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06BRIDGETOWN890	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO HALLDORSON, BACHMAN, [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to U.S. Treasury Advisors Marvin Halldorson, Shirley Bachman, and Rickey Hector for travel to Antigua and Barbuda June 4-30. Mr. Halldorson departs June 24. The Treasury Advisors will conduct a Gaming Course Phase I and Internet Gaming workshop [...]	2006-05-23 19:22:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN OTRA AC XL

06BRIDGETOWN891	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO COTTER FOR TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Offical, Office of International Affairs (OIA) Patrick Cotter to travel to Antigua and Barbuda from June 3-10, 2006. Mr. Cotter will attend the Third Caribbean Environmental Forum and Exhibition in colla [...]	2006-05-24 19:04:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR AC XL
06BRIDGETOWN896	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO NOAA EMPLOYEES FOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) employees Jeffrey Breiwick, Robert Rownell, Phillip Clapham, Megan Dohahue, Douglas Demaster, Peggy Krahn, Rick Leduc, Da [...]	2006-05-25 19:21:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	TPHY EFIS OTRA AMGT KSCA SC XL
06BRIDGETOWN899	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO HAMILTON TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to Mr. O'Neil Hamilton to travel to Antigua for the period May 30 to June 2, 2006 and to Dominica June 6-10, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to conduct four Public Outreach 101 training workshops. 2. Understand Embassy assistance is not requir [...]	2006-05-25 19:37:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC EAID OTRA AC DO XL
06BRIDGETOWN906	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO BERNARD LINK FOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Bernard E. Link, Regional Environmental Officer, for travel to Antigua and Barbuda June 4-10, 2006. Mr. Link will participate in the Third Caribbean Environmental Forum and Exhibition in collaboration with the 12th Annual Wider Caribbean Was [...]	2006-05-26 15:32:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV OTRA AC XL
06BRIDGETOWN910	CLOCK TICKING (LOUDLY) ON CARIBBEAN IMMIGRATION [...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 10. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Following the second ad hoc CARICOM Attorneys General meeting in Jamaica (Reftel A),Barbados Deputy Prime Minister Mottley requested a meeting with Ambassador Kramer to discuss the urgency of getting USG commitment for [...]	2006-05-26 16:31:00	Embassy Bridgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CPAS PINR PREL PTER UNSC XL
06BRIDGETOWN911	BARBADOS/TRINIDAD MARITIME BOUNDARY DISPUTE: THE [...] (C) Summary: Barbados Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Permanent Secretary Teresa Marshall invited representatives from the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. to the MFA for a private briefing on the recently settled Barbados/Trinidad maritime boundary dispute. Marshall painted a picture of slipper [...]	2006-05-26 19:08:00	Embassy Bridgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS EPET EFIS PREL BB TT XL
06BRIDGETOWN913	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO RICHARD DAVIS FOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Richard Davis, Management and Program Analyst, Center for Disease Control (CDC),for travel to Antigua and Barbuda June 4-11, 2006. Mr. Davis will participate in the Third Caribbean Environmental Forum and Exhibition and will present the PAH [...]	2006-05-26 20:09:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV OTRA KSCA AC XL
06BRIDGETOWN924	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO KRUSE AND HILLARY FOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Ocean Service employees Edward Kruse and Anne Hillary. Mr. Kruse will visit Antigua and Barbuda June 5-9, to meet with the Caribbean Health Institute and government representatives on [...]	2006-05-30 18:22:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA AC ST XL
06BRIDGETOWN936	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO CIOMPERLIK FOR TRAVEL [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants clearance to Michael Ciomperlik, Entomologist, Plant Protection and Quarantine Service, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture for travel to Barbados July 13-21, 2006, and September 24-October 7, 2006. Mr. Ciompe [...]	2006-05-31 21:09:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA EAGR BB XL
06BRIDGETOWN937	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO WACKOWSKI AND [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Stephen Wackowski, Professional Staff Member, Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee (SCOM) for travel to St. Kitts and Nevis June 14-21, 2006. Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Todd Bertoson, Senator Ted Ste [...]	2006-05-31 21:10:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA OREP AFIN SC XL
06BRIDGETOWN94	ATA: 5501- ILEA LATIN AMERICA COMBATING [...] Per reftel, the following is the travel itinerary for the Barbados Delegation Members attending ATA 5501 ILEA Conference: DP Bridgetown 01/22/06 AA946 0739hrs AR Miami 01/22/06 1040hrs DP Miami 01/22/06 AA2119 1832hrs AR San Salvador 01/ [...]	2006-01-13 20:41:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC BB
06BRIDGETOWN944	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO HURR AND VON GIEJER [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Representative Allan Hurr and TSA Senior Aviation Security Inspector Dan Von Giejer for travel to St. Kitts and Nevis June 5-9, 2006. The travelers will assess security conditions and inspect the [...]	2006-06-01 20:31:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR OTRA SC XL
06BRIDGETOWN950	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: BENEFICIARIES OF CBTPA [...] Per reftel instructions, talking points were delivered via fax under cover of Diplomatic Notes (Antigua #685, Barbados #686, Dominica #687, St. Kitts #688, St. Lucia #689, St. Vincent #690, and Grenada #691) on June 1, 2006. The original Diplomatic Notes were mailed on June 2, 2006. 2. P [...]	2006-06-02 18:18:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD WTRO XL
06BRIDGETOWN951	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO MCLANAHAN AND ALLAN [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Officials Elizabeth McLanahan, International Affairs Specialist, and Heather Allan, International Affairs Fellow, for travel to Antigua and Barbuda June 5-7, 2006. Travelers will attend [...]	2006-06-02 18:18:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SENV AC XL
06BRIDGETOWN952	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO OLTMANS AND JOHNSON [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants clearance to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Officials Samuel J. Oltmans, Physicist, and Bryan J. Johnson, Chemist, for travel to Barbados June 25-30, 2006. Travelers will set up a surface ozone monitoring site and balloon oz [...]	2006-06-02 18:18:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA TPHY SENV BB XL
06BRIDGETOWN953	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO LISA ANDREWS FOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Lisa Andrews, National Park Service, Outdoor/Educational Specialist, Big Cypress National Preserve, for travel to Grenada June 19 - July 1, 2006. Ms. Andrews will provide technical assistance to the Grenada Park Flight Project on behalf of t [...]	2006-06-02 18:19:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA TPHY SCUL SENV KSCA GJ XL
06BRIDGETOWN963	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO U.S. IWC DELEGATION [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to members of the U.S. International Whaling Commission (IWC) Delegation for travel to St. Kitts and Nevis. Members of the delegation will begin arriving on/about June 7, and will depart o/a June 22. The delegation will attend the 58th Annual [...]	2006-06-07 14:26:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL OTRA ETRD SENV EFIS KSCA SC XL
06BRIDGETOWN964	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR JONATHAN [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for Mr. Jonathan Schofield, Special Agent, to travel to Barbados June 10-15, 2006. 2. Understand Embassy assistance is not required. If you have any questions, please contact Rebecca Rohrer at Tel.(246)228-8070 or Fax. (246) 228-8589. 3. Ent [...]	2006-06-07 14:45:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC EAID OTRA BB
06BRIDGETOWN965	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MICHAEL MAURY [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for Mr. Michael Maury Cassell, Health Development Officer, USAID, to travel to Barbados July 12-21, 2006. 2. Hotel reservations have been made at the Coral Sands Hotel, Worthing, Christ Church, Tel (246)-435- 6617. Your confirmation number is [...]	2006-06-07 15:23:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC EAID OTRA BB
06BRIDGETOWN966	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR KAREN D. TURNER [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for Ms. Karen D. Turner, USAID/J-Cars Mission Director to travel to St. Kitts on/about June 20-22, 2006. 2. Understand Embassy assistance is not required. If you have any questions, please contact Rebecca Rohrer at Tel.(246)228-8070 or Fax. (246) [...]	2006-06-07 15:25:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC OTRA BB EAID
06BRIDGETOWN968	THE WINDIES - SPOT REPORTS FROM THE EASTERN [...] (U) Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer traveled to Tokyo in May to meet Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and other officials. Accompanied by Antigua Minister for Tourism Harold Lovell and the country's new Ambassador to Japan and representative to the International Wh [...]	2006-06-07 19:16:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID EFIN PGOV PREL OFDP OVIP SENV JA XL
06BRIDGETOWN97	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO LISA FITZPATRICK [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to Lisa Fitzpatrick, CDC Global AIDS program to travel to Barbados on January 18-19, 2006 to participate in CHART/I-TECH nursing working group meeting. 2. Understand Embassy assistance is not required. If you have any questions, please contact Se [...]	2006-01-17 16:48:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC OTRA BB EAID
06BRIDGETOWN978	CUBAN-EASTERN CARIBBEAN LOVE AFFAIR CONTINUES [...] (SBU) Summary: Cuba and the Eastern Caribbean continued their very public romance in May. The St. Lucia Prime Minister traveled to Havana and returned with a pledge from Cuba to train 300 St. Lucian nurses, while his Government praised the "wonders" of Cuba's eye care assistance program. Dom [...]	2006-06-08 18:38:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL EAID CU XL
06BRIDGETOWN979	FREEDOM OF THE PRESS THREATENED IN THE EASTERN [...] (C/NOFORN) Summary: Freedom of the press is threatened in the Eastern Caribbean by governments that are increasingly intolerant of criticism. Government officials in several countries have threatened to impose legal standards upon what they complain is an unrestrained media that engages in li [...]	2006-06-08 18:40:00	Embassy Bridgetown	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI KDEM KPAO XL
06BRIDGETOWN992	EASTERN CARIBBEAN DELAYS ENTERING CARICOM SINGLE [...] (SBU) Summary: CARICOM's delay in setting up a special fund for less developed countries threatens to further postpone the entry of the small nations of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) into the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME). The OECS members made the establishm [...]	2006-06-09 19:49:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECIN ETRD EAID PGOV PREL XL
06BRIDGETOWN993	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO WHALEY FOR TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to David Whaley, Professional Staff Member, House Resources Committee (HRESO),for travel to St. Kitts and Nevis from June 15-21, 2006. Mr. Whaley will attend the International Whaling Commission's 58th Annual Meeting as part of the U.S. Deleg [...]	2006-06-09 20:50:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN OTRA SC XL
06BRIDGETOWN994	STAFFING DATA REQUEST [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-09 21:02:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC APER ECON BB XL
06BRIDGETOWN997	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO USPS AND DOS [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Dennis Delehanty, Director of Postal Affairs, Bureau of International Organizations, U.S. Dept. of State; Michael Regan, Director, International Postal Affairs, U.S. Postal Service; Brian Hutchins, International Postal Affairs Specialist, U.S [...]	2006-06-09 21:24:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA AORC VC XL
06BRIDGETOWN998	BARBADOS RESCUE SERVICES PREPARE FOR CRICKET [...] According to a June 9 article in the Barbados daily newspaper, The Nation, on June 6, 2006, members of the National Conservation Commission (NCC),Barbados Police Force, Ambulance Service, and Coast Guard, under the direction of the national disaster preparedness agency, participated in a sea [...]	2006-06-12 12:04:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC KPAO BB
06BRUSSELS1022	Belgium's Newest Anti-Terrorism Tool [...] (SBU) The Belgian House of Representatives has approved the creation of a new tool for combatting terrorism, the "Coordination Agency for Analyzing Threats" also known as "OCAM" (or "OCAD" in Dutch). The decision follows about eighteen months of debate; the Senate's pro forma approval is expe [...]	2006-03-24 07:59:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	BE PGOV PTER
06BRUSSELS1028	TEST [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-24 13:27:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	ACOA
06BRUSSELS1075	EU STILL DEBATING FOLLOW-UP TO IRAQ TRAINING [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to EU interlocutors, the EU is still deliberating on an extension of the EUJUST LEX training mission (for Iraqi police, justice and prison officials),which expires on June 30. While the EU Council Director for Civilian Crisis Management said EU activities would probabl [...]	2006-03-29 11:54:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM EAID IR EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS1083	TURKS PROVIDE INFORMATION ON PKK ACTIVITIES IN [...] (S) The Turkish Embassy in Brussels presented Embassy a package March 23 containing two DVD's of recordings of various broadcasts of ROJ TV, as well as their texts translated in English. The recordings cover the period from August 29 through October 11, 2005, and January 3 through February 9 [...]	2006-03-29 14:48:00	Embassy Brussels	SECRET	PREL PTER BE TU
06BRUSSELS1095	BELGIAN STEWPOT: March 17, 2006 [...] (U) Although Belgium has one of the highest per capita income levels of the EU ($35,749 in 2005),Belgian households still struggle to balance their budgets, due to high prices for some basics. Electricity prices, for example, are near 30 percent above those of France. A recent survey compa [...]	2006-03-30 13:07:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV EWWT EAIR BE
06BRUSSELS1098	TREASURY OFFICIALS MEET WITH BELGIAN AND EU [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a March 14 meeting at the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),Treasury Assistant Secretary (A/S) for Terrorism Financing Patrick O'Brien met SIPDIS with Belgian officials to explain the U.S. process to designate financiers of terrorists or terror groups. O'Brien's [...]	2006-03-30 15:34:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	KTFN EFIN PTER PREL PGOV BE EU
06BRUSSELS1128	CENTRAL ASIA: LOOKING FOR WAYS TO ADD SUBSTANCE TO [...] (C) Summary: Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan are both trying to add "more substance" to their respective relationships with the EU by broaching the idea of extending the European Neighborhood Policy (ENP) to their countries. Kyrgyzstan plans to propose a draft Action Plan, similar to those the EU n [...]	2006-04-03 09:55:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ZK EAID ENRG EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS1133	GEORGIAN EXPECTATIONS FOR ITS ACTION PLAN [...] (C) Summary: According to Georgian Mission to the EU, Georgia wants several deliverables out of negotiations with the EU on its European Neighborhood Policy (ENP) Action Plan. First, Georgia wants its Action Plan to be a three-year document rather than a five-year document; the EU is currentl [...]	2006-04-03 13:28:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG ETRD GG EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS1153	EU OFFICIALS PREVIEW MAY 24 EU-RUSSIA SUMMIT FOR [...] (C) Summary: In meetings March 23 with visiting EUR/RUS Director Warlick, EU officials said their overall expectations for the May 24 EU-Russia Summit are low. The sides will begin discussions/negotiations on a successor framework document to replace the existing EU-Russia Partnership and Coo [...]	2006-04-04 15:55:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL RS XH EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS1154	EUR/RUS DIRECTOR WARLICK DISCUSSES ENERGY [...] (C) Summary: The European Commission has three main priorities with Russia on energy: 1) Russian ratification of the Energy Charter Treaty; 2) third-party access to Russian pipelines and; 3) a reduction in state interference in the oil and gas sector. On Belarus, Russian officials have told t [...]	2006-04-04 16:06:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ENRG EPET RS XH EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS1165	BOSNIA WAR CRIMES CHAMBER CONFERENCE: 9.25 [...] (SBU) A March 31 conference in Brussels on the Bosnia judicial system raised 9.25 million euros for the War Crimes Chamber (WCC) for 2007-09. BiH PM Terzic and BiH finance and justice ministers presented the case for additional funding needs and noted that the cost of trying cases in BiH's sy [...]	2006-04-05 14:23:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EAID PHUM BK EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS1166	BURMA'S HUMANITARIAN SITUATION DETERIORATING: EU [...] (SBU) Summary. The 2006 Burma/Myanmar Forum, sponsored by the European Institute for Asian Studies (EIAS),focused on the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Burma. NGOs, international organizations, academics and government officials outlined the reasons for increased displacement in 20 [...]	2006-04-05 16:15:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PHUM PREL EAID BM TH EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS1175	HAMAS LIKELY TO DOMINATE MEETING OF EU FOREIGN [...] (C) Judith Gebetsroithner, an advisor to External Relations Commission Ferrero-Waldner, told us April 6 that discussion of Hamas would likely be the main issue for EU Foreign Ministers to tackle at their monthly meeting (GAERC) in Luxembourg April 10. Gebetsroithner noted that member states [...]	2006-04-06 15:35:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID PHUM KPAL BO UP XF EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS1227	RESPONSE TO EC COMMENTS AT 2006 BURMA/MYANMAR FORUM [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-12 11:29:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	BM EAID EU PHUM PREF PREL BE
06BRUSSELS1435	EU JHA COUNCIL FOCUSES ON VISA FEES, [...] EU Justice and Home Affairs Ministers (JHA Council) on April 27 agreed to raise the price of Schengen visas from EUR 35 to 60, while allowing for more favorable treatment of EU neighbors. "Countries with a European perspective" are eligible for reduced rates if they sign readmission agreement [...]	2006-04-28 14:25:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS PREL PREF SMIG EAID KCRM EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS1452	EU COUNCIL AGREES ON "ROME II" REGULATION [...] EU Justice and Home Affairs Ministers (JHA Council) on April 28 agreed on rules intended to ensure that courts in all EU member states apply the same law in the event of cross-border disputes on non-contractual obligations (Rome II). The Council also reached consensus on a Framework Decision [...]	2006-05-02 15:23:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PTER KJUS EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS1502	COMMISSION OFFICIAL: BULGARIA AND ROMANIA LIKELY [...] (C) European Commission Unit Head for Bulgaria and Romania Timo Summa told us May 3 that Bulgaria and Romania will almost certainly join the EU in 2007, as 2008 "is no longer an option politically." Summa noted that the Commission likely will recommend safeguards for each country. The EU h [...]	2006-05-04 16:10:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BU RO EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS1512	(C) BELGIANS CONCERNED ABOUT DETAINED IRANIAN [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-05 15:38:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL IR BE AU CA
06BRUSSELS1521	BELGIUM: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL - CANDIDACY OF [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-08 09:32:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	KUNR PHUM UNHRC PREL BE
06BRUSSELS1569	BELGIAN STEWPOT: May 8, 2006 [...] Advice for Belgian Investors Facing Iran Uncertainty 2-3. Belgian firms Seek Profit Overseas 4-6. Belgian workers more productive, but more expensive 7. Turning the Black Economy White 8. Rich Belgium Still has Poverty 9. Flemish Trade Balance in the Red 10. Self Check-Out Arrive [...]	2006-05-10 12:43:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV EWWT EAIR BE
06BRUSSELS1585	APPROACHING BELGIUM ON PKK TERRORISM [...] (S) SUMMARY: Post has worked to push appropriate Belgian ministries, including MFA, Justice, and Interior, on increasing action against Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) activities in Belgium. The Belgians want to do more and have told us that, in addition to information, increased dialogue wou [...]	2006-05-11 14:32:00	Embassy Brussels	SECRET	PTER PREL BE TU
06BRUSSELS1637	Belgium's Environmental Management: The [...] (U) Summary. In contrast with government rhetoric touting commitment to a clean environment, Belgium's environmental management ranks poorly among EU member states. The country's geography, linguistic divisions, and complex political structure contribute to a difficult environmental policym [...]	2006-05-16 16:50:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EINV BE
06BRUSSELS1653	DEMARCHE FOLLOWUP: BRIEFING CAPITALS ON U.S. [...] (C) Poloff met with Charles Delogne, MFA Adviser on the Balkans, to get additional information on Belgian views regarding U.S. policy on Kosovo status (refs A and B). Delogne had accompanied Belgian FM De Gucht to the Balkans in April as part of De Gucht's role as 2006 OSCE Chairman-in-Office [...]	2006-05-17 16:19:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL YI EU BE
06BRUSSELS1670	ETHNIC TENSIONS AND VIOLENCE ROIL BELGIUM [...] Summary: Simmering ethnic and religious tensions have recently come to the surface of Belgian political and social life through a spate of racially motivated attacks and the occupation of approximately 25 churches by asylum seekers in Antwerp, Brussels, and Namur. While it is not possible to [...]	2006-05-18 16:14:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KCRM SOCI BE
06BRUSSELS1876	BELGIAN STEWPOT: June 6, 2006 [...] Introduction 2. Upbeat Forecast from Planning Office 3. Belgian Savings Rate Drops 4. Big Future for Walloon Airports 5. Antwerp Port Container Traffic Booming 6. Belgian Competitiveness Weakening 7-8. American Financial Router Expanding 9. WANTED: Pan-European Pension Fu [...]	2006-06-07 12:29:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV EWWT EAIR TBIO BE
06BRUSSELS1889	CAPTION USAGE [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-07 15:50:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	AADP
06BRUSSELS1890	CAPTION USAGE [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-07 15:51:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	AADP
06BRUSSELS19	INTRODUCING THE EU VI: EVER-WIDER UNION: [...] Enlargement is one of the EU's "most successful policies" and "a powerful foreign policy tool" for extending a zone of peace and democracy across the European continent. The conditions for joining and the various stages of the accession process, as outlined below, allow for little flexibilit [...]	2006-01-04 15:27:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV EAID EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS2199	BELGIAN STEWPOT: June 26, 2006 [...] (U) In May, EU Information Society Commissioner Viviane Reding levied a general criticism at European countries for lagging behind on implementing fast new technologies. The commissioner lamented Europe's slow take-up of new high-speed communications technologies such as broadband internet, te [...]	2006-06-27 13:10:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV EAID EWWT EAIR BE
06BRUSSELS2203	BELGIUM: 2005/2006 REPORT TO CONGRESS ON ALLIED [...] SUMMARY: Belgium continues to provide important contributions to the common Transatlantic defense, by assisting resident and transiting U.S. forces and with its own forces supporting stability in Afghanistan, the Balkans and the Congo. The Belgian military is hobbled by an aging force structur [...]	2006-06-27 16:42:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MCAP MOPS PREL BE
06BRUSSELS2249	BELGIUM RECONSIDERS RENOUNCING NUCLEAR POWER [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. The recent release of a political party-sponsored study of Belgium's nuclear energy options, combined with our analysis of views expressed more privately by Belgian government officials indicate that serious thought is being given to Belgium's future energy options. Opinion di [...]	2006-06-30 10:18:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ENRG SENV PREL BE
06BRUSSELS2463	PM: BELGIUM CAN DO MORE ON AFGHANISTAN, WANTS HELP [...] (C) SUMMARY: PM Verhofstadt told Ambassador Korologos July 20 that he was trying to secure coalition approval to "double" the Belgian troop contribution to Afghanistan, adding some 200 troops around Kabul. In principle, he accepted the need for NATO common funding, but that NATO's budgeting n [...]	2006-07-14 12:48:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PARM MCAP MOPS KNNP AF CG IR BE
06BRUSSELS2466	PRAGUE EL CONFERENCE REGISTRATION [...] (U) REQUESTED INFORMATION FOR JOSEPH COSTANTINO, PARTICIPANT FROM AMEMBASSY BRUSSELS. NAME: JOSEPH L COSTANTINO TITLE: INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST DOB: 08/17/1955 PASSPORT NUMBER: 900482362 SECURITY CLEARANCE LEVEL: TS ARRIVAL: JOSEPH COSTANTINO: 6 SEPTEMBER PAULA AND FRANCESCA C [...]	2006-07-14 13:39:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT PREL
06BRUSSELS2470	REQUEST RAN FOR FAILED RADIO [...] (U) REQUEST A RAN FOR REPAIR/REPLACEMENT AND RETURN OF A RADIO. BELOW IS PRODUCT INFORMATION: DESCRIPTION: SPECTRA BAR CODE: W1009913 MODEL: T99DX+149W_ASTRO ID/N: T04QLH9PW3AN S/N: 412AZE0640 2. (U) POST POC IS IMS JOE COSTANTINO AT +32 2 508 2034 OR COSTANTINOJL@STATE.GOV 3. (U) Sy [...]	2006-07-14 15:11:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	ACOA AMTC KRIM
06BRUSSELS2476	BELGIAN RESPONSE TO THE DEMARCHE ON THE JULY 17 [...] (c) Poloff met with FM Michel Tilemans. Ref A GAERC points shared, but Tilemans interest went straight to Lebanon/Hizballah points. He said De Gucht will be speaking on this issue at the GAERC but wouldn't give specifics when pressed. This will be Belgian focus for EU, since they were heavi [...]	2006-07-14 16:58:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	BE KPAL LE PREL
06BRUSSELS2502	BELGIAN DEVELOPMENT MINISTER OUTLINES IDEAS TO [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: During Ambassador's July 13 meeting with Belgian Federal Minister of Cooperation and Development Armand De Decker the following topics were discussed: Afghanistan, Iraq, U.S. aid, and the upcoming elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DROC). Th [...]	2006-07-18 05:37:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EAID PGOV MOPS PREL KBIO BE CG AF SO IZ
06BRUSSELS2520	BELGIAN RESPONSE TO COMMISSION FOR ASSISTANCE FOR [...] Poloff Cunningham met with MFA Latin America DeskOff Christiaan Vandriessche and provided demarhce and information on CAFC. Poloff explained the Commission as proactive and transparent approach to preparing for inevitable transition to take place in Cuba after Castro. Vandriessche acknowledg [...]	2006-07-19 08:00:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	BE PGOV PHUM PREL
06BRUSSELS2521	BELGIANS SHOW RESERVED SUPPORT OF GUATEMALA ON UNSC [...] Poloff presented reftel demarche and discussed furthering support for Guatemala's bid to the UNSC with Belgian UN Directorate Rudi Brieven. Breiven, who served at the Belgian Mission to the U.N. his last post, expressed Belgium's desire to see Guatemala win the bid. He felt the campaign would [...]	2006-07-19 08:02:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL BE
06BRUSSELS2538	SPECIAL ENVOY ARRIVES FOR OSCEPA, MEETS JEWISH [...] Dr. Gregg Rickman, the DoS Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat anti-Semitism, made an introductory visit to Brussels. Rickman participated in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Cooperation and Security in Europe (OSCEPA). He lobbied in support of a draft resolution principally [...]	2006-07-20 07:44:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	OSCE PHUM PREL BE
06BRUSSELS2543	FIREWORKS AT OSCE ELECTION MONITORING CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Belgian OSCE Chairmanship focused its attention on election monitoring at a conference in Brussels on July 12. The technical theme was the need for continued strict adherence to observation guidelines when monitoring. The political message was that ODIHR remains the most co [...]	2006-07-20 10:27:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	BE OSCE PHUM PREL
06BRUSSELS2603	BELGIAN RESPONSE TO P5+1 INCENTIVE PACKAGE FOR IRAN [...] (SBU) Summary. In response to reftel, Belgian MFA Nonproliferation chief Werner Bauwens believed the Iranians would accept the P5 1 proposal as a basis of negotiation in mid-late August, and at the same time voluntarily suspend an unspecified degree of enrichment activities. He also believes [...]	2006-07-27 09:06:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KNNP PARM PREL AORC
06BRUSSELS2606	BELGIAN RESPONSE TO P5+1 INCENTIVE PACKAGE FOR IRAN [...] (SBU) Summary. In response to reftel, Belgian MFA Nonproliferation chief Werner Bauwens believed the Iranians would accept the P5 1 proposal as a basis of negotiation in mid-late August, and at the same time voluntarily suspend an unspecified degree of enrichment activities. He also believes [...]	2006-07-27 13:50:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KNNP PARM PREL AORC
06BRUSSELS2647	BELGIAN COUNCIL OF MINISTERS FUND SEVERAL POSITIVE [...] (U) Summary. The Belgian Council of Ministers meeting held July 20 approved and provided budgetary allowances for several economic, political and military initiatives. Of particular interest were a C-130 for Afghanistan, a NATO mine clearing operation in the Baltics, and continued participatio [...]	2006-08-01 13:19:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	AF BE CG EAID EN KZ MARR MAS MOPS PBTS PGOV
06BRUSSELS2675	TFLE01: BELGIANS CONSIDER INVOLVEMENT IN MIDDLE [...] (U) Summary. Since the Qana raid, FM De Gucht called for an immediate cease-fire and offered Belgian military involvement in a stabilization force. On August 2, Charge clarified Belgian thinking and reviewed US ideas on the crisis. The Belgians think a UN PKO as the best option. On operations [...]	2006-08-03 12:25:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BE
06BRUSSELS2684	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: COORDINATING WESTERN SUPPORT [...] (U) We passed Reftel demarche to Belgian MFA Nonproliferation and Disarmament Chief Werner Bauwens July 24. Bauwens said that Belgium supports the U.S. position and hoped that discussion based on the draft could begin as soon as possible without conditions (as conditions have already been ass [...]	2006-08-04 07:53:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KNNP MNUC PARM PREL
06BRUSSELS2786	LEBANON ISSUE DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO BELGIANS [...] (U) Per reftel instructions, PolCouns discussed the then pending UNSCR on Lebanon with Belgian MFA Director for the Middle East Christian Monnoyer on August 12. Monnoyer appreciated our efforts to keep him informed. 2. (C) In a discussion the previous day, Monnoyer confirmed that "very the [...]	2006-08-14 12:40:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PTER MOPS
06BRUSSELS2788	ISRAELIS HOPE EARLY PROTEST WILL QUASH THREATENED [...] (C) Summary: A Belgian/Lebanese medical doctor has denied press reports he intended to file suit under the controversial universal competence law against Israeli leaders for the near destruction of his property in Lebanon. The Israeli embassy fears the doctor eventually may go ahead with a [...]	2006-08-14 14:00:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL MARR BE IS
06BRUSSELS2800	BELGIANS SAY THEY WILL SUPPORT UNIFIL, BUT NO [...] (C) For Belgium, all options were still on the table regarding participation in the new look UNIFIL. This was the only significant result of an August 16, 2006 planning meeting between representatives of the Prime Minister's office, the MFA, the Defense Ministry, and the Development Ministry. [...]	2006-08-16 13:43:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	MARR MOPS PREL BE
06BRUSSELS2845	MTCR DEMARCHE PRESENTED TO BELGIANS [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-22 13:23:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	MTCR PARM PREL ETTC KSCA BE
06BRUSSELS2925	DEMARCHE ON KAZAKHSTAN'S OSCE CHAIRMANSHIP BID [...] (C) Poloff met with Marc Michielsen, Policy Director for the MFA's OSCE Chairmanship Unit, to relay reftel points on Kazakhstan's 2009 OSCE Chairmanship bid. Michielsen said Belgium planned to "take the temperature" of EU nations on Kazakhstan's bid over the next couple of months. As CiO, B [...]	2006-08-29 14:48:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	KZ KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE BE
06BRUSSELS2926	BELGIAN STEWPOT: August 29, 2006 [...] (U) According to statistics issued in July by the Survey of Current Business, the value of the stock of U.S. Foreign Direct Investment in Belgium rose by over $6 billion in 2005. U.S. investment in Belgium reached $36.73 billion in value, ranking Belgium ninth within the EU-25. The increase [...]	2006-08-29 15:04:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV ENRG EWWT EIND BE
06BRUSSELS2961	UPDATED BRIEFING ON KOSOVO STATUS NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) Poloff met with Thomas Antoine, MFA Director for the Balkans, to provide an updated briefing on Kosovo status negotiations (reftel). Antoine expressed pessimism that a negotiated solution would be reached in 2006 while agreeing that every effort should be made to reach a settlement this [...]	2006-08-31 14:33:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UN UNMIK PGOV EU BE
06BRUSSELS2974	BELGIANS WILL URGE DELIVERY OF STRONG MESSAGE TO [...] (U) Belgian Foreign Minister De Gucht will urge the delivery of a strong message to the Iranians at the conclusion of the September 1 Gymnich in Finland. Despite some nervousness on the part of several EU members, De Gucht reportedly expects little difficulty in reaching agreement to follow [...]	2006-09-01 12:05:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP PARM PGOV PREL BE
06BRUSSELS2988	SN-BRUSSELS AIRLINES PLANS EXPANSION IN [...] (U) According to company representatives, SN Brusels Airlines (SNBA) is planning to expand it presence in Africa in the coming years. Eschwing larger airports such as Casablanca, Nairobi and Johannesburg, where other international airlines have a strong presence, SNBA intends to focus on West [...]	2006-09-05 06:11:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR EINV BE XY ZF
06BRUSSELS3039	BELGIAN VIEWS OF UNSC RESOLUTION 1695 [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-08 12:08:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KNNP KPAO PARM PREL MNUC PTER BE
06BRUSSELS3098	DEMARCHE ON IRAN: APPROACHING THE EU IN ADVANCE OF [...] (C) Poloff relayed reftel points to Jean-Luc Bodson, Deputy Chief of Staff, responsible for middle eastern affairs, in the Belgian Foreign Ministry. Bodson said Belgium will likely follow the European consensus on sanctions, but called the possibility of sanctions "a touchy issue." With the [...]	2006-09-14 11:58:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	BE PGOV PREL PARM UN EU IR KNNP
06BRUSSELS3103	DEMARCHES ON SYRIA AND LEBANON [...] (C) Poloff discussed points on Syria and Lebanon (refs A and B) with Jean-Luc Bodson, Deputy Chief of Staff, responsible for middle eastern affairs, in the Belgian Foreign Ministry. Bodson said Belgian Foreign Minister DeGucht generally believed a constructive dialogue was needed with all th [...]	2006-09-14 14:07:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	BE PGOV PREL PTER USUN LE SY EU IS
06BRUSSELS3105	BELGIUM PRIME MINISTER DESCRIBES SHIFT ON PLANNED [...] (C) Summary: The Belgians may send additional air assets to Afghanistan, rather than ground troops, according to Prime Minister Verhofstadt. In a meeting with the Ambassador on September 11, Verhofstadt also said the Belgian contingent in Lebanon was working with a 1,000 person Chinese de-mi [...]	2006-09-14 15:21:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PINS PGOV EFIN BE AF LE
06BRUSSELS3109	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH BELGIAN FM DE GUCHT ON [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with the Ambassador on September 12, Belgian FM De Gucht reiterated Belgian intentions to fulfill pledges of more forces for Afghanistan, adding that he would get the details worked out with the Socialist coalition partners after local elections October 8. He also s [...]	2006-09-14 15:31:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL MARR OSCE AF IR BE
06BRUSSELS3164	APPEALS HEARD IN GICM AND DHKP-C TERROR TRIALS [...] (U) Five members of the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (GICM),who appealed February 2006 convictions under Belgium's antiterrorism law, have received sentences ranging from forty months to eight years. The February 2006 verdict by a Brussels criminal court found the GICM members guilty of [...]	2006-09-19 13:45:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	BE MO PREL PTER TU
06BRUSSELS3196	883 Million Euro Hole in 2006 Belgian Budget [...] (U) Summary. Belgium faces a quick scrubbing of its FY 2006 budget late in the year after revenues did not keep pace with projections and a technical gaff resulted in a 883 million euro overestimate of tax revenues. Government critics are faulting the coalition government?s history of last [...]	2006-09-21 14:06:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN EINV ELAB BE
06BRUSSELS3203	DEMARCHE TO BELGIANS ON U.S. PRIORITIES FOR THE [...] (C) The Belgian government generally shares USG goals at the upcoming UN Human Rights Council session, according to France Chainay, Director for Human Rights matters in the MFA's International Organizations Division. She told polcouns the Belgians were particularly anxious to avoid having one [...]	2006-09-22 11:03:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PHUM BE
06BRUSSELS3273	Belgians to Name Non-Resident Charge for [...] The Belgian government will shortly appoint a non- resident Charge for Baghdad, according to Ambassador Robert Devriese, the MFA's Acting Director-General for Bilateral Relations. Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht took the decision on September 27, Devriese told polcouns and visiting EUR/UBI Of [...]	2006-09-28 14:53:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL BE IZ JO
06BRUSSELS3278	DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE ON VENEZUELA'S ARMS [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-29 04:58:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MASS PARM PREL VE BE
06BRUSSELS3382	BELGIAN LOCAL POLLS -- FAR RIGHT LOOKS POISED TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Belgium's October 8 local elections will prove one thing -- all politics might be local, but all local politics have national political implications. In Dutch-speaking Flanders, that means that the far right Vlaams Belang party looks poised to make important gains, but not to [...]	2006-10-06 09:44:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV BE
06BRUSSELS3388	UN SCALE OF ASSESSMENTS: DEMARCHE TO BELGIUM ON [...] (U) When reftel arrived, the entire Belgian IO team was in NY attending the UNGA. On October 6, DCM Imbrie and Polcounselor Andrews met with Belgian UN experts, headed by Benedicte Frankinet (IO P/DAS-equivalent) to discuss the scale of assessments and UNGA. 2. (U) DCM reviewed US prioriti [...]	2006-10-06 13:50:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	UNGA KUNR AORC BE
06BRUSSELS3403	BELGIAN STEWPOT: October 5, 2006 [...] (U) Progress on rebalancing Belgium?s 2006 budget and proposing an FY 2007 budget has been slowed by the municipal elections to be held October 8. The government claimed remarkably quick progress in filling the holes created by an accounting snafu and over-estimation of tax revenues (ref [...]	2006-10-06 16:12:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV EIND ELTN BE
06BRUSSELS3447	BELGIAN LOCAL ELECTIONS -- FAR RIGHT STUMBLES, [...] (U) In elections for almost 600 communal and provincial council elections on October 8, the Flemish Liberal party (senior member of the governing four-party coalition) fared badly, as did its Francophone Liberal partner. Leaders of the Flemish Liberals have ascribed their poor showing on infi [...]	2006-10-12 09:31:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV BE
06BRUSSELS3488	EMBASSY OCTOBER 10 IFTAR DINNER -- IDENTITY ISSUES [...] (U) On October 10, the Ambassador hosted his third Iftar dinner since arriving at post in 2004. He will host a fourth dinner on October 16. In welcoming the guests, the Ambassador noted that the Embassy was working actively to maintain close ties to the Muslim community, as witnessed by the [...]	2006-10-13 13:58:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	KISL SOCI BE

06BRUSSELS3527	New Belgian Carrier Notified to Embassy [...] (U) This is an action request: See para 4. 2. (U) On October 2, the Embassy received a diplomatic note from the Foreign Ministry notifying it of a new Belgian airline company. This notification was made under provisions of the 23 October 1980 bilateral Air Transport Agreement (as amended) cu [...]	2006-10-17 14:16:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR EINV BE
06BRUSSELS3528	BELGIUM: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UNSCR 1718 [...] (C) Poloff relayed reftel points to Geeraard Vanhouche, Counselor for Asian Affairs in the Belgian Foreign Ministry. Vanhouche said Belgium was pleased with the adoption of UNSCR 1718 and supported the measure. Ambassador Korologos also spoke with FM De Gucht to urge continued support for UNS [...]	2006-10-17 15:01:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	BE PREL KNNP KN PARM
06BRUSSELS3529	ORAL MESSAGE FROM THE SECRETARY DELIVERED TO [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-17 15:42:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL
06BRUSSELS3531	Airbus Turbulence Hits Belgian [...] (U) Summary. Belgian aviation contractors to Airbus expect a 10 to 15 percent reduction in sales this year, but claim that to date no supply contract has been cancelled despite the slowdown in Airbus A380 production. Protecting jobs is the principal objective for Belgian federal and regional [...]	2006-10-18 04:46:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR EIND EINV BE
06BRUSSELS3540	EMBASSY OCTOBER 16 IFTAR: BELGIAN MUSLIMS PONDER [...] (U) More than 20 guests at Ambassador Korologos' October 16 Iftar dinner discussed the October 8 local elections in Belgium, Muslim identity and integration into Belgian society, and whether it is possible to criticize Islam. This was the Ambassador's second Iftar dinner of this Ramadan seaso [...]	2006-10-18 13:15:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KISL SOCI BE
06BRUSSELS3578	Belgian Chemicals Industry Faces Challenges [...] (U) Summary. Belgium's chemical industry is one of the country's most important economic sectors, representing 16 percent of national GDP. Many American chemical companies maintain a significant presence in Belgium. The industry faces challenges as high demand draws investment to the develo [...]	2006-10-20 15:12:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	EIND EINV BE
06BRUSSELS3664	BELGIAN RESPONSE TO ISRAEL AT UNGA DEMARCHE -- [...] (SBU) Polcouns delivered reftel demarche to Bndicte Frankinet, the Director (A/S-equivalent) of the MFA's International Organizations Division. She said the Belgian government generally shared U.S. views on both the resolutions discussed in reftel, and on the broader issue of fighting anti-Is [...]	2006-10-27 15:10:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL
06BRUSSELS3668	A/S FRIED'S OCTOBER 20, 2006 MEETING WITH BELGIAN [...] (C) Summary: EUR A/S Fried met Belgian FM and OSCE CiO De Gucht in Brussels on October 20. Fried and De Gucht agreed that the U.S., EU, and OSCE needed to press Russia on treatment of ethnic Georgians in Russia. De Gucht repeatedly stressed the importance of having the Secretary attend the [...]	2006-10-27 15:23:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PINS OSCE GG RU BE
06BRUSSELS3669	BELGIUM'S COOL RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON PRESERVING [...] (C) In response to ref A demarche, Belgian FM De Gucht's Deputy Chief of Staff for Middle East Affairs, Jean-Luc Bodson, told us the MFA could not agree with the USG request about dealing with the Syrians. Bodson explained that the Belgians thought the U.S. approach would be "counterproductiv [...]	2006-10-27 15:47:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KDEM PREL PGOV PTER MOPS BE
06BRUSSELS3715	BELGIUM,S 2007 FEDERAL BUDGET: OLD TRICKS HARDER [...] (SBU) Belgium,s Federal Budget for FY2007 is a mosaic of political compromises, with social benefits for the political left and law and order spending and fiscal conservatism for the political right, funded with a mix of new revenue enhancements. To ensure balanced books, the budget projects [...]	2006-11-03 14:38:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV BE
06BRUSSELS3722	DEMARCHE TO BELGIUM ON COUNTRY SPECIFIC HUMAN [...] (U) The acting head of the MFA's International Organizations Division told polcouns Belgium has decided to delay a decision on co-sponsoring the Uzbekistan resolution in the Third Committee until November 8, date of the EU's consultations in Brussels with the Uzbeks. The Uzbek Foreign Minist [...]	2006-11-03 16:50:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KTIA PHUM PREL BE
06BRUSSELS3748	BELGIAN STEWPOT: November 7, 2006 [...] Sustainable Development Week 2-3. NIKE Expands, Gets Green Approval Seal 4. GDP Growth Exceeds Forecast 5. Belgian "Peace Corps" Volunteers Chosen 6. World's Biggest Diamond sold in Antwerp 7. Northwest: New Brussels-Detroit Flight 8. By Their Snacks You Shall Know Them 9. Ri [...]	2006-11-07 15:47:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV EIND ELTN BE
06BRUSSELS3761	STIFFER SENTENCES FOR DHKP-C CONVICTS [...] On November 7, the judge of the Ghent Appellate Court strengthened sentences given earlier this year to three DHKP-C militants under Belgium's 2003 anti-terrorism statute. Nine DHKP- C militants had appeared in court facing charges of belonging to criminal and terrorist organizations, an of [...]	2006-11-08 14:24:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PGOV BE TU
06BRUSSELS3799	BELGIAN NUCLEAR ENERGY REASSESSED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Pressed by global energy concerns and climate change targets, Belgium is reassessing the country,s use of nuclear energy and its future energy policy options. Although current law commits Belgium to decommissioning its nuclear-powered generating installations from 2015-2025, med [...]	2006-11-13 11:54:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EINV EFIN SENV BE
06BRUSSELS3836	HIGH BELGIAN UNEMPLOYMENT PERSISTS [...] (U) Summary. Belgian unemployment remains high on average by national standards, 8.6 percent, and rose in the past year despite good EU and global economic growth rates. The French-speaking regions of Wallonia and Brussels register over 19 and 21 percent unemployment respectively, reflecting [...]	2006-11-16 07:30:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ELAB BE
06BRUSSELS3858	BELGIANS TO FOLLOW EU CONSENSUS ON NOVEMBER 17 [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-17 10:05:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL
06BRUSSELS3911	HSPD-6 TERRORIST SCREENING INFORMATION: BELGIUM [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Government of Belgium (GOB) will consider an information sharing proposal with the U.S. within the framework of Homeland Security Presidential Directive - 6 (HSPD-6). The U.S. delegation, during a November 10 meeting in Brussels, proposed to give Belgium access to a portion o [...]	2006-11-22 14:56:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	CVIS PTER PINR PGOV PREL KHLS BE
06BRUSSELS3930	USG DELEGATION APPROACHES BELGIUM ON PKK TERRORISM [...] (S) SUMMARY: An inter-agency USG team, led by S/CT Principal Deputy Counterterrorism Coordinator Frank Urbancic, met with representatives of Belgium's counterterrorism, law enforcement, and intelligence communities to discuss ways to engender joint cooperation against the Kurdistan Workers Pa [...]	2006-11-27 12:46:00	Embassy Brussels	SECRET	BE PREL PTER TU
06BRUSSELS3947	USG DELEGATION APPROACHES BELGIUM ON PKK TERRORISM [...] (S) SUMMARY: An inter-agency USG team, led by S/CT Principal Deputy Counterterrorism Coordinator Frank Urbancic, met with representatives of Belgium's counterterrorism, law enforcement, and intelligence communities to discuss ways to engender joint cooperation against the Kurdistan Workers Pa [...]	2006-11-28 14:49:00	Embassy Brussels	SECRET	PREL PTER TU BE
06BRUSSELS4049	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH PM'S KEY RIVAL FLEMISH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Belgium's politics were thrown into a cocked hat this week when Yves Leterme, Minister-President of Belgium's Flanders region and by many accounts the heir apparent to be Prime Minister next year, withdrew his alliance with a controversial right-wing nationalist, thus losing as m [...]	2006-12-06 17:01:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON BE
06BRUSSELS4057	BELGIUM: LIBERTAD ACT REVIEW [...] (C) SUMMARY: In response to ref A, post submits the following information regarding the suspension of Title III of the Libertad Act. Post has no basis to suggest that any Belgian investments qualify for consideration under the Libertad Act. END SUMMARY 2. (C) In conjunction with its Europ [...]	2006-12-07 14:28:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ETTC ETRD PREL BE CU
06BRUSSELS409	EU ON AMIS REHATTING: BRUSSELS DONOR CONFERENCE? [...] (C) Summary. The EU agrees that AMIS rehatting to a UN peacekeeping operation should happen as soon as possible. Because of funding constraints, both the AU and the UN need to make important decisions this month. The UN has urged the Commission to host a donor conference in Brussels. While [...]	2006-02-06 15:49:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF DPKO EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS4099	MUSLIM ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY 2006-2007 FOR BELGIUM [...] (U) The Muslim populace in Belgium, a country of just over 10 million people, forms nearly five percent of the total population. Although the Government of Belgium does not keep statistics on ethnicity or religion, most estimates for the total population of Muslims in Belgium range from 450, [...]	2006-12-12 16:43:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KISL SOCI PGOV BE
06BRUSSELS4113	MANDELSON PUSHES EU'S LABOR AND TRADE [...] SUMMARY. EU Trade Commissioner Mandelson keeps pushing for the inclusion and development of a social dimension in trade policy instruments and policies. Speaking at a Brussels conference last week, Mandelson pressed the EU Council to adopt the withdrawal of GSP benefits from Belarus. He al [...]	2006-12-13 15:55:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB ETRD ILO PREL PGOV BM IN BO EUN
06BRUSSELS4121	EU SUMMIT TO ISSUE TOUGH MESSAGE TO IRAN [...] EU Foreign Ministers will prepare a tough declaration on Iran and the Middle East for European leaders to approve at their December 15 summit in Brussels, according to Jesper Hostrup, Principal Administrator and Iran Coordinator in the European Commission,s Directorate General for External Re [...]	2006-12-13 18:22:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN IR KDEM PGOV PREL
06BRUSSELS4130	EU Faults Belgian Aerospace Subsidies [...] (U) Summary. The EU Commissioner for Competition has found Belgium's state aid program to aerospace firms working with Airbus to be incompatible with EU regulations. In an agreement with the Belgian government announced November 24, the assistance program will be halved in funding, and some [...]	2006-12-14 15:33:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR EIND EINV BE
06BRUSSELS4149	Money Talks - Economic Factors in Belgium?s [...] (SBU) Summary. Belgium?s federal-regional negotiations in spring-summer 2007 on the division of political competencies will have major economic implications. If the federal government cedes responsibilities to the regions, regional demands for direct taxing authority and fiscal autonomy will [...]	2006-12-15 11:58:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ETRD BE
06BRUSSELS4157	BELGIAN AND THE UN -- VIEWS OF A NEW UNSC MEMBER [...] (C) Summary: IO A/S Silverberg's December 6 meetings with the Belgian MFA indicated that Belgium and the U.S. were in general agreement on most major issues facing the UN Security Council, apart from some differences on Iran. On Iran, the Belgians said that they thought it appropriate now to [...]	2006-12-15 16:37:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL AORC UNSC BE CG SU IR KN
