production and distribution. Colombia has been an enthusiastic partner in the development of innovative approaches to narcotics interdic [...]	2005-07-14 18:27:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR KCRM PTER CO
05BOGOTA6669	PLAN COLOMBIA IMPLEMENTATION ROUND-UP, JUNE, 2005 [...] (U) The following is an update of Plan Colombia activities reported during June, 2005. -------- DOJ/JSRP -------- 2. (U) The results of Justice Department and USAID efforts in Bogota to assist Colombia in the conversion to an oral accusatory justice system are continuing to bear fruit. [...]	2005-07-18 11:39:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV SNAR MASS PREF EAID KJUS CO
05BOGOTA6678	PEACE COMMISSIONER OPTIMISTIC ON AUC DEMOBILIZATION [...] (C) Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo told the Ambassador on July 11 that dismantlement, security, and justice were key to the peace process's success. He said his responsibility was to deliver AUC members, disarmed and identified, to the justice system and that the Peace and Justice La [...]	2005-07-18 13:57:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS PTER SNAR PHUM PREL CO AUC
05BOGOTA6680	FIVE MORE DEMOBILIZATIONS PLANNED [...] (C) The GOC is preparing to demobilize at least five blocs in the coming weeks, including the last of senior AUC commander Don Berna's, and has expressed confidence that the rest of the AUC will be fully demobilized by the end of 2005. The first of the five scheduled blocs, the Montes de Maria [...]	2005-07-18 14:26:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PHUM KJUS CO AUC
05BOGOTA6681	ACCUSATIONS OF COLMIL THIRD BRIGADE FOOD [...] (C) Patricia Dahl, New York affiliate director of Wisconsin-based human rights NGO, Colombia Support Network (CSN),met with the Embassy on June 27 to discuss alleged food confiscations by the Colombian Military Third Brigade against civilian groups in Alta Naya, Cauca Department. Dahl was a [...]	2005-07-18 14:37:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL CO MOPS PTER
05BOGOTA6682	VP SANTOS SEEKS ADVICE ON EXPLAINING JUSTICE AND [...] (C) Summary: On July 13, Vice President Francisco Santos sought Ambassador's advice on how to gain support for the Justice and Peace Law while not jeopardizing final AUC demobilizations. The Ambassador urged the GOC to show its seriousness, firmness, and procedural organization immediately. [...]	2005-07-18 14:47:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS PTER PREL PGOV CO
05BOGOTA6683	OAS REP ASKS ABOUT DEMOBILIZATION FUTURE [...] (C) On July 8, the Ambassador met with Organization of American States (OAS) Peace Process Verification Coordinators Sergio Caramagna and Claudia Vargas at the latters' request. Caramagna told the Ambassador that he appreciated U.S. Congressional support for the GOC's paramilitary peace proces [...]	2005-07-18 14:52:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV EAID CO OAS
05BOGOTA6710	CANDIDATES FOR COLOMBIA'S NEW FISCAL GENERAL [...] (U) SUMMARY. ON JULY 7, PRESIDENT URIBE ANNOUNCED THE THREE CANDIDATES TO BE CONSIDERED TO REPLACE THE FISCAL GENERAL (ATTORNEY GENERAL),LUIS CAMILO OSORIO, WHOSE TERM EXPIRES AT THE END OF THE MONTH. THE NEW FISCAL GENERAL WILL TAKE OFFICE ON AUGUST 1. ALL OF THE CANDIDATES ARE FROM THE C [...]	2005-07-18 21:06:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KJUS CO
05BOGOTA6718	MILITARY JUSTICE REFORM FOCUSES ON SYSTEMIC FLAWS [...] (U) On July 11, the Ambassador hosted military justice Director Brigadier General Luis Fernando Puentes to discuss the military justice reform process and encourage transparency. Colombia's Military Penal Justice (MPJ) system has been accused of promoting impunity and responding slowly to cri [...]	2005-07-18 21:20:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS PHUM MOPS PGOV CO
05BOGOTA6847	GOC EXPLAINS JUSTICE AND PEACE TO DIPLOMATIC CORPS [...] (U) On July 15, Foreign Minister Carolina Barco, Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo, and Vice Justice Minister Mario Iguaran presented the Law for Justice and Peace to the diplomatic corps. Iguaran reviewed the law in detail and tried to dispel accusations that it did not encourage full [...]	2005-07-21 21:57:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	KJUS PREL PTER PHUM CO
05BOGOTA6889	COLOMBIA: JULY 2005 GALLUP POLL RESULTS [...] (U) The survey found that 71% of respondents feel safer today than they did a year ago, up seven percent (64%) from April 2005. Those disagreeing with the statement decreased from 31% in April to 26% in July. As such, a little over a third of Colombians (36%) feel that public order/security is [...]	2005-07-22 20:33:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO OPRC PREL SNAR PGOV CO
05BOGOTA6891	SERPA ON 2006 ELECTIONS, BILATERAL RELATIONS, AND [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador and Liberal Party Presidential nominee hopeful Horacio Serpa discussed national politics at breakfast on July 12. Serpa said under a reelection scenario, President Uribe would win easily. He hoped for a grand left/center-left coalition against Uribe in the first rou [...]	2005-07-22 20:38:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR CO VE BL
05BOGOTA6899	LOCAL USE IN COLOMBIA OF GEOGRAPHIC INDICATORS. [...] This is post's response to reftel request for information concerning the local use of geographic indicators (GIs) in Colombia. 2. According to the Superintendency of Commerce and Industry (SIC),Colombian trademark regulations generally protect the brand name of a product and not the "gen [...]	2005-07-25 12:47:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KIPR CO
05BOGOTA6914	SCENESETTER FOR UNDER SECRETARY FOR POLITICAL [...] (C) President Uribe and the Embassy welcome the visit of Undersecretary for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns with enthusiasm. Current hot topics include: --U.S. support in out years --Demobilization and reinsertion of almost 6,000 paramilitary terrorists and several thousand more expected [...]	2005-07-25 14:42:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER SNAR PREL PGOV PHUM CO
05BOGOTA6926	PRESIDENT SIGNS JUSTICE AND PEACE LAW [...] (U) On July 22, President Uribe signed the Justice and Peace Law, just meeting the 20 working day deadline he had to sign after Congress approved the text. Once the law is published in the congressional daily bulletin, probably on Monday, July 25, it will be active and implementation can begi [...]	2005-07-25 16:10:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	KJUS PTER PGOV CO
05BOGOTA6928	CENSUS TO CAPTURE SNAPSHOT OF COLOMBIAN LIFE [...] (U) Colombia's Statistics office began the first national census in 12 years in May and hopes to conclude by December Â [...]	2005-07-25 16:21:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON SOCI KHIV CO
05BOGOTA6950	INTELLIGENCE CAPACITY DIMINISHED BY LOSS OF FUNDING [...] (S) The loss of the two airborne reconnaissance low (ARL) platforms due to funding constraints will have a critical impact on both U.S. and Colombian intelligence operations. The arrival of the "Shula Dragon" aircraft on July 15 offset requirements, but without either of the ARLs, our intellig [...]	2005-07-25 19:52:00	Embassy Bogota	SECRET	PREL PGOV SNAR MASS PREF EAID KJUS CO
05BOGOTA6953	PRESIDENTIAL COUNSELOR LOZANO MEETS WITH AMBASSADOR [...] (C) On July 22, the Ambassador reiterated to Presidential Chief of Staff Juan Lozano the warning he had given to other GOC officials about the need to demonstrate GOC seriousness about implementing the Justice and Peace Law within the coming weeks. The Ambassador urged the government to make a [...]	2005-07-25 22:16:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KJUS PGOV PHUM PTER CO
05BOGOTA7134	MANPADS IN COLOMBIA: GOVERNMENT NO; FARC MAYBE [...] (S/NF) The GOC has no MANPADS in its arsenal, no current intentions to purchase them, and no indigenous manufacturing capability. The FARC (formally declared a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the USG) has demonstrated intent to purchase MANPADS. Numerous unsubstantiated reports indicate tha [...]	2005-07-29 13:33:00	Embassy Bogota	SECRET	PARM MASS EAIR ETTC PTER CO FARC
05BOGOTA7191	SCENESETTER FOR PRESIDENT URIBE'S VISIT TO CRAWFORD [...] (C) President Uribe's visit to Crawford comes at a key moment and will serve as an opportunity to advance several items in our bilateral relationship. Uribe will thank the President for U.S. political support and financial assistance for the counter-drug, counter-terror, and development effort [...]	2005-07-29 21:35:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ETRD MOPS CO
05BOGOTA7312	NEWEST PUTUMAYO ATTACKS TARGET GOC AND CIVILIANS [...] (C) On July 20, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas began the second offensive in under a month against Putumayo Department. The five-day mission targeted nine municipalities, including Mocoa, the department's capital. As with attacks against military bases last month [...]	2005-08-02 22:47:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR MOPS PHUM SNAR CO FARC
05BOGOTA7332	INDUMIL'S SAFEGUARDS SUFFICIENT FOR ARMS AND [...] (U) Several U.S. companies have attempted to seek licenses from PM to sell defense articles to the Colombian Military (COLMIL) and Police this year and have been denied, possibly due to concerns about Colombia's end user controls. Military Industries (INDUMIL) is the Colombian government's onl [...]	2005-08-03 15:44:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV MARR MOPS CO
05BOGOTA7357	INL Flash Report for July 31, 2005 [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-04 15:34:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR AFIN CO
05BOGOTA7358	GOC POSES NEGOTIATION OFFERS TO GUERRILLAS [...] (SBU) In mid-June and July, the GOC sent several communiques in an attempt to resuscitate negotiation processes with both the National Liberation Army of Colombia (ELN) and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The GOC hoped to restart preliminary peace negotiations with the ELN w [...]	2005-08-04 15:50:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER CO FARC ELN
05BOGOTA7359	U/S BURNS MEETING WITH COLOMBIAN MOD OSPINA [...] (U) July 27, 2005, 10:00-11:00 am, Ministry of Defense, Bogota 2. (U) Participants: U.S. ---- Nicholas Burns, U/S for Political Affairs Ambassador William B. Wood Jeffrey DeLaurentis, Political Counselor Cynthia Echeverria, P Special Assistant Peter Husta, Acting MilGroup Commander [...]	2005-08-04 16:18:00	Embassy Bogota	SECRET	PGOV MARR MOPS PHUM SNAR CO
05BOGOTA7360	U/S BURNS DISCUSSES HUMAN RIGHTS AND [...] (U) July 26, 2005, 6:30-7:30 pm, Ambassador's Residence, Bogota. 2. (U) Participants: U.S. ---- R. Nicholas Burns, U/S for Political Affairs Ambassador William B. Wood Jeffrey DeLaurentis, Political Counselor Cynthia Echeverria, P Special Assistant Brian Walch, POL, notetaker Lui [...]	2005-08-04 16:19:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KJUS PHUM PTER CO
05BOGOTA7361	U/S BURNS MEETS WITH SENIOR GOC OFFICIALS AND [...] (U) July 26, 2005, 8:00-10:30 pm, Ambassador's Residence, Bogota. 2. (U) Participants: U.S. ---- R. Nicholas Burns, U/S for Political Affairs Ambassador William B. Wood DCM Milton K. Drucker Jeffrey DeLaurentis, Political Counselor Cynthia Echeverria, P Special Assistant Brian Wa [...]	2005-08-04 16:21:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER ETRD PHUM CO VE BR SP
05BOGOTA7399	COLOMBIA'S CANDIDATE FOR THE INTER-AMERICAN [...] Post received on August 2 dipnote DPM/CAI No. 39477 dated March 16 requesting U.S. support for Geraldo Burgos Bernal's candidacy as Director General of the Inter-American Institute for the Child and the Adolescent with Burgos's CV (dipnote and CV faxed to WAH/AND). The candidacy is to be propo [...]	2005-08-04 22:33:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	CO OAS
05BOGOTA7400	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-04 22:39:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM CO UN
05BOGOTA7401	GOC THANKS USG FOR SUPPORTING MORENO [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-04 22:41:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ODIP CO
05BOGOTA7402	U/S BURNS MEETS WITH PRESIDENT URIBE [...] (U) July 26, 2005, 4:00-5:30 pm, Casa de Narino, Bogota 2. (U) Participants: U.S. --- R. Nicholas Burns, U/S for Political Affairs Ambassador William B. Wood Cynthia Echeverria, P Special Assistant Jeffrey DeLaurentis, Polcouns (notetaker) Luis Guio, Interpreter Colombia -------- [...]	2005-08-04 22:44:00	Embassy Bogota	SECRET	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS PHUM SNAR CO
05BOGOTA7415	U/S BURNS MEETS WITH PEACE COMMISSIONER RESTREPO [...] (U) July 27, 2005, 7:00 - 8:30 am, Ambassador's residence, Bogota 2. (U) Participants: U.S. ---- R. Nicholas Burns, U/S for Political Affairs Ambassador William B. Wood Jeffrey DeLaurentis, Political Counselor Cynthia Echeverria, P Special Assistant Sarah LaGier, notetaker Luis Gu [...]	2005-08-05 13:54:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS PHUM PREL SNAR CO
05BOGOTA7416	UNDER SECRETARY BURNS MEETS WITH HUMAN RIGHTS NGOS [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) July 26, 2005, 2:30-3:30 pm, Ambassador's Office, Bogota 3. (U) Participants: U.S. ---- R. Nicholas Burns, U/S for Political Affairs Ambassador William B. Wood Jeffrey DeLaurentis, Political Counse [...]	2005-08-05 13:54:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PTER PREL PINR KJUS CO
05BOGOTA7565	UNHCR REFUGEE REFERRAL FOR FORMER VENEZUELAN AIR [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-10 18:14:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL CO VE
05BOGOTA7588	PARAMILITARY DEMOBILIZATION UPDATE [...] (C) In early August, three more paramilitary blocs demobilized, bringing the total number of demobilized paramilitaries to over 8,700 since 2003. The Liberators of the South demobilized 676 members, the Heroes of Granada demobilized 2,033, and the Self-Defense Forces of Meta and Vichada demob [...]	2005-08-10 19:56:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PHUM SNAR PGOV CO AUC
05BOGOTA7590	NATIONAL CONCILIATION COMMISSION: SLOW PROGRESS [...] (C) On August 8, PolCouns met with Father Dario Echeverri (protect),Secretary General of the National Conciliation Commission (CCN). He predicted the FARC would agree to a humanitarian exchange after the Constitutional Court had ruled on re-election because -- regardless of the ruling -- the [...]	2005-08-10 20:05:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL CO ELN FARC
05BOGOTA7602	AIR BRIDGE DENIAL: JULY 2005 PROGRAM UPDATE [...] (U) This is the July 2005 Air Bridge Denial (ABD) activity report required by Ref A. There was one Phase II event during this period. 2. (SBU) In July 2005, 4884 tracks were sorted over Colombia, of which 33 were declared Unknown, Assumed Suspect (UAS) aircraft. Two of those were identif [...]	2005-08-10 22:11:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR PREL MOPS MASS PGOV CO
05BOGOTA7621	CONGRESSMAN MEEKS MEETS WITH PRESIDENT URIBE, VICE [...] (C) Summary. Congressman Gregory Meeks (D-NY) met with President Uribe on August 5 toward the end of his seven day visit to Colombia which focused on the Afro-Colombian community and included stops in Bogota, Tumaco, Beunaventura, Cali, Choco and Cartagena (septel). Meeks told Uribe that the [...]	2005-08-11 18:26:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL CO CODEL
05BOGOTA7687	"BOOMERANG AGAINST EXTRADITION:" EL TIEMPO'S [...] Leading national daily El Tiempo's August 12 editorial is highly critical of an extradition bill under consideration by the U.S. Congress. BEGIN TRANSLATION OF THE EDITORIAL: Boomerang Against Extradition "There are times when laws, instead of helping to achieve what they intend to do [...]	2005-08-12 21:57:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO OPRC PREL SNAR PGOV CO
05BOGOTA7712	PEACE COMMISSIONER DESCRIBES STATUS OF [...] (C) Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo told Ambassador Wood August 12 that the GOC was making a sincere effort to reach an agreement with the FARC on the terms of a humanitarian exchange, and with the ELN on peace talks, but Restrepo is not confident of the GOC's short term prospects for [...]	2005-08-16 16:29:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS PHUM PREL PGOV SNAR CO FARC ELN

05BOGOTA7727	COLOMBIA WANTS IRISH THREE BACK [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Colombian Foreign Ministry officials say they are in the process of requesting that Ireland extradite three Irish citizens convicted of aiding Colombia's Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas. GOC officials have stressed that, although Ireland does not have an [...]	2005-08-16 19:34:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS PTER PREL EI CO UN FARC
05BOGOTA7735	AIR BRIDGE DENIAL: JULY 2005 PROGRAM UPDATE [...] (U) This is the July 2005 Air Bridge Denial (ABD) activity report required by Ref A. There was one Phase II event during this period. 2. (SBU) In July 2005, 4884 tracks were sorted over Colombia, of which 33 were declared Unknown, Assumed Suspect (UAS) aircraft. Two of those were identif [...]	2005-08-16 22:08:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR PREL MOPS MASS PGOV CO
05BOGOTA7737	NAS Monthly Report July 2005 [...] (SBU) Summary: Eradication aircraft sprayed over 6,000 hectares in July. The program surpassed its 100,000 hectare goal almost three months ahead of schedule. So far this year, the Colombian National Police (CNP) has seized almost 60 metric tons of cocaine HCL AND 500 kilos of heroin. The CNP [...]	2005-08-16 22:10:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR SENV KCRM PTER CO
05BOGOTA7832	COLOMBIAN MILITARY SPENDING MORE TRANSPARENT THAN [...] (U) Vice-Minister of Defense Eastman praised the results of the Security and Democracy Foundation (FSD) and the Latin American Security Defense Network (RESDAL) study of transparency in Colombia's defense budgeting and spending released on 9 August, while acknowledging that more needs to be do [...]	2005-08-19 13:39:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	MOPS ECON KCRM CO
05BOGOTA7840	AFGHAN VISIT TO COLOMBIA OFFERS NEW CN INSIGHT [...] (SBU) Summary: A six-person delegation from the Afghan government visited Colombia to discuss counternarcotics policy and the joint USG-GOC program. The group met with GOC officials and visited an air base to observe Colombia's aerial eradication efforts. The NAS Acting Director organized br [...]	2005-08-19 14:52:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR PREL PGOV CO
05BOGOTA7842	COLOMBIA'S INTERPOL NOMINATION [...] (U) The GOC has requested via dipnote DPM/CAI No. 41746 dated August 2 U.S. support for Jorge Aurelio Noguera Cotes as Member for the Americas of the International Criminal Police Organization (IOCP-INTERPOL) in elections to take place at the 74th General Assembly of the IOCP in Berlin. (Post [...]	2005-08-19 14:54:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL IO PTER CO
05BOGOTA7911	Federal Highway Administration Meets with Roads and [...] Summary. Officials from the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) Office of International Programs visited Bogota, Colombia on August 3rd and 4th. They met with officials from the Colombian Department of Transportation as well as experts in the field of highway safety. The trip allowed a [...]	2005-08-22 19:53:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	ELTN CO
05BOGOTA7922	ICRC ON PROSPECTS FOR TALKS ON HUMANITARIAN [...] (C) ICRC Head of Delegation Juan Pedro Schaerer (protect) said August 18 that he was not optimistic about the prospects for a GOC agreement with the FARC on an humanitarian exchange. He said the ICRC is prepared to accompany FARC members to a meeting place with the GOC and remain with them f [...]	2005-08-22 21:44:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PTER SNAR KJUS CO
05BOGOTA8041	GOC RESOLUTION SIGNED ON SPRAYING IN COLOMBIA'S [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On August 17, Colombia signed a resolution to authorize spraying in national parks if four conditions are met. The first park under consideration for spraying is "La Macarena," located in southeast Colombia; it has been under the effective domination of the FARC for years and [...]	2005-08-25 21:16:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR CO
05BOGOTA8050	COLOMBIA ON SOCIAL CHARTER [...] (C) Poloffs delivered reftel demarche to MFA North America and Summit of the Americas Coordinator Francisco Gonzalez on August 24. Poloffs stressed the importance of creating a consensus Social Charter, within the framework of the OAS, and noted that Chavez's maneuver subverted the process. [...]	2005-08-25 22:18:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	SOCI KSUM VE CO OAS
05BOGOTA8051	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL COLEMAN'S VISIT TO COLOMBIA [...] (SBU) Post warmly welcomes CODEL Coleman's visit to Colombia. With USG assistance, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has made great strides in fighting drug trafficking and terrorism. A nation-wide, multi-phased offensive by the security forces has re-taken key territory from the Revolutionar [...]	2005-08-25 22:22:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL CO
05BOGOTA8122	HAITI ELECTIONS: COLOMBIA WILL NOT SEND [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-29 17:48:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL EAID HA CO
05BOGOTA8123	COLOMBIA WILL SUPPORT MDA/THIRD ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-29 17:50:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL IS SZ CO ICRC
05BOGOTA8156	COLOMBIA WELCOMES SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH WOMEN [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-29 23:04:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM KWMN PREL CO UNGA
05BOGOTA8157	MEDIA REACTION: DETAINED AMERICAN SERVICEMEN [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-30 11:54:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO OPRC PREL SNAR PGOV CO
05BOGOTA8174	MEDIA REACTION: AERIAL ERADICATION [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-30 16:17:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO OPRC PREL SNAR PGOV CO
05BOGOTA8181	COLOMBIA HINTS AT LINK BETWEEN US WHO AND GOC [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-30 17:23:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC PREL KSEP OPDC CO UNESCO
05BOGOTA8182	COLOMBIA WILL SUPPORT USG CANDIDACY FOR WORLD [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-30 17:25:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	SCUL CO
05BOGOTA8183	URIBE CALLS TO RESOLVE CASES INVOLVING COLOMBIA'S [...] (U) President Uribe called on Colombia's judicial system to resolve a number of high profile cases involving the country's public forces during a townhall meeting in Cartagena August 27. BEGIN SPEECH EXCERPTS: "I was talking to Attorney General Iguarn yesterday and I told him: `Attorney G [...]	2005-08-30 19:07:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO OPRC PREL SNAR PGOV CO
05BOGOTA8197	GOC OFFERS HURRICANE RECOVERY ASSISTANCE [...] On August 30, Vice Minister of Defense Andres Penate offered assistance to the United States in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Penate, as head of civil defense, offered to make available twenty English-speaking personnel from Colombia's disaster assistance force to help with recovery eff [...]	2005-08-30 21:34:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL EAID PGOV CO
05BOGOTA8241	OBSERVATIONS ON UPCOMING COURT DECISION ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Commentators continue to differ in their predictions about the Colombian Constitutional Court's decision on President Uribe's reelection. A leading newspaper recently published an extensive article predicting a 6-3 vote in favor of Uribe's reelection, while others suggest diff [...]	2005-08-31 21:07:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS PINR CO
05BOGOTA8281	PRESIDENT URIBE REITERATES OFFER OF HURRICANE [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-01 21:11:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL EAID PGOV KPAO CO
05BOGOTA8284	PLAN COLOMBIA MONTHLY HIGHLIGHTS - JULY [...] (U) The following is an update of Plan Colombia activities reported during July 2005. --------------------------------------------- ------- DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE/JUDICIAL SECTOR REFORM PROGRAM --------------------------------------------- ------- 2. (U) The Department of Justice Judicial [...]	2005-09-01 21:36:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SNAR MASS PREF EAID KJUS CO
05BOGOTA8290	OAS'S INSULZA AND RIO GROUP SUPPORT DEMOBILIZATION [...] (U) Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza defended the paramilitary demobilization process during his first visit to Colombia on August 29-30. Insulza met with President Alvaro Uribe, Vice President Francisco Santos, the High Commissioner for Peace Luis C [...]	2005-09-01 21:53:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC EAID OVIP SNAR CO
05BOGOTA8291	POLICE ASSUME CONTROL OF RALITO; PARAMILITARY [...] (C) Emboffs attended demobilization in Santa Fe de Ralito on August 25-26 and witnessed Colombian police taking over from some 300 demobilized paramilitaries, who has been the "security force" there. The police presence remains thin but should expand in the coming weeks. There were two princi [...]	2005-09-01 21:55:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER SNAR CO
05BOGOTA8292	ATTORNEY GENERAL MEETS WITH PRESIDENT URIBE [...] (U) August 23, 2005, 5:00-6:00 PM, Casa de Narino, Bogota 2. (U) Participants: U.S. ---- Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General Ambassador William B. Wood Jeffrey Taylor, Counselor to the Attorney General Mary Lee Warren, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Thomas Monheim, Associate Dep [...]	2005-09-01 21:56:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL CO
05BOGOTA8329	COLOMBIA ON SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS PREPARATIONS [...] (C) Summary. The United States can "count on Colombia's support" at the Summit of the Americas if such support is "crucial," according to the MFA, but Colombia hopes to avoid being in the middle of disputes, especially with Venezuela, unless absolutely necessary. The GOC asked for support for [...]	2005-09-02 20:46:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	KSUM PGOV ECON CO OAS
05BOGOTA8334	TSUF01: GOC AND PRIVATE OFFERS OF HURRICANE [...] (U) As requested in Ref A, the Embassy has accepted in principle the 20 bilingual members of the Colombian disaster assistance force to help with recovery efforts offered by the GOC in Ref B. The GOC has made additional, but non-specific, offers of assistance as noted in Ref C. 2. (U) The [...]	2005-09-02 21:03:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON ASEC CASC MARR AMGT AMER
05BOGOTA8367	GOC AND FARC FROZEN ON HUMANITARIAN EXCHANGE; [...] (U) FARC "spokesperson" Luis Edgar Devia AKA Raul Reyes communicated on August 22 their demand that the GOC demilitarize certain municipalities as a precondition for talks on a humanitarian exchange. Reyes' statement effectively ended the Catholic Church's offer to mediate a "pre-dialogue" ou [...]	2005-09-06 15:13:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PTER CO FARC ELN
05BOGOTA8406	CODEL COLEMAN MEETS WITH PRESIDENT URIBE [...] (C) Summary. Senators Coleman and Martinez and Congressman Miller met with President Uribe on August 23 during a brief visit to Bogota. The CODEL told Uribe they had come to thank him personally for his leadership in the fight against drugs and terrorism, and for the vital U.S.-Colombian par [...]	2005-09-07 16:32:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINS PREL CO CODEL
05BOGOTA8409	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL DAVIS [...] (SBU) Post warmly welcomes the September 9-11 visit of CODEL Davis to Colombia. With USG assistance, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has made great strides in fighting drug trafficking and terrorism. Drug eradication and interdiction are at record levels. A nation-wide, multi-phased offens [...]	2005-09-07 18:16:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV SNAR ASEC PTER CO CODEL
05BOGOTA8410	DRAFT EU REPORT RECOMMENDS SUPPORT FOR THE J&P LAW [...] (C) A draft EU Bogota Heads of Mission report prepared for the Committee of the Council for Latin America (COLAT) meeting in early September recommended that the EU support the GOC in its implementation of the Justice and Peace law. The draft report recommends specific areas of cooperation, an [...]	2005-09-07 18:17:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER SNAR CO
05BOGOTA8412	CSI - FAVORABLE CARTAGENA ASSESMENT [...] Summary: The Port of Cartagena impressed visiting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials, and the joint team will recommend that the port be accepted as a Container Security Initiative (CSI) facility. End Summary. 2. On August 30-Sept. [...]	2005-09-07 18:19:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD SNAR PTER CO
05BOGOTA8414	PRESIDENT URIBE ORDERS FTA NEGOTIATING TEAM TO PUT [...] (C) During a September 7 meeting, Foreign Minister Barco took the initiative to inform the Ambassador that after the September 5 meeting with President Toledo to discuss the US-Andean FTA, President Uribe had ordered the Trade and Agricultural Ministers and the lead FTA negotiator to quote p [...]	2005-09-07 19:25:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EAGR CO FTA
05BOGOTA8415	TOLEDO SUCCESSFULLY PRESSES URIBE TO CLOSE [...] (SBU) Summary: President Uribe and Peruvian President Toledo met in Bogota on September 5 to discuss the future of the FTA. According to the GOC, Toledo told Uribe that his government was willing to conclude the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the U.S. by October and preferred not to do so [...]	2005-09-07 19:28:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EAGR CO FTA
05BOGOTA8454	FOREIGN MINISTER BARCO AND AMBASSADOR DISCUSS [...] (C) Ambassador Wood thanked Foreign Minister Carolina Barco September 7 for the GOC's offers of assistance in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Barco said the GOC could send its 30 disaster relief experts and nutritional powder immediately and is standing by for further instructions from the U. [...]	2005-09-08 17:48:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID PTER ECON ETRD EAGR KCRM KJUS CO EI
05BOGOTA8475	COLOMBIAN AIR FORCE C-26'S [...] Post has received a diplomatic note from the Colombian Minister of Foreign Affairs requesting assistance in the use of the two Colombian Air Force C-26 aircraft that were modified by the United States Government (USG) for air interception and surveillance. 2. Funding for these aircraft is [...]	2005-09-08 22:07:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR PREL MOPS MASS PGOV CO
05BOGOTA8485	GENERAL GOMEZ'S REPLACEMENT NAMED [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-09 13:55:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM PGOV PREL PTER SNAR CO
05BOGOTA8495	SUPREME COURT APPROVES DON BERNA'S EXTRADITION; [...] (C) On September 7, Colombia's Supreme Court approved the U.S. extradition request for paramilitary commander Diego Murillo, AKA "Don Berna," and transmitted the case to the President for his decision. The approval occurred in much less than normal time for such a decision (less than a third o [...]	2005-09-09 18:16:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS PGOV PREL PTER CO AUC
05BOGOTA8513	FARC INTRANSIGENT, ELN IN POSSIBLE RESPONSE TO NEW [...] (U) On September 4, Episcopal Conference President Castro suggested that the FARC consider new peace options to restart negotiations with the GOC but noted that he disapproved of former President Turbay's notion of trading eleven FARC hostages for one imprisoned FARC guerrilla. FARC Spokesman [...]	2005-09-09 22:04:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PTER CO
05BOGOTA8516	SCENESETTER FOR PRESIDENT URIBE'S VISIT TO [...] (C) President Uribe arrives in Washington September 14-15 for a visit with the legislative branch on the eve of a Constitutional Court decision on his right to seek immediate reelection. The military situation is at a strategic standoff and both the GOC and illegal armed groups appear to be [...]	2005-09-09 22:52:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SNAR PHUM MARR ETRD CO
05BOGOTA8543	West Caribbean Airline's August 16 accident [...] Summary. On August 16, a Colombian airliner operated by West Caribbean crashed in Venezuela along the Colombian border during its flight from Panama to Martinique. All 152 passengers and eight crew members were killed aboard the MD- 82 aircraft. End Summary. 2. In the early hours of the [...]	2005-09-12 14:59:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR CO
05BOGOTA8545	THE EFFECTS OF LEISHMANIASIS IN COLOMBIA [...] (S) Leishmaniasis, the parasitic disease spread by the bite of infected sand flies, is a disease plaguing the military and rural poor in Colombia. Reported civilan cases have risen from 4,000 in 1990 to nearly 10,000 in 2003 to a record 13,000 in 2004. Growth in outbreaks within the Colomb [...]	2005-09-12 15:09:00	Embassy Bogota	SECRET	ECON PARM SOCI CO
05BOGOTA8550	COLOMBIAN PROSECUTOR BEGINS TO IMPLEMENT JUSTICE [...] (C) The GOC has taken important steps to implement the Justice and Peace (J&P) law, but much more needs to be done. The most significant steps so far include the naming of J&P Specialized Unit Chief Luis Gonzalez in the Prosecutor's Office (Fiscalia) and the creation of the National Reconcilia [...]	2005-09-12 17:30:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS PTER PREL PGOV CO
05BOGOTA8571	COLOMBIAN AIRLINER HIJACKED; NEGOTIATIONS ONGOING [...] Summary. A Colombian airliner operated by Aires was hijacked today en route to Bogota from Florencia, in Caqueta Department. The twenty passengers included four U.S. contractors ) one American, two Colombians, and one Peruvian. Two Colombian Congressmen are also on board. Upon landing at [...]	2005-09-12 21:01:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ASEC PTER CO
05BOGOTA8586	COLOMBIAN AIRLINER HOSTAGES RELEASED; HIJACKERS [...] Summary. As of 1715 Bogota time, all hostages on board the hijacked Aires flight have been released unharmed, and the two hijackers have surrendered (reftel). Contrary to earlier reports, the father and son hijackers were not former paramilitaries. Rather, they were seeking compensation for [...]	2005-09-12 23:11:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC PTER PGOV CO
05BOGOTA8588	MDA: COLOMBIA REITERATES SUPPORT [...] (C) Poloff delivered Ref A demarche on September 7 to MFA Director of Multilateral Affairs Ignacio Ruiz. Poloff urged a strong statement at the Geneva consultations, noted the humanitarian goal of the Third Additional Protocol, and stressed that the time was right given the successful Gaza wi [...]	2005-09-13 00:16:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL IS SZ CO
05BOGOTA8602	AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH UNHCHR MICHAEL FRUHLING [...] (C) Summary: On September 8, the Ambassador met with United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) Director in Colombia Michael Fruhling and his deputy, Amerigo Incalcaterra. Fruhling raised several concerns about the implementation of the Law on Justice and Peace, and about huma [...]	2005-09-13 21:08:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PINR PREL PTER CO
05BOGOTA8605	MFA INFORMED OF AGREMENT FOR AMBASSADOR PASTRANA [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-13 21:39:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	OFDP PREL PGOV CO
05BOGOTA8650	STAFFDEL GROVE MEETINGS IN BOGOTA [...] (U) Congressional aides Paul Grove and Thomas Hawkins met with Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo on August 30 and representatives of several human rights organizations on August 31 to discuss the paramilitary demobilization process and the Law of Justice and Peace. Restrepo explained th [...]	2005-09-14 14:59:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PTER PINR PREL CO
05BOGOTA8664	EMBASSY BOGOTA: HIJACK OF COLOMBIAN AIRLINE WITH [...] BEGIN SUMMARY: (SBU) On 12 September 2005 at 1218 pm, a Colombian airliner on a domestic flight to Bogota from Florencia was hijacked. Four Contract Employees from the Narcotics Affairs Section (NAS),to include 1 US Citizen, were onboard. As detailed in reftels, the flight landed safely in B [...]	2005-09-14 18:58:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC PTER CASC PGOV CO
05BOGOTA8695	DEVELOPMENTS IN THE PRO-URIBE POLITICAL PARTIES [...] (SBU) Summary: Four center-right political parties -- Radical Change, National Unity, Democratic Colombia, and the Conservatives -- are vying to be the lead vehicle for President Uribe's reelection drive. While all are viable electorally, the continued existence of National Unity and Democr [...]	2005-09-15 14:26:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR CO
05BOGOTA8696	THE FARC'S INTERNATIONAL TENTACLES [...] (C) Summary: The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) has outgrown its local roots and should now be characterized as a regional terrorist group with hemispheric reach. Its tentacles reach into many Latin American countries. International law enforcement cooperation has led to the a [...]	2005-09-15 14:47:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PTER PREL ASEC CO
05BOGOTA8702	COLOMBIA'S CANDIDATE FOR THE COMMITTEE ON THE [...] Post received on September 12 dip note DPM/CAI No. 49215 dated September 6 requesting U.S. support for Pastor Elias Murillo Martinez's candidacy for the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) as well as Murillo's CV (dip note and CV faxed to WHA/AND). Elections will be [...]	2005-09-15 18:59:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC PREL PHUM CO
05BOGOTA8730	BIG RATE DROP FOR FIXED LINE TO MOBILE CALLS [...] Summary. The Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (CRT) announced a new regulation capping the price of fixed-line to mobile calls on September 13. The regulation requires mobile operators to gradually lower the per minute rate from about 1000 Colombian pesos (COP) (about 44 cents using [...]	2005-09-15 21:51:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ECPS ETRD CO USTR
05BOGOTA8768	LOWER HOUSE PLENARY SESSION TRIES TO FOCUS ON [...] (SBU) Summary: The House of Representatives held an historic plenary session September 7-8 on the island of San Andres, the capital of Colombia's smallest Department, San Andres and Providencia. Despite impassioned and nationalistic statements about Nicaraguan incursions into Colombian terr [...]	2005-09-16 17:48:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON CO
05BOGOTA8814	COLOMBIA: SECOND QUARTER PERFORMANCE BODES WELL [...] Summary: The Colombian economy continues to grow steadily, fueled by increased exports, a strong peso, and a low, stable inflation rate. These factors in turn increased investor confidence leading to record levels for the stock exchange and a dramatic increase in private investment. While the [...]	2005-09-19 16:20:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EPET PREL PGOV CO
05BOGOTA8816	IRISH THREE EXTRADITION REQUEST SUBMITTED [...] (U) North Irish Democratic Unionist Party Member of Parliament Jeffery Donaldson visited Colombia the week of September 5 to investigate allegations against the "Irish Three" (Niall Connolly, Martin McCauley, and James Monaghan) and speak with Colombian officials. Three members of "FAIR" (Fam [...]	2005-09-19 17:08:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV MARR MOPS PHUM SNAR CO