06BRUSSELS4158	AFGHANISTAN: EUR A/S FRIED AND SCA DAS FEIGENBAUM [...] (C) IN A MEETING REQUESTED BY THE AFGHAN SIDE ON THE MARGINS OF THE OSCE MINISTERIAL IN BRUSSELS, EUR A/S DANIEL FRIED AND SCA DAS EVAN FEIGENBAUM TOLD DAVOOD MORADIAN, AFGHAN SENIOR POLICY ADVISOR TO FM SPANTA, THAT WHILE THE USG WOULD CONTINUE TO WORK CLOSELY WITH PARTNERS AND DONORS, THE [...]	2006-12-15 16:48:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	MARR MASS MOPS PREF PGOV AF
06BRUSSELS4187	BELGIUM: 2006 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] (U) Post submits the following update on Belgium for the Department,s 2006 Patterns of Global Terrorism report (reftel). 2. (U) Patterns of Global Terrorism ) Belgium Update for 2006: ------------------ General Assessment ------------------ 3. (U) The Belgian government continues [...]	2006-12-20 15:18:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC EFIN PTER BE
06BRUSSELS4193	Letter from Belgian Attorney Concerning [...] (SBU) Belgian attorney Jacques Bourgaux wrote the Ambassador December 11 to seek information regarding the detention in Iraq of Oussama Atar, a Belgian of Moroccan origin. Unofficial embassy translation of the letter is reproduced in paragraph two. The letter reports Atar as being held by th [...]	2006-12-21 08:29:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PINS BE IZ
06BRUSSELS4195	SOLANA TELLS NATSIOS EU AND US NEED JOINT [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-21 09:19:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	BE PREL SU
06BRUSSELS4208	BELGIANS DISAPPOINTED WITH LIKELY OUTCOME OF [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-22 11:26:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC PREL UNGA
06BRUSSELS4210	SPECIAL ENVOY NATSIOS' MEETING WITH THE BELGIAN [...] (C) Sudan Special Envoy Natsios conducted a Darfur roundtable on December 15, 2006 with experts from the Belgian MFA led by Director for African Affairs Trouveroy (the former Belgian Ambassador to Sudan) and Director of International Organization Affairs (both A/S-equivalent) Frankinet. The S [...]	2006-12-22 11:42:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL SU CG RW BE UNSC
06BRUSSELS429	EU OFFICIALS AGREE ON NEED TO BUILD MOMENTUM ON [...] (C) European Commission and Parliament officials agreed with visiting DAS Bryza February 6-7 on the need to build on the momentum created by Turkish FM Gul's recent proposal on opening Turkish and Northern Cypriot ports. The EU officials noted that Turkey could not open its ports to Cypriot v [...]	2006-02-08 14:52:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID CY GR TU EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS442	MIGRATION MANAGEMENT: REGIONAL APPROACH FOR EU AND [...] (U) Summary. At a ministerial conference held on January 24-25, EU officials and counterparts from eastern and south neighbors launched the "Vienna Process" to improve migration management via a structured, regional dialogue and a joint program of action. Major themes of the conference -- whi [...]	2006-02-09 11:26:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	SMIG PREL KCRM PREF PHUM ELAB EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS450	EU, UKRAINIAN OFFICIALS COMMENT ON ACTION PLAN, [...] (C) Summary: In separate meetings, Ukrainian and EU officials discussed the status of the EU-Ukraine Action Plan and negotiations on a visa facilitation regime and readmission agreement. Ukrainian embassy officials said their priorities with the EU in 2006 are to: 1) launch consultations on [...]	2006-02-09 16:19:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CVIS ECON UP XH IR USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS456	COMMISSION ARGUES FOR LIFTING CURBS ON [...] SUMMARY. The EU Commission released its analysis of the impact of workers from Central and Eastern European countries on the labor markets of the "old" member states. The report listed arguments against restrictions to the free movement of workers imposed in 2004 by most of the "old" EU me [...]	2006-02-10 06:05:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB ECON EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS472	MESSAGE ON LATIN AMERICA RESONATES WITH EU [...] (C) SUMMARY: During his recent visit to Brussels, WHA A/S Shannon's message that the U.S. was seeking partners in promoting the Summit of the Americas agenda for the hemisphere resonated strongly with EU officials, including EU HighRep Javier Solana. On Venezuela, the EU said it would continu [...]	2006-02-10 17:16:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON ETRD EAID VE BL CU POGV EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS491	FOLLOW-UP ON BHUTANESE REFUGEE DEMARCHE TO EC [...] (SBU) PRM Assistant received feedback from the European Commission, DG RELEX India/Bhutan/Nepal Desk Officer, Rensje Teerink, on the February 2 courtesy visit between the Benita Ferrero-Walder, Commissioner for External Affairs, and Bhutan's Foreign Minister, Lyonpo Khandu Wangchuk which was p [...]	2006-02-13 14:52:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	BT IN NP PREF EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS493	DEMARCHE TO EC ON HMONG CHILDREN [...] (SBU) PRM Assistant delivered reftel A. talking points and met with the European Commission's, South East Asia Administrator at DG RELEX, Ulla Olsson, on February 9. Olsson admitted that she had only become aware of the situation concerning the Hmong children about a month ago. She indicated t [...]	2006-02-13 16:49:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	LA PHUM PREF PREL TH USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS504	DRC: HUMANITARIAN ACTION PLAN LAUNCHED BY UN AND EU [...] (U) Summary. At the launch of the Humanitarian Action Plan (HAP) for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on February 13, the UN and EU called on donors to fund 330 projects worth almost $682 million that will benefit 60 million people in 2006. In a taped address to the Ministerial Confere [...]	2006-02-14 16:24:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PHUM PREL PGOV EAID EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS508	EUROPEAN COMMISION AND U.S. WORK TOWARD PROGRESS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary Jendayi Fraser met in Brussels on January 26 with European Commission (EC) Director General for DG Development Stefano Manservisi to discuss the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC),Sudan, Chad and the Horn of Africa. Mutual perspectives and targeted assist [...]	2006-02-15 07:30:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID XA EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS509	EUROPEAN COUNCIL AFRICA TASK FORCE COMMITS TO [...] (C) Vervaeke initiated the discussion by noting the European Union (EU) had received a letter from the UN, requesting EU support for a flexible "rapid reaction" force to assist, if needed, to ensure electoral stability in DRC. Vervaeke indicated the UN request lacked specificity, but that the [...]	2006-02-15 07:33:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID XA EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS524	SECSTATE LEGAL ADVISER ON WAR ON TERROR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Secstate Legal Adviser John Bellinger met with a comprehensive array of EU interlocutors in Brussels on February 7-8 to discuss U.S. views on the legal framework for the war on terrorism. He stressed that U.S. decisions on how to deal with an unprecedented global terrorist threat h [...]	2006-02-15 17:13:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS557	EC 2006 FUNDING FOR UNRWA, PALESTINIAN REFUGEES [...] (SBU) Summary. The EC plans to maintain its funding level to assist Palestinian refugees through UNRWA at 100 million euros in 2006. Support to UNRWA represents over a third of EC assistance to Palestinians. The EC may earmark a portion of its contribution to UNRWA's general fund. End Summa [...]	2006-02-17 14:12:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL EAID EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS685	THE EUROPEAN UNION ON REHATTING AMIS [...] (U) This is a corrected copy of Brussels 679. See para 4. 2. (C) Summary. While the EU favors rehatting, they believe Konare is seeking alternative sources of funding for the AMIS mission from the North African states in order to reduce or eliminate the role of other donors. There is growing [...]	2006-03-01 15:03:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SU KPKO EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS707	EUR DAS KRAMER DISCUSSES RUSSIA, UKRAINE, MOLDOVA, [...] (C) Summary: On February 22, EUR DAS David Kramer held COEST Troika consultations with the EU on Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, and Belarus. On Russia, the EU agrees that a combative Russia feels it is in an increasingly strengthened position. The European Commission viewed the "creeping reasserti [...]	2006-03-03 09:20:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL RS MD UP EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS716	EUROPEAN COMMISSION: WILLING TO SUPPORT BIH WAR [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-03 12:26:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL PGOV BK EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS731	EUR DAS BRYZA DISCUSSES CAUCASUS, CENTRAL ASIA, [...] (C) Summary: In U.S.-EU COEST Troika consultations on Caucasus and Central Asia on February 23, EUR DAS Matt Bryza discussed with EU officials how to change the dynamic of discussions on South Ossetia. Echoing an EU Presidency statement on February 21, EU representatives agreed that the inte [...]	2006-03-06 08:00:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL GG AM AJ TX KZ TI KG USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS743	EU CONSTITUTION AND ENLARGEMENT: PROSPECTS FOR [...] (C) Pundits and politicians have claimed that the EU Constitution is everything from dead to simply waiting for the European Council in June for resuscitation. Cries of a "crisis" in the EU following the French and Dutch referenda are overstated; the EU is functioning, even if it is not meet [...]	2006-03-06 10:28:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS774	U.S. AND EU DISCUSS W. BALKANS [...] (C) EUR/SCE Director English met in Brussels March 1 with EU and Austrian Presidency officials to discuss the Western Balkans. EU officials characterized U.S.-EU cooperation on the Balkans as "excellent." English noted how EU accession prospects continue to serve as a major catalyst for refo [...]	2006-03-07 09:57:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID ZL EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS775	EU ENLARGEMENT OFFICIAL ON W. BALKANS [...] (C) Heather Grabbe, Advisor to Enlargement Commissioner Rehn, and visiting EUR/SCE Director Charles English reviewed the Western Balkans March 1 (English's meeting with EU COWEB Troika reported septel). Grabbe said EU FMs, at their informal "Gymnich" meeting in Salzburg March 10-11, would re [...]	2006-03-07 10:04:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID ZL EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS791	LEVERAGING EU ASSISTANCE FOR US FOREIGN POLICY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Bush's historic visit to Brussels in February 2005 has been followed by increased US-European cooperation on a range of political and security issues. An important component of that cooperation is greater synergy between US and EU approaches to development and humani [...]	2006-03-08 10:55:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON KDEM PREF PREL KMCA EUN UN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS800	U.S.-EU TROIKA ON HUMAN RIGHTS, FEBRUARY 16, 2006 [...] (C) SUMMARY. The U.S.-EU Troika on Human Rights (COHOM),held February 16 in Brussels, provided an important forum for in-depth discussions, but no agreement on what kind of Commission on Human Rights (CHR) meeting might take place should UN agreement on the Human Rights Council (HRC) not be [...]	2006-03-08 14:34:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL CH IR CU BL VE XR EUN UN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS835	CENTRAL DUBLIN GROUP MEETING: FEBRUARY 2006 [...] Summary. During its February 22 meeting, the members of the Central Dublin Group (DG) reviewed regional reports from Northern Africa (submitted by Spain),Africa (France),the Caribbean (France),Central America (US),South America (Spain),as well as an interim report from the June 2005 mee [...]	2006-03-10 15:03:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID KCRM PREL SNAR EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS864	U.S.-EU COUNTERTERRORISM AND JHA AFFAIRS: [...] Summary: The U.S. Mission to the European Union (USEU) will sponsor a two-day conference in Brussels for U.S. officers at posts in the EUR region on U.S. counterterrorism policy in Europe and Eurasia and critical issues in the area of Justice and Home Affairs (JHA). The conference will open [...]	2006-03-13 15:03:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM KJUS PREL PTER CVIS EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS886	EU "GYMNICH" MEETING: FUTURE OF W. BALKANS IS IN [...] (C) EU foreign ministers, in their informal "Gymnich" formation, met with their Balkan and Turkish counterparts in Salzburg March 11, issuing a joint press statement that reaffirmed the European perspective for the region but noted that the EU's absorption capacity has to be taken into accoun [...]	2006-03-14 15:08:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ETRD ZL EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS891	EUR DAS BRYZA DISCUSSES TURKEY AND CYPRUS WITH EU [...] (C) Summary: EUR DAS Matt Bryza discussed Turkey's accession talks and Cyprus with EU Council Head of Unit for Enlargement Christos Katharios and Enlargement Unit Principal Adminstrator David Johns on February 23. Katharios stressed his full commitment to implementing the European Council,s d [...]	2006-03-15 08:21:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CY TU GR USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS899	EU PUSHING FOR MORE DIALOGUE ON ASIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs Chris Hill met with EU Foreign Policy Advisor Robert Cooper during a brief stop-over in Brussels February 17. Hill's perspective on key developments in DPRK, China, Burma and Indonesia were well-received by a fully [...]	2006-03-15 17:18:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR XE EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS919	MOLDOVA'S EU AMBASSADOR ON EU/MOLDOVA RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary: According to Moldovan Ambassador to the EU Eugen Carpov, Moldova has four main issues to address in its relations with the EU. First, Moldova is drafting an internal report on the status of the first year of implementation of its European Neighborhood Policy (ENP) Action Plan wit [...]	2006-03-16 16:03:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MD XH EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS928	GAERC: WAITING ON HAMAS GOVERNMENT, LIKELY TO [...] (C) A Commission official told us March 17 that she expects no movement on WTO and heavy criticism of Belarus to dominate the March 20 GAERC. EU Foreign Ministers will review how to handle Hamas, given rumors that Hamas could name the personnel it wants in a government over the March 18-19 w [...]	2006-03-17 13:52:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON KPAL BO ZL EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS934	U.S.-EUROPEAN CT AND JHA AFFAIRS: CONFERENCE [...] Summary: The U.S. Mission to the European Union (USEU) will sponsor a two-day conference in Brussels for U.S. officers at posts in the EUR region on U.S. counterterrorism policy in Europe and Eurasia and critical issues in the area of Justice and Home Affairs (JHA). The conference will open [...]	2006-03-17 14:30:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM KJUS PREL PTER CVIS EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS942	EU RESPONSE: SUDAN - ACCELERATING UNSC ACTION ON [...] (C) Summary. The EU agrees with the U.S. interpretation that the three components of the AU decision of March 10 regarding the transition of AMIS are not interlinked. However, the EU is concerned that UN Assistant Secretary Annabi may perceive a linkage. EU Special Representative Pekka Haavis [...]	2006-03-17 16:04:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SOCI KPKO SU EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS975	EU FOREIGN MINISTERS DISCUSS HAMAS, BELARUS, OTHER [...] (U) EU foreign ministers, meeting in Brussels March 20, agreed with the preliminary conclusions of the OSCE/ODIHR that the Belarusian elections were "severely flawed." FMs reportedly discussed Hamas' proposed list of cabinet members but did not issue a substantive statement on Hamas. Rather [...]	2006-03-21 13:47:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD EAID KPAL BO XF ZL EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS988	U.S.-EUROPEAN CT AND JHA AFFAIRS: CONFERENCE [...] Summary: This cable is being retransmitted to ensure it is received by all posts in the EUR region. The U.S. Mission to the European Union (USEU) will sponsor a two-day conference in Brussels for U.S. officers at posts in the EUR region on U.S. counterterrorism policy in Europe and Eurasia [...]	2006-03-22 08:14:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KCRM KJUS PREL PTER XG EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BUCHAREST1009	ROMANIAN RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ABOUT ARMS TRANSFERS [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-19 14:17:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PGOV ETTC IZ RO
06BUCHAREST1010	ROMANIA OPPOSES ADJURNMENT AND INTENDS TO VOTE FOR [...] (U) MFA Director Cristina Gaginsky and Deputy Director Andreea Chiriac received reftel A demarche from PolOff on June 16. They confirmed that Romania intends to vote for the adoption of the third protocol. Second Secretary Carmen Burlacu, who will be in Geneva for the conference, took specific [...]	2006-06-19 15:43:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PREL PHUM RO
06BUCHAREST1011	ROMANIAN SOLDIER KIA IN AFGHANISTAN; FOUR [...] (SBU) Romanian Defense Ministry (MOD) sources confirm that a Romanian soldier was killed in action and four Romanian soldiers and an Afghan interpreter were wounded in Afghanistan June 20 at approximately 0300 local time. MOD sources advise that one of the wounded Romanian soldiers is in crit [...]	2006-06-20 11:09:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MOPS MARR AF IZ RO
06BUCHAREST1015	ROMANIAN SENATE RATIFIES DEFENSE COOPERATION [...] (SBU) The Romanian Senate meeting in plenary session voted June 20 to adopt legislation to ratify the U.S.-Romanian Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) (Ref). The unofficial tally, recorded by an EmbOff present for the vote, was 62 "ayes", 3 "nays" and 2 abstentions. In a demonstration of b [...]	2006-06-20 15:09:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS MARR MCAP PREL PGOV PTER RO
06BUCHAREST1016	ROMANIAN RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON HUMAN RIGHTS [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-20 15:56:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL RO
06BUCHAREST1028	ROMANIAN RESPONSE TO FISSILE MATERIAL CUTOFF [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-21 13:59:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC PARM PREL RO
06BUCHAREST1035	ROMANIA: AMBASSADOR AND PM DISCUSS ENERGY, ECONOMY AND ADOPTIONS [...] (C) The Ambassador met with Romanian Prime Minister Calin-Popescu Tariceanu on June 22 to discuss the state of our bilateral economic relationship and the future of international adoptions. Tariceanu reiterated a request made by letter the previous day for U.S. assistance in strategic planning on e [...]	2006-06-23 15:30:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL ECON ENRG EPET PGOV PHUM CASC RO
06BUCHAREST1054	ROMANIAN ARRESTED FOR PLANNING CAR BOMBING IN [...] (SBU) Romanian media have reported heavily on the arrest June 26 of a Romanian man near Timisoara who allegedly planned to detonate a car bomb in a busy intersection to protest Romania's military contribution to Iraq and strong relationship with the U.S. Suspect Ioan Florin Lesch, also called [...]	2006-06-28 13:39:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL PINS PINR ASEC RO
06BUCHAREST1055	ROMANIA SUPPORTS DEMARCHE ON UN REFORM AND LIFTING [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-28 14:01:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AMGT AORC PREL RO
06BUCHAREST1058	PM TARICEANU/DEFMIN PROPOSE IRAQ TROOP WITHDRAWAL; [...] (C) Prime Minister Calin-Popescu Tariceanu unexpectedly announced June 29 in a press conference that he would "support the initiative" of Defense Minister Teodor Atanasiu to request the Supreme Council for National Defense (CSAT) to withdraw Romania's troops from Iraq. Tariceanu made his stat [...]	2006-06-29 14:03:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS MARR NATO AF IZ RO
06BUCHAREST1072	SUPREME DEFENSE COUNCIL NIXES PRIME MINISTER'S [...] (C) Summary. Romania's Supreme Council for National Defense (CSAT) flatly rejected June 30 the unexpected call by Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu and Defense Minister Teodor Atanasiu for a Romanian troop pullout from Iraq. (Ref) Announcing the CSAT's decision, President Basescu rebuke [...]	2006-06-30 18:05:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS MARR NATO AF IZ RO
06BUCHAREST1081	IRAQ PULLOUT PROPOSAL -- DEBATE DEEPENS, WHILE [...] (C) Summary: The debate over Romania's troop presence in Iraq continued to dominate weekend news coverage, following the unexpected June 29 announcement by Prime Minister Tariceanu and Defense Minister Atanasiu in support of a pull-out. Foreign Minister Ungureanu and Finance Minister Vladescu [...]	2006-07-03 19:35:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS MARR NATO AF IZ RO
06BUCHAREST1088	DEFENSE COOPERATION AGREEMENT SIGNED BY PRESIDENT, [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-06 16:11:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS MARR MCAP PREL PGOV PTER RO
06BUCHAREST1092	ROMANIAN PRESIDENT WELCOMES MOLDOVAN YOUTH TO [...] (C) Summary: In remarks to a group of visiting Moldovan teenagers, President Basescu spoke in terms of Romania's hopes and plans to reunite with Moldova once inside the European Union. His statements, which included an "offer" to Moldova to join the EU along with Romania and a promise of more [...]	2006-07-06 17:05:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MD RO
06BUCHAREST1093	PM TARICEANU TO AMBASSADOR -- "TIME HAS COME" FOR [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Calin Popescu-Tariceanu told the Ambassador July 5 that he and his National Liberal Party (PNL) believed that "the time had come" for Romania to begin discussing a troop withdrawal from Iraq. Tariceanu stood by the proposal for a pullout he and Defense Minister Atan [...]	2006-07-06 17:14:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS MARR NATO AF IZ RO
06BUCHAREST1106	AMID INTERNAL DIVISIONS, OPPOSITION SOCIAL [...] (C) Summary. The center-left opposition Social Democratic Party (PSD) reaffirmed July 7 its call for a "timetable" for the withdrawal of Romanian forces from Iraq but underscored the party's commitment to consultation with the U.S. and other allies regarding a possible withdrawal. PSD officia [...]	2006-07-10 16:22:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI ECON MARR MOPS RO IZ
06BUCHAREST111	FORMER PM NASTASE FACES CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS IN [...] (C) Summary. Former PM Adrian Nastase, whose reputation for shady dealing was already well-established with the Romanian public, is now caught in a political scandal that threatens both his political career and has set off more fierce infighting within the Social Democratic Party (PSD),Roma [...]	2006-01-20 17:55:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KJUS KCRM SOCI ECON RO
06BUCHAREST1115	POLL SHOWS STRONG SUPPORT FOR PRESIDENT BASESCU, AT PM [...] Summary: (SBU) A July opinion poll carried out by The National Institute for Polling and Marketing Studies (INSOMAR) revealed continued high public support for President Traian Basescu and relatively low support for Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu, despite the latter's recent attempt to [...]	2006-07-11 15:48:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI RO
06BUCHAREST1126	NEW MOD STATE SECRETARY'S MODEST VISION FOR [...] (C) Summary. During a July 11 meeting, the newly appointed MOD State Secretary, Corneliu Dobrotoiu reaffirmed the "centrality" of the U.S.-Romania strategic relationship but insisted that budgetary limitations would force Romania to reexamine its defense commitments. He singled out overseas [...]	2006-07-13 15:37:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SOCI ECON MOPS MARR NATO RO
06BUCHAREST1132	ROMANIAN FM UNGUREANU WILL ATTEND 61ST UN GENERAL [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-14 15:14:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED	KSEP PREL OTRA OVIP RO
06BUCHAREST1133	BYSTROE CANAL: ROMANIA WELCOMES UN FINDINGS [...] (SBU) Summary: Romania welcomed the unanimous findings released by a special UN Inquiry Commission noting the negative trans-boundary impact of Ukraine's dredging in Bystroe Canal. Romanian officials now expect Ukraine to initiate public and cross-border consultations on this sensitive environ [...]	2006-07-14 15:18:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON PBTS SENV UP RO
06BUCHAREST1149	AMBASSADOR VISITS IASI FOR OBSERVANCE OF 65TH [...] Summary. On June 27-29 Romania solemnly commemorated June 27-29 the 65th anniversary of the Iasi Pogrom, one of the worst events of the Holocaust in Romania. The commemoration was sponsored by the Romanian government, through the new "Elie Wiesel" Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in [...]	2006-07-18 13:30:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM SOCI EAID RO
06BUCHAREST1158	DEFENSE COOPERATION AGREEMENT WITH ROMANIA [...] (U) Summary: Embassy received on July 20 diplomatic note no. H2-1/2187 dated July 14 confirming that the Parliament of Romania ratified and published the Agreement between Romania and the United States of America regarding the activities of the U.S. forces stationed on Romania,s territory in th [...]	2006-07-20 17:53:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR PGOV PREL RO
06BUCHAREST116	ADOPTIONS: PM TARICEANU SHOWS LITTLE FLEXIBILITY [...] (C) Summary. During a January 16 meeting with Ambassador, Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu indicated little flexibility in positively resolving pending adoption cases filed by U.S. prospective parents before Romania's de facto ban on inter-country adoptions. He pledged to provide an ex [...]	2006-01-23 14:32:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM CASC RO
06BUCHAREST1160	PDAS VOLKER'S POLITICAL DIRECTORS' MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary: EUR PDAS Kurt Volker met with the political directors of the 10 new NATO allies for talks on NATO's future and broader regional issues on June 28 in Bucharest. These new NATO allies all shared a common vision for NATO's future focused on securing the entire Western Balkans within [...]	2006-07-21 08:35:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PREL RO
06BUCHAREST1161	ROMANIA ADVOCATES BALANCED APPROACH TOWARD CRISIS [...] (C) Summary: President Basescu publicly called for the international community to end the human tragedy in Lebanon by enforcing UN Security Council Resolutions aimed at disarming and disbanding Hezbollah. MFA officials assure Romania's balanced approach to the crisis, citing close contact with [...]	2006-07-21 10:21:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RO
06BUCHAREST1168	ROMANIA ANNOUNCES 21% REDUCTION OF TROOPS IN IRAQ [...] (U) The Romanian Chief of the General Staff, Gen. Eugen Badalan, announced July 19 that Romania would reduce its military presence in Iraq by 21%, "as previously discussed with members of the international coalition." According to statements he made to the press, the withdrawal will begin in J [...]	2006-07-21 14:10:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ RO
06BUCHAREST1169	DEMARCHE DELIVERED - FOLLOW-UP THE USE AND SALE OF [...] (S) The Ambassador raised reftel subject in his preparatory meeting with President Basescu on July 12. DCM also raised with Presidential security advisors Gen. Medar and Gen. Degeratu on July 17 and stressed that a concrete message of action from the President would be well received. 2. (S [...]	2006-07-21 14:24:00	Embassy Bucharest	SECRET//NOFORN	KNNP KCRM PREL PGOV ETRD ETTC
06BUCHAREST1171	THREE ROMANIAN INTELLIGENCE CHIEFS AND GENERAL [...] (C) Three Romanian Intelligence Chiefs and the General Prosecutor resigned July 20 and 21 amid a media frenzy over Omar Hayssam's disappearance before being prosecuted in court in connection with the 2005 Romanian hostage crisis in Iraq. Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) Director Radu Timofte [...]	2006-07-21 17:35:00	Embassy Bucharest	SECRET	PGOV KCOR KJUS PREL PINR PTER RO
06BUCHAREST1176	YOUR JULY 27 MEETING WITH ROMANIAN PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary. President Traian Basescu's July 27-28 trip to Washington, including his meeting with you at the White House, offers an opportunity to reaffirm U.S. appreciation for Romania's contributions in Iraq, Afghanistan, and more broadly the Global War on Terror. Basescu has anchored his [...]	2006-07-24 16:29:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM SOCI KDEM ECON PINR IZ RO
06BUCHAREST1181	ROMANIA SEEKS RELEASE OF NATO INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDS [...] (C) Romanian MFA Director for NATO Affairs Mirela Maghiar relayed a demarche to PolOff on July 20 regarding Romania's request for U.S. support for NATO infrastructure funds to be released. She said Romania's proposal includes three locations -- Otopeni, Fetesti, and Mihail Kogalcieanu (MK) air [...]	2006-07-25 13:14:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PINS NATO RO
06BUCHAREST1198	PRESIDENT BASESCU'S COMMENTS BEFORE LEAVING [...] (SBU) Summary. President Traian Basescu reaffirmed on July 26 Romania's commitment to keep its troops in Iraq until they are replaced by the Iraqi army. This declaration was made as the president left the Bucharest airport for his official U.S. visit. On Kosovo, however, he struck a discordant [...]	2006-07-27 12:04:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL SOCI MOPS MARR IZ SR RO
06BUCHAREST1202	DIVISIONS IN THE NATIONAL LIBERAL PARTY (PNL) -- [...] (C) Summary: As the National Liberal Party (PNL) faces a decline in the polls, three well-known PNL members have staked out a common position against Prime Minister and PNL leader Calin Popescu-Tariceanu that could form a locus for eventually replacing him. Frustrated by Tariceanu's poor rela [...]	2006-07-28 05:37:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM PINR RO
06BUCHAREST1203	PRESIDENT BASESCU ADVOCATES SERB LINE ON KOSOVO [...] (C) Summary: Romanian President Basescu promised to advocate for Serbian President Tadic with the leaders of the Contact Group, beginning in Washington, according to the MFA. Following July 25 bilateral talks in Bucharest, Basescu and Tadic had no discernable difference on Kosovo Final Status [...]	2006-07-28 11:18:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SR RO

06BUCHAREST1219	ROMANIAN LIMITS IN PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS, [...] (C) Summary. Despite popular sentiment in Romania that it is already stretched thin in contributing to peacekeeping operations overseas, decision makers appear cautiously optimistic that Romania would contribute to an international peace keeping force, should there be an UN mandate to stabili [...]	2006-07-31 16:03:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MASS PREL IS LE RO
06BUCHAREST1223	ROMANIAN WEAPONS PURCHASE AND POTENTIAL MANPADS [...] (S) On July 20, PolOff delivered to Dan Neculaescu, MFA Director for Nonproliferation and Arms Control, reftel demarche regarding GOR's weapons systems purchase and possible cooperation on surplus MANPADS destruction. On July 21 PolOffs delivered the same demarche to MOD Director for Internat [...]	2006-08-01 14:06:00	Embassy Bucharest	SECRET	PREL MASS RO
06BUCHAREST1232	DEPARTURE OF LAST UZBEK REFUGEES; AMBASSADOR RECOGNIZES [...] Ambassador Taubman visited Timisoara on Monday, July 31 to celebrate the conclusion of the successful placement of 439 Uzbek Refugees in the US, Canada, Britain, Australia, and various European countries. The United States took in 266 of the refugees who fled their native land after the massa [...]	2006-08-03 16:11:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM SOCI RO
06BUCHAREST1233	DEFORESTATION CONTINUES IN ROMANIA [...] SUMMARY. Poverty, corruption, a mismanaged land restitution process, and inadequate governmental resources and regulatory oversight have contributed to widespread and rapid deforestation in Romania since the 1989 revolution. Many Romanians experienced firsthand the consequences of deforestati [...]	2006-08-03 16:15:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR SENV ECON OIIP SOCI HU RO
06BUCHAREST1235	ROMANIA'S ROMA AT EUROPE'S DOOR [...] (SBU) Summary. Persistent poverty among Romania's ethnic Roma population, numbering at roughly two million by some estimates, remains one of Romania's most prominent social problems, which will impact other parts of Europe more directly after Romania enters the EU in 2007. Highly transient, g [...]	2006-08-04 14:18:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI RO
06BUCHAREST1237	ROMANIA'S EXTREME NATIONALISTS: A FEW NEW FACES, [...] (C) Summary: Romania's extreme nationalist political parties continue to garner between 12-20 percent of public support, according to opinion polls. Many analysts believe these groups could gain further support following Romania's anticipated EU accession in 2007, as the public reacts to chan [...]	2006-08-04 15:59:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI RO
06BUCHAREST1240	ROMANIA ENCOURAGED BY DRAFT UNSCR ON LEBANON [...] (C) Ambassador, in separate August 6 conversations, discussed the draft UN Security Council resolution on the situation in Lebanon with Romanian FM Razvan Mihai Ungurianu and Presidential Senior Advisor Claudiu Saftoiu. In response to a request from the Ambassador for a statement of support [...]	2006-08-07 13:30:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MOPS UN IS LE RO
06BUCHAREST1257	ROMANIA - EU MAY OPPOSE BUT CAN'T STOP UNBALANCED [...] (C) In response to reftel demarche, Andreea Berechet, Deputy Director for the MFA's Human Rights Directorate, told PolOff August 9 that Romania agrees that a special session of the HRC would undercut UNSC efforts to resolve the crisis. Berechet noted, however that while it looked like many EU [...]	2006-08-10 14:06:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PHUM PREL PTER UN IS LE RO
06BUCHAREST1258	BASESCU IN BAGHDAD: ROMANIAN TROOPS STAYING IN IRAQ, [...] (SBU) Summary. President Traian Basescu made an August 9 trip to Iraq to emphasize Romania's commitment to stay in Iraq until the Iraqis ask them to leave. His meetings with Iraqi officials also focused on getting Romanian companies reconstruction contracts, both to further support Iraq and t [...]	2006-08-10 15:41:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MOPS MARR IZ RO
06BUCHAREST1266	ROMANIA TO ENDORSE UNSC RESOLUTION ON LEBANON [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel demarche on Aug 12 to MFA Director General for Global Affairs Stelian Stoian and also provided a copy to Presidential Advisor Claudiu Saftoiu. 2. (SBU) Stoian, who was in the proces of preparing briefing materials on Lebanon for Romanian President Basescu, reporte [...]	2006-08-12 17:40:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER MOPS IS LE RO
06BUCHAREST1274	PRESIDENT BASESCU,S TRAVEL TO BAGHDAD AND KABUL: [...] (C) Summary. President Traian Basescu,s August 9-10 trip to Baghdad and Kabul reaffirmed Romania,s strong military commitment and potential economic links with both countries. In Iraq, Basescu,s meetings with the President, PM, and cabinet members aimed to reestablish historic economic ties b [...]	2006-08-15 11:56:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS PGOV AF RO
06BUCHAREST1298	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL LANTOS VISIT TO ROMANIA [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Bucharest warmly welcomes your visit to Romania. Romania has been a staunch ally, providing troops in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Balkans. President Traian Basescu has championed a strong strategic partnership with the United States, maintaining an outward-looking tr [...]	2006-08-18 17:10:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP PREL ECON RO
06BUCHAREST1300	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.S. CANDIDATE FOR THE UN [...] (C) MFA Acting Director for UN Affairs Eugen Mihut confirmed to PolOff on August 16 that Romania would support U.S. candidate Ruth Wedgwood for the Human Rights Committee. He said the MFA had just sent those instructions to NY. 2. (C) Mihut added, however, that this support meant that Roman [...]	2006-08-21 15:12:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM US UNHRC RO
06BUCHAREST1308	ROMANIA: RESPONSE TO SYRIA-IRAN ARMS EMBARGO [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-22 15:42:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS IR SY RO
06BUCHAREST1309	IRAN "CONFISCATES" ROMANIAN OIL RIG IN APPARENT [...] (SBU) Romanian press reported on August 22 that an Iranian naval vessel reportedly fired upon and then seized the Orizont, a Romanian-owned oilrig in Iranian waters in the Salman field near the Kish islands. The rig, owned by the Romanian firm Grup Servicii Petroliere (Oil Services Group),ha [...]	2006-08-22 16:58:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL ECON ENRG EPET PGOV IR RO
06BUCHAREST1317	THE DOSSIER WARS: LUSTRATION ROMANIAN-STYLE [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-23 16:13:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR SOCI RO
06BUCHAREST1328	THE DOSSIER WARS: LUSTRATION ROMANIAN-STYLE [...] (C) Summary. After languishing on the political backburner, the exposure and lustration of Ceausescu-era secret police agents and collaborators has become a white-hot SIPDIS political issue this summer. Some observers speculate that the Liberal party (PNL) could benefit most from the lust [...]	2006-08-24 14:49:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR SOCI RO
06BUCHAREST1330	ROMANIAN, IRANIAN PRESIDENTS AGREE: OILRIG INCIDENT IS COMMERCIAL DISPUTE [...] (C) SUMMARY. On August 22, Iranian authorities boarded and seized a Romanian-owned oilrig involved in a commercial dispute (see reftel). The rig's owner, Grup Servicii Petroliere (GSP),controlled by controversial business figure Sorin Ovidiu Vantu, allegedly intended to remove the rig from Iranian [...]	2006-08-24 16:07:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL ECON ENRG EPET PGOV IR RO
06BUCHAREST1335	ROMANIA: PLANS FOR STOCKHOLM DONOR CONFERENCE [...] (C) Summary: Romania MFA has proposed/proposed a &symbolic but credible8 deployment of gendarmes to support the peace process in Lebanon, and as part of the Romanian contribution to be made at the Stockholm donors conference. The Prime Minister has not yet agreed to the proposal, and there i [...]	2006-08-25 15:21:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS EAID LE RO
06BUCHAREST1338	ROMANIA AGREES WITH U.S. CONCERNS ABOUT U.N. HUMAN [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-28 05:45:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNHRC RO
06BUCHAREST1375	BASESCU ANNOUNCES IRAQI TROOP REDUCTION [...] (U) Summary. On the evening of August 30, President Basescu announced that Romania would reduce its troop presence in Iraq over the next two months, as Iraqi forces take control of areas currently under the command of coalition forces. He emphasized in his public remarks that this was not [...]	2006-08-31 15:40:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PREL PGOV IZ RO
06BUCHAREST138	AMBASSADOR VISITS TIMISOARA; UZBEK REFUGEES THANK [...] (SBU) Summary: Timisoara Mayor Gheorghe Ciuhandu on January 18 described Timisoara as an economically-thriving city with commercial and cultural links throughout Central and Western Europe, during the Ambassador's first visit to the city. Nonetheless, Ciuhandu lamented that the central gover [...]	2006-01-25 15:34:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM RO
06BUCHAREST1385	ROMANIA: CODEL LANTOS DISCUSSIONS WITH ROMANIAN [...] (C) Summary: In separate meetings with the Romanian President, Prime Minister, and Foreign Minister August 31, Congressman Tom Lantos (D-California) expressed appreciation for Romania's military contributions in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Balkans. He briefed on his recent visit to Lebanon, [...]	2006-09-05 15:59:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV OREP HU LE AF IZ IS RO
06BUCHAREST1407	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING: ROMANIAN JCET PROPOSAL FOR [...] (C) This message constitutes response to SOCEUR request for human rights vetting of Romanian Special Forces Unit participating in Joint Combined Exchange Training (reference: SOCEUR to USDAO Bucharest; DTG 301157Z May 06). 2. (C) The Embassy conducted a thorough review of its records and [...]	2006-09-11 13:20:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PGOV PREL RO
06BUCHAREST1421	AMBASSADOR MEETING WITH FM UNGUREANU ON NAZI [...] (C) Ambassador met with Foreign Minister Ungureanu September 11 to discuss the return of Romanian-born Nazi war criminals Michael Negele and Johann Leprich. Ungureanu said that he had already prepared a response to the Secretary's letter of September 7 in which she urged Romania to accept th [...]	2006-09-11 16:06:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV SOCI RO
06BUCHAREST143	ROMANIAN COMMITMENT REMAINS FIRM IN AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) During a recent press interview, Defense Minister Teodor Atanasiu stated that Romania would reevaluate its troop presence in Iraq and Afghanistan at the end of 2006, adding that "for the time being, the Iraqi and Afghan armies are not capable of taking over the Romanian Army's mission." S [...]	2006-01-26 15:32:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PGOV PREL MARR AF IZ RO
06BUCHAREST1433	TIT-FOR-TAT: ROMANIAN DEFENSE MINISTER AND CHOD ON [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-13 10:56:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS MARR PREL PGOV IZ RO
06BUCHAREST1444	DAS KRAMER DISCUSSIONS WITH FM UNGUREANU AND [...] (C) Summary: During separate meetings with Foreign Minister Ungureanu and senior advisors in the offices of the President and Prime Minister on September 7 in Bucharest, EUR DAS Kramer provided the Department's perspective on regional issues including the upcoming independence referendum in T [...]	2006-09-14 09:01:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PNAT MD EU RO
06BUCHAREST1450	TIT-FOR-TAT: ROMANIAN DEFENSE MINISTER AND CHOD ON [...] (C) President Basescu September 12 suspended Defense Minister Theodor Atanasiu from his duties pending the outcome of a criminal investigation in a domestic spying scandal. The President justified his move as necessary in order to preserve evidence and to prevent the Minister's continued pres [...]	2006-09-14 16:16:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS MARR PREL PGOV IZ RO
06BUCHAREST1451	ROMANIAN VIEWS ON SERBIA, ICTY AND PFP [...] (C) In discussions of reftel demarche at the MFA and conversations with both MFA and MOD officials around the margins of a recent V-10 informal defense officials gathering, Romanian officials took our comments on board but also expressed some concern about the diplomatic pressure currently be [...]	2006-09-14 16:23:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR ICTY SR YI RO
06BUCHAREST1461	BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END USE CHECK [...] This message responds to reftel tasker, to conduct post-shipment, on-site verification on export of Personal Locator Systems to United Arab Emirates involving a Foreign Consignee, IAR S.A., Brasov in Romania. On September 14, POLMILOFF visited IAR, S.A. and met with President and CEO Adviser [...]	2006-09-19 11:43:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KOMC RO AE
06BUCHAREST1479	ROMANIA: SYRIA DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (C) DepPolChief delivered reftel demarche and non-paper to MFA Director for Middle East and Africa Laura Mircea. Mircea noted that there was no solution to the Lebanese situation without Syria, and that within the EU process, Romania supported engaging Syria in discussions on the situation in [...]	2006-09-20 15:58:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER USUN LE SY EU RO
06BUCHAREST1480	BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK [...] This message responds to reftel task to conduct post-shipment verification on license 05-956707 for the shipment of radar systems and equipment to Romania, involving foreign consignee, C.N. Romtehnica S.A., in Bucharest. Embassy did not/not conduct a site visit. Location of radar is in Cluj, [...]	2006-09-21 09:13:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED	KOMC ETTC RO
06BUCHAREST1499	OPPOSITION PARTY FIGURE, BASESCU POLITICAL ADVISOR [...] (C) Summary: In a surprise move, President Traian Basescu nominated George Maior, a senator of the opposition Social-Democratic Party (PSD),to head the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI). Basescu's move has discomfited his coalition partners in the PNL, and breaks with a longstanding tradi [...]	2006-09-26 16:54:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL RO
06BUCHAREST1506	ROMANIA THINKING ON GLOBAL PEACE OPERATIONS [...] (C) DATT, ODC, and POLMILOFF met with MOD State Secretary Claudiu Degeratu on September 26, at his invitation to discuss Romanian interest in the Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI). Also present were J7 Brig. General Tabarcia, Col. Popescu, Arina Danila from the Defense Integrated Pla [...]	2006-09-27 12:42:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	KPKO MARR PREL RO
06BUCHAREST1509	QUIET PRIDE AND FLEETING COMITY AFTER EC [...] (SBU) In a rare display of comity between increasingly fractious coalition partners, President Traian Basescu and Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu abandoned earlier plans for separate press events, opting instead for a joint press appearance at Cotroceni Palace to announce a positive E [...]	2006-09-27 15:50:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL EU RO
06BUCHAREST1511	RESPONSE TO CUBA AT UN HRC DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (UN) Poloff delivered reftel demarche and non-paper to MFA Director for OSCE, CE, and Human Rights Issues, Steluta Arhire and MFA Director for UN, Petru Dumitru. They said GOR was in agreement and as part of EU group would support the US position regarding NGOs and the working groups dealing [...]	2006-09-27 16:03:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL RO
06BUCHAREST1512	SECOND SESSION HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL DEMARCHE [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel demarche and non-paper to MFA Director for OSCE, CE, and Human Rights Issues, Steluta Arhire and MFA Director for UN, Petru Dumitru. Both stated they were in agreement with US comments on the Human Rights Council issue and GOR would support our position as a member [...]	2006-09-27 16:03:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL RO
06BUCHAREST153	S59-05 AND S23B-04: ROMANIAN RESPONSE TO ALERT [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-27 15:49:00	Embassy Bucharest	SECRET	PARM PREL ETTC CBW KNNP IR RO
06BUCHAREST1540	NOMINEES TO HEAD ROMANIAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICES [...] (C) During hearings October 3, President Traian Basescu's nominees to head the Romanian Domestic Intelligence Service (SRI) and the foreign Intelligence Service (SIE),George Maior and Claudiu Saftioiu, received the endorsement of their respective parliamentary committees. The votes cast for [...]	2006-10-03 16:40:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR RO
06BUCHAREST1541	PARLIAMENT VOTES IN NEW HEADS OF INTELLIGENCE [...] (SBU) The Romanian Parliament, in a joint session October 4 confirmed with a comfortable majority the new heads of the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) and of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SIE). The new SRI director will be George Maior, a senator from the main opposition Social Democ [...]	2006-10-04 12:59:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SOCI RO
06BUCHAREST1544	DEMARCHE ON POSSIBLE DPRK NUCLEAR TEST: ROMANIANS [...] (C) In the absence of the Foreign Minister, Ambassador called on Romanian MFA State Secretary Cosmin Viorita October 4. In response to reftel points, Viorita responded that he totally shared the USG view on the issue, and that the GOR strongly condemned the DPRK announcement. Viorita also [...]	2006-10-05 14:19:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP KN RO
06BUCHAREST1573	ROMANIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON NORTH KOREA NUCLEAR [...] (C) In the absence of FM Ungureanu, Ambassador and Polcouns delivered ref A demarche to MFA State Secretary Adrian Vierita October 11. Vierita prefaced his remarks by noting that the Romanian government had responded to Ambassador's previous demarche (ref B) by issuing a strong official sta [...]	2006-10-12 15:12:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	MNUC PREL PARM KNNP KN RO
06BUCHAREST1574	IRI POLLS UNDERSCORE BASESCU'S DOMINANCE OF THE [...] (C) Summary: A recent IRI opinion survey underscores President Basescu's continuing dominance of the Romanian political scene. A majority of respondents evinced a preference for political stability over early elections. Interestingly, almost as many Romanians support the opposition PSD as th [...]	2006-10-12 16:03:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RO
06BUCHAREST1576	ROMANIA ON CFE ENTITLEMENT TRANSFERS [...] (C) Polmiloff met October 11 with MFA Office of Non-proliferation and Arms Control Director Dan Neculaescu and Daniela Marca on approaching Greece on the transfer of TLE Entitlements. They were appreciative but cautious. Neculeascu mentioned that the Norwegians had raised the issue (without [...]	2006-10-13 08:06:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS RO
06BUCHAREST1583	ROMANIA INCREASES INVOLVEMENT IN THE PROLIFERATION [...] (U) Summary. Romania has expanded its participation in Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) activities over the past year. Romania has strengthened domestic legislation and export controls, and improved interagency cooperation. Romania has focused on working with regional counterparts on [...]	2006-10-16 11:54:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	MNUC MOPS PARM PREL RO
06BUCHAREST1584	ETHNIC HUNGARIAN PARTY STRUGGLES FOR GREATER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Under pressure from more radical Hungarian ethnic parties and the need to retain sufficient support to remain in parliament, the Democratic Union (or Alliance) of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR),has been more vocal of late in its calls for greater territorial autonomy for ethnic Mag [...]	2006-10-16 11:54:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	HU PGOV PHUM PREL RO
06BUCHAREST1589	ROMANIA SEEKS NATO CLEARINGHOUSE FOR MOLDOVA [...] During an October 4 courtesy call by D/PolChief, Romania's MFA Deputy Director for NATO Geta Medeleanu requested US support for setting up a NATO clearinghouse mechanism to help Moldova through implementation of its Individual Partnership Action Plan. Medeleanu said that the non-paper (para [...]	2006-10-16 13:52:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MO NATO PREL RO
06BUCHAREST1600	THE FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION IN ROMANIA: PASSING [...] (C) Summary: There is some good news in Bucharest these days in the fight against corruption, a longstanding Romanian vice. There is something of a consensus that ongoing anti-corruption efforts are positively impacting both Romanian political life and society. Corruption remains rampant in [...]	2006-10-17 14:58:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KJUS RO
06BUCHAREST1616	DEFENSE POLICY WORKING GROUP BILATERAL DISCUSSION [...] (C) Summary: A bilateral working group organized by the Romanian MOD with DOD counterparts provided insights into Romanian views on their ongoing military transformation and bilateral military cooperation. Discussion topics included a review of bilateral cooperation, GWOT, and transformation [...]	2006-10-19 15:01:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PGOV PREL RO
06BUCHAREST1619	VENUE FOR 2008 NATO SUMMIT [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-20 14:05:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR NATO RO
06BUCHAREST1637	ROMANIA TO APPROACH GREEKS ON CFE ENTITLEMENTS [...] (C) Following up on Reftel demarche, polmiloff learned on October 24, from MFA Director for Arms Control Dan Neculeascu and CFE Desk Officer Dana Marca that GOR has agreed to demarche Athens on obtaining the ACV entitlements. Neculeascu said the MFA is drafting the instructions today to instr [...]	2006-10-24 13:40:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	KCFE PREL MARR PARM RO
06BUCHAREST1639	TURKISH AMBASSADOR IN BUCHAREST TERRITORIAL ABOUT TURKISH MINORITY [...] (C) SUMMARY. On October 11, Turkish Ambassador Ahmet Okcun met with the Ambassador to discuss "increased U.S. activity in the Dobrogea region directed at the Turkish minority," who he referred to as "his people." Okcun asserted that the activities centered at the American Corner in Constanta were u [...]	2006-10-25 11:03:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL SCUL RO
06BUCHAREST1644	PACKAGE DEAL: NEW ROMANIAN DEFMIN AND EUROPEAN COMMISSIONER NAMED [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-25 16:44:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL MARR SOCI RO
06BUCHAREST1646	FORMER PNL PRESIDENTS EXPELLED AS PARTY TURMOIL [...] (C) Summary: Internecine squabbling in the National Liberal Party (PNL) has claimed more prominent critics of Prime Minister Tariceanu. Two former PNL Presidents, Valeriu Stoica and Theodor Stolojan, are the biggest names in a long list of party leaders expelled in recent weeks. The two re [...]	2006-10-26 16:02:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SOCI RO
06BUCHAREST1652	ROMANIA ON OPEN SKIES TREATY GUIDANCE AND CFE [...] (C) In an October 24 meeting with Polmiloff, MFA Director for Non-Proliferation, Arms Control and Counter-Terrorism Dan Neculeascu said Romania agreed with the US position on the issue of Russia's hazardous airspace zone Open Skies restrictions for a minimum 3,600 meter flight ceiling (ref A) [...]	2006-10-30 08:09:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE NATO PARM PREL KCFE RO
06BUCHAREST1653	ROMANIA AND U.S. ON SAME WAVELENGTH - DAS BRYZA AT [...] (C) Deputy Assistant Secretary Matt Bryza visited Bucharest October 26 to participate in a conference on Regional Energy Cooperation jointly sponsored by the Romanian Presidency, the U.S. and German Embassies, and the George C. Marshall Center ) Romania. In this forum and in earlier meetings [...]	2006-10-30 15:59:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL RO
06BUCHAREST1665	DNI NEGROPONTE MEETING WITH OPPOSITION PSD [...] (C) Summary: At a meeting with DNI Negroponte and the Ambassador, opposition PSD head Mircea Geoana evinced concern about a posssible post-EU accession malaise in Romanian politics, with weak and divided governance for the next several years. Geoana was skeptical about prospects for early ele [...]	2006-10-31 16:38:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL RO
06BUCHAREST1666	ROMANIA AGREES THAT KOSOVO IS NOT A PRECEDENT FOR [...] (C) Deputy Political Chief October 30 raised reftel points with MFA Director for Western Balkan and Regional Cooperation Raluca-Irina Zidaru, and sought elaboration of the Romanian position regarding Kosovo. Zidaru agreed that Kosovo is not a precedent for the reasons outlined in the demarch [...]	2006-10-31 16:50:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PREL SR RO
06BUCHAREST1667	ROMANIA WITHDRAWS EU COMMISSIONER NOMINATION, [...] (SBU) Summary: Romanian senator and Liberal Party spokesperson Varujan Vosganian withdrew his nomination for European Commissioner amid allegations of links to the Communist-era Securitate and shady financial ties. The timing of the allegations lead many to speculate that this was politics Ro [...]	2006-10-31 17:12:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCOR RO
06BUCHAREST1672	ROMANIA: 2006-2007 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL [...] Summary: Romania serves as a transit country for narcotics, as it lies along the well-established Northern Balkan route that is used to move heroin and opium from Southwest Asia to Central and Western Europe. Romania also sits astride a developing route for the transit of synthetic drugs fr [...]	2006-11-01 15:56:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR RO
06BUCHAREST1673	ATHENS TEPID TO ROMANIA'S CFE FLANK DEMARCHE [...] (C) MFA Non-proliferation and Arms Control Director Bogdan Neculeascu on October 31 briefed Polmiloff on the results of Romania's demarche to Athens regarding possible CFE Flank ACV Entitlement transfers (refs a and b). He described the exchange between Romania's Ambassador in Athens and Gre [...]	2006-11-01 16:12:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	KCFE MARR NATO PREL RO
06BUCHAREST1678	ROMANIA CONSIDERS REQUEST TO RESETTLE PROTECTED MIGRANTS FROM GUANTANAMO [...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Director for Human Rights Steluta Arhire on October 17 and to Ministry of Administration and Interior (MAI) Deputy Director General of the National Refugee Office Catalin Necula on November 1. PolOff praised Romania's provision of refuge for the Uzbek ref [...]	2006-11-02 15:25:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREF PGOV PREL RO
06BUCHAREST1679	ROMANIA SUPPORTS BSEC ENVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVE [...] Following Embassy,s delivery of reftel A demarche in early October, Econoff and regional environmental hub officer Sam Kotis met with the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs BSEC coordinator, Florica Barbu on October 18. Barbu delivered a dipnote formally stating Romania's support for the U. [...]	2006-11-02 15:35:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL SENV KCRM RO
06BUCHAREST1685	ROMANIA COMMITTED TO UNSCR 1718 OBLIGATIONS ON [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-06 07:12:00	Embassy Bucharest	SECRET	PARM PREL RO
06BUCHAREST1686	GOR REQUESTS ASSISTANCE FROM MNF-I AND ITS BAGHDAD [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-06 09:10:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PARM IZ RO
06BUCHAREST1693	SCENESETTER FOR FBI DIRECTOR MUELLER'S VISIT TO [...] (S) I welcome your upcoming visit to Bucharest November 13-14. I want to share some thoughts about the extraordinarily strong bilateral partnership we have with the Romanians, the political backdrop to your visit, and how your trip can help advance USG interests here. Romania is a reliable [...]	2006-11-07 15:33:00	Embassy Bucharest	SECRET	PGOV PREL RO
06BUCHAREST1694	RAFO REFINERY â€“ A TROJAN HORSE FOR RUSSIAN MAFIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The RAFO oil refinery is embroiled in a web of corruption, money laundering, fraud and criminal charges involving shady entities in Romania, Russia, Ukraine and Bulgaria. Russian-Israeli organized crime figures Mikhail Cernoy and Iakov Goldovskiy are believed to be behind the purchase [...]	2006-11-07 15:37:00	Embassy Bucharest	SECRET	ENRG ECON PREL RO
06BUCHAREST1705	ROMANIA: COUNTRY RESOLUTIONS AT UN DEMARCHES [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-09 09:01:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNGA RO
06BUCHAREST1706	ROMANIA DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON AMENDING THE CUBA [...] (C) Deputy Polcons on 8 November delivered demarche on the Cuba Embargo Resolution (ref a) to MFA Director for UN Affairs Petru Dumitriu and Deputy Director Eugen Mihut. Dumitriu said he was "surprised" by the U.S. demarche because the Romanian delegation in New York had not yet reported on t [...]	2006-11-09 09:19:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	CU PHUM PREL RO
06BUCHAREST1707	ROMANIA: TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICER [...] (C) The following information is geared to reftel cable request: A) Contact information for TFCO: John Rodgers; Economic Section Chief; 4021 200-3440; rodgersjr@state.gov; rodgersj@state.sgov.gov; B) Contact information for deputy TFCO: Benjamin Rockwell; Deputy Economic Section Chie [...]	2006-11-09 15:28:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	KTFN ETTC KVPR EFIN PTER PREL RO
06BUCHAREST1712	AMBASSADOR'S COURTESY CALL ON NEW DEFENSE MINISTER [...] (C) Ambassador paid a courtesy call on November 7 to new Defense Minister Sorin Frunzaverde, who replaced Teodor Antanasiu. Note: Atanasiu's relationship to a domestic spying scandal led to his suspension on September 12, and was followed by his resignation on October 25 (reftels). end note. [...]	2006-11-09 15:59:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL PGOV RO
06BUCHAREST1717	ROMANIA: GAERC DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-13 11:58:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED	EU PGOV PREL RO
06BUCHAREST1721	ROMANIA,S SOCIAL DEMOCRATS REGROUP FOR UPCOMING [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-13 15:16:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SOCI RO
06BUCHAREST1724	ROMANIA'S SOCIAL DEMOCRATS REGROUP FOR UPCOMING [...] (C) Summary: After a two-year slide in the polls while marked as the "party of corruption," Romania's opposition party is now consolidating its leadership and preparing for European parliamentary elections in 2007. Divided and weak since losing the 2004 elections, the Social Democratic Party [...]	2006-11-14 09:20:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SOCI RO
06BUCHAREST1741	ROMANIA SUPPORTS U.S. ON BELARUS, COUNTRY SPECIFIC [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-16 16:01:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNGA RO
06BUCHAREST1747	FBI DIRECTOR MUELLER'S VISIT TO ROMANIA [...] (C) Summary: FBI Director Robert Mueller's November 14 visit to Bucharest sent a strong message about our continued commitment to our growing partnership in law enforcement and intelligence. In meetings with President Basescu, Prime Minister Tariceanu, and other key officials, our Romanian interloc [...]	2006-11-17 16:45:00	Embassy Bucharest	SECRET	PREL PGOV KCOR PTER PINR KJUS SOCI RO
06BUCHAREST1766	ROMANIA PREPARING TO BID FOR OSCE HIGH [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-22 15:10:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE PREL PHUM RO
06BUCHAREST1767	ROMANIA SEEKS ENTRY-INTO-FORCE ALTERATION TO [...] (U) This is a request for Guidance; see para 3. 2. (SBU) POLMILOFF on November 7, met with MFA Director for Non-Proliferation, Arms Control and Combating Terrorism Dan Neculaescu, whose office has the lead on the Blanket End-Use Assurances agreement. Neculaescu explained that Romania has [...]	2006-11-22 15:19:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MASS PGOV RO
06BUCHAREST1768	ROMANIA'S INTEREST IN HOSTING 2008 NATO SUMMIT [...] (U) Embassy received note verbale from the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding Romania's interest in hosting the 2008 NATO Summit. Below, please see the text of the note and the letter addressed to President Bush. 2. (U) Begin text of note verbale: Nr. C1-1/1803 Bucharest, N [...]	2006-11-22 15:19:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED	NATO MARR PREL PGOV RO
06BUCHAREST178	VANGOETHEM VERDICT, SENTENCING ROILS U.S.-ROMANIAN RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary. The acquittal of former MSG Detachment Commander Christopher VanGoethem on January 31 of negligent homicide, along with the news that he would only receive a reprimand for his conduct, has roiled U.S.-Romanian relations. The denouement of the case will likely complicate ratification by [...]	2006-02-01 19:06:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KCRM ASEC SOCI MARR MOPS RO
06BUCHAREST1797	ROMANIA - ENERGY SCANDAL UNFURLING, AMCIT HELD ON [...] (U) SUMMARY. An unfolding energy-related scandal is causing turmoil among Romania's political and economic elites, with allegations of corruption and influence peddling hitting two government ministers, among others. The accusations come with the approach of winter and amid political attacks [...]	2006-11-29 16:03:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ENRG PGOV KCOR CACS ECON PREL RO
06BUCHAREST1804	ROMANIA REQUESTS NEGOTIATIONS TO REPLACE BILATERAL TRADE [...] (U) This cable is an action request. See paragraph four. 2. (SBU) Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials met with Econoffs on November 27 to formally request negotiations on a replacement to the current bilateral Agreement on Trade Relations (BTA). The MFA is proposing that the current BTA, [...]	2006-12-04 05:40:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON EAGR PREL RO
06BUCHAREST1808	STABILITY PACT MEETINGS IN BUCHAREST FOCUS ON [...] (SBU) The November 15-16 meetings in Bucharest of the Stability Pact for South East Europe saw continued progress toward shifting the Pact's program of regional cooperation initiatives to the responsibility of regional governments under the umbrella of the South East Europe Cooperation Proces [...]	2006-12-04 13:43:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON ETRD EUN PREL BK BU GR HR MD MI
06BUCHAREST1810	ROMANIAN PM TARICEANU UNDER FIRE AS PNL REVOLT [...] (C) Summary. A significant number of National Liberal Party (PNL) figures have joined Agriculture Minister Flutur in support of the rebel Stoica-Stolojan faction, handing Romanian Prime Minister Tariceanu his biggest Liberal Party leadership challenge to date. The breakaway faction has stren [...]	2006-12-04 15:17:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SOCI KCOR RO
06BUCHAREST1811	CONSERVATIVE PARTY WITHDRAWS FROM GOVERNING [...] (SBU) Summary. Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu's government no longer holds a legislative majority following the Conservative Party's December 3 decision to leave the governing coalition. The resulting minority government could be ousted by a motion of no-confidence, but unless the oppo [...]	2006-12-04 15:56:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RO
06BUCHAREST1837	PM TARICEANU'S LIBERAL PARTY SPLITS: DISSIDENTS [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Tariceanu,s National Liberal Party (PNL) formally split on December 7. The dissident group of former party presidents, Theodor Stolojan and Valeriu Stoica, formed the Liberal Democratic Party (PLD),inviting others to join and claim PNL's position within the ruling [...]	2006-12-08 16:55:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SOCI RO
06BUCHAREST1838	MINISTERIAL MUSICAL CHAIRS: IT'S ALL ABOUT THE [...] (C) Summary: The latest round of Romanian government (GOR) ministerial changes have increased the turmoil in the ruling coalition and demonstrated yet again that control of public funding (including from the EU) is a core concern for party leaders. The fight for political leverage over the mo [...]	2006-12-08 17:26:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV RO
06BUCHAREST1839	LIBERAL DEPUTY ON PATRICIU SALE OF ROMPETROL [...] (C) In a 12/8 conversation with Poloff, National Liberal Party (PNL) deputy and youth leader Cristian Adomnitei explained that Rompetrol Chairman and leading PNL figure Dinu Patriciu, was in advanced negotiations to sell a 20 percent stake in Romania's Rompetrol to Russia's Gazprom. Adomnitei [...]	2006-12-08 17:54:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON KCOR ENRG RO
06BUCHAREST1872	ROMANIA READY TO EXCHANGE ADDITIONAL PROTOCOLS AMENDING THE [...] Econoff met with Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Office of Community Law Ion Galea on December 5 to discuss formalizing the negotiated additional protocols to the bilateral investment treaty (BIT). Romania signed the additional protocol on September 22, 2003, and Romania's Parliam [...]	2006-12-18 08:37:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ETRD KTIA PREL RO
06BUCHAREST1874	ROMANIA: 2006 COUNTRY TERRORISM REPORT [...] This report provides Embassy Bucharest,s submission for the 2006 Country Reports on Terrorism. 2. Summary: Romania continued to be a staunch ally in the global war against terrorism, providing a full range of political, diplomatic, and military support for U.S. goals to combat internation [...]	2006-12-18 13:09:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER ASEC PGOV PREL MOPS ECON NATO RO
06BUCHAREST1883	COMMUNICATION IN MUNAF CASE [...] (C) DCM accompanied by PolCouns and Resident Legal Advisor met with representatives from the Romanian Ministry of Justice and the Foreign Ministry December 19 to discuss reftel request to streamline communications between the USG and GOR regarding the Munaf case. DCM underscored the need [...]	2006-12-20 14:56:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC PGOV PREL MARR KJUS IZ RO
06BUCHAREST1884	ROMANIAN PARLIAMENT PASSES RELIGION LAW [...] (SBU) The Romanian Parliament in plenary session passed on December 13 a new religion law that has provoked criticism from human rights NGOs and the Helsinki Commission. It was approved by 220 deputies out of 224 present. It appears similar to an earlier draft that was withdrawn in March 2006 [...]	2006-12-21 12:58:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL DRL RO
06BUCHAREST1885	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH ROMANIAN FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: At a year-end meeting with the Ambassador, Romanian FM Ungureanu said Romania hoped to promote an informal "gymnich"-type event as a follow-up to this year's Black Sea Forum. He evinced hope that the three upcoming EU Presidencies of Germany, Portugal, and Slovenia would contin [...]	2006-12-21 14:16:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NATO EU MD RO
06BUCHAREST1886	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT BASESCU [...] (C) Summary: President Traian Basescu provided assurances at a December 20 meeting with the Ambassador that Romania would maintain current force levels in Iraq and Afghanistan and would continue to upgrade the quality of its forces to NATO standards. Basescu also confirmed Romanian interest [...]	2006-12-21 15:57:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RO
06BUCHAREST1908	BREAKING WITH THE PAST: PRESIDENT BASESCU ISSUES [...] (C) Summary. At a special parliamentary session, President Traian Basescu publicly condemned the communist regime that ruled the country between 1945 and 1989 as &illegitimate and criminal8 and tendered a formal apology to its victims. The event marked the release of a report drafted by a president [...]	2006-12-29 12:25:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SOCI RO
06BUCHAREST199	VANGOETHEM VERDICT: PUBLIC OUTRAGE CONTINUES [...] (C) Summary. The acquittal of former MSG Detachment Commander Christopher VanGoethem on January 31 of negligent homicide continues to receive prominent press coverage, with political leaders and the general public alike questioning the reasons for the verdict as well as the commitment of the USG to [...]	2006-02-04 09:35:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KCRM ASEC SOCI MARR MOPS RO
06BUCHAREST208	ROMANIA: DEMARCHE ON RUSSIA-UKRAINE GAS [...] (C) On February 2, EmbOffs delivered reftel talking points to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director General for Enlarged Europe Razvan Rusu. Rusu agreed that transparency is needed in the Russia-Ukraine gas deal. However, he stated that this issue should be part of a comprehensive approach to [...]	2006-02-07 09:35:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON UP RS RO
06BUCHAREST239	ROMANIAN SENATE DEALS SETBACK TO ANTI-CORRUPTION [...] (C) Summary: A controversial vote by the Romanian Senate February 9 to strip the National Anticorruption Department (DNA) of its authority to prosecute MPs has created a potential roadblock to GOR efforts against high-profile corruption cases, at the very time the EU is scrutinizing those effo [...]	2006-02-11 10:03:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KJUS KCRM SOCI ECON SIPDIS RO
06BUCHAREST278	ROMANIA SEEKS "POSITIVE POLITICAL SIGNAL" FROM [...] U) This is an Action Request. Please see paragrap 11. 2. (C) Last summer, Romania proposed a "Back Sea Forum for Dialogue and Partnership Summi" as a launching pad for a process of dialogue ad partnership among Black Sea states, the U.S. an the E.U. (Refs) The proposed forum focuses on "o [...]	2006-02-16 16:00:00	Embassy Bucharest	SECRET	PGOV PREL ECON ETRD ENRG SENV PTER EPET TU

06BUCHAREST280	ROMANIA TO VOTE FOR GUATEMALA VICE VENEZUELA IN [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-17 09:25:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC RO
06BUCHAREST287	ROMANIAN AND UKRAINIAN VIEWS ON PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: Romanian MFA officials expressed cautious optimism that the new bilateral commission set up by President Traian Basescu and Ukrainian President Yushchenko could yield concrete results in resolving historic problems between the two countries such as competing territorial claims ove [...]	2006-02-17 16:43:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON PBTS MD UP RO
06BUCHAREST289	ROMANIA'S ANTI-CORRUPTION BATTLE HEATS UP -- [...] (C) Summary: The National Anti-corruption Department (DNA) formally indicted former Prime Minister Adrian Nastase February 16 on bribery and corruption charges. Although the DNA has not showed its full hand, some of the charges relate to a suspicious property purchase in central Bucharest at [...]	2006-02-17 18:10:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KJUS KCRM SOCI ECON RO
06BUCHAREST309	ROMANIA RECEIVED GAERC DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-22 15:47:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAL PREL RO
06BUCHAREST344	ROMANIA RECEIVED GDPR UPDATE FOR NATO ALLIES AND [...] (S) PolOff delivered reftel to Mirela Maghiar, MFA Director for NATO Division, and Dan Neculaescu, MFA Director for Non-Proliferation and Arms Control, on February 22. They expressed appreciation for the notification and continuing "great" coordination. Neculaescu promised to inform MOD coll [...]	2006-02-27 15:57:00	Embassy Bucharest	SECRET	KCFE NATO PREL MARR PARM RO
06BUCHAREST359	TRANSYLVANIA REGIONAL GOVERNMENT, FOURTH QUARTER [...] (U) Summary: This cable summarizes recent newsworthy regional and local controversies in the last quarter of 2005. Common themes during this period included local government corruption and stormy relations between members of the governing alliance at the local level, sometimes counterbalance [...]	2006-03-01 15:40:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EINV SOCI RO
06BUCHAREST366	ROMANIA'S SIXTH ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] (SBU) OVERVIEW: ------------------- A. Romania is a country of origin and transit for trafficking in persons (TIP). While the majority of TIP cases pertain to international trafficking between Romania and Western Europe, there are cases of domestic trafficking as well. Victims - primar [...]	2006-03-01 16:54:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PGOV PHUM PREF RO SMIG SOCI
06BUCHAREST408	CONTROVERSY OVER MFA OFFICIAL'S STATEMENT ON USE [...] (SBU) In a response to a question, MFA State Secretary Teodor Baconschi stated during a March 7 Senate joint Foreign Policy and Defense Committee hearing that the U.S.-Romanian Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) could permit U.S. forces to launch a military operation from Romanian territory [...]	2006-03-09 15:38:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS MARR SOCI RO
06BUCHAREST409	ROMANIA HOLDS REGIONAL MINISTERIAL ON AVIAN FLU [...] (C) Romanian Minister of Agriculture Flutur invited his counterparts from Bulgaria, Moldova, Turkey and Ukraine to discuss Avian Flu in Bucharest on March 6. The group's first event was a tour with U.S. Ambassador Taubman of the Ministry's Laboratory that has just installed the USG-funded re [...]	2006-03-09 16:09:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	KFLU TBIO EAID CASC WHO RO
06BUCHAREST410	CLAMOR SURROUNDING ETHNIC HUNGARIAN FRINGE GROUP'S [...] (C) Summary. Ethnic Hungarian party (UDMR) leader and Deputy Prime Minister Bela Marko told the Ambassador on March 10 that Marko and his party do not support a March 15 ethnic Hungarian "autonomy proclamation," slated to occur in a small Transylvanian town. He predicted a small and peaceful [...]	2006-03-10 17:24:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI HU RO
06BUCHAREST411	(C) ROMANIA'S ENERGY SECTOR - RUSSIAN DEPENDENT [...] (C) SUMMARY. Romania, once a net exporter of energy products, now produces 40% of its domestic oil consumption and 60% of its gas needs, and the rates are decreasing each year. While gas imports are based on trades at the international gas boards, Romania imports nearly all gas from Gazprom [...]	2006-03-10 17:36:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET EINV PREL PGOV RO
06BUCHAREST436	BASESCU PREDICTS CALM ETHNIC HUNGARIAN "AUTONOMY [...] (C) Summary. President Traian Basescu predicted to the Ambassador during a March 13 meeting that a planned March 15 "autonomy declaration" organized by a fringe ethnic Hungarian group would be a relatively low-key event. He characterized it as the product of a power struggle between the main [...]	2006-03-14 17:36:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI ECON ENRG EINV MARR HU RO
06BUCHAREST447	DAS PEKALA'S VISIT TO ROMANIA HIGHLIGHTS BLACK SEA [...] (C) Summary. DAS Mark Pekala had a productive, upbeat series of meetings during his March 6-8 visit to Bucharest. He expressed strong USG support for Romania's June 5 "Black Sea Forum," (Ref C) and told Romanian officials the U.S. would be represented at an appropriate senior level. His Rom [...]	2006-03-15 16:26:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PHUM PREL RO SOCI
06BUCHAREST448	EX-PM ADRIAN NASTASE OUT, PSD IN DISARRAY AS [...] (SBU) Former Prime Minister Adrian Nastase was forced to resign as Chamber of Deputies President and Executive President of the main opposition Social Democratic Party (PSD) after a no-confidence vote during a marathon nine-hour March 14 special meeting of national and local PSD leaders. Duri [...]	2006-03-15 17:06:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SOCI KCRM RO
06BUCHAREST457	ROMANIA'S ETHNIC HUNGARIANS PEACEFULLY CELEBRATE [...] (SBU) Ethnic Hungarians in Romania of both Magyar and Szekler descent peacefully commemorated March 15, a day which marks the 1848-49 Hungarian revolution. In Cluj- Napoca, Transylvania's largest city, up to 2000 ethnic Hungarians gathered in the town's center for a low-key ceremony. One so [...]	2006-03-16 15:16:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI HU RO
06BUCHAREST460	BLACK SEA BORDER SECURITY INITIATIVE REAL TIME [...] (C) Summary: On January 30-31, Romaia hosted the Black Sea Border Security Initiativ (BSBSI) "real-time operation." As the final evnt of the &STYX 20058 scenario, the Romanians deonstrated a mock seizure of a truck carrying a rdiological commodity to representatives of Bulgari, Ukraine, Moldo [...]	2006-03-16 16:39:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ETTC KCRM PTER KNNP RO
06BUCHAREST516	YOUNG LIBERAL LEADER ELECTED SPEAKER OF THE [...] (SBU) Summary: Bogdan Olteanu, the ex-minister for relations with parliament, was elected March 20 President of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies, replacing former Prime Minister Adrian Nastase. A curious coalition of deputies elected Olteanu in the first round, consisting of the parties of [...]	2006-03-23 15:16:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL SOCI PINR RO
06BUCHAREST519	WHAT ROMANIA CAN DO TO PROMOTE STABILITY, SECURITY [...] (C) Summary. Romania's desire to play an active role in the Black Sea region could, if properly channeled and supported by the U.S., the U.K. and like-minded partners, further our goals for the region and beyond. Bucharest could play a positive role in promoting regional efforts to strengthen [...]	2006-03-24 18:00:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI ECON ENRG ASEC PTER KCRM
06BUCHAREST536	ABANDONED CHILDREN STILL SUFFERING IN ROMANIA [...] (C) Summary: During an unannounced visit to a children's hospital near Bucharest, Poloff observed first-hand the poor conditions we believe continue to be a fact of life for many of Romania's institutionalized children. Some of the twenty children at the hospital exhibited signs of severe ne [...]	2006-03-28 11:09:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC PGOV PHUM PREL RO
06BUCHAREST539	ROMANIA -- INITIAL RESPONSE ON SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) Further to Reftel, PolMilOff discusse with MFA NATO Division Director Mirela Maghiar arch 28 a possible Romanian contribution to a seen-man Military Advisory and Liaison Team (MALT). The MALT would certify and mentor the Iraqi Bas Defense Unit (IBDU) taking over guard responsibilities at [...]	2006-03-28 16:13:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO MARR MOPS PGOV PREL RO IZ
06BUCHAREST559	INDEPENDENT INQUIRY COMMITTEE FOLLOW-UP: ROMANIAN [...] (SBU) Econoff met with the spokesman for the Romanian Prosecutor General's Office (PGO),Robert Cazanciuc, as well as Ciprian Nastasiu, the lead prosecutor on an open case with links to the UN Oil-for-Food Program (OFF). According to Nastasiu, the PGO has been investigating connections to Iraq [...]	2006-03-31 16:54:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KFIN PGOV KCRM IZ RO
06BUCHAREST573	ROMANIAN RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON ENGAGING GEORGIA [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-04 14:18:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO MARR PREL CG RO
06BUCHAREST574	GENETICALLY MODIFIED SOYBEANS STILL UNDER FIRE IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. With European Union (EU) accession looming, the Government of Romania (GOR) decided in January to ban the cultivation of Genetically Modified (GM) soybeans starting in 2007, Romania's anticipated accession date. However, the GOR has yet to decide whether GM soybeans may be cult [...]	2006-04-05 11:33:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD EU TBIO RO
06BUCHAREST576	ADOPTIONS: ROMANIA OFFICIALLY REJECTS ALL PENDING [...] (U) On April 5, Embassy received by mail a letter from Theodora Bertzi, Secretary of State for the Government of Romania,s (GOR) Romanian Office for Adoptions (ROA),dated March 29 and including the final report of the GOR Working Group established in June 2005 to audit pending petitions by fo [...]	2006-04-05 16:04:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC PREL PGOV PHUM RO
06BUCHAREST590	ROMANIA: DEEPENING RIFT IN GOVERNING COALITION -- [...] (C) Summary: A series of events and statements in recent days have highlighted deepening divisions between the two leading parties of Romania's governing coalition, the center-right National Liberal Party (PNL) and the centrist Democratic Party (PD). President and de facto PD leader Traian Ba [...]	2006-04-07 15:57:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR SOCI RO
06BUCHAREST607	INITIAL CAUTIOUS ROMANIAN RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON [...] (C) Further to Reftel, PolMilOff discussed the U.S. and U.K. paper entitled "NATO's Global Partnership" with MFA NATO Division Director Mirela Maghiar on April 12. PolMilOff stressed the U.S. goal of NATO leaders announcing, at the Riga Summit, their intention to reshape how NATO engages with [...]	2006-04-12 15:54:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PREL MARR RO
06BUCHAREST618	TURKISH AND SAUDI PRESSURE ON ROMANIAN MUFTI [...] (C) SUMMARY. On October 11, Turkish Ambassador Ahmet Okcun met with the Ambassador to discuss "increased U.S. activity in the Dobrogea region directed at the Turkish minority," who he referred to as "his people." Okcun asserted that the activities centered at the American Corner in Constanta were u [...]	2006-04-14 15:26:00	Embassy Bucharest	SECRET	PGOV PREL PHUM PTER SOCI TU SA RO
06BUCHAREST620	UZBEK REFUGEES: ROMANIAN MFA, LOCAL UNHCR [...] (U) This is an action message -- see paragraph 5. 2. (SBU) PolChief received a call April 11 from MFA Director General for Global Affairs Stelian Stoian expressing concern about the slow resettlement to third countries of the Uzbek refugees transported in August 2005 to a facility near Tim [...]	2006-04-14 15:40:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PHUM PREL SOCI UZ RO
06BUCHAREST628	ROMANIA: BASESCU DISPUTES SPECULATION ON POSSIBLE [...] (SBU) During a nationally televised interview on April 16, President Traian Basescu stated that the U.S. would not be able to launch an attack from Romanian territory without prior GOR approval. He characterized as "exaggerated" press reports that the U.S. could attack a third country from R [...]	2006-04-17 15:43:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PGOV PREL SOCI RO
06BUCHAREST629	ROMANIA: DAS KRAMER, AMBASSADOR HODGES - [...] (C) Summary: DAS David Kramer and Ambassador to Moldova Heather Hodges shared views with leading Romanian interlocutors on recent developments involving Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus and Russia during a visit to Bucharest on April 3-4. Although Romanian interlocutors described growing strains in [...]	2006-04-18 07:57:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MD RS BO UP KDEM PHUM RO
06BUCHAREST635	ROMANIA: F-16 AIRCRAFT TRANSFER OFFER [...] (C/NF) It is Embassy's understanding, further to discussions with senior MOD officials, that the GOR has not made up its mind regarding the procurement source of F-16 aircraft. Although President Basescu ruled out that possibility in a March conversation with the Ambassador (Ref B),it is st [...]	2006-04-18 15:39:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	MARR MASS PGOV PREL RO IS
06BUCHAREST637	ROMANIAN RESPONSE -- BRIEFING CAPITALS ON U.S. [...] (C) PolChief delivered reftel points April 18 to U.S. Kosovo Policy to MFA Director General for Expanded Europe Rasvan Rusu, a core architect of the Romanian MFA's Balkans policy. Rusu noted that Romanian President Basescu and FM Ungureanu would be traveling to Belgrade the same day, and he wo [...]	2006-04-18 16:26:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV YI EU RO
06BUCHAREST638	ROMANIA'S RENEWABLE ENERGY MARKET SHOWS INCREASING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Romania's small but growing market for renewable energy will provide new opportunities not only for U.S. exporters and investors, but for cooperation with Europe in the energy field. In conjunction with its European Union (EU) aspirations, Romania has set aggressive targets for [...]	2006-04-18 16:29:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG SENV PREL TRGY EINV ETRD EAGR EU RO
06BUCHAREST660	ROMANIA: G8 COUNTER-TERRORISM ACTION GROUP [...] (C) Summary. During the recent Russian Embassy-hosted G8 Counter-terrorism Action Group (CTAG) meeting (Ref A),participants agreed upon the importance of dialogue and exchange with moderate Muslims but acknowledged that their Embassies had not engaged in such efforts. Several participants [...]	2006-04-21 10:19:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KCRM PGOV PREL PTER SOCI RO
06BUCHAREST665	ROMANIA: GOR ADOPTIONS OFFICE MOVES TO PREVENT [...] (SBU) Summary. On April 17, the Romanian Office for Adoptions (ROA) publicly announced that no inter-country adoptions would result from the government's review of the petitions by foreign families to adopt Romanian children filed before the January 1, 2005 ban on inter-country adoption took [...]	2006-04-21 11:31:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	SOCI PHUM PGOV CASC PREL SIPDIS RO
06BUCHAREST704	ROMANIAN REACTION TO COMBAT DEATH OF SOLDIER IN [...] (C) Summary. The Romanian government has pledged to maintain its troop presence in Iraq in the wake of its first-ever ombat death there. President Traian Basescu described the fallen soldier as among the pantheon of Romanian heroes, a sentiment widely shared by other political leaders and [...]	2006-04-28 17:08:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS MARR SOCI IZ RO
06BUCHAREST757	PRESIDENT BASESCU UNDERGOES SURGERY FOR HERNIATED [...] (U) Romanian President Traian Basescu underwent surgery for a herniated disc early Tuesday, May 9, at the University of Vienna Allgemeines Krakenhaus Hospital. He had been transported the evening before to the Austrian capital. A press release from the presidential palace reports that doctor [...]	2006-05-09 11:40:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL RO
06BUCHAREST761	SENATE DEFENSE COMMITTEE GREENLIGHTS U.S. - [...] (C) George-Cristian Maior, Senate Defense Committee Chairman and a leading member of the opposition Social Democratic Party (PSD),confirmed to PolMilOff that the Defense Committee voted 8 to 1 on May 10 in favor of the U.S.-Romanian Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) and would send a favora [...]	2006-05-10 14:48:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS NATO PGOV PREL RO
06BUCHAREST762	FORMER RULING SOCIAL DEMOCRATS TO SIGN AGREEMENT [...] (C) Summary. The opposition Social Democratic Party (PSD) announced May 8 it would sign a protocol of parliamentary cooperation with the extreme nationalist Greater Romania Party (PRM). PSD President Mircea Geoana claimed publicly that the agreement would entail preparation of a joint no-con [...]	2006-05-10 15:39:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR RO
06BUCHAREST769	ROMANIAN ADOPTIONS CHIEF REMAINS INFLEXIBLE, AS [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 3, Consul General, and the AID Director called on Theodora Bertzi, Secretary of State of the Romanian Office for Adoptions (ROA). The purpose was to present our formal reaction to the March 29 GOR report on the files of Romanian orphans and abandoned children on whose be [...]	2006-05-11 15:39:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CASC PREL PGOV PHUM RO
06BUCHAREST780	ROMANIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH'S OVERNIGHT DEMOLITION OF [...] (U) Several media outlets reported that, overnight, a wrecking crew acting on instructions from the GOR-affiliated Romanian Orthodox Church (BOR) demolished a Greek-Catholic church in the Transylvanian village of Taga, near Cluj- Napoca, violating a court's injunction that banned the building' [...]	2006-05-12 16:03:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM SOCI KIRF RO
06BUCHAREST799	ROMANIAN RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON ELIMINATING ISAF [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-16 09:51:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO MARR PREL AF RO
06BUCHAREST811	AVIAN INFLUENZA - OUTBREAK IN ROMANIAN COMMERCIAL [...] (SBU) Romania's National Institute for Animal Diagnosis and Health confirmed that H5N1 avian influenza (AI) has been found in Brasov County, the first confirmed case in Transylvania. Ministry officials confirmed that the virus was found in three commercial farms in the county, and warned th [...]	2006-05-16 15:56:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU TBIO PREL EAID CASC WHO RO
06BUCHAREST813	ROMANIA RECEIVES CONDITIONAL GREEN LIGHT FOR [...] (C) Summary: The European Commission (EC) gave a conditional green light May 16 for Romania's accession to the EU on schedule on January 1, 2007. Although the EC did not specifically recommend a date in its monitoring report on Romania, local EU contacts and media observers note that the ove [...]	2006-05-16 18:43:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD EFIN PHUM SOCI CASC KDEM
06BUCHAREST814	ROMANIA: RESPONSE TO AUSTRALIA GROUP DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-17 10:53:00	Embassy Bucharest	SECRET	PARM PREL ETTC RO
06BUCHAREST834	AVIAN INFLUENZA EXPLODES ACROSS SEVEN ROMANIAN [...] (SBU) Romania's Ministry of Agriculture has confirmed new cases of H5N1 Avian Influenza (AI) in three counties and is testing suspected outbreaks in four more. The cases all are clustered in central Romania, where no previous cases had occurred. Six suspected cases of human AI have tested n [...]	2006-05-18 17:00:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU TBIO PREL EAID CASC WHO RO
06BUCHAREST841	A VISIT TO THREE ROMA VILLAGES REVEALS ENDURING [...] (U) Summary: In April, Human Rights officer visited three Roma communities in Mures County, Transylvania, the most ethnically diverse and yet ethnically divided county of Romania. Although less than 20 kilometers apart, each community demonstrated dramatically different levels of development, [...]	2006-05-19 14:02:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM SOCI RO
06BUCHAREST843	AVIAN INFLUENZA OUTBREAK UNFOLDS [...] (SBU) On May 18, authorities stepped up their effort to contain the H5N1 avian influenza (AI) outbreak in southern Transylvania, restricting traffic and establishing disinfection checkpoints on the DN 1 highway. The virus has also been identified in the bird population within the city limit [...]	2006-05-22 06:56:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU TBIO PREL EAID CASC WHO RO
06BUCHAREST847	AVIAN INFLUENZA SPREADS TO BUCHAREST, OTHER MAJOR [...] (SBU) The latest outbreak of avian influenza (AI) in Romania continues to spread over nearly one third of the country. A total of 34 sites in nine counties have been confirmed as H5N1 positive, with another 24 sites under suspicion pending confirmation. In Bucharest, dead domestic poultry [...]	2006-05-22 16:04:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU TBIO PREL EAID CASC WHO RO
06BUCHAREST869	AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE IN BUCHAREST - CONFUSION [...] (C) Avian Influenza (AI) has been confirmed in two neighborhoods within the city limits of Bucharest, making Romania's largest city the first European capital hit by the H5N1 virus. The virus was discovered in dead chickens raised in backyards of residents living in low-income neighborhoods o [...]	2006-05-25 15:51:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	KFLU TBIO PREL EAID CASC WHO RO
06BUCHAREST877	ROMANIA: INITIAL RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE REGARDING [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-30 13:19:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO MOPS PGOV RO IZ
06BUCHAREST878	ROMANIAN SUPPORT FOR THE PROLIFERATION SECURITY [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-30 13:20:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP MNUC PARM PREL RO
06BUCHAREST881	ROMANIA PLEDGES SUPPORT ON KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE [...] (C) Summary: Romania's president, foreign minister, and national security advisor agreed to support U.S. efforts to resolve Kosovo's final status when they met in Bucharest with Ambassador Frank Wisner, the Secretary's Special Representative to the Kosovo Status Talks. While noting serious con [...]	2006-05-30 15:52:00	Embassy Bucharest	SECRET	PREL PGOV YI EU RO
06BUCHAREST902	SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR J.D. CROUCH'S VISIT TO ROMANIA [...] (C) Summary. Embassy Bucharest warmly welcomes your upcoming visit to Bucharest. Your participation at the June 5 "Black Sea Forum for Dialogue and Partnership Summit" is a tangible sign of USG support for Romania's aspirations to promote regional efforts to strengthen democratic institutions, dive [...]	2006-05-31 17:57:00	Embassy Bucharest	SECRET	ECON ETRD MARR MOPS NATO PGOV PHUM PREL RO
06BUCHAREST913	MORE AVIAN INFLUENZA CASES DISCOVERED THROUGHOUT [...] (U) Following the detection of H5N1 in three commercial poultry farms in the city of Codlea, Brasov County, the number of outbreaks identified throughout the country has grown rapidly. A total of 114 outbreaks have been confirmed in 15 counties since May 12, including outbreaks within the cit [...]	2006-06-01 14:50:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU TBIO PREL EAID CASC WHO RO
06BUCHAREST928	ROMANIA SUPPORTS U.S. STATEMENT ON IRAN [...] (C) PolChief discussed reftel demarche on joining dialogue with Iran with the Foreign Minister's Chief of Staff Cornel Feruta on May 31, the FM being unavailable. Feruta promised that the GOR would issue a statement in support of the U.S. position. PolOff followed up June 1 with senior MFA offi [...]	2006-06-02 19:26:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KNNP IR RO
06BUCHAREST95	BASESCU DISCUSSES ADOPTIONS, BLACK SEA SECURITY, [...] (C) Summary. Romanian President Traian Basescu on January 10 discussed 10 inter-country adoptions, Black-Sea Security and Russia, and US-Romanian relations with visiting Congressman Robert Wexler. Basescu asserted that he had been "mistaken" during his trip to the U.S. in March 2005 in raisi [...]	2006-01-18 12:07:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CASC PHUM RO
06BUCHAREST980	MOLDOVAN-ROMANIAN DIFFERENCES OVER SIGNING BASIC [...] (C) Summary: In a June 5 meeting with Deputy NSA J. D. Crouch, Moldovan President Voronin sought U.S. assistance in encouraging Romania to sign a "Basic Treaty" with Moldova. The question of concluding a basic treaty between the two countries is a long-standing one that is fraught with domesti [...]	2006-06-13 16:09:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MD RO
06BUCHAREST981	ROMANIAN BLACK SEA FORUM: FIRST STEPS TOWARD A [...] (C) Summary. Senior GOR officials assert that they will use the momentum initiated by the June 5 "Black Sea Forum for Dialogue and Partnership" summit in Bucharest as a "launching pad" for further dialogue and cooperation in the Black Sea region. Romanian interlocutors have also expressed gr [...]	2006-06-13 16:33:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AORC ECIN PINS PHSA NATO PGOV AM AJ BU
06BUDAPEST1009	HUNGARY'S PARLIAMENT: STRUCTURAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC [...] (U) Some three weeks since the second round of Hungary's national elections, Parliament convenes its first plenary session of the term on May 16. President Solyom has invited MSZP and SZDSZ to form the next government, while opposition FIDESZ and MDF remain divided. This session will likely [...]	2006-05-15 12:32:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM SOCI PINR HU
06BUDAPEST1018	HUNGARY'S ELECTIONS: MDF STAYIN' ALIVE [...] (U) MDF's unexpected return to Parliament demonstrated that the right wing is too diverse to be represented by a monolithic party. MDF views itself as a "constructive" opposition party and sees its electoral success as a chance to breathe new life into the ranks. The party has said repeatedl [...]	2006-05-15 15:31:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV HU
06BUDAPEST1024	HUNGARY: RESPONSE TO FOLLOW-UP DEMARCHE ON EU [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points and background to Erno Bohar, Director General of the MFA's Fifth Territorial District on May 15. Bohar told Poloff that the MFA does not plan to have a response until May 18. Post will report response septel. 2. (U) Visit Embassy Budapest's classified [...]	2006-05-16 06:46:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EUN CE HU
06BUDAPEST1127	HUNGARY: FINAL RESPONSE TO EU TAMIL TIGERS [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-26 09:44:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EUN CE HU
06BUDAPEST1161	HUNGARY: OFFICIAL MFA STATEMENT ON USG INITIATIVE [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-01 13:18:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL IR HU
06BUDAPEST1175	HUNGARY: PM ANNOUNCES NEW CABINET (C-RE6-00145) [...] (U) On Friday, June 2 in Parliament, PM Gyurcsany announced his new cabinet, setting the stage for much-anticipated administrative and fiscal reforms. The number of ministers will slip from 17 to 12, with eight ministers from coalition leader Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP),three from junio [...]	2006-06-02 15:26:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM SOCI PINR HU
06BUDAPEST1201	GOH PRESENTS NEW PROGRAM: GRAND VISION, FEW [...] (U) At Parliament,s May 30 plenary session, PM-elect Ferenc Gyurcsany presented MPs and media with the new coalition program, entitled &New Hungary ) Freedom and Solidarity.8 The 85-page document is the fruit of weeks of negotiations between coalition partners MSZP and SZDSZ, and lays the gro [...]	2006-06-08 13:34:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL SOCI HU
06BUDAPEST1490	HUNGARY: HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE FOR 61ST UN [...] (SBU) Foreign Minister Kinga Goncz will head the Hungarian delegation to the UN General Assembly (UNGA),addressing UNGA on September 25. Minister of Justice Jozsef Petretei will represent Hungary at the High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development on September 14 and 15, a [...]	2006-07-26 15:08:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA HU
06BUDAPEST1498	HUNGARY,S PARLIAMENT: THE FALL 2006 AGENDA [...] (U) The last plenary session of Parliament,s &extraordinary8 summer sitting, which began May 16, was July 24; now, the cabinet, the prime minister and Members of Parliament are already making preparations for the autumn session. While new items are certain to be added to the political agenda [...]	2006-07-28 08:24:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM HU
06BUDAPEST1902	PM GYURCSANY ON CONTINUING PROTESTS [...] (C) Summary: Anti-government demonstrations continued in Budapest and elsewhere in Hungary September 19 - 20, with crowds estimated in excess of 10,000 gathering around parliament and isolated incidents of violence - driven by small numbers of vandals - occuring at sites including MSZP party [...]	2006-09-20 16:48:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM HU
06BUDAPEST1913	DEMONSTRATIONS CONTINUE; DISTINCTIONS EMERGE [...] (SBU) Crowds estimated at 10,000 - 15,000 gathered at Parliament on the evening of September 20, but the authorities report fewer and less severe violent incidents overnight. Residents are adjusting to the evening demonstrations against the Gyurcsany government and accept the peaceful expressi [...]	2006-09-21 15:05:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM ASEC HU
06BUDAPEST1929	BUDAPEST DEMONSTRATIONS: ENTER STAGE RIGHT [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-22 16:10:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM ECON ASEC CASC HU
06BUDAPEST1953	BUDAPEST DEMONSTRATIONS: FIDESZ OUT FOR A SPIN [...] (U) Addressing an "emergency session" of diplomatic and business community leaders at the Budapest Atlantic Forum September 26, former FM Janos Martonyi and MP Zsolt Nemeth presented FIDESZ's views on the demonstrations. 2. (SBU) Martonyi cast the "Gyurcsany tape" in the context of the go [...]	2006-09-26 13:43:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM ECON HU
06BUDAPEST2004	HUNGARY'S LOCAL ELECTIONS: OPPOSITION GAINS [...] (C) Summary: With voter turn-out at a record 53%, the opposition scored significant victories in local elections October 1, with FIDESZ-KDNP securing a majority in all but one of Hungary's 19 county assemblies and electing mayors in the majority of large cities throughout the country. The g [...]	2006-10-03 15:58:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM HU
06BUDAPEST2005	RAISING THE STAKES: GYURCSANY GOVERNMENT TO CALL [...] (U) Following the opposition's strong showing in the local elections October 1 (septel),Prime Minister Gyurcsany has announced his intention to seek the first vote of confidence under the current constitution in a special session of Parliament on October 6. 2. (U) Alluding to President S [...]	2006-10-03 16:17:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM HU
06BUDAPEST2026	THE LAND OF THE BLIND: ALL EYES ON PARLIAMENTARY [...] (C) Rumors abound as the October 6 confidence vote in Prime Minister Gyurcsany approaches. Our sources understand that FIDESZ may be in possession of another tape of the PM and suspect they will time its release around the vote. Local political consultant Krisztian Szabados advises that FIDE [...]	2006-10-06 13:45:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM HU
06BUDAPEST2027	HUNGARIAN STAND-OFF: DEMONSTRATIONS, CONFIDENCE [...] (SBU) Hungarian politics ventured further into the unknown as FIDESZ stood by its call for mass demonstrations in the absence of PM Gyurcsany's resignation or removal from office by October 6. 2. (SBU) Although FIDESZ had initially rejected participation in the Gyurcsany government's plann [...]	2006-10-06 13:45:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM HU
06BUDAPEST2029	THE LAND OF THE BLIND: ALL EYES ON PARLIAMENTARY [...] (C) Rumors abound as the October 6 confidence vote in Prime Minister Gyurcsany approaches. Our sources understand that FIDESZ may be in possession of another tape of the PM and suspect they will time its release around the vote. Local political consultant Krisztian Szabados advises that FIDE [...]	2006-10-06 13:45:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM HU
06BUDAPEST2045	HUNGARIAN CONFIDENCE VOTE: GYURCSANY'S MAJORITY [...] (C) Summary: The Hungarian parliament affirmed its confidence in Prime Minister Gyurcsany by a 207 - 165 margin following short and often sharp debate in an extraordinary session October 6. Speakers from the governing coalition including the PM emphasized their willingness to confront a legac [...]	2006-10-10 14:16:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM HU
06BUDAPEST2048	POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE: FIDESZ CALLS FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Addressing the diplomatic community October 9, FIDESZ leader Viktor Orban underscored his demand for Prime Minister Gyurcsany's departure as "the only key to stability" in Hungary. The present government, he asserted, is "paralyzed" and lacks the political credibility to under [...]	2006-10-11 05:58:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM ECON HU
06BUDAPEST2065	THE RIGHT ON WHAT'S WRONG WITH ORBAN [...] (SBU) Ambassador Foley's dinner for visiting Hungarian-American Coalition President Maximilian Teleki highlighted questions, concerns, and criticism regarding FIDESZ leader Viktor Orban from traditional supporters. 2. (C) Center-right commentator Istvan Stumpf candidly noted that "Viktor [...]	2006-10-12 12:24:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM HU
06BUDAPEST2105	RESPONSE TO NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR TEST ANNOUNCEMENT [...] (U) Post provided reftel points to both MFA Director for International Organizations Laszlo Molnar and to the Americas Department. 2. (U) The GoH remains supportive of our position and issued a public statement in response to the North Korean announcement per our previous request. 3. [...]	2006-10-17 14:39:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP PREL PARM HU
06BUDAPEST2111	ORBAN TELLS AMBASSADORS INSTABILITY IS "A RISK I'M [...] (C) FIDESZ leader Viktor Orban told G-7 Ambassadors October 12 that he believes Prime Minister Gyurcsany "can't survive" in the face of reduced real income stemming from higher inflation, increased popular discontent re austerity measures, and continued opposition from the right. Charging th [...]	2006-10-18 09:05:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM HU
06BUDAPEST2161	LOST IN TRANSLATION: PM GYURCSANY'S MEETING WITH [...] (SBU) Prime Minister Gyurcsany met with the members of the U.S. delegation to the 50th anniversary commemorative events October 22. The delegation and Ambassador Foley underscored the USG's support for democratic reform and our confidence in Hungary's future per the Secretary's recent conver [...]	2006-10-25 14:58:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM HU
06BUDAPEST2229	AD REFERENDUM: FIDESZ CHALLENGES THE GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary: With its call for a public referendum on seven questions revolving around the Gyurcsany government's reform package, FIDESZ has opened another front in its campaign against the Prime Minister. Consistent with Viktor Orban's recent statements emphasizing that "democracy - not the [...]	2006-11-02 15:55:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM HU
06BUDAPEST2230	SURVIVOR HUNGARY: THE GYURCSANY GOVERNMENT'S [...] (S) Beset by continuing political attacks and public protests, the Gyurcsany government is circling its wagons as winter approaches. Although even the opposition concedes that crowds will fall as the temperature does, few doubt that they will return in force in the spring, when the full econo [...]	2006-11-02 15:57:00	Embassy Budapest	SECRET	PGOV KDEM HU