05BOGOTA8817	FARC DECLINES GOC PRISONER EXCHANGE, BLAMES GOC [...] (U) On September 16, ANNCOL posted a message from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ) People's Army (FARC-EP) declining the Colombian government's offer to hold a prisoner exchange in Bolo Azul, Valle del Cauca Department. The FARC reiterated longstanding demands in the communique an [...]	2005-09-19 17:12:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL PGOV CO FARC
05BOGOTA8932	NOTES FROM THE FIELD: CUCUTA, NORTE DE SANTANDER [...] (C) Summary: In Cucuta, capital of Norte de Santander Department along the Venezuelan border, political leaders and opinion makers expressed concern about President Chavez's meddling in Colombia and Latin America in general. But few offered specifics. They said Colombia's Armed Forces are [...]	2005-09-21 20:47:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ETRD ENRG PTER CO VE
05BOGOTA9001	COLOMBIA IN NO HURRY TO APPROVE UNESCO CULTURAL [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to newly-arrived Colombian Coordinator for UNESCO in MFA's Multilateral Affairs office, Ambassador Carlos Gamba, on September 22. Poloff stressed U.S. concerns regarding the draft Convention's potential for misinterpretation and encouraged the GOC to work [...]	2005-09-22 21:00:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SCUL ETRD CO UNESCO
05BOGOTA9087	NATIONAL RECONCILIATION COMMISSION GETS UNDERWAY [...] (U) Colombia's Justice and Peace (J&P) Law, created to process demobilizing illegal armed fighters and compensate victims, directed the GOC to create an institution to manage the National Reconciliation and Reparations Fund. Vice President Francisco Santos structured the National Reconciliati [...]	2005-09-23 22:02:00	Embassy Bogota	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM SOCI CO
05BOGOTA9089	PEACE COMMISSIONER OPPOSES DON BERNA'S EXTRADITION [...] (C) Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo on September 22 told the Ambassador that the GOC is inclined not to extradite Diego Murillo AKA "Don Berna" at the moment because it would endanger future demobilizations and Don Berna remains an important player in ensuring these demobilizations ha [...]	2005-09-23 22:03:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS PTER PREL PGOV CO ELN
05BOGOTA9095	COLOMBIANS PROTEST FRENCH REGARDING FARC [...] (U) The Colombian Foreign Ministry sent the French Ambassador to Colombia a diplomatic note on September 23 protesting France's latest contact with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in early September, without GOC authorization. The French reportedly sent the envoy to negotiat [...]	2005-09-24 16:44:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV MARR MOPS PHUM SNAR CO FARC
05BOGOTA9143	TEXTILE AND APPAREL STATISTICS AND PROJECTION OF [...] This is post's response to REFTEL request for information on Colombia's textile and apparel employment and production data, and projections of future competitiveness. 2. Textile and apparel production and employment data: 2004 2005 1/ Total [...]	2005-09-27 13:16:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KTEX FTA
05BOGOTA9232	PRESIDENT URIBE COMMITS PUBLICLY TO SIGNING FTA AS [...] (SBU) During a speech at the Annual National Exporters, Association Conference on September 27, President Uribe stated that he was willing to pay the necessary political cost to quickly conclude the FTA negotiations (translation of remarks below.) Uribe underscored that his support for the FT [...]	2005-09-28 21:38:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON PGOV CO
05BOGOTA9235	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNGA FIRST COMMITTEE [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-28 22:10:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL UNGA
05BOGOTA9248	CONTINUED COLOMBIAN SUPPORT AT SUMMIT OF THE [...] (U) PolOff delivered Ref A demarche to MFA Summit of the Americas Coordinator Francisco Gonzalez on September 27. PolCouns followed up with new Multilateral Affairs Office Director Nicolas Rivas on September 28. Emboffs stressed U.S. concerns about the tone and content of the draft leaders' [...]	2005-09-29 18:51:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON KSUM CO
05BOGOTA9257	RECONCILIATION COMMISSION CONFIRMS PEACE PROCESS \ [...] (C) XXXXXXXXXXXX discussed the status of the Catholic Church's role in peace \ talks between guerrilla groups and the Colombian government. \ He said he believed both negotiations were on hold ) the ELN \ would not advance during Francisco Galan's parole and the \ FARC consistently had refused all [...]	2005-09-29 20:31:00	Embassy Bogota	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PTER SOCI CO ELN FARC
05BOGOTA9269	BOGOTA MAYOR SEEKS CLOSER RELATIONSHIP WITH EMBASSY [...] (C) Ambassador Wood met with Bogota Mayor Luis Eduardo (Lucho) Garzon on September 22, at the Mayor's request. In a wide ranging discussion, Garzon requested more contact with the Ambassador and Embassy staff to improve information sharing, particularly on security issues. He asked for assis [...]	2005-09-29 21:03:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER CO VE FARC
05BOGOTA9276	PLAN COLOMBIA MONTHLY HIGHLIGHTS - AUGUST [...] (U) The following is an update of Plan Colombia activities reported during August 2005. --------------------------------------------- ------- DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE/JUDICIAL SECTOR REFORM PROGRAM --------------------------------------------- ------- 2. (U) The Department of Justice Judicia [...]	2005-09-29 21:45:00	Embassy Bogota	SECRET	PREL PGOV SNAR MASS PREF EAID KJUS CO FARC
05BOGOTA9294	COLOMBIA COMPLIES WITH 2005 IACHR RECOMMENDATION; [...] The Colombian Government formally accepted responsibility September 29 for the 1989 murder of 12 members of a GOC judicial commission at La Rochela by paramilitary forces, working in collaboration with elements of the GOC military. The Colombian Government's acceptance of responsibility on be [...]	2005-09-30 15:05:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV MARR CO
05BOGOTA9301	CONSERVATIVE PARTY FOCUSES ON WOMEN VOTERS [...] (SBU) The Conservative Party unofficially inaugurated its campaign season with a conference aimed at increasing women's political participation. The event offered data on women's participation in the GOC, as well as criticism of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez by the director of a Venezuelan [...]	2005-09-30 16:37:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM CO VE
05BOGOTA9305	SUPPORT FOR HUMANITARIAN PAROLE FOR THREE CUBAN [...] (U) This is an action message. Please see paragraph 7. 2. (SBU) Embassy was contacted by Ms. Liduine Zumpolle, a Dutch national who works with the pro-democracy NGO "Cuba Futuro" about the case of three Cuban nationals who worked in harsh conditions in a shipyard in Curacao. Zumpolle said [...]	2005-09-30 17:35:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREF CU CO
05BOGOTA9321	UPDATE ON REELECTION: THINKING OF PLAN B [...] (C) President Uribe and his team are considering contingency plans in the event the Constitutional Court strikes down reelection. The plans that are receiving most attention include a public referendum that would seek to change the Constitution, and the casting of a separate ballot during Ma [...]	2005-09-30 19:48:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS PINR CO
05BOGOTA9402	NAS MONTHLY REPORT FOR AUGUST 2005 [...] (SBU) Summary: During August, NAS was the control office for a two-person StaffDel from the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee for Foreign Affairs. The aerial eradication program sprayed approximately 10,087 hectares of coca and 78 hectares of poppy for a total of 111,946 hectares of coca an [...]	2005-10-03 18:23:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR SENV KCRM PTER CO
05BOGOTA9413	COLOMBIAN TO PARTICIPATE IN AVIAN FLU SENIOR [...] (U) PolOff met with representatives from MFA, the Ministry of Public Health and animal health experts from the Ministry of Agriculture on September 27 to discuss Colombian participation in the International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza (IPAPI) and the Senior Officials Meeting (S [...]	2005-10-03 21:21:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO EAGR ECON PREL SOCI KSCA CO
05BOGOTA9423	WTO GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-03 21:35:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ETRD KIPR
05BOGOTA9440	JUSTICE AND PEACE UNIT OPENS FOR BUSINESS [...] (C) Justice and Peace (J&P) Specialized Unit Chief Luis Gonzalez in the Prosecutor's Office (Fiscalia) told Emboffs September 27 that the unit would be open for business the week of October 3. Gonzalez will have 8 of 20 prosecutors available on October 3; he hopes to appoint remaining members [...]	2005-10-04 19:40:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS PTER PREL PGOV CO
05BOGOTA9565	OMBUDSMAN AND UNHCR OPEN "HOUSE OF RIGHTS" IN [...] The national Ombudsman inaugurated a "casa de los derechos" (house of rights) in the Altos de Cazuca neighborhood of Soacha, with support from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on September 29. Based on a model used by the UN in El Salvador, the office establishes the first offici [...]	2005-10-07 15:28:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PHUM SOCI CO
05BOGOTA9566	GOC SEEKS ASSISTANCE TO REINFORCE SECURITY AFTER [...] (C) The GOC is seeking USG assistance to strengthen security in areas formerly occupied by demobilized paramilitaries. Thus far, there have only been isolated incidents of FARC incursions into former paramilitary territory, but the FARC could become emboldened as the demobilization process ad [...]	2005-10-07 15:36:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR EAID ASEC SNAR CO OAS AUC FARC
05BOGOTA9593	NO CHANGE IN EXTRADITION POLICY FOLLOWING AUC [...] (C) In a 90-minute meeting with Ambassador Wood on October 7, Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo described paramilitary leaders as distrustful of President Uribe and scared of extradition, but confirmed GOC extradition policy would remain unchanged following the October 6 AUC statement s [...]	2005-10-07 21:46:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL KJUS KCRM CO AUC FARC
05BOGOTA9595	FORMER PRESIDENT GUTIERREZ TO RETURN TO ECUADOR, [...] (S) Former Ecuadorian president Lucio Gutierrez told poloffs October 5 that he intends to return to Ecuador, perhaps within weeks, and expects to be jailed on his arrival. Gutierrez said he wants to run for president in 2006 and would like the U.S. to ensure that his life is protected while in jail [...]	2005-10-07 22:45:00	Embassy Bogota	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER EC CO
05BOGOTA9715	DEFENSE ARTICLE REGULATONS FOR COLOMBIA [...] (U) Presidential Decree 2535 of 1993 governs Colombia's weapons imports and manufacturing processes. Per the regulations, Industrias Militares (Indumil) is the only entity in Colombia with the ability to import or manufacture weapons. Once the production or import is complete, weapons become [...]	2005-10-13 18:54:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD MARR PGOV CO
05BOGOTA9727	GOC,S EFFORTS TO CLARIFY CNRR,S DUTIES AND [...] (C) President Alvaro Uribe and National Reparation and Reconciliation Commission (CNRR) President Eduardo Pizarro warned during the CNNR's official launch on October 4 that the commission would probably fall short in its efforts to give reparations to all victims. The commission will hold it [...]	2005-10-13 21:12:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS PTER PREL PGOV CO
05BOGOTA9759	TWO TERRORIST ATTACKS IN BOGOTA IN TWO DAYS; [...] (C) Bogota experienced two terrorist incidents in 48 hours. On the evening of October 10, a remote-controlled 50-kilogram explosive device hidden in a parked car was detonated in northern Bogota as Senator German Vargas Lleras's motorcade drove past. Vargas escaped unharmed, but nine Colomb [...]	2005-10-14 18:38:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PTER PREL CO FARC PGOV
05BOGOTA9785	LABOR AND INDIGENOUS PROTESTS AGAINST FTA FIZZLE [...] Summary. Public concerns over FTA negotiations were highlighted as indigenous groups and the major labor unions held anti-FTA protests around the country this week. While most of the demonstrations were peaceful and smaller than predicted, some protesters were injured and one protester died [...]	2005-10-14 23:29:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON PGOV CO FTA
05BOGOTA9786	COLOMBIAN SENATE EXPRESSES SORROW, SOLIDARITY WITH [...] On October 7, Embassy received a diplomatic note in which the Minister of Foreign Affairs conveyed the text of Resolution 110, approved by the Colombian Senate on September 27, to the USG. In the resolution, the Senate expresses its sorrow for and solidarity with the victims of Hurricanes Kat [...]	2005-10-14 23:59:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC CO
05BOGOTA9790	COLOMBIAN PEACE PROCESS: URGENT REQUEST FOR [...] (U) This is an action request (see para 6). 2. (U) The Government of Colombia (GoC) is currently leading an unprecedented peace process with the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC). More than 18,000 former combatants have laid down their arms since the beginning of the Uribe adm [...]	2005-10-17 15:52:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PGOV PREL CO OAS
05BOGOTA9896	COURT SAYS CONSTITUTION HAS BEEN REFORMED TO ALLOW [...] (C) Summary: On October 19, the Constitutional Court ratified legislation reforming the Constitution to allow presidential reelection, including for incumbent President Uribe. A final legal hurdle for Uribe is the Court's approval of reelection implementing legislation, a decision that is d [...]	2005-10-20 17:47:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS PTER ECON CO
05BOGOTA9963	KIDNAPPING OF ORLANDO VALENCIA RECEIVES WIDE [...] (U) Post learned from NGO sources that Afro-Colombian leader Orlando Valencia was reportedly kidnapped on Saturday, October 15. Post has raised Valencia's case at all levels of the GOC to press for quick action to ensure his safety. End summary. --------------------------------- Initial N [...]	2005-10-21 21:41:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINS CVIS CO
05BOGOTA9975	DUTCH FOREIGN MINISTER EXPRESSES SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Over dinner on October 18, Dutch Foreign Minister Bot said Latin America needed strong regional and multilateral institutions to navigate its future and fortify democratic values. As a Caribbean neighbor, the Netherlands was prepared to help advance this process. The Netherlands [...]	2005-10-24 12:28:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SNAR XL XM CO VE NL
05BRASILIA100	"O ESTADO DE SAO PAULO" ARTICLE ON THE ARREST OF [...] The December 24 "O Estado de Sao Paulo" article set forth in paragraph 2 (below) describes the arrest by the GoB Federal Police of Julio Law -- the brother of notorious pirated goods trafficker Law Kin Chong. Federal Police sources have told Mission officers that as of January 11, Julio Law r [...]	2005-01-11 13:35:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	KIPR KCRM PGOV ECON BR
05BRASILIA1017	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENTIAL CHIEF OF [...] (C) Summary/Action Request. On 12 April Ambassador and PolCouns met for a private lunch at the COM Residence with the Presidency's Civil Household Minister and Presidential Chief of Staff Jose Dirceu, who was accompanied by his international affairs advisor, Ambassador Americo Fontanelles. Di [...]	2005-04-13 20:14:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD BR FTAA
05BRASILIA1018	AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH BRAZILIAN CONGRESSIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. On April 12, Ambassador Danilovich met with the new Speaker of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, Severino Cavalcanti, who --in his two months leading the lower house of Congress-- has butted heads with the Lula administration and entertained the press with his untailored style. [...]	2005-04-13 20:56:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV CVIS PINR PREL SOCI BR
05BRASILIA1030	BRAZIL'S QUARTERLY ENVIRONMENTAL UPDATE [...] Summary: The following is a summary of events relating to the Brazilian environmental situation from January to March, 2005. End Summary ------------------------------------- Transposing the Sao Francisco River ------------------------------------- 2. Transposing the waters of the Sao F [...]	2005-04-15 11:59:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV SOCI TNGD TRGY KSCA BR
05BRASILIA1042	UPDATE ON THE MERCURY PROBLEM IN BRAZIL, RESULTS [...] Summary: On April 13, 2005, the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology released the results of research completed by their Mineral Technology Center (CETEM) aimed at determining the level of mercury contamination of the fish in the waters of the Tapajos river, the principle source of f [...]	2005-04-15 18:48:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV TBIO PGOV ECON XR BR
05BRASILIA1044	BRAZIL: FORMER U.S. AMBASSADORS DISCUSS UN [...] (SBU) Summary. From March 30 to April 1, former Ambassador Thomas Pickering and Ambassador Alec Watson met with former Brazilian Ambassador to the U.S. Rubens Barbosa; former Foreign Minister Luiz Lampreia; Marcelo Vasconcelos and Paulo Alvarenga from the US and Canada Division at the Minist [...]	2005-04-15 19:31:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PGOV PREL PTER BR UNSC
05BRASILIA1053	BRAZIL'S QUARTERLY ENVIRONMENTAL UPDATE [...] Summary: The following is a summary of events relating to the Brazilian environmental situation from January to March, 2005. End Summary ------------------------------------- Transposing the Sao Francisco River ------------------------------------- 2. Transposing the waters of the Sao F [...]	2005-04-18 19:36:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV SOCI TNGD TRGY KSCA BR
05BRASILIA1067	PRESIDENTIAL CHIEF OF STAFF OF DIRCEU ON FTAA AND [...] (C) Summary. On April 18, Ambassador and a visiting delegation from the State of Florida met with Presidential Chief of Staff Jose Dirceu to discuss Miami,s bid to become the permanent FTAA secretariat site. Dirceu took the opportunity to state his desire that the FTAA talks move forw [...]	2005-04-20 13:45:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD KIPR SOCI BR FTAA

05BRASILIA1081	BRAZIL: MRE UNDER SECRETARY PEDROSA DISCUSSES [...] (C) On 18 April Ambassador Vera Pedrosa, Foreign Ministry (MRE) Under Secretary for Political Affairs, called Ambassador to the ministry to discuss the 11-12 May South America- Arab Summit in Brasilia. Pedrosa explained that she had "heard indirectly" from other foreign diplomats that the USG [...]	2005-04-20 20:29:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BR
05BRASILIA1100	GUTIERREZ ARRIVES IN BRASILIA [...] (SBU) Ecuador's ex-president Lucio Gutierrez arrived in Brasilia Sunday afternoon, April 24, via Brazilian Air Force 737 and was transferred immediately by helicopter to Brasilia's Military Sector. For the time being, Gutierrez and his family will lodge in officers transit quarters on the ar [...]	2005-04-25 12:58:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ASEC ECIN BR
05BRASILIA1118	BRAZIL MOVING FORWARD WITH PUBLIC-PRIVATE [...] (SBU) Summary: The GoB is close to launching an inter- agency review of its first two Public-Private Partnership (PPP) proposals for major infrastructure investments, according to Ministry of Planning Chief Economic Advisor Antonio Alves and special PPP coordinator Mauricio Ribeiro. These pro [...]	2005-04-26 19:40:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ECON PGOV EFIN BR
05BRASILIA1120	BRAZIL PUSHES FOR TIMELY CONCLUSION OF TALKS ON [...] The GOB is pushing for the conclusion of the LBA/NASA and Smithsonian Institution "arrangements" prior to the September 2005 U.S.-Brazil Common Agenda for the Environment (CAE) meeting. Missing that target may result in a Brazilian suggestion to postpone the CAE. Successful conclusion of t [...]	2005-04-27 12:13:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA SENV TBIO KSCA BR
05BRASILIA1130	BRAZIL: A/S RADEMAKER'S MEETING WITH FOREIGN [...] (C) Introduction: Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Stephen G. Rademaker met on 11 April with his Brazilian Foreign Ministry counterpart, Ambassador Antonio Guerreiro, Assistant Secretary for International Organizations (in the MRE structure this includes UN [...]	2005-04-28 12:01:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL BR
05BRASILIA1133	APPROVAL OF NIH RESEARCH PROJECT ENTITLED [...] On April 18, 2005, Embassy received from the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Division of Science and Technology, (DCTEC/MFA) an official notification (number 152, dated April 15, 2005) approving the research project proposal entitled "ASSESSMENT OF IDURONATE-2-SULFATASE IN MPS II (HUNTE [...]	2005-04-28 14:21:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KSCA OSCI BR
05BRASILIA1142	SLOW GROWTH IN US EXPORTS TO BRAZIL [...] (U) THIS IS A JOINT STATE/FCS MESSAGE; IT INCLUDES INPUT FROM AMCONSULATES SAO PAULO AND RIO DE JANEIRO. UNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED, DISCUSSION OF U.S. EXPORT TOTALS IS BASED UPON USDOC, NOT GOB, DATA. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION. OVER THE PAST DECADE GROWTH IN U.S. EXPORTS TO BRAZI [...]	2005-04-28 19:02:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	BEXP ECON ETRD EAGR BR
05BRASILIA1146	APPROVAL OF FDA RESEARCH PROJECT ENTITLED [...] On April 18, 2005, Embassy received from the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Division of Science and Technology, (DCTEC/MFA) an official notification (number 152, dated April 15, 2005) approving the research project proposal entitled "ASSESSMENT OF IDURONATE-2-SULFATASE IN MPS II (HUNTE [...]	2005-04-29 13:31:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KSCA OSCI BR
05BRASILIA1148	FARC MAY BE BUYING STOLEN MEDICINE IN BRAZIL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Since November 2004, Federal Police in the Brazilian state of Amazonas have been investigating the disappearance of 8,000 bottles of Glucantine, a drug used to treat a parasitic disease common in the Amazon. Last October, locals in Amazonas state found an abandoned boat that c [...]	2005-04-29 16:31:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR KCRM PTER BR
05BRASILIA1152	(CORRECTED COPY) BRAZIL: A/S RADEMAKER'S MEETING [...] (C) Introduction: Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control Stephen G. Rademaker met on 11 April with his Brazilian Foreign Ministry counterpart, Ambassador Antonio Guerreiro, Assistant Secretary for International Organizations (in the MRE structure this includes UN and arms control/non-p [...]	2005-04-29 16:53:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL BR
05BRASILIA1164	AGRARIAN TENSIONS REMAIN HIGH IN BRAZIL'S PARA [...] (C) SUMMARY. Tensions between small farmers, large landowners and government authorities continue to run high in the Brazilian state of Para, two months after the murder of US citizen nun Dorothy Stang. Five suspects are in custody for Stang's killing. The Brazilian Agriculture Minister rel [...]	2005-05-02 19:38:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV CASC PHUM PREL SOCI KCRM BR
05BRASILIA1168	BRAZIL MOVING FORWARD WITH PUBLIC-PRIVATE [...] (SBU) Summary: The GoB is close to launching an inter- agency review of its first two Public-Private Partnership (PPP) proposals for major infrastructure investments, according to Ministry of Planning Chief Economic Advisor Antonio Alves and special PPP coordinator Mauricio Ribeiro. These pro [...]	2005-05-03 15:39:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ECON PGOV EFIN BR
05BRASILIA1188	BRAZIL HEALTH NEWS UPDATE [...] Summary: Brazil's Ministry of Health has made headlines both domestically and internationally, primarily regarding HIV/AIDS programs and drugs. The GOB has demanded negotiations for voluntary licensing for key HIV/AIDS "cocktail" drugs; refused approximately US DOL 24 million in potential fu [...]	2005-05-05 12:24:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO TPHY KSCA BR
05BRASILIA119	BRAZIL INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2005 [...] This cable transmits Mission Brazil's submission of the 2005 Investment Climate Statement. Introduction - Openness to Foreign Investment --------------------------------------------- 2. Openness to Foreign Investment. Brazil knows that achieving sustained, rapid growth depends on for [...]	2005-01-12 14:38:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV KTDB BR OPIC USTR
05BRASILIA1207	BRAZIL: Ambassador's Lunch with General Jorge [...] No summary [...]	2005-05-06 15:05:00	Embassy Brasilia	SECRET	PINR PREL BR US
05BRASILIA122	IAEA COMPREHENSIVE SAFEGUARDS AGREEMENTS AND [...] (SBU) Ministry of External Relations (MRE) Disarmament and Sensitive Technologies (DDS) Division Chief Santiago Mourao confirmed that reftel letter regarding IAEA comprehensive safeguards and the Additional Protocol was provided to Foreign Minister Amorin in December. Mourao acknowledged tha [...]	2005-01-12 17:36:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP TRGY PREL BR IAEA
05BRASILIA1229	ARAB-SOUTH AMERICAN SUMMIT: MISSING HEADS OF STATE [...] (U) On the eve of the Arab-South America Summit in Brasilia, one key point of contention is preventing consensus on the long-running negotiation over a Summit Declaration, according to the local press. On Sunday May 8, senior representatives from the Palestinian Authority and Lebanon, with [...]	2005-05-10 12:51:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ETRD XR XF
05BRASILIA123	BRAZIL 2004-2005 INCSR PART II - MONEY LAUNDERING [...] This cable transmits Embassy Brasilia's submission of Part II of the 2004-2005 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR),on Money Laundering and Financial Crimes. Ref B is post's submission of Part I of the INCSR. 2. Due to its great size and large economy, Brazil is con [...]	2005-01-12 18:34:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM EFIN PTER SNAR KTFN BR
05BRASILIA1230	ARAB-SOUTH AMERICA SUMMIT: THE SUMMIT DECLARATION [...] (C) At the final preparatory Ministerial meeting on May 9, a compromise, of sorts, was reached on contentious "terrorism" language for the Summit Declaration, according to press reports. Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim affirmed that the Declaration would condemn terrorism "without a [...]	2005-05-10 14:21:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD PGOV XR XF
05BRASILIA1231	ARAB-SOUTH AMERICAN SUMMIT: BUSTS AND GAFFES [...] (C) The Arab-South American Summit began with a bust, and a gaffe. First the bust. At the opening of the Arab-South America Investment Conference and Business Fair occurring parallel to the Summit, Brazilian Minister of Development, Industry and Trade Luiz Furlan spoke of doubling within tw [...]	2005-05-10 14:21:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD XR XF
05BRASILIA1239	BRAZIL: LATEST ENERGY AUCTION FURTHER REDUCES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On April 2, Brazil held its second auction of long-term contracts to supply electric energy under its new energy model. The Minister of Mines and Energy once again hailed the auction of energy to be delivered beginning in 2008 and 2009 as a success because the prices represente [...]	2005-05-10 17:23:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EINV ECON PGOV BR
05BRASILIA1252	ARAB-SOUTH AMERICA SUMMIT: BRAZIL LOSES CONTROL [...] (C) SUMMARY and INTRODUCTION: Despite its confident demeanor going into the Arab-South America Summit, the GOB has stumbled in its handling, trying to manage an event involving heads of state when national interests are incongruent. It is proving to be beyond Itamaraty's ability. Perhaps [...]	2005-05-11 16:06:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD PGOV XR XF
05BRASILIA126	CARTAGENA PROTOCOL AND BRAZIL BIOTECH REGS [...] Since the first Meeting of Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety in February 2004, the GOB has introduced, but still not passed, legislation that would change regulatory practices concerning biosafety. Although, the bill is pro-GMO, it would reinforce existing labeling and documentat [...]	2005-01-13 12:17:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO EAGR EAID SENV KSCA BR
05BRASILIA1278	ARAB-SOUTH AMERICA SUMMIT - A NEGATIVE BALANCE FOR [...] (C) Summary: The Arab-South America Summit ended May 11. Unfortunately, for the GOB the reverberations may take longer to subside. The overwhelming consensus among Brazilian opinion-makers is that the event, and its ill-conceived declaration, will not enhance Brazil's image and call into [...]	2005-05-12 20:02:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD PGOV XR XF
05BRASILIA128	WTO SERVICES NEGOTIATIONS: REQUEST FOR COMMENTS [...] This cable is based upon input provided by FCS Sao Paulo. 2. Per reftel request, below is a ranking of the various service sectors in terms of priority for the USG and level of openness. Where appropriate, we have included comments regarding doing business issues for a specific sector. [...]	2005-01-13 17:36:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD BR WTO
05BRASILIA1317	BRAZIL LANDLESS ACTIVISTS STAGE LARGE MARCH IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. As part of its continuous campaign for agrarian reform, Brazil's Landless Movement (MST) often schedules a wave of land occupations and other activities in the month of April. But 2005 has been a slow year for MST, and the traditional "Red April" events were delayed and downsi [...]	2005-05-18 14:29:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON SOCI BR PHUM TIP
05BRASILIA1325	BRAZILIAN INDIANS DEMAND RIGHTS, FAULT GOB FOR [...] (U) Summary. In his September 2002 "Commitment to the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil," then-candidate Lula da Silva recognized past GOB policy errors on indigenous issues and pledged to create "a coherent indigenous policy" to address land and other human rights issues. During Lula's first two [...]	2005-05-18 19:19:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PNAT SOCI BR TIP
05BRASILIA1343	POLITICAL CORRUPTION SPARKS RIOTS IN BRAZIL'S [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Violence erupted this week in Porto Velho, capital of Brazil's western Rondonia state, with revelations that the state governor and several members of the State Assembly were locked in a complicated web of corruption. The worst of the violence subsided without serious injury, a [...]	2005-05-20 18:59:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KCRM PHUM SOCI BR
05BRASILIA1396	BRAZIL DECLINES GUANTANAMO MIGRANTS [...] (U) On May 20, PolOff delivered reftel and talking points to Brazil's Ministry of External Relations (MRE) International Organizations Division (DOI) and the Human Rights Divisions (DDH). PolOff also delivered reftel talking points to UNHCR representative in Brasilia Luis Varese. PolOff's req [...]	2005-05-24 19:47:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF SMIG BR US
05BRASILIA1407	BRAZIL/US CONGRESS-TO-CONGRESS OUTREACH STRATEGY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In recent years, Mission Brazil has worked hard to strengthen institutional links and dialogue between the Brazilian and US Congresses. The overall strategy is to increase contacts and interaction both among Members and staffers based on the expectation of short- and long-term [...]	2005-05-25 14:11:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KPAO SCUL BR
05BRASILIA1444	Trafficking in Persons LOA for Brazil [...] (SBU) Begin Summary: Our efforts to negotiate a Letter of Agreement (LOA) with the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations (MRE) concerning the President's Initiative on Trafficking in Persons have made no progress and we do not anticipate movement any time soon. Since the Brazilian impleme [...]	2005-05-31 13:21:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB EAID PGOV PREL PHUM BR TIP
05BRASILIA1466	CHAVEZ'S ACTIVITIES IN THE HEMISPHERE - BRAZIL [...] (S) Ref A requested Mission's assessment of the extent and nature of possible Venezuelan Goverment (GOV) and/or "Bolivarian" activities in Brazil, GOB views of same and of Chavez's regime in general. Refs B-H provided extensive information on GOB political views on Chavez, with reporting on [...]	2005-05-31 18:17:00	Embassy Brasilia	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER BR VZ
05BRASILIA1471	BRAZIL REFUSES TERMS OF PROPOSED NOTE ON MILITARY [...] (C) Summary. The GOB has rejected our proposal to grant A and T status to U.S. servicemembers coming to Brazil for the PKO South and Patriot Angel exercises. GOB officials have indicated that a diplomatic note with language similar to that used in the past would be acceptable. End summary. [...]	2005-05-31 19:55:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS MASS PREL BR POL MIL
05BRASILIA1479	ENGAGING GOB ON SITUATION IN HAITI [...] (C) We read with deep concern ref a and b assessments of the deteriorating security situation and endangered political process in Haiti. In light of these trends, we believe it is urgent that we engage directly at senior levels with the GOB, to gather information regarding their current assess [...]	2005-06-01 19:17:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS BR UNSC
05BRASILIA1490	BRAZIL - ENERGY AND RESOURCES REPORTING OFFICERS [...] Per Reftel request, we are providing the following information on the energy and natural resources (commodity) reporting officers for Mission Brazil. 2. Name of Post: Brasilia Name of Energy Reporting Officer: Jared Banks Transfer Date: December 2005 (rotational assignment) Name o [...]	2005-06-02 16:32:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EPET EMIN ENRG BR
05BRASILIA1503	BRAZIL: THE ENERGY MINISTRY'S INTERNATIONAL AGENDA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a May 27 meeting, the Special Advisor to the Brazilian Minister of Mines and Energy, Rubem Barbosa, spoke to Brasilia EconOffs regarding some of the issues on the ministry's international agenda. Barbosa voiced both concern and a "wait and see" attitude about the impact that [...]	2005-06-03 16:05:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EINV ECON PGOV BR
05BRASILIA1507	AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH U.S. PHARMACEUTICAL FIRMS [...] (SBU) Summary. On May 24 and 25, U.S. pharmaceutical companies Gilead Sciences, Abbott Laboratories, and Merck separately reported to Embassy on their negotiations with Brazil's Ministry of Health (MoH) over its demands that they acquiesce to licensing production of certain HIV/AIDS drugs (re [...]	2005-06-03 19:44:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR ETRD ECON IPR
05BRASILIA1522	CUBA: NSC-DIRECTED COUNTRY-BY-COUNTRY REVIEW [...] (U) Text below is in response to reftel B tasking. 2. (SBU) Brazil has close relations with Cuba and through engagement hopes to spread democratic values to the island. While the GOB is reluctant to criticize publicly the human rights policies of the Castro regime, behind the scenes the [...]	2005-06-07 13:30:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC PREL BR
05BRASILIA1544	BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT AT GLOBAL FORUM VOWS TO CRACK [...] (SBU) Brazilian President Lula da Silva used the occasion of the Fourth Global Forum Against Corruption, being held this week in Brasilia, to announce a firm response to the wave of corruption scandals that has been battering his administration in recent weeks. As noted in reftel, the GoB ha [...]	2005-06-08 18:37:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KCRM SOCI BR
05BRASILIA1549	BRAZIL: LULA ENVOY AND AMBASSADOR DISCUSS BOLIVIA [...] (C) Introduction: Ambassador and PolCounselor met on 8 June at the residence for a private lunch with President Lula da Silva's Foreign Affairs Advisor, Marco Aurelio Garcia and his deputy, Marcel Biato. Garcia has traveled repeatedly as Lula's "fireman" to Venezuela (he speaks by phone and m [...]	2005-06-08 21:15:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BR BL
05BRASILIA1566	VARIG FINANCIAL CRISIS DEEPENS [...] (U) This cable is based upon information gathered by the Econ and FCS Sections at AmEmbassy Brasilia. 2. (SBU) Summary. The financial situation of VARIG, Brazil's troubled flagship carrier, is worsening. Airline officials have told Deputy Senior Commercial Officer that in the absence of so [...]	2005-06-10 13:53:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR EINV PGOV ETRD BR
05BRASILIA1567	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH FOREIGN MINISTRY U/S [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador Hugueney of Brazil's Foreign Ministry (Itamaraty) told Ambassador June 6 that U.S. pharmaceutical companies should improve their offers on pricing and/or voluntary licenses for AIDS treatment drugs so as to avoid compulsory licensing by the Ministry of Health (MoH). H [...]	2005-06-10 13:53:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	KIPR ETRD EAGR EFIN BR IZ WTRO IPR
05BRASILIA1568	NOTIFICATION OF INTENTION TO PROCEED WITH [...] Post received a letter from the Department of Trade Defense of the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade notifying the USG that they plan to proceed with an anti- dumping investigation with regard to imports of polycarbonate resins from the U.S. and others. Originals will be file [...]	2005-06-10 16:15:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON BR
05BRASILIA1577	BRAZIL: ENHANCING COOPERATION WITH BRAZIL IN [...] (SBU) Summary. On June 6, Brazilian Ministry of External Relations (MRE) Africa Division Chief Joao Ignacio Padilha and poloff discussed a number of joint USG/GOB coordination projects in Lusophone Africa. Poloff and Padilha also talked about assistance projects that NGOs and other Brazilian [...]	2005-06-10 19:51:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL BR AO MZ
05BRASILIA1578	BRAZIL: SENIOR GOB OFFICIALS DISCUSS HAITI WITH [...] No summary [...]	2005-06-10 21:12:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BR
05BRASILIA1602	BRAZIL SCANDAL - CONGRESSMAN TESTIFIES BEFORE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Brazilian congressman Roberto Jefferson, who is also president of the PTB party (an ally in President Lula's governing coalition),began his testimony before the Chamber of Deputies' Ethics Committee on June 14. He will continue testifying on June 15. Jefferson was summoned b [...]	2005-06-14 21:15:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SOCI KCRM PREL BR
05BRASILIA1608	VARIG BOARD STRUGGLES TO SAVE AIRLINE [...] (SBU) Summary and Introduction. In a June 14 meeting with the Ambassador, key members of the VARIG board outlined the predicament in which the airline finds itself. ILFC (International Leasing Finance Corporation),a subsidiary of of AIG and a key aircraft leasing company, has indicated that [...]	2005-06-15 15:06:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR EINV
05BRASILIA1619	BRAZIL WILL SUPPORT WCO FRAMEWORK OF STANDARDS [...] On June 15, EconOff delivered reftel demarche on the World Customs Organization (WCO) Framework of Standards to Secure and Facilitate Global Trade to Clecy Lionco, Executive Secretary of the Brazilian Receita Federal (the Brazilian Tax and Customs Authority). Lionco will be participating in t [...]	2005-06-16 19:54:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD CTM