06BUDAPEST2236	ON THE CONTRARY: FIDESZ OFFERS OPPOSITION WITHOUT [...] (C) Ambassador Foley's November 2 meeting with Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Zsolt Nemeth highlights the inability of FIDESZ to match its ideological zeal with a detailed policy agenda in the ongoing confrontation with the Gyurcsany government. Divide and Destroy ... 2. [...]	2006-11-03 11:57:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON HU
06BUDAPEST2267	IMMEDIATE ACTION DEMARCHE ON AMENDING THE CUBA [...] (C) We provided reftel points to the MFA Americas Department and International Organization Department November 7, highlighting the importance of expeditious consideration in follow-up contacts with the Ministry. 2. (C) Our contacts were not aware of the Australian amendment and welcomed ne [...]	2006-11-08 16:00:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNGA HU
06BUDAPEST2269	HUNGARY'S PARTIES PREPARE FOR A WINTER OF [...] (S) Summary: Conflict between and within Hungary's political parties continues even as the likelihood of large-scale public demonstrations declines. In a meeting with the Ambassador November 7, opposition FIDESZ party leader Viktor Orban alleged that the Gyurcsany government is enforcing par [...]	2006-11-09 08:41:00	Embassy Budapest	SECRET	PGOV KDEM ECON HU
06BUDAPEST2278	SUPPORTING HUNGARY'S PRT WITH A FOREIGN SERVICE [...] EMBASSY BUDAPEST STRONGLY SUPPORTS EMBASSY KABUL'S CALL FOR THE ASSIGNMENT OF A US OFFICER TO THE HUNGARIAN PRT IN POL-E-KHOMRI. 2. PROMOTING THE SUCCESS OF HUNGARY'S PRT IS AMONG OUR KEY BILATERAL PRIORITIES. TANGIBLE SUCCESS ON THE GROUND IN AFGHANISTAN WILL HELP US MAKE THE CASE FOR A [...]	2006-11-09 15:24:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED	APER HU AF
06BUDAPEST2322	"NO ILLUSIONS" ON REFORM FROM FORMER PM HORN [...] (C) Meeting with Ambassador Foley November 16, former PM and MSZP MP Gyula Horn wasted no time in addressing the challenge of implementing the Gyurcsany government's convergence program. He asked us facetiously "not to say reform - because everyone will think we're talking about more cutback [...]	2006-11-16 15:08:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON KDEM HU
06BUDAPEST2361	HUNGARIAN RESPONSE: BMENA FORUM FOR THE FUTURE [...] (U) Ambassador Foley spoke with FM Goncz November 24 regarding the upcoming BMENA Forum for the Future per reftel. 2. (U) The Foreign Minister noted that she is committed to host an upcoming high-level conference on the Balkans in coordination with the Project on Ethnic Relations and will [...]	2006-11-24 14:40:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED	KMPI PREL
06BUDAPEST2377	"DEMOCRACY WITHOUT COMPROMISE"; STRENGTH WITHOUT [...] (C) Summary: FIDESZ held its 21st party congress in Gyor November 25, introducing its new theme of "democracy without compromise," emphasizing its commitment to the politics of inclusion, and taking steps to tighten Viktor Orban's control over several newly-created local party fora. End Summa [...]	2006-11-28 09:40:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM HU
06BUDAPEST2382	MSZP INSIDER'S OUTLOOK: LABOR MINISTER KISS ON [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Labor and Social Welfare (and MSZP Party Vice-President) Peter Kiss told Ambassador Foley November 27 that the government is "sentenced to success" on reform and will work in consultation with civic organizations and political opponents. Frequently mentioned as a succ [...]	2006-11-28 12:01:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON KDEM HU
06BUDAPEST2383	HUNGARY PREPARES FOR THE NATO SUMMIT: TO RIGA ... [...] (C) Summary: As the GoH prepares for the NATO Summit, we are using quiet diplomatic contacts and aggressive public outreach to help shape their preparations. GoH officials recognize that Afghanistan will be the central focus at Riga and appreciate that NATO's efforts there represent an impor [...]	2006-11-28 13:30:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS NATO PINS HU
06BUDAPEST2419	ROUGH EDGES: FIDESZ MODERATE LOOKS TO HUNGARY'S [...] (C) FIDESZ moderate MP Lajos Kosa made his debut on the diplomatic circuit at a lunch hosted by Ambassador Foley for key colleagues November 29. A founding member of the party and the popular Mayor of Debrecen, Kosa's reputation for straight talk (and often off-color humor) have made him a l [...]	2006-12-04 09:32:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM ECON HU
06BUDAPEST2438	HUNGARY'S REACTION TO DEMARCHE ON PRESERVING THE [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-06 11:17:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PREL PGOV PTER MOPS
06BUDAPEST2439	HUNGARY ON CHINA ARMS EMBARGO [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-06 11:19:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL PGOV PHUM
06BUDAPEST2462	MFA FULLY ENGAGED ON AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) MFA Assistant Secretary Varkonyi reviewed the state of play on Afghanistan, Cuba, and the Visa Waiver Program in an informal conversation with Ambassador Foley December 6. The MFA is increasingly taking on the leadership role in coordinating interagency efforts on the reconstruction and d [...]	2006-12-11 14:18:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS CVIS HU
06BUDAPEST2489	FAMILY FEUD: COALITION DEADLOCKED IN BUDAPEST [...] (C) Ambassador Foley met with Budapest Mayor Gabor Demszky December 6 as Demszky's SZDSZ party remained deadlocked with coalition partner MSZP over the appointment of the municipal leadership. The conflict comes as the coalition clings to a one-vote majority in the municipal assembly followi [...]	2006-12-15 11:52:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM HU
06BUDAPEST2500	INSIDE LOOKING OUT: MAKING HUNGARIAN FOREIGN POLICY [...] (C) Summary: Hungarian foreign policy has remained a notable exception to partisan domestic disputes to date, but new individuals and new institutions are testing the waters in the policy process. Although EU membership allows the GoH to default to the consensus position on the many issues in [...]	2006-12-18 17:11:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR HU

06BUDAPEST2505	FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION: GOH CONSIDERS ITS NATIONAL [...] (C) In a meeting with the Ambassador Foley December 13 before leaving on a brief trip to Afghanistan, ICDT Director Ambassador Istvan Gyarmati previewed potential changes in the GoH's foreign policy bureaucracy. A SHORT WINTER'S NAP 2. (C) Noting the tendency of the bureaucracy to "hiber [...]	2006-12-19 15:52:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM MOPS HU
06BUDAPEST2517	OUTGOING SZDSZ LEADER PREDICTS RENEWED PROTESTS, [...] (U) Outgoing SZDSZ party president Gabor Kuncze shared his thoughts on the future of his own party, the governing coalition, and the Gyurcsany government with Ambassador Foley at an ambassadors' lunch in his honor December 20. WHITHER THE SZDSZ ... OR IS THAT WITHER THE SZDSZ? 2. (C) Loo [...]	2006-12-21 14:50:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM HU ECON
06BUDAPEST2531	ANNO HORRIBILIS: HUNGARY ENDS 2006 WITH RELIEF BUT [...] (C) Summary: Winter has imposed a temporary cease-fire in Hungary's running political battles, allowing the parties to regroup in preparation for what all anticipate will be a busy year ahead. Prime Minister Gyurcsany is using the winter months to reach out to the opposition and to shore up h [...]	2006-12-29 09:42:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM HU
06BUDAPEST541	HUNGARY'S ELECTIONS: THAT'S ZALA, FOLKS [...] (U) On a March 9 trip to Nagykanizsa, Zala County, most contacts described the local mood as tenuous and uncertain. With the election one month away, Emboffs visited this small city of 60,000 to meet with a range of local figures: a business executive, a representative from the Roma minority [...]	2006-03-14 16:58:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PHUM SOCI HU
06BUDAPEST543	HUNGARY'S ELECTIONS: SOMOGY COUNTY (C-RE6-00145) [...] (U) This cable continues Embassy's pre-election coverage from the provinces in the run-up to the April contest. On a March 10 trip to Kaposvar, Somogy County, local contacts described the city's electorate as inured to partisan politics and somewhat anxious about bread-and-butter issues such [...]	2006-03-15 06:57:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PREL SOCI HU
06BUDAPEST553	HUNGARY'S ELECTIONS: THE VIEW FROM THE NORTHEAST [...] (C) Borsod-Abauj- Zemplen County in Hungary's northeast region is mostly rural, suffers from high unemployment and is a stronghold of the Reformed and Catholic Churches. Local observers believe that county voters will likely elect a majority of MSZP candidates to Parliament,although FIDESZ c [...]	2006-03-16 15:39:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PHUM SOCI HU
06BUDAPEST569	HUNGARY'S ELECTIONS: MSZP MAY GAIN GROUND IN [...] (C) On March 14, SZDSZ and FIDESZ contacts in Veszprem County agreed that FIDESZ is losing its tight grip locally. Whereas in 2002, they enjoyed victories in six of the seven individual constituencies, their MSZP (Socialist) rivals may win as many as three this April, according to Veszprem's S [...]	2006-03-21 15:50:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PREL SOCI HU
06BUDAPEST570	HUNGARY'S ELECTIONS: FORMER FM SAYS FIDESZ WILL [...] (C) FIDESZ will win the elections, said Viktor Orban's former Foreign Minister Janos Martonyi on March 20, citing the FIDESZ victories in two local by-elections over the weekend. Martonyi said chilly FIDESZ relations with Washington will improve, because his party is "very committed to the tr [...]	2006-03-21 15:50:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM SOCI ECON PINR HU
06BUDAPEST572	HUNGARY'S ELECTIONS: MSZP MAY GAIN GROUND IN [...] (C) On March 14, SZDSZ and FIDESZ contacts in Veszprem County agreed that FIDESZ is losing its tight grip locally. Whereas in 2002, they enjoyed victories in six of the seven individual constituencies, their MSZP (Socialist) rivals may win as many as three this April, according to Veszprem's S [...]	2006-03-21 15:51:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PREL SOCI HU
06BUDAPEST573	HUNGARY'S ELECTIONS: MSZP MAY GAIN GROUND IN [...] (C) On March 14, SZDSZ and FIDESZ contacts in Veszprem County agreed that FIDESZ is losing its tight grip locally. Whereas in 2002, they enjoyed victories in six of the seven individual constituencies, their MSZP (Socialist) rivals may win as many as three this April, according to Veszprem's [...]	2006-03-21 15:51:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PREL SOCI HU
06BUDAPEST629	HUNGARY'S ELECTIONS: SNAPSHOTS FROM WESTERN [...] (SBU) Contacts in Gyor, Sopron, Szombathely, Csorna, and Kormend predicted to Embassy representatives in March 21-24 meetings that opposition party FIDESZ would continue to dominate western Hungary in the April general elections. A majority of interlocutors believed that FIDESZ would again w [...]	2006-03-28 16:47:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PREL SOCI HU
06BUDAPEST644	HUNGARY'S ELECTIONS: THE VIEW FROM THE NORTHEAST: [...] (U) MSZP is likely to gain seats from FIDESZ in Szabolcs-Szatmar-Bereg County. During a March 23-24 reporting trip to the area, most interlocutors predicted to poloffs that in addition to holding on to its two districts in the county seat of Nyiregyhaza, MSZP could win up to half the remaini [...]	2006-03-29 14:37:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PHUM SOCI HU
06BUDAPEST656	HUNGARY'S ELECTIONS: THE VIEW FROM THE NORTHEAST: [...] (U) Heves County is an MSZP stronghold. During a March 23-24 election reporting trip through the region, most interlocutors predicted that MSZP would win all six of the individual mandates in the county. Although the region is a traditional reservoir of strong Catholic sentiment, good relat [...]	2006-03-30 15:27:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PHUM SOCI HU
06BUDAPEST658	HUNGARY'S ELECTIONS: DISPATCH FROM PECS [...] (U) This cable continues Embassy's pre-election coverage from the provinces in the run-up to the April contest. On a March 28-29 trip to the southwestern town of Pecs, Baranya County, local contacts described the city's electorate as inured to partisan politics and somewhat anxious about brea [...]	2006-03-31 05:40:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PREL SOCI MARR HU
06BUDAPEST698	HUNGARY'S ELECTIONS: PROMISING CAKE TO PENSIONERS [...] (U) This cable examines the likely role of pensioners in this spring's elections, and the issues most likely to unite them. Pensioners are a large and growing segment of Hungary's voting population. As elsewhere, they turn out at the polls more regularly than younger voters. Today's pension [...]	2006-04-05 15:59:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM SOCI HU
06BUDAPEST701	HUNGARY'S ELECTIONS: SNAPSHOT OF THREE INDIVIDUAL [...] (U) On April 9 and 23, 176 of the 386 members of Parliament will be elected in individual mandate races. This cable presents snapshots of three of those contests by way of illustrating the varying considerations that complicate efforts by observers to forecast the outcomes of any of many of th [...]	2006-04-05 17:04:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR KDEM SOCI HU
06BUDAPEST710	HUNGARY'S ELECTIONS: BALATON RESORT TOWNS POISED [...] (SBU) The FIDESZ campaign in the western resort towns of Keszthely and Heviz is tagging the MSZP for high unemployment and a sagging economy and hoping to use FIDESZ's improved organizational skills to get unhappy voters to the polls on April 9. A FIDESZ politician already in Parliament pegs h [...]	2006-04-06 18:16:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR KDEM SOCI HU
06BUDAPEST711	HUNGARY'S ELECTIONS: THE ROMA (C-RE6-00145) [...] (U) There are an estimated 600-800 thousand Roma in Hungary, yet most Hungarians do not view them as a viable political force. Disagreements among national leaders, social marginalization and poverty, "tribal" differences, and a tendency to focus on short-term, local issues, have resulted in [...]	2006-04-06 18:52:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PHUM SOCI HU
06BUDAPEST718	HUNGARY'S ELECTIONS: DEBRECEN SNAPSHOT [...] (SBU) Conversations in Debrecen April 4 with governing MSZP, junior governing coalition SZDSZ, opposition FIDESZ, and a journalist suggested strongly that FIDESZ can be expected to sweep Hajdu-Bihar (eastern Hungary) County's nine individual mandate seats and turn in an equally strong party li [...]	2006-04-07 13:56:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR KDEM SOCI HU
06BUDAPEST722	HUNGARY'S ELECTIONS: ROUND ONE (C-RE6-00145) [...] (U) The first round of Hungary's two round system on April 9 will determine which parties will be represented in Parliament for the next four years. Currently, there are four parliamentary parties: the governing MSZP (Socialist) party, its junior coalition partner SZDSZ (the Free Democrats),[...]	2006-04-07 18:17:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV HU
06BUDAPEST733	HUNGARY'S ELECTIONS: PARSING ROUND ONE'S RESULTS [...] (SBU) Only the April 23 second round of Hungary's elections will establish who may form the country's next government, but the wind is with the governing coalition. That alone is a first for Hungary's post-1990 elections, but there were some other surprises: an unexpectedly robust turnout, an [...]	2006-04-10 16:31:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV HU
06BUDAPEST741	HUNGARY'S ELECTIONS: ANALYST SEES CHIEF OPPOSITION [...] (SBU) Policy research institute "Political Capital" Director Krisztian Szabados offered April 10 some thoughts on the April 9 first round of the elections and what they portend for round two on April 23: -- the three round-one winners were the governing MSZP with more absolute votes than FID [...]	2006-04-11 10:13:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PINR SOCI HU
06BUDAPEST748	HUNGARY'S ELECTIONS: SZDSZ BEATS EXPECTATIONS IN [...] (SBU) On April 9, the liberal Alliance of Free Democrats (SZDSZ) made a strong showing in the first round of Hungary's national elections, exceeding both current expectations and its 2002 performance. As a result, it appears poised to remain in government alongside its current partner, the Hu [...]	2006-04-11 14:23:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM SOCI ECON PINR HU
06BUDAPEST753	HUNGARY'S ELECTIONS: SNAPSHOT OF MDF'S UNEXPECTED [...] (U) Junior opposition party MDF's capture of 5.04 percent of the county list vote in the April 9 first round of the election, surprised pundits, pollsters and even MDF insiders. With one week remaining before Hungary's elections, three public opinion research companies here predicted that MDF [...]	2006-04-11 15:09:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PHUM SOCI HU
06BUDAPEST780	HUNGARY'S ELECTIONS: ENERGETIC CAMPAIGN, CLEAN [...] (U) Since 1990, international observers have deemed all of Hungary's elections free and fair. There is no basis for believing that outcome of the first round was affected by the alleged irregularities that have been reported in the course of the campaign. On April 10, one day after the first [...]	2006-04-13 15:15:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV SOCI HU
06BUDAPEST825	HUNGARY'S ELECTIONS: ROUND TWO SCENESETTER [...] (U) On Sunday, April 23, Hungary will conduct round two of its 2006 national elections. This cable reviews the electoral math and the U.S. interests involved. Following a strong performance in round one, the governing coalition parties MSZP and SZDSZ appear poised to carry the day, although [...]	2006-04-21 12:44:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PREL PGOV HU
06BUDAPEST842	HUNGARY'S ELECTIONS: PRELIMINARY SECOND ROUND [...] (C) The April 23 final round of the parliamentary elections returned the current MSZP-SZDSZ governing coalition to power with an enhanced majority. The Central Election Commission is expected to certify final returns the week of May 1, once absentee ballots are tabulated, then President Solyo [...]	2006-04-24 12:34:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM SOCI PINR HU
06BUDAPEST908	HUNGARY'S ELECTIONS: PARLIAMENTARY SEAT [...] (U) The April 23 second-round elections increased the governing coalition's majority from 10 seats to 34 seats. The to-date breakdown of seats is as follows: (Coalition) (Other) MSZP 186 FIDESZ 164 SZDSZ 18 MDF 11 MSZP-SZDSZ 6 Independe [...]	2006-05-03 13:43:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM SOCI PINR HU
06BUENOSAIRES1004	ARGENTINA PROPOSES FUNCTIONAL IMMUNITIES FOR [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) Paulo Cavalleri, an official in the MFA's Office of International Security (DIGAN),called POLOFF April 26 regarding our proposal (ref A) to negotiate a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) for the November 2006 UNITAS Atlantic Pha [...]	2006-05-04 15:24:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	AR KTIA MARR MOPS MASS
06BUENOSAIRES1005	ARGENTINA PROPOSES FUNCTIONAL IMMUNITIES FOR [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) Paulo Cavalleri, an official in the MFA's Office of International Security (DIGAN),called POLOFF April 26 regarding our proposal (ref A) to negotiate a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) for the November 2006 UNITAS Atlantic Pha [...]	2006-05-04 15:29:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	AR KTIA MARR MOPS MASS
06BUENOSAIRES1006	ARGENTINA PROPOSES FUNCTIONAL IMMUNITIES FOR [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) Paulo Cavalleri, an official in the MFA's Office of International Security (DIGAN),called POLOFF April 26 regarding our proposal (ref A) to negotiate a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) for the November 2006 UNITAS Atlantic Pha [...]	2006-05-04 15:32:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	AR KTIA MARR MOPS MASS
06BUENOSAIRES1024	ARGENTINE CONTINGENCY PLANS FOR AVIAN FLU [...] (C) DCM, accompanied by POLCOUNS and POLOFF, met May 5 with the MFA's Under Secretary for Political Affairs, Luis Cappagli. Among the issues they discussed were reftel points regarding contingency planning for avian flu. DCM explained the steps being taken by U.S. authorities domestically an [...]	2006-05-05 21:05:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	TBIO KFLU KPAO SENV AR
06BUENOSAIRES1025	ARGENTINA VERY UNLIKELY TO CONTRIBUTE TO OAS [...] (C) POLOFF met May 5 with Minister Maria Ines Fernandez in the MFA's Office of International Organizations, to discuss reftel points. POLOFF said that Canada, the U.S., and Brazil had all contributed to the proposed OAS electoral mission for Guyana, but that the OAS was still short of the nece [...]	2006-05-05 21:08:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC OAS PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES1028	Argentina Economic and Financial Weekly for [...] The Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased 1.0 percent m-o-m in April, slightly above market expectations of 0.9 percent, following a 1.2 percent m- o-m increase in March. Last month's increase brought inflation to 3.9 percent in the first four months of the year, compared to a 4.5 percent inc [...]	2006-05-08 15:11:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON ELAB ALOW AR
06BUENOSAIRES1035	THE AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES REGIONAL DEVELOPMENTS [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador, accompanied by DCM, met May 5 with Argentine Deputy Foreign Minister Roberto Garcia Moritan at the Foreign Ministry. Also participating in the meeting were Under Secretary for Political Affairs Luis Cappagli, North American Affairs Director Vicente Espeche Gil, [...]	2006-05-08 17:57:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EPET ENRG SENV AR
06BUENOSAIRES1037	MEDIA REACTION IRAN LATIN AMERICA CHAVEZ US [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Weekend stories cover the probable crash between the US and Iran; Latin America's regional situation after Bolivia's nationalization of hydrocarbons; Brazilian fears of a regional 'cold war;' the US "praising Argentine and Brazilian efforts to contain Bolivia;" the alleged [...]	2006-05-08 19:45:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1038	MEDIA REACTION US-URUGUAYAN FTA THE PRE- [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's local papers lead with the meeting held between US President George W. Bush and Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez; Argentine and Brazilian presidents' promise to respect "potentially explosive" Bolivia's nationalization of its natural gas sector; the Argentine ann [...]	2006-05-08 19:46:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1050	MEDIA REACTION IRAN MERCOSUR LATIN AMERICAN [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's local papers lead with Iran attempting to approach the US; China warning about triggering a war like that of Iraq; the implications of Bolivia's nationalization of the energy sector; the crisis of Mercosur; and the Latin American chair at the UN Security Council. [...]	2006-05-09 20:08:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1059	MEDIA REACTION BOLIVIAN AGRARIAN REFORM US [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's key international stories include the prevailing fear in Bolivia due to the Government's planned agrarian reform; the US canceling Ollanta Humala's US visa; Brazilian President Lula's irritation with Venezuelan President Chavez's interventionism in the region; the [...]	2006-05-10 19:21:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1061	EXPANDING PSI IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE [...] (U) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: Because of the relative difficulty of regional participation in global Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) events, post requests that the Department and Washington agencies consider establishing a Western Hemisphere PSI Operational Experts Group (OEG) by the [...]	2006-05-10 20:25:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PTER KNUC AR
06BUENOSAIRES1069	MEDIA REACTION VENEZUELAN/BRAZILIAN CLASH [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's key international stories include the clash between Venezuela and Brazil over the Bolivian gas crisis; the implications of Bolivian nationalization of the energy sector; the aftermath of the war in Iraq; the statements made by nominee for US Ambassador to Argentina [...]	2006-05-11 18:05:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1079	ARGENTINA DEMARCHE: SYRIA-LEBANON RESOLUTION IN [...] (SBU) PolCouns delivered reftel demarche on May 11 to Minister Jorge Gomez and Minister Maria Raballo of the Office of International Organizations of the Argentine Foreign Ministry. PolCouns reviewed points in reftel with Gomez and Raballo and underscored the importance we place on GoA supp [...]	2006-05-11 20:54:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC SY LE AR
06BUENOSAIRES1087	MEDIA REACTION EU-LATIN AMERICAN SUMMIT [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's most important international stories include Bolivian President Morales ruling out compensation for nationalizing foreign oil and gas subsidiaries; the EU's belief Venezuelan President Chavez is a hurdle in reaching a deal between the EU and Mercosur; and statement [...]	2006-05-12 19:35:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1088	Argentina Economic and Financial Weekly for [...] In a press conference on May 9, Minister of Labor Carlos Tomada and Minister of Economy Felisa Miceli announced that the GOA will increase the minimum pension from ARP 390 per month to ARP 470, a 21 percent increase. This will be the Kirchner Administration's eighth increase in the minimum [...]	2006-05-12 19:37:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON ELAB ALOW AR
06BUENOSAIRES109	QUARTERLY STATUS REPORT - BUENOS AIRES: [...] (SBU) SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT EVENTS: A. OVERVIEW OF ACTIVITIES: Â [...]	2006-01-17 12:07:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC
06BUENOSAIRES1090	ARGENTINA: AGRICULTURAL SECTOR ADVOCATE EXPELLED [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-12 19:49:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES1091	AMBASSADOR RAISES BUSINESS ADVOCACY ISSUES WITH [...] (SBU) The Ambassador called on Minister of Planning Julio De Vido on May 9 to discuss business advocacy cases. The Ambassador began the meeting by thanking De Vido for his help in improving the relationship between the two governments, especially during the January visit of Assistant Secretar [...]	2006-05-12 21:00:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ECON EINV ENRG EAGR AR BL
06BUENOSAIRES1099	Argentina: Disaster Management System Overview [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified - Not For Internet Distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary: The GOA has a number of agencies in place to deal with disaster management, many with well-trained personnel and established action plans. Of them, the GOA Nuclear Regulatory Agency (ARN) is particularly wel [...]	2006-05-15 14:44:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID OFDA PREL SENV KNNP KSCA AEMR ASEC KESS AR
06BUENOSAIRES1102	MEDIA REACTION US TROOPS TO MEXICAN BORDER EU- [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Weekend stories include the US Pentagon drawing up plans for troops on the Mexican border; European and Latin American leaders' pledge to bolster ties in "bi- regional strategic relationship;" Argentine deputy Carlos Kunkel rejecting the statements of nominee for US ambass [...]	2006-05-15 19:02:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1119	MEDIA REACTION US SANCTION ON VENEZUELA [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Local papers lead with the US imposing a ban on arms sales to Venezuela because of a lack of support by President Chavez's government for counterterrorism efforts; the USG decision to send troops to the US- Mexican border; the alleged confrontation of the US and China in I [...]	2006-05-16 18:28:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1127	ARGENTINA: DEMARCHE ON UNSC SYRIA-LEBANON [...] (C) PolCouns delivered reftel demarche to Argentine MFA director for international organizations Ambassador Guillermo Gonzalez on May 16. Gonzalez was accompanied by Minister Jorge Gomez and Minister Maria Raballo. 2. (C) Gonzalez said he had been in contact throughout the day with the G [...]	2006-05-16 20:57:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC SY LE AR
06BUENOSAIRES1130	AEROLINEAS ARGENTINAS, UNIONS SIGN SALARY AGREEMENT [...] Senior managers of Spanish-owned Aerolineas Argentinas and leaders of the unions representing the airline's pilots (APLA) and mechanics (APTA) signed an agreement on pay increases on May 15. Representatives of the airline have agreed: to increase pilots' and mechanics' base salary by 19 perc [...]	2006-05-17 15:26:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR ELAB ECON AR
06BUENOSAIRES1131	MEDIA REACTION US MILITARIZATION OF US- [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Key international stories today include the US and Mexican reaction to the USG decision to send troops to the US-Mexican border; Venezuela's reaction to the US ban on arms sales to the country; and the Kirchner administration's handling of Argentine economic affairs. Le [...]	2006-05-17 18:16:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1132	APRIL 2006 INFLATION UPDATE AND PREDICTIONS [...] The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 1.0 percent in April, bringing the 12-month inflation rate to 11.7 percent. Average nominal salaries increased 0.9 percent in March and the purchasing power of salaried workers in March was 5.3 percent higher than in March 2005. The poverty rate fell to [...]	2006-05-17 18:17:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON ELAB ETRD ALOW AR
06BUENOSAIRES1144	MEDIA REACTION US SENATE VOTING A FENCE ON [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Local papers lead with the US Senate voting to construct a fence on the US-Mexican border and supporting citizenship of undocumented US immigrants; Venezuelan President Chavez and Bolivian President Morales creating a bi-national mining corporation; the legality of Bolivia [...]	2006-05-18 19:40:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1148	ARGENTINA SUPPORTS USG POSITION ON IMSO, IN [...] Econoff presented reftel talking points to Maritime Affairs Counselor Ariel Gonzalez of the Foreign Ministry's Office of Legal Counsel on May 18. Gonzalez responded that the GOA agrees, in principle, with the positions the USG is supporting in the International Maritime Organization's (IMO) [...]	2006-05-19 16:51:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	ECPS ETRD TSPL KCIP KSCA KSTC EINT ETTC IMO
06BUENOSAIRES1154	Argentina Economic and Financial Weekly for [...] On May 11, the GOA sold USD 239 million of Boden 2012 (a USD-denominated bond maturing in 2012),for a market value of USD 200 million, to the Government of Venezuela (GOV). The GOA sold the bonds at market prices that translate into a yield of 7.59 percent. With this purchase, the GOV will [...]	2006-05-22 12:51:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON ELAB ALOW AR
06BUENOSAIRES1156	MEDIA REACTION US IMMIGRATION BILL; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's leading international stories include US President George W. Bush requesting additional funds from the US Congress for the construction of fences and temporary troop deployment on the US-Mexican border; Venezuela's scam invasion of the US, intended to train its mil [...]	2006-05-22 16:52:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES117	MINISTER DEVIDO DISCUSSES BOLIVIA AND THE GOA'S [...] (C) Minister of Planning Julio DeVido received Assistant Secretary Tom Shannon on January 12. A/S Shannon and DeVido SIPDIS discussed recent developments in Bolivia and the need to engage with the new Evo Morales government. DeVido argued that it is important to help Morales consolidate h [...]	2006-01-17 20:08:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON ENRG EINV EFIN ETRD AR BO VE
06BUENOSAIRES1176	ARGENTINA: KIRCHNER INTERVIEWS LIKELY WARM-UP FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Kirchner recently gave extensive newspaper interviews that likely presage his speech at the huge rally planned in the central square of Buenos Aires on May 25 to commemorate Revolution Day and the third anniversary of Kirchner assuming the presidency. Kirchner's interv [...]	2006-05-24 14:38:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES1177	MFA OFFICIAL REAFFIRMS GOA COMMITMENT TO HAITI [...] (SBU) Argentine MFA Undersecretary for Latin American Policy Leonardo Franco told the DCM and PolCouns in a May 18 meeting that the GoA would remain actively involved in supporting Haitian democracy following the inauguration of President Rene Preval. Franco had just returned from Haiti wher [...]	2006-05-24 14:53:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AR HI
06BUENOSAIRES118	MINISTER MICELI DISCUSSES ECONOMIC POLICY AND LATIN AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT WITH A/S SHANNON REF: 05 BUENOS AIRES 3122 Classified By: Ambassador Lino Gutierrez for reasons 1.4 (B) and (D) ------- Summary ------- [...] (C) WHA Assistant Secretary Tom Shannon called on Minister of Economy Felisa Miceli during his visit to Buenos Aires on January 12. Miceli said she had worked for former Minister of Economy Roberto Lavagna for many years and that her presence is a continuation of what the GOA has been doing sin [...]	2006-01-17 20:40:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON EFIN ENRG EINV EAGR AR BL
06BUENOSAIRES1181	OAS PERMREP MAISTO'S DISCUSSIONS IN ARGENTINA [...] (C) Summary: OAS Permanent Representative John Maisto met May 17 with Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana to brief him on the U.S. perspective of current OAS activities and the state of play for the upcoming General Assembly meeting in Santo Domingo. Ambassador Maisto also took the oppo [...]	2006-05-24 18:16:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV OAS AR
06BUENOSAIRES1184	EMBASSY SUCCESS ON BEHALF OF EXPRESS MAIL COMPANIES [...] (U) Argentina's Director General of Customs (DGC) has suspended implementation of a resolution, Resolution 2021, that would have amended the regulatory framework governing international express mail deliveries. Post organized the April 28 meeting between the DGC and representatives of Argent [...]	2006-05-24 19:00:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD AR
06BUENOSAIRES1188	MEDIA REACTION EUROPEAN ANTI-MISSILE SHIELD; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's most important international stories include the USG planning a European anti-missile 'shield;' US President Bush expressing public concern about 'eroded democracies' in Venezuela and Bolivia; the USG's skepticism of the Argentine projected conciliation policy; the [...]	2006-05-24 19:47:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1189	MEDIA REACTION IRAQ; UN AND GUANTANAMO; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Weekend papers cover an interview with journalist Robert Fisk on the war in Iraq; the UN asking the US to close the Guantanamo prison; the US/Latin American ties in the opinion of Argentine President Nestor Kirchner; the impact of the USG decision to militarize the US/Mexi [...]	2006-05-24 20:09:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES119	MINISTER DE VIDO DISCUSSES ECONOMIC AND ENERGY [...] (SBU) Minister of Planning Julio DeVido received CODEL McConnell on January 11. DeVido noted that the GOA and the U.S. Embassy had a constant dialogue and that they worked together to monitor the status of U.S. companies in Argentina. DeVido said he was optimistic about the future of the Ar [...]	2006-01-17 21:16:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON EINV ENRG EFIN AR BL VE
06BUENOSAIRES1190	ARGENTINA: DEMARCHE TO UNSC ALLIES ON A BURMA [...] (C) DCM and PolCouns delivered reftel demarche to Argentine MFA acting Undersecretary for Foreign Policy Luis Cappagli on May 24. DCM reviewed background and talking points with Cappagli and left a copy of the draft resolution for GoA review and comments. 2. (C) Cappagli, who had just re [...]	2006-05-24 21:00:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNSC BM AR
06BUENOSAIRES1191	ARGENTINA: SEEKING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR IRAQI [...] (SBU) DCM, accompanied by PolCouns, delivered reftel points seeking public GoA support of the Iraqi political process to Argentina MFA acting Undersecretary for Foreign Policy Luis Cappagli on May 23. 2. (SBU) Cappagli concurred that the government formation process represented an "import [...]	2006-05-24 21:01:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM KPAO PREL PGOV IZ AR
06BUENOSAIRES1192	ARGENTINA: DEMARCHE TO NAM/G-77 ON UN REFORM [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-24 21:02:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	UNGA AMGT AORC AR
06BUENOSAIRES120	A/S SHANNON'S MEETING WITH ARGENTINE DEFENSE [...] (C) SUMMARY: A/S Shannon, accompanied by Ambassador, met with Minister of Defense Nilda Garre January 12. They discussed the current situation in Haiti and Garre's vision for the Argentine armed forces. Garre will reconfigure the armed forces for a defensive doctrine, but also continue Argen [...]	2006-01-18 12:30:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR MOPS AR
06BUENOSAIRES1203	EMBASSY-GOA BILATERAL SECURITY WORKING GROUP [...] The DCM led the Embassy's Law Enforcement and Homeland Security Working Group's first meeting with a GoA interagency security group headed by Internal Security Secretary Luis Tibiletti on May 23. Post's Working Group included representatives from RSO, LegAtt, MilGroup, DEA, DAO, POL/INL, and [...]	2006-05-30 14:42:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PTER PGOV SNAR AR
06BUENOSAIRES1204	MEDIA REACTION ANTHONY WAYNE'S NOMINATION AS [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's most important international stories include a reported delay in the US Senate's approval of Mr. Anthony Wayne's nomination as US Ambassador to Argentina; Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana's meeting with US Assistant Secretary Thomas Shannon, and the alleged [...]	2006-05-30 15:50:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1210	MEDIA REACTION IRAQ; COLOMBIAN ELECTIONS; UN [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Weekend stories include the current situation in Iraq; the outcome of Colombian elections; the imminent voting at the UN Security Council to remove five of its non-permanent members; the implications of the Enron case; the status of the US immigration draft bill; the arriv [...]	2006-05-31 15:44:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1211	ARGENTINA'S SHARE OF FDI INFLOWS HAS DECLINED [...] Argentina received 1.4 percent of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows to developing countries in 2005, and 5.9 percent of FDI inflows to Latin America. Both of these shares are well below Argentina's average FDI share during 1992-2000. Even if FDI from the 1990s privatizations is exclude [...]	2006-05-31 15:46:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON ELAB ETRD ALOWAR
06BUENOSAIRES1216	MEDIA REACTION NEW US TREASURY SECRETARY IRAQ [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's local papers report on the appointment of Henry Paulson as the new US Treasury Secretary in replacement of John Snow; the mobilization of some US troops from Kuwait to Southern Iraq; Argentina and Brazil's efforts to obtain greater integration among Latin American [...]	2006-05-31 20:06:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1223	BCRA Meets its Monetary Target, but Is Not [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for internet distribution. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) The average M2 level during the first quarter was close to the lower end of the Central Bank's (BCRA's) Monetary Program target. Still, M2 increased 26 percent y-o-y, and would have increa [...]	2006-06-01 19:56:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON ELAB ALOW AR
06BUENOSAIRES1225	U.S. STATEMENT ON IRAN [...] (C) I delivered reftel demarche to Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana on June 1. I emphasized to Taiana that if Iran was prepared to suspend all enrichment and reprocessing activities and resume cooperation with the IAEA, the U.S. would become a full party to the EU-3 negotiations with Iran. I a [...]	2006-06-01 20:31:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IR
06BUENOSAIRES1229	MEDIA REACTION HADITHA INVESTIGATION; US [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's stories include the current status of Haditha Investigation; the shift in US policy in Iran; and the opinion of Argentina's ambassador to the US on the bilateral relationship. 2. OPINION PIECES AND KEY STORIES "... Bush promises a punishment for the 24 civil [...]	2006-06-02 11:50:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1239	MEDIA REACTION US IMMIGRATION LEGISLATION [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's local papers report on the US debate on the US immigration legislation; the status of negotiations with Iran on the suspension of its enriched uranium program; the IMF delegation's visit to Argentina; and the upcoming presidential elections in Peru. 2. OPINION P [...]	2006-06-02 14:46:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1243	KIRCHNER'S ASSOCIATES ATTACK FORMER ECON MINISTER [...] (U) Other Mission reporting available at http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/wha/buenosaires 2. (SBU) Summary: Following a number of recent public appearances and statements by former Minister of Economy Roberto Lavagna, many government officials close to President Kirchner have come out strongly [...]	2006-06-02 20:33:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SNAR AR
06BUENOSAIRES1246	MEDIA REACTION US IMMIGRATION LEGISLATION IRAN IMF [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's local papers report on the US debate on the US immigration legislation; the status of negotiations with Iran on the suspension of its uranium enrichment program; the IMF delegation's visit to Argentina; and the upcoming presidential elections in Peru. 2. OPINION [...]	2006-06-05 11:11:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1251	MEDIA REACTION WAR IN IRAQ HADITHA FTAA- [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Weekend stories cover the alleged murder of Iraqi civilians in Haditha by a group of US troops; the consequences of the war in Iraq; the US/Latin American relationship; FTAA/Mercosur ties; a group of Canadian residents that were arrested for planning to blow up targets in [...]	2006-06-05 17:41:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1270	ARGENTINA OFFERS MORE FLIGHTS TO U.S. CARRIERS [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified and not for internet distribution. This is an action request: see paragraph 6. ------- Summary ------- 2. (U) Econoffs met with Under Secretary of Transportation for Commercial Aviation Ricardo Cirielli on May 19 as a follow-up discussion o [...]	2006-06-06 17:57:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON AR
06BUENOSAIRES1273	MEDIA REACTION OUTCOME OF PERUVIAN ELECTIONS [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's most important international stories include the implications of the Peruvian elections; the possibility of US-Uruguayan and US-Paraguayan FTAs; the US 2006 trafficking in Persons Report; and Venezuela's alleged entry into Mercosur. 2. OPINION PIECES AND KEY STO [...]	2006-06-06 19:46:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1279	Argentina Economic and Financial Weekly for [...] After numerous delays, the GOA and GOB technical delegations reached a preliminary agreement on a gas price range of USD 4.5-5.5 per million cubic meters imported to Argentina. The presidents of both countries are scheduled to meet the second week of June to agree on the final price, which w [...]	2006-06-07 13:14:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON ELAB ALOW AR
06BUENOSAIRES128	A/S SHANNON'S MEETING WITH ARGENTINE FOREIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary Tom Shannon, accompanied by the Ambassador, met with Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana on January 12. During the conversation, which focused on Bolivia, A/S Shannon defined key U.S. concerns about the incoming Evo Morales administration and underscored [...]	2006-01-18 18:13:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES1283	MEDIA REACTION PERUVIAN PRESIDENT-ELECT ALAN [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's key international stories include the implications of Peruvian elections; the USG proposal to Iran; the World Bank granting new loans to Argentina; Brazilian military's geopolitical concerns; and hundreds of landless farm workers invading Brazilian Congress to dema [...]	2006-06-07 20:03:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1286	CODEL SHELBY MEETINGS WITH VP SCIOLI AND FM TAIANA [...] (U) Summary: Senators Richard Shelby and Paul Sarbanes visited Argentina April 22-24. The Senators' visit was focused on examining GoA cooperation on combating money laundering and terrorism financing but also touched on regional issues and the Argentine economic recovery. The Senators hel [...]	2006-06-07 20:07:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PTER AR
06BUENOSAIRES1288	MEETING READOUT WITH GOA ON TIG INSURANCE [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified and not for internet distribution. 2. (U) The DCM and Econoff (notetaker) met with Secretary of Economy for Legal and Administrative Affairs Estela Palomeque, and Advisors to the Secretary Carlos Arganaraz and Beatriz Pallares on June 7 to di [...]	2006-06-07 20:55:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES1297	MEDIA REACTION US ANTI-CRIME TECHNOLOGY IRAQ [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's key international stories include the US new anti-crime "technological arsenal;" the war in Iraq; the current status of the US-Venezuelan relationship; and post-election Ollanta Humala's statements. 2. OPINION PIECES AND KEY STORIES - "The US prepares anti-cri [...]	2006-06-08 19:07:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES13	MEDIA REACTION US ANTI-IMMIGRATION LAW THE [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Weekend international stories include: the controversy unleashed by US anti-illegal immigration legislation; the Bush administration's legacy; negotiations related to global farm subsidies; Bolivian President-elect Evo Morales' first trip abroad; the Kirchner administratio [...]	2006-01-04 14:49:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1309	ARGENTINA: 2007 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN STARTS EARLY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Former Minister of the Economy Roberto Lavagna's recent steps towards a likely presidential run has opened the 2007 presidential campaign early, with President Nestor Kirchner finally admitting that either he or his wife will be the "official" candidate and center-right Republic [...]	2006-06-09 20:43:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES1312	Argentina Economic and Financial Weekly for [...] The presidents of Bolivia and Argentina are scheduled to meet next week to reach an agreement on the price of Bolivian gas exports to Argentina. No specific date was announced, however. There have been technical level negotiations between the two governments, but difficulties in reaching an [...]	2006-06-12 14:16:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON ELAB ALOW AR
06BUENOSAIRES1323	MEDIA REACTION ZARQAWI'S DEATH; IRAN; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Weekend papers lead with the implications of Al- Zarqawi's death; the chances for a diplomatic solution on Iran; the ties between the Chilean and Bolivian administrations; "what to do" with the Chavez administration; and the Darfur genocide. Leading "Clarin" carries an e [...]	2006-06-12 20:35:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1340	MEDIA REACTION AL ZARQAWI'S DEATH US-CUBAN TIES FARM [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's most important international stories include the implications of Al Zarqawi's death; an escalation in the US-Cuban confrontation; agricultural liberalization as the main demand of developing countries; the progress made by the International Criminal Court; internati [...]	2006-06-13 20:10:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1349	MEDIA REACTION PRESIDENT BUSH TO IRAQ; ISLAMIC ACTIVITIES [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's most important international stories include US President Bush's trip to Baghdad; and the US House of Representatives passing a resolution calling on the Latin American countries to 'intensify their efforts' against Islamic groups. 2. OPINION PIECES AND KEY STORI [...]	2006-06-15 11:12:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1352	ARGENTINA-BOLIVIA NATURAL GAS NEGOTIATIONS UPDATE [...] Minister of Planning Julio De Vido and Bolivian Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera ended their 7-hour negotiating session on June 12 without reaching an agreement on the price that Argentina would pay for Bolivian natural gas. De Vido entered the session against the backdrop of public statem [...]	2006-06-15 11:56:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG ECON AR
06BUENOSAIRES1353	Argentina Economic and Financial Weekly for the week ending [...] On June 9, the GOA sold USD 243 million of Boden 2012 (a USD-denominated bond maturing in 2012) sold to the Government of Venezuela (GOV). The bonds have a market value of USD 200 million. This is the GOV's sixth purchase this year of GOA bonds, and brings its total 2006 purchases to USD 1.7 [...]	2006-06-15 13:20:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON ELAB ALOW AR
06BUENOSAIRES1362	2006 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] The following report outlines new and ongoing investment disputes between the GOA and US investors, updating Post,s 2004 Investment Disputes Report (reftel C) and its 2005 update (reftel B). Post is aware of 21 disputes involving 19 claimants against the GOA, of which 12 are active. Since [...]	2006-06-16 14:19:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ETRD EINV PGOV KIDE PREL OPIC AR

06BUENOSAIRES1364	MEDIA REACTION IRAQ IMF-ARGENTINA MIDDLE EAST FTAA-MERCOSUR [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's most important international stories include the US Senate allegedly limiting US President Bush's war power in Iraq; the report of external auditors on the IMF performance in handling the 2001 Argentine crisis and the Independent Evaluation Office's review; the situ [...]	2006-06-16 19:37:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1388	MEDIA REACTION US-NORTH KOREA; FUTURE US AMBASSADOR TO [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Weekend newspapers cover the escalation of tension between the US and North Korea; the future US Ambassador to Argentina, Earl Anthony Wayne; the resignation of DEPSEC Robert Zoellick; Bolivian President Morales' alleged willingness to sign an FTA with the US; Chacho Alvare [...]	2006-06-22 19:10:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1389	MEDIA REACTION NORTH KOREA; US-LATIN AMERICA; GUANTANAMO; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's papers lead with the current tension between the US and North Korea; the US concern over Latin American democracy; the EU pressuring US President Bush over the closure of Guantanamo prison; US President Bush leading world trade negotiations; the nature of Latin Amer [...]	2006-06-22 19:11:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1391	MEDIA REACTION PRESIDENT BUSH TO THE EU; US ANTI-MISSILE [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's leading international stories include US President Bush's trip to the EU; the US activating its anti-missile defense system in an escalation of tension with North Korea; a report from the US Energy Information Administration stating that Brazil, Colombia and Argenti [...]	2006-06-22 19:11:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES140	ARGENTINA, BOLIVIA DISCUSS BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP [...] (U) President Kirchner met with Bolivian President-elect Evo Morales on January 17 in Buenos Aires. The Morales visit to Argentina followed a series of meetings that he had conducted with leaders in Venezuela, Brazil, Cuba, France, Spain, South Africa and China. Morales stated in a brief pre [...]	2006-01-19 17:23:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON ENRG AR BL
06BUENOSAIRES141	REPORTING IRAN TO THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY [...] (C) Argentine Deputy Foreign Minister Roberto Garcia Moritan phoned the Ambassador on January 18 to follow up on the Ambassador's January 12 demarche on reporting Iran to the Security Council (Reftel B). Garcia Moritan told the Ambassador the GOA would support both the call for an emergency [...]	2006-01-19 17:26:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM PREL IR EU AR AORC
06BUENOSAIRES1414	MEDIA REACTION: NORTH KOREA; KIRCHNER IN SPAIN; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's key international stories include North Korea warning Washington about a possible military confrontation between the two countries; the alleged US campaign to avoid Venezuela's entry into the UN Security Council; the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee's resumptio [...]	2006-06-23 20:44:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1424	Argentina Economic and Financial Weekly for the week ending [...] On June 29, the presidents of Bolivia and Argentina are scheduled to announce an agreement on natural gas exports, but several new issues have arisen. Bolivia is standing firm on its condition that Argentina cannot re-export gas to Chile (Bolivia refuses to sell gas to Chile, seeking to recov [...]	2006-06-26 12:08:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON ELAB ALOW AR
06BUENOSAIRES1433	IRAQ; ALLEGED US ESPIONAGE; HUMAN RIGHTS; EVO MORALES; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's key international stories include the alleged preparation for US troop withdrawal from Iraq; former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's statement that US President Bush will ask for his help in fighting the insurgency in Iraq; a new espionage scandal in the US; the rela [...]	2006-06-26 17:17:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1434	The Argentine/Uruguay Pulp Mill Imbroglio: [...] Sensitive but Unclassified, Not for Internet Distribution 2. (SBU) Summary: Argentina's strong stand against the construction of two pulp mills on the Uruguayan side of a river that borders an Argentine eco-tourism area, has given environmental activists an opening to press for increased e [...]	2006-06-26 17:18:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV PGOV ECON PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES1439	ARGENTINA'S DRUG CZAR ISOLATED, LEGALIZATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 22, the DCM, accompanied by Acting DEA Chief and POL Officers, met with Dr. Jose Granero, the head of Argentina's Drug Prevention Secretariat (SEDRONAR) to discuss recent reports that the Interior Minister had ordered several federal law enforcement agencies to stop workin [...]	2006-06-27 15:34:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR PGOV AR