05BRASILIA1621	UN REFORM - AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH BRAZILIAN FORMIN [...] No summary [...]	2005-06-16 20:28:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KUNR AORC BR UNSC US
05BRASILIA1622	BRAZIL SCANDAL LIKELY TO GET WORSE BEFORE IT GETS [...] (C) SUMMARY. While Brazilian Congressman Roberto Jefferson, in his testimony before the Congressional Ethics Committee this week, did not provide proof to support his charges that senior officials of President Lula's Workers' Party (PT) were involved in a scheme to buy votes in Congress from [...]	2005-06-16 20:57:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCRM SOCI PREL BR
05BRASILIA1631	BRAZIL SCANDAL: DIRCEU RESIGNS, MORE CABINET MOVES [...] No summary [...]	2005-06-17 19:45:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KCRM SOCI PREL BR
05BRASILIA1636	ACTIVITIES OF THE BRAZILIAN FIRM SOUZA CRUZ IN [...] (U) Recently the Brazilian magazine Epoca published an article recounting the experiences of the Souza Cruz company (controlled by British American Tobacco) in doing business in Cuba. The article, a translation of which is set forth below, is instructive as it speaks of the day-to-day diffi [...]	2005-06-20 13:45:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC BR CU
05BRASILIA1660	LULA'S RIGHT-HAND WOMAN - DILMA ROUSSEFF BECOMES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On June 21, Brazilian President Lula da Silva named Minister of Mines and Energy Dilma Rousseff to be his new Chief of Staff, replacing Jose Dirceu, who resigned last week amid an unfolding corruption scandal. Rousseff was an opposition militant who was jailed and tortured by [...]	2005-06-22 15:41:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL ECON BR
05BRASILIA1662	BRAZIL - ECONOMIC GROWTH AND INFLATION SLOW [...] (SBU) Summary: Brazil's economy slowed more sharply than expected in the first quarter, clocking growth of 0.3%. Growth expectations for the year, therefore, are being downgraded, to the 2.5% to 3% range. The good news is that previously intractable inflation and inflationary expectations al [...]	2005-06-22 17:49:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN
05BRASILIA167	TERRORIST FINANCE: BRAZIL PRENOTIFIED OF FADHLI [...] No summary [...]	2005-01-19 14:42:00	Embassy Brasilia	SECRET	ETTC EFIN PTER PREL CVIS
05BRASILIA1672	BRAZIL: RESPONSE TO UNCHR REFORM DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) On June 22, Poloffs delivered reftel points to Human Rights Division Deputy Director Marcia Ramos at the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations (MRE). Ramos reviewed our points with interest and agreed that the UNCHR was in need of reform. Ramos told Poloffs that the GOB is in favor o [...]	2005-06-23 13:48:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL KUNR BR UNCHR TIP
05BRASILIA1675	BRAZIL: RESPONSE TO NEW TEXT FOR PKO SOUTH DIPNOTE [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel points to Luisa Lopes, Deputy Director of the Office to Combat Illicit Transnational Activities (COCIT) at the Ministry of External Relations (MRE). Lopes noted that the proposed language was similar to past US/GOB agreements and is in line with agreements betwee [...]	2005-06-23 18:38:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MOPS MASS KTIA BR POL MIL
05BRASILIA1680	BRAZIL: GOB LABOR TASK FORCE LANDS MAJOR BUST [...] (U) SUMMARY. On June 15 a Brazilian Labor Ministry task force made its largest bust to date, freeing approximately 1,200 slave laborers working at an ethanol refinery in Mato Grosso state. The GOB sanctioned the refinery for labor violations previously, and as a result, ethically conscious c [...]	2005-06-23 18:57:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV SOCI BR TIP
05BRASILIA1682	BRAZIL - THE ECONOMICS OF A POLITICAL CRISIS [...] (SBU) Summary: Rattled by a mounting scandal over alleged Lula administration vote-buying in the Congress, the GoB has, among other measures, attempted to shore up support among the economic elite by enacting a decree to remove certain taxes on capital investments by exporters. The scandal h [...]	2005-06-23 19:20:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN
05BRASILIA1685	MERCOSUL AGREES TO TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CUBA, [...] (SBU) Summary. During a summit held in Asuncion, Paraguay on June 20, Mercosul leaders announced their decision to initiate trade talks with Cuba. According to Brazil's Foreign Ministry, a decision has not yet been made on the type of final agreement to be negotiated. Depending on the natur [...]	2005-06-23 21:10:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD
05BRASILIA1686	BRAZIL'S SUPPLY OF ELECTRICITY SUFFICIENT FOR NOW, BUT [...] (U) Summary: Brazil's electricity generation and transmission network continues to be strong and has been able to weather recent troubles stemming from both politics and nature. Despite a continuing drought in southern Brazil, the turmoil in Bolivia that threatens natural gas supplies to Bra [...]	2005-06-24 12:15:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EINV
05BRASILIA1690	BRAZIL - DESIGNATION OF AIR CARRIERS UNDER [...] Post has received a diplomatic note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs designating Varig, Tam, Varig Logistica, and ABSA as Brazilian carriers under the bilateral aviation agreement to operate routes between the United States and Brazil. An informal translation of the note follows. 2. Be [...]	2005-06-24 13:47:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR
05BRASILIA1695	BRAZIL DEBATING MERITS OF A DEBT-FOR-NATURE SWAP [...] (SBU) Summary and action request: The GoB is studying the idea of participating in a debt-for-nature swap of USG debt to support environmental projects. The GoB likely will have at least one significant hurdle to clear before it can engage in a swap, since it would need new legislative autho [...]	2005-06-24 19:38:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN SENV AID
05BRASILIA1696	BRAZIL: SUBMISSION FOR INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] No summary [...]	2005-06-24 20:06:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ENRG EFIN OPIC
05BRASILIA1714	FOURTH GLOBAL FORUM ON FIGHTING CORRUPTION [...] Summary. The IV Global Forum on Fighting Corruption (GF IV): "From Words to Deeds" was held from June 7 to 10 in Brasilia, Brazil. An estimated 1800 representatives from 103 countries including government officials and representatives from international organizations and civil society parti [...]	2005-06-27 17:05:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD PGOV ECON BR
05BRASILIA1716	BRAZIL GIVES ABBOTT TEN DAYS BEFORE BREAKING PATENT [...] SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED 2. (U) Summary. On Friday June 24, the GoB announced a declaration of "public interest" for Abbott Laboratories AIDS treatment drug "Kaletra," providing the legal basis for issuing a compulsory license. The Ministry of Health (MoH) provided Abbott with 10 days i [...]	2005-06-28 11:04:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR ETRD IPR
05BRASILIA172	BRAZIL: GREATEST (ECONOMIC) HITS OF 2004 [...] Economically speaking, Brazil had an outstanding year in 2004, with the country by all accounts poised to embark upon a path of continued, sustainable growth. Below we have set forth a short list of the year's "greatest hits." While there is more that the GOB needs to do sustain such growth [...]	2005-01-19 16:28:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON BR
05BRASILIA1813	BRAZIL - SECOND DEMARCHE ON ITU/WTSA VETO ISSUE [...] (U) In a July 7 meeting, EconOff made Ref A points to Luis Fernando Serra, Joao Carlos Albernaz, Bruno Carvalho Ramos, and Luiz Fernando Ferreira Silva of ANATEL (Brazil's Telecommunications Regulatory Agency and the entity here responsible for ITU issues). The GOB continues to be aligned wit [...]	2005-07-08 17:56:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	ECPS AORC ECON ITU
05BRASILIA1816	BRAZIL CIVAIR: RESOLVING TAXATION DISPUTE [...] Post has received a diplomatic note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs replying to our February 16 note (reftel) regarding taxation of airlines in the U.S. The Brazilian note states that, based on our assurance that Brazilian airlines are not subject to social taxes equivalent to certain Br [...]	2005-07-08 20:10:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR KTIA
05BRASILIA1819	BRAZIL: LULA CONTINUES TO SHUFFLE CABINET AMIDST [...] SUMMARY. On July 6, Brazilian President Lula da Silva announced a long-waited cabinet shuffle, his third. Lula's hand was forced by a series of interlocking and expanding corruption scandals that have engulfed the GoB and paralyzed Congress since mid-May. The current shuffle started on June [...]	2005-07-08 20:14:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KCRM SOCI ENRG ECPS PREL BR
05BRASILIA182	BRAZIL: SMALL ARMS/LIGHT WEAPONS [...] No summary [...]	2005-01-20 16:54:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM BR UN
05BRASILIA1839	BRAZIL - NEXT STEPS FOR VARIG UNCLEAR [...] (SBU) Summary. Boeing Sales Director for Brazil, Jose Sicilia, told Emboffs that Boeing is still trying to assess what the immediate future holds for Varig after the carrier's recent move to obtain bankruptcy protection. While under Brazilian law the company has until August to file a reorgan [...]	2005-07-11 20:36:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR EINV
05BRASILIA1849	LULA FACES WORST CRISIS OF HIS PRESIDENCY [...] (C) SUMMARY. Since mid-May, when a series of interlocking scandals (dubbed the "Postal Service" and the "Big Monthly" scandals) began to unfold in Brazil, President Lula da Silva, his administration, his coalition, and his Workers' Party (PT) have been battered by the gravest political crisis [...]	2005-07-12 18:37:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON BR
05BRASILIA1850	TERRORIST FINANCE: HOTEL NASCO PRENOTIFICATION [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-12 19:37:00	Embassy Brasilia	SECRET	KTFN EFIN PTER
05BRASILIA1851	UNSCR 1267 SUCCESSOR RESOLUTION: DRAFT TEXT [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-12 20:09:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PREL KTFN UNSC
05BRASILIA1867	BRAZIL: CABINET SHUFFLE--PART II [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-13 19:58:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON PINR BR
05BRASILIA187	JOSE DIRCEU - LULA'S WING-MAN GETS BACK ON TRACK [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Jose Dirceu is Chief of Staff and most trusted advisor to Brazilian President Lula da Silva. Dirceu's legendary, if peculiar, biography is a window on Brazil's recent history. His machiavellian political skills and decades of fierce loyalty to Lula and the Workers' Party (PT) [...]	2005-01-21 13:35:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR ECON PREL SOCI BR
05BRASILIA1874	BRAZIL: LULA'S APPROVAL INCREASES AMIDST [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-14 19:38:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON BR
05BRASILIA1879	BRAZIL: DISPUTES CAST SHADOW OVER FUTURE ENERGY [...] (SBU) Summary. Investment disputes between U.S. investors and Brazil are currently concentrated in the country's energy sector. The majority of the disputes involve contracts for thermoelectric plants that were signed during a period of drought-induced energy shortage (2001- 2002) with guara [...]	2005-07-15 15:05:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ENRG EFIN KIDE OPIC
05BRASILIA1893	BRAZIL - DELIVERED LISTING OF PERSONS SUBJECT TO UNSCR [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-15 19:17:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN PREL ETTC UNSC
05BRASILIA1894	BRAZIL - TELECOMMUNICATIONS LICENSING CONDITIONS [...] Post submits the following in response to the Reftel questions regarding licensing conditions in the telecommunications sector in Brazil. On July 14, EconOff met with the Brazilian Telecommunications Regulatory Agency (ANATEL) General Manager for Tariffs and Prices and Acting General Manager [...]	2005-07-15 20:22:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	ECPS ECON
05BRASILIA1913	BRAZIL: GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS [...] (SBU) The Brazilian government has in general not been supportive of the EU's position in the WTO on geographical indications. According to Otavio Brandelli, Chief of the Foreign Ministry's IPR Division, the GoB has potential problems with the EU's list of foodstuff protected by European GIs [...]	2005-07-18 14:56:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON KIPR WTO
05BRASILIA1922	BRAZILIAN HUMAN RIGHTS SECRETARIAT DOWNGRADED; [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-18 18:38:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV BR TIP
05BRASILIA1929	MP 252 - BRAZILIAN TAX BREAKS FOR EXPORTERS [...] As reported in reftel, on June 15 the Lula administration issued Provisional Measure (MP) 252, which enacts a series of changes in the tax system to benefit multiple sectors. Some Brazilian analysts have questioned the WTO-consistency of the tax benefits provided by the MP to exporters. Spe [...]	2005-07-19 15:01:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EINV EFIN EAGR BEXP
05BRASILIA1936	BRAZIL - INFO FOR SECRETARY MINETA ON UPCOMING WHTI [...] Per reftel request, we are sending the following information regarding the upcoming Western Hemisphere Transportation Initiative (WHTI) ministerial-level conference that will be held in Guaruja, Brazil, August 25- 26. (Contrary to the information in the cable, the conference will not be held [...]	2005-07-20 11:21:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC EAIR ELTN EWWT
05BRASILIA1968	BRAZIL - POLITICAL SCANDAL HAS NOT DAMAGED THE [...] (C) Summary: The mounting political scandal over (alleged) Lula Administration vote buying/influence peddling in Congress has had negligible effects to date on the financial markets or Brazil's overall economic performance. Market participants and economic analysts told visiting regional Trea [...]	2005-07-22 12:10:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ETRD
05BRASILIA1973	BRAZIL SCANDAL: THE "OFFICIAL STORY" CRUMBLES AS [...] (C) Summary: The scandals (reftels) affecting the government of President Lula da Silva and his PT party reached a serious new level in recent days. Former PT officers implicated in the alleged financial improprieties have now attempted to present suspect financial transfers managed by a pr [...]	2005-07-22 19:55:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BR
05BRASILIA1974	SCENESETTER CABLE FOR VISIT OF SECRETARY SNOW [...] (U) The United States Mission in Brazil warmly welcomes your visit to Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro, and Vitoria (Espirito Santo) July 31-August 3. We are currently working with your staff on the logistical arrangements for your travel. In Brasilia, we have confirmed meetings for you with Presid [...]	2005-07-22 20:12:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN OVIP ETRD
05BRASILIA1978	July 12 U.S.-Brazil IPR Technical Cooperation [...] Summary and Introduction. On July 12, a team from USDOJ's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS),the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Unit, and USTR met with counterparts from the Ministry of Justice, Federal Police, Receita Fede [...]	2005-07-22 20:13:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	KIPR ETRD IPR
05BRASILIA1979	BRAZILIAN CONGRESS INVESTIGATES CORRUPTION [...] SUMMARY. A series of interlocking and expanding corruption scandals (reftels) that have engulfed the Brazilian government and President Lula da Silva's Workers' Party (PT) since May has led to the establishment of three separate, but closely related, Congressional Inquiry Committees (CPIs): [...]	2005-07-22 20:13:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON BR
05BRASILIA1984	BRAZIL: CABINET SHUFFLE--PART III [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-26 18:00:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON BR
05BRASILIA1993	OFFICIAL-INFORMAL: ELIMINATION OF LATIN AMERICA [...] (SBU) Post has learned that as part of a world-wide cost- cutting move, as of October 1 Treasury intends to eliminate the Regional Attache position based in Buenos Aires. That slot covers not only Argentina, but with the position incumbent frequently traveling to Brasilia, Sao Paulo, and Rio [...]	2005-07-27 14:10:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AMGT EFIN
05BRASILIA2011	PRIEST SLAIN IN RIO DE JANEIRO [...] (U) SUMMARY. Paulo Henrique Keler, a Catholic priest and advocate for Baixada Fluminense massacre victims, was murdered in Rio de Janeiro city on July 25. Brazilian police officials do not believe that the priest's involvement in the Baixada Fluminense case led to his murder. However, recent [...]	2005-07-28 16:39:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV SOCI BR
05BRASILIA2012	BRAZIL: WORRIES THAT POLITICAL SCANDAL WILL [...] (SBU) While to date the Brazilian economy has largely been immune to the growing three-month old vote- buying/influence peddling scandal which is currently plaguing the Lulu administration, there are growing signs that contamination could soon occur. Between July 21 and July 25, the real drop [...]	2005-07-29 11:26:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN
05BRASILIA2021	BRAZILIAN RESPONSE TO FAA INVESTIGATION REQUEST [...] Per ref request, U.S. Embassy in Brasilia delivered to the Government of Brazil (GOB) the correspondence and investigative report from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regarding alleged violations of U.S. aviation regulations by a Brazilian military pilot on or about October 4, 2 [...]	2005-07-29 12:47:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR
05BRASILIA2024	INDIGENOUS RIGHTS IN BRAZIL: GOB AND NGO [...] (U) SUMMARY. On July 5 poloffs met with Socio-Environmental Institute (ISA) NGO representatives Adriana Ramos, Coordinator of the ISA Law and Policy Program, and her assistant Fernando Baptista. ISA specializes in the defense of indigenous rights, and the promotion of sustainable environment [...]	2005-07-29 18:06:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV SOCI BR
05BRASILIA2025	BRAZIL: CORRUPTION SCANDAL UPDATE, WEEK OF 25-29 [...] (C) SUMMARY. This week saw further developments in the corruption scandals (reftels) that are roiling Brazilian domestic politics: the wife of Marcio Valerio-- the PT's money man in illicit financial schemes at the center of the crisis --testified before the Postal Service Congressional Inqui [...]	2005-07-29 18:53:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON BR
05BRASILIA2031	BRAZIL: CABINET SHUFFLE--PART III [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-01 13:06:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON BR
05BRASILIA2066	SCENESETTER CABLE FOR VISIT OF A/S DESUTTER [...] (U) The United States Mission in Brazil warmly welcomes your visit to Brasilia, August 14-16. We are currently working with your staff on the logistical arrangements for your travel. In Brasilia, we have confirmed meetings for you with Foreign Ministry Officials for compliance diplomacy dis [...]	2005-08-04 17:57:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC KNNP PARM PREL BR CWC US
05BRASILIA2067	TERRORIST FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF THREE NAMES [...] (SBU) EmbOff delivered reftel designation of three names submitted to the U.N. 1267 Sanctions Committee by Italy to Luiza Lopes da Silva of the Foreign Ministry's office for the Combat of Illicit International Activities and to Jaime Freitas of Brazil's Financial Intelligence Unit (COAF). Frei [...]	2005-08-04 19:06:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KTFN EFIN PTER KSEP

05BRASILIA2082	BRAZIL: CORRUPTION SCANDAL UPDATE, WEEK OF 1-5 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Hearings on the corruption scandals (refs) in the Brazilian government continued this week, as Congressman Jose Dirceu, President Lula da Silva's former Chief of Staff and closest advisor, testified on 2 August before the Chamber's Ethics Committee. Dirceu categorically denied [...]	2005-08-05 18:30:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON BR
05BRASILIA210	REGIONAL ISSUES: GOB VIEWS ON VENEZUELA-COLOMBIA [...] (C) Summary: Senior GOB officials told Ambassador and PolCounselor this week that Brazil is prepared to play an informal role in helping mediate a resolution to the Venezuela-Colombia dispute following the rendition of a FARC official from Venezuela to Colombia in recent days. President Lula d [...]	2005-01-24 15:35:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BR
05BRASILIA212	BRAZIL'S 2005 TRADE AGENDA: MORE OF THE SAME [...] (U) This cable has been coordinated with AmConsulate Sao Paulo. 2. (SBU) Summary and Introduction. Changing the "geography of trade" has become a Lula administration hallmark. Over the past two years, the GoB has aggressively used Brazilian and Mercosul trade policy to strengthen eco [...]	2005-01-24 16:37:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD BR WTRO
05BRASILIA2125	SCENESETTER CABLE FOR VISIT OF TREASURY ASSISTANT [...] (U) The United States Mission in Brazil warmly welcomes your August 20-23 visit to Brasilia. We are currently working with your staff on the logistical arrangements for your travel. Embassy has requested meetings for your delegation with counterparts at the Finance, Justice, and Foreign Mini [...]	2005-08-10 19:41:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ETTC
05BRASILIA2133	BRAZIL - OPIC PROPOSED LOAN TO PORT SECURITY INTL [...] Post has no objection to OPIC's proposed loan to Port Security International, LLC (PSI) in support of the installation and operation by that firm of scanning equipment at three ports in Brazil (Itajai, Sao Francisco do Sul, and Paranagua). The Foreign Commercial Service Office in Brasilia doe [...]	2005-08-11 16:43:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN EWWT OPIC
05BRASILIA2143	STAFFDEL O'KEEFE EXAMINES PHARMACEUTICAL REGULATORY [...] (SBU) Summary and Introduction. House Energy and Natural Resource Committee Counsel Colleen O'Keefe and Chris Knauer visited Brazil June 27 to July 2 to look at the degree to which local drug companies were producing substandard medicines - which eventually might find their way into the U.S. [...]	2005-08-11 19:55:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD SOCI TBIO KIPR IPR
05BRASILIA2145	SECRETARY SNOW'S MEETINGS WITH FINANCE MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: Secretary Snow met separately with Central Bank President Meirelles and Finance Minister Palocci August 1 in Brasilia for broad discussions of Brazil's current economic performance. Meirelles and Palocci both argued that Brazil's stellar economic performance, with a current accoun [...]	2005-08-12 14:31:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON
05BRASILIA2146	SECRETARY SNOW'S AUGUST 1-3 MEETINGS IN BRAZIL - [...] (C) Summary: During his bilateral meetings in Brasilia and the Group for Growth (GfG) session in Rio de Janeiro, U.S. Treasury Secretary Snow emphasized the importance of trade liberalization to increasing productivity and economic growth. Brazilian and U.S. businesses which participated in [...]	2005-08-12 14:32:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ETRD ECON PREL BR
05BRASILIA2149	BRAZIL - POTENTIAL ECONOMIC SCENARIOS AS THE [...] (C) Summary: Financial markets have, to date, largely taken in their stride the interlocking set of vote-buying and corruption scandals currently engulfing Brazil's political class (ref A). Several factors are working together to insulate the economy against the political turbulence, includi [...]	2005-08-12 17:08:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PGOV
05BRASILIA2150	BRAZIL CORRUPTION SCANDAL UPDATE, WEEK OF 8-12 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In one of the most dramatic moments thus far in the continuing corruption scandals (refs a-f) plaguing the Brazilian government, President Lula da Silva's 2002 campaign publicity coordinator Duda Mendonca stated on 12 August before the Postal Service CPI that the Workers' Party [...]	2005-08-12 17:53:00	Embassy Brasilia	SECRET	PGOV PREL ECON BR
05BRASILIA2153	UNTIMELY CHAVEZ-LULA VISIT [...] (U) On August 11 Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez made a stop-off in Brasilia during a quick tour of South American countries, and called on President Lula da Silva. Over dinner, official releases from the presidency indicate they discussed bilateral relations, focusing on a joint venture betw [...]	2005-08-12 19:22:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV BR
05BRASILIA2157	Brazil's National Health Council Recommends [...] SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED 2. (SBU) Summary. Adding to the tension surrounding negotiations between the Ministry of Health and U.S. pharmaceutical companies over potential compulsory licensing, on August 11, Brazil's National Health Council approved a resolution in which it recommended t [...]	2005-08-12 20:31:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR ETRD IPR
05BRASILIA2174	DEATH OF BRAZILIAN CONGRESSMAN MIGUEL ARRAES [...] (U) SUMMARY. Federal Deputy Miguel Arraes de Alencar, 88, founder of the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) and three time state governor, died on August 13 of a pulmonary infection in Recife, Pernambuco state. National president of the PSB and allied with President Lula da Silva's governing coa [...]	2005-08-16 18:59:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV SOCI PREL BR
05BRASILIA2208	BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT PROMOTES HUMAN RIGHTS THROUGH [...] (U) SUMMARY. On August 8-9, poloffs met with National Secretariat of Public Security (SENASP) representatives to SIPDIS discuss new training programs designed to promote respect for human rights amongst police and other public security officials in Brazil. States' budgetary constraints and [...]	2005-08-18 18:23:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV SOCI SNAR KCRM BR TIP
05BRASILIA2216	LETTER FROM AG MINISTER RODRIGUEZ REGARDING THE WTO [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-18 19:54:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ETRD WTO
05BRASILIA2219	BRAZIL CORRUPTION SCANDAL UPDATE: JOSE DIRCEU [...] (C) Introduction: Per refs, Jose Dirceu, formerly the most powerful minister in President Lula da Silva's cabinet and currently a federal deputy subject to possible revocation of his congressional status, is a central figure in the ongoing scandals roiling the government and PT Party. As suc [...]	2005-08-19 11:07:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON BR
05BRASILIA2226	BRAZIL CORRUPTION SCANDAL UPDATE, WEEK OF 15-19 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. This was a somewhat quiet week in the the corruption scandals (refs) plaguing Brazilian President Lula da Silva's government and the Workers' Party (PT). Two protests, one in support of and one against Lula, took place in Brasilia on 16-17 August. In his testimony before the [...]	2005-08-19 16:33:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON BR
05BRASILIA2231	BRAZIL: AMBASSADOR AND FOREIGN MINISTER AMORIM [...] (C) Introduction: Ambassador, accompanied by PolCouns, met on 19 August 2005 with Foreign Minister Celso Amorim and his chief of staff, to review a range of issues (with focus on reftel Haiti demarche) and discuss the Ambassador's departure from Brazil later in the year to assume the Chief Exe [...]	2005-08-19 17:55:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR BR UNSC US
05BRASILIA2237	BRAZIL SCANDAL: NEW ALLEGATIONS TOUCH FINANCE [...] (C) Summary: Rogerio Buratti, a former advisor to Finance Minister Antonio Palocci during the latter's tenure as Mayor of the city of Ribeirao Preto (Sao Paulo State),told police during a deposition August 19 that Palocci was involved in a kickback scheme that sent Reals 50,000 per month to PT [...]	2005-08-19 20:00:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PGOV ECON EINV
05BRASILIA2242	More on Corruption Allegations Against FinMin [...] (U) Summary and Introduction. Over the August 20-21 weekend, the surprise August 19 corruption allegations (reftel) leveled at Finance Minister Palocci continued to reverberate through the Brazilian body politic. In an August 21 press conference, Palocci emphatically denied the charges made [...]	2005-08-22 14:22:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV EFIN
05BRASILIA2282	BRAZIL: A/S DESUTTER'S MEETING WITH FOREIGN [...] (U) INTRODUCTION. Assistant Secretary for Verification and Compliance Paula A. DeSutter met on 15 August with Foreign Ministry Officials for compliance diplomacy discussions, led on the Brazilian side by Ambassador Antonio Guerreiro, Assistant Secretary of International Organization Affairs (in [...]	2005-08-24 19:34:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC KNNP PARM PREL BR CWC
05BRASILIA2287	FARC SPOKESMAN ARRESTED IN BRAZIL [...] On August 24, Brazilian Federal Police, in cooperation with Interpol agents in Brazil, arrested Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) "spokesman" Francisco Antonio CADENAS at a Sao Paulo bus station under an international order for his capture. The Colombian government has accused Cade [...]	2005-08-25 16:42:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PINR BR CO
05BRASILIA229	BRAZIL: SUPPORTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY [...] No summary [...]	2005-01-25 17:06:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB KDEM KSEP PGOV PHUM PREL BA TIP
05BRASILIA2305	BRAZIL CORRUPTION SCANDAL UPDATE, WEEK OF 22-26 [...] (U) SUMMARY. During the week of 22-26 August, the ongoing, scandal-driven political crisis shaking the Lula da Silva government and PT party (refs) was augmented by the new corruption allegations against Finance Minister Antonio Palocci (refs I and J). Political reactions to Palocci's 21 Aug [...]	2005-08-29 11:52:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON BR
05BRASILIA2316	BRAZIL: UPDATE FOR WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR [...] Post provides the following in response to reftel's request for information to update the Worst Forms of Child Labor Report: 2. The GOB administers a number of programs and projects to combat child labor and related issues in Brazil. The GOB will implement the following anti-child labor pr [...]	2005-08-29 18:36:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB PHUM SOCI BR
05BRASILIA2317	BRAZIL: CHINESE ACTIVITIES IN LATIN AMERICA AND [...] (C) In response to reftel request, post provides the following information regarding Chinese activities in Brazil. Economic, trade, investment, and science and technology information will be provided septel. Ref B outlines recent developments on environmental cooperation between China and Br [...]	2005-08-29 19:00:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM EAIR MARR CH BR
05BRASILIA2318	SENIOR PRIVATE BANKER ON BRAZIL'S POLITICAL SCANDAL [...] (C) Summary: In an August 23 conversation with Econoff, Banco Itau Executive Director Sergio Werlang, a leading financial markets expert and senior figure in Brazil's second largest private bank, dismissed market fears that Brazil's overall economic policy would change even if Finance Minister [...]	2005-08-29 19:22:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV EFIN PREL
05BRASILIA233	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENTIAL ENVOY [...] (C) Ambassador, accompanied by PolCounselor, met on 24 January with Marcos Aurelio Garcia, Senior Foreign Affairs Advisor to President Lula da Silva. Garcia had just returned from a weekend meeting in Caracas with President Chavez and provided a briefing on Brazil's efforts to facilitate a re [...]	2005-01-26 11:00:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BR
05BRASILIA2335	BRAZILIAN MINISTRY OF HEALTH SLOWS THE PACE ON [...] (SBU) Summary. On August 30, DCM, accompanied by selected members of Country Team, met with Ministry of Health Executive Secretary Jose Agenor da Silva to discuss the implications of any potential GOB move towards compulsory licensing of pharmaceuticals. Embassy message was that: a) USG value [...]	2005-09-01 17:26:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR ETRD EAID PGOV IPR
05BRASILIA2339	BRAZIL ON COMBATING WMD PROLIFERATION VIA [...] (C) Post delivered reftel demarche to Gustavo Rodrigues of COAF (Brazil's financial intelligence unit),Luiza Lopes da Silva of the Ministry of External Relations' (MRE's) Office for the Combat of Illicit Transnational Activities and Santiago Morao of the MRE's Disarmament and Sensitive Techno [...]	2005-09-02 12:35:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MNUC KTFN EFIN
05BRASILIA2348	BRAZIL - CORRUPTION SCANDAL UPDATE, WEEK OF 29 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A joint report by the two lead congressional committees investigating Brazil's interlocking corruption scandals (refs) this week recommended the expulsion from Brazil's congress of 17 legislators on suspicion of taking bribes for votes from a PT party affiliated money man, and a [...]	2005-09-02 20:49:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON BR
05BRASILIA2367	CHINESE ECONOMIC INVOLVEMENT IN BRAZIL -- LARGELY [...] (SBU) Summary: China's involvement in Brazil's economy primarily is trade-driven. Despite the fanfare and the billion dollar-price-tag investment projects trumpeted during President Hu Jintao's November 11, 2004 visit to Brazil, Chinese investment remains a tiny fraction of FDI in Brazil. By [...]	2005-09-08 18:50:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PREL ETRD EINV EAGR PHUM
05BRASILIA2384	BRAZIL CORRUPTION SCANDAL UPDATE, WEEK OF [...] (SBU) President of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies (U.S. House Speaker equivalent) Severino Cavalcanti is in danger of removal from his position, as bribery allegations against him appearing in weekend newspapers became seemingly irrefutable this week in the face of testimony by witnesses a [...]	2005-09-09 17:54:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON BR
05BRASILIA2387	BRAZIL CORRUPTION SCANDAL: A GUIDE TO IMPEACHMENT [...] (SBU) INTRODUCTION: Per refs, over the past three months the political crisis in Brazil caused by interlocking corruption scandals has led to public discussion of the question of presidential impeachment. In a 4 September interview in &O Estado do Sao Paulo,8 Brazilian Supreme Court President [...]	2005-09-09 19:09:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON BR
05BRASILIA239	Brazil Copyright Piracy: "ISTO E DINHEIRO" [...] The January 26 "Isto E Dinheiro" article set forth in paragraph 2 (below) describes a low-cost CD alternative that its inventor hopes will put Brazilian piracy out of business. 2. Begin Unofficial Embassy Translation Headline: Ralf, the Saviour? A low-cost CD with only three tracks an [...]	2005-01-26 16:25:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	KIPR KCRM PGOV ECON BR IPR
05BRASILIA24	BRAZIL ENACTS FIRST WAVE OF SWEEPING JUDICIAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Brazil's justice system does not enjoy the confidence of society, being widely-perceived as slow, inefficient and accessible only to the wealthy and powerful. But the failures of the courts are increasingly viewed as an impediment to social and economic development. In December [...]	2005-01-04 11:35:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KJUS SOCI EINV BR
05BRASILIA2404	DEVELOPMENT ISSUES IN THE UN HIGH LEVEL GENERAL [...] EmbOff delivered reftel non-paper to Antonio Jose Ferreira Simoes, Senior Economic Advisor to the Minister and Head of the Foreign Ministry's office for Diplomatic Planning. We will report septel should we receive any relevant response. CHICOLA [...]	2005-09-12 19:34:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECIN PREL UNGA
05BRASILIA2449	BRAZIL SUPPORTS US POSITION IN WTO GEOGRAPHICAL [...] SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED, PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY 2. (SBU) On September 9, Econoff delivered reftel points on the EU's GI proposal in the TRIPS Council to Otavio Brandelli, IPR Division Chief in Brazil's Foreign Ministry. In a September 14 follow-up discussion, Brandelli said the GoB [...]	2005-09-14 22:07:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR ECON WTO
05BRASILIA2452	BRAZILIANS AGREE TO PARAMETERS FOR SECURITY [...] (SBU) Summary. Recently Post and the Brazilian Foreign Ministry have agreed upon parameters for reciprocal visits to maritime ports and airports to assess security procedures. This accord allows the Transportation Security Administration and the U.S. Coast Guard to continue with their schedule [...]	2005-09-15 16:16:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EWWT EAIR KREC
05BRASILIA2457	BRAZIL CORRUPTION SCANDAL UPDATE, WEEK OF 12-16 [...] (C) INTRODUCTION. In two important developments this week in the continuing political scandals affecting Brazil's congress, President Lula da Silva's administration and the PT party (refs),Brazil's Chamber of Deputies (lower house) formally expelled Federal Deputy Roberto Jefferson, whose a [...]	2005-09-16 18:37:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON BR
05BRASILIA2463	BRAZIL NOT AS CONCERNED ABOUT SAICM [...] Summary. Although the GoB interests in chemicals management would seem to be somewhat in line with ours, the government does not appear to share USG concerns that the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM) process will result in problematic controls over the use and [...]	2005-09-16 19:28:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV ETRD ECON
05BRASILIA2467	BRAZIL: FINANCE MINISTER PALOCCI REPORTEDLY UPSET [...] (U) The September 16 "O Estado de Sao Paulo" reported that Finance Minister Antonio Palocci told two PT federal deputies that if his brother was called to testify before any of the congressional committees looking into influence peddling, Palocci would resign. The Minister's brother -- Adhem [...]	2005-09-19 11:20:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV EFIN
05BRASILIA2477	THE BRAZILIAN MACRO-ECONOMY: SOARING HIGH BUT NO [...] (SBU) Summary. The past 30 days have seen a wealth of good news for the Brazilian economy as a number of fiscal, growth, and financial indicators are trending up. Given this positive turn of events, some market watchers are beginning to wonder whether the conventional wisdom is correct - i.e [...]	2005-09-20 13:41:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV EFIN
05BRASILIA2486	TERRORISM FINANCE: AL-AKHTAR TRUST INTERNATIONAL [...] (SBU) EmbOff delivered reftel designation of Al-Akhtar Trust International to Luisa Lopes da Silva of the Foreign Ministry's office for the Combat of Illicit International Activities and to Jaime Freitas of Brazil's Financial Intelligence Unit (COAF). Freitas undertook to search COAF's databa [...]	2005-09-20 18:14:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KTFN ETTC EFIN PTER KSEP KVPR
05BRASILIA2488	TERRORIST FINANCE: LIST 72T [...] (SBU) EmbOff delivered reftel designation of Dr. Abdul Latif Saleh (List 72T) to Luisa Lopes da Silva of the Foreign Ministry's office for the Combat of Illicit International Activities and to Jaime Freitas of Brazil's Financial Intelligence Unit (COAF). Freitas undertook to search COAF's dat [...]	2005-09-20 18:19:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KTFN EFIN PTER KVPR
05BRASILIA2539	BRAZIL - CORRUPTION SCANDAL UPDATE, WEEK OF 19-23 [...] (SBU) Summary. Chamber of Deputies President Severino Cavalcanti resigned both his position and his mandate this week in disgrace in the face of corruption allegations, the first Chamber leader to fall in such circumstances in Brazil's history. The resignation sets the stage for a succession [...]	2005-09-23 13:34:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON BR
05BRASILIA2564	BRAZIL - AVIATION AND MARITIME OFFICERS [...] Per Reftel request, we are providing the following information on the officers who are responsible for aviation and maritime issues, including transportation security, for Mission Brazil. 2. Name of Post: Brasilia Name of Reporting Officer: Jared Banks Transfer Date: November 200 [...]	2005-09-27 13:29:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR EWWT
05BRASILIA2589	BRAZIL'S FINANCE MINISTRY MAKES PITCH FOR [...] (U) Summary. An aggressive tariff cutting proposal for WTO Doha Development Agenda (DDA) non-agricultural market access negotiations (NAMA),put forward internally by Brazil's Finance Ministry, has generated a storm of protest by the country's private sector and largest labor union, and angst [...]	2005-09-28 19:54:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON WTO
05BRASILIA2599	MPA RECOMMENDS TERMINATION OF BRAZIL'S GSP [...] (SBU) Summary. According to a Business Software Alliance representative, the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) will likely communicate to USTR on Monday October 3 the action it recommends taking on Brazil's GSP Review. In a written submission to IIPA, the Motion Picture Asso [...]	2005-09-29 17:56:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR ETRD IPR
05BRASILIA2601	STAINED VICTORY: LULA'S MAN WINS THE CHAMBER [...] (C) Summary. In an extremely close race on 28 September, Aldo Rebelo, a communist party legislator with close ties to President Lula Inacio da Silva, won the Presidency of the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house in Brazil's congress. Lula's government pulled out all the stops to win votes for [...]	2005-09-29 18:46:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BR
05BRASILIA2619	BRAZILIAN PARTICIPANT IN THE SENIOR OFFICIALS [...] Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, head of the Brazilian Ministry of Health Infectious Disease section will be attending the IPAPI Senior Officials meeting on October 6 and 7. Dr. Barbosa's contact information is as follows: Phone (55- 61) 3224-8861/3226-1216, Cell: (55-61) 9970-0880, Fax (55-61) 3223-1168 [...]	2005-09-30 19:51:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KSCA EAGR ECON PREL SOCI WHO FAO OIE
05BRASILIA2628	SCENESETTER CABLE FOR VISIT OF THE DEPUTY SECRETARY [...] (SBU) The United States Mission in Brazil warmly welcomes your planned October 5 to 7 visit to Brasilia. Ambassador Danilovich will meet you upon arrival the evening of October 5. The next day, we have scheduled meetings for you with Foreign Minister Amorim, Finance Minister Palocci, Presid [...]	2005-09-30 20:18:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP PREL ECON PGOV ETRD BR US
05BRASILIA2649	THE SURGING REAL HAS EXPORTERS SINGING THE BLUES [...] Summary. The Brazilian export sector is pressuring the Central Bank to curb the slide of the dollar (US$) against the Real (R$). As of September 29, the dollar was trading for Real 2.21, its lowest price since May 8, 2001. Exporters are concerned that if the devaluation of the US$ against the [...]	2005-10-04 15:59:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ETRD
05BRASILIA2652	ADDITIONAL INFO ON BRAZILIAN PARTICIPANT IN THE [...] Per reftel, additional information for Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, Brazilian participant in the IPAPI Senior Officials meeting on October 6 and 7 is as follows: Brazilian Official Passport SA167908, issued March 31, 2003; Date of Birth: May 16, 1957. DANILOVICH [...]	2005-10-05 11:05:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KSCA EAGR ECON PREL SOCI WHO FAO OIE
05BRASILIA2653	HEAD OF BRAZIILAN TAX AGENCY PROPOSES NEGOTIATION [...] (SBU) In a October 3 meeting with DCM, Jorge Rachid, head of Brazil's Receita Federal, and his International Affairs Advisor Zayda Manatta, proposed that Brazil and the USG negotiate a Tax Information and Exchange Agreement (TIEA). By facilitating the exchange of tax records and other data, ou [...]	2005-10-05 11:08:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON SNAR PGOV
05BRASILIA2658	SOUTH AMERICAN SUMMIT: NOT MUCH ADO ABOUT NOT MUCH [...] (SBU) Summary: The first summit meeting of the Community of South American Nations (CASA) provided a forum for Venezuelan President Chavez to blast the United States and call into question CASA's very nature, as well as for Brazilian President Lula to criticize his Argentine counterpart, but [...]	2005-10-05 17:14:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ECON EINV PHUM BR
05BRASILIA2672	BRAZIL AND USG SIGN MARITIME TRANSPORT AGREEMENT [...] Summary. On September 30, after several years of negotiation, Brazil and the USG signed a Maritime Transport Agreement in Washington, DC. The agreement still must be ratified by the Brazilian Congress, which we do not anticipate will happen in the near-term. The signing was, nevertheless, o [...]	2005-10-06 18:52:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	EWWT ETRD PHSA PREL ASEC
05BRASILIA2675	DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary. Deputy Secretary of State Zoellick, accompanied by Ambassador Danilovich and delegation, met on 6 October with Marco Aurelio Garcia, International Affairs Advisor to President Lula da Silva. Garcia has often served as Lula's special envoy for crisis situations in the region, and [...]	2005-10-07 13:45:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BR OVIP US
05BRASILIA2676	DEPUTY SECRETARY'S OCTOBER 6 MEETING WITH FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Secretary Zoellick told FM Amorim October 6 that the international community needs to engage strongly in Bolivia during the elections to guarantee transparency, and must remain engaged following elections to guarantee some degree of governability. Amorim urged U.S. flexib [...]	2005-10-07 14:29:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MASS ETRD PHUM BR US
05BRASILIA2681	DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETINGS WITH BRAZILIAN SENATOR [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-07 14:57:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM ETRD ECON BR OVIP US
05BRASILIA2682	DEPUTY SECRETARY'S ROUNDTABLE WITH BRAZILIAN [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-07 14:58:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ETRD ECON BR OVIP US
05BRASILIA2683	BRAZIL: CONSULTATION ON AIR BRIDGE DENIAL PROGRAM, [...] (C) Introduction. On 10 October Embassy PolCouns, Air Attache and DEA Attache met with senior Ministry of Defense (MOD),Federal Police (DPF) and Foreign Ministry (MRE) representatives to review Brazil's Air Bridge Denial ("shootdown") program. The purpose of the consultation was to gather in [...]	2005-10-07 16:36:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR MOPS MASS MARR KTIA BR POL MIL
05BRASILIA2684	DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH BRAZILIAN FINANCE [...] October 6, 2005, 5:00 P.M., Finance Ministry, Brasilia, Brazil. 2. Participants: United States: The Deputy Secretary Tom Shannon, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor for Western Hemisphere Affairs Ambassador John Danilovich Phillip Chicola, Deputy Chief of Mission C [...]	2005-10-07 16:47:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EFIN ETRD ECON
05BRASILIA2687	BRAZIL CORRUPTION SCANDAL UPDATE: WEEK OF 3-7 [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-07 19:29:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL BR
05BRASILIA2692	BRAZIL'S LANDLESS MOVEMENT INVADES AMERICAN-OWNED [...] (U) Summary. Between three and five hundred members of Brazil's Landless Movement (MST) invaded AgroReservas do Brazil, an American-owned farm management company based out of Utah, as part of its "Red September" offensive, launched during the week of September 26. The MST's actions are aimed [...]	2005-10-11 13:04:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SOCI BR TIP
05BRASILIA2709	TERRORIST FINANCE: LIST 72U [...] (SBU) EmbOff delivered reftel designation of seven names (List 72U) to Luisa Lopes da Silva of the Foreign Ministry's office for the Combat of Illicit International Activities and to Jaime Freitas of Brazil's Financial Intelligence Unit (COAF). Freitas undertook to search COAF's databases and [...]	2005-10-11 18:10:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN PTER PREL KVPR
05BRASILIA2724	BRAZIL LOOKS TO THE IDB FOR HELP ON INFRASTRUCTURE [...] (SBU) On October 11, EconCouns met with Ministry of Planning International Affairs Secretary Jose Carlos Miranda at the latter's request. In that conversation, Miranda stated that the Brazilian government wanted to work closely with new IDB President Moreno so as to facilitate the flow of Ban [...]	2005-10-13 12:14:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID EFIN ENRG
05BRASILIA2729	ABBOTT AND GOB REACH DEAL TO AVOID COMPULSORY [...] SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED -- PLEASE TREAT ACCORDINGLY 2. (U) Summary. On October 10, Abbott Laboratories and Brazil's Ministry of Health reached an agreement on pricing and supply of the AIDS treatment drug Kaletra, ending seven-months of intense negotiations under the threat of compul [...]	2005-10-13 15:56:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR ETRD ECON IPR
05BRASILIA2745	OFFICIAL-INFORMAL [...] In Reftel, post made the case for maintaining a Treasury Attache presence in South America, observing that the current incumbent of the position, posted in Buenos Aires, helps provide vital coverage of macro-economic and international financial developments in Brazil. Events since then have o [...]	2005-10-14 13:06:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON AMGT
05BRASILIA2758	BRAZIL CORRUPTION SCANDAL UPDATE, WEEK OF 10-14 [...] (U) SUMMARY. On October 12, the Brazilian Civilian Police found the body of Carlos Delmonte Printes, the medical examiner who initially determined that Santo Andre's PT Mayor Celso Daniel had been tortured before being shot dead in early 2002. Printes' death marked the seventh among persons [...]	2005-10-14 20:01:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON BR
05BRASILIA2767	BRAZIL: REQUEST FOR RESETTLEMENT ASSISTANCE FOR [...] (U) This is an action cable. Please see paragraph four for action request. 2. (U) On October 13, poloff delivered reftel talking points to Marcelo Bohlke at Brazil's Ministry of External Relations United Nations Division (DNU). Poloff also provided points to Marcia Ramos at the Ministry's [...]	2005-10-17 18:35:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PREL PTER PHUM PREF PINR BR TIP
05BRASILIA2772	BRAZIL: URGENT DEMARCHE ON UNESCO CULTURAL [...] On October 14 post forwarded (Ref A) correspondence from Secretary Rice, under cover of a letter from the Ambassador, SIPDIS to Foreign Minister Celso Amorim. To date, we have not received a response from the GOB. Similarly, on October 17 post forwarded Ref B letter from Secretary Gutierre [...]	2005-10-18 15:09:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD OPDC UN
05BRASILIA2774	VISITING TEAM FROM THE OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER [...] (SBU) Summary. The week of September 28 Robert J. Scavotto, Senior International Economic Advisor in the Comptroller of the Currency's International Banking and Finance unit and Oliver Taft, Financial Economist in the same office, visited Brazil to meet with a variety of government officials a [...]	2005-10-18 17:34:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV
05BRASILIA2775	BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT BEGINS TO LOOK AT OFFSETS FOR [...] Summary. On October 4-5 in Brasilia, the Foreign Ministry hosted an International Seminar on Commercial, Industrial and Technological Offsets (i.e., conditioning a government purchase on some quid pro quo on the part of the vendor). The seminar sought to identify the legal principles underpinn [...]	2005-10-18 18:19:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON BEXP MASS KIPR
05BRASILIA2785	BRAZIL'S RESPONSE TO APIS+ DEADLINE [...] (U) Summary. On October 3, the evening before the published deadline for implementation of the APIS+ measures, the Brazilian Foreign Ministry sent Embassy Brasilia a Non- Paper relaying its concerns about the additional reporting requirements. Post requests guidance from Washington on how to [...]	2005-10-18 19:58:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR PTER ASEC
05BRASILIA2798	BRAZIL'S RESPONSE TO U.S. PROPOSALS TO ENABLE [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche October 18 to Acting Director Jandyr Santos of the Foreign Ministry's Disarmament Division. Calling the briefing very timely given the ongoing Nuclear Supplier's Group (NSG) meeting in Vienna -- where Division Director Santiago Mourao is heading the Brazil [...]	2005-10-19 18:54:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP BR IN
05BRASILIA2804	BRAZIL PROMULGATES SAFEGUARD PROVISIONS FOR IMPORTS [...] Summary. After a failed attempt to secure voluntary export restraints from China, on October 6 the GoB published decrees establishing regulations for imposing safeguards on imports of Chinese products. Textile producers were the first to file petitions seeking relief; as many as 20 more sect [...]	2005-10-20 13:38:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON
05BRASILIA2805	BRAZIL: URGENT DEMARCHE ON UNESCO CULTURAL [...] Post delivered on October 19 reftel demarche as a diplomatic note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Development, Industry and Commerce. Post has not yet received the GOB's response to the diplomatic note. We will follow up with both Trade officials and working level conta [...]	2005-10-20 15:17:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD SCUL UNESCO
05BRASILIA2806	BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT INTERVENES IN VARIG - TOO [...] (SBU) Summary. For months the Brazilian government has been urging a market solution to the debt-laden airline Varig, which filed for bankruptcy protection in June 2005. The new Varig management council has, nevertheless, continued to struggle to maintain adequate cash flow and pay its lessor [...]	2005-10-20 15:19:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR EINV PGOV ETRD
05BRASILIA2811	FINANCE MINISTRY QUERIES ON BILATERAL RELATIONS IN [...] (SBU) On October 18, Regional Treasury Attache Mat Haarsager, EconCouns, and Econ Assistant met with Finance Ministry U/S Joaquim Levy. The wide-ranging conversation touched upon the issue of debt-for-nature swaps, the USG's democracy/development agenda, and U.S. industry's GSP petition on co [...]	2005-10-21 11:43:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON SENV KIPR PGOV EFIN US
05BRASILIA2813	SURVEY OF BRAZIL'S EFFORTS TO COMBAT PIRACY [...] (U) Introduction. Under pressure from the USG's review of trade benefits under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) (ref A) and in response to domestic concerns about organized crime, tax losses, and risks for consumers associated with illegitimate products, the GoB has over the last on [...]	2005-10-21 13:41:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR ETRD ECON
05BRASILIA2821	BRAZIL: UNESCO CULTURAL DIVERSITY CONVENTION [...] (SBU) On October 20, the day of the UNESCO vote on the Cultural Diversity Convention, FCS Deputy Senior Commercial Officer spoke with the Brazilian Ministry of Trade's International Relations Director. Our contact said that upon receiving Secretary Gutierrez's letter, Trade Minister Furlan [...]	2005-10-24 11:14:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD OPDC PREL UNESCO
05BRASILIA285	BRAZIL AND THE OECD: CO-HABITATING FOR NOW, BUT [...] (U) THIS CABLE WAS COORDINATED WITH AMCONSULATES RECIFE, RIO DE JANEIRO, AND SAO PAULO. 2. (U) SUMMARY. WHILE PRESIDENT LULA AND FOREIGN MINISTER AMORIM SUPPORT THE IDEA OF EVENTUAL BRAZILIAN ACCESSION TO THE OECD, ENTRY INTO THAT ORGANIZATION IN THE SHORT-TERM IS NOT CURRENTLY ONE OF THE G [...]	2005-01-31 18:39:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EFIN EINV BR OECD
05BRASILIA289	BRAZIL AND THE IAEA: LATEST ON RESENDE NUCLEAR [...] No summary [...]	2005-02-01 12:53:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP PARM MNUC BR IAEA NPT
05BRASILIA2902	BRAZIL CORRUPTION SCANDAL UPDATE, WEEK OF 24-28 [...] SUMMARY. The Lula government's hopes that the political crisis of the past five months will abate before the onset of next year's campaign season were dampened by the week's events, which suggest scandal investigations will roil on for the foreseeable future. Delays in the final judgment on [...]	2005-10-28 19:08:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON BR
05BRASILIA295	NPT REVIEW CONFERENCE: BRAZIL PERSPECTIVE [...] (C) Poloff discussed ref B non-paper with Ministry of External Relations' (MRE) Disarmament and Sensitive Technologies Division Chief, Santiago Mourao, who is preparing the GOB position for the 2005 NPT Revcon. Mourao strongly defended the NPT. He agreed that the Treaty required "strengthen [...]	2005-02-01 19:09:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM KNNP MNUC BR IAEA NPT
05BRASILIA2951	BRAZIL CORRUPTION SCANDAL UPDATE, WEEK OF 30 [...] (U) INTRODUCTION. A number of significant developments have emerged this week in investigations on the corruption scandals battering the Lula's administration and contention with the opposition has increased markedly. The highlights are listed below. END INTRODUCTION. CORRUPTION SCHEME WA [...]	2005-11-04 13:31:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON BR
05BRASILIA298	AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH ROBERTO RODRIGUES, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Ambassador Danilovich met with the Brazilian Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, and Food Supply ("MAPA" is the Portuguese acronym),Roberto Rodrigues, on January 25 in Brasilia to discuss trade concerns and issues leading up to the CCA meetings in Washington in March 2005. Rod [...]	2005-02-01 20:06:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR PGOV ECON BR
05BRASILIA2994	BRAZILIAN RESPONSE TO DATES FOR FOURTH PLENARY [...] Poloffs delivered reftel dip note November 10 to Marcos Pinta Gama, Director of the Office to Combat Illicit Transnational Activities (COCIT) at the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations (MRE). Pinta Gama told Poloffs that the MRE still intends to hold the meeting on December 5-6. However [...]	2005-11-10 14:59:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PGOV BR ARCH PY
05BRASILIA2995	NOTIFICATION OF INVESTIGATION ON POLYCARBONATE RESIN [...] Post received on November 7, a letter dated August 10, 2005, from the Department of Trade Defense of the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade notifying the USG that it plans to proceed with an anti-dumping investigation on polycarbonate resins in powder, flake, granulated or pell [...]	2005-11-10 17:19:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON
05BRASILIA3001	BRAZIL CORRUPTION SCANDAL UPDATE, WEEK OF 07-11 [...] (SBU) INTRODUCTION. There have been a number of developments in different venues this week. Overall, the various corruption scandals are merging into an increasingly contentious, across-the-board struggle between the Lula government and its opposition in the run-up to next year's general elect [...]	2005-11-10 17:32:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON BR
05BRASILIA3004	NOTIFICATION OF HEARING ON N-BUTANOL ANTI-DUMPING CASE [...] Post received a letter from the Department of Trade Defense of the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade notifying the USG that it plans to hold a final hearing with regard to its anti-dumping investigation of N-Butanol exported to Brazil from South Africa and the U.S. Originals [...]	2005-11-10 18:23:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON
05BRASILIA3008	BRAZIL - FINANCE MINISTER PALOCCI UNDER FIRE [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Brazil's Finance Minister, Antonio Palocci, considered by many the anchor of GoB economic policy, has been coming under increasing fire in recent days as new allegations have surfaced that he had a role in illegal fund-raising activities by the ruling PT party and kn [...]	2005-11-14 12:13:00	Embassy Brasilia	SECRET	ECON PGOV PREL EFIN BR CU
05BRASILIA3026	SLOW GOING ON BIOTECH, BUT MONSANTO LOOKING AT [...] (SBU) Summary. In early November, Monsanto executives blanketed Brazil as first CEO Hugh Grant and his management team visited the country, followed shortly thereafter by a week-long tour of the company's Growth Advisory Committee. Notwithstanding the problems that the firm has experienced in [...]	2005-11-16 14:36:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR KIPR BEXP ETRD BR CH IPR
05BRASILIA303	BRAZIL: STATEMENTS ON TERRORISM AT CARTAGENA [...] No summary [...]	2005-02-02 13:28:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OPDC PREL PGOV PTER SNAR ECON BR CO
05BRASILIA3035	WTO: BRAZIL LIKELY TO REMAIN CAUTIOUS ON SERVICES [...] SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED 2. (SBU) Summary. Brazil's willingness, or not, to be forthcoming in WTO services is directly linked to its assessment of concessions being made by major developed country partners (US and EU) in the agricultural negotiations. However, even if the GoB should at [...]	2005-11-17 17:14:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON BR WTO
05BRASILIA3043	BRAZIL - FINANCE MINISTER PALOCCI'S 11/16 [...] (SBU) Summary: Finance Minister Antonio Palocci categorically denied accusations of corruption during his tenure as mayor of the city of Riberao Preto and of illegal financing of President Lula's 2002 presidential campaign (including an alleged $3 million contribution from the Government of Cu [...]	2005-11-18 13:33:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV EFIN PREL BR CU
05BRASILIA3051	BRAZIL CORRUPTION SCANDAL UPDATE, WEEK OF 14-18 [...] INTRODUCTION. On Monday, November 14, the political crisis that has engulfed the Lula administration and hindered the work of the Brazilian Congress reached the six-month mark. From the day a Postal Service employee was caught receiving bribes in the name of a federal deputy, various corrup [...]	2005-11-18 19:02:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON BR
05BRASILIA3052	BRAZIL - PROCESS FOR VENEZUELA'S MEMBERSHIP IN [...] (SBU) Summary. Brazil's decision to approve Venezuela's request for membership to Mercosul came from the top levels of the GoB, without substantial internal debate. While the process for admitting Venezuela to the bloc is moving forward, the Foreign Ministry appears to be approaching the iss [...]	2005-11-18 19:22:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	ECIN ETRD ECON VE BR
05BRASILIA3060	TERRORIST FINANCE: ASG PRENOTIFICATION - BRAZIL [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-21 16:44:00	Embassy Brasilia	SECRET	EFIN KTFN PTER PREL ETTC RP BR

05BRASILIA3091	Brazil: Tax Agency Chief Under Investigation [...] Summary: On November 18, 2005, federal prosecutors filed a civil lawsuit against Jorge Rachid, Secretary of the Ministry of Finance's Secretariat da Receita (i.e., the Brazilian counterpart of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service) alleging "administrative improbity." Prosecutors are seeking to [...]	2005-11-23 17:17:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON SNAR PGOV BR
05BRASILIA3092	BRAZIL - FINANCE MINISTER PALOCCI ON SOMEWHAT [...] (SBU) Summary: After another marathon session in front of one of Congress' economic oversight committees, Finance Minister Antonio Palocci appears to have solidified his political position, allowing him some temporary respite from the political and scandal-related crossfire he has been receivi [...]	2005-11-23 17:27:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV EFIN PREL BR CU
05BRASILIA3106	BRAZIL CORRUPTION SCANDAL UPDATE, WEEK OF 21-25 [...] SUMMARY. The long-awaited dismissal of Deputy Jose Dirceu from the House of Deputies was delayed again, and it is now at least plausible that he may not be dismissed at all. After receiving a favorable decision from the Constitution and Justice Committee that postponed one more time the fin [...]	2005-11-25 18:44:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON BR
05BRASILIA311	U.S.-BRAZIL DEFENSE COOPERATION AGREEMENT (DCA), [...] (SBU) On January 31, Ministry of Defense (MOD) provided Mission with a draft of a proposed bilateral defense cooperation accord. According to MOD contacts, Defense Minister/Vice President Jose Alencar supports the draft document. Within MOD, enthusiasm for upcoming SecDef visit is reportedl [...]	2005-02-03 14:56:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR MASS PREL BR ASPA POL MIL
05BRASILIA3116	BRAZILIAN RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON VENEZUELAN ARMS [...] (S) Foreign Ministry Undersecretary-General for Cooperation and Brazilian Communities Abroad Ruy Nunes Pinto Nogueira called the Charge to the Foreign Ministry November 28 to respond to the demarche delivered by then Charge Chicola on November 22 concerning the new U.S. policy concerning arms [...]	2005-11-28 20:18:00	Embassy Brasilia	SECRET	PREL MARR MASS PARM BR VE
05BRASILIA3124	BRAZIL: IAEA/IRAN NOVEMBER 24 IAEA BOARD MEETING [...] (C) Embassy presented reftel demarche November 28 to Santiago Mourao, director of the Foreign Ministry's Disarmament and Sensitive Technologies Division. Mourao said the GOB had maintained frequent contact with the EU3 on the issue and had also had two recent discussions of the issue with th [...]	2005-11-29 18:31:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM PREL AORC BR IR IAEA
05BRASILIA3125	BRAZIL DEMARCHE ON U/S BURNS & U/S JOSEPH SFRC [...] (C) Embassy presented the text of the testimonies of U/S Burns and Joseph November 28 to Santiago Mourao, Director of the Foreign Ministry's Disarmament and Sensitive Technologies Division. Mourao said he had seen references to the testimony of the two Undersecretaries and looked forward to [...]	2005-11-29 18:44:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM PREL IN BR US
05BRASILIA3130	SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF THE LIBERTAD ACT - [...] (C) Brazil enjoys a close relationship with Cuba and the GoB has refused to criticize directly the Castro regime's human rights policies. In a rare public statement on Cuba in April 2005, President Lula implied criticism of Castro when he told the press that "Brazil can help build a democratic [...]	2005-11-30 12:40:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ETTC PREL BR CU
05BRASILIA3134	BRAZIL: MONITORS FOR BOLIVIAN ELECTIONS [...] (U) On 29 November PolCounselor delivered reftel demarche to Clemente Baena Soares, Andean Division Chief at the Ministry for External Relations. (Note: Per ref request, PolCouns attempted to inform and coordinate with Bolivian Embassy regarding the demarche, but Bolivian diplomats did not re [...]	2005-11-30 16:19:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV BR BO
05BRASILIA3135	RESPONSE: POST TERRORISM REPORTING OFFICERS [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-30 16:58:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SCUL ASEC EFIN KCRM KTFN KVPR PTER
05BRASILIA3141	BRAZIL SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF 3+1 DELEGATION [...] (C) The Plenary Meeting of the 3 1 will provide an important benchmark for Brazil's willingness to increase cooperation with the United States on Counterterrorism, something the GOB has been reluctant to do. We do not expect a significant change in the GOB's position, which places great impor [...]	2005-11-30 19:12:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV ECON BR US
05BRASILIA3150	BRAZIL CORRUPTION SCANDAL UPDATE, WEEK OF 28 [...] (C) Summary: On the evening of 30 November the Brazilian congress's Chamber of Deputies (lower house) voted to "cassar" (ban from office or impeach) congressman Jose Dirceu -- until a few months ago, arguably the most powerful minister in President Lula da Silva's government and the main lead [...]	2005-12-01 19:34:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON BR
05BRASILIA3162	BRAZIL - STEEL POLICIES; NAMA NEGOTIATIONS [...] SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED - PLEASE TREAT ACCORDINGLY 2. (U) Introduction. The following information is provided in response to ref A's request for information on the Brazilian steel industry and related government policies. See paras 12 and 14 regarding FIESP views on WTO NAMA negotiatio [...]	2005-12-02 16:20:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EIND BR WTO
05BRASILIA317	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES ECONOMIC AGENDA WITH FINANCE [...] (SBU) Summary and Introduction. In a private February 1 meeting with Finance Minister Palocci, Ambassador emphasized the need for the GOB to continue making progress on its micro-economic reform agenda. Discussion, in particular, focussed on the GOB's recently-enacted Public- Private Partner [...]	2005-02-03 18:55:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN EINV BEXP SENV BR
05BRASILIA318	BRAZIL: REGIONAL INFORMATION SHARING FOR AIR [...] (C) Summary: Ref query requested Embassy views on the potential for sharing U.S. information (particularly ROTHR data) with the GOB as part of cooperative regional effort at air bridge denial (ABD) that may also include Colombia. In summary form below are our observations, based on the history [...]	2005-02-03 19:03:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR MARR MOPS PINR BR POL MIL
05BRASILIA3185	CODEL HYDE DISCUSSES FTAA, CORRUPTION SCANDAL WITH [...] Summary. Brazilian Congressional representatives told CODEL Hyde December 2 that they would like to see an increase in dialogue between the U.S. and Brazilian legislatures on important topics like the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). One representative said Brazil's recent corruption [...]	2005-12-05 17:46:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON BR FTAA ETRO US
05BRASILIA320	JUVENILE OFFENDERS FREED DURING ASSAULT IN BRASILIA [...] Summary. On January 30, armed men in Brasilia freed two teenage detainees from a vehicle and held six others hostage while en route to the CAJE juvenile detention center. The CAJE facility is often criticized for understaffing, overcrowding, and poor security. End Summary. 2. On the eveni [...]	2005-02-04 11:46:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM PGOV PHUM BR TIP
05BRASILIA3207	BRAZIL - ECONOMY CONTRACTS, CRITICISM EXPANDS [...] (SBU) Summary: Brazil's economy contracted 1.2% in the third quarter of 2005, falling further than even the pessimists had predicted. Growth expectations for the year, therefore, are being downgraded to the 2.3% to 2.7% range. The unexpectedly abrupt fall in GDP has intensified criticism of [...]	2005-12-08 11:03:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV EIND BR
05BRASILIA321	BRAZIL'S FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY LAW FACES FIRST [...] (U) This cable has been coordinated with Consulates Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. Brazil's Fiscal Responsibility Law (LRF),a cornerstone of the nation's fiscal recovery, is facing its most serious threat since its enactment in 2000. The law, meant to enforce prudent [...]	2005-02-04 12:00:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV EFIN SOCI BR
05BRASILIA3216	BRAZIL CORRUPTION SCANDAL UPDATE, WEEK OF 05-09 [...] SUMMARY. This was a quiet week in investigations of the scandals in the GOB and PT party (refs). Congressional investigation committees (CPIs) probed allegations of irregular payments by the PT to a textile firm owned by Vice President Alencar, but did not link these charges to the broad fin [...]	2005-12-09 10:33:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON BR
05BRASILIA325	MISSION COMMENTS: MINISTRY OF DEFENSE DRAFT [...] (C) After initial review of the Ministry of Defense (MOD) draft accord (reftel),Mission believes the Brazilian document is an excellent launching point for negotiation of a Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA). While the MOD version is bare-bones, it also provides a strong negotiating found [...]	2005-02-04 13:09:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	MARR MASS PREL BR ASPA
05BRASILIA3251	BRAZIL - CAPETOWN CONVENTION ACCESSION LIKELY IN [...] (U) Econoff made reftel points on the Cape Town convention to Michel Arslanian of the Foreign Ministry's Division of Services, Investment and Financial Affairs. Arslanian stated Brazil will likely accede to the treaty, but with a few reservations since certain points of the treaty were "incomp [...]	2005-12-13 18:51:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN EAIR EIND ETRD KTIA BR
05BRASILIA3252	NODEL ENGLISH BRAZIL MEETINGS [...] (U) Summary: A congressional delegation led by Congressman Phil English, coordinator of the U.S. House of Representatives' Brazil Caucus, met on December 1 in Brasilia with Chamber of Deputies President Aldo Rebelo, Minister of Development, Industry and Trade Furlan and participated in a dial [...]	2005-12-13 18:51:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD PREL PGOV OREP KIPR BR
05BRASILIA3255	BRAZIL: POC FOR MULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT BANK [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-14 16:33:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN EAID ECON PREL BR
05BRASILIA3262	BRAZIL'S CONGRESS CONTINUES TO DELIBERATE [...] SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED 2. (SBU) Summary. In a bid to exert greater control over trade policy, Brazil's Congress continues to weigh legislation to establish parameters for the country's trade negotiators. While some provisions would pose challenges for the U.S., it is unclear whether [...]	2005-12-14 19:43:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD PGOV BR
05BRASILIA3277	BRAZIL: 2005 ANNUAL TERRORISM REPORT [...] The Tri-Border Area (TBA) -- where Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay converge -- has been characterized as a regional hub for Hizballah and HAMAS fundraising activities. However, the region is more widely known as a center for arms and drug trafficking, contraband smuggling, document and currenc [...]	2005-12-16 13:55:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER ASEC KCRM EFIN KHLS KPAO BR
05BRASILIA3278	BRAZIL - ATSC DTV ADVOCACY AND SPECIAL [...] (SBU) Summary: The Charge delivered reftel letter from Secretaries Rice and Gutierrez to Communications Minister SIPDIS Costa in a December 13 meeting. Costa stated his principal concern with the ATSC standard was the expense of repeater stations to enhance broadcast coverage. The letter w [...]	2005-12-16 14:35:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECPS ECON EINV BR
05BRASILIA3285	BRAZIL: BOLIVIA ELECTION DEVELOPMENTS [...] (SBU) PolCouns spoke with senior Brazilian Government (GOB) contacts in the foreign ministry (MRE) and Presidency on 15 December to check on the GOB's preparations for the 18 December election in Bolivia. They noted the following: 2. (SBU) Marcel Biato, deputy foreign affairs advisor to Pr [...]	2005-12-16 15:02:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BR
05BRASILIA3324	TERRORISM FINANCE - ASG INDIVIDUALS - JOINT [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-22 11:27:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN KTFN ETTC PTER PREL BR
05BRASILIA3346	BRAZIL AND THE PARIS CLUB - PREPAYMENT OR [...] (SBU) The Finance Ministry's Strategic Debt Planning Coordinator, Anderson Silva, confirmed to Emboff December 21 that the Finance Ministry is studying a proposal to pay off all of its Paris Club (PC) debt in 2006. According to Silva, no final decision has yet been made despite press reports [...]	2005-12-22 13:02:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON SENV PREL BR
05BRASILIA3349	BRAZIL WILL BEGIN NEW YEAR WITHOUT A FEDERAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Brazil will begin 2006 without having approved a federal government budget. Federal Deputy (congressman) Colbert Martins told Emboff December 20 he believes the budget would not be passed until February. The GoB will be limited to paying salaries and current expenses (utilitie [...]	2005-12-22 18:33:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV EIND BR
05BRASILIA3382	BRAZIL CORRUPTION SCANDAL UPDATE, WEEKS OF 19-29 [...] (U) Introduction: A controversial decision to call an extraordinary session of Brazil's congress during the traditional holiday recess facilitated the continued investigation of Brazil's interlocking political scandals, now approaching their seven month in the headlines (ref). Prime developme [...]	2005-12-29 17:48:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON BR
05BRASILIA369	Murder of AmCit Dorothy Mae Stang [...] (U) This cable is Sensitive But Unclassified. 2. (U) Summary. US citizen and Catholic nun Dorothy Mae Stang was murdered in the northern Brazilian state of Para February 12. She was an advocate for the landless and had been involved in land disputes with powerful landlords. Brazilian sta [...]	2005-02-14 17:06:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	CASC PGOV PREL BR TIP
05BRASILIA373	SCENESETTER CABLE FOR VISIT OF CODEL BLUNT [...] The United States Mission in Brazil warmly welcomes your visit to Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro, and Sao Paulo, February 22-23 and February 25-28. As requested reftel, Mission grants courtesy country clearance for your travel. (Threat assessment to be sent septel.) Overall Mission Control Office [...]	2005-02-14 18:22:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP ETRD PREL BR
05BRASILIA387	BRAZILIAN CONGRESS CHOOSES DARK HORSE AS NEW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a surprising and potentially serious setback for the Lula administration, the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies (lower house) on February 14 chose dark horse Federal Deputy Severino Cavalcanti (Progressive Party -'PP') to be its next Speaker. Cavalcanti took over immediately an [...]	2005-02-16 09:07:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV BR
05BRASILIA388	BRAZIL: GOB REQUESTS USG "BEST EFFORTS" TO [...] (C) Ambassador, accompanied by PolCouns, Consul General and Special Assistant, met on 15 February with Ambassador Ruy Nogueira, Foreign Ministry (MRE) Under Secretary for Cooperation and Brazilian Overseas Communities, at Nogueira's request. Nogueira, whose regular portfolio focuses on consul [...]	2005-02-16 09:07:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS BR
05BRASILIA40	FIRST TEST OF BRAZIL'S NEW ENERGY REGULATORY MODEL [...] (U) This cable reflects input from Consulates General Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. The GoB took a long-awaited first step towards implementing its new energy regulatory model with a December 7 auction of electricity supply futures. The Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME [...]	2005-01-05 13:03:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EINV ECON PGOV BR
05BRASILIA406	BRAZIL - RATIFYING THE 1999 MONTREAL CONVENTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-02-16 17:45:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR PREL BR ARAS