06BUENOSAIRES1441	THE US AND THE MEXICAN ELECTIONS; WTO DOHA ROUND; MIDDLE [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's most important international stories include the main points of the US-Mexican bilateral agenda vis-`-vis upcoming Mexican presidential elections; the main issues that need to be tackled in the upcoming WTO Doha Round; the impact of the Israeli soldier's kidnapping [...]	2006-06-27 17:27:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1442	EMBASSY SUPPORTS PROPOSED IDB LOAN TO ARGENTINA FOR REMOTE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary: Embassy Buenos Aires supports the proposed USD 50 million IDB loan to Argentina for a remote sensing satellite as being in the US national interest and as being an appropriate loan for the IDB. Far from be [...]	2006-06-27 17:37:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EAID TSPA AR
06BUENOSAIRES1454	ALLEGED US BANKING ESPIONAGE; MIDDLE EAST; COLOMBIAN [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's key international stories include allegations of USG banking espionage; the situation in the Middle East; the implications of Colombian President Uribe's re-election; the summit to be held between Argentine President Nestor Kirchner and Bolivian President Evo Morale [...]	2006-06-28 20:13:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1459	ARGENTINA TO AGREE TO EXPANDED FLIGHTS [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified and not for internet distribution. 2. (U) The DCM met with Secretary of Transportation Ricardo Jaime on June 27 to discuss Reftel A talking points on Open Skies. The DCM observed that business and tourism travel between the U.S. and Argentin [...]	2006-06-29 10:41:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR KTIA AR
06BUENOSAIRES146	STAFFDEL MACKEY PUSHES AMIA BOMBING CASE [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. 2. (U) This is an action cable. Please see paragraph 14. ------- Summary ------- 3. (SBU) House Committee on International Relations (HIRC) Senior Counsel John Mackey and HIRC Democratic Deputy Chief [...]	2006-01-19 20:35:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREF PREL PTER KJUS AR
06BUENOSAIRES1460	ARGENTINA SCENE-SETTER FOR CODEL CORNYN [...] (U) INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY: On behalf of Embassy Buenos Aires, I warmly welcome your visit to Argentina on July 3. Your visit comes at a time of considerable ferment in the Argentine political and economic arenas. On October 23, 2005 President Kirchner won a resounding victory in mid-term l [...]	2006-06-29 14:48:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON PARM AR SNAR
06BUENOSAIRES1462	ARGENTINA: THE K-STYLE OF POLITICS [...] (C) This cable is designed to examine President Nestor Kirchner's unique operating and decision-making style that has become known as the "K-Style." Given Kirchner's control over all aspects of GOA policymaking, knowledge of Kirchner's motivations and methods in arriving at decisions is essential t [...]	2006-06-29 15:46:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES1465	USG-THE NEW YORK TIMES; MIDDLE EAST; US-PERUVIAN FTA; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's key international stories include the confrontation between the USG and The New York Times newspaper over the newspaper's disclosure of the USG's alleged banking espionage; US supporting the Israeli offensive against the Palestinian territories aimed at rescuing an [...]	2006-06-29 18:04:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES147	STAFFDEL MACKEY EXAMINES ARGENTINE NARCOTICS [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) House Committee on International Relations (HIRC) Senior Counsel John Mackey and HIRC Democratic Deputy Chief Counsel Paul Oostburg Sanz traveled to Argentina January 10-13 [...]	2006-01-19 20:41:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR PREL PGOV AR
06BUENOSAIRES1476	US SUPREME COURT RULING ON GUANTANAMO; US-PERUVIAN FTA; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Local papers lead with the US Supreme Court declaring that military tribunals created after the September 11 attacks violated the Geneva Convention; US Congressional ratification of the Peru FTA; and the US Senate's alleged confirmation of Earl Anthony Wayne as Ambassador t [...]	2006-06-30 18:53:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1481	Argentina Economic and Financial Weekly for the week ending [...] On June 29, Argentina and Bolivia finally reached an agreement on Bolivian gas exports to Argentina. The agreement was signed by Argentine President Nestor Kirchner and Bolivian President Evo Morales, and provides for an increase in the volume of gas exported to Argentina. The price will inc [...]	2006-07-03 13:47:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON ELAB ALOW AR
06BUENOSAIRES1486	MORALES IN ARGENTINA TO SIGN GAS, IMMIGRATION [...] (U) Bolivian President Evo Morales visited to Argentina on June 29 to sign agreements with President Kirchner on the price and volume of natural gas deliveries from Bolivia and agreements on immigration and bridge construction. Kirchner did not sign an agreement on coca leaf imports to Argent [...]	2006-07-03 20:30:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ETRD ECON AR BL
06BUENOSAIRES1487	RULING ON GUANTANAMO; MEXICAN ELECTIONS; WTO; KIRCHNER TO [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Weekend international stories include the US media reaction to the US Supreme Court's ruling on Guantanamo; the implications of the Mexican election; Argentine President Kirchner's trip to Venezuela; the US-Peruvian FTA; US-Indian ties; alleged USG surveillance of banks in [...]	2006-07-03 20:38:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1510	FM TAIANA INSTRUCTS UN MISSION TO COOPERATE ON [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel demarches to Argentine Acting Foreign Minister Roberto Garcia Moritan the morning of July 6. (Note: Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana is currently in India.) The Ambassador underscored the gravity of the decision by the DPRK to go forward with the missile launche [...]	2006-07-06 19:40:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PARM UNSC KN AR
06BUENOSAIRES1515	NORTH KOREA; THE CARACAS SUMMIT; VENEZUELA'S ENTRY INTO [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT All local media report on Argentine President Nestor Kirchner's address to the Venezuelan National Assembly, in which he strengthened his alliance with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and added that Venezuela "is a full democracy fighting for justice." Papers speculate on [...]	2006-07-07 12:36:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1516	INTERVIEW WITH US AMBASSADOR LINO GUTIERREZ; VENEZUELA'S [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Major papers cover extensively the Fourth of July reception held in the Ambassador's residence in Buenos Aires. Liberal, English-language "Buenos Aires Herald" carries an interview with US Ambassador Lino Gutierrez who underscores that "US-Argentina ties are stronger regard [...]	2006-07-07 12:37:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1523	ARGENTINE FM TAIANA'S TRIP TO INDIA YIELDS FEW [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. 2. (U) Argentine FM Jorge Taiana led a delegation of over 70 businesspersons and GOA officials to India July 3-7. The mission's goal, according to the office of the MFA's Undersecretary for Foreign Trade, wa [...]	2006-07-07 21:08:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EFTA EAGR ETRD AR
06BUENOSAIRES1533	ARGENTINA: DEMARCHE TO REQUEST CO-SPONSORSHIP OF [...] (C) Per Refs A and B, Ambassador spoke on July 8 with Deputy Foreign Minister Roberto Garcia Moritan to urge the GoA to co-sponsor the Japanese UNSC resolution on the DPRK missile launches. The conversation was a follow-up to the Ambassador's July 6 demarche to Garcia Moritan on the DPRK res [...]	2006-07-10 19:40:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MARR UNSC KN AR
06BUENOSAIRES1535	INTERVIEW WITH US AMBASSADOR TO BUENOS AIRES LINO [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Daily-of-record "La Nacion" and leading "Clarin" conducted an interview with US Ambassador Lino Gutirrez. Those interviews were reported, thus far, by liberal, English-language "Buenos Aires Herald," wire service agencies Agence France Presse and TELAM, populist "Cronica," [...]	2006-07-10 20:33:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES154	ARGENTINA: LABOR SECRETARY CHAO MEETINGS WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: On January 11, U.S. Labor Secretary Elaine Chao paid a courtesy call on Argentine Labor Minister Carlos Tomada. Secretary Chao took the opportunity to speak about the benefits of free trade, noting that free trade was the best way for Argentina to achieve the goals of continued [...]	2006-01-20 14:55:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON PARM AR SNAR
06BUENOSAIRES1545	ARGENTINA: STATE OF PLAY OF UNSC RESOLUTION [...] (C) PolCouns delivered Reftel A points to Minister Manuel Fernandez Salorio of Argentine MFA International Organizations office on July 11. Fernandez Salorio expressed hope that Chinese diplomatic effort would succeed but reemphasized that Argentina would vote in favor of the UNSC resolution [...]	2006-07-11 20:45:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MARR UNSC KN AR
06BUENOSAIRES1548	MUMBAI BLITZ; GUANTANAMO 07/12/06;BUENOS AIRES [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's leading international stories include the bomb blitz in Mumbai killing more than 160 in India's worst terrorist attack since 1993; and the USG's alleged announcement that the Geneva Convention will apply to the Guantanamo prison. 2. OPINION PIECES AND KEY STORIES [...]	2006-07-12 18:11:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES155	MEDIA REACTION BRASILIA SUMMIT STRATEGIC [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's leading international stories include Bin Laden's warning that he is preparing new attacks in the US; French President Chirac's warning that nuclear weapons could be used as a response to a state terrorist attack; French Defense Minister offering Argentina five sup [...]	2006-01-20 16:38:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1550	Argentina Economic and Financial Weekly for the week ending [...] The Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased 0.5 percent m-o-m in June, below market expectations of 0.7 percent, and follows an identical increase in May. The better-than-expected result is due mainly to reduced pressure on food prices, which represent almost one-third of the Index. Last month' [...]	2006-07-12 20:14:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON ELAB ALOW AR
06BUENOSAIRES1566	ARGENTINA'S "SO-SO" MERCOSUR PRESIDENCY COMING TO [...] (C) Summary: As Argentina's pro temp Mercosur presidency comes to an end, it can claim success in its top priority, bringing Venezuela into the Mercosur fold, but it failed to make much progress on any other fronts. An MFA official characterized the Argentine presidency as "so-so." Argentina [...]	2006-07-14 20:04:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON PREL PINR AR
06BUENOSAIRES1567	U.S. CITIZEN'S LAND THREATENED WITH EXPROPRIATION [...] The senate in the Argentine province of Catamarca unanimously approved a bill July 13 expropriating 53,603 hectares of privately-held land, a large part of which is owned by U.S. citizen Peter McBride. The bill must still be approved by the provincial lower house and signed by governor Eduar [...]	2006-07-14 20:16:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ECON AR
06BUENOSAIRES1571	FISCAL SITUATION IN PROVINCES DETERIORATING [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Lino Gutierrez for reasons 1.4 b and d. 2. (C) Summary: Provincial finances are deterioriating, with the provincial contribution to the consolidated surplus this year projected to be zero. The worsening state of provincial finances is mainly the result of sp [...]	2006-07-14 21:09:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN AR
06BUENOSAIRES1573	JUNE 2006 INFLATION UPDATE AND PREDICTIONS [...] The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.5 percent in June, bringing the 12-month inflation rate to 11 percent. Average nominal salaries increased 1.5 percent in May and the purchasing power of salaried workers in May 2006 was 5.2 percent higher than in May 2005. According to the BCRA's last s [...]	2006-07-17 12:43:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON ELAB ETRD ALOW AR
06BUENOSAIRES158	MEDIA REACTION US AMBASSADOR TO BUENOS AIRES [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Weekend international stories include: Michele Bachelet winning Chilean presidential elections and considering relations with Argentina "strategic" for Chile; US President George W. Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel's joint statement to put mutual pressure on Iran [...]	2006-01-20 20:10:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1584	MIDDLE EAST; THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL SANCTIONS ON NORTH [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Local papers lead with the escalation of the Middle East violence; disagreement at the UN Security Council regarding a call for ceasefire; UN Security Council sanctions against North Korea; the status of Ambassador Earl Anthony Wayne's confirmation as US Ambassador to Argen [...]	2006-07-17 20:36:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1586	US PRESIDENT BUSH ON ISRAELI OFFENSIVE AGAINST LEBANON; USG [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Local papers lead with US President George W. Bush supporting Israeli offensive against Lebanon after the Hezbollah militia captured two Israeli soldiers on Wednesday; the USG accusing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez of promoting terrorism; and Ambassador Wayne's confirmed [...]	2006-07-18 10:54:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1587	JAPAN DRAFT RESOLUTION AGAINST NORTH KOREA; MIDDLE EAST; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Key international stories today include Japan asking for Argentina's support in a draft resolution it submitted to the UN, which requests sanctions against North Korea for its missile tests; the US blames Syria and Iran for the escalation of violence in the Middle East; for [...]	2006-07-18 13:20:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES159	MEDIA REACTION A/S SHANNON STATEMENTS ON [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's most important international stories include A/S Shannon's statements on populist governments; the Human Rights Watch annual report; the Brazilian and Argentine presidents' pledge to discuss issues raised by Uruguay and Paraguay; and Uruguayan President Tabare Vazq [...]	2006-01-20 20:12:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1593	MIDDLE EAST; TRIPLE BORDER; WTO DOHA ROUND; US-ARGENTINE [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Leading international stories today include the war in the Middle East; the US Senate's attempt to pass a resolution intended to create an antiterrorist task force on the Triple Border between Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil; and the US-Argentine deal to fight money launderi [...]	2006-07-18 20:56:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1594	ARGENTINA: KIRCHNER AT THREE YEARS [...] (C) Coming to power after one of the worst economic, political and social crises in Argentina's history, President Nestor Kirchner has had a successful first three years in office. He is seen as a strong and decisive leader and is credited with restoring governability to the executive branch and pr [...]	2006-07-18 21:16:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	SECRET	PGOV PHUM PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES1599	ARGENTINA: DEMARCHE ON THE ADOPTION OF A CHAPTER [...] (C) DCM, accompanied by PolCouns, delivered reftel demarche to Foreign Ministry Chief of Cabinet Ambassador Augustin Colombo Sierra and Acting Undersecretary for Foreign Policy Ambassador Luis Cappagli on July 18. Cappagli is the P equivalent in the Foreign Ministry. Foreign Minister Jorge [...]	2006-07-19 15:16:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC IR AR
06BUENOSAIRES1600	ARGENTINA PROPOSES ITU QUID PRO QUO [...] Reftel directed the Embassy to seek the GOA's support for reelecting the U.S. to the ITU Council at the ITU's November 2006 meeting. That message was delivered March 2006. 2. The Argentine MFA has responded with a diplomatic note containing a proposal for reciprocal assistance. That is, [...]	2006-07-19 15:47:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	ECPS AORC AR
06BUENOSAIRES1605	Argentina Economic and Financial Weekly for the week ending [...] The new price agreement between the GOA and the Government of Bolivia will go into effect on July 15, increasing the price of natural gas from USD 3.20 to USD 5 per million cubic meters through the end of 2006. In this context, Chilean Energy and Mining Minister Karen Poniachik met with Argen [...]	2006-07-19 19:20:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON ELAB ALOW AR
06BUENOSAIRES161	PRESIDENT KIRCHNER SUPPORTS URUGUAY'S RIGHT TO [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified, not for Internet distribution. 2. (U) President Nestor Kirchner made a statement to the press on January 19 during his state visit to Brasilia that he would not oppose Uruguay's negotiation of a free trade agreement with the U.S. "If Argent [...]	2006-01-20 20:40:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON EINV PREL AR BL VE CI
06BUENOSAIRES1610	ARGENTINA: KIRCHNER INSIDER ON GOA POLICY IN THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 5, the DCM paid a farewell call on Secretary General of the Presidency (President Nestor SIPDIS Kirchner's chief of staff) Oscar Parrilli that included a frank discussion on GOA policy in the region. Attempting to clarify Kirchner's recent comments about the U.S. [...]	2006-07-20 14:39:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES1617	MIDDLE EAST; FIDEL CASTRO; MERCOSUR AND VENEZUELA; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's most important international stories include the war in the Middle East; Fidel Castro's probable visit to Argentina and the Cuban political transition; and Venezuela's incorporation into Mercosur. 2. OPINION PIECES AND KEY STORIES - "The US agrees with Israel [...]	2006-07-21 12:47:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1624	K,OMICS REVISITED: KIRCHNER,S ECONOMIC POLICIES [...] (C) Summary: During the first three years of his mandate, President Kirchner's rhetoric on economics was worse than his bite. Despite sometimes inflammatory, nationalist rhetoric, attacks on the IMF, oil companies, bondholders, various business sectors and orthodox economists, Kirchner did li [...]	2006-07-21 14:56:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV ENRG ETRD EFIN AR
06BUENOSAIRES163	MEDIA REACTION IRAN ALLEGED A/S SHANNON'S [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's most important international stories include Argentina's alignment with the US against Iran and promotion of the peaceful use of nuclear energy; the Latin American intervention in Haiti; Bolivian President-elect Evo Morales' visit to Argentina and his announcement [...]	2006-01-20 22:03:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1630	Argentina Economic and Financial Weekly for the week ending [...] According to local media, the GOV will buy approximately USD 600 million of Boden 2012 bonds from the GOA through the end of the month. This will represent the largest purchase by the GOV in such a short period. Along with USD 1.4 billion deposited by the GOA in the Banco Nacion, it will be [...]	2006-07-21 20:43:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON ELAB ALOW AR
06BUENOSAIRES1631	CASTRO ATTENDS MERCOSUR SUMMIT IN ARGENTINA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The 30th Mercosur heads of state summit took place in Cordoba, Argentina July 20-21. The summit marked Venezuela's debut as a full member of Mercosur. However, the arrival of Cuban leader Fidel Castro has overshadowed all other aspects of the gathering. Castro, Venezuelan pre [...]	2006-07-21 21:22:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ETRD ECON AR
06BUENOSAIRES1632	ARGENTINA: FAREWELL CALL ON KIRCHNER INNER CIRCLE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 19, the DCM paid a farewell call on President Kirchner's closest and most influential advisor, Technical and Legal Secretary Carlos Zannini, that included a discussion on the bilateral relationship and GOA regional policy. Reviewing the U.S. bilateral objectives over [...]	2006-07-21 21:27:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES164	Argentina Economic and Financial Weekly for [...] The peso appreciated 0.3 percent versus the USD during the week to close at 3.05 ARP/USD, one cent below last Friday's close. This week's appreciation is mainly attributed to higher dollar sales by exporters, accompanied by the Central Bank's constant intervention in the FX market to prevent [...]	2006-01-20 22:03:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON ELAB ALOW AR
06BUENOSAIRES1643	MIDDLE EAST; MERCOSUR AND FIDEL CASTRO; US-ARGENTINE TIES [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Weekend papers cover the situation in the Middle East; US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's trip to the region; and the outcome and implications of the Mercosur summit in Cordoba. 2. OPINION PIECES AND KEY STORIES - "The US asks for more pressure against Hezbollah" [...]	2006-07-24 20:36:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1656	ARGENTINE AGRICULTURE PRODUCERS STRIKE TO PROTEST [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary: Argentina's agricultural producers mounted a four-day strike to protest the GOA's policies toward the sector, which include export taxes and market manipulation. Strikers described their act [...]	2006-07-25 21:06:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ETRD ECON AR
06BUENOSAIRES1665	MERCOSUR SUMMIT IN CORDOBA: MORE QUESTIONS THAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The MERCOSUR summit, which took place July 20-21 in Cordoba, left more questions than answers about the future of the regional organization. The impact of Venezuela joining the union, how to better treat the smaller members of the bloc, whether MERCOSUR can return to a primarily e [...]	2006-07-26 20:47:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON ETRD AR
06BUENOSAIRES1678	WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST; US SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL; AL QAEDA [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Local papers lead with the US support for Israel; Al Qaeda entering the confrontation; ties between Hezbollah and the Arab countries; the Russian-Venezuelan relationship; the "dangerous" implications of Venezuela's incorporation into Mercosur; an alleged US-Uruguayan FTA; a [...]	2006-07-28 17:50:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1679	WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST; ROME CONFERENCE; USJ ROLE IN LATIN [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's international leading stories include the status of the war in the Middle East; the outcome of the Rome Conference; the US reconsidering its role in Latin America; the threat posed by North Korea; the upcoming encounter between US and Brazilian authorities on farm s [...]	2006-07-28 17:51:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES168	MEDIA REACTION EVO MORALES PRESIDENTIAL [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Weekend stories cover Bolivian President-elect Evo Morales' inauguration ceremony and the progress of indigenous movements in Latin America; the US attitude toward Morales; the US-Argentine relationship; the possible nomination of US Assistant Secretary Earl Anthony Wayne [...]	2006-01-23 19:13:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1681	SECRETARY RICE'S VISIT TO THE MIDDLE EAST; TRI-BORDER; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Local papers lead with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's trip to the Middle East; the US proposal to deepen its monitoring of the Tri-Border; the US urging Russia not to sell military equipment to Venezuela; the need for an update in Argentine legislation on terroris [...]	2006-07-28 18:20:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1682	WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST; SECRETARY RICE'S VISIT TO THE [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's key international stories include the situation in the Middle East; US Secretary of State Condoleezza's rice to the region; the Argentine Government's position vis-`-vis the war in Lebanon and Israel; Venezuelan President Chavez's trip to Bielo-Russia and Russia; an [...]	2006-07-28 18:20:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1698	Argentina Economic and Financial Weekly for the week ending [...] On July 25, the GOA raised the gas export tax from 20 percent to 45 percent. The GOA decided to increase levies on exports to mitigate the effect of the price agreement reached with Bolivia, which increased the price of imported natural gas from USD 3.20 to USD 5 per million cubic meters thro [...]	2006-07-31 20:11:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON ELAB ALOW AR
06BUENOSAIRES1705	WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST; US-PERUVIAN FTA; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Local newspapers report on diplomatic negotiations to find a solution to the war in the Middle East; Peruvian president-elect Alan Garcia and the US-Peru FTA; ties between Mercosur and Venezuela; and failed WTO negotiations. 2. OPINION PIECES AND KEY STORIES - "The US [...]	2006-08-01 16:13:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1707	WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST; THE US ROLE; GUANTANAMO; ARGENTINE [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Weekend papers cover the war in the Middle East; the UN Human Rights Committee notifying the US that it should close all its secret centers of detention; the confirmation of Ambassador Wayne as US Ambassador to Argentina; and Argentine President Kirchner's isolationism. [...]	2006-08-01 18:04:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES171	CODEL MCCONNELL FACT-FINDING MISSION TO ARGENTINA [...] SUMMARY: From January 10 to 12, Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY),accompanied by Senators Mel Martinez (R-FL),Richard Burr (R-NC),and John Thune (R-SD) held a series of fact- finding and orientation meetings in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Following a country team brief chaired by Ambassador Lino [...]	2006-01-23 20:26:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR CODEL SNAR AR
06BUENOSAIRES1732	K VERGUENZA: KIRCHNER-CONTROLLED CONGRESS PASSES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On August 2, the Lower House of the Argentine Congress approved a controversial bill granting the Casa Rosada permanent special powers to modify the federal budget without the approval of Congress. The bill passed the Senate three weeks earlier. Congress authorized these spec [...]	2006-08-03 18:53:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES1733	CHARGE MEETING WITH VICE MOD VASQUEZ OCAMPO [...] (C) Summary: In an August 1 meeting with CDA Matera, Mil Group Commander, A/DATT and PolOff, Vice Minister of Defense (Vice-MOD) Vasquez Ocampo stated his satisfaction with the state of bilateral mil/mil relations, including continued cooperation, the Bilateral Working Group, training and e [...]	2006-08-03 19:34:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PREL OAS HA AR
06BUENOSAIRES1743	WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST; CUBAN TRANSITION; AMBASSADOR WAYNE [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's key international stories include the war in the Middle East and the need for putting an end to the escalation in violence; Fidel Castro's transferring power to his brother; and US Ambassador to Argentina, Earl Anthony Wayne, having to deal with local political lead [...]	2006-08-04 13:04:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1744	MIDDLE EAST WAR; CUBA; IDB LOAN FOR ARGENTINA; VENEZUELAN [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's key international stories include the implications of the war in the Middle East; US foreign policy; the situation in Cuba; the danger posed by Venezuelan President Chavez to Mercosur and the world; and expectations about the Alan Garcia administration. 2. OPINIO [...]	2006-08-04 13:05:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1746	ARGENTINA AND POSSIBLE TROOP CONTRIBUTIONS FOR [...] (C) Argentine Vice Foreign Minister Roberto Garcia Moritan told CDA on July 29 (ref. B) that Argentina will attend the Force Generation Meeting in New York--once scheduled--and would consider participation in a UN Lebanon force, depending on conditions on the ground. Since CDA's conversation [...]	2006-08-04 15:36:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO UNSC LE AR
06BUENOSAIRES1765	MIDLE EAST AND A DEAL FOR A CEASE FIRE; AMBASSADOR WAYNE; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Weekend papers heavily cover the implications of the war in the Middle East and a US-French deal for a cease fire at the UN; a likely FTA between the US and Uruguay; current ties between the US and Latin America; the situation in Cuba; alleged support for terrorism at the T [...]	2006-08-07 19:41:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1766	USG FOREIGN POLICY ON THE MIDDLE EAST; US PRESIDENT BUSH [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's key international stories include the USG's policy towards the Middle East; US President Bush urging Cubans to undertake democratic change on the island; the trouble met by foreign journalists in reaching Cuba; friction between the Argentine Government and the IMF; [...]	2006-08-07 19:42:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1769	Argentina Economic and Financial Weekly for the week ending [...] On July 28, the GOA published a resolution authorizing the issuance of USD 482 million worth of Boden 2012 bonds to Venezuela, although the bond placement was made secretly on July 17. With this new issuance, Boden 2012 stock has reached USD 15.1 billion, of which more than one-quarter was so [...]	2006-08-07 20:37:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON ELAB ALOW AR
06BUENOSAIRES1786	MIDDLE EAST; GSP; CUBA; TRI-BORDER; 08/09/06 [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-09 18:54:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1787	GPS UNDER REVIEW; MIDDLE EAST; 08/08/06 [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's most important international story include USTR Susan Schwab's announcement that the Bush administration will analyze whether it will limit, suspend or remove commercial advantages granted to the country under the GSP; and US President George W. Bush urging the UN t [...]	2006-08-09 18:58:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1791	STORY OF RUSSIAN ARMS SALES OVERBLOWN [...] (C) On August 9, The Washington Times ran a story regarding potential Russian arms sales to Argentina (local daily "La Nacion" ran the story last week). The source for the WT story, from which the article quotes liberally, is a standard MOD press release following Minister Garre's meetings w [...]	2006-08-09 21:06:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM MARR MASS PREL VZ RS AR
06BUENOSAIRES1792	CONTINUED ARGENTINE COMMITMENT TO HAITI AND [...] (C) Vice-MOD and Secretary for Military Affairs Jose Maria Vasquez Ocampo assured CDA August 4 of continued GOA support for Haiti and MINUSTAH. CDA spoke with Vasquez Ocampo following the Vice-MOD's participation that same day in the meeting of MOD and MFA representatives of the Latin Americ [...]	2006-08-09 21:09:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO UNSC HA AR
06BUENOSAIRES1803	ARGENTINA SUPPORTS HRC SPECIAL SESSION ON LEBANON [...] (U) Summary: PolCouns and PolOff met August 10 with Federico Villegas, MFA Director for Human Rights, to deliver reftel talking points. Villegas noted that the MFA is still looking at the text of the resolution but that Argentina had supported holding the special session of the Human Rights [...]	2006-08-10 20:59:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KPAO UNRCR
06BUENOSAIRES1804	ARGENTINA: KIRCHNER STRATEGIST ON ELECTIONS AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 9, the Charge and Poloff (notetaker) paid a courtesy call on Juan Carlos Mazzon, President Kirchner's primary political campaign strategist, that included a discussion on the 2007 elections and GOA policy. The Charge noted Argentina's impressive economic recovery in th [...]	2006-08-10 21:52:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES1809	MIDDLE EAST; US CHARGE MICHAEL MATERA'S STATEMENTS IN [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's most important international stories include the situation in the Middle East and the status of the US-French draft resolution; US Charge Matera's comments on Venezuela and Argentina during a seminar on US history in Buenos Aires; the status of US-Argentine ties; th [...]	2006-08-11 19:53:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1825	US-ARGENTINE BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP; TERRORISM; WAR IN THE [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's international stories include the status of the US-Argentine bilateral relationship; the failed terrorist plot to blow up a number of civilian airplanes heading for the US; the war in the Middle East; the US-Uruguayan FTA; the implications of the GSP review in Argen [...]	2006-08-14 15:29:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1826	ARGENTINA'S PROGRESS ON MERCURY PARTNERSHIPS [...] Reftel requested information concerning Argentina's participation in partnerships geared to reducing mercury contamination, with an eye to the February 2007 UNEP Governing Council meeting, where mercury will be an agenda item. The Embassy spoke on August 11 with Gonzalo Entenza of the MFA's [...]	2006-08-14 18:52:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV TSPL ETRD AR
06BUENOSAIRES1827	MIDDLE EAST WAR; THE UN; US-CUBA; US NATIONAL SECURITY; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's international stories include the situation in the Middle East, the UN's role; US-Cuba ties; US national security; the war on terrorism; the US-Argentine bilateral relationship; and Colombia's influence on Latin America. 2. OPINION PIECES AND KEY STORIES - "Th [...]	2006-08-14 20:39:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES183	MEDIA REACTION EVO MORALES, US-ARGENTINE [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Papers carry speculation about a second possible candidate for Ambassador to Buenos Aires; the aftermath and repercussions of Evo Morales' inauguration and the appointment of his new Cabinet, and the possible advantage of Brazil's 'war industry' as major supplier of weapon [...]	2006-01-24 20:38:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1835	Argentina Economic and Financial Weekly for the week ending [...] On August 8, Argentine President Nestor Kirchner reacted negatively to the announcement that Argentina could lose benefits from the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program. The GSP grants duty-free treatment to US imports of goods from developing countries, including Argentina. Accor [...]	2006-08-15 18:50:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON ELAB ALOW AR
06BUENOSAIRES1839	ARGENTINA WILL NOT PARTICIPATE IN EXPANDED UNIFIL [...] (C) Charge delivered reftel demarche on August 16 to Acting Undersecretary for Foreign Policy Luis Cappagli regarding possible Argentine participation in expanded UNIFIL peacekeeping force. Cappagli listened attentively to Charge's argument for Argentine participation but stated that the dec [...]	2006-08-16 17:09:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PREL LE AR
06BUENOSAIRES184	ARGENTINA: IAEA ARREARS AND IRAN VOTE [...] (U) Ambassador delivered talking points on the upcoming IAEA Board of Governors meeting and Argentina's arrears to the IAEA to Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana on January 24. As in previous discussions with Taiana on the Iranian nuclear program (reftels b and c),the Ambassador unders [...]	2006-01-24 20:45:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AFIN AORC AR IR KNNP PREL IAEA
06BUENOSAIRES1842	US-ARGENTINE BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP; ARGENTINA'S DECISION [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's leading international stories include Argentina's decision not to send troops to the border between Israel and Lebanon, and its impact on the US-Argentine bilateral relationship; the GSP review in relation to Argentina; Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay's decision to c [...]	2006-08-17 11:16:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1843	MIDDLE EAST WAR; THE UN; US-CUBA; US NATIONAL SECURITY; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's international stories include the situation in the Middle East, the UN's role; US-Cuba ties; US national security; the war on terrorism; the US-Argentine bilateral relationship; and Colombia's influence on Latin America. 2. OPINION PIECES AND KEY STORIES - "Th [...]	2006-08-17 18:23:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1848	US-ARGENTINE BILATERAL RELATIONS; ARGENTINA'S DECISION NOT [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's leading stories include yesterday's Assistant Secretary Shannon's digital video conference with Argentine journalists on Cuba and U.S.-Argentine relations; the U.S. denial that it was pressuring Argentina to send troops to the Israeli-Lebanese border and an assessme [...]	2006-08-17 18:30:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1869	GOA'S DECISION NOT TO SEND TROOPS TO LEBANON; FUNDING OF [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's leading stories examine the Argentine government's rejection of the UNSC request to send troops to Lebanon; confirmation by a Hezbollah leader that some of its funding is sourced in Argentina; and an editorial about the terrorist threat highlighted by the plot uncov [...]	2006-08-18 20:28:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1871	US-ARGENTINE BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP; ARGENTINA'S DECISION [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's leading international stories include Argentina's decision not to send troops to the border between Israel and Lebanon, and its impact on the US-Argentine bilateral relationship; the SGP review in relation to Argentina; Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay's decision to c [...]	2006-08-22 12:35:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1873	US-ARGENTINE BILATERAL RELATIONS; ARGENTINA'S DECISION NOT [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's leading stories include yesterday's Assistant Secretary Shannon's digital video conference with Argentine journalists on Cuba and U.S.-Argentine relations; the U.S. denial that it was pressuring Argentina to send troops to the Israeli-Lebanese border and an assessme [...]	2006-08-22 18:27:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES188	MEDIA REACTION PALESTINE ELECTIONS BILATERAL [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's leading international stories include White House expectations regarding Palestinian elections; speculation about the next US ambassador to Buenos Aires; the continued back and forth on alleged US- Uruguayan free trade discussions; the benefits of free trade agreem [...]	2006-01-25 19:24:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1880	Argentina Economic and Financial Weekly for the week ending [...] The GOA's monthly economic activity index, viewed as a reliable leading indicator of GDP, came out was up 8.2 percent y-o-y in June -- below the BCRA market survey forecast of 8.5 percent. Nonetheless, this continues the recovery since April, which showed the weakest growth rate (+6.3 percent) [...]	2006-08-23 13:31:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON ELAB ALOW AR

06BUENOSAIRES1886	MIDDLE EAST: IRAN; HEZBOLLAH F}"/fqEcQ funding; security coordination [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-23 16:00:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1888	ARGENTINA TO EXPAND NUCLEAR POWER SECTOR, RESTART [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentina plans an expansion of its nuclear energy infrastructure, including a return of its uranium enrichment program, according to MFA Director General for International Security Issues Ambassador Elsa Kelly. Planning Minister Julio De Vido is expected to lay out the plans d [...]	2006-08-23 19:12:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP ENRG IAEA OTRA PREL ECON AR
06BUENOSAIRES19	MEDIA REACTION US-ARGENTINE BILATERAL [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's key international stories focus on the Bush administration terming the US-Argentine bilateral relationship 'positive,' as opposed to 'excellent' only three months ago; the alleged anti-US feeling in Latin America; Argentina canceling its 9.5 billion- dollar debt to [...]	2006-01-04 17:59:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1901	ARGENTINA: KIRCHNER POWER GRAB PUSHING OPPOSITION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The century-old Radical Civic Union (UCR) party is facing serious divisions in the run-up to its national convention to be held in Rosario August 25-26 between those who want to accept President Kirchner's call to join his "concertacion" and those who want to remain an oppositi [...]	2006-08-24 18:06:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES1905	GOA FOREIGN MINISTRY KEEN ON EVENTUAL OECD [...] (C) The GoA participates actively in OECD affairs as an observer state and its Foreign Ministry is keen to have Argentina considered for eventual full membership status. Accepting that OECD accession is a long term play, the Foreign Ministry sees its still pending request for an OECD review of [...]	2006-08-24 19:25:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON OECD AR
06BUENOSAIRES1906	ARGENTINA CONFIRMS PLANS TO EXPAND NUCLEAR POWER [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. 2. (U) President Nestor Kirchner presided over a ceremony August 23 at which Planning Minister Julio De Vido announced that Argentina was going to expand its nuclear power program and reactivate a dormant ura [...]	2006-08-24 20:41:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP ENRG IAEA OTRA PREL ECON AR
06BUENOSAIRES1910	IRAN; CUBA; ARGENTINE NUCLEAR PROGRAM; US-URUGUAYAN FTA; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's major international stories include the USG rejection of the Iranian government's proposal to resume multilateral nuclear talks without suspending its nuclear program; US Assistant Secretary for Latin American Affairs Thomas Shannon's statements about Cuba's transit [...]	2006-08-25 14:47:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1912	THE LEADING CENTER-LEFT OPPOSITION LEADER ON [...] (C) On August 24, ADCM and Poloff (notetaker) met with center-left opposition leader Elisa Carrio, who gave her view of the current political situation in Argentina. Elisa Carrio began the discussion with her analysis of President Kirchner's foreign policy, which she argued was marked by a c [...]	2006-08-25 18:20:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES1929	WAR IN LEBANON; WAR ON TERRORISM; ARGENTINE NUCLEAR PLANS [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's major international stories include the implications of the war in Lebanon; the ongoing war on terrorism; USG's support for Argentina's nuclear program; and USTR Susan Schwab's statement that the US does not believe it should revive global commercial talks through a [...]	2006-08-25 20:19:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1930	ARGENTINA: U.S. CITIZENS' LAND THREATENED WITH [...] (SBU) Two recent cases of threatened land expropriation directed against two U.S. citizens have garnered local media attention, but it does not appear that the seizure of properties will move ahead in the near term. The most serious case involves the land of Douglas Tompkins, whose property [...]	2006-08-25 21:10:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES1943	Argentina Economic and Financial Weekly for the week ending [...] Argentina announced that it would expand its nuclear power program and reactivate a dormant uranium enrichment facility. The announcement described four pillars upon which Argentina's enhanced nuclear energy capabilities would rest: The GOA plans to finish construction of the approximately 70 [...]	2006-08-29 18:53:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON ELAB ALOW AR
06BUENOSAIRES1966	MFA OFFICIAL ON VENEZUELAN UNSC CANDIDACY AND GOA [...] (C) Charge, accompanied by PolCouns, paid a courtesy call August 29 on the new Director General of the MFA Office of International Organizations, Ambassador Raul Ricardes. In the course of the conversation, Ricardes (please protect) opined that it would be very difficult for either Venezuela [...]	2006-08-31 14:39:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC AR VZ
06BUENOSAIRES1969	FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF HURRICANE KATRINA; U.S. SUPPORT OF [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's local dailies lead with the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina; Hurricane Ernesto; the US Government's amicus curiae filing supporting Argentina's claim against two venture capital funds seeking to opt out of the terms under the GOA's debt swap deal; and Argenti [...]	2006-08-31 19:39:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1970	US OPTIONS IN IRAN; CHAVEZ IN SYRIA; BOLIVIAN PRESIDENT EVO [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's leading international stories include the USG's options in Iran; Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez' visit to Syria; the situation in Bolivia; and the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon. 2. OPINION PIECES AND KEY STORIES - "Bush's three options" Hugo Alconada Mo [...]	2006-08-31 19:39:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1977	ARGENTINA: RALLY CALLING FOR GREATER PUBLIC [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Anti-crime advocate Carlos Blumberg filled the symbolically important Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires last night in a peaceful demonstration calling on the Kirchner government to provide increased public security. Event organizers succeeded in attracting a large crowd, despite e [...]	2006-09-01 17:37:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES1978	ARGENTINA: OPPOSITION UCR PARTY CONVENTION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Although the August 25-26 national convention of the Radical Civic Union (UCR) confirmed that the UCR would remain an opposition party, it also demonstrated the UCR's weakened state because the most significant party leaders failed to attend. Calls by UCR Congressman Federico [...]	2006-09-01 17:39:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES1983	US PRESIDENT BUSH'S POPULARITY RATING; WAR IN LEBANON; IRAN [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's major international stories include US President George W. Bush's popularity rating; the status of the war in Lebanon; the nuclear threat posed by Iran; the role the UN should play in international conflicts; the US policy on Cuba; the US-Uruguayan FTA; the US-Asean [...]	2006-09-01 19:48:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES1984	TRAVEL NOTE: ARGENTINA'S UNDERDEVELOPED NORTHWEST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Poloff met with leading political, economic and academic leaders August 14-19 in the politically and economically underdeveloped provinces of Catamarca and La Rioja. Poloff's meetings in Catamarca August 14-15 highlighted the province's economic potential, particularly in mini [...]	2006-09-01 23:49:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES1985	GSP GRADUATION FOR ARGENTINA? - JUST ANOTHER BRICK [...] (SBU) A possible Argentine graduation from the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program will certainly hurt both specific production sectors, including leather and food products and some underdeveloped provinces where U.S. GSP export production is concentrated, including Santa Fe, Chub [...]	2006-09-01 23:50:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD AR
06BUENOSAIRES1993	Argentina Economic and Financial Weekly for the week ending [...] On August 17 the BCRA announced it will work to encourage banks to boost mortgage lending and ease applicant paperwork in an effort to address rising rents. This initiative follows Secretary of Internal Trade Guillermo Moreno's proposal to "reactivate" the mortgage loan market through an "inc [...]	2006-09-05 20:50:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON ELAB ALOW AR
06BUENOSAIRES1994	SEPTEMBER 11 ANNIVERSARY; IRAN; US ECONOMY; US-URUGUAYAN [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Weekend stories cover the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks; the USG's alleged use of the war in Iraq for upcoming US legislative elections; the positions of the US, EU and Russia vis-`-vis the imminent sanctions on Iran; the US-Uruguayan FTA; the condition of t [...]	2006-09-06 10:45:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES20	ARGENTINA SCENE-SETTER FOR CODEL MCCONNELL [...] (C) INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY: On behalf of Embassy Buenos Aires, I warmly welcome your visit to Argentina on January 10-12. Your visit comes at a time of considerable ferment in the Argentine political and economic arenas. On October 23, President Kirchner won a resounding victory in mid-term [...]	2006-01-04 18:25:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON PARM AR SNAR
06BUENOSAIRES2001	US-IRAN; VISIT OF CARLOS VALDERRAMA, EXPERT ON INVESTMENT [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's leading international stories include Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad disregarding UN ultimatum and maintaining he will further his nuclear plans; US President Bush's reaction to Iran's challenging response; and Argentine First Lady Cristina Kirchner's praising [...]	2006-09-06 13:42:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES203	COCAINE BUST CAUSES BANANA TRUCK BOTTLENECK [...] SUMMARY: On December 31, members of the Gendarmeria Nacional seized 738 kilograms of cocaine in Jose C. Paz, Buenos Aires Province, hidden inside bags of charcoal. The operation included the arrests of ten individuals, among them three brothers of the Motok family, a known Salta-based drug [...]	2006-01-27 19:18:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR AR
06BUENOSAIRES2033	THE US AND IRAN; THE US VOTE ON AN IDB LOAN FOR ARGENTINA; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Local international stories include US President Bush's statements about Iran; the US allegedly opposing the approval of an IDB loan for Argentina; the World Bank's 2007 Doing Business Report on Argentina; Mexican President-elect Felipe Calderon; US Democrats' statement tha [...]	2006-09-07 20:02:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2037	PRESIDENT BUSH ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF CIA PRISONS; DVC WITH US [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Local international stories include US President George W. Bush acknowledging the existence of previously secret CIA prisons around the world; a DVC with US Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency Gregory Schulte on the diplomatic challenge posed by Iran's nucl [...]	2006-09-08 10:02:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2038	U.S. NO VOTE ON IDB SATELLITE LOAN: EMBASSY [...] (U) Post delivered reftel talking points to Foreign Ministry North America Director Ambassador Vicente Espeche Gil, to Ministry of Economy Director for International Organization Projects Gerardo Hita and to the Foreign Ministry's CONAE (NASA-equivalent) Executive Director Conrado Varotto. Pr [...]	2006-09-08 10:05:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON ETRD AR
06BUENOSAIRES204	NO DEBT RELIEF FOR CUBA YET [...] (C) Summary: Despite a GOA debt restructuring offer in 2003 and a partial rescheduling agreement announced in 2004, Cuba's USD 2 billion debt to Argentina has not been reduced, nor have the two governments reached any lasting agreement on how to treat it. Cuba's debt was transferred to the bo [...]	2006-01-27 19:19:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ENIV CU AR
06BUENOSAIRES2040	PRESIDENT BUSH ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF CIA PRISONS; DVC WITH US [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Local international stories include US President George W. Bush acknowledging the existence of previously secret CIA prisons around the world; a DVC with US Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency Gregory Schulte on the diplomatic challenge posed by Iran's nucl [...]	2006-09-08 14:51:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2060	FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11; ARGENTINE PUBLIC SERVICE RATES; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's leading international stories include the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks and their connection to the invasion of Iraq and the current situation in Iran; the disapproval of European leaders vis-`-vis US President Bush's acknowledgement of CIA secret pr [...]	2006-09-11 10:15:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2061	ARGENTINE FOREIGN TRADE SECRETARY: WHY URUGUAY [...] (C) Charge paid a courtesy call on Ambassador Alfredo Chiaradia, Secretary of External Trade in the Argentine MFA, on August 29. The conversation ranged over prospects to re-energize the Doha Round (not optimistic),the possibility of Argentina joining the FTAA (even less so),and USTR's GSP [...]	2006-09-11 10:19:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EFTA ECIN ECON AR
06BUENOSAIRES2070	FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11; GSP REVIEW; ARGENTINE PRESIDENT [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Weekend local papers' special supplements cover the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Other international stories include the impact of the GSP review on Argentina; Argentine President Kirchner's upcoming trip to New York; the situation in Bolivia and its impac [...]	2006-09-12 10:33:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2073	FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11; LATIN AMERICAN ISSUES; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's most important international story is US President George W. Bush's speech on the fifth anniversary of 9/11. Other international stories include Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez's attempt to gather support from his Mercosur counterparts for his negotiations to rea [...]	2006-09-12 17:12:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2080	FINANCE SECRERTARY SEEKS EARLY RESOLUTION WITH [...] (C) During a September 11 courtesy call, Argentine Finance Secretary Alfredo Mac Laughlin requested Charge's help in arranging a bilat with Treasury Secretary Paulson at the IMF/World Bank meeting in Singapore. The GOA will propose a small IMF quota increase for Mercosur members during the S [...]	2006-09-13 10:07:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON AR
06BUENOSAIRES209	ARGENTINA NOT LIKELY TO SUPPORT USG'S ICAO SEC-GEN [...] Per Reftel A, Econoff met with Under Secretary of Transportation for Commercial Aviation Ricardo Cirielli to discuss the support for the USG's candidate for Secretary General of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). Cirielli told Econoff that Argentina probably would not supp [...]	2006-01-27 19:54:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR ECON AR
06BUENOSAIRES2091	ATTACK ON US EMBASSY IN SYRIA; THE US AND THE WAR IN IRAQ; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT All local newspapers report on the criminal attack on the US Embassy in Damascus. Other international stories include Democrats' assertions that US President Bush used a day of mourning to defend the war in Iraq; Bolivian Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera's negotiations i [...]	2006-09-13 20:21:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2100	FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 9/11; NON ALIGNED COUNTRIES' [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's most important international stories include the world's view of the USG on the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks; the upcoming Non Aligned Countries' summit; the allegedly increasing disagreement between the US and the EU vis-`-vis the Iranian case; and [...]	2006-09-15 11:25:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES211	MEDIA REACTION VISIT OF US DEFENSE DEPUTY [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's key international stories include the visit of US Defense Deputy Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs Roger Pardo-Maurer to Buenos Aires; the sweeping victory of the Islamic militant group Hamas in Palestinian parliamentary polls; and Latin America's [...]	2006-01-27 20:58:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2117	US GENERAL CRADDOCK'S STATEMENTS AT TENTH CONFERENCE OF THE [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's most important international stories include US General John Craddock's statements at the Tenth Conference of the Americas; the US Senate Armed Services Committee passing a bill aimed at protecting the rights of foreign terrorism suspects; and the US Lower House pas [...]	2006-09-18 10:51:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES212	MEDIA REACTION EVO MORALES-U.S.-ARGENTINA, [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Key stories today focus on the strong U.S. interest in Bolivia and President Kirchner's alleged decision to play a regional role in moderating Evo Morales; election outcomes for Hamas and implications for the Middle East peace process, and the World Social Forum organized [...]	2006-01-27 20:59:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2120	KIRCHNER PROMOTES INVESTMENT IN ARGENTINA DURING [...] (SBU) President Kirchner travels to New York for the UNGA with the stated objective of enticing U.S. companies to invest in Argentina, even as local press plays up the chilly bilateral relationship. Kirchner has a limited official schedule -) including meetings with UNSG Kofi Annan and Italia [...]	2006-09-18 16:08:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV EFIN ENRG PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES2122	ARGENTINA: TOP POLITICAL LEADERS FROM KEY PROVINCE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On September 13, Charge and Poloff met with leading Peronist from Santa Fe province, Senator Carlos Reutemann, and Poloff met separately with leading candidate for Governor of Santa Fe, Socialist Hermes Binner. Reutemann said that Kirchner will continue to succeed politically a [...]	2006-09-18 20:43:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES2123	ARGENTINA: CLOSE KIRCHNER ASSOCIATE ON U.S. AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On September 11, Charge and Poloffs (notetakers) met with Congressman and longtime Kirchner associate Carlos Kunkel that included a wide-ranging discussion on bilateral relations, Venezuela and Argentine politics. Kunkel noted that the GOA has many points of cooperation w [...]	2006-09-18 20:48:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES2129	NON ALIGNED MOVEMENT SUMMIT; THE USG AND THE GWOT; [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-19 16:08:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES213	Argentina Economic and Financial Weekly for [...] The peso depreciated 0.7 percent versus the USD this week, closing at 3.07 ARP/USD. This week's depreciation is mainly explained by higher dollar demand by banks as well as greater Central Bank (BCRA) intervention in the FX market, where it purchased USD 200 million and EUR 10 million in the [...]	2006-01-30 10:36:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON ELAB ALOW AR
06BUENOSAIRES2136	IRAN; MICELI/PAULSON MEETING; REGIONAL FORUM ON [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Major local dailies cover extensively the Regional Forum on International Security and Organized Crime, held yesterday at the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange. They also report statements from Theo Van Lingen, Policy Advisor for the Western Hemisphere, US Treasury. Daily-of-reco [...]	2006-09-19 18:07:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2139	Argentina Economic and Financial Weekly for the week ending [...] The GOA announced that GDP grew 7.9 percent yoy in the second quarter of 2006 -- slightly above the central bank (BCRA) consensus forecast of 7.8 percent -- and 8.3 percent yoy in the first half of 2006. Growth derived primarily from strong domestic demand - primarily increased investment an [...]	2006-09-19 22:00:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON ELAB ALOW AR
06BUENOSAIRES2149	IRAN; IMF ANNUAL MEETING; US-BOLIVIAN TIES; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's leading international stories include the exchange of accusations between the US and Iran at the UN General Assembly; the IMF Annual Meeting; Bolivian President Evo Morales rejecting a US report on the outcome of the struggle against drug trafficking; Morales' ackno [...]	2006-09-20 18:28:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2165	MEETING BETWEEN ASSISTANT SECRETARY SHANNON AND ARGENTINE [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's major papers report on the meeting between Assistant Secretary Shannon and Argentine Government officials. Leading SIPDIS "Clarin" highlights that "the US Department of State is following with much interest the Argentine Government's initiative aimed at convincin [...]	2006-09-22 12:05:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2169	PRESIDENT KIRCHNER'S TRIP TO NEW YORK AND MEETING WITH [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's major papers "Clarin" and "La Nacion" reported on President Nestor Kirchner's trip to New York and his meeting with US Ambassador to Argentina, Tony Wayne, and US Assistant Secretary for Western Hemispheric Affairs Thomas Shannon. Daily-of-record "La Nacion" carries [...]	2006-09-22 19:51:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2179	CHARGE SPEAKS WITH DAIA ON ANTI-SEMITISM ISSUE [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Charge spoke with the president of the Delegation of Argentine Israeli Association (DAIA) Jorge Kirszenbaum on September 22 to express the Embassy's solidarity with the local Jewish community over th [...]	2006-09-25 11:45:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV AR
06BUENOSAIRES2183	IRAQ; CIA SECRET PRISONS; US-VENEZUELA; PRESIDENT [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Weekend papers report on a confidential intelligence report about the impact of the US global war on terrorism; the CIA secret prisons; a diplomatic incident between the US and Venezuela; President Nestor Kirchner's trip to the US and its impact on the US-Argentine bilatera [...]	2006-09-26 17:47:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2191	GOA PRICE CONTROLS STRATEGIES - EDUCATION AS EXEMPLAR [...] (SBU) Private school fees remain a politically sensitive barometer in greater Buenos Aires and GoA efforts to "manage" tuition expenses offer an instructive insight into the Kirchner administration's approach to controlling inflation. Private school tuition fees have already jumped 24 percent [...]	2006-09-26 17:55:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON ELAB ETRD ALOW AR
06BUENOSAIRES2196	VENEZUELA'S UNSC CANDIDACY; ARGENTINE ANTI-TERRORIST [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Leading international stories today include US reproach Argentina for its support for Venezuela's candidacy for a seat at the UN Security Council; former Argentine Economy Minister Roberto Lavagna supporting Uruguay as a "natural candidate" to replace Argentina at the UN Se [...]	2006-09-26 19:30:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2199	OTA FIT: FINANCIAL INVESTIGATIVE TECHNIQUES (FIT) [...] (U) ACTION REQUESTED -- PARAGRAPH 5. 2. (SBU) AS PART OF A USG/GOVERNMENT OF CHILE BILATERAL INITIATIVE, THE U.S. TREASURY OFFICE OF TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE (OTA) IS OFFERING A ONE-WEEK FINANCIAL INVESTIGATIONS TECHNIQUES (FIT) COURSE IN SANTIAGO, CHILE, OCTOBER 23 ) OCTOBER 27. IN ORDER TO M [...]	2006-09-26 19:52:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PREL KTFN AR BL PE
06BUENOSAIRES22	ARGENTINA PAYS OFF ITS IMF DEBT [...] President Nestor Kirchner announced on December 15 that the GOA would pay its remaining debt totalling nearly USD 10 billion to the International Monetary Fund shortly after the new year (reftel). Economy Minister Felisa Miceli and Central Bank President Martin Redrado announced on January 3 [...]	2006-01-04 20:32:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON PREL EINV AR
06BUENOSAIRES2200	ARGENTINA: RESPONSE TO CUBA AT UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-26 21:45:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES2202	ARGENTINA'S PRICE CONTROL CZAR - A TRUE BELIEVER [...] (C) GoA Secretary of Domestic Trade Guillermo Moreno, President Kirchner's designated price control enforcer, justifies a GoA mix of export tariffs, export controls and strong-arm populist price controls as a means to correct monopolistic behavior and oligopolisitic collusion in Argentina's sm [...]	2006-09-27 10:54:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD AR
06BUENOSAIRES2214	ARGENTINA: MEETING WITH OPPOSITION RADICAL CIVIC [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On September 22, Charge, PolCouns, and Poloffs met with opposition Radical Civic Union (UCR) party leaders to discuss the state of the party and the Argentine multi-party system. They explained that while they are concerned for the health of their party as Kirchner tries to re [...]	2006-09-28 21:01:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES2215	LEADING CENTER-RIGHT ARGENTINE OPPOSITION LEADER MAURICIO MACRI ON KIRCHNER AND THE 2007 ELECTIONS REF: BUENOS AIRES 01901 Classified By: CDA, a.i., Michael Matera, Reasons 1.4(b) and (d) [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 26, Charge and Poloff met with leading center-right political leader Mauricio Macri and longtime Macri associate and local businessman, Nicolas Caputo. Macri voiced his criticisms of President Nestor Kirchner's policies and spoke at length about next year's national [...]	2006-09-28 21:13:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES2229	A HISTORIAN'S VIEW OF KIRCHNER AND ARGENTINE [...] (C) Leading Argentine historian Jose Ignacio Garcia Hamilton sees President Kirchner as largely reflecting the opinions of the majority of the Argentine people. For Garcia Hamilton, there are two great traditions that make up Argentine political culture: the republican democracy tradition be [...]	2006-09-29 20:49:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES223	ARGENTINA: CY 2005 END USE MONITORING REPORT [...] Vehicles and equipment provided to the GOA include: two fiberoptic scopes provided in 2005, one to the Aduanas' anti-narcotics unit in Mendoza and one to the DEA funded Northern Border Task Force (NBTF); one man-portable X-ray machine provided in 2005 to the NBTF; four vans provided in late 2 [...]	2006-01-30 20:30:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR AR
06BUENOSAIRES2237	ARGENTINA: ACCUSED TORTURER AND FORMER POLICE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Former police official and accused torturer Miguel Osvaldo Etchecolatz was convicted on September 19, 2006 for the disappearance of six people during the Argentine military dictatorship. The ruling was significant as the first major conviction since two amnesty laws were overtur [...]	2006-10-02 17:34:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES2240	ECONOMY MINISTER MICELI'S VIEWS ON IDB, PARIS [...] (C) Minister of Economy Felisa Miceli told Charge September 27 that President Kirchner's visit to the U.S. showcased Argentina's rapid normalization and increasing opportunities for investors. She questioned the logic of recent U.S. votes in the IDB, but accepted Secretary Paulson's explanati [...]	2006-10-02 17:39:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON AR
06BUENOSAIRES2242	A/S SHANNON STATEMENTS ON THE US-Argentina BILATERAL [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Leading international stories today include US Assistant Secretary Thomas Shannon's statements on the US-Argentina bilateral relationship; Venezuela's candidacy for a seat at the UN Security Council; Argentina's vote in favor of Venezuela's candidacy; a Watergate reporter's [...]	2006-10-03 11:28:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2248	A/S THOMAS SHANNON STATEMENTS ON LATIN AMERICAN DEMOCRATIC [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's key international stories include A/S Thomas Shannon's statements on Latin American "democratic" and "authoritarian" leaders; the outcome of Brazilian elections; commercial talks between the US and Uruguay; and Paraguay removing immunity from US troops and contracto [...]	2006-10-04 13:31:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2264	AUSTR EVERETT EISSENSTAT IN BUENOS AIRES; US/MEXICAN BORDER [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's key international stories include yesterday's press round table with AUSTR Everett Eissenstat in the US Embassy in Buenos Aires. Business-financial "El Cronista" front-pages "US message - 'Game rules should be honored to improve the business climate.'" Other inter [...]	2006-10-06 19:10:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2274	NORTH KOREA AND THE US; MIAMI HERALD EDITOR; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's key international stories include North Korea's announcement that it will test its nuclear technology for military purposes and the USG's reaction to this announcement; the resignation of The Miami Herald editor due to Cuban Americans' pressure; a Latino-Coalition s [...]	2006-10-06 19:44:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES228	ARGENTINA: FINAL NEGOTIATIONS ON STRATEGIC [...] (U) ESTHOFF delivered demarche points in reftel to Argentine MFA Environmental Counselor Miguel Hildmann, and, in a separate meeting, to Ministry of Health (MOH)Secretariat of the Environment officials Pablo Issaly and Lorenzo Videla on January 27, 2006. Both Hildmann and Issaly attended the [...]	2006-01-30 21:12:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV ECON ETRD PGOV PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES2280	ARGENTINE STATEMENT ON NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR TEST [...] The Argentine Foreign Ministry released the following statement regarding the North Korean nuclear test on October 9, 2006. 2. Begin text: The Argentine Government condemns the underground nuclear test conducted today by the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK),which poses a thre [...]	2006-10-10 14:12:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KN PARM KNNP AR
06BUENOSAIRES2281	RICE IN IRAQ; US-BOLIVIAN TIES; AZNAR'S STATEMENTS ON [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's most important international stories include US Secretary Rice's trip to Iraq; Bolivian President Evo Morales' put on a secret list to prevent his entry into the US by plane; former Spanish President Aznar's statements that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez poses a t [...]	2006-10-10 14:35:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2286	NORTH KOREA; US LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS; US TROOP IMMUNITY; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Weekend papers cover world reaction to North Korea's first nuclear test, underscoring that every country termed it an act of provocation, and that superpowers have asked for sanctions that could include a military action against Pyongyang. According to some local dailies, U [...]	2006-10-11 15:25:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2292	AUSTR EISSENSTAT VISIT TO ARGENTINA [...] (SBU) Assistant United States Trade Representative Everett Eissenstat met October 4 with Foreign Ministry Secretary of International Economic Relations Chiaradia to review WTO, GSP, and regional trade issues, including the U.S. bilateral dialogue with Mercosur member Uruguay. Chiaradia stresse [...]	2006-10-12 10:35:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON UR AR
06BUENOSAIRES2293	NORTH KOREA; ALAN GARCIA IN THE US; 10/11/06;BUENOS AIRES [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's local dailies report on the world's reaction to North Korea's nuclear challenge. 2. OPINION PIECES - "New North Korean challenge" Daily-of-record "La Nacion" reports (10/11) "One day after the North Korean nuclear test, which shocked the world, a North Korea [...]	2006-10-12 11:26:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES23	ARGENTINA SCENE-SETTER FOR CODEL MCCONNELL [...] (U) INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY: On behalf of Embassy Buenos Aires, I warmly welcome your visit to Argentina on January 10-12. Your visit comes at a time of considerable ferment in the Argentine political and economic arenas. On October 23, President Kirchner won a resounding victory in mid-term [...]	2006-01-04 21:27:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON PARM AR SNAR
06BUENOSAIRES2300	ARGENTINA: DPRK NUCLEAR TEST RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-12 18:51:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	MNUC PARM PREL UNSC KNNP KNEP AR
06BUENOSAIRES2329	NORTH KOREA; VENEZUELA'S CANDIDACY TO THE UN SECURITY [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Weekend papers cover China's sanctions on Pyongyang; Venezuela's efforts to win a seat at the UN Security Council; and alleged racism of Bolivian President Morales' opponents; and the UK and Spain's success in solving a long history of diplomatic differences through dialogu [...]	2006-10-17 20:24:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2341	VENEZUELA'S CANDIDACY TO A UN SECURITY COUNCIL SEAT; GLOBAL [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's leading international stories include Venezuela's bid to the UN Security Council; and US President George W. Bush signing "controversial" legislation related to the US Global War on Terrorism. Business-financial, center-right "INFOBAE" published a full-page inter [...]	2006-10-18 20:23:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2357	UNSC: BREAKING THE IMPASSE [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-19 21:01:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	UNSC GT VE AR
06BUENOSAIRES2385	ARGENTINA: OPPOSITION EFFORTS TO FORM A COALITION [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 6 Charge and Poloff met with former President and former Senator Federico Ramon Puerta, who wanted to discuss his concerns over the status of democracy in Argentina. Puerta expressed grave concern over the likelihood of fraud in the October 29 Constitutional Conventio [...]	2006-10-20 19:19:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES2386	CORDOBA GOVERNOR DE LA SOTA: ARGENTINA'S FREE MARKET [...] (SBU) Cordoba Governor Jose Manuel de la Sota, in a dinner with the Charge, portrayed himself as a champion of free market orthodoxy standing up to a Kirchner administration riding roughshod over market disciplines and contractual sanctity. He questioned the values of a politically and sociall [...]	2006-10-20 19:39:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EFIN AR
06BUENOSAIRES2388	WAR IN IRAQ & ITS IMPACT ON NOVEMBER 7 LEGISLATIVE [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Weekend papers carry opinion pieces on the war in Iraq and on the finding of human remains at Ground Zero and their probable impact on the November 7 legislative elections; the Nicaraguan upcoming elections; US Senator Lugar's report on Non proliferation; Venezuelan Preside [...]	2006-10-24 09:36:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2389	US PRESIDENT BUSH'S STATEMENTS ON IRAQ; GLOBAL WAR ON [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Key international stories today include US President George W. Bush's statement about a possible parallel between the rise in violence in Iraq and the 1968 Communist Tet offensive; an Argentine-Bolivian gas deal worth 17 billion dollars; the role to be played by the 'Coalit [...]	2006-10-24 09:37:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2390	VENEZUELA'S CANDICACY TO THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL; US [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's most important international stories include the standstill in the vote to determine who will succeed Argentina at the UN Security Council; the implications of the new US National Space Policy; the international community vis-`-vis North Korean nuclear tests; and th [...]	2006-10-24 09:37:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2412	ARGENTINA ON FRANCO-AMERICAN PROPOSAL TO REMOVE [...] (C) On October 24, Poloff delivered ref. A talking points and background paper to Minister Juan Ignacio Tobella of the Office of Terrorism and Other Related Crimes at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Tobella stated that he would pass the proposal to, and coordinate a response with, his colleag [...]	2006-10-25 21:09:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	KTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES2413	ARGENTINA LIKELY TO ABSTAIN ON UN INDIGENOUS [...] (SBU) Per reftel, Poloff, in conjunction with New Zealand First Secretary Mark Gibb, and Australian Third Secretary Lou-Ellen Martin delivered ref. A talking points and background paper to Monica Pinto, MFA Advisor on Human Rights and asked if the GOA intended to change its position on the de [...]	2006-10-25 21:24:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL KTIA UN AR
06BUENOSAIRES2423	AMIA BOMBING - REQUEST FOR AN INTERNATIONAL ARREST ORDER [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT All local papers widely report on the AMIA bombing prosecutor's request that an international arrest order be issued against former Iranian president Ali-Akbar Hashem Rafsanjani and seven other former Iranian government officials. The U.S.'s strong support for the investig [...]	2006-10-27 09:08:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2435	US FENCE BILL; THE AMIA CASE; AMBASSADOR EARL ANTHONY [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-27 18:41:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2437	UPDATE ON AMIA INDICTMENTS [...] (C) Summary: Local press coverage of the October 25 release of the AMIA Prosecutors' report remains relatively low-key. The Iranian Mission here has rejected the Prosecutors' findings, dismissed the report as the work of the CIA and Mossad, and cautioned Argentine officials not to repeat th [...]	2006-10-27 19:55:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KJUS PREL PGOV AR FBI
06BUENOSAIRES2441	1994 AMIA BOMBING; US-MEXICAN BORDER WALL; ARGENTINE [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Last weekend's key international stories include the implications of Argentine Prosecutor Nisman's request for an international arrest order against former Iranian government officials for the 1994 AMIA bombing case; the probable impact of upcoming US legislative elections [...]	2006-10-30 18:52:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2445	ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL WEEKLY (OCTOBER [...] Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review for the week ending October 27, 2006. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and SIPDIS charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact EconOff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov to b [...]	2006-10-30 19:51:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN EINV ECON AR
06BUENOSAIRES2448	ARGENTINA TO SEEK BALANCED RESOLUTION ON THE [...] (SBU) Per reftel, Poloff delivered talking points and background paper to Manuel Fernandez Salorio, Minister in the Division of International Organizations in Argentina's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Fernandez stated that the Argentine government (GOA) supports efforts to realize a lasting a [...]	2006-10-31 14:32:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	UNGA PHUM PREL PTER AR LE IS
06BUENOSAIRES2449	ARGENTINA ON ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS AT UNGA [...] (SBU) Per reftel, Poloff delivered talking points and background paper to Manuel Fernandez Salorio, Minister in the Division of International Organizations in Argentina's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Fernandez stated that he would coordinate with his colleagues in the Division of Human Righ [...]	2006-10-31 14:33:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL UNGA IS AR
06BUENOSAIRES2451	ARGENTINA: COALITION LED BY CATHOLIC CHURCH [...] (U) SUMMARY: Misiones Province governor and Kirchner ally Carlos Rovira's attempt to amend the provincial constitution to allow indefinite re-election was soundly rejected in an October 29 election for delegates to a constituent assembly. President Nestor Kirchner had publicly supported the [...]	2006-10-31 19:44:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES2455	AMIA ARREST WARRANTS COULD COME EARLIER THAN [...] (C) Summary: AMIA Prosecutor Alberto Nisman told CDA and EmbOffs that Judge Canicoba Corral could issue arrest warrants for the eight indictees as early as this Friday, November 3. It was expected that Canicoba Corral would not want the case sitting on his desk for any length of time, but ra [...]	2006-11-01 21:04:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KJUS PREL PGOV AR FBI
06BUENOSAIRES2456	UPCOMING US ELECTIONS; US AMBASSADOR TO ARGENTINA EARL [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Leading international stories today include the upcoming US legislative elections; and a radio interview with Argentine Ambassador Jose Octavio Bordon about US Ambassador to Argentina Earl Anthony Wayne. Leading "Clarin" carries an op-ed page by Francis Fukuyama, profess [...]	2006-11-02 12:35:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2458	US-ARGENTINE BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP; US ELECTIONS; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Key international stories today include the state of the US-Argentine relationship based on a report from the US Department of State about Argentina and what kind of cooperation the US expects from Argentina; the upcoming US elections; and the outcome of Brazilian elections [...]	2006-11-02 12:36:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2485	ARGENTINA: KIRCHNER WITHDRAWS SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: At his request, General Coordinator of the Presidential Unit Juan Carlos Mazzon met with Charge on November 3, and opened the conversation with an admission that the Casa Rosada has been very quiet and alone in the wake of the results of the elections for the Constitutional Asse [...]	2006-11-03 19:59:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES2486	ARGENTINE CENTRAL BANK PRESIDENT PLEAS FOR [...] (C) Argentine Central Bank (BCRA) President Martin Redrado urged patience with his sequencing of reforms during an October 20 meeting with Charge, claiming that a program of gradual monetary tightening was impacting inflation and some delay was warranted before Argentina returns to a fully flo [...]	2006-11-03 21:57:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON KTFN AR
06BUENOSAIRES2488	US-MEXICAN BORDER FENCE; US LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Leading international stories include the US-Mexican fence; the upcoming US legislative elections; the implications of Ortega's potential victory in Nicaraguan elections; and the investigation into the AMIA bombing case. 2. OPINION PIECES - "Argentina supports Ibero-A [...]	2006-11-06 09:06:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION

06BUENOSAIRES2499	AMBASSADOR WAYNE; US LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS; NICARAGUAN [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Weekend papers report on the arrival of Ambassador Wayne to Argentina; the upcoming US legislative elections; Nicaraguan presidential elections; an alleged White House's Website containing detailed information on how to manufacture a nuclear bomb; Saddam Hussein sentenced t [...]	2006-11-07 09:05:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES250	MEDIA REACTION STATE OF THE UNION, IRAN-IAEA, [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Papers lead with the State of the Union message, in which President Bush defends his foreign policy, warns Iran and Hamas that the U.S. will fight tyranny in the world, urges them to set aside terrorism; refers to Iraq saying that if the U.S. leaves, 'then Bin Laden will r [...]	2006-02-01 20:15:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2509	AMBASSADOR WAYNE PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: Argentine Foreign Minister Taiana used Ambassador Wayne's presentation of credentials to stress his desire for good cooperation and open dialogue with the U.S. In his 45 minute private meeting with Wayne, Taiana stressed that the U.S. is a "friend" of Argentina and that Argentina [...]	2006-11-07 21:45:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON AR
06BUENOSAIRES2513	AMBASSADOR WAYNE TO ARGENTINA; US LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT All major papers report on the arrival of US Ambassador to Argentina, Earl Anthony Wayne, and his presentation of credentials to Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana. Other international stories include today's US legislative elections; the outcome of Nicaraguan presiden [...]	2006-11-08 19:58:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2524	ARGENTINA TO SUPPORT CUBAN EMBARGO RESOLUTION; [...] (SBU) On November 8, DCM raised points in Ref A to Argentine Under Secretary for Foreign Policy Luis Cappagli. Cappagli stated that the GOA would vote for the resolution condemning the U.S. embargo on Cuba, but noted that the GOA had not decided on whether it will support the Australian amend [...]	2006-11-09 16:42:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL UNGA UN AR CU
06BUENOSAIRES2537	ARGENTINA EAGER TO PARTICIPATE IN U.S. GLOBAL [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) Argentine officials responded enthusiastically to Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State Dr. George Atkinson's proposed Global Science Partnerships progra [...]	2006-11-13 19:16:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPL SCUL OEXC OSCI
06BUENOSAIRES2538	AMBASSADOR WAYNE MEETING WITH ARGENTINE MINISTER OF [...] SUMMARY: The Ambassador met November 8 with Minister of Education Daniel Filmus to discuss ways to strengthen bilateral cooperation on education and to expand academic exchange opportunities. The Ambassador briefed the Minister on two new Embassy program initiatives - the Southern Cone Youth Am [...]	2006-11-13 19:54:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO SCHUL SOCI AR
06BUENOSAIRES2540	LATEST ON ARGENTINA'S PLANS TO NEGOTIATE PARIS [...] (SBU) In advance of the Paris Club Tour d'Horizon on November 15, 2006, Post provides the following status report on Argentina's pursuit of a deal on its $7.2 billion debt to Paris Club creditors. GoA Finance Secretary Mac Laughlin wrote the President of the Paris Club November 9 officially c [...]	2006-11-14 09:07:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON AR
06BUENOSAIRES2541	WAR IN IRAQ; IRAN; AMIA BOMBING CASE; AFTERMATH OF US [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Key international stories during the weekend and today include the status of the war in Iraq and the USG's alleged withdrawal plans; the reasons pointed out by the media for the Republicans' defeat in US legislative elections; the Argentine judicial decision on the AMIA bom [...]	2006-11-14 13:10:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2544	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NOAA'S SMITH, CAO [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance to NOAA's Chief of International and Interagency Affairs David Brent Smith, Research Physical Scientist Changyong Cao and Communications Specialist Nina Jackson to travel to Argentina for the period of November 11-16, 2006. The purpose of the visit is [...]	2006-11-14 20:04:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA TSPA OTRA AR
06BUENOSAIRES255	MEDIA REACTION STATE OF THE UNION, IRAN-IAEA, [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's key stories focus on the State of the Union message, noting that Latin America is hardly mentioned; the complicated international scenario posed by President Ahmadinejad's challenges to the UNSC and the Western world; speculation about a possible truce between Hama [...]	2006-02-03 12:58:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2556	PLANNING MINISTER DE VIDO CALLS FOR CLOSER [...] (C) Argentina's powerful Planning Minister, Julio De Vido, urged the Ambassador November 14 to use their direct relationship as the means to resolve bilateral economic issues. De Vido emphasized the importance of U.S. investment and said he anticipates a number of large U.S. energy sector inv [...]	2006-11-16 09:05:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON ENRG EINV BEXP AR
06BUENOSAIRES2558	IRAQ; IRAN; THE AMIA BOMBING CASE; AMBASSADOR WAYNE; CHINA; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's leading international stories include US strategy in Iraq and Iran; mounting tension between Argentina and Iran on the AMIA bombing probe; the US commitment to cooperation with the GOA and Interpol authorities to arrest those suspected of having organized and carrie [...]	2006-11-16 15:27:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2559	PRESIDENT BUSH'S ASIAN TOUR; AMBASSADOR WAYNE; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's leading international stories include President Bush's Asian tour; the status of Argentine-Iranian ties following the latest developments in the AMIA bombing probe; the situation in Central America in the aftermath of Daniel Ortega's election as the new president of [...]	2006-11-16 15:27:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2567	US DEMOCRATIC PARTY; US-MEXICAN BORDER FENCE; US-ARGENTINE [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Leading international stories today include the alleged profound disagreement within the US Democratic Party about how to handle sensitive issues such as the war in Iraq; the Church's opinion about the US-Mexican border fence; the Kirchner administration's alleged closer ti [...]	2006-11-16 20:05:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2568	TERRORIST FINANCE: TERRORIST FACILITATORS AND [...] (s) Econoff conveyed reftel demarche and background information November 16 to Gustavo Urutia, Deputy Director, Office of Terrorism Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Urutia said the normal procedure for handling U.S. prenotifications is for the MFA to hold the information until the day [...]	2006-11-16 20:24:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	SECRET	EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES2569	CRISTINA TACKLES JUDICIAL REFORM: TRIAL BALLOON [...] (C) Summary. In what many view as a trial balloon for Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's bid for the presidency in 2007, the Senator and First Lady introduced a bill on November 9 that would gradually reduce the number of justices on the Argentine Supreme Court from nine to five. The seven j [...]	2006-11-16 20:26:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES2570	ARGENTINA UNDECIDED ON BELARUS BUT WILL SUPPORT [...] (C) In response to Embassy demarches that relayed points in reftels A-C, Argentina's MFA Deputy Director for International Organizations Ana Berta confirmed on November 16 that the GOA has issued instructions to their mission in New York to vote with the United States on the country-specific [...]	2006-11-16 21:46:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNHRC
06BUENOSAIRES2576	ECONOMY MINISTER MICELI SEEKS SUPPORT ON GSP, [...] (C) During the Ambassador's November 14 courtesy call, Economic Minister Felisa Miceli welcomed the possibility to reengage on economic and trade issues and lobbied for Treasury Secretary Paulson to visit Argentina. In response to Miceli's request for support on maintaining Argentine GSP privi [...]	2006-11-17 15:23:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON ENRG EINV BEXP AR
06BUENOSAIRES258	ARGENTINA REACHES SAFEGUARDS AGREEMENT WITH BRAZIL [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Not for Internet distribution. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) Argentina and Brazil arrived at a bilateral safeguards agreement February 1. The widely publicized agreement is the result of over a year of negotiations, and is a political t [...]	2006-02-03 15:48:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV ECON PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES2580	SECRETARY'S S&T ADVISER VISITS ARGENTINA [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) Science and Technology Adviser (STAS) to the Secretary Dr. George Atkinson led a delegation of U.S. SIPDIS scientists and engineers on a visit to Argentina November 7-9. [...]	2006-11-17 21:00:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TSPL SCUL OEXC OSCI
06BUENOSAIRES2588	AMCHAM BOARD OF DIRECTORS LUNCHEON IN HONOR OF AMBASSADOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: ON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BOARD OF DIRECTORS HOSTED A LUNCHEON IN HONOR OF AMBASSADOR WAYNE TO WELCOME HIM TO ARGENTINA AND BRIEF HIM ON THE BUSINESS CLIMATE AND THE CONTRIBUTION U.S. COMPANIES HAVE HISTORICALLY MADE AND CONTINUE TO MAKE IN ARGENTI [...]	2006-11-20 16:14:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KTEX AR
06BUENOSAIRES2590	POST SUPPORTS DELAY OF HEZBOLLAH TRI-BORDER AREA [...] (S/NF) Post understands that Treasury proposes the designation under E.O. 13224, on November 21, of nine individuals and two organizations operating in the tri-border region. Post does not object to the specific individuals and organizations that will be subject to the designation. However, P [...]	2006-11-20 17:41:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	SECRET//NOFORN	KFTFN EFIN PTER SNAR ETTC PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES2594	DUKE ENERGY BETS ON GROWING ARGENTINE ELECTRICITY [...] (SBU) Duke Energy plans to upgrade and expand its two hydro and gas-fired electricity generating plants in Neuquen province and possibly make new generating capacity acquisitions in the domestic market. In a call on Ambassador Wayne, Duke executives explained that they see the Argentine elect [...]	2006-11-20 19:25:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ENRG EPET AR
06BUENOSAIRES2595	IRAQ; THE AMIA CASE; SOUTH AMERICAN MILITARY FORCES; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Weekend papers focus on the USG's possible shift on its strategy on Iraq; the AMIA case probe and its possible use by the USG to urge the UN Security Council to impose sanctions on Iran; Brazil's plans to unite South American military forces; and Ambassador Earl Anthony Way [...]	2006-11-20 19:39:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2597	AMBASSADOR WAYNE'S NOVEMBER 20 MEETING WITH VICE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met November 20 with Argentine Vice President Daniel Scioli, his assistant Minister Ricardo Lagorio, and his brother Jose Antonio Scioli, Director of the Corporacion Antigua Puerto Madero. In the 45-minute meeting, Scioli said that he is a "friend" of the U.S. who [...]	2006-11-20 21:32:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON AR
06BUENOSAIRES2598	ARGENTINA PETROLEUM ROUNDTABLE: U.S. PLAYERS [...] (C) Representatives of U.S. upstream and downstream hydrocarbon players Apache, Chevron, Esso, Occidental and Pan-American briefed Ambassador on regulatory, tax and labor issues they face. Key concerns include (1) the immediate impact of an oilfield work stoppage that threatens to disrupt nat [...]	2006-11-20 21:39:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON OECD AR
06BUENOSAIRES2612	AMBASSADOR'S NOVEMBER 20 MEETING WITH ARGENTINE [...] (C) Summary. On November 20, the Ambassador paid a courtesy call on Argentine Justice Minister Alberto Iribarne to discuss ways to strengthen U.S.-Argentine cooperation on law enforcement, judicial reform, and anti-corruption issues. Iribarne noted that money laundering and terrorism financ [...]	2006-11-22 21:34:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KTER AR
06BUENOSAIRES2613	AMBASSADOR'S NOVEMBER 16 MEETING WITH MINISTER OF [...] (C) On November 16, Ambassador had a very constructive first meeting with Minister of the Interior Anibal Fernandez. They discussed the excellent working relations between Embassy agencies and the four federal law enforcement agencies under the Minister's control. The Minister explained his [...]	2006-11-22 21:40:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SNAR PTER KCRM PARM EWWT KNNP ASEC AR
06BUENOSAIRES2614	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH FM TAIANA [...] (C) Ambassador met on November 17 with Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana, primarily to discuss how the U.S. might be of assistance to the GoA in the next phases of the AMIA investigation (Reftel A reports this discussion.) However, the Ambassador took the opportunity to raise several ot [...]	2006-11-22 21:42:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AR
06BUENOSAIRES2620	IRAQ; WORLD BANK'S RESPONSE TO PRESIDENT KIRCHNER; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's international leading stories include US President Bush's decision not to travel to Baghdad on Thanksgiving Day; the World Bank's response to President Kirchner's letter over the pulp mills; Venezuelan President Chavez's reported decision to remove his Ambassador to [...]	2006-11-27 09:07:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2629	UNESCO DEMARCHE ON CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS - GOA [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel demarche to Martin Romero, Secretary of Embassy in the Foreign Ministry's Directorate of SIPDIS International Organisms (DIOIN). According to Romero, Argentina is proceeding with the ratification process for the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion o [...]	2006-11-28 18:58:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES2630	AMBASSADOR'S NOVEMBER 27 MEETING WITH ARGENTINE [...] (C) Summary: On November 27, Ambassador discussed judicial reform issues with members of the Argentine Supreme Court, including outgoing President Enrique Petracchi, incoming President Ricardo Lorenzetti, and Justices Juan Carlos Maqueda, Elena Highton, and Carmen Maria Argibay. The Justice [...]	2006-11-28 19:46:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KJUS FBI AR
06BUENOSAIRES2636	ARGENTINA SCENE-SETTER FOR CODEL GOODLATTE [...] INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY: On behalf of Embassy Buenos Aires, I warmly welcome your visit to Argentina November 29-December 3. As one of the world,s major agricultural producers and exporters, Argentina,s policies in this sector have an important impact on U.S. agriculture. You will have the [...]	2006-11-28 20:53:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON PARM SNAR AR
06BUENOSAIRES2637	AMIA SPECIAL PROSECUTORS CALL ON AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Summary: On November 27, AMIA prosecutors Alberto Nisman and Marcelo Martinez Burgos called on the Ambassador to express their deep appreciation for the USG's support for their investigation and publicly for our public support following the release of their report. They noted that their [...]	2006-11-28 21:40:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KJUS PREL PGOV AR FBI
06BUENOSAIRES2647	ARGENTINA'S FINANCIAL SERVICE PLAYERS ON CAPITAL MARKETS, [...] (SBU) Senior Argentine financial sector representatives outlined to Ambassador their concerns about lagging development of domestic capital markets. While optimistic about Argentina's medium term growth prospects, they questioned whether existing channels of financial intermediation can sustai [...]	2006-11-29 15:51:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON AR
06BUENOSAIRES2651	AMBASSADOR WAYNE'S MEETING WITH NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE ON "ONE [...] Ambassador Wayne met November 22 with Nicholas Negroponte of MIT to discuss how the U.S. Embassy can assist the "One Laptop per Child" (OLPC) program, about to be launched in Argentina. Negroponte underlined his interest in working with the State Department and said he intended to incorporate a [...]	2006-11-29 16:27:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES2665	AMIA UPDATE: AMBASSADOR'S CONVERSATION WITH MFA'S [...] (C) At a November 28, event, Ambassador and DCM spoke with Ambassador Guillermo Gonzalez, Senior Advisor to Deputy Foreign Minister, Roberto Garcia Moritan, about the MFA's perspective on the AMIA case. Ambassador Gonzalez has been charged with managing AMIA at the MFA. He said the MFA is s [...]	2006-11-30 18:52:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KJUS PREL PGOV AR FBI
06BUENOSAIRES2667	AMBASSADOR WAYNE VISITS ARGENTINA'S AGROINDUSTRIAL CAPITAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: AMBASSADOR WAYNE TRAVELED TO ARGENTINA'S AGROINDUSTRIAL CAPITAL OF ROSARIO FOR HIS FIRST TRIP OUTSIDE OF THE CAPITAL. ACCOMPANIED BY THE COMMERCIAL ECONOMIC AND AGRICULTURAL COUNSELORS, THE INFORMATION OFFICER AND THE SENIOR FSN COMMERCIAL SPECIALIST, THE AMBASSADOR MET WITH THE [...]	2006-11-30 19:43:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AR BESP ECON ETRD
06BUENOSAIRES2669	ARGENTINA AT THE SANTA CRUZ MINISTERIAL ON [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) The Embassy made reftel points November 29 to GOA Undersecretary of Environment and delegation head Bruno Carpinetti and to MFA Counselor Ana Bianchi, another member of Argentina's delegation to the [...]	2006-11-30 20:19:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ECON SENV EFIN PHUM OAS USTR AR
06BUENOSAIRES2683	GROWING RESISTENCE TO GOA PRICE, EXPORT CONTROLS: AGRARIAN [...] (SBU) GoA price control czar Internal Commerce Secretary Guillermo Moreno is encountering increasing resistance to his efforts to tamp down headline consumer inflation rates via expanded export controls on beef, wheat and corn and via pressure on wholesalers and retailers to observe publicize [...]	2006-12-04 14:54:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD AR
06BUENOSAIRES2691	CHAVEZ; CUBA; MEXICO; ARGENTINA-IRAN; 12/04/06 [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's papers report on the outcome of Venezuelan elections. Weekend papers cover Cuban Raul Castro's proposal of a negotiation with the US; the swearing-in of Mexican President Calderon; and the state of Argentina's ties with Iran following Judge Canicoba Corral's decisi [...]	2006-12-05 19:23:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2692	FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN THE US; CHAVEZ; US AMBASSADOR BOLTON'S [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Key international stories today include the implications of Venezuelan President Chavez' re-election; the resignation of US Ambassador Bolton; freedom of speech in the US; the WTO's ruling on Techint; and climate change. 2. OPINION PIECES - "Freedom without taboos" [...]	2006-12-05 19:23:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2694	CHAVEZ; CUBA; MEXICO; ARGENTINA-IRAN; 12/04/06; BUENOS [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's papers report on the outcome of Venezuelan elections. Weekend papers cover Cuban Raul Castro's proposal of a negotiation with the US; the swearing-in of Mexican President Calderon; and the state of Argentina's ties with Iran following Judge Canicoba Corral's decisi [...]	2006-12-05 21:20:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2695	ARGENTINA'S VIEWS ON THE POTENTIAL INCLUSION OF [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Embassy officers made Ref A points to officials from Argentina's foreign ministry and transportation secretariat November 30. After first saying that Argentina would not take a position on the issue ( [...]	2006-12-06 13:59:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON SENV AR
06BUENOSAIRES2696	ARGENTINA'S ROLE IN UPGRADING LIBYAN NUCLEAR [...] (U) This telegram is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) A December 3 article in a local daily reported that Argentine high technology firm INVAP (Ref A) had won a contract to upgrade a Libyan nuclear power plant. For clarification and details, the Embas [...]	2006-12-06 14:00:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP ENRG IAEA OTRA PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES2697	HARVARD INITIATES STEM CELL RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP [...] (U) This telegram is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. Summary ------- 2. (U) Harvard University and the GoA have begun an education and research and development initiative in Argentina that will initially focus on stem cell research. The program, called PA [...]	2006-12-06 15:28:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO PHUM PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES2705	IRAQ; CHAVEZ; ECUADOR; MYLES FRECHETTE IN BUENOS AIRES; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Key international stories today include the US Pentagon's director Robert Gates' statements regarding the war in Iraq; the aftermath of Venezuelan President Chavez' re-election; and the outcome of Ecuadorian elections. Conservative "La Prensa", business-financial "InfoBae [...]	2006-12-07 09:40:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2710	AMBASSADOR WAYNE'S MEETING WITH NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE ON "ONE [...] Ambassador Wayne met November 22 with Nicholas Negroponte of MIT to discuss how the U.S. Embassy can assist the "One Laptop per Child" (OLPC) program, about to be launched in Argentina. Negroponte underlined his interest in working with the State Department and said he intended to incorporate a [...]	2006-12-07 13:14:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES2711	ARGENTINA: SCENESETTER FOR PM/DAS MICHAEL COULTER AND THE POL/MIL BILATS [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-07 16:05:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PARM PREL PGOV PTER AR
06BUENOSAIRES2712	BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Per Ref A request, post carried out a pre-license check on Buenos Aires, Argentina-based foreign end-user Juan Diego Ariztegui, Representaciones Aeronauticas (Ariztegui) on November 9. It is post's opinion that the company will be a responsible recipient of United States Muniti [...]	2006-12-07 17:30:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC KOMC AR
06BUENOSAIRES2723	CODEL GOODLATTE MEETINGS WITH ARGENTINE OFFICIALS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: CODEL Goodlatte November 30 meetings in Argentina included discussions with senior officials at the GoA Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Economy, and the Argentine Lower House of Congress, as well as with U.S. company representatives at the American Chamber of Commerc [...]	2006-12-11 14:12:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PREL EAGR AR OREP ETRD
06BUENOSAIRES2726	CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR ON MONETARY POLICY, GROWTH, TERROR [...] (SBU) Central Bank Governor Martin Redrado, in a December 5 lunch with the Ambassador, invited a dialogue with USG on GoA monetary policy which he called conservative, slightly contractionary and generally misunderstood. Now, five years after Argentina's economic crisis, Redrado said Argentina [...]	2006-12-11 18:25:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON AR
06BUENOSAIRES273	Argentina Economic and Financial Weekly for [...] The peso depreciated 0.3 percent versus the USD this week, closing at 3.08 ARP/USD - one cent lower than last Friday's close. This week's depreciation is mainly attributed to higher dollar demand by banks and Central Bank (BCRA) intervention in the FX market, and comes in spite of higher USD [...]	2006-02-06 15:08:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON ELAB ALOW AR