05BRASILIA415	LULA IN CARACAS -- PARSING A "STRATEGIC ALLIANCE" [...] (C) Summary: President Lula da Silva's state visit to Venezuela this week saw declarations and a formal statement by Lula and President Chavez announcing formation of a "strategic alliance." In practice, this seems to translate to enhanced cooperation in integration and development aimed at i [...]	2005-02-16 19:31:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR BR
05BRASILIA417	BRAZIL - STRONG 2005 MACROECONOMIC SCENARIO [...] (SBU) Summary: Brazil enters 2005 in a position of relative macroeconomic strength. GDP growth, debt ratios, the trade balance and external accounts are all favorable or moving favorably. In conversations with industry and government economists, all were hard pressed to name a single econ [...]	2005-02-17 09:02:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PGOV EINV BR
05BRASILIA43	LULA AND BRAZILIAN CONGRESS HAVE A FULL PLATE FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. By staying in session through Christmas, the Brazilian Congress finally passed the 2005 budget and went into recess until February. The budget process has become dysfunctional and this year's experience may have generated enough frustration to reform it before the next cycle. [...]	2005-01-05 13:23:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON SOCI BR
05BRASILIA437	Update on Murder of AmCit Dorothy Mae Stang [...] (U) This cable is Sensitive But Unclassified. 2. (SBU) Summary. Warrants for the arrests of three individuals for the murder of Amcit Dorothy Mae Stang have been issued; the suspects are still at large. Violence continues in the region, with the murder of the leader of a landless community. [...]	2005-02-18 15:28:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	CASC PGOV PREL BR TIP
05BRASILIA447	BRAZIL MAKES REFORMING REGULATORY AGENCIES A PRIORITY [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Brazilian Congress is considering a new law governing the functioning of Brazil's nine regulatory agencies. The legislation aims to bring greater social accountability, operational transparency, and financial oversight to their operations. The law includes, however, controver [...]	2005-02-18 19:45:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EINV EFIN PGOV EWWT ECON BR
05BRASILIA451	DEMARCHE ON MERCURY ISSUE AT UNEP [...] EST Counselor provided REFTEL demarche points to Andre Correa do Lago, Head of the Division of Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Feb. 10. As outlined in email, Correa do Lago said the GOB would like to consider the opinions of other countr [...]	2005-02-22 12:46:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV AORC ETRD PREL BR
05BRASILIA452	REGIONAL COOPERATION ON MERCURY CONTAMINATION, LIMA [...] Summary: On February 1-3, 2005, the OES-supported Brasilia Environmental HUB brought together the officials responsible for the management and regulation of mercury use in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela and Suriname to formulate an action plan to minimize mercury contamination in [...]	2005-02-22 12:46:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV TBIO PGOV ECON XR BR
05BRASILIA455	SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 50 [...] The following is the fiftieth in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science & technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expressed d [...]	2005-02-22 15:49:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR
05BRASILIA464	THREE SUSPECTS IN CUSTODY IN STANG MURDER, BUT [...] (C) By February 22, police had arrested three of the four suspects in the February 12 murder of US missionary Dorothy Stang in Para state in northern Brazil. Both alleged gunman plus the middleman who hired them are now in custody. The fourth suspect, the landowner who is the alleged mastermind of [...]	2005-02-22 20:18:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	BR CASC KCRM PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI TIP
05BRASILIA490	BRAZIL - HOW MUCH SPENDING SEQUESTRATION IS ENOUGH? [...] (SBU) Summary. The GoB is preparing to issue on February 25 a decree sequestering Reals 5 to 10 billion (approximately USD 2 to 4 billion) of spending called for in the 2005 budget law passed by the Brazilian Congress December 29. This is part of an annual exercise in which the executive b [...]	2005-02-24 18:35:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PGOV EINV BR
05BRASILIA516	BRAZIL: RAISING IRAN AT THE 28 FEBRUARY IAES BOG [...] (C) Per reftel, on 24 February PolCouns provided to the Foreign Ministry (MRE) Disarmament and Sensitive Technoligy Division Chief Santiago Mourao the USG position paper on the IAEA BOG meeting scheduled for 28 February to review developments in the agency's investigation of Iran since Novembe [...]	2005-02-28 14:31:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM PREL BR IAEA POL MIL
05BRASILIA521	BRAZIL - THE MICROECONOMIC REFORM AGENDA [...] (SBU) Summary: In contrast to Brazil's recent outstanding macroeconomic performance, its progress on the microeconomic and structural reforms necessary to sustain healthy growth levels has been mixed. The GoB has a well- articulated reform agenda and continues to push key measures through [...]	2005-02-28 19:28:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PGOV EINV BR
05BRASILIA531	NOTIFICATION OF ANTI-DUMPING INVESTIGATION ON N- [...] Post received a letter dated February 15, 2005 from the Department of Trade Defense of the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade notifying the USG of Brazil's intention to open an anti-dumping investigation concerning exports to Brazil of n-Butanol originating from the U.S. and S [...]	2005-03-01 15:23:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON BR
05BRASILIA532	BRAZILIAN HUMAN RIGHTS SECRETARIAT SPEAKS ABOUT [...] (C) Summary. On February 23, Poloff met with Perly Cipriano, Under Secretary for Human Rights Promotion at the Brazilian Secretariat for Human Rights, to discuss the Dorothy Stang murder case (reftels A, B, and C). During the meeting, Poloff and Cipriano discussed Stang's refusal to accept p [...]	2005-03-01 16:56:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV CASC PHUM PREL SOCI KCRM BR TIP
05BRASILIA542	BRAZILIAN RESPONSE TO ARGENTINE PRELIMINARY PAPER ON [...] Emboff delivered reftel non-paper to Brazilian Deputy Summit of the Americas Coordinator Afonso Sena Cardoso in a February 24 meeting. Cardoso welcomed the U.S. comments on the Argentine paper and reciprocated in kind, handing us a non- paper with GoB observations on the Argentine paper (tra [...]	2005-03-01 19:24:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON ELAB ETRD KSUM AR BR
05BRASILIA564	ISRAELI EMBASSY FOCUSED ON ARAB-SOUTH AMERICAN [...] (C) In March 1 discussion with Poloff, Embassy of Israel Minister Counselor Eitan Surkis reiterated the GOI'S concerns with Summit preparations and Brazil's Summit-related diplomacy to date. Although the Embassy had already met with the head of the Ministry of External Relations' (MRE) Middle [...]	2005-03-02 16:45:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL PTER KSUM XF XM BR
05BRASILIA573	BRAZILIAN CONGRESS PASSES BIOSAFETY LAW -- VICTORY [...] SUMMARY. On March 2, the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies overwhelmingly passed the Biosafety Law that regulates biotechnology crops and stem cell research. After a year and a half and competing versions in Congress, this was the final vote, and President Lula is expected to sign it into law qu [...]	2005-03-03 16:02:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV EAGR ECON PREL TSPL SOCI BR
05BRASILIA574	BRAZIL: AMBASSADOR'S DEMARCHE ON ARAB SUMMIT AND [...] (C) Ambassador delivered ref A demarche late on 2 March to Ambassador Antonio de Aguiar Patriota, chief of staff to Foreign Minister Amorim. (Note: Ambassador had planned to demarche Acting FM Guimaraes, but the meeting was postponed by Guimaraes until 8 March; Ambassador will reiterate key re [...]	2005-03-03 17:02:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KPAL KSUM XF XM BR
05BRASILIA581	Brother of Murdered Nun Pushes for [...] (SBU) Summary. David Stang, brother of murdered US citizen nun Dorothy Stang, visiting Brazil this week, told Ambassador Danilovich that while pleased with GoB reaction to his sister's death he believed it important that the Brazilian federal government take over from the state authorities the [...]	2005-03-03 20:53:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CASC PGOV PREL BR TIP
05BRASILIA598	NEW ENVIRONMENTAL MEASURES FOR BRAZIL'S AMAZON [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 17, 2005 Brazil's Minister of Environment, Marina Silva, announced a presidential decree aimed at combating land grabbing and deforestation in the Amazon. The three-pronged strategy sets up five separate forest reserves totaling 12.8 million acres, places a ban on [...]	2005-03-04 21:05:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV PGOV EAGR ELAB SOCI BR
05BRASILIA599	BRAZIL'S NATIONAL PLAN TO COMBAT PIRACY [...] SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED; PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY 2. (U) Summary. Brazil's National Council to Combat Piracy and Intellectual Property Crimes (Council) has formulated a national plan consisting of 91 measures, broken down into three categories based on their expected timeframe for im [...]	2005-03-07 14:14:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR ETRD KJUS BR IPR
05BRASILIA606	BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT REQUESTS FEDERALIZATION OF [...] No summary [...]	2005-03-07 18:23:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV CASC PHUM PREL SOCI KCRM BR TIP
05BRASILIA61	BRAZIL 2004-2005 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL [...] Following is Brazil's 2004-2005 INCSR. As requested in reftel, the money laundering portion of the INCSR will be submitted separately. BRAZIL ---------- I. SUMMARY ---------- 2. The principal event of 2004 in Brazil's anti-narcotics effort was the long awaited implementation of a s [...]	2005-01-06 13:43:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR EFIN KSEP BR NAS
05BRASILIA64	BRAZIL WILL SEEK RATIFICATION OF LAST THREE [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered talking points to Ministry of External Relations, Transnational Crimes Office Chief Marcus Pinta Gama. According to Pinta Gama, the GOB hopes to ratify the last three outstanding international counterterrorism accords this year. Of the three, the most urgent ratifica [...]	2005-01-06 15:18:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER ASEC PREL BR
05BRASILIA658	JEWISH SOCIAL PROGRAMS, CONCERNS WITH ARAB-SOUTH [...] (C) Introduction and Summary: During a two-day visit to Sao Paulo to meet that city's Jewish leadership, Ambassador witnessed the community's highly effective social welfare programs and delivered messages of support for the commonality of ties between the U.S., Israel, and Brazil's Jewish c [...]	2005-03-09 19:50:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL KSUM PTER XF XM BR
05BRASILIA660	BRAZIL: AMBASSADOR'S 9 MARCH MEETING WITH ACTING [...] (C) Introduction: Ambassador met one-on-one on 9 March with Acting Foreign Minister Samuel Pinheiro Guimaraes (FM Amorim is in Africa). Guimaraes, as Secretary General of the Ministry of External Relations (MRE),is D equivalent, often acting as minister during Amorim's frequent travels abroa [...]	2005-03-09 20:25:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BR
05BRASILIA682	BRAZIL'S STEELY MONETARY POLICY [...] (SBU) The GoB published a decree March 4 reducing to zero the import tariff on fifteen different categories of steel. The measure is temporary and does not represent a general liberalization, but rather is aimed at containing inflationary pressures driven by price increases in steel and oth [...]	2005-03-11 19:30:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV EIND BR
05BRASILIA690	BRAZIL - DEMARCHE ON TSA LIGHTERS BAN [...] (U) In a March 1 meeting with the Brazilian Department of Civil Aviation (DAC),Rio EconOff notified the DAC of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) addition of lighters to the list of prohibited items on flights to, from, or within the U.S. The DAC officials stated that they had [...]	2005-03-14 14:05:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR PTER BR
05BRASILIA691	PART I: BRAZIL'S CONTROL OF SENSITIVE [...] (SBU) Summary & Introduction: The GOB possesses an effective, Internet-based export control licensing system (SISCOMEX),and in discussions with emboffs Brazilian officials could not identify any cases of unauthorized transfers of sensitive items since SISCOMEX has been functioning. Long, p [...]	2005-03-14 14:06:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PGOV ETTC KNNP BR IAEA
05BRASILIA698	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH BRAZILIAN WORKERS' PARTY [...] (C) SUMMARY. On March 9, Ambassador Danilovich met with Jose Genoino, the President of Brazil's Workers' Party (PT) and the PT's Secretary for International Relations, Paulo Ferreira. Genoino noted that the PT is now celebrating its 25th anniversary and has evolved into a modern nationwide i [...]	2005-03-14 18:33:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR SOCI BR US
05BRASILIA715	BRAZIL: AMBASSADOR'S 14 MARCH MEETING WITH FM [...] (C) Introduction. Ambassador was called for a one-on-one meeting with Foreign Minister Amorim on the afternoon of 14 March. Amorim focused initially on reiterating his strong interest in meeting soon with Secretary Rice, in spite of unsuccessful efforts to schedule a Washington meeting in lat [...]	2005-03-15 18:24:00	Embassy Brasilia	SECRET	PREL BR ETRD MARR FTAA US
05BRASILIA718	BRAZIL: OLMERT VISIT A SUCCESS, BUT SUMMIT STILL [...] (C) Summary and Introduction: Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Olmert reportedly enjoyed a successful visit to Brazil last week, however, he was apparently unable to convince the GOB to take a tougher approach -- from the Israeli perspective -- with Arab interlocutors in preparation for the Ar [...]	2005-03-16 11:28:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KSUM ETRD XF XM IS BR
05BRASILIA72	BRAZIL - DEMARCHE ON ITU/WTSA VETO ISSUE [...] In a January 5 meeting, EconOffs made reftel points to Luis Fernando Serra and Bruno Carvalho Ramos of ANATEL (Brazil's Telecommunications Regulatory Agency and the entity here responsible for ITU issues). Serra is the Head of the Office of International Affairs and a career diplomat. Ramos, [...]	2005-01-07 10:47:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC ECPS ECON PGOV BR ITU
05BRASILIA737	BRAZIL: UNHCR-61 AND CUBA [...] (C) Poloff delivered CHR talking points to Christiano Figueroa, Acting Chief for an under-manned Ministry of External Relations (MRE) Human Rights Division. Referring to press reports regarding GOB Human Rights Secretary Nilmario Miranda's not-so-veiled criticisms of the USG in a March 15 co [...]	2005-03-17 13:20:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM CU BR PREL CHR
05BRASILIA745	BRAZILIAN SENATORS SUPPORT REINSTITUTING VISA [...] (C) On March 16, Ambassador Danilovich met in the embassy with Brazilian Senators Cristovam Buarque and Marcelo Crivella to discuss the issue of Brazilians attempting to enter the US illegally via the southern land border. Senator Buarque (PT-Brasilia) is a former Minister of Education who no [...]	2005-03-18 12:19:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV CVIS BR US
05BRASILIA75	BRAZILIAN ENGAGEMENT IN TSUNAMI RELIEF, UNOCHA [...] According to Ministry of External Relations (MRE),South and East Asia Division Chief Edson Duarte, the Brazilian delegation to the UNOCHA Tsunami Donors Conference will be led by the Institutional Security (GSI) chief, General Jorge Armando Felix. (The GSI is located within the Presidency; G [...]	2005-01-07 14:59:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AEMR PGOV BR
05BRASILIA757	NOTIFICATION OF SUSPENSION OF ANTI-DUMPING MEASURES ON [...] Post received a letter dated March 7, 2005 from the Department of Trade Defense of the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, notifying the USG of Brazil's intention to suspend anti-dumping measures for one year concerning exports to Brazil of medicines containing insulin origina [...]	2005-03-18 18:48:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON BR
05BRASILIA758	NOTIFICATION OF ANTI-DUMPING INVESTIGATION ON N- [...] Post received a letter dated March 7, 2005 from the Department of Trade Defense of the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, notifying the USG of Brazil's intention to initiate an anti-dumping investigation concerning exports to Brazil of n-butanol originating from the U.S.A. and [...]	2005-03-18 18:50:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON BR
05BRASILIA760	ARAB DIPLOMATS WEIGH BRAZIL'S READINESS TO HOST [...] (SBU) During March 17 Tunisia National Day reception, numerous Arab diplomats expressed concerns to Poloff about the lethargic pace of administrative and substantive preparations for the May Arab-South America Summit in Brasilia. According to the diplomats, numerous logistical issues, in par [...]	2005-03-18 21:00:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KSUM ETRD XF XM IS BR
05BRASILIA763	BRAZIL RESPONSE TO OAS SOCIAL CHARTER DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) On March 21, Poloff delivered reftel demarche --regarding the chairmanship of the OAS Working Group to draft the OAS Social Charter and Action Plan-- to Counselor Mariangela Rebua, Head of the Division of Social Affairs, and her Deputy, Adriano Silva Pucci, at Brazil's Foreign Ministry. [...]	2005-03-21 14:07:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SOCI BH GY MX XL XM NS
05BRASILIA766	BRAZIL: CUBA CHR RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-03-21 18:54:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM CU BR PREL CHR
05BRASILIA767	SEVERINO CAVALCANTI LEADS BRAZILIAN CONGRESS IN [...] No summary [...]	2005-03-21 19:43:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL ECON SOCI BR
05BRASILIA769	BRAZIL: OAS MANPADS RESOLUTION [...] (C) Ministry of External Relations (MRE) Chief of Disarmament and Sensitive Technologies, Santiago Mourao, acknowledged that while he still believed the OAS is not an appropriate forum for a stand-alone MANPADS resolution, others obviously felt that it is appropriate. As a result of active [...]	2005-03-21 20:12:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MASS ETTC BR OAS
05BRASILIA770	BRAZIL: CENTRAL BANK ON BANCO SANTOS CASE [...] (SBU) The Ambassador met Central Bank President Henrique Meirelles March 17 to advocate on behalf of American creditors to Banco Santos, a Brazilian bank that has been under Central Bank intervention since November 2004 (reftel). The Ambassador relayed the desire of U.S. creditor banks, which [...]	2005-03-22 11:45:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN EAGR ECON PREL BR
05BRASILIA785	ALLEGATIONS OF FARC FUNDING TO LULA'S ELECTION [...] (C) SUMMARY. In recent issues, Brazilian weekly newsmagazine VEJA ran stories outlining an alleged plan by Colombia's FARC to funnel US$5 million to the 2002 election campaign of Brazilian President Lula da Silva and his Workers' Party (PT). While the timing and sourcing of the VEJA stories [...]	2005-03-22 22:01:00	Embassy Brasilia	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR BR
05BRASILIA788	TERROR FINANCE: 2005 UPDATE NUMBER 2 - BRAZIL [...] (U) This cable responds to ref A request for an evaluation of the GoB's ability to cooperate in disrupting terrorism financing. The answers below are keyed to questions in ref A paragraph 10. Question A - Amounts Frozen and Authorities ------------------------------------------- 2. (U) [...]	2005-03-23 17:46:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	KTFN EFIN PTER KVPR CVIS PREL BR
05BRASILIA792	IRRITATED WITH PRESSURES, LULA PUTS OFF MOST OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Irritated by incessant clamoring from his allied parties as they jockeyed for cabinet posts, Brazilian President Lula da Silva dug in yesterday and put most of the cabinet shakeup on hold. The final straw for Lula was a challenge from the new Speaker of the Chamber, Severino C [...]	2005-03-23 19:19:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL ECON BR
05BRASILIA804	BRAZIL THREATENS COMPULSORY LICENSING OF AIDS [...] (U) SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASIFIED 2. (U) Summary. Faced with rising expenditures and supply shortfalls, on March 14, Brazil's Health Minister Costa sent letters to major multinational pharmaceutical companies that supply key drugs for the GoB's program to treat HIV/AIDS asking that they agree t [...]	2005-03-24 11:25:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR ETRD BR
05BRASILIA809	TERRORISM FINANCE: LET PRENOTIFICATION - BRAZIL [...] No summary [...]	2005-03-24 15:01:00	Embassy Brasilia	SECRET	KTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL BR
05BRASILIA815	BRAZIL MILITARY EXERCISES, DIPLOMATIC NOTES [...] This message was coordinated with DAO, MLO, and POL. 2. (C) Over the next few months, Brazil will host a number of military exercises, including PKO South and Patriot Angel SAR. While the GOB has provided its usual written assurances concerning protections for US personnel participating i [...]	2005-03-24 20:40:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS MASS BR
05BRASILIA821	FOURTH SUSPECT IN BRAZIL NUN'S MURDER SURRENDERS [...] (U) The fourth and most senior suspect in the murder of US citizen missionary Dorothy Stang turned himself in to Brazilian federal authorities on March 27. Vitalmiro Bastos Moura (aka "Bida"),34, an area rancher who is alleged to have been the mastermind behind Stang's February 12 murder, su [...]	2005-03-28 19:44:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV CASC KCRM PHUM SOCI BR
05BRASILIA825	BRAZIL - COORDINATION AND OUTREACH ON MARITIME [...] Maritime security issues are handled primarily by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Attache in Brasilia, Julio Velez. Maritime security issues are coordinated with the Economic Section, the Foreign Commercial Service (FCS),and the Defense Atta [...]	2005-03-29 11:36:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	EWWT ECON ETRD KSTC PARM PHSA PREL PTER ASEC BR
05BRASILIA89	INVITATION FROM BRAZILIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY FOR NIH [...] The Brazilian Foreign Ministry has extended an invitation to Kevin Bialy (and other NIH representatives if desired) to visit Brasilia after January 15, 2005, for face- to-face discussions related to NIH medical research projects. The topics mentioned by the Brazilians were discussion of a sp [...]	2005-01-10 12:39:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KSCA OSCI BR
05BRASILIA91	MERCOSUL SUMMIT: NO PARTY, BUT NO FUNERAL [...] (SBU) Summary and introduction. Diplomatic restraint enabled the 27th Mercosul presidential summit to conclude on December 17 without incident, but widespread dissatisfaction with meager economic benefits flowing from the bloc, and bitter trade disagreements between Brazil and Argentina cloud [...]	2005-01-10 14:15:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECIN ETRD PREL ECON BR
05BRASILIA927	LETTER FROM BRAZIL'S CONGRESSIONAL FRONT FOR THE [...] (U) Eight Brazilian congressmen, members of the Congressional Front for the Fight Against Piracy and Tax Evasion, visited the Embassy on March 30 to deliver a letter addressed to the Ambassador regarding Brazil's inclusion on the Special 301 list and possible removal of GSP benefits. (Note, on [...]	2005-04-05 13:05:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR ETRD KJUS BR
05BRASILIA94	MERCOSUL: CRITICISM GROWS BUT GOB POLICY SHIFT [...] (U) This cable reflects input from Consulates General Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. Mission invites comment from other posts in the region regarding issues raised herein. 2. (SBU) Summary and Introduction. The Brazilian private sector has recently stepped up criticism of GoB trade policy, [...]	2005-01-10 16:35:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECIN ETRD PREL ECON BR
05BRASILIA944	LEBANON: SUPPORT FOR UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION [...] (C) Pol Counselor delivered reftel demarche points to Foreign Ministry UN Division Chief Glivania de Oliveira late on 5 April. Pol Counselor emphasized that the authorities outlined in OP3 of the French draft resolution are seen by the USG and others as necessary for an effective investigat [...]	2005-04-06 16:42:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL LE SY UNSC
05BRASILIA949	BRAZIL: CHIPPING AWAY AT THE FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY [...] (SBU) Summary. Faced with the awkward prospect of enforcing the Fiscal Responsibility Law (LRF) against former Sao Paulo mayor, friend of Lula and prominent Workers' Party (PT) figure Marta Suplicy (reftel),the GoB has been less than coherent. Finance Minister Palocci sent to Congress a let [...]	2005-04-06 17:46:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PGOV EINV BR
05BRASILIA98	USITC TRAVEL TO BRASILIA FOR COLLECTION OF DATA ON [...] (U) Summary: United States International Trade Commission (USITC) Senior International Trade Specialist David Ingersoll and International Trade Analyst Christopher Mapes visited Brasilia December on December 21-22, 2004, after visits to Rio and Sao Paulo to speak to Brazilian governmental enti [...]	2005-01-11 11:50:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ENRG EPET SENV TSPL KSCA BR
05BRASILIA99	BRAZIL: AMBASSADORIAL MUSICAL CHAIRS [...] (U) At the halfway mark of the Lula administration, President Lula and Foreign Minister Celso Amorim have decided on key Ambassadorial changes, principally in Europe. Several of the high profile Ambassadors had been appointed to their present positions by former President Fernando Henrique C [...]	2005-01-11 12:42:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ETRD BR
05BRATISLAVA1000	IRAQI MILITARY POLICE OFFICERS GRADUATE FROM [...] Charge and DAO attended the December 19 graduation ceremony of 14 Iraqi military police officers from the Slovak Military Medical Training Center at Lest. In his remarks to the group, Slovak MinDef Liska praised and congratulated the Iraqi soldiers, stressing the need for the international c [...]	2005-12-20 16:19:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL MARR IZ LO
05BRATISLAVA1001	SLOVAKIA FORGIVES 100 PERCENT OF IRAQI DEBT [...] (SBU) The Slovak cabinet decided December 21 to forgive 100 percent of Iraq's outstanding debt by December 31, 2005. Total debt as of October 31 was approximately USD 145 million. According to a Ministry of Finance source involved in the discussions, the GOS determined that the administrative [...]	2005-12-21 14:49:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON PREL LO IZ

05BRATISLAVA1005	(S) INFORMING COALITION PARTNERS: SLOVAKIA [...] (S) CDA and Poloff delivered reftel points at 16h30 local time December 22 to Ambassador Milan Tancar, Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and advisors from the Iraq and security assistance departments. Tancar expressed appreciation for the advance notice, reiterated that [...]	2005-12-23 07:13:00	Embassy Bratislava	SECRET	PGOV MARR MASS PREL IZ LO
05BRATISLAVA1010	SLOVAKIA POLITICAL ROUNDUP, DECEMBER 23, 2005 [...] (C) NGO Obciansko-demokraticka mladez (Citizens' Association for Democratic Youth) has made a deal with center-right parties SDKU and KDH to act as their official mud-slingers / Smer fact-checkers in the upcoming parliamentary campaign. During the 2002 campaign, Obciansko-demokraticka mlade [...]	2005-12-23 13:35:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF KPAO SOCI UP BO LO
05BRATISLAVA106	SLOVAKS SUPPORT EU-FLAGGING BMO IN GEORGIA [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche February 7 to Lubomir Rehak, European Correspondent at the MFA. Rehak said Slovakia will support the EU-flagging of the Border Monitoring Operation (BMO) in Georgia and expects consensus at the February 8 COREPER. The GOS does not oppose a continued OSCE [...]	2005-02-07 17:02:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV LO GG
05BRATISLAVA107	SCENESETTER FOR THE PRESIDENT'S VISIT TO SLOVAKIA [...] (C) Summary/Introduction: The Slovaks -- government and public alike -- are euphoric to welcome President Bush February 23-24 as the first sitting U.S. President ever to visit Slovakia. The GOS sees the visit as validation of its ambitious reform program and pro-U.S. policies. The Slovak peo [...]	2005-02-07 18:49:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL LO
05BRATISLAVA109	WTO NON-AGRICULTURAL MARKET ACCESS NEGOTIATING [...] No summary [...]	2005-02-08 09:37:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON LO WTO
05BRATISLAVA122	MTAG: POTENTIAL SCUD SALE TO YEMEN [...] No summary [...]	2005-02-09 16:05:00	Embassy Bratislava	SECRET	PARM PREL MNUC ETTC YM LO MTCRE
05BRATISLAVA131	FEB 21 GAERC: SLOVAK RESPONSE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Lubomir Rehak, European Correspondent at the MFA, February 11. Rehak welcomed USG positions on transatlantic relations, the Middle East Peace Process, and Iraq. Rehak expects the EU to continue to demand Gotovina's surrender to The Hague before [...]	2005-02-15 14:43:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IZ LO
05BRATISLAVA135	SLOVAKIA POLITICAL ROUNDUP FEBRUARY 17, 2005 [...] (SBU) Parliament approved a new, additional mandate February 10 for Slovakia's participation in the NATO Training Mission - Iraq (NTM-I). The GOS will initially send two MOD trainers to Iraq and an additional three at the first troop rotation. The MOD sent the first trainers to Italy to prep [...]	2005-02-17 07:29:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM IZ CU LO NATO
05BRATISLAVA138	WOOD PACKAGING MATERIALS: SLOVAKIA SUPPORTS U.S. [...] No summary [...]	2005-02-18 13:53:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ETRD LO WTRO
05BRATISLAVA139	Country Clearance granted for Dept of State and NCS [...] Embassy Bratislava welcomes Thomas E. Graham, Anita E. Friedt, Tracy Babette McKibben, Yuri Shkeyrov and Irene Firsow and grants country clearance for the period of February 21-25, 2005. The embassy point of contact is Robert Hurlbert, Management officer(tel.+421-2-5922-3285) and [...]	2005-02-19 09:55:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL LO AU
05BRATISLAVA140	PRIME MINISTER'S LIKELY THEMES WITH PRESIDENT BUSH [...] (S) Charge was briefed evening of February 19 by Milan Jezovica, the Prime Minister's foreign policy adviser, of the principal themes PM Mikulas Dzurinda would likely use during his February 24 meeting with the President. Jezovica began by noting that the Prime Minister was very excited abou [...]	2005-02-19 13:07:00	Embassy Bratislava	SECRET	PREL LO
05BRATISLAVA15	EXBS: SLOVAKIA ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE [...] BROAD ITEMS OF INTEREST TO ADVISORS AND AGENCY MANAGERS. The EXBS Advisor was on a consultation trip to the United States, followed by annual leave from December 15-31, 2004. The EXBS Advisor's FSN Assistant was on annual leave from December 5-11, 2004. As most of Slovakia's governm [...]	2005-01-07 11:03:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP LO
05BRATISLAVA160	CO2 EMISSION RESTRICTIONS SQUEEZE ECONOMIC GROWTH [...] (SBU) Summary: In October 2004, the EU mandated that the GOS reduce its National Allocation Plan (NAP) for CO2 emissions by 14 percent. Recently, local companies, including U.S. Steel Kosice (USSK),have complained that the European Commission (EC) is targeting new EU members to reduce CO2 e [...]	2005-03-01 13:51:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON SENV LO EU
05BRATISLAVA161	2004 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW FOR SLOVAKIA [...] Slovakia has enacted nearly all of the intellectual property legislation required by TRIPS, and the overall IPR situation has improved from a historical perspective. Piracy of optical and other visual medias remains minimal, but home "burning" of CDs has likely increased. The Ministry of Inte [...]	2005-03-01 14:30:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	KIPR ETRD ECON XG LO
05BRATISLAVA17	SLOVAKIA POLITICAL ROUNDUP JANUARY 07, 2005 [...] (SBU) Lubomir Cano, Director of the Security Policy Department at the MFA, said the MOD and MFA have agreed upon a proposal to send five Slovak soldiers to the NATO Training Mission - Iraq (NTM-I). The original parliamentary mandate allows up to 110 non-combat personnel to be deployed under O [...]	2005-01-10 06:34:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON PHUM LO IZ
05BRATISLAVA172	GOS TO SUPPORT U.S. POSITION ON CSW [...] No summary [...]	2005-03-03 08:26:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWMN PHUM EAID LO UN CSW
05BRATISLAVA187	MEDIA AND PUBLIC OPINION IN SLOVAKIA ON [...] Summary: The President's visit to Slovakia was generally perceived by media analysts and public commentary as an expression of positive U.S.- Slovak relations and of appreciation for Slovakia's support of the U.S. in the war against terrorism, especially in Iraq and Afghanistan. The meeting [...]	2005-03-08 06:11:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO PREL LO
05BRATISLAVA198	EXBS: SLOVAKIA ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE [...] BROAD ITEMS OF INTEREST TO ADVISORS AND AGENCY MANAGERS. None. 2. COMPLETED ACTIONS FOR THE REPORTING PERIOD. A. SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS DURING REPORTING PERIOD. Â [...]	2005-03-10 06:06:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP LO
05BRATISLAVA203	BRATISLAVA CONCURS WITH EXBS ADVISOR POSITION IN ZAGREB [...] No summary [...]	2005-03-10 14:34:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KSCA KSTC PARM PREL HR SI LO MTCRE
05BRATISLAVA209	GOS REPONSE TO AUSTRALIA GROUP DEMARCHES [...] No summary [...]	2005-03-14 16:03:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL ETTC LO
05BRATISLAVA211	GOS STILL SUPPORTS LIFTING CHINA ARMS EMBARGO [...] No summary [...]	2005-03-15 06:02:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL CM LO EUN
05BRATISLAVA212	SLOVAKIA: INFORMATION FOR CONGRESSIONAL REPORT ON [...] The Director of the Department for Official Development Assistance at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Peter Hulenyi, reports that the GOS does not currently give any bilateral contributions to the Andean region. Latin America is not considered a priority by the GOS, and Hulenyi does not anti [...]	2005-03-15 06:02:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAID PREL CO EC PE BL VE LO EUN
05BRATISLAVA214	EXBS: UPDATED EXPORT CONTROL SYSTEM STANDARDS [...] SUMMARY: This cable provides information for Slovakia's Export Control System Standards, "Short Form", as requested by State 034285. 2. Begin "Export Control System Standards" Short Form I. What government agencies & offices are involved in developing export control polic [...]	2005-03-15 14:49:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP LO
05BRATISLAVA215	EXBS: UPDATED EXPORT CONTROL SYSTEM STANDARDS [...] SUMMARY: This cable updates information for Slovakia's Export Control System Standards, effective February 28, 2005. 2. Begin "Export Control System Standards - Slovakia - February 2005". I. Adequate commitment, legal and regulatory framework, and governmental structure to regu [...]	2005-03-15 14:49:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP LO
05BRATISLAVA218	THE HZDS SHUFFLE [...] (C) Viliam Veteska unexpectedly gave up his post as parliamentary caucus leader of the opposition People's Party-Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (LS-HZDS). He will be temporarily replaced by Tibor Cabaj. Veteska will, however, maintain the post of Deputy Speaker of Parliament. Although he [...]	2005-03-16 13:58:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR LO
05BRATISLAVA228	SLOVAKIA WILL FOLLOW EU ON IGAD DEPLOYMENT PLAN [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points to Roman Gal of the MFA's Department for Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Gal stated Slovakia will likely follow the EU common policy regarding the recent Intergovernmental Authority on Development's (IGAD) proposal to deploy troops (without contributing m [...]	2005-03-18 12:48:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SO LO
05BRATISLAVA229	SLOVAKIA'S HIV/AIDS SITUATION: WELL-POSITIONED FOR [...] Summary: Although the country's low rate of registered HIV/AIDS cases hampers social awareness, a three-year National Prevention Plan (NPP),improved school programs, and NGO outreach efforts demonstrate Slovakia's dedication to public education in preventative measures and risks associated wi [...]	2005-03-18 13:04:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	KHIV PGOV PHUM PREF LO
05BRATISLAVA230	RELEASE OF SECRET POLICE FILES CONTINUES TO CAUSE [...] No summary [...]	2005-03-18 13:41:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR LO
05BRATISLAVA236	RECENT POLLS: SLOVAKS MORE POSITIVE ON NATO [...] (U) 60.8 percent of Slovaks view the country,s NATO entry as a good decision. The OMV polling agency and the Institute of Political Science at the Slovak Academy of Sciences carried out the February 3-10 poll which had a sample of 2,221 respondents. The OMV polling agency indicated mostly un [...]	2005-03-21 15:18:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KPAO LO NATO
05BRATISLAVA242	DEBT RELIEF FOR POOR COUNTRIES [...] (SBU) On March 1, the post delivered talking points per reftel to the Ministry of Finance's (MOF) Department of Coordination for Relations with the EU. Representatives of the MOF replied several weeks later and expressed a great deal of enthusiasm for a 100 percent debt relief program on all [...]	2005-03-23 14:30:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EAID LO
05BRATISLAVA244	REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON MEMBER STATE LAWS [...] No summary [...]	2005-03-23 15:32:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD LO WTO USTR
05BRATISLAVA247	EMBASSY BRATISLAVA RESPONSE TO CONGRESSIONAL [...] Post is forwarding documentation relating to the following cultural grants: -- PAS covered the cost of U.S. visa fees for recipients of the Open Society Foundation's (OSF) high school student essay competition in 2003 and 2004. These students attended high schools in the U.S. for one year. [...]	2005-03-24 10:15:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON KPAO LO
05BRATISLAVA25	LOCAL PERSPECTIVE ON FOREST DISASTER [...] (U) Summary. On January 4, Econoff and FSN visited civic leaders in the Tatra region to discuss restoration and renewal efforts in the wake of the recent wind disaster that leveled 250 square kilometers of forest (reftel A). Two of the leaders are also members of the GOS Commission establis [...]	2005-01-12 14:54:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV EAID KPAO AMGT KSCA LO
05BRATISLAVA251	PARLIAMENT LEADER HRUSOVSKY'S APRIL VISIT TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The April visit of a Slovak parliamentary delegation led by Speaker Pavol Hrusovsky will be a useful opportunity to press our agenda on Iraq, minority rights, religious registration, and while coordinating on areas where we already agree like trafficking and Cuba. Hrusovsky [...]	2005-03-25 18:05:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR LO
05BRATISLAVA262	SLOVAK PARTICIPATION IN OSLO DONOR'S CONFERENCE ON [...] No summary [...]	2005-03-30 14:00:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EAID ECON LO