06BUENOSAIRES2730	ARGENTINA DOES NOT MAINTAIN TERRORIST LISTS [...] (SBU) The Government of Argentina does not maintain any list of terrorists such as the USG Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) List (reftel). According to Acting Director of the MFA's Counter Terrorism Office, Gustavo Urrutia, the GoA instead relies on the UN 1267 Committee consolida [...]	2006-12-11 20:02:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KTFN PTER ETTC PREL EFIN AR
06BUENOSAIRES2731	ARGENTINA: PARTICIPATION IN DECEMBER UNSC THEMATIC [...] (C) PolCouns delivered talking points in reftel to the MFA Office of International Organizations on December 7, prior to the long holiday weekend in Argentina. PolCouns followed up on November 11 with Minister Manuel Fernandez Salorio. 2. (C) Fernandez Salorio said Argentina will be repr [...]	2006-12-11 20:16:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC IS AR
06BUENOSAIRES2732	ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR WAYNE VISITS SALTA PROVINCE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Ambassador Wayne traveled to Argentina's Salta province November 30-December 1, to support anti-narcotics efforts, public outreach and commercial diplomacy. The Ambassador visited the DEA's Northern Border Task Force office, and participated in a ceremony to deliver drug dogs t [...]	2006-12-12 14:31:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES2733	ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH MINISTER OF [...] Ambassador Wayne paid a courtesy call on Minister of Health Mario Gines Gonzalez Garcia on December 5, 2006. The exchange was positive, with both the Ambassador and the Minister stating that they were pleased with the level of cooperation and the generally strong bilateral relationship on hea [...]	2006-12-12 15:08:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES2747	US-ARGENTINE BILATERAL TIES; AMIA BOMBING CASE AND IRAN; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Leading international stories today include US Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Tom Shannon's statement that the US is working 'fantastically' with the Argentine Government; the current state of the Argentine-Iranian ties following an Argentine co [...]	2006-12-14 18:48:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2751	ARGENTINA: FOREIGN MINISTER AND KIRCHNER AIDE ON [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador and EmbOffs met with Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana December 14 and discussed U.S.-Argentine relations, among other issues (septels). Ambassador raised the recent article in La Nacion newspaper that claimed President Kirchner had told Venezuelan President Cha [...]	2006-12-14 20:47:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES2753	DEATH OF PINOCHET; DIGITAL TV STANDARD COMPETITION IN [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Key international stories today include the implications of the death of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet; the debate over Argentina's upcoming decision on digital TV standard; US Assistant Secretary Shannon's statements about US ties with Latin America; SIPDIS [...]	2006-12-15 09:48:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2754	IRAQ-IRAN-SYRIA; TRI-BORDER AREA; GSP; ARGENTINE-VENEZUELAN [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Weekend stories focus on the USG's reaction to the report from the Iraq Study Group; the follow up on the US Treasury Department's designation of individuals and entities supporting Hezbollah in the Tri-Border area; the status of Argentine-Venezuelan ties; and US Ambassador [...]	2006-12-15 09:49:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2755	DEATH OF PINOCHET; FATF AND ARGENTINA; AMIA BOMBING CASE; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Leading international stories today include the implications of General Pinochet's death and the USG reaction to it; a probable FATF sanction on Argentina for its lack of stricter anti-terrorist legislation; and the current state of Argentine-Iranian ties after an Argentine [...]	2006-12-15 09:49:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2767	ARGENTINA 2006-2007 INCSR PART II: FINANCIAL [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-18 16:55:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN KCRM KTFN PTER SNAR AR
06BUENOSAIRES278	MEDIA REACTION HAMAS-ARGENTINA, IRAN-IAEA, [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Main stories today refer to Hamas' declarations to a Brazilian daily announcing its trip to South American countries in search of political and financial support, with the FMA saying they haven't received any request for a visit or interviews; Argentina's possible vote on [...]	2006-02-07 10:55:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2782	ARGENTINE FOREIGN MINISTER TAIANA ON CHINA, [...] (C) Summary: Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana December 14 discussed with Ambassador a broad range of topics. Taiana commented on his trip to China and the GoA's interest in developing Chinese markets for Argentine exports. Taiana said the GoA is pleased with the U.S. Congress' recen [...]	2006-12-19 17:23:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD PGOV PREL UNESCO AR BL MX CH
06BUENOSAIRES2783	IRAQ; US AMBASSADOR WAYNE; MIDDLE EAST; THE UN NEW STAGE; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Weekend papers cover the implications of Robert Gates' taking office as head of the Pentagon; the style of new US Ambassador to Argentina, Earl Anthony Wayne; confrontations in the Middle East; and the new scenario at the UN. Business-financials "El Cronista" and "Ambito [...]	2006-12-19 19:07:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2784	US TIES WITH CUBA AND VENEZUELA; RUSSIAN PRESIDENT PUTIN; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's main international stories include the US relations with Cuba and Venezuela; the public image of Russian President Putin in the aftermath of the murder of former spy Litvinenko; and Iran's move to promote a "historical revision" of the Holocaust. All local newspap [...]	2006-12-19 19:08:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2785	NORTH KOREA; ROBERT GATES HEAD OF THE US PENTAGON; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's newspapers carry opinion pieces on the Six-party talks to address North Korea's nuclear program; Robert Gates taking office as the new head of the Pentagon; Colombia's conflict with Ecuador; and Iran's move to question the Holocaust. 2. OPINION PIECES - "A dis [...]	2006-12-19 19:32:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2790	AMBASSADOR WAYNE MEETS WITH AMIA FAMILY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Ambassador met December 15 with representatives from "Familiares y Amigos de las Victimas" (Family and Friends of the Victims, or FAV),one of the three main organizations representing AMIA victims, and the first meeting between FAV and Ambassador Wayne. Both sides expressed t [...]	2006-12-20 12:41:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PTER ETTC PREL AR IR LE
06BUENOSAIRES2792	Ambassador Wayne Meets with President of OAS Private [...] Summary: On December 12, Ambassador Anthony Wayne met with the President of the OAS Private Sector of the Americas (PAS) group and a delegation of PAS members from Argentina. They spoke about their desire to reinvigorate a trade dialogue and to foster corporate social responsibility. PAS me [...]	2006-12-20 14:35:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KTEX AR
06BUENOSAIRES2795	PLANNING MINISTER DE VIDO ON U.S.-ARGENTINE [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador met with Minister of Planning Julio De Vido to discuss a wide range of issues. Minister De Vido, who is President Kirchner's top minister and one of his closest advisors, asserted that U.S.-Argentine relations were in a very good situation. De Vido said U.S.-Argent [...]	2006-12-20 19:57:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	BEXP ECON EAIR PTER ETRD CIVAIR AR
06BUENOSAIRES2798	A SURPLUS 2007 BUDGET DESIGNED TO BOLSTER KIRCHNER [...] (SBU) The Argentine Senate approved the 2007 National Budget December 13, 2006, in the face of opposition criticism over its growth and inflation assumptions, the continuation of "superpowers" that allow the GoA to make future fiscal decisions without Congressional authorization, and the lack [...]	2006-12-20 20:44:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV AR
06BUENOSAIRES2805	ARGENTINA: STAFFDEL MEETING WITH MFA ON AMIA, [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 19 DCM, Emboffs, and visiting Staffdel members met with Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs Luis Cappagli to discuss the recent Interpol response to the AMIA case and tri-border issues. Staffdel members underlined the importance of responding to INTERPOL Secretary Gener [...]	2006-12-21 18:12:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV KJUS AR FBI
06BUENOSAIRES2806	TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICER (TFCO) FOR [...] (C) Post provides the following response to reftel request for contact information on Terrorism Finance Coordinating Officer (TFCO) and Deputy TFCO. a) TFCO contact information: Michael A. Matera Deputy Chief of Mission 54-11-5777-4321 MateraMA@state.sgov.gov (class email) MateraMA@stat [...]	2006-12-21 19:26:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ETTC KTFN KVPR PREL PTER AR
06BUENOSAIRES2808	AMBASSADOR HOSTS ELECTRICITY, GAS SECTOR U.S. INVESTOR [...] (SBU) Country managers of U.S. players in Argentina's electricity and natural gas sectors met with Ambassador to review constraints imposed by GoA regulations, uncertain natural gas supplies for generation, and frozen retail electricity and gas tariffs. Participants representing AES, CMS, Duke, [...]	2006-12-21 20:11:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET ECON ETRD AR
06BUENOSAIRES2828	US-LATIN AMERICAN TIES; AMIA-RIO TERCERO BLAST; ARGENTINA'S [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's most important international stories include US Senator Joseph Biden's statement that, once the US Congress is controlled by the Democratic Party, it will pay "much more attention" to Latin American issues; an interview with Brazilian sociologist Helio Jaguaribe, wh [...]	2006-12-28 11:04:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2838	ARGENTINA-U.S. POLITICAL-MILITARY CONSULTATIONS [...] (U) Summary: The United States and Argentina held a successful round of political-military bilateral consultations on December 15, 2006 in Buenos Aires. Both delegations shared their foreign policy principles and objectives. The Argentine delegation explained their government's goals for c [...]	2006-12-28 21:13:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL PARM AR
06BUENOSAIRES2842	SADDAM HUSSEIN; CUBA AND CHINA; ISRAEL; MERKEL; CRIMES [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Key international stories today include the upcoming execution of Saddam Hussein; Cuba looking to the 'Chinese model;' the US Department of State criticizing Israel's plans to establish a new settlement in the West Bank; a new declassification of USG documents; Angela Merke [...]	2006-12-29 16:45:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2847	HUMAN RIGHTS POLICY IN ARGENTINA; ECUADOR; 12/29/06 [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Most local papers extensively report on Argentine President Nestor Kirchner coordinating a manhunt for a human rights witness, who went missing on Wednesday after accusing last year former police officer Luis Patti of torturing him in 1972. Local dailies highlight that auth [...]	2006-12-29 18:24:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES291	VISIT OF DASD PARDO-MAURER TO ARGENTINA [...] (SBU) Summary: Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Rogelio Pardo-Maurer visited Argentina January 26-28. During his visit, Pardo-Maurer met with Argentine Minister of Defense Nilda Garre and other senior ministry officials. During his meetings, Pardo-Mau [...]	2006-02-08 12:58:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES293	ARGENTINA: COUNCIL OF MAGISTRATES BILL SHOWS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Lower House of Congress will soon vote on a controversial law to reform the Council of Magistrates that regulates Argentina's judicial system that appears likely to pass despite a united opposition effort against the bill. The proposed law would shrink the size of the Counc [...]	2006-02-08 13:12:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS PGOV PHUM PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES300	The 2006 Monetary Program Unlikely to Help [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for internet distribution. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) Central Bank (BCRA) President Martin Redrado presented the BCRA's 2006 monetary program on December 29. It will maintain a moderately contractive monetary policy, with a small increase in [...]	2006-02-08 16:18:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON ELAB ALOW AR
06BUENOSAIRES308	MEDIA REACTION IRAN-IAEA-ARGENTINA, GLOBAL [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Papers continue to lead with the Iran case at the IAEA, with France and Russia seeking to stop the escalation against Tehran, and Argentina's public stance on the up-coming vote at the UNSC; the growing violence between the Muslim world and the West, following the publicat [...]	2006-02-08 19:42:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES309	Argentina - WHA FY-2006 ESF Anti-Trafficking [...] The following anti-trafficking project proposal developed in coordination with the Regional Office of the International Organization for Migration is submitted by Embassy Buenos Aires for funding consideration from FY 2006 ESF appropriations per reftel instructions: A. PROJECT TITILE: Pr [...]	2006-02-08 19:44:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KWMN PHUM ASEC ELAB SMIG AR
06BUENOSAIRES317	ARGENTINA ON REPORTING IRAN TO THE UNSC [...] (C) POLOFF delivered reftel points to Minister Ricardo Boccalandro, Deputy Director of the MFA's Office of International Security, Nuclear, and Space Issues (DIGAN) and Claudia Corti, who covers IAEA issues in the same office. POLOFF also e-mailed copies of the President's and Secretary's Febr [...]	2006-02-09 13:20:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM KNNP IAEA AR
06BUENOSAIRES33	ARGENTINA -- 2006 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-06 14:17:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV OPIC USTR
06BUENOSAIRES333	JANUARY 2006 INFLATION UPDATE AND PREDICTIONS [...] The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 1.3 percent in January. This brings the 12-month inflation rate to 12.1 percent. Average nominal salaries increased 1.2 percent in December and the purchasing power of salaried workers in December 2005 was 7.1 percent higher than in December 2004. Offici [...]	2006-02-10 13:23:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON ELAB ETRD ALOWAR
06BUENOSAIRES338	ARGENTINE PROGRESS ON RATIFICATION OF THE UNESCO [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. 2. (U) Argentina has done little to ratify the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions following its October 2005 adoption. The process by which the Convention wou [...]	2006-02-10 19:40:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD SCUL UNESCO AR
06BUENOSAIRES34	ARGENTINA -- 2006 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-06 14:17:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV OPIC USTR
06BUENOSAIRES340	Argentina Economic and Financial Weekly for [...] The peso remained flat versus the USD this week, closing at 3.08 ARP/USD. Earlier in the week, the peso depreciated one cent to 3.09 ARP/USD after the Central Bank (BCRA) purchased USD 93 million in the FX market on February 7 and 8. Then the BCRA dropped out of the FX market, allowing the [...]	2006-02-13 10:33:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON ELAB ALOW AR
06BUENOSAIRES344	MEDIA REACTION GLOBAL OUTRAGE OVER MUHAMMAD [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Main story today is the global escalation of violence over Muhammad's cartoons, and its unpredictable consequences. 2. OPINION PIECES AND KEY STORIES - "Freedom and Common Sense" Pablo Ceron, centrist, leading "Clarin" international columnist, opines (02/09) "Freed [...]	2006-02-13 14:07:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES345	MEDIA REACTION IRAN, GLOBAL OUTRAGE OVER [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT The Iranian crisis and its global repercussions continue to garner media attention, followed by the international 'furor' over Muhammad's cartoons, which may 'snowball' and the hectic elections in Haiti, marred by violent incidents and disorganization. 2. OPINION PIECES [...]	2006-02-13 14:08:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES346	LABOR PROTEST TURNS VIOLENT IN PRESIDENT'S HOME [...] SUMMARY: A two-week protest by dissident elements of the oil and gas workers union in President Nestor Kirchner's home province of Santa Cruz turned deadly on February 8 when a police officer was killed in the town of Las Heras, Santa Cruz and 15 others were wounded. This is the first death [...]	2006-02-13 15:21:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB PGOV PINS ECON AR
06BUENOSAIRES350	CONVERSATION WITH CASA ROSADA INSIDER OSCAR [...] (C) Summary: In a wide-ranging conversation with DCM, Secretary General of the Presidency Oscar Parrilli said GoA SIPDIS efforts to control prices were working and that the 2006 inflation rate would be lower than generally expected. He defended the government's approach to controllin [...]	2006-02-13 19:00:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES359	ARGENTINA RECEPTIVE TO USG ICAO CANDIDATE, IN [...] Per Reftel A, Econoff presented the leave-behind document on William Voss to civil aviation and Foreign Ministry authorities involved in the decision-making process for candidates to leadership positions in the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). Econoff met with Air Regions Co [...]	2006-02-14 16:51:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES36	ARGENTINA SCENE-SETTER FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY [...] (C) INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY: On behalf of Embassy Buenos Aires, I warmly welcome your visit to Argentina January 11-12. Your visit comes at a critical time for Argentina's relations with its neighbors, especially Bolivia. As a result of Kirchner's resounding victory in October 23 legislativ [...]	2006-01-06 19:59:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON PARM AR SNAR
06BUENOSAIRES369	FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE HITS ARGENTINA AGAIN [...] Argentina has recently confirmed an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). Seventy animals on one ranch in the northeastern province of Corrientes were diagnosed with the disease. Argentina's National Service for Agrifood Quality (SENASA) subsequently destroyed the entire herd of approxi [...]	2006-02-15 17:07:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ETRD ECON AR
06BUENOSAIRES382	ARGENTINA INTERESTED IN ATTENDING APRIL 11-12 PSI [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (C) At a February 15 lunch hosted by Ambassador, the MFA's new Director of International Security, Nuclear, and Space Issues (DIGAN),Elsa Kelly, said the GOA would like to send an interagency delegation to the April 11-12 PSI Operat [...]	2006-02-16 14:57:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM MARR PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES387	STATUS AND TEXT OF CENTRAL BANK'S PROPOSED [...] (C) Summary: Post recieved a copy of the text of a Central Bank-drafted bill that would criminalize terrorism and the financing of terrorism in Argentina. A Central Bank (BCRA) director confirmed on February 15 that the BCRA board had reviewed the legislation and, after a final review, expe [...]	2006-02-16 20:08:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	KTFN EFIN AR

06BUENOSAIRES396	MEDIA REACTION NEW AMBASSADOR IN ARGENTINA, [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Papers lead with the quick approval of Ambassador Wayne's 'agrement', underscoring that he's a good choice to iron out the differences following the Summit of the Americas, and that the move is another sign of both countries' interest in improving bilateral relations. The [...]	2006-02-17 19:31:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES398	MEDIA REACTION ABU GHRAIB, IRAN, HAITI; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Papers lead with the new scandal following the broadcast by an Australian TV station of previously unpublished images of apparent abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Bush's request of funds to 'democratize' Iran and the growing allegations of fraud in Haiti which could lead [...]	2006-02-17 19:46:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES406	ARGENTINA'S 2006 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW [...] Argentine entities responsible for upholding IPR failed to translate the momentum from a strong 2004 into tangible successes in 2005. U.S. pharmaceutical companies are still waiting for commercially valuable patents; CD and DVD piracy rates appear to be rising, despite Argentina's economic r [...]	2006-02-17 20:43:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KIPR ETRD ECON AR
06BUENOSAIRES407	ARGENTINA POLITICAL ROUNDUP [...] (U) Reftels and other Mission reporting available at http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/wha/buenosaires 2. (U) TABLE OF CONTENTS: -- Ambassador Meets with New MFA International Security Director -- Rumors of Kirchner Cabinet Changes -- Paper Mill Dispute: Blockage of Bridges into Uruguay Contin [...]	2006-02-17 21:00:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES408	Argentina Economic and Financial Weekly for [...] The peso remained flat versus the USD this week, closing at 3.08 ARP/USD. Earlier in the week, the peso depreciated one cent to 3.09 ARP/USD after the Central Bank (BCRA) purchased USD 64 million in the FX market on February 14. Then the BCRA kept up its active intervention by purchasing a [...]	2006-02-21 12:39:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON ELAB ALOW AR
06BUENOSAIRES41	MEDIA REACTION A/S THOMAS SHANNON UPCOMING [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Weekend stories cover: the upcoming visit of A/S Thomas Shannon to Buenos Aires; Uruguay denying that it may be negotiating a free trade deal with the US; the upcoming elections in Haiti; the Argentine- Bolivian relationship; US Republican Tom De Lay quitting US Congress m [...]	2006-01-09 19:06:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES411	TRANSFER OF ITCY WAR CRIMES INDICTEE MILAN LUKIC [...] Bosnian Serb war crimes indictee Milan Lukic was transferred to the ICTY from Argentina on February 20. Lukic had been detained in Buenos Aires on August 8, 2005, by Argentine authorities after meeting with his wife and youngest child in a local restaurant (reftels). Argentine Federal Judge [...]	2006-02-21 21:10:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KAWC ICTY KJUS PHUM PGOV PREL BK SR AR
06BUENOSAIRES414	ARGENTINA DETAINS FALKLANDS ISLANDS FISHING VESSEL [...] (C) SUMMARY: An Argentine Coast Guard vessel challenged and - for the first time - detained a fishing vessel from the Falklands Islands February 20. The Argentines claim that the boat was within Argentina's 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ),while the vessel's owners - one of whom is an [...]	2006-02-22 11:54:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIS MARR ENRG PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES416	ARGENTINE HISTORIAN DENIED ENTRY TO CUBA: FOREIGN [...] Summary: Argentine historian and writer Jose Ignacio Garcia Hamilton was denied entry into Cuba moments after arriving on February 18 despite having a valid visa. In public statements, Garcia Hamilton suspects he was denied entry to the country because of his latest book, which includes cont [...]	2006-02-22 12:40:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM AR CU
06BUENOSAIRES419	NEW INSIGHTS INTO INCOME DISTRIBUTION IN [...] Third quarter INDEC figures show that the average per capita income of the ten percent of families with the highest incomes in Argentina was 34 times higher than that of the ten percent of families with the lowest incomes. That difference in average incomes is the highest since the 2002 cris [...]	2006-02-22 20:03:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ELAB ETRD AR
06BUENOSAIRES423	ARGENTINA ON UN REFORM [...] (C) As a follow-up to the Ambassador's demarche to Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana (reftel a),PolCouns met on February 13 with MFA deputy director for International Organizations Jorge Gomez to obtain further details on GoA position on UN reform issues raised in reftels b and c. 2. (C) Man [...]	2006-02-22 20:48:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KUNR PHUM UN ADCO AR
06BUENOSAIRES428	MEDIA REACTION NEW AMBASSADOR IN ARGENTINA, [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Major stories today refer to Ambassador Wayne's designation, its positive repercussions in Argentina and the possible topics he will be addressing; Hamas' difficult relationship with Israel; the aftermath of Haiti's elections and the global concern posed by the avian flu a [...]	2006-02-23 14:22:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES433	ARGENTINA ON AL-ASKARIYA SHRINE BOMBING [...] (C) On February 23 POLOFF delivered the President's February 22 statement (reftel) as well as the joint statement by Ambassador Khalilzad and General Casey to Viviana Jones, Deputy Director of the North Africa and Middle East Affairs Office in the MFA. POLOFF also asked for the GOA to issue a [...]	2006-02-23 20:44:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES439	MEDIA REACTION US CANCELLATION OF BOLIVIAN [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's major international stories include the US canceling Bolivian Senator Zurita's visa; the discovery of an anthrax case in New York; the US enabling Argentine meat (except that from a province that was affected by a recent foot-and-mouth bout) to enter US markets; an [...]	2006-02-24 14:19:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES442	ARGENTINA'S 2005 MINING REPORT [...] Secretary of Mining Jorge Mayoral paid a courtesy call on the Ambassador to present an overview of mining activity in Argentina from the onset of the economic crisis of 2002 to the present. Mayoral highlighted the growth in the number of exploration projects and drew attention to investment [...]	2006-02-24 15:31:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EMIN EINV ECON AR
06BUENOSAIRES447	ARGENTINA ON CONTACTS WITH HAMAS [...] (C) POLOFF delivered reftel points February 23 to Viviana Jones, Deputy Director in the MFA's Office of North American and Middle East Affairs. Jones said that the GOA had received no requests for a meeting with Hamas representatives, and that in any case, the GOA does not meet with "politica [...]	2006-02-24 18:53:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KWBG AR
06BUENOSAIRES448	ARGENTINA ON IAEA SAFEGUARDS COMMITTEE [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-24 18:54:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM IAEA KNNP AR
06BUENOSAIRES451	ARGENTINA POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR FEBRUARY 24 [...] (U) Reftels and other Mission reporting available at http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/wha/buenosaires 2. (U) TABLE OF CONTENTS: -- Paco Use Increases Among Argentine Adolescents -- Ibarra Impeachment Update -- Las Heras Truce Wearing Thin -- Argentina Seeks Dialogue with Uruguay but Prepared f [...]	2006-02-24 20:24:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES452	COUNCIL OF MAGISTRATES REFORM BILL BECOMES LAW [...] (SBU) Summary: A controversial bill first proposed by Senator Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner to reform the Council of Magistrates easily passed in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies to become law on February 23. The bill reduces the size of the Council and will likely increase the Casa Rosada [...]	2006-02-24 20:42:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM KJUS AR
06BUENOSAIRES456	ARGENTINA TO BACK VOSS FOR ICAO SECRETARY GENERAL [...] The Department informed Post on Friday, February 24 that some members of the Latin American Commission on Civil Aviation (LACAC) intend to cast their votes for USG candidate William Voss as the next Secretary General of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). This information r [...]	2006-02-27 15:21:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR AR
06BUENOSAIRES458	ARGENTINA'S PEACEKEEPING CENTER [...] (U) DCM, accompanied by POLOFF, visited the Argentine Joint Peacekeeping Training Center (CAECOPAZ) February 24 to receive a briefing on CAECOPAZ's capabilities, as well as on ongoing Argentine contributions to PKO's in Haiti (about 600 troops),Cyprus (about 400 troops),Kosovo (about 130 troo [...]	2006-02-27 15:54:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS KPKO AR
06BUENOSAIRES459	Argentina Economic and Financial Weekly for [...] The peso remained flat versus the USD this week, closing at 3.08 ARP/USD. Earlier in the week, the peso depreciated one cent to 3.09 ARP/USD after the Central Bank (BCRA) purchased USD 92 million in the FX market on February 21. The BCRA then kept up its active intervention by purchasing a [...]	2006-02-27 16:48:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON ELAB ALOW AR
06BUENOSAIRES469	MEDIA REACTION IRAN-RUSSIA IRAQ US-BOLIVIA US- [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Weekend stories cover Iran and Russia agreeing to establish a joint uranium enrichment venture; the danger of civil war in Iraq; Palestinian PM-designate Haniyeh's statement that Hamas would establish "peace in stages" if Israel were to withdraw to the borders it held befor [...]	2006-02-28 12:15:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES470	ANOTHER AEROLINEAS ARGENTINAS STRIKE REMAINS A [...] (C) The threat that the November 2005 strike will repeat itself on or after March 1 remains a distinct possibility. The pilots' and mechanics' unions entered salary negotiations with the national flag carrier on December 2, 2005, at the conclusion of a 9-day strike. Under the GOA-brokered se [...]	2006-02-28 13:16:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR ECON AR
06BUENOSAIRES477	MEDIA REACTION US, COLOMBIA SIGN FREE TRADE [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's leading international stories include a free trade agreement reached between the US and Colombia; a US Embassy press release asking for a fast solution of the dispute between the Argentine Government and Monsanto corporation; implications of the nuclear agreement b [...]	2006-02-28 20:56:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES479	Argentina: GOA Funds Nanotechnology Efforts [...] Summary: Buoyed by a ten million dollar grant from the Argentine Ministry of the Economy (MOE),the Argentine Nanotechnology Foundation (FAN) seeks to diversify the Argentine economy through promotion of public-private nanotechnology projects. FAN is the first effort to tie public and priva [...]	2006-03-01 14:21:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA KNNP TSPL TSPA TPHY AR
06BUENOSAIRES480	DEMARCHE ON ARGENTINA IDB ABSTENTION [...] (SBU) Per Ref A instruction, I called on MFA Director for Political Affairs Ambassador Luis Cappagli (the number three official in the MFA) at 10:45 a.m. local time (8:45 a.m. Washington time) on March 1. Foreign Minister Taiana was at the Congress for President Kirchner,s speech at the openi [...]	2006-03-01 16:40:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN AR
06BUENOSAIRES486	KIRCHNER BREAKS SILENCE ON PAPER MILL CONTROVERSY [...] (U) During his annual address to Congress on March 1 (SEPTEL),President Nestor Kirchner made his first public remarks regarding the controversial paper mills under construction in Uruguay (REFTELS). In his remarks Kirchner appealed directly to Uruguayan President Tabare Vasquez to, stop the [...]	2006-03-01 21:00:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SENV SOCI EAGR AR UY
06BUENOSAIRES497	ARGENTINA POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR MARCH 3 [...] (U) Reftels and other Mission reporting available at http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/wha/buenosaires 2. (U) TABLE OF CONTENTS: -- HAVANA ON THE PARANA -- DIRTY WAR CRIMES PROSECUTIONS PROCEED -- 200 KILOS OF COCAINE SEIZED IN SHIPMENT OF FROZEN FISH -- MILITARY JUSTICE CODE REFORM PROPOSED [...]	2006-03-03 13:08:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AR SNAR
06BUENOSAIRES498	MINISTRY OF ECONOMY'S SECRETARY OF TECHNICAL [...] (C) The DCM paid a courtesy call on new Ministry of Economy Secretary for Technical Coordination Carlos Salas on February 24, to ask about the GOA's economic policy plans for the coming year. Salas responded that he was not an economist, but expressed optimism that the economy would continue [...]	2006-03-03 14:37:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV ENRG AR
06BUENOSAIRES499	PRESIDENT KIRCHNER DELIVERS STATE OF THE NATION [...] (SBU) Kirchner delivered a state of the nation speech to congress on March 1st. He began the speech by repeating many of the themes that he has mentioned in earlier speeches, such as Argentina's continuing struggle to emerge from "hell." He claimed that Argentina has now entered a process of [...]	2006-03-03 14:41:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ENRG AR
06BUENOSAIRES500	MEDIA REACTION US PRESIDENT BUSH TO INDIA [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's major international stories include US President Bush's trip to India; the IDB granting a loan to Argentina "in spite of US objections;" Argentina's supporting the strengthening of Haiti's Congress; and President Kirchner urging a 90-day halt to the construction of [...]	2006-03-03 16:19:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES505	MEDIA REACTION US-INDIAN NUCLEAR DEAL A/S [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's key international stories include the implications of the nuclear cooperation deal reached between the US and India; the press conference with Eric M. Bost, US Assistant Secretary for Food, Nutrition and consumer Service, US Department of Agriculture; and Argentina [...]	2006-03-03 19:08:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES512	PERUVIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE VISITS ARGENTINA [...] (U) On March 2, Peruvian presidential candidate Ollanto Humala visited Argentina during a campaign tour of the region and met with President Nestor Kirchner, Cabinet Chief Alberto Fernandez and Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana at the Casa Rosada. According to press reports, there are as many as [...]	2006-03-03 20:57:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AR PE
06BUENOSAIRES513	AEROLINEAS ARGENTINAS STILL NEGOTIATING WITH UNIONS [...] (U) Aerolineas Argentinas remains in salary negotiations as of March 3 with representatives of the airline's pilots and mechanics even though the 90-day negotiating period which the GOA brokered in December has expired. The airline offered a 20-percent pay increase to both groups on March 1. [...]	2006-03-03 21:19:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR ELAB AR
06BUENOSAIRES515	Argentina Economic and Financial Weekly for [...] The peso remained flat versus the USD this week, closing at 3.08 ARP/USD. The peso depreciated one cent to 3.09 ARP/USD early in the week, after the Central Bank (BCRA) purchased USD 29 million in the FX market on February 27. By mid-week, strong investment inflows to purchase domestic stoc [...]	2006-03-06 11:28:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON ELAB ALOW AR
06BUENOSAIRES524	MEDIA REACTION US PRESIDENT BUSH TO INDIA AND [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's key international stories include US President Bush praising Pakistan as crucial ally in the war on terrorism; the implications of a nuclear deal between the US and India; the civil war in Iraq; the confrontation between the US and Iran on the latter's nuclear prog [...]	2006-03-06 20:46:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES534	MEDIA REACTION US-BOLIVIA US-CUBA US-INDIAN [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's major international stories include Bolivian President Evo Morales accusing the USG of "blackmail" for withdrawing anti-terrorism funding for his country; India's new strategic role in the current geopolitical scenario; the recent expulsion of the Cuban delegation [...]	2006-03-08 20:31:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES535	MEDIA REACTION IRAN MIDDLE EAST US-BOLIVIA [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's major international stories include US President Bush's speech on the International Women's Day; US Vice President Dick Cheney's threats to Iran if it does not suspend its enriched uranium-related activities; the US and Russia rejecting Iran's proposal to enrich ur [...]	2006-03-08 20:31:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES538	KIRCHNER TAKES ON TWO INFLUENTIAL DAILIES [...] President Kirchner recently took his contentious relationship with the Argentine press to a new level, publicly and directly attacking Argentina's two most influential daily newspapers -- Clarin and La Nacion. Although La Nacion is accustomed to being targeted by Kirchner, Clarin has enjoyed a [...]	2006-03-09 12:31:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL PHUM AR
06BUENOSAIRES549	AEROLINEAS ARGENTINAS FACES "LIGTNING STRIKE" [...] Members of Argentina's Air Line Pilots Association (APLA) and the Association of Professional Aeronautic Technicians (APTA) initiated a 24-hour strike at noon on March 9. Air Force Chief of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Airport Commodore Mario Marelli stated that union representatives had in [...]	2006-03-09 20:46:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR ELAB AR
06BUENOSAIRES560	GOA SUSPENDS BEEF EXPORTS AS AN INFLATION-FIGHTING [...] (C) The GOA announced a 180-day suspension of beef exports in an effort to stem price increases. Exports to the EU that go toward fulfilling the Hilton Quota and those governed by bilateral agreements will not be affected. The suspension, described by a Cargill Argentina executive as "brutal, [...]	2006-03-10 14:51:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ETRD ECON AR
06BUENOSAIRES561	ARGENTINA SIGNS SEISMIC MONITORING AGREEMENT [...] (U) Ambassador and Deputy Foreign Minister Roberto Garcia Moritan signed an Agreement March 9 concerning the establishment and operation of a Primary Seismic Station at Paso Flores in the Argentine province of Rio Negro. The Agreement updates an existing December 1987 Agreement between the Ar [...]	2006-03-10 14:55:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM MARR TPHY KNNP PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES562	ARGENTINA: IBARRA'S REMOVAL CHANGES THE BUENOS [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 7, the Buenos Aires City Legislature voted to permanently remove Mayor Anibal Ibarra from office. Although the required ten votes for removal included mostly opposition legislators, the deciding vote came from a Kirchnerista, Helio Rebot. Ibarra's removal changes the [...]	2006-03-10 15:09:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES564	COUNTER-TERRORISM MINISTER BLAMES MISUNDERSTANDING [...] (C) Visiting Desk Officer Gomez, accompanied by POLOFF and POL Intern, delivered (REFTEL) talking points on March 8 to Minister Gustavo Urrutia, Deputy Director of the Office of Counter Terrorism and Related Crimes. 2. (C) Regarding the Declaration of San Carlos, Urrutia said that Argentina [...]	2006-03-10 16:35:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL USOAS AR
06BUENOSAIRES572	MEDIA REACTION IRAN US HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT US- [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's major international stories include Iran warning the US that it could inflict "harm and pain" to match whatever punishment Washington persuaded the UN Security Council to dole out for Tehran's refusal to halt atomic research; the 2006 US State Department Human Righ [...]	2006-03-10 20:35:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES573	MEDIA REACTION IRAN IRAQ VISIT OF A/S OF THE [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT All major local newspapers cover the press conference with Patrick O'Brien, US Assistant Secretary of Treasury for Terrorist Financing, at the US Embassy in Buenos Aires as well as his meetings with members of the Argentine government. Papers highlight that, in spite of th [...]	2006-03-10 20:36:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES578	ARGENTINA MAY NOT RATIFY ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL [...] (C) On March 8, in a meeting with Visiting Desk Officer Gomez, POLOFF, and POL Intern, Minister Ricardo Bocalandro of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs spoke openly about the GOA's intentions to wait for Brazil before signing the Additional Protocol (AP). (Note: This is the same thing we have [...]	2006-03-13 14:45:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KNNP AR
06BUENOSAIRES579	MEDIA REACTION US PRESIDENT BUSH'S POPULARITY [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Major international stories from the weekend cover socialist pediatrician Michelle Bachelet's swearing in as the nation's first female president; the US President's popularity rating; the presidents of Argentina and Uruguay reaching an agreement to suspend construction of [...]	2006-03-13 19:12:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES592	FEBRUARY 2006 INFLATION UPDATE AND [...] The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.4 percent in February. This brings the 12-month inflation rate to 11.5 percent. Food and Beverages, and Medical and Health Care Services were the two CPI components with the highest monthly price rise in February, even though the GOA had launched price [...]	2006-03-14 12:47:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON ELAB ETRD ALOWAR
06BUENOSAIRES595	MEDIA REACTION IRAN CHILE US-BOLIVIAN TIES [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Key international stories today cover US President George W. Bush's alleged plan to destabilize Iran; the possible impact of a hypothetical pre-emptive attack against Iran; Argentine President Nestor Kirchner receiving Haitian president-elect Rene Garcia Preval, who thanke [...]	2006-03-14 16:18:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES596	ARGENTINA POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR MARCH 14 [...] (U) Reftels and other Mission reporting available at http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/wha/buenosaires 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PROSECUTION OF AND APOLOGIES FOR MILITARY HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES -- NARCOTICS UPDATE 1: FLYING SUITCASE JUDGE REMOVED -- NARCOTICS UPDATE 2: WHITE WEDDING FOR "WHITE WI [...]	2006-03-14 17:42:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SNAR AR
06BUENOSAIRES601	Argentina Economic and Financial Weekly for [...] The peso depreciated versus the USD this week, closing at 3.10 ARP/USD, reaching its lowest value in three years. The peso's fall this week resulted from higher dollar demand by banks, who want to dollarize their portfolios in expectation of higher U.S. interest rates, and the Central Bank's [...]	2006-03-15 14:12:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON ELAB ALOW AR
06BUENOSAIRES611	ARGENTINA SCENESETTER FOR CODEL GRASSLEY [...] (C) On behalf of Embassy Buenos Aires, I warmly welcome your visit to Argentina on March 23-26. Your visit comes as President Nestor Kirchner continues to consolidate his resounding victory in mid-term legislative elections last October 23. Based on these results, Kirchner has tightened his [...]	2006-03-15 19:01:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON EAGR PARM SNAR AR
06BUENOSAIRES621	INVITING ARGENTINA TO THE MIAMI PSI MEETING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Argentina has been a strong supporter of PSI since its inception. It remains the only country in South America to have formally endorsed PSI. Argentine officials have been willing to make this commitment operational. Post recommends against delivering the instructions set forth [...]	2006-03-16 22:25:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	AR MARR PARM PREL
06BUENOSAIRES623	MEDIA REACTION UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL US- [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's major local newspapers lead with the creation of the UN Human Rights Council to replace "the discredited UN Human Rights Commission." Based on an article from the New York "Forward" magazine, business- financial, center-right "InfoBae's" Website reports that "The B [...]	2006-03-17 13:10:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES625	ARGENTINA POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR MARCH 17 [...] (U) Reftels and other Mission reporting available at http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/wha/buenosaires 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACEVEDO STEPS DOWN FROM TUMULTUOUS GOVERNORSHIP -- NARCOTICS UPDATE: THAT WHICH WAS LOST IS NOW FOUND -- TELERMAN TAKES THE HELM -- MISIONES PROVINCE IN FLAM [...]	2006-03-17 18:57:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SNAR AR
06BUENOSAIRES626	ARGENTINE MFA RAISES CONCERNS ON POSSIBLE IFC [...] (C) Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana requested a meeting with the Ambassador on March 15 to discuss GoA concerns regarding a proposal before the International Finance Corporation to provide funding for the controversial paper cellulose plants in Uruguay. In the absence of the Ambassad [...]	2006-03-17 22:08:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EINV EFIN SENV AR UY
06BUENOSAIRES628	MEDIA REACTION US NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's most important international stories include the US Operation Swarmer, its largest air assault against Baghdad; the US National Security Strategy Report, in which US President George W. Bush reaffirmed his strike-first policy against terrorists and enemy nations an [...]	2006-03-20 11:28:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES635	Argentina Economic and Financial Weekly for [...] GDP increased 9.1 percent y-o-y in the fourth quarter of 2005 - well above the BCRA consensus forecast of 8.4 percent - bringing annual GDP growth for 2005 to 9.2 percent. Growth was mainly driven by investment and strong consumer spending. Investment increased 27 percent y-o-y in the fourt [...]	2006-03-20 17:03:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON ELAB ALOW AR
06BUENOSAIRES649	MEDIA REACTION THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF THE WAR [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Weekend newspapers lead with the third anniversary of the war on Iraq; anti-war demonstrations in different countries of the world; half a million protesters taking to the streets across France to demand the scrapping of a new law that could erode job security; Al Fatah le [...]	2006-03-20 19:36:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES65	MEDIA REACTION VISIT OF US SENATORS UPCOMING [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's leading international stories include Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana's meetings with a delegation of US Republican senators; tomorrow's visit of A/S Shannon (business-financial papers highlight the "US and Argentina's renewed intention to resume talks afte [...]	2006-01-11 18:18:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES653	POST'S VIEWS ON COUNTERNARCOTICS TECHNICAL EXPERT [...] Post strongly supports the visit of a group of Washington-based technical experts to Argentina to brief high level GOA contacts on the scope and complexity of the U.S. counter narcotics program in Bolivia; the current challenges to the program; and possible consequences of increased cocoa and [...]	2006-03-20 20:13:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR AR
06BUENOSAIRES660	ARGENTINA WILL NOT SUPPORT VENEZUELAN CHANGES TO [...] (C) On March 20, POLOFF delivered talking points (REFTEL) to Ambassador Victor Beauge and Deputy Director Gustavo Urrutia of the Office of Counter Terrorism and Related Crimes. Mr. Urrutia will head the Argentine delegation at the CICTE meeting in Colombia on March 22-24. 2. (C) Beauge [...]	2006-03-21 13:50:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL OAS PARM AR VE
06BUENOSAIRES665	MEDIA REACTION US AMBASSADOR LINO GUTIERREZ'S [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's most important international stories include US President Bush's warning that he will use "military force" against Iran if Tehran attempts to attack Israel; the implications of the US Human Rights Report; and the WTO supporting Argentine Siderca corporation in its [...]	2006-03-21 17:53:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES666	Argentina: Environmental Challenges in Argentina's [...] Summary: ESTHOFF and Brasilia Regional Environmental Officer (REO) traveled to Chaco and Santiago del Estero provinces in Argentina's environmentally sensitive Grand Chaco area from March 6 - 9 to visit national and provincial parks and to examine deforestation and the ecological challenges [...]	2006-03-21 17:55:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV ECON EAGR KSCA AR
06BUENOSAIRES677	CONVERSATION WITH CARLOS ZANNINI [...] (C) Summary: DCM, accompanied by PolCouns, met on March 20 with Carlos Zannini, the Secretary for Legal and Technical Affairs in the Casa Rosada. This was our first face to face meeting with Zannini since last November's Summit of the Americas. Zannini is widely considered to be the i [...]	2006-03-22 18:35:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON PTER AR
06BUENOSAIRES688	MEDIA REACTION USG TRIES MAIN COLOMBIAN [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's papers lead with the Basque separatist group ETA declaring a permanent ceasefire after almost four decades of attacks in Spain; Bolivian President Evo Morales blaming the USG for two criminal assaults launched against La Paz; the US Embassy in Sao Paulo's statement [...]	2006-03-23 17:17:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES689	MEDIA REACTION US-IRAN IRAQ US-SOUTH AMERICAN [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's major international stories include Chilean President Michelle Bachelet's meeting with President Nestor Kirchner in Buenos Aires during the first state visit of her presidency; the US State Department charging Iran with having ties with Al Qaeda; US President Bush' [...]	2006-03-23 17:18:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES693	ARGENTINA ON SUDAN MISSION [...] POLOFF delivered reftel points March 23 to Minister Jorge Luis Gomez in the MFA's Office of International Organizations. 2. Gomez said that the had spoken with Argentina's UN Mission regarding our draft resolution on the rehatting of the African Union Mission in Sudan. He said that Argentin [...]	2006-03-23 17:49:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPKO SOCI SU AR
06BUENOSAIRES697	ALLEDGED DOMESTIC ESPIONAGE DENOUNCED BY SOCIAL [...] (U) On March 19 the Buenos Aires-based think tank CELS (Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales) charged that the officials at the Admiral Zar Naval Airbase in Trelew, Chubut Province, Argentina, were spying on Argentine lawyers, politicians, union leaders and journalists. Following the publi [...]	2006-03-23 19:12:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PGOV PHUM AR
06BUENOSAIRES699	GOA RESCINDS WATER CONCESSION FROM FRENCH FIRM AND [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. 2. (U) The GOA on March 21 announced that it was rescinding privately-owned Aguas Argentinas' thirty year concession to provide water and sewer services to Buenos Aires city and its surroundings in Buenos Air [...]	2006-03-23 19:52:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV AR
06BUENOSAIRES705	TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTOR UNDERGOES DRAMATIC [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified, not for internet distribution. ------- Summary ------- 2. (U) Argentina's telecommunications industry has gone through a great deal of change since its initial liberalization in 1989. The consolidation following the economic crisis in 2001-200 [...]	2006-03-27 12:25:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON AR
06BUENOSAIRES706	Argentina Economic and Financial Weekly for [...] The GOA announced a primary fiscal surplus of ARP 1.9 billion in February, above market expectations of ARP 1.6 billion. This brings the accumulated fiscal surplus for the first two months of 2006 to ARP 3.5 billion. This better-than-expected February result is mainly the result of strong r [...]	2006-03-27 14:35:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON ELAB ALOW AR
06BUENOSAIRES707	AMBASSADOR GUTIERREZ'S TRIP TO BARILOCHE [...] Ambassador Gutierrez traveled to the Patagonian city of San Carlos de Bariloche for a March 17 meeting with executives of INVAP, an Argentine high-technology company that builds nuclear reactors and satellites. The Ambassador stressed the importance the U.S. attaches to non-proliferation of [...]	2006-03-27 15:16:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG KNNP ETRD TSPA TSPL AR
06BUENOSAIRES718	MEDIA REACTION US NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Weekend papers lead with the US National Security Strategy; immigration demonstration drawing 500,000 in Los Angeles; US Secretary of State Rice's alleged statement that the US could withdraw a significant number of its troops in Iraq; the US Embassy in La Paz's response t [...]	2006-03-28 15:14:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES723	Embassy Buenos Aires Avian Influenza Tabletop [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified - Not For Internet Distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary: Embassy Buenos Aires' Avian Influenza (AI) Mission Task Force (MTF) conducted an AI mission specific tabletop exercise which was led by the PMO and included CLO, IRM, PAS and the MSG representatives on Marc [...]	2006-03-28 17:34:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AMGT ASEC CASC AMED KFLO AEMR AR