05BRATISLAVA265	MOJ THOUGHTS ON DRAFT TEXT OF EXTRADITION TREATY [...] (C) Summary: Emboffs continue to press Slovak officials for a reaction to the draft bilateral extradition treaty we gave them in December 2004. Nonetheless, the GOS still has not made a definitive decision on whether to commit to extradite Slovak nationals to the U.S. On March 30, Justice Mi [...]	2005-03-30 14:47:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS PREL PHUM LO
05BRATISLAVA27	SLOVAKIA SUPPORTS SUA AMENDMENTS [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche January 12 to Henrik Markus, Deputy Director of the Department for Disarmement, OSCE, and Council of Europe at the MFA, and Marek Smid, Deputy Director of the International Law Department at the MFA. Markus said the dual-use provision was in-line with the [...]	2005-01-13 15:24:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP KTIA MNUC PARM PREL PHSA EWWT
05BRATISLAVA272	SLOVAKS ON AUSTRALIA GROUP AND NPT CONFERENCES [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel demarches March 31 to Karol Mistrik, Director of the MFA's Department of Disarmament, OSCE, and Counter-Terrorism, and his deputy, Henrik Markus. Mistrik confirmed he will lead the delegation to Sydney, accompanied by representatives from the Ministries of Economy, [...]	2005-03-31 14:24:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL ETTC LO
05BRATISLAVA274	SLOVAK RESPONSE TO WIPO SESSION ON IPR AND [...] No summary [...]	2005-04-01 12:59:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD KIPR EAID KPAO OIIP LO WIPO
05BRATISLAVA290	ARMS SALES TO YEMEN: SLOVAK RESPONSE [...] (S) Poloff delivered reftel A demarche April 11 to Gabriela Mrugova in the MFA's Department of Disarmament, OSCE, and Counter-terrorism. Mrugova said neither the GOS nor Slovak arms brokers have exported SA/LW to Yemeni arms brokers. The Slovak MOD sold some non-lethal equipment to Yemen's M [...]	2005-04-12 14:51:00	Embassy Bratislava	SECRET	PARM PREL MASS ETTC LO
05BRATISLAVA298	NEW HIGH-LEVEL GROUP WILL COORDINATE ACTION ON TIP [...] At its March 31 meeting, the Slovak Government's Council for the Prevention of Criminality decided to form an expert working group on trafficking in persons. The Council is a high-level body composed of 23 representatives from ministries, government agencies, law enforcement bodies, and NGOs. [...]	2005-04-14 14:14:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM SMIG KPAO LO
05BRATISLAVA30	WTO SERVICE NEGOTIATIONS; MARKET ACCESS PRIORITIES [...] Post reviewed reftel list of service sectors and provides the following rankings of U.S. market access priorities (1 being the highest and 5 the lowest) and the level of market openness (high, medium, or low) for Slovakia. 2. Service sector, priority, and openness: --Legal services, 3, [...]	2005-01-14 08:42:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD WTO
05BRATISLAVA302	IRAQI CIVIL SERVANTS AND NGO REPS TRAIN IN SLOVAKIA [...] (U) Through a grant from the International Republican Institute (IRI),the Pontis Foundation brought nine Iraqi civil servants and NGO leaders to Slovakia for three weeks in March. This was the second group of four planned. It consisted of one IRI-Baghdad employee, two NGO, four Ministry o [...]	2005-04-15 05:48:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV LO IZ
05BRATISLAVA306	TRADE ACTION AGAINST U.S. CORN GLUTEN FEED [...] No summary [...]	2005-04-15 14:45:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EAGR TBIO PREL LO
05BRATISLAVA308	SLOVAK DELEGATION TO CD MINISTERIAL [...] The Slovak delegation to the upcoming Community of Democracies Ministerial in Santiago will consist of: - Mrs. Magdalena Vasaryova, State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Mr. Andrej Droba, Director of the Office of the State Secretary, MFA SIPDIS - Mr. Vladimir Gracz, Slovak Amb [...]	2005-04-18 14:20:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PREL LO
05BRATISLAVA31	SLOVAKIA LOSES USD 867 MILLION ARBITRATION WITH [...] Summary. An arbitration court has ruled in favor of the Czech bank Ceskoslovenska Obchodna Banka (CSOB) in its claim against Slovakia and ordered the GOS to pay the bank SKK 24.7 billion (USD 867 million). CSOB's claim dates back to 1993, when it provided a loan to a special state agency set [...]	2005-01-14 10:18:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN LO EZ
05BRATISLAVA314	SMER-SDL MERGER CONSOLIDATES LEFT, BUT DOES IT [...] (C) Summary. In late 2004, the Party of the Democratic Left (SDL) and two other small, leftist parties merged with Smer ("Direction"). Smer leader Robert Fico has successfully consolidated the center-left, but a slight increase in votes in 2006 will not necessarily correspond to an increase in [...]	2005-04-20 08:26:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR LO
05BRATISLAVA315	SLOVAKIA POLITICAL ROUNDUP APRIL 20, 2005 [...] (U) ANO leader and Minister of Economy Pavol Rusko announced April 11 that State Secretary of the Education Ministry Frantisek Toth (ANO) will resign his post and take up the position of Culture Minister currently held by Rudolf Chmel (ANO). Toth's replacement at the Education Ministry is sti [...]	2005-04-20 08:27:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV LO UP NATO
05BRATISLAVA318	SLOVAKIA RESPONSE TO APRIL 25 GAERC DEMARCHE [...] (C) Poloffs delivered reftel points April 21 to Lubomir Rehak, European Correspondent at the MFA. Rehak reaffirmed his openness to receiving USG points, saying it gives the Slovaks a "more global view." He said Slovakia within the EU supports strong transatlantic links. For example, in the [...]	2005-04-21 15:30:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAL PREL LO EUN
05BRATISLAVA319	RADICAL HEALTH CARE REFORMS? MAYBE NOT [...] (C) Summary. In October 2004, the Slovak Parliament passed six health care reform laws that the World Bank called some of the "most radical reforms in the world." The laws seek to reduce the GOS's role in health care and make Slovaks pay for medical services that were once free as a way of [...]	2005-04-21 16:10:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON KCOR LO
05BRATISLAVA32	SCHEDULE FOR WHITE HOUSE SITE SURVEY TEAM'S TRIP [...] No summary [...]	2005-01-08 23:12:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AMGT LO PREL EI RS GM
05BRATISLAVA324	SLOVAK RESPONSE TO CD ELECTION INITIATIVE [...] On April 22, Poloff delivered reftel points to Human Rights Department and Latin American Division at the MFA. Officials stated Slovakia would fully support the elections standards initiative. 2. Comment: Concept paper also delivered to relevant Slovak NGOs. Slovak NGOs have been extremely [...]	2005-04-22 14:59:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PREL LO
05BRATISLAVA34	ACCESS TO GENETIC RESOURCES DEMARCHE [...] Econoff delivered questions, per reftel, to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) point of contact in Slovakia, Dr. Igor Ferencik of the Ministry of Environment (MOE). Ferencik shared the questions with officials from the MOE and the Ministry Agriculture (MOA),and they returned the f [...]	2005-01-18 11:35:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID SENV TBIO
05BRATISLAVA356	SLOVAK DEFENSE REFORM UPDATE [...] (U) The draft law on the state service of professional soldiers requires Slovak soldiers to deploy where they are ordered. Currently, conscripts cannot be sent abroad and only professional soldiers who volunteer may be sent out of country. Financial, career, and personal incentives continue [...]	2005-05-06 16:14:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL LO NATO
05BRATISLAVA357	SLOVAKIA FIRM ON IRAQ MANDATE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Prominent Slovak defense policy players have recently raised publicly whether the GOS should reopen the parliamentary debate on the Slovak troops in Iraq. State Secretary at the MOD Martin Fedor stressed publicly the SIPDIS importance of a renewed UN Security Council mandate, w [...]	2005-05-09 07:54:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR LO IZ
05BRATISLAVA360	SLOVAKIA PICKS UP MOMENTUM ON TIP ISSUES [...] (SBU) Summary. The Slovak government recently completed a needs assessment analyzing current trafficking activities and invited poloffs to discuss the findings. In a May 5 meeting, Jana Kviecinska, the Director General of the Human Rights and Minorities Section at the Office of the Government, [...]	2005-05-09 14:48:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL SMIG KWMN LO
05BRATISLAVA365	GROWING OPTIMISM BUT LITTLE POLITICAL INSPIRATION [...] (U) Summary. The Institute for Public Affairs' (IVO) 2004 annual Summary Report on Slovakia shows growing public optimism about the direction Slovakia is taking, increased apathy toward high-level corruption, and increasing acceptance of economic reforms. Slovak parties are becoming more simi [...]	2005-05-12 13:39:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM ECON LO
05BRATISLAVA38	SLOVAKIA - INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2005 [...] SINCE 1998, SLOVAKIA'S ONCE TROUBLED ECONOMY HAS BEEN TRANSFORMED INTO A BUSINESS FRIENDLY STATE THAT LEADS THE REGION IN ECONOMIC GROWTH. IN ITS DOING BUSINESS IN 2005 REPORT, THE WORLD BANK NAMED SLOVAKIA AS THE WORLD'S TOP REFORMER IN IMPROVING ITS INVESTMENT CLIMATE OVER THE LAST YEAR, AL [...]	2005-01-20 17:24:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KTDB LO OPIC USTR
05BRATISLAVA397	RESIGNATION OF THE SLOVAK MINISTER OF CULTURE COMES [...] Slovak President Ivan Gasparovic has accepted the resignation of the Minister of Culture Rudolf Chmel. The President's decision becomes effective today, May 24. Until a new Minister is appointed, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Ivan Miklos will be temporarily in charge of the Cult [...]	2005-05-24 13:48:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR KPAO LO
05BRATISLAVA398	SLOVAKIA SUPPORTIVE OF US POSITION ON CUBAN [...] (U) On May 24, 2005, Embassy delivered reftel points to Pavol Juhas, Director of the International Affairs Department at the Ministry of Labor. Juhas confirmed that Slovakia is sending a delegation to the upcoming International Labor Conference in Geneva, and expressed his support for the U [...]	2005-05-25 05:45:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL ELAB BB CU LO ILO
05BRATISLAVA399	SLOVAKIA SUPPORTIVE OF US POSITION ON ILO FISCAL [...] (U) On May 24, 2005, Embassy delivered reftel points to Pavol Juhas, Director of the International Affairs Department at the Ministry of Labor. Juhas confirmed that Slovakia is sending a delegation to the upcoming International Labor Conference in Geneva, and expressed his support for the U [...]	2005-05-25 05:45:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC ELAB LO ILO
05BRATISLAVA403	COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR DEBRA HEVIA TO [...] Embassy Bratislava requests country clearance for Ms. Debra Hevia to participate in the EXBS Advisors meeting in Vienna. Name: Debra L. Hevia Title: Political-Economic Section Chief Embassy: Bratislava Citizenship: US Passport Number: 900329402 Expiration Date: 17 Jun 2008 Clearance: Top [...]	2005-05-25 14:05:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC LO
05BRATISLAVA412	THE FUTURE OF GMOS IN SLOVAKIA [...] (SBU) Summary. Econoff held a series of meetings to assess the status of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in Slovakia. The Minister of Environment Laszlo Miklos, previously a supporter of GMOs, has now succumbed to unspecified political pressures and is attempting to bar their usage in [...]	2005-05-27 13:01:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV EAGR ETRD LO
05BRATISLAVA42	SLOVAK ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES, 2004 [...] (U) Summary. Slovakia's economic fortunes have had a sharp impact on both the country's environment and the policies that manage it. Following independence in 1993, public interest in the environment waned as economic necessities took on a more dominant role. Today, even though the economy [...]	2005-01-25 15:59:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV LO
05BRATISLAVA425	GENERAL PROSECUTOR PROVIDES BACKGROUND DETAILS ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: General Prosecutor of the Slovak Republic Dobroslav Trnka provided post with nearly four pages of further background information detailing the Slovak Republic's prosecution of human traffickers. While the information includes a different number of prosecuted individuals than [...]	2005-06-03 07:47:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL SMIG KWMN LO
05BRATISLAVA428	KEY TO SUCCESS FOR SLOVAKIA'S FLAT RATE TAX SYSTEM [...] Summary. Slovakia's adoption of a 19-percent flat rate tax for corporations and individuals has generated much attention internationally, but the Slovak general public has been quite mute. Contending international policy camps have cited statistics to support their claims that the system is [...]	2005-06-06 05:38:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ETRD LO
05BRATISLAVA430	SWEDISH DG FOR POL AFFAIRS ON SWEDEN AND THE UN [...] On May 31, the Swedish Embassy in Bratislava hosted a seminar on Global Security and the United Nations (UN),in conjunction with the Slovak Foreign Policy Association, as part of their commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Dag Hammarskojld. As part of the morning program, A [...]	2005-06-06 09:08:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV SW LO UNSC
05BRATISLAVA432	ROMA POLITICAL POLLING SHOWS DISCREPANCY BETWEEN [...] (C) SUMMARY: National Democratic Institute (NDI) Roma Political Participation program advisors told Poloff that recent polling data showed commonly held perceptions of Roma political affiliation, involvement, and participation were false. Some of this data, they claimed, could be damaging t [...]	2005-06-07 07:35:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PINR KDEM KPAO LO
05BRATISLAVA434	SLOVAKIA POLITICAL ROUNDUP, MAY 2005 [...] (C) Opposition political party Smer (reftel) met its long-held goal and became a member of Socialist International (SI). Smer MP Edita Angyalova, a former IV participant and one of Slovakia's youngest politicians, downplayed Smer's membership in SI, and noted that if the party were to become [...]	2005-06-07 12:48:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PARM KCOR KIRF LO EXBS UN
05BRATISLAVA440	POLITICAL AND PRACTICAL DIFFICULTIES MOVING [...] (C) After the U.S. negotiating team and Slovak Ministry of Justice Director for Judicial Cooperation in Criminal Matters Branislav Bohacik failed to reach agreement April 14 on pursuing bilateral extradition and mutual legal assistance treaties (or on signing instruments to implement US-EU tre [...]	2005-06-08 09:27:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KJUS EU LO
05BRATISLAVA442	SLOVAK RESPONSE ON EU CUBA POLICY AND JUNE 13 [...] (C) Pol-Econ Chief shared ref A points on Cuba with MFA on June 6, and discussed the points with Lubomir Rehak, European Correspondent, along with pre-GAERC points in ref B on June 7. Rehak thanked us for providing our point-of-view before each GAERC, saying the discussions with emboffs are [...]	2005-06-09 12:50:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CU PARM LO EUN
05BRATISLAVA446	Country Clearance granted for Richard Steffens [...] Embassy Bratislava welcomes Senior Commercial Officer Richard Steffens and grants country clearance for the period of June 12-14, 2005. The embassy point of contact for your visit is Sanford Owens, SCO, tel: +421-2-5920-5320, fax line: +421-2- 5920-5333. Reservation has been made [...]	2005-06-09 14:43:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP EZ ETRD EFND
05BRATISLAVA449	CONFERENCE ON BALKANS HIGHLIGHTS ROLE FOR SLOVAKIA [...] Summary/Introduction: On May 20-21 the Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (SFPA) hosted a conference on "Assessing Developments in the Western Balkans: Problems of Today, Ideas for the Future." Co-sponsors of the conference were the Slovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the [...]	2005-06-10 10:50:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL LO
05BRATISLAVA45	PARLIAMENT LEADER PRINCIPLED ON CUBA, TIP [...] (C) Summary: Speaker of Parliament Pavol Hrusovsky told Charge d'Affaires January 20 he would continue to make support for Cuban dissidents one of his personal priorities, and was discussing with Vaclav Havel nominating three dissidents for the Nobel Peace Prize. He discussed the difficulties [...]	2005-01-27 06:12:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM EU CU LO
05BRATISLAVA462	SLOVAKIA ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT US-EU CONFERENCE ON [...] (SBU) Oldrich Hlavacek, Director of the MFA Fourth Territorial Division (covering Africa, Asia, and the Middle East),told pol-econ chief June 13 that Slovakia is "very enthusiastic and looking forward to" the U.S.-EU conference on Iraq (ref A). He said the two most important things about the [...]	2005-06-15 05:47:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ECON IZ LO EUN
05BRATISLAVA463	NEW MINISTER OF CULTURE [...] Mr. Frantisek Toth became the new Slovak Minister of Culture following the resignation of Minister Chmel in May. Mr. Toth has been appointed by President Ivan Gasparovic today, June 15, 2005. He was nominated for this position by the coalition party Alliance of New Citizen (ANO). 2. Please [...]	2005-06-15 13:37:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR KPAO LO
05BRATISLAVA464	S29F-04: DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO SLOVAKIA [...] No summary [...]	2005-06-15 14:14:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL ETTC SY AE LO CBW
05BRATISLAVA466	SLOVAKIA: MDA DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2005-06-17 13:55:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC PHUM PREF PREL IS SZ LO ICRC
05BRATISLAVA468	SLOVAKIA: DEMARCHE ON UN REFORM AGENDA [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: On June 17, Charge delivered reftel points to Magda Vasaryova, State Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Vasaryova explained the UN's historical and "sentimental" importance to Slovakia, and reinforced Slovakia's strong support for the UN reform agenda ou [...]	2005-06-17 15:54:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL LO UN UNSC
05BRATISLAVA472	SLOVAKIA POLITICAL ROUNDUP, JUNE 1-20, 2005 [...] (C) Former Prime Minister and current HZDS leader Vladimir Meciar is currently studying English. The brother of his private teacher told Poloffs that the teacher is regularly subjected to long, delusional speeches about the MP's accomplishments. Meciar's most outlandish claim to date was th [...]	2005-06-20 11:25:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM PINR SMIG LO
05BRATISLAVA473	REGIONAL POLITICAL PARTIES TRY OUT ALLIANCES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In advance of Slovakia's regional elections (scheduled for November 26),political parties have begun to experiment with different pairings and coalitions in the "consequence-free environment" of regional politics. At the local and regional level, Slovak politics is based less [...]	2005-06-20 11:31:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM LO
05BRATISLAVA486	CORRUPTION: SOME GOOD LAWS IN PLACE; LOCAL [...] Summary: Reducing corruption in Slovakia has been a long-term U.S. goal. The laws are now generally good, although some gaping weaknesses remain. An area of growing concern is public procurement at the local and regional levels, where officials act beyond the control of the national auditor' [...]	2005-06-22 08:49:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KJUS KCOR PINR LO
05BRATISLAVA49	SLOVAKS UNOPPOSED TO OEF-ISAF MERGER [...] No summary [...]	2005-01-28 09:37:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL LO NATO
05BRATISLAVA498	SLOVAK LICENSING CONDITIONS IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS [...] No summary [...]	2005-06-29 08:56:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	ECPS ETRD EU LO
05BRATISLAVA511	SLOVAKIA TO STAY THE COURSE IN IRAQ [...] (C) Summary: Slovak government interlocutors welcomed beginning dialogue on future planning for Iraq deployments, particularly in civlian channels. The GOS is firmly committed to staying the course as long as the Iraqi government requests help, there is an international mandate, and the manda [...]	2005-07-01 09:00:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PREL IZ LO
05BRATISLAVA531	DZURINDA'S GOVERNMENT SURVIVES ANOTHER [...] (U) Summary. In the last parliamentary vote before summer recess, Smer Chairman Robert Fico's motion of no confidence against Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda received only 60 votes out of the 76 necessary to recall him. Smer, LS-HZDS (People's Party - Movement for a Democratic Slovakia),and [...]	2005-07-08 15:26:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV LO
05BRATISLAVA532	SLOVAKIA POLITICAL ROUNDUP JUNE 30, 2005 [...] (C) On June 21, Slovakia adopted government resolution 495/2005, which approved a 100 percent write-off of Iraqi civil debts to Slovakia (an amount equal to around USD 1.1 million). In addition to the debt forgiveness, Slovakia has contributed USD 20.8 million in humanitarian aid, military [...]	2005-07-08 15:31:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ LO
05BRATISLAVA537	UNION LEADERS ON PARTNERSHIP WITH SMER, DECLINING [...] (SBU) Summary: Slovakia's Confederation of Trade Unions (KOZ) has lost nearly half of its membership since 1993, and its leadership is both upset and threatened by recent government economic reforms. During a recent meeting with Poloffs, KOZ leaders discussed their decision to work closely wi [...]	2005-07-11 11:54:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ELAB LO
05BRATISLAVA538	MOD PROPOSES ADDING AFGHANISTAN TO JULY 22 AGENDA [...] (SBU) Action request: The Slovak Ministry of Defense would like to add to the agenda of Ambassador Jones' July 22 pol-mil talks on Iraq discussion on Slovak intentions to end participation in OEF and join ISAF in Afghanistan. Please advise if the team from Washington will be prepared to discu [...]	2005-07-11 13:50:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR MOPS PREL AF LO
05BRATISLAVA539	MOD PROPOSES ADDING AFGHANISTAN TO JULY 22 AGENDA [...] (SBU) Action request: The Slovak Ministry of Defense would like to add to the agenda of Ambassador Jones' July 22 pol-mil talks on Iraq discussion on Slovak intentions to end participation in OEF and join ISAF in Afghanistan. Please advise if the team from Washington will be prepared to discu [...]	2005-07-11 13:50:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR MOPS PREL AF LO
05BRATISLAVA543	SLOVAKIA'S BILATERAL WITNESS PROTECTION PROGRAM [...] (C) Summary. The Slovak Republic founded its witness protection program in January 1999. One of the unique facets of the program is its success in arranging bilateral protection agreements with other European nations. Slovakia was the first post-communist nation to both send witnesses abroa [...]	2005-07-12 09:15:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KJUS PHUM LO
05BRATISLAVA550	TATRAS RENEWAL DEBATE [...] Summary. On June 16, 2005, post hosted a digital video conference (DVC) to introduce two American forestry experts to Slovaks working on restoration efforts in the Tatras Mountains (ref A). The conversation allowed the Americans to begin assessing the specific damage, better understand the [...]	2005-07-12 14:25:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EAID KPAO AMGT KSCA LO
05BRATISLAVA552	SLOVAK VIEWS ON JULY 18 GAERC [...] (C) Pol-Econ Chief shared ref A pre-GAERC points with Lubomir Rehak, European Correspondent, on July 8. Rehak was pleased to discuss U.S. positions and stated that he would share the talking points with others within the Ministry prior to the GAERC meeting, adding that Foreign Minister Kuka [...]	2005-07-12 15:23:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EU UZ TU HR LO UN
05BRATISLAVA558	SLOVAK VIEWS ON G-4 FRAMEWORK RESOLUTION [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel points to Richard Galbavy, Acting Director of the MFA Department of International Organizations and UN Offices. He shared the Slovak views regarding UN reforms and the Security Council, indicating that it was also an important priority. 2. (SBU) According to Gal [...]	2005-07-13 08:44:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL LO UNGA
05BRATISLAVA566	SLOVAKIA FY 2005 COALITION SOLIDARITY FUND [...] On July 15, 2005, Post received a response to Reftel inquiry regarding Slovakia's plans for allocating the 2005 Coalition Solidarity Fund disbursement. In a letter from Jozef Zufka of the Military Planning and Resource Management Section of the Ministry of Defense, Slovakia states its wish t [...]	2005-07-15 14:16:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS PREL PARM LO
05BRATISLAVA585	EXTRADITION: US-EU AGREEMENT NOW, BILATERAL TREATY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Justice Minister Lipsic told Charge during his farewell call July 20 that he supported moving ahead with an initial agreement to implement the US-EU extradition treaty but urged that a more in-depth bilateral agreement be negotiated as well. He indicated a willingness to move con [...]	2005-07-22 11:50:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS PREL EU LO
05BRATISLAVA587	INVITATIONS TO 2005 OXFORD TRACKER WORKSHOP [...] Ms. Dagmar Dubecka Department of Sensitive Goods Trading Management Ministry of Economy Mierova 19 827 15 Bratislava Slovak Republic Tel.: +421 2 4854 7976 Fax: +421 2 4342 3915 E-mail: dubecka@economy.gov.sk 2. Mr. Radomir Ondrus Department of Sensitive Goods Trading Management Minis [...]	2005-07-25 09:20:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM ETTC LO
05BRATISLAVA602	FINANCE MINISTER IVAN MIKLOS: POWER BEHIND THE [...] (C) Summary. The political team of Minister of Finance Ivan Miklos and Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda has succeeded in transforming Slovakia's political and economic fortunes in a short amount of time. Miklos has won acclaim for his flat tax policy, and he has also managed several years of [...]	2005-08-02 13:02:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL PINR LO
05BRATISLAVA603	SLOVAKIA LIKELY TO SUPPORT UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-03 11:39:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL LO UNGA
05BRATISLAVA606	SLOVAKIA POLITICAL ROUNDUP AUGUST 1, 2005 [...] (SBU) Progressive political party Alliance of New Citizens (ANO) has drafted a law which would change Slovakia's current religious registration system (under which registered churches receive state funding) to abolish state funding and, in essence, make religious groups equal to non-governme [...]	2005-08-03 13:36:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM KIRF PHUM PGOV LO

05BRATISLAVA618	PAVOL RUSKO: THE SLOVAK BERLUSCONI WANNA-BE [...] (C) Summary. The leader of the New Citizens Alliance Party (ANO),Minister of Economy Pavol Rusko, has been a controversial figure within Slovakia's ruling coalition government and is the leading cause of its internal tensions. His continued dominance of the largest private broadcaster in [...]	2005-08-04 13:12:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PINR LO
05BRATISLAVA626	DZURINDA CONCERNED ABOUT RUSKO, BUT NEEDS HIM [...] (C) During Charge's August 4 farewell call on Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda, the Prime Minister shared some candid thoughts on Economy Minister Pavol Rusko (reftel). Dzurinda told Charge that he is increasingly concerned about Rusko. He said that he has traditionally dealt with Rusko in k [...]	2005-08-05 14:06:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON PINR LO
05BRATISLAVA637	GITMO DETAINEES: A NON-ISSUE IN SLOVAKIA [...] (SBU) Embassy has shared reftel talking points with Prime Minister Dzurinda's foreign policy advisor, and will also share them with experts in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs the week of August 8 (most of the lead people have been on vacation during recent weeks). 2. (SBU) The issues surrou [...]	2005-08-08 15:32:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KISL KPAO PGOV PREL LO
05BRATISLAVA642	SLOVAKIA PREPARES TO ABOLISH EXTREMIST POLITICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Slovakia is struggling to come to terms with its diversity and diminish the influence of racist extremist groups. A recent meeting with the Interior Ministry's chief coordinator of the anti-extremism unit revealed that the government allowed extremist group Slovens [...]	2005-08-09 14:47:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV SOCI SMIG PINR LO
05BRATISLAVA660	SLOVAKIA ON TURKISH ACCESSION: "YES, BUT" [...] (C) On August 16, Deputy Chief of Mission raised reftel issue of Turkish EU accession with MFA Director for Common Foreign and Security Policy Anna Turenicova and European Correspondent Lubomir Rehak. Turenicova explained that within the EU there were three camps on Turkish accession: "yes," [...]	2005-08-17 14:42:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EU TU LO
05BRATISLAVA661	FOR THE ROMA IN PRESOV, ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL [...] (C) SUMMARY: The proposal to erect of a wall between Roma and non-Roma citizens in the Stara Tehelna neighborhood of Presov seems to be advancing, despite negative media coverage and an initial retraction of the plan by the Mayor. In an August 12 meeting between the GOS Plenipotentiary for [...]	2005-08-17 15:09:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM SOCI PGOV KPAO EAID LO
05BRATISLAVA663	KDH ULTIMATUM: EITHER RUSKO GOES OR WE DO [...] (C) Summary: The latest threat by coalition partner KDH to leave the government if Prime Minister Dzurinda doesn't fire Economy Minister Pavol Rusko (ANO) is more serious than previous bluffs. No matter what happens, there is not enough support in parliament for early elections (90 votes are [...]	2005-08-17 17:22:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR LO PGGOC
05BRATISLAVA665	SLOVAK PARTICIPANTS AT THE SEVENTH ANNUAL [...] On August 16, post received nominations for The Seventh Annual International Export Control Conference. Delegates attending the conference are: Mr. Karol Mistrik Department of Disarmament and Council of Europe Ministry of Foreign Affairs Hlboka cesta 2 833 36 Bratislava Slovak Republic [...]	2005-08-18 06:05:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL KSTC MASS LO
05BRATISLAVA668	(U) ORGANIZED CRIME IN SLOVAKIA (C-CN5-00417) [...] (U) In response to reftel inquiry regarding organized crime in Slovakia, post provides the following response: A. (U) ARE THERE ORGANIZED CRIME GROUPS PRESENT IN THE HOST COUNTRY THAT ORIGINATED IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTRIES: RUSSIA, UKRAINE, ITALY, THE BALKANS (ALBANIA, SERBIA, BOSNIA),JA [...]	2005-08-18 12:57:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PINR SOCI LO
05BRATISLAVA670	OVERSEAS ACTIVITIES OF SLOVAK NGOS [...] Slovak NGOs continue to proudly participate in overseas activities fostering democratization. With support from Slovakaid (the branch of the MFA responsible for foreign aid) Slovak NGOs note that their own post-communism transition experience gives them a "comparative advantage" when it come [...]	2005-08-19 09:15:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PREL EAID LO
05BRATISLAVA677	MINISTER RUSKO'S WILD RIDE [...] (C) Following the Christian Democratic Party (KDH) announcement last week that it would leave the coalition if Minister of the Economy Pavol Rusko was not removed from office by August 23 (Ref C),Rusko's ANO party closeted itself August 22 to determine next steps. In Bratislava, the only t [...]	2005-08-22 15:30:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KPAO PINR LO
05BRATISLAVA682	COALITION MEETS: RUSKO LIKELY OUT BY FRIDAY [...] (C) Sources with inside knowledge of the August 23 Coalition Council meeting told us that the Prime Minister will indeed dismiss Minister of the Economy Pavol Rusko, but not until Friday (reftels). Rusko told coalition partners he will not voluntarily step down. The source commented that R [...]	2005-08-23 14:25:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM ECON ETRD LO
05BRATISLAVA683	RUSKO SACKED BY PRESIDENT; COALITION WEAKENED, BUT [...] (C) President Ivan Gasparovic fired Minister of the Economy Pavol Rusko (reftels) at noon August 24, after Rusko failed to submit his resignation by 9:00am as demanded at a press conference last night by Prime Minister Dzurinda. Rusko's Alliance of New Citizen (ANO) party announced that it w [...]	2005-08-24 13:36:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON ETRD PINR KDEM LO
05BRATISLAVA684	SLOVAK PARTICIPANTS AT THE SEVENTH ANNUAL [...] Referring to the Reftel sent out by the Embassy on August 17, the final list of the delegates attending the Seventh Annual International Export Control Conference is following: Mr. Karol Mistrik Department of Disarmament and Council of Europe Ministry of Foreign Affairs Hlboka cesta 2 833 [...]	2005-08-24 14:03:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL KSTC MASS LO
05BRATISLAVA686	SLOVAKIA ON TURKEY'S EU ACCESSION: A ROSIER [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-25 14:50:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EU TU LO
05BRATISLAVA689	Country Clearance granted for Rossitza B. Petrov and [...] Embassy Bratislava welcomes U.S.-Slovakia Internal Control Program instructors Rossitza B. Petrov and Jennifer Carol Whitcomb and grants country clearance for the period of September 24-30, 2005. The embassy point of contact for the visit is Richard "Trey" Lyons, POL Officer, tel: +421-2-5922 [...]	2005-08-26 07:49:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KSTC PARM PREL KNNP LO
05BRATISLAVA692	MINISTER OF ECONOMY, WHAT MINISTER OF ECONOMY? [...] (U) Summary. The firing of Pavol Rusko as the Minister of Economy (reftels) will not likely have a major impact on the Slovak economy. Though a long-term replacement remains uncertain, the temporary substitute, Finance Minister Ivan Miklos, has promised to enact measures which will verify al [...]	2005-08-26 11:49:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON ETRD PINR KDEM LO
05BRATISLAVA693	SLOVAKIA AGREES WITH ISAF'S U.N. MANDATE [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-26 11:58:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL LO NATO UNSC
05BRATISLAVA694	COALITION NEEDS ANO LIKE A FISH NEEDS A BICYCLE [...] (SBU) In the wake of the sacking of their party leader, Pavol Rusko, seven MPs from the Alliance of New Citizen (ANO),in addition to Minister of Culture Toth, Minister of Health Zajac, and another independent MP, have submitted a written pledge to support the GOS coalition. With this decla [...]	2005-08-26 13:11:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM ECON ETRD PINR LO
05BRATISLAVA70	Country Clearance granted for NP/ECC personnel: Paul [...] Embassy Bratislava welcomes the NP/ECC personnel: Paul B. van Son and Jason C. McClellan and grants country clearance for the period of February 1-2, 2005. The embassy point of contact is Larry Adkins, EXBX Program Advisor, tel: +421-2-5922-3375, fax: 421-5922-5038. Reservations h [...]	2005-01-31 15:39:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM ETTC PREL KSTC BU RO LO
05BRATISLAVA700	BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: VERIFICATION OF LICENSE 05- [...] Summary: During a visit to Letecke Opravovne Trencin (LOT) in Trencin, Slovakia, Emboff completed inventory, security check, and integrity check of equipment described reftel (License Number 05-924961). Emboff reported no issues; all licensed items were accounted for in triple- barrier stor [...]	2005-08-31 13:29:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KOMC LO
05BRATISLAVA701	COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR PAULA [...] Country clearance is requested for Bratislava IRC Director Paula Holotnakova to travel to Tallinn, Estonia, October 1-6 to participate in the American Corners Workshop. 2. Holotnakova will travel to Tallinn by plane October 1 and return October 6. No travel assistance is required. 3. [...]	2005-08-31 13:41:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO KIRC OIIP LO
05BRATISLAVA702	SLOVAKIA POLITICAL ROUNDUP, AUGUST 2005 [...] (C) During a meeting with Cino Straka, a former Slovak arms dealer, Poloffs learned of a erroneous (yet perhaps auspicious) piece of misinformation: the assumption by this arms dealer that all exports of Slovak manufactured military hardware must be approved by the United States Embassy in B [...]	2005-08-31 15:10:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SMIG PHUM PARM SOCI KDEM LO
05BRATISLAVA705	COALITION DROPS ANO, PM HOLDS ALL THE CARDS MOVING [...] (SBU) The coalition parties announced September 1 that Pavol Rusko's ANO party (weakened by the departure of 7 of ANO's 11 MPs) is no longer a member of the coalition. The coalition will work instead with the group of breakaway ANO MPs and cabinet ministers lead by Lubomir Lintner (Ref A). [...]	2005-09-06 07:50:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL LO
05BRATISLAVA713	SENIOR ADVISOR SPIRNAK, GMOS, AND SLOVAKIA [...] (U) Summary. During the July 29 to August 1 visit of Madelyn Spirnak, the Department's Senior Advisor on Agricultural Technology, Econoffs obtained additional insight into the status of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in Slovakia. In science and industry, Slovaks appear educated, prac [...]	2005-09-08 15:17:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV EAGR ETRD LO
05BRATISLAVA714	TFUS01: SLOVAKIA OFFERS ASSISTANCE TO KATRINA [...] The Government of Slovakia has offered to provide supplies to assist the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The list of available items includes the following: 500 sleeping bags with thermal and hygienic shells 300 sleeping bags 2000 wool blankets 500 wool blankets - sanitary 500 field beds [...]	2005-09-08 15:18:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL AEMR EAID LO
05BRATISLAVA716	SLOVAK'S POSITIVE ABOUT AVIAN FLU PARTNERSHIP [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-09 12:08:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID ECON KSCA PREL SOCI TBIO LO
05BRATISLAVA721	GUIDANCE REQUESTED ON POSSIBLE SLOVAK ARMS SALES [...] (U) This is a guidance request, please see para 2. 2. (S) Peter Peniaska, head of the Slovak arms firm Petina International, is seeking the USG position on potential sales of Slovak military equipment to Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The company has applied for a license w [...]	2005-09-10 07:20:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MASS ECON PGOV PINR PREL LO
05BRATISLAVA728	TFUS01: ACCEPTANCE OF SLOVAK OFFER OF HURRICANE [...] Post conveyed reftel acceptance of Slovakia's offer of Hurricane Katrina assistance (25,000 blankets, 500 camp beds, 1,000 first aid kits, and 600 liters of liquid soap) to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs the morning of September 10. 2. The GOS has designated the following English speaking [...]	2005-09-13 11:24:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	AEMR EAID PREL LO
05BRATISLAVA730	SLOVAK PARLIAMENT CAN'T GET QUORUM; OPPOSITION [...] (C) The GOS failed to get enough votes to reopen parliament September 12 after its summer break. After failing to achieve quorum both Monday and Tuesday (falling three members short of the 76 required),we are told that Chairman Pavol Hrusovsky will postpone the session until 9:00am Tuesday [...]	2005-09-14 06:33:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR SOCI LO