06BUENOSAIRES727	ARGENTINA'S TOURISM SECTOR CONTINUES TO EXPERIENCE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified, not for internet distribution ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (U) Argentina received a record number of 3.7 million foreign tourists in 2005, a twelve percent rise over 2004. Argentina's tourist sector was the third most important source of foreign exchange [...]	2006-03-29 12:31:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON AR
06BUENOSAIRES737	MEDIA REACTION US CHIEF OF STAFF ANDREW CARD [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's major international stories include US President Bush announcing the resignation of his chief of staff and his replacement with budget director Joshua Bolten; acting PM Ehud Olmert declaring victory in Israeli elections and their impact on the Middle East conflict; [...]	2006-03-30 19:58:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES738	MEDIA REACTION MOUSSAOUI STATEMENTS ISRAELI [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's major international stories include Al Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui testifying that he and would-be 'shoebomber' Richard Reid were supposed to hijack a fifth airplane on September 11, 2001 and fly into the White House; Brazilian Finance Minister Antonio Pal [...]	2006-03-30 19:59:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES746	THE IRANIAN DIPLOMATIC PRESENCE IN ARGENTINA [...] (S) Reftel asked the Embassy to forward the most current records of official Iranian diplomatic representation in Argentina. Poloffs visited the MFA March 30 and spoke with Minister Bibiana Jones and Maria Ruth de Goicochea of the Office of Northern Africa and The Middle East. MFA officials [...]	2006-03-31 18:04:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	SECRET	PINR PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES748	BRIDGING ARGENTINA'S DIGITAL DIVIDE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for Internet distribution. ------- Summary ------- 2. (U) Argentina's IT industry is the third largest in Latin America. Argentina's IT industry enjoys many advantages and is growing quickly. IT companies expect continued rapid growth and are inv [...]	2006-03-31 18:58:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EIND AR
06BUENOSAIRES753	CODEL GRASSLEY DISCUSSES TRADE AND AGRICULTURE IN [...] This cable is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. ------- Summary ------- 2. (U) Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA),Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, led a delegation to Argentina March 23-26 for discussions related to trade and agriculture with GOA off [...]	2006-04-03 11:54:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON EAGR PARM SNAR AR
06BUENOSAIRES754	MEDIA REACTION IRAN US-INDIAN NUCLEAR DEAL [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Key international stories today cover Iran rejecting UN ultimatum; a US reporter being set free by Iraqi kidnappers; the Financial Action Task Force asking Argentine legislators to label terrorism as a crime; the US "criticizing Argentina's suspension of meat exports;" the [...]	2006-04-03 12:51:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES758	Argentina Economic and Financial Weekly for [...] On March 31, the GOA issued a resolution strengthening restrictions on beef export. The resolution includes exports of processed beef and cattle in the previous 180-day beef export ban. The aim of this measure is to increase local supply and avoid further increases in domestic beef prices. [...]	2006-04-03 19:22:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON ELAB ALOW AR
06BUENOSAIRES759	MEDIA REACTION IRAQ IRAN US IMMIGRATION [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Weekend papers cover US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice acknowledging US "mistakes" in Iraq; the implications of the war in Iraq and the threat posed by Iran; US immigration policies and their impact on upcoming US legislative elections; the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui [...]	2006-04-03 19:23:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES766	READOUT ON ARGENTINE PRESIDENT'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) POLOFF met March 31 with Oscar Fuentes Lira, First Secretary at the Chilean Embassy in Buenos Aires, for a SIPDIS readout of Chilean President Michelle Bachelet's March 21 meeting with President Nestor Kirchner in Buenos Aires. 2. (C) Lira said the meeting had gone well and that the t [...]	2006-04-04 15:21:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG AR CI
06BUENOSAIRES771	MEDIA REACTION ZACARIAS MOUSSAOUI US [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's major international stories include a US federal jury finding conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui eligible for the death penalty; a debate in the US Senate on undocumented immigrants and the impact of the issue on November legislative elections; Peruvian presidential ca [...]	2006-04-04 20:23:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES782	MEDIA REACTION TIES BETWEEN TRI-BORDER AND [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Key international stories today include the alleged ties between the Tri-Border and terrorist organizations through a New York bank account; US President Bush favoring a US law including temporary work permits; and the nomination of Earl Anthony Wayne as new US Ambassador [...]	2006-04-06 18:41:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES785	MEDIA REACTION TIES BETWEEN TRI-BORDER AND [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Key international stories today include the alleged ties between the Tri-Border and terrorist organizations through a New York bank account; US President Bush favoring a US law including temporary work permits; and the nomination of Earl Anthony Wayne as new US Ambassador [...]	2006-04-06 20:32:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES786	MEDIA REACTION US IMMIGRATION POLICY US- [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Key international stories today include Latin immigrants preparing a large demonstration in the US for May 1; and Uruguayan Economy Minister Danilo Astori's statement that his government has not dismissed an eventual FTA with the US. Daily-of-record "La Nacion," leading [...]	2006-04-06 20:33:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES787	ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR'S POST MEMORANDUM FOR OIG [...] (SBU) BACKGROUND: Argentina's size, importance to the regional economy, and ability to contribute to U.S. security goals make the bilateral relationship important to U.S. interests. Argentina is the size of the United States east of the Mississippi, with a population of 39 million inhabitants [...]	2006-04-06 21:53:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AMGT ASIG BBG
06BUENOSAIRES798	ARGENTINA: NEGOTIATING A STATUS OF FORCES [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) POLOFF met April 4 with Minister Ricardo Boccalandro and Counselor Paulo Cavalleri in the MFA's Office of International Security (DIGAN) to discuss the text of the draft diplomatic note (ref. A) on a short-term Status of Forces [...]	2006-04-07 21:28:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	AR KTIA MARR MOPS MASS
06BUENOSAIRES800	Argentina Economic and Financial Weekly for [...] The Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased 1.2 percent m-o-m in March, well above market expectations of 1 percent following a 0.4 percent m-o-m increase in February. Last month's increase brought inflation to 2.9 percent in the first quarter of the year, compared to a 4 percent increase in th [...]	2006-04-10 12:10:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON ELAB ALOW AR
06BUENOSAIRES813	MEDIA REACTION US CONCERN OVER HUMALA CHAVEZ [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Weekend international stories include the outcome of Peruvian elections; USG concern over Humala Ollanta; suicide bombers blasting worshippers as they left a Shiite mosque killing at least 79 people and wounding more than 160 in the deadliest attack in Iraq this year; and [...]	2006-04-10 20:10:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES822	MEDIA REACTION US-CHINA-LATIN AMERICA US [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's key international stories include US Assistant Secretary Thomas Shannon's upcoming trip to Beijing; SIPDIS immigrants' demonstrations throughout the US; nationalist Ollanta Humala leading the count for Sunday's presidential election; conservative Silvio Berlusco [...]	2006-04-11 17:41:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES83	DEMARCHE ON UN REFORM: THE WAY FORWARD [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-13 15:10:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KUNR PHUM UN ADCO AR
06BUENOSAIRES84	DUVALIER PASSPORT ISSUANCE [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche to Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana on January 10. The Ambassador underscored the potential dangers of Duvalier's return to Haiti and urged Taiana to express similar concerns to the IGOH. 2. (C) Taiana, who appeared not to be aware of the I [...]	2006-01-13 15:11:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM HA AR
06BUENOSAIRES85	REPORTING IRAN TO THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche to Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana on January 12. Argentine Deputy Foreign Minister Roberto Garcia Moritan was also in attendance. Drawing on points in reftel, which were left as a non-paper, the Ambassador urged the GOA to continue its effor [...]	2006-01-13 15:12:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM PREL IR EU AR AORC
06BUENOSAIRES850	MEDIA REACTION IRAN US-PERUVIAN FTA US [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's most important international stories include the USG asking for "tough measures" against Iran, which has announced plans to obtain industrial-scale enriched uranium; and the signature of an FTA between the US and Peru despite Humala's opposition. Conservative "La P [...]	2006-04-13 18:53:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION

06BUENOSAIRES852	POVERTY DECLINING AT AN EVER-DECREASING RATE [...] According to a recent National Bureau of Statistics and Census (INDEC) report, the percentage of people living below the poverty line was 33.8 percent in the 28 most important urban areas of Argentina during the second half of 2005. The percentage of people living below the destitution line [...]	2006-04-13 19:52:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON ELAB ETRD ALOWAR
06BUENOSAIRES854	FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION CHAIRMAN'S VISIT TO [...] Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) Chairman Steven Blust met with GOA officials and industry representatives during his April 4-7 visit to Buenos Aires. Chairman Blust gave a presentation on the FMC's role in regulating maritime affairs to the Industrial Union of Argentina (UIA),the Chamber o [...]	2006-04-13 20:29:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EWWT AR
06BUENOSAIRES857	ARGENTINA: RICARDO LOPEZ MURPHY ON THE ECONOMY, [...] (C) Summary: On March 12, the Charge and Poloff (notetaker) met with opposition Recrear Party leader Ricardo Lopez Murphy that included a wide-ranging discussion on the state of the country and the opposition, President Nestor Kirchner, and Lopez Murphy's future plans. Lopez Murphy was criti [...]	2006-04-13 21:24:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES858	ARGENTINA: RICARDO LOPEZ MURPHY ON THE ECONOMY, [...] (C) Summary: On March 12, the Charge and Poloff (notetaker) met with opposition Recrear Party leader Ricardo Lopez Murphy that included a wide-ranging discussion on the state of the country and the opposition, President Nestor Kirchner, and Lopez Murphy's future plans. Lopez Murphy was criti [...]	2006-04-17 10:40:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES859	Argentina Economic and Financial Weekly for [...] Supermarket representatives warned this week that their agreements to keep prices unchanged on 200 basic goods may not be possible if their costs increase as a result of the wage negotiations with the commercial employees union. The union is asking for a 28 percent wage increase but reported [...]	2006-04-17 13:25:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON ELAB ALOW AR
06BUENOSAIRES862	GOA Will Easily Cover its Financial Needs in [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for Internet distribution. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) The GOA will have no difficulty meeting its USD 11 billion in financing needs in 2006. Under a conservative set of assumptions, the GOA will have resources of USD 12.3 billion from its fiv [...]	2006-04-17 15:11:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON ELAB ALOW AR
06BUENOSAIRES866	MEDIA REACTION IRAN SIX US GENERALS AGAINST [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Weekend stories cover six US retired military allegedly asking for US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's resignation; US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urging the UN to adopt a resolution on Iran; the implications of the US immigration policy; the US policy on the Mi [...]	2006-04-17 19:58:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES876	MEDIA REACTION ARGENTINE MINISTER DE VIDO'S [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's leading international stories include Argentine Planning Minister Julio De Vido's upcoming trip to the US; the US immigration policy and its implications; the IMF spring meetings; the Peruvian presidential candidate Ollanta Humala; and the upcoming visit of the hea [...]	2006-04-18 19:19:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES886	ARGENTINA ON PRESSURING IRAN [...] (C) Ambassador, accompanied by POLOFF, met with FM Jorge Taiana April 18 to discuss reftel points and asked for Argentina's support for a strong Chapter VII resolution requiring Iran to comply with the steps called for in the UNSC Presidential Statement and in past IAEA Board of Governor resol [...]	2006-04-19 14:17:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AORC EUN IAEA KNNP UNSC IR AR
06BUENOSAIRES887	ARGENTINA ON VENEZUELA'S TREATMENT OF AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Ambassador, accompanied by POLOFF, delivered reftel points April 18 to FM Jorge Taiana regarding the April 7 attack on Ambassador Brownfield and four similar attacks over the last seven months. Taiana had been unaware of the earlier incidents and thanked the Ambassador for bringing them t [...]	2006-04-19 20:32:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP PGOV PREL PTER AR
06BUENOSAIRES89	Argentina: Re: Beijing Pledging Conference on [...] Argentina will be represented by Dr. Hugo Fernandez, Director of Epidemiologica Surveillance for the Ministry of Health and by Argentine Embassy staff. Dr. Fernandez said that he cannot attend the side meeting on January 19th as the Conference will have ended by then and he has already book [...]	2006-01-13 18:27:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KSCA AR
06BUENOSAIRES894	MEDIA REACTION THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION US [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT UNCLEARED BY AN AMERICAN OFFICER UNCLASSIFIED SIPDIS PROG 04/20/06 PAO:RBANKS PRESS:GVEGA IO:MTEKACH PAS AMEMBASSY BUENOS AIRES SECSTATE WASHDC, IMMEDIATE INFO CDR USSOCOM MACDILL AFB FL//SCJ2// USCOMSOLANT STATE FOR INR/R/MR, I/GWHA, WHA, WHA/PDA, WHA/BSC, [...]	2006-04-20 20:15:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES902	ARGENTINA: LEADING KIRCHNER STRATEGIST ON POLITICS [...] (C) SUMMARY: DCM and POLOFF (notetaker) met April 18 with Juan Carlos Mazzon, President Nestor Kirchner's primary political campaign strategist. The DCM noted the overall positive nature of the bilateral relationship and took the opportunity to highlight our concerns on Venezuela. Mazzon s [...]	2006-04-21 18:59:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES903	ARGENTINA NAMES STRONG CHAVEZ ALLY AS AMBASSADOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOA announced April 18 that it was seeking acceptance from the Government of Venezuela to name former airline stewardess, union leader, congresswoman, and Chavez ally Alicia Castro as the new Argentine Ambassador to Venezuela. Castro, 56, is known as one of Chavez's most [...]	2006-04-21 19:15:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV OVIP ENRG AR VZ
06BUENOSAIRES908	MEDIA REACTION US IMMIGRATION POLICY [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Key international stories today include the wave of arrests of illegal immigrants in the US; US President Bush's tour to China; Venezuela leaving the Andean Community of Nations to join Mercosur; Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's statement that there are 'imperialistic fo [...]	2006-04-21 20:32:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES911	TRAVEL NOTES: ARGENTINA'S NEUQUEN PROVINCE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In March, Poloff traveled to the province of Neuquen to meet with political and academic leaders and has subsequently met with a number of national legislators from Neuquen. Neuquen Governor Jorge Sobisch is currently the only declared candidate for the 2007 presidential elect [...]	2006-04-21 21:37:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES912	MARCH 2006 INFLATION UPDATE AND PREDICTIONS [...] The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 1.2 percent in March. This brings the 12-month inflation rate to 11.1 percent. Clothing, Education, and Food and Beverages were the three CPI components with the highest monthly price rises in March, increasing 9.5 percent, 6.1 percent and 1.5 percent, re [...]	2006-04-24 11:06:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON ELAB ETRD ALOWAR
06BUENOSAIRES915	MEDIA REACTION GLOBAL TORTURE CHINESE [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Key international stories today include Osama bin Laden issuing new threats in an audiotape broadcast on Arab TV accusing average Westerners of supporting "a Zionist, crusaders' war on Islam" and urging his followers to go to Sudan to fight a proposed UN peace force; criti [...]	2006-04-24 20:40:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES925	MEDIA REACTION US IMMIGRATION POLICY BLOW TO [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Leading international stories today include terrorist bombs hitting the Egyptian resort of Dahab killing at least 23 people and wounding more than 60; US President George W. Bush's trip to California and defense of his proposal to grant a temporary work permit to immigrant [...]	2006-04-25 19:41:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES932	ARGENTINA REQUESTS EXPANDED FAA ASSISTANCE WITH [...] Senior FAA officials visited Buenos Aires April 18-21 to meet with the Air Regions Command (ARC),an Air Force command that is the country's civil aviation authority (CAA). The focus of the visit was a review of the ARC's progress six months after the October 2005 announcement of Argentina's [...]	2006-04-26 12:04:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR ECON AR
06BUENOSAIRES940	MEDIA REACTION CHAVEZ' INFLUENCE ON LATIN [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's key international stories include President Bush's investigation into oil price abuses; Presidents Lula and Kirchner's reaction to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's increasing influence in Latin America; the increasing amount of Bolivian cocaine entering Argentina [...]	2006-04-26 20:06:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES944	ARGENTINA: RICARDO LOPEZ MURPHY LOSES CONTROL OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to a Recrear political advisor, Ricardo Lopez Murphy is asking for a leave of absence as Recrear Party President and may leave the party following contentious internal elections that left Lopez Murphy isolated within his own party. Lopez Murphy's request for a leave of [...]	2006-04-26 21:43:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES956	MEDIA REACTION IRANIAN LEADER'S THREAT TO THE [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's most important international stories include Iranian Ayatollah Khamenei's serious war threat to the US; the US reinforcing its espionage operations in Latin America; the implications of the complaints by several US military retirees against US Defense Secretary Don [...]	2006-04-27 20:48:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES964	MEDIA REACTION AMBASSADOR LINO GUTIERREZ'S [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT All major local papers extensively report on statements made by US Ambassador Lino Gutierrez as the keynote speaker of a diplomatic and business lunch at Club de la Union Nacional. Ambassador Gutierrez is reported to have said that his country "never backed the violation o [...]	2006-04-28 17:55:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES966	Argentina Economic and Financial Weekly for [...] In its second quarter inflation report, the BCRA increased its 2006 growth forecast from 6 percent to "above 7 percent" based on the strong economic performance during the first two months of the year and the statistical carry-over effect from 2005. According to the report, the continued stre [...]	2006-04-28 20:09:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON ELAB ALOW AR
06BUENOSAIRES97	A/S SHANNON MEETS WITH ARGENTINE PRESIDENT KIRCHNER [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-13 20:04:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS ENRG EPET AR
06BUENOSAIRES984	ARGENTINA PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR REACTION TO [...] (C) Bolivian President Evo Morales nationalized the country's oil and gas reserves by decree on May 1. The decree fulfilled one of Morales' most prominent campaign pledges, but the scope and speed of the decision came as a shock to Argentine officials and business representatives alike. GOA [...]	2006-05-02 21:59:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG EINV ECON AR BL
06BUJUMBURA421	DEMARCHE - U.S. STATEMENT ON IRAN [...] On May 31, Ambassador delivered the demarche reftel to Burundian Foreign Minister Antoinette Batumubwira. 2. The Foreign Minister, caught as she prepared to depart for a cabinet meeting and sounding uncharacteristically harried, acknowledged the boldness of the U.S. initiative, calling it a [...]	2006-06-01 15:34:00	Embassy Bujumbura	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV BY IR
06BUJUMBURA435	DECLARATION OF THE GOVERNMENT OF BURUNDI REGARDING [...] A copy of the original French version of the following Declaration was received by Embassy Bujumbura on June 5, and faxed immediately to Burundi desk officer Rosalind Montanez- Muhinda. 2. Begin Text: REPUBLIC OF BURUNDI June 2, 2006 Bujumbura, Burundi MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS [...]	2006-06-05 15:31:00	Embassy Bujumbura	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV BY IR
06BUJUMBURA607	BURUNDI - RELIEF TO DEVELOPMENT [...] Following significant political progress, the overall humanitarian situation is improving in Burundi. The transition from relief to development is underway, but humanitarian coordination is essential to prevent critical gaps between relief and development assistance. However, several variab [...]	2006-07-18 07:28:00	Embassy Bujumbura	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREF PHUM ASEC PREL BY
06CAIRO1006	EGYPT: H5N1 AVIAN INFLUENZA (AI) CONFIRMED IN [...] (U) NIACT precedence due to urgency of information regarding outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza in Egyptian poultry. 2. (SBU) Summary: H5N1 avian influenza has been detected in samples from birds from multiple locations in three governorates in Egypt. No human cases have been reported. Th [...]	2006-02-17 13:45:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO AMED CASC SENV EAGR EG KFLU
06CAIRO1007	EGYPT: AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE, AMBASSADOR CONFERS [...] (C) Summary. The GOE publicly announced at approximately 1800 local time discovery of H5N1 avian influenza in birds in Egypt. After an emergency meeting with key officials, Prime Minister Nazif confirmed to the Ambassador that seven samples from three different governorates had tested positi [...]	2006-02-17 17:14:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	TBIO AMED CASC SENV EAGR EAID EG KFLU
06CAIRO1009	GOE OFFICIALS OFFER REBUTTAL TO JUDGES' CLUB ON [...] (C) In a February 19 meeting, senior Egyptian Justice Ministry officials strongly defended the recent move by the Public Prosecution to question four leaders of the Judges' Club, the group which functions as a professional association and lobbying group on behalf of Egypt's judges. 2. (C) A [...]	2006-02-19 16:32:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM KJUS EG
06CAIRO1100	EGYPT: AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary. H5N1 avian influenza has spread to twelve governorates in Egypt. Poultry sales have virtually ceased since the February 17 GOE announcement (ref A) that H5N1 had been detected. The GOE has instituted a number of measures to combat the outbreak, but it is unclear how effective [...]	2006-02-21 16:42:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO AMED CASC SENV EAGR EAID EG KFLU
06CAIRO1144	EGYPT AND AFRICA: BACKGROUND NOTES FOR U.S.-EGYPT [...] (U) Assistant Secretary Frazer, your bilateral discussions February 24 with Egyptian MFA Assistant Minister for African Affairs Mohamed Higazy in Washington will offer an excellent chance to determine how Egypt and the U.S. may be able to cooperate to address regional conflicts like Darfur an [...]	2006-02-23 12:46:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD ECON EG SU
06CAIRO1149	EGYPT: UNESCO CONVENTION ON CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS, [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-23 14:18:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV ETRD EG UNESCO UNGA
06CAIRO1178	SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY GUTIERREZ VISIT TO EGYPT [...] (SBU) Mr. Secretary, you will be the first Secretary of Commerce to visit Egypt since 1999. The business climate has changed significantly since then, especially with the installation in July 2004 of Ahmed Nazif as Prime Minister and a coterie of reform-minded ministers in economic ministrie [...]	2006-02-26 13:46:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON PGOV PREL EG
06CAIRO1185	IRAQ: SHEIKH OF AL AZHAR AND OTHER EGYPTIAN [...] (SBU) On February 25, during an unprecedented visit to the Iraqi Embassy in Cairo, Al Azhar's Sheikh Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, Egyptian Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa, and Minister of Religious Endowments Hamdy Zaqzouq conducted a lengthy, televised press conference with Iraqi Charge Saad Ridha aimed at [...]	2006-02-26 14:51:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER EG IZ
06CAIRO1226	GOE OPENS A NEW INVESTIGATION AGAINST AYMAN NOUR [...] (C) Gameela Ismail, Ayman Nour's wife, and Hisham Kassem, the Ghad Party vice president, have confirmed wire service reports that the GOE has launched a new investigation against the imprisoned opposition leader. The new case stems from hitherto unreported allegations by an NDP member that [...]	2006-02-27 15:30:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EG
06CAIRO1227	ASSURANCES FOR FUGITIVE MURDER SUSPECT SAMEH [...] (SBU) Taking advantage of a February 27 call on Minister of Justice Aboul Leil, Ambassador drew from reftel to urge the GOE to provide assurances, following of the precedent of the Nabil Soliman case, that would allow the U.S. to return to Egypt fugitive murder suspect Sameh Khouzam. The Amba [...]	2006-02-27 16:36:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM PHUM PREL EG
06CAIRO1232	A/S RADEMAKER'S BILATERAL NONPROLIFERATION [...] (C) Acting Assistant Secretary for International Security and Nonproliferation Stephen Rademaker discussed Iran's nuclear weapons program with Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit and held bilateral nonproliferation discussions with the Assistant Minister for Multilateral Affairs Ambassador Na [...]	2006-02-28 07:43:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM PGOV IS IR EG KNNP IAEA UNSC
06CAIRO1233	ISN A/S RADEMAKER DISCUSSES IRAN WITH ARAB LEAGUE [...] (C) Summary: International Security and Nonproliferation Assistant Secretary Stephen Rademaker, joined by DCM Stuart Jones, discussed Iran and a proposed Middle East Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone (MEWMDFZ) with Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa on February 16. Moussa ackno [...]	2006-02-28 07:44:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IAEA EG IR IS KNNP
06CAIRO125	TACKLING CORRUPTION IN EGYPT [...] (C) The issue of corruption took on a higher profile in Egypt in late 2005, after a dearth of high profile cases in recent years. In December, a significant case with political implications emerged at the Egyptian TV and Radio Union, a cabinet shuffle resulted in the unexpected dismissal of s [...]	2006-01-08 14:26:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON KDEM EG
06CAIRO1251	NEW AYMAN NOUR/GAMEELA ISMAIL INVESTIGATION [...] (C) Gameela Ismail (wife of imprisoned Ghad Party leader Ayman Nour) informed Embassy early February 27 that because of a new criminal investigation of her and her husband (reftel),she might not be able to pass through exit control at Cairo International Airport in order to travel to an IRI [...]	2006-02-28 12:23:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL EG
06CAIRO1262	EGYPT: 2006 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW [...] (SBU) Over the past year, the Government of Egypt has made progress in strengthening its intellectual property rights (IPR) regime. It issued the final set of implementing regulations for its 2002 IPR law, established new offices to license copyrighted materials, and cleared up a backlog of [...]	2006-02-28 13:41:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD KIPR EG USTR
06CAIRO1272	EGYPT: CODEL BERMAN MEETINGS WITH EGYPTIAN OFFICIALS [...] (C) Summary. In a lengthy meeting with visiting Rep. Berman on February 20, Mubarak emphasized that Egypt does not trust Hamas but will work with the organizationÂ´s leadership in order to moderate its positions. Mubarak counseled strongly against a rapid withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq and d [...]	2006-02-28 14:38:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	OREP PREL PGOV EG KDEM
06CAIRO1288	GOE OFFERS TENDER DOCUMENT FOR THIRD MOBILE [...] (SBU) The GOE's National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) on February 19 made available instructions for bidders on the proposed third mobile telephone licence (reftel). According to press reports, as of February 27, 17 companies had purchased the tender document, or the "Networ [...]	2006-03-01 10:44:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ECPS EINT EINV ETRD EG KGIT
06CAIRO1295	DISCUSSION OF INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER WITH [...] (C) The Ambassador met on February 26 with Minister of Defense Field Marshal Tantawi in advance of Tantawi's March 5-10 trip to the U.S. and raised Egypt's potential violation of the Arms Export Control Act of 1976 through the treatment of third country patients at the International Medical C [...]	2006-03-01 14:19:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MASS EG
06CAIRO1297	SCENESETTER FOR DEFENSE MINISTER TANTAWI'S VISIT [...] (C) Summary: During his March 5-10 visit to Washington, Defense Minister Tantawi will seek Administration support for the current level of FMF funding. Tantawi feels that any USG concerns about the pace of democratic reform should be kept distinct from the mil-mil relationship, which he con [...]	2006-03-01 14:38:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MASS IS EG
06CAIRO1299	DARFUR: EGYPTIANS NOT OPPOSED TO UN FORCE; [...] (C) Presidential Spokesman Soliman Awad told the Ambassador late March 1 that press reports claiming President Mubarak and Libyan leader Qadhafi agreed February 28 in Miserata to oppose UN troops in Darfur were "wrong." While Qadhafi opposed UN forces in Darfur, Awad said, President Mubarak [...]	2006-03-01 18:21:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPKO EG LY SU UNSC
06CAIRO1307	EGYPTIAN MEDIA THEMES, FEBRUARY 12-25. [...] Summary: Due to the visit of Secretary Rice to Egypt last week, this weeks media summary covers the period of February 12-25. During the first week of the reporting period (February 12-18),while 50 percent of commentaries focused on domestic issues, 18 percent contemplated tolerance of Isl [...]	2006-03-02 09:55:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KPAO KMDR OPRC EG DA XZ IS XF
06CAIRO1309	Egyptian Media Coverage of Secretary Rices [...] Summary. Secretary Rices visit to Egypt and the region garnered widespread media attention, from straightforward news reporting to significant television and print commentary. Between February 22 and 25, of the pro-government, opposition and independent papers monitored by Embassy Cairo, co [...]	2006-03-02 09:58:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KPAO KMDR OPRC EG DA XZ IS XFNEA PPD
06CAIRO1318	IRAQ: EGYPT AND ARAB LEAGUE UNLIKELY TO RECEIVE [...] (C) MFA Spokesman and Deputy Assistant Minister Alaa Hadidi told Poloff March 1 that Egypt had no plans to welcome Muqtada Sadr to Egypt, nor had Sadr sought an invitation to visit the country (reftel). Hadidi shared that the GOE had been troubled by Sadr's recent visit to Jordan where he was [...]	2006-03-02 15:09:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER KDEM KPAO EG IZ
06CAIRO1319	IRAN/IAEA: EGYPT AND U.S. "SEE EYE TO EYE," [...] (C) MFA Office Director for Disarmament Affairs Dr. Hossam Eldeen Aly conveyed to Emboff that Egypt saw "eye to eye" with the USG on dealing with Iran at the IAEA. After reviewing USG analysis (reftel) of the latest IAEA Director General's report and recommended elements to include in nation [...]	2006-03-02 15:15:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP EG IR IAEA
06CAIRO132	UNHCR ASKS EGYPT TO DELAY DEPORTING SUDANESE [...] (SBU) The GOE has not yet begun deportation of Sudanese detainees. Interior Ministry contacts advised on January 8 that the 72 hour grace period given to UNHCR to interview Sudanese detainees (see Refs A and B) had expired, and the GOE had not yet determined whether to give UNHCR additional [...]	2006-01-08 15:34:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV SU EG KREF UNHCR
06CAIRO1351	NEXT STEPS FOR ADVANCING DEMOCRACY IN EGYPT [...] (C) Summary and Introduction: Sometime in the next six years, Egypt will undergo a leadership succession. The United States' goals for this succession should be to promote an opening to establish a representative government that will secure Egyptian stability, prosperity, and friendship for a gener [...]	2006-03-06 12:41:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM EG
06CAIRO1367	ARAB LEAGUE FOREIGN MINISTERS PREP FOR KHARTOUM [...] (SBU) Arab foreign ministers met in Cairo March 4-5 to prepare for a March 28-29 Arab League Summit in Sudan. Among the topics discussed were Iraq, Palestine, Sudan/Darfur, and Arab reform. We understand the meetings were generally uncontentious, with ministers agreeing to support the polit [...]	2006-03-06 16:15:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL PTER EG IS IZ UNSC
06CAIRO1398	EGYPT: DEMOCRACY ADVOCATE HALA MUSTAFA COMPLAINS [...] (C) At a March 3 reception at Air Attache,s residence, Hala Mustafa, a participant in the Secretary,s February 22 meeting with Civil Society leaders in Cairo, criticized the Embassy,s failure to respond to press reporting on the civil society meeting. She said that she had been singled out for [...]	2006-03-07 13:05:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM EG
06CAIRO1409	EGYPTIAN MEDIA THEMES, FEBRUARY 26-MARCH 4: IRAQ; [...] Summary. The past week saw strong reactions to the news of the violence in Iraq and to the one-year prison term meted out to a journalist from independent daily, Al-Masry Al-Yom, for publishing a story criticizing a former government minister (although the article was later subsequently retrac [...]	2006-03-07 14:59:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KPAO KMDR OPRC EG DA XZ IS XF IZ
06CAIRO1413	SUDAN: EGYPT PRESSING HARD TO RECONCILE POSITIONS [...] (C) Following up on the Ambassador's discussions with senior Presidential Advisor Soliman Awad (ref B),post delivered reftel demarche March 7 to MFA Assistant Minister for African Affairs Mohamed Higazy, stressing the importance of an African Union endorsement of a transition from the AU's M [...]	2006-03-07 16:49:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER UNSC EG SU
06CAIRO1450	SUDAN/DARFUR: EGYPT-LIBYA-SUDAN SUMMIT POSTPONED [...] (C) The DCM delivered ref A demarche late March 7 to Presidential Advisor and Spokesman Soliman Awad, emphasizing the importance of GOE support for the transition of the African Union's peacekeeping operation in Darfur to a UN PKO. Awad said that a planned three-way summit between President [...]	2006-03-08 15:46:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER UNSC KPKO EG SU LY
06CAIRO1451	SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT ROH AND DELEGATION PRESS [...] (C) On March 7, Presidential Spokesman and Senior Advisor to the President Soliman Awad briefed the DCM on Mubarak's March 6 meeting with South Korean President Roh. The two presidents, Awad said, discussed their respective peace processes. The Korean leader asked Mubarak to use his influen [...]	2006-03-08 15:58:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KNUC PARM EG KO
06CAIRO1474	EGYPTIAN RETAIL CHAIN PRIVATIZATION GENERATES [...] (SBU) Summary: The Nazif administration,s proposed sale of the Omar Effendi Company - a major retail chain founded in 1856 - to a private investor is generating intense debate over the company,s proper valuation. Conditions the administration has set, especially for the purpose of avoiding [...]	2006-03-09 13:31:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV EIND EG
06CAIRO1489	EGYPT REACTS NEGATIVELY TO PROPOSED U.S.-INDIA [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-09 15:00:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG KSCA IN PARM EG KNNP
06CAIRO1492	EGYPT: AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE [...] (SBU) H5N1 avian influenza (AI) has spread to 17 Egyptian governorates, and new cases are being reported daily. The GOE enforced drastic measures to contain the avian influenza (AI) outbreak, and has decided to vaccinate poultry, but the poultry industry has collapsed, and promised compensati [...]	2006-03-09 15:30:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO AMED CASC SENV EAGR EAID EG KFLU
06CAIRO1493	PRIVATIZING SUGAR MAY BE BITTER IN THE SHORT TERM [...] (SBU) The Egyptian Ministry of Investment (MOI) recently announced plans to sell 36% of Delta Sugar, a joint venture company, in an initial public offering (IPO). Announcement of the sale follows an earlier announcement that another public sector sugar producer, El Nobareyah, would be put up [...]	2006-03-11 12:32:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV EIND EG
06CAIRO1555	JUDGES' CLUB LEADER DISCUSSES CONFRONTATION WITH [...] (C) Summary: Judge Mahmoud Khodeiry, Head of the Alexandria Judges Club and one of four senior Egyptian judges at the center of a dispute with the GOE over conduct of the 2005 parliamentary elections reports that Egyptian judges are under tremendous pressure from the GOE to participate in th [...]	2006-03-13 17:12:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	EG KDEM PGOV PHUM
06CAIRO1558	EGYPT: KEY RULING PARTY FIGURE HEADING TO [...] (C) Summary: During a March 9 meeting, ruling party operative and Gamal Mubarak confidante Mohammed Kamal told the DCM he hoped to convince his American interlocutors during his upcoming trip to Washington that political reform in Egypt is not on the backburner. He claimed that preparations [...]	2006-03-14 06:47:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM EG
06CAIRO1623	GOE ASSURANCES FOR EXPORT OF NUCLEAR FUEL FOR [...] In response to reftel request for GOE assurances for the export of nuclear fuel for the ETTR-2 research reactor at Abu Zabal Nuclear Research Center, Post received the following letter on March 12 from Professor Aly Islam M. Aly, Chairman of the Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority (AEA). (Note: L [...]	2006-03-15 09:48:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG KNNP KSCA EG RGY
06CAIRO1634	EMBASSY CAIRO SUBMISSION FOR SIXTH ANNUAL [...] (SBU) This message responds to reftel. Embassy POC is poloff Roger Kenna, phone 20-2-797-2749, fax 20-2-797-2181, kennart2@state.gov. Poloff spent approximately 16 hours in the preparation of the TIP report. Conoff spent approximately 24 hours; ECPO Minister Counselor spent two hours; D [...]	2006-03-15 14:07:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM SMIG KFRD ELAB PREF EG IS KWN
06CAIRO1636	JERICHO PRISON CRISIS PROMPTS CANCELLATION OF [...] (C) Summary. Local sources confirm that the Jericho prison crisis in the West Bank has prompted the postponement of an expected visit to Israel by Egyptian Intelligence Minister Omar Soliman scheduled to begin March 15, as well as the postponement of travel to Egypt by Palestinian President [...]	2006-03-15 14:37:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER ASEC KPAL EG IS
06CAIRO1653	EGYPTIAN MEDIA THEMES, MARCH 6-12, 2006: [...] Summary: Throughout the week, all papers highlighted President Mu and European trip, and commentators analyzed his role and message to importance as a counter-balance to the U.S. While simultaneously arg Egypt as a regional power-broker, columnists turned inward to demand momentum on domestic [...]	2006-03-16 11:24:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KPAO KMDR OPRC EG DA XZ IS XF IZ
06CAIRO1676	JERICHO PRISON INCIDENT PROMPTS HARSH REACTION [...] (C) Presidential Spokesman and Senior Advisor Soliman Awad called the Ambassador late March 15 to share that a parliamentary committee had severely grilled a senior Ministry of Foreign Affairs official March 14 during an emergency session to address the Jericho prison incident. Awad explained [...]	2006-03-16 15:33:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL PTER ASEC UNSC EG IS
06CAIRO1678	EGYPT POSSIBLE UNAUTHORIZED END-USE: METROLOGY [...] (SBU) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 7 below. 2. (C) Summary: The Office of Military Cooperation, Egypt (OMC-E) has discovered that the GOE is possibly engaging in an unauthorized end-use of FMF-purchased equipment at the Metrology Engineering Calibration Center (MECC) [...]	2006-03-16 15:47:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS EG
06CAIRO1680	JUDGES' CLUB - GOE DISPUTE LIKELY TO HEAT UP ON [...] (C) Summary: The March 17 national meeting of the Egyptian Judges' Club will likely attract significant national and international media attention, and will probably result in a defiant stance - prompted by the increasingly tense confrontation between the government and the judges' profession [...]	2006-03-16 17:21:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
06CAIRO1694	EGYPT: UPDATE ON POLITICAL PARTY DEVELOPMENTS [...] (C) The resignation of prominent reform advocate Osama el-Ghazali Harb from the ruling NDP attracted considerable attention in the Egyptian media. In drawing up plans for a new liberal political party, Harb is pursuing what many frustrated Egyptian intellectuals have called for, though there [...]	2006-03-19 14:54:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
06CAIRO1696	THE SECOND U.S. - EGYPT CT JOINT WORKING GROUP [...] (C) Egypt hosted the second U.S.-Egypt Counterterrorism Joint Working Group on February 26, 2006. In a full day of talks, S/CT Amb. Crumpton and a six-member U.S. delegation discussed with the GOE's Inter-Ministerial Counterterrorism Committee the importance of a coordinated, interdisciplinary appr [...]	2006-03-19 15:04:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV KISL ASEC EG
06CAIRO1697	EGYPT REPORTS FIRST HUMAN CASE OF AVIAN INFLUENZA [...] (SBU) The U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU-3) in Cairo confirmed the first reported human case of H5 Influenza infection in Egypt in a 35-year-old woman from a village in the governorate of Qalyoubiya, Egypt's major center of poultry production. The woman, Amal Mohamed Ismael, died Ma [...]	2006-03-19 17:10:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO SENV AMED CASC KSCA EAGR EG KFLU
06CAIRO170	SUDANESE REFUGEES IN EGYPT [...] (SBU) THE VIOLENT CONFRONTATION ON DECEMBER 30 BETWEEN EGYPTIAN POLICE AND SUDANESE REFUGEES WHEN AT LEAST 27 LOST THEIR LIVES AND HUNDREDS MORE WERE DETAINED, HAS FOCUSED WORLD-WIDE ATTENTION ON THE LIVES OF THE MANY ASYLUM- SEEKERS WHO HAVE SOUGHT REFUGE IN CAIRO. MANY OF THESE FLED TURMOI [...]	2006-01-12 20:03:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PHUM PREL ASEC CVIS EG SU UNHCR
06CAIRO172	SCENESETTER FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY SILVERBERG'S [...] (C) Summary: Embassy Cairo warmly welcomes your visit. It has been difficult to gain Egyptian cooperation on UN reform. During his meeting with Ambassador Tahir-Kheli in December Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit signaled a willingness to compromise, but this has not yet materialized. The FM w [...]	2006-01-13 17:47:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER KUNR PHUM IS IZ LE SY SU EG UN
06CAIRO1737	AMBASSADOR AND DEFMIN TANTAWI DISCUSS [...] (C) The Ambassador and Defense Minister Tantawi discussed the International Medical Center's treatment of third country nationals during their March 19 meeting (septel). Tantawi's senior advisor, MG Fouad Abdel Halim, told the Ambassador and Field Marshal that the MoD understands that State [...]	2006-03-20 15:11:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS EG
06CAIRO1745	EGYPT'S SMUGGLING INTERDICTION ON GAZA BORDER [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-21 12:29:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER IS EG KPAL
06CAIRO175	ARAB LEAGUE'S MOUSSA ON SYRIA/LEBANON DIPLOMATIC [...] (S) On January 14, Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa provided the Ambassador a readout on recent Arab mediation efforts with Syria and Lebanon, and reaffirmed that the Arab League and others remained committed to full implementation of UN Security Council resolutions. He said he had [...]	2006-01-15 11:52:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER EG SY LE
06CAIRO1782	DEFMIN TANTAWI ON MFO, PSI, DEMOCRATIC REFORM AND FMF [...] (C) Summary: On March 19, the Ambassador and Defense Minister Tantawi discussed Iraq, Sudan, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB),and Tantawi's impressions of his recent visit to Washington. Tantawi reaffirmed the GOE view that for now, U.S. troops must remain in Iraq. On his meetings in Washington, Tantaw [...]	2006-03-23 07:50:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER IS EG KNNP
06CAIRO1809	EFFORTS TO VISIT AYMAN NOUR CONTINUE; APPEAL DATE [...] (C) Summary: The Embassy's attempts to visit imprisoned opposition leader Ayman Nour have been unsuccessful so far, but will continue. The Canadians are leading a new multilateral effort to see Nour, in which the U.S., Australia, and a number of EU countries are participating. Meanwhile, the [...]	2006-03-23 15:38:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM EG
06CAIRO1811	SCENESETTER FOR GEN ABIZAID'S VISIT TO CAIRO [...] (C) GEN Abizaid, Embassy Cairo warmly welcomes your visit as an opportunity to review our agenda on regional security and the future of our FMF assistance to Egypt. President Mubarak believes, and the MoD's senior leadership will reiterate, that our mil-mil relationship is the cornerstone of [...]	2006-03-23 17:29:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MASS IS IZ IR EG SU KPAL KNNP
06CAIRO1838	GOE MAKES SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS ON FINANCIAL SECTOR [...] (SBU) The GOE made substantial progress in financial sector reform in 2005 and is nearing completion of many of the benchmarks in the DSP-II Financial Sector MOU, signed in March 2005. Post and the USAID Mission estimate the GOE will have met all of the benchmarks for the first three policy [...]	2006-03-26 14:18:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD EINV EG
06CAIRO1883	EGYPT: FLASH AIRLINES CRASH REPORT RELEASE: NO [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-27 14:58:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAIR ECON EG
06CAIRO1885	RESTRUCTURING ESF ASSISTANCE TO EGYPT: U.S. [...] (C) Discussions between a joint USAID/State delegation with GOE ministers on March 20-21 moved forward considerably our efforts to restructure ESF. Specifically, the GOE: - appeared effectively, if not explicitly, to accept conditionality (via benchmarks) on future U.S. economic assistanc [...]	2006-03-27 15:50:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL PGOV KDEM EG
06CAIRO1911	PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR ON SINIORA, AL SHARA'A, ARAB [...] (C) Mubarak with Lebanese PM: Presidential Advisor Soliman Awad told DCM on March 28 that during a March 23 meeting with President Mubarak, Lebanese PM Siniora complained about the lack of progress with Syria on the supply of weapons to Palestinians in Lebanon, on the establishment of diplo [...]	2006-03-28 16:28:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IS LE EG SY KPAL
06CAIRO1925	WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM IN SHARM EL SHEIKH [...] (U) This cable is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (U) Embassy Cairo is preparing for the upcoming World Economic Forum on the Middle East, to be held in Sharm El Sheikh May 20-22, 2006. Given the heavy demand for suitable hotel space in Sharm during the summit as well as ot [...]	2006-03-29 09:36:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD OVIP EG WEF
06CAIRO2010	EGYPT: ACTIONS LOUDER THAN WORDS - GAMAL MUBARAK [...] (C) The public profile of Gamal Mubarak, presidential son and rising star in the ruling party, has increased in recent months. His appearance in late March on an evening talk show and a highly publicized visit to a Cairo slum have fueled speculation that an effort to succeed his father is movin [...]	2006-04-03 10:59:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM EG
06CAIRO2013	EGYPT: VIOLENT CLIMAX TO WAFD LEADERSHIP DISPUTE, [...] (C) Summary: The dispute over the leadership of the Wafd, Egypt's "premier" opposition party, reached a bizzare and dramatic climax on April 1, when deposed leader Nomaan Gomaa, accompanied by armed supporters, stormed party headquarters and clashed violently with supporters of Mahmoud Abaza, w [...]	2006-04-03 12:22:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
06CAIRO2021	ARAB LEAGUE'S KHARTOUM SUMMIT [...] (SBU) Summary. Sudan played host March 28-29 to the 18th regular summit of Arab League (AL) leaders, a meeting notable for poor attendance by heads of state and deep divisions over Iraq, Lebanon, and Hamas. AL leaders approved dozens of resolutions, covering the range of priorities for all 2 [...]	2006-04-03 14:07:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PHUM PTER EAID KPAL MEPN EG SU
06CAIRO2064	EGYPT FERRY DISASTER: ABSENT OWNER'S IMMUNITY [...] (C) The investigation into the early February sinking of the "Al Salam 98" passenger ferry in the Red Sea is ongoing, although preliminary GOE statements are assigning culpability to the still-missing captain. Egypt's upper chamber of parliament lifted ferry owner Mamdouh Ismail's parliamentar [...]	2006-04-04 13:48:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EWWT MARR EG
06CAIRO2100	DEFMIN TANTAWI WITH GEN ABIZAID ON IRAQ, HAMAS, [...] (C) Summary: In a March 29 meeting CENTCOM Commander GEN Abizaid and Minister of Defense Field Marshal Tantawi, joined by DCM Jones, discussed regional affairs, terrorism, military cooperation, and the International Medical Center (IMC). Tantawi (1) stressed the importance of a strong Sunni [...]	2006-04-05 14:25:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MASS IS IZ LE EG SY KPAL
06CAIRO2133	ARAB LEAGUE'S AMRE MOUSSA ON DARFUR AND HAMAS [...] (C) Summary: NEA Assistant Secretary David Welch and Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa discussed regional affairs, including Syria, Iraq, Darfur, and Hamas, during a chance meeting in the airport VIP lounge on April 4. On Israel/Palestine, Moussa said the League is urging Hamas to [...]	2006-04-06 16:15:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM IS SU EG KPAL
06CAIRO2134	EGYPT: A YEAR ON, GOE-JUDGES CLUB DISPUTE [...] (C) The confrontation between the GOE and Egypt's Judges Club continues to boil as it moves into its second year. The Judges Club has been militating for a new judiciary law that would guarantee independence it asserts is now lacking and has attacked the GOE's record on human rights and democr [...]	2006-04-06 16:34:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KJUS KDEM EG
06CAIRO2137	DARFUR: EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT MUBARAK'S MESSAGE TO [...] (C) Summary. According to a senior MFA contact, Egyptian President Mubarak's message to Sudanese President Bashir in Khartoum April 4 was that Sudan was not given a "blank check" at the Arab League summit for its Darfur policies. Mubarak reportedly pressed Bashir to quickly conclude a peace [...]	2006-04-09 05:54:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM MOPS PTER EG SU
06CAIRO2162	CAIRO: SCENESETTER FOR UNDER SECRETARY JOSEPH [...] (C) Embassy Cairo warmly welcomes your visit and the opportunity to continue our dialogue with the GOE on counterproliferation, Iran, and security assistance. Egypt values its role as a regional leader on nonproliferation and its influence in multilateral fora. Your visit will reassure Egy [...]	2006-04-09 14:27:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PGOV MOPS UNSC EG IR KNNP

06CAIRO2165	SENIOR ADVISOR FOR AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY [...] (SBU) State Department Senior Advisor for Agricultural Biotechnology Madelyn Spirnak visited Egypt the week of February 12-18 to speak at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA),to advocate in favor of a supportive regulatory framework for agricultural bi [...]	2006-04-10 11:16:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD ECON EFIN EINV TBIO EG

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