05BRATISLAVA735	"NO ROMA WALL HERE" PRESOV AUTHORITIES TELL [...] (SBU) During a September 13 visit to Presov in eastern Slovakia, Ambassador raised the issue of the so-called "Roma Wall" (reftel) with the two Deputy Mayors (Presov Mayor Milan Benc was out of the country). Both officials assured the Ambassador that no wall would be built separating Roma fr [...]	2005-09-16 14:38:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI LO
05BRATISLAVA738	KDH IS HOT; SDKU IS NOT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Dzurinda is taking advantage of a long holiday weekend to try to gather the support of at least three independent MPs needed to open parliament on September 20 (reftel). Coalition partners KDH and SMK and ANO "Lintners" hope Dzurinda is successful, but if not, t [...]	2005-09-16 15:01:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR SOCI LO
05BRATISLAVA749	STILL NO PARLIAMENTARY QUORUM AFTER A WEEK; [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: A week after failing to gather the quorum necessary to open parliament (ref B),the Coalition failed again on September 20 to bring 76 MPs to the chamber, reach quorum, and resume the council's session after summer recess. Independent deputies continue to move in m [...]	2005-09-20 15:18:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR LO
05BRATISLAVA755	SLOVAKIA POLITICAL ROUNDUP SEPTEMBER 21, 2005 [...] (C) PM Dzurinda's ruling coalition managed to get the support of 77 MPs (one more than needed) to reopen the parliamentary session on September 21, following a stalemate brought about by opposition parties and independents who had pushed for early elections (ref B). Following the opening, D [...]	2005-09-21 14:55:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KIRF SMIG SOCI LO
05BRATISLAVA771	COMBATING EXTREMISM IN SLOVAKIA [...] (C) Summary. The GOS and the USG have actively funded programs to combat extremism and intolerance in Slovakia. Extremism here takes the form of a privately organized Neo-Nazi movement, which usually targets the Roma minority and the small Jewish population. Violent attacks have occurred in t [...]	2005-09-26 15:40:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM KPAO EAID PHUM KMPI LO
05BRATISLAVA772	Country Clearance granted for USAID contractors Mary [...] Embassy Bratislava welcomes USAID contractors: Mary Linehan, Catherine F. Cleland, Lisa Adams, Diana Selezeanu, Robert Rosenburg, Eun-Joo Chang and John Capati and grants country clearance for the period of October 2-7, 2005. The embassy point of contact for your visit is Richard "Trey" Lyon [...]	2005-09-27 07:35:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID SL HU RO LO
05BRATISLAVA78	IRAQ: SLOVAKIA ISSUES POSITIVE STATEMENTS ON [...] Slovak PM Mikulas Dzurinda (para 2) and the MFA (para 3) issued congratulatory statements on the Iraqi elections. Post placed the IIP-supplied op-ed on the Iraqi elections in the daily newspaper Narodna Obroda (readership estimated at 145,000) on January 27 under the CDA's by-line. The he [...]	2005-02-02 12:23:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPAO IZ LO
05BRATISLAVA780	EXTRADITION: SLOVAKIA READY TO SUPPORT, WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Justice Minister Daniel Lipsic told Ambassador during his introductory call September 26 that Slovakia hopes to finalize a comprehensive bilateral treaty on extradition during October 17-18 discussions with US negotiators. In reaction to reftel talking points, Lipsic provided us [...]	2005-09-27 13:14:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS PREL EU LO
05BRATISLAVA79	SLOVAKIA POLITICAL ROUNDUP FEBRUARY 02, 2005 [...] (SBU) Adolfo Franco, Assistant Administrator for Latin America and the Caribbean at USAID and David Mutchler, Cuba Senior Advisor, met with Slovak NGO and governmental representatives January 14 on Cuba issues. Franco said the highlight was his meeting with Speaker of Parliament Pavol Hruso [...]	2005-02-02 12:24:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM CU LO RU
05BRATISLAVA790	ISRAEL TO OPEN EMBASSY IN BRATISLAVA [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-29 09:31:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL IS LO
05BRATISLAVA801	SLOVAKIA WILL ENCOURAGE UKRAINE TO RATIFY NATO-PFP [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-03 12:52:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL MASS LO NATO
05BRATISLAVA804	SLOVAKIA: BELARUS IS DETERIORATING, NEEDS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 30, DCM and Poloff (notetaker) delivered reftel demarche to Stefan Rozkopal, MFA Director for CIS and Balkan Peninsula Countries. Rozkopal, who had met the day before with two opposition politicians from Minsk, offered Slovakia's support for democratization effor [...]	2005-10-03 14:53:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL KDEM PGOV LO BO
05BRATISLAVA808	SLOVAKIA CODIFIES RELATIONSHIP WITH US IN NEW [...] (SBU) On September 27, Parliament approved a new Security Strategy for Slovakia which supersedes the previous security policies in place since 2001. The security strategy notably acknowledges "special status" for the "Euro-Atlantic" security relationship, and calls for Slovakia to support " [...]	2005-10-04 08:46:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EU LO
05BRATISLAVA815	MORE CABINET SHAKEUPS: LABOR OUT, ECON IN [...] (C) SUMMARY - Labor Minister Ludovit Kanik announced his resignation October 5 after admitting that he made a mistake in applying for EU Funds for the refurbishing of a hotel that he owns in the resort town of Banska Stiavnica. Kanik's announcement will complicate his efforts to formalize a de [...]	2005-10-05 15:16:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD KDEM LO PGOV PINR
05BRATISLAVA821	Direct Funding Initiative Proposal for Embassy [...] SUMMARY: Embassy Bratislava would like to continue offering Slovak language learning opportunities for eligible family members (EFMs) and State Department officers and specialists who did not receive FSI training, as well as courses to maintain the investment of FSI training put into other off [...]	2005-10-07 06:16:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT LO
05BRATISLAVA829	Country Clearance granted for Kenneth Propp [...] Embassy Bratislava welcomes Kenneth Propp and grants country clearance for the period of October 17-18, 2005. The embassy point of contact for your visit is William Laitinen, ECON Officer, tel: +421-2-5922-3394, cellphone: +421-903-767- 004. Reservation has been made at the Hotel [...]	2005-10-07 14:49:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	KJUS LO PREL EUN
05BRATISLAVA831	EUR PDAS KURT VOLKER'S MEETING WITH V-10 POLDIRS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an October 8 meeting with V-10 PolDirs, visiting EUR PDAS Kurt Volker heard frank and honest opinions -- and some colorful discussion -- about the current status of the transatlantic partnership. The PolDirs, who noted that such a meeting could never have been pulled to [...]	2005-10-08 20:42:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EU IZ BO LO NATO RU
05BRATISLAVA835	SLOVAKIA POLITICAL ROUNDUP, OCTOBER 11, 2005 [...] (SBU) Despite the announcement that a group of former ANO MPs lead by Lubomir Lintner will form a new political party, other politicians -- including members of the coalition who work closely with Lintner -- feel it is "too late" to begin a new party. Lintner, never considered a particularl [...]	2005-10-11 14:14:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SMIG PHUM KDEM SOCI LO
05BRATISLAVA851	SLOVAKS SATISFIED WITH CURRENT COMMISSION MANDATE [...] (C) In response to reftel, Ambassador delivered talking points and USTR fact sheets to Minister of Economy Jirko Malcharek. We separately delivered the points to Agriculture State Secretary Marian Radosovsky. Malcharek indicated that he personally would like to see far-reaching global trade [...]	2005-10-17 15:44:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ETRD LO WTO
05BRATISLAVA853	NEW MINISTER OF LABOR TAKES OFFICE [...] (U) Following the resignation of Ludovit Kanik (reftel),President Gasparovic approved the appointment of Ms. Iveta Radicova as the new Minister of Labor, Social Affairs, and Family; she officially took office on October 17. Prior to her appointment as Minister, Radicova was the director of [...]	2005-10-19 14:45:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR PREL LO
05BRATISLAVA854	HZDS: OLD DOG MECIAR CAN STILL LEARN NEW TRICKS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an October 19 lunch, HZDS leadership (minus Meciar, whom we did not invite) told Ambassador that the party cannot exist without Vladimir Meciar, that they are working "behind the scenes" to reach out to the current coalition, that Meciar (an "old dog who can still learn [...]	2005-10-20 06:13:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KDEM LO
05BRATISLAVA860	Country Clearance granted for Stuart Seldowitz [...] Embassy Bratislava welcomes D/PolAd Stuart Seldowitz and grants country clearance for the period of October 26-28, 2005. The embassy control officer for your visit is Lora Berg, CAO, tel: 421 2 5922 3083; cellphone: 421 903 721 174. Assisting Ms. Berg will be Aaron Chase, POL/MIL, tel: 421 2 [...]	2005-10-21 15:22:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP LO NATO
05BRATISLAVA861	SLOVAKIA'S VIEWS OF U.S. POLICY TOWARD BELARUS [...] (C) Charge discussed Deputies Committee decisions on policy toward Belarus (ref A) with MFA Director for CIS and Balkans Stefan Rozkopal Oct. 21. Rozkopal provided a preliminary reaction to some of the points, but said the GOS hoped to have a clearer picture of the situation and how to inf [...]	2005-10-24 06:01:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM EAID PGOV BO LO EUN
05BRATISLAVA865	SLOVAKS PURSUING AVIAN INFLUENZA AND PANDEMIC [...] (SBU) Summary. Officials from the GOS appear to be making good progress on contingency plannnig for an outbreak of avian influenza (AI) as well as the possibility of a human-to-human pandemic disease. Ministry of Health State Secretary Alexandra Novotna (also Deputy Health Minister and SI [...]	2005-10-25 15:24:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO EAGR SOCI KSCA LO WHO FAO OIE
05BRATISLAVA872	SLOVAK JUSTICE MINISTER'S NOV. 7 MEETING WITH AG [...] Slovak Minister of Justice Daniel Lipsic is scheduled to meet with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales at 14:00 on November 7 in Washington. Poloffs met on 10/26 with MOJ's Head of the International and European Law Department Peter Banas and Jana Vnukova, Head of the Division of Coordination o [...]	2005-10-26 15:22:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	KJUS PREL EU LO
05BRATISLAVA873	SLOVAK AVIAN INFLUENZA FRAMEWORK PLAN [...] On October 26, the GOS approved and publicly released its framework plan to combat the threat of avian influenza (AI) and the possibility of a pandemic virus. The new plan replaced a previous version established in August of 2001. The framework established a Commission, headed by Minister of [...]	2005-10-27 14:36:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO EAGR SOCI KSCA LO WHO FAO OIE
05BRATISLAVA876	FORMER ECON MINISTER RUSKO TO SELL TV SHARES [...] (C) Central European Media Enterprises (CME),an American Media firm, is finally poised to take control of TV Markiza by buying out the shares held by dismissed Economy Minister Pavol Rusko. Rusko, apparently badly in need of "clean" cash, finally agreed to sell all his shares -- and thus con [...]	2005-10-31 13:09:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON LO PGOV PINR
05BRATISLAVA878	SLOVAKIA APPROVES ASSISTANCE PLAN FOR UKRAINE [...] On October 25, the GOS approved an assistance plan to help Ukraine meet the objectives outlined by the EU Ukraine Action Plan. The proposed GOS activities will focus on sharing Slovak knowledge and experience in democratic and economic reforms with Ukrainian partner agencies. The specific a [...]	2005-10-31 14:51:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV LO
05BRATISLAVA880	SPECIAL 301: SLOVAKIA WORKING TO GET OFF THE 2006 [...] SUMMARY: The Government of Slovakia has held two meetings in recent months with pharmaceutical companies and Embassy representatives aimed at addressing outstanding Special 301 issues so that Slovakia can be removed from the USTR "Watch List" in 2006. The relevant GOS ministries are saying the [...]	2005-11-02 12:22:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	KIPR ETRD ECON XG LO
05BRATISLAVA881	SLOVAKIA RELEASES STATEMENT ON IRAQ REFERENDUM [...] Pursuant to reftels, Slovakia released the following statement on the results of Iraq's October 15 referendum on the draft constitution. The statement is available in English at the MFA website at http://www.foreign.gov.sk/En/index.html . BEGIN VERBATIM TEXT OF STATEMENT: The Ministry of [...]	2005-11-02 13:46:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM KPAO PREL PGOV IZ LO
05BRATISLAVA888	SLOVAKIA POLITICAL ROUNDUP, NOVEMBER 3, 2005 [...] (C) Agriculture Minister Zsolt Simon (of the Hungarian SMK party) has recently come under pressure because of allegations that an agriculture company he co-owned received SKK 8 million (around USD 250,000) in agricultural subsidies from the state budget in 2003. Simon sold his share in the [...]	2005-11-03 12:56:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ELAB PINR SOCI LO
05BRATISLAVA898	SLOVAKIA SUPPORTS CURRENT INTERNET GOVERNANCE [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-08 13:48:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	ECPS ETRD ECON EINT ETTC LO
05BRATISLAVA903	SLOVAKIA SUBMISSION FOR TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] (SBU) Below, please find responses to the post-specific questions raised reftel outlining the progress the Government of Slovakia has made in the following areas: A. CREATING A NATIONAL COORDINATING EXPERT WORKING GROUP AND APPOINTING A NATIONAL COORDINATOR: The Slovak Republic appoint [...]	2005-11-10 14:58:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KWMN SMIG PREL LO
05BRATISLAVA918	PSI: SLOVAKIA ATTENDING ROEG MEETING IN HAMBURG, [...] Slovakia is sending a five-person delegation to the ROEG meeting in Hamburg, Germany. The Slovak delegation will be led by a representative from the National Presidium of Police. The other group members are from the Ministry of Economy (1),the Customs Service (2),and the Information (Inte [...]	2005-11-16 16:08:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP MNUC PARM PREL LO
05BRATISLAVA922	SLOVAKIA SUPPORTS CUBAN DISSIDENTS, NOTES SPANISH [...] (C) SUMMARY: At a November 8 Embassy sponsored discussion, GOS officials told us that Slovakia is working hard to promote democracy and "do the right thing" in Cuba. They outlined efforts being made by Slovak NGOs, members of parliament, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the island, an [...]	2005-11-18 15:30:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL LO CU
05BRATISLAVA924	SLOVAKS DISCUSS BELARUS ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY, THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a series of recent meetings we have engaged our Slovak interlocutors in both the GOS and NGO community about democracy promotion efforts and strategy in Belarus, and spoken with several visiting Belarusian opposition figures about Slovak and EU engagement in the country. [...]	2005-11-18 16:42:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM ETRD PREL SOCI PINR BO LO
05BRATISLAVA926	SLOVAK VIEWS ON NOVEMBER 21 GAERC [...] (SBU) Polec Chief met with European Correspondent Lubomir Rehak November 16 to discuss points provided reftel on agenda items at the November 21 GAERC. 2. (SBU) DEFENSE ISSUES: Rehak noted that 19 states are members of both NATO and the EU, and it was in all their interests to improve coop [...]	2005-11-18 19:33:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD EU LO
05BRATISLAVA935	SLOVAKS ANSWER AVIAN FLU QUESTIONS [...] The following are the responses to the reftel request for information about Slovakia's avian and pandemic influenza preparedness. 2. The GOS first drafted an emergency preparedness plan for pandemic influenza in 2001. It was updated October 2005 to factor in recent developments and curre [...]	2005-11-22 16:18:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID PREL LO
05BRATISLAVA936	SLOVAKIA POLITICAL ROUNDUP NOVEMBER 22, 2005 [...] (C) Pavol Rusko, former Minister of Economy and leader of political party ANO, sold his majority voting share in Slovakia's Markiza television station to American company Central European Media Enterprises (CME). As predicted reftel B, the ANO party -- which started the year with 11 MPs, a [...]	2005-11-23 08:54:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR KIRF SOCI LO
05BRATISLAVA938	SLOVAKIA SHARES U.S. CONCERNS ON IRAN [...] (S) Per ref A, Ambassador and Embassy staff briefed MFA State Secretary Magda Vasaryova, MFA PolDir Miroslav Lajcak, MFA Director General for International Organizations Anton Pinter, and a Slovak Intelligence Service representative on U.S. concerns that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons capa [...]	2005-11-23 16:13:00	Embassy Bratislava	SECRET	KNNP PARM PREL AORC IR LO
05BRATISLAVA939	GUIDANCE REQUEST: SLOVAKS BUYING MILITARY SUPPLIES [...] SUMMARY AND GUIDANCE REQUEST. The Slovak Ministry of Defense has signed contracts with a Slovak firm to purchase replacement military parts made in Belarus. Embassy Bratislava requests guidance on the USG's view of a NATO ally indirectly purchasing military supplies from Belarus. END SUMMARY A [...]	2005-11-25 13:14:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PM LO BO
05BRATISLAVA94	EXBS: SLOVAKIA ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE [...] BROAD ITEMS OF INTEREST TO ADVISORS AND AGENCY MANAGERS. A. January 1-9, 2005 - The EXBS Advisor was on vacation in the United States and arrived back in country on January 11, 2005. B. January 10-14, 2005 - A delegation of Slovak Customs managers participated in a tri-lateral meeting [...]	2005-02-04 09:00:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP LO
05BRATISLAVA948	EIGHTEEN PERCENT VOTER TURNOUT IN SLOVAK REGIONAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: In Slovakia's November 26 regional elections, center-right governmental parties won the majority of seats in six out of eight regional parliaments; opposition parties Smer and HZDS won in two. Voter turnout -- only 18 percent - fell below predictions. Ruling coalition parties [...]	2005-11-29 16:16:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM SOCI LO
05BRATISLAVA950	AMBASSADOR'S CONVERSATION WITH PM DZURINDA [...] (U) The Ambassador and his wife hosted Prime Minister and Mrs. Mikulas Dzurinda for a private dinner November 22. They agreed that relations between Slovakia and the United States had never been better. Following are informal notes from the conversation. Dzurinda on President Bush, and Pos [...]	2005-11-30 15:08:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON LO
05BRATISLAVA952	SLOVAKIA TIES ITS CURRENCY TO EURO [...] SUMMARY. On November 26, Slovakia entered the European Exchange Rate Mechanism II (ERM-2),a minimum 2-year probation period before joining the Euro, at a central rate of 38.4550 SKK/EUR. The entry, which came several months ahead of schedule, would make it possible for the country to adopt [...]	2005-11-30 15:58:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN LO
05BRATISLAVA958	(C) SLOVAKIA MAY BE WILLING TO PART WAYS WITH EU [...] (C) At a reception on December 5, MFA State Secretary (Deputy Foreign Minister) Magda Vasaryova pulled aside DCM to stress Slovakia's desire for the closest possible cooperation with the USG during Slovakia's upcoming tenure on the UNSC. Citing her very positive recent meeting with Amb. Bolto [...]	2005-12-06 13:58:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR LO UNSC UNGA UN
05BRATISLAVA959	EU BUDGET, ENLARGEMENT TOR PRIORITIES FOR SLOVAKIA [...] (C) Pol-Econ chief presented reftel points to Zuzana Dutkova, Division of European Affairs at the Slovak Republic. Dutkova did not comment on the points. Rather, she said Slovakia's absolute priority is to get an EU budget passed. Slovakia has been willing to compromise, even to the point of [...]	2005-12-06 15:12:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON EU LO
05BRATISLAVA979	SLOVAKIA POLITICAL ROUNDUP, DECEMBER 12, 2005 [...] (C) SMK MP Laszlo Nagy told Poloff on December 7 that the SMK party continues to develop venues through which to promote democracy in Belarus. Having signed agreements with opposition parties in Minsk already, Nagy said that he has met with the Minister of Education to begin discussions of [...]	2005-12-12 14:39:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM PINR ETRD SOCI BO LO
05BRATISLAVA981	NO ROMA CANDIDATES WON IN SLOVAK REGIONAL ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The National Democratic Institute (NDI) in Slovakia continues to invest considerable time and effort towards the development of viable Roma political candidates. Their latest project -- training Roma candidates in Slovakia's November 26 regional elections (reftel) -- yielded [...]	2005-12-13 07:05:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KDEM SOCI LO
05BRATISLAVA985	FY06 "JOURNAL OF DEMOCRACY" SUBSCRIPTION [...] PAS Bratislava would like to order three copies of the special discounted subscription to "JOURNAL OF DEMOCRACY." Please use following fiscal data: 19-60113000P-4265-688005-1365-2621 ($108.00) 2. Contact Person: Paula Holotnakova, IRC Director 3. Shipping Address: Department of State [...]	2005-12-14 13:12:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KPAO LO
05BRATISLAVA992	ROBERT FICO HAS DIRECTION, BUT NO COMPASS [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Robert Fico, the driven chairman of opposition party Smer ("Direction"),hosted a small lunch for the Ambassador on December 15 during which he outlined his views on Slovak politics and foreign policy, and revealed what we had long suspected: Fico is an intense and [...]	2005-12-16 16:21:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PGOV PINR SOCI EU LO
05BRATISLAVA999	SLOVAKIA EASILY PASSES ELECTION YEAR BUDGET [...] (SBU) SUMMARY - On December 13, the three-party minority coalition government of Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda successfully pushed the 2006 budget through parliament, scoring an important victory ahead of next year's general elections. Parliament voted 79:62 to approve country's spending pl [...]	2005-12-20 14:54:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PGOV LO
05BRUSSELS1014	COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR DPAO DONNA [...] COUNTRY CLEARANCE IS REQUESTED FOR DEPUTY PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER DONNA WOOLF TO ATTEND PAO CONFERENCE IN VIENNA, MARCH 13 TO 16, 2005. PLEASE NOTE THAT MS. WOOLF WILL REPRESENT EMBASSY BRUSSELS PAO CHRIS ROCHESTER. KOROLOGOS [...]	2005-03-11 12:50:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO BE USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS1109	SOMALIA - IGAD DEPLOYMENT PLAN: EU RESPONSE [...] (C) The EU broadly shares U.S. concerns over the IGAD peacekeeping plan. However, it prefers a low-profile approach which allows the plan to collapse under its own weight for lack of Somali support. The EU will not fund any peacekeeping operation that includes troops from frontline states. [...]	2005-03-18 09:25:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID SO USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS114	ACTION PLANS FOR THE EU NEIGHBORHOOD: DO THEY [...] (U) SUMMARY: In recent weeks, the European Union announced with great fanfare seven "Neighborhood Action Plans" -- one step in the process of defining and developing the EU's relationships with the countries in its "Neighborhood" that at this point seem unlikely to become membership candidat [...]	2005-01-11 15:18:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON PGOV PHUM ZL XH XF XI EUN ETRO USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS1147	RESULTS OF MARCH 16 EU FOREIGN MINISTERS' MEETING [...] (SBU) In addition to postponing Croatia's accession talks (septel),EU FMs at the March 16 General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) also noted positive developments in the Middle East and issued conclusions on Lebanon calling for Syria to withdraw all troops and intelligence servi [...]	2005-03-18 16:09:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EAID ETRD LE IR SU ES IN RU ICC EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS1149	WHAT NEXT ON CROATIA'S EU ACCESSION NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) As reported Ref A, EU Foreign Ministers on March 16 postponed opening of accession negotiations with Croatia. The General Affairs and External Relations Council Conclusions said negotiations would be opened "by common agreement as soon as the Council has established that Croatia is coopera [...]	2005-03-18 16:23:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV EAID ETRD HR EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS1226	U.S.-EU CONSULTATIONS ON OSCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In meetings with USOSCE Ambassador Stephan M. Minikes, EU officials said: --in light of growing Russian intransigence on democracy issues, the EU is preparing a strategy on how to respond to the Russian challenge in OSCE; --Russia is blocking democracy promotion in the Counc [...]	2005-03-24 07:51:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM OSCE EUN RU USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS1231	IS THE EU RETREATING ON THE CHINA ARMS EMBARGO? [...] (C) SUMMARY: The EU drive to lift its arms embargo on China appears to be faltering as a result of the March 14 passage of the anti-secession law, increased U.S. pressure, and China's unwillingness to deliver concessions on human rights. Our EU contacts generally confirm press reports that EU [...]	2005-03-24 11:27:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETTC CH TW EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS1239	MIGRATION, DEVELOPMENT AND INTEGRATION: EU [...] (U) At a two-day public hearing at the European Parliament, policymakers and experts exchanged ideas on harnessing international migration to help bolster European economies and populations. Their overarching call was for a legal and transparent immigration program, at the European level, whi [...]	2005-03-24 14:28:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PREF SMIG PHUM KWMN EAID ELAB OSCE EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS1241	WHA DAS SHAPIRO DISCUSSES LATIN AMERICA/CARIBBEAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In March 14 meetings with WHA DAS Charles Shapiro, EU officials said: -- the EU would increase contacts with the Cuban opposition; the European Parliament might be interested in holding a public hearing with Cuban dissidents; -- the EU would send a fact-finding mission to Hait [...]	2005-03-24 15:09:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV ETRD EAID EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS1441	HUMANITARIAN CONSULTATIONS HOSTED BY ECHO [...] (SBU) Summary. In a full day of consultations hosted by the European Commission's Office of Humanitarian Aid (ECHO) in Brussels on February 17, participants outlined their respective program priorities for 2005; agreed that the time had come to move the "Good Humanitarian Donorship" from the [...]	2005-04-12 13:15:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF EAID PHUM EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS1442	BURUNDI REFUGEES IN TANZANIA: EC RESPONSE ON [...] (U) Following receipt of reftel a, USEU contacted European Commission officials and provided the proposed text of the joint demarche on refugees. While expressing similar concerns and agreeing to work together to prevent refoulment, the EC said that it would defer to the assessment of its fie [...]	2005-04-12 13:16:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PHUM TZ BY USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS1466	DISCUSSIONS WITH THE DIRECTOR OF THE EU'S [...] (SBU) Summary: The EU Integrated Rule of Law Mission for the Iraqi criminal justice system plans to train 770 individuals from the senior management ranks of the police, the judiciary, and the penal system. The Director of the mission believes that police and military roles and tasks must be [...]	2005-04-13 12:13:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PINS PTER MARR IZ EAID EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS1472	EUROPEAN COMMISSION THINKING ON INTERNATIONAL IRAQ [...] (SBU) Summary. The European Commission wants to see a successful U.S.-EU co-hosted Iraq conference in June, and is convinced this means keeping it to a one-day event, and focusing the agenda on next steps in Iraq between now and the next round of elections. The EC is in synch with U.S. thi [...]	2005-04-13 14:21:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EAID IZ EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS1484	SALAFRANCA PUSHES HIS CANDIDACY FOR UNDP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following up on previous approaches to USEU, Embassy Madrid and USINT Havana (REFS B-D),Spanish member of the European Parliament (MEP) Jose Ignacio Salafranca solicited support from USEU again on April 7 for his candidacy for UNDP Administrator. Salafranca is well known to USE [...]	2005-04-14 09:45:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR EAID SP UNDP EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS1511	EU WILL SET UP COMMON INDEX OF CRIMINAL [...] EU Ministers for Justice, Freedom and Security (or Justice and Home Affairs - JHA Council) on April 14 agreed to set up a common EU "index" to register the criminal records of all non-EU citizens convicted in the EU countries. For their own nationals residing in the EU, Member States will p [...]	2005-04-15 14:25:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PTER CMGT CVIS KCRM EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS1514	WARSAW WINS SEAT OF EU BORDER AGENCY; EU [...] EU Justice and Home Affairs Ministers (JHA Council) on April 14 agreed that Warsaw would be the seat of the newly created Agency for the management of the EU external borders. The ministers also agreed to intensify contacts with Libya in order to combat illegal immigration, while insisting t [...]	2005-04-15 14:29:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PREF SMIG PL AL LY EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS1527	EC WILL SPEND 8.5M EUROS ON AFGHAN ELECTIONS [...] (U) On April 18, PolOff delivered Reftel demarche on funding for Afghanistan's parliamentary elections to Jonathan Hatwell, European Commission (EC) desk officer for Afghanistan. Hatwell reiterated that the EC "fully shares the U.S. view on the importance of the parliamentary elections," and [...]	2005-04-18 12:46:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL EAID AF UNSC USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS1530	CUBA: EU COMMISSIONER MICHEL BOLSTERS CUBAN FONMIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to his adviser on Cuba, European Commissioner for Development Louis Michel believes the EU must bolster Cuban FM Felipe Perez Roque as the best hope for improved EU-Cuba relations. During his March 24-27 visit to the island (REFS B-C),Michel offered Perez Roque better [...]	2005-04-18 13:51:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PINR EAID CU EUN USEU BRUSSELS

05BRUSSELS1542	Gymnich Takes No Decision on China Arms, [...] (SBU) The EU's informal "Gymnich" meeting of foreign ministers sought to place the EU-China relationship in a broader context, but the arms embargo issue loomed over the discussion. A Council staffer told us a consensus still exists within the EU to work on the issue, but a majority of member [...]	2005-04-19 10:30:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV EAID MASS CH EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS1549	DARFUR - RHETORIC AND REALITY OF A COMPLEX CONFLICT [...] (C) Summary. The prevailing rhetoric on Darfur conveys the gravity of the humanitarian crisis, but does not capture the complexity of the changing situation on the ground. Though the violence emerged as a result of the political conflict between the GOS and the Darfur rebels, it had a ready b [...]	2005-04-20 09:02:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PREF EAID AU SU US USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS1550	GREECE PUSHING MACEDONIA NAME ISSUE WITHIN THE EU [...] (C) The Council Secretariat's Macedonia desk and a Dutch diplomat who works on Balkan issues tell us the Greeks are pressing to get the EU to pressure Macedonia on its on-going name dispute. Next Monday's (April 25) General Affairs and External Relations Council is due to issue Conclusions on [...]	2005-04-20 09:34:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MK GR EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS1556	WHAT A FRENCH "NON" ON THE EU CONSTITUTION COULD [...] (C) No one can be sure of all the political consequences of a French rejection of the EU Constitution, but it would almost certainly end the document's chances of ever entering into force. While forty days remain before the vote, Embassy Paris (refs A and B) has described the challenges facin [...]	2005-04-20 13:13:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV FR TU EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS1581	EC FUNDING FOR UNWRA EMERGENCY APPEAL IN 2005: DEMARCHE RESPONSE [...] No summary [...]	2005-04-21 15:00:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF KPAL PREL EUN USEU BRUSSELS UNRWA
05BRUSSELS1583	THE PROPOSED EU CONSTITUTION: WHAT IT COULD MEAN [...] (SBU) The Constitutional Treaty signed last October requires ratification by all 25 Member States. It faces its first serious test in the May 29 French referendum, and a second critical vote in the Netherlands on June 1. Under those circumstances, entry into force is a distant and uncertain [...]	2005-04-22 08:22:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ETRD EFIN EAID ECIN MARR SMIG EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS1593	COMMISSION AND COUNCIL EXPECT SHORT GAERC MEETING [...] (U) A shorter than normal GAERC on April 25 is unlikely to take any significant decisions on external relations topics. On the Middle East, the GAERC is exepcted to issue Conclusions on the MEPP, Iraq and Lebanon. Africa discussion will focus on the Great Lakes, with any new decisions on Zimb [...]	2005-04-22 10:29:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID KPAL IZ LE ZI CG SU EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS1606	EU "TASK FORCE" ON CROATIA TO MEET WITH ICTY AND [...] (C) Commission, UK and Luxembourg Presidency officials in Brussels expect, and hope, that "nothing new" will come out of the first meeting of the EU "task force" on Croatia on April 26 in Luxembourg. The UK has dropped the idea of presenting the Croats with a written to-do list, but will stil [...]	2005-04-22 15:00:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL HR ICTY EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS1620	THE EU "GYMNICH" MEETINGS - HOW THEY OPERATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Informal transatlantic "Gymnich" style meetings could provide a useful forum for informal exchanges that might help bridge the current impasse in NATO/EU relations. END SUMMARY 2. (C) In recent months, several proposals have been floated for more informal meetings between for [...]	2005-04-25 14:07:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS1628	US-EU CONFERENCE ON IRAQ: VISIT OF S/I AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Summary. On April 21, Senior Advisor and Coordinator for Iraq Policy Ambassador Richard Jones met with a wide range of EU officials from the Luxembourg Presidency, the Commission and the Council to consult on planning for the U.S.-EU co-hosted International Conference on Iraq in June. Th [...]	2005-04-26 08:21:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EFIN IZ EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS1641	APRIL 25 GAERC: EU FMS DISCUSS MIDDLE EAST, [...] (SBU) EU FMs' April 25 General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) meeting went much as expected (REF A),with discussion moving briskly through the day's agenda prior to FMs leaving to attend the signing ceremony for the EU Accession Treaty of Romania and Bulgaria (REF B). The EU [...]	2005-04-26 15:05:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EAID LE IZ IS ZF ZI RU EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS1649	EU'S CROATIA TASK FORCE REAFFIRMS ZAGREB MUST [...] (C) The EU's ad hoc "task force" on Croatia met in Luxembourg April 26 with ICTY Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte and then with Croatian PM Sanader. Based on Del Ponte's assessment that Croatia is still failing to fully cooperate with the ICTY, the task force took no further action on Croatia's EU [...]	2005-04-27 14:15:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL HR ICTY EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS1685	DEMARCHE RESPONSE: UNHCR STATUS AND ACCESS TO REFUGEES IN LIBYA [...] (C) Summary. On April 21, PRMOff delivered reftel message to Nicola Annecchino, European Commission (EC) Head of Unit for Asylum and Migration Issues at Directorate General Justice Freedom and Security (JFS),regarding the status of UNHCR and the plight of asylum seekers in Libya. During a f [...]	2005-04-28 15:13:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM SMIG LY USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS1727	NATO AND EU MEET TO DISCUSS SUPPORT TO DARFUR [...] (SBU) Summary. On 29 April 2005, NATO International Staff (IS) and International Military Staff (IMS) led by Assistant Secretary General Kobieracki, met with EU General Secretariat SIPDIS and EU Military Staff (EUMS) members led by Director General for ESDP, Pieter Feith in the EU's Kortenb [...]	2005-05-03 14:41:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MARR MOPS EAID SU ET NATO USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS1734	TRANSATLANTIC CONSULTATIONS ON AFRICA [...] (U) Summary. The April 20 transatlantic consultations on Africa (COAFR) addressed priorities in the Great Lakes (ensuring democratic governance, supporting security sector reform and fostering regional stability),Somalia (consolidating the peace process),Sudan (Darfur and North-South); West [...]	2005-05-04 05:12:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PGOV MOPS PHUM EAID XA EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS212	EU RESUMES TRADE, POLITICAL NEGOTIATIONS WITH IRAN [...] (C/NF) Summary. The atmospherics at the January 12-13 EU-Iran Trade and Cooperation and Political Agreement negotiations in Brussels were positive and relaxed, and Iran appeared to want the negotiations to succeed, according to Council Secretariat officials who attended. Negotiations are s [...]	2005-01-19 09:23:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL KNNP PTER PHUM IR EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS2146	CZECH FONMIN PUSHING IDEAS TO TOUGHEN EU CUBA [...] (S) On the margins of a European Parliament conference on Cuba on June 2, Czech FonMin Cyril Svoboda told us he had "four or five" specific proposals for toughening the EU's stance on Cuba. In the run-up to the June 13 EU FonMins meeting, at which Cuba policy will be reviewed, Svoboda is tryi [...]	2005-06-06 13:54:00	Embassy Brussels	SECRET	PREL PHUM PINR CU EUN
05BRUSSELS2148	EU FAILS TO ADOPT COMMON RULES AGAINST [...] EU Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) ministers on June 2 failed to agree on a draft piece of EU legislation intended to establish common rules against racism and xenophobia within the Union. Delegations did agree on the necessity for an EU- wide instrument requiring operators to retain telecom [...]	2005-06-06 14:01:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM PTER CMGT CVIS KCRM EUN
05BRUSSELS2160	WORK CONTINUES ON THE EU'S PROPOSED "EXTERNAL [...] (C) While French and Dutch rejection of the EU Constitution has likely killed that document, one of the first ideas contained within it that may be implemented via other means is creation of an EU Foreign Minister supported by a European External Action Service. This may still be years away, [...]	2005-06-07 08:25:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID CMGT EUN
05BRUSSELS2165	CUBA: FURTHER CHANGES IN EU POLICY UNLIKELY [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to a key EU Council official (protect),the EU will almost certainly continue the suspension of the June 2003 restrictive measures against Cuba and seek "constructive" dialogue with the Cuban authorities. This is the principal message of the draft EU policy declaration [...]	2005-06-07 12:02:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM CU EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS2166	EU TO LAUNCH COOPERATION WITH LIBYA ON [...] EU Ministers for Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) on June 3 agreed to cooperate with Libya to combat clandestine migration and will help Libya build institutional capacity. This decision "in principle" ties development of this cooperation to Libya respecting certain basic principles - particu [...]	2005-06-07 13:14:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PREF PTER CMGT CVIS KCRM LY EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS2202	MAY 22 COASI WORKING DINNER ON SOUTHEAST ASIA [...] (C) Summary: On May 22, EAP A/S Chris Hill participated in a COASI working dinner on Southeast Asia with EU representatives from the Luxembourg European Presidency, the European Commission, the European Council, and the incoming UK EU Presidency. The participants discussed North Korea, in add [...]	2005-06-08 16:01:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ETRD XB EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS2203	A/S HILL LAUNCHES STRATEGIC DIALOGUE ON EAST ASIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 23-24 in Brussels, EAP A/S Christopher Hill led an interagency delegation, including representatives from State, NSC, OSD, JCS, and the intelligence community, in a meeting with EU Troika officials to launch the U.S.-Europe Strategic Dialogue on East Asia. A/S Hill also met [...]	2005-06-08 16:01:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PHUM ETRD XB EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS2208	EU ON HAITIAN ELECTIONS BUDGET SHORTFALL [...] (SBU) We presented reftel demarche on June 8 to John Caloghirou, Head of the Caribbean Affairs Unit in the Development Directorate-General of the European Commission (EC). Caloghirou said the EC would contribute 18 million euros for elections, plus 2-1/2 million euros for an election-related [...]	2005-06-09 06:48:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC EAID EFIN HA PGOV PREL EUN OAS UN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS2227	SCHENGEN TURNS TWENTY: BIGGER AND BOLDER THAN EVER [...] (SBU) Summary. The Schengen area has grown from six core countries in 1985 to fifteen at present, with eleven more -- including most recently Switzerland -- expected to be integrated by the end of 2007. Border-free travel within the zone has proved popular with the European public and is one [...]	2005-06-09 14:37:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CVIS SMIG PREL CMGT KFRD KCRM PTER EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS2231	EU CONSIDERING HARDER LINE ON UZBEKISTAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: EU Foreign Ministers will consider taking punitive measures against Uzbekistan unless the GOU agrees by the end of June to an independent, international inquiry into the Andijon events. If the GOU does not agree to an international inquiry, Germany plans to push for use of the OS [...]	2005-06-09 15:02:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UZ EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS2252	PREVIEW OF JUNE 13 EU FOREIGN MINISTERS' MEETING [...] (C) Much of EUFMs' energy at the June 13 GAERC will focus on preparing the June 16-17 EU Summit, especially negotiations on the EU budget and failed Constitutional Treaty. Decisions on Uzebkistan and Cuba should be as reported REFs B and C. Other topics are unlikely to produce much news, alt [...]	2005-06-10 15:54:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID PGOV EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS2312	EU REACTION TO VWP BIOMETRIC REQUIREMENTS [...] (U) Per reftel, PRMOff met with senior officials of the European Commission (EC) and Luxembourg Presidency on June 15 (at 4:30 p.m.) to review biometric passport requirements for VWP countries. 2. (U) EC participants from the Directorate General for Justice, Freedom and Security included: [...]	2005-06-15 16:06:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	CPAS CVIS EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS2339	UK PLANS FOR ITS EU PRESIDENCY: MIDDLE EAST ISSUES [...] (C) Summary. According to UK mission staff in Brussels who cover Middle East issues, the UK hopes to use its July-December EU presidency to work closely with the U.S. in promoting a common agenda. On Iraq, the UK hopes the June 22 conference will help move the EU to do more on rule of law [...]	2005-06-16 15:56:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER EAID UK XF EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS2344	EU ON FORCED RETURN OF RWANDAN ASYLUM SEEKERS [...] (U) PRMOff raised reftel points with DG Development Burundi/Rwanda desk officer Dietmar Krissler and EU Council Secretariat General officer for Central Africa Peter Clausen. SIPDIS 2. (C) Krissler said that during Commissioner Louis Michel's meeting with Rwandan President Kagame on June [...]	2005-06-17 08:18:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF RW BY EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS2345	BRUSSELS SCENE-SETTER FOR SECRETARY'S [...] (C) Europe is still in turmoil as a result of the "no" votes in France and the Netherlands on the European constitution. As expected, European leaders have turned inward as they struggle to look responsive to public discontent with their leadership. The debates at their June 16-17 summit r [...]	2005-06-17 10:37:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EUN NATO IQ USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS235	READOUT OF EU HIGHREP SOLANA'S TRIP TO MIDDLE EAST [...] (C) SUMMARY. EU Middle East Envoy Marc Otte told USEU that, as a result of his January 9-13 trip to the region, EU High Rep Solana sees possibilities and opportunities for positive changes in the election of Mahmoud Abbas as the new leader of the Palestinian Authority. In particular, Solana [...]	2005-01-19 17:10:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL PGOV PTER EAID IS EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS2403	EU LEADERS NOTE JHA ACTION PLAN, LIST [...] EU leaders in the June 16-17 European Council endorsed without discussion the draft conclusions put forward by the Luxembourg Presidency in the area of "Freedom, Security and Justice" (or Justice and Home Affairs, JHA). The conclusions basically note the adoption by the June 2 JHA Council (R [...]	2005-06-22 08:51:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PREF PTER CMGT CVIS KCRM LY EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS2418	CENTRAL DUBLIN GROUP MEETING: JUNE 2005 [...] Summary. During its June 21 meeting, the members of the Central Dublin Group (DG) reviewed regional reports from South-East Asia (submitted by Australia),South-West Asia (U.K.),Central Asia (Italy),Balkans and Near East (Greece),and Eastern Europe (Germany). The Group adopted most of the [...]	2005-06-23 13:07:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID KCRM PREL SNAR EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS2419	BARROSO CALLS FOR EU BUDGET COMPROMISE; [...] European Commission President Barroso on June 22 said the EU could face "paralysis" unless its budget quarrel was settled quickly. Barroso said a clause permitting review of the budget situation in 2008 might break the deadlock. He cautioned against "explicitly" linking farm spending and th [...]	2005-06-23 13:36:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL EFIN TU EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS2440	Juncker, Blair Debate EU Future [...] SUMMARY: Outgoing EU Presidency Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker of Luxembourg and incoming Presidency Prime Minister Tony Blair of the UK outlined different visions for Europe and perceptions of the "European crisis" during speeches before the European Parliament on June 22-23. Juncker bl [...]	2005-06-27 10:40:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV EFIN UK LU EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS2455	ASSISTANT SECRETARY WELCH AND FRENCH DIRECTOR [...] (S) SUMMARY: During a June 21 meeting in Brussels, NEA Assistant Secretary David Welch and French MFA Middle East/North Africa Director Jean-Francois Thibault welcomed the excellent U.S.-France cooperation on Lebanon and agreed that close coordination would remain critical as the new governmen [...]	2005-06-27 14:20:00	Embassy Brussels	SECRET	PREL PTER SY XF LE FR USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS2464	THE EU AT 25: DOES IT WORK? [...] (C) Despite arguments in some quarters that an EU of 25 members could not work without the streamlined Council decision-making procedures of the proposed EU Constitutional Treaty, we do not believe that EU enlargement has led to EU gridlock. Over one year after enlargement, the expansion of t [...]	2005-06-28 08:49:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID ETRD CMGT EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS2469	EUROPEAN COMMISSION FUNDING PROCESS FOR [...] Summary. The European Commission (EC) identifies only six million euros annually for counter-narcotics programs, although other funds come from country or region-specific allocations in high-risk areas. Although changes are proposed for the structure and size of the European Commission assi [...]	2005-06-28 11:06:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID KCRM SNAR EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS2470	EU ON U.S. PRIORITIES FOR UN REFORM [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 24, we delivered ref (A) demarche to Paulo Oliveira, Principal UN Desk Officer at the EU Council Secretariat. Oliveira's preliminary impression was that the SIPDIS U.S. points illustrated continued broad U.S.-EU agreement on the importance and main priorities of UN refo [...]	2005-06-28 11:08:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KUNR PGOV AORC UNSC EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS2481	EU DEBATING VENEZUELA POLICY [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 27, we delivered ref (A) demarche to Nicolas Pascual de la Parte (STRICTLY PROTECT),EU HighRep Javier Solana,s Adviser on Latin America. Pascual said that EU member states were now debating whether and how to engage or isolate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. He predict [...]	2005-06-29 08:56:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EPET VE EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS25	EU/ARMS EXPORTS/CHINA: 2003 REPORT SHOWS INCREASED [...] On December 21 the EU released its 6th Annual Report on the Code of Conduct for arms exports, covering CY 2003. The report, compiled each year by the COARM (conventional arms exports) working group of Member State licensing authorities, covers the value and quantity of export licenses issued [...]	2005-01-04 11:33:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS PARM ETTC PREL CH EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS2607	EU LUKEWARM ON IDEA OF MOLDOVA CONFERENCE [...] (C) Summary. The initial EU response to reftel demarche is lukewarm, although member states will need to be consulted for an official response. The EU will likely be most supportive of a conference whose participants include at least Russia and, ideally, Transnistria as well. The EU sugge [...]	2005-07-08 15:08:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM PBTS PHUM PGOV MD EUN OSCE USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS2610	CIVCOM: ITS PRIORITIES AND CHALLENGES [...] (C) Summary: A June 29 meeting between USEU officials and a group of counselors from the EU Committee for Civilian Aspects of Crisis Management (CIVCOM) clarified the role that the committee plays within the ESDP structure and the challenges it faces inside and outside the EU. A relatively ne [...]	2005-07-08 15:39:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SOCI MOPS EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS2641	EU ATTENDANCE AT 60TH UNGA AND HLE [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-11 16:13:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC EAID OTRA OVIP PGOV PREL EUN UNGA USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS2642	CUTTING THROUGH THE NATO-EU KNOT [...] (U) This is a joint USEU-USNATO message. ----------- Summary ----------- 2. (C) It remains in the interest of the United States to continue to lead in NATO while building an ever-stronger partnership with the EU, notwithstanding recent tensions between the two organizations. Doing so is [...]	2005-07-11 16:22:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL NATO EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS2668	DRC ELECTIONS: INCREASED FUNDING AND MONUC SUPPORT [...] (SBU) Summary. At a July 11 conference to rally support for elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),donors pledged an additional 74 million euros to largely cover one of the critical funding gaps. However, UN Security Council (UNSC) agreement for the MONUC peacekeeping operation [...]	2005-07-13 12:33:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PREF PHUM MOPS CG EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS2674	EU CLAIMS NO CHANGE ON NEPAL POLICY [...] (C) SUMMARY: PolOff delivered reftel discussion points to interlocutors at the European Commission and Council and the UK Permrep on July 11. All said no "policy statement" on Nepal was being prepared, but the UK Presidency was preparing an informal "internal discussion paper" on Nepal for a [...]	2005-07-13 15:50:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PHUM EU USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS2688	EU TO SPEED UP COUNTER-TERRORISM MEASURES [...] EU Justice and Home Affairs Ministers, at their July 13 extraordinary meeting convened in response to the London attacks, were "absolutely determined" to speed up implementation measures in the EU Action Plan to combat terrorism. A four-page declaration gave new momentum to a detailed list o [...]	2005-07-14 14:13:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PTER CMGT CVIS KCRM PREF UK EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS2730	EC CONSIDERS FUNDING OPTIONS FOR AMIS [...] (C) Summary. Although the European Commission (EC) has reservations about expanding the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS IIe) beyond 7000 peacekeepers, it nonetheless is considering a third funding tranche from its Africa Peace Facility (APF). Even if the EC uses most of the APF balance, [...]	2005-07-19 04:53:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL MOPS SU EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS2735	GAERC: EU FMs ASK SYRIA TO PROMOTE REGIONAL [...] EU FM's in the July 18 GAERC urged Israel to exercise maximum self-restraint and the Palestinian Authority to take immediate and effective action against those involved in terrorist attacks. They called on Syria to take action to promote regional stability, including by supporting the legiti [...]	2005-07-19 14:07:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL SY LE IS IR IZ UZ ZI ID SU CH ZK EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS2739	CONNECTING THE EU TO ITS CITIZENS: MISSION [...] As the EU enters a "period of reflection" on its future, Commission Vice-President Margot Wallstrm, charged with communication strategy, will soon gain wider public exposure. She intends to press the Commission's case for the EU to draft a so-called "Plan D" - where D stands for dialogue, de [...]	2005-07-19 15:41:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL SCUL PROP EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS2748	A/S FRIED - EU POLITICAL DIRECTORS TROIKA, JULY [...] (C) Following a luncheon discussion with all 25 EU Political Directors on transatlantic relations, the EU's neighborhood policy, and the Middle East (reported septel) A/S Fried met with the EU "troika" led by UK Political Director Sawers, Council DG for CFSP Robert Cooper, and Commission RELEX [...]	2005-07-20 09:33:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PARM ZK IR EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS2802	US-EU JULY 20 TASK FORCE MEETING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At the July 20 US-EU Task Force meeting, both sides emphasized their commitment to implementing Summit declarations. An additional Task Force meeting was proposed to follow-up on the US EU Summit economic initiatives and other issues. EU officials reported progress on their pl [...]	2005-07-25 15:42:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD PHUM PREL UK EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS2822	DAS ROSEMARY DICARLO'S MEETINGS WITH EU OFFICIALS [...] (C) Summary. According to EU Council and Commission officials, there can be no "shortcut" to EU membership for the countries of the Western Balkans, although their European perspective remains the long-term goal. Kai Eide is "gloomy" and disappointed with what he has seen of the standards impl [...]	2005-07-26 15:02:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AL BK MK SR EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS2823	QUADRILATERAL ON BULGARIAN AND PALESTINIAN MEDICS [...] (C) Summary. UK, European Commission, Bulgarian, and U.S. representatives agreed on need to continue efforts to support humanitarian HIV/AID projects in Libya, while pressing Libya to release the Bulgarian and Palestinian medics, in order to set the stage for the private discussions necessar [...]	2005-07-27 04:44:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	BU EU LY PHUM PREL USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS283	EU/CHINA ARMS: TEXT OF DRAFT EU "TOOLBOX" FOR [...] (S) Poloff was given a confidential EU reporting cable containing the current draft of the not-yet-agreed EU "Toolbox" for post-embargo countries. Full text of the draft is in para 2. Council and Member State contacts report that the French are close to agreement on this draft, which has alr [...]	2005-01-21 17:26:00	Embassy Brussels	SECRET	ETTC PARM PREL CH EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS284	COORDINATOR FOR AFGHANISTAN QUINN MEETINGS WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY. On January 20, Coordinator for Afghanistan Ambassador Maureen Quinn and a joint State/Department of Defense team met with European Council Director General Robert Cooper and European Commission South Asia Head of Unit Julian Wilson. Cooper said he is markedly more optimistic ab [...]	2005-01-21 17:42:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SNAR EAID AF NATO USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS2840	EU RECEIVES DEFENSE DEPARTMENT REPORT ON CHINA [...] (SBU) On July 25 and 26, we delivered Reftel A points to Ana Ramirez, Principal Administrator for China and Southeast Asia at the European Council, and Henriette Geiger, China Desk Officer at the European Commission. Both expressed appreciation for the report and talking points. They pointed [...]	2005-07-27 15:30:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CH PARM PM PREL USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS2918	S/CRS DEEPENS EU CIVILIAN CRISIS RESPONSE CONTACTS [...] (SBU) Summary: On 25 July, staff from the Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization (S/CRS) met with various EU bodies dealing with civilian crisis management. Director of Planning Barbara Stephenson emphasized to the Committee for Civilian Aspects of Crisis Management ( [...]	2005-08-04 10:29:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MOPS FR EUN KCRS USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS2923	THE STRUCTURE AND PROGRESS OF THE EU'S CIV-MIL CELL [...] (C/NF) Summary: The EU has created a civilian-military cell designed to enhance its strategic and operational planning capabilities without detracting from NATO,s role as "the natural choice" for a military operation involving the European and American allies." Declared operational on 1 June [...]	2005-08-04 16:12:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL MOPS EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS3234	EU UNEMPLOYMENT AT 8.6 PERCENT [...] SUMMARY. The aggregate unemployment rate for the EU-25 recorded a marginal decrease to 8.6 percent in July 2005, according to data published by the EU Commission's Statistical Office (EUROSTAT) on September 1. The unemployment rate for the euro zone (the twelve EU countries participating in [...]	2005-09-02 15:04:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS3276	EU WILL NOT MEET SYRIA AT THE UNGA; WANTS TO KNOW [...] (S) SUMMARY. Syria has not yet approached the EU for possible meetings during the UNGA, but officials assure us they will send a unified position against high level meetings. END SUMMARY. Â [...]	2005-09-07 15:33:00	Embassy Brussels	SECRET	PGOV PREL PTER SY USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS3346	EU ELECTION TEAM LEADER DENOUNCES ETHIOPIA [...] (U) Summary. At a September 13 hearing of the European Parliament, the Chief Observer of the EU's election observation mission in Ethiopia, MEP Ana Gomes (Portuguese Socialist),condemned the GoE's handling of the redress process and related human rights abuses. She urged the international c [...]	2005-09-13 15:38:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM ET EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS3353	EUR PDAS VOLKER ENGAGES EU [...] (C) SUMMARY: In his September 7-8 EU-related meetings in Brussels, EUR PDAS Kurt Volker stressed the need for a pragmatic U.S.-EU partnership, based on our common values, to solve problems globally. With all of his interlocutors, he discussed the importance of working together to promote demo [...]	2005-09-14 08:01:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID VE CU EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS337	INFORMAL U.S.-EU MEETING ON JUSTICE AND HOME [...] Summary. At the Informal Meeting on Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) held February 13-14 in Luxembourg, the U.S. and EU reviewed outstanding issues and areas for further law enforcement, border security and counter terrorism cooperation during the coming six months. The U.S. presented to Euro [...]	2005-01-26 09:37:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	CPAS CVIS KCRM KJUS PREL SNAR EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS3444	IMPLICATIONS OF ECJ RULING FOR FIRST PILLAR [...] Summary. On September 12 the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg annulled the European Council's Framework Decision on the protection of the environment through criminal offenses (dated January 2003) because the decision was adopted outside the Community legislative framework. The [...]	2005-09-21 12:02:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM KJUS SNAR ENIV EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS3491	EU WILL ATTEND ASEAN REGIONAL FORUM ISG IN [...] EU Council official Ana Ramirez confirmed to us that she will attend the ASEAN Regional Forum Inter-sessional Support Group on Confidence Building Measures and Preventive Diplomacy in Honolulu October 17-19. Ramirez noted that one or two EU colleagues likely will accompany her. She will pro [...]	2005-09-23 15:28:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MARR XB EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS3534	EU-RUSSIA SUMMIT OCT 4: READMISSION AGREEMENT [...] (C) Summary. The major outcome of the October 4 EU-Russia London summit is likely to be a Readmission Accord committing Russia to take back failed asylum seekers and other irregular migrants. In exchange, the EU will ease visa requirements on diplomats and other categories of Russians. Unli [...]	2005-09-28 12:29:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR ECON EAIR RS EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS3558	EU FOREIGN MINISTERS TO FOCUS ON TURKEY, IRAN, [...] (C) EU FMs will meet in an extraordinary session the evening of October 2 to focus on Turkey. On October 3 EU foreign ministers will hold their scheduled meeting (GAERC) and will focus on strategy regarding Iran, decide whether current Croatian cooperation with the ICTY merits a start of acce [...]	2005-09-29 16:06:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL HR RS TU IZ IR EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS3561	CHILD PORN DATA BASE TO BE RAISED AT JHA [...] Summary. On September 15 the G-8 Lyon Law Enforcement Subgroup formally presented a report on the deployment of an International Child Sexual Exploitation Image Database (ICSE DB) to Interpol. The ICSE DB is intended to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of investigations by improving [...]	2005-09-30 10:20:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM KJUS EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS358	SOLANA'S REMARKS ON IRAQI ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary. Recent press reports that EU High Rep Solana predicted "disaster" if Iraqi Sunnis don't vote were inaccurate, we were assured by two reliable sources. Instead, we were told Solana said the exclusion of Sunnis from the political process following the vote would be a disaster, an [...]	2005-01-26 15:51:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPAO IZ EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS379	S/CRS ASSESSES THE EU'S CRISIS RESPONSE [...] (C/NF) Summary: The European Union has developed deployable capabilities in police monitoring and training, civil administration, rule of law, and civil protection. Under the European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP),there is an evolving capacity to do early warning of failed or failing st [...]	2005-01-27 13:52:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL MCAP MOPS EAID EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS4172	PDAS SHAPIRO FOCUSES ON ANDEAN REGION WITH EU [...] (C) SUMMARY: WHA PDAS Charles Shapiro's November 15 discussions with EU officials focused principally on Venezuela, Colombia and Bolivia. On Venezuela, the European Commission (EC) acknowledged that the EU observation mission to the December elections would have to take care not to be seen as [...]	2005-11-23 16:12:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM EAID VE CO BL EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS4202	AN INSIDE LOOK AT THE EUROPEAN DEFENSE AGENCY AND [...] (C) European Defense Agency (EDA) CEO Nick Witney argues the prescription for European defense capability shortfalls is to "spend money on the right stuff, spend more money together and pool efforts and resources." Europe has 10,000 main battle tanks, 23 separate shipyards (to the US's 6) and [...]	2005-11-29 13:10:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS4203	ESDP: THE EUROPEAN UNION'S FORCE REQUIREMENT [...] (C) A major European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) deliverable for the current UK Presidency was the Requirements Catalogue 2005 that was approved by the European Council on November 21. The catalogue lists military capabilities needed to execute the European Security Strategy and the He [...]	2005-11-29 13:15:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS4293	EU ON UPCOMING GAERC: AGREE WITH U.S. ON MOST [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to European Commission and Council Secretariat officials, the EU FMs will devote their informal session December 7 to internal EU budget negotiations that will likely carry over to the December 12 GAERC. Non-budget discussions December 12 will focus on the Balkans, in [...]	2005-12-05 17:44:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID IZ AF ZL EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS4294	COUNTER-TERRORISM: EU AGREES STRATEGY FOR [...] EU Justice and Home Affairs Ministers (JHA Council) on December 1 agreed on a "EU Strategy for Combating Radicalization and Recruitment to Terrorism," including by disrupting the activities of networks and "ensuring that voices of mainstream opinion prevail over those of extremism." The min [...]	2005-12-06 05:27:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PTER KCRM EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS4296	EU MOVES TOWARD LEGISLATION ON RETENTION [...] The UK Presidency in the December 2 meeting of EU Justice and Home Affairs ministers (JHA Council) secured a majority agreement on a compromise to approximate member states' legislation on the retention of telecom data. Ministers agreed to require the storage of traffic information for a mi [...]	2005-12-06 09:15:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PTER CMGT CVIS KCRM EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS4300	TRANSATLANTIC CONSULTATIONS ON AFRICA [...] (SBU) Summary. The October 19 transatlantic consultations on Africa included a variety of big picture themes -- the EU strategy for Africa, peacekeeping, development, political Islam and extremism, China in Africa -- as well as discussion about key political issues in the Great Lakes, Uganda, [...]	2005-12-06 11:07:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PGOV PHUM EAID MOPS XA EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS4315	DAS DICARLO AND EU DISCUSS W. BALKANS [...] (C) DAS Rosemary DiCarlo and Kosovo Desk Officer Black discussed the Western Balkans with the UK Presidency and EU officials at the U.S.-EU COWEB Troika meeting in Brussels November 29. DAS DiCarlo highlighted the EU accession process as a catalyst for reform in the region but noted that cou [...]	2005-12-07 07:59:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM EAID XH EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS4323	EU, OTHERS FRUSTRATED WITH IRAN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY EU, Swiss, and Australian participants took the lead at a Berne Process meeting on Iran on November 29 in Brussels, agreeing that Iran was stonewalling their bilateral human rights dialogues, but Norway was optimistic that its recent exchange might yield an invitation to Iran for [...]	2005-12-07 15:14:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PREL ECON EAID PINR XG XF EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS4333	EUROPEAN UNION EXERCISES BATTLEGROUP COMMAND AND [...] (C) Summary. The EU began an exercise November 22 to test the Command and Control procedures linking the "political level" in Brussels with a Framework Nation EU Operational Headquarters and with a deployable Force Headquarters in the case of an EU Battlegroup deployment. NATO International S [...]	2005-12-08 10:30:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS4342	BUILDING THE INTERNAL EUROPEAN DEFENSE MARKET: EU [...] (U) Summary. The European Union is taking steps to consolidate the European defense equipment market. The European Defense Agency has established a code of conduct for defense procurement, and the EU is developing plans to match US levels of investment in defense research and development. A nu [...]	2005-12-09 08:04:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS4515	DHS DEPUTY SECRETARY JACKSON'S MEETING WITH EU [...] (C) Summary: DHS Deputy Secretary Michael P. Jackson met with the EU's Counter-Terrorism Coordinator Gijs de Vries on December 7 and discussed a wide-ranging list of terrorism related topics. These issues included the status of the PNR litigation, the International Registered Traveler program [...]	2005-12-29 15:31:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SMIG PTER CVIS EAIR EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS4516	DHS DEPUTY SECRETARY JACKSON'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary. On December 7, DHS Deputy Secretary Michael P. Jackson met with the European Commission's (EC) Director General for Justice, Freedom and Security (JFS) Jonathan Faull and discussed a broad range of border security related issues. Topics included the pending decision on passenger [...]	2005-12-29 15:50:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SMIG KCRM CVIS EAIR PTER EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS478	SRI LANKA CO-CHAIRS MEET IN BRUSSELS, 01/25/2005 [...] SUMMARY: Co-chairs agreed on a press statement emphasizing a strong link between tsunami reconstruction process and building confidence to strengthen the peace process, but without a direct link to resumed peace negotiations. The Co-Chairs agreed on the need for enhanced donor coordination, b [...]	2005-02-02 14:08:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID PHUM CE USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS494	DEMARCHE TO EU COMMISSION: ANTI-TERRORISM [...] No summary [...]	2005-02-03 09:14:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OPDC PGOV PREL PTER SNAR ECON CO EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS517	EU CONSIDERING NEXT STEPS ON NEPAL [...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel points to the Michael Swann, Administrator for South Asia at the European Council, and European Commission Nepal Desk Officer Rensje Teerink. Teerink said the Nepalese ambassador to the EU called on Commission Deputy DG for External Relations Herve Jouanjean on Mon [...]	2005-02-03 16:40:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NP USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS537	EU GAME PLAN ON TURKEY AND NORTH CYPRUS [...] (C) Summary: A number of European Commission officials expressed concern to visiting EUR DAS Ambassador Kennedy on January 27 about the inability of the member states to free up the trade and financial assistance package to north Cyprus that the Council had approved in July 2004. They also wor [...]	2005-02-07 10:09:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL CY TU EAID EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS541	FEBRUARY 8 EU APPROVAL UNLIKELY: GEORGIA BMO [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on February 7 to key Solana adviser Kees van Rij (protect),Head of the EU Council Secretariat Policy Unit Task Force on the Caucasus, and Mario SIPDIS Mariani (protect),OSCE desk officer in the External Relations Directorate-General of the European Comm [...]	2005-02-07 13:07:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG EUN OSCE RU USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS543	S/CT POPE AND EU CT COORDINATOR DE VRIES REVIEW [...] Summary. Acting CT Coordinator William Pope met with EU CT Coordinator Gijs de Vries to review areas of current and potential future cooperation on terrorism. Asked by de Vries where EU Member States should invest more effort, Pope responded that Europeans should look carefully at their lega [...]	2005-02-07 14:52:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM KJUS PREL PTER USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS555	EU-CUBA: BACK TO FULL "CONSTRUCTIVE ENGAGEMENT?" [...] (C) SUMMARY: The EU's January 31 decision to suspend its June 2003 restrictive measures (ref B) against Cuba should "increase EU engagement with the Cuban opposition" according to EU HighRep Javier Solana's Adviser on Latin America (protect). It is difficult to see how that will actually pla [...]	2005-02-08 14:57:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM EAID CU EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS584	EC GREEN LINE LIBERALIZATION GAME PLAN FOR CYPRUS [...] (C) Summary: Commission officials are pleased they negotiated a preliminary agreement on February 4 with the Cypriot Government to liberalize some green line commerce in Cyprus. The EC is also pleased that Luxembourg, as the EU president, seems intent on quickly moving the agreement to Counci [...]	2005-02-10 12:59:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CY ETRD EAID EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS585	US/EU HUMAN RIGHTS CONSULTATIONS: PREPPING FOR CHR [...] (SBU) Summary: US and EU officials met in Brussels February 3 in regularly scheduled human rights consultations (COHOM) to prepare for the spring UN Commission on Human Rights (CHR),and to review the human rights situation in China and Iran. Also discussed were the Global War on Terrorism (GW [...]	2005-02-10 13:04:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PHUM UNHRC EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS614	BIOMETRICS: EU TECHNICAL STANDARDS FOR PASSPORTS [...] (SBU) Summary. The EU is set to approve a decision on technical standards related to biometrics in travel documents by the end of February. From that point, EU Member States will have 18 months to begin issuing passports that contain digitized photographs on contactless chips. A separate d [...]	2005-02-11 11:51:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CPAS CVIS CMGT PREL SMIG KCRM KFRD EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS638	SCENESETTER FOR VISIT TO BRUSSELS OF ONDCP [...] (SBU) Summary. Your visit to Brussels comes at an important juncture in U.S.-EU relations. The transatlantic dialogue has been given a dramatic boost from the recent visit of Secretary of State Rice. Her meetings with the EU have laid the foundation for the upcoming visit of President Bus [...]	2005-02-14 16:00:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM OTRA SNAR EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS643	EU WILL RAISE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO THE [...] No summary [...]	2005-02-15 11:01:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAL KWBG EAID ECON EFIN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS666	EU COMMISSION PROPOSES "NEW SOCIAL AGENDA" [...] The EU Commission on February 10 adopted the "New Social Agenda," designed as a framework for EU policy in the area of employment and social issues for the next five years. Further to reftel request, the blueprint outlines the priority concerns of Commissioner Spidla, who holds responsibilit [...]	2005-02-15 16:13:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS672	DEMARCHE RESPONSE: SOMALIA IGAD PEACE SUPPORT [...] (C) Summary: The EU is concerned about the possibility of an outbreak of violence in Somalia in the event of an IGAD deployment. They are also worried that IGAD lacks the capacity to plan or run a peacekeeping operation. End summary. 2. (C) On February 11, PRMOFF delivered reftel talking po [...]	2005-02-16 06:44:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL SO EUN USEU BRUSSELS

05BRUSSELS676	MANDATE FOR COMMISSIONER'S NEW CYPRUS ADVISOR [...] (C) We contacted Jean-Christophe Filori, Commissioner Rehn's Cabinet advisor on Turkey and Cyprus, regarding the mandate of Jaako Blomberg, the Commissioner's new "Special Advisor" on Cyprus. Filori (protect) told us Blomberg's immediate responsibility will be to pressure the Cypriots to en [...]	2005-02-16 10:48:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL CY TU EUN USEU BRUSSELS

